The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1933, Page 4

= W-“iains, with / Some Copies ot the ‘Daily’ That Didn’t Gather Dust Veteran Organizer Tells How Negro Crop- pers “Learned About Their Own Class ELLA REEVE BLOOR arters of our Party in any city, and view y Workers” gathering dust, the eager faces re-croppers, come to my mind’s vision. n elected by their “Youth Groups” to the U. 8. ecently in New York City. Coming on freight nrown? a ad tw ys Bs Whenever I visit the he the large piles of unused of two young Negro boys had De These two b ress Against W much ¢ off frequen too late fe welcome ELLA REEVE BLOOR jet us hope there will wasted copies gathering hen there are thou- of eager men and women, too to buy literature, but ready to , and ready to work, willing to 1 wor and farmers, eager the story ove i They > ow to do the job for them- fo read all the t vainly trusted to the fe of the past, realize that our S$ are t far afield very best tools. As I I can use these tools in right place, and will be able to strengthen the bonds of comradeship town and country—helping to the Daily Worker a live organ- I wil send addresses of roups, pool halls, and where can send the Daily gularly. Write me, at 2018 see city you, tell th Omaha, Nebraska. get subscrivtic the sh cd er the LAYOFFS IN FT. WAYNE miner's ¢ Correspondent) workers r > ‘0 FT. WAYNE, Ind—At the Inter- lated from 2 o) ry al Harvester plant layoffs have day” to the bia ce in one department after young men and will on all of the shifts being backbone of our le to learn the exact number of solely because of social con- rkers of the different de- its and shifts are lacking. As a result of the N. R. A. code, skilled workers receive the minimum , $14 weekly, the same as com- labor, including the floor masses of in the da Farmers Read Dail another st s are the outstanding excep- tion in wages. At the Bowser Co., t 0 ile i Wayne tank now on. Wh and Tokhem plants practically few ~—some of the c workers are at work at the time of Louis Larson his writing. Workers report layoffs Decame at the Horton Washers plant, the Daily Worker Ekhart packing plant and the Gen- “League Agaii eral Electric plan in back home, and farm town near their fa fnduced pool hall r Daily Workers on a time, also the an they can get hold of Hans says, “They read the papers to a frazzle and discussions take place | tannery, which is part of the Chicago very day over the articles, and good | chain of tanneries. There are more discussions, too.” } men out of work now than last year. Let There Be No Wasted “Dailies” { ‘The A. F. of L. is still telling them The political significance of this/ to have faith in the N. R. A, but ‘work does not have to be elaborated. | a@ lot of them are beginning to see Now that the Daily Worker has so/| the fraud of both the N. R. A. and much daily news of vital importance | the A. F. of L., and are getting more to the farmers, and the new Farmers | militant, and now if we had a good National Weekly so much news of| leader here we could do something. SHEBOYGAN LAYOFFS (By a Worker Correspondent) SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—Since writing you last, a general layoff of workers has happened in all shops except the eep their here all the CONDUCTED BL HELEN LUKE On Monday and Tuesday we quoted from “The Communist Manifesto” the remarks pertaining particularly to the position of women and children im the social order under capitalism. These remarks indicated that under capitalism women are considered as property. The proletarian woman is doubly exploited. She must serve her worker- husband directly (a without © i es) and’) Sew ing for azaars and for strikers, the husband’s bos: y keep-| by cooking ditto, by making house- tng her husband “fit” (to work) and| Parties to raise money for revolution- by figuring out how to live on the| ary organizations, and, if “tied down” emallest possible wag Capitalism a One-Way Street te Hell She must also go out to work be- Sides, to increase an income inade- fmate to exist on, and the bosses take Qdventage of that necessity to give| hher wages less than a man’s for the fame work, so she is again in an in- ferior position. Then, if, in addition to carrying