The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 4

1K Pwbiekee by the Comprodafly Publishing Co. Inc, dally excep? Sunday, et 56 East 8th St. New York Ci: . F Address and mai) all ch ¥. Telephone Algonquin 4¢-7956. Cadi Party Recruiting Drive | January 11 - March 18, 1932 LENINIST SELF-CRITICISM AND RECRUITING DRIVE success of the present recruiting drive de- pends on how well we will profit from the lessons of our previous drives. Leninist self- criticism must become a weapon in the hands of every comrade. This will help to prevent a repetition of mistakes. ‘The campaign from the very start must be based on self-criticism. This means that the political objective of the drive must not for one single moment be lost sight of. Our daily meth- ods of organisation and agitation must be con- tnually checked up as to whether they help in the realizatton of the political objectives of the drive, Our daily experiences of the drive must be AT ONCE utilized to improve our, methods of recruiting and keeping of new members. The entige Party must benefit from the experience. An EXCHANGE of experiences is therefore ab- solutely essential The Daily Worker Recruit ing Drive Column must be filled with the daily experiences in recruiting. The districts are urged to send in very brief articles dealing with important experiences. Many comrades, in spite | of valuable experiences, are not sending in ar- | ticlks because of their reluctance to write. The District Agitprop Departments are urged to help | the comrades. in the preparing and in the writing of the articles, We are particularly ‘anxious fo get articles | from new Party members. Their experierices are very valuable. The new Party members are asked to point out what are some of the mis- takes and shortcomings in our recruiting and keeping new members. Also the good methods of recruiting. Every day we must learn to cor- | rect our mistakes. Now is the time to become clear regarding all phases of the drive. The comrades are urged to send in questions which will also be answered in the column. The com- rades are also urged to send in suggestions. ‘These suggestions will be developed and printed in the column, COMMUNIST PARTY—DISTRICT O} E f 3 Harrison Ave., Boston, Mass. Distrtet Org. Dept., District 2. January 5th, 193. Dear Comrade:—This is to acknowledge ceceipt of the challenge to District 1 in the recruiting drive. Our District Buro took up the challenge and to mobilize the entire Party for the drive. quota 250 new members. These are io come mainly from Textile, Shoe, Marine, and from among the unemployed. Considering that we recruiting drive and decided to accept your We set ourselves as the district H had many recent struggles in which our Party and our revolutionary unions participated and also the fact that we have recently made a 1 mere definite beginning in unemployed work we are confident that District 1 will reach its | quota of new members as well as shop nuclei and shop papers before your District gets ite i quota. As s00n as we work out all the details for the drive we will write to you more about our plans, We note that you have siready worked out your directives, behind bwt we expect to caich up with you within the next few days. In this we sre somewhat DISTRICT BUREAU OF DISTRICT 1. Se | LENIN ON SELF-CRITICISM “Kautsxy adopts @ typical petty-bourgeois at- tutude when he expresses the opinion that the aaere utterance of a slogan makes a difference. ‘The history of bourgeois democracy pricks this bubble, Bourgeois democrats have voiced, and continue to voice, all possible slogans, this being one of the ways in which they humbug the peo- P The vital mstter is that we should test the sincerity of those who utter slogans, should compare their deeds with their words, that we should not be content with idealist and cheap- ack phraseology, but should find how much actual class content Hes behind the words. “The attitude of s political party towards its own mistakes is one of the surest tests of its seriousness, and of its ability to fulfill its duties towards its class and towards the laboring COMMUNIST PARTY PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT 8 N. 19th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Desde Party, TA. at Omy & " i i ; 2 i bi Comrades: Hy veady for the srrangersente for During the past and, as % result, recruit valuable lessons Hh Arrangements where all conditions accepted, i i LENIN ON THE ROLE OF THE PARTY “The Party should be the vanguard of the working class. Its membership should comprise the pick of the working class. It should embody the experience of the finest stalwarts, their revo- lutionary spirit, their unbounded devotion to the cause of the proletariat. But in order to be an effective vanguard, the Party must be armed with @ revolutionary theory, with a knowledge of the laws of the movement, of the laws revolution. Lacking this, the Party is n to rally the proletariat for the fight, or to t over the functions of leadership. The Party no true Party if it limits its activities to 2 mere vegistration of the sufferings and thoughts of the peoletarian masses, if it