The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1933, Page 2

i } “ference Board two months ago. | Gov't Rep ort Showing ~ Overproduction Belies Rookevelt’s Speeches Textile and Auto Industry Stil 1 Face Basic Problem of Markets as Goods Pile Up; War By MILTON (ROM the rich comfort of his luxu Preparations Support Steel Mills HOWARD rious country estate at Hyde Park, Roosevelt has issued his opinion that the long nightmare of the economic crisis is over. “It is true,” he said, “that we ar the purchasing power of the average American citizen, and that the down- has definite hill drift of Ameri turned and become an upward surg of America It is unfor for Roosevelt his bland opinion abo! ne rge” out of the coincides he publ August bullet: Serve Board o Here we get some o And i is not a pic cheap ballyhoo - bu ture of “upsurge” that we get, a picture of a y artificially, stimulated “boom no basis in any real in the crisis, a “boom’ already be- ginning to cra lack of real economic suppo In the first place, osevelt did not disclose to his cou: hbors that the so-called urge” out’ of the crisis has been based upon in- creased activity in only three indus- tries; steel. textiles and auto. Basic industries like oil, building construc- tion, coal, railroad equipment,, etc., have not shown response to the Pressure of the Roosevelt inflation steam. And, as for steel, textiles and auto, we shall see in a moment tliat even in these industries, the basic discase of the crisis, “overpro- duction,” breaking through all the official optimism of the White House. Even the most amateurish of eco- nomic students (except Roosevelt) knows that the steel industry cannot show any permanent rovement without substantial buying from the building construction and railroad | industries. And thus far, these two basic consumers of steel not shown any increased activi hat- ever in the steel market. On the contrary, they steel than ever. Says the very latest report of the Federal serve Board. issued Au- gust 25, “Demand for steel from the railroad and uilding construction industries remains at a low level. ... Of the increase in steel, the larger part has reflected growth in orders from miscellaneous industries, and from the automobile indust: rather than from big consumers, such as railroads and the construction in- dustry.” So it is clear that steel industry, | which should rest on the three sup- ports of auto, railroad and building | fonstruction, is precariously resting on only one support, auto. No won-/ der it is beginning to totter. | Roosevelt and his publicity agents Blow with delight, at the “prosperity” in the textile industry. What does the Federal Reserve report say? } “Activity in some industries, in-| ~, eluding textiles, shoes and cigarettes, | has proceeded at such a rapid pace in the second quarter of the year as to | indicate accumulation of stock in an- ticipation of demand.” | In anticipation of demand. This lets the cat out of the bag. In tex-| tiles, the fundamental capitalist dis- ease of the crisis—overproduction—is getting worse, not better. And what was the cause of this feverish increase in production @f; extiles for which, even the govern- ment officials admit that there is mo market in sight? Was it increase | ..in buying power of the workers? Not | at all. The Federal Reserve report | gives the answer, “The rapid increase in activity | was due in part to anticipation of | further advances in commodity | prices and in part to the effects of impending developments under the ace buying now less mew codes... .” So the government experts are} fully aware that the increased activ- ity in textiles was based for the most | part, not on increased consumer de- | Mand, but on fears of inflation, | And what about the workers in all this? Yes, in certain industries there was an increase in production of about 60 per cent. But the Reserve report admits: “Employment has expended at a much slower rate than produc- And the statistics in the American Federation of Labor organ, “The Federationist,” showing increases of employment of not more than 1 per vent confirm this to the hilt. The Federal Reserve report issued | _ om the day Roosevelt uttered hts pollyanna opinions, reported that at Teast 11,000,000 workers still remain without jobs. And this is the most reactionary estimate available. There | is no dofibt that the army of the unemployed is still right close to the maximum figure of 17,000,000 admit- _ ted by the National Industrial Con- 8 E have seen that the automobile industry has been one of the _ Mainstays of the recent steel boom. - But is there any real basis for in- creased auto production? The fig- ures show that there is not. There "was an increase of 33 per cent in auto aiid in the last few months, ly bringing the auto production! e definitely succeeding in increasing to the 1931 level. ‘But what about consumption? The latest ‘figures on the retail buying o hat