The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1932, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaiiy Publishing Co, Inc, dally except Sunday, at 60 Fast 18th Bt, New York Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 86 Hast 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RECRUITING DRIVE BOSTOD By NAT KAPLAN. HESE lines are written at the moment when hanghai is bombed and invaded by Japan! eed for strengthening our Party—the - of the struggle against imperialist war! | Does this not stand out in all its sharpness at 4 moment! We are strengthening our Party, in order to e effectively lead the struggle against wage- wars and for unemployment insurance. We strengthening our Party in preparation for final struggle for power. While we fight to stroy capitalism in its stronghold, our lead- brother Party in the U.S.S.R. deals a heavy low to capitalism by proceeding to complete | F Year Plan this year, in four years. To succeed we must become a mass Party. ‘This means to have masses in our ranks and to ses. That’s why the recruiting drive is blem of changing the methods of work in every unit. Stage struggle for partial demands factories and among the unemployed. twork of united front bodies of the grievance committees, shop commit- tees, block committees and unemployed councils): nuclei! Don*t-use the means of least , but recruit Negro and white workers struggle in the shops and among Ss the unemplo Get new members and then keep them. Don't ¢ burden the new recruits with work— hem an elementary task, tell them per- about the Party, urge them to attend embers’ course, interesting unit meet- 1 a well prepared discussion. These are requisites for keeping the new members. Last ot least we must beat New York and Phila- delphia, which has challenged our district in the recruiting drive. On Building of Shop Nuclei. the task of building ten shop nuclei 1, Can we do it? How can this be are some facts to think about: ‘ood has four Party members working in a big leum factory of 1,000 workers. We demand an answer from Norwoood leading com- rad d the unit buro how long will Norwood ore this nucleus is established. has a big electric plant—the Gen- Electric. In this shop we have a Party working who belongs to the Lynn unit. There is also a member of the Y.C.L. working there. A comrade belonging to the Chelsea unit is employed in this same shop in Lynn. There is no doubt that among the members of fra- ternal organizations in and around Lynn there nn expects to do to establish a shop nucleus in this very important industry. Lynn unit has a chance to give the best answer to the threatening war between the United States and Japan and to the present war on the Chi- nese masses, a shop nuclei in the General Elec- trie within the next two weeks. 3. New Bedford is given the task to build two shop nuclei by the end of the drive. We now have 37 members in New Bedford. How about showing us what you comrades can do to orientate our comrades toward the textile mills. TI ould be no difficulty at all to accomplish this. The fact that many comrades are at pres- ent out of work or working part time is no rpa- son at all for not forming a shop nuclei. Let’s tion 4. Can you fulfill your quota of shop nuclei by March 18 (1 in Providence, New Bedford), The next bulletin will give nswer to this. There is a basis for shop nuclei also in the following cities: (a) Gardner-Stove Factory. (b) Worcester—Reed and Prince. (c) South End—Signal Shoe, where you have three Party members working. (ad) Lawrence—Ayer Mill. (e) Maynard—Assabet Mill. (f) Chelsea—Machine Shop. We demand a report from every one of the above units as to just what they are doing to actually establish these nuclei. Latest Flashes In the Drive. New Bedford, 3 new applications all textile ‘kers, ages 25, 28, 35. Maynard, 4 more members. South End, the new members recruited during the last two weeks are doing fine. Already new recruits have been gotten by these comrades. Among them 3 new longshoreman, 1 white and Negroes joined. we ry 21 POINTS FOR THE RECRUITING DRIVE—CHALLENGE TO NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA FROM THE BOSTON DISTRICT 1. 50 per cent increase in existing nuclei members. 2. New shop nuclet—Double number of quota of 5 (total 10). 3. Negroes: Recruit 50 Negroes—10 negro women. 4. 20 per cent new women recruits; 50 per cent shop workers. 5. 90 per cent dues payment during period. 6. 50 per cent of working membership into trade unions. 7. 10 per cent of total Party membership in shop nucle. 8. 85 per cent nuclel members to be kept. 9. 60 per cent nuclei members through new member classes. 10. Help Y. C. L, recruit 300 by April 22. Build 4 Y .C. L. units (Chelsea, Malden, South End, Maynard.) 11. Build 25 block committees, 12. 30 per cent of shop nuclei to have functioning shop groups, number. 14. 5 (small city or neighborhood) bulletins. 