The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 4

aye Published by the Comprodafly Publishing Co. fnc., dally except Sunday, at 60 East Yorker’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: = 6 13th St, New York City. N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWOR Dail By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; twc months, $1; excepting Boroughs Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. of Manhattan and Bronx, New. York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50, Central peu US: A ——— - ———<—<—— ee Cio he = = ——————— By BURCK > ee FIGHT HUNGER—FEBRUARY 4th! eR Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 18, 1932 CHICAGO ISSUES A WARNING In our rly up. To date we see an appreciation t in a few sections 4 and Sec- Calumet, St. Louis, re completely dead. It results. We have sent with directives which must be report mailed every Saturday without fail fully filled The decisive industries, Attention.) from key and reci ng new members, (4) b y and red tape ch ex- i to an extent in Section 2 embers, We will issue a ults on Jan. 25. nape showing special bi So far we have the following challenges be- tween sections: Section 4 and Section 6 Milwaukee and Indianapolis Springfield and Calumet. What about the others? During the month of December we had a pickup in recruiting compared with November, but still far behind October. Here is the re- cruiting capacity of each section in December (including week ending Jan. 2), Section 1 seseree. +35 Section 2 = 43 Section 3 ad Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Milwaukee . St. Louis . Calumet Indianapolis . Southern Illinois .. Waukegan . Rockford Rock Island Springfield ..... as Miscellaneous .. Here we see Milwaukee, Section 6, Indianap- olis and Rockford doing good work, but we can- | not be satisfied with Section 2, Section 5, St. Louis and Calumet, PROPOSALS FOR REVOLUTIONARY COMPETITION BETWEEN THE | BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA AND } EW YORK DISTRICTS | 1. A 50 per cent increase in mem- | bership in the existing shop nuclei. 2. 125 per cent new shop nuclei to be formed during the drive, on the basis of the quotas set by the Na- tional Office. The Philadelphia Dis- trict agrees to realize 100 per cent of this quota. The Philadelphia and New Districts agree to recruit a similar amount of Negro proletarians into the Party. | 4. 80 per cent of new members recruited shall be women, of which | 85 per cent shall be shop workers. The Philadelphia District sets itself the task of 20 per cent women re- cruits into the Party. 5. To accomplish 100 per cent dues payments during this period. 6. 85 per cent of membership shall be drawn into the Trade Unions in New-York. Philadelphia sets it- self the task of 50 per cent into the Trade Unions. 7. 5 per cent of the total Party membership, both old, and new re- | eruits, shall be in shop nuclei. | 8. 85 per cent of the nuclei mem- | bers to be kept, and those to be checked up at a conference between the Districts, around May 1. 9. 60 per cent of the nuclei mem- bers to go through New Members Classes. 10. To double the membership of the Y. C. L. 11. 25 per cent of the Party Units to have Block organization. The Philadelphia District proposes to double its amount of block organiza- tions which is larger than 25 per cent, 12. 50 per cent of all shop nuclei to have functioning shop groups. 13. To publish 125 per cent of the quota of shop papers assigned by the Central Office. The Philadelphia District proposes for. itself, 100 per cent. 14. To establish 20 neighborhood papers 15. To recruit one metal worker in New York for every miner recruit- ed in Philadelphia. 16. To recruit one Socialist work- er for every one recruited ‘in Phila- delphia. 17. To recruit one Transport worker in New York for every Heavy Steel worker recruited in the Phila- delphia District. 18. To organize Party Units in the territories, Leon Platt for District Com- ai mittee, District 3. Lena Davis for District Com- mittee, District 2. Does Boston agree to these pro- posals? _ PARTY RECRUITING AS A RESULT OF MASS = By ED SOLWAY Organizational Secretary of the Philadelphia District. WwW accept the challenge of the New York Dis- trict for revolutionary competition in the Party Recruiting Drive. We feel that the Phila- delphia District will make good in all phases of the recruiting. In the past few months our dis- trict has participated in a number of struggles, such as in the unemployed movement, prepara- tions for the Hunger March, and economie struggles of the workers in the Anthracite, Philadelphia and other places. The Party has gained through these struggles hundreds of new members as well as good lessons that will help the present Recruiting Drive. Already today our section committees and, unit bureaus are completing final arrangements for the drive. ‘The enthusiasm of the membership justifies our belief that this Recruiting Drive will not only bring in hundreds of new members but will gen- erally improve the life of the Party and make possible for the Party to lead the many struggles confronting the workers in our district today. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE DRIVE In this drive, our Party places before itself a number of objectives. The industries that the Party concentrates on are the metal, mining, marine and building trades. In the metal in- dustry of Philadelphia and Sparrows Point big struggles against wage-cuts are pending, espe- cially in the latter, where more than five wage- cuts have been given the workers during recent months, so that the workers have reached the point where starvation is the question of the day. No organization of the Party and the Metal Workers’ League can effectively lead this struggle against wage-cuts, In the Anthracite region, we find today such ® movement already developing into mass dimen- sions for the fight against hunger and against the betrayals of the United Mine Workers’ Union officials. ‘This likewise applies to the marine industry in Philadelphia and Baltimore sections. In the building trades of Philadelphia, con- trolled by the A. F. of L, workers today begin to fight unemployment, wage-cuts and A. F. of L. officials. Especially in Philadelphia there is a splendid field for the Party to lead the strug- gles of the carpenters. This has. already been initiated under the guidance of the Trade Union Unity League in a number of the locals of the carpenters. In the unemployed movement, Philadelphia oan record today real achievements and the ‘basis for a mass movement, fighting for unem- insurance and immediate relief, Al- meres ACTIVITIES i though many shortcomings and mistakes are committed, as well as organizational weaknesses prevail, the preparations for Feb. 4 will see a tremendous growth of the unemployed councils. Our fractions during the Recruiting Drive must aim to stabilize the Unemployed Branches in Philadelphia and throughout the district, through giving proper leadership ng all these struggles. We Must Improve the Party Apparatus. ‘The drive must serve as a means to improve the function of the Party apparatus. In the Philadelphia District the Party membership and apparatus must be adjusted to be able to lead the manifold struggles. While most of the new members who have entered in the past few months are actively engaged in mass activities, the same cannot be said about the Party mem- bership as a whole. Our Party units have been too much occupied with internal activities. At times, Party units which otherwise carry on splendid work, have no time or forces for our mass organizations. This must be changed. The Party membership must be trained to be- come leaders in the struggles of our mass or- ganizations especially in our trade unions, un- employed councils, ete. This drive must serve the purpose of mainly raising the ideological level of both the old and new Party members. Only in this manner will our Party be able both to lead the struggles of the workers, as well as to solve the problem of the big turnover of membership in our Party. To the Factories. We must admit that as far as factory work is concerned, our district is guilty of either neglect or failure to adopt proper methods in order to secure results. This drive, therefore, making its object the securing of at least 20 per cent of its quota from the shops and factories in the basic industries, is today considering special methods for factory concentration. The best methods will be found only as a result of actually coming in contact with workers in those factories. The experiences of our district and the Party as a whole in this work, must be studied by the lead- ing comrades and membership of the Party, in order to successfully penetrate those industries and factories which the plan calls for, Finally, the Recruiting Drive will be achieved to the extent. and proportions that the Party: membership will involve itself in mass activities and will thus succeed to lead the struggles of the workers against wage-cuts, for unemploy- ment insurance and relief, for full rights of the Negro masses and against A. ¥, of I, misleaders The Reign of Hunger and Terror in Chicago By BILL GEBERT. IOEL D, Hunter, the general superintendent of the starvation program of the bosses in Chi- cago (General Superintendent of the United Charities of Chicago) in an open letter to Gov- ernor Louis L. Emmerson and the General As- sembly of the State of Illinois declares: “To prevent acute hunger, evictions and food riots, about $30,000,000 is needed in Cook County in 1932, The most that can be ex- pected from private contributions is $5,000,000. Federal aid cannot be obtained unless Illinois acts first. I am not crying wolf when there is no wolf at the door. There is not only one wolf but there is a pack of them. Their names are hunger, starvation, eviction and riot. “This Jetter is a sincere and earnest at- tempt to set forth the facts about the present conditions in Chicago.” But these facts of Mr. Hunter's are just sim- ply throwing the light partially on the real conditions of the masses of workers of Chicago. 700,000 unemployed workers and their families are actually facing starvation and many of them starving with workers daily dying from starva- tion in the flop houses and in the shacks of the great industrial city of Chicago. Mr. Hunter carries out his policy accordingly; cutting of the relief 50 per cent to prolong starvation and stopping payment of rent for the unemployed workers and evictions have already begun. In the South Side of Chicago about 7,000 starving workers are immediately on the verge of being thrown on the streets in the midst of winter. Mr. Hunter, who speaks for the frightened Chicago bourgeoisie, the Traylors, Insulls, Swifts, Armours, McCormacks and other millionaires and billionaires, draws the picture of food riots for a definite purpose, to increase the police terror against the masses, It is his agents that call the police to club workers who demand re- Mef at the relief stations. It is Mr. Hunter who is particularly responsible for the arrest of over 150 workers on the South Side of Chicago on