The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1932, Page 6

Yr Budlished by the Comprodafiy Publishing Ce, Inc, daliy except Sunday, at 60 East A8th St, New York City. N. Y. & Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street. New York, N, ¥. Page Six * Telephone ALgonanin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWOLEK Dail Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 18, 1932 Z orker Porty U.S.A. of Manhattan and . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ey mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; Foreign: one year, 3 Bronx, New York City. excepting Boroughs siz months, $4.50, THE STEEL WORKERS FIGHT AGAINST WAR By F. ROGERS "HE Youngstown section of the Communist | Party has started a mass campaign amongst the steel workers of the Mahoning Valley against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. This campaign calls for the utmost support of all workers and working class organizations. The section buro especially calls the attention of the membership of the Party and the Young Com- munist League to use every ounce of energy for the successful mobilization of the steel workers, employed and unemployed, against war and for the defense of the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union A) United Front Conferences Against War | have been called in four steel centers and one | pottery ter, The anti-war conferences in the | steel centers will take place in Youngstown, New | Castle, Warren, and Farrell. The other confer- | ence will take place in East Liverpool, the pot- | tery center of the country and reputed to be one | of the lar n the world | The Yc own conference takes place on | March 17 he Central Public School Audito- rium, Wic nd Wood Streets. Calls and cred- entials e been sent to all organizations to elect and send delegates. It is significant that the first organization to respond to the call of the Communist Party against war was a Negro organization, ‘representing the most oppressed and exploited section of the steel workers in the Mahoning Valley. (B) The section buro has issued a special one page condensed speakers outline with facts and figures on war. It points out dangerous ideas V existing on how to fight war and the immediate tasks of the C.P. and ¥.C.L. This outline has been sent to every member of the C.P. and Y¥.C.L. in the section. (C) The section buro has instructed every shop nuclei to issue a special leaflet to the work- ers of their mill on war and how to fight it. ‘These leaflets will explain how to organize shop groups as anti-war committees and calls upon , these groups to establish contact with the C.P. and elect delegates to the United Front Confer- ences. Street units have been instructed to issue neighborhood leaflets taking mto consideration factories, military organizations, ete., located in their territory. (D) The section buro calls for the strength- ening, safeguarding, and re-organization of the whole Party apparatus in the section. Until a short time ago the units consisted of loose street, units with no definite work or concentration points. With careful survey and registration check-up it was found that least three shop nu- clei in the steel mills could be organized. Today there are four shop nuclei in the section with two others in the process of formation. Al- though there are numerous weaknesses in the existing nuclei, nevertheless, the first steps have | been taken to establish functioning shop nuclei which will act as shock brigades in the building of the Steel Workers Industrial Union. (E) The Young Communist League has is- sued a special youth call to support the United Front Conferences calling upon working youth, National Guards, Boy Scouts, each school room in public schools, colleges, sport clubs, etc., to elect delegates to the United Front Conferences. The Youth Steel Conference held on February 28 was a big step forward in the organization of the young steel workers. The conference, re- presenting young workers in the shops and mem- bers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers spoke bitterly against rot- | ten conditions in the mills; betrayal of their interests by the A. F. of and the necessity of organization of a revolutionary union of steel workers—the Steel Workers Industrial Union. | The youth conference adopted a sharp resolu- tion against war and endorsed the United Front Conferences of the Communist Party against war and for the defense of the U.S.S.R. The section buro calls the attention of the Party membership to the great importance of building the Young Communist League. One unit has responded and set an example to the others. In New Castle, where only a weak Party unit existed before February 4, the comrades re- cognized the militancy of the youth in the de- monstration and took up the task of building the Y. Today there is a live unit of the Y.C.L. in New Castle and the whole movement has been rejuvenated and refreshed by the youth to whom the section buro looks for future lead- ership in the struggles of the steel workers in New Castle. The Section Buro recognizes that the best weapon in the struggle against imperialist