The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1933, Page 4

Paze Four PARTY LIFE Mass Support Is Necessary For C. P. Sustaining Fund] Source of Financial Support Must Be Broad- |} ened Out to Strengthen Party’s Activities The first principle in the problem of finances, as pointed out by Com-| | | | | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, Longshoremen in Baltimore Walk Out on J. P. Ryan Laying Off (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—J. P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s Asociation, seems ‘I ennsylvania Road Start Relief Insurance Dues Raised One-Third, But | With No Increase in Benefits 8 5,000 Workers q to be very popular with the long- shoremen in Baltimore. A m-et- ing of I. L, A. longshoremen was By a Railroad Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Pennsylvania Railroad is laying off 5,000 workers in its system. Hundreds are being Iaid off on the Long Island R. R., and addi- | tional hundreds on the New York Central R. R. and the New York, New VEMBER 27, 1933 {Post Office Worker Praises Daily Worker’s |News on Substitutes! By a Post Office Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Thank you for | bringing to the attention of your readers to the deplorable conditions of substitute post-office employes. ‘he statements as you printed them, jshow a world more of sympathetic A. F. of L. and By BILL The Significance of Recent Strike Struggle in the U.S. “United Front from Below Will De efeat the S. P. Leadership DUNNE junderstanding than the capitalistic press would ever show. The latter, Haven and Hartford Railroad, The 5-day week is being extended to a 6-day week. All relief | who were covering the work for the ¢—— | remaining two days a week are being EDITOR’S NOTE: The foilowing is the second and concluding part of the speech delivered by Bill Dunne at the seventeenth meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States). In “HOO, RYAN! WE'RE WALKIN’ OUT ON YA! rade Earl Browder, is that: “The source of financial support must be} broadened out, must be placed upon a mass basis. Every organization must, | if they give any space to our griev-| workers "——~ | ances, print such statements as to| Without definite knowing its source of income, the Communist cannot budget and plan its ac- ruggle needs ma- is funds which The cle thust plied both by the Com. 7 munist Party membership and the Ss npathizers. the call is so urgent, on many the cre- when the Party is f the class gle. New York District is call meeting of the Sustaining (and future sup- Nov. 28, at Note ing Fund supporters Tuesday. porters) for 7:30 p.m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. Max Bedacht, of the Central Committee, C. P. U S. A. will be main speaker. source of ation a dy incom: becomes an absolute necessity. The| building of the aining Fund, Fund, therefore, becomes imperative. Platonic Sympathy Not Needed. Every P; izer, who sup- st movement the necessity y dependable strug: t who call them. who are guided by our take interest in its ot heeded hundreds of who pack our in th Communist mpath: daign to build the s the first organized CONDE’ BELEN A number of cliz me by or reader: Jaarrennomnge 4 readers. er hus- yi W d her ‘The husband thought she worked as a telephone operator. She + fined $20 Arrested 2. } fine, she She te a t little c ‘The clos States: “I r business g00d pe m American stock fo: : it fathers in t denied the right cannot This letter also Vike to know, w gan men, and robbers of al! the streets of Chicag THAT'S Why, of Course! AMl part and parcel of the same vile | ‘apitalist system of privilege for the | few wolves and oppression for the| Masses. It ts useless to look for re-| dress from a hopelessly corrupt svs- tem which automatically places the I should ters, gun- inds roam fi government in the hands of the _ Wolves. > It is useless to weep, useless to | Petition, useless to pray. The people ; an hope for life and freedom only } When they take matters into their| ©/ own hands. Yes—one of my grand-| fathers, too, fought in the first civil * war myself, I haven't much pa- « tlence with graft, gangsterism, en- }. forced prostitution, “unemployment,” $ financial crisis, bourgeois “economy,” | Starved kids in sight of food, and