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} pfelirive. The best was the t f ‘866 new members. Wo Adds 804 New Members oF J,| Campaign Continued DAILY 157 Children Request Of Districts: Y By MAX Membership Drive ‘The fourteenth week of the bership campaign of the Inte: Bworkers Order added 804 ne bers atid 157 children to our o: Pkation. Thus the fourteenth we: falame the third best week of with 1012 new members. a id “best was the tenth week wi By request of our districts, the cam paign will continue two More weeks. The fourteenth found’ ail sections tive and produ . Only the Youth Section fell down again and the Roumanian Section was week very Weak. To overcome those wea’ the Order which the brought to light the Nation: ecutive Committee decided plan of work for months. In two parts, next Monday, we will her lish ‘this plan. Plan of Work for the First Six Months of 1934 ‘The possibilities for the growth of our Order at this moment are tre- mendous. In the prole of the bourgeois fraternal mover @ definite disintegration is ev A mass flight of workers from th g place. caused b’ progressive inability of the work: ay their dues, but also by the of confidence in these o: The workers sense the c inyoived in their need for b They begin to penetrate the dece ritualism of bourge: ate! They. learn to recogr empty substitute for a n ers policy. This manifes of radicalization of the masse ers in the American bow opportunity @ broad mass organ: dreds of thousands Order has the du this opportunity to fraternalism; thro working class interests their minds and thus their zation gradually and prog takes the form proletar Sciousness. fixed in of and plan the life and activ di ches and in the lecdir tees of tile Order. This ider the immediat: lities and ‘must aim at el: the esses which hinde the utilization of the possibilities The first of these weakn of political life in the Orde com- This unsystematic Struggle activity must purposeful. planning and org: its political life. This life must be organized in the form of sustained Propaganda, agitation and action on tHe™ following fundamental class struggle tasks of the Order (1) To teach its members that pro- Ietarian frate-nalism is an effort to solve one of those Jems of the wor! arise from capita (2)..To demonstrat bers. that=the most importa: pr condition to the solution of this rfob- Tem is proletarian solidarity against the capitalist class. (3) To show its members and the ‘workers in general that the economic insecurity of the worke: @f their need for mut @ social problem requiri: remedy, and that the most i We-regret very much that, after all, there was not enough space in the Jan. 6 edition for us to include a second pumper- nickel recipe as Comrade A. J. A. vequested, so we'll do the next best thing and give it now. It was sent by Comrade Eleanore of Chicago, who says: “I ran across a recipe for pumpernickel, and remembering your difficulty: in obtaining one, am send- Pit along ...I like to read the and enjoy it very much.” What!—More Pumpernickel! cups rye meal cups wheat flour [cup cooked, riced potatoes e yeast or 1 oz, bulk yeast potato water teaspoon. caraway seeds. ethod: Pour the hot potato water » the mixing bowl; when lukewarm sugar, and yeast dissolved in er cup lukewarm water. Add ainder of the ingredients and Gough until smooth. it rise until double in bulk Let then work it smooth and press it inte Jong bread pans. Have the even p Of dough on top, and let rise ia till double in bulk. Bake in oven (375 degrees) for one hour until sides of bread begin to draw Pray from pan. Turn out the loaves, Mage right side up, and brush tops with water. In and Out of the Home above formula is somewhat and activities of other organizations. | ;|@ name and 9 in 14th Week Two Weeks By outh Section Slowing-up BEDACHT More e, nation etc. tand in must he way ‘2 al ef- action of them to solve 's in all of the conclusion tha the workers under joitation. with a view that these con- mutual help) cannot be met merely by organizing mutual aid. The workers must mect them by fighting for a change in se condition They must meet g for a full measure ‘ance such as the work- rule has established for self in the Societ Union. They must eet them by fighting for decent ges to enable them to maintain es and their dependents in ealth. They must meet ing against unsanitary king conditions in the nes and factories. They must hting for conditions the life and welfare of the will be the guiding nciple y, and not the m by of social | ers’ politica e the lack of political now in our branches, Executive Committee during the next six ystematic educational 'y the purposes and c f the Order as a class gle organization. It shall