The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1932, Page 6

ae Published by the ork all Address and ma nauin 4-7956, 50 Hast 13th Street, checks ¢ datly except Sunday, at 80 East Cable “DAIWORK.* New York, N, ¥. forker’ vA Party US.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: New York City. Foreign: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; of Manhattan and Bronx, one year, xcepting Borousie $8; six months, $4.50. arty 2 ° e e | Recruiting Drive | January 11 - March 18, 1932 | SHOP PAPER WORK IN THE NEW YORK DISTRICT shop pe the shop-par Iam estimat I am not role of a I would down to th squarely s the worker goes aw how great ar to talk to 3 fellow-workers in the shop or at home (if you have the addr Is not the shop paper the can approach y fel- shop- best way by w low-workers from the lems and issues confro and adviser, point tI tion and action move for struggle in the -on the dail: proper way f Is not t paper, issued by the Communist nucleu best way for bringing the face of the Party b fore the workers in the shop, and on the basis of facts and their own experience to prove to them how important it is to have a Communist Party? Is not the shop paper issued by the Communist shop nucleus the best instrument where agita- | tion, propaganda and organization can be bro before the workers in the shop; the exact mean- ings of the current events of the world (to era: cate the poison from tHe capitalist printing ma- terial which the workers are reading); the mean- ing of the Party campaigns in relation to the experience of your fellow-workers in the shop? Who is more than you comrades qualified to know how to approach the workers with whom | you are in constant touch? Who is more than you qualified to know their state of development and their mode of thinking? Why do some shop papers in the New York District fail to appear for months and why is it so hard to establish a shop paper where there is a basis for it? The comrades in the nuc claim that they cannot write. Especially too hard for them to write a political article. .Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! | P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name .. Address CMY .ccccccccrccccresccseecss StBte «5. Occupation _ -Mail this to the Central Office. Communist Communist Party 0. S. A P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City | stencil. They must depend on a leading comrade in the trict to have it ready made for leading comrade is usually busy er Party activities which are considered ction of more importance than shop and so it takes a few weeks or months until such an article is ready. Why cannot the comrades in the nucleus write for their shop paper No a no di The nucleus I visited gave t-prop work, no educational cussions on the Party cam- we expect these comrades to h their fellow-workers and level? answe development paigns, FE be ¢ approa r politic he situation would be if a polit~ d comrade from the section agit » (or the best is to have such a comr assigned to the nucleus) would come at | least once a month to lead in the nucleus a dis- cussion in relation to the current Party cam- paigns; current political developments; the prob- lems in the shop or other phases in relation to the material for the next shop paper issue? On the basis of such a discussion it would be much easier to outline the icture of the articles and -divide the writing of the articles for the hop paper among the comrades in the nucleus. I want also to nd the comrades in the nucleus that it is not so hard to write for a shop paper, even “political” articles; that they are the ones to make the best job, providing they will have in their mind that when they read the Daily Worker they must not neglect to read the articles or editorials on the current events and Party campaigns, in order to have a better understanding on the line for their shop paper. (As far as I know our comrades in the nucleus claim not to have time to read such material.) Because these political articles must be linked up with shop problems and issues, and the com- rades working in the shop are best qualified tor this. One of the greatest obstacles in the issuing of shop papers in the New York District is the problem of technical help. Some sections have really not a single typist for making a good Some sections have typists, but they claim that the district offices keep they too busy. Some sections could mobilize a technical force, but no real effort was made in this direction. It is surely for the section org. and the district org. to come to an understanding and cure this | deplorable situation, which is the main obstacle for issuing and developing shop papers in the district Since the time when the district shop paper committee began to send representatives direct to the nucleus, the comrades got the impression that the