overpro- duction is incre auto in- d y as well extile in- The following fi es are of reatest significance: Since March, the first month of the New Deal, to June, the last month yailable, 253,283 autos were reg- tered for retail financing, compared 241,985 for the same period last year. In other words, while auto pro- duction increased 35 per cent, retail consumption of cars increased only 5 per cent. Excess supplies of autos are piling up with no one to buy them. Ityis no wonder then, that the Fed- eral Reserve reports that “a slight decline is beginning to be observed in auto production.” It is no wonder that the “Iron Age,” leading steel ma- gazine reports in its latest issue that “Seasonal reaction in steel demand is t noticeable in the auto industry, h current purchases virtually com- pleted...” Such is the flimsy char- acter of one of the main supports of the recent steel “boom.” Present textile and auto production are, thus, obviously based on a rotten foundation—on inflationary fears of higher prices, not on real consumer demand by the workers who are too poor to buy. m wi) te ND now we come to that phase of the steel “boom” that Roosevelt was altogether silent about—war pre- parations, building of battleships. Where is all the steel going to? It is not going into construction of houses or buildings, since the latest figures show that building operations are at practically the low point of the four- year crisis. Nevertheless, the news- papers featured prominently the news that the fndex for building construc- tion has at last shown some improve- ment. A close examination of the re- Port shows that the improvement has nos even touched residential and commercial building, which continue their decline, but has been confined largely to “public works.” But what is the character of these public works? Here is the answer given in an item from yesterday's paper: ‘ “The Navy Department award2d two contracts for the construction of two 20,000 ton aircraft carriers and two 10,000 ton light cruisers . . . The complete cost of the four ships will be $61,350,000...” So this is the character of the “public works” which is responsible for the recent slight upturn in build- ing construction! War preparations! That is what is behind a good part of the “boom” in steel production in which Roose- velt sees the end of the crisis! In addition to the silence about this war basis for the advance in steel production, Roosevelt was altogether silent about other significant develop- ments in the crisis. He did not men- tion, for example, that the report of the National Industrial Conference Board last week shows the sharp ad- vance of 4 points in the cost-of-living index, Roosevelt did not mention that | while light advances in the wages are taking place in a few factories (and on the basis of murderous speed-up, at that), except in those prices of everyday necessities, such as bread, milk, eggs, etc, are shooting upward for the whoie working class as a re- sult of the Roosevelt price-raising program. In his hypocritical optimism, Roose- velt chose to disregard all these facts. But a leading capitalist economist, Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, writes in the latest bulletin of the Cleveland Trust Company of Ohio: “It is apparent that the increases of industrial production have been running ahead of the advances of the purchasing power of the factory workers, Probably, they will con- tinue to do so, so long as the fear of inflation impels people to buy goods they do not need before their dollars evaporate further.” ntered.hlme--hiherOvy etaoi shrdl dl Here we have the real situation. Production based on nothing but in- flation fears and war preparation. The living standards’ of the workers driven down even further by cheapen- ing of the dollar and rising prices. Deeper entanglement of the capital- ist contradiction of “oyerproduction” side by side with starvation and suf- fering of the workers. Behind the feverish boom of in- flationary spurts in production, it is already beginning to become clear even to the capitalist economic ex- perts themselves that the Roosevelt program has so far not only failed to solve any of the problems of the crisis, but has, through artificially stimulated production, laid the basis for an even more devastating crash than has yet been seen. Go to see every subsoriber when his subscription expires to get his re- newal. DOWNTOWN All Comrades Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices 54 kK, 13TH 8T., WORKERS’ CENTER. ERRNO elceceerettiahentacsiecetlntatendicedendia “|NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA . ¢: TOmpkins Square 6-9554 | John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY—ITALIAN DISHES | A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet New York Meet st the ——————__ JADE MOUNTAIN |4 American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 18 Welcome to Our Comrades ————_— ___.