supply es for this campaign. At least ou 1 | one meeting per month of all branches shall be devoted to one or another phase of the problem. The concrete tasks of these discussions shall be Y}to mobilize the membership of the Order for the social insurance cam-} for special attention to the iding of the English, the Youth nd the Children’s Sections of the | Order, for special agitation and prop- | aga’ of the Order among the | unions and for the establishment of regular discussions in the branches of the Order of issues connected with those problems of the workers that make them look for the protection of fraternal organizations, «| (To be concluded next Monday in this column) For Boss Lynchers By a Vet Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Am a reader of our newspaper, but am not a mem- er of the Communist Party. Lately we have learned to sympathize. Some times it nauseates me to rea | of all this Negro lync | discrimination. Was it really worth | fighting for this country of ours? Was | it really worth our while to stand in |rain, clad in navy blue, bayonets | Sxed, to stand at attention receiving a “brass-hat,” who at the same time wouldn’t turn a finger to prevent a ie” party of a totally innocent (or any worker)? To whom do we owe our mighti- ness? To workers of all colors! Who are down-trodden? Only we workers. | Editor's Note:—We will be glad to | inform you wi we were unable to e the cartoon if you will send us We wil ithe Home: | 2 wk ONDUCTID I PTS HELEN LUKE the recipes that call for molasses before we consider the subject closed. We'd be glad to hear the verdict, too, from any comrades who may use one of the recipes given. Comrade Amter made a fine speech at the Unemployed Conference at Christ Church last Saturday. This was a splndid meeting except that it was too long. (We'll run a few para- graphs on the subject of too-long meetings and similar troubles some time when we run out of recipes and are in a pugnacious mood.) But what will interest the mothers particularly is the remark made by Comrade Lapidus, to the effect that Mayor LaGuardia has some ideas about taking the hot “free” lunches away from the kids, A delegate from the I.W.O. School (a woman com- rade) also mentioned the convention which it held two weeks ago, against child-misery. She told of growing discrimination against Jewish and Negro kids, even by teachers. The Unemployed Convention Fund Committee, (headquarters at 29 E. 20th St.) sends out a desperate S.0.S. for funds to get the N. Y. delegates to Washington, and hopes some of our women readers will have some home affairs to make collections. The time is too brief for planning any- thing elaborate—just a little teaparty will do; if you haven't time even for that, all dimes sent by individuals will be highly welcome. A Word to the Wise ‘We emphatically urge all house- wives, mothers, and “batchies” who buy their own soap, toothpaste, and such, to read “Poisons for People,” ‘The "i then the first one given last =.Me'd ike to find also one of in the Jan, 9 New Masses | Way out is not to de ion for the suffer- | 5, |faces the s don’t like, will be °| fired. A strike was immediately de- clared. Now we are 150 workers d ig and racial) S. Blechman & |Food Workers Win Gains Organize Struggle ‘At the Park Central Hotel Sons Strikers Fight Unfair Dismissals| (By a Worker Correspondent) ney. The workers realiz t the only n the firm individually but committee | which will represent the majority of the workers re. The con- cern agreed fals n the hope of making a company union of it. It |was agreed that no worker should be fired for belonging to the organiza- |tion of the A: ted Emplo |S. Blechman & Son, also no |for any reason except inefficiency or dishonesty. | |__When a committee went down this lt the | Tuesday, Jan. firm why they fired s yal workers on New Y¢ mittee was told that this is not the question of firing seven workers, j but that a great many others whose |picketing and we are remaining out |strong till these seven workers will |be reinstated. And the so-called |religious firm may call their hired | police and many spread all kinds of | lies. We the workers are too strong now, too smart by this time to be misled. —One of the Strikers, Pretzel Workers | in Militant Fight on NRA Wage Cat (By a Worker Correspondent) READING, Pa.