time when the district took care of the shop papers is returning, that these representa- tives have to write the articles for them, edit the paper, organize the technical work and the distribution, Now ,this 1s surely a wrong con- ception. Our line on shop paper work is and should be—the development of the initiative of the nucleus, as fully responsible for the paper. The duty of the section and the district is surely to give leadership to the nucleus in shop paper work, and the comrades in the nucleus have to demand from the section the guidance and as- sistance that is essential for the issuing of their shop paper. But the actual getting out of the paper is up to the nucleus itself, mobilizing all comrades of the nucleus and workets of the shop for this work. Sa ty ilu ATTENTIO DIST. TS, This is a reproduction of the Party. Order the Poster i all orders to Org. Dept., C. C., Box 87, owt Ger “ae Ree EGET SECTIONS AND UNITS two-color poster for the Recruiting Drive of The price of the Poster is 10c each. Serd Station D, New York City. WAY By CYRIL BRIGGS. lynching in Alabama. All the hell of capi- talism is mobilized in a furious attack on the de- dense as *the hearing opens today before the Alabama Supreme Court of the appeal filed by the attorneys of the boys and the International dicts. Capitalism mobilizing. All the rotten agents | and boot-lickers of imperialism bing rushed into | the attack on the Scottsboro defense. The Ala- | bama Supreme Court itself is an instrument of the ruling class, it exists to maintain the robbery | suppression of the rights of the Negro masses. Investigators of the International Labor De- fense are thrown into jail or ordered out of town. Vital evidence proving the innocence of the boys is seized and suppressed by Huntsville, Alabama, police. Pressure is being made on Chamlee, including an attempt to disbar him, to force him to withdraw from the Scottsboro defense. Every effort is being made to disrupt the defense. In the South these efforts are organized and led by Stephen Roddy, an acknowledged attorney of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In New York City, Walter White, national secretary of the NAACP is similarly engaged. Following the forced withdrawal, under the pres- sure tof the masses, the boys, their parents and other kin, of the pretense that his organiza- tion was “defending” the boys, Mr. White has been busy visiting the offices of “liberal” pub- lications and flooding the Negro press with vi- cious attacks against the Scottsboro defense. He has attacked the boys as “ignorant and vacil- By BURCK ; RIGHT innocent Negro boys are facing legal | Labor Defense against these hideous lynch ver-, of the workers and poor farmers and the brutal | lating.” One of the fruits of Mr. White's activities in mobilizing the press against the fight to save and free the boys is seen in the current issue of the Pittsburgh Courier. This organ of the Negro bourgeoisie which originally joined the Southern lynch bosses in branding these innocent boys as “rapists” now discovers that, the Scotts- boro boys are being made “martyrs of LL.D. Cause.” In a front page article by its New York cor- respondent, Floyd J. Calvin, the Courier echoes the demands of the Southern white ruling class that George W. Chamlee abandon the Scotts- boro defense. This article says: “George W. Chamlee should resign the Scotts- boro defense after the outrageous public meet- | ing held by the International Labor Defense in this city Sunday, at which Mr. Chamlee was personally present, according to reports in the daily press.” And what made this Scottsboro protest meet- ing so “outrageous” in the eyes of this bootlicker of the imperialists? Because, says Mr. Calvin: “The meeting definitely linked the Scottsboro case with the ‘Communist International.” And what is Mr. Calvin’s “proof” that the Scottsboro case is linked up with the Communist Interna- tional? Says Mr. Calvin: “Proof that the Scottsboro boys are but fuel for the Communistic propaganda flame was fur- nished by several speakers. J. Louis Engdahl, secretary of the ILD declared at the meeting that their task is to ‘tie up the Scottsboro case with the struggle against landlords, with the struggle for bread and: for jobs, so that we can eventually draw 10,000,000 American workers into the class struggle and move on to victory.” War and the Marine Industry | By R. B. HUDSON PART 2 (Conclusion) Severe international competition, the acute- ness of the world situation and the possibilities of war, compel American imperialism to make every effort to see that the merchat marine is fully developed and is an efficient war auxiliary. Not only are old ships being scrapped and new ones being built conforming to naval specifica- tions, but the entire industry is being organized on a war basis. A special war board has been created composed