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Page Six PARTY LIFE By JACK C Cleveland Y. C. L. Criticizes] Lack of Party Co-operation} Cites Anti-N.R.A. Meeting in Collinwood, O., to Show Party Negligence Toward Y.C.L. SOOPER Over 200 workers attended an anti-N. R. A. mass meeting that was called | ‘by the ¥. C. L. Unit No. 8 in Collinwood (Ohio District). | In connection, with 's mass meeting I wish to point out how the Party | ‘failed to co-operate or &ve leadership, | In the beginning of Uctober our District Committee of the League de- | 4 ti-N.R.A.@—~ seus acc = otal Giset nde in different parts of the] He of the main speakers. Second— city. The Collinwood unit of the 'M0C.L. was assigned to hold one meet- *ixtg in it’s territory for the following “reasons: First, because the Mu Ohio plant, our city concentra‘ point, is in Collinwood. Second, be- cause Collinwood an industrial eenter. ; I informed the section organizer of *the C. P., Section 14, about our plan for a mass meeting. He said that the Party will give us $1 for leaflets. Lat- er on he refused to give the dollar promised for a certain reason (which YM take up with the D. ©). Fitiure to Keep Promises One week before meeting I talked to the section fanizer and told him that we have the leaflets ready; we also rented a hall. I asked him to take this up with the Party units and help us distribute 2,000 leaflets at Eaton Axle plant, a con- centration point of Section 14, and house-to-house canvass. Our League eomrades distributed leaflets at Mur- | ray Ohio plant to the N.Y.C. RR.| ‘workers and pasted leaflets on poles. | Comrade 8. again agreed to help our) ‘nit, but this was never carried out. We asked the Unemployed Council to help us and several comrades | helped to distribute leaflets from) house to house. | ° In spite of the fact that two big “pallies of the Democratic and Re- “publican candidates for Mayor were held in the neighborhood the work-| sers came to hear our candidate for) ‘Mayor, I. O. Ford, and John Little, | smember of N.E.C., expose the N.R.A “We sold 36 “Young Workers” and 30 ‘different pamphlets. Important Meeting This meeting was important for two other points which our Party in ‘Betcion 14 completely underestimated | sand neglected fo carry out. First | ‘point—The District Committee of our | “district right after the primary elec-| stions decided to carry on the elec-| *tion campaign for the final election | “Nov. 7, and place our candidates on} =the ballot with stickers. This decision | «remained on paper as far as Section | 714 is concerned. No meetings, no leaf- | is “lets, as (ough our campaign was over | nd we were defeated. Such an atti- tude must be sharply criticized by the district. Our meeting was held one) y before elections, Nov. 6, and as I) entioned before, our Communist | ‘ éandidate for Mayor, I. O. Ford, was this meeting was held one day before the 16th anniversary of the Russian} Revolution and was supposed to mo- bilize all the workers to come to the} celebration. Our section organizer was| to speak at this meeting and bring out the achievements of the anni-/ versary, and he never showed up at} the meeting. Necessary Comrades, such co-operation by the Party to the Y.C.L. shows the fol- lowing: First, complete neglect of the task of building the League; under- estimation of our election campaign and a failure to bring before the masses the building of Socialism in| the Soviet Union and decaying capi-! talism all over the world. | In the name of our Unit 8, I thank the U. C. of Collinwood for their co-| operation with our unit and for the} donation which helped carry out this mass meeting. * Editorial Note by ¥. C. L.: The incident referred to by Comrade Cooper of Cleveland is typical of many that occur regularly in the relations of the Party to the In the above case the Y.C.L. comrades are completely justified in their criticism of the Party. This meeting was a most im- portant one, not alone from the | viewpoint of the Y.C.L., but espe- cially from the viewpoint of the Party. The Party should have mo- bilized all its forces to support the meeting. Often we hear of complaints from Party comrades that the Y.C.L. me- chanically divides the youth from the adult workers. However, where such separation does exist, the Party is mainly responsible for it by its own attitude that “the youth are the concern of the Y.C.L. alone.” The Party must realize that it is the political leader of the whole working class, adult as well as youth. It must give leadership to the Y.C.L. in its work among the youth and must further mobilize its own members and the