—The Supreme Pret- 1 Co. threatens to fire all workers | ho dare to strike against a 10 per | cent wage cut put through since the | firm joined the N.R.A. But the | workers. in spite of the discharge slips in their pay-envelopes, the! {picket line every day rotesting | against the use of scabs to break their | struggle for better conditions. The workers are seeing through this |N.R.A. They find that the National |Recovery Act means recovery for the manufacturers at the expense of the workers’ wages. The workers have one thing yet to learn about Roose- |velt N.R.A, That is that when he |gave them the right to organize, he was only telling them to join the Wall Stret unions, so as to tie their hands, |so that the bosses would still have |control of the workers at all times and can give them as many wage cuts as they want. | We workers must answer this latest jattack with a militant struggle led by |the rank and file committee of action and stop all wage-cuts the boss tries |to put over on us. The Reading police force are on the job helping to pro- tect the scabs, and the boss, to break the strike. These cops are friendly } with us when they want to win a | point or two for the boss. | ,.S0, workers, treat these rats with |silent contempt and clenched fists, jand only then you will be able to struggle more affectively against the | - |bosses and get what you want, better] ig conditions and working con- \ditions. Toward a bigger and better union of pretzel workers, | | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1735 is available in sizes 112, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2 yards 39 ch fabric. Pattern 1734 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 1% yards 39 inch fabric. Tlustrated step-by-step sew- | hired. ~ | city, Officials and Joinin (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW YOR CITY.—A great Christ- ree in the wellheated lobby of Park Central Hotel, West 55th St., d with various shining ob- jects and softly illuminated by small electric bulbs; on top of which a Iver-lined placard wishes you a Me Christmas. Soft cushions awailing the “tired” guest to give h: comfort and relaxation in an atmosphere of peace and quiet; this is the description of a swanky ritzy hotel's front entrance; mockingly contrasting, the situation in the back, where the workers are sweating and slaving to maintain that comfort for a few; where waiters are working 14 hours a day at NO wages at all. The story of such a day’s work and no soft cushions are waiting for us. Is it any wonder then, that a certain restlessness is evident; a ferment was bre g amongst them, against these unbearable conditions. A ferment which until now successfully was kept in check by the bureaucratic officials of the Amalgamated Food Workers Union. Again and again the workers de- manded from them that action should be taken, and although a hun- dred per cent organized, they refused to take any steps to help the workers win better conditions. Until at last Buzzard Flew In And Half Of The Wages Flew Out (By a Worker Correspondent) STATEN ISLAND.—I am employed at the Stapleton Service Laundry. At one time I was paid as high as $18. a week. Last summer the Blue Buzzard flew into the plant. Every- body was happy about getting an in- crease in pay and more help to be Instead of getting an increase, we are being cut. I work like a slave all day, and fortunate if I make $1.50 per day. Last week my pay was $7.60, | after slaving like a mule all week and | getting a lot of abuse from our fore- | man, E. J. McCormick. He is rushing } us at high speed, then has the nerve | to tell us that he would return laundry if he received it in a shape the way we turn it out. If he would | | allow us a little more time we could do a good job; but the boss is out for | profits, A short time ago a well fed man came and gave us a lecture on our own time, our lunch hour, telling us | {about the misery and starvation in India; and all about conditions there; then asked us poor under- nourished slaves to donate 10 cents per week for the unemployed in this 10 cents is not so much, but the principle of sucking the last drop of blood out of our hard earnings. | Many employed here have families to | feed. Victory Achieved by Leaving Burocratic A. F. of L. they came out with sham demands; | g Industrial Union drawn up by the executive committee without consulting the workers, for $20.00 a week wages, but they said, in order to make this demand ef- fective, you must wait and not take any action before we tell you. A pretense at radicalism which utterly failed to impress the workers. When told that they should wait once more, they left the hall in disgust and de- cided to go to the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, hotel and restaurant section, and there they found what was wanted. Here they were not told to wait, but on the contrary, were urged to take immediate steps. That same afternoon, demands were drawn up by THE WORKERS THEM- SELVES, and NOT by the fine offi- dials. A rank and file committee was elected, and that same evening these