The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1934, Page 3

Mayor Washes Hands | Off Hotel Strike; Is Silent on Gangsters Seab Agencies Haye Connections With Police Dept. By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.— Now that Mayor LaGuardia has con- cluded his medical inspection of New York's hotels and has given clean bills of health to the scabs and professional strike- breakers, he proceeds to wash his hands of the whole affair, declaring that as far as he is concerned the valkout is over. But the Mayor is too hasty. The walk-out is not-over. And how. can Mayor LaGuardia wash his hands of the strike without taking action against the agencies that supplied gangsters, gunmen and sluggers for the hotel owners to terrorize the workers? These agencies, veritable nests of yangsterism, which were exposed by the Daily Worker on February 20 and 21, continue to operate open and unrestricted under the eyes of the police and city administration. The Bergoff Agency, at 2 Colum- bus Circle, which supplied strike- breakers and undercover men for the hotels Warwick, Plaza, Lincoln, Park Lane and Savoy Plaza has not been hampered ons iota in its nefarious practice by the city government, Bergoff’s Long Record This agency has a long record of strikebreaking, thuggery and bribery. As far back as 1916 Bergoff had his license revoked for swindling. In these days Bergoff was working with Big Bill Edwards, an ex-footbal) player from Princeton who was Street Cleaning Commissioner under Mayor Gaynor. During the street cleaners’ strike Edwards and Bergoff worked together supplying scabs. But fraud and swindle, which smelled to the skies, was too much for the public and Bergoff was put out of business. He did not stay long in retirement, however. The Bergoff Corporation was formed, a new license obtained and the business of strikebreaking was continued in a more emphasized manner than before, Aside from sirikebreaking Bergoff and his friend, Bill Edwards, who is now in the awning business on the side in Brooklyn, make a specialty of supplying witnesses for divorce cases, Bergoif recently tried to extort $26,000 from John W. Walters for ‘getting goods on Walters’ wife’—he even tried to sue Walters, but the case was thrown out of the court of appeais, When the Thaw murder case wes at its height, Bergoff tried to cut in and get some graft but was thrown out of District Attorney Jerome's of- fice. Bergoff was not as well cori- nected with the powers that be In those days as he apparently is today. Shaw Operates Immune Another rascal, no less notorious ‘nan Bergoff, who is operating with immunity, supplying thugs and scabs is one Nat Shaw, better known as Crying Nat. Shaw supplied strikebreakers for ‘he Hotel Waldorf Astoria. He hired his gangsters in a room at 100 West 46th Street which belonged to a-man named Barney Weinstein, a well known racketeer. In 1932, during the Grace Line iongshoremen’s strike, Shaw was ac- tive in supplying scabs and thugs for the shipowners. It would also be interesting to know why the LaGuardia adminis- tration has done nothing to stop the| operation of Jack Cohen’s Washing- ton Detective Agency gang, which supplied strikebreakers for the Bilt- more, Has Police Connections Cohen is the brother of a ex- captain of detectives, Al Cohen, who vas involved in a racket two years] sti ‘Fish Dealers Strike ‘Against Wholesalers Greater New York Fish | Market Tied Up; } 800 Protest NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The United Retail Fish Dealers of Greater New| York went on strike today as a pro- test against high wholesale prices. | Over 800 retailers went into the strike, tying up the whole salt and fresh} water market in New York. { All retail stores will be closed throughout New York City, Newark, Paterson and Hartford. Extra de- tails of police and detectives were on hand to stop the pickets from preventing scabs from taking their plates. The retailers demand a posting of the amount of fish coming into the market daily, which had been kept from them by the wholesalers who guarded this in order to make their own prices higher. Secondly, they demand the right to collective bar- gaining; thirdly, supervision over weights and measures by a retail fish committee; and fourthly, to prohibit wholesalers from being both pro- ducers and sellers of fish. William Fellowes Morgan, Jr., own- er of the Brooklyn Bridge Freezing Co., commissioner of markets, a big fish dealer and president of the Mid- die Atlantic Fisheries Association, is already working to break the strike. He threatened retailers that any at- tempt to picket would be met by the Police. The replied with | Picket signs and mass protests. } { Form Chelsea, Mass. CHELSEA, Mass.