The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1934 Page Three Waiters Made to Pay $50 St. Louis Workers | [ U.S. Battleship Firing at “Foe” Of China | Workers Denied the Lewis Gang I im-Crows Racketeering Leadership Overdue Wages (On Civil Works Jobs) And in the Coal Mines \Seize Trucks; Drive to| Te. Beate: ing a single union member working , City Office; Demand there. Any further action by the; 4 ivi FWD. was broken by the ue of a| amd Receive Pay |blanket injunction issued against the | \ Arrested, Terrorized, Fired on Slightest Provocation Delegates at Convention Should Demand Equality (Continued from Page 1) Essex and Norfolk Sts. Molish also Elect 14 Delegates decided that he was broke. Being on very friendly terms with officials of Local No. 1, he planned 1 overcome this obstacle by making each of the prospective waiters pay $300 for the job. He agreed to hire 180 waiters, divided into three shifts of 60 waiters each. Tell Story In Affidavits According to affidavits in the pos- session of the Daily Worker, Local No. 1 officials worked hand in glove with Malich on this “shake-down” of waiters unemployed from one to two years. A waiter would go to Malich and ask for a job. Malich would an- swer, the job costs $300 and that $150 goes to Turkel and the union offi- cials. The waiter was told to pay the money, get a labor card from the union and he, Malich, would sign it. In the affidavits the workers swear they pawned their marriage rings, pawned their furniture, bor- rowed from the Morris Plan and from friends and relatives to raise the $300 graft bribe. Opens on Labor Day Malich’s Restaurant opened up Labor Day furnished with beautiful fixtures bought by the waiters on the job but owned by Malich. Six weeks later the restaurant closed its doors, a bankrupt. ‘The workers seethed with indigna- tion at this outrageous “shake-down” perpetrated on them. They went to Assistant District Attorney Daley and he told them to get more evidence. They brought charges against Turkel, and the corrupt executive board of | Amalgamated Food Workers Union jin 1929 and used against the Indus- Quarrel over Spoils About three months ago this tre- mendously lucrative racket at the ex- pense of workers in these cafeterias, |was disturbed by a quarrel over the division of funds. Rumors in the trade are that Borson took the great- est part of the extortion money after the pickets were removed from the Kellogg Cafeteria at 154 West 49th Street, and the cafeteria continued as open shop. bosses, the officials of Local 302 threw four simultaneous picket lines around restaurants owned by members of the bosses’ association, including the Bir- mingham at 7 West 44th Street owned by Moses Levine, manager of the as- sociation, and the 42nd Street Safe- teria. This was something unheard of, as membership in the association had previously implie automatically, that Local 302 leaders would stay away. ‘The association made no attempt at an injunction against the Local. ‘Borson, Sam Pincus, Jim Green, Ep- stein, Johnnie Williams and other gangsters in the union had far to much on the bosses for them to risk it. Poses as D. of J. Agent Mr. King, owner of the 42nd Street cafeteria engaged a Mr. Folsom, who | dreds of C. W. A. workers, employed ‘as paint washers on the Koch Hos- |: As a result of the break with the} What happened instead was that! represented himself a Department of ; ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 14.— Hun-} *) Pital here, seized the C. W. A. trucks, ! drove 14 miles to the C. W. A. office, and forced the officials to give them their back wages. When their back pay did not arrive on the job, the worker gathered in| Groups to decide what should be! done. When the men did not return to work, the foremen told them that © they would be fired. Incensed by the, foremen’s threats, the men seized the trucks and drove to town. | Strike meetings were held on every | bus and truck on the day to town,! Grievance comittees were set up, and! organizational committee elected to organize the men on the job. On arriving at the C. W. A. pay station, the men demanded and re- ceived their pay immediately. e * ees Picture shows a torpedo leaving the U. imaginary foe, as U. S. battleships engage in war practice off the Chinese coast, Both the U. S. and Japan are sharpening up their war weapons | tics of firing milit in frequent battle maneuvers in the