The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1932, Page 4

en a §. ied by, the Comprédatly Publishing Ca; Inc. dally axcept. Sunday, at 50 Fast s & SUBSCRIPTION RATES: - meget date ee | | Page Four ENP? &., Oxk City. N. Y. Telephtine ALigonguin 4.7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” al By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroug! { : & ege and'mail’all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 Mast 18th Street, New York, N. Y. Ce of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, 84.50, t ® = — — — DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE N YORK DISTRICT CONVENTION The draft reslution prepared by the District Committee for the coming District Convention of the New York District is too lengthy to allow of complete publication in the Daily Worker. Therefore it is necessary to make a digest of this resolution in Order that the line may be clearly understood by the mem- bership and the workers generally. New York resolution points out that the olution of the 14th Plenum of the Central tee applies with especial force to the he following tendencies in the Distr es and mass organizations. orientation—lack of persistent day- understanding of Pa work | Bureaucratic assignment of tasks and no check- | up are the rule, | As a result of this isolation from the mass work, the life of the units is still sterile. The unit is not the home of the new members who come into the Party, and as a consequence there is considerable fluctuation in the Party member- ship. Although the Party has grown from 3,000 to 4,500, and the unions up to 20,000, with the flucbuation diminishing at the present time, nevertheless, the situation is very serious, since, owing to the inward tendencies and sectarian- | ism, there is no guarantee that the new recruits will remain in the Party and in the union. The necessity of changing this situation, owing to the sharpening economic crisis and theygrow- ing grave danger of war against the Soviet Union, means that there must be a decisive connecting links between the workers in the fac- tory and the unemployed. The workers in the shop must also be connected up with the un- employed council in the neighborhood, througit delegates, by carrying on work in the shop for the unemployed, getting registered supporters, circulating petitions, ete, 7. With organization on this basis, struggles in the shops can be properly conducted. A struggle is not necessarily a strike. Through building up grievance and shop committees, many grievances can be settled and demands be won without a strike, owing to the strength of the organization of the workers in the shop. The workers whose interests are represented through a grievance committee, which puts fip a fight for certain de- mands, may not wish to form permanent uni@n organization in the shop, declaring that they will | change in the practices of the Party, otherwise | OTsanize again when a grievance appears. It is Opportiniam both Of a rent and lene cr | the District will not be able to get out. of the | the duty of the Party members and the union formalism thr atic methods, groove in which it remains. The District Resolution then proceeds “to out- to recruit into the union and Party as rapidly as possible, so that there is permanent organiza- tion in the shop that can build up from struggle Seton eee neu eae line the work as it should be conducted. Accept- | +, strice on the basis of the United Front of §. Extreme weakness in the Negro w ing the decision of the Central Committee the ‘workers. After pointing out the political and economic | Plenum that “The main basis of the work and " on in the district, which shows that in the e of New York and New Jersey, which em- brace one-eighth of the population of the coun- ‘ry, there are one-fifth of the uner country, the resolution declar is €>clining in New York a very rapid rate, while wage cuts are taking place on all hands. isis is especially felt by the Negro workers, of whom are unemployed ‘mely strong in the District, beginning with Roosevelt and Moore, governo of New York and New Jersey, and the local rep- r Mtatives, such as M r, who on the development of the lower Party organizations is the work in the factory,” the District Reso- lution declares: = “How To Overcome Sectarianism. | 1. In view of the sharp war cituation, which | grows more grave every day, it is the duty of | the Party, and particularly this District, to | concentrate on the ~var industries. -More than 35 per cent of the chemical industry is situated in this ¢‘ctrict. The New York harbor is the largest port in the world. There are large metal | and explosive plants and big centers of the rail- road industry in the district. It is the distinct 8. Strike struggles must be well prepared. If they are limited to a single shop, United Front groups should as far as possible be formed beforehand in each department (although this is not imperative). The demands of the strike must be formulated and fully discussed with the workers. If there are Negro, young and women workers in the shop, special demands must be put up for them, and a stubborn struggle be conducted to win them, thus solidifying