on her traditional house- hold duties in such cases, she also has children, her problem is still by children, by turning this tem- porary defeat into an ultimate vic- tory by raising revolutionary kids— by permitting them, for instance, to form or join Young Pioneer troops. Let ‘Em Fight In Revolutionary ‘Ways! This is, though, only a starting point for women. Let them use in the interest of the movement what- ever talent (often repressed) they may possess, whether literary, dra- matic, artistic or musical. Also, let those who can, build labor sports groups; this is very important. And when and if they can, let them fight “like men.” There is nothing in nature which says women cannot lead strikes and demonstra- “how to get the ‘women into the movement and keep them there!” I can only think that “women do not understand clearly the fact that capitalism inevitably % oe tions, organize unions or make ' gives them such onerous lives: other- speeches. (Or join the Communist ‘Wise nothing could keep them OUT| Party.) Let them, as soon as they } of the revolutionary movement! _ Someone writes to us 44 Women's Quest of An “Out” | at which they have been forced by feel strong enough, come right out and fight side by side with the men. By all means let the man help in the house to free his wife for such struggle! If he won't do that, he's no Bolshevik! (In cases, of course, where he has less work than she.) And let the wife be patient in teach- ing him to perform household duties that are very new to him. And finally—if a woman really cannot fight actively, the very least she can do is not to nag the hus- band about it if he sees the daylight and wants to fight to make the world ® place fit for workers to live in. Is it “natural” that women should @be such slaves? No! They have been enslaved along with the en- Slayement of labor, and will remain slaves only as long as they stand for mit, And they will not stand for it forever! Now, the question is, just how does ‘woman’s fight proceed? Must it fer essentially from that of a mari? ‘Women work in the things that interest them ” Now, that sounds to me a bit} @ capitalistic ideological hang- '. (Doesn't a man work best in » things that interest him most?) uld read: “Women will gener- “ally work best, at first, in the things Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke Contributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Socialist com- lent.” petition with Michael Gold, Dr, Lut- ‘Meaning that as they are good at|tinger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob sewing, cooking, housework and the| Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 tare of children, they must in most Daily Worker Drive. tases utilize these abilities which; Eight Page Club Maye been wished on them by capi-; A. J.B. ....... lism, as the fi yons to hand » fighting the They can capitalist system to become pro- Total to date ,....,...9126,92 Ie by] Workers of the plant are| Toolmakers and pattern- | DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, ‘Rubber Company Attacks Pay|Unskilled’ Alibi After Boasting of NRA Raise Layoffs, Speed-Up and Charges for Com- munity Fund Are Some Methods Bankruptcy Sale | Held Under Sign | of Blue Eagle By a Worker Correspondent CANTON, O.—On a large sign vis- ible from the public square, on the south side of a department store is Y% century of hono able dealing with the Canton publ Bankrupt Sale. Settlement “A merchandise tragedy. “Most gigantic department store disposal of merchandise in all our history. “wm. §. Zollinger and Son.” (Blue Eagle) (Blue Eagle These bankrupts in department and other bargain stores are not included in the chain stores interwoven throughout the U. S. and bound up with Wall St. They fail because they are unorganized and not part of big business. They stand alone, depending only on the declining buying power of the workers, Over 2,000 workers have been laid off again under the N.R.A., and will in turn be forced to seek relief at city charities. These charities of Canton have close to 4,000 on their lists at the present time, who must do forced labor for a grocery order which is both insufficient and of in- ferior grade, not even of their own choosing. A