all _ other such-like monkey-business, =’ And T have still less patience with » the ornate speeches and seven-syllable words with which the big shots, from Norman Thomas up, or down, try to induce us to BE patient. ... And, since I have it on good au- thority that prostitution has been practically liquidated in the Soviet | Union, and as I feel a strong ambi- | # tion to liquidate it here, I mean to| ” trot right along with the Communist International and I urge all other gals with similar alms to do the! same Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke | ons received to the credit | in her Socialist com- | bi Co’ of Fe petitic lichael Gold, Dr. Lut- we Ain dy Newhouse and Jacob | *Burck to r $1,000 in the $40,000 | the first place, rely for its finances upon continuous and growing mass | Pe entacts and mass support.” ‘Tribime of November 7 molested?” | a t to make the Party member-| hip and the Party sympathizers fully | | realize that without their steady help. | the Party’s activities cannot be prop- jerly planned and conducted. The | Sustaining Fund must be built on a mass basis of individual contributors. | | Every one within and around the |Party should give according to his| or her means—but give regularly weekly or monthly. Sympathizers Should Take Leadership Sustaining Fund Committees should be organized within the mass organi- zations on a voluntary basis among our sympathizers to assure the sys- | tematic and regular collection of the pledges. Party members must help | build these committees. Opportunity for leadership in this work is to be| ympathizing workers, who should devise ways and means for the | en. the raising of these funds and for the increasing of the number of the | Sustaining Fund contributors. SOMETIMES THEY’RE PUBLISHED Why not try to get articles in cap- litalistic papers? There are hundreds | of people like myself that have plenty lof time to write such articles, Write |them, fire them in to editors. Many |of them may never see daylight, but |the writer doesn’t lose much. Every now and then I see where some | radical has hit a capitalistio magazine jand got by with the goods. There ought to be a hundred thousand times | as much such writing. Comrades, I ire so many ways of helping in the work, that we are not utilizing. Write for those capitalistic magazines. Your old comrade, P. A. OLIVER. MIGHT DIE FROM INDIGESTION Ashtabula, Ohio. IT Dear Editor The American Legion reminds me of a dog I used to have that during the summer months used to go around and pick up toads in her the yellow acid that the toad con- ceans in its cutaneous glands. But that made no difference to the poor | dumb dog. The sicker she got the bet she liked it. Ww see it. The more misery, famine, fake promises, the better they like it. ED BL LUEE ings from bourgeois papers and magazines, sent to include a story from the “Voice of the People” column This one was sent in by | |Letters from Readers | laid off, and with ever greater speed- up it is possible to maintain the same amount of work, One example: On the electric loco- motives leaving Sunnyside yards, three engines broke their axles in 5 cays, two in Pennsylvania Station | and one on the high line. Our Voluntary Relief Insurance not | only on the Pennsylvania R. R., but | also on the New Haven and on the } New York Central R.R. was jacked | up 331-3 per cent without increas- | ing our benefit: Our meager wages are getting smaller day by day as the cost of liv- ng rises. There is no mention of re- turning our 10 per cent with or with- out back pay, which was also sup- posed to be s voluntary loan by the workers to the railroad bosses, on the | promise that we, the railroad workers, | could stop the depression if we ac- | | cepted a 10 per cent wage cut, which turned out to be a 33 to 70 per cent | cut. | ‘We see Pullman porters working |125 hours a week for $16, we see | Pullman waiters reporting for work | five days a week and then being told | | by the foreman to stay in one place | |so the foreman will know where to | | find him. Yet the worker does not | | held at 510 S. Broadway on Fri- day, Nov. 10. When Ryan got up to speak the rank and file all walked out of the hall. Because of the exposure of Ryan and his henchmen