The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, N Neglected Opp Meetings Where the “ Carrying Quit the Open Letter Examples Given of Party and T. U. U. L. ortunities and the Slow Growth of the‘Daily’ | Armour Pa Daily” Was Not Sold By BILL GEBERT. WERY member of our Party and every reader of the Daily Worker will azree that the improvements made in the Daily Worker makes the paper much easier to approach the broader masces of workers. But do we take adyan‘aze of this and bring the Daily Worker to the broad masses of workers and ticularly to the points of concentration? Here are some do not bring theé asse: examples of how Daily Worke The Section ¢ field, ll Which over to In St of the t organiza 109 active and little ove! or of the had an Daily x exhibit of C Worker at the mas Daily Wor! In the city of St. Paul, the total number of Daily Work circulated 4s 105. I attended a shop unit meet- ing, consisting of Negro women, where we raised the qu Worker and the meaning of it, how to bring it to tl unit very enthus: idea of brin: the masses. volunteered to sell in front of one y selected two churches to sell the Daily Worker to on Sunday two comrades volun- teered to blish routes in the neighborhood they live in e num- ber of copies for the Daily Worker that unit ordered is equal to the total egmount of the bundles of the Daily been coming to the cannot blame € cannot say that ip is not willing to sell the On the contrary, we have some splendid examples of in- lual comrades in some units who | sell the Daily Worker and Workers’ | Voice in large quantities. But as yet the Daily Worker is not the concern f the Section committees and frac- | in the mass organizations, and any Cc they are actually ob- es towards bringing the “Daily” to the masses HESE examples of criminal neglect, of not bringing the Daily Worker even to the mass meetings we ar- | clearly why the | instances. In one when comrades | 's’ Voice, the union organiz- em that they cannot sell Voice to the s ers | Voice is the . There ringing | ry and Workers’ Voice | publications into the organizations and among the V and in the unions. | This policy not only prevents the | r rs from reading the paper, but | more than that. Because we are | raid to bring the D. W. and W. V.| to the masses in struggle, We weaken the struggle of the workers. The meeting of the “red issue” is not to} hide that we are Communists in the | mass movements, but on the contrary to bring it forward and explain it. We have an experience in one strike, where our comrades denied that the unions of the T. U. U. L. are red unions, but the workers found this out through other channels, with the result that the workers showed dis- trust in the leadership of the T. U. U. L. It helped to demoralize the strike and the strike was lost. And| this was one of the contributing fac- | toward the losing ot the strike. The Party fractions in the mass or- | ganizations, in the unions of the T. U. U. L, A. F. of L., Unemployed Councils, etc., and Party units must place the question of the Daily Work~- er on the acenda and develop means and ways of how to bring the “Daily” to the masses of workers and carry en a merciless struggle against any element that attempts to hide the Daily Worker from the masses of the workers, as the above stated examples ‘in the Home By HELEN LUKE show conclusively. LI ve Last Saturday evening a child was run down on Ilith St., just east of Plant Trying to Deny Vacations (By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—In spite of the NRA clause guaranteeing. improve- ment of conditions, the workers in the beef kill of Armours meat packing plant have far from im- proved conditions. The company is making an. ef- fort to take away vacations. Last year workers with 10 years ser- vice or more got two weeks vaca- | tion with pay. Those with five years service and more got one | week vacation with pay. This year | workers are not sure of their| vacation and probably will get only }one week. ij ; | ar Bruise trimmers are’ in the beef | kill and now working on 119 cat- cking Wet Soaks Through Clothes - EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1938 NRA Conditions Described by Workers|The s Bosses Control the in Armour’s Packing Cellar >a perhangers’ By a Packing House Worker Correspondent ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—I have been getting the “Daily” and by reading it T get some real facts out of it. In fact the “Daily” expresses my viewpoints to | a T. I have.some more dope on the Armour Packing Plant here in the city | as I have been working there again, It is about the only industry in t Letters from | Our Readers} ACTION WANTED Comrade Editor: New York City. | Several years ago the Borough Hall Unemployed Council at 73 Myrtle Ave. used to conduct successful out- door meetings in front of the State Labor Bureau, then located at Gay nd Johnson Sts. When the bureau was located at Jay and Johnson Sts. the men could | tle an hour, and at times as high| congregate in.front of the bureau} as 170 cattle have to be trimmed.