The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 7

WALL STREET’S CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN 'ASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Cannon “Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance” bill, the only act on the subject intro- duced during the present session of Congress, emphasizes the demagogy and cruelty with which American capitalism con- demns those millions now un-? employed, to outright starva- apes Cannon “unemployment insur- ance” act contains a provision that could easily be used by employ- Thesis of the 13th Plenum! of the Comintern (Continued from Page Six) tern to ruthlessly root out opportun- | a Jism in all its forms, and above all,| mass organizations can ensure con-/ right opportunism (Remmels, Ni tacts with the masses and also the} ma the defe: maximum of secrecy and efficiency. | tri their esti In carrying out these tasks, the| pects of the Ger revolutis Communists must utilize all legal pos-| ¥i¢ vhic! re) ist at sibilities to develop mass work. ang| *ithout which the Communist Parties to link up legal and illegal work. will not be able to lead the working) yuz71ing over the question The XIII Plenum of the E.C.C.I,} Masses up to the victorious struggles This letter was sent by Paul Blanshard to the Socialist Party DAiLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 Page Seven\ Confidential Letter of Paul Blanshard, Aid To LaGuardia, On Leaving the Socialist Party politics The brilliant professors, and preachers who write | of ses Socialist Party and as a confidential statement—Ed. poli Kenesican Is is the which we ought For two months I have been power |to do rather than the things which | righteousness; of citizens to exercise political power and if it fails to develop any pol tion, and the jobless of the future to health-wrecking poy- When compared with the rkers’ Unemployment and Social ihe Unemployed © Councils, the Can- bon measure’s only iclation to real Federal unemploy- nent insurance ties in its title, 3 Cannon, a Mil- waukee,Wis..Dem- § ratic Represen- ative, proposes that his “unem- yloyment insur- nee” act should not apply to the present unemployed. His bill is only to “take effect January 1, 1935” for those who may be fortunate enough o be employed “six. months during the previous year.” This"six months’ veriod, obviously, was inserted to es- tablish time during which a proposed graduated surtax on workers’ wages might be. collected. Other provisions of the Cannon bill declare: No worker shall receive in two years of unemployment (what's around the corner, Mr, P.W.A.?) more than “an amount of benefits possible to be received by him hereunder in six months’; for the possible six months’ “insurance,” paid for partly by the worker, in a probable two years’ period of to- tal unemployment, the unemployed worker receives a minimum of $50 a month, and nothing for his depend- ents; the act is to become operative only “in times of ‘unemployment crisis,” that is, a period of general unemployment within a State Ad- ministrative District as found by a vote of a majority of the State Ad- visory Board and confirmed by the Federal Unemployment Insurance Commissioner and the President of the United States; ‘the Unemploy- ment Commissioner is to act imme- diately under the Secretary of Labor; those suffering from partial unem- ployment are to receive one-half of the annual surtax paid; the appli- cant, for this unemployment “benefit” shall certify that. he “has been to- tally or partially unemployed for the one-half-month period prior to the Gate of making said application.” . ate WHE Worzers’ Unemployment and 2 Social Bill is simple, direct and effective. It provides for immediate Federal unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and the employers for all those now un- employed through no fault of their it provides for unemployment i vance cf the full average wages of the industry or territory, but not than $10 for adult workers, $3 each dependent, for the entire ricd of their unemployment. It provides that the system be admin- istered by workers and: that the full funds for it ‘shall be raised by the Seymour Waldman less government from the billions now set by aside for war preparations and taxation upon incomes of over 000 a year. And, as for part-time rkers, they are to receive the dif- ference between their wages and the unemployment insurance benefit, ‘This bill really recognizes the fact that ® part-time worker may get as hun- sry as a full-time one. ers as a strike-breaking, wage-cut- ting and victimization weapon. unemployed worker's application “shall state that applicant has made reasonable search for employment, and was unable to obtain more than he engaged in.” What is to legally prevent the District head from co- operating with a blood-sweating