the or- ganization. A rank and file strike committee must be elected out of the most militant, relia- ble elements, who are known through the shop work. The strike should be conducted either ae ae a esa Sy peiesan eae naate ue vase ee ested pao ~ lyases ok under the official or unofficial leadership of the tks ah i i ange basic war industries. Th‘s must be done’ by revolutionary union: If the strike extends over onto the shoulders of the workers formers Im face of this situation, carrying on a strugggle. Mi onizing the shops or getting contacts ‘with the rkers in these industries frfom the outside. his may be done through wor': around the shops, through the mass organizations whose ¥ more than one shop of the industry, the strike committee is composed of delegates from the respective shops, elected on the same basis. In preparation for the strike, educational work, tgken place in the district Jed by the T. L.. | members work in the shops-éte.” itv those-slopa 2 st ; and also other spontaneous strikes, led by the | where we have shop nuclef or shop groups of Se eaniecd bodiatgs ated aes i mst ek ae eer nare oe Oe | the revolutionary unions, it is our primary task | ture must be brought into and around the shops The terror of the police is inereasing, while at | to develop the struggle on the-immediatt: condi | je eee ae ee mee ban the, s-m2 time the enemies of the working class tions in the shop, linking up the work in’ the ( a 's in the -abor movement, th A. F. of L. bureau- crats, the Socialist Party, the Musteites and the renegades, come to the front in order to help the bosses in their activities against the workers. Shop work, which is the center of the wo: ofthe Communist Party, is weak in the District. shop with the war situation and the preparations for war. Wherever there are shop nuclei, shop groups or individual Party or YCL members, they must be given the utmost attention, in order to teach them how to build up for struggle in the shops. of the Party and union, according to conditions prevailing—should be published and distributed as soon as information can be secured from the shop. These papers should, wherever possible, be distributed also directly in the shop, this re- quiring some skill to avoid spies, who are intent EW ‘ By BARD TYPICAL LIVES OF TWO SOVIET WORKERS By MARGARET DUMONT EYOND Sokoiniki Park in the village of Bogo- When Marusia goes to work in the morning she leaves the baby in the factory nursery. meal. When he is old enough he will go to the fine school just down the street, where he will } a if aitel Inewe aes upon breaking up organization. rodskoye, is the Krassny Bogotyr’ (Red | When baby enters the nursery he is first bathed | also be able to take two meals a day at a very Ren f seaniar 3 tae aie ihe i ee asi = heals) pee iad aetna 9, The function of the shop nucleus or individ- | Knight) rubber factory which manufactures | by the nurse and then put to sleeep. In sum- | low cost. i , Leia bala it : United Front. The Uni i a iene tiv dd spairk Gt tt mer his crib is outdoors, but in thi i i eo ns only 250 members, or about 6 per cent of the for struggle in the shops én the't diate issues. ual Party member, in order to break down the | rubbers. Seventy-five thousand pairs of rubbers er his crib is outdoors, but in this weather he So is Marusia freed from the heaviest bur: membership. The weakness of the shop work was revealed particularly in the May Day dem- oistration, which showed how sectarian the dis- trict is and isolated from the masses of the workers in the shops. The sectarianism is shown by the following: 1. The Party members do not know the griev- ances of the workers in the shops. 2. They have no faith in the workers’ willing- ness to struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs, Worsening conditions. 3. Wage cuts are announced, but the Party members do not react. 4. Strikes break out, but the Party members are indifferent and take no lead. 5. Shop nuclei build no organization in the shop and conduct no struggle. 6. Being isolated from the workers, even pre- mature strikes have been provoked, which are manifestations of left opportunism. 7. A complete failure to link up the demands of the unemployed with the employed workers and also to take up the grievances of the laid-off men. 8, The revolutionary unions are also sectarian. The United Front is' misunderstood, is not ap- plied correctly and is wery narrow. This was shown particularly in the Paterson and the dressmakers strike. The Marine Union has | It embraces all wotkers in’ the shops; irtespec- tive of organizational membership in thé revo- lutionary or A. F. of L. union, unorganized workers, skilled and unskilled, with the proper formulation of demands for each category of workers. It is the duty of the shop nucleus, shop groups of the revolutionary union or a single Party member, to biild up the United Front in the shop. This can be done only by breaking down the walls of séctarianism that separate us from the workers, by Itsving daily personal contact with them, by finding out their grievances, formulating with them the demands in the shops, and building up a grievance com- mittee as the initial form, and in the further development, a shop committee (delegated body) in the shop. The necessary precautionary meth- ods of work must be adopted, in order to safe- guard the work from the destructive action of stool pigeons. 