whole revolutionary working class for winning the young working class generation for Communism. Once the Party understands its revolu- tionary duty in this respect, such incidents as the above will not recur, /Return to Birmingham) | (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) |of color. Party Leadership and Co-operation |swear they are damned if they will |pay a living wage to a Negro. They | They are questioned as to where they There are a number of “loose enids” I feel I should pick up today instead | ef devoting the column to any one subject. To begin with: The Young Pioneers sent an invitation to my readers and me to be | present Saturday evening (tonight) at the performance of “Strike Me Red” | at City College, saying, “Come and see what happens to the family in the * you’! io— — foal bra ae tee , convinced that the movement stands I shall be there! There are 50 chil- | (esperately in need of a Red Paint . | the . hi ‘dren, both white and Negro, playing | BOOK for the Kids. I shall begin to “gS haien fi | ‘What should be in it? On one page The Women’s Councils | should be paper dolls with Young Also, on the same day that recog-| Pioneer costumes. There should be a {mition was given to the USSR. by/ picture or two of a Kolkhoz. Per- -the American government, the Wo-| haps pictures of the vegetables and <men’s Councils were given recogni- “tion by our In the Home Column (I ‘Was present at the splendid celebra- tion at Irving Plaza, of ten years of -eetivity by the councils) and the analogy goes further because in both cases it was the recognizer and not} = the recognized that was honored. (My | delay in making this contact with/ +the Women’s Councils is really in-| . excusable.) | Moreover, I had the satisfaction of | * being present at the Bronx Confer-| sence Against the High Cost of Liv-| ting, called by the United Councils of | ; Working Class Women; there a fight | - against high pricecs was mapped out. : Our column will do its best to keep | sim touch with the progress of this} struggle. | Russian Blouses I wish to tell the “comrade with-/ 8 Russian blouse” we shall locate | much patterns as she asks for—I do TMot think the service we are using| savas them, but shall check on this.| = / The two comrades in Syracuse have | “mot been forgotten,—we are working | “on the budget, counting the calories, experimenting. And I wish to remind the comrades the home that it is time to begin | prepare for the Annual Bazaar of New York District of the Inter- “national Labor Defense, taking place “the middle of next February. Those “who can do so will be of great help they will make neat and simple , blouses, pyjamas, aprons, and =the like, for sale at the Bazaar. Best ‘begin now so as not to have to rush ‘at the last minute. Out of town com- Trades could also send little things | <for this, if they like. (ILD. 870) Broadway.) | ‘What else? Only one more thing: the letter from Comrade Enos and bit Hy P EI 2 s g > 3 4 e 8 2 3 & “thinking about the subject, and I am >: Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke 2: Contributions received to the credit | “ef Helen Luke in her Socialist com- | petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- “tinger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob, Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 | “Daily Worker Drive. Mrs. H. Werme, Kolryn . Previous total ...... ose “™ Total to date --$ 1.00 93.22 oss. «BORD | nee fruits the workers’ kids should have (they would color nicely). What else? Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1532 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3%, yards 36-inch fabric. || | {| SSS i; SSS S SS SS SSS SS SSS SS SSH Sess Ss S Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15) in| coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | approved by the President on the 19th |The Adventures of Grischa and Mischa, Two Soviet Pioneers | Where do we stop next?” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933 Finds Oppression is Worse Than Ever on BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Having been born and raised in Birmingham, Which I left on account * oppres- sion, I was surprised when . returned there recently to find the Negro more oppressed than ever. Establishments that have existed for decades and during their exist- ence hired cheap Negro laborers, now hoist bankrupt signs, go temporarily out of business, and soon afterward reopen with all white laborers, simply to displace the underpaid Negroes. The N.R.A. demands that a living wage be paid every man, regardless | The officials of these firms would pay it to the man of their color, who needs it more, they say, because of his higher standard of liv- ing. Now, unless some Moses (in the form of the Federal government) comes along and helps these modern Isrealites, these oncoming winter | months, will be hard. | The revelation of the inefficiency | of the N.R.A. to cope with the hard- | ships of the Negroes did not appear| as bad to me as the nightly doings of a selected group of policemen, Eleven o'clock is the time limit for Negroes to walk the streets, though they are taxed (in proportion) the same as members of other races. After eleven, if Negroes are caught walking in the streets, the Slingshot Squad shoots wire staples at their legs and feet, the same as they would birds. If a Negro should chance to meet a friend on the street and stop to talk after the time specified, they are caught by another selected squad. have been, where going, and why out? And if slow in responding to the questioning, they are whipped with a five foot piece of water hose and sent on their way. In the North we are treated more like human beings. Never shall I return to this damnable spot on earth | unless one of my loved ones passes | away and only respect will persuade | me to return then. oe a Editor's Note:—This worker draws a vivid picture of oppression in the South, but his hope that the Federal Government or the N. R. A. may be induced to do some- thing about it only gives rise to an illusion under which the ruling class tries to weaken the mass struggles of Negro and white workers against this oppression, The government in Washington is just as much a tool of the capitalist ruling class as is the state government of Alabama or the city government of Birming- ham, and only the united struggle of Negro and white workers will defeat the N. R. A. and government program of discrimination and op- pression. Also, while the oppression of the Negro in the North is not shown in such open and brutal form as in the South, discrimnation on the job and in the neighborhoods is just as widespread and ts based on the oppression in the South. Why Oil Companies Love the Blue Eagle (By a Worker Correspondent) BARNHART, Texas.—Oh, how the big oil companies love the Blue Buz- | zard, or the N. R, Al I have a letter from the Depart- ment stating thus: “The N, R.A. does not require you to put on extra help if you do not need it to observe the President’s Agreement. It was written in language intended to be flexible enough to meet many varieties of conditions, and until a code is ap-| proved !t applies to your business. All oil companies are under the code |Was Laundress in Decatur; Father Worked 20 Years in Railroad Shop in Alabama City (By a White Woman Worker) Editor, Daily Worker. As I am a reader of the Daily Worker, and especially interested in Ne | Scottsboro case, I feel that I must wi |Daily Worker will be spread all overe-——— Alabama and especially in Decatur where I was raised. In reading the Daily Worker I see lots of names, in fact I know most of them, Mr. Win- ton on Fifth Ave., Elizabeth Morris on Prospect Drive, she being second door neighbor to my father. Well, I guess all those that make threats still have a few meals ahead of sowbelly, sorg! corn bread. I know that is practically their daily menu, for I was raised there and raised on it, and existed on it, while at the same time in 1928 was doing laundry work for our living for a family of seven, and because it was so-called “nigger work” in the South, in some mysterious way we had to move, known only to Mr. Otta lon Fifth Ave, South. Yes, I know all those crooks, and believe me, I’m spreading the news to my father, sending him Daily Workers, as he is still in that good country, the Democratic South. I only wish I was there for a while just to tell them all what they can do. They just don’t know any different, they know they are suffering. Here is a part of a letter I got from my father a few days ago, as follows: “You think you are having an aw-| ful time in Flint, but I hope you have a bed to sleep on, We haven't a bed to sleep on, or # chair to sit on, or a table to eat on, and nothing to eat. Our clothes are just rags, haven't had a pair of shoes in over three years. We are sleeping on the floor and our house is just a shack worse than our barn was on Prosvect, Drive in Decatur. I am almost blind —one eye is gone.” This is the exact copy of the letter from my father.) Now my father is 79 years of age. hum molasses and| Flint, Mich. rite a few words just hoping that the He spent about twenty years of his| life in the L. & N, railroad shop in | Decatur. He came out on that sell- out strike about 1922, and wouldn’t go back. My mother had a long spell of sickness, and died in 1927. My father had managed to pay for his home somewhere near three thousand dollars, and during sickness he bor- rowed seven hundred and fifty dol-j| |Jars on his home from Mr. Thorn- hill, another of Decatur’s noted | crooks, so there went his home. In other words, his life savings gone, |now he is cast aside on a hillside at | Boas, Alabama, living under the club jof @ Mr. Sneed. I just can’t swallow |such stuff any longer. If I ever get White Woman, Former Decatur Resident, Tells of Life in South, Backs Fight for the Scottsboro Boys Se ee “Bosses Are Getting Harder and Harder for Negro Workers” | (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Negroes here have to beg for bread in all parts of the city, The Red Cross says they, are going to put 962 men to work on the 20th of the month. They say they are going to pay $4 a day. Maybe they will put about 10 to work. The Negro workers are despised by the bosses. The bosses are trying to put Negro and white workers back in slavery in Birmingham, And the whole thing in Birmingham is a hell. ‘They are trying every way they can to lynch the boys and I can hear the K.K.K. talk every day about, the boys. This is a troubled time in Alabama. It is getting to the place where the Negro can't walk the street if they look at one of the white women. Down in the Black Belt it will be a frame-up. The bosses are getiing jdown there again, I will at least give |them a chase. I knew exactly how) |the Negroes are treated throughout | the South. I know just what they | | would say to me if I go down there, | I’m a full-blooded southern born American of the working class, for | the working class, black, white, for- | eign-born, native-born, hoping for | freedom for all the Scottsboro boys, jand wishing I could be in Decatur | |during their trial. I heard Ruby} |Bates speak in Flint. She is well| acquainted with all my people, so if | you have space in our paper, I would like you to correct all mis-spelled words, = any, and pass these few remarks around the globe. You can use my initials, —wW. T. P. . re AS P.S.—I'm going to write Mr. Roose- |Velt to stop over for a visit with my dad on his trip to his summer home in Georgia. It is close by. Perhaps if Mr. Litvinoff goes with him, they can gather in shacks enough to make | a bed for two. $2.10 for Two Relief for Neg Weeks Is Only ro Family of 5 Nothing for Clothes or Coal or Rent, Writes Birmingham Worker (By as Negry Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Department of Public Welfare of Jefferson County here gives us three days work every other week. We are supposed te get 30 cents per hour for seven hours per day, which is $2.10 for seven hours. But we do not get any cash. We have to take what we can get for our work, which is a small food order. It is supposed to last two weeks, hardly one week. We get no more until the two! weeks come around. When we ask for more here is what we get: “You all sure eat a lot. There's no need wasting food as you do.” There are five in my family, and they call that wasting. It is cold. weather, and we need clothes and coal, but we can get neither clothes nor coal. ‘When we go to the welfare to ask for relief, they tell just write and order what you need and we will send it to you, and that ts the last of it. There are so many here in the same shape. There is a man and his daughter right here close to me. They are both sick, and the welfare won't do anything for them, The man’s name is Davis Beard. ‘When I was at their home Nov. 16 not a spark of fire could be seen, not a bite to eat. They can’t even get a doctor. They sure are suffer- ing. They are not the only ones. ‘The welfare pays no rent for the workers. When the rent man comes he says, “If you can’t pay, get out.” And where are we workers to go? I had to take my boys out of school because they did not have clothes or shoes. And my wife and I both need ult., and effective Sept. 2 this year.” (Continued) Grischa: “I'd like to make an auto, but there’s no time. Besides it’s @ bother taking an auto home in the train. Just teach me how to run the trolley. Mischa: “Let's walk over to it. See, there it is! You'll learn: in a jiffy. Hey, comrade engineer! Move over. I want to show my friend how to run the trolley.” “All right.” Mischa: “Now, Grischa, take this handle. If you want to start, push it over to you. If you want to stop, push back. Press this button with your foot to sound the bell.” Grischa: “That looks easy. I’d like to run the