by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union the longshoremen in Baltimore are beginning to let Ryan know that he and his racketeers are not wanted. Mr. Ryan will find him- self on the ontside looking in be- fore long. | { | Union Ready to Help Messenger Boys’ Struggles’ By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—A new deal for the most exploited group of boys between the ages of 14 and 17, the “Muts of the Western Union.” How our faces brightened when we heard that at last we were going to get a $13 or $15 minimum pay for 40 hours’ work. But again the Blue Buzzard showed his real colors. The story of the de- ception is one that has become very | familiar since Roosevelt took office. NANI S tan Sark Me act THe NIRA. MIRAGE + can’t hardly quit writing, there) mouth and would get very sick“from} So that is the! vith the American Legion as I| Paper Box Union Members Learning f A.F.L. Treachery 0 By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I would like to have it made known, through the columns of the Daily Worker, that the state jot affairs in the Paper Box Makers Union,, Federal Local 18,239, is not as rosy as our union “leaders” would |have us believe. Since the last strike jof Sept. 12, in which over 3,000 paper {box makers participated, conditions of the box makers have become worse | instead of better. Hundreds of workers have been laid | off sirice the strike. When the union officials are asked by these workers for jobs the answer is always, “Sor- Ty, but times are bad.” Although these workers have paid for their membership books, they have not re- ceived them as yet and are never notified of union meetings. Those workers who are still in the shops are beginning to see through Joe Parisi, of the drivers’ local. A |group of rank and file workers who sought to expose their false promises have already been expelled by the |“Executive Board” of the union, which is controlled by Vonie and | Parisi. | Leaflet Demands Rights In a leaflet issued by this group to he workers in the shops, they put \forward the demand for their rights |88 workers in the industry and mem- \vers of the union fighting for the interests of the workers, to speak be- fore the membership and let the membership judge them by the facts they present. But Vonie and Parisi t like this, being afraid that ‘kers iors and take action against them. They attacked these workers as Com- ld Daily Worker Drive. jmunists, hoping that this would set ln Sidne $250 the workers against them. In this ly Taities Renee rresreeesessco-® joogithey succeeded, but just for a short | Prévions total * g4'a9| ‘ime, for there is now considerable | Total to date 998.72 the false promises of the business | agent, Vonie, and his able assistant, | would see them in their true | | Seb & run. He is taking orders while | there, he spends car fare and he gets | nothing in return. | Two weeks ago another worker dropped dead in the engine house. | Sunnyside doctors reported it was | heart failure. ‘The bosses right now are their hold on the whip. All sorts of | |laws aremade—N.R.A,, co-ordination, | codes, etc. Hours are being reduced. | | Wages are being reduced by advanc- | ing living costs. More and more rail- road workers find themselves on the street, with no relief. We know that the men making these laws that we have to abide by are the very ones who employ us. Then how can we get relief under boss-made Taws? | | from us, to get better living stan- dards and relief, we must fight as we never fought before, and this cannot be done under the present misleader- ship of the 21 standard railroad unions. , We musi unite the workers of the 21 standard railroad unions into one solid fighting mass organization and to keep the unemployed within our | ranks. One group of unemployed rail- road workers was formed last week at W. 72d St., New York Central R. R. Workers, those of us who still have jobs, we are duty-bound to support the unemployed councils. A campaign has been started to form unemployed councils composed of unemployed railroad workers. doubt in the minds of the workers as to who is telling the truth. ‘The “new contract” is a good ex- ample of how Charles Vonie fights for the paper box makers. It calls for the continuance of the old scale to | | Way Vonie works. We know damn | | 0es up for us the bosses are making |More profits than ever before. t box workers should be on their guard against two officials of | the union who at one time or another have posed as left-wingers; they are Morris Wray, vice-president of the union, and his sister, who is secretary of the union. You Make ‘Em Can Yourself? Pi ™m 1605 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size Seattle Takes Lead From Boston; Increases Quot 1 , ; NEW YORK.