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Page Six Draft Resol Continued from nt Unemployment organiz i trade unions and ing ail forn muulating dex strikes and mands i uunemplo necessary to tion in handir ment of fight for t Negroes ing, the tion, r yvights and for termination of the Black Belt especially st discrimina- bs and p equal de- The Party SVL 1) The & Party has c the Open Letter and in the control tasks which stresses the rooting of the Party in the factories and in the most important industries, winning especially the native white and Ne- sro workers. This task remains in full force and must be immediately carried through. Mass recruitment must be undertaken in connection with all our mass activities and struggles and the fluctuations over- come through the improvement of all our work, especially the raising of the political level and initiative of the leadership of the nuclei and lower party organizations in the d to day struggles, and in the work of the fractions of the mass organiz~- tions, particularly in the tra unions, which be built and co: Solidated. : Improvement of the inner life of the Party and face to the mass str img necessity, to which a crgans must give their fullest atten- tion, establishing di personal contact with the Pa units and Jower party organizations, The build- ing of unit leadersh of section committees, strengthening them poli- tically, raising their initiative, de- mands that an end be put to the tendency of monopolizing all political work in the hands of the top or- @anizers and requires the develop- ment of real collective leadership from the Central Committee down to the units. *2) An important part of the root img of the Party in the factories. particularly as a means of incr ing our agitation among the factory workers and in face of growing jer, of illegality, is the. wide e: sion of popular shop papers it sued in the name of the Party nuc- Jeus, in all fractions where Party nuclei exist, ing up the partial Struggles of the workers, and con- Mecting them with t ght against turning t fascism and war and for the revolu- | tionary way out. 8) The Pariy must vhdergrow aust t Seipline cf the Party, repare to go ¢ Page Five nto the Party organizations, cadres. The ganizations, nions, must ht for the po- The N.R. as a und the Party ‘0 question, or- le of the Negro ing of our work gro proletariat, the proletarian base he liberation moy: becomes a condi- her extension of the Negro masses. c the Negro n urgent task. organization of of the Negro people t of the task of the ne working class for for power. gle against white chau- be raised to a higher id put on a mass in view of the ha'red in connec- pidly developing fas- is necessary to expose more energetically the is nationalism spread rniist leaders, which si pplement the efforts white rn class to create n Negro and whites. Try on a strug- against white nism as the main danger and nce of petty-bour- G. Winning the Youth avainst an work- the basis of the mic, political and the fighting chau- and for internation-| n, The Party must ish the broadening of organization y, help the ¥.C.L. 1 the bovrzeois M.C.A., Sports, 1 reformist or- y must aid to ry nuclei wherever and assist in form- in to Unions, up the lems of the formulate with e economic de- nd cultural nizations that ung workers, and bring forward ims and objectives g class movement. the take ions 2 A Ton-~'ance of Women’s Work y must become politically the increasingly im- y yed in indu: zle of th in t uggles in textile ines) and their role in the recognizing the immedi- for broadening the among women, espe- an and Negro—re- into the Party. sing the mass work among women, at the same time promot- ing and training even now a body of active Party women who, dur- ing the war, could in a number of cases replace mobilized comrades.” (From the 13th Plenum Resolution.) ke the initiative in lea defense of the daily egro women in 2 unemployed, to pacifist and reformist carried on among wo- , and win them for united fight zainst fascism and war. e the t functioning of the ry nuclei while maintaining the atest contact with the masses in factories, preparing immediately adres for underground work. While preparing for illegality, the Party must at the same time struggle inst every attack upon its legal hts through the development of mass struggles. 4) Greater boldness must be shown in the promotion of new cadres from the ranks of the workers, pushing rd capable workers into leading ions, particularly from among ative workers in the industries of oncentration. This applies not only he Party, but to the revolutionary S organizations. The task of ‘omoting cadres as well as the gent task of raising the political and theoretical level of the Party re- quires the more serious development of District schools, week-end schools varticularly in the industrial sections for employed workers, and strengh- ening the national school. 