The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1932, Page 4

January 11 - March 18, 1932 Party Recruiting Drive | I STATUS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY COMPE- TITION --- DETROIT AND CLEVELAND This report is noted February 24. Cleveland jeads in total number recruited. j Detroit leads in composition. Shop ‘uclei jagging behind in bothDistricts. Cleveland, ...sscrscccsescccsess Detroit Cotal recruited in both districts ... 625 H compare the status of the dues payments in both Districts. If we will ber as the month before the drive, we will notice the following figures: District Noy. Dec. Jan. Feb. WISVEISNG ccidoenceccwiecesicae OGG 627 898 835 i De Seen ensiaaunool 595 464 543 i alarming, especially in connection with Detroit, where despite ion the 1 new members were gotten in during the drive, the dues pay- | ments in ruary is lower than in December. Cleveland shows a definite in- | crea: however not enough. Both Districts, especially Detroit must immediately | take up at the Org department the deplorable situation in dues payment. We give | the following recommendation to stabilize the dues payments: | 1. Special meetings of the unit organizers and financial secretaries to re- | the atiendance and dues payments. Both problems are closely connected. | veiw rry on a special drive in the units, beginning March 15 to pay up stings as well as to take steps to increase the attendance and also members at home. a special unit meeting to have a dues checkup, to review Phe cood H { every Party member. i 4. ‘Vo institute in the units the system of depositing the membership book with Fincacial Secretary, when the comrade comes in to the unit meeting. on the agenda of every unit meetings. Y the captain system is established to make the captain respon- | » sood standing of their membership. Department of the C.C. wishes to hear from the two Districts as ‘om the other districts what steps are being taken to have a 100 per ve due ver well as f ‘cent paid up membership. A HUND! PER CENT PAID UP MEMBERSHIP | DURING MONTH OF APRIL | New Shop Nuclei | Bot! lagging behind in the shop nuclei. j The ¢ s show: Cley new shop Nuclei, with a total of 11 Party members with 21,700 | workers 2 shop. | Detroi new shop Nuclei, with 17 new members in the Nuclei. 1 new shop | Nucleus in the Ford plant, and theotherin another automobile factory with 2,000 | districts report of better results before the drive is over, we must, however, that more attention must be paid by both districts to the building \ of new sii uclei. The best expression is the results obtained in recruiting of new mei s by the old shop Nuclei. The old shop Nuclei in Cleveland recruited 16 new members The old shop Nuclei in Detroit recruited 20 new members j We again repeat the necessity of the following steps and we wish the Districts report on the results: 1. The District Bureau shall review at least twice a month a shop Nucleus. 2. Special meeting with the old shop Nuclei with leading comrades present | to review the work of the Nucleus, especially in connection with the everyday pol- icies in the shop, the demands put forward by the Nucleus, the methods of work, the contents of the shop papers, the coordination of the legal and illegla methods of work in the shop, etc., the building of shop groups, etc. 3. To carry on an intensive campaign in the existing mass organizations un- @er the influence of the Party to recruit workers of that particular shop of con- tentration. 4. Wherever possible through our Party fractions to carry through a regis- tration in these mass organizations, we will surely find that right around us are many revolutionary workers, who are active for the Party press and with little efforts could be brought into the Party. 5. Special appeals issued by the Party to the workers in that particular shop accompanied with open air factory gate meetings on the role of the Party in the struggle against war, etc. It is true that both districts accomplished certain achievements in this con- nection. Cleveland writes: “In organizing the Willard Storage Nucleus we found that it was possible only when we worked out concrete demands for the plant. The workers are continual- ly exposed to lead poisoning and acid burns. This is the situation throughout the plant. We issued a shop paper. The shop paper is to carry a list of proposed demands. The article on the demands will be written so that the workers will be able to discuss them and write in to the paper their suggestions. Because of the nature of the industry we are naming the shop paper “The Poison Fighter.” We are also calling for the formation of committees against poisoning. This to | be in the nature of a grievance committee.” | Detroit writes: Comrades from tl the Auto Wo Uni this perio’—not from this grievance committee. while they only got two workers into the Party during \ D. Nucleus have organized a group of eight workers of | | | They will approach this group gradually—are issuing leaflets for the Auto Workers Union by this group, discussed by the group. | In one of the Ford Dept. Nucleus, ten workers were recruited, and now the ! comrades maintain they have exhausted the field, although there are about 350 | workers employed in the same department. We must fight daily against the resistance to recruiting in the shops. Det: Jso reports: “Wo are making preparations to call a group of 16 workers in the —— plant, who signed the Unemployment Insurance petition, circulated by one of our com- rades in the shop for the purpose of organizing a union group, we are sure that we can also organize a shop Nucleus, Most likely a shop Nucleus will be organized before the union group, because we have already two