The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1932, Page 3

” DSiLi Weiieen, fb Page Three International Notes By GEORGE BELL 100 YEARS AT HARD LABOR! RIGA, — Twentyone revolutionary workers were sentenced to terms to- talling 100 years at hard labor for Communist propaganda. The rise of Communism throughout the world will not be checked by the harshest White Terror oe REPORT PEASANT UPRISING KOVNO.—The Lithuanian press re- ports new peasant uprising against the Polish authorities in Volhynia and Polessia. Three regiments of Polish infantry, a cavalry regiment. and a special detachment of 1,500 armed police are being used against the peasants. This punitive force is “pacifying” the insurgent districts mercilessly, ing entire villages and summarily ging all persons sus- pected of participation in the in- surrection. The Polish press has not been allowed to report this news (and the New York capitalist press ee it because “it isn’t fit to print,” ee MAKING SOVIET MACHINERY BERLIN.—Recent statistics on the machinery industry throughout the world reflect the impetuous growth of the Soviet Union, contrasted with stagnation and decline in the capital- ist West. In the United States the machinery output in June, 1932 was [: per.cent of the average monthly . output in 1928; in Gérmany, 44 per cent; in Great Britain, 80 per cent; jin France, 97 per cent; and in the USSR., 486 per cent. The entire world output of machinery has drop- ped 44 per cent since 1928, while the Soviet Union’s production has risen to five times what it was in 1928, and more than six times than the pre-war figures. This is not a “Potemkin village” but an unmistakable picture of capi- talist decay and Soviet growth, com- piled by an official Germany bureau, the Economic Research Institute of Berlin. Cede Se TRAVELLING BAKERY Centrosoyus, the Soviet consumers’ cooperative, is equipping railway cars as a travelling bakery for the con- venience of workers in forests and peat fields. The bakery train, planned to turn out 60,000 pounds of bread daily, will cost $100,000. Compare this with the living conditions of the lumberjacks in the vaunted Amer- ican lumber camps. re se ae NDECLARED WAR ON IRELAND DONDON.—Armored cars are pa- ‘olling the streets of Belfast against. jhe unemployed. - A repressive duty of 20 per cent on all Irish products has been declared by Britain against the South of Ireland, causing great hardship to the Irish farmers, in or- der to force the submission of the Free State government to MacDon- ald’s terms. In 1921 the workers and small farmers in North Ireland were kidded that they would be better off if they were directly under England instead of independent. The Irish nation is cut in two—with what result? Economic war on the South and armored cars in the North, The Irish} masses in the North are looking star- vation in the face. Over 50,000 un- employed in Belfast alone, The fa- mous shipyards are deserted. The Nortii and South of Ireland, by unit- ing against their common foe—Brit- ish imperialism—would make their fight a thousand times stronger. Away with the artificial frontier be- tween Ulster and the Free State! Up ‘he United Irish struggle! UROPEAN VETS SUPPORT BONUS Graef Says They Will Aid New March NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Over 600 veterans and workers gave an enthu- siastic reception to Hugo Graef, the Secretary of the International of War Veterans and War Victims and Communist Deputy from the German Reichstag, when he arose to address a mags bonus march meeting held last night at the Manhattan Lyceum under the auspices of the National Veterans Rank and File Committee. War for Profits. “Your American capitalists love the idea of giving you your wages in 1945. They want to get more out of you-—more profits,” said Graef. Every soldiers knows that this is true. And every soldier now knows that the hs we fought in was not a war for . Pmocracy. “We knowthat it was a capitalist \ wa fight among the capitalists for markets, for greater earthly treas- ure. Today we see that the govern- ments of all nations lied to us when we went to war—tlwey lied when they promised to take care of the soldiers. “What must we do? We must or- ganize. In all countries the veterans have had their compensation cut. In Germany, England, France, Italy as well as in in America the veterans and workers suffer. In Europe the relief has been cut 80 per cent. In Hungary and Poland the soldiers are still waiting for the promised bit of land. Yet in every country we see there is plenty in the hands of the millionaires, . “Remember that your bonus fight is not only yours; it is a fight of the entire working class.” Takes Final Steps to , ,.Depert George Stalker \ CMAHA, Neb., Oct, 19.