committees went up to the boss. The boss, faced with the issue of an immediate settlement, and seeing the determination of the committee, whom he was told were backed by the powerful united front of all waiters, granted the following demands after little argument: $20 a month wages to waiters working full time, and 50c for each meal for part-time or extra waiters; 1 day off a week, which we never had; recognition of the shop committee. The hours to be cut from 14 to 9 for all waiters, and $3 for New Year's night, while before he expected us to work for nothing on that night. This may not seem very much, but €t really means a tremendous victory for the workers in the Park Central. Whereas they never received any wages, now they will receive $20 with no deduction of any kind. Many joined the Food Workers In- dustrial Union as a result of this gain, because they recognize in the Food Workers Industrial Union a union cifferent as day is from night, in comparison to the bureaucratic lead- ership which they faced in the Amal- gamated Union. The Food Workers Industrial Union is always ready to support the strug- gle of the workers, regardless of their affiliations. It clearly proves also that it lies within the power of the workers themselves to improve their conditions if they determinedly stand together, and this should be an example to be followed by all work- ers of the hotel and restaurant sec- tion. A. & P. Store Tries to Cheat on Relief Order CHICAGO, ILL.—Workers of Chi- | cago must be on guard against the trickery the managers of the A & P| stores are using, in order to cheat the | workers out of a few dimes of their | starvation grocery orders, forced from | the Cook county relief bureau, A worker who is on relief entered en A & P store at 548 East 35th St. and ordered some groceries which the clerk placed on the counter. The worker handed the clerk the grocery | order she had just received from the relief bureau. The clerk asked her her receipt. The worker demanded that she get a receipt so she would| be able to keep up with the amount she spent. The clerk then called the manager, who aiso refused to give a | receipt for the groceries she had} received, and demanded that she come back in the morning. ‘The worker left the store that night and came back in the morning. ‘The manager had her receipt made out with 20 cents more than she had spent. The worker refused to accept the receipt, and stated that “she To Open Settlement House To Jobless By a Worker Correspondent OMAHA, NEB.—Let us not tolerate these conditions any longer. Here we have a settlement house, a place where the young people go to take certain studies, and a place that young people can have recreation, and when it was started some few years back, it was a nice place to go. But now recently there has been a fee attached, so when the unemployed children go there they are chased out for not having the money. Some workers’ girls have been forced to discontinue their study because their mother is a widow and cannot afford to give a dollar to pay the dues. And they have a wood shop where the boys make toys and when some poor boy makes some toys, they have been refused permission to take them | out because they don’t have the 25 cents or 50 cents and in some cases they must have $2.00. And this place is supposed to be run by the com- munity chest. Workers are forced to pay $5.20 to the Community Pund, and yet their children can’t enjoy the place. Now when the unemployed Council took this subject up, they were told by the manager of the place, that the fee was attached to teach the young Negroes how to be self-sup- porting. I think that is a poor way to teach young unemployed Negroes how to support themseleves. When there are nearly 14,000 white and Negroes who can’t support themselves in this city. Now we have formed a grievance committee, made up of the different organizations: (1) Young Communist League. (2) Non-Partisan Club. (3) Unemployed Council, and (4) Communist Party. Now the committee are getting out petitions to remove the keepers of the place, Mr. and Mrs. Rohn by name, and when they are removed, we will fight some one who is in sym- pathy with the unemployed, and have everything free to the children. And we are asking every comrade to sign the petition to bring this thing to an end. Some one will be in your home soon. If you have young chil- dren, and want to see them have some social training, and some rec- reation, do your duty; sign your name, WeNnT you cove WR | BAK TOMORROW WV POR your ReelPr? would not leave the store until her account was corrected.” She began to expose the manager to the workers who come in the store. In- mediately the manager corrected her account, and begged her pardon and told her that the clerk was at fault. Fellow workers, we must be very careful that this trick is not played on us. We must get a receipt at the same time our grocery orders are cashed in. We must expose and have removed any manager who helps the boss class starve us. We must join the Unemployed Council and demand that the government pay unem- ployed insurance to all workers that are unemployed. J. G. 1 i | ing instructions included. | Each of these models is 15e (30c for both.) Send coins or stamps (coins preferred.) Please write very plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER and SIZE of each pattern ordered. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department,» 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | | “The Steel Worker” — Bethlehem ‘Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa. | “Wisconsin Steel Torch’—Wisconsin Steel Co., Chicago. “Gary Steel Worker”—Illinois Steel Co., Gary, Ind. By N. HONIG The very appearance of a shop paper in the huge Bathlehen Steel Works in Bethlehem, Pa. one of Schwab's domains, is significant news. It is to be hoped that Vol. 1, No. 1 of this paper will be rapidly followed by No. 2, and that a serious attempt | will be made to build, improve this | paper and keep it going. The Steel Worker consists mainly of items describing conditions in the plant. They are excellent items. One of them exposes the bonus sys- tem in the mills; another is a fine, concrete exposure of the N. R. A. and the steel code, telling exactly how they operate against the interests of the workers in the Bethlehem Steel plant. This is the kind of exposure that is a thousand times more effec- tive and valuable than mere general name-calling. There is also a good expose of the Amalgamated Association, the A. F, of L steel union, giving the example of the Weirton sellout strike, and the part the A. A. played in the Warren strike. This is important in view of the fact that the A. F. of L. is or- ganizing in the steel plants. Should Explain What Party Is In this, the-first issue of the shop paper, there should have been an explanation of what the Communist Party is, what it stands for, how it fights for the workers. There is very little reference. to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and it is referred to.as §. M. I. U. mys- terious letters which mean nothing to those workers who have never heard of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, ‘The main demands of the 5. M. W. I. U. should have been given in a box. After all, the workers must get to know what the revolutionary union is, what it stands for, how it differs from the A. F. of L. Two complete pages are wasted, be-~ cause they are left blank. These should have been utilized for the im- portant points that were omitted. In future issues, there are matters that must always be played up. The ex- posure of the N. R. A. and the A. F. of L. union officials should go on from issue to issue. There shuld be some material in each issue on what a shop committee is. The 8. M. W. I. U. must receive more space. The struggles of the steel workers must not be ignored as they were in the first issue The strikes that have been led by the S. M, W. I. U. should be popularized. Some of the more important political events of the day should be given some space. Scotts- boro, fascism and the struggle against it; Civil Workers, etc. This latter re- SHOP PAPER REVIEWS workers, and not a letier rom @ worker. All of which reveals lack of contact with the workers in the Wis- consin Steel Mill. And this cannot convince the workers that the paper is THEIR paper. There is very little about the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, what is stands for, the struggles it has led. These are serious short- comings, and mar the otherwise ex- cellent character of the paper. ed eee “Gary Steel Worker” Exposes C.W.A. The Gary Steel Worker comrades have a nose for what is news and hence they play up on the front page the C.W.A, Program and evpose it. And they do a good job, pointing out the purpose of the C. W. A. Scotts- boro is also played up. There is ex- cellent news from the mill, little items from the various departments bringing out the grievances of the workers. ‘‘Why Every Steel Worker Should Join the Communist Party” is an excellent feature, because it is minds us that the unemployed and the fight for relief and unemploy- ment insurance is not mentioned in the first issue, a serious omission. “Steel Torch” Is Model Paper The Wisconsin Steel Torch in many ways is a model for shop papers to follow. On the front page it gives the workers the main demands of the Shop Unit. It also has an excellent little article