—C. W. A. and jobless workers, at 4 meeting called by the Unemployment Council, formed the Chelsea Relief Worker: Union on Feb, 14. An executive committee of 16 was elected, and demands formulated calling for: continuance of C. W. A.; restoration of the recent 20 per cent wage cut; no discrimination; im- mediate cash relief to all jobless workers. Registered letters with these de- mands were sent to Roosevelt, and to Senator David Walsh, | | ago and was forced to resign. Jack started in business by tracking down deserters from the Army and Navy, It is said that members of the New York police force work undercover ries Jack Cohen through his brother | Cohen also has connections with | @X-senator William Calder, These | | connections are real estate tie-ups on | | the surface. But Calder is said to | always be at the service of Cohen and has gotten him several big Strikebreaking jobs. Must Be Ousted ‘These strikebreakers, and many | more that have already been named | by the Daily Worker, continue to ply their trade—terrorizing the workers and helping the bosses to cut wages and make more miserable the work- ing conditions. They must be put out of business. Workers in all trade unions should at once raise this question in the locals. Organize committees to de- mand from the Mayor that all sirike- breaking agencies in the city of New York be abolished. The mass pres- CWA Workers Union ' DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934 Page Three shire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. BRITISH WOMEN HUNGER Among the more than 2,000 Hunger Marchers from every part of England who are gathered in London. now to fight against the hunger and terror program of the MacDonald government is a contingent of women. ‘Twenty-six of them have marched all the way from Scotland. The others are from the ‘Tyne, Tees, Lanca- MARCHERS The oldest is a weaver from Burnley, 62 years old; the youngest a 11-year old rope-maker from Kirkaldy. ‘The militant spirit of these jobless working wom>n is expressed in the declaration of Mrs. Steward, a town councillor of Methil, who said, “We shali get to London and do our part in smashing the Unemploy- ment Bill. No small concessions wili satisfy us. Down with the whole bill and its authors!” in Philadelphia Bosses Want to Put Over a New Wage-Cutting Agreement PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb, 27.— Members on inside work in the clean- ing and dyeing industry here will decision for strike has already been apptoved by the executive board of the union. On Saturday, 2,000 inside workers Were locked out when they refused involving a wage cut averaging 40 Per cent below rates won in the strike last August. On Sunday, the drivers’ union, covering every plant in the city, voted to strike. At @ mass meeting of tailors last night, at Turncemeinde Hall, repre- sentatives of the striking unions called on the tailors for support, and Were enthusiastically received, when it was arranced that a tailors’ com- mittee would sit on all se‘tiement procesdings. Sixty-one dollars was collected for strike relief, and more was promised. Herbert Stine, attorney for the Re- tail Tailors, Cleaners and Dyers, re- vealed how the N. R. A. code authori- fies have betrayed the workers, and called on every tailor to join into a militant mass organization to fighi relentlessly for the demands thai vote foy a general strike today. ‘The | & hew contract offered by the bosses. | Vote on Cleaners \YCL Ande Attack by Easley and Dyers Strike In “N.Y. American” of Feb. 25 | Featured “Expose” Materials All Contained in the | Workers’ Press H NEW YORK.—in the New York American on Sunday, Feb, 25, an | | | | article by Easley of the American | | Civic Federation appeared, purvort- | ing to show thot the Young Com- munist League, through its activi- ties in schools and colleges, was “undermining the American school | system.” | Inits campaign against imperialist | | War and fascism, the Y.C.L. is con- ducting 2n open campaign against forced military trainine in the | schools. The ¥. C. L. is unalterably | ovposed to the Reserve Officers’ ‘Training Corps, It conducts a sys- | temat'c campaign against the | manifes‘a’ions of war and jingoism in the schools, and amone other | issues, fithts for students’ rights and prerogatives on the campus. ee Ete |_ Statement of National Committee, | Youn Commnnist League, U. §, A., | ears: press is not to “discover” these | makes possible the starvation and| new on article by Easley in N.Y. Ameri- can: ‘The yellow Hearst paber, in its drive to whin up a war spirit among |the masses, is trying openly to con- | | duct a vicious camnaign against *he Communist movement in the United States, In Sunday's issue (Feb. 25) the “New York American.” under headline “COMMTNISTS IN-, VBE U.S. SCHOOLS," it announces | with a great fanfare of trumpets the i | startling discovery of such deep-| t | hidden sinister secrets that everyone ; and endeavors to guide all honest or- ganizations of young workers? Of course not! This is all stated in |the program of the Young Commu- nist League. What is there to discover? What is the secret? What, gentlemen of the Hearst press, did you not know | before? | The Communist