community fund drive has just been started in Canton. Quoting from an article in the Canton repository appealing ‘for fund: “Child care increases tremendously during devression years. Breaking up of homes has thrown the care of more children on the community, In- come from board paid by relatives has fallen off 75 per cent as men who formerly paid for the care of their children have been unable to keep up the payments.” The same article in the Canton re- Pository is pictured with # pitiful pic- ture of a mother with a small baby and two larger childre: Under this is the question “How can you resist their right to recovery?” Hundreds seek relief every day at the family service society, which is the name given to so-called charity relief, with hungry undernourished children at home. The majority, for e is discrimination for a favored are repeatedly insulted and de- nied relief under the most ridiculous pretexts. Individually we can do nothing. rganize into unemployed councils further information 2d Tloor, | of Canton, For write to 1101 Canton, Ohio. E. Tusce., Letters from Our Readers 4 H. R. B. WORKER DESCRIBES | LIFE OF NEGROES IN B’KLYN! Brooklyn, N. Y | After reading the article a ng | in the “Daily” of Friday, Nov. 10, of the “roasting to death of 11 Negroes” in a tenement house in Brownsville, I am compelled to add my denuncia- tion of the pestilential housing con- ditions forced on the working masses. As a late Emergency Home Relief Bureau investigator who was forced to resign because of p! workers’ cause too veh | the Negroes live in. Entire sections are crowded with} front and rear houses. The sun and| light never penetrate to the rear shacks, which are often supported by outside lean-to beams. Most of them are without electricity or gas, since the workers haven't the funds and the Emergency Home Relief Bureau withholds the funds with which their current could be restored. In the summer it is sweltering in these black hells. And in the winter five and six black heads can be seen under a single blanket and worn rag. The yards between the buildings con- tain the refuse of the front house] ; and the toilets of the back houses. This is the Negro garden for its young. Candies when obtainable were used exclusively for lighting purposes, while oil supplemented the meager] ¢ coal allowances granted them at the police stations. Whole families re- tire at 6:30 and 7 o'clock, as they haven't the funds for amusements and it’s too cold and dark to re- main up after that hour. In this same neighborhood live the cream of the politicians, Mr. Shoren- stein, Kerne and Hart and others, in their smug homes that are well yen- tilated, steam heated and equipped} with the latest electrical devices and plumbing. When the High Holidays appear Mr. Hyman Shorenstein dis- tributes food baskets to a handful of poor and rests comfortably, imagining his task is done. This same man, unable to read or write, is Commissioner of Records and the district leader. When the day of reckoning comes for the Ne- groes the workers of Brownsville will not forget Mr. Shorenstein’s record, which fosters slum conditions and segregation of the Negro workers. In addition to home relief and un- employment insurance the workers of Brownsville should demand and ob- tain habitable dwellings. F. L. DAILY WORKER IS FOOD FOR |: THE MIND Grand Rapids, Michigan. Your “Daily” is improving rapidly. Michael Gold’s column is the best I ever read in the “Daily.” So is Doc. Luttinger'’s advice practical and edu- cational. The working people need a work- ing-class education and the “Daily” is an eye-opener. Too much food, too much empty houses, too much clothing, but nothing can reach the unemployed. How long will it take the millions of unemployed to wake up and learn their lesson to change the rotten private conuoued sysvem of exploit- ers and parasites? How long will it take the underpaid workers and toil- ers to organize and fight their enemy, capitalism, and form Soviets? My hope for working-class eman- cipation is when the majority of working people are interested in papers like the Daily Worker. I did my share in the past and do my share when possible to help the Daily Worker, which gives mental nourishment to the