3. The grievance corpmittee is a temporary form of organization and must embrace all cate- gories of workers possible. It should be made up of members of the Party and revolutionary unions, members of the reformist unions, and unorganized workers. It should contain Negro, young workers and women workers, if such work in the shop. Wherever possible the workers should be recruited into the union and the wall between the’Party and the masses, and get daily contact with the masses, build up a shop group of the union, or grievance committee, is: (a) To find out the burning grievances of the workers and around them organize struggle. (b) To recruit into the Union and the Party. (e)"fo educate the shop workers, through papers, literature, study circles. : (a) To bring in the Party campaigns—strike relief, Scottsboro, Mooney, protection of the for- eign-born, right. to strike and picket, unemploy- ment insurance, war, the election campaign, etc. (e) To build up workers defense and the I.L.D. (f) To take the lead in the struggle. In carrying on this work, from its very incep- tion, it is the primary duty of the district and section committee to assist; and educate the shop nucleus or Party member. ‘10. Thé street unit concentrating on the fac- tory must work in close contact with the shop nucleus or Party member in the shop. It must get contacts in the shop, distribute literature and Daily Workers, shop bulletins, etc. It must build ‘up orgenization of the unemployed in the neigh- borhood, of the housewives and children, in preparation for the struggle. It must get contact through and with the mass organizations and rally them for the support of the struggle, through direct participation, relief, defense, etc. -Ik The revolutionary union mvst assist in the are turned out every day at the plant. Last year the total volume of production was 18,000,- 000 pairs, For 1932 the goal is 25,000,000; for the first quarter of the year the workers have surpassed their plan, Every process in making the rubbers, from mixing the chemical compound from which they are made to painting and lining the finished product is done at the factory. Formerly owned by a foreign concessionaire, the factory has been in the hands of the Soviet Government since the Revolution. Under its former owners a 14-16 hour day was not unu- sual. Today there are three seven-hour shifts and in departments like the chemical section there is a still shorter day. Workers in this department, where the work is considered un- healthful, are given a quart of milk to drink every day to offset the poisons in the chem- icals they handle. In all departments there are frequent 10-minute rest periods. All Needs Met. All the social needs of a worker's life are met by this typical Soviet factory. He works, eats and studies there. His home is nearby, « His children are in the nursery, kindergarten or school maintained by the plant. He himself may attend the factory school “combine” which may carry him from his ABC’s to an engi- sleeps in the sun-flooded nursery with doors and .windows flung far open. A few hours later Marusia comes back to nurse him. Be- fore she can go into the nursery, she must put on a clean white smock which one of the at- tendants hands her. No visitor is allowed in the nursery without first donning such a smock. When Marusi attends a class in reading and writing at the end of her work-day, baby re- mains in the nurcery. She takes him home only over night. And the Older Child. Little Alex comes home from the kindergar- ten at the.end of the day after his evening dens of housekeeping, freed so that she may take her part in the building of a new life. Marusia and Sasha are typical of the thou- sands of workers at Krassny Bogatyr. Only the details of the story differ. If he is a skilled worker, his wages are 185 to perhaps 250 rubles; if he is an engineeer his wages are three hun- dred or more, Payment for rent and in the kindergarten. and nursery vary according to wages. When there are many children in the family and wages are low, no payment at all is made for the children. Thus all of the work- ers can share equally in these services, with hardships to none. ~ International Appeal Against War ‘HE newly-formed International Committee against War which was formed on the initative' of Romain Rolland and Henri Barbusse has issued the following apreal: “For months the disarmament conference of the League of Nations has been sitting in Gen- eva and at the same time a bloody war is going on in the Far East. Robber War Against China Continues resisted all the provoations of Japan and con-* centrated all its forces on the great work of secialist construction. In Europe and in pare ticular in Roumania, Poland and the Baltic and Balkan States feverish war preparations are being made under French leadership. The arma- ment budgeis -are rising to fantastic heights, the war expenses of all countries are rising im- measurably, the production of the war. and