____ City Events | Attention Dressmakers All dressmakers, members of the Communist Party! An im- portant general Party fraction of all dressmakers, members of the Communist Party will be held | Monday night, 8 p. m. sharp at | the Workers Center, 50 E. 13th | Street. | "Every Party member, must not fail to attend this meeting and to brng his Party book for iden- tification. Unemployed Conference | A conference of all workers’ or- ganizations on the East Side will held Tuesday, August 29, at 30 p. m. at the East Side Work- | ers’ Club, 165 E. Broadway. Every | organization should send delegates be to this conference to force the |Home Relief Bureau at Spring jand Elizabeth to give quick relief |to the needy. Harlem Fall Festival | | The Harlem Progressive Youth | Club, 1538 Madison Ave. will open its season with a Fall Festival, | Entertainment and Ball, to take place September 16. Workers are jurged to make it a successful affair. Discrimination by MedicalCommission ‘Charged by Doctors | CHICAGO, Ul.—Dr. Morris Fish- bein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and D. J. A. Kenney, editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association at a meeting here of the National Medical Association charged that the Commission on Cost of Medical Care, set up by President Hoover had completely disregarded the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States in their in- vestigation. The Commission was compose of 48 members and worked for five years and had nearly a mil- lion dollars at its disposal. The net result of this effort was a complete whitewash of the vicious | discrimination in medical attention for the Negro masses. It was pointed out that despite the fact that the Negro popula- ton is 10 per cent of the total in the United States, not a single Negro served on the Commission. Dr. Kinney asked, “Why did they not consider 12,000,000 of the most needy, the most depend- ent, the most neglected citizens of this republic?” No answer to this question was attempted by the Medical Association, Error Pointed Out in ‘Daily’s’ Story on Terzani Defense The statement of the I. L. D. rep- resentatives to the Terzani United Front Committee in Friady’s Daily Worker carried the following head- line: “I. L. D. Answers Socialist Party Attempt To Weaken Terzani Defense.” The statement was intended to set forth the position of the Inter- national Labor Defense of the ques- tion of the exclusion of the Commun- ist Party from the Defense Com- mittee. The exclusion was made on the grounds that the Communist Party was already represented on the committee in the persons of the I. L. D. delegates, which is not true. The heading on the statement, however, is incorrect when it de- clares that the exclusion of the Communist Party was moved by the Socialist Party representatives, As a matter of fact, the decision of the Terzani Defense Committee not to invite the Communist Party ~ was made in the absence of representa- tives from the Socialist Party. However, it must, in all fairness, be pointed out that in a later meet- ing of the Defense Committee, when the delegates of the Socialist Party were present, the same motion to in- vite the Communist Party was again lost, with the Socialist Party repre- sentatives voting against it. ame | | | | | 1} | | | | | Gutters of New York | | A portrait of Samuel Untermeyer, lawyer, who parade as a fighter against Tammany, but who, in reality, is on lof the most important members of the Tammany Board 3 eC j of Strategy. Boss Curry likes Sam. That speaks worlds, | ‘Negro Tenant Farmer | Beaten to Death | | by Gang | BENTON, Ala., Aug. 27. — A! | soaked doubled line was used to | beat to death Joe Soles, also known }as Joe Buck, a Negro renter here, 'by a lynchgang August 9, it was | | learned today. | ‘The murder was committed by an organized gang of landlords which operates in the cotton country | around here, and which is known to} have taken ten Negro men and | three Negro women this year to, their “whipping post” in the woods, | and beaten them, ! |. The ceroppers and renters here) have appealed to the International Labor Defense to expose this gang Soles was accused of stealing a cow which strayed to his place three years ago, by his landlord who wanted to cancel his lease, Aug. 8, he was ordered to go to the home of Edward Mealings, a white landlord. August 9 he went there, and was taken by Mealings and Archie Bry- ant, another member of the gang to the “whipping place.” After the beating Soles was taken | to Dr. H. C. Clements of Benton, os he died. No inquest was eld. Plans to Build ‘Daily’ in Millinery Market NEW YORK.—Sam_ Greenberg, | |a@ member of the Daily Worker Vol- | unteers, has pledged to spread the circulation of the ’ Daily Worker “* among the mil- eS linery workers. | [He has thus ~ far collected $5.30 ‘for the Daily ~ Worker sustain- % ing fund, and regularly orders bundles of the paper to sell in the millinery market. Workers active in other trades and industries in the metropolitan area are urged to follow the ex- ample of Greenberg, by ordering bundles regularly for widespread sale among their fellow workers, | Sam Greenberg Lynchings and B:"ets Continue Terrorism Bullets Riddle Negro- Owned Store in ATUR, Ala. Aug. 27.