ts content to be dragged along in the wake of the “spontaneous mowerment” of the masses, if it cannot ov: the inertia and the political indifference of taasses, if it cannot rise superior to the tr: fit | masses. Frank admission of an error, discovery | which will inevitably disappear as the working- | class movement gathers strength.” YOUR CHALLENGE ACCEPTED | District Boreau of the Philadeiphis District of the Comneunikt the United States of Americz gladly accepts the challenge of the New York Dis- the coming Party Recruiting Drive. January 11th will find the Philadelphia Dis- Drive, Our section committees and unit bureaus have to date completed ea . w months, our district partictpated im x number of important mass ited hundreds of new members into the Party. We have that will be effectively applied in the present Recruiting Drive. The of the members for this Drive serves as 3 guarantee for its success. are made to meet you, comrades of the New York District, on January and preparations for revolutionary competition will be discussed and Fraternally yours, DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF DISTRICT 3, C. P. U. 8. A. of its causes, analysis of the situation in which it occurred, careful study of the ways by which | the mistakes can be recognized. That is the | education of the class and of the masses. “Our adversaries, the enemies of the Marxists, | are overjoyed at our dissensions. They will naturally make the most of certain passages in my pamphlet where I refer to the mistakes and shortcomings of our Party, and will try to ex- Ploit these admissions for their own purposes. The Russian Merxists have been in the firing line so long that they will disregard such pin- pricks. They will, in spite of them, go on with | the work of self-criticism. They will continue, unsparingly, to expose their own weaknesses, sient interests of the proletariat, if it is in- capable of inspiring the masses with a prole- tarian class consciousness. The Party should march at the head of the working class, it should see farther than the latter, it should lead the proletariat, and not lag in the rear. The par- ties affiliated to the Second International, the advocates of “khyostism” of “tailism,” are the | fuglemen of bourgeois policy. Their leadership condemns the proletariat to becoming a tool in the hands of the bourgeoisie. Only a Party | which is conscious of its function as vanguard | of the proletariat, which feels itself able to in- spire the masses with a proletarian class con- | sciousness, only such = Party can lead the workers out of the narrow path of trade union- ism and consolidets them into an independent political force. Such a Party is the political leader of the working class. Speed-Up and Wage Cuts for . the Jute Workers By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. Toe rationalization in the manufacture of jute yarns and products such as burlap, cords, twine, rope, bagging, etc., has been most marked due to the stiff competition with other countries, notably India, The nature of the raw material wma the product makes speed up all the more in- tenses. The industry is confined largely to Cali- foreia, New York, Wisconsin, \ ‘The bale of jute as it comes from India weighs 400. pounds. This bale is taken by what is known a3 @ “batcher”, who opens the bale and places tlie ‘heeds on a truck. This prepares the jute in small lots so that the next operation can be taken care of easily, The batchers usually work on pote vets beck, baling the jute, the heads are hard to separate. ‘The batcher has to use hands, feet and knees to separate the heads, His whole body is constantly in motion for at least nine hours or more # day. ‘The operators of the softener machine—the next step in the manufacturing process—average Sbout $2 cents an hour. This work calls for standing in one position all day, using the entire movement of the arms, ‘The next d —hes under- gone « revolution through rationalization, Twen- ty-five years ago the average card room was composed of slow working small unit machines, with an operator for each operation and ma- chine. Today the machines run at high speed ith larger automatic and semi-automatic units, to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. s je “DAIWORK.” Dail 2 orker’ Dortg US.A SUBSCRIPTION RA’ By met! everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; twe months, ef Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, j excepting Boroughs Foreign: one year, $8; siz months, $4.50, | ovat By BURCK. a oe Another Lie; Another Spike We don’t know who Alexander Nazaroff is, aside from a name appearing over a page review of two books on thé Soviet Union in the N. ¥. Times of Dec. 27. But we do know that Alex- ander Nazaroff is a liar and the upholder of another liar, the latter being Emma C. Pona- fidine, author of “Russia; My Home.” Nothing is easier, of course, than for one White Guardist to approve of the book of an- other. And, also, of course, this game is meat for the N. Y. Times. This Emma Ponafidine spreads the anti-Soviet stuff o nthickly. And naturally Alexander Nazaroff praises her, there- fore. “Her