made some slight progress, but it is so insignifi- | party, thus giving permanency to the ofganiza~ butial as es netring education if he desires, - His. recrea- “The Japanese robber war against China is | chemical industries. in France (Schneiders cant that we cannot say there is any real ad- | tion in the shop. (If organiz-‘‘on is built in mitt ing esis fe shop groups and grievance com~ | tional’ needs are met by the factory library, | being continued. Aeeroplanes bombs and artil- | Cruezot, Rebauld, Kuhlmann), in the Ruhr - vance as yet. Where, om the other hand, We | yarious departments or shops, the delegated body fes on the United Front basis, for the shop | ciub and theater... When he is ill, there are the | lery shells have killed thousands of Chinese | district, in Czechoslovakia (Skoda works), in get contact with the workers in the shop and in building shop groups, work has been conducted properly on the basis of the daily contact with the workers, struggles have been inaugurated, as for instance, in shoe and fur. 9. Isolation from the masses leads to failure to take independent action and ‘leadership in the struggles of the workers belonging to the A. F. of L. unions, such as in pocketbook, printing and building. 10.,This general isolation is extremely strong in. the unemployed work. There are no mass unemployed councils, no recruiting of new lead- ership. This is due to bureaucracy, both in the center and in the sections. The T. U. U. L. also does not recognize its role in the Unemployed movement. 11, Owing to a failure to carry on a ruthless campaign against white chauvinism, and a lack of understanding of the Negro question, ignor- ance of the role of the Negro reformists and improper approach to the Garveyites, the Negro work is in a very dangerous situation. 12. The Y. C. L. shows the worst form of sectarianism and is completely isolated from the young workers in the shops and the unem- ployed. Bureaucracy, Formalism, Inward Tendencies Sectarianism is a product of bureaucracy, for- malism and lack of self-criticism. Being mani- fest in the District, it is especially strong in the Section Committees, which are removed from ™mass work and therefore are a barrier between the District and the units of the Party. Bureaucracy and formalism in the District have been evident in: ,1..The formal manner of concentration 2. Continued circular letters and bulletins, which do not take up the daily problems of the sections and units. 3. Formal approach to the question of shop work and functioning of fractions. Formal approach to the question of social- fascism. 5. Formal decisions on unemployed and Negro work, without serious efforts to concentrate, 6. Formal attitude toward the Y. C. L. In the sections, these tendencies are shown in: 1, Section Committees or even the Section Or- ganizers directly taking over the leadership of the Unemployed work. 2, No attention to shop nuclei. 3, Formai decisions, but no carrying out of the work. , 4; Bedious, bulky Org. letters. Bureaucracy and formalism descends down into the units, which have no connection with the mass work, therefore have strong inward tendencies. If a strike takes place, the units ‘and the sections pay no attention to them, F 4 is formed—the shop commit’ ee.) Demands must be worked out for each particu- lar category of workers, and a fight be put up for them, particularly for the Negro workers. In order to convince the white workers of the neces- sity of drawing in the Negro workers, a struggle against white chauvinism must be conducted and the right of the Negro workers to work in any and every department for which they are fit be put up. This will convince the Negro workers and draw them into our ranks. The discriminatory practices against the foreign- born workers must be fought against, so that unity of all the workers in the plant, irrespective of organization, race, nationality, age or sex, is brought about. 4. The method of approach to organization must be adapted to the conditions in the par- ticular shop. The raising of a particular shop issue, or the Mooney campaign, Scottsboro, Ken- tucky, strike relief, fight against imperialist war, may be an issue on which to buil4 a group of the union (or Party nucleus) in the shop. 5. The building of the Shop Group in the shop is the activity also of the revolutionary union (shop work is 90 per cent of the content of revo- lutionary trade union . work~-Losovsky). ‘ The United Front in the shop is also the basis for the formation and development of the revo- lutionary opposition in the reformist union, since shop conditions and the struggle against them are the chief content of struggle in the unions. ‘This is one of the basic tasks of the revolution- ary opposition, which must depart from the opportunist method of carrying on the struggle against the bureaucracy of the reformist unions solely in the local. To carry on this work successfully requires a bitter struggle against, and exposure of, the Socialist Party and A. F. of L. bureaucrats, for they play a leading part in the breaking of all struggles in the shops. 