January 11 and 13 and the clubbing and beat- ing all of them by the thugs of the police de- partment, Stege and Barker. Maurice Kavanagh, chairman of the Cook County Board Finance Committee, in an in- terview with the Chicago Herald and Examiner declared: “Starvation faces 51,000 families now being fed by the County,” because these fam- ilies are being taken off from the relief list and the miserable little relief they were get- ting is cut off. ‘The Chicago Daily News, speaking about the situation, declares: “Chicago has on its charity list today al- most the equivalent of the population of Mil- waukee—more than 500,000 people. A crisis is at hand the like of which has not existed, authorities say, since the great Chicago fire of 1871.” With the cutting of relief in half, tens of thou- sands of families are deprived fo relief, while mass evictions are carried on under the slogan of “economy” and “there are no funds.” But these are plain and simple lies. Tony Cermak, the democratic mayor of Chicago, claims that there is no money for unemployed relief, but there is money for bankers to pay interest on their loans and bonds, to pay a traction fund to Insull from the city amounting to millions of dollars. There is no money for the unemployed, but Tony Cermak pays $200,000 to the National Com- mittee of the Democratic party and $150,000 to the National Committee of the Republican party for the “privilege” of having the conventions of these parties of the bosses held in the city of Chicago. Every unemployed and employed work- er in the city of Chicago should very well re- member this, that Tony Cermak can raise $350, 000 for the parties of the millionaires, and not one penny for the starving unemployed workers. Bich Not Touched ‘There fs no money for unemployed relief, but according to the United States income tax in the year of 1928 one hundred-forty-five persons in Tilinols had a net income of $172,000,000. Of this number, three had incomes of $5,000,000 or more a year, thirteen persons between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000; 41 between $1,000,000 and $2,- 000,000; and 88 between one-half million and $1,000,000. 10,436 persons had net incomes in the year of 1928 from $25,000 to $500,000, re- eeiving @ total of $648,000,000. Sixty-five 5 Derasites who drew the money from the blood and sweat of the workers are the parasites living in the city of Chicago. But their millions of dollars made out of the murderous exploitation and speed up of the workers in the factories is not touched by the city, county, state on federal govern- ment. In addition to these hundreds of millions of dollars, which represents robbery of the work- ers in the industries, there is an enormous amount of food and clothing in the city of Chi- cago. Tens of thousands of empty apartments with hundreds of thousands of rooms, and in face of this, there is death, starvation and home- less masses of workers on the streets of Chicago. Against the masses of workers who are enter- ing into the struggle for the right to live, the whole machinery of terror is put into motion. The workers headquarters are smashed, workers are arrested in hundreds in an attempt to ter- rorize them, and the bosses promise if this is not sufficient the State Militia will be used. But the bosses cannot be too sure of their own tools, The Chicago Daily News on Janu- ary 12, in its first edition carries the story of the attack on the workers in front of the re- lief station on the South Side. The end of the story describes the following significant in- cident: “The meeting outside had been peaceful, though vehement, under the eyes of uniform- ed police. When a woman, turning to a blue- coat, said, ‘We're hungry, hungry! My chil- dren are hungry and you come here with clubs for us’, the policeman replied: ‘I don’t want to club you; we may be in the bread line ourselves befote long if we don’t get paid’. ‘Then the man on the window ledge shouted, ‘all we ask for is the right to live’.” ‘The February 4 demonstration in Chicago as- sumes not only importance in view of the fact that this is National Unemployment Insurance The Historical Experiences of Bolshevism and the International Proletariat (For the Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg Campaign) Part I January it is eight years since the death of Lenin and 13 years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. ‘This anniversray can and must become a revo- lutionary mass campaign. The Communist Parties have already commenced their prepara- tions for this campaign which must be dis- tinguished by mass actions under the fighting slogans of the Comintern and of the Communist Parties, The chief tasks of this campaign are to im- part to the broadest masses the historical ex- periences of Bolshevism and to increase and strengthen the Bolshevist spirit of the Commu- nist Parties and the Young Communist Leagues. The better the ideological mobilization is car- ried out within the Parties, the broader the Par- ties develop the campaign among the masses, especially in the big factories and among the unemployed, the more successfully will the fight develop for the way out of the crisis which leads to the victory of the proletariat, and“ the over- coming of the capitalist rule, for the revolution- ary defense of socialist construction in the So- viet Union and the Chinese revolution—these greatest achievements of thé world proletariat and the greatest monuments to Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht—through the com- bined forces of the toilers of all countries. ‘The