narrative is infused with # nhonesty as scrupulous and unprejudiced as a writer may achieve,” he says. Well, let's see just hom “honest and scrue prlous” she is. Of her book, Nazaroff says: “Ignored, too, says Mme. Ponafidine, are the active preparations which during 1914-16 the government (of the Czar) carried on for the introduction o funiversal education in Russia. It will certainly sound astonishing to many that the last four paragraphs of the Soviet universal education law of 1925 are an almost verbatim copy of the 1915 universal education. bill of the Duma, by which universal education was to have become an accomplished fact in Russia by 1922 or 1923—and not by 1932-33, as : Comrade Stalin's Recent Letter and the Fi ght | | Against Centrism By L. M. KAGANOVITCHR (Organizational Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) IZ our country, which formerly ranked as the most backward country in the world, is today & country of So-ialism, it is thanks to the Bol- shevist program, to the tactics and organiza- tion of the proletariat, to the program and the leadership of our Party; it is thanks to that persistent fignt which the best people, with Le- nin at their head, waged for years against the Narodniki, the legal Marxists, the economists, Mersheviki, Trotzkyisis and the Right and 1 Teconcilable elements in the Party. For this reason there is no better experience, no better ; Means of educating our youth in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism than the history of our Party. This is the reason why Comrade Stalin re- acted so sharply to the exceedingly harmful distortions and big mistakes which had been committed in presenting the history of our Party. In his letter to the editors of the “Proletars- kaya Revoluzia” he exposed the Trotzkyist slan- | derous attempt to distort the history of our Party, to calumniate Lenin and to make out to the members of the Party and the Komso- mols that Lenin was not a Bolshevik until the revolution. What is criminal.on the part of the sorry historians of the type of Slutzky is the en- ceavour to represent matters as if up to the re- volution Lenin had underestimated centrism in the Second International and not really com- bated it; that he had supported the so-called Lefi social. democrais in the German social de- mocratic party, Le, Rosa Luxemburg and others, only feebly and in some cases not at all, One of them, Mironov, who has passed through the Institute of Red Professors and also former- ly held the position of deputy director of the Academy for Communist Education (a big acad- emy with more than 2,000 Communists), wrote that the Bolsheviki did not oppose Kautsky un- til the war, because they considered him to be an orthodox Marxist. Is there any nesd to refute these malicious distortions and falsifications of the history of Leninism? One has only to think of the history of Lenin's fight against Martov, Axelrod, Plechanov, from the year 1903 onwards, and finally against Trotzky in order to understand that Lenin fought like no other ogainst every kind of op- —— = by @ woman who receives about $15 8 week. She has to stand in one spot using the entire move- ment of her‘arms to spread the heads onto the feed sheet. Before the installation of the “roll formers” — & new device In carding—it took eight workers to care for six machines. Now three ‘do the job. Not only !s there 2 saving of labor, but 2 more uniform product is made and production ts speeded up. Lote of dust is.given off sy = low grade of jute. Tn spite of the precautions, the worker on 2 card machine or breaker is elways working in 4 dust cloud. This condition also exists in the betching where betchers open the dry beles. ‘Wages on the whole are very low. Wage cuts cents an hour. Unskilled labor gets from 29 to 32 cents an hour; in some departments as low as 20. ‘Twenty-five years ago the jute industry was manned by the Irish and the Scotch. As they be- tast workers are clocked. A figure is then reached to be used as a basis for the rates, but tt {5 al- ways lower than the rate the worker had before. Bo in order to get the same amount of money in ‘the: pay -cervelope as before the- workers must { The “Proletarskaya Revoluzia,” a historical magazine in the Soviet Union, published recently an article by Slutzky. The article of the above mentioned writer, attempted to “prove” that Comrade Lenin did not fight opportunism-centrism. Com- rade Stalin sent a letter of protest to the editors of the magazine for publishing an article which distorts ‘and slanders the History of the Bol- shevik Party. Comrade Stalin’s let- ter i8 a crushing answer to those who distort and pervert Leninism. His letter exposes those attempts as contraband Trotskyism. We are re- printing a section from Comrade Kaganovich’s speech which was de- livered on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Red Professors. Com- rade Stalin’s letter is printed in full in the January issue of The Com- munist. Pportunism, including cenirism, by exposing it above all in the ranks of his own party, the Russian social democratic party, and thereby at the same time exposing