thing though.” Mischa: “Go ahead. I'll be your conductor. All aboard! All aboard! Gorki Street next stop! See, Grischa, when I pull the string you start. That's it, Grischa. Keep it up. You-ve got the idea .. . Stop, Grischa. Gorki Street.” Grischa: “Say this is swell, Mischa. Mischa: “Stop at the Street of the Five-Year Plan. You'll see the sign. We'll get out there and give some other boy or girl a chance to be the engineer and_ conductor.” Grischa: “Well, Mischa, that was peachy. Say, I’m going to enjoy this. ‘What did you say we can do here in the Children’s Town?” Mischa: “I promised you a swell time, didn’t I? What do you want to do now? Play some stick ball, checkers, chess, volley ball, go rowing? Maybe you'd like to eat? Meals are free here, you know. Or we can go inside and make something in the airplane room or carpentry shop or camera room? | Grischa: “Well, I'm a bit tired and | dirty from the railroad. Let's take showers, Then we can eat, read a but we don’t have enough to last Indian Chief Destitute With Family Broken up ‘By a Metal Worker Correspondent FLINT CITY JAIL, Mich.—yYes- terday, I had the pleasure of in- terviewing Chief John Coughran, who resides at 220 W. Dayton St., Flint. Chief Coughran, who is a direct descendant of the famous Ottawa Tribe of Indian warriors, from whom the white man wrested this land, was born at Traverse City, Michigan. He is now unable to find an of- fice position for which he is quite qualified, having had a complete commercial training, embodying shorthand, typing and bookkeeping. He has spent seven years working for the Buick Motor Car Co. plant number 12, working for Mr. Crow- der. His two children are now in the motherly care of his grandmother. His family is broken up due to un- employment. At Buicks he was an experienced fender finisher. Now he is destitute. Through | worry and despondency he indulged | in some drinks to drown his sor-| Tow, and is now in the Flint City shoes, clothes, and coal. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS bit in the library and play after- wards. And didn’t you say at night we could go parachute jumping?” Mischa: “Sure thing. Come on over to the showers, I'll read you a let- ter on the way. Got it from my cousin Mary, who’s a Pioneer in America. Gee! What she told me about Thanksgiving in America!” We'll have to wait till next Satur- day to find out what's so surprising to Mischa about Thanksgiving in America. v ee «6 Dear Comrade Editor: The pioneers of the Clara Zetkin Troop are very thankful to the Daily Worker for their Pioneer Column. We feel that such columns will draw the workers’ children into our Pioneer movement and help us build bigger and more militant troops. We ex- pect all workers’ children to take part in the struggles of their parents. The Young Pioneers always stand ready to lead them in their fight for better | conditions. We are sure that this column will be # great help to us and we hope you will continue it with the best re- sults, Hyman Ruchelman, Clara Zetkin Troop. Announcement We know that many children haven't had time enough to answer our question column in last Satur- day's “With Our Young Workers” since all material goes in Tuesday. So we give you another week to do it. Let’s get some swell answers this week, and don’t be bashful to tell us what you think of our Children’s Corner, Minoh suit | Detroit Pioneers DETROIT, Mich.—A_ Pioneer pro- gram will be given on Thursday, Nov. 30 (Thanksgiving) at the Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St. Program will be- .| Nine Negro lads, framed up to die Jail, expecting a jail sentence. children will participate. Dancing will follow. Come and bring your friends! . ee They Shall Not Die! By PY NEIR I Because of one witness, who told lie after lie. The other witness, exposed the whole case, For the entire world to see, That our nine Negro friends are in- nocent and should he set free. Be The nine Scottsboro victims are all Negro youth And we must smash the bosses’ lie By telling all the truth. The Scottsboro boys shall not die! That must be our battlé cry! (Why not tell us who you are?) New York Pioneers on Their “Trip to Crosby” to Save the Daily Worker Progress since November 17th. Harry Eisman Troo) (They are traveling back by airplane too) Red Brigade, speeding by train.. 9.2¢ J-10 Coop (IWO) on bike _to Detroit ” » 5.85 Fred Bell Troop on bike to DONGLE Pe nccheaiduuehiviacessy Bee Ciara Zetkin Troop, Brooklyn, roller skates to Cleveland. 4.21 Muenzenberg Troop (W.LR.) walking to Pittsburgh . 2.50 Previous total . . $53.93 This Week .. 