—The Hoo- ‘Qos’: deportation department is 7 final steps in the deportation eCorge Stalker, militant worker, > srpuced the irs of the boss au- “ides by crganizing.a dance to oa Negro and white workers were ‘The International Labor Defense, which is defonding Stalker against Yhe deportation attempts of the au- shorities, has issued a call for pro- test against these attempts, to be jont by all workers and workers’ or- tanizations to Frank Hayes, Immi- fration Department, Omaha, Ne- oraska, and to Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak, at Washing- nfs sn t . —Editor. en eS The Kabardeen - Balkar Autono- mous Republic is one of the many autonomous republics that were es- tablished in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution from the formerly oppressed colonial people under Czarism. The people of this re- public are mainly Kabardeens and Balkars, with a large section of Rus- sians and about 7,000 members from seventeen other nationalities. The policy of the Czar was to incite one nationality against the other, keep the masses in ignorance and in this way maintain his rule, All the land belonged to the native landlords, priests and to the Cos- sacks who were colonized in this re- gion and given the best land. The cossacks were the gendarmes of the czar. They would at times attack the villages of the Kaberdeens and Bal- kars, looting, beating and killing the population. There were only 13 ele- mentary schools and one middle school where only the sons of the landlords and priests studied, The toiling masses were entirely illiterate not one being able to read nor write his own name. After the November Revolution, With the coming of the Revolution on November 7, 1917, all this changed, the power of the priests and land- lords was destroyed. Gone are the FORD CO. FIRES ALL BUT 5,000 Henry Lauds Hoover; Broun Praises Ford DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 20—The Ford Motor Co. laid off workers wholesale again yesterday, leaving less than 5,000 in the plant out of the former 120,000 employed there. ‘The report is that about the middle of January the plant will reopen with a new 20 per cent wtge cut. ee Tee | Ford Says Hoover Ended Crisis. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 20.—Yester- day, on the very day that he fired thousands of ‘his “own employes, Henry Ford gave a radio address lauding Herbert Hoover as the man whose “every act has been in the in- terest of the unemployed,” Henry Ford said of Hoover: “We are now beginning to feel the lifting power of his well-though out program.” BOSTON, Mass., Oct, 20.—Heywood Broun, holding himself upright by leaning against a piano at the side of the stage in Ford Hall told an audi- ence of liberals here Sunday that if the Socialist Party came into power it would make Henry Ford supreme boss of the auto industry. Broun said that such a genius as Henry Ford's must not be destroyed and he ; Was sure Henry would be willing to handle the auto industry under Socialism, Special Edition of Daily Nov. 7 to Greet. Birthday of U.S.S.R.| The special Fifteenth Soviet Anniversary edition of the Daily | Worker, to appear on Nov. 7, will conta’a artlvlos, sketches and stories on all phases of Soviet life. It will be a rallying call to all American workers in support and defense of the U. S. S. R. Order a special bundle now! Send your greeting to the Soviet Union through the Daily Worker until Nov. 1. TOWARDS 15th ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION! NATIONALITIES ARE FREE IN THE U.S.S.R. UNDER WORKERS, FARMERS GOVERNMENT By CHAS. GARRIS The following article is extremely interesting, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution. It shows, especially to the doubly exploited and disfranchised Negro masses of the Black Belt how the Government of the Soviet- Union solved the national question and gave complete freedom to the nationalities formerly oppressed under Czarism. preieassammnia dtc Bae 1 deb todd eee old forms of éppression. The land that belonged to the landlords and priests was turned over to the peas- ants. Since the revolution many new industries connected with the numer- ous raw materials found in this dis- trict have been opened. A whole net- work of schools, universities and scientific institutions have been es- tablished throughout the entire