working people. | SHAT ea WEDNESDAY, ESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933 Cuts Relief Pay By a Worker PROVIDENC in Providence, They haye three branches employing almost 5,000 people, mostly young girls, Before the N.R.A. these girls were getting from $6 to $8 a week. When N.R.A. went through, the girls? the cheered for Ro It, because it meant quite a raise. It cut the hours to 40 per week and raised the wage to 35 cents per hour, which meant $14 per week. But this is only the beginning of the story. Listen to the end. A few weeks ago a notice was hung up saying, “After Dec. 3 all employees of the Phillips-Baker Rubber Co. will receive a 10 cents an hour decrease in wages.” That means the girls mak- ing 35 cents per hour are cut to 25 cents an hour, or $10 a week, a $4 under the wonderful N.R.A, But 's not all. A great part of the will be laid off for two weeks. ise is they have to change the machinery, But that’s not all. There is a Com- munity fund drive in the city and the boss took $1 out of each envelope , R. I—I want to tell how the N.R.A. is helping the work- ers of the Phillips-Baker Rubber Co., one of the largest rubber companies In Providence, R.1. By a Worker Correspondence PROVIDENCE, R. I—Under the big guns of the Cranston St. Armory, and heavily guarded at the Armory of Mounted Commands, a few hun- dred of Providence’s finest received their first C.W.A, checks Saturday. Correspondent The boss pauper, E, P. Reidy made one slight error (Oh, yes, he has his fingers in the government pie, too”) for the payoff at the city woodyard was marked by a demonstration. They say Reidy spent a very en- joyable week end, for, according to Saturday night's bulletin he got back at Jim Rooney, secretary of the Right to Live Club, putting him off the $2_C.W.A. check. But what gets us is how Reidy gets away with it. We understand how he could continue private projects, St. Anthony's church and the Francis- can Missionary’s and others under the city administration, but is the U. S. government going to let him get away with it, too? The boys were all classed as un- skilled workmen, to allow Percival De St. Aubin, the head of the N.R.A,, and owner of the Viesta Knitting Co., Blount and Bassett St., which isn’t even under the code, and Reidy, to without asking the workers and $1.50 out of the envelopes of those making about $18, who are mostly men and boys. ‘The workers are sure sore at what has happened. They are losing the illusions of the N.R.A. They will learn that the only way they can win bet- ter conditions is through their own struggles. Wormy Meat Workers in Swell Hotels Correspondent Says Exposure at Code Hear- ing Did Not Exaggerate pick out their favorites for the $1.20 an hour jobs, but, boys, when you get these jobs, don’t forget the cut. Workers Report Daily’s Progress In Middletown, N. (By a Worker Correspondent) MIDDLETOWN, N. Y¥.—Practi- cally all the people of Livingston Is Given Food By a Worker WASHINGTON, D. C.—This afterneon I attended a part of the meeting for the restaurant code in the Commerce Building. I heard two speeches, one from the president of the Restaurant Keepers Association, pleading with crocodile tears for an exemption for the restan- rant owners of Minnesota, and one from Comrade Julius Friedman, secre- the Food Workers Unem- r Council, secretary of the Waiters and Waitresses and Hotel end Restaurant Employees Unem- ployed Committee, and official dele- of the Food Workers Industrial . Comrade Friedman explained y the terrible conditions that in some of the hotels and res- taurants throughout the country, most of them sweatshop conditions, but C de Friedman forgot some- ms move on the meat they ie employees to eat in some e meat is black from decay. In July, 1918, I was working in the restaurant of the best hotel in At- lantic City and I will never forget that one afternoon I counted 12 Manor are out of work. There is some meager relief given to keep people quiet. I often go there from Middletown and bring the Dailies along with me. I usually give the old numbers free. People are glad to get them. Well, we are doing work in Mid- dletown and making progress with the Dailies. I go out with the Dailies every day. Some days