war 4s « strong Communist Party rooted in the steel mills, The Section Buro calls for increased speed. and socialist competition in the recruitment. drive. The Section quota of 120 new members has been only half filled. With Bolshevik energy the Youngstown section must go over the top in the recruitment drive. A CRITICAL CHECK UP OF THE RECRUITING DRIVE IN | DISTRICT 10 By PAUL CLINE 'T an enlarged meeting of the District Com- mittee of District No. 10, held last Sunday, @ thoroughly self critical check up was made of the results of the recruiting drive up to Febru- ary 20. In the report of the District Bureau, the unsatisfactory status of the drive was clearly revealed by the following facts and figures: Only 78 new members had been taken in out of a quota of 150 for the drive, Of this number only 31 were employed, only 14 were Negroes (as against a quota of 30) and only 7 were wo- men (as against a quota of 25 women to be re- cruited). ‘Two new shop nuclei have been or- ganized, or one-half of the quota. These two shop nuclei, one in Kansas City, Kansas, and one in Omaha, were established through the recruiting of 8 packing house workers. At off | hand consideration, this may indicate pretty fair shop work. But it is nothing of the sort. The District can lay claim to very little credit for the recruiting of these 8 packing house workers . and the organization of these two shop units. ‘The fact of the matter is that these results were @chieved with little or no organized effort by the Party. These packing house workers were hanging around the fringe of the movement in Kansas City and Omaha, ready and eager to join the Party. All the comrades had to do was to hand them the application cards. In St. Joseph, Mo., and Sioux City. Ia., a similar situ- | ation prevails, yet no shop units have been formed. The Party has done little or nothing during the recruiting drive to penetrate among these packing house workers. No consistent, day im and day out stimulus or direction has been | given to this work, either by the District or Bection Committees. No followng up of the humerous contacts, no shop leaflets, no regular sale of the Daily Worker at the gates, no factory gate meetings, no agitation among or organiza- tion of the unemployed at the gates! The District Committee registered most em- phatically the sharp self criticism that there has been an almost complete failure to carry the re- eruiting drive into the packing industry, one of the basic industries in the District! ‘The District Committee also recorded the fact that no work at all has been done in the other major industry of concentration, the railroad in- dustry. Only one railroad worker had been re- cruited. In the discussion it was further pointed out that the District T.U.U.L. center had prac- tically ceased to function during the past two months, and this coupled with lack of cooper- —_ OO A REW QUESTIONS TO COM. OLGIN *| ‘This is referred to the mass meeting of Com- rade M. Olgin, held in Newark. The meeting was a tremendous success as far as attendance 1is concerned and as far as the speech of Com. | Olgin goes, BUT—and here’s where we stop to say how a meeting at this period of the class struggle should not be conducted. There were over 700 people present, the biggest Jewish speaking crowd for 3 years, most of whom were totally strangers, affording an excellent oppor- tunity for organizational results as well as sub- scriptions for the Freiheit. Comrade Olgin, speaking of the tremendous achievements of the Soviet Union, under the direction and guidance of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, should he have not made @ strong appeal for membership in the Com- munist Party, especially at this time when the ‘|}Communist Party is in the midst of a recrult- ing drive? Again, Com. Olgin, the editor of the Fretheit, ‘wasn't it a mistake on the part of Com. Olgin, for not making it his business to stop some- where before his concluding remarks and take up subscriptions for the Freiheit? ation from the Railway Industrial League, had ruined the good possibilities of drawing railroad workers into the T.U.U.L. It was the unanimous opinion of the enlarged District Committee meeting that the quota of 4 functioning shop units by March 18, could and must be realized. The District Bureau was specially charged with responsibility for this task. A quota of at least 20 packing house workers and 10 railroad workers to be recruited by the end of the drive was set. Definite ways and means, and calendar dates for concentration on these industries were laid down. In relation to the recruiting of unemployed workers, it was stressed that no real local strug- gies had been developed and that this had re- sulted in dwindling membership of the Unem- ployed Branches and also in weak February 4 demonstrations. A thorough discussion took place = | “RESISTANCE” BY BETRAYAL—KUOMINTA NG STYLE By BURCK The Basic Tasks of the Second 5-Year Plan three years of the first Five-Year Plan were the years of the stubborn and insistent struggle of the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. for the laying of the foundation of Socialist economics. This