The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1934, Page 3

= TONIGHT = {Sa the National and Colonial Quest *Marlem “Workers School, WHAT? S ON Saturday VOLUNTEERS wanted for LL.D. Bazaar! Carpenters, waiters, countermen, restau- Fant ‘help and others. Attend the Volun- = meeting at 3:30 pm. at 870 Broad- HOUSEPARTY, Yorkville Unit Y.C.L. 173 %. 96th St., Apt. IR, 8:30 p.m. Adm. i5c. PARTY, dance and entertainment, Y.CL. %, Bronx, 951 Leggett Ave. Big program. RUSSIAN NIGHT, Tremont Prog. Club, 966 E. Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m. All Russian entertainment. Dancing after concert. Wear ® Russian costume. I@ of Proletarian Culture given by WIR. at City College, 23rd St. ad Lex- fagton Ave. ‘Tickets 25c, 35c, IRTAINMENT and Dance given by doint Comm. Upper West Side LL.D. and ©.P. Units, 2642 Broadway, near 100th St. Fine musical program, dancing. Villiam Patterson, speaker. Benefit Scotts ‘0 De- Fund. SPORTS Carnival and Dance, Social Youth Oulture Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn, 8:30 Bm. Wrestling and Boxing followed by @ancing to good jazz band. Adm. 25c. THIRD ANNIVERSARY Celebration of Brownsville Sect. ILD. Entertainment end dance at Hinsdale Workers Club, 572 Sut- ter Ave., Brooklyn, 8 p.m. CHARLES ALEXANDER, lecture “Lenin 200 W. 125th St., and floor. GALA Masque Ball and Entertainment. Year subscription to New Masses and other prizes, Pelham Parkway Workers Club, 2179 White Plain Rd. Adm. 35c, at 8:30 p.m. DANCE and Entertainment given by Dept. Btore Sect. of the O.W.U., 114 W. lith Bt. Benefit Belchman strikers. BANQUET and Concert, Left Wing Group of Local 22 at Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St. Home made 7-course dinner. Good program. Adm. 49c. PARTY for Daily Worker at Milgrom, 992 Southern Boulevard. Apt. B. Given by ‘Unit 20, PARTY and Moving Picture given by Rose Pastor Stokes Br. IL.D., 224 W. 4th St. opposite Sheridan Sq. Dancing, Good Music. Subscription 50c. 8th ANNIVERSARY Celebration Council 10 Bath Beach. 87 Bay 25th St., 8:30 p.m. MID-WINTER BALL, Harlem Prog. Youth Club, 1838 Madison Ave. Negro Jazz Band. Adm.- 25¢, HOUSE WARMING Party, United Front Supporters new headquarters, 40 W. 18th St. 9 p.m. Jazz Orchestra, Entertainment, Refreshments. Adm. 25c. I. AMTER, report on Washington Unem- ployment Convention, Auditorium of Coop Colony, 2700 Bronx Park East, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15c. Auspices East Bronx Unemploy- ment Council. BIG AFPAIR given by Communist Party Sect. 6 at Social Youth Center, 285 Rodney St. Red Dancers, Dram Group, Workers Chorus, Dancinz. PARTY end Entertainment given by ¥.C. 1%, 964 Simpson St. Apt. 4D, 8 p.m. JAMES FORD, lecture on “National Min- { orities,” 2075 Clinton Ave, 8 p.m. Auspices | Sect. 15 CP. DANCE and Entertainment, Cll-G Youth Club, 380 Grend St. PARTY for Blechman Strikers given by Department Store Sect. of O.W.U., 114 W. 1th St, 8:30 p.m. RUSSIAN Cabaret given by Women's Council 5 at 29-18 W. 30th St., Coney Island. CONCERT and Dance, 1459 St. Marks Ave. Brooklyn. Refreshments. Auspices Unit 4 and 8, Sect. 8 CP. Tickets 20c. | HOUSE PARTY—Clarte, 304 W. 58th St. | 8:30 p.m. Good time. Adm. free. PROLETARIAN Supper arranged by 13th } Ave. Center, 4109—13th Ave., Brooklyn. En- | tertainment: Adm. 15c. | HOUSE PARTY and Entertainment, Ford- ham Prog. Club, 3820 Bailey Ave. Apt. 4D, Bronx, 8 p.m. CONCERT and Dance, Farein, 106 E. 14th St. ‘Elaborate Musical | Program. Good eats. Adm. 25¢ | HELP the Daily Worker house party given by Unit 36 Sec. 15, 2103 Vyse Ave. Apt. 55, 8 pm FILM showing “A Jew at Wa: School for Social Research, 66 W 12th 7 and 9:30 p.m. Auspices: Film and Photo Leanue and New Masses. SPARTACUS, Sport Carnival and Dance at 558 Morris Ave. near 149th St., Bronx. Adm. 3%c, at door 25¢ in advance. HOUSS PARTY, Gilbert Lewis Br. LLD., 327 W. Rand Bt.. 4th floor, Bass. GRAND HOUSE Warming and Spaghetti Dinner, new club room of Lower West Side Workers Club, 107 McDougal St. Adm. 15¢, with spathetti 2c, Itallan Orchestra. En- tertaniment. JO'NT Entertainment and Dance, 15 E. 3rd St. Atisnices Tom Mooney and Steve Katovis Br. LL.D. Adm. 15c, 8 p.m. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance eiven by strikers ef Maimen-Sanver Shop, 130 W. 23rd St. Entertainment. Adm. 150. CONCERT and Party, New Duncan Dance Grown. 2 W. 15th St. ‘Studio 508, 8 p.m. VICTORY DANCE, GIVEN by Curtain Drapery, Pillow and Bed Sets Workers, 812 Broadway. Adm, 25¢, 8:30 p.m. CONCERT and Dance, Mt. Eden Workers Center, 288 E, 174th St. Refreshments. Ad- mission free. HAMBURGER House Party, dancing, music, entertainment, Refreshments, 338 E. 35th St. near 2nd Ave., use hall elevator. Adm. 10c. DANCE and Unusual Entertainment, New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave. Be- tween Ave. T & U; 8:30 p.m. Refreshments. Adm, 5c. GATA Affetr, Middle Bronx Workers Club, 432 Claremont Parkway. Auspices County Unemployment Council. Hat check 18c. TWO MUSIC CLASSES, Workers Music Teague, 5 BE. 19th St., 3:18 p.m., 4:45 p.m. Note reading and sight singing for begin- ners, 6:15 Voice Culture. HOUSE. PARTY, Jolly Juniors, 951 Leg~ wet Ave. ntertainment, refreshments, Ad- mission 20¢ adults; 10¢ children. Frethet Gesang An outstanding evening of Prolt Workers International Relief Saturday Evening, February 17th —— PROGRAM —— Workers Theatre of Action Gregori Matsusevitch, Concertina Film & Photo League, New Film JOSHUA KUNITZ—Chairman CITY COLLEGE AUDITORIUM *"pates: "ser" aser ‘Boe. letarian Culture presented by the Eugene Nigob, Pianist Red Doncers, Proletarian Dances W.LR, Band, Concert Selections St. and Lexington Ave. COSTUME BALL OF 500 Singers—2 Brass wil play till morning ADMISSION AT JEWISH WORKERS CLUBS PROGRAM Drills, Pyramids, etc.—Dram Sections in Sketches and Satirical Masks—Folk Dances and Varions Other Numbers—King Davids Double Brass Band NEW STAR CASINO 107th STREET AND PARK AVENUE THE Bands—Sport Tableaux, LHIINOL DOOR 50 CENTS “STRIKE YOUNG PIONEERS of AMERICA present the final Performance of 60 Children, Negro and White Sunday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 P. M. ME RED” : City College Auditorium 23rd St. and Lexington Ave. TICKETS 35c AND 50c Yr our Comrades Jailed By The Bosses Call On You To Fight For Their Release! Will You Answer Their Call? Giant LL. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 D. Bazaar E. 4th St., Entire Bldg. February 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 1@ per cent of the proceeds on the opening night of the Bazaar will be contributed to the struggle of the German workers, led by the Communist Party Large Dining Room with F. S. U. Balalaika Orchestra Excellent Program Dancing Bargains in All Kinds of Merchandise - y DINNER -- DANCE “Soviet Russia Today” \ Friday, March 2nd AT 7:00 P.M. Roger Smith Grill 40 East 41st St.,N. Y.C. Chairman: CORLISS LAMONT MUSICAL PROGRAM: NINA TARASOVA ASHLEY PETTIS, and others Irina Skariatina Sergei Radamsky Justine Wise Tulin Mary van Kleeck Dinner Music—F S. U. Balatstka Orchestra Dance Music—Valthalla Club Orchestra Reservations—$1.25 in Advance at SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY 80 EAST llth STREET, NEW YORK CITY SPEAKERS: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1934 DANCE and Entertainment, Dally Worker Dance Group, 35—E, 12th St, Bth floor. Band, Refreshments: Adm. 2c. JOHN BOVINGDON, Dancer and Poet, | dance recital at Theatre Collectivi 15th ‘St., 8:30 p.m. Following the recital he will speak on the growths, and social fuictions. of this form of art COSTUME Ball and Concert Workers Clubs at New Star*Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Program. Dancing till . « Of “Jewish Sehuyler, Dr. Reuben 8. Young: and James W. Ford. C.A. Little Theatre, 180 W. 135th St., Adm 25¢. OPEN FORUM “Revolutionaty Upsurge tn Austria and France.”. Auspices Rose Pastor Stokes Br..I.L.D., 2842 W. 35th 8t., Brook- lyn, 8pm, Adm.’ free. CLARENCE HATHAWAY speaks on “Lenin on Imperialist War” at Brighotn . Beach. Workers Club, 3200 Coney Island Ayenue, Brooklyn, 8 p.m. DANCE and Entertainment, lndy-hop con- test. Prog. Workers Culttire Club, 159 Sum- ner Ave.; 8:30 p.m. Bill Schuster and his orchestra. RUSSIAN Festival with 30-plece Balalaika Orchestra. Gypsy Chorus of 50. Unity ‘Theatre, 24-26 E. 28rd St. Adm. 35c, Rus- sisn refreshments, 8 p.m. EDUCATIONAT, Committee Film and Photo League meets 2:30 p.m. All members must be present. COMRADES interested in theatre work are invited to attend the casting and. tryonts of parts for “Marion Models, Inc.”, by Olen Shapira, at the Theatre Collective, 52 W. 15th St. 3 p.m. JACK STACHEL, lectures on ‘The Trade Mnton and Leninism’ Workers School Forum 35 F. 12th St. 8 p.m. VILUAGE FORTTM. 