I sell them all and sometimes some copies are given away. Saturday's issues are the best, and I sell them all. We are going to collect some more contributions and send you in the near future. We are going to start a revolutionary compet:- tion for the Daily. Charlotte Workers Making Progress Correspondent © worms moving upon the ham that I was supposed to eat. I put that cold Gecayed ham into a clean napkin. I went to the private office of the director. I showed it to him and I asked him to taste it, after showing him the worms, and I quit my job. Greets Soviet Helping to CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 2—A worker of ;A K this city doing so: M. Ealagian hing believes practical in America w to the wi s and peasants of thi | Soviet Union, He sent the following |4 vege r with $5 to help save the Daily id my greetings to the shock- em of society our much I wish to oon- greetings and pledge to do t for the de- ense of our Socialist Fatherland, the Soviet Union. Long live Sov! Long Ji the Sovi ers, the mighty Red Army and the world working class! There ny workers who feel the sam Soviet Union as this w S a concrete the Soviet wor example of s S in a way they like This is trengthen- lutionary move- 1g to save the How many more 's in Chicago and in other cities mple set by Kala- Let's hear from you! Help Put thr Work: % energetic me ures to help raise the remaini 000 needed to put the $40,000 drive over the ton. ‘The al Unit of the Workers’ International Relief, Brooklyn, N, ¥., will hold a unique house party,: with dancing, enter- tainment refreshments, surprise features, this Friday, Dec. 8th, 8 p.m., at Rubin's Oriental Hall, 1439 st, Johns Pl, near Utica Ave., for the “Daily.” cn the streets and collecting pennies, nickels and dimes on the band-drum. | The same band will hold a concert at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., | on the evening of Dec. 15th. A party of professional workers at the home of Max Boardman, at which Babbette Deutsch read revolutionary poetry, netted $33.67 for the Daily Worker, and an additional $5.20 for the Scottsboro defense. A Challenge, Nick Evanoff, a Unit Organizer in Chicago, Til nonding to a decision 2 all Party members least $1 for the ing worke taining to them how the “Daily” 4s a real organizer in the mines, mills and factories, and why they should support it. He chal- lenges other Party members to beat his record and help save our Daily Worker, i How many will accept this chal- lenge? Our Daily Worker can easily be saved if e Party member fol- lows Evanoff’s’‘examole, if every reader sends in a dollar. Remember, cemrades, we must have the full $40,- 000, if our Daily Worker is to be out of danger. $9,000 will put the drive over the top. Let's all help to make this drive a revolutionary victory by contributing and raising funds, tae ah 4 Total Monday War 2 pbee. 4 628.22 | eg ees: reviously re- | Total Dec. 4 corded = 30975.34 | ig: had | Total to date 1486.30 Total to date 31003.66 DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT 1 |M Go 5.70 P Ruppe, Dore. 1,00|Dr Ginzberg 12.00 A Anderson |TD 3:30 150;A JB 3.00 200) P Schwarte 3.00 Coln Cards {> sehmiat 1.00 Pol W.C, 1ag J Gubkin 2.00 vw ing q towards |B Davis helping the establishment of a Soviet |B sidou nding his greetings |S Schurr : i ihe (& Sandburg builders and creators of | The W. I, R. Band raised | $8 for the Daily Worker by playing | .10, by approach- | In Organization By a Group of Worker Correspondents CHARLOTTE, N. C.— We, the workers in Charlotte, are working hard to get the workers organized. The different firms are working at the old starvation wages. There is the New Way Laundry. It was working between 150 and 200 women. Recently the bosses fired 25 of them and the rest of the workers jare doing the work of the 25 for the sam? wages. Workers By Unit Sub fartin Sub. 8 ‘Martin {TR Weekd R Goldsmith Heide era | Galt 1 Sec 5 173/ Also the South Atlantic Waste Co. is Pe reno Gas working 130 women 10% hours {A Evansky See 7 Martin five days a week, for the sums \¥. Fr ing from $3 to $4 to $7.50 per m1) week. | penetrasing all five of the s and all other industries in , and are doing good work nizing the workers who are ready