The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Otto Bauer Always Invented A Theory to Stop Struggle Confused Austrian Workers With Theory of “Counter-Revolutionary Situation” By D. Z. MANUILSKY Article IX WUT now the world crisis with all its awful con: for the workers, while the proc fascization becomes more rapid in the apparatus of the capita state, and in the whole system Ddourgeois political parties. Otto Bauer deliberately slurs over the pro- | cess of revolutionization going on among the masses, and in his cele- brated speech describes the @s a “counter-revolutiona: @tion.” That same party which did not so much let slip, but rather de- Stroyed, the revolutionary situation existing in Austria in 1918 for the winning of socialism, considers a “counter-revolutionary situation” to be the most suitable for the winning of socialism by democratic paths! This characterization is not a chance slip of the tongue on the part of Otto Bauer, because the “social: of so- cial-democracy in a “cour tionary situation” is Jess than the econo fascism. For example. when Oito Bauer announced the bandit meas- ures of the Austrian bourvecisie in transferring the liabilities of the bank- fupt Creditanstalt bank onto the shoulders of the workers and pea: ants by means of “nationalization” to be a step on the way to socialism, this is defending the fascist “socialism of & counter-zevolutionary situation.” When another social-fascist cynic, Hilferding, saw a “bit of socialism” in the decrees of Bruening for the re- duction of wages, because they repre~ Sented state interference, this pressed the organic fusion of the pro- grams of fascism and social-demo- gracy. The whole theory of modern Social-democracy on “state capital- ism" is nothing but the ideological justification of the fascization of bourgeois dictators! It is exactly sdjusted to the practical measures of capital's offensive against the working class. But how can we reconcile the state- ment of Otto Bauer on a “counter- revolutionary situation” with his other thesis that fn A Peoisie dy not at Himited demi: Ke sent enjoy un- It is i a Seornt in” that all the ited” | bourgeois dic tand out in especially sharp re! ¥s There a Counter-Revolutionary Situation in Austria? I is anotl ‘ to whether there is a counter-revolutionary situ- @tion in Austria at all. What are the characteristic signs of the victory of counter-revolution? ‘There are three. Firstly, when the bourgeoisie, with the collaboration of social-democracy, have defeated the working class and | ‘the toiling population in oven struz- gle, temporarily crushing the revolu- tion. *ney consclidate their rule buoyed up on the wave of on imp,ov- | ang economic situation—an improved situation which helps the counter- revolution to grow into a more or less steble regime of bourgeois dictator- skip. Secondly, the intermediate classes | nd social groups, above all the ur- ban netty-bourseoisie and the peas- ria the bour-- he magnitude of the ide of 2p of revolu- tion which is Ss deserted is so all jorary 2 weakened, that for a numb In it counter-revolution, 2 which ta of the work: ‘adicali-~ in the ranks not the growth 'Yy wave, but the ebb of the wave, a certain swing of the masses to the right. If we exami the situation in Austria from tt int of view, it is | quite clear th nnot be any c volutionary Ov- on. Thin objectiv jar |Bauer so obilize the Aus- | trian wo! to I their radicali- ; zation. of struggle can | there if the Austrian | prolet | coun lf faced with a ‘ituation? In the arsenal of Austrian social- the scare-crow of the -revolutionary situation is in- mded for the same part as the gend of the “hand of god” at the |time of the Black Death in the Mid- j dle Ages. (To Be Continued.) Demand Ousting of AFL Pa:nters’ Head | (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORX.—A move to oust the corrupt leadership of Local 102, | Painters Union, A. F. of L., was | Started by the rank and file paint- {ers at the last membership meeting | held two weeks ago in the Labor Ly- ceum at Brownsvile. In a hall packed with Jake the Bum’s gorillas, who would allow no one in who was behind three month: in dues, a committee of rank and file members led by Kessler brought in i on, which was adopted previously at a mass meeting held ~suU-uay, cailing upon the present administration to resign an¢ to hold | new elections. “Sarkey” Sissleman, chairman of | the meeting, refused to put the reso- j lution up for a vote, saying, “You The | can’t rule through mob rule.” rank and file started a violent pro- test, but the resolution was not taken up. | The meeting ended in an uproar | with the painters protesting and de- | manding that the leadershir resign. per cent of the local is the move to oust the local leadership. Come 1g repetitions, I ¢ discussion as sm