5) The Daily Worker must still further achieve its popularization, stablish a functioning Workers Advisory Committee workers from the shops and unions, establish and develop the closest con- with the workers in the fac- increase and improve work- correspondence, and make it a ntral nart of the policy of the en- tire paper, and strengthen the “Daily” | s the organizer and leader of the e trade unions and un- ed _oreenizetions, and of the and to a far greater ex- bring forward and explain the lutionary program of the Party. All Party organizations are obliged as heir central tasks to build the ation of the Paper, to make it known and strengthen its influence partic ly in the factories, among workers on strikes, among the ranks circ of the unemployed, and all mass battles. 6) The foreign language press must | be extended, popularized and become | hten the dis-}Mass organs for the combatting of becoriing combat spies,national separatism, against fascist , the mass organizatiox and} d_ share croppers | eae — | |him, the Nazi, 14,000 marks to set Building the Party i —_——————— "| __ “This drivel was played up in the| composed of | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934 ution for 8th Convention of the C. P., U.S, A. [Continued = propaganda carried on by American fascists and those of European coun- tries, and be a means of drawing the foreign born workers into the main stream of the class struggle, the Communist Party and the mass or- ganizations, particularly the trade unions. There must be a wider issuance and circulation of literature on cur- rent political problems and propa- ganda pamphlets dealing with the evolutionary way out of the crisis. The mass sale of Communist litera- ture must be a normal part of the day to day activities of every Com- munist Party member. 1) The building of the Party de- | ~onds that the opportunist tendency | of hiding the face of the Party, which Party must conduct = systematic struggle against opportunism, par- ticularly against right opportunism, manifesting itself in the under- estimation of the revolutionary up- surge of the masses, in an under- estimation of the depth of the capi- talist crisis, as an absolute necessity for educating and strengthening the discipline and fighting capacity of the Party. It must conduct a fight against the still strong sectarian tendencies of the Party, expressed in | the still considerable passivity with respect to revolutionary mass work, and the resistance to the application of the united front, particularly in winning the workers in reformist or- | ganizations, etc. A relentless strug- gle must be carried on against all manifestations of the counter-revolu- tionary conceptions of the Trotskyite has frequently manifested itself espe-|/and Lovestonite renegades and cially in the trade union struggles|.gainst any liberal attitude towards must be decisively overcome. The them, vill. The Revolutionary | Soviet Power— The Way Out } | The Communist Party must raise) before the toilers in the United States | the revolutionary way out of the! crisis, All members of the Party| | must in their day-to-day work, in the fight for the demands of the workers, point out convincingly and insistently that only the destruction of the. capitalist system, the estab- lishment of a Revolutionary workers’ government, of the Soviet power, can free the. millions of toilers from the | interests of the profit of the ex- Workers. Government— | | bondage and misery of the capitalist system. The United States is most favor-| able for the establishment of Social- ism. Its large scale concentrated in- | dustry and huge proletariat, its ac- cumulated wealth and productive/ forces with the enormous supplies of raw material, provide the material | basis for a quick change in the life and conditions of the country. If the workers will take power, they will in a very short time radically | | improve the life of all toilers—indus- | trial workers, farmers, white collared | workers, professionals, intellectuals, ete., providing a high degree of com- fort and well-being for the toiling masses. But this tremendous wealth, these gigantic productive forces, are locked away from the masses. They are the private property of a small parastic capitalist class which has closed the factories and locked the warehouses to force growing tribute of profits. This paralysis of economy in the ploiters at the cost of the starvation and degradation to the millions is enforced by the capitalist govern- ment with its police, military, courts, and jails. There is no way out of the crisis except by breaking the domination and rule of the monopolist capitalist class and taking the road pointed out by the victorious working class of the Soviet Union. There is no way) out through the quackery of Roose- | velt or the poliices and practices of social-democracy. Where the Social- ists have been in power (Germany, Austria), they have abstained from confiscating the industries held by the capitalists, and their way of “gradual,” “civilized,” “Democratic,” “transition to Socialism” have opened the gates wide for the. most bar- barous