willing to fight. You will get two reports weekly z on. nized Workers of Charlotte. Demolish Fine Vacant Building Rather Than Let Workers Occupy It | i | _ sake ie 2.10 (By a Werker Correspondent) 1 ¥ comlos Tel i by aun st NEW HAVEN, Conn,-—On Prospect List 104153 9 ~' St., only a short distance from Yale os Ps 1.62 | 1.60 University, a lovely brick building {eed He ant stood for a number of years. This Heditueamctar cel ee building was about 150 feet long and 5 names 60] was three stories high. The sun shone = @ in fhe 25) Col_ by unobstructed on the north, west and ete cr Meee east. This building contained over Coin Cards a hundred fine stoms. si a 1:95 Ti was usedfor a student’s rooming ‘ag Day rg er of year ‘i Bec 2 Greek W. | | ig Plutos ti | o-B 3.56 | millions of money that they have eae aL i ey neta $5| wrung from the worker's of the world, rs Etat 7386. * | more up-to-date buildings were erected | Total Dec. 4 ae : | 4 names 60 | for the students, so this building was Total to date 14118.71 | List 36912 not occupied for a time. ' } or } nds a Nace eran ates eee here =” | Now, we have thousands of poor | Coin Cards | 3 names 45] people living in the most wretched 2-of 1.60 Bark By Lois _| habitations, both native and foreign, | baat eres 5! black and white, who would be only Total Dec. 4 2.60 | Col by Metrusien 3 . |fotal to-date metas |S names .ss| too glad to enjoy the respectability 07 DISTRICT 5 | Col by Wall a tenement in this sanitary building. A Kratofil Wel sata Sate ae a pathine ct Coin Cards jome citizens made some sugges- | Total Dec. 4 162.49 iy 35 | Total to date 1909.67, tions to that effect. So the Blue Eagle Total Dec. 4 1.35 DISTRICT 8 brigade sent the wrecking gang right Total to date 684.45) F S Chic 1.00] away. They demolished the building. DISTRICT 6 ve Posnhscoe — yf col by i i eo igelpy mest | Family Cut Off Relief Lorrain vi cy Wf Bieter 2 es When Son Rejected mit. 1-02 | eqs Bee 1 | Huber: " C.C.C, Military Camp erttt | Unit 24 St. Loule 6.31 Unit 3-35 i ” ava Aa Ital Cir. L/Unita i | Bec 14, Mayfiet: Operaia 3.00 (By a Worker Correspondent.) is | tte 1.00 STEGER. I.—Our femily was cut RN off the relief, The reason was my atl fees saa] Cider brother refused to go the C. C. Tea |, Coin Caras Cc. camps. #00 | 2-0! 50) My younger brother, after gradu. Lists \wotia nec. 4 gata} @timg from high school, had high Col by Ahornas Totel to date 9700.94] hopes of finding a job. The summer 10 names, 4:20. 5. “| passed without his finding work, the Col by Narinos | DISTRICT 9 Parity eit tte rte! 4 6 names 3.80 /Ccl by Koski amily still without financial help. He Sol by George | 7 names 2.50 enlisted to go to the camp. He was | 5 names 4 Cott Cards rejected on account of poor vision in Pst vcai a per ofi6 2 c one of his eyes. iw Total Dec. 4 3i7| He realizes now that the govern- Eee or . x. x Total oe 356.58; ment only wants men in healthy con- ‘otal to date . pt 10 dition, to prepare and use for cannon Mrs PeuetCT T 4, | Lincoln Unit 1.09] fodder. ‘The governments’ intentions |M Goetz, Det. 1.00 | o'Berg are not to help the families, but for | Hung. Fract. 2.23) their own purposes. Lith, Chorus Total Dec, 4 2.50 whider 290] Total to- date s01.42 ok ; 3 inn. . oC 50 | ISTRI 13 Total Dec. Bs jHung. Pract. 104 | DISTRICT 12 - | ci ocxton Unit 1.03| Total to date 91°20 | P | Unit 6 Sec 7 .92| (LD & OF Rosen. = | a whitney * 10.00 DISTRICT 17 Unit 8 Warendale .55| | burs ieee =| Coin Cards Unit 2 Dear, s can MES 29 | Total Dec. 4 ii.o3 2-of 50 Unit 6 Sec 8 . ta | Total to date 0. —__—_ Unit 12, Bee 8 35] Tacoma bios DISTRICT 14 Total Dec. 4 50 Unit 6 Sec 6 2.80 | 30. Tacomas 10.85) Goin Cards Total to date 59.91 Unit 2 Sec 5 135 | Bverett 21.74 | og 1.00| Mise. Onit 4 Sec 2 20°) Anacattes ba) -=-=—|A Priedolian 1.00 Unit 5 Seo 4 1.00 Fellinghem 4141) poral Dec, 4 1.00 Gein Cards Tnit 7 Sec 4 35 ve a {2 2%el to date 578.65 | 1-of 25 Unit 8 Martin ‘Potel Doc, 4 170.63 DISTRICT 16 Total Dec. 4 1.25 Sub. BS) Total to date 969.53! WHD, Ashville ..25! Total to date 82.25 PARTY LIFE What Are the Lessons of the City Elections in Cleveland Ohio District Leadership Discusses Results of the Elections and the Lessons 'The following is the resolution adopted by