as a road ity for women to the futility cf femi to liberty and under capitalism. Vion of all oppressed and exploi'ed Glasses and groups, socially, polit- therefore the coubly ovpr ‘woffen. This canr der capitalism tent or remain Those bourgeois feminists, writers “or groups who try to blind or con- point are misleaders and must be exposed and fought as such Their “hopes and theories lead into blind sileys every time. Some bourgeois women apparently at least are satisfied to remain chat- , resent their subordinate and turn to feminism, cher- vain dreams of a matriarchy (@ capitalist matriarchy, of course. - ‘The ladies of the “Altrusa Club” long ‘ago vigorously applauded Joseph _ Hergesheimer when he told them _ that matriarchy was coming). the frantic search of capital- ism for a way out of the crisis, which leads to war, this frantic feminism Biso leads to war—a war of the sexe: feminist position, blind! the fact that the liberation _4f women is inseparably bound up a the emancipation of labor—i “untenable basically that its ex- 4 simply can’t talk much with- into the maze of contra- ic charac‘eristic of capitalism, “of Which feminism is one of the "§ growths. lay we quoted a paragraph the tract “Women's Superiority Seen Implied by Nazi,” by Gretta + editor of the N. Y. World- fi women’s page, a paravraph ‘in. she carelessly made a burnt | , of the health and well-being women and their children ‘on ‘he altar of “Good Sporteman- before the God of Capital. is the conclusion of the same ‘erticle, which urges a “tooth and hail” competition between men and Women in business: | Nazi women are too effi- _to please the Nazi men? They -win men’s jobs away from Very well then. If the Nazi m have a spark of spirit or m they will. the German man, ocon- HELEN Communism guarantees the libera- | “fuse the working-class women on this | the Home vanp By | LUKE fessedly inferior to his wife, may take over those negligible jobs asse- ciated with Kinder, Kucke, Kirche, which he has patronized for many years.” | This is feminism, gone crazy: | these are wild, futite dreams of the |dominance of women, breuzht about | by the snatching of jcbs hallucinatio: comn; Socie'ist dreams of “peacoful revolu- tion.” cough stating in the al of chivalry s tha: he would not —in a tract written two days pre- | ‘Socialist women fought |grimly throughout the night beside | their men against an overwhelming | wave of government troops... . Of | course they did. Of course they wiil, im any war, anywhere in the world, | from this point on. For the old divi- | sion of labor between the sexes which | prevailed for so many centuries, has | broken down... .” And so on. But near the end of the article, this: “Will they (men—HLL.) be quite as immune to sanity if there are worncn in the opposi’e trench? Chivalry an emotion which runs pretty deep. Contradiction after contradiction. Women can’t expect chivalry from jthe boss, but they can from the “enemy army” in the opposite trench. In paragraph one the Austrian | women Socialists were slaughtered by | the Austrian government troops, and in paragraph the last, Miss Palmer wonders if men really will shoot at women! Then, while some bourgeois papers adopt a gay “Isn’t-It-Great-to-Be- Free,-Girls?” tone, others, like the N. Y. Evening Post, tell you bluntly what's what in case you think you can defy the system of domination by men. “Don’t Let a Man Persuade You That Goodness Is Out of Date,” writes Anne Hirst. “A Girl Need Not Be a Prude, But the Code Men Made | By.” » As the situation of the workers grows worse under capitalism, it is necessary to examine the writings of all misleaders of women in the light of the class struggle, to show the role they play in the capitalist effort to “keep the women in leading strings,” | and, by breaking down any illusions they may be able to foster, arouse proletarian women to consciousness and struggle for immediate concrete gains even within capitalism and eventual complete liberty through the vented by Otto | mn now her brother” | Is the Only Code That’s Safe to Live | DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934 United Piece Dye Workers Preparing for _ More Layoffs, Correspondent Reports e Said To Be Installing Machines to Replace Many| Men Now Employed ILGWU Chairman Did Nothing for Rally at Garder (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY |reaucrats of the LL. |the workers for the Madi: |Garden meeting, F | On Thursda sued lea m . mobili: ¥, Feb. 6. rman is one of ti cal 10. When three o'clock ca: Friday, the entire jand t of us me meeting. One of |go to the meeting |the supporter of | Which had } meetin, | Aust: | little the union would not have stopp: W.U. | Member of Local 10, LL.G. AFL, Heads Seek | to Cut Chicago Mill'nery W | NEW YORK— k y, has sct a x n n aga OFS SU) S