224 W. 4th St. facing Sheridan 8q., 2:30 p.m. Reich,” lecture by Edward Dahlberg. mission 15¢. “THE THEATRE in Society,” a symposium presented hy the Theatre Union. Henry Hvil, Mordecal Gorelik, John Howard Lawson, Al- bert Maltz, Blanche Vurka, Kyle Crichton, Ad- with Anne Sokolow. Civic Revertory Thea- tre, 14th St. and 6th Ave, Adm. 25¢, 50c, Sc. Members free. : SOCIAL riven by Irish Workers Club at the West S'4e Workers Club. 2642 Broadway near 100th St. Program of songs and dances. Contribution 15¢, ROUND TAB discussion “Collectivism,” Clarte, 304 W. 58th St., 3 p.m. RABBI BENJ. GO'DSTETN, lectures on ““itleriem and the Jew" at Mosholu Prog. Cinb, 3230 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, near 207th St., 8:45 p.m. Southern Boulevard, Bronx. Good Jazz band, Adm. free for good standing members. DANCE, Boro Park Workers Club. Ave., cor. 47th St. usnal attraction. DANCE nt Red Svark A.C., 64 Second Ave. near 4th Bt. Good tazz band, 8 p.m. DAV'D SCURIFTMAN, lectures on “Scotts- boro—What Next?” Steve Katovis Br. LL.D., 15 F. 3rd St., 8:30 p.m. MUSTCALE of Chamber Music, Tremont Prov. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave.. 8. firstman, Adele, others. Adm. 25¢. OPEN FORU™—George Siskind. speaks on “War—When—Why"” at Communist Party Sect. 6, 61 Greham Ave. 8 p.m. ANDPEW OVERGAARD, lectures on “Recent Strike Stroevtes in New York.” Brownsville Worlers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15c. SYMPOSITM, “How Can We Ston War” Soeakers: Anna Gray, Winfield Chaffell “arold Hi + Bronx Workers Club, 1610| Besten Pd., 8:30 p.m DANCE and Srciol at American Youth Yedevation, 393 E. 13th St, near ‘2nd Ave. Novel entertainment. 18th Mathew Cahan, ary Traditions of the American Working Glass” Cooperative Anditerinm, 2709 Bron Park Fast. Arranved by Womens’ Council 22, Adm. 10c., 8 .m DANCE, Srcial Youth Culture Club, 275 | Broadway, Broolivn, 8:30 p.m. Entertain- ment and refreshments, FROWAPN TAPMMY, Tectures on Sitretion,” Fordham | Progr E. Forchem Road, 8 p.m. DTRATH “Resclved ’ that “the “‘Ambri¢ah Working Class dses not need a “new noii- tical panty.” Afirmative; Ho M. Wicks, Com- mmist Party: ‘ative, Jarry Cohen, Am- ermen we Club, 305 sponso-e1 ef Bro Wn. Ahe ‘anir, sneaks on. “Freaism a: War"; 1163 Lenox Road, near 98th St., 2:30 Pp. om. vnited Front. Millinery Comm NATIONAL Theatre Festival” seven ‘Work ers theatres. including two Pirneerroup: ‘n comnetition at New School for Sccial Reserrch. 66 W. 1th St., 8 p.m. JOHN PEED CLUB Onen Forvm. 439 Sixth Ave., 8:30 p.m. Samvel Putnam. lectures on “From Dada to Revolution,” 8:30 p.m MARGARET COWL, lectvres on racy in the U. 8. and the U.8.8.P.” 13th Ave, Brerklyn, Ella May Br. Adm, 5c, 8:39 p.m. inz Freihelt Reaters of 0: fe at 11 a.m. Wel Avenue N. Daily Worker snd” Prethelt Committee. I. AMTER, reports on be mp) nt Convention at Washingts ©.” at New Criture Club, 2245 Coney Ttan Ave., 8 p.m. Adm. 15c. OPEN FORUM Ugion” Tom Mocney Br. 1.1-D., 323 E.°13th | St. 3 pm. Speaker Ben Lee. Adm. free. creative origins, | Sunday SYMPOSIUM on “Freedom for Liberia— Who can help her?” Speakers: George} Auspices, The Vanzierd, at. ¥.M.| Spm “Hitler's Third, chairman, and the Theatre Union Dencers| | DANCE at Prospect Workers Center. 1157 ie Good jazz band. Un-| 8:45 p.m. | ana MAX REDACHT. lectures on “Revslution-| MFRTING of all Daily Worker and Morn-| “The Workers and Re-| Page Three | DOLLFUSS REPAYS KINDNE: New York. The Karl Marx apartm nts in Vienna, once the pride of the Austrian workers, is now torn and battered, threatening collapse. This picture was flown to London and wired to SS OF SOCIALIST LEADERS showing black, gaping holes and ‘2,000 Negro, White’ Birmingham Lnery Workers on Strike | Demand Higher Pay; A. | F. of L. Leaders for Jimcrow in Pay Scales (Snecial to the Daily Worker) BIRMINCHAM, Ala., Feb. 16.