centrism, Kautskyism in the Second International. Lenin constantly combated and stigmatized the opportunists who are «> “revolutionary” where other countries are concerned but put up no fight against the enemy in their own coun: try; he combated the revisionists and conciliators in his immediate neighborhood, and thereby at the same time exposed revisionism, conciliation on the whole front of the international revo- lutionary movement of the proletariat. And this is precisely why Lenin did not un- reservedly support the so-called Lefts in the German social democracy. What were the Left social democrats, Rosa Luxemburg, Parvus and the others? Did they stand just as much to the Left 2s Lenin, as the Russian Bolsheviki? Were they as consistent as Lenin, as the Russian Bol- sheviki? Can one describe them as Bolsheviki? The most elementary acquaintance with the facts of history shows beyond doubt that Lenin, and the Russian Bolsheviki in general, were the only thoroughgoing consistent Marxist Lefts In the whdle of the II International in the pre- war period; that the Left social democrats in Germany were not Bolsheviki, that they vacil- lated the whole time between Bolshevism and Menshevism and came near the Mensheviki and centrists. Lenin and the Bolsheviki did not always sup- port the Lefts in the German social democracy, including Rosa Luxemburg. Why? - Because Rosa Luxemburg, as Lenin has pointed out and now also Stalin points out, on @ number of tundamental questions on the organizational, national and colonial sphere, on the question of centrist and founded the centrist August bloc in the year 1911-12. Trotzky was a centrist, and what has*become of him? His centrism has become counter- revolutionism. Trotzky, the former centrist, is today, just the same as Kautsky, the former centrist, one of the most prominent champions “of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. The centrist Trotaky shared the fate of the centrist Kautaky. Waxemburg, of course, has many great merite. Her name has gone down in history as @ fighter for the emancipation of the work- ing class, as a fighter who fell at the hands of the German social democracy. No ore will dispute thet. Does that mean, however, that we must falsify history by passing over and maintaining silence regarding the errors of Rosa the Left social democrats of ef, the demands for historical truth. It is obvious that it does not mean that. | Comrade Radek spoke in the fraction of the Marxist hostorical researchers. He confessed to & number of mistakes; he admitted that Rosa Luxemburg had not always adopted a correct Bolshevist standpoint. He did not, however, con- | nect the false standpoint he adopted when he collaborated with Rosa Luxemburg, with the | false standpoint he adopted later’ when he col- | laborated with Trotzky. He elaborated the theory that Rosa Luxemburg formed a bridge over which the best social de- mocratic workers could come to us, and there- fore she must be criticized more mildly. In the first place this theory is false: it is not absolutely necessary that the workers come to us over the Luxemburgian bridge. Secondly: those workers who are still con- nected with this bridge, must be informed of the mistakes of the Left social democrats in order to learn from these mistakes and to be- come real Bolsheviki. Otherwise this bridge, if we cloak over the mistakes of Rosa Luxemburg, will become a bridge to the social democracy and not to Communism. If, however, we expose Rosa Luxemburg’s mis- takes, in a Bolshevist manner, then this bridge will be for the workers a bridge from the social democratic mistakes to the Bolsheviki. This is the way in which the Bolsheviki must approach this question. Comrade Radek, however, has not gone the whole way. This is apparently due to the fact, which he has not completely revealed, that he himself was elther a bridge between Rosa Luxemburg and Trotzky, or has gone over the bridge from Rosa Luxemburg to ‘Trotzky, ie. the general non-Bolshevist way. Laughter.) Wherein lies the importance of Slutzky’s ar- ticle? It les in the fact that it is,an open at- tempi to smuggle the Trotzkyist plunder through under the flag of the Left social democrats of the pre-war period, under the flag of Luxem- burgism. In this sense Slutzky’s article is a characteristic phenomenon of the present situ- ation. Slutzky was for a long time a Menshe- vik; then he was outside of the Party, and it was not until 1930 that he became a candidate for membership of our Party. It is a fact that’ this man, who had only rc cently become a Party candidate, was given the possibility of publishing an article against Le- nin, in which he accused Lenin of having under- estimated the danger of centrism, of having right to the last not supported the Left German so- cial democrats who were near to Trotzky, and that therefore he was not a genuine revolu- tionary. Tt would be doing Slutzky too much honor | if we were to engage here in a serious criticism of this libellous nonsense. It suffices that Com- rade Stalin, in passing, Las torn this nonsense to shreds. The point here is not that Slutzky has written libellous