em- ployer, to prevent the leading citi- zens of the Detroit district, for in- stance, from foraing auto workers to scab on their striking fellow-workers, to prevent the employers from forc- ing workers to work under union rates, or to work far from their homes? Nothing. The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, however, pro- vides: “No worker shall be disqual- ified from receiving unemployment insurance because he refuses to work at wages below what he was formerly receiving or below the prevailing trade union rates in that vicinity, nor shall he or she be disqualified for refusing to work because of strike or unhealthful conditions, nor where hours are longer than the usual trade union standards in the particular trade or locality. An employee shall not be required to accept employment if the establishment where employ- ment is offered is at an unreasonable distance from his or her home.” The Cannon surtax scale follows: no surtax upon net incomes of $1,000 or less; upon net incomes in excess of $1,000 and up to 2,500, a surtax of one half of one per cent; upon net incomes of $2,500 and up to $5,000, a surtax of three fourths of 1 per cent; upon incomes of $5,000 and up to $25,000, a surtax of 1 per cent of such net incomes; upon incomes of $25,000 and up to $50,000, a surtax of one and one-half per cent of such net incomes; upon net incomes of $50,000 and up to $100,000, a surtax of 2 per cent of such net incomes; upon net incomes in excess of $100,- 000, a surtax of 3 per cent of such net incomes. The exploiter, for instance, whose $1,000,000 net income comes from grinding thousands of workers who may get anywhere from $6 to $20 a week, pays a tax of a mere $30,000 while his wage slave who, let us as- sume, is paid $20 a week, must hand over $5.20 a year (a considerable amount for a man with dependents who receive only $1,240 a year) into @ government fund from which he will only be able to draw six months “fnsurance” in an unemployment period of two years. * ye Ww ae much publicized Wagner “un- employment” bill, introduced every session for the past four years, is even worse than the Cannon proposal since the former would merely ex- empt from Federal taxation funds paid by corporations into State un- employment benefit pools—in short, a bill which would not commit the Federal government to any guarantee whatever to the jobless. It is probable that Senator Wagner will introduce @ bill to provide “unemployment in- surance” under the N.R.A. codes to be administered by the employer groups who now execute codes drawn up by themselves. When the Unemployed Councils convention meets in Washington Feb- Tuary 3, 4 and 3, the mployed workers will not hay difficult, choice to make of wha! {!1 to sup- Workers School Forum Opening a Special Ten-Weeks Lenin Series ROBERT MINOR Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party LECTURE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF LENIN Sunday, January 14th, at 8 P.M. at WORKERS’ SCHOOL FORUM, 35 E. 12th St., 24 Floor Questions — Discussion — Admission 250 Last Week of Registration—Classes Begin Jan. 15 Harlem Workers School 200 WEST 135th STREET, Room 212-B CLASSES IN Principles of Class Struggle (Conducted in Current Problems Youth Problems of the Negro Lib- eration Movement Labor Journalism Political Economy Public Speaking Spanish CLASSES FILL UP QUICKLY GET NEW DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET ‘Telephone: Audubon $-3055 English and Spanish) ARE YOU HELPING “YOUR PAPER”? We all want to see the DAILY WORKER a self-supporting and better newspaper. The only way the “Daily” can. Pay its own Way ts to secure more advertising. One way for ft to secure more advertising is for readers to cooperate with the Business Depart- ment. We need the following information right now! Your ‘uaswers will be treated in strict confidence. Mail the coupon TODAY, City... sisesese, State... - Employed....... Unemployed,...... How many adults read your copy of the Daily Worker regularly?. Do you buy any other newspaper every day? .. Do you patronize Daily Worker advertisers in ferent 'irms who do not advertise, Mie et or who advertise in some other paper? DAILY WORK 50 EAST 13th STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. calls upon all sections of the Comin- ‘for the Soviet power. V.