regimes in the modern his- tory of Europe. In the Soviet Union, where the proletarian dictatorship Tules, there is no crisis; capitalism has been destroyed and a new So- clalist society is being victoriously built. The Russian working class through the Soviet power has com- pletely wiped out unemployment, es- tablished the seven-hour day, abol- ished the poverty of the country side, and raised materially the well-being and standards of the toiling masses. It has overcome the age-long backwardness of its country, brought the industrial production to the first place in Europe and more than three times the pre-war figure, reorganized agriculture on a Socialist basis, and liberated the formerly oppressed na- tionalities. Upon the basis of its Socialist system the Soviet Union has become the most powerful force for peace in the otherwise war-mad world. Its victories are a source of inspiration and encouragement to the oppressed throughout the world. The Revolutionary Workers’ Gov- ernment—an alliance of the work- ing class with other toiling sections of the population—will establish a real for the overwhelm- ing majority of the toilers and a stern dictatorship against the capitalists and their agents, It will confiscate the banks, the factories, the railroads, the mines, and the farms of the big corporations—capitalist farmers. It will immediately wipe out unem- nloyment, provide jobs at a wage suf- ficient to meet the needs of the toilers. It will establish a seven- hour day, a six-hour day for workers in hazardous industries, and a sys- tem of full social insurance. It will open up the warehouses and dis- tribute among the working people the enormous stores of food and clothing, it will open the enormous accumula- tion of unused buildings to those who now wander in the streets and crouch in cellars and slums. It will wipe out the debts and mort- gages now held by the bankers and monopolists upon the farmers, give land to the landless farmers, give government aid to the poor and mid- dle farmers, will establish a seven- hour day and will raise the wages and improve the condition of the} agricultural workers. The Revolu- tionary Workers’ Government will immediately proceed to reorganize the n-esent anarchic system of production on Socialist lines, elim- inating the untold wastes of cap- italism and bringing to full use the tremendous achievements of science. It will aid the farming population to unite their forces in a co-operative, socialized agriculture thereby bring- ing to the countryside the advantages of modern civilization and removing the present burdens of agricultural labor. It will establish state farms. It will 3rant equal rights to the Negro peoe ple and to the foreign-born and the right of self-determination for the Negroes in the black belt, extermin- ating all forms of chauvinism and establishing firm bonds of solidarity and fraternity between the Negro and white masses. It will grant full independence te Cuba, independence to the Philip Pines and the colonies and semte colonies now oppressed by imperiale It will establish a fraternal ale nee with the great Socialist brother state—The Soviet Union, and through such an alliance of two mighty socialist powers would create an unshakable force for peace and render a death blow to the world system of imperialist oppression and exploitation. In view of the tremendous revolu« tionary surge of the masses (the heroic revolutionary armed struggle of the Austrian workers, the general strike in France, etc.), the Congress calls upon all Party members to ine crease their activity, discipline and mass work, for the Bolshevist way out of the crisis, the way of the united struggle of the working class, march- ing hand in hand with all oppressed for crushing the power of the ex- Ploiters and establishing the Soviet power. Gallagher ‘Warns | Of Danger to Life | | of Thaelmann) (Continued from Page 1) row for Toronto, Canada, where A. E. Smith, general secretary Canadian Labor Defense League | ( goes cn trial Monday for sedition. “The first impression one gets from seeing Torgler is that he has been |Dhysically tortured even before the trial. At the trial ti was brought out and not even denied by the author- ities that both Torgler and Dimitroff ;had been kept in shackles for five months while in prison.” | Gallagher spoke of Dimitroff’s mag- | |nificently courageous conduct, al- though in a Nazi court surrounded by Hitler's storm-troopers. | | Describes Court Scenes | “Dimitroff,” Gallagher declared, “4s | one of the outstanding revolutionary |figures in the whole world—a man} who would do honor to any country. He is worshipped by the workers of Europe, and whenever his name is! mentioned in any public meeting the | workers simply explode.” | Although Gallagher had written |Tetainers from Dimitroff as well as | rom his mother and sisters, the Am- Jerican labor attorney was not per- | mitted to consult with him personally | even once. | Describing the Leipzig court, Gal- | |lagher said that no more than 