6. No real shop or revolutionary trade union work can be carried on successfully withayt con- sideration of the unemployed. The bosses are using the unemployed for the purpose of slash- ing the conditions of the workers in the shops, They know that the unemployed are potential strike-breakers, who out of hunger are ready to take the place of workers who quit, are fired, locked out, or go on strike. Therefore it is the duty of the employed workers to put forward demands for the unemployed, to fight for yn- employment relief and unemployment and social insurance, thus linking up the unemployed and employed in struggle for their mutual benefit. It is also necessary to fight against lay-offs, and | to demand and struggle for relief for such work- ers from the company. ° Part-time workers, facing complete discharge, feel the effect.and.are-the is the basis of organization, also of the TUUL. The Communist fraction in the union has also the task of building shop nuclei where there are no Communists in the shop. 12. The work of the shop nucleus, street unit {also the Y, ©. L. where it is involved), the union fraction and section committee must be co- ordinated, so that political and organizational results may be attained, and confusion and fric- tion be avoided. Joint meetings of the shop nucleus (or Party member), representatives of the street unit-and Y. C. L. unit, section com= mittee (in important war shops, also the District Committee), and of the union fraction must he held, in order that joint activities may be planned and worked out. Only in this way can Proper coordination of the work be brought about and all forces inside and outside the shop be mobilized for struggle, and the union and the Party be built up in the shop. This requires persistent day to day work, a struggle against opportunism and sectarianism. This demands Personal daily contact with the workers, so that the Party may become, not “a Party for the masses, but the Party of the masses—the real leader of the masses in the shop.” (TO BE CONCLUDED) Boycott Capitalist Primaries in Minnesota By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN 1 ete’ coming primary elections in Minnesota will have 88 candidates in the field. Not a single one of these candidates is a worker or farmer, and not a one of them has a working- class program. The primaries’ are supposedly “non-partisan,” one of the means the capitalist class uses to fool the workers into thinking they have “democ- racy.” The issues which these bosses’ candi- dates raise are those of “progressive” against conservative, which is nothing but a smoke screen to hide the fact that there is no essential differ- ence in the programs of these candidates, any more than there is any essential difference in the programs of the Republican, Democratic, So- cialist or Farmor-Labor parties, al of which sup- port capitalism against the working class. - Anti-Working Class Election Law The election machinery of the bosses’ govern- ment is such as to place every obstacle in the path of a workers party from entering the elec- tions, In the state of Minnesota, the primary Jaws state that any one voting in the primaries is disqualified from signing a petition to place another political party on the ballot. This ; Means that thousands of militant workers and factory doctors and the dispensary. Let us take, fer example, Sasha and Marusia, arrived not very long ago from the village to work in Krassny Bogatyr, both of them un- © skilled laborers. Sasha is now earning 140 rubles a month. He is taking a technical course at the factory school, however, and ‘soon will be able to join the ranks of the skilled workers when. he will be able substantially to increase his wages. Marusia earns 120 rubles and has in addition @ special supplement while she is nursing her baby. The baby is two months old and she has just returned to the factory after a four- month leave of absence. While she was away her full wages were paid and when the baby was born she was presented with a complete layette. How They Live. The couple pay 12 rubles a. month for their room and four rubles for the baby in the factory nursery. They also pay eight rubles a month for thgir “three-year-old,” who gets twd hot meals a day at the kindergarten. Their own meals they take at the factory, for which they each pay 25 rubles a month, by farmers will lose their right to help place the candidates of the Communist Party on the ballot, even if they vote only for municipal or county offices in “non-partisan” primary elections. Forward to the Commupist Party Ratification Convention The Communist Party appeals to the workers and exploited farmers of Minnesota to boycott the bosses primaries; only the capitalist parties participate in the primaries.. On June 19th, the day before the primaries, the Minnesota State Ratification Convention of the Communist Party will take place in Minneapolis, at which 250 worker and farmer delegates will launch a full state and congressional ticket in opposition to the candidates of the bosses’ parties. y Immediately following the primaries, a drive will start to\gather 5,000 signatures of registered voters who have not participated in the primaries, to place the Communist candidates for President, Governor and Congress on. the ballot. As