—For a Revolutionary Way Out of the | Crisis—For a Soviet Government 1) The Communist Parties must, with all resoluteness raise before the masses the task of the revolutionary way out of the crisis of capitalism. Against the quack recipes of the fascist and the social-fascist for sav- ing decaying capitalism, the Commu- nists must prove to the masses that the ills of capitalism are incurable. Therefore, the Communists, while de- fending in every way the demands of | the toilers, must untiringly disclose to the masses who are suffering from starvation and exploitation the whole truth, viz, that their catastrophic conditions will grow worse and worse under the blows of the continuous offensive of capitalism, until the toil- ers succeed in uniting their forces of bourgeois rule. fronts of the class strug; and cialist construction, should, while making allowance for the peculiar conditions of the different countries, show what the Soviet Power will give them in their own country. At the same time it is necessary to em- phasize in particular the abolition of unempl ent and the elimination of uncertainty for the morrow Provement in the conditions of labor, and social insurance, along with the the reduction of the working day; the liberation of the toilers of the country-side from all the remnants of feudalism and from all bondage; the provision of land for the landless peasants and those having little land; the support gi under | © the Soviet power; the constant im- | t aman do wh ears of work i he r e Socialist strument conclusion tl £ Pa! as a political red as a sure ¥ farming of dis the Socialist » and partic on in his “confidential” s Afte ster. ubt I have finally : signation to the Sunn reason for resigning narily a loss of faith in the so- ist ideal or a disbelie f on of in the| of socialist education, but the | ion that the party in the Politically use! acterization of the Socialist Par- | present situation in America is poli-| ,, n by the reason given for his desertion to La tically useless. I think that cu » to revive in in- activity | energy spent {t would better a al and educational might yield moi The reasons wh Roosevelt with his program of managed capitalism,” says Blan- shard, “has taken the initiative away from us in immediate economic change, and the Socialist International has lost prestige so completely | im Europe, that it is a political disadvantage for an American party to I esate newalsvac-teanee <prcerntn “Bernard Shaw once remarked,” continues Blanshard, “that one of |the weakness of the Socialist Party| ur greatest human weakness is our unwillingness to scrap an institu- are well known, but they are not| tion when once it has outlived its usefulness, It seems to me that that 2 s faced squarely applies with equal force to the Social Democratic Party of Germany members because we who work ear- | alist Party of the United States.” ven to the poor peas-|nestly in the movement are often | declares the S.P. politically bankrupt and proposes that for a counter-blow and the crushing| ants and the assistance rendered to}intoxicated by our own earnestness.| . .. . : 2 the peasa: tive societies |The bald truth is that although the| ~ 3 . . . . and collective farms; the throwing|party has been in. existence for | There is no way out of the general crisis of capitalism other than the one shown by the October Revolution, via the overthrow of the exploiting classes by the proletariat, the con- fiscation of the banks, of the fac- tories, the mines, transport, houses, the stocks of goods of the capitalists, the lands of the landlords, the church and the crown. Living Example of Soviet Union 2) It is necessary to increasingly popularize the living example of the Land of the Soviets and to explain to the toilers and the exploited masses in all capitalist countries how Soviet economy, freed from the anar- chy of the crisis of capitalism, is in the position to develop unhindered the productive forces on the basis of a socialist plan; how the Soviet workers and all the toilers are vitally interested in this development and in its rapid tempo; how the Soviet proletarian state, which is at the same time the organization of the power of the proletariat as well as the dominating productive organiza- tion of society, constantly increases the social wealth and thereby the Welfare of all the toilers, whereas every bourgeois state, being a social economic parasite, devours and ex- hausts the economic forces of the People, It is necessary to unfold before the toilers of each country a program which, basing itself on the experience of the great triumphs of the Soviet workers and collective farmers on all Victimized Worker (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) COLUMBIA, S. C—I am today mailing you $1.50 as a payment for the Daily Worker. The reason you have not heard from me is that the sheriff and other officers raided my house on December 18 cnd took all Papers and letters they coud find. They also took me to jail and they sentenced me to 30 days on the chain gang. But the other comrades got a. lawyer and I am out on bail. All this was about the “Daily Worker” and | the “Labor Defender”, Please print the contents of this | letter in next Saturday’s Daily Worker, also send same to all Negro tell Central Commitee co tts f'%| Social-Revolutionary