100 Persons could find places during the | trial, and these consisten entirely of well-dressed members of the bour- | geoisie, in addition to the Nazi offi- |cials and storm troopers. A | “No workers dared come near the | | court, for if they did they would most | | certainly be thrown into concentra- | | tion camps. In Leipzig you could see | | the burning eagerness of the workers | to demonstrate—but they knew what the consequences would be. So they | | came, one at a time, and looked in- | side the windows—just so there'd be | | workers around Torgler, Dimitroff | | and the other comrades. “As soon as the Nazi police spied |them, they would demand their pa-| Pers, and order them to move on.” Crude Perjuries The crude character of the frame- up against the Communist defendants | Was revealed time and again during | the trial, Gallagher said. “One Nazi even had the gall to testify that Tor- | gler had come to Hamburg a year | before Hitler took power and offered fire to the Reichstag. | | Nazi press, of course, as well as the} | other crude perjuries of Goering and | the other Nazi chieftans.” a | | Gallagher declared that there ‘no- | | body doubis that the imbecile tool | of the Nazis, Van der Lubbe, was) drugged during the entire course of | the trial. It is almost equally cer-| | tain, he asserts, that Van der Lubbe’s Hathaway to Speak on Revolution in Europe at Irving Plaza, Mar. 2 NEW..YORK.—Clarence Hath- away, editor of the Daily Worker, will, deliver a lecture entitled, “Revolution Knocks at the Door of Europe” at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, on Friday, March 2, at 8:30 p. m, under the auspices of the Workers School. Hathaway will deal speciically with recent revolutionary events in Austria, France, Spain and other countries. All: procceeds from this lecture will go to the benefit of the Na- tional Training School of the Communist Party, which is now in its seventh week, and to which thirty-six members of the Com- munist Party from all over the country have been sent to be trained for leadership in the workers’ struggles. Icor to Hold Reception - for Lord Marley, Sunday NEW YORK—The Icor, together with the Jewish mass organizations, is arranging a reeption on Sun., Feb., 25, at 8 p.m. for Lord Marley, deputy speaker of the House of Lords and member of the British Labor Party, who spent @ number of weeks in Biro- Bidjan, where a Jewish Socialist Soviet Republic is being built, Lord Marley will give a report on what he saw in Biro-Bidjan, in answer to the lies spread by the enemies of the Soviet Union. Sergei Radamsky, tenor, will render a number of revolutionary songs, All friends of the Soviet Union are urged to come and make this meeting! a demonstration for support of the Soviet. Union. Admission 25¢c., re- served seats 50c. Icor, 799 Broadway, New York, Room 514, spine was injured as a result of beat- ings, and this is why he kept his head drooped during the more than 12 weeks. of the proceedings, both in Leipzig and in Berlin. “For a time,” Gallagher said, “Van der Lubbe had a cold. He didn't seem’ to have enough intelligence to wipe his nose, and so his attorney, Seifert, the police and his interpreters took turns in doing the job,” The only person who could have told just who among the Nazis super- vised the Reichstag arson was Van der Lubbe, the LL.D. attorney said, and his execution forever sealed his lips. The fact that the Nazis refused to turn his body over to his family— who might have ordered an autopsy performed — proves conclusively that Van der Lubbe was drngged. (Additional highlights of the Leipzig trial, as told by Gallagher, will appear in tomorrow's issue of the Daily Worker.) IL. D. Attorney Driven Off Stand for Exposing Cause of Lynch Terror By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— Bernard Ades, International Labor Defense spokesman, was thrown off the witness stand in the Senate subcommittee’s hearing on the Costigan-Wagner “anti-lynching” bill, late yesterday. after his militancy and wit had drawn a round of applause from the scores of Negro and white spectators. Senator Dieterich, Illinois Demo- r-t._who earlier had forced James W. Ford to leave the stand before cmolctine his statement fo: the League for Negro Rights, interrupted Ades’ declaration that lynching springs from jim-crowism, rasping: “Wait a minrte, let’s find out more about you. Where are you from?” “Baltimore,” Ades answered. “But where were you born,” Diet- rich sneered, the expectation of the enswer, “Moscow,” oozing from his angry face. “I was born in Baltimore,” Ades | , Smiled, Many in the crowd smiled | | also. | “What do you do?” Dieterich de-| manded. “I’m a lawyer,” replied Ades, who *efended Euel Lee, about whose case | Dieterich had asked earlier. “How long?” Dieterich persisted. “Ten years.” Ades replied mildly. “But what do you practice?” | “Law.” | By this time the audience was | smiling generally, Dieterich, how-| ever, thundered that Ades’ presence was “an insult to the law-abiding colored