|and more often than not one could| Previous to 1929 there were seven bruise trimmers working on the same number of cattle, and now there are only four. The pay used to be 47 cents an hour, now it is 42 1-2 cents. Workers doing the same work often get different wage scales. One gets day rate and the other piece work rate. The United Packing House Work- ers Union is formulating demands on the basis of the conditions in the beef kill and carries on strug- gle for partial demands in oppo- sition to the company unions. Workers consider 135 cattle an hour should be the maximum, and there should be no piece work, and workers want to be told definitely when they will get their vacation. | allowed to wait around the bureau in | out of luck. And if one hangs around | up by some boss, one of New York’s | sand Emergency. Relief men were laid pick up a casual job easier outside than in. Now it’s entirely different. The bureau is now located in a sort of white collar district at Willough- by and Duffield Sts. One gets a white | card issued to him upon registering and one is supposed to get it stamped once every threes weeks and then go home and comeback three weeks lat- er and get’ it stamped again. After | getting one’s card stamped one is not | case a job should come in. One is just outside in the hope of being picked finest gives. him the well-known bum’s rush. Several months ago several thou- off. The Home Relief Bureau sends them all down to the Labor Bureau with yellow <slips. The desperate workers think that a job awaits them | when they get.to the bureau, But af- | ter getting theif cards stamped and | told to report three weeks later to get | it stamped again; they get wise to the | racket. In conversing with many of | the men, many. agree that the place ;is just an additional drain on the | tax payers and should be closed up, | but I think that we could make them drop these practices I have described —H. Ss. Ligget and Myers Plant Cuts Pay, 5th Aye. I was a block away when it happened. I only heard a sudden chorus of alarmed shouts, saw the car swerve, and people dashing to the spot. Well, I dashed too, but the child had been taken away (to the 5th Ave. hospital, so they said), so I cannot say if it was injured badly or not. By a Worker Correspondent | jers Tobacco Co. speed-up is terrific. There are about |1,500 Negro and white workers in this plant. They make Range| |Rough cut at this plant. four used to work on a machine, now they have two. Where two were on the machine there is now only one. Some of the workers are look- ing for an organizer of the Tobac- |co Workers Industrial Union. There |are about 1,500 Negro and white | —all. |! workes in this factory. | if the unemployed could be gotten to- Doubles Work, ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Ligget & Mey- | ployed at the State Employment Bu- cut the wages | Teau at Willoughby and Duffield Sts., |from $20 to $14 a week and the | Brooklyn, N. Y.) Where | | gether. Since the bureau has been at this address the Unemployed Coun- cil has not held one meeting there. (From one of the registered unem-~ Editor's Note: The Unemployed Councils of Greater New York in- form us that the Borough Hall Council is undergoing a thorough reorganization. In the course of this reorganization, which is expected to be fairly completed by Monday, October 2, the Council’s leadership will be greatly strengthened. If this worker will get in touch with the Council again after Tuesday, Oc~ tober 3, he will probably get co- operation in the organization and resumption of these effective meet- ings. ‘The gathered groups conversed largely ® in Spanish or Portugese, which I don’t understand. “Hurt?” was asked, of course. “Ah, I hope not,” | a plump matron said mournfully, | Tazy.” | I loft, roundly cur the vicious