—Two thousand laundry workers went on | strike here for hicher wages. Nesro women were getting $3 a week and vn, whe white women were receiving | $4 and up. The A. F. of L. leadership has ac- cented the nrincinle of senarate ware | scales, for Negro and white doin? the | |same ‘work. Thev are ureiny no| nickoting, But. many of, the workers} are nicketire The bosses are planting bombs as an excuse to terrorize the strikers and smash their union | Norman Thomas. Socialist leader from New: Vor! ureine th | ‘The fo erent NPA. offi tials aré Keotosinz @ 14-ccnt an hour, scole for.Sauthern larndries. the low- est of all the codes. The Commu’ Party is celing for mass vicketing, rank and fie strike committee. and equal wages for Negro and white. HOUSE ,PARTY, Bath Beach Workers th St. 8 p.m. Refreshments t. | | | S. Ss fabs strike,” Oultwral and Sports Club; St. on ‘Sat., Feb. 17, 8 p.m. DANCE at Pen & Hammer, Sat. Feb. 17 j at 138 South Ri: ot. Road, by delezates. “Supper w \Shoe Union Leader National Labor Board Fake Moves Continue in Weirton Union Fight (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Ap- parently government inspired ru- mors that the National Labor Board will yet order an election in the Weirton case were afloat yesterday, but they do not mate- rially affect the strike-stalling nature of the board’s procedure. It is said that the board is preparing to go to court to fight out the elec- tion issue, being aware that its order for an election will be defied by the company.. Should this oc- cur, the Weirton workers would still hold the bag while the sham- battle pretense dragged on. Freed on Assault by New Jersey Jury JERSEY CITY—A. Ivanoff, lead- ‘ng member of the’ United Shoe and | Leather Workers Union, who was ar- rested last August while on strike duty and held on a charge of as- sault, wes found not guilty by a jury here Thursday. Ivanoff was arrested with a group of three other leading members of the union following an attack made | on the group by gangsters. Ivanoff hed. gone to a shoe factovy which was | on st ike and was telling the workers | not to scab. iC Meeting Today of Delegates on Cc. C. C. Investigation NEW YORK.—A special prelimin- ary meeting will be held Sat., Feb. 1, at 3 p.m. at room 238, 80 E. 11th St., of all youth delegates on the delegation which will invest‘gate| conditions at C. C. C. camps this| Sunday. All delegates are urged to; be present. Organizations which have not yet Threaten To Use Soldiers To Cow California Strike 10,000 in Agricultural Walkout Face Armed Vigilantes EL CFNTRO. Calif. Feb. Sheriff Camnbeli and the have called for soldiers from Ss Diego to be used against the 10.000 pea pickers on strike here. The Re- gional Labor Board at the same time. has demanded that the United Stat: 16.— marshals establish federal rule. Armed vigilantes openly patrol the | area now. This is a prelude to more brutal attacks, similar to the murder- ous assault on the lettuce strikers. ‘The ranks of the strikers remain solid. Sixteen Negro workers shipped from Los Anee'es have refused to work. Chief of the “radical squad” in Los Angeles, “Red” Hynes, one 0’ the most vicious anti-working class thugs, has been brought in to direct the attack on the workers. The pea pickers are striking for an increase in wages, from one to two cents per pound, sanitary living con- ditions, and union recognition. The strike is led by the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union. Rayon Workers in Protest on Textile Conditions to NRA’ Demand No / Anti-Union| Discrimination from National Board (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — Five women and eleven men representing 18,000 rayon workers in plants of} the Viscose Company, a subsidiary of the giant British rayon firm of Courtauld’s, came direct to the Na-| tional Labor Board today to protest | against bad conditions, including | anti-union discriminations, ‘The delegates were from five unions cus Hook, Lewistown and Meadville, Pennsylvania plants, and in those at Roanoke, Virginia, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. regional Labor Boards, the workers of all the plants got together and | came straight to Washington. Their | unions are affiliated with the United | Textile Workers (A. F. of L.). They demanded an end of dis- crimination, saying that company unions have been fostered by the fir- ing of workers’ union members; an end of the stretch-out system; in- creases in wages, which they are even below the low N.R.A. code minimums; and a guarantee of the they said the company absolutely de- nies. mands, the misleadershin asked for crats. | Workers Lose Pay and Clothing As Fire Sweeps | Chicago Hat Factory)! CHICAGO, Feb, 14.