comrades in the shop, more reports will follow. We are taking seriously the building of shop Nuclei as the major task of the Party.” b This shows how to utilize the Unemployment Insurance Bill to penetrate in- to the shops, especially with a great number of part time workers, this can be done. All other districts must intensify the collection of signatures in the shop, those making new valuable contacts in the shop. These reports show a good beginning. Only through persistance and every- day activities we will be able to penetrate into the shops and factories, which is the major t: of the Party in this recruiting drive. Cleveland reports that they have recruited 25 members in large shops as basis for shop Nuclei. Let’s speed up the organization of these shop Nuclei, let’s not permit any other ac- tivities to interfere with this important work. Detroit reports only eight workers from large shops as basis for shop Nuclei. Small Number of Negro Workers Recruited in Cleveland Cleveland erports only 48 Negroes among the new members, while Detroit reports 82. Detroit is in the lead. Cle scland with the struggle carried through lately in the Negro neighborhoods against evictions recruited only 48 Negroes out —“HAVE YOUSE SEEN A LITTLE CHU t ay Th. St |, a Pee ue" Daily, 2workex ee ete Canteal Ongar WAN nS eet Party U.S.A CURSCRIPTION RATES: the, $%; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs foreign: one year, $8: siz montha, $4.59. BBY, GOLDEN-HAIRED BABY?” By BURCK International Women’s Day in the Soviet Union By PAULINE ROGERS IN March 8, 1917, working women from the Putilov Ammunition Factory came out in masses on the streets of Leningrad and demand- i ed “Bread and the Return of Their Men from the Front.” This militant demonstration was a forerunner of the October Revolution which freed the Russian workers and peasants, par- ticularly the women, from czarist oppression and slavery, International Women's Day has assumed his- toric significance for the Russian workers and it is celebrated in the Soviet Union as ene of the revolutionary days of struggle. The character of International Women’s Day in the Soviet Union, | however, is quite different from that of capitale ist countries. In capitalist countries, March 8 is @ day on which working women organize their forces together with men workers for a struggle against their slavery and exploitation, against imperialist war, against the capitalist system, March Eighth Shock Brigades In the Soviet Union where capitalism has been overthrown and working women haye won their freedom, March Eight is » day in which working women review their growing achieve- ments under Socialism and intensify their par- ticipation in the building up of their country. As their tribute to March Eighth, thousands of women in the Soviet Union become shock bri- gaders, teaching other workers how to improve production and overcome the shortcomings in their factories. In many factories and collec- tives, special “March 8th Shock Brigades” are organized. At the beginning of 1931, fifty-nine per cent of the women workers in the U.S. S. R. were shock brigaders, and this year the per- centage will be higher. On March 8th, thousands of housewives leave thelr kitchens to come into the vactories in or- between the city and the village. At these meet- ings the best women shock brigaders receive prizes in the forms of free trips all over the of a total 871. Why? fe Uncover Starvation and Misery The capitalist press, the agents of the ruling class, Bas been publishing less and less news about unemployment. It hides the starvation of the unemployed workers’ families. We must constantly expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the elty governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases ef starvation, m- dernourishment, sickness. We must pui-- lish these cases in our press, In the Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell them at all workers’ meetings. On- employed Councils should publish bulletins to inform all workers of the starvation and misery of the unemployed. | | } der to make up for the shortage of labor in the Soviet Union, where unemployment has been , abolished. Last year two million women were taken into industry. Women are so anxious to do their part in the building up of industry that they insist on doing the same work as men do, In the United States women are forced to do the same work as men for about one half of the wages. In the Soviet Union women get Equal Pay for Equal Work, and in addition, they re- ceive social insurance and full protection in industry. The spirit, determination and accom- Plishments of working women have been a sig- nificant factor in the successful building ot Socialism and the fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan, International Women’s Day in the Soviet Un- fon brings countless numbers of women inte the unions (there are about 4,000,000 women in the trade unions), into the cooperatives, Into the technical schools, into the “Osoviachim,” an aviation organization where workers are organ- ized for the defense of their Fatherland against foreign intervention. The most developed wo- men workers join the ranks of the Communist { Party, under whose leadership the workers and ‘ peasants of Russia successfully carried through the Revolution in 1917, and are now building a new workers’ world. { Flying Banners for Macch Eighth For days before March 8th in all cities of Soviet Union, in the factories, workers’ clubs, in public squares, in villages, banners, flags and Placards can be seen everywhere witn siogans for International Women’s Day, calling for the soli- darity of the entire working cass. ‘re news- papers, the factory wall paper, the