The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1932, Page 4

Vage Four i © Beditehed by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc, dally except Sunday, at 60 East SUBSCRIPTION RATES: e : ¥th 6t, New York City. N. Y. ‘Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” al Or By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs Adéress and mail all checks to the Dally Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, New York, N. T. 2 et of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one y: $8; six months, $4.50. Central Dorty US.A — = —~ a = a peas ich ed itis ae Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 18, 1932 ATTENTION! Dear Comrades The Daily Worker has recently contained some plendid editorials and news about the misleader and tool of the bosses, Father Cox of Pittsburgh. It should be read by the unemployed and I would t the Da: ould be y Wor T cities, ve read in Saturday’s Daily Work at on Father Cox’s march issued by Committee of the Unemployed $a very good statement but doesn’ about @ greater campaign to expe |THE DAILY WORKER AN IMPOR TANT INSTRUMENT IN THE PARTY DRIV I noticed the drive for membership in the Communist Party. I have been} in the Socialist party till I got the Daily Worker; it learned me better. I can say no social-fascist for me. I am sending $1 on my paper. I can’t do without it. The only paper I can get any truth of. I would like to be per- mitted in the Party if there are any chance. I am ready to help run the running dogs of capitalism off in the deep blue. We don’t need nothing but a world of workers. “Signed’? M. L. A FEW QUESTIONS TO THE SECTIONS AND UNITS: So far we receivéd only a few challenges trom the Sections and units of the Party in connec- tion with the recruiting drive. We did not re- Units intend to do and how they y members into the Party. The ceive w will recr Cen uit. m Org. 4, Ad) you hold an Open Unit meeting, where hizerS are invited and the role of the explained? WHAT ARE YOUR EXPERIENCES? do you ca On concentration on a 2. How shop, what methods do you use, what is the re- rs, and above all what or- in? n of the work ational results did Write to us about your experiences and prob- lems as well as difficulties. Every problem will be dealt with, every letter + will be answered. ON THE BUILDING OF SHOP NUCLEI To be able to recruit our new members trom the shops and build shop nuclei, we must make clear to the entire membership of the Party the methods of building organizations in the shops, and how to approac worker in order to draw him into org zation. good contacts, workers working in are scared away from organization approach. They think that by join- they must carry on open activi- emselves and lose their jobs. Members the Party working in big shops are made to carry on open activities and are forced to drop out from the Party. Workers through wrong approach get the wrong and dangerous conception that our Party —the Party that is fighting for the final eman- cipation of the working class—is not interested in the immediate betterment of the conditions of the workers. These misconceptions expressed themselves in the following two instances: In visit- ing contacts of a factory where about 1,200 work- ers are working overtime to prepare hospital supplies for the coming war I found the follow- ing One of Party for quite some time. the contacts was a member of the Being in the Party LENIN CORNER WHAT STATE SYSTEM? OMRADES, soldiers! The question of the state system is now on the order of the day, The capitalists, in whose hands the state power now rests, desire a parliamentary bourgeois republic, ie., a state system in which there is no Tsar, but in which power remains in the hands of the capi- tglists who govern by meams of the old institu- tions, namely: the police, the bureaucrate, the standing army. We desire a different republic, far more suited to the interests of the people, far more demo- cratic. The revolutionary workers and soldiers of Petrograd have overthrown tsarism, and have cleaned out all the police from the capital. The workers of all the world look with pride and hope at the revolutionary workers and soldiers of Rus- sia as the vanguard of the universal liberating army of the working class. Having begun the revolution, it is necessary to strengthen and con- tinue it. We must not permit them to re-establish the police! All power in the state, from top to bottom, from the remotest village to the last street in the City of Petrograd must belong to the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, Agricultural Labor-. ,ers’, and Peasants’ Deputies. The central state power must be united in these local Soviets— whether you call them a Constituent Assembly or a National Assembly, or a Congress of Soviets, the name does not matter. ‘There must be no police; no bureaucrats, who have no responsibility to the people, who stend over the people; no standing army, cut off from the people, but only the people, universally armed, united in the Soviets—it is they who must run the state. It is they who must establish the nec- essary order, it is they whose authority will not only be obeyed, but also respected, by workers and peasants.