Pacific. S. S. Houston’s tube for an | The Wall Washers Section of the’ Relief Workers Union will send a, committee to the C. W. A. head- | quarters today to demand that the time clerks receive pay for overtime work which they have been forced to do and for which they have not yet received pay. When they received their pay on, Jan. 11, they were informed that they would receive the flat rate of pay jfor that work of $25, with no allow- ance for seven and one-half hours | of overtime which they had done dur- Detroit Cuts 3,000 : Pa. Linoleum Union Off Relief, Begins To Affiliate With Firing of CWA Men Furniture Union Michigan Sending 50|Local of 1,000 Sends Delegates to Feb. 3rd | Delegates to National said that a few of the } |be rehired, but that they would have |ies of 10 resolutions to be presented | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 14.— A. workers here who ¥ organizing workers on a meeting of C. W. A. at Columbus, ei they unions’ was “agitating for that reason justified. Because the workers who were fired believed that they had the right to organize, they went before the C. W. A. complaint board, headed by A. Cannor they be reinstated, and pe time lost. Instead of Cannon met with sta confirmed his union-smast ant leaders. The men were fired from C. W. A. jobs and arrested ten minutes be- fore a mass meeting which had been called for the lunch hour. A number of workers’ organizatior and particularly the Ri f F Union, are protesting this decision of | the C, W. A. officials. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—One hun- dred and twenty C. W. A. workers were fired here after the finding in a tool shed of what was said to have been “Communist literature.” o Eugene Callan, C. W. A. foreman, |¥ yorkers might |® to Nat'l Meet at Penn. County Conference n. 14— National held Council of it been formed UMWA Local Asks : Reopening of Coal Code at Convention Hits at Lewis Decree to Bar Communists from UMWA Membership DANVILLE, IIL, 14.—Demand- ing that the U.M.W.A. international onvention re-open the wage and hour scale of the coal code, Bunsen- ille Local 5509 of the U.M.W.A,, with membership of 1,700, passed a ser- for Negro Miners By TOM MYERSCOUGH ‘Creed, Color or Nationality,” says U.M.W.A. constitution, is no bar- p in the union, and nly big unfon in the L. which does not bar In fact, most other A. F, liate unions boldly declare membership therein is for or Caucasians only. Yet in r respect does the U.M.W.A. t and even the ation is practiced éxten- and segregation is practiced in coal camp where the Negro can a job and is permitted by the union officialdom to work. Per- ly I have seen Negro workers mines during strikes h white workers, who surely id not have the same excuse, ~And that the uses” were real I never d doubt. Approaching Negro work- ers from the picket line I have often been shown a U.M.W.A. union card, which the holder had been denied the right to deposit in U.M.W.A, locals, sometimes after the mine boss had declared his willingness to give the Negro a job—providing the local nion would accept him for member= ip—tn the days when the U.M.W.A, was strong. Negroes Barred There are mining towns throughout | the country where a Negro has never j been permitted to work or live and 1 lo sonal], going Convention in Feb. . | eT i vhicl s signs adorn the entrances to them, the Local Sic ee Bitar hos Justice agent, assigned to undercover |ing the Ist week of December. | Convention | © re-register. AAtnE Ol ae ')| which read: “Nigger, Don't Enter imultous membership mi ~ bar nae * . ane , Ind., Jan, l This Town!” ss hel was accused not only of sharing (Work Union racketeering. King LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 14, — Ficld| This local previously adopted a| 75's Town!” or some similar omi Two hundred and fifty C. W. A.| workers held a mass meeting here| on Jan, 7 and organized the P. W. A. and C. W. A. Workers Union. Scab Radio Men Quit (On Merchant Lines Crew Hostile; Face Ire of Workers in Port took Folsom to Calvin W. Klein, sec- retary of the bosses’ association and received his O. K. on Folsom. He then paid this Department of Jus- tice agent, $100 in cash and gave him an additional check for the same amount. No effort was made by King to check up on this Department of Justice agent despite the fact that King bas another restaurant at 370 Lexington Ave, and the Depart- ment of Justice is located in this very same building. On Armistice Day, Folsom together | with other two men, stopped his auto- , mobile near the picket line outside | SAN ANTONIO, Texas.