and insane system that condemns little children to play in crowded | streets in the path of vehicles. | A comic called “Skygack from Mars” used to run in the newspapers. | Init a buglike critter from Mars was | shown making notes about the queer humans on earth He might well | have written | “These | two distin and female, | usually fou in pairs. A pair ac-/} quires one or more little ones of the Same species. Each pair of big ones wish to state here and now, that though we might on occasion recom- mend a hot dog to the workers, we emphatically deny trying to hand them the kennel too. Also, in the directions for making | | potato salad (same column) “a table- | spoonful each of vinegar or water”, should read “—AND water.” Can You Make ’em Yourself ? This house dress is not only com- fortable and neat,—it’s pretty be- sides. There are just five parts to the pattern: front dress, back dress, yoke and sleeves economically cut in cne, roomy pockets, and sash which Seems passionately fond of its own | , i + i: little ones but doesn’t seem much ex- | ures fitting at waistline. cited about the little ones of others. So, either for this reason or because the big earth-creatures are too mutu- | ally distrustful to get together long | enough to set aside spaces for the | little ones, those of the non-wealthy | ate forced to in the “streets” | under the “automobiles”; therefore, | Occasionally one of the little ones is hurt. or killed, and the female big one has hysterics.” Long live Socialism, that provides ® ‘place for children to play in! TODAY’S MENU ’, BREAKFAST 4 Soft-Boiled Eggs Prepared Cereal ; Coffee * + 6 LUNCH , Buttered Parsnips Waldorf Salad «+e Toasted, Rolls i Tee DINNER Lamb Stew | Celery or Cole Slaw . Coffee Fresh Sliced Peaches Cake . * ’ Parsnips are to be peeled thinly, boiled in saltwater until tender, then ‘browned in butter. The Waldorf Salad is made of peeled, cored apples ‘eut in small pieces, and chopped (2-3 apple to 1-3 celery) mixed with Salad dressing and served on lettuce, —with walnuts, and a sliver of cheese, if you have such luxuries. For the stew, put the meat, cut in pieces, to boil in salted water first; after it has cooked a bit, add cars rots,*peeled and cut in large pieces, and one or two quartered onions; 15 Minutes later, potatoes, then turnips, peeled and cut in large pieces. Turnips, unlike potatoes, are to be Pattern 1625 is available in sizes NEW YORK, N. Y—The American Youth Club of Brooklyn has fine} methods of distribution’ and sale of the Daily Worker. An interesting letter telling of their plans for work, and encouraging other workers to get behind the Daily Worker Drive follows: “While distributing Daily Workers on the Fulton St. line, Wednesday, | Sept. 27th, at midnight, a man | stepped towards me and put into my hand a dollar bill, I was so }amazed that I asked him if he wouldn’t rather mail it to the office than trust. me, but he rushed out of the train. “Several people seated near me | observed this incident, which, ob-} viously, increased their desire to read this ‘unknown newspaper.’ “Let this serve as a lesson to those who are eager to spread the ‘Daily.’ Our method is to give out old copies at meetings which cater, for the most part, to those who are some- what, if not to a great extent, al- ready sympathetic to the revolution- ary movement. “The Communist Party must see that all unsold ‘Dailies’ are given to the sections, who in turn will make house to house contacts. “As a member of the American Youth Club, I request this dollar to be credited to our quota for the Daily Worker Drive, and will do more to finish our quota. There must be more workers like the above, and we must reach them.” st oa NEW YORK.—Organized only sev- eral weeks ago, the “Daily Worker Volunteers” raised $50, at a dance last Saturday, while an additional $49.56 was raisedby some members who ran house parties, as part of their pledge to help raise the $40,000 quota for the present fund drive for the Daily Worker. More affairs for the support of the “Daily” will be held by the Volunteers in future not only to raise funds but also to increase the circulation of the “Daily,” and to help establish for it @ permanent sustaining fund. The Volunteers will hold their next meeting Thursday, Oct. 5, 8 p. m., in their own headquarters, 5th floor, 35 ind this important meeting and to bring’ one more volunteer. peeled thickly, ae they ‘ase. bitter | 14 16, 18, 20, 92, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and rd) ie near the skin. Do not use many in 44. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch DISTRICT 1 # Nelson SO the stew, as they have a strong flavor. | fabric. TMlustrated. step-by-step sew- | rreihelt Gesengs Acme The. Col. .06 Thicken it with flour (about 1 table- | 16 instructions included. iiees id A oO son, Z Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps spoonful) when ingredients are/| fender. Use veal if you do not like | (coins preferred) vamb. | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write c bd ° . plainly name, address and style ‘Through a tragic typographical | number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE.|1 trror, in the second last paragraph of ast Saturday's column, the word ‘fg0d” was made to read “wood.” We Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St., New York City, i Total to date 169.42 J Fradin, FSU? 1. Machine Shop Group, Rich., &I. 7.00 Local 38, League 2.25 Workers’ Group DISTRICT 2 00 I. J. Rousseau .25 ‘T. Frougelia 25 V. Erpisto L Mike Worker Gives Dollar to Daily in N. Y. Elevated Each volunter is asked |} Tullio T. 25) _ DISTRICT & Patients Workmen's | R Stupor, Denbo, Circle San. 10.00} Pa, Sec. 6 Unit 6 50 eevee Sec. 1 Lists 17.74| Total to date 41.85 Sec. 1 Sus. Fd .25 Sec. 2 Unit 4B, DISTRICT 6 List 2.00) Mace. Peoples Sec. 2 Unit 4 L't 1.05| peague, Mans, O. 2.00 Sec 2 Unit 3 List 3.50/p Thomas, Middle, Sec 2 Un. 14 L'ts 6.95! onio ‘2.00 Sec 2 U. 2B L'ts 1.00/ itp Enghdal Sec 2 Un. 12 L'ts 3.99] Branch 2 5.65 Sec 2 Un. 8-5 3.25) unit 3-33 House Sec 6, Unit 1 1.10| party 10.00 | Sec Unit 10 Lists | unit 9-45 List 3.00 20| Un. 14-31 Ludw’ 1.00 10 | Unit 2-20 List .60/ 33 | Unit 3-34 Troj. 3.50 Novick, Wein Barkauskas Juska, Lekshtts Gattis, Jones | iat Saulenas, Alpren .20| Total to date 72.77 Sec 6 Un. 9 Lists pe Stern, Bross ».50/ dias ibd Pigainoan, 18|B_Enos, Wilmette, | Newman, Coben 45) Tlinols 50 Welk, Borman 35] 7, # Matsch, Casey. : Min '3g| ville ee neaetin 35 stan. Sulentich 1.00 Sehkovita 25 | I. Libovitz 30 Magulis 125 | Workers Coop R. 1.35 Lenchitz, Cohen .35! Frethelt Sing. 8. ee) Riutsen, Gazera .50 See 3 Unit 306 212 Seo 6 Unit 23 List | 80° F nit si? he town which hires a large number of men and women. The mosi I ever got out of them was a little over $12 for a 32-hour week. I put in about a month all told, and most of that was part time work at the rate of 40 cents per hour. I was in the hide cellar most of the time. It is always wet. A man’s clothes never dry out over night when you leave them in your broken down locker. Everything is speed. Even down in this hide cellar they have a standard amount of hides to take off the pack where they have been spread out in salt. There is no let up on the speed when they are getting ready to ship these hides out. These hides have to be dragged off this pack and shaken to get the salt off them and then swept off with a broom, classified by a man who knows hides, rolled up, weighed and then carted to be piled up on an- other pile from where they are carted again to a car to be shipped. When you get a cut on your hand the salt gets into it and it takes weeks for it to heal. Your feet get yet, even if you wear rubbers, as the front of your overalls gets wet and soaks through to the ‘skin and runs into your shoes. Most of the men wear bootS and heavy socks to keep out the wet but they still get wet to a certain extent. The toilets in this place are not fit for a hog, let alone a man. Most of the lockers are broken down. The showers and wash basins in the lock- er room are all out of order. They have several kids working in this place who have folks working there, and of course that is what the company wants as they can get the speed out of them. The A. F. of L. is doing. some organizing there and charging these men $3 initiation fee and 50 cents a month, but there has been nothing done about the speed- up and making the working condi- tions any better. I ‘have been laid off along with 75 or 100 others due to the fact they have quit killing the small pigs and old sows. The pigs all went into fertilizer here in this town, outside of the best. The farmers never made a hell of a lot off these pigs by the time they paid for trucking and ship- ping them in. Skill Required I have a statement to make which may contradict a statement I read in the “Daily” written on the