I am writing Comrade Wm. L. Pat- terson tomorrow. Iam _ trying to sue Richland County, S. C., for treating me so low and dirty. There is no power on earth to make me stop reading the Daily Worker and Labor Defender unless they kill me, Please send me my Papers three times a week. I shall write you again in a few days. Comradely, I, R. SHEPPARD. Just out of jail. One of the hells on earth, Fight for unemployment insur- ance. Support the National Con- vention Against Unemployment on Feb. 3 in Washington, D. C, UNION OF Soviet Socialist Republics 7% GOLD BONDS ‘0 Interest Payable Quarteri The Chase National Bank of Nex: rem OF FER -on Safety: Throughoutthesixiconyears of its existence the U.S.S.R. has unfail. ingly met all its financial obligations. Gold Stability: the bonds aco issued in denominations of 100 gold roubles, at a price of par—l00 gold roubles—and accrued interest. (A. gold rouble contains 0.774234 grams of pure gold.) Principal and interest payments are based upon this fixed quantity of gold, payable in American currency at the prevailing rate of exchange. Obviously, this provision offers protec. tion against loss resulting from possible further depreciation in the dollar, Market: The State Bank of ihe U.S. S. R. willrepurchase these bonds on demand of the holder at any timo citer one year from date of purchase, at par and accrued interest. Descriptive Cireular D-6 on request SOVIET AMERICAN SECURITIES CORP. 30 Broad Street New Yor: ———————————— open of all the doors of cultural de- velopment to the working class youth and to all the totlers, etc. The Soviet power, which is based on the mass organization of the work- ers and semi-proletarians, offers the possibility of the wide and real en- joyment of democracy by all the oppressed by capitalism. The Soviet power is the state form of the proletarian dictatorship. The Soviet power is the state form of the revolutionary democratic dic- tatorship of the proletariat and the peasants, which ensures the growing over of the bourgeois-democratic rev- olution into a socialist (China, ete.), It is democracy for the toilers, but a stern dictatorship against ex- ploiters. Chief Slogan—is Soviet Power 3) It is necessary with all insistence to raise the question of power in the mass work of the Communist Partie: The chief slogan of the Communist International is: Soviet power. The example of the U. S. S. R. is the example of Bolshevism. Only this example shows the way out, and the way to save the exploited and op- pressed in all the imperialist and colonial countries. The example of Bolshevism is the example of proletarian international- ism. The victory of the socialist rev- olution is possibly only by strength- ening the international ties of the revolutionary proletariat. The way of Bolshevism is the way of uniting the proletarian forces of all nation- | alities and races, it is the way of their |Joint struggle hand in hand with and exploiters. The Plenum of the E. C. C. TI. obliges all Sections of the Commu- nist International to exert every effort without losing a moment for the revolutionary prep- aration of the proletariat for the im- pending decisive battles for power. tolling masses who were formerly|after innumerable scandals in local | revolution | |the proletariat against the oppressors | Sells “Daily” Again to be on their} guard at every turn of events, and | er may be inclined to dispose of a!! this by declar- ‘d IS a rat; deserted to the enemies’ camp; he makes the only to cover his own betrayals.” True! Bu bout the other socialist leaders, those who still + the head of the Party, those who control its policies? for example, one of the oldest and most influential Social- s presses his agreement with Roosevelt, but con- siders that Roosevelt uld be admitted to the Socialist Party. Normen Thomas gave his blessing to Roosevelt’s strikebreaking N. R.A., going so far as to characterize it as a possible road to socialism, and advising the workers that “this was not the time to strike.” Innumerable examples could be sighted to show that there are no fundamental differences on political issues between Blanshard and the party | those who still remain at the helm. @ generation it has almost no hold | Be the social jon the American working class, and | ig: “Yes, bi it 1s weaker than it was twenty years ago. It has no unsubsidized English press and not enough money to hire half a dozen workers in its national office. After four years of | the worst depression in history and ist Politics the local party is &@ position in this city, the stronghold of American soci: elect a single alderman. Says Roosevelt Stole Thunder Many of these facts applied to the not in atural lism, oth Party before the last-national elec- Blanshard deserts openly into the Roosevelt-LaGuardia camp, de- barat shee coubeied se -pope i. ita Roosevelt has taken the initiative away from us.” Norman Ma Ge Be ee 1 his co-leaders also say: “Roosevelt has taken the initiative fortieth of the total vote, Even af-| sway from us,” but they prefer to give their support to Roosevelt in the ter this blow I continued to hope} name of soci m. They undertake to mislead honest socialist workers faintly because I could not believe} onto the Roosevelt road by creating the illusion that this road leads, or that the splendid educational work.