15. To recruit one textile worker for every metal worker or miner gotten in Phila- delphia and New York. 16. Challenge Philadelphia to get in one Socialist worker ot every two they recruit. 17. To recruit one transport worker for every two recruited in Philadelphia 18. To organize Party units in terrorities. 19. Challen; New York and Philadelphia that 30 per cent be native borrt of the re- cruits. 20. Recruit as many Italians as Phila. 21. One Irish worker for every Irish worker in Phila, District Bureau of District 1. Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 18, 1932 City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Dail Yorker’ Party U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ef Manhattan and Bronx: New York City. Foreign!’ one year, $8; six montha, $4.56. = IN THE DISTRICT Gardner threatens to take over the lead from South End. 11 applications were sent in to the office. Lynn tells us that they have about 5 new recruits. So far three applications sent in. edie Trades Fraction recruited 2 new mem- This is a good start Needle Trades com- rades. But it is only a part. In preparation for the strike and during the course of the strike there must be more recruits for the Party. It can be done. Every Needle Trades worker must help. Norwood is carrying on mass work among the unemployed and building of mass organizations. Only four members were recruited within the last week. I am sure that comrades in Norwood can do much more than this if you Just do the following: 1. Involve in the recruiting all fractions in the mass organizations, shop nuclei members, every Party member working in the Birds Lino- leum and the Norwood press, Tanney Shop and other plants. 2. Already the comrades must demand or- ganizational results for the Party from the un- employed work. Here young American workers can be recruited both for the Party and YCL. A weekly check up must be made on all these fractions and comrades. Norwood has come a long way to smash its past isolation from mass work. Norwood is on the road to mass Party. It must increase its tempo of recruiting in the drive and Jay the basis for becoming a mass Party. How about challenging some other unit in the district. Let’s hear from you. Keeping New Members As this is written at least 100 new members can be recorded as new recruits since Dec. 1. In some units, Maynard, South End, Gardner, Dud- ley St., the membership has increased 100 per cent. Other units are beginning to show real life in the present recruiting drive. A major task before us today is how to keep these new members. A few suggestions on this are timely. 1. The unit buro must have on its agenda GUIDE THE By BURCK at every meeting the recruiting campaign. This does not mean that it simply takes up the ques- tion of how many members were recruied. Con- sider very carefully the question of how many | of these recruited got membership books, how many of them have attended the first meeting and have kept up regular attendance at meetings, | which of the new members are able to under- take responsible tasks. How many of the new members are attending classes for new mem- bers. Take up the question of personal and individual attention to these new recruits. A leading- member of the unit buro should be assigned special tasks in connection with the above. Shop Papers and City Bulletins. This month District 1 issued 2 shop papers. One in the Hood Rubber, Boston and one in the Tubular Rivet shop in Quincy. New shop papers are in preparation in Norwood in the Tannery Shop and on the waterfront in Boston. Lawrence reports that they decided to issue a shop paper in the Wood Mill. These decisions and plans still await execution. It should not take weeks and months to issue a shop paper. Since we have comrades working in these shops we have information of the conditions and should have no difficulty to issue a shop paper before Feb. 15. Peabody, Lynn should take up the question of issuing a city bulletin to be published once a month. This bulletin should be in the name of the Communist Party and deal with the Party campaigns in the particular city as well as the particular problems of the workers. In the shops, these shop papers and city bul- letins are the Party expression and the Party face before the workers in the locality or shop. ‘The shop paper or bulletin if properly handled and carefully prepared can and must become the collective Party organization and agitator among the worker. For more information on how to establish these please communicate with the District Office. Each Important Shop a Fortress of Communism! Recruit Textile Workers, Marine Workers, Shoe and Building Trades Workers! 10 pt.