The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1932, Page 6

F 8th St. STATUS OF THE COMPETITION BETWEEN CHICAGO- PITTSBURGH- Y Published by the Comprodaity Pub New York City. N Address and mail sll checks to the Daily N.Y. Tele ALgonauin 4-7956. Cable hing Cé, Inc, dafly except Sunday, at 60 East “DAIWORK.” Worker, 50 Kaat 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. a By mail everywhere: Cye year, $6; six months, § -@f Manbatian and Brenr, New York City. PRION RAPES: two months, $ Foreign: one year, $3; siz months, $4.50. i REVOLUTIONARY MINNEAPOLIS UNTIL FEBRUARY 24th ALL THREE DISTRICTS ACCOMPLISHED QUOTAS IN TOTAL NUMBERS LEADS IN COMPOSITION IF CHICAGO AND MINNEAPOLIS DO NOT SPEED UP PITTSBURGH MAY GET THE BANNER Why? Look at these figures: MINERS RECRUITED eeeeveccess «+ 309 eee 27 41 Minnesota, seeees seeeee 5 Not a concentration industry) RAILROAD WORKERS RECRUITED Pittsburgh .. wees covccesce & Not a concentrated industry) Chicago ..... ee Minne: sees 10 EMPLOYED RECRUITED Pittsburgh, out of a total of 633—employed 214 Chicago, out of a total of 736—employed 197 Minnesota, out of a total of 392—employed 90 SHOP NUCLEI ORGANIZED Pittsburgh, 9 new shop nuclei, in shops of 15,350 workers with 43 new Party members, Chicago, 9 new shop nuclei, in shops of 17,800 workers with 45 new Party members. Minneapolis, 3 new shop nuclei, in shops with 1,500 wor with 20 new Party members. CHICAGO SO FAR IS LEADING IN SHOP ’ NUCLEI of Negroes Recruited P’ “SbUTGH ceccecccceccecceeces TT ch 10 ssw cceees eooel3L Minneapolls ceccceccccccccceees 5 No. of Women Recruited PUtSHUPEH, vcnscccescsscoscses 080 Minneapolis . Bis J New Members Recruited by the Old Shop Nuclei | Pittsburgh ........4. eeena)) | Chicago 5 Minneapolis Heh) | TOTAL RECRUITED i Pittsburgh Quota 600 ...Recruited 633 | Chicago -Quota 1000 ...Recruited 1191) Minneapolis ..Quota 400 ... Recruited. All three districts decided to increase their quotas. What are the major weaknesses: | 1. The old shop nuclei are still a negligible factor in the recruiting drive. | 2. Dues payments do not show yet a suffi- | cient corresponding increase to the new mem- bers recruited. HERE ARE THE FIGURES | District November February | Pittsburgh 571 1061 | Chicago 1708 2256 Minneapolis 882 1002 Of course, there is improvement, but more is necessary. 3. Our Party fractions were not sufficiently involved in the Recruiting Campaign. 4. Insufficient drawing in the new members into the mass activity (no reports received). 5. Insufficient results from the concentration Places. More speed in every District! mer ers! Penetrate Into new territories! Intensify the activities in the shop! Org. Department C.C. { 392 Involve every Party member in recruiting new | Only Mass Struggles Can Force Unemployment Relief By BILL GEBERT Tilinois General Assembly in its special ses- sion appropriated $20,000,000 for immediate rc- ‘Het for the Unemployed in Cook County (ity | of Chicago) and down state. Speaking in favor ‘to appropriate this amount of money, Speaker lef the House, D. B. Shanahan, according to the | Chicago Daily News, “with tears in his eyes” declared: | “We cannot tell you what will happen in Chi- @ago in many sections. The Communist are very active. Our distress furnishes their opportunity.” | |__Indeed, Mr. Speaker has a good reason to cry. |The $20,000,000 to be appropriated, not fol guns, tear gas, war, but $20000000 for unemployed re- Hef, which they are forced to appropriate under |the pressure of the masses led by the Commun- | ist Party and Unemployed Council. “Mr. Ryerson (head of Chicago relief work) \tells me that it will be impossible to keep relief ‘open after Saturday. The mayor of Chicago fears what will happen when. Riots may result when destitute people are without food. There have already been riots in different sections of {the city. Communists are among those who will \ stir up trouble. The mayor is debating whether }to ask the governor to hav ethe militia ready. Whis ts not a threat, It is a fear. There is nothing |else for use to do but show our people how we ‘etand.” | He was not the only one who admitted that the others will not starve to death, but that they will fight to get food. There are many. We juote some of them. W. A. Cummings of the Catholic Charities of Chicago, told the Legislature: “Have you any appreciation of the menacing growth of Communism in our city?” Representative Sidney Parker of Mt. Vernon declared | “You don’t seem to realize Chicago is sitting on a volcano.” Frank D. Loomis, secretary of the Governor ;Emmerson Commission of Cook County, de- clared: “You know as well as I do, people will not starve to death.” Representative Truman A. Snell, of Garlinville, said: said: “There t going to be any blood on my hands tonight. I am going to vote for this bill and sleep with a clear conscience, This is war. This is hell.” But hi leep” will be a short one. President Robert 2° ord Hutchins of the University of Chicago, at a meeting of the Chicago Association of Commerce, said: “I can see no improvement for the future. We are not likely to be out of this crisis by next fall, and prospects are that the need then will be accelerated.” The “Chicago Tribune” reports turther on the ahan as follows: rave danger now. The federal goy- already issued the orders necessary isorder if it arises. The mayor of Chi- cago is on the rostrum here and he is undecided whether he should agree to calling out the troops tomorrow morning. The armories are under guard now “The reason has been justified in refusing to publish some of these facts. They have been asked to Co so far for the public welfare. But the * facts should be recognized by the house.” ‘These statements of the representatives of the capitalist cl conclusively prove one very important and outstanding thing, that they rec- ognize only one force and that is the mighty Power of the working-class and the fear of what will happen if the workers will use their power. At present in the state of Illinois there are more than 50,000 coal miners unemployed, 50,000 railroad workers, of which 25,000 live down state, ib ' and 250,000 factory and building workers down | state are out of a job. This is only an addition | to the 700,000 unemployed workers in Cook | County and workers in many other trades and industries in Minois. It must be clearly understood that $2,000,000, which was appropriated by the Illinois State | Legislature, was done not because of the | misery and starvation of 700,000 unemployed and more than 500,000 throughout the state, but because of the militant struggle on the part | of the unemployed workers, particularly in Chi- cago, which forced the bosses to appropriate the $20,000,000. This they openly admit. | However, this money is to be gotten not from the rich, but by a gasoline tax and other similar methods of taxation, so the burden is put on the bread strata of the population and not ‘on the class. the workers of Chicago and the state of Illinois and nationally that workers in this country can | win not only a miserable $20,000,000, which is | actually a drop in the bucket as far as solving | the problem of misery and starvation of the | masses, but they can force the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Instirance Bill, paying full wages to the unemployed at the expense of the bosses and their governments, only then | when they organize their power to force the bosses. There is no other way. | The activities of the liberal-socialist “Chicago” Workers Committee of Unemployed,” who in a | “nice way” want unemployed insurance, are simply attempts on the part of the bourgeoisie | Unemployment Insurance Bill. The fear of the workers in Chicago reflects itself not only among the capitalist class, but also among their lieutenants in the labor move- ment. The rank and file of the Chicago Fed- ment. The rank and file of the Chicago Fed- Federation of Labor organize an unemployed demonstration demanding immediate unem- Ployed relief. The leadership of the Chicago Federationof Labor refused to comply with the demands of the rank an file because, as the | Presient of the Chicago Federation of Labor, a | so-called progressive, John Fitzpatrick, said: | “We would be dealing with a situation that | has a lot of danger in it.” | Yes, indeed, the Chicago workers would raise their demands and turn the demonstration of the Chicago Federation of Labor into a demon- | stration for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. ‘The Chicago workers show splendid response to the struggles for immediate relief. They were responsible for stopping evictions after Aug. 8, | 1931, they are again stopping evictions in the | city, they are gaining some demands in the flop | houses, they forced relief to many thousands of | families and now to appropriate $20,000,000. But, despite all this, despite the fact that there are 700,000 unemployed, the Unemployed Councils in Chicago, which has 40 branches and approxi- | mately 100 or more block committees, with a | total membership of 12,000 or more, is just a very small percentage of the masses of the unem- ployed. The present organizational apparatus of | the Unemployed Council must be widened and | broaened, embracing the majority of the vnem- ployed workers and a large percentage of em- | Ployed workers from shops, trade unions in Chicago. It is the task of every Communist, every re- volutionary workers, while we continue the struggle for