| cht lead to socialism of the candidates and the national Actually, this d leads to Fascism and war omice could fail to bring in @ flood! nich led to Hitler's bloody terror in Germany. of new members. A year has passed OSE: 2 ant h are play e same treacherous role and the flood has not materialized ats ann) MENT De £8 SANG hey are pre- It is the same road n and com; e Social Democratic Party of Germany; ‘ed by t It is now evident tha the party| as was pla 1 ’ could not realize its great oppor-| paring ihe ground Fascist dictatorship in the name of socialism. They tunities during the depression be-| are following the course which, Blanshard admits, led to the complete cause the American working class had come to think of it as an in- Significant and permanent defeated organization. In addition two fac tors, national and international, |have made the party's position more | i ard says |hopeless in recent months. Roose ting wise to you; cor velt with his program of mana capitalism 5 taken the init 1g of the German Social democracy and the Socialist Inter- “Norman, it can’t be done; the workers are get- @ on over openly into the Fascist camp.” ey atement of Paul Blanshard should help the socialist workers to \away from us in immediate econo- | ics Sl peat Na a ated Me! tho Ara, — : mic change, and the Soc ist Inter- | the It should help them to see the social fascist character o: national has lost prestige so com- | and their party. It should aid them in finding their way | pletel: in Europe that it |sitive disadvantage for an An party to be connected’ with it. Party Failure the , onto the road to socialism. The road of , is the road of Lenin, the road which led , the road of the Communist Party. st workers to study carefully the resolution of the ist International, published elsewhere in this honest workers, after contrasting this declara- is and the Thomases, will see the need also hin—not into a fascist party a la Blan- y Party of the working class, the Commu- Some of comrades may at the party should be kept aliv an educational foree in spite of | its weakness and failure because it is fundamentally right in its idea: I had that conviction myself until recently, but new. observations in’ ting the sinking Si into the revo! of effort it Eye-Witnesses of Attempted A sassination of Lenin Tell of His | Saw Shots Fired by the Assassin By VERN SMITH (Daily Worker Correspondent) MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—Two, workers who were with Lenin at the time of the attempt on his life on Aug. 30, 1918, at the Michaelson Machine Con- struction factory, now called the Vladimir Ilyi moskvaretchte rayon combination, Moscow, when 2 al revolutionary fired the shot that caused his death several years later. were interviewed today by your correspondent. Both workers stressed the love and admira- tion by the workers of the factory for Lenin, The two workers are Nikolai Mat- rosoff, a moulder at the factory since 1903, and Naumoff, repair mechanic at the factory since 1915. Lenin and Factory Work Both testified that Lenin paid spe- cial attention to this factory as part of his Party work and addressed Sat- urday afternoon meetings attended by the 600 workers then in the plant and several thousands from other plants in the area. Lenin discussed with the wor! the international situation, the im perialist blockade then in effec against the proletarian state, th dangers at the Civil War front anc the necessary next steps to carry or the revolution and build Socialism. Matrosoff describes these talks: “He talked workers’ language, Knew all our problems. Answered frankly all questions, with the result that the workers loved and admired him tremendously.” Naumoff also gives a slowing account of Lenin's activi- ties in the factory: Talked with Everyone “Lenin would go from department to department through the plant, stopping to talk with everyone. All who could leave work for a few min- utes followed him from place to place, asking him questions.” On the night of the shooting, Nau- moff says, the meeting had started at 6 o'clock. Naumoff, who had just finished work, had run home to see his wife while the speaking was go- ing on. Lenin was not yet present. Hurrying back to the factory, Nau- standing with others outside waiting Visits to Factories, Workers’ Devotion protected Lenin