—Tom |Reagan and Ollie Arnett, C. W. A. |workers employed at the Alazan Creek project, were fired last week} DETROIT, Jan, 11.—Three thou- sand unemployed families cut off | from the relief in one week. This is aes 2 fj om | nous warning that is equally vicious s esolutions Wh =| +3 fete Ceo een dated and the miners living in those towns ns : : and “accepting” the constitution of re Sizikebreaking policy of the John | the U.M.W.A,, as well as the official- Among the additional resolutions| fo" ,of nothing about chante ges |passed the following: | Ofcitis axe Whiee Whereas: Article 1 of the Interna-| yin g large Negro membership tional Constitution conflicts with Ar-| aiwe = i as well as the very Ja icle XIV, Section II, Paragraph UL, | numbers of Negro non-union, Aiea by denying members of the U. M. 5 “iin the country, the officials of the W. of A. from accepting membership | organizers of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union who are making contacts with all the large furniture |the achievement of the Roosevelt-| oHrers 12 Backcp nier aes the ast | atter they had led a committee to| | Comstock-Couzens New Deal in the | New York on Peb,'9-12 Gide the | Protest against ill-treatment by a | city of Detroit. | . 3 workers of the Armstrong Linoleum | ‘mn who would not let the work- | John F. Ballenger, Superintendent | : Pires }ers warm themselves at bonfires. | Co. of Lancaster, one of the largest | They had also sted against be-| | of Welfare, on Tuesday reported this| iinoieum plants in the country. ‘The | 2°%, bad sapllinupaacres satay | great advance in the onslaught on the ss 3 jing forces work overtime wil | - plant employs 2,000 workers. | pay whe Is we i iv’ | | unemployed. A total of 688 families 4 pay when tools were late in arriving. j p) ie ft th lief roll: Jo Kiss, National Secretary of the! a e = {\ U.M.W.A. have made their position Were stricken o d the pace is going |idustrial Union, outlined the aims | in the Communist Party, a legal poli-| towards the Negro Question quite ‘Tuesday alone, and the pace ¢ 3.008 | 28d priniciples of the Union to the) SIOUX CITY, Iowa—James T.|tical Party recognized by the United| clear, and this by failing to honor to he kept up at the rate of 3,000 | Executive Committee of the Linoleum! Brown, C. W. A. worker who was |States Government, and the United! any more than one miner of. the weekly, | Workers Industrial Union Local 1| fired for selling the Daily Worker,|States Constitution grants the Amer-| Negro trade with a job. Among the ae et of a eee ot with a membership of more than| for being an “agitator,” and for sug-|ican people the right to belong to a/“Pie card” artists on the U.M.W.A. sl ing expendit: = in the $300 ‘shake-down” but also of forcing a $50 job fee on a penniless aiter, two years ago. Turkel paid no attention to either of the charges. Finally Bennie Glast, a former “machine” sttong arm man whose ervices*zad been dispensed with in ke spirit of an individual avenging this brutal victimization of jobless workers by crooked A. F, of L. offi- cials, shot and wounded Turkel and Glast Was hurriedly tried med on a 5-year sentence. Ps passed since the indict- en men involved in the waiters shake-down.” Court action to prosecute the union offi- By a Radio Operator Correspondent , members of the bosses’ asso- lon, and go-betweens, involved in the racket has been consistently pushed aside, while the individualist who shot the crooked officials was the 42nd Street Cafeteria, introduced himself to George Johnson, one of the pickets and told him to come along and show him the residence of Irving Epstein, former Houston Street NEW YORK. — After a trip to London and return on the §.S. Amer- ican Banker, two scab radio oper- ators, F. Bowles of radio station WSA at New London, Conn., and S. ary to one-half the November fig- ure, as demanded by the Federal and State Emergency Relief Administra- | tions. A total of 33,038 families were | yy, still on the relief list on Tuesday, | | 1,000. Kiss presented a fraternal in- | | vitation to the local to join and par- | ticipate in the convention. The Linoleum Workers’ Industrial gesting to the workers that they in- sist upon wage increases to meet the | rising cost of