Com ¢ | vation starve slo | Western Mi ation ployess and the A. F. of L. | Un‘on o: |the N. R. A. code wit | Whereas the crce |for crafts in the i page 7), the uni | pices price rr {and trin cents an up and cy en: | Workers cannot make t | The piece |of L. officials and | manufacturers agree, | low. Thus an appeal to ‘save these workers from discharge is mde to tk | Pope of the N.R. to grant di these “sub-standard” ‘worker “Do Ist these workers remain on|the meeting themselves, and elected the job; let us exploi sh | thei chairman. At this meeting Jas we can. Set no minimum for|® provis‘onal committee of 20 was jthem. Re: | charge the | Sacturers’ plea, not only: supy jby, but egged en by A. F. of L. officials ‘Women’s Work in | Needle Trades By a Needle Worker Correspondent | | NEW YORK. — I'm a woman| | worker of the needle trade: | Should like to speak about since y 's Day. We women of the needle trades, | Wor: alth: militant do not per ively in the | WORKER building of ow its vital | Bellingham, Wash. functicns. women are | * % | » as yet get rid of lities of caring for the and the home ere chil | | home, and interest the women work- jers in the class struggle. It is necessary to approach the wo- | man workers differently than the and different conditions. organizations are especially necessary. beginning. Action Committee whose | Struggles of the union. | We also aim to e agitation among all our mem- | among the women ship of 100. In connection with the furriers’ struggles, several very important mass actions that brought direct re- sults were carried out by our Wo. men’s Action Committee; such as the mass delegation to Mayor La- Guardia, the N.RA., and active Participation in neighborhood dem- onstrations. On Saturday, March 3, the Wo- men’s Action Committee of the cert and dance welcoming our leader, Ben Gold, “who helped us establish our committee. It will also be a mobi‘ization for Interna- tional Women’s Day. We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries ars urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their strugzies to organize, Get the letters to us by Saturday of each overthrow of capitalism, ' Week. Square N er Correspondent als. They are countering | we don’t want’to dis-) Such is “our” manu-| 4 - join’, ted | executive and paid officials. the im- | among the | this. is | before International | | dur- | ‘op or trades, ade committees or | of its dren It is necessary to} teach the women workers how to di-| vide their time, how to lessen and to | make easicr the responsibilities in the | men workers, because of their special Women's commitiees in the unions and mass In the needle trades we made a good We organized a. Women’s | aim is to} draw in and develop women workers in our unicn and involve them in the | caw in the wives of our union members into the life of | jcur union. We began with an exten- | | bers cn the importance of doing work kers, Our op2n forums grew from 50 to 200 women workers, while the A*tion Committee itself has already a standing member- | Needle Trades is organ‘zing a con- | By a Textile Worker Correspondent PA’ J—The United in Hawthorne, N. J.,| putting in some new} t will put a lot of ut of jobs. The machines e a few workers to run them, will do the work of about 20 workers. The workers can plainly see the besses do not care about the) workers, so long as they get the work done with a profit. The bosses do re if the workers have to walk s ts all day looking for a job, long as they can get their work t is why the workers. have in unions, so as to protect and to fight for their The workers will have to fisht so there will be no layoffs in this aid to be the Blue Bird Dye Shop the e laid off about 28 workers the bosses claim the work is slow and they will not need workers now. One of these w ‘ed two hours for this pay, which s $1.15. It will be very little money o last until this worker can get an- other job. The bosses do not care 2m. on Friday, and that includes the | chairman. about the workers, except when they need them. That is why all the work~- ers should stick together and fight for their rights, and keep the little gains that they fought for during the | ctrike. ‘There will be a big protest meeting against Hitler’s Bloody Regime, and Fascism, sponsored by the United Labor and Fraternal Organizations of Paterson. Speakers are: Martin Plattl, president, German Garment Workers Federation; Roger Baldwin, chairman of the American Civil Lib- | erties Union; Charles Alexander, Ne- sro speaker and field organizer for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Arturo Giovanitti, noted Italian writer and speaker, prominent in fight against Italian fascism; Frank Schweitzer will be there. Chairman for this meeting is presi- dent of the American Federation of Silk Workers: Place: Central Hith School. Time: Wednesday, Feb, 28, 1934, at 7:30 pm. Music by Bergen Symphony Orchestra and massed choirs under the auspices of the United Conference Against Fascism. Admission: Free. All the workers are welcome to come. ~ Blockers’ Local 42 Acts To Throw Out Misleader By a Millinery Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Please publish is letter as soon as possible so that labor movement, and in particular millinery workers in the other hes of the industry, may know t m ader Zaritzky and the sen timent of the blockers of local 42. For a considerable time Zaritzky | succeeded in deceiving and intimi- dating the biockers. Now sensing the discontent of the blockers, he has de- prived them of all democratic rights, which culminated in preventing the workers from electing a chairman to conduct the local meeting which was | called Feb 12, 1934. Zaritzky in- sisted on acting as chairman, The mbers objected to that, They id up as one mass and refused to n to his demagogic report about the merging of the two unions, the United H 's With the Hat and Cap llinery Union unless he would al- them to elect their own chair- itzky would not grant this but stood for an hour with | in his hand and kicked on | the table until he was compelled to leave the meeting through the pres- sure of the members, | The blockers proceeded to conduct elected to take the place of the ecutive until the election of a new | This | committee was given the authority to take care of grievances that may tween the members and the also to supervise the election. It was instructed to call a member- ip meeting for the nomination of 0! the following week, Feb. 19. In accordance with the decision of the previous meeting, a meeting for the nominations of officers was al- ready called and the members nom- inated rank and file and some former officials who are fighting Zaritzky AN ESTIMATE OF THE DAILY rs express their opinions in to the Daily Worker as fol- ‘hael Gold’s column praised very x er said Mike gets tragedy and good in his co-umn, in the er then you could get out ig canitalist daily. Another worker, a Bible student, | said that in his opinion that the Daily Worker was the only news- paper that dealt with the religious question without in any way being otfensive, Another worker thought the sports column for here on the west coast was not so good as the sports news was old here when the Daily Worker arrived. However, he said if the Daily Worker will expose all the graft and racketeering in the sports game, it is worth while. The ladies think the “In the Home” jcolumn has improved wonderfully vell since it first started in the y. They think the adulteration c& focal stuff for the purpose of mak- ing it keep for long periods and thus| greater profits for the capitalist class | should be exposed to the limit. Dr, Luttinger’s column was thought to be quite an assistance to the workers, but that he should give lots | of home remedies and advice on how to keep well, and the value and use of herbs. A column of questions and answers | should be established for the use of all workers, was the opinion of some other workers. Editorials and news items espe- cially foreign news, was wonderful to enlighten the workers, EYES OPENED Lakewood, N. J. Dear Editor: | Until two mon‘hs ago ¥ did not | know what was going on in this | world concerning the worker, what constitutes a strike, and war, except for what I’ve read in the bourgeois papers. But since I’ve come in con- tact with a few C, P. members in our strike for the Resort Hotel Work- ers, I never believed the horrors that |go on in this world, and how it is suppressed by the capitalist papers, and now, since reading the “Daily | Worker” in contrast with the capl- | talist papers, my eyes have been | opened. All that I’ve ever cared for | was the stage, and nothing else mat~ |tered in my life. But to see the Lede from Oar Readers for different reasons than the rank and file has. The election is to take place Monday, Feb. 26, from 12 noon to 8 p. m,, by a@ secret ballot. ‘The blockers are not only beginning to fight their open enemies, Zaritzky and Goldman, but are beginning to know the concealed ones as well, such as the so-called progressive Marcus Main, Fishey, Rose, and Engels, who are ofllowiny the respective trat‘tors ‘Trotzky and Lovestone. They do their utmost to describe the left wing workers as masquerading as left wingers. At the two meetings conducted by the rank and file they provoked ar- rangements to undermine the prestige of the provisional committee, espe- cially the five left wingers who are only a minority on it out of the 21. One of the main arguments was that the provisional committee is leading towards dual unionism. Not satisfied with provocation they did their damnest to discourage the workers from