relief, against evictions, to mobilize masses of workers in struggle to a higher plain for Unemployment Insurance, for building houses for the unemployed, to do away with the slums, especially in the Negro neighborhood, open! ag ci workers, Negro and white, in the city of Chicago, | ones on when it should be put, the capitalist | These facts must conclusively bring home to | | to prevent workers to fight for the real Werkers’ eration of Labor demanded that the Chicago | ages Wwor.e PROLETARIAT, By CYRIL BRIGGS | @HANGHAI dispatches of March 11 report that the Japanese are now threatening the revolu- tionary masses of Hankow with a blood bath. | Notice to this effect was given by the Japanese | Consul at Hankow who threatened the masses | with “similar action as at Shanghai.” At Shang- | hai, tens of thousands of unarmed workers and | babies were butchered by the Japanese invaders | who rained death by bombing planes and artil- | lery on the densely populated proletarian district of Chapei. As the flames spread, Japanese planes | swooped low and raked with machine gun bul- | lets the workers trying to escape from their burning huts. The Hankow workers are now | informed they must stop their angry protests | against the bestial crimes of Japanese im- | perialism or face a similar masacre. Hakow is the most important industrial city of Central China. It is near the Chinese Soviet | districts. Imperialist gunboats and troops are there now helping the Kuomintang to hold the city against its revolutionary working-class pop- ulation and the Chinese Red Armies which are the houses of the bourgeoisie, hotels, YMCA, YWCA, etc., from the use of the unemployed. To turn all war funds for unemployed. To unite the struggles against hunger and war. | This movement must penetrate into the fac- tories, winning part time employed and employed workers who, in this period, are working under most severe exploitation, speed-up and wage cuts, and simultaneously develop a mass movement in the factories and in struggle against speed-up, lay-offs, wage cuts, for 7 hour day in all the fac- tories and 6 hour day in railroads without reduc- tion in wages, building factory branches of the ‘TUUL unions. It is necessary to penetrate into the local unions of the American Federation of Labor with a campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Our movement must broaden | itself among all the categories of the workers, | especially among the Negroes, women, youth and children, so we can have on our side the decisive section of the working-class, It can be accom- plished if we will overcome some of the narrow sectarian otlook in our work and broadening in activity, engaging thousands of active workers in every day work and struggle. And bring to the tanks of the Communist Party thousands of workers. Above all we must reach the workers in the shops. This is our weakest link. We are making | progress in this respect at a snail's tempo. The main reason for it is that we did not reach the workers with demands and slogans as practical | and concrete as wé did with our unemployed work, and also, in many cases it appears that our Party has become a Party of unemployed workers only. At one of the meetings of the unemployed, a Party member made a speech to the workers showing that it is our Party that leads them in struggle. There were at this meeting also employed workers, and after the meeting was over an unemployed worker come to the speaker and asked the question: “Does the Communist Party admit to its Tanks also em- ployed workers?” The question put in such a sharp manner may be exaggerated to some ex- tent, but the Party in Chicago district must fully realize the danger that exists if we don’t pene- trate into the factories and unite the struggle of the employed and unemployed as one in the common front against the boss c! The diffi- culties thal exist in shop work we can overcome by giving the most detailed attention to the problems of the workers in each-shop, and if we are net able to overcome them, it shows that we are not real bolsheviks. There are no difficulties which the bolsheviks cannot overcome. While we must increase our activity among the unemployed masses tenfold, it must be brought to the forefront to the Communist Party, TUUL, and the whole revolu'icn: mnovement in Chi- cego and throughout Di t 8:that our main | tsk is to penetrate into the factories and mass | organizations of the working-class and parti | ularly the local unions of the American Feder: | tion of Labor. These are our immediate @asks, which must be linked up and carried to tegther ! victories in struggle againet canita’'-™, the @ys- tem of wax ond hunger for th.e messes | | | | | Communism Is on the March | in