International and |the Young Communisi International |set tasks before the entire world ;Communist movement to struggle | against fascism and war. The young jand adult Communists of the United | | States are especially active in carry- ing out these decisions because we |are in the heart of the strongest im- |perialist country. These decisions | were printed openly in the Daily Worker and will soon be printed in | pamphlet form for mass circulation. | The purpose of Mr. Kasley and the | secrets. Their purpose is with the |help of Matthew Woll and William | Green to try to drive the Communist | Movement underground. | But the masses of young and adult workers will answer them by a still | Sreater fight Yor the legality of all | Mass revolutionary orga: tions, a | Still greater unity in the struggie | against war and fascism. The Young Communist League promises to spread Still. further its. ideas, to organize the | youth in masses for the struggle for their own interests, against the grow- | ing war preparations on a world would permit the 20,000 families de-|can find out about them by simply | Pendent on a living on tailoring to j make a decent living. A resolution to that effect was unanimously and Richmond CP to Hold Open Forum Meeting RICHMOND, Va.—The first of a oles of “ix oncn forums ‘under the auspices of the Communist Party here was held on Sunday, Feb, 25, at 8 p. m., at the True Reformers’ Hall, 608% N. Second St. T. H. Stone, or- ganizer of the Richmond Unemploy- ment Council led a discus-ion on “The Workers Unemployment ™- surance Bill and How It Can Be Won,” Meetings hereafter will be sure of the workers can drive out the Tikebreakers, held at the same place at the same time. Admission is free, |reading the pages of the working- | class press. enthusiastically | munist League works in mass or-| Passed, to be sent to General John- | 8anizations of young workers and | son and the local code authorities. | Students? Of course not. The Young | Communist League comes from these organizations. I+ is from among the best members of these organizations that the Young Communist League is built. | Is it a secret that in these organ- izations there are fractions of young Communists which have ‘he tisk of guiding the strugsle for better con- | ditions for the young workers and students; and against imperialist wor? Is it a secret that the Younz Com- |munist Leaeue supports and bui |{he National Student Le ,only student organiza’ which | fights for the interests of the student masses? Is it a Is it a secret that the Young Com- e es the} seaje and especially right here in the United States. Mr. Easley says: “The Communist America are: To undermine our Constitution and democratic form of government, | objectives in tional guarantees of freedom.” What is unAmerican in the struggle | tor the interests of 17,000,000 unem- ployed, against fascism and imperial- ist war preparations, for unemploy- | Ment insurance and relief, for a rev- | Olutionary workers’ government that will give peace, freedom and hap- piness to every worker in the United States? Is there anything wrong in struggi- ing ageinst the lynchings, Jim Crov- ism and national oppression of 12,000,090 Negro people? | Is that unAmeri: Mr. Ea: | Or is it the peculiar charazteristic | Of Americariism for 17,090,000 work~- secret that the/ ers to starve quietly in the midst of Young Communist League supports! plenty, for tens of thousands of Draft Resolution How Railroad Wak on GC&N. W. W Simply Reading QOpen|the party une was brought to the |the Letter Is Not Making the Turn By N. J. Section 5 is known as one of the more or less well functioning sections in District 8 (Chicago). It is there- fore worth while to examine the agit- prop activities of this section, and learn to what extent the agitprop ac- tivities helped to improve the con- centration work, as well as all the campaigns of the section, ‘The main concentration point. for our section is the Chicago and North Western Railroad yards. For years, the unit in the immediate neighbor- hood “concen‘rated” on the yards, gathered a couple of hundred “con- tacts,” but failed to entrench its in- fluence within the lodges, nor did they succeed in recruiting any rail- road workers into the Party. - It is interesting to note that the unit membership is very far from being a dormant group. On the con- trary, the unit consists of a zroup of energetic, active and loyal Bolshe- viks. But in spite of all the activity on the part of the unit memberzhin, the accomplishments were nil. The weaker comrades became dis- couraged; various fatalistic theories were developed by the concentration group, all kinds of petty squabbles arose between the section committee and the Unity Movement leadership —and the unit disintegrated. Y Wrong Methods Obviously there was something the workers. Upon close exam- ina‘ion of the actual conditions in the unit, it was discovered that the unit organizer, who was in this “con- centration” unit