—Seattle, District 12,| Roider 30 dope 6 takes 2% yards 54-inch fabric and! now teads in the Da. ly Worker Drive, | Lists Total Nov. 18 4.00 3 yard 39-inch contrasting. Ilustrat-| displacing Boston, District 1, in first = ie te-10N 1.25 | Total to date 90.25 ed step-by-step sewing instructions| (77 < . e 0 DIST. No. 11 iuelneet: Ld ie | Position. Seattle has not only raised| R. Rauta ey | 107.56 per cent on its quota of $500, 7 Lupakko % but has voluntarily raised its quote ae pipet to $750. This is a challenge to Bos-|a correin” | Rauch, ee jton and to all other districts. Can} Phil 4.85 | Barthomaus y | you beat Seattle? Let’s hear from| pliant 5 284 I os you. ‘ WIM) Totel Nov. 18 6.85 | Total to date e742 peered in the last half week fell| Total Je cite nie! 69 DIST. No. 12 $958.04, compared with $1,04759 in eee NLWU, Aberdeen .50 ibe fexevious Balt ieee One rite Tegriian iain | Ae Fe ot r 5 09 per cent of the total of $40,000 has ——| Un, use been raised. Total Nov. 18 15.00 | Sec. 5, Un. 8 10.72 Peat tales : Total to date 161.87 | Seo 1, Un. 1-6N 2.00 sich No, Finnish Whrs. Contributions recetved Saturday,| 8 8. Wits. c. 198 = ees | November 18: Tin Plate Un., pee srine DIST. He. 3 Brion x by 196 pamper’, 7.00 ioe ~ 31.02 .00 | Sec. 4, On. 30 ne to 498.70 Bah ene ae “mp | Total Nov. 18 8.53 DIST. No. 18 AK 100 | See. 4, Un. 41370 bhi ge ates Ghleao Un. 3.40 eer Un. 3.00 . No. Kkton Un. 180 Teree wo. | on ats 4.05 | YUgo-Slav W.C. 3.80 | Nov. 7 Cel. Oak. 1.85 Col. by B. T. Seo 10, Un 1 = 1.10 Ke ae a be =. — 1 3 names 8.00 Unit Lists |Z. adler < in m. No re yo ga Col. by Mevalin | | Col. by Krizon "| Total wow. 18 3670 Usb 11181 Col. by Wolzbeane: | Steve Novak- yd ee I tes, x 21S names 45 | 2-33-5N 80) L. Brownbiatt, 3 names" 4 3.00 ie (32740 | Lith, Buro | Besley 1.00 oe ae names 11 names 3.00 —o pl 2.75 |~otel Nov. 18 ~ 1.00 3 names 00 2.80 Total to date 466.48 Col. by A. Weiman 6.25| DIST. No, 15 | names, 390 12 | F. Peterson 1.00 7 name 130 90} 2.88 | Total Nov. 18 — 1.00 List 111679 06 " get ed ee Dame 1.00 es . No. 17 Col. by E. B. gr no 1.00) M. J., Monte 2 names CM) Cot ey temas? Pee 6.40 | gomery Lerner 8.00 | Col. z — chenko 1.00] Burenke = oes $00 | Col. by Kriskott 25 der Potal de iaatel. abee Kiimas 506 Gabe Gaseane <i | ‘Sehetlon el to date 48. A Ch el 1.00 t ¢ . De one, 199 | cist 'sa56i-4 4.00 | meet wae | Y he “go | Col. by Rosenberg .50| Bening Sporad ‘W & pightbourne 80 | Gol.by Camel-3N 1.05 S| Stamter Ay . Melsnner 100 Org Lists Total Nov. 18 40.49 Cll-Grand ¥.0. 1.00 | Col. by Weiner Total to date 943.18 | ‘Total Nov. 18 Th Bae oe ee 1.95 | 5. iisencaN 1 | Die Ne Red Pront 1.98) -"ot sago7-3N 185 | J . ’ » No. 1y Jugo-Biay W.0. | List 63616-6N 1.15 | Mr. & Mrs, Col. by Cohen Group 1 9.00 | Col. by Gershour- Baker 1.00 yee si Grow 2 6.00 Bt ae jetric] a Praction “eh | Cink AAS | total Nov. 18° 1.78 | Col. by H.pletrich ° ist 66238-7N Wrrs. 42.42 | List teeae-sw 1.75 | Total to dats 1464.52 ae 109 Tee mes Lie | ae ta cornea B08 aay 3.12| Gatms 50 18 10.82 | Gol. by Maroza~ Gary Un. 3 16.60 a 35 | OM Mu —— | Total to date 194.86 aT 500 ‘Volunteers Total Nov. 18 18.72 ‘Miseelaneous Send FIFTEEN CENTS (150) in| "econ Br | Col. Boxes ia eee coins or stamps (coins preferred) for] Russ jan Br. 6, | Br 53 1.27 —— | this ie : ‘Cherm 1.70] H ing-14B 4.05 Total Nov. 18 2.00 his Anne Adams pattern. Write| Open 4 17 aie H. Roskis 2.00 | Total to date 68.00 plainly name, address and style num- WESL No.1. Dime Tubes si LW. o. ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. | “Ghepman 80 | 8. Halpern ‘| Total Nov. 18° 11.25 | Br. 12-Steinberg 30 Address orders to Daily Worker| Amer. Youth cl. a ‘Weltzman ) Te an ee a 90 | Br. 1008-Zakany 2.50 Pattern Department, 243 West 17th| Rom, | 1,00 : a4 | 3, Logsdon, Total Nov. 18 9.00 Strect, New York City, Seo. 8, Un. 4119.00 “a6| Des Moines 4,00 Total to date 2369, To get back what was taken away | well that while the cost of living | | A few months ago the managers of |the office in which we worked re- ceived 2 notice that the Blue Buz- zard was to be displayed in the win- dows. However, weeks went by and we received no increase in pay or decrease in hours. Rumors were con- stantly circulating to the effect that a $15 minimum was to be created and that all boys under the age of 16 were to be discharged. Finally, the central office got into action. A notice was telegraphed to the various offices advising them to send to the main office all messen- gers under 16. But although the boys under 16 were put under a system | Where they could make $3 a week, we still received no increase in salary. An Interrupted Education , However, at this point I would like to say something about the mes- senger boys under 16 who were called to the main branch. Under the N.R.A. code these boys were to attend school maintained exclusively for the W. U. messengers and work for three hour: a Gey. But this is the way their rotten | | ridicule us. Many of us have been in the ser- |viee for seven years, none for less {than four years. We signed our alle- glance to the U.S.A. and swore in | writing to defend our country. Now jthe capitalist scoundrels who put | those provisions in our applications for appointments still refuse to pay us @ living wage, even though there is no postal deficit. How much longer will this con- tinue? As long as the minds of the post office workers ond all workers stay moulded in the “patriotism” taught them in the public schools and in misleading information print- ed in the newspapers they read. Only when a sufficient number of workers can be taught to get their news from the Daily Worker will the people |learn how real prosnerity can be theirs. system works. While the boys are in school, and should any special job crise, these boys are forced to leave classes and work for the munificent sum of 20 cents an hour. Thus these Kinds get neither a good education nor @ good job. Under this trumped up system the boys earn the measly sum of $3 a week and get the dubious advantage of an interrupted educa- tion To take the place of the under- age boys, the main office sent down boys over 16 and kept the same wage schedule. The Western Union is continuing to break the health of young grow- ing boys at a salary of approximately $8 a week. How do you imagine these ingenious racketeers and murderers, yes, murderers, for they have on their hands the blood of the messengers killed in the street accidents due to the fact that they were speed up in order to make up for the cuts they Teceive in pay, were able to prevent 2 minimum wage in pay,—under the pretext that the messengers were salesmen and therefore were not to be included in the code? Do you won- der that the W. U. messengers are awake to the fact that they need a real workers’ union to help them in their fight? At the present time we have found @ union that we know will support our struggle for a decent living. The Office Workers Union. Since the code has been signed in our compeny we have started to. join this union, end I am sure that we will in a short time make an organization that will force these parasites to give us at least 2 minimum wage and eliminate the commission pay basis under which we now work. A Messenger. | | By MAX BEDACHT. The improvement in the returns jof the English and Youth Sections |Can workers carry some sort of in-| jis the outstanding feature of the its of the eighth week of the |membership drive of the Interna- |tional Workers Order. | The Ukrainian section, too, shows |a marked improvement. The total of this week is 683 new |members and 138 children. Of the |new members, the Jewish Section |took in 229, the Hungarian Section |116, the Slovak Section 92, the Uk- |rainian Section 60, the English Sec- tion 58 and the Youth Section 40. The rest are distributed among th2 Italian, Polish, Roumanian and the jsmaller sections. |. This week shows an increase of ‘111 new members over last week's Let us maintain this gain jand add to it in the coming weeks. | We intend to make a comparison lof the results of the campaign by districts but we lacked time