of leaders of the industry and J. P. Ryan, president of the Longshoremen’s As- sociation, and Andrew Furuseht, president of the International Seamen's Union. Most of the large companies compell their of- ficers to belong to the naval reserve dnd the International Seamen’s Union has long advocat- ed the passage of a Naval Reserve Act which would compel seamen to belong to the Naval Re- serve and even offer this as a solution to the un- employment problem. In December, 1931, T. V. O'Connor, chairman o1 the Shipping Board, speaking before the Propellor Club, stated “an~ other effective aid (for relief of the spipowners) would be a complete functioning of the Naval Reserve to include the entire personnel of the merchant ships, which is so necessary in times of war. Legal authority for the establishment of this form of defense has already been given by Congress but unfortunately the necessary funds have not yet been appropriated.” In the militarization of the industry special attention has been paid to building up a proper personnel. The percentage of foreign born sea- men has been reduced from 87 per cent in 1918 to 41 per cent now and at the end of 1932, on ships built under the Jones-White Act, two- thirds of the crew must be Americans. A national blacklist system is utilized for weeding out the militants. Deportations especially has been a powerful weapon to terrorize the foreign born, over 100,000 seamen now having this club hang- ing over their head. Ex-navy men are given pref- erence on many lines. The seamen’s mission in every port, supported by the ship owners, are maintained to prévent organization and to guard against and counteract all propaganda, Forty per cent of the seamen are now unem- ployed and all lJongshoremen are working part time, Checkerboard wage cuts have occurred on some companies for both seamen and longshore- men, and speed-up, rationalization and under- manning have occurred, but the ship: owners have been very skillful in their introduction of bad conditions. The Hoboken strike precipitated by too rapid introduction of speed up, taught a Jesson to the owners. Although there has been a steady worsennig of conditions of the marine workers, it is of im- portance to note that no general wage cut has been made in the marine industry. The marine workers have felt the effect of the crisis less than any workers in all basic industries. Seamen, de- spite .the great unemployment, are relatively better off, The bosses do not rely upon the gen- eral charity rackets for providing them with re- lief. The capitalist press states “they realize the special need of the seamen and ask that special steps be taken to raise a special sailors’ fund.” Other “homeless” men are only given a few meals and lodging and then they are forced to move on. Not the seamen, the bosses’ plans con- template providing steady relief to seamen. A special committee, with representatives of the large shipping interests on it, has been organized to raise a special fund for the seamen. The “liberality” of the bosses is explained by the press “spokesmen of the sailors are demanding food and shelter as a matter of right and have backed up these demands with a demonstration.” There is a marked tendency in giving relief to keep the seamen together as a favored group. The fact that the industry is highly subsidized by the government is insufficient to explain these facts. Two things offer adequate explanations: 1. It is a war industry. 2. The desirability of maintaining the marine workers as a politically reliable group. Of great importance in this connection are the International Seamen’s Union and the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, both affili-. -ated to the A. F. of L. The L.S.U., although now weak numerically, played an important part in the last war, supports the creation of @ large navy, advocates passage of the Naval Reserve Act and is utilized by the ship owners to coun- teract the impression made upon crews of ves- sels visiting the Soviet Union, T. V. O'Connor, head of the Shipping Board is responsible for the organization of the port of Philadelphia by the LL.A. in 1926 (see minutes of convention, 1.L.A,, 1927), In 1916 the LL.A, was non-existent in many ports on the West Coast, but it was re- vived in order to fit in with the war plans which demanded politically safe labor, With govern- DEFEND THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS! SMASH THE REFORMIST MANEUVERS! From the very first, the apologists and de- fenders of imperialist oppression of the Negro masses haye attempted to cover up the lynch terror nature of the Scottsboro death verdicts ‘which wotfld burn eight innocent Negro children in the electric chair as a means of terrorizing the Negro masses into submissio- to the starva- tion program of capitalism, into submission to the outrageous robbery and