for a couple of years, did not understand what the Unity Movement was; that the majority of the unit membership was not ac- quainted with the form of organiza- tion of the brotherhoods; that to some members of the unit the very term “lodge” was a myth. | It became clear to everyone that | by simply reading the Open Letter, | or by someone delivering a talk on {the importance of “making a turn,” or by passing a resolution to thet effect, the turn will not be made. Nor could have a shake-up in the unit leadership solve the problem, though that was vital. Primarily, it was necessary to enlighten the mem- bership on the general problems of the railroad workers, and particularly was it imperative to train the com- rades in how to do concentration work among the C. & N. Railroad workers, Comrade H. S. more than anyone else realized the above and under- took to establish a study circle which meets regularly one hour before the opening of the unit meeting, and where comrades are trained to carry In order for anyone to carry on successful concentration work among railroad workers, one must be ac- quainted with the R. R. Movement, the discussion circle, therefore, be- gan with the study of the railroad unions. This was followed with a detailed study on how to concentrate, i.e. (1), utilizing the Daily Worker matter with the methed of concen- ‘ration, with the manner in which; unemployed railroad workers; 3), the bringing in of the various campaigns of the Party into the shops and the lodges. ‘The recent strike ballot, and how it is to be presented to the railroad workers, was dis- cussed. Above everything else the study circle discusses the actual work of the comrades, and the members of the concen‘ration groups are tutored in how to approach railroad workers, Study Raises Political Level The study circle, probably more than any other single thing, has not only revived the interest in the unit, and raised the political level of the unit membership, but has really made the unit railroad conscious which re- sulted in the bringing of the Daily Worker to a number of railroad workers, regular distribution of the Unity News, and during the last couple of weeks two railroad workers were recruited into the Party. The study and discussion circle idea was also utilized at another concen- tration point in our section—a furni- ture shop. In this shop we had one Party member who would meet regu- larly with a few workers from the shop and discuss with them the prob- lems of the shop. These workers would ‘hen go back to their respec- tive departments and discuss these problems with the rest of the work~ ers in the shop. And when a strike situation developed in the factory, the workers were mobilized and pre- pared for the strike through these discussions, If the units concentrating on the silk factory in our section, where a thousand girls are employed, would as Improved Must Know Conditions and How to Reach R. R. Workers tion groups, there are no doubts that they would accomplish much more than they have done. Another experience in our agitprop work worth while relating is the ac- tivity we carried on in connection | with the Daily Worker campaign. Our section raised $275 instead of $225, which was our quota. Ours, was that section which raised 245 Satur- day subs as a result of an affair. Various comrades throughout the District have asked me how we did it, The answer is a very simple one. Our section arranged an affair for the Daily Worker. This affair was well popularized in the form of leaf- neighborhood. Special letters were sent out ‘o all the revolutionary mass organizations, pointing out the role of the Daily Worker in the class- strugzle, and asking them to support this affair. The tickets to this affair were 25 cents. Each ‘icket had a stub which was filled out by the buyer of the ticket and which stated whether the buyer of the ticket wanted the “Daily” or whether the money was to go to the sustaining fund. Daily Subs Coming Faster The list of workers who asked for the “Daily” were given out to the units, and now one month after these workers were getting the Saturday edition of the “Daily,” we are can- vassing them for Daily Subs to our paper—and the Daily Subs are com- ing in at a much faster rate than we when visiting contacts; (2), building of an unemployed movement among follow the examples of the railroad and the furniture factory concentra-' Na for 8th Convention Should Be Center of Pr 15 Weeks Left; Send a te | : Articles, Letters or Questions| CW A and Relief Workers while working under the constitu-| Rome, Ga. Workers Unemployed Protest Conditions in Gov't Answer Boss Press ‘Lies by Striking Foundry Strike Still On Despite Sell-Out and Announcements By CLYDE JOHNSON ROME, Ga.