China | steadily tightening their net around it. Several | weeks ago, martial law was declared against the | masses and followed by a savage terror aimed at | suppressing the mass anti-imperialist, anti- | Kuomintang movement in the city. The terror | has failed of its purpose. The revolutionary | movement continues to spread and grow. The | Japanese now plan an attempt to drown the | revolutionary movement in blood. These preparations for new bloody attacks against the revolutionary Chinese masses are explained by the terror of the imperialists at the tempestuous upsurge of the national revolu- tionary movement, the growing influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the growth of the Chinese Soviet districts. Admission to this ef- fect has been made repeatedly in the imperialist press and is contained in a recent dispatch to the Hearst newspapers by Karl H. von Wiegand, Hearst newspaper correspondent at Shanghai. _ The dispatch states: | ‘*China will be the second Soviet nation in | the world. It may at first be only Southern | China and a part of the Yangtze valley which | will become sovietized, but that is on the way with big strides.’ | “One of the keenest and most deliberate dip- | lomatic observers in China made this statement to | me-in Peiping the other day—a man who weighs carefully what he says and doesn’t say it until he knows what he is talking about. “‘Red China’ looming on the horizon—a China with 500,000,000 people, almost one-sixth of the population of the earth, alongside and adjoining Red Russia! “That startles you,’ said my friend. ‘I wish it would startle the world to a realization of what is going on in China these days, and es- pecially in those regions more or less remote from communications and transportation. “T am no prophet, but I have studied the march of Communism in China these days, and have come to the conclusion that it is a far greater menace than the world knows... When you go to Nanking and to Shanghai, look into it, and I shall be surprised if you do not come to | similar conclusions.” | Communism, which is liberating the op | pressed Chinese masses and raising their ma- terial and cultural conditions, is not considered by these masses as a menace. They know that the real menace to the toiling masses of the whole world is NOT COMMUNISM, BUT IM- World Proletariat: WE'RE BACK OF YOU RED SOLDIER! THE ROBBERS WILL GET MORE THAN THEYRE BARGAINING FOR. PERIALISM! In every section of China, the masses are rallying to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, to the. support of the Chinése Soviet districts and the Chinese Red Army. Von Wiegand and his diplomat in- formant are not the first to admit this. In his dispatch von Wiegand further admits: “Misgovernment, official graft and extortion, hopelessness grown out of years of economic misery and social distress, prepared the way for the Soviet idea.” What he does not admit, however, is that the foreign imperialists are as'much responsible for these conditions of mass misery as are their Kuomintang tools. Von Wiegand further states that he “investigated” the growth’ of Communism in China and fully agrees with his diplomat friend: : “I agree with my diplomatist friend in Peiping. Communism today IS a meance in large sections of China. The fact alone, as I found in one of the government reports, that Generallissimo Chiang Kai-shek last summer sent thirty divi- sions of troops into Kiangsi province, under the personal command of the Minister of War him- self, General Ho Ying-Ching, ‘to -eradicate the Red forces, and failed at that, established beyond doubt that Communism has again become a menace in China. “When arm army of more than 360,000 troops is considered necessary: against an enemy, as in that campaign, the*enemy must indeed be formidable.” y What von Wiegand omits to state is that those of the Nanking troops willing to-fight had to fight the entire population of the districts they invaded. Men, women and children de- fended their liberties against the Nanking butchers, ‘The Nanking generals themselves were forced admit this to be the main reason of their failure to “eradicate” the powerful Chinese Red Army. In addition, tens of thousands of the Nanking troops deserted to the Red Army, Today, agdin, the Chinese Soviet districts are being attacked by the armies of the Kuomintang, this time aided by. the troops and warships of the Japanese. and other imperialist . powers. Workers of America! Rally to the defense of Soviet China! Defend this rising, flourishing world against the aggressions of ‘the dying world of capitalism, which Is trying to solve its crisis at the expense of the life blood of the toiling masses of the world, at the expense of the re-conquest