January campaign, which is being carried out in face of an unprecedently severe economic crisis in the capitalist countries and in face of the powerfully advancing Socialism in the So- viet Union (the approaching conclusion of the first Five Year Plan and the commencement of the setting up of the second Five Year Plan), in face of a growing revolutionary upsurge in the whole world and the actual beginning of an imperialist war (Manchuria) will, if the cam- paign is successfully prepared give a powerful stimulus to the fight of the Party for winning the majority of the working class. This cam- paign will take place at « time of further shak- Day, but in view of the whole situation in Chi- cago and to make this the largest demonstration in Chicago it is necessary immediately to over- come the organizational looseness in our move- ment and also overcome the lack of faith in the masses. With the proper understanding of the organizational tasks and the political situ- ation, the February 4 demonstration can see masses of workers on the streets. This is our task and this means to fight for our demands and to break through the police terror. While we are carrying this work, we can not successfully do this if we will not at the same time carry on the sharpest struggle agianst all sorts of social demagogy, which at the present time has been increased tenfold. In short, the bosses use both ends of the stick: terror on one hand and social demagogy on the other hand. The outstanding example of this social demagogy is the “Chicago Workers Committee of Unemployed,” headed by the bour- geois liberal Karl Bordens supported by social- ists and all other fakers, which raise practically all the immediate demands of the Unemployed Council in its program, for one definite pur- pose, to attempt to put the movement into “safe channels,” an attempt to stop militancy of the fighting working class. Block committees throughout the city must be established; also committees in every flop house, bread line, in the shops, in the A. F. of L., these committees to be set up around the collection of signatures for Unemployment Insurance Bill, around the concrete issues, to build up in the neighborhood Unemployed Councils, city wide conferences, taking up systematically all the problems of all the sections of the working class. It is possible to win our demands, to defeat terrorism only by putting into motion the work- ing class of Chicago. This is the task confront- ing every Communist and the whole Communist movement in the ctiy. ing of the mass basis of social democracy and the rooting of the Party in the big works and factories. It will be possible to judge the result of the campaign above all by the results of mass recruiting of new members to the Party and to the Y. ©. L. In face of the approaching class struggles the fighting task of the Communists is to equip the broad exploited and oppressed masses as com- letely as possible with Leninism—this masterly “theory and tactic of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactic of the dictator- ship of the proletariat in particular” (Stalin). ‘The world economic crisis which is becoming more and more deep and acute, has already led to a tremendous intensification of the class struggle. Under the blows of the offensive of capital, fresh millions of proletarians and semi- proletarians are becoming radicalized at a rapid pace and are being drawn for the first time into the revolutinoary class struggle. The success- ful socialist construction in the Soviet Union is becoming an increasingly powerful weapon for revolutionizing the masses; it is more and more convincing the masses that Bolshevism is the _ only correct path of the proletarians of all coun- tries. The authority of Lenin and Leninism is increasing every day among the masses. The influence of the Communist Party into whose ranks fresh thousands of proletarians who have not yet been steeled in the fight are streaming, is increasing. The ranks of the Party are being augmented by @ considerable number of social democratic workers who taken as a whole, still have many social democratic prejudices to over- come, History confronts the Communist Parties with the task of leading all these new masses who are entering the fight, along the surest path to victory, of teaching them, in the process of the fight to free themselves from all reformist, op- portunist, pacifist illusions, to sweep them out _of their path and to follow ever more deter- minedly the path of the proletarian revclution. ‘The experiences acquired by the Bolsheviki in the three revolutions (first revolution in the year 1905, February and Ootober Revolutions of the “ The KentuckyLegion As an “Expert” on Communism By HARRY GANNES. NEW crop of “experts” on Communism has sprung up in the ranks of the coal operators of-Kentucky and their supporters. The American Legion in the coal regions, whose main task while the miners were starving, before the present strike, was to prepare them for a new slaughter “for democracy,” now de- votes its major activities to “combatting Com- munism.” Why do all these forces of the coal operators, when they are not busy shooting miners or jail- ing strike leaders, attack the Communist Party? They can ‘ao longer frighten the miners by call- ing the National Miners’ Union a “Red union.” ‘They went to confuse the miners about the basic issues, about the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, which is at the bottom of the misery of the Ki ntucky miners. Let’s start off with the American Legion “arguments.” On Jan. 5, 1932, the