nonsense. ‘What is more serious is that # Bolshevist pa~ per has given space in its columns to this non- sense. It is & question of rotten liberalism on the part of sorne of our Communists towards the Trotzkyist minded writers. When Trotzky, in his contemptible and boastful book “My Life” describes himself as the centre of revolution and does not mention use of the Luxemburgian flag in gle his Trotzkyist plunder into our is nothing remarkable in this, for what is left for a bankrupt Trotzkyist than to comfe himself with such contraband? When, however, the Bolshevik paper “Prole- tarskaya Revoluzia” considers it possible to its columns at the disposal of Trotzkyist glers, then this is no longer a trifle. z 4 g : H il EE ii who In their stupidity ready, for the of rotten lberalisma, to render voluntary aid the falsification of the history of Bolshevism. For these reasons, comrades, I believe that the fight against the rotten liberalism in our ranks must be @ constituent part of our fight against the falsification and distortion of the hj of our Party. Ris E e in the Soviet plan.” How charming! The Czar and the feudal no bility and all the Russian capitalists were hero- ically laboring aganist the demands of the mass es (who obstinately insisted on remaining il- literate), and were just about to enforce educa- tion in spite of the said masses, when along came | those miserable Bolsheviks and set the whole | plan back for ten years! Undoubtedly that was what they made the revolution for! Just to keep the people ignorant! ‘We regret, however, that a perfectly respecte able American college professor, comes along to upset this pretty tale. And blessed be the name of Comrade M. K., who called our attention to it by looking up the following, found in “Eduea- tion and Autocracy in Russia,” by Daniel Bell Leary, Ph.D., of the University of Buffalo, page 100. “Education during the reign of Nicholas 1% was continuation of that of Alexander ITI, with the addition of more attention te elementary schools ander social pressure. But the end of the reign left the main problems of education unsolved except by the usual policy of com- promise by the government, The program of " the Soviet Minister of Education whieh fol- lowed Bolshevik success, has no connection with the official inheritance in the educational field which the Romanovs left. It way to be a working out of the most radical tendencies which the Czar and his ministry were most active in suppressing.” air, Plots By the Bushel ‘The N. ¥. Times of Jan. 4 disclosed 2 sad state of affairs in the U, S. Army. If some workers, however remotely connected with the labor movement, could do such things, they would immediately be the subject for headlines two inches deep that would alarm everyone to the “menace” of said movement. In one case, over at Camp Dix, New Jersey, Elsie Smith, the wife of Sergeant Albert Smith, was found shot through the head amid scenes @icating a quarrel—and the sergeant is miss~ ing. The other case from Gilroy, California, told of a Lieutenant French who had shot him~ self after trying to kill somebody else’s wife who was traveling with him by auto, Of course, neither the capitalist press nor we ourselves draw any general conclusions from these events about the degeneracy of army offi cers. But, as we said, if workers in the labor movement had been so mentioned. there would be sensational yarns about the “red menace.” Surprisingly enough, the New York tabloids seized upon the first case and made @ “red menacee” fairy tale out of it anyhow! Thus.the Evening (Porno) Graphic started out: “Soviet intrigue. Charming Russian women introducing soldiers into the strange rites of Jove cults,” under the headline: “Cops Seek Soviet Cult, For Clue in Army Post Killing.” When “cops seek a clue” plots will be found as plentiful as blackberries on a Vermont moun~ tain in late July. But how come? Was Ser- geant Smith, who obviously should be sought as the murdered of his wife, the “Soviet Agent?” And what “strange rites of love cults” can sol- diers be “introduced to” by “charming Russian women,” that said soldiers have not previously been “introduced to?” Well, that side of the matter disappeared along with Sergeant Smith. Smith was hardly mentioned. The cops weren't after him at all, | ‘They were “seeking Soviet clues.” Why? Be- cause his dead wife was Russian born! Clearly a “white guard” Russian, because she had asked @ priest of the Orthodox Russian Church to ad- vise her as to whether she should tell her hus- band her “past.” So, if there was any “Russian” influence on love rites” of these white guard ladies dre well known, and might well corrupt soldiers or even But why drag the Soviet in? Well, dlines sell papers. we pull out of the hat, ladies A all bombs are “instigated in Moscow.” ‘We certainly must compliment both Mr. “3+” and the circulation manager of the Journal for ~ such long continued and brilliant collaboration. Your Class! me more imfermetion om the Ovm- ° Hy Ly 3 j seeevcccccescecccccoceccosesecccsesccesen seaevvseeesesevoccccess, SUMS (oe cial cho fone ep , .Mail this wo the -Workers! Join the Party of. ik