to analyze our records. Special Campaign in December. The Organization Committee of jthe International Workers Order decided to have a special competi- tion, with special prizes, for the last month of the campaign. the month of December it will add to |Tesults. % \all the prizes and rewards for new members already offered to com- rades, an additional prize. During the whole month of De- cember a special prize will be given to individuals as wefl as to branches for new members recruited under The prizes are of special value to all workers. The aim of recruiting workers under 30 years is especially desirable. There- fore all comrades should be inter- ested in the contest. What Is the 1. W. 0.7 ‘The International Workers Order is a mutual benefit society. It or- |ganizes mutual insurance among its |members, But isn’t it rather strange for a working class organization to con- cern itself with such a bourgeois business such as insurance? No, it is not strange at all. It is just a proof that the workers try all means to solve their immediate problems until they learn to solve \the ultimate one. Capitalist exploitation corrupts everything it touches. It creates needs and then coins profits out of i » supplying remedies, thereby creating new problems. Its business of mak~- ling profits creates economic inse~ curity for the masses; then, it turns Sand makes a profitable business out of the misery caused by this eco- nomic insecurity. This business. is insurance. But it is not insurance that smells so badly, it is the busi- ness end of it, the profit feature lof insurance. Capitalism is only interested in the business end of insurance, in the profit that can be coined out of it, But the workers are interested in the insurance end of it. Ney need the insurance. It is their only, though inadequate remedy for the economic insecurity from which English and Youth Sections Gain in 8th I.W.O. Drive Week last until Jan. 1, 1935! This is the | they suffer. That is why millions of Ameri- urance. That is why other mil- ns belong to muiual benefit so- eties, -to fraternal organizations. |_ In the International Workers Or- jder the workers build themselves a mutual insurance organization un- der their control and free from the profit features of capitalist insur- ance. They build for themselves an organization free also from the high-salar, high-bonus collecting bourgeois leadership in the capital- ist fraternal organizations, Instead of serving private inter- ests, the Order serves the workers’ interests. It insures its members; it teaches them that united action, that mutual solidarity, can solve Problems that individual efforts can not solve. It teaches them that the root of the evil which forces the worker to seek the protection of | insurance is the profit system. teaches them that so¢ial insurance is the only immediate remedy of thelr economic insecurity. It fin- remedy is a new world, at new sys- tem, built by workers’ political rule. It is clear therefore that although the TWO does supply insurance to its members, it has no capitalist features; the odium of the insurance Business can in no way reflect’ upon it. It is @ workers’ organization not only in composition, but in aim. Tt serves its proletarian mem- bers through mutual insurance; but it also. serves the whole working class by training its proletarian members for the class struggle and by being part of the workers’ army in the class struggle. That is why it is the duty of the revolutionists to build the Iwo. That is why the TWO has a right. to expect that every militant worker contributes to its growth and, if Possible, joins the Order. Suche he Chicago Youth Drive CHICAGO.—The City Central Com- mittee of the Chicago I. W. O. has suddenly become aware of the bad situation existing in the Youth Sec- tion, They are concerned—but what about the Youth Section iself? ‘We must build our Youth Section into a real mass organization of young workers and students. We must over- come the difficulties confronting us, and we must overcome them ni Our quota for the present member- ship drive, which ends Jan. 13, is 250 new members. The question is not whether or not we shall fulfill our quota—but rather HOW we will arranged for Sunday, Dec. 3, at 4:00 p. m., at 2134 . West Division St. at the I. W. O. Center there. After the meeting, where a thorough discussion will take place and where @ new City Youth Committee will be an Nid raid should have their nominees ), ® novel program has been arranged. 