—Several hun- dred workers had their week’s wazes burned up when fire, caused by the cal used in a hat factory, swevt the The fire spread so swiftly after the | explosion that the workers were forced to abandon the building with- organized, respectively,.in the Mar-| Instead of going to}; said | * ’ right of collective ‘bargaining, which | © Along with these worker de-|, a checkoff for union dues to line the| © pockets of the A. F. of L. bureau-|. exolosion of an inflammable chemi- | seven-story Mutue! Bui'dine af 1213) West Van Buren Street here Tues- | ‘All CWA Wages Cut To 30 Cents an Hour; Fire 400,000 More = e— Workers! Protest and Organize Against C.W.A. Firing ORGANIZE ON |Unemployed Councils in Call for Action JOBS By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 16, W — A big announced nistrator Harry lained the Hopkins n for foldi: May 1 that By next Thursday 400,000 will be | dropped from C. W. A. r 48, Hopkins announced. T ers in the No Ss m h as well is in the South, will be fired this week. [Instead of merely. in “sub-tropic” | climates, as previously announced | Wages Cut. | “New. wage regulations will read substantially 2 ve Effective not | later than M: 5 the s paid | uum | of 30 cent: an hour Bee il- ing rate of wages in each local com- munity for the | form the lapper dictated to the pres In other wo! | ima of 40 cents for the South. for the middle ter- ritory, and 50 cents for the North which previously obtained for all ex- cept road work project: are scrapped. “The hours of worm, for the pres- ent, will remain at 24*hours per week in the cities and 15 hours in rural |areas,” Hopkins continued. | Heard of Demonstrations. The “ru Jaffected fir | small towns, asked whethe: would be cor lied, “they ght.” that in dropping workers, those liv Ids where another d would be first to go, those | other resources” would be | next | He also ‘said that C. W. A. would | s apparently include ‘or when Hopkins was | ommunities of 5,000 | ed “rural,” He he re also said | s |continue “at its present strength” in | |industrial cities—indic that the | author are aware that they will have trouble where workers are or- | vanized and fis Asked whet! | re- “el replied, “I've seen’ some, | sent I don’t think that’s | Will Have to Starve. The bru candid facts were in- soft soap: Hopkins ll take on relief in need,” and that | ‘major projects” to be completed be- fore May 1 include rural schools — }about ten of them, it developed. | When it came to the question Hop- kins has been asked repeatedly about | going to happen when all C. hi been thrown off | however, he respo. now you're asking m | . eae y In New York | NEW YORK. — Fi six thousand | CWA ‘Ss on parks learned ye: terday that they will probably fired t week, the CWA adi tion claiming it has no equipmer their fu 3 | Six hund | laid~ off on t be | ra- | t for d and fifty workers we he Fort Jay project ye: e< as which are to be | tense is defending the workers. |‘pay. | that they cannot communicate with | the Kroger Chain Stores. Ni elocted delegates are urged to do so at once, out their wrens or nav envelopes they | ter cils made a statement today in an- swer to the declaration of Federal lief Director Hopkins, that all city OWA jobs would end in April. The Unemployment Councils urged all workers to immediately organize pro- tests against the CWA lay-offs. The National Unemployment Coun- cils declared: “Only organization and struggle can defeat Roosevelt's attack and win the demands of the CWA workers. “Set up committees of action om every CWA job. “Send Resolutions and telegrams of protest from CWA workers to CWA Administrators and to Hopkins, “Hold demonstrations before «all CWA Offices. “Take up the fight for cash relief at all relief offices for all those fired from CWA jobs.’ Relief to be equiva- lent to full regular wages. “Demand the immediate passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (H.R. 7598) by Congress.” : ILD Defends Framed (. W. A. Workers State Department Orders Drastic Speed-Up CHICAGO, Feb. 1 A. workers who ra’ —Five C. W. ed demands for week's back pay and fires to warm themselves while working on the Lincoln Highway at Harvey; Ill. were framed by the job foreman | John Sullivan, and arrested on false charges of threatening to stab s stool pigebn, and with being Com munists, Released on $200 bail each, the workers, one a Negro, demanded a jury trial which has been set) for Feb. 20. in the Harvey The International Labor De- Tn announcing that no fires will be permitted on the job, the Illinois | State Department of Public Works and Buildings sent a threatening letter on Jan, to the eig' paid workers on the project. This letter, typewritten in English so bad that its meaning is obscur in places, in no uncertain terms es that any workers who warm themselves at fires will be fired. No fires are to be permitted at any time and if the weather becomes too ‘cold, the men are to be sent home without Workers are to be separated so 9. each other, and general orders have been given to speed-up the men. Kroger Store Clerks Forced to Subscribe To City Relief Funds By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo, — The charity keteers here have sold the cession for the city food chi | worker on relief -must bring check to a Kroger Store for his 0 | croceries. Recently it was mysteriously, an- nounced over the radio that a, large | Cincinnati corporation was | nating” $60,000 to the St. Louis r fund. Great secrecy surrounded the entire transaction. But when the workers got their food orders drawn |on the Kroger Stores, the secret was out—all clerks in Kroger Stores are |forced to pay a dollar or more had received that morning. eekly out of their wages for “re- The National. Unemployment Coun-'! lief.” 1 Must End Tendencies to Narrowness in Work By MAX YOUNG. URING these five years of crisis the American working-class, as an integral part of the world working- class, has shown militancy in the struggle against the growing offensive of the Wall Street financial oligarchy. Beginning with the Pennsylvania miners’ strike in 1931, all succeeding strikes—viz., steel, textile, shoe, had: @ more organized nature than previ- ous strikes. Almost all strikes devel- oped open sharp conflicts between the chinery and police. But not one of these struggles, including those ‘that were under the Jeadershid’ of the revolutionary unions and the Com- ® striking workers and the state ma-j phrase mongers as the Muste type who is trying to build a “new” Amer- ican Workers Party, and who see the helplessness of the Socialist Party. The reasons for it are in our own methods: of work and approach to the workers. We do not develop simultaneously the three interwoven parts of the class struggle—political, economic and theoretical. Especially do we neglect the theorstical struggle. Party units in Harlem, South Side of Chicago, including some good shop nuclei, are fulfilling their tasks and working in a very technical and nar- row manner, Without Revolutionary Theory, There Can Be No Revolutionary Movement We. somsiimes. hear. complaints frcm .camrades that .there is not enough political life, .quick reaction by Party organizations, in their par- |.ticular territory to. events. .Some of the comrades make. broad, gestures, munist Party, were brougat’ to that-|. level of outstanding, conscious: polit- ical fight which would develop the understanding that it is necessary to change the entire capitalist system. . The Party led a number of strikes, spread its influence, and has grown to a Party of 25,000 members, with revolutionary trade union organiza- tions having a membership of 100,- 000 workers. Quite a number of emphasizing that it is necessary to ‘bring. forward the Party in all strug- gles of the working class. But ‘a