living, was reinstated | after a mass committee of work manding his reinstatement. Resolved: That the words Commu- ist Party be stricken from Article ‘nion adopted a motion unanimously | Called upon the C. W. A. officials de-|XIV, Section II, of Paragraph TIT. | Political party of their own choosing; | payroll, only one is a Negro, one, therefore be it | named Prentice, who has held on for | years, and for two main reasons. | The first reason is that he is a ser- | vile “Uncle Tom” type, who, for his |“‘slice of pie” can be used to fool tiel -shooter, official of the union, : 0 send deli to the {on | ceenn: Due Co the tees thas pene) ee immediately rushed to jail. This|snd now living on Riverside Drive, B. Cartwrtght, quit the vessel on ar-| Dut their numbers are slated to He |and to. atlliate ‘with ‘the Furniture, ‘The C, W. A. officials refused to|vislonal officers in. various distic Cina ie pen shay Soya exposes the tie-up between those!" “poctein was not home. They drove rival. greatly reduced. | Workers’ Industrial Union. The union | Meet with the committee, but at the |of the U.M.W.A. have been established| ¢ sage to too much militancy to higher tp end the unions, and lg “Borson’s home. On the pretext| ‘The strikebreaking Radio Marine| ,At the same time firing of C. W.| jinsistence of the workers admitted |by the Internstional President. and| Suit Lewis. The second reason is that demonstrates that the workers can expect nothing except from their own organized rank and file opposition groups to kick these racketeering A. F, of L. officials cut of power. Gangster Murders Gangster of identifying a suspect, Borson was forced into the car, taken to West- chester County and murdered by the man posing as a Department of Jus- tice agent. It was revealed later that Corporation hunte: aboard the vessel. scabs, Thomas Brewster and Charles Pendleton, and they were smuggled a cordon of dock police was thrown A. workers has started. The Unem- Ployed Councils and the Relief Work- | ers’ Protective Association are or- ganizing struggles against the drop- ping of unemployed families from d up two more On sailing day all three were Burns Detective Agency around Pier 59, N. R., where the also decided to order 1,000 copies of the Furniture Workers, the union's official organ. It recommended that rth the Philadelphia local take similar | *bitration board. action at their meeting on Jan. 13,! The “impartial Brown to the regular secret session |@pyroved by the International E: of so-called “impartial” judges on the | tive Board; therefore be it ecu- | Resolved: We demand an election judges consisted of |bY referendum vote of the miners of | which Kiss is scheduled to address.|two C. W. A. officials, two social|local unions in good standing of all |he serves as a ready answer to the |oft-repeated and correct charge, that | the officials of the U.M.W.A. permit | discriminations and practice them | themselves against the Negro miners, | No convention of the U.M.W.A. has the relief list and against the firing of C. W. A. workers. These strug- gles are part of the preparations for! MEMORIAL ME! Unemployment, to be held in Wash- Gees 3 maetoet | ington, D, C., Feb. 3 to 5, at which| speaker at four mass meetings to te nen | Michigan ts scheduled to have 50 | throughout Ohio. delegates, with 26 of them from broker, acting as|branches of the U. M. W. of A, to * elect their officers as soon as the re- spective districts become self sustain- ing. Whereas: Officiais of the various | workers, AK AT 4 Lentn | Chairman OnIO | and a Abraham Borson, former Secretary, Treasurer of Local 302, indicted in another case with eight other offi- cials on charges of extortion, beat- ing of union members, and forcing job bribes, will not be able to face the indictment. This black jack swinging A. F. of L, union head, who served a jail sentence for white slavety and dodged a charge of unlawful ‘ j ever met without a flood of resolu- Nn tions from local unions, whose mem= eee cae | bers see the need for unity of black Shoe Workers to Elect ae white miners. And not one of sabia % | them ever gave time for a thorough |branches of the U. M. W. of A. that | discussion of the problem. Always Delegates to National have been defeated in elections ot| the omciais wots “pee ant ee |, Mh, mueeday, Jan. 1, she oat speak 8 Unemployed Meeting |those who have failed to be re-elect-| payroll and “pack” delegates