magazines, the radio, all stress the achievements of work- ing women and their role in the building of So- cialism, In large cities, such as Moscow, Leningrad, ete., International Women's Day celebrations begin | about March 3 and end about March 12, On March 8 the workers leave the factories about two hours earlier to participate in the mass meetings and demonstrations. In some factories | the women workers work these two hours and the extra pay which they receive they turn over to the collective farms in their vicinty, to buy yadios and other cauipment which they need, Bs Mass Demonstrations In every section of the cities tremendous mass meetings take place, women’s delegate meetings, women’s shock brigaders’ meetings, where the | working women report on what they have done in their factories to help in the fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan. Women from the cellec- tive farms come to the city meetings cf the workers, and the women factory workers go out to the village meetings to show the cooperation 1. We did not revitalize the Scottsboro campaign and the campaign against lynching and Jim Crowism. 2, Did not issue a single leaflet to the Nefro workers explaining the role of the Party in the struggle for Negro rights. 8. Did not arrange a single meeting on the Communist Party in the Negro neighborhood. And last but not least we did coneretize enough the struggle against white chauvinism. Detroit Leads in the Percentage of Employed Workers Recruited. 4. Detroit, 84; Cleveland, 87. Detroit leads also in the total number of women recruited. Detroit, 47; Cleveland, 34. So far, while Cleveland leads in numbers, Detroit leads in the composition. it is time now to raise the question, what are we doing.to keep the new mem- bers? Let’s hear from the disv.icts. Literature sales in both districts—very poor. Let’s correct the short comings. The whole Party for the carrying through of the quotas. ORG DEPARTMENT OF THE C.C. * Soviet Union or even to Europe. Reports are given on the number of new nurseries and kin- dergartens which have been opened up for March Sth, At the present time almost 10,000,000 chil- dren are cared for in the nurseries and children’s | homes, and the number is growing. Even the capitalist papers admit that the Soviet Union has five per cent more nurseries and playgrounds than any other country in the world. On March 8th, new factory kitchens snd public laundries are opened in crder to relieve nore women from the drudgery of household tasks. «av ieast 40,- 000,009 meals are being supplied daily from the factory kitchei Women Join Collectives At the village mectings on March Sih, cuuntless peasant women join the collective farms. So- cialized production has freed them from the tra- ditional slavery and drudgery from sunrise to sunset, as in the past, and where they have be- | come agricultural workers, are driving tractors, e orking eight hours a day. International Women’s Day is celebrated in the Soviet Union by giving working women greater freedom and more opportunities to participate in every phase of industry and life. March Sth! By CAROLINE DREW | Demonstrate on | i ' socialist Rose Schueiderman, president of | 4 the Women's Trade Union League, has 8 new scheme to help Mayor Walker’s Emergency Un- employment Relief Committee solve the question of the 50,000 women she admits are unemployea in New York City, She asks that a loan fund be established from which these women may borrow $8 or $10 a week during the winter. She states that “as the situation stands now, all the factory women can do is to go to a charity or- ganization and ask for doles. A system of week- | ly loans would be more agreeable to their dignity | and self-respect.” | This socialist, who has for many years, been misleading the working women through strike betrayals, ahd keeping the working women from organizing and struggling against thelr very low wages, thinks it is dignified to have the wo~ men workers who earn barely enough to pay board, room rent, and buy clothes when they are employed, sink deeply into debt. The socialist Schneiderman sets the standard of living of the workers below the subsistence level with her statement that the women workers, the majority of whom have dependents, can live on §8 per week, Elinor M. Herrick, secretary of the Consumers League, a “liberal” organization, after decrying the fact that the unemployed women are not receiving help, proposes that these women should be put to work in sewing rooms in the continu- ation schools at 2 wage of $8 a week. After admitting that most of the unemployed women can sew, she covers up the extremely low wage of $8 a week by stating that thess should be “apprenticeship classes.” The Consumers League seems to forget that twelve million workers ore unemployed and thet capitalism has created a permanent army of une employed; that capitalism has created too much of everything, while the workers and their fam- ilies starve. They propose further, that the wo~ men should be trained for jobs which do net seasonally overlap with their present job, and that in this way the working women will even- tually become self-supporting the year around. The Emergency Committee to which the so~ elaliss Rose Schneiderman and the Mperal Con~ sumers’ League offer their suggestions, is spend- ing $24,000 every week to pay wages to 1,000 In- vestigators. The task of these investigators is te find jobs which do not exist, and insult the une employed by general distrust and bad treatment. ‘The Communist Party and all the revolutionay organizations have through their organization axa propaganda work, shown the working women an@ workers’ wives in New York and throughout the country, that the way out of the crisis is through ; militant struggles for unemployment insuragice, struggles against the attacks on their living stan- dard, end through struggles against the new \m- Perialist war being waged in China. They stand for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. The proposals of the socialists, liberals, and other enemies of the workers further help the capital- ists enslave the workers, look for more ways t@ | make the workers pay for the crisis which caple talism created, through pacifist talk, hide the war preparations, and to make the capitalist system with tts misery for the workers more pa latable for them. The working women, employed and unemploys ed, should give their answer to the socialists and their ilk by mass street demonstrations on March Eighth, International Women’s Day. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, thousands of women who have had one wage cut after another, thousands of unemployed women who were forced | to seek shelter in the municipal lodging houses, mothers who had their children taken away from ‘hem and sont to institutions because there were | no jobs, they could not pay rent and were evict+ ed; will demand uncmployment insurance, ¢quné pay for equal work, the seven hour day, five dar week without wage cuts, free hot lunches in the schools for children; maternity and docial in- h 8, 1932, comes on the eve of the second in the U. SS. R. The first which will be com) ed in 1932 ndations of Socialism and has steadily improved the conditions of the workers. In these four years of the first Five-Year Plan, the Russian workers have remarkable achieve- ments to théir credit. The second Five-Year Plan means greater industrialization, further building ef Socialism, and even greater improvements in he life and standards of the wurking class. On this March 8th, working women in the Soviet Union pledge their solidarity with the men work- ers in defending their country from imperialist attack and io continue the work of Socialist construction. | the internations surance at the expense of the state, {On March Eight the working women In the | United States will pledge. their solidarity with vorking class, oppressed under alism, snd with the em: women in Union of Socialist So Republics. They will pledge to doferd the only Workers’ Country | againss imperialist war. | Daily Worker Fund Growing ,too slowly. Suspension danger ;advances by leaps and bounds. Rush every possible penny to save the Daily Worker. } Britain have invested an equal amount. ' Japanese investment, however, means much more | By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION |APANESE capltelists have invested about $1.- 259,000,000 in China. Capitalists of Great The to Japan than does the British investment to Britain, for practically all of the foreign invest- ments of Japan are in China. ‘The investment of United States capitalists in China amounts to about $265,000,000. ‘The total investments of all foreign capital- ists in China amount to approximately $3,000,- 000,000. The value of the share of the Soviet Union in the Chinese Eastern Railway is esti- mated at from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000, de- pending upon what standards of valuation are taken, This investment is, of course, not an in- vestment of private capitalists, but of the work- ers’ and peasants’ government. British capitalists have invested in Chinese real estate about $400,000,000; in government loans, about $165,000,000; in railroads, about $95.~ 000,000; in mines, $10,000,000, Japan's investments are largely in South Man- churia and are in railroads, coal and iron mines, steel mills, factories and hotels. Shanghai and other port cities have also heavy Japanese in- vestments. Japanese capitalists own and oper- ate at least forty-three very profitable cotton mills with a capitalization of over $120,000,000 and containing nearly forty per cent of all the cotton spindles in China, The United States investments in China may be divided into the following groups: Business investments ..... Missionary and (technically) “non- commercial” — although of great help to trade and commerce — investments .., Loans and debts . Foreign Investments in China hai, although aiso in Tienisin, Hankow, Mukden, | Hong Kong and Canton. Oil companies have | the largest investment of any compantes in the | business investment group, some six companies having a capitalist “stake” of avout $43,000,000. ‘The Standard Oi] Company of New York is the | leading cil company involved. Investments of power and public utility com- panies have increased in recent years. For ex~ | ample: American and Foreign Power Co, (Morgan-con~ trolled), Shanghai, (at least $35,000,000). International Telephone & Telegraph Co, (Mor- gan-controlled), Shanghai, China National Aviation Corporation (partly U. S. capital), American capitalist “direct investinents” in China, as distinct from holdings in Chinese bonds, amount to at least $130,000,000. Of this, over $10,000,000 is in branch manufacturing es- tablishments; the remainder in real estate, bulld- ings, export and import trade, banking, and other properties, Some of the best known firms, most of them with central offices in Shanghal. are: American Express Co. American Machine & Foundry Co. Ander sem Meyer & Co., Ltd. The Rober Dollar Co. E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co, Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Co. Singer Sewing Machine Co, Vacuum Oil Co. x Yangtze Rapid Steamship Cu,, Fed., Inc, U. 3. A Ford Motor Co, Exports, Inc. General Motors Japan, Ltd. National City Bank of New York. ‘The Texas Co, American Manchurian Corp. Baldwin Locomotive Works, International Harvester Export Go, J