re- gion. While before the revolution there were all told only 14 schools, now there are 230 elementary’schools and 43 high schools, the total number of students in these schools amount- ing to 49,000, All of the students are the children of workers and collec- tive farmers (97 per cent of the peas- antry in this republic being in col- lective farms). In addition there are a whole series of high educational institutions where teachers, special- ists, technicians and scientists are being trained in order to meet the demands of the Republic. The End of Illiteracy. The policy of the Soviet govern- ment is to entirely root the nation- alities in the Soviet government ap- paratus and local industries and to secure the leadership in their hands. So far this has not been entirely realized, due to the backwardness of the nationalities of this Republic arising from the terrible oppression under the czar. The class struggle in this sphere has been and continues to be very bitter, The counter revo- lutionary elements spread various ru- mors in order to influence and frighten the masses from doing away with their backwardness. Some of the rumors that were cir- culated were as follows. If the Ka- berdeens and Balkars were to send their children to school then they would lose them, for the Bolsheviks intended to make soap of them, or that they would be sent to China, ete. The resistance of the class enemy however, was not limited only to this. Teachers were at times attacked and some even killed. Despite all this increasing numbers of Kabardeens and Balkars are eagerly availing themselves of the opportunities to raise their education and do away with the backardness, that dark heri- tage of Czarism, Showing the Way to U. S. Negro. By the fifteenth anniversary.of the October Revolution there will be no illiterates in this Kabardeen-Balkar Autonomous Republic. At the begin- ning of the second Five-Year Plan the seven year grade of compulsory education will be completely estab- lished, and by the end of the sec- ond Five-Year Plan the nine years of compulsory school will be fully realized. ‘The second Five-Year Plan will also mark a tremendous increase in industry and compiete mechanization of agriculture, The toiling masses of this republic are marching shoulder to shoulder with the toiling masses of the whole Soviet Union in the building of socialism. Thus while in the capitalist world the exploitation and oppression of the colonial and national minorities are becoming sharper, in the Soviet Umion the living and cultural con- ditions of the toiling masses that prior to the October Revolution con- stituted the colonies of czarism, im- prove and reach ever higher levels, The jim-crowed, segregated and lynched Negro masses in the United States can see in this republic how the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has solved the national ques- tion. This can be taken as an ex- ample of how the Communist Party of the United States which is or- ganizing the Negro and white masses for common struggle against the boss class, is also fighting for a sim- ilar solution of the national ques- tion as applying to the Negro masses, that is equal rights for Negroes and selfdetermination for the Negro masses, in the Black Belt, 4 Regal Doll Co. factory was sent to the lies spread by the it only too well. Mr. Friedman say: | Worker Correspondence Why, if a poor sucker ever tries to make that much, . day and night, and not take any lunch hour, and then . “Mr, Friedman has got one rotten nerve when makes $5 a week is incompetent and inexperienced. egal Doll Worker Tell Why They Are on Stri TRENTON, N. J.—The following letter from a doll worker in the | is going on throughout the whole Conditions of Toiling Masses in Kabardeen - Balkar Autonomous Republic Under Conditions Shows Tremendous Gains han Eta te roa ¢ |EXPOSES CHAIN GANG TORTURES ‘Negroes Sold for $10, Says Author (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to investigate conditions in the prison camps and among the share-crop- pers in order to gather material for his book. Though written in fiction form, “Georgia Nigger” is based on fact, and is illustrated with official documents and actual protographs of tortures taken by the author. It is a smashing indictement of the ruling class penal system, especially the ter- ror against the Negro masses, “A big proportion of the Negroes in the South are naturally worse off today than in the days of slavery,” Spivak said. Before the Civil War it was easy for a slaveowner to buy a