American Legion posts of Pineville, Middlesboro, Barbour- ville and Harlan met in Pinesville and passed a resolution supposedly containing an “exposure of Communism,” and an argument for “American ideals,” “Ideals for Which We Fought.” “There is a growing tendency among some of our citizens to depreciate the ideals for which we fought,” says the American Legion. Are the present conditions in the Kentucky coal fields the “ideals” for which the miners fought in the army of the American capitalism? The last World War, in which 10,000,000 workers of all countries were slaughtered, resulted in the enrichment of Henry Ford (whose lawyers now seek an injunction against the striking miners); it gave hundreds of millions in profits to the U. S. Steel Corporation (whose gun thugs shoot down miners in Harlan County), and it brought hunger to the great masses of Amevtcan workers. Such “ideals” the Communist Party seeks to destroy and replace by a government of the workers and farmers. “Another Form of Government.” “There exists in the United States,” the coal operators’ American Legion goes on to say, “a great many persons who look with favor upon the substitution of another form of government similar to that established in Russia.” Does the American Legion charge that the Communist Party works to substitute the present coal operators’ government of Kentucky, which jails miners who fight against starvation, which shoots down the best fighting leaders of the miners, with another form of government? The Communist Party points out that the present government not only of Harlan County but of the United States as a whole is the instrument of the big bankers of Wall Street of the “big corporations which rule not only in Harlan but where the workers slave and starve everywhere in the country; that it is this government which the Legion is helping to preserve, and along with it the whole capitalist system of perpetual hun- ger. The Communist Party, it is true, points to the example of the workers in Russia, where, after the last bitter world war in which the Czar had 2,000,000 Russian workers killed in fighting for the same “ideals” for which the Legion now yelps, the workers and farmers wiped out the old system of hunger, war and brutality, and> established their own government. ‘This workers’ government was built up in the form of Soviets, which means councils. The workers in the Russian mines, in the steel mills, formed their revolutionary committees which drove out the coal operators and the steel bosses and turned the factories, the land, and the niines of the country over to the working class and to the poor farmers. From then on, the workers began to build a new society in which the idea of the bosses running things for profit was wiped out. The result now Is that it is only in the Soviet Union that unemployment and hunger does not exist. ‘The example of the Russian workers is treas- ured by the militant workers in every country. It is because the Kentucky coal operators fear that the Kentucky miners will learn this out- standing lesson of working-class history that they raise a cloud of lies hoping to blind the miners, ‘The American Legion accuses the Communist Party propaganda of being responsible for “caus- ing untold suffering and privation” in Kentucky. Who is it that is cutting wages? It is the coal operators. Who- blacklisted 5,000 Kentucky miners, long before the Communist Party of the United States, composed of workers hardened in the class struggle, sent its best leaders to Ken- tucky? It was the coal operators. When the miners’ babies were dying off like files as the result of flux, a starvation disease, what did the Red Cross do, that shining ex- emple of coal operators’ “ideals.” “We were sur- prised to hear,” wrote Governor Sampson’s in- vestigating committee, “that an organiation with the Red Cross as its banner, the emblem of the crucifixion and the blood of Christ, could turn a@ deaf ear or refuse to aid needy men, women and children.” Yes, it is a pertinent question: Who brought misery and suffering to the workers and their families of the Kentucky coal fields? The an- swer is capitalism, represented in Harlan and Bell Counties by the coal operators and all their agents. It is because the Communist Party rallies the workers to build their own political party with its main object to wipe out such a system that the American Legion, defending the hunger sys- tem, raises the cry of Soviet interference, year 1917) are of extraordinary great impor- tance to the proletarians of all countries, In the revolution 1905, which Lenin designated as the “rehearsal of October,” the proletariat at the head of the working masses made an assault upon absolutism, they proceeded against the capitalists and the big landowners under the Bolshevist slogan of the revolutionary-democrati¢e dictatorship of the proletariat and of the peas- antry, having before them the great perspective of transforming the bourgeois-democratic revo- lution into the socialist revolution. The Bolshe- viki, under Lenin’s leadership, have generalized, the lessons of the revolution of 1905. These ex- periences ‘have become part and parcel of the proletarian world revolution. These experiences are of extraordinarily great importance espe- cially to those countries in which the belated bourgeois revolution is taking place under the conditions of acute class struggle, less between the bourgeoisie and the feudal lords than be- tween all toilers and oppressed headed by the proletariat on the one hand and the feudal lords and igen on the other, is N