gesture like this remains a phrase if we do not present the entire pro- gram ,of the Party to the working Class, if we do not fight for the line of the Party in a theoretical, scien- tific manner, Lenin emphasized that without revolutionary theory. there can b2 no revolutionary movement. workers, having very little, and even totally lacking theoretical trdining, joined the Party because of its prac- tical significance and to a eortath ex- tent, its practical successes.” Today, in many places, such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Patterson, workers join- ing the Party do not yet see the dif- ference between the Party of the vanguard of the working -class:and the revolutionary trade unions. This is not the fault of the sincere, loyal, devoted workers who are seeing the betrayal of the A. F. of L. leaders, who are against the bourgeois parties (Republican and cratic), who And that’ this is true can be seen in a’number of mistakes committed -by the Party in strike struggles, in recruiting into the Party, and in mass campaigns. Theory for the Party is e: ially important because the Party. on the road to Bol- shevization, The Party lived for years in the conyulsions of unprin- cipled. factional struggle. Organiza- tionally it has overcome this, but in some parts of the Party there still remain ideological remnants of it. The meth used by our comrades in the mining field, in the steel re- gion, and in the textile industry are see the real ch: of such left ' the methods of so-called “labor lead- ”” coming in for the struggle and @s soon as the strike is over, going. We are not a Party that “comes and goes,” but a Party that comes and stays—in the shops, mills, company towns—until we have established a classless society. This means to stay, to work until we, have conquered the growing enemy, politically and theo- retically. And this is not so easy as some comrades think, To rely on spontaneity in carrying out this big political task, means objectively to have a liquidatory attitude, or to limit everything to organizational work. Lack of theory leads to mechanical, narrow building of the organization in an arithmetical man- ner, adding two and two as it is done under the Ford method. Then the comrades. later on will be sur- prised when they begin to count four and four which is supposed to be eight; but which in our arithmetic sometimes comes to nothing. Because we cannot strengthen the Party in Ford's, if the comrades are not able to see the growing fascization, are not able to estimate the influence that the Knights of Dearborn are trying to exercise, for example. International Experience Must Become Our Capital Our movement is an international movement, based on the most ad- vaneed theory — Marxism-Leninism. On the basis of this theory the work- ing class was led in many strike struggles and class battles and on the basis of which the Party of Lenin in the Soviet Union is building a classless society which is an example for the toling masses of the world. ‘The “left” faker Muste, like a purring cat, states in his shameful, counter- revolutionary program of the so called “American Workers Party” that the Communist International has tended in recent years to become a branch of the foreign offices of Jeading the Soviet Union instead of the world revolution. So, gentlemen, you are helping Mr. Fish in his at- tacks against the Soviet Union! Are you satisfied? You should be! such statements you will expose your- selves more quickly. We are proud that the Soviet Union has become the main stronghold of the world proletariat, The experiences of the German Party, of the Chinese Party sirug- gling successfully for power, of the Leninist Party in the Soviet Union, becomes of vital and decisive im- portance for the entire revolutionary movement in the United States. But to transfer and to use these exper- iences we must study them, know about them, develop them in appli- cation to the United States. Some times leading Party comrades under- estimate the desire and the abilities that rank and file members of the Party have for study. In any con- ference or meeting where the ques- tion of theory is raised these so- called defenders