pack- ing house, saying there was no skilled help in a packing house. No doubt not many butchers can do all classes of meat eutting, but you have to have skill to swing a knife like some of them without cutting yourself. When they kill around 280 hogs an hour somebody has to step out to keep up with all the work. They kill better than 200 cattle an hour, and that, is not slow either. Everything comes to the men on conveyers and down chutes, and there is no let up during the killing. They also have skilled mechanics and other trades at these plants. These fellows who use a knife do miss at times and cut about half their hand off and they get $10 a week when they are off, and they have to pay for that in insurance while they work. Paragon Shelled Nut Strikers Stop Scabs By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The workers of the Paragon Shelled Nut Co. are still out, on the picket line. Although Crews, the owner, has already tried to hire scabs, the | militancy of the Unemployed Council and workers on the picket line with the Negro nut pickers stoped them. This shop has the blue buzzard in the window and on the walls, but it don’t mean anything. Most of the workers are living off the city charities racket, although they had to slave from 5:30 a. m. to) 6:30 p. m. to earn 90 cents to $2.50 By a Worker Correspondent | | WILMINGTON, Del. — T he Paperhangers’ Association of Del-| |aware, organized a month ago, |is composed of workers, bosses and| |even wholesale wall paper dealers. | The Chamber of Commerce patted | | Mr. Markigon, the president, on |the back saying they were doing} fine work. What is the good work | they are\ doing? | 1—They succeeded in stopping| the workers taking jobs for them-| selves, yet most bosses put on) overalls. | 2,—In case the woman on the| job does not like the paper, the paperhanger has to do it over for nothing. 3.—In case the boss is short of money—the worker must wait even | }a month till the boss pays him. 4—None of the officials are| | workers. | |. When Joe Green took the floor to demand the organization of a grievance committee made up of the workers themselves, he was ruled out by Markigon. Markigon’s | jexcuse was that Green was trying !to organize a workers’ clique. Coal Drivers Are | Ready to Fight AFL Misleaders By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Friday, Sep- tember 22, the A. F. of L. pulled out the truck drivers of most of the coal yards in Brooklyn. I happened to be standing around a crowd of pickets on Maspeth Ave., near Morgan Ave., who were waiting for any trucks still in operation. The pickets were dis- cussing the strike with the delegate from the union. The strikers showed much dissatisfaction with the man- ner in which the strike was being run, and had it not been for the fact that the delegate was an elderly man with glasses on, they probably would have lynched him. He was carrying on negotiations with the bosses behind the backs of the workers, not even bothering to notify them of the results of the ne- gotiations. He had settled to allow the Newtown Coal Co. to operate with half crew during the strike. I don’t know if there is anyone from our union there, but the work- ers are very much dissatisfied with the A. F. of L. leadership. Teacher Describes Visit to U. S. S. R. By a Teacher Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y—As a New York City school teacher just re- turned from a month’s visit to the Soviet Union, I briefly offer my im- pressions for whatever they may be worth. T made a ten-day tour on the Volga with a group of Soviet teachers and educational workers representing every Tepublic in the Soviet Union. The union provided lecturers who gave courses both in political and pedagogical subjects. The unbounded interest of this group in studying and preparing themselves to carry out their particular tasks in the building of Socialism was inspiring and enlightening to one who is forced to try to teach children intelligently within the narrow and prejudiced restrictions of a capitalistically-con- trolled system of education. I visited a number of schools and had long talks with directors and teachers. Everywhere I was amazed and impressed by the. sincere in- tensity of these educators in their determination to fulfill one hundred per cent their difficult program of a week, WORKERS’ ©. Bretan, Chon 35 ite has Schwarte, Wer'w (29) Total to date 45425/ The Dally Worker is