husky Negro for from $1,500 to $2,000. Today he can be bought legally for $10. This is how it works: “A Negro will get picked up by the sheriff for some slight offense or for no offense at all—in other words through legalized kidnapping. He is found guilty and sentenced to either a fine of $25 or six months on the chain gang. Of course he is unable to pay. Through agreement with the court, a white planter steps in and offers to pay the fine if the Negro will work it off. The Negro starts working it off, but the white planter keeps the books and charges the Ne- gro from 18 to 72 per cent interest on the advance, according to govern- ment statistics. Many Negroes spend years trying to pay off the debt. If he leaves before, it’s the chain gang for him, for George Cracker law pro- vides that if he leaves before his ad- vance is marked off he is guilty of “being a common cheat and swindler” and may be sent to the chain gang. Thus, with the threat of the chain gang and the debtors’ law hanging over him, the’Negro is kept in a state of serfdom. Today, nearly 70 years after Lincoln issued his Proclamation Emancipation, there is no emancipa- tion for a large proportion of the southern Negroes.” “My book,” Spivak continued, “is chain gang, but of the peonage sys- tem in effect in one-fifth of the | torture of the Negroes is made pos- white ‘crackers’ in control of the South—all within an overnight ride from the capitol at Washington, Brutal Tortures “The chain gang is undoubtedly one of the most dreadful things in the world. The gangs are operated by brutal, often illiterate crackers, who believe in ‘keeping the nigger in his place’ I have seen men chained by the neck’ with iron collars like an- cient Roman galley slaves. I have seen them with 20-pound spikes riv- eted round their legs, spikes which interfere with their sléep and rub against the ankles, causing what is known as ‘shackle poison.’ I have seen men hung from stocks till they were unconscious, and 16 and 17-year old boys trussed up like pigs for the slaughter and left in the broiling sun, I have seen men broken on the wheel as they were broken in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, a punishment inflicted for the slight- est offense.” “What are the living conditions of the chain gang prisoners?” Spivak was asked. “They live in cages like wild beasts amidst the most horrible filth,” he replied. “Disease is rampant. They work from sunup to sundown and go to bed by torchlight, sleeping on ver- min-ridden fifthy bunks. Peculiar Deaths” “I have seen records showing ‘pecu- liar deaths’ of Negro prisoners and read heartbreaking letters, pleading for help and mercy. The whole sys- tem is one of the vilest imaginable and can be enforced only by a ruling class which has deliberately distorted its own tegal guarantees. All this is going on with the full knowledge of Governor R. B. Russell of Georgia | tivit; and the Prison Commission in viola- tion of both the Georgia Constitution and the U. S. Constitution, whose Eighth Amendment forbids ‘cruel and unusual punishment.” But the fact is that if the chain gang system did not fill a ruling class need, it would have been abolished long ago. It but a means to keep both the Ne- groes and poor whites in bondage. And Georgia is representative of what the Trenton “Times” in answer to | Black Belt. boss, Mr. Friedman, in that newspay about the Present strike. (So far the Trenton “Times” has not printed the letter.) “Mr, Editor, let me tell you everything that the Communists are fight- ing fer is the absolute truth, and Mr. Friedman of the Regal Doll knows a man can make as high as $4.50. he She gets maybe cents an hour. The hours run in two shifts. One shift starts at 6 in the morning and works till two in the afternoon, with no lunch hour, hours, and you know even a dog will get hungry. thing they raise\the roof, and “Some of state Papers To show you they're wrong, we have a person, Alice, an ex-operator, who Was promoted to glory over the poor operators, Rates were made by her. If you made too much, working like cuts the price to suit taste. “This letter is written Es a fool to make a little money, she a Regal Doll workers who worked there for the last two seasons and only received $6, at the mogt, ¢ \sek,” Asked concerning the general living conditions of the illiterate Negro masses in the Black Belt, Spivak de- clared that they are only slightly higher than those of a Chinese coolie. “They are kept illiterate and con- sidered as beasts of burden to be used by the white masters