—21 points for Recruting drive. Challenge to New York and Phila from Boston district. More Former Lovestone- ites Return to the Party \NE by one, as they come to the realization of the duplicity and of the counter-revolution- ary character of the Lovestone group of rene- gades, honest workers and fighters for the prole- tarian revolution, who had previously been mis- led by the revolutionary phrases with which Lovestone and Co. have tried to cover their right wing opportunism, are denouncing the renegades and returning to the Party. Satisfying itself as to their sincerity, the Party has re-admitted them, and will continue to d so in the future. , In connection with the recent re-admissions of Nat Haines, Don Cutler, Eugene Kireinin and Fannie Levine, the following statement sub- mitted by Comrade Fannie Levine deserves wider attention: “It is some time since I have broken with the Lovestone group, because I realized that it is playing a role of an open enemy of the Com- munist Party and of the revolutionary mass or- ganizations. This is proved by the statement given out by the group against the Needle Trades Industrial Union, by the stand taken by the group at the Unity Conference of the Fur- riers, and last, but not the least, by the strike- breaking stand taken by the Lovestone group in the Paterson strike. (Now we can add to this also their treachery to the working class in the preparations for the New York dressmakers’ strike, in which they are already working hand in hand with the Schlesinger and “Forward” machine.—CCC), , “The statement of unity with the Communist Party, given out by the group ts nothing but demagogy, calculated to mislead more workers. “Tt is clear to me that the Lovestone group is trying to discredit, and to smash the Commu- nist Party. It is the every-day activity of the Lovestone group which has shown to me how wrong I was in letting myself be misled by them, and which has convinced me that my place is back in the Communist Party, back in the real fight for the interests of the working class.” Communist Party of the U. S. A. Central Cdatrol Commission, Bourgeois Women Pacifists Screen Imperialist War Preparations By ANNA DAMON. 7th National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War was held in Washington, D. C., January 18-22. At this conference 11 National Women’s Organizations were repre- sented by 527 delegates. While most of the dele- gates represented bourgeois women’s societies, two important groups of delegates came from the Women’s Trade Union League and from the Young Women’s Christian Association, whose membership is composed chiefly pf ‘vomen workers, Ardent support of the Geneva Disarmament Conference was the keynote of the Women’s Pacifist Conference in Washington. The “fine ladies” did their share to fool the women to believe that peace is possible under capitalism. According to the official statements and propa- ganda of these pacifists all that is necessary is to create universal sentiment against war, gather enough signatures for disarmament and peace and presto—war will be no more. To show that they mean business the pacifists organized parades, held demonstrations and in the interest of “peace” sent over several trunk- loads of signatures of those that were misled into believing that the Geneva war mongers’ conference can actually disarm by being ap- pealed to. Along with the trunks of signatures there were also sent four delegates chosen by the pacifists at the Washington conference on the Cause and Cure of War, and Dr. Mary Wooley, who is the first woman ever chosen to an international disarmament conference. Dr. Wooley Conscious Agent of U.S. Imperialism. The women pacifists and the feminists hail the election of Dr. Wooley as a delegate to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva as a victory. They rejoice at the fact that at last a woman has been selected to participate in an Interna-+ tional Conference, and as such will represent the interests of women. They would have the women of the working class believe that the in- terests of the women are separate and apart from the interests of the working class as a whole. The working class women should not be taken in by this. We should recognize that Dr. Wooley has been chosen and is representing the interests of the capitalist ruling class in the U. 8. and is a direct agent of U.S. imperialists in a pacifist garb. We may be sure that she will follow the lead of the delegation of U. S. imper= jalism, which will play a very aggressive role at the conference, It is most important for the working class women to recognize the nature of the coming Geneva disarmament conference and the role of the bourgeois pacifists, In furthering the war plans of Wall Street. Out of this conference there will come new imperialist allignments, a further common understanding against the So- viet Union and increased armament building, Soviet Union Peace Proposals Rejected. The Soviet Union is now successfully complet- ing its first Five Year Plan, and is preparing for the next Five Year Plan—rapidly building in- dustries and constantly