The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1933, Page 4

hy Page Four Sharecroppe Sawmill at 75 Landlord Framed Him Into © Jail, Put Him in Merchant’s (By a Sharecropper Correspondeht) | BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—I am send- ing another letter this week. I am glad to write to the Daily Worker and see it come out. I want to see t every week. I only started in the} movement in October, but I see how; bad we need workers to fight with| and build our organization all ; over the country | {I went to Montgomery to a share-| croppers’ meeting. My wife's brother twent, too. He is a sharecropper of | Blunt Couzity, Ala. One of the big | Jandlord’s didn’t like him, told lies} on him and sent him to prison, and} the Governor of Alabama paroled him to make a crop, and the mer- nt that furnished him to make| crop took everything he had also forged mortgages on his Said he and mules and tools and wagon. would have everything that he owed| if he took the last bit of bread out | of his house. He has four chiidren and his wife. | child is seven years old| na decent clothes nor | os can see what the} inks of the poor white in this part of the , and that is not the worst He is now working at a saw; me CWA Relief Relieves’ Only Some Politicians (By a Farmer Correspondent) SALLISAW, Okla.—The misery of the poor farmers is constantly grow- ing more and more unbearable. Hun- dreds in this county do not know where they will find shelter the fol- lowing year. The C.W.A. at all, and petty | relief is not relieving except a few office workers politicians, their wives, and So far, it has not paid out Tt in relief of the workers. be 15 or 20 “case” driving over the have ito do to find the needy © on the streets and watch hunsry, thinly clad, lank men, women and children that walk the sidewalks, despondently peering into the stores at the good things which they know they can never buy. But that way of locating the needy not give jobs to a bunch of No Pay for Overtime In Alabama Sawmill (By a Worker Correspondent) LOCUST FORK, Ala.—I am a worker at a sawmill in Blont County. T am # poor boy. I have no chance to go to school. We have to work over.ime and get no pay for it. The t hes no dam stopting sense. Our 3 aro only 75c per day. Only romise at that. That is what the capitalist N.R.A. 3 done for us. Not only me, but > other poor boys also. When pay- iy comes, it is more than h—1 to fet your money. r Driven Into Cents a Day | Governor || Thievish Hands mill for 75 cents a day, and we all] jknow that he can’t feed and clothe his family at these wages. Just as long as the white and Ne- gro let this go on, it will get worse than now, so we workers get together and organize and fight for our rights and come out on top, for we have been slayes long enough for the boss. I am myself organizing the C. W. A. workers on the jobs. I have set up one Unemployed Council I started working on C. W. so you see how I feel about this. We have to work in the rain if we get any pay. And we had to work on Thanksgiving Day as the boss said that we wouldn't get any pay. tice A Farm County Agent Sneers at Farmers’ Plight)’ (By a Farmer Correspondent) GREENWOOD, Ark.—I was riding through the country the other day with the County farm agent. It was registration day for C.W.A. jobs. As we rode along we passed hundreds of farmers going into town to try to get a job—there were thousands ‘applied for only a few hundred jobs. I commented that the farmers were sure in bad shape financially and needed work. “Oh, yes, they’re broke today and want relief, but tommorrow they'll be able to go quail hunting,” he re- turned sarcastically. His attitude almost angered me—this farm agent always so “deeply interested” in the farmer. Quail and rabbit hunting Ys the one recreation that the farmer has during the fall and winter months. Many of them have been denied this privilege lately because they are not able to buy license and ammunition. “Shouldn't the farmer hunt, if he wants to?” I asked the farm agent. “Oh no! no! I didn’t mean that at all,” he replied quickly. He would like to see everybody able to hunt all they wanted to and he would like to see the farmers get jobs and have plenty of everything. Yeah, he would all right, but he isn’t willing to sacrifice one mite of his security. for it. He is willing however, to criticise the farmer se- verely for going to town to get a badly needed job or at least to protest for one. He thinks that the farmer should submit to slavery without a protest and that he should give up hunting and leave the quails for him and bis other friends who ave “able” to hunt them. He