would Wayne County (the Detroit area). / Akron. On Wednesday, Jan, 17, in German | 3 jed, have been appointed as sPe-| vote for ... “referring such resol< | Hall, Mansfield; on ‘Thursday,’ Jan. 18, in | ,|cial field workers, international rep-| tions to the Executive Board for solu- | Eagles Hall, Cincinnatl; on Friday, Jan. 19, | NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of |resentatives, organizers, etc., and men who usually specialize in ter- roizing and murdering workers. Since the murder, Local 302 under @ new racketeering leadership, now declare a cafeteria unionized after a satisfactory agreement with the boss is.reached, and.one or two union men are placed in the cafeteria. ree eee ship lay, and no one was allowed on the pier until she had sailed. One trip on a Merchant Line ship is all that scabs can stand. They ‘find that they are denounced by their shipmates in the officers messroom at meals. They find that their fellow- officers make it as miserable for them as possible. They find. the entire crew solidly against them. On the! ANNA SCHULTS TO Tomorrow's article will further ex- t | # tort: ‘ tion.” The way they “solved” entry, W wrod By. Sangster, (pose the rackets in the International | American Banker one messman was| against them, and the scab operators |" "°? D&vis Auditorium, ‘Toledo, tnemployed shoemakers will be held) ‘Whereas: The membership has| problem was by ignoring ved when Jocal union officials fell Out | of Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria; discharged before sailing for refus-|haye to seek police protection at Et $10 Vase WGameh A Ciilen wacine today at 11 a.m., at Irving Place for|shown by referendum vote that they| The coming convention should with the sociation. |Workers. Future installments will|ing to serve the scabs at dinner in| times, "RECRUITING DRIVE ~~ {the purpose of deciding upon a prc-/are dissatisfied with them and their| change this by taking that kind of For years there had been no quar | deal with the corruption and murder|the Officer’s Mess, ‘The strike action is being militant CLEVELAND, O.—The Slovenian Workers | P0Sed C.W.A. project, and for elect~|services are no longer desired, there-| action which will make it possible Gumert Awocistion and the Delt tactics in A. F. of L. locals such #5, Scabs find that their radio cabins | pursued By “the, Ae erat | uum “akens” has Ucar eit marcel peel eae etree ane a eaial ae Wilts attenuate are Ga ers Asscciatio. J , rs iz aign to recruit new members for the or- | ye! i Inemployment, to ve/ ved: e \- vhi vee! : catessen, Rettaurant, Counterman pera voctge brian ts parker se Buarder at all times by I. M, M. | Telesraphists’ Association, ‘with the| lecteauon’ rie cab e no ta eg s [Pert Against gt rings | jeslved? ‘That these defeated off-| as white citizens and native-born, to ae and Cafeteria Employees Local 302 of the A. F. of L. officials. All a boss had to do to fight the Food Workers Industrial Union was to join the As- sociation, The association immedi- ately ‘fixed it up with the union heads, who declared that particular cafeteria a union shop without hav- LENIN Memorial Meetings @ PHILADELP'TA 1 Friday Eve., Jan. 19th at BROADWOOD HOTEL Broad & Wood Streets MAX BEDACHT, main speaker on “Leninism and the Amer- ican Workers” LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI, an e on “The Ode to Lenin” WORKERS CHORUS — John Reed Club, Pierre Degeyter Quartette Admission at Door—35c Unemployed—t5e @ DETROIT Sunday, Jan. 21st, 2 P.M. at ARENA GARDENS | Woodward & Hendrie MASS SINGING—International Chorus, Pageant of Workers Struggles ANNA SCHULTZ, recently re- turned from Germany, speaker, @ CLEVELAND TWO MEETINGS Jan, 20th at 7:30 P. West Side i SWISS HALL 2710 WALTON AVENUE East Side WOODLAND CHNTER 46th AND WOODLAND Speakers: C. A. HATHAWAY, Editor, Daily Worker 4 ROSE CLARK JOHN WILLIAMSON, Dist. Organizer, C. P. dock police. Even Unions and additional “kick-back” revelations. These will be explained upper deck of the to fascize the unions. ‘find mass demons! have a hard time getting on the in the habit of Roosevelt’s procedure These shpis on arrival at London laundrymen now | assistance of the International Fed- eration of Radiotelegraphists in London. The next ship due in New York is the SS, American Farmer on Wednesday. Merchant ships. trations arranged bulletin in the Slovenian languaga and appeals to all