gratified at esr t ist | -DIsTRIcr 9 | the increased number of letters com- Mainir, Rosch. .35| Dock Unit OP., ing from workers describing condi- Pfetfer, Mary .20| Duluth, Minn. 2.10/tions on the job, and reporting ——en = ‘Total to date 436|T2dicalization of the working class. Seo 6 Unit 20 List “| Unfortunately: all these letters can- Gordon, Cooper .15 pistRicr 12° | 200 be published in full, and we are Sogelman, Zlatt .15 therefore instituting this “Worker's Seo 6 Unit 21 List | Astoria, Ore, Gee. ” Extracts of the, most. vital Magen useae 200 ft information contained in ‘letters will ‘otal to date 38.15) be -published~in this section. Total to date 1908.12 DISTRICT 13 As. many letters as possible will be DISTRICT 3 E H Huffman, Los | Published in the worker correspond- Angeles. 1.00/ence section. In every case where a Dr. J. A. Rosenblatt, BT singe Ui atti aves of an issue in which a Balto. ck 2 : letter ay is atranged for : op ppears Gover. Worker, | || "ton, Arie,” ioo|at the tuctory gate, the letter will be Two Gover. m= a, LA. 28 cane in the regular worker cor- , Wash. 20.00 ——| Tespondence secti fully j- z Pais Phila. rap | Toeat to cate 5 8 tas However, the worker wtodls ba jo Bri Bohielan —san| | Dusrmtor x6 | brief. G Mazman 25 | and & frend, Bail, 1000] "Amboy" 200] again how effective. the, method. of us. Mutu 4.25 a x BP haeloe 1o0| Unit 3” Mary Ger. | SPécial sale at factory gates is, It has B Gordo, Phila. .35/ man, List in most cases given a great impetus Mrs. Miller 10) Burg to the organization work in the fac- tA aca teens 3| tory, and it has helped to root the Nature Friends 2.17| Bloomenthal Daily Worker in the shops—in other 3, Rutking 10g) Kavitt words, this means taking a step to- 1. R. Poska E 10 ting Open Letter into 3 Rucisinsky —“98| R Aronott hints Lis oe aS © Swizinino 25 —__ a s e . + A Rersanaskts 89) Total ito. date. 61.7 “We Do Our Part” p e ur 0| DISTRICT 16 0 | Ve. Tie HP hcigealsl {08 tj pete NEW YORK.—The Eagle Pencil Br Total to date 4.50 Co. makes its workers see blue—. B Gomen "36 DISTRICT 18 When t he Blue Eagle made its ap- A Ls hia a pre coed Lis bran tncnd in the ‘factory, made A Dranoft 110] “Mitwaukee 3.45 ps Cy ny Nes egies ae M T Ellas ‘10 Section 1 1.45 We B Moskow 115 | Section 5 3.10| that if anyone did not make’ $13 on M Mozlen 110 ~| plecework prices, he would still get 25 | Total to date A friend Odlen & Davis 1.15 Washington 20.00 Iw. o. Col. at Anti-Rel. H. Simms, Br. 64.74| School 2 8.50 Affair 74 ‘Unit 10%, Phila. 5.00 Total to date 112.66 hee would’ deouive, mire. 7 EAURin 1e ve more. to this the workers began to work harder than ever, thinking that if they had made 16, 18, or 20 dollars before, they coul educating and socializing education, “MAILBAG by working more diligently. But what was the result? us envelopes with our pay. Opening ‘them, none of us found more than $13. The rest of the money went into the hands of the bosses. (Some of these workers are not “color blind, and are now beginning to see red.) $15 per week, NRA. The selected is to pay the agency half salary, $7.50. Now, as soon as is signed up to work, he that the firm records his at $15 per week, but his pay pe will only hold $7 per week. Out of generosity, the employers are giving him $7.50 the first week to pay the agency. Thus he works the first week without pay. ‘ . . * By 2 Worker Correspondent _ NEW YORK CITY.—The firm of Al & ©o., jewelers, at 464 Fulton &t., klyn, have displayed in front of their store on the window the store work 69 hours a week, every ployment. . The hand ironers were being paid $10 a week and the girls on the mangle $8 for a 54-hour week: The u mean a damn | .L.P. Against Fight to |ImproveW orkers’ Conditions Against Setting Up Proletariat in Struggle to-@verthrow the Capitalist System his is the Party by James S. have written to the Daily Worker character and history of the S.L.P. Dictatorship of the ‘cond of a series of articles on the Socialist Labor Allen, written in answer to letters which workers requesting information about the Yesterday's article showed the complete isolation of the S.L.P. from present-day struggles, living on in * the fictitious “glory” of its dead past. By JAMES S. ALLEN Tl. We have already seen that the S. L. P. obliterated all immediate de- mands from its program. This was done on the theory that to advance immediate demands was nothing but opportunism and outright betrayal of the workers, since