is willing and ready to break up any organimation the farmers try to have, to better their own conditions, We have too many of these govern- | ment “friends” of the farmer who} are “deeply interested” in th farmer. Their only interest is keening the farmer “satisfied” so that he won't — the rich in their merry-mak- ing. —H. BRYAN, (Signature Authorized), a the MELEN in other Prices places than the dime store, as revealed in an article in the Women’s Wear Daily of Dec. went up 20. It gives a report that a Tepresentative of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union bought a block of dresses here and there about town and held them as evidence that an unusually high “markup” was mace on them in pric- ing them for retail sale. He claimed that some stores added $2 to 160 per cent to prices. The complete figures are given for the re- tail and wholesale costs of the dresses so purchased, also the per cent of selling price received by labor (gar- ment workers). This fell as low as Tye per cent. And wasn’t that a swell Christmas present from our big- hearted merchants who are so enthu- silastic about the Christmas spirit of , Siving! Is Capitalism Lousy! ‘That reminds me—mousetraps have gone up too. ently They used to be two for a nickel, now you only get three for a dime—so in case you Capitalism, forcing up the prices of commodities, makes it a bourgeois lux- ‘ury to be free of mice, lice, cats, rats, ba's, c-ckroeches, flies, fleas, et cetera Speed the day when we, the workers, will tear down these moth-eaten, flea- bitten, lopsided old ratholes and build proper homes, bugless apartments swith tile bathrooms and kitchens. te Culinary Department To speak of more savory things, here is a standard recipe somewhat well- known, but too meritorious not to reprint once. It is for overnight (alias iee-box) cookies, It takes a strong arm to mix them, but making them is net #s messy a business as making other cookies, because they are not cut ©4uv with a cookie cutter, but sliced trom the loaf of dough with a knife. ‘Their other prime virtue is that they are made with brown sugar, so, the dieticians cannot frown quite so dark- jy on them as on other cakes, Cream together four cups brown sugar with one cup shortening. Add, and mix in, four eggs, one-quarter teaspoon salt, and one teaspoon va- nila, Then work in six cups unsifted (or seven cups sifted) flour with four teaspoons baking powder sifted in with it. The last of the flour must be kneaded in, Then roll out with a long uniform round or square loaf and keep very cold over night, Slice off cookies with CONDUCARD BL Lue works, | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938 Sharecropper’s Plea That Fell On Deaf Ears crTR¢ ONEL pend on the R. F fe on $1.50 a week for my with hundreds of oth tavor Pres e my eR H. PAXTON, RUMBLINGS FROM AN EMPT STOMACH CAUSED BY HAVING TO LIVE ON CORNBREAD I hear that the N. R. A. Has work for us all to do, But the money is in the bosses’ hands And goes to the chosen few. you So they get nothing at all to do. I sit in my empty kitchen While my hopeless stove burns low. My stomach growls in hunger of the long ago, nen I had a mule; I always raised enough Of peas, corn and potatoes, And plenty of garden stuff. But my mule, he got sic! Went down to bones and hide. Then one day bad luck hit me, For he lay in the barn and died. Now I have no crop at all, zi And what can I raise with a hoe? If you ever fought weeds this way, You know i mighty slow. If I could get hours a week, T’d get seeds and a mule, too. Please send a man to investigate, And see what the bosses do. Now, when you read these lines, Don’t think I am a fool. If you want to help a “forgotten man,” Help me get a Bemidji, Mich., Struggle. for Kelief Grows (By a Worker Correspondent) BEMIDJI, Minn—The problem of Struggling for immediate winter re- lief for the unemployed as well as the destitute, drought stricken farmers, becomes of paramount importance in this territory. In this county the number has during the last few weeks swelled from 1,000 familjes to 1,500 The fake promises of putting hun- dreds to work in this county under the C.W.A. has not taken place. After establishing an office force of 24 persons, the number that have }gone to work hardly exceeds that On one project where 40 workers ; Were employed, after a few days 26 of them were laid off. The real ob- ject of the C.W.A, here has proven to be nothing more than taking away from the ranks of the unemployed mule. a knife next day and bake on greased cookie-tins. Don’t try to slice too smoothly—a rough surface is more attractive when baked. Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1670 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 49. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Ilustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded, and the farmers the most militant and fearless fighters. It has been “when we take away about 20 of care of the rest.” effective, as st-uggles are continually taking place at the relief office. With ste2zdy ini 2s in the prices of foodstuffs, the amount of relief has actually been cut in half. Discrimin- ation in giving out relief and abso- lute refusals without giving reasons jhas become the policy of the relief lagent. A couple of days ago free milk was discontinued here ‘New workers are continuously join- ing the Unemployed Councils, which are leading the local struggles. A delegation was elected and to rep- resent the unemployed, the farmers / al 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 Dapertment St, New York City. and the youth to the State Unem- Ployed Conference, in St. Paul. A delegate was elected to represent the farmers of this county at the Un- employed Conference in Washington, D.C. A delegate will be elected to represent the Unemployed Council Two-Thirds of Farmers In Newago Co., Mich., Seek Jobs on C.W.A. (By a Farmer Correspondent) WHITE CLOUD, Mich. — Enclosed you will find $1 to help save the Daily Worker. My neighbor and my- self finally saved $1 to send to help save our paper. Conditions around here are very bad and getting worse every day. Cream has dropped to 14 cents here | in White Cloud and in Woodville just 12 miles north of us, it is 12 cents. And eggs are only 12 and 14 cents per dozen. It ts just about impossible to sell any livestock. They offered us from 1 to 2 cents a pound for beef cows, and hogs you can’t give away. A neighbor killed a hog and tried to sell it to the meat market, and the butcher told him that he had one half of a hog in the ice box and he just could not scll any of it. He said he guessed he would have to eat it himself. Two-thirds of the farmers of Newago County have signed up on the C. W. A. They are all going to try to work as they can’t make a living farming any more. NOTE We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers and cannery * workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work.) and their struggles to organize, t, 243 West 17th} Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week, ons ,| commits t h Bos 1 jis beh manded. ‘here, letter I sar which tells the story in a nutshell. I ‘am|?* t to you, hoping you can| - name if |” | | mrde pub’ic by the relief agent that) those ‘tzouble makers’ we can take’ | This tactic of theirs has not proven Detroit Prepares for Peak Mass Sale of 24 Page ‘Daily’ | Turning of Farms Back Into Forest Land Is Part of N.R.A., Correspondent Reports | Pei ice Scissors and Taxes Drive Farmer Into -Highway While His Government Into spondent) ~ | —James ‘Thomas, father..of three little children, liv. ng ‘on a farm northwest of here. ad-been hoping to get some of the . to be able to buy a iM ot checn clethes for his ly» and for himself to meet the 1 winter, ‘The C. W. ve ady at work on the road, in front of his home, yet he j Was not allowed to work—though his orvices were welcome in the world sight of his freezing and half- tved family became unbearable to He slins quict! ich no permit is required, or property, or any other toll or fee He sends a load of shots through his heart. What th e Farm: May gecias If sing ere using up your mental and physical energy to keep away from that, excruciating insult, called wel- fare; then if along comes an of- ficial ‘giant with beautiful pr workers and farmers “codes;” and you found out that these so-called codes weve to do ex what they actly the reverse from begin to understand the farmer in this country The ‘farmers’ income not only been eut in two by the codes, but h income has often been wined out ralv. Failing to take care of his debts, his property automatically goes to the money lender or to the state for delinquent taxes. He is reduced to the condition of an un- employed worker. We preduce cream for the cream- efies’ Up to last week the price for butter fat had been 22 cents a pound. Inside of one week the price dropped to 12 cents a pound. The consumer, however, pays from 25 to 80 cents a pound for the same butter. Since the 6,200,000 hogs were destroyed and the processing tax on pork was announced the hog market has been steadily going down. Pork prices, however, for the consumer have advanced so enormously that the public has been buying less and less of it. Pork, which at wholesale sold for 10 cents, was at reta'! offered at 30 cents a pound, R- ult is a demora- Must Get Together (By a White Sharecropper) CLEVELAND, Ala.