the District Bureau of the “ Ohio District (District No. 6) on the recent elections in Cleveland. members and workers who participate vited to state their opinion on the res RESOLUTION ON ELECTION 2 een MeN Se eyatennamntactrrra ones bE Party ‘d in the Cleyeland-elections are in- olution, CAMPAIGN—CITY OF CLEVELAND ADOPTED BY DISTRICT BUREAU No. 6 The election campaign of the Communist Party, as catried on up until mayoralty vote of 5,200 in 1931. The> Communist candidates led all of the so-called “minor” parties. The total vote for the two Communists and five Home and Land Owners’ Council- manic candidates endorsed by the Communist Party, was well over 3,800 in these seven wards. Particularly important is the fact that one-third of all of Ford’s vote came from three working-class wards—29, 30 and 32.) The Socialist Party vote during this| same period showed a sharp decline, | with the Socialist Party candidate re- ceiving 1,865, compared with 5,164 Jast year and 17,000 for Thomas in | the Presidential campaign. Cannot Be Satisfied the election campaign by either term. ing it a victory or a defeat. We must | see, that with the deepening of the | crisis, the bourgeoisie was much more conscious of the need of trying to keep the discontent of the workers | canalized in the old capitalist parties | or their social fascist supporters, | therefore, in contrast with 1931, when | there were a minimum of candidates, | this year there were seven candidates, | including both the Socialist Party) and the demagogic Roosevelt fol-| lower, Sweeney, who repeated and} promised many immediate demands from the workers’ election platform. The election results reflect also fail- ure on our part to maintain and in- crease our sirength among the Negro masses, despite a continued worsen- | ing of their economic conditions, coupled with the same policy of natural oppression that has long been the curse of the Negro masses in Cleveland. We must state very definitely that | we cannot be satisfied with the elec- tion results, since it reflects basic political and organizational short- comings in the participation of our Party in the class struggle. The re- sponsibility does not lie with the | workers, but with the outlook and work of the Party, including rem- nants of an anti-parliamentary ten- dency. To overcome this, demands —not discouragement, as has been indicated in some quarters—but rev- olutionary determination to self- critically search out our political and organizational shortcomings in the light of our revolutionary Marxist- Leninist teachings and quickly over- come them and carry on the balance of the campaign and all of our mass work, with the conviction that our Party will meet and solve the many tasks before it, in this period. What Are the Weaknesses The main weaknesses in the elec- tion campaign until now can be ana- lyzed as follows: 1, Our failure to place in the cen- ter of our election struggle the mass fight of the workers to expose and defeat the N. R. A. While Cleveland is boosted by the bourgeoisie nation- ally as the champion N. R. A. city, and each capitalist candidate was vieing with each other in their sup- port of the N. R. A., our Party failed to aim its main political fire against | j the N, R. A. as the weapon of the! | bourgeoisie and its Roosevelt govern- It is of no value to try and analyze | the primaries, shows that the Communist Party vote (3,455) increased by 1,385, as compared with the senatorial vote of 1932, but was still behind the toiling masses and to prepare for war. To expose the N. R. A. effec- tively, means not only talk but show- ing its application. to local polities and conditions (conditions of steel and auto workers—question pertain- ing to veterans’ cash unemployment relief—position of candidates on legis- lature affecting working class—vote of Sweeney in Congress, ete.); tel { each category of workers in the large shops and decisive industries, and, above all, by the most energetic de- velopment and leadership of mass struggles in the factories, amongst the unemployed, amongst the Negro es, the small homeowners, etc., t the worsening effects of the A. program. pre-primary campaign was ed too much to‘ general speeches, parades, home