—(Excerpt from the speech of Comrade Lenin delivered at a meeting of soldiers of the Iamailov Regiment, from The Revolution of 1917, published by the International Pub- Ushers, New York). PITTSBURGH DISTRICT! | Cox holds his unemployed mass meetings in the | Open Forums or MAss Meetings in your terri- Department asks you the following | | | with a couple more workers, the demagogy of Father Cox to the workers. This must be done. Many workers have beco. y disillusioned with Father Cox, but you wou be surprised how many unemployed still have faith in him in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. Every worker talks about him, Why don’t the Unemployed Councils of Pitts- burgh issue several thousand leaflets calling on the Pittsburgh workers to demonstrate on Feb. 4 outside Father Cox’s church? You know Father basement of his church. There is where he has a bread line which he feeds some slop daily. Also his Shantytown, made up of shacks for the unemployed, is just across the street from his old church. ‘The leaflets calling for the demonstration out- side Father Cox’s church on Feb. 4 could expose Cox and challenge him to a debate in front of the workers demonstrating. It could call upon him to defend his policies of misleading the un- employed. Also to defend his calling upon the police to arrest members of the Unemployed Council, who tried to distribute leaflets against this faker. I am sure an unusually large num- ber of unemployed would show up for such a demon: tion, as they all heard of Father Cox, know w hurch is (many hang out not. far from his church), and he may be forced by such a demonstration to debate representatives of the Unemployed Councils. If he has police break up such a demonstration, he would c::- Pose himself openly as a tool of the bosses. Something effective must be done to break the hold this faker Cox has on many unemployed. The Feb. 4 demonstration in Pittsburgh must show up this demagogue and this method I suggest will certainly do it better than any othe? I can think. A COMRADE, 3. Did you arrange or do you plan to arrange tory in the name of the Party on the role of the Party? 4. Do we utilize every activity, every mass meeting, every demonstration for recruiting ot Party members? THE RECRUITING DRIVE IS ON. EVERY PARTY UNIT SHOULD DISCUSS AND TAKE STEPS TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS INTO OUR PARTY. ‘Tomorrow we will ask a few questions to the SHOP UNITS. Watch these questions. shall try to answer them. Write articles for the recruiting drive column. Consult us How to recruit and how to better our Party organization. Send all articles to the ORG. DEPARTMENT, C. C., Box 87, Station D, New York City. Every Party member he was made trade union organizer of the unit, had to come up to Party headquarters: (which in a small town means openly to expose him- self) and carry on other open Party activities. As a result, he started to drop out from the Party and was, a couple of months ago, officially dropped by the unit, After I explained to the worker that he can be in the Party without doing any open Party work, that he can carry on work in the shop without exposing himself, he was ready to give us information on the shop, and agreed to meet ‘The comrade who was with me visiting the contacts, an active member of the unit, instead of trying to find out the specific grievances of the workers in the shop and on that basis try to draw the worker into organization, in a “very short and businesslike manner” explained to the worker that: “The Party has decided to build a shop nucleus in the shop, and would he like to join it!” It is clear that with this method of approach, CHICAGO HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD In discussing the preparations for the un- employed conferences and stimulating the work among the unemployed, a Chicago leading com- rade made the following statement: “We must find out what the issues are among the unemployed, what are the demands. The Party is a little isolated from the unem- ployed work. We must know what we have. The question of soup kitchens, milk for chil- dren and schools, must all be thoroughly dis- cussed. The political activity of the Unem- ployed Councils is very low, if there is any. ‘We must base ourselves on local demands and put up to the center Unemployment Insurance, and follow up organizationally the National Hunger March.” ‘This is hitting the nail on the head. In many respects Chicago has the best unem- ployed movement in the country. Chicago is self-critical and discusses the basic problems in connection with the organization of the un- employed workers. ‘To recruit new members into the Party trom among the unemployed will strengthen our work in the unemployed movement. ‘The preparations for Feb. 4 must be linked up with the Recruiting Drive of the Party. with this conception of how to activize members of the Party working in important shops we can- not build shop nuclei. If we are to recruit our new members from the shops and build shop nuclei, we must make clear to the membership of the Party that the shop nucleus is an illegal form of organization especially at this period. We must emphasize that nuclei can be built only on the immediate and partial demands of the workers in the shops. At the last Plenum of our Central Committee Comrade Browder, in speaking, in his report, on the building of property functioning shop nuclei, said: “I think it would not be a bad idea to give the task to each district committee to select one shop nucleus for which, the district com- mittee assumes the direct responsibility for leading. The District Committee should as- sume complete responsibility for acquiring a knowledge of the problems of that shop in the next sixty days, and working out for that shop such methods of work by the comrades there that