—A share crop- per struggling to death. Just look what fools we are working ourselves to death. A man works and makes a crop and fool-like lets the N. R. A. folk grab it with a mortgage. Every time we get a penny, they grab it. Nothing to eat, nothing to wear and our children not in school, for the rich folks have taken their daddy's crop, and what has their daddy got to buy their food and clothes with, and books with? We can’t buy anything to eat nor any- thing else. I know what to do. We must all in a shed and | si Can Buy No Food, Clothes or Books, Says Sharecropper Starving White Farmer Home is Turned by | Wilderness Again | lized hog market, which offers for the producer exactly nothing. My neighbor for his 18 large, fat hogs weighing over two and a half tons would realize only $13.50 for all of them. That is what the codes of the A. A. A, are doing for the farmer: In- stead of helping him to make a meager living, it helps him off the farm and puts him on the highway. Wallace Approves All this scems to be tn harmony with the program of the agricultural department. Henry A. Wallace, ad- dressing the convention of the As- s ion of Land Grant Colleges and Universities in Chicago, on Nov. aid, “It is clear that we must de- termine in the immediate future wkich lands are best suited for thi commercial production of the staple crops, which had best be put back into trees, and which should not be | used for agriculture at all, but simply for recreation and residence.” The average of harvested crops in this country next year probably will be between 30,090,000 and 35,000,000 under the total of recent years, said the Secretary. hinery of Destruction Ready The machinery to carry out this prozram is already here tn form of national forests and C. C. C. camps. The purnose of the national forests was disclosed here by the svnerin- tendent of Manistee National Forest addressing a P. T. A. mecting, in which he said: “Any discrivtion of property within the limits of the na- tional forest becomes automatically the property of a national forest if taxes for such property remain d2- linguent for a period of three or four years.” There is the unmasked outline of the A. A. A. Unbearable, excessive taxing, and when you fail to pay it the national forest will snatch your land, your home, your every- thing that you have in this world. You have humbly complied with the orders of the agricultural exten- sion department to raise two blades of grass where only one grew be- fore. And now when they have got it in their heads that this other blade of grass is causing all the economic disturbance and order you to get out so they may get the fields, which you have cleared to raise food for your family, are you again geing to comply? My answer ts NO! This ground is going to be my burial ground. and Organize, Says get busy and organize. We have to give a mortgage on our crop and everything. We have to get some- thing to eat, and all we get is a little bread and lard to make our crop on. They don’t care if we starve to death. When fall comes, they take our crop as fast as we gather it. They are not satisfied with our crops. They take our stock, cows and hogs and everything. I have four children and can’t send them to school because the capi- talist took my crop and everything I had. I cannot buy food nor clothes nor books, That is what the N. R, A. has done for us. It is rotten and worse than that, DETROIT, Mich. — The largest Ss sale of any issue of the Daily Worker recorded in this city will be reached by the 24-page, tenth an- niversary edition, coming off the press on Jan. 6. Machinery is being set up for a sale of at least 30,000 copies of this historic edition. It must be reported, however, that while in Detroit proper the response by workers to assure a sale of the 30,000 copies ordered ts of the most spirited sort, responses from Mich- igan towns outside of Detroit are so far poor. There is no doubt that we can ex- ceed our minimum sale of 30,000 copies of the anniversary issue if comrades from the other towns take up the matter at once and mobilize forces for reaching the workers with the popular and historic 24-page Daily ‘Worker. We call on all workers to help build our revolutionary movement by colun- Toward the $40,000 Drive teering to sell the 24-page issue. Re- port to the Daily Worker office at 2419 Grand Fiver Ave., Detroit. NEW YORK.