for their own profits. The whole of southern civilization rests on the back of the Negro.” Boss Press Suppresses Facts Spivak said that he had presented in his book not extreme cases, but shift works | the average, because “the extreme cases would sicken people and would much work as any factory, and they are | not, be believed.” The book is being that piece work rates are made by a New Yorker. widely reviewed, he said, but the facts it contains about the tortures In the south ine “Georgia Nigger" is being U. S. Justice | ‘The white and Negro reformists | Cardoza Has -Class Record Anti-Working: Shows Need for Intensifying the Mass Fight For the Scottsboro Boys by the laws then in existence agai Call for Auto Workers Anti- Wage Cut Conference, Detroit | Auto Workers Union Urges Anti-Wage Cut | Committees in All Departments | DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 18—A cail for united action against wage-cuts jand for jobs and relief was issued by the Auto Workers’ Union and’ dis- | tributed among the auto workers and the 500 delegates present’ at the | who are frantically striving to dis-|the working class, was clearly evi- conference called by the not only an expose of the Georgia United States. The chain gang is being used as a whip to keep the Negro in. peonage; it therefore has a social meaning beyond the question of brutality. And this swindling and sible by the legal trickery of the rupt the mass fight for the freedom | of the Scottsboro boys are finding it impossible completely to hide from the working class the anti-working class, anti-Negro role of the United States Supreme Court. In view of this record, the reformists are exper- iencing great difficulty in their tr torous attempts to convince Negro and white workers that this highest court of American canitalism can be depended upon to be “utterly fair” and “impartial” in cases involving the rights of workers and of the bitterly | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo One of the re- puted “great lib- erals” on the United States Supreme Court. Read his record in the accompa- nying article. oppressed Negro nationality. They are even forced to admit that among the nine old men on the Supreme Court are reactionaries and bitter en- emies of the working class and espe- cially of the Negro masses. They however, try to overcome the distr’ of the workers in the court by point- ing to the presence of several reputed great liberals among the justices of the court. Reputed “Great Liberal” Benjamin Nathan Cardoza is one of these reputed great liberals. This gentleman, as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals, in 1921 wrote the infamous decision in the case of the “People vs. “Defore,” a decision which practically upheld the police in an illegal search of the home of the defendant. Cardoza hypocritical- ly upbraided the police for securing evidence in this illegal manner, but permitted the use of the evidence so secured against the defendant. This despite the fact that the federal law specifically declares that evidence se- cured in this illegal manner cannot be used against a defendant. Car- doza in effect told the police that whether they had a legal search war- rant or not they could break into a worker's home and use whatever evi- only recourse he allowed the victim was a legal action against the police, which the defendant being in prison, could not bring. In 1921, Cardozo, as a justic: of} the New York Court of Appeals, con- curred in the vicious decision of Jus- tice Crane which struck a blow at the | political rights of the workers of New York City, denying them the right to vote for their own candidates and barring the Workers Leagu> candid- ate from the mayoralty ballot in the elections that year. This decision was reversed by the Appelate Division. The reversal was upheld by the Court of Appeals, in a decision written by Justice Crain and concurred in by Cardoza. The deci- sion clearly stretched the law to bar the candidate of the Workers League. ‘That the Court of Appeals realized denced by its recommendation to the very next legislature for the passage | Wednesday, October 12. The call says: of an ordinance barring nonrcitizens or those whose citizenship had been revoked from running for office. Enemy of Toilers These two decisions graphically ex- pose Cardozo’s role as an enemy of the working class and a staunch de- fender of the robber “rights” and murderous dictatorship of the Amer- ican ruling class, The white and Negro workers fight-| ing for the freedom of the