1] ally shows them that the ultimate | in which they arc involved, (Continued from Saturday's Daily Worker) Do you know what is really the matter with Ambridge and Greens- burg? First of all, we liquidated the whole issue of concentration. We worked away from the decisive plants at Jones & Laughlin, etc. If we had concentrated there properly, we would not be talking about the terror in Ambridge. That is the answer. The Steel workers would have had a real Perspective of big struggles. And it is the same in the Miners’ Union. If we had concentrated, as we decided time and time again, in Fayette County, we would not be talking about the U. M. W. A. lead- ling this strike—we would be leading this strike. Failure in Concentration T fail to understand how some com- rades can get so far, discussing every- thing in the world except concentra- tion at this date. If we have had hard sledding for the time being in the Pittsburgh area, does this mean that our policy or organizing revolu- tionary unions and independent lead- ership is wrong? No. It simply means | that we did not concentrate and or- ganize these unions in the right places | to begin with and missed moments | that were more or less decisive. What does it mean when the Amalgamated, headed by Mike Tighe, this servile tool of the bosses, can come into Weirton, one of the worst company towns, where there are no elections, where every policeman is appointed by the company, and stage a strike of 15,000 workers? The work- ers do not believe the Amalgamated especially. They want to join a union because it means battle for better con- ditions. And we are monkeying around in Ambridge. Why, if we had Jones & Laughlin in South Pittsburgh or Allequipa we would not need to talk about sweeping up and down the! valley. We would be sweeping up| and down the valley. Struggle On Broad Scale It does not mean that we are against small strikes, or against or- ganization of small plants. No. We | are for strikes everywhere when they | are properly organized and there is} @ prospect of winning. But steel workers know instinctively on the basis of their experiences dating with the Homestead strike and coming up through 1919-1920 that you won't make the steel trust’ yield, you won't make the government yield, and you won't build a powerful industrial union in steel unless you have a per- spective of struggle on an industrial scale in the steel industry. This we failed to give to the steel workers, I think, and if I am wrong, I would like to be corrected. In regard to the question of oppor- tunism in the leadership of the trade unions, it is my opinion that these comrades who are in pretty direct contact with workers tend to get the most backward expressions, or tend to emphasize the expressions of the most backward workers. Bringing Party Forward ‘These comrades, in my opinion, think of the Party in another period; they don’t think of the Party in the present period. They think of the period when the Party was brought forward so ineptly in previous situa- tions, when the working class was not so radicalized, when the working class was not so conscious, not so interested in political questions; they think any attempt to bring forward the Party now will repeat those un- fortunate instances. This is one basis for opportunism among our leader- * the section reprinted today, Comrade Dunne speaks of the duty of strike . organizers to bring forward the Communist Party in all strike situations Ship in the trade unions. Some of these trade union: leaders are very good organizers, very aggres- sive comrades. When T spoke to seven or eight hundred strikers in .Allen- | town it was decided that I was to: be introduced as a member of the land Metal’ Workers Union. instead, \as a representative of the T. U..U.) | Comrade Blank was kind enough, t |say that I brought in very skillfully |the question of the N. R. A. Bus | this is beside the question. If we lare going to criticize these trade union jleaders and-repeat our former mis- takes, it means that we shall have ; to get another set of