workers to support it. The organization meets every first Sun- day of the month at 2 p. m., and every third | Sunday at i0 a, m., in Gardina Hail, 6021 St. Claire Ave., third floor, ton, D. C. this meeting. held on Feb. 3, 4, and 5 in Washing-|ojals shall retum to employment in |the mine or other employment, other All shoe, stitched-on slipper, and|than acting as official representatives repair workers are urged to attendjof the U. M. W. of A., for at least jone year. CALLS ON WORKERS OF THE U Petes ave Remed ance the deat of Visdimir Tlyitch Lenin, greatest theoretical leader and prac- tical organizer of the worla proletarian revolutionary movement. Fifteen years haye passed since the murder of | Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, stalwart fight- | ers and leaders of the heroic German proletarian reyolution, who have emblazoned their names in glory on the banner of the world proletariat. Leninist revolutionary theory and practice is a programme of action for the entire world proletariat— the guide and the invincible weapon of the interna- | tional working class in the struggle against exploita- tion and oppression. The October Revolution was but the first stage of the world proletarian revolu- tion. » The ten years that have passed since Lenin's death have eloquently confirmed the truth of his teach- ings. The present Lenin Memorial campaign is con- ducted in. the face of the severest economic crisis in the history of capitalism, with the objective precon- ditions for the world revolutionary crisis, in the atmos- phere of colossal imperialist war preparations—ot war actually begun, of preparations to intervene against the Soviet Union, of an organized offensive against the Chinese Soviets. _._#e7niversary Campaign of Special Significance For the toiling masses in industry and on the jJand in the United States, this anniversary campaign is of especial significance, inasmuch as the Roosevelt “New Deal” is more and more revealed as a savage drive toward increased fascization of the government and toward imperialist war. Faced with the dissolution of its system, con- fronted with the revolutionary upsurge of the tofl- ing masses, the rising strike movement over thé heads of. the reactionary union leaders of the A. F. of L., the. mass action of the unemployed for unemploy- ment insurance, the mass militancy of the poor farm- ers and the ruined middle farmers, the growing revo- lutionary consciousness among the Negro masses— faced with this growing mass radicalization, monopoly capital is rapidly abandoning its veiled dictatorship under democratic forms and is resorting to open, ter= rorist, fascist dictatorship and feverish armameng in a desperate effort to prevent the proletarian, revolu- tfonary way out of the crisis. This stands forth Slaringly in the whole “recovery” program of the Roosevelt administration. “The correctness of the Leninist indictment of im- perialism, the stage of decaying capitalism, and the Leninist way out through proletarian revolution and NITED STATES TO INTENSIFY STRUGGLES ON ALL FRO the dictatorship of the proletariat, is seen today in | the general crisis of capitalism and in the victorious | advance of socialism in the Soviet Union, | Achieved under the leadership of the Party of | Lenin, consolidated under the firm guidance of Com- rade Stalin, the proietarian State in the Soviet Union | has advanced victoriously through terrific difficulties | from the first phase, the crushing of the resistance of the overthrown exploiters, to the poweriul advance of Socialism. Teninist Victories in 5-Year Plans The fulfillment of the First Five-Year Plan and the splendid progress of the Second Five-Year Plan | are a victory of the Leninist program for the build- | ing of Socialism. The great achievements of the U, S. 8. R. and their importance for the workers of the world are the achievements of the Leninist peace policy pursued by the Communist Party of the Sovtet Union under the leadership of the foremost Leninist, Comrade Stalin. The success of the Soviet revolution in China is a victory of Leninism, a victory of historic significance _ for the toilers throughout the world. } The heroic struggle of the Party of Karl Lieb- knecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Ernst Thaeimann, the- illegal Communist Party of Germany, whose valor has inspired the oppressed masses the world over, signalizes the