meetings, radio talks, | ete——all of which-is necessary and important—but could not substitute for our decisive weaknesses in failing to develop and lead (especially the candidates) mass struggles on con- wete issues of all categories of work- ers; complete absence of factory cons centration (even shop gate meetings), no unemployed struggles for Negra rights in Scoville (relying on past glories) and the failure to develop a bold and energetic campaign to penetrate into all ‘organizations, all groups and categories of the tolling population, and organize such move ments as would haye placed all the capitalist candidates on the spot and expose their demagogic words with our fighting deeds.- Only in this way could we bring forward boldly our basic election policy of class against class. 2. During the course of the cam~ paign there were many instances where we diverted from the course of revolutionary parliamentarism and committed the Right opportunist er- ror of hiding the face of the Party. This showed itself in hesttahcy and even resistance to bringing forward the Party openly in’ the branches of the Small Home, and Land Owners; in refusing Ford the right to spea at a mass meeting of the I. L. D.} some of our Communists who were Councilmanie candidates of the Small Home and Land Owners cov- ered up their identity; in serious tendencies towards developing the Small Home and Land Owners into a separate Party, instead of a genu- ine United Front’Workers’ Ticket; refused to hang Communist signs in some halls controlled by Party frac- tions because it might antagonize surrounding small business men; failure to bring the Communist cam. paign into Trade Union Unity League unions and @ general ten- dency on the part of the Commu- nists who were councilmanic candi- dates on the Small Home and Land Owners’ ticket to sacrifice revolution- ary principle and for vote-catching without a» class explanation. ‘There was insufficiehs political and organizational action te expase the demagog Sweeney. ; ment to worsen the conditions of the NAME | ADDRESS ..... . By PACL LUTTINGER, MD, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONG “Hard” Water A. G., Benton, Il.—‘Hard” water is due mainly to calcium (lime) salts in the water. It is not injuricus to health, particularly when it comes from only a depth of only 20 feet. On the contrary these waters are often beneficial, especially in cases of rick- ets. Boiling precipitates some of the lime salts and thereby makes the water “softer.” Thank you for the donation. Acknowledgment of same will appear in the Daily Worker. If you want a special receipt, the man- agement of the D. W. will cheerfully send you one. _ * To a Vegetarian i Thanks for your donation of $1 for the Daily Worker. We like the spirit in which it was sent. i Incidentally, may we draw your at-— tention to the fact that we are not) against vegetarianism. A large num- | ber of our partients are on strict vege- | arian diets and we have expressed our | intention to beceme a strict voge- tarian after we retire from the tur- moil and stress of professional activ- itles. Acidophilus Milk and Tooth Decay F.N., Camdea, N. J.—The clipping you sent us regarding the above sut- ject is a correct interpretation of the controversy which is now taking place | (To Be Continwed), & Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Commaniet Party. teeesencacse seen gee eeeeee ences in the dental journals the possible cause of tooth decay. Dr. Bunting’s contention that dental caries is due to the Lactobacillus aci- dophilus has not been corroborated by other investigators. In a former article we have stated that the major= ity of clinicians and laboratory work- ers haye,come to the conclusion that dental decay is dué “mainly to faulty diet, particularly to’ a diet Jac! calcium (lime). So.tar there is scientific evidence,.to change opinion. ner Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received to the credit ot Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist com- petition with Michdel Gold, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drives T. R. Weeks . R. Goldsmith B. Davis . B. Tidoer §. Schurr . R. Atterm: Mrs. M. A Vegetarian Mrs. Sophie Poters Previcus total ...