task has been fulfilled under the leadership of the Communist Party, and thus, the execution of the first Five-Year Plan in four years was insured. During the first three years the tasks of the Five-Year Plan for each year were overfulfilled: | In 1929 by 6 per cent, in 1930 by 7 per cent, in 1931 by 13 per cent. In some most important industries, the Five-Year Plan was fulfilled and overfulfilled in 21-8 years (the oil industry, electro-technical industry, engineering, etc.). The following fact has been the basic result on the field of the Socialist industrialization: “Heavy industry has been built up in the USSR | and thus, our own base for the completion of the reconstruction of the entire national eco- | nomy, the base of the Socialist large scale mechanized industry has been created.” (From | the resolution on the reports of Comrades Molo- around the question of developing flexible and | inclusive forms of organization of the unem- ployed, along the lines indicated by the Central | Organization Department directives. It was stressed that the organization structure of the unemployed movement must be adaptable and conducive to drawing in masses of workers around daily struggles rising out of neighborhood, flophouse, factory, and union grievances, In the field of Negro work, it was revealed, very little had been done, except for some agit- ation around the Hollins case, in Oklahoma. | | the main completed in the basic grain regions, Failure to penetrate among the unemployed Ne- gro masses—except in Omaha — was registered. The quota of 30 Negro members by March 18 was affirmed as easily realizable, providing that advantage was taken of the many issues affect- ing the Negro workers to develop struggles, A serious weakness in the activities of the District during the past several months, a weak- ness which must be drastically eliminated, has been the slowness, the opportunist passivity in taking up the struggle against war, the failure | to mobilize the entire membership ideologically and organizationally for this, failure to link up constantly the anti-war struggle with our shop work, unemployed work, Negro work, etc. In view of the above, it is clear that the root weakness of the recruiting drive—a weakness for which the District Bureau is primarily respon- sible—has been failure to politicalize the drive on the basis of bringing the campaigns of the Party home to the membership. With a mem- bership that is very low in political understand- ing and organizational experience, this failure on the part of the District leadership becomes par- ticularly serious. The District Bureau, recogniz- ing this situation, exercised the sharpest self criticism at the enlarged District Committee meeting, and took definite steps to overcome it by calling special meetings of every unit in the District and sending Buro members to report and lay out a plan of work. (Only the Texas units, because of the great distance, were not covered). Other weaknesses of the recruiting drive have been feeble development of revolutionary compe- tition, absolutely insufficient spreading of liter- ature, and inadequate political enlightenment work among the membership, both new and | “ola”, In order to stimulate the recruiting drive, special meetings of the Section Committees in Kansas City and Omaha have been called, and definite calendar plans of work laid out. The | Sections and units are being encouraged to set their own quotas, which in most instances are higher than those suggested by the District. As @ result a new momentum is already being felt in the work, and the tempo of recruiting in the last few days has speeded up. There are many difficulties to be confronted in carrying on the work in District 10. The enormous distances to be covered between the scattered units in the seven states comprising the District, the rawness of the units, the bulk tov and Kuibyshey). A great victory has been won during the first three years of the Five-Year Plan on the field of the Socialization of agriculture. In this do- main, the Five-Year Plan was over-fulfilled sev- | eral times, as regrads the number of the collec- tivized households and the size of the sowing area of the collective farms. Sixty-two per cent of the middle and poor peasants’ holdings incorporated in the collective farms, the thorough collectivization and the liquidation of the kulaks as a class has been in In other regions this will be carried out during 1932-33. In 1931, the sowing area of the private individual holdings amounted to one-fifth only, and the collective farms had four-fifths of the general sowing area. ‘The turn of the middle and poor peasant masses towards Socialism, towards the way of the Socialization of agriculture insured in the countryside as well the solution of Lenin’s ques- tion, “who beats. whom’—in favor of Socialism, against capitalism. This means that the vic- tory of Socialism has been definitely secured in the countryside, and thaf one of the most dif- ficult tasks of the construction of Socialism’ in the country of Soviets has been solved. The solution of this task means the “final up- rooting of capitalism in the countryside, deter- mining