—The capit @nnounced that the Ror undr | Strike had been settled. This brazen | He has been answered by the workers refusing to go bak to work. The Hanks Stove and Range strik- | ts did go back to work but only after | tue Iron Moulders Union officials had | betrayed them. They went back to | Work for less money than they were getting when they went out on strike. {_ At the other three foundries the IMU. officials are trying to split the | militant rank and file leader away | from the rest of the strikers Jesse Perien and Emmett Parks, two of the militant rank and file leaders of the strike, have the con- |fidence of the men because of their honest and straight-forward leader- ship. These men have defeated the sell-out tactics of the IM.U. buro- | crats at the Southern Cooperative | and are fighting for a satisfactory | Settlement of the strike. They h: realized the necessity of fighting the | bosses instead of crawling on’ the| | bellies before them as the I. M. U. | Officials are doing. They have also realized that the Daily Worker is the only honest paper that will carry the real news of their strike. For this reason they have written “Be sure and get a Piece in the Daily Worker because some folks think the strike is | settled.” | Plans are being made to carry out | the strike to the dead finish. They | will remain out on strike until tt win. The solidarity of these wor |has been remarkable and th | Serve the praise of the entire working | class for their determined fight State Manufacturing | WASHINGTON, Feb. — North | Dakota served notice terday thru | the Public Works Administration that k3 necessary funds are advanced by the government’ it will engage on a |large scale manufacturing business | The state wants $4,384,286 to con- | struct and operate factories in various | cities. RS EL RPE, | young workers and students to be | blown to bits for the profits of a | handful of millionaires for a whole | nation of Negro people to be ground |down by the heel of the capitalists? | Mr. Easley, what kind of a demo- | cratic form of government i which j exploitation of millions of toilers? What kind of a democratic form of government is it which introduces | fascism under the slogan of democ- | racy? | This is a democratic form of gov- | ernment only for the bosses, the ones who are fighting for a democratic form of government for the great majority of the toiling | population, for a proletarian democ- | racy, a democracy in which the rights | Supposedly guaranteed to everybody but actually denied to the immense majority of toilers will actually be given to the toilers, Mr. Easley! You want more | for sec mone} t police, for the defense of the Constitution? You do not need that. You want more money to fight against the Communists, to help es- tablish an apparatus for fascism in | the United States. But we will not | allow this. | Instead of appropriating money to ‘discover “secrets” which eve: knows, the masses demand appro- priations for unemployment | ance. | The answer of the workers and| students and poor farmers to your} vicious schemes will be to still further popularize these “secrets” which you) | wish to discover; more strongly build the insur- | | | GIL GREEN, Secretary, National Committee Young Communist League U. S. A.) white | -Cor | Check Up Activit “Transie NAACP Leadership Solit on Tactics of Betraying Negroes Control of ‘The Crisis” Passes from Du Bois to Walter White By CYRIL BRIGGS NEW YORK.—A drive has bi gun to eliminate Dr. W. E. B. I from the top leading clique of white imperialists and Nezro reform i control of the National As for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple. Steps alre have been taken to limit his 1 control of the “Crisis,” organ of the Association The fight has developed to such an extent that friends of DuBois have formed a committee for his defense, headed by John S. Brown, Jr., 247 W. 149th St. On Feb. 5, Dr. DuBois complained to this committee that “without consultation with me, the Board of Directo: of the N.AA.C.P. voted to put the ‘sole and ex ive control’ of The Crisis in the hands of the business manager (George Strea- tor) and the assistant secretary (Roy Wilkins), and they made the assistant secretary a member of The Crisis board and did not place the business | Manager upon it. This meant that the control of The Crisis vir assed to the office of the secr er White).” Dr. DuBois, as the clearest spokes- e man of Negro bourgeois nationalism, | § senses the growing difficulties facing the N.A.A.C.P. as a result of the ris- jing revolutionary mood of the Negro |masses, the discrediting of the N.A. A.C.P, leadership in the Scottsboro, “|Jordan and other cases, and the growth of a genuine rank and file op- | Pes:tion within the N.A.A.C.P. itself. | He now attempts to distort the rank and file opposition, based on the mass indignation against the traitorous | policies of the whole leadership, for his own ends, declaring: “I am ready to unite with any pe sons who think as I do in a de | mined effort to rescue this great or- | gan id worthy future.” disturbs Dr. DuBois is the | inadequacy of the tactics of the pres- {ent leadership in the present situa- | tion of upsurge of the Negro