population of my state. We have several colored members of the State Legislature and have sent one to the National Legisiature. And not one of them is a Communist.” Denied Right To File Full Statement “That's unfortunate,” Ades com- | mented. The audience clapped until Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, pre- siding, called out, “Is that the sen- timent of the audience?” Then he ‘urned to Ades with, “You said you | would speak in favor of the bill. You haven't! You crashed the gate! You're discharged! ! | “May I file my statement with the Committee?” Ades asked, standing. Chairman VanNuys thundered, “Only Senators Interrupt | As Ades Hits Social Roots ot Lynching 9 what you have read.” Following is the complete state- ment Ades prepared for the Com- mittee. He was introduced just about midway, in his explanation of the causes of lynching by the nervous Senators squirming under his bril- liant indictment of the present social system. He had taken the example of open support of the lynchers by the State of Maryland as typical of the use of the State power to con- done mob lynchings and carry through lega! lynchings in. the court. His statement, barred by the Senate sub-committee, follows: Shows How Officials Aid and Protect Lynchers “The recent lynchings in Maryland were the result of an open policy of support of lynching by the state gov- ernment. In Maryland as elsewhere, attempt at murder is a crime but on the various occasions on which mobs, composed of and led by, the best citizens of that state attempted to lynch Negroes the state authorities calmly ignored the demand of our organization and of others that the would-be lynchers be punished. In the case of Euel Lee, in that of George Davis and in that of Page | Jupiter, the intention of the state government to NOT punish lynchers was made so evident that it was quite natural that the same forces should result in tae lynching of fatthew Williams and of George Armwood.” Riddles Frame-up Charges against Armwood Ades then riddled the frame-up charges against Armwood and ex- posed the maneuvers of Gov. Ritchie and other state officials, the coun- ter-charges by them as to responsi- dility for the lynching of Armwood, and finally the release of the known lynchers of Armwood. “Now the whole affair is offi- cially closed,” he declared, “and state Officials have openly statcy that lynching is necessary to protect Maryland women. State Propagates Lynching Spirit “However, the guilt of Maryland state officials extends beyond their connivance at lynching and their failure to prosecute. Lynching is a phenomenon -that arises out of cer- tain social conditions. These con- ditions are social ostracism of Ne- groes, segregation and jim-crowism. (It was at this point that Ades was interrupted by Senator Dieterich and ordered off the stand—M. Y.) The idea, which has undoubtedly permeated the poor white workers of the Eastern Shore, that Negroes are not entitled to trials as white men are, grows out of the idea that Ne- groes are not entitled to the same/ treatment as white people in any! phase of life. And this idea is put into their heads by the laws of the State of Maryland. By law in that state, Negroes are segregated in trains and boats. In the schools they are either deprived of education al- together or are accorded an inferior education in jim-crow institutions in which the Negro teachers, by law, receive less pay than white teachers of equal capacity. The jim-crowing of Negroes in hotels, theatres, res- turants, etc., is: therefore, together with the legal jim-crowism in schools, trains and boats, a part of the governmental policy of Mary- land, a policy which includes the natural result of jim-crowism— lynching. Federal Government Also Supports Jim-crowism “Unfortunately this situation may not be remedied simply by placing the U. 8. government in authority. ‘We can, and we do, support federal legislation on this subject without in any way agreeing with the state- ment made here yesterday by Dr. Mitchell that this bill will abolish lynching or even remedy conditions. “The policy of the United States government has also been a policy of jim-crowism and therefore of lynch- ing. The president of the U. 8. has signally failed ‘to abide with his oath to enforce the constitution including the 14th Amendment. In the Con- gress of the United States the south- ern states are represented as if the Negroes were not deprived of the right to vote and altho the situation is notorious the government fails either to enforce the right to vote or to declare the elections illegal. Most of the southern states have peonage laws by which the Negroes are pre- vented from leaving their landlords property while they are in debt to him and during the recent floods on} the lower Mississippi this law was enforced by federal troops. Government Discriminates Against Negroes | “In the current destruction of southern crops under governmeni di- rection, the federal government refuses to send the compensation checks to Negro