struggling against Zaritzky on the ground that we are all alone in this fight, therefore we should not undertake the initiative of indepen- dent action until we have the opera- ‘ors and the trimmers on our side. The workers immediately saw that their demagogic speeches, which were very general and without any ccn- crete proposels fer real class struggle action were leading them back into the arms of the open betrayer Zarit- zky and company. One of these pro- gressives was So openly trying to pre- pare the minds of workers that he was booed and ordered to leave the platform. We the blockers will do everything in our power, as explaiued by Brother Walman, to get the opera- tors and trimmers to effect a real united struggle against the entire Zaritzky machine with his appointed | officials. —A BLOCKER, and shot down like one playfully sho:ts down pigeons, makes my blood boil and I, for one, rebel, against these hideous atrocities and sooncr or later, or right now, I shall let the world know of ‘hese monstrous do- ings and fizht for the rizthteousness of the worker regardless of how hard the struggle is going to be. I pick up the “Daily Worker” day after day and what do my eyes see first? Cruelty, lynches, framed-up murder cases, injunctions against strikers, suppression of speech, mas- sacres, not only in the United S ates, but all over Europe, and it certainly did my heart good when I read today of the uprising of the workers in France and not so good when I had to read of the butchery of these poor mnocent workers, I could go on and on and give vent to my feelings, but it would take more than two pages. I, for one, shall recruit as many workers as possible and organize them, More Space for the Doctor : Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘Tre just returned from a trip South, where I was connected with the C.C.C. and have been reading the “Daily Worker” for one whole week after an absence of two months, with ever abounding pride. The amazing improvement in the Masthead, Mike Gold’s “Change the World,” a title of revolutionary command and inspiration, is an im- provement over the defeatist, ex- asverated “What a World.” However, one grievance which has in the past prevailed, still disap- pointingly persists and that is Dr. Luttinger’s column. Don’t get me wrong. The contents are as educa- tional, and enjoyable and instructive as ever. But one can see how the comrade doctor struggles to keep within the bounds of the space al- jotted him. Since we have but one }My folks on the other side, but the | Substituted for three Americans who | organizing in shops and among the “Daily Worker,” and but one fine, | witty, fearless, and competent class- conscious doctor, who through the “Daily” successfully and devastat- ingly reduces to an absurdity the parasitic quacks, isn’t it important to allow him an entire column’ to continue more fully and freely his Treplaceable contribution the building of a mass revolutionary movement? My cot les in the Young Communist League section 2 in Brownsville, and all other persons I have discussed this with, agree. Let me close therefore, wishing the greatest success to the further improvement of our “Daily Worker” esi and struggles of the work- ers, how they are framed, beaten and for consideration of our heart- felt proposal, $1.20 to $2 A Week In Needle Trates Of Puerto Rico (By a Worker (orresvondent) NEW YORK.—I am translating) part of a letter I received from my mother in Ponce, P. R., stating their | conditions in that island. My idea is to tell the workers in the U.S.A.| not only the economic conditions of | general conditions of the workers and Peasants at the “Model Colony.” My father used to be a shoe manu- facturer about 30 years ago, but the penetration of Yanke imperialism in| the different activities of the econo- mic life of Porto Rico and the con- centration of industries and capital in fewer hands every year, forced him, like many others, into the ranks of the workingclass. He has been struggling for the last 20 years and every day he made less wages, to the extent that since 1927 he is a blind poor man without the| chance of making a penny. We four children are all unem- ployed today, without the chance of helping our poor father. My brother worked 12 years for an American concern and he was laid off two years ago. In the meantime he received a few pennies from his boss just because they needed him as an instructor if they ever started to manufecture again. My brother made $125, $110 and $75 weekly each, He worked making $25 for six years. Today he is laid off, having gotten for three years whatever the boss felt like giving him. My sister, a fine dressmaker, never made more than $6 a week. The last year she worked for a firm by the name of Klein for $4 a week for 60 hours a week. She was