of the “real struggle” are already afraid that the Party membership will begin to study too much. Dear struggling comrades! This is a result of hot-headedness, and per- haps good intentions, but not of the conscious policy in building the Party. Objectively you are disarm- ing the Party membership by limit- ing the whole orietation to only im- mediate, technical, routine work. Talk about struggle does not yet mean leading struggle. And our Party has Jed, and must in the future lead more and greater struggles. The same hard-boiled, hundred per cent struggling comrades think that for Party members it is enough to read merely the penny and two cent pam- phlets, But they forget that it is necessary to arm the entire member- ship with originals from Marx, En- gels, Lenin and Stalin. And we are By| of the opinion that sometimes re j lutions of the districts are o- | written | in a more complicated manner than | Lenin’s, Stalin’s, Marx’ or Enge: writing. and Practice is of espe-j Combat Foe in Theory For our Party, theo! cial importance also be it works in the heart of world capitalism. The | ions of corruption, | fakery, gangsterism, and clever man- euvers of a demagogic nature is the combination that the State machin- |} ery is using. The propaganda of | peaceful collaboration between labor and capital is still used as an in- strument in the hands of the bour- | geoisie, and with the great aid and direct help of the leaders. of the American Federation of Labor the financial oligarchy is trying to con- tinue and further spread it. Espe- cially now, when actual war prepara- tions are going on in such a speedy tempo, is a tremendous wave of chauvinism, patriotism and national- ism developed, Twenty years ago Lenin said that militant bourgeois nationalism is stultifying, doping and degenerating the workers, so as to be able to lead the workers by a halter; and that this was the main current fact. To- day bourgeois nationalism, patriotism and chauvinism becomes more mili- tant. The Wall Street bankers, through the Roosevelt administra- tion are trying to build up a myth— by belief, thankful enthusiasm, by creating desires, hopes and manli- ness. This myth is Nation. This is supplemented by a tremendous growfs of lynching of the Negro people; by building open Fascist or- organizations as the Silver and Khaki shirts which are open anti-Semitic ganizations. This is the main theory of decaying bourgeois philosophy, dy~- ing in convulsive gasps. Thus, bour- geois nationalism, and proletarian ontinue Communist Party Pre- Convention Discussion We Must Abolish the Neglect ‘of Re Revolutionary ry Theory Transient Local Leader- ship Does Not Help the Party internationalism are the two inces- antly warring. ideologies of today. Now it is not hard to see who, the gentleman Muste is assisting —.the revolutionary workers, or aggressive bourgeoisie and the credo of fasism —nationalism. It is obvious to all that the class struggle is becoming ever sharper and more intensive in the country. Renegades from Communism, Loye- stonites, Trotskyites, who are .the ideological forepost of the counter- revolutionary bourgeoisie, aiding and leading the counter - revolution against the Soviet Union, with their bankrupt theory of impossibility of building socialism in one country, which is today completely negated and destroyed by the successes in the Soviet Union — Musteites — all these are crawling like roaches: to the warmth of the upsurge of ‘the masses, Only with the light of theory —Marxism-Leninism—with. morein- tensive participation’ in leadng the economic and political struggles of the working class, will every Party member be prepared to combat the enemies within the workingclass, be able to withstand the attacks pre- pared by the bourgeaisie, and be everossfil in the decisive struggle for power, We ask every Party member \o prepare himself so. that im: the pre-convention discussion in the units and nuclei they will be*able to solve the various complicated and serious questions that we are Ccon- fronted with. Don’t limit your dis- cussions to only narrow, technica) things. The pre-convention discus- sion must become the greatest <= tor every Party member,