of the Chinese. Soviet dis- tricts, at the expense of the Chinese Revolution and armed intervention against the Soviet Union. Ring the Soviet world with an iron defense. It is your world, Negro and white workers! Your hope of the future! Your road of escape out of the misery and oppression of capitalism! eMlcgie \ By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL In order to build to a much higher level the \struggles to free the nine Scottsboro Negro boys, | against the massacre of the Ford Hunger march- ers and for the defeat of the boss manhunt to secure the release of Tom Mooney, the vittims of the bloody terror in Kentucky, Tampa, Im- perial Valley and all the class war prisoners, to fight against lynchings and deportations, it is necessary to bring forward very sharply some of the glaring weaknesses of this campaign. The sharpening of the bloody attacks organ- ized against the workers, especially the jobless, as in Dearbori, the private city of Henry Ford, emphasizes the necessity of rapidly overcoming these weakness. The most outstanding of these are the following: 1. Insufficient penetration of organizations on the basis of the United Front from below; in the Scottsboro case, the numerous Negro organ- izations, and in developing the Mooney, Ford, Kentucky campaigns, the struggle against the labor bureaucracy in the local unions of the American Federation of Labor. Especially in the Scottsboro case, too much reliance on the Negro misleeders and too much orientation toward the churches, 2. Very slow progress in linking up local issues with the Scottsboro and the Mooney issues. Even where there have been outstanding persecutions of Negro workers, the resistance to these has not been united with the Scottsboro struggle suffi- ciently. 3. Many weaknesses in our efforts to link up Win Masses for Defense Struggles the Scottsboro campaign with our struggles against lynching and Jim Crowism; the chain gang system, various forms of forced labor, and other persecutions of Negroes. Insufficient Struggle against white chauvinism. 4. Failure to break completely with the de- | pendence upon legalism which has been in- herent in appeal actions, carried through to higher courts. Bad practices in the Gastonia appeal, as well as in many local appeals, was repeated in the absence of sufficient mass protest during the week of the Scottsboro Appeal. . 5. Not sufficient’ raising of the Scottsboro, Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa issues during the Unemployed demonstrations, February Fourth. Dramatization of these issues in the February Fourth Demonstrations through effective ‘spec- tacular pageants was not done sufficiently. There is still too much satisfaction merely with raising a few slogans or carrying a few placards. This is not enough. 6. The failure to develop the mass character of the Scottsboro, Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa campaigns is reflected in the narrowness of the conferences called on these issues; coupled with the tendency to allow these narrow conferences to evaporate immediately after they are called together, rather than seeking energetically to develop and strengthen them through widening the base, 7. These shortcomings are also reflected in the great lack of organizational results and the failure to connect up the raising of the necessary” funds with these campaigns By JoRaS fee Listen to This! Arthur: Brisbane speaking in the N. ¥Y.-Amer- iean'of March 3, and he admits the charge we Communists have been making against the god- awful Hollywood movies as so-called “amuse- ments” that are aimed to keep the workers’ minds off the class. struggle and how to win it. In {writing in opposition to the New York tax on movies, Brisbane says: “It is difficult enough, under the existing circumstances, to keep the crowd in s cheerful mood, discouraging active dissatisfaction, with out this laying of a tax on the people’s harm- Jess amusement.” Weill, if movies of the general admission type of rdt are “harlmiess” to the capitalists, they are harmful to the workers, which is what Brisbane meant by saying “the crowd.” And, incidentally, by admitting this much, Brisbane admits that his own “cherrio” line of hokum is also meant to “discourage active dissatisfaction”—in short, to Ue, to the workers, to fool the masses, That’s worth remembering wheh some dopey liberal complains that the Daily Worker is too “terrible,” with its stories of strikes, jailings, murders of organizers and so on. But these are the facts of the class war, the most important things the workers can learn. Brisbane, like all capitalist editors, wants that all covered up. And they do their best to do it. ee ee Preachers Get All the Breaks Well, boys