enslavement of the Negro majorities in the “Black Belt” by the big landowners, merchants, bankers and their hang- ers-on. The Intrenational Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights have cor- rectly and consistently pointed out that the struggle to save and free the nine innocent vic- tims of class justice, is at the same time a strug- gle for absolute and unconditional equality for the Negro masses in this country, against land- lord-capitalist oppression and plundering of the Negro masses, and against the starvation sys- tem which forced these working class boys to bum their way on freight trains in a desperate hunt for work in the effort to help their starv- ing families, and then caught them up in the net of a vicious frame-up and lynch terror. It is on this understanding of the Scottsboro frame-up that millions of Negro and white work- ers and poor farmers in this country and thru- out the entire world have rallied in mass defense of the nine innocent Negro boys. More than ever now, it is necessary that the world working class thunder its angry protests, against the at- tempt sof the imperialists and their white and Negro lackeys to carry through these hideous lynch verdicts. Workers! Demonstrate your furious resentment against this brazen class jus- tice! Hold meetings everywhere! Demonstrate against the lynch terror! Send protest telegrams to the Alabama Supreme Court! Defend the Negro masses! Demand the immediate and un- conditional release of these innocent ‘working class children! Smash the lynch verdicts! i ment backing the 1.S.U. grew to a membership ot 100,000 during this period and will be revived in the same manner when the occasion arises. The merchant marine is a naval auxiliary and the 18.U, and LL.A. are utilized to maintain a safe erew for this important section of the navy. Thus, the shipping board in interceding and breaking the deadlock was motivated by the fear that the proposals would provoke a general strike on the coast and cause: 1, Increased militancy ot workers. 2. Complete exposure of the leaders of the ILA. and possibilities of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League gaining greater influence. The shipping board is organically part of the government and the shipping board dictates to the rest of the shipping interests the method ot introducing wage cuts, speed up.and even their size. The LS.U, and LL.A. are not only the means of introducing these bad conditions but they are also the organs for maintaining the workers as a politically reliable group, and as such are sup- ported by the government. Thus, in the third year of the crisis, with its deep going effect upon the industry, we find the ship owners have delayed, and have been extremely careful and skillful in attacking the conditions of the workers, and that these tactics are determined by its being a major war indus- try and of the necessity of maintaining organiza- tional and ideological control of the marine workers, so important in the transportation of troops and munitions and supplies in the event of a war. But as the recent wage cuts indicate, they are nevertheless out to make ever greater attacks upon the workers and with the deepening of the crisis to further worsen their conditions which does produce increased radicalization. The perspective of future developments and possibilities of struggle, the close control main- tained by the government, the tremendous array of forces and the importance of this industry in defending the Soviet Union, place enormous tasks squarely before the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union and demands that the T.U.U.L. and Party turn its face sharply toward the waterfront and actually begin to put into effect the decisions of the Pittsburgh meeting of the National Committee of the 'T.U.U.L. and the 13th Plenum of our Party | = The Persecution of Foreign-Born--An Attack on. All Workers By 8. HORWATT. (Sec’y. New York District Committee Council the Protection of Foreign Born). je a previous article the writer exposed the vi- cious anti-foreign born nature of the Cable Bill (H. R. 5093) now pending in Congress, pro- viding for registration of foreign born workers as if they were prisoners on parole. But there is another bill even more vicious, directed against the foreign-born workers, the Bachmann Bill. The Bachmann Bill “H.R. 1967” introduced to the first session of the 72nd Congress on Dec. 8th, 1931 is to amend the Anti-Alien-Anarchist law which states that “Aliens who are an- archists . . .” should be outlawed and deported. Now Mr. Bachmann proposes to amend this law by inserting ‘‘(a) Aliens’ who are anarchists or Communists.” If this ammendment js adopted by Congress, then everyone who, expresses any grievances against the government; any individual who ex- presses any disagreement with the practices of any