—A nymber of work- ers’ mass organizations have already placed orders for the 24-page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker of January 6, but the total orders so far do not assure an ade- quate distribution of the 100,000 copies ordered by this district. The following is a list of head- quarters where orders can be placed and where the Daily Worker will be delivered: Tear this list out and keep it for reference. Manhattan—140 Broad St.; 410 W. 19th St; 96 Avenue C; 56 W. 25th St.; 29 W. 115th St. Bronx—2075 Clinton Ave.; apt Ave. 1 Graham Ave.; 699 1109 Brooklyn—6: 45th St.; 132 Myrtle Ave.; 1813 Pitkin Ave. Jamaica, L. I—148-29 Liberty Ave. Astoria, L. I.—4206 27th St. Letters from Our Readers WE'LL TRY IT! New Haven, Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: The improvement of the Daily Worker over a period of a few months is an objective proof for our entire movement of the possibility of changing our methods of work from a sectarian basis to a basis with mass appeal. There can no longer be any doubt about it, the “Daily” is on the road to becoming a real mass wo! g-class paper, the paper of the awakening American proletariat. The “Daily” is now a paper that any Communist can hand the worker is shop or on the street and say: Conn. Eere, buddy, here’s a paper that'll tell you something.” And that’s something, However, my purpose in writing is mainly that of offering constructive criticism and suggestions on how to improve our “Daily” still more. First of all, as one a little familiar with newspaper work and make-up, let me criticize the make-up of the “Daily.” Most of the really signifi- cant political news is buried in the middle of the paper. Another thing is, why the stress laid on New York news? Pick up today’s issue of the “Daily,” comrades. I don’t care what | day it is, and look at the front page. Over two-thirds of the stories are New Yovk. Without underestimating New York’s impsrtance to our move- ment, New York is certainly not the most proletarian city in America and certainly does not deserve the Space given it. Every demonstration, every New York affair, is treated elabcrately. Other cities, if not neglected, are certainly treated comparatively shab- bi What about more news of the share-croppers’ struggles, the farm work, etc.? I understand that there is only one edition for city and for national distribution, but certainly a more equitable arrangement of news and a readjusted sense of news value on the part of the “Daily” staff is a reasonable demand, in view of what the “Daily” has already ac- complished. Now, some suggestions for articles. What about a series of good articles exposing the Honorable Father Coughlin in detail. He has a tremen- dous hold on the imagination of many American workers, even if many are becoming more disillusioned every day because of his support of Roose- velt. But Coughlin, and all others like him, must be systematically ex-j| posed by our “Daily,” so the Party and sympathizers who read our press will have a weapon to shatter the. illusions of the working class in re-j gerd to Coughlin more surely. | And how abovt a series of simple articles by Comrade Browder, on the style of the excellent N. R. A. pam-| phlet, answering workers’ questions on Communism? Answer such ques- | tions as: Will Communism do away with individuality; What will the Communists do if they take power? ete. There are a number of im-) portant questions of this nature that! can be simply and clearly answered | in such articles. Both the articles on Coughlin and latter article would make splendid pamphlets. | Finally, what about some good ar-| ticles on the Negro question or re- prints from the pamphlet on Negro Liberation and the Party position on the Negro question, Also on the necessity for building the L. S. N. R.' and its peculiar character. The ma-| jor portion of our Party, I’m sure,| still have not even the beginnings of | a clear political understanding on’ this question. | The more I read the “Daily” the; more I realize the tremendous role a properly edited paper that is close | to the masses can play. I must ad-| mit that I could not appreciate this from reading the old “Daily.” I think that ever more criticism should be encouraged from rank and file com- | rades; that discussions should be held in our basic units on what the ' comrades think of the “Daily” and that letters should be sent from all our Party units as well as sympa- thetic organizations with their criti- cisms of thie “Daily.” For from the mass of criticisms and suggestions that come to our “Daily” will come the means of improving the “Daily” to the point where it becomes a pow- erful weapon to -aid the American working class in the building ofa Soviet America. . B.C, SHARING THE DA'LY WORKER Eureka, Calif. Enclosed