will successfully carry on some mass —By GROPPER. WAR AND THE MARINE INDUSTR By R. B. HUDSON Part I ECENT developments in the marine industry demand that the entire Party become ac- quainted with the major and immediate prob- lems confronting it in this basic industry. The role played by the United States govern- ment in the renewal of the International Long- shoremen’s Association agreement require an analysis of the industry be made in order that we can fully understand our future tasks. Hand picked delegates, uninstructed by the longshoremen, began the negotiations and on September 16 the Journal of Commerce an- nounced a 15 cent hourly wage reduction, 20 cents for overtime rates and severe speed up measures, Settlement of the agreement was post- poned until the arrival of Joseph Ryan, presi- dent of the I.L.A., who had been in Europe and whom this organ of Wall Street referred to as “he has always fought for the men, but he has won the respect of the shipowners because of his fairness. This was shown a few months ago when a number of high officials from American and foreign-lines gave a dinner in luis honor.” To Serve as Bulwark Against Radicalization. Ryan upon his return, September 22, “rejected” the agreement, admitted that the weekly wage was 15 (it is lower) and wailed “our men (he means the officials) have always successfully fought to keep the Communists out of the in- dustry”, and if the ship owners failed to under- stand their value he threatened, “if this is to be our reward then let the radicals,come in. We have given the ship owners everything they have asked of the men and we don’t think that ad- vantage should be taken now.” On September 24 Ryan began to compromise and offered to accept a reduction of 5 cents in overtime rates, but no agreement could be ar- rived at. The papers announced the possibili- ties of a walk out, but needless to say the masses were not kept informed of the negotiations and no preparations were. made for struggle. On September 26 it became apparent that a split, which had its opening wedge two years ago and which had as its basis conflicting interests between foreign groups and U. S. shipping inter- ests, and also an underestimation of the value of the “association” to the bosses, developed be- tween the shipowners. A deadlock was reached and an emergency committee of ten was elected to enforce the shipowners proposals. The com- position of the committee was all the large North Atlantic companies except the United States Lines and 4-5 of the committee represented for- eign capital. It is significantly noted in the Jour- nal of Commerce that “the tact that the United States Lines and the shipping board are linked financially prevented this important line trom remaining in the ranks of the other owners.” Shipping Board Intervenes, The deadlock persisted, the shipowners were determined to enforce the wage cuts and they began to make preparations for a lockout. The shipping board had never carried on negotia- tions with the rest of the shipping interests, and on September 28th, two days before the expira- tion of the agreement, the United States and export lines, private companies with Shipping Board backing, and all of the lines of the ship- ping board announced they were willing to re- work in that shop and not get discharged.” ‘This can be very well applied to the section committees. The section committee should as- sume direct responsibility in conducting the work in a shop where one or two Party members are working; acquire a knowledge of the prob- Jems of that shop; meet with the comrades from the shop, work out with them methods of work, assign members of the section commit- tee to visit, together with members of the unit in that territory, the contacts from the shop for the building of a shop nucleus and carry on mass work. Doing that we will suddenly begin to find this is not such a difficult problem when we go about it right. It can be done. J, HALPERN. rae AO | Reprinted from PARTY ORGANIZEK, Jan- uary, 1932, .The PARTY ORGANIZER of January, 1932, contains important articles on the Recruiting Drive. Every Party member should read the PARTY ORGANIZER, new the old agreement without changes. This announcement caused the owners to wa- ver because it meant that in the event of a A seaman delegate with the National Hunger March in Washington on December 7, 1931. lockout to entorce the demands, the United States would be in position to win much business away from its foreign competitors. Although the press stated “inferences that the Shipping Board is taking any part in the controversy between operators and the “association” were resented in board circles, where it was denied that the mat- ter had been given official consideration”, never- theless, the action constituted such a threat that on September 30 a compromise agreement was signed, wage cut of 5 cents in overtime but none in straight time. ‘Toppin, chairman of the operators’ committee, stated in speaking of the proposed wage cuts, “such a reduction has been made in all the lead- ing industries and is still more necessary in the shipping industry where the effects of the world depression have been more severe.” Despite this Statement, it is obvious from the foregoing that the Shipping Board had compelled the private owners to recede from their position of drasti¢ sweeping wage cuts, which they considered nec- essary. Shipping Decreases, Yet Building Increases. ‘The effects of the crisis upon’ the industry have been severe. Exports and imports have