government body;' the members of any union which will call its members out on strike and meets the opposition of the bosses’ courts and police force will be charged with Commu- nism and will be subject to deportation. What is to be done in’ order to stop the terror against the foreign born and to force Congress to reject all the bills which aim to discriminate, persecute and to deport foreign born. The Committee for the Protection of the For- eign Born has called conferences in various parts of the country. -At these conferences plans were adopted in order to mobilize a mass movement of the millions of foréign born and native Amer- icans for the struggle. The New York Conference tor the Protection of the Foreign Born whith was held on Dec. 20 called upon every organization, native and for- eign born, that mass protest meetings be or- ganized by each and every organization where protest resolutions be adopted to be sent to the Congress of the U. 8. .. The Dec. 20th Conference showed that the is- sue of protection of foreign born is of vital in= terest and importance, The response ot the con- ference was enthusiastic. Delegates of 21 na- tionalities representing 229 organizations of vari- ous political affiliations showed that we are able and must mobilize the millions that sunport the struggle for the protection of foreign born Every workers’ organization should affiliate with the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. The national moy for the protection of foreign born should. be very tightly linked up with the movement for immediate relief and un- employment insurance:» By the establishment of a federal unemployment insurance, the suffer- ing of the native workers in general ard the for- eign born ni particular will -be lessened consider- ably. For this reason a mutual cooperation should be established. between the protection of foreign born’ committees-and the Unemployed Councils. The time is short. Soon the anti-foreign born bills will be given a formal.hearing. We must see that a large committee should be elected representing all nationalities of various unions, fraternal organizations, benefit societies and cul- tural federations. This committee to be sent to Washington to state our position towards these bills. Reports of this committee will be given ‘in every center of the U.S. to mobilize the mass- es against the vicious attack age nst the foreign born. Only through a united mass m./2meni of all nationalities, native and foreign bev, Negro and white, will we be able to smash < 2 offensive against the foreimn bor> !--m'red by Hoover and directed by Doak. Smash the Hoover and Doak plans 2f discrim- pou registration and deportation of foreign rm! Forward with the mobilization of a mighty mass movement for the protection of the for- eign born ! LENIN CORN ER A NAME FOR OUR PARTY WHICH WOULD BE SCIENTIFICALLY AND CONDUCIVE TO PROLETARIAN CLASS THINKING I AM coming to the last point, the name of our party. We must call ourselves the Communist Party—as Marx and Engels called themselves Communists. We must insist that we gre Marxists and that we have as a basis the Communist Manifesto, which has been perverted and betrayed by the Social Democracy on two important points: (1) The workers have no, country; “nationel ce- fense” in an imperialist war is a betrayal of So- cialism; (2) Marx’s teaching about the state has been perverted by the Second International. ° ° oor * ’ The objective needs of capitalism which has grown into imperialism have brought forth the imperialist war. This war has brought mankind to the brink of a precipice, to the destruction of civilization, the ruin dnd brutalization of count- less millions of human ‘beings. ‘There is no other way out, except a proletarian revolution. Aches i And just when that revolution is beginning, when it is taking its first awkward, timid, weak, unconscious steps, when it is still trusting the bourgeoisie, at that moment the majority (it is the truth, ft is a fact) of the S-> leaders, of the Sccial-Democratic par'iam- ~~ jans, of the Social-Democratic papers, in a word, all those who could spur the masses to action, or at least the majority of them, are betraying So- clalism, are selling Socialism, are going to fight the battle of their national’ bourgeoisie, The masses are distracted, baffled, deceived py their leaders. ak And should we afd and abet that deception by retaining the old aid worn-out party name, which is decayed as the Second Internationa'? . . . ’ ° ‘We want to rebutld the world. We want to end this imperialist World. War in which hundreds of millions of people-ate-involved and billions of dollars are invested, a war which cannot be end- ed in a truly democratic way without the great- est proletarian revolution in history.—(From The Revolution of 1917 by: Lenin, pw''ished by the International Publishers, New York.)