success of Bolshevization, of the Lenin- ist way—to the victory of Soviet Germany. . The fifteen-year. struggle of the Communist In- ternational, founded by Comrade Lenin, the united | world Party of workers’ dictatorship and Bolshevism, has won the hearts of the toiling masses in all lands and is everywhere acknowledged as the leader of the | struggle against exploitation and oppression, as the advance guard along the road to world dictatorship of the proletariat, to world Socialism. In contrast, these fifteen years have shown an even greater dis- solution and treachery of the Second International and its degradation to the role of Social Fascism. ‘The Socialist system of the Soviet Union is a Piercing wedge driven with indomitable force into the capitalist world. The struggle of the imperial- ists to save the earth for capitalism is a struggle for the destruction of the Soviet Union. Imperialism Plans Attack On U. S. S. R. | ‘The imperialist war preparations are Preparations for intervention against the U.S. S. R. The sharpen- ing attacks against the toiling masses in tHe capitalist and colonial countries are at the same time attacks upon the oppressed masses in the efforts to prevent them from seeking the Soviet way out of the crisis, | Roosevelt program of attacks upon the toiling masses. S UNDER L Ten Years After Lenin’s Death-Manifesto of Central Committee C.P.U.S.A. EADERSHIP OF LENIN’S PARTY Which way out of the crisis? This is the historic | issue that must be fought out. The way of unem- | ployment, mass starvation, fascism, and war—or the | v of the preletarian revoluticn; of workers’ rule; of planned, rational producti ef peace, of social- ism! The Russtan working class was prepared to oyer- throw the old order because it had learned to analyze | the laws of the revolutionary movement and because it had as its guide the revolutionary Leninist Party. The commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Lenin’s death must be made the occasion of strength- ening the Leninist Party of the United States—the Communist Party. Our chief task must be to reach the workers and farmers of this country, white and Negro, with the meaning of Bolshevism for the Amer- ican toilers; and in the party itself to deepen the Bolshevik essence. Our Lenin campaign is a high point in our efforts | to win the majority of the American working class for leading the revolutionary struggle of all toilers. Intensify Work in All Fields The memory of the death of our great leader must be turned into a campaign for intensifying our work on all the fields of working-class struggle. The Commu- nist Party, the Party of Lenin, must in the course of | this campaing, bring before theh broadest possible | masses of American toilers the significance of Leninism, its theory and practice, for the struggle against the The campaign should be utilized for emphasizing, with utmost clarity, the Marxist-Leninist teachings on rev- olution and proletarian dictatorship; on the teachings on the allies of the proletariat, paricularly he farmers and the Negro people, and on the leading role of the working class in this alliance. The campaign should be utilized as a high point in the struggle against the imperialist war designs and preparations of the N. R. A. and its fascization policy. Our propaganda in the course of the Lenin campaign must devote itself to showing clearly how the suc- cessful advance of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union was made possible through the firm adherence to the Leninist principles as presented in the program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Lenin, and, since his death, of Comrade Stalin, who has further developed Lenin’s teachings in the period of socialist construction. Fight Against Social-Fascists Imperative Particularly now, with the recognition of the Soviet Union hy the United States Government, compelled by the victorious advance of the U. S. S. R. and the crisis of world capitalism, we must bring forward the slogan of defense of the workers’ fatherlan We must make clear that recognition is the American imperialist of- fensive against the U.S. S. R. by new means, In this connection we must enlighten the workers on the im- perative nece y for the struggle against the anti- Leninis elements within the ranks of the working class. We must explain thoroughly to the workers the sig- nificance of the declarations