masses | He sees the necessity of a more des perate form of demagogy in order | Yevolutionary fight against imperial- ism, from joint struggle with the | white toiling masses for their eyery- | day demands and for the overthrow of the jim-crow capitalist system. It is, thus, not a quarrel on prin- ciple or fundamental differences on which the top leadership of the N. A. Cc. is split, but on the tactics through the fundam , Which is to throttle the rising eration movement of the Negro | Masses, strengthen the waning illu- sions in the “fairness” of the capi- talist state and courts—as attempted in the introduction of the Costigan- Wagner i i: bill, spon- sored by the N.AA.C.P. reformist leader—and to continue the fim- crow lation of the Negro masses. al Airplane Profits Boom WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — Large profits made in the airplane industry due to commercial demands for air- plane engines was di: ecretary of the , as the nava tion goes ndous boom abled man- rofits despite ufacturers the Navy. ion and to prepare it for a, sed yesterday | Y 34 N ee nt” Camps Negroes Segregated: Rations Withheld: No Pay Given NEW YORK.—Hundreds of let ters pour into the offices of the Na tional Unemployment Council and the Daily Worker citing the uv- bearable conditions at the govern- ment forced labor and transient camps. In some instances jobless workers have been reeru‘ted into these camps with the promise of fu- ture C.W.A. jobs. In almost every instance the miserable wages of 90 cents a week which hays. been promised the workers have not been paid. Rations of tobacco have been withheld, and the work clothing promised has not been issued. Workers im transient camps should form job committees. de mand wages comensurate with the work done; decent food, clothing and shelter, and workers’ control of camps, pending the enactment. of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, and the right to live where they choose. * Sacramento Transients Demané Improved Conditions SACRAMENTO, Cal.— Fifteen homeless uneriployed workers were ejected from the government shelter here for trying to organize the work- ers around the demands for better food, for clothing, tobacco and the miserable wages promised them. Jacobs, the manager, stated in the local papers that good food, clothing and bed re being provided. In the workers at the ard, urging the formation of griev ance committees. Jacobs tore the no- tice off the board and challenged the workers who posted the notice to de bate. One worker, Sands, accepted. Worker Accepts After Sands exposed the condi- tions in the shelter, Jacobs stated “Anyone who doesn’t like the wa} | things are run can have my job.” | Sands again accepted this challenge. | Jacobs fied to his office. Sands fol- lowed him, stating that the pay from jthe job could be used to buy better food for the workers in the camp. | Police were called to eject Sands The workers spruny to his defense. ;As a@ result 15 workers were ejected |from the shelter and a number were | injured. The workers in the shelter are fed jin a large mess hall. Breakfast con- |sists of unsweetened mush, three We are | to divert the Negro masses from the | ‘lites of bread and black coffee. For dinner they get potatoes, turnips | three slices of bread and black coffee {end for supper, boiled beef, beans | three slices of bread and black -coffee Negroes Segregated By a Worker Correspondent) SAN DIEGO, Cal—If a worker has not lived in California long enougi: to red yoter, he is as a “transient.” to get relief, *the homeless worker must go to the Homeless Men and Boys Bureau There, after waiting a few hours on the hard benches, the worker is ex- amined. The Negroes are segregated and sent to the St. Phillips Mission and the whites to the ¥.M.C.A. At the St. Phillips Mission the men are herded into large rooms; the air is fetid, the bunk rooms are infested | with vermin, and the food is lousy. |In a few days the workers are sent to the Concentration Center and then to the “Voluntary” Labor Camp. They are told to w or leave. For their work they get bad food, are supposed to receive clothing and tobacco, but seldom get the 90-cents weekly wages. If they leave, they are picked-up by an | constant reductions in prices charged | the police and given from 30- to 90 {days in jail, na ention Discussion Among lets in front of all the shops in the | (ee five weeks are left until the 8th Convention of the Communist Party | takes place in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 3rd. Thus far the pre-con- vention discussion, which lasts up until the opening of the convention, | has been lagging, without sufficient participation of the Party membership | in the concentration districts and industries. In today’s issue we publish | @ contribution from a Chicago comwade on the ©. & N. W. she | the most important concentration centers. | | On Friday, Feb. 23, the Daily Worker published the draft resolution | proposed for the