9.95 Total up to date ...... pili $62.88 | All Pioneers! Particinate in the | Tag Days and get on the “Trip to | support of our paper. | Gold and Luttinger were running gin at 6:30 p.m. Four hundred Crosby.” harder and harder with the Negro workers and the workers are getting tired of the A, F, of L, The A. F. of L. is misleading the workers. In the shop they say they are going to pay 40 to 50 cents an hour, That’s what they are saying. They are going to work 10 hours a day, three days a week. Garton Toy Co. Firing Over 300 (By a Worker Correspondent) SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—I am working for the Garton Toy Co. They are laying off men, some who have work- ed for years. I understand there will be about 300 men laid off this week. Other shops here are the same. The relief station here is about the same as all over. The Sheboygan Press is a “red hot blue eagle sheet,” but there are some that are learning that it does not take a labor man’s side of the ques- tion. Some are learning that the A. F. of L. is not what they thought it_was. The Kohler Co. laid off about 700 men at one time, and I understand there will be further layoffs there. Letters from Our Readers VETERAN DAILY WORKER READER REGISTERS APPROVAL, Comrade Editor: Spokane, Wash. A number of years ago I was reader and subscriber of the “Truth” of Duluth. When the subscription list was taken over by our Party, I received the “Weekly Worker” and helped to start the “Daily Worker” with a stock subscription. If reading our fighting organ from its incep- tion makes for efficiency, then my critique should be correct. I have no fault to find with our paper, neither can I offer advice for improvements. In fact I think the “Worker” has reached the point where it can’t be improved. The editorials are unsurpassed. A column of lively medical advice. Household advice and sports, also film critique, then the crisp and lively writing of Comrade Gold. I am getting from our paper all information needed for keeping abreast with our era and the class struggle. It should have been eight pages, but this rests with the mem- bers and sympathizers of our move- ment. Enclosed is my check for $12.50 for If Comrades even, then I wouldn’t know whom to credit with this remittance. Dr. Lut- tinger brings in the rear. I wish you would credit him in the contest with this sum. peste: T. Ahrens, CRITICIZING A CARTOON Milwaukee, Wis. Dear Comrades: I wish to vake objection to the car- toon that appeared on the editorial page of the Daily Worker, on Mon- day, Oct. 23. The cartoon, under the caption: “The old gentleman ain’t so dumb,” portrays Wall Street sitting with the map of the world in front of him and holding the US.S.R. in one hand ready to place the US.S.R. in a certain vacant space as if in a jig-saw puzzle. I have talked to a number of workers and they seem to have the same impression as I have. First, the cartoon conveys the im- pression that the U.S.S.R. is just a missing piece of the capitalist world and that Wall Street has now de- cided to take that piece, the US.S.R., to do with it as he pleases and place it in connection with the rest of the world. I suppose the gentleman is not dumb, because he has an ulteriot motive for doing what he does. But, comrades, the matter is not so simple. First of all, the U.S.S.R. is not a passive force that can be picked up by any gentleman, dumb or smart, and just allowed recogni- tion. The Soviet Union has com- pelled the Wall Street Government to recognize it. Though Wall Street may profit for the time being through economic gains, etc., nevertheless, the fact of the matter remains that after 16 years of stubborn opposition to the workers republic, American im- perialism is compelled, because of the crigis and the general situation of the ciptalist world, and the strength of the Soviet Union, to talk of dip- lomatic relations, ete, The artist or the one who inspired this cartoon may have wanted to convey to the readers of the Daily, that even though there may be rec- ognition, still Wall Street has some- thing up its sleeve. As the thing was placed, it conveys the opposite impression Ancther thing that lends itself to criticism is the fact that Wall Street seems to have the map of the world in its lap, but if this were the case, there would be no danger of an im- The Significance of Recent Strike Struggles in the U.S. “United Front From Below Will Defeat A. F. of L. and 8. P. Misleadership” By BILL DUNNE (From the Speech Delivered by Bill munne, at the 17th Meeting of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.) | Comrades, the political estimate of the situation