of Lenin and Stalin, that the social democracy, the social fascists of the various | brands, are the main social prop of the bougeoisie, and that our struggle against Fascism, our struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, calls for our intensive fight against the influence of these bourgeois agents in the ranks of the workers. We must enlighten the American Workers on the role of Lenin as founder of the Communist Interna- tional, the world Party of the proletariat. We must explain the significance of the struggle that our Party has waged, and most continue to wage, against the renegades, the reformisis, the “Two-and-9-half-Inter- nationai” Musteites. Build the Party and the Daily Worker The Lenin Memorial Campaign must especially be turned into an intensive RECRUITING DRIVE TO BUILD THE PARTY AND THE PARTY'S CENTRAL ORGAN, THE DAILY WORKER. Our slogans should be: Defend the U. S. S. R. Defend the Chinese Revolution Against the United Reactionary Forces of the Kuomintang and the World Imperialists; Support the German Workers and the Heroic Communist Party of Germany in the Strug- gle Against Fascism; Fight Against Imperialist War with the Methods of Lenin and Liebknecht; Fight for Unemployment and Social Insurance at the Expense of the Government and the Employers; Penetrate the Shops—Every Factory a Leninist Fortress; Build the Revolutionary Unions of the T. U. U. L,, side by side with the Militant Rank and File Movements within the A. F. of L. and the Reformist Unions; Expose and Drive Out from the Workers’ Ranks the Social Fas- cists and Renegades of all Stripes; Forward to the realization of the Leninist Demand for the Negro Masses; Self-Determination for the Black Belt; So- cialist Workers, Come and Celebrate the Victory of Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union; The Way te Abolish Unemployment, Poverty, Starvation, Fas- cism, and War is the Leninist Way—the Soviet Way. Forward Under the Flag of Lenin, Stalin, and the Communist International! | be elected to any office to which their |constituents may desire to choose |them. Stop discrimination of all | Kinds in the Miners Union, Lewis Mobilizing in Dlinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 14—The District officialdom of the U. M. W, of A. in view of the fact that a number of rank and file delegates have been elected, resolutions based on the principles of the class strug- gle adopted, are mobilizing every strength that they have, to secure a \large delegation to support the Lewis |machine, with the same old tactics | pursued to pack the delegation with pro-Lewis delegates at all costs, Furniture Strike in Minneapolis Broken By NRA and AF of L |_.MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 14—~ The N, R. A. Regional Labor Board | adopted an open strikebreaking de- jcision when, on Tuesday night, they | ordered the striking upholsterers who have been on strike for more than three months to go back to work im- mediately, without conceding a single one of their demands, The A. F. of L. officials partict« pated in this sell-out, having re~ |quested the N. R. A. to make a | binding decision, and agreeing in ad- | vance to accept the decision no mate |ter what it was. The Ne R. A. ane | nounced that the decision is binding, |and that the National Labor Board | has the authority to enforce it. The | A. F. of L. officials brazenly support |the decision, and, while admitting that it is “absolutely unsatisfactory” to the strikers, they announced they will urge the workers to accept the |sell-out at a meeting called for Thursday night. The widespread in- dignation of the rank and file of the strikers at the sell-out makes it doubtful of the strikers will acecpt the decision, The N. R. A. Board decreed that the piecswork system should con- tinue. This is one of the main grievances against which the strikers have been fighting. An election will | be held in each plant within 30 days, but this will probably be a farce sim- |ilar to the Weirton Steel Corporae tion experience recently in Pennsyl- vania. The scabs are to be retained, and the returning strikers are to share the work with them. The open-shop policy of the emp! is declared in keeping with the NR. A, provisions. bid | While the above decisions are compulsory, another one in which {t is proposed that the minimum wage shall be 55 cents an hour, is only “recommended” to the employers, _