organizers. The only thing we can do is te convince these comrades that the Party has @ right to get into these situations, not only the right, but the duty. Workers» Ask About Party These comrades have to be made |to understand that they are Party |people, that they don’t play an in- |dependent role. What standing they |have is a result of their membership jin and the support of the Commu- |nist Party. I would like to know how far Blank and others would get, if they went out on their own ané tried to organize the American work~- ing class. It is well to be concrete in such | things, and this has something to do with building the Party; it. is very directly connected with building the Party. I dropped into Buffalo, more or less accidentally, and I was around. there as a reporter for the Daily Worker. Here I was introduced ag the organizer of the Steel and Metal Workers Union. I used to go to strike meetings almost every day. The workers would ‘corner me and say, “Didn't you speak in. Pittsburgh at such and sueh a meeting?” “Didn't you speak with Foster in Youngs- town?” “Weren't you in Chicago on such and such a day?” Of course, I had to admit such indictments, ang then after @ little more palaver, they At least 20 workers in that strike ¢ 400 to 500 approached me in th’ manner. clude that*this is a line and policy of the Party and that the Party does not every one of these struggles there 10 or 15 — and as cent of the workers to join the Party if asked. © des. Stachel, Browder,’ 6 country; all our get around thy ers get around the country; speak to workers, thousahds of ers hear them; yet in strike struggles no one comes forward to ask work- ers to join the Party. Well, they wonder why this is. "They know what the Party program is, that. militant workers are. supposed join. Sra 0n Saaties Oe ee not” s clude that for some reason the Communist Party does them. This,.may sound s gerated, but it is absolutely Party has tremendous infil these workers try to follow of the Communist Patty. They: that if the Party does not think fit to Join, they will not insist More confidence in- the American working class and in our Party! + é Ht aeRee al as Fa | “By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Vetex F. D. V., Dayton, Ohio—Vegex is an extract made from yeast to which has been added extracts from tomatoes, carrots and celery. It contains iron, calcium and other salts and it is particularly rich in vitamins B-1 and B-2, Owing to the fact that it has the taste of meat (although it con- tains no meat) vegex is an ideal sub- stitute for meat in your case. You may use it by spreading it on bread as if it were butter or jam. We know patients who have been able to give up the eating of meat by employing vegex in the cooking of vegetables and as a condiment. Sting of Bees M. M., Joplin. — The sting of bees does not cure rheumatism. It is quite Possible that a person suffering from rheumatism who is stung by bees might forget his rheumatic pains on account of the more acute pain given him by the sting of bees; but this does not mean that he is permanently cured. As soon, as the stinging pain is over, his rheumatic pains will be- come acute again, The sting of the bee, due to the fact that the bee secretes formic acid, is a strong ir- ritant. Removing Nicotine Stains Gerald B., Brooklyn, N. ¥. — The best way to remove nicotine stains from the fingers is by rubbing the skin’ with pumice stone. Masturba- tion does not soften the brain; but People with soft brains are apt to masturbate excessively. ‘We wrote you a private letter which {came back marked “no sveh address.” David D, Cansée—Toe ™may subscribe to an English. tartan to England, i Helping the Daily ‘Work Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received’ to the of Dr. Luttinger in his ’ Petition with Michael» Gold, Edwa| Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Bur Sy | and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 | Daily Worker Drive: rie Markham Coop, Assn. ., Ed. Nevanen Ida Haarvista . Leah D ...6 R. Bensler ... A, Sems, LH, Sylvia R, Thomas, S. Mendelsohn . Bill Dellis ........33¢ A. L. Garfield, Orange ., Dr, M, J. Kastraswski, .. Mr. and Mrs. H. K, Kosnides.,.. Mrs. K. ‘Woodridge J. March, Chicago . L, Joel... 5538 Previous total ‘ee