innocent Scottsboro Boys can have no illusions in the “impartiality” of the bosses’ Supreme Court! We must intensify a thousand-fold the mass fight to smash the hideous lynch verdicts and free these working class victims of capitalist justice! AUSTRIAN MINERS HAIL MRS. WRIGHT Socialist Workers Join Fight LEOBEN, Austria—One thousand coal miners and their families, in this citadel of Austria's rapacious coal monopoly, turned out to greet the Scottsboro Negro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright. They protested militantly the death sentences against the Scotts- boro children, and elected a broad Scottsboro committee of social-demo- cratic and Communist workers to carry through their Oct. 10 cam- paign. Gendarmes with fixed bayonets, who had searched all workers en- tering the meeting hall for arms, stood about the meeting hall, rein- forced by police. Gendarmes and police followed the workers demon- strating through the streets after the meeting. The Scottsboro Negro Mother and J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary of the American Section of the In- ternational Red Aid, brought to the Leoben coal miners the greetings of the coal miners of the Charleroi area in Belgium and the Klodno field in Czechoslovakia. Sixty-five new mem- bers joined the International Red id. dence they find against him. The} aiq. Many workers came to the Leoben Scottsboro demonstration from Dona- wetz, a bankrupt municipality, under social-democratic control, where workers are facing the worst miser- ies. In the effort to combat the growing discontent of the masses, the city provides 50 groschen (7 cents) weekly for the unemployed, but this is not enough to buy even a loaf of bread. TO FORM BASKETBALL LEAGUE IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 18—The Penn-Ohio District of the L. 8. U, is calling a conference of all Baskgtball teams in the City of Cleveland to organize an independent league. The conference will be held on Monday, Oct. 24th 8 p. m. at the that its decision was not supported Lithuanian Hall, 920 East 79th St. “Organize Wage Cut | partment! wagecut! |more suffering for our Make Ford take bac The Ford wage-cut mea: | means less the n of |life for o children. We made enough profits for Ford. We have been speed-up enough. Let us get | together and organize. No more “Hurry up” and “Let’s go.” We a told that the wage-cut wil give us steady work. On Wednesday, Octo- ber 5th, 9,000 more workers were laid off.” | The Aulo Workers Union calls upon the employed and unemployed Ford workers to give a decisive an- swer to the hunger and wage program of Henry Ford. The 0 Workers Union calls to the attenti of the auto workers that the dema of the Ford Hunger March are the only demands that will give relief if forced upon Ford. Ford workers in Dearborn, Ecor: Lincoln Park and Detroit are urged by the Auto Workers Union to build up mass Anti-Wage Cut Confer- ences, mass meetings of employed |and unemployed workers and demand that Ford takes back the wage cut, and that al unemployed and part time workers receive adequate relief. VOTE COMMUNIST Unemployment and Social surance at the expense of the state and employers. In- | accept t Unemployed Councils, and which met here’on » SLASH CLEVELAND ELECTIRCIAN PAY Broach Expels Them If They Kick x. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 20,—Or- | ganized electrical workers here have | had their wages cut from a straight | $1.50 an hour for all kinds of work to $1.37 1-2 an hour for new construc- ve work, $1.05 for improvement work nd 75 cents an hour for maintenance ‘The agreement, which will run until March 1, 1933, is actually a 50 per cent cut, because very little y work is being done and what work there is available is practically | all “repair work.” | Under the laws of the electrical workers union the members have to agreement whether they it or not. Any criticism of the | officials who negotiated this agree- ment will be met with explusion. | How completely the union leader- | ship is a part of the bosses’ set-up can be seen from the following state- ment by J. Wayne Hart, businesss | agent of the unjon, at the time the | wagecut agreement was made public. “It is the desire of the interntional | union,” Hart said, “to fit the union | into the economic conditions of the | We desire to stabilize and pro- industry in Cleve- ja his the electrical The first receipts of funds raised during the Tag Days indicates insuf- ficient efforts on the part of most districts to mobilize forces on Oct. 