de- clined from $12,000,000,000 in 1920 to $6,000,000,- 000 in 1930. The combined foreign trade for the first quarter of 1931 was 17 per cent less in com- parison with the same perlod of a year ago, and by the end of the year this decline had increased to 30 per cent less than in 1930. Foreign trade shrunk $2,379,000,000 in value and 15 per cent in actual volume for the year ending December, 1931. Five hundred twelve vessels, or a total of 29 per cent of the entire tonnage is laid up. ‘he earn- ings of the companies have declined, the United Fruit for instance, earned $2.01 a share profit for the first half of 1931 in comparison with $3.30 @ year ago, In comparison with 1930, 656 fewer ships have passed through the Panama Canal, Yet, despite this the United States Shipping Board reports for 1931 “decreased freight offer- ings and lower rates have resulted in a falling of operating expenses, and increase in the num- ber of idle ships and considerable unemployment among sea personnel. The ship building industry, on the other hand, has been active and prosper- ous to a degree that furnishes striking contrast « to conditions throughout the industry.” “$28,704,- 786.65 was expended for constructio of new ships in comparison with $220,384,000 in 1930. Most of these ships are being built with money advanced by the Jones-White Act which stipulates “plans for merchant ships built with government loans under the Jones-White bill must conform to Navy Department specifications, which provide for 6-inch gun positions, placement of the en- gine-room where it is most protected from pos- sible gun fire, etc.” (To be Concluded) Deportation Attacks Upon the Foreign Born By 8. HORWATT > (Sec'y of N. ¥. District Commitice for Protection of Foreign Born) I a previous article I exposed the falsity of the claim that the discharge from jobs of a few hundred of the 4,112,658 foreign born in the states of New York and New Jersey is done to “solve unemployment.” As we see it, the dis- charging of the few hundred workers is not be- ing done in order to solve the unemployment situation but in order to dramatize the campaign against the foreign born and to give a concrete expression of the hooligan agitation carried on by the Hearst papers and other anti-foreign born elements. In an editorial of Hearst’s “Evening Journal” commenting upon the message delivered by Pres. Hoover to the 72nd Congress in which he de- mands the registration and finger printing of lawful foreign born residents, the yellow paper states: “It will not be possible to round up and rid this country of all criminal and other undesir- able elements until the government is given the power to register all aliens, “Although more than 18,000 undesirable aliens were deported last year many times that number should have been deported. . . .” “,,. Stronger deportation laws and a regis- tration law for all aliens are measures that have Jong been urged by the Hearst newspapers.” Hearst, the father of yellow journalism, the trash manufacturer of bedroom murder stories, Hearst, the owner of the newspapers that are glorifying gangsterism, his newspapers are in full agreement with President Hoover’s message; Hearst, the instigator of international complica- tions of wars and slaughtering, is the guard of keeping this country clean of “alien criminals.” Is Hearst aware of the fact that out of the 18,000 deportees for the year 1931 only 511 were charged with criminal records. Of course, he knows this fact. He knows that the rest of the 17,500 aliens were honest workers participating in every ‘part of industry in the U. S. They all know that by deporting foreign born they ruin the lives of thousands and thousands of families by separation and ruin the lives of thousands of American born children by separating them from their parents. All this is being done not to get rid of “alien criminals” but in order to put the blame for the suffering of the millions of unemployed on the foreign born, to divide the united front for un- employment insurance, to instigate the native against the foreign born, white against Negro and in this way to force upon the workers a lower standard of living. This is what Dr. Edith Abbott, Dean of the graduate school of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago stated before the Wickersham Commission: “It is easier to charge our crime record against immigration than against an inefficient and corrupt system of po- lice and an out-worn system of criminal justice.” It was only forgotten to add, that inefficiency and corruption of a system where Doak is the “guard of laws” and Hearst the ‘“‘educator” of Assurance Required We were working that night, but from the wag? the letters roll in, my gosh, that Daily Worker Anniversary Celebration in New York must have well, we will let a comrade, L. By with the ap= writing, according to his letter, Pproval of Unit 27, Sec. 5, speal “T brought with me half a dozen workers af varying sympathies. I had to take part in the pageant, but when I checked up later, they in~ variably told me they became utterly disgusted with the prolonged, repetitious and tedious speeches. Mind you, they didn’t object to being agitated, they agreed with the contents, and liked the pageant. But they said they would nob come with me again if they have to be tortured. Many Party members had the same to relate. My Unit, therefore, goes on record in suggesting that, in view of the coming Lenin Memorial, that the program be arranged that the worker audience be not tortured, but