sharecroppers. Under the new N.R.A. codes Negroes are grossly discriminated against. The illeval character of jim-crow trains | in interstate commerce through the southern states is carefully over- looked, alike by the attorney general and by the Interstate Commerce | Commission. In the District of Columbia, the capital city of the fed- eral government, there is open jim- crowism and even in the government buildings, in the restaurants of this very building in which we are mect- ing, Negroes are refused service. “There can be no doubt that jim- crowism -is also the policy of the U.S. government. And it is out of jim-crowism, out of these stinking remnants of slavery, that lynching is able to develop... .” Send to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, names of those you know who are not read- Communist Party To Expose NRA at Public Hearings (Continued from Page 1) hearing on all N. R. A. codes begin- ning Wednesday and lasting until March 5, followed by an “economic congress’ of the leading bosses, has been characterized in Washington as ® “fascist move.” Yeterday during the course of Gen- eral Johnson's testimony before the House Committee on Labor, on the Connery Bill, Chairman Connery re- marked that in “some quarters the March 5 meeting was being referred to as the ‘First Fascist Congress’ in the United States,” because the March 5 meeting was restricted to the most powerful industrialists who were to have the last word on what the N.R.A, would be. In General Johnson's original an- nouncement on the public hearings, there is the statement: “This gathering together (at the so-called public hearings) of all cri- tical material is preliminary to a conference, beginning on March 5, of the authorities of some 500 in- dustries which are either under codes or about to adopt codes. These industries represent approximately 90 per cent of such employment in this country as is under the N.R.A.” Scab Bosses to Act This indicates that after the blow- ing off of steam, as envisaged by Gen- eral Johnson at the Public Hearings, the most powerful corporations of the Morgans, Fords, Mellons, Swopes, Rockefellers, Du Ponts, and others, would hold a meeting to determine what the bosses will do about the N.R.A. codes. Johnson himself referred to this as an “economic conference.” The pub- lic hearings, it is General Johnson’s plan, is to show the temper of the working masses, and the petty-bour- geoisie. Afterwards, the leading capi- talists are to meet separately, with the government officials, to determine their linc of strategy against the workingclass, It is for this reason that the March 5 meeting is designated by various Washington politicians as “The First Fascist Congress.” There is no doubt that this “eco- nomic congress’ of the most power- ful bosses, most of whom have foisted company unions on the workers, will deal with the question of increasing the fascist measures of the N.R.A., such as giving more power to the National Labor Board to break strikes; the increase of monopoly and | price-raising features of the N.R.A.; and the closer support of the Roose~ velt government of company union- ism, as against the workers’ own or ganizations. Self-Criticism-Keynote in Convention Discussion | oes | By CHARLES KRUMBEIN New York District Organizer | ARTICLE I. Rally the Unemployed and C.W.A. Workers | Another of our main tasks is much more serious work among the unem- | ployed. We have still got the task | of making every one of our unem- ployed comrades see that his main activity is to be an organizer of the unemployed, becoming a member of the Unemployment Councils and building it so that it becomes a rez] | mass organization. Our Party mem- | bers in the trade unions and mass organizations must give this question much more attention than hereto- fore. Unemployment and social in- surance is a more burning need than ever and the ‘masses are ready to struggle for it. The struggle for jobs or adequate cash relief can be made one of the best mobilizers of the masses. Unity in the struggle for relief and social insurance must be one of our main rallying cries. Work among the C.W.A. workers and re- | lief workers must be intensified, every Party member on these jobs en active organizer, All under our! Review of the ® | Activities ot the N.Y. Dist. in Light of the Open Letter leadership should, likewise, involve in the building of the relief workers’ organizations. Although our work among the Ne- gro masses has improved, our main weakness of involving the white workers in joint struggle for Negro Tights still remains. We can never be successful in winning the masses of Negro people under our leadership unless they become convinced through our involving the white masses in joint struggle with them and smash- ing down the bourgeois poison of white chauvinism. We can no longer tolerate ‘the attitude which states that “because there are no Negro workers in‘ our territory, we have no Negro problem.” The struggle for the liberation of the Negro masses is, in