14, 15 and 16. Newark, with $37.50 and New Haven with $25, are the only districts from which money has been received so far. Reports from most of the other districts are not yet available; in New York, however, preparations for the Tag Days were not carrieq out with thoroughness, as indicated in the fact that collec- tion boxes were not even brought to Party units. The shortcomings of the districts, not only in failing to organize the Tag Days as efficiently as they should have been, but also in not reporting on the results of the Tag Days till now, leaves one other hope of raising funds for the “Daily” still untried. Tag Days in 3 Cities This is. the determination of. Chi- cago, Milwaukee and Buffalo, which postponed their Tag Days because of previous arrangements to organize more capable collections than were held in the other districts. Chicago will hold its collection on Nov. 8, Mil- waukee on Oct. 28 and 29, and Buf- falo on Oct. 23 and 24. In order to offset the uneven re- sponse in the financial campaign and Only $62.50 of Te Day Funds Received by “Daily” the Tag Days thus far, the Manage- ment Committee yesterday again stressed the importance of continuing to raise funds by other means. Greet- ings to the Daily Worker's Fifteenth Soviet Annivérsary edition from or- ganizations and individuals as a means of raising funds was particu- larly emphasized. Other ways were getting subscriptions, both for the Daily and Saturday editions; holding house parties and small affairs for the Daily’s benefit whenever possible; and getting ads for the “Daily” in all neighborhoods. Popularize “Daily” The spirit of the following letter, from a worker in Waterloo, Iowa, should set an example for similar ac- tivities in every city and town thru- out the country: “I would like to sell the Daily Worker in this city,” the Waterloo worker writes. “Comrade * who has been selling them until now, is now in jail, and therefore unable to do so any longer. Enclosed you will find payment for the first 25 and if satisfactory with you, con- tinue to send me 25 copies every day and I will remit money as I sell them. “You have a wonderful paper and I think I can make a success of it in this city. Keep up the good work.” By CLARENCE HATHAWAY During these two weeks we must mobilize our forces to intensify the election campaign through: 1) Local struggles, demonstrations, parades, marches of unemployed workers. 2) Struggles in the factor! a gainst wage cuts, against the wor- |sening of the conditions of the work- ers. | » relief. 4) Struggles of the farmers for| Struggles in the interest of the | Negro masses, particularly for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. In the course of these activities we must prepare the ground for the car- rying through of a successful march to Washington of the unemployed for relief and insurance, and of the veterans for the cash bonus, and for a big farmers delegation to the Washington relief conference. The rallying of all of the available forces has been begun by the Cen- ter. The Political Buro has decided to send every single comrade from the Center into the Districts to stay until the elections are over. These comrades have the task of helping the Districts in every phase of ac- ry In addition to the forces from the Center, a large group of comrades have been mobilized as agitators for the last two weeks of the campaign. Leading members of the Polit Bureau are ‘to be sent into the principal in- dustrial centers as speakers in this drive. The unions and other mass organ- izations likewise should send all of their forces into the Districts. Out of the offices,, into the field! must be the slogan of all supporters of the Communist election campaign from now on. ‘ ‘The Districts likewise should throw all of their leading forces into the sections and the neighborhoods rally- ing the workers for the support of the Communist platform and can- didates, To mobilize the widest possible masses for activity and to carry out our tasks the following suggestions should be considered by the Districts: 1) Every headquarters of the vari- ous sympathetic organizations should be opened up as campaign head- quarters with large banners and signs outside of the building. 2) In small towns where we have no headquarters a hall shall be rent- ed for this period. 3) These headquarters should be the centers for all activities in the neighborhoods where all Party mem- bers, and sympathizers are gathered and ‘assigned to concrete tasks. 