improving the condi- tions of the workers—forging ahead to Socialism. It is the only country really interested in peace, The delegation of the Soviet Union broucht forth a real program for total disarmament at the League of Nations conferences. This pro- posal was modified and presented 3 times, but each time was rejected by the imperialist powers who do not want peace, whose very existence is based on war, and who ore only using the dis- armament conferences as smoke screens to hide the real war’ preparations. The Hoover Government had a definite pur- pose in selecting Dr. Wooley, and that was to play her up as a@ woman who is supposed to represent the interests of the women, knowing fully that she represents the interests of the capitalists. Dr. Wooley herself is a conscious enemy of the workers, belonging to the most reactionary and despicable strike-breaking, pat- riotic women’s organization—the Daughters of the American Revolution—the organization which has gone on record time and time again for deportation of foreign born, in support of the Fish Committee to outlaw the Communist Party, and that is energetically organizing the sentiment of women through their organizations for war against the Soviet Union, Hypocritical Role of Pacifists Unmasked. Working class women must recognize the despicable role thes the leaders of the pacifist movement are playing. Certainly Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and her cohorts do not foster any illusions themselves about the possibilities of peace and the success of disarmament confer- ences, Mrs. Catt, organizer of the committee and chairman of the conference on the Cause and Cure of War, voiced her opinion on the useful- ness of disarmament conferences in an article on the “Outlawry of War” the “Annals” of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences for July, 1928. “It is doubtful if disarmament conferences will make much progress through direct dis- cussion of disarmament itself.” She stated further along in the article, “I am not trying to make out a case against war, but to show that when men meet to reduce the power of an institution so securety established in law an tradition and so completely bound up with the profits of business, they are met by re- sistance too emphatic to be easily overcome.” The above statement clearly shows her hypo- critical role as the leader of a “peace” move- ment. This venerable lady has a black record of betrayal for the ideal which she is supposed to represent. She, as well as the other bour- geois pacifists and the so-called “Socialists,” Rose Schneiderman, and the labor pacifists, Agnes Nestor of the Women’s Trade Union League are only pacifists between wars. As soon as the U. S. declares war they will endorse and subscribe to the bloody war program of the THE CRISIS WIDENS THE GAP BETWEEN CLASSES By GRACE HUTCHINS. How the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is vividly shown in a new pamphlet Profits and Wages’, by Anna Roches- ter, prepared by Labor Research Association and published by International, Pamphlets. While thousands of workers are barely exist- ing on bread-line slops and while small capital- ists are shaken down into the ranks of the pro- letariat, “more bonds, more stock, more’ real estate are gobbled up by the bigger. capitalists whose incomes are always large enough to allow the increase. of accumulation, which is their chief end and aim of existence.” Citing the fact that a group of the larger com- panies (reptesenting roughly two-thirds of the total corporation capital) paid interest and divi- dends that totalled 83 ver cent larger ‘in 1930 than in 1929, the pamphlet predicts that when full income tax returns are available for 1930 and 1931, they will show that an incrensing share. of rents, interest, and dividends are going to the wealthiest capitalists at the ton. me In the nine years from 1920 to 1929 the num- ber of supermillionaires, each admitting a yearly cash income of $1,090,000 and over, had increased from 33 to 513 who. “had together an income more than equalling the wages paid to 1,990,000 wage earners having steady work at the averare American wage.” These suner-profiteers at the top had tosether increased their share of the cash income from 1 per cent to 7 per cent of the total. A. comparison cf budgets for the workers and for the employers goes on to point out the great- est Social con the world has ever seet. Even during so-called “prosperity”, wages have always been far below the minimum standards theoret- ically set forth by agencies of the capitalist class. The pamphlet quotes the employers’ estimate that even before the crisis “at least 17,000,000 (including workers and their families) were liv- ing at a poverty level so low that the slightest emergency meant a choice between charity and literal starvation.” How the workers have resisted wage cuts and