find $1,70 ior the Daily* Worker Drive, which two families raised. We do not make enough to both subscribe for the paper so both families read the one paper, then pass it on to friends who are not able to buy it at all. ‘We do not always make our board kn even, making ties in the reu,,00as, although we work hard. Hoping this will help some, we are trying to do our share. Un 4 85) Ukrain Edu Hme 5.00 ae Ag) Greek Edu Cl 3.45 Below are listed additional con- | Henker 25) H O Leeds 100° Un Kf 2{25| 5 Reed Cl 1.28 tributions to the $40,000 Daily | Oy by Rappaport 12 E Landau Hey Un 13 105| Roumanian Frac 2.09: Worker drive. Such lists will be | col by Led “10; L ky 109) UH 18 7.10] Russian MA | eased 20) EU Mledrowsky 1.00, ykrain W Home 2.00| 13 4.82 published in the Daily Worker once | Col by P Br 550, TWO, oe Coin Cards | List 108892 ; a week. 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Un 5, 10.08 2-names .20| 2 names 95) Total to date 404.10 Un 1-17 “30, Col by Vidoie Un 1, Seo 5 1 iid by Bach List 20824 | DIST No 5 Concerts Proc'és 8. ag 30 nates aD GBs Seo 6 - Rd mes 1.10] 2 nomen 83) M Vukovieh ‘23. Akvon, Un 1 B Maywood ILD 15! stonros Un 90 ist cab List 25592 10 LWheeler 2.00] Un 3 x80] (To be continued). |on January Ist, 1934. PARTY LIFE Musteites Profit fons A comrade who worked for eight months in the Illinois coal fileds writes, in regard to the work of the Party and opposition group in the Progressive Miners Union, and to our perspectives in that field: District Analysis Correct Although I have been out of the So, Illinois coal ficlds for several months, I should like to express my opinion on the work which we are carrying on there. In the December “Communist,” Comrade Gebert, di trict organizer, in criticizing the in- sufficient work in the coal mining territory, characterizes the work of the party comrades there as tailism, iling behind the Musteites and Mrs. Agnes Wieck. I think comrade Gebert is entirely correct in this analysis. However, I believe if is not only nec>"sary fo characterize the work as tailism, but also it is important that explain just what. forms the t: m took, how and why it was that we trailed constantly behind the Musteites. Failure to Expose Micleaders As is.well known, the Musteites Gerry. Allard and Tom Tippett were for a time in open alliance with the leadership of the Progressive Miners of Amezica. During this period,, the Pevtv comrades carried on an in- ' sufficient exposure of the fake “lefts” who were actually providing the shield behind Pearcy and Co, carried cut their sell-out policies. Later, when Allard and Tippett went into a sham “opvosition” to Pearcy, we agein failed to expose them, and avowed Allerd to rehaki- litate himself greatly in the miners’ cyes, when he pretended to “fith’” egainst the leadershin of the P. M. A. with resolutions, etc. The min- ers end the Womens Auxiliaries were really aroused over Allards disvnissal as editor of the Prozressive Miner, but we should have given independent and aggressive leadershin to their sincere desire for a rank and file union paper. Party Hesitancy The workers correctly saw in Al- lerds’ dismissal a reactionary move of the officialdom, and wished to fight against it. The Party was faced with the problem of organising this mass resentment into a real op- vosition movement against the Pearcy leadership. The question was due to come up at the meetine of Local No. 1 of the P, M. A. in Gil- Unique Gift Made of Neon to be Given to “Daily” at Coliseum NEW YORK—A Hammer and Sickle, framed within a Soviet Star, all worked out in neon and electrified to light up in red and blue, will be presented as a gift to the Daily Worker at its Tenth Anniversary celebration in the Bronx Coliseum this Saturday evening, This beautiful and unique em- blem is a gift from Andrew Azan, formerly a member of the John Reed Club of Hartford, Conn, No worker should miss seeing this gift and its presentation to our “Daily” at the Coliseum. NAME ADDRESS: Completely Their Reactionary Deeds Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Party Work in filinois Coal; , Fields Must Be Improved, OurFailure: to Expose {- “4 ‘This local is the key loca: } raving ‘ever '2,500 members. We knew that the Allard-Wieck up would present some kind of lution at this meeting. Our a .was either, to support their water resolution, and tad after them, or to introduce one ¢* our own, exposing Allard, at the sar * time that we attacked the lead ship of the P. M. A, Although did draw up one of our own, this not introduced at the meeting) tly because of hesitancy by the ty leadership and partly because: lespie. h of vyacillation