and girls, we see that the Méthodist Episcopal Church is wringing all the blood out of their hymns, apd the example given of one hymn that’s to be de-blooded, is the old revival meetin’ verse: : “To the blest fountain of thy blood, “Incarnate God, I fly; “Here let me wash my spotted sont “Susanna don’t you cry.” Let’s see, we made a mistake in that last line. It should be: “From crimes of deepest dye.” But that was the old version. And now we see from dispatches sent from Memphis, Tenn., that “Sus- anna don’t you cry,” is more appropriate. Seems that an Episcopalian sky-pilot: named “Noe,” said “Noe” to his wife for 10 these many years. He wasn't going to have any “spotted soul” he told the court, where his wife had brought suit for divorce on the grounds that he “refrained from physical relations with her.” No. siree. He was “trying to live a spiritual life of absolute idealism.” And when the judge finished listening to the case he told this saintly man’s wife she couldn’t have any divorce. Upor which she fainted. And when she came io, she told the “absolute idealist” to get away from her, adding, rather strangely, “You have done enough to me.” But if one preacher got the breaks because he didn’t, on the very same day, March 1, press, reports from Santa Rosa, Cal., tell of another Holy Man who came out pretty good although he did: The Rev. Hugh Brunk, who was convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl last June, and got nothing more serious than a sentence’ in the County Jail, was released before his time was up by the kind indulgence of county officials. Of course, the girl in the case was not the wife of a naval officer and it didn’t happen in Hawaii, so that the capitalist papers only had @ féw lines on an inside page. But, no matter whether preachers do or don't, they get ell the breaks. “8. Insufficient struggle against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which must be fought more energetically than ever as the executioners of the boys’ while i is made over clearer before the masse§ that it is. only the niass protest mobilized by the Inter- national Labor Defense that can saye them. Our major ‘task, immediately, is to overcome these Weaknesses. ‘The Scottsboro, Detroit, Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa issues cry loudly for an intensification of mass protest. The develop+ ment of these struggles to real mass propor~ tions becomes the best basis for our actiyities against. the persecutions and increasing terror Srowing out of the war situation, nationally and internationally, and in defense of Sovléi Chita and the Soviet Union. * In some respects the Scotisboro and the Mooney issues parallel each other at the present moment. The Scottsboro appeal is “under con- sideration” by the Alabama State Supreme Court; the most recent development in the Mooney case (Walker's trip to San Francisco) is under con- sideration by the Governor of California, Gov~ ernor Rolph. Any tendency to wait on the de- cisions of the Alabama Supreme Court Judges-or California’s Governor must be overcome com- pletely: This mass mobilization can be achieved on the basis of carrying through the correct policies of the: International Labor Defense, especially in connection with drawing all possible organiza- tions into the defense movement. The defense struggle must be rooted in all organizations, especially the Trade Union Unity League and all its affiliated organizations, the Unemployed Councils, the Communist Party, the Young.Gom- taunist League, the local unions of the American Federation of Labor and the Independent Trade Unions, the workers’ fraternal organizations, Jahor sports’ organizations, women’s organiza- tions, the Pioneers, Councils for the Protection of the Foreign-Born and the Anti-Fascist Fed- erations. Some of these conference were con- siderable of an achievement. It is only on the basis of overcoming our weak- nesses that we will be able to carry. through successfully the next steps in the Scottsboro, Detroit, Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa struggles. DREPARE FOR MARCH 18 The anniversary of the Paris Commune, March 18, it be THE NEXT BIG DAY in the Scottsboro, Detroit, Mooney Kentucky, ‘Tampa Campaign, combined with the struggle azainst lynching, against deportations, against. injune- tions and for workers’ rights—FOR STRUGGLE. AGAINST THE REACTION, NATIONALLY, INTERNATIONALLY, This must be a day of parades, demonstrations, mass meetings to open the ‘doors cf prison to the Scottsboro boys, win freedom for Muonsy and Billings, defeat the Ford-Murphy attacl: on the unemployed in Detroit, and win the release of the Kentucky, Imperial Valley end Tampa vic- tims and all clagh War prisoners 2 } 5 Ui