Convention. Because this resolution, though by no means | final, covers the major questions confronting the Party, it should be the center of discussion. The Resolution which was directed for discussion in all Party units should be the basis for articles, letters, suggestions and questions to the Daily Worker. Ss, one of We want more such articles, The discussion must proceed from the broadest mobilization of the Party around the questions confronting the Convention. The leading comrades in the districts should stimulate the discussion and encourage comrades who can contribute to it to send their articles, letters or questions to the Daily Worker, 2. organizations was utilized by our sec- | ship to the Communist Party. One tion on another occasion, On the branch of the I. W. O. alone sent us occasion of the tenth anniversary of | 11 members as a result of this letter. our Party we sent a letter, accom-| Generally, the agi prop activities in By A. ROSENFELD {lack of understanding among the In the pre-convention discussion | workers about the significance of thir about the achievements and short-|kind of work. The comrades wil! comings of our Party in all its phases | somehow have to be made to under- | of activity, it would be perhaps worth | stand its importance and the respon- | while to check up on our work among) sibility of carrying out same. The the CW.A. and other relief workers. | understanding must be brought noi y agreed that the or-| t h severe discipline, or expul- kK among these work- pn, as the C.W.A. fraction ig at- ers is at present of great importance, | tempting to do. Such methods “Will, here are hundreds of thousands of|in my opinion not cure the situation workers involved on those jobs who| What is necessary is an ideological jare beginning to express dissatisfac-/campaign through the Party units |tion not only against the individual/ and our Press. It Is necessary that employer, but directly against the|the units as a whole should haye a governmewt, which is their employer | better understanding about the par- at present, Still, not much attention ticular work among the relief workers. has been given to it by our comrades, | It would also be proper, in my ~|from Section 5, and about 20 or 25 panied by a Party speaker, to all the revolutionary mass organizations in our section, where we discussed with them the role of the Party, and pointed out how they can better cany on the day to day struggle by strengthening the “military staff” of the working class army, We con- cluded the letter with an appeal that the mass organizations nominate their most experienced, most active ever expected. The “Political Letter” to the mass and most loyal fighters for member- our section have been an integral part of the life of the Party. Whenever District outlines are sent out to the units, they are accompanied by a sec- tion supplement which concre.izes the general campaign to the specific | needs and problems of the section. The result is that the comrades do not look upon agitation-propaganda as something apart but rather as a part and parcel of all the activities of the section particularly by those who are direttly working on the various C.W.A. proj- | ects. As an example, I will point. first jof all, to the C.W.A. Fraction meet- ings of Sections 5 and 15. There are about 150 comrades in both sections who are work'ng on relief jobs, but to the fraction meetings we can never get more than five or six comrades |from fection 15. Many of the com-)| |Tades who are on relief jobs did not} |find it necessary as yet to join the | Relief Workers League, or other simi- |1ar organizations when relief workers are organized. And those workers who have joined, many of them do not attend regularly the meetings of these mass organizations. On February Ist a demonstration | was called by the Bronx Local of the Relief Workers League. Only about a half a dozen comrades participated. Tt is no wonder that so little was accompilshed in this particular field of work. It seems that there is a to assign some units to conceritrate on relief projects located in the territory of the unit concentration, It 1s also important, if possible, to have a spe- cial Relief Workers Bulletin. It through that that our press is giving a certain amount of publicity to the Relief work situation, but not enough and then for many reasons our press does not reach most of the Relief Workers. A Reliet Workers Bulletin &S a shop paper would help a lot. In conclusion I want to say that it is true that some organizational -re- sults were achieved among the re- Nef workers. But, if we take into consideration the great masses who are working at present on the various relief jobs, their dissatisfied mood and |their readiness on certain occasions |to act, we must say that the results jare so far insignificant. More clarity among our members about the role of the Relief workers. More activity on our part, especially on the jobs vill bring better results’ a