this would have the effect of ‘caiising the workers to believe that they could obtain last-¢— ing benefits even while the capitalist system existed. Furthermore this would turn the workers away from the main objective—the overthrow of capitalism, only the “unconditicnal surrender of the ruling class!” One often hears this argument am workers who call themselves revi tionary and who, although they mi: not know it, are actually working against the development of a revolutionary movement by spreading such DeLeonite ideas. The S.L.P. has made this the central point of their program and the base of their at- tack against the Communist Party, which they call “reformist” because it advocates and fights for the im- mediate demands of the working class. What is the main fallacy in this reasoning? The DeLeonites fail to see the part played by immediate demands in winning the workers over to the revolutionary movement. A class-conscious worker or a Commu~ nist is not born ready-made, no more than the “unconditional surrender of the capitalist class” will drop down from the heavens into the inner sanc- tum of the S.L.P. Nor will the work- ing class suddenly hold a national march on the S.L.P. headquarters to serve notice on its National Committee that they are ready to demand the “unconditional surrender” from the government in Washington. The Stairway to Revolution ‘The workers learn from their day- to-day experiences, from their strug- gles, from their defeats as well as victories. ‘They learn to know the capitalist state for what it is in their struggle to realize the demands which are closest to them. A worker who has not become @ Marxist, will not feel concerned about this theoretical term “state” nor see how the fed- eral government in Washington is so intimately connected with his own daily needs. Nor will conditions all by themselves, no matter how bad, mo matter how chaotic, lead the workers to conclude that capitalism must be overthrown and socialism established and equip them with a correct understanding of how this is to be accomplished. Immediate demands reflect the day-to-day needs of the workers. At times they are elementary, at other times of a highly advanced political character, depending upon circum~- stances and the stage of the move- ment. It is only on the basis of demands which are close to the day- to-day life of the workers, that the working class can be swung into ac- tion and organized on the basis of the struggle. By advancing demands such as unemployment relief, social insurance and demands connected with conditions and wages, and or- ganizing the workers into unions and other organizations to fight for these demands, the Communists link them- selves up with the struggles of the workers and find themseives in a po- sition to build and lead a mass move- “WE DO OUR PART” By 2 Worker Correspondent WEST HAVEN, Conn.—Contractors are putting up a couple of mammoth buildings for Yale University, which will cost a few million more dollars taken out of production. This fore~ noon there were thousands of un- employed workers standing on the sidewalks watching robots doing the work of hundreds of men. Under Socialism these mazhines would be a blessing; under the present system they are a curse. (We wonder if the buildings are for the Department of Economics?) By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Answer to Questions Broken Rib? Joo .: If only one rib breaks it does not always give serious ~ toms because the other ribs( above and below it) act as a splint. We surmise, from the envelope in which your letter was enclosed that you are One of those functionaries who lives on Moscow gold, so you better come up and see us. We might have to strap your chest. Moral: It is safer to kiss your friends than to Dry Skin Val. Rollins: Try to rub in some olive ofl into your skin every night. Eat plenty of butter, nuts and a tablespoonful of cod liver oil after each meal. We take it for granted that you are nof overweight. If you ‘are, disregard the above advice and Jet us hear from you again. You may have to take a metabolism test. (i . . Peculiar Spine Trouble A. B.: Pain in the lower of the. spine which does not improve un- der ordinary treatment, and which has lasted so long, cannot be diag- ngsed by mail. However, the peri- odic and terrific headaches which he suffers from lead us to suggest that he get a Wasserman test. After you have seen an honest. physician