the entire liquidation of the capitalist elements and the full abolition of classes.” The proletariat achieved such victories on the front of Socialist construction by means of wag- ing a relentless class struggle against the ene- mies of the Five-Year Plan, against the Kulaks, against the capitalist elements in general, against the wreckers. These victories have been won, thanks to the ruthless struggle against the opportunists within the Party and against the allies of counter-revolutionary Trotzkyism. The successful execution of the first Five-Year Plan, the fact that it was carried out in four years is the basis on which the directives of the Party on the drawing up of the second Five- Year Plan were given, the directives adopted by the XVII Conference of the CPSU. The second Five-Year Plan is the plan of the of which have existed less than half a year, the inexperience, newness, and lack of development of many of the District functionaries, the finan- cial difficulties that are exceptionally severe in a new territory—all these must be met and over- come. The recruiting drive has brought out in sharp relief the weaknesses of the Party in Dis- trict No. 10, weaknesses which range from top to bottom of the apparatus. The District Com- mittee has set itself the task of speeding up, of intensifying the work, of achieving the recruit- ing drive quotas, 100 per cent, in the 3 weeks time that yet remain. This can and must be done, but only in the course of sharp self crit- icism and persistent struggle to overcome the mistakes and .weaknesses that have been re- vealed. | complete liquidation of the “capitalist elements in general, causes giving rise to class distinctions and ex- Ploitation, and the overcoming of the survivals of capitalism in the economics and consciousness of the people, the transformation of the entire toiling population of the country into conscious active builders of the non-class Socialist society.” During the first 3 years of the first Five-Year Plan, the foundation of Socialist economics had | been laid in the U. S. S. R. During the second Five-Year Plan, the liquidation of classes will have been completed and a non-class society will | be built. This is the basic political task of the second Five-Year Plan, The liquidation of the parasitic class elements, the reconstruction of the whole national economy and the general growth of the revenue are the bases of the more rapid tempo of the raising and improving of the toilers’ material and cultural level. In par- ticular, the supply of the population with food- stuffs and with the basic articles of mass con- sumption must increase 3 times by the end of | the second Five-Year Plan, as compared with | the end of 1932. This will be secured by the development of | the light and food industry, by the increased | harvest of commercial crops, by the enlargement | of the grain economy, cattle breeding, etc. The basic tasks of the second Five-Year Plan can be fulfilled “on the basis of the developed technical reconstruction of the entire national economy, i. e., industry, transport, agriculture,” which must be completed during the second Five-Year Plan, and which will mean the crea- tion of the modern technical base for all the branches of national economy. Therefore, the growth of engineering 3-31, times as against | 1932, has been suggested in the second Five-Year | Plan, the production of electrical energy will be brought to a hundred milliard kwt. per hour as against 17 milliard in 1932. The extraction of coal will amount to 250 million tons instead of 90 million in 1932, the extraction of oil will increase 214-3 times. « Such a growth of engineering and electrical energy will require a considerable increase in the smelting of pig iron and of colored metals. * The smelting of pig iron which amounted to 9 million tons in 1932 must be raised to 22 million tons in 1937. The problem of transport during the second Five-Year Plan will be solved by means of the reconstruction and wide extension of the con- struction of railways (not less than 25-30 thou- sand kilometers of new lines), of paved high roads, water lines, automobilization and develop- i { * |. During the second Five-Year Plan, the U. 8. of the entire elimination of the | | | | ment of communication by alr. | The completion of the technical reconstruc- H tion of all the branches of economy will require | on the part of the working class the full master- | ing of technique, the training of numerous tech- nical cadres from the ranks of the workers and collective farmers. S. R. which used to be a country importing ma- chinery, will be transformed into a country inde- pendently manufacturing machines, the techni- cal and economic independence of the Soviet | Union will be insured, and the USSR will oc- , cupy the first place in Europe, in the technical respect. Each worker, no matter where he is employed or in which country he lives should know the basic principles of the second Five-Year Plan as well as those conditions under which its exe- cution is possible. They should know that the construction of Socialism is taking place in the conditions of an intense struggle of the toiling