that time with our ) who followed Lenin out of the hall| Factory Workers Loved h factory, on the Za-j} moff saw the assassin, Vera Kaplan, | backs.” No particular attention had been paid to Vera lan, who, Naumoff | thinks, remained outside. | meeting Lenin read a t nouncing the assassination of U: zky and Volodarsky, and explained it as the opening of a murder cam- paign by the counter-revolutiona party, “Socialist Revolutio. the interests of the canita'! } warned: 1 to his next mee Rage Swept Workers Naumoff and Matr« at they heard thre Y | out. Naumoff points out in’s custom to remain for a last with the rs whil i vord with of the ene of his best speeches, rousing enthusiasm among the thousands of workers present. Looking at his watch, he declared he was 45 minutes ile others late for another engagement andjout in pursuit of the assas asked the workers to excuse him. He | was attempting to escape in asked another comrade to answer any sion and was jus tiing through questions asked by the workers, and | the gate when purswing work chil- the crowd opened up an aisle for him | dren seized and held her until work- to go out. The majority of the crowd|ers came up. The sentiment of the remained in the meeting, but those! children was for summary action shot instantly once set had been rest to him raised Lenin, w > Lenin Recovering from Assassin’s Shot Lenin and hise wife, Krupskaya, in the country when he was re- | cuperating from the illness caused by a shot fired by Vera Kaplan, member Lenin’s arrival. As Lerin arrived, the | workers surged around him and fol- lowed him into the plant. Naumoff, who was in this crowd, says, “We of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, who tried to murder him for his leadership of the Communist Party in the overthrow of the Kerensky government, The two children are from neighboring peasant families. “This is not the 1s ssina- mo- | | tion th ill carry cut her {| § ng then on the Both | |questions of the hour, he delivered i rage they were sufficiently numerous to block . a Fe Naumoff’s view of Lenin as he en- Him, Came to Him ee for Grievance but disciplined Party ‘failed upon ainst he | members them to} hand her over to the militia. Lenin, asked if a doctor should be mt for, requested to be taken home ately and was placed in the \ear which slowly proceeded through the streets with a great throng of workers following, anxious to learn soon as possible his chances for The spot where Lenin was wounded the assassin’s bullets is marked by | today by a sma}! monument erected | by funds donated by the workers of | this district. | | Proud of Their Present Achievements The two workers, enthusiastic over | the leadership of the Party of Lenin, | are intensely interested in the ap-/ proaching world-wide commemoratign | by the proletariat of every country of the death of the great leader of he! world revolution, and in the forth- coming 17th Congress of the Commu- rést Party of the Soviet Union, with | the Second Five- | will raise enor- ndards of the int with great pride to the tremendous growth of their factory te over 6,000 workers now. Both hated intensely the extortions by the for- mer capitalist owners. Matrosoff had participated in many | revolutionary meetings in the pre-| revolution era, and aiso in 1905. He} comments that Lenin Day this year | falls not only on the eve of the 17th | Congress, but also coincides with the | commemoration of Bloody Sunday in 1905. Naumoff, who is 60 years old, could retire on a pension but boasts that he will work on to build socialism. He says: “The Soviet Power can be proud of me, a common worker, who has two sons, both of them good engineers.” The Marx-Lenin Institute is car- rying on research work in preparation. for a full biography of Lenin, and is also issuing an anniversary book of reminiscences by 50 authors about | Lenin. | | Krupskaya's new book on Lenin is |already published under the title: | |“Let Us Learn from Lenin How to Work.” Radio broadcasts are planned to begin soon on the subjects of Lenin and the Youth, Lenin and Stalin, ete. are practically possible in th United States in 1933. After all, a Political party is not a church whici is based chiefly on idealism anc it is an aggregation tical power after a whole generati: has no claim to the Bernard Shaw once re- name. marked that one of our greatest human weaknesses is our unwilling- ness to scrap an institution when once it It seems to me that that applic with equal force to the Social Dem- ocratic party of Germany and the Socialist Party of the United States. has outlived its usefulness S.P. Bankruptcy It may be said that a man who be- the socialist ideal should con- tinue in the party and talk optimis tically even if he knows it is hop less as a political instrument, un‘ some better party is formed to take its