4) The Party members and the sympathizers should go out daily for house to house agitation and conti- nuously bring in new members to the daily meetings in these centers. At these meetings the candidates of the Party and the best agitators .|should speak to the workers, recruit- ing the best elements for the Part 5) Each Party member and sym- athizer should utilize the election issues. to get connections in the fac- tories, agitating among them to come to the meetings in these headquar- ters. 6) Each Party member and sym- pathizer should place the election campaign posters in the windows of their houses. 7) The headquarters should al- ways have plenty of literature and application cards. 8) The active workers asked to join the Party, shall be The ap- at every meeting. pencils, application car ways be on hand. 9) The street and shop gate m platforms with signs ture; in big cities, a loud. sp mobile—if pos: records, gate meeting. 11) Bef here it is impossible s, it is advisable to p le during the time when the wo! in and out, and during h trucks, automobiles, poste: signs, having the concrete demands of the specific factory on them, in addition to the broader demands. 12) Shop leafiets, shop papers should be issued in this period. 13) We have to organize language meetings in the territories of the foreign-born workers. “VOTE RED NG OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, OFFICIAL 1932 CAMPAIGN SONG tN usicyby James Clare = = All work-ers and farm - ers vole red! vote a__4 red! [t's SS eS class gainst class well re-mem-ber Jo strike at the boss- es wh SSS [Sa SS a ~——+¥- * lake , our, bread, Uell vote bd Chorus in WMo- Jos - ter and Jord b = TESS cern Taek = can- de-dates we'will fight (ve will cs “fight) Prom coast fo coast we will b A net Seal ene rue fight as one, Jill plague | <a 3 won, VERSE 2 de stand for workers' and farmers relic, Dor an end to all starvation, We stand for the Wegro's Against all exploitation. equal rights VERSES The Communist Party Gainst the wars of, the’ She Sonuet Un erotect will « be cur ruling classes ton well always, defend, . the Chinese Masses. PREPARED BY THE WORKERS MUSIC] LEAGUE _ WUSIC SECTION OF_PME WORKERS” CUNTURAL PRDERATION =~ 63 WEIT 13 STREET NEW _VORK cry.) On the Last Lap of the Election Campaign 14) Cafl on each sympathizer an. Party member who have cars asking them to give their services to the campaign during this period. Ask them to be ready with their cars to rush the necessary forces from one eting to another. Put signs on all cars, Demonstrations should be or- ized before the houses of the italist candidates and politicians supporting one of the three parties of the bourgeoisie, | 16) Local actions for relief should be organized and led by the Party | units through the block committees. The Communist candidates must play a leading role in these actions. 17) “Hoover, Roosevelt, Thomas are against the bonus. Only the Communist Party fights for it.. Vet- erans, Vote Communist!” should be the keynote while talking to veter- ans. 18) It would be advisable to or- ganize in the farming districts one Red Sunday during this time. Party units and sympathizers from the city should go out and agitate among the farmers on these Sundays, also pre- paring the farmers’ relief conference. 19) Watchers should be organized for every voting booth. 20) RECRUITING AT EVERY MEETING DURING THIS PERIOD! The cit'es must be flooded with | our agitational material. Paint the walls and sidewalks near to the factories, in the proletarian neighborhood, in the business sec- tion. Put stickers in the factories, leaf- lets, posters, everywhere—on the street cars, railroad cars, automobiles, Organize groups of ten or twelve workers, young and adult, shouting slogans in the workers’ neighbors hoods, in the yards of tenement houses, making short speeches, dise tributing leaflets and other literae ture. We have to work out various methe ods of penetrating the small come pany towns with literature, speakers, posters. We have to collect money for the campaign. The workers must feel that this is their campaign, that the Party is their Party, that everyone has to support it. Don’t be ashamed to ask for money. The Party needs it, and the Party will not get it from anyone but the workers. At the meetings with the sympa- thizers we will get hundreds of good suggestions on how to agitate, Use it all! If we carry out this work during this short period with Bol- shevik enthusiasm and energy we will succeed in our task of rallying tens of thousands of workers for the Com- munist platform and candidates,