and real! ment against the NRA hunger and war program. The Communists, of course, cannot be satisfied with merely winning one or a number of immediate demands, Their aim is to overthrow the capi- talist system and vuild a Socialist soci They therefore look upon y| these demands as a means of setting the workers-into motion tuwards the ultimate goal. Immediate demands can be likened to a stairway leading to the revolution. But this does not mean that the Communists are not interested in winning these immediate demands. For victories won as the result of the action of the workers themselves strengthens the organizations of the workers and their class-consciousness. The struggle exposes the role of labor fakers and other enemies of the workers. The workers find them- selves at a higher stage from which they can push ahead to further vic- tories. It is precisely the task of the Communists to see to it that the workers do not rest contented with a single victory, but push on to further victories, learning at the same time the necessity of overs throwing capitalism and how it is to be done. Only in this way can the working class be marshatled and led in the attack against capitalism. The rapid development of the pro- letarian revolution during the period between March and November, 1917, in Russia was, to a large manner, due to the ability of the Bolsheviks to lead the masses in their struggie for peace, bread and land—to the very seizure of the state power. The revolution developed from thousands of immed te demands, which under the situation, led into the main stream of the proletarian revolution. It is on this basis that the Com- munist Party has developed a pro- § gram expressing the day-to-day needs | not only of the workers, but of their allies, the farmers and Negro people. ‘The C. P., moreover, does not do this in an abstract manner. It does it by organizing and leading the work- ers in their struggles—by being a Party, not for the workers only, but of the workers, And at no time does it lead the workers to believe that by the winning of this or. that im~ mediate demand will everything be settled. On the contrary, it always agitates for further steps, always carries on propaganda in all struggles exposing the role of the state and the broader aims of the working class. Dictatorship of the Proletariat ‘The “left” and revolutionary sound- ing phrases of the S.L-P. have @ hole low ring when confronted with their | theory as regards the dictatorship of the proletariat, to say nothing of ) their actions. DeLeon and after him his apostles contend ‘that no dicta- torship of the proletariat will be necessary after the overthrow of capitalism and that there will be even less need at that time for a revolutionary’ ‘working class party. While this, they say, may not be true in Europe, the U. S. is an exception. Whenever anyone claims an “excep~ tion” for a fundamental principle of the working’ class movement, you may be sute that he is but seeking for an excuse to reject that principle. Their arguments remind us of more recent “exceptionalists” (American history is full of them, the DeLeon- ites were neither the first nor the last)—the followers of Lovestone, who were expelled from the Communist Party in 1929 as renegades because they argued that America was “dif~ ferent” and that the policy of the international Communist movement did not therefore apply to these pre- cocious states. (Concluded Tomorrow) a specialist and your comrade fs not improved, you may try anything you like, If it is an imaginary disease, a chiropractor will surely help He (the patient) is too fat and must cut out fats, sugars, starches from his diet. Let up on salads, fruits and 7 2 8 Replies to Anonymous S. M.: We do not reply, as a rule to anonymous letters; but yours seems to have an element of sincere ity which deserves an exception, We cannot write you care of General Delivery; but you'll find a letter ade dressed to you at the office of the Daily Worker.. To prevent somebody 3 ii else from getting it, you'll have to mention the. initials signed to the “other” letter, in addition os. M eee . Flat Feet to become atrophied . (wasted) for, lack of exercise. We prefer strap. ping with adhesive ae! + 3 Foot Clinics of New York, 5 E, 124th) St., near Madison Ave. ‘ Readers desiring health information should address their letters to Dr. Paul Luttinger, e-o Daily Worker, 35 5. Mth St. New York BI: ‘ vp