—New terroristic attacks upon the Negro population here were discovered to- day when it was learned that sev- eral shots were fired into the Mag- nolia Drug Store, operated by Negro, and into the Boston candy kitchen Tuesday night. The attacks followed the lynch- ing of James Royal, Negro boy, last Monday, the arrest of Thomas Brown on framed charges of “rape,” the same day, and three successive attempts to lynch him. This reign of terror, following closely upon the recent lynchings in Tuscaloosa, are regarded as pre- parations made by the authorities here for the lynching of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, whom Judge James E. Horton has ordered to a third lynch-trial here in Oc- tober. ‘i Four shots were fired into thd drug-store, operated by A. O. Sheff and a single shot was fired through the window of the candy store. All were 38 caliber bullets. Frank Brawley, Otis Webb and James Eddie, Negroes who were | with Royal when he was murdered, and narrowly escaped the same fate, were held for the Grand Jury which is to meet Monday to railroad in- dictments against Brown and “in- vestigate” the lynching of Royal, and released in $100 bond. to Force C.P. Mayor Candidate off Ballo CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The Elec- tion Board is attempting to rule the Communist Mayoralty candidate, I. O. Ford, off the ballot here by declaring 3,000, of the 5,000 signa- tures collected, to be invalid. The law requires 3,000 signatures before the candidate can be placed on the ballot. Sept. 2 is the final: date .for re- gistration of candidates and the Communist Party here is mobilizing its membership and sympathetic or- ganizations in a whirlwind cam- paign to get 5,000 signatures on that date, | | three different po’ ‘Scab Steamer to Be ‘Met in New York by ‘Seamen andDockers 'Call on Marine Men to Come to Union Headquarters | NEW YORK.—The S. S, Diamond | Cement, manned by a scab crew, is reported bound for New York where she will endeavor to discharge her cargo. The Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union is preparing to take | immediate action against the ship. |m call has been issued for all sea- | men, longshoremen and other work- ers to unite and continue the fight that has gone on for over a wock in ership of the M. W. I. U., | off this ship a week ago in Balti- more demanding a $10 increase in wages, better food and recog of the ship’s committee. Since then 2 captain has hired three differ-nt -all. of whom deserted the when they learned of the Ten Negro seamen, who shanghaied aboard in the | middle of night in Baltimore walked off the ship when it arrived in Phil- adelphia. The reaching ip was delayed five da. Philadelphia and on he jerrival there, in addition to the |desertion of the crev, she was |ereeted with a picket line organized {bythe M. W. I. As a result of | the strike the wages on this ship | have been raised, many of the c | ditions improved |mand now is the removal |scab crew. _ |__A statement issued by the Marine | Workers Industrial Union points out that the strike on the Diamond | Cement has become the first blow | 2gail st low wages, rotten conditions. |__ No cargo must be handled in New | York until the scabs are removed, jand the demands granted. Militant picketing of the ship and shipping | agencies must be organized. Ajl seamen, longshoremen, and | other workers, ready to actively sup- port the strike, are urged to report! | at the M. W. I. U. headquarters, 140 | Broad Street at 10 a. m. sharp Mon- |day morning for important worl. |_ The strike on the S. S. Cornore in | Baltimore continues. At a meeting a |attended by practically every unem- ; ployed seaman in Baltimore deci- jsions were unanimously made to boycott a shipping shark named Lar- sen who dared to try and ship a crew for the Cornore after the strike call Was out. In Norfolk I. L. A. longshoremen have pledged to give all support to the strike if the vessel calls at that port. General Strike _ of Silk Workers _ Set for Thursday | ;Sentiment Against | Bosses’ Code Forces Call PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 27.— The General Executive Board of the American Federation of Silk Workers voted this afternoon to | endorse the call for a strike issued by the Associated Silk Workers, | | and to urge its affiliated unions to | join in the strike. | The strike, | national in scope if this vote is | carried out, is scheduled to start | this Thursday. The strike call was jissued after weeks of pressure |from the workers’ ranks, where sentiment for a stike in opposi- | tion to the conditions imposed by the cotton code, under which the silk mills have so far been work- ing, and against the proposed silk code, has been strong. The workers’ demands include a minimum wage of $36 a week. From Pawtucket, R. I., also came |news that the silk workers there would join the general silk strike. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” send in your suggestions and criticism! Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” The entire crew, under the lead- | walked | nition | and the main de- | of the} which will now be) nt URES OR EERE INL RE MELO NETO TETAS: { | The Victory Cry of the Bull Ape = a) By EDWARD NEWHOUSE val I sat in the press box at the Polo Grounds Saturday and | watched Carl Hubbell mow them down for nine innings and lt thought I had enough baseball for the day. Fellow scribes | were pounding out leads for early editions and indulging in | bits of esotcrica. Somebody was laying three to one Matty 'Cidn’t have two extra nipples on his chest as the little guy from some Pittsburgh sheet asserted. Clark was being an- nounced for the second game. i eee od up and wandered around’ Sid to the slumping man, 0 ti | | breache: In the second in- + ning the Pira began pecking |80ns out. ; away at Clark end a Teather duriged'| Tarzan rose to his full height, somebody in the upper reect cupped his hands and vented the wh oped a “Take him out!” a piercing, weirdly drawn out victory each ball. People looked at him and|Cty cf the bull ape. All the bleach- cmiled, Encouraged, he stood up! ers and a lot of the grandstand |and began a running fire of com-|looked our way. Some people stood | mentary. | Ub: A lot of them laughed, I > eaiq 9 | laughed. | “Clark swiped his gi:l,”. said a) ¥shed. | peanut aa | Luque pitched to a pinch-hitter, o 5 i | Finney, who lashed one into the left- . cog on- | ” said the +i field stands. Tarzan took his jacket, made his way through the aisle and walked through the exit. I didn't see him again that day. Standing of the Clubs AMERICAN LEAGUE s5 at them a u Vila Parmelee in it him cut, o'd boy,” ho! anting dig ‘wait him ch boy, oh bey. . | I walked up and sat next to him. | * t ellow W Club W.L.PC. Club WL. PS. See eee ten eee ecth| weaning. Mi si ei] perce Wa bi aba neck and a week's grow A OF beard. New York 71 49 .586| Chicago 58 66 488 “Wait for a fast one,” he in-/ Cleveland 65 62 :512| Boston 53 71.423, | structed Picinich. “That guy ain’t| Philadel. 60 61 .496) St. Louis 45 81 .851 | got enough stuff to fill a pin cushion, ! | Take him out, Terry.” It was a hot day and a double- | Second games of doubleheaders not in. ahs eee NATIONAL LEAGUE Se Club W.L.P.C., Club. WL Pc. |heade: and people drooped. ‘They New York 71 45 .612| Pittsburgh 63 56 .520 smiled alright, but Red Neck was. Boston 68 53 .562| Philadel. 50 68 .424 | y issacistied witt - | Chicago 67 55 .049| Brooklyn 49 68 .418 |Palpably dissavistied with the re- | siapouis 65 67.093! Cincinnatt 46 77 .374 | sponse. Nobody challenged him eA Second games of doubleheaders not in. there wasn’t the usual shout . . | * . | Tepertee. A youngish man sat on INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE my leit and when our eyes met after club W.L. PC. Club wW.L Po. an exceptionally well-executed bel-) Newark . t ov ree G z uy GE " lyn wi Rochest 4 a | low = "GO back: to Brooklyn Where) aeecere, fe OF oie | Mocteeal, (68-46 07s you belong’—he said, “That's Tar-| pimalo 73 78 494! JerseyClty 55 91.376 zan. He carries on like that a] second games of doubleheaders not in. | couple of times each week. Don't POET Em TE |know what keeps him going. We! AMERICAN LEAGUE (First game) R.H.E. Washington ...300 054 020—14 13 0 Cleveland .....000 000 100-1 9 9 Whitehill and Sewell; Harder **~ ;call him Tarzan because every time| 'a Giant pitcher is taken out he lets jgo with the victory ery of the bull }ape. If Clark don’t last you'll hear him.“ lin, Bean and Spencer. The man didn’t falter. After each | (First game) wd | pitched ball his derisive comment |Philadelphia ...000 100 011-3 8 1 Chicago .000 030 02x— 5 9 0 rang out. Some of his stuff was sigh 4 pretty good. But when Clark rang Son gees and Cochrane; .Meving up his only strikeout of the day Tar- ae fe ye) n slumped down in his seat and New York 010 000 002-- 3 4 0 red at his score card. Occasion- 410 0 ally he turned to me to ask what was ace rel Meer ane Dic- jsoing ae key; Bridges and Hayworth, Pasek. | Once he grunted, “You think I'm/ (First game) jerary, huh?” Boston 04 000 201-7 17 1 | “Not at-all,” = said. St. Louis -010 011 101— 5 12 1 Kline, Welch and Ferrell; Hadley, ' ; During the fifth inning he denied Herbert’ and Hemsley. he came to ball games more than once a week. “Remember, my mother gives me only $5 a week to jlive on, and it’s hard to make ends meet. First time I'd been out of a job since I was fifteen. I don’t miss NATIONAL LEAGUE (First game) St. Louis New York R.H.E. -200 200 021— 712 1 -000 010 000— 1 6 5 doubleheaders, though. You do! , Dean and. Wilson; ‘Schumacher; gras is Sighs aA cobs First game) “No.” Cincinnati -000 000 000-0 4 0 “I may be crazy,” he said, “I feel| Boston..... 