in the United States and the immediate tasks of the Party have been given in Comrade Browder’s report and in the draft resolution to the plenum which very few comrades have referred to. I think we must draw some political conclusions from the fact that the resolution before this meeting of the Central Committee has not been more of a basis of the dis-¢ cussion in this plenum. My impression of the discussion is that with the help of the Open Letter and the impact of the tre- mendous mass struggles that are tak- jing place in this country our Party is emerging, not rapidly enough, but still emerging, from the bewilder- |imene with which it confronted the new offensive against the working class, represented by the change from the crude methods of the Hoover regime to the combination of the demagogy and ruthless terror of the Roosevelt administration. What is the meaning of the tremendous strike movement that is taking place in this country? I dis- regard, of course, in this general estimate, such exaggerated state- ments as that the terror in Ambridge is the worst anybody has ever seen. |1 am willing to admit it is the worst the comrades at Ambridge have ever seen; but we cannot take these things as the best expression of the line of the American ruling class and its government. Some Comrade here, I think it was Comrade Johnstone, was absolutely correct when he said that some of our comrades in the steel industry don’t understand that when you start out seriously to or- ganize steel workers, you are chal- lenging, not only these individual companies in steel, but the steel trust and the American government and the basic industry of American capi- talism. The steel trust will defend its most outlying outpost with the same vigor it defends its center, if it thinks the conquest of this out- post means the invasion of the center; that’s what you must under- stand. We shouldn't be surprised by these things. When we say “sur- prised,” this is a confession of in- eptness; we should be prepared; that should be the situation. The Strike Wave This tremendous strike wave, with its militancy, with its daily evidence of the great initiative right from the tanks of the American workers, has demonstrated indisputably that whether these workers beling to the T. U. U. L. unions, the A. F, of L. unions, or independent unions, there is no perceptible dividing line be- tween their sentiments, between their whole approach to the question of ‘truggle and between the tactics that they adopt in the struggle against the bosses and the government. What does this mean? This means, in the most concrete terms, that our tac- lic of the united front from below (and, to digress for a moment, I think we have not utilized these ex- periences sufficiently to shatter com- pletely the slanders of the Love- stoneites and the Cannon-Trotzkyites about the united front tactics of the Comintern)—the tactic of the united front from below, especially in the United States, with its millions and millions of unorganized workers in the basic industries, is the weapon, with which our Party is going to defeat the A. F. of L. and S, P. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City leaderships. These great struggles are guaran< tees of the militancy, the initiative and the inherent revolutionary con- sciousness of the American working class. That, I think, very briefly is the main lesson of this tremendous strike movement that we have in the United States. Why? Because this strike movement is taking place in the face of the best organized and most ambitious offensive ever launched by the American ruling class and its government—an offen- sive designed to maintain what there was of docility in the American working class and to cr comrades, on es of these tre- mendous mass struggles that in this sector the American ruling class has failed. The struggles in the past six months, the living irresistible logic of the class struggle has proved in the face of all doubters that the American working class is a revolu~ tionary class and that it has reserves of militancy and initiative that even we have failed to plumb and estimate correctly. Now something about the line of the American Federation of Labor, The American Federation of Labor at its 53rd Annual Conference was, so far as the leadership was con~ cerned, incorporated into the mach- inery of the American imperialist government in every respect, except that no formal motion was passed that said this. But actually this is whet happened. Question arise from this—very practical questions, The steel trust owners, the auto barons, and the spokesmen