the first instance, the Tespon- sibility of the white workers, The guarantee that the Negro lib- eration movement will be and remain @ revolutionary movement is that it has from its very incep'ion a real proletarian base and backbone, From this it follows that our main orienta- tion must be upon the Negro prole- tart, which places upon the trade unions under our leadership the very important task of winning the Negro workers into its ranks, by carrying on these of their members on these jobs & consistent and persistent struggle against discrimination, for equal tights of the Negroes, and the strug- gle against white chauvinism. Really to be effective in our struggle against war and fascism, we have the task of winning the masses of youth and women workers. Not only do the youth plan an important role in war, but experience has shown. that the youth can be made a main base for fascism. It is our task to win the young workers by under- standing their problems and seeing to it that in ‘every phase of our work their demends are proverly brought forth and that thev are’ brousht into the s'ruvv'es and the leadershin of seme. This is, in the main, the task of the Partv. If we do this, then! We lay the base for brilding a mass Young Communist Leavue. The same applies to the women workers, as well as working-class housewives who may have special grievances and who must therefore be approached on the basis of their special prob- lems. With the tremendous tasks facing us much more attention must be given to a solution of our inner or- ganizational problems. Increasing in the first place raising their polit- ical understanding so that they will see how every assignment advances our general revolutionary front. Less commanding—more conviction! The Party membership have shown they are loyal revolutionary fighters. They will become bet‘er and more active fighters when we show them why and how to fight. One of our first tasks in connection with our inner organizational questions is to apply the directives recently sent out by ‘he district which has as its cen- ter the organizing of ourselves on a group basis and strengthening the leadership of our units and sections. During the discussion period we must keep our eyes opon for those com- rades, particularly workers engaged in mass activity from shops, basic in- the elections of uni*,leadership and section and district committees take place, these comrades will be elected on same. Our Party is now accepted by larger masses than ever as the only real revolutionary party of the work- ing class. By our correct leadership of the workers in their day to day strr77les, and rarticr’*rly due to the the activity of our membership means fact that our Party was the only slave and fascist N. R. A., with life itself proving us correct, makes Jarger numbers of workers than ever look to our Party for leadership. Im- proving our work as a result of the pre-convention discussion that we are now entering. which must have the dual purpose of educating our mem- bership and activizing them in the day to day work, will make our achievements something to boas‘ about in the very near future. We must overcome the serious weakness manifest in all our work, namely, the failure to give sufficient consideration recruiting into our Party and building a real mass cir- culation for ‘he Daily Worker. These two tasks must be consid- , ered in every phase of our work. No dustry and unemployed, so that when plan of work is comp‘ste, no task is complete, unless the question of building the Party and the Daily Worker is part of that plan or task. The Revolutionary Way Out—in the Forefront Lastly, but most important of all, is to show to every worker the revo- lutionary way out of the crisis, Make clear how our enemy, the capitalists and their agen‘s in our ranks, are trying to get out of the crisis by wor- Party that exposed and fought the, sening our conditions and involving us in war. Contrast this with what is happening in the workers’ father- jand, the Soviet Union. Show how conditions are continually improving there, while at the same time they are worsening here, the richest land in the world. Show how the Rus- sian masses solved their problem by overthrowing the capitalist regime and establishing workers’ and peas- ants’ rule. Every worker is thinking about these questions. Many of thera with iusions, manv with prejudices, as, for ins’ance, that the dictatorshin of the vro’eteriat means less democ- racv for the workers than ¢) under bourgecis demceracy that the oposite is the ease, Wi'h the workers thin‘ing shout there vroblems they are recentive to cit messege, Pring our me we t9 them! Do this in the chop, in tha orvanization of which you area mem- ber, Brine the workers into ouy united front struggles. Bring them to our mass meetings. Bring thent to open uni* meetings. Circulate the Daily Worker and our literature among them. By doing these things we will be taking big steps in win- ning the majority of the working class for the final strugglel