on “Why we demand and fight for unemployment insurance.” It exposes the Works Council—the Company Union. It attacks the bosses steel code, but not concretely enough. It fights against discrimination against Negroes, Mexicans and for- eign-born workers. It has articles on the Scottsboro boys and on Soviet Recognition. And they are all ex- cellent articles. But there is not & line on shop news—on conditions in the mills, on the specific grievances of the ‘ concrete, not general, but stating specifically what the Communist Party has done for the employed and unemployed. But here too there are not actual LETTERS from the workers in the mill, and the workers cannot look on the paper as theirs. There is no- thing to explain what the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is, what its main demands are, what it has done. Also, the front page should have as one of the leading articles, something that is directly connected with the mill. There should also be material in each issue on the A. F. of L. what it is being used for now, the role it plays in the steel mills, what it did, for example in the Weirton steel strike. ‘This paper, like the two above, are excellent technically. Let us hope this feature improves even to a PARTY LIFE Party in Auto Small Wage Gains Won The resolution by the Detroit Distrits Committee of the Com- munist Party on work in the auto section of the country follows: oe ‘The District Committee is itself in agreement with the Resolution of the 17th Plenum of the Central Com- mittee which sharply calls to our at- tention the alarming fact that our district, which made important be- ginnings in carrying out the open letter, is seriously lagging behind. That this is true cannot be ques- tioned, and when we consider that the economic crisis is deeper here in our district than in other sections of the country, and that our district is considered the danger spot for Amer- {can capitalism, our weaknesses, therefore, become still more serious. That the N. R. A. did not stop the downward trend of the crisis is seen in the fact that production of auto- mobiles dropped from 43,900 in the week ending Sept. 30 to 11,000 in the week ending Nov. 7. The figures for the latter week were less than the number of cars produced during the same week last year. The small gains in wages won by @ section of the workers, primarily as a result of the militant strike struggles last January, under the leadership of the A. W. U., have been wiped out by the intensive speed-up and tremendous increase in the cost of living. City officials themselves admit that the cost of foodstuffs has increased 26% per cent since March; coal has increased $2 per ton, and similar increases have taken place in other necessities of life. All of the illusions which the N. R. A. tries to create cannot hold back the increasing radicalization of the workers and poor farmers which expresses itself in increased struggle on the part of the workers. Struggles Prove Radicalization This radicalization is seen in the mass movement in Dearborn, in the strike of the tool and diemakers, the joining of the unions by large num- bers of auto workers, the rising mili- tancy in the shops, the growing movement among the unemployed, especially among the relief wage workers, and the rising movement of the poor farmers against evictions, foreclosures, etc, Despite this radicalization, our Party has not carried through its main tasks—the penetration of the basic auto shops and first of all the Ford plant—which were pointed out in the open letter. However, we can register some important achieve- ments, such as: 1. Our work in the city of Dear- born: a, The building of a consider- able movement among the workers for some burning needs, such as relief and against the terror of the Ford controlled city govern- ment. b. Building two territorial union branches with approximately 200 members. c. Building two women's auxil- ijary organizations with 80 mem- bers. d. Increase in the Party mem- bership from 28 to almost 100, as well as an increase in sales of the Daily Worker. 2. Strengthening our influence through the application of the united front policy in the tool and die- makers’ strike, which resulted in: a. Building of a strong opposi- tion movement. b. Election of rank and file members to the strike committees, both in the shops and the central strike committee over the heads of Serious Lag After Good Work 1932, Wiped Out By Speed-up, Living Costs the misleaders. c. Building one shop nucleus. District Scores By Auto Union In Jan., d. Incre the sale of the Daily Worl ited activity to some ex- e Auto Workers’ Union and against the ad the wishes of the misleaders, as well over Ing up in some shops of + lines against the policy of’ the leadership. f. Calling of mass meetings and demonstrations jointly by the M. E.'S. A. and A. W. U. against the policy of the leadership of the M. E. ‘The election of the opposition s president of the national organization h. Recruiting some new mem~ béts as a result of our activity. 