masses of the USSR for the fulfillment of the Plans and against those obstacles which the class enemies put to the proletarian dictatorship. The capitalist elements will not leave their positions without a struggle. The intensification of the class struggle is inevitable at certain moments and particularly in separate domains and sec- tions of Socialist construction. The bourgeois in- fluence on some strata of the working class and on separate members of the Party is inevitable as Well. Therefore, the extension of struggle against opportunism, and especially against the Right deviation, as the chief danger at the given stage, is by no means weakened by the Party during the second Five-Year Plan. The inevitability of the intensification of the class struggle dictates also the task of the further general consolida- tion of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This task is being dictated also by the fact that the capitalist world is existing as yet, and that it will not give up its plots concerning military at- tacks and intervention against the USSR. The | question, “who beats whom,” which was solved within the country in favor of Socialism re- mained not solved yet, during the first 3 years | of the first Five-Year Plan—on the international field of struggle between Socialism and capital- | ism, The preparations for war and intervention against the USSR on the part of the imperial- ists, mean an attempt at ‘undermining the con- struction of Socialism and at suppressing the revolutionary labor movement in the countries of capitalism, The Soviet Union should be ready | to meet the enemy up in arms. Therefore, it | is necessary to strengthen the Dictatorship of | the -Proletariat. | At the-same time the working class of the | capitalist countries should offér vigorous resis- tance to the imperialists’ plots against the fath- erland of the world proletariat. The cause of the construction of Socialism in the USSR is the cause not only of the Soviet toilers, but also | the cause of the whole world proletariat. The Miners and By GERTRUDE LOGAN. Be the time a Daily Worker has made its ap- pointed rounds in the camp, there is hardly anything left of it, it is so worn out. Every day ten Dailies come to this camp in Tennessee, where the 135 miners have been out one hundred per cent since the first day of the strike on Jan, 1. First of all two copies are set aside for the relief station—pasted up on the wall in the waiting room, where the miners, their wives and children gather to wait for the daily dis- tribution of food to begin. ‘ But this is not the only way in which part of these Dailies reach the masses of workers in this camp, Under the direction of the Party unit in this mine, a reading circle has been or- ganized for the benefit of the illiterate work- ers in the camp, and the Daily Worker is fead aloud to this group every. day. This work is carried on under the direction of the Literature Agent of the Party unit, and under the auspices of the Educational Committee of the National Miners’ Union, The other eight copies make their rounds thoroughly among those who can read. They the Daily Worker are handed from one to another, ahd, as scon as one is finished, he hands it on as quickly as possible to the next, for eight copies to circu- late among so many workers requires quick work and no delay in reading. Only those who are content to delay their reading of the paper to the evening have the privilege of taking it home and digesting it at their leisure. But this does not end the circulation of the Daily. The Relief Committee sends out expedi- tions every day to collect food from nearby epctbaerar: Brisbane Deplores Arthur Brisbane, author of the column in thé Hearst press known as “Bris-banalities,” lament | ing that Japanese imperialist attack on the Soviet Union:—' would meet a Russia dife ferent from the soft, corrupt Russia of the Czars,” goes on to this final paragraph, in which he says: “There is great power in the spirit of revolu- tion, much as we may deplore its existence.” Brisbane the capitalist may well “deplore” {t, but why doesn’t he use the words “we capitalists,” instead of just “we,” when he is deploring. As for us, the Communists, “we” don’t deplore it at all. We glory in it. By the way, the same date as Brisbane was deploring, Feb. 27, the Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai remarked that:—“The Japanese will soon have a full army corps in the Shanghal area.” Yes, but precisely because of that “spirit of revolution” which Brisbane deplores there 1s going to be about half of that Japanese corps gathered unto whatever passes for “Abraham's bosom” in Japanese. And we, well, we would like to see more revo~ lutionary spirit right here in America, expresse ing itself in the form of refusal to make or handle munitions now being sent to imperialist Japan! Munitions workers and transport work- ers, what do you say? retin Beste Did You Notice It? ‘The day after Moscow dispatches told of thé Japanese planning with the Czarist White Guards for an attack on the Soviet frontier, an ‘Associated Press dispatch from Washington of , Feb. 26 said: | “Asked if the