004 000 201-7 17 1 “He's pitching to Traynor, What | have you got against the Gians?” “Nothing, just against their pitch- ers.” “Why the pitchers?” “Too good. They're too damn good. They got everything their own INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RHE ,| Jersey City (1st) 200 000 000—2 8-0 Newark 000 012 00x—3 5 1 Cascarella and Rensa; Broaca and Hargreaves. HRE Way. | Ever see a screwball like HUD | y¢onireal (1st) ...000 008 001-4 8 0 bell’s? - 000 000 001—1 41 No, I said, I had not. I didn’t ith and Grabowski; know what to make of the fellow. He may have been kidding me, but | Gould and Crouse. HRE I doubt it. He sketched nervously | Toronto (ist) 010 200— 9 120 en his scoreboard. Several of the| Rochester 600 000 05x—11 15 0 illustrations were of pitching stances Frazier, Marrow and _ Heving; and deliveries. - Mcafee, Smith and Florence. In the sixth Clark issued a couple HRE of singles and Terry jerked him.| Albany (1st) .,..011 000 001—3 8 0 Clark took off his cap and wiped his Baltimore ...... 010 200 02x—5 70 forehead before walking off the| Campbell and Padden; Smythe and mound . Linton. é By H. H. For some time the Charlotte, (N. C.) Party organization had been hampered in its work by the activities of a group of disrupters. The leaders of this group, consisting of both Negro and white, repre- sented a most unprincipled group of shady and disreputable characters, ranging from a herb doctor, prac- ticing preacher to open white chau- vinist elements. These people had not only gotten into the Party but had succeeded in gaining leading positions in the Party organization in Charlotte. Four were members of the Section Committee and two were unit organizers. _In these positions they had car- ried out systematic wrecking activi- ties on an expensive scale, resulting in considerable damage to the Pa and its mass work. Their activi- ties and methods were typical of those employed by provocateurs everywhere, They carried out an unprincipled campaign against the Party and its leaders, setting afoot all sorts of slanderous rumors in- volving the Party leaders, taking advantage of and exaggerating every weakness of the Party, The: deliberately misrepresented the posi- tion of the Party on various ques- tions before the Party membership and non-Party, workers. For ex- ample, the decision of the Section Bureau to hold its meetings on Sun- ay was openly declared to be proof that the Party was interested only in fighting religion. In this manner they attempted to antagonize the religious workers. They systemati- cally sabotaged the decisions of the aie A common practice employed by them being to vote dex decisions Charlotte, N. > C. Party Section Cleanses Ranks of Disrupters “That was Luque warming up,” I J : Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 18TH FLOOR and resolutions in the Section Com- mittee and then to carry on a cam- paign among the Party membership and non-Party masses against these decisions. The, sabotaging activities of this group had been noticed by the for- mer district leadership. ‘These ac- tivities were taking an organized form, creating a situation wherein it was imposible to discuss important questions in the section committee. Yet in spite of all this the district and section leadership did little or nothing to isolate these dangerous elements, to remove them from their positions and drive them from the Party. This impermissable carelessness, this hesitancy on the part of the Party leadership to take decided steps a; it these disrupters, re flected a non-understanding of the dangerous iti role of this ‘roup, which was a hundred times ntensified under conditions where the a ery had to work semi-legally. The leading comrades did not un- derstand that here we were not dealing merely with an ideological factional grouping in the Party but with¢elements some of whom un- doubtedly had connections with the police, and were working directly with our class enemies to wreck the Party. At the same time this im- permissable tolerance toward this group showed that there still existed in the Party and in its leadership a non-Bolshevik attitude of petty bourgeois sentimentality. Anti-Party Group The seriousness of the situation and the real anti-Party character of this group was brought sharply to light during the absence of the lead- ing comrades at the Extraordinary Party Conference in New York. The disrupters took advantage of this situation to come out in the open as an organized group against the Party leadership. Posing as an of- ficial investigation committee of the District Bureau, they went from unit to unit seeking to confuse the membership and mobilize it against the Party leadership. However, their efforts met with very little success. In several units they were not