3.. The growth of the Unemployed Council. 4: The growth of our shop work and the A.W.U. in Grand Rapids. 5. The building of the Workers’ School in Detroit. 6. Increased mass work among the poor farmers and the organiza- &. lead tion of the Michigan Farmers’ League, with approximately 2,500 members. ©.°C, Plenum Resolution Correct The 17th Plenum Resolution of the ©." C. states: “The whole Party has not yet fully understood the applica- tion of the open letter and the Iead- ing cadres have not yet fully ac- tivized the Party membership for these tasks. The advance has been of a very uneven character. Some important districts have hardly par- ticipated in this advance (Cleveland); others. which have made mportant beginnings before the extraordinary conference, have stagnated and even fallen behind since (Detroit).” ‘This is true despite the fact that our district has the most favorable objective situation and yet we have to register a setback in our shop work since the open letter went into effect. Following the July Party Confer- ence-and the study of the Open Let- ter, our district, instead of intensi- fying its work in the main concen- tration centers, picked ten auto plants as centers of concentration and’ added to this the Black Belt, and the steel mills of Ecorse and Monroe. It is obvious that this method of concentration is not concentration at. all, but a spreading out of our forces, which makes real concentration im- possible. Our task was to concen- trate more intensely and to assign the forces around the major centers of concentration, such as Ford and Briggs. Basic Reasons for Lagging Behind What are the basic reasons for lagging behind in our District? ‘They are: 1. Failure to understand con- cretely shop concentration (declin- ing of A. W..U.). 2. A wrong and mechanical ap- proach in the carrying out of revo- lutionary mass work. (The setting of a strike date in the Ford plant and the raising of general strike slogans without building a base in the shops and without consulting the workers.) 3. Underestimation of the deep- going radicalization among the masses, especially among the Ford workers in the shop. 3. Hesitation in bringing the Party to the forefront, which carries withit extreme slowness in recruit- ing members into the Party. 5. The extreme slowness in build- ing the Circulation of the Daily Worker. 6. All of which develops the growing danger of right opportunism and our failure to combat it as the main obstacle in carrying out the decisive tasks of our Party. (TO BE CONTINUED) THE NAZI STERILIZATION LAW The new Nazi Yaw for the steriliza- tion of the “eugenically unfit” in Germany, although masked by an hypocritical desire for “race improve- ment” through the elimination of hereditary disease, such as various forms of insanity, hereditary defor- mities and the like, is a dangerous, sharp-edged weapon against the revo- lutionary workers. The phrasing of the new law has been deliberately made so loose as to make it possible to subject any “un- desirable” to forcible sterilization. Ac- cording to the Nazis’ own authorities, some 400,000 Germans are already marked for sterilization. It is ap- Historical Materialism Science and Dialectics Revolutionary Journalism Revolutionary Theatre Public Speaking Class Struggles in the 19th Cent. English for Foreigners greater extent parent that the German Fascists’ ception of who is “undesirable” includes all the heroic anti-fascists now working illegally in Germany, This sterilization law thus becomes another cog in the sadistic torture regime fastened on the German masses by the Nazi over-lords. Nu- merous proposals for like legislation in theU. S, have been made by so- called “eugenists” during the past few years, ‘The workers of America will have to be on their guard to nip any such endeayor in the bud by mass action to prevent compulsory sterilization from becoming another weapon in the “arsenal of capitalist class ‘op- pression, CLASSES BEGIN TONIGHT WORKERS SCHOOL “Training for the Class Struggle” CLASSES IN Principles of Communism Political Economy Marxism-Leninism Negro Problems Youth Problems Organization Principles Trade Union Strategy History of the American Labor Movement History of the Russian Revolution Russian A FEW CLASSES ARE STILL OPEN REGISTER BEFORE THE FIRST SESSION AY THE WORKERS’ SCHOOL, 35 EAST 12th STREET, 8rd Floor Telephone ALgonquin 4-1199 ps one,