place. That raises a nice question of conscience which each party mem- ber must answer for himself. If a director in a bank knows that the bank is in danger he may be justified in keeping up a bold front so Jong as he honestly believes that courageous optimism will e the institution But if he invites new deposits after he has himself become convinced th: the institution will fail, he is a ma of doubtful honor. There is a point at which further optimism concerning the ftuture of the Socialist Party be- comes deception, and each party mem- | ber must judge for himself whether he has reached the point. I need scarcely add that no per- sonal considerations have entered into my resignation from the Socialist Party, and I hope that my altered | judgment concerning political tech- nique will not affect my warm friend- ships in the movement. I have labelled this statement “con- fidential” not because I want to keep it secret but because I would not like to see the conservative papers use m resignation for an attack upon m friends and upon the party. It ma not be possible to do this thing a quietly as I had hoped, so I s reserve the right to make this static ment public later on if the news- papers ask for it. (Signed) PAUL BLANSHARD Unity of Mlinois Miners Urgent Nee: (Continued from Page 4) revolutionary phrases. Their program has nothing to do with the program }of the miners and their problems and tasks. The definite rejection of the program proposed by Muste for the coal miners in Illinois will be another step toward the victory of the miners. Any concession to that program will weaken the fighting front of the miners. While having this objective before them very clearly, the miners and particularly the miners who are Communists, must seek to unite the | broadest possible number of miners sround the issues and problems con- fronting the miners in the field—in every mine and every local, and unite with the miners and with individual leading elements regardless of their political beliefs, if they are willing to accept and carry into practice the program of struggle—the program based on the Cleveland Resolution. Demands on U.M.W.A. The Mlinois miners, the U.M.W.A., through their resolu- tions and delegation to the Interna- tional Convention of the UM.W.A, will raise the demands which shall members of | be the rallying point for the miners of Illinois and unite with the miners throughout the country. John L, Lewis, in his report to the U.M.W.A. Convention in 1932, very definitely proclaimed against strikes: “The 1919 strike clearly demonstrated once and for all that American pub- | lic opinion, no matter how sympa- thetic, with the ideals of labor, with | the woe and misery of the trampled and oppressed worker, will not toler- ate open economic warfare in the form of prolonged strikes nation-wide in scope, which affect such a vital necessity as a continued fuel supply | and which would so seriously cripple our transportation and utilities, stop manufacture and force the populace at large to submit to the rigors of bitter winter weather, when the goy- ernment itself declares to be uniaw- ful the exercise of such economic force.” And in line with this, John 1. Lewis and the whole International Board of the U.M.W.A. carried on its strikebreaking policy in every coai field of the country. In the Ilinois coal fields, it forced upon the miners | the acceptance of $5 basic day wage- scale after the miners in their refer- endum rejected it. Now, even this $5 is no longer enforced. In many mines, conditions have been worsened. The N.R.A. code for Illinois did not raise wages or im- prove condition. On the contrary, Communist Party Position The Communist Party gives full support to the rank and file opposi- tion movement in both unions of the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. Its members |are very active and they are in the | very forefront of any struggle for the Purpose of establishing a fighting unity of the miners, for the improve- ment of their conditions. ‘To more effectively carry the campaign for unity of the miners, to clarify the issues, to mobilize the miners to struggle for the immediate needs, the Commurist Party mine nuclei in Superior Mine in Gillespie and in Sangamon Mine in Springfield have begun to issue mine papers. It is necessary that in other mines, similar mine papers should be issued, edited by the miners themselves. raising the problems confronting the analy and mobilizing them for ac- on. The Daily Worker pla‘ = Portant role in claritying, tha tee and the miners of Illinois have it as their duty to popularize the Daily Wor among the miners. The en- tire activity in the Illinois coal fields must be centered around the émme- diate demands and struggles leading to the preparation of strike struggles which will develop around April Ist. -