laid off at Christmas. My other sister is married to an enginser who only makes $60 a month, My mother wrote me in plain Span- ish that they are all sick and prac- tically starving. “Today in Puerto Rico,” my mother wrote me, “unem- ployment embraces even professionals and intellectuals.” “Workers in the sugar mill make from 50 to 80 cents a day and on the plantations from 35 to 60. cents daily only for a few months during the crop season. “In the needle trades here, hun- dreds of girls are without work and those working make $1.20 to $2 a week. “About the N.R.A. I can tell you,” she says, “that we, the poor class, have no benefit. On the contrary, people that do not need it get the jobs and relicf. I give you an idea— just imagine that all the daughters and family of E. Fagot (former mayor and landowner) got positions from the N.R.A. Our sister filled out an application long ago, but didn’t get any reply. “Conditions are terrible and we are waiting for a great Communist leader | to come here so We can learn the} way out of these terrible conditions.” ee ie (Editor’s Note-—Not by waiting for a “great Communist leader,” but by unemployed for daily demands is a real struggle develoned against the conditions described above. §. P. Candidates in Amesbury, Mass. (By a Worker Correspondent) AMESBURY, Mass.—There will be no Corrmunist Party candidates in the ficld hore noxt month. However, the so-calted socialists will have can- didates. The Socialist Party has a group of reactionary leaders within their ranks who are ignorant of the class strugsle. Pres. Bill Wilson of the local $.P. club has been a S.P. member for 35 years and never came in contact with any of Marx’s writ- ings. He warned some of the younger members of the S.P. not to read any more of my books after. seeing me with “Wage, Labour and Capital” and the Manifesto at an open meeting of the S.P. He stated that he would not pay 20 cents to see Karl Marx rise from the dead. He agitated against both a hatters’ union and a shoe union which we were attempting to organize last spring. He is a noted pace-maker in every shop he ever worked in and is des- pised by his fellow workers. He is a non-union moulder, having had trouble with the mouilders’ union in Newburyport, Mass. At that time he was suspended and fined $25 for be- ing unfair to labor by trying to out- work his shop comrades, thereby kill- ing the job. To show how red he is, he wears a bright red necktie and refused to re- move his hat upon entering the local relief office. This monkey is the Socialist can- didate for the board of selecimen, which is our form of government. ‘Tom McGinnis, the president of the &.P. club, is running for town moder- ator. If elected he will conduct our town meetings. We are a township of 12,000 and he is not smart enough to preside over the business meetings of the S.P. without getting bawled up The S.P. meetings have an average a.Xadance of 23. They have not worked out any workers’ platform. The fact that they are socialists is going to put them in office, as we are supposed to be drifting into so- cialism under Roosevelt. Yes, Roose- velt is often heard in their club. Psat ine 3 Editor's Note: — Those workers who see that there is no benefit to be gotten from any of the can- didates in this election should get together in a united front election committee, draw up an election platform on concrete working class issues, choose candidates, and con- PARTY LIFE Concentration Units Do of Members The following letter was written to the Central Committee by a non-Party railroad worker. We call this letter to the attention of the | Detroit District, as well as the com-"! rades responsib's for railroad We would like the Deir to write a reply for publication in this cclumn as to what steps they are taking to remedy the situation pointed out in this letter. work. White we print the letter in full,.| at the same time we must state | ~—- Non- Party Railroad Workers Not Make Sufficient Use and Contacts 1 a group and then » 1 and become active vo locals together, ntacis is an old L.W.W, ed with the I. W. oughly in line with of working from within Now, there is the Party member \in that. ve: that we MUST ist become active. anger of exposure to™ seems to think), and it€ | outs, I'sten to them tell of their ex-| {class strugg'e on the park ben duct a campaign for writing in the names of the candidates at voting that we do not agree with the Comrade R’s reason for not being | a Party member. Comrade can— and should—join the Party and learn how to work more effectively, | how to carry on his work among the railroad workers without being victimized by the bosses. 'y that we have his® to broaden out our® ich committee y if it doesn we have this ex- ty to do so. We local partially our msider it move necessary e on the carmen on