opposed. to the demagogy and hypocritical promises of the Farmer-Labor Party, the State Ratification Cnvention of the Communist Party will adopt a state ‘election platform that. will raise concretely the fundamental demands of the workers and poor farmers, especially dealing citizens, including workers and peasants, old men, women and children. Japan has fallen upon China and massacred the unarmed civil population in Chapei. Japan has seized Man- churia, Under the clumsy task of an inde- pendent republic Manchuria is being made into a strategic basis for war against the Soviet Union. “Fer fifteen years the Soviet Union has been striving to build up a new world based on a ommunity of toilers and on a railroad dis- tribution of’ production on the principles of the interests of the community, co-operation, the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, principles which are sharply opposed to the anarchy, of capitalism. Soviet Union Resists War Provocations “For months the Soviet Union has heroically with the issues of unemployment insurance and immediate relief, wage-cuts, taxation of farmers and small home-cwners, political persecution, discrimination against Negroes and foreign-born workers and the struggle against imperialist war preparations, Workers Rally Around Party Pltaform Every indication points to a mass mobilization of the workers and poor farmers of Minnesota around the Communist election platform and candidates.. The recent incident of May 14th, when 5,000 workers of Minneapolis took over a meeting where Governor Olson and Mayor An- derson were scheduled to speak on unemploy- ment, and chéered the Communists speakers who addressed them instead, is only one sign of the rapidly-spreading disillusionment in the Farmer- Labor Party. The preparations for the State Ratification of the Communist Party, must pene- trate every workers’ and farmers’ organization in the state, must reach every A. F. of L. union Jocal and other organization formerly under the influence of the scial-fascists. Every worker and farmer should boycott the primary elections, with the single exception of the Seventh Commissioners District of St. Louis County. In this district, in response to the mass ‘demand of the militant farmers, the Communist Party has entered as its candidate for County Commissioner in the primaries Comrade Andrew Roine, who was recently elected on the Commu- nist ticket to the Township Board of Supervisors in Sturgeon, Minn, The workers and farmers ot the Seventh Commissicners District of St. Louis County must go to the primaries and “Vote Communist” for the County Commissioners of- fice, but boycott all other candidates on the primary ballot. 3 Forward to a mass election struggle! for Com- munist candidates! i: Roumania and Poland are rapidly increasing, The preparations for the destruction of whole continents with the horrible means of chemical and air warfare are being made ‘now. “A new world war is threatened “The war is’ directed against China and with the assistance of the imperialist states it is to be waged against the Soviet Union, The authors of this plan are leading capitalist concerns and the big banks in western Europe, the heavy in- dustries, the industrial and finance capitalists and the governments of the capitalist countries are their instruments, It is clear that a war against the Soviet’ Union would be # new, second world war bringing with it mass misery on an unexampled scale for the working people of all countries, and resulting in the deaths of millions of men and women, “We must fight against this insane and criminal activity with all possible clarity and energy. Ways and means must be found of preventing this planned insanity, this imperialist war crime. To Holé World Congress Against War “The undersigned men and women are deter- mined to do everything in their power to pree ° vent this new war vrime and they are con- vinced that no right-thinking man and woman can stand aside in view of this threatening gigantic conflict, but must line up-in the front of those men and women who have already begun the struggle against war. We appeal to all mem and women, irrespective of their poli= tical parties, trade unions, cultural, political or social organizations, to unite with us in a great international congress against war. “This congress will demonstrate the fighting will of millions of working men and women all over the world to fight against the wer crime if necessary at the cost of their own lives, At this congress the best ways and means of fighte ing against imperialist war will be discussed, It depends of the workers whether the war which has already begun in the Far East against China develops into a war of intervention against the Soviet Union. 7 “We apreal to all men and women ef good-" il will to participate in out c take placd on Aug. 1, 1052 in Gene make the congr2ss into a pew dsmonstraticn against the war er’ “Let us not run the tisk of failing to under=— stand, or of understanding too late! Let awaken the conscience of the world in order steel its will against war! Let us organize an ‘ resistance to war! Let us form a mighty wa all those men and women who are un' i ™> ce