unempleyn.2nt in strikes and hunger marches is briefly dex:~ibed, and the pamphiet ends with a section bn the Coviet Union, the workers’ re- public, es fe only coun in the woyld where there arc no ce st profiteers and no unem- ployment, and wh but up. Order your copies now from the Workers Li- re wages are going not down, brary Publisheys, Box 148, Station D, New York City. “Profits and Wages, by Anna Rochester, Inter- national Pamphlets, price 10 cents. _| Maasses put their faith in disarmament confer- government. ms “4 During the world war Mrs. Catt was appointed by the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense as the chairman of the Com- mittee of Education, whose purpose was to pro- mote “Patriotic Education” especially among immigrant women. Thousands of mass meet- ings of working class women were organized through this committee to mobilize the women and direct their energies for support of a war, which was definitely against their interests: That Mrs. Catt represents and is a member of the ruling class, working in the interests of which she made during the war. She said: “The first message we want to send to the women now is that whether the nation likes it or does not like it, we are in war, and that whether the sacrifices necessary to win it are made willingly | or unwillingly (our emphcsis) they mmm” be made.” aha W-E.U.L. Supports U. 8. Imperialist War Policy. The Women's Trade Union League @hich is affiliated with the Committee on Cause and Cure of War and which is supposed to represent the interests of wage earning women in the U. S. follows consistently the treacherous strike- breaking policy of the American Federation of Labor. Through pacts of “industrial peace” with the U. S. Government, their stand against Unemployment Insurance and for war against the Soviet Union, they are directly helping the government prepare for war. In the last world war the’ Women’s Trade Union League fully subscribed to the war poli- cies of the U. S. Miss Agnes Nestor, vice presi- dent of the W. T. U. L., acted as fellow-member with Mrs. Catt and served as chairman of ‘Women in Industry of the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense. She had full opportunity in this post to endorse the increased exploitation, speed-up and misery imposed upon ‘women workers through the emergency, war measures. These emergency war measures wiped out such meagre labor legislation as then existed for women in shops. and ‘factories. ‘The war records of the so-called socialists and pacifists, and their present strike-breaking role_ in all of the militant struggles of the working class against exploitation, wage cuts and. unem- ploymeht, their campaign of slander against the Soviet Union, are ample proof as to which class they belong to, and whose interests they repre- sent. As can bé seen from the above they defi- mitely represent the interests of the capitalist class, and are the enemies of the workers who must recognize them as such. In the face of all the brutal, obvious and in- disputable facts of militarization in all the capi- talist countries, especially in the U. S., the petty jourgeois pacifists would have the working ences, one of the imperialist weapons that existed prior to the last world war. In the face of all of the imperialist war prep- arations of the U. S., directed especially against | the Soviet Union, it certainly is timely to re- member what Comrade Lenin said about imper- jalist wars and the stand that class conscious women must take. How We Must Fight Against Imperialist War. “Mil'tarization is now penetrating the whole of scetal life. Imperialism is in an embittered strugele of the big powers for the division and rediv'sion of the world. It must therefore, in- evitably lead to fufther militarization in all sons: “You will soon grow big. They will gun in your hand. Take it and study thor. oughly the art of war. This knowledge is essential for proletarians—not in order to: fire on their brothers, the workers of other coun- |‘ tries, as is being done in the present war ani as the traitors to socialism will counsel you’ “|” to do—but in order to fight against the bour- Ke By JORGE What We Mean By It nit When we talk about the capitalist class trymg to force the working-class “to bear the burden of the crisis,” we mean: Because “business is bad” to discharge about 12,000,000 workers, deny them unemployment insurance, and force them and their famliies to starve, wether they starve with or without the miserable crust of “charity’—which “charity” is also to be forced out of the employed workers as much as possible. To take advantage of the workers remaining employed, after the bosses have fired the. 12,000. 