of the so-called “captive” mines have gone to the Roosevelt administration and stated in effect. “We were right, we told you to begin with that you can- not proceed as you could during the war, when there was no Communist Party in this country; that to allow even these fakers to organize work- ers in the basic sectors of American industry is to lay the basis for the organization of the revolutionary forces thet the Communist Party in this country will get.” They learned their lesson from Weirton, Ambridge, and McKeesport and every other place where the workers Were organized; in no matter what the organization, they struck. The conception of these new con- tingents of workers of a union or= ganization is that it is something by which you get better wages, and working conditions; something that organizes you and leads you in strug- gle. ‘That is the thing. And this cuts straight across the class col- laboration line of the leadershin of the Wolmans, the Tucwells and of all of those other S. P. and vulgar economists in high pests in the N. R. A. administration. And, of course, the owners of stecl and coal af correct. They are correct. Such a line, such a@ policy, such tactics could have been carried through be‘ore the War, while there was no Communist Party, but it cannot be carried through now without the greatest resistance. So what do we ste now? Read the daily press. That is all you have to do. Roosevelt, Pinchot, Johnson, are demanding the end of these strikes. There is going to be more terror and less demagogy. Of course, there will be a certain amount of demagogy. The crushing of strikes by treachery and terror is to be in the interests of national recovery. There will be more emphasis on co- cperation, company unions, merit clauses and “peace in industry.” But workers will understand this dema- gogy. (To be continued) by wr. PAUL LUTTINGER, M. D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Bran Jeroz—Any kind of bran is useful in certain forms of constitution; but the constant taking of bran may cause a chronic gastritis in people who have delicate stomachs. Cannibal Sandwich—Tartar Steak —Kiiney Trouble N. T., Albuquerque, N. M.—“Canni- bal” sandwich is one made of hashed raw meat and raw onions. The Tar- tar steak ‘s really a raw hamburger steak with a raw egg on top. If you suffer from kidney trouble you had perialist war and the imperialist con- tradictions are of no importance. The question of the Soviet Union is of such importance, especially now, when millions of American workers and farmers are thinking about American-Soviet relatit “Therefore, it is our task to picture situation as politically and clearly as possible. When we speak of the defense of the Soviet Union, it is not because the Soviet Union is weak and defense- less, The Soviet Union has plenty of resources and strength to defend itself against the capitalist world. But we raise that slogan, being fully conscious of the fact that the Soviet Union is the base of the world revo- lution—and for this reason it is nec- essary for all workers of the world to rally around. You will excuse me if I am too lengthy, or if I take too much space in dealing with just a cartoon, but cartoons are very often as important as an editorial. —M., CHILDS, District Organizer. better stick to a strict vegetarian diet and leave the cannibal sandwiches to the cannibals. Mineral Oil and Dry Skin Mrs. K., Woodridge, N. ¥.—Mineral cil has no effect whatsoever on the dryness of the skin. The reason is that mineral oil is not absorbed into the body but acts as a lubricant for the intestinal canal. in by mouth leaves the body. Some~ times it leaks out when we least ex= pect it to. If you wish to influence your dry skin you must use vegetable oils such as olive oil which you can , eat as well as rub into the skin, sev- eral times a day. Where To Get Circumsized A Worker—Any surgical clinic in New York City will circumsize you, free of charge, if you apply for the operation. Thanks for your contribu- * tion to the Daily Wo:ker, Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received to the credit of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist com- petition with Michael Gold, Edward ‘Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,009 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: Group of workers . R. Stergios T. Goulios .. Previous total Total to daie ... +$325.15, (Note:—The last thi con*sbu- tions were: previously received but not listed in this column.) The same / / amount of mineral oil that is taken ,' | | |

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