by the Communist miners, at the ameeting. The result of this was that we ailowed the leadership of the mass resentment to foll into ‘the hands of the Allard group. who naturally dissipated it This. was a major error. In places, like certain Women Auxitaries, (Wilsonville) where wi introduced our resolution, it was) ‘d, and our comrades became the gnized leaders of the opposition, movement. But these could not atone for our error in Local No. “Taikng Behind Musteites | But, our greatest. fault was our tail« jing behind the Musteite “left” phrases, and ‘parti y our complete failure to base our struggle on the immedi- ate its day-by-day grievances of thei Ttis 1 known that the Mus- some left Socialists, and the om Communism, make a 0 by “left” phrases. They eral strike,” big actions, ” ete, and regularly make a civision between these ques< tions.and the everyday struggles What did we do? True, we com- batted and exposed their phrase= mongering, we raised counter-slogans, but we-made the same semi-Men: shevist senaration between these gen= eral political questions and the day- to-day grievances in the mines, W’ had so little orientation to min eviovanses that.even in key town* like Gillespie we organized town units and not mine nuclei. At thé: unit meetings we discussed chiefly the “fight” against’ ‘the union leader- ship and not thé’ mine grievances. We did not issue @ single mine bul- ietin or paper. Failure ‘to Bring Forward Face of Party ‘There were other weaknesses too, such as the failure to bring forward the face of the Party, the failure to recruit. Party. members while builcing the Unemployed Councils, but this is partly, but only. partly, due to the conditions of extreme terror which préVvdiled. In my opin- jon, the basic réason why we are weak in So. Ilinois, is just because we did not base our struggles around the everyday grievances in the mines, The prestige of the Communist Party ‘is very high amongst the ll- linois miners. These workers, who have a great record of militancy, have faith in us, in our work, If we take the correct steps, if we expose the shallow phrases of ‘the Musteites, if we base ourselves on the mines, build up opposition groups in every pit, issue. mine bulletins which will fight pit grievances for the everyday needs of the miners, and link these up in a Bolshevik way with the general political questions; then we will de- finitely move forward, and establish ourselves as the leaders of the mili- tant Ilinois miners, Please send me more information on the Communit: Party, ‘By PAUL LusTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Number of Drug Stores flies R., San Diego, Calif.—We do not ow of what use the information can you, but in order to oblige a of the Daily Worker, we'll tell you that there are about sixty thou- sand drug stores in the United States, s 8 6 Personal Attacks I. W. W., Denver—We do not print letters containing personal attacks on Chiropractors membership in the Communist Party. * * * “The German Sterilization Law Vv. M., New Brunswick, N. J.—The new sterilization law goes into effect It is supposed to be applied against those mentally and physically unfit, such as epilep- tics, insane, feeble minded, etc. Those | Who know the Nazi’ psychology have reasons to fear that it might be directed against all political oppo- nents’ of Hitlerism, particularly Com- and against non-Teutonic racial elements, like the Jows, “Fit” end “unfit” are terms too broad even for selontists to define, let alone poli- tical adventurers whose sole weapon rig case toate Causes of Death Robert K., Providence, kh. With greater. number of deaths in country is. accidents, tomobile accidents. ‘Next comes monia, then heart disease) and ‘ cancer, “Tuberculosis has. been drop= ped fromthe Big Four; its place ald ing ule taken by sancer, a means nothing to us ints send neither gifts“not’ cards. WE de ee replying to your query inthe’ hope of discour- aging you from*buying us a present before! Christmas, which you can get “| at a 30 per cent reduction after New Year's. We do not need anything, but wevlkfow quite'& number of peo- ple who need everything, We draw the line at red flannel ' underwear and Cigars | in! gold or ‘siver Wrappers. - “y Low and High Vou Electetiay Daniel *C.—Your. x describing the life-saving episode, at the road Depot was full of humor, you missed the scientific features. The doctor was right in oppne the high — voltage. cutrenb, for Hopi voltage selectric current, eng! by -twitering” of: ae while Mee all due respect to your teacher of| United political economy, we cause of the! 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