government would send further notes to Japan, Secretary Stimson replied: ‘No, no, I don’t think you need to stay awake af night worrying about that!’” | ere ‘What e’ye mean “personal?”: The “personal situation” of Stalin, says the counter-revolutione ary Trotsky, is “tottering precariously.” Stalin's political situation being solid as a rock, we can afford not to worry. Trotsky, it turns out, is “dying again” and has to go to Czecho-Slovakia, By the way, Kerensky is also in Czecho-Slovakia, plotting with the other white guards and sere vants of French imperialism, for an armed ate | tack on the Soviet Union, Let the ‘Trotskyists “explain!” Honored—But Awful Dead ‘The New York Times of Feb. 24 tells how three Japanese privates “volunteered to strap sticks of high explosives around their chests and waists and then make running jumps into the barbed wire. Chinese rifle fire exploded the deadly burdens, thus blasing openings through the entanglements.” ‘The privates were “offi~ cially honored”—after which the staff officers drank another bottle of Kirin beer. ; It’s funny the way the officers leave such “honors” as these to the privates, isn’t it! Earl+ jer in the long battle, in fact, while Admiral Shiosawa was just beginning to get his nose bumped in Chapei,.a Japanese naval officer | “tried to commit hara kiri” and stabbed himself in the gizzard, leaving a letter saying that he was “killing himself because Admiral Shiosawa was not taking energetic enough action against the Chinese.” But do you know that the son-~ of-a-wily-sea-cook was careful to “kill himself” so he could recover, and remain on the sick Ust out of range of shooting. food are becoming very much interested in the Daily Worker. They frequently ask for it, and a supply of back numbers is always kept on hand to give to them. At the same time ef- forts are being made to get them to subscribe, but the farmers see as little money in these parts. as do the miners. The Literature Agent now has a proposition of trying to get a num- ber of farmers to chip in and subscribe toe gether, either getting together to read it, or | passing it from hand to hand as each one fin- ishes it. ‘The Daily is the fore-runner of the Party or- ganizer. It lays the foundations for the build- ing of the Party in the many mining camps in the industrial centers and. among the farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee. It is eagerly read and is in great demand. If only these workers could subscribe for themselves! They would be only too glad to do so, but when they hardly see a.red cent from one end of the month to the other it is out of the question for them to pay. If ten Dailies could be sent into each mining camp in the struck area, and their circulation be as intensively built up as in this small Ten- nessee camp, both union and Party organiza~ tions would be greatly fostered. The lies of the bosses and their agents would be effectively answered in those parts where the terror makes the distribution of leaflets very difficult. The Daily there is not only an agitator and propa- gandist, but also an organizer. ‘The appeal to workers throughout the country to send in money to pay for bundle orders for the strike area should be responded to with the utmost generosity. Everything in a strike is important—but how important the Daily is, few workers outside the area realize. The bosses, however, realize it very well. The circulation of the Daily in the camps is hampered with every method at their disposal. A bundle order arrives at the post office and the post office clerk in charge refuses to deliver it. The sys- tem extends even further than that—the detec- tives of the government and of the companies even lie in wait at the post offices for the workers who come to claim the bundle, and then arrest them for having seditious literature on them! The post office system carries this “sedi- farmers. And the Daily goes with these work- ers. One is dropped off at the grist mill, where the farmers bring their grain to be ground into meal, The miller himself is interested in the class struggle, and after the Daily became known there, some of our Party literature also found its way to this improvised farmers’ library. Then there is a camp of lumber work- ers who joined the National Miners’ Union when it first entered this field and who will join the Lumber Workers’ Industrial League as soon as the proper organizational steps can be taken. They also got their quota of one Daily per day. ‘The farmers from whom the miners collect tious literature” quite freely through the mails— but when it i found on an individual worker it becomes de.igerous and lays the basis for criminal syndicalism action against him! Such tactics hamper the distribution of the Daily in the struck area, but do not stop it. There are plenty of clever tricks to get tround this form of terrorism. ‘The miners want to read the Daily. ‘They will use all their ingenuity to get hold of it and circulate it. It is up to the rest of the workers throughout the country to make it possible for the Daily Worker to send it to them free of charge until they are in a position to sell it and pay their own way ;