pleased.” Then Comrade B, M. comes to bat with: “Today’s Daily Worker carries a notice on thé coming Lenin Memorial at the Bronx Coliseum. Wishing an overflowing house, I feel it my duty to sound a warning that, unless the masses of workers and sympathizers are ASSURED BE~ FOREHAND that the mistakes which occurred at the Daily Anniversary will not be repeated, the Lenin Memorial may well take place in am empty house. For three and @ half hours the endless sequel of speakers kept on, orating untét hoarse, while the restless audience refused to listen any longer and engaged in private con# versations, denouncing the committee in charge, and in many cases clearly expressing their dew termination never again to attend such a meets ing, : “TI have never visited the Soviet Union, but ¥ feel certain that there, such comrades as those of the committee in charge would be tried for political sabotage. Please, Red Sparks, unleash’ your crocodile, and give them a good bite.” Well, well, WELL! After all this, maybe tf would not be gmiss for the organizers of the Lenin Memoriaf Meeting to publicly declare that the torture will not be repeated. And what more—DON’T REPEAT IT! ——<—— ee the masses. There was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec., 1931, which gives the government a righé to deport any alien illegally in this country, nd matter how long the alien is in the U. 5. This has increased the courage of the racketeers ta intensify their graft upon the foreign born pop# ulation. We find that since this new decision was issued by the Supreme Court a systematic campaigs of terror has been begun in different parts of the country. Thus we find that in Long Beach, Long Island, a certain Roumainian racketeer has collected # list of names and addresses of foreign born Roumainian workers and with the help and cow opération of the immigration department, a raid took place and eighteen workers were arrested and are being investigated for deportation. After! the first raid took place, this same Roumanian racketeer was visiting workers asking money for protection under threat of deportation. When Roumanian workers reported this td the Committee for the Protection of the Fors eign Born, a statement was issued by the come mittee to put up a collective resistance to these racketeers and to put a stop to these bribery activities inspired by Doak. Here in New York on January 5th and 6th, unlawful ra!lds took place upon the Greek workw ers on Madison and Washington Sts. Immigra~ tion commissioners, with the help of the polices surrounded a certain Greek coffee house at Madison and Washington Sts. and demanded documents from every one. Since the Gree workers did not carry their documents with them, they were all arrested. At one coffee house one who claimed to be ami immigration officer came roughly in and asked some of the Greek workers there what they were doing and whether they are in this country legally. One of them by the name of T. VW. asked the officer what authority he had to ast such questions. The immigration officer replied: “Yl show you some other time.” The officer, frightened by the courageous stand the Greek worker took had to leave empty handed. This is the situation prevailing ip the State of New York and in many other states all over the country. Now, when we turn our attention to the U. & Congress we find that more than forty bills await the approval of the House and the Senate in connection with strengthening the terror and. deportation of foreign born. Since it is not pos~ sible to cite quotations from all the bills we wilt limit ourselves to the two most characteristic bills which were submitted to the 72nd Congress. These bills are based upon the recommendations given by President Hoover and Secretary of La- bor Doak ni their message to the 72nd Congress, The Cable Bill ‘H.R. 5093” introduced to the, first session of the 72nd Congress was referred to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalw ization—states in Section 1 the following: “Any alien so arriving and enrolled ... who has not received the certificate of registry re~ quired by such section 1 . . . shall apply to and. receive from the Commissioner of Naturalization a certificate of ‘residence with protograph ate tached, furnished in duplicate by the applicant, Such certificate shall be applied for and obtained within six months after the passage of this act and shall be renewed annually thereafter by the alien under regulations prescribed by the Come missioner of Naturalization and approved by the Secretary of Labor. “Every alien lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence shall enroll an- nually and receive a certificate of residence upon such enrollment. Such certificate shall bg good for one year only from the date of its issuance. . . “This Act shall include aliens in Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands . . .” Section Two and Three of the same bil? point out in detail how this registration should be carried through. Needless to say, the aim of this bill is to in- troduce a passport system and place the foreign born in the same class with criminals, to keep them under the supervision of the police de- partment, and to submit the foreign born to the mercy of grafters and racketeers. In another article I shall expose the anti- working class nature of the “Bachman Bill, H. R. 1967” against the foreign born, and explain what the Council for Protection of Foreign Born urges as @ measure to combat these attacks om ‘the foreign born, j kes Ut