000 mentioned, to put the screws on by: (a) speed-up; (b) Ionger hours; (¢) lower wages; (qd) worse working conditions and general eus- sedness. ¥ With this all done, and the total wages re- ceived by the’ whole working-class reduced by unemployment and direct wage cuts to half or less than half of what the total wage payments used to be, to put over a indirect wage cut by setting the capitalist government to inflate the currency through a “Reconstruction Finance Corporation,” so that the money wages the workers are paid won't buy as much as before; that is, real wages are reduced because the prices of. goods bought with wages go up auto- matically: with inflation of currency. When-the above list of crimes against the workers is all finished, to slap a “sales tax” on 115 articles, thus raising prices some more and thus giving another indirect’ wage cut. to the workers, thus-saving the capitalists from paying more taxes and making the workers pay the taxes so the capitalist government will have enough ‘money to-pay the Doak for deporting Reds, and to keep the cops fed 0 they'll be strong enough \to club you ‘workers good and hard for objecting to ail this. There may be a few wrinkles we overlooked, but these. are the main ones. And don’t you think that this is plenty reason why the EM- PLOYED workers should unite WITH UNEM- PLOYED. workers to raise supreme hell? > . Maybe You Can Maybe you can figure it out. We can’t. You See, it's this away: Between 20,000 and 30,000 sailor men, aboard the -U. S, battle force of about sixty ships are engaged: so-'we are told, in perfectly innocent “training maneuvres” around the Hawaiian Islands. Now. then, it is generally ‘ciaimed, tn fact it is. boasted, ‘that all these thousands of blue Jackets or gobs, and maybe most of the marines, are, “he-men;” regulat fellows who wear hair on bea chests and know how to'keep their pants But welll bo hanged if the Secretary of the Navy. hasn’ Sone and forbid these guys to go ashore in Hawaii, because, so the order reaas, Hawaii is not safe “for American women!” : Wheh you've figured that out, thi Kindly tear over thé fate of the 15, ally Supposed “‘he-men™ of the Army and Navy who have been sebore there for a darned Jong time and in fact have the job of “defending” the Is- meee from the ‘besieging fleet. nd when you've figured that all begin figuring how all these lads, eee i” sort of like because they're Working class lads, you know, can be ttade distinctly aware of that fact,. and. that they're acting in the service of the capitalist class, the enemy of the workers a small farmers. They really belong to our B. Again; when. you've figured that begin. figuring on exactly what you, pies Boy nobody else, can do toward that end, And then begin doing it! If youre no revolutionist! ee Parasites ° Sometimes those of tender soul are inj jured when, upon: picking up the Daily Worker, they see that capitalists are rudely Set down as “par- an ee ahi) spoken of ungently as “dice.” rere is sound scientific reason for thi and all that is injured in our reader is the bourgeois Spectacles with which he or she has been trained. by capitalist society to look at it. Basically, social science declares as a fact that anything that does not go toward increasing Production is a waste. Therefore, a ham sand- wich eaten by a worker who gives that cnergy fs) nies to ‘production,’ serves a useful pur- . while # porterhous i 1 talist is a total logs, ie sroeeh gee ae: ORB It is well to remember this since 5 all capital- ist. apologists point to the million and te cracks: invented to’ tickle the bourgeois taste, as “progress.” Steam-heated autos with radios, air-conditioned: villas, airplane Pullmans, elect- ric kitchens and so on, may deserve raving over, if only We could possibly consider them 86 available to the toilers, which they are not. And so long’as ‘they ‘are not available to the os by gosh they are representing, in use, only so much social waste, because th i only by perasites. cabecnsse We have not made a study of it, but: hay casually observed the great increase in the sae duction that is being put into these forms of Parasite-consuming goods, And along comes a book by a chap named James D. Mooney (no relation to Tom), called “Wages and the Road Ahead,” in which all the simple-minded who believe that such desireable things as electric refrigerators Tepresent “progress” in capitalist Society, might take a tumble to themselves by reading the following: - ‘a _,_ “Fifty million persons (in America) are Hy- ing in houses which are cbscie‘e. If any ‘new’ industry is needed, it can be foun’ in revival of one of the oldest industries in the world, From Maine to New Mexico, from Florida to Oregon, the majority of the American people make their homes in rickety, ram-shackle, run-down structures which are = disgrace to | our civilization.” But, we must remind Mr. Mooney, who ap- . Parently doesn’t think about it, that it is a. It iv only in the Soviet Union that such things are being built, and as rapidly as possible, for tollers. Only by ‘chucking the parasi fi . aes | ° 9 ~