given the floor and in general the Party membership stood solidly | behind the leadership. Upon the return of the leading comrades the activities of this group were seriously taken up in connec- tion with the whole situation of the Party and its mass work. In the discussions in both the district and the section committees, it was clear that the development of this anti- Party group was inseparably con- nected with the weakness of the Party’s base among the mass extreme organizational loo: the Party, the absence of any mass work (stagnation of unemployed work, no work in the factories) and the consequent dissatisfaction of sections of the Party membership, the poor social composition of the Party, consisting almost exclusively of unemployed workers with no con- nections in the factories, the ex- tremely small proportion of white Party members—all ot tis un- doubtedly created a fertile field for the disruptive activity of this group. To liquidate this situation, the following decisions were adopted: 1) The immediate expulsion from on flied of a yeasts ic this anti- ‘arty grouping: Dunne, Carraway, Moore, L. Wertz and N. Wertz. 2) In this connection carrying through a political campaign with. in the Party, arousing the vigilance of the Party membership against police provocations, stigmatizing and stirring up the hatred of the workers against these provocateurs and disrupters. 3) To immediately tighten up the Party apparatus organizationally in order to safeguard the Party mem- bership, ete.; changing of addresses, These decisions were vigorously carried through and good results were immediately apparent in the following: 1) The activizing of the units, regular meetings being held. 2) The return to activity of many good elements who had.become dis- kusted with the activities of this group and had dropped out of the Party. ; 3) The beginnings of mass work; the reviving of unemployed branches and the vigorous response of the Party membership to the campaign for the freedom of Edwards, Negro Jad framed up on a murder charge. 4) The immediate orientation of the Party to mass work along the lines laid down in the Open Letter. Lesson for Party These decisions of the District and Section bureau were endorsed by the Central Committee in its statement of August 25th express- ing the full confidence of the Cen- tral Committee in the present lead. ership of the District and Section {Bureau, The Statement declared: “The present leadershin, both in the District and of the Charlotte Sec- tion, has the full confidence and support of the C. C, The Central Committee therefore calls upon all Party members and the workers of Charlotte to rally to the support of All Work Done Under Personal Care of Dr. C. Weissman this leadership. The Central Com- mittee further calls upon those few honest workers misled by these’ dis- rupters to break their connection with them and to support the Party and its leadership.” The counter-revolutionary, pro- vocative character of this group is jclearly shown in its subsequent ac- | tivities since the expulsion from the Party. They have come out openly as a group fighting the Party, align- ing themselves with the enemies of the Party, and rallying around them all anti-Party elements, Negro and DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves, Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 AM, 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Au Comrades Meet at white, including incorrigible. white BRONSTEIN’S chauvinist elements, formerly ex- 4 pelled from the Party. This “holy Vegetarian Health union” of Negro and white rene- Restaurant , gades is being consummated on a common platform of fight against the Party. Its union with the class enemy is best seen in the slo adopted by this group, “The white people are the friends of the Negro in the South and we must work to- gether with them.” At the same time they are still seeking to con- fuse the workers by calling them- selves the real Communist Party. The exveriences of the Charlotte organization in the handling of this group of disrupters and provoca- teurs contains valuable lessons for our Party, These experiences show that the building up of the Party and development of the mass work can only go forward on the basis 0: $58 Claremont Parkway, Brena Garment Section Workers Navarr’ Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Brook; a constant and sustained political | campaign’ acainst provocateurs and | CLASSIF. TED disruptive elements. In the South. | poRwisHep single oF double room facing under conditions of illegality and] beach. Reasonable. West End-Bay Parke ea ea the Hie oie ot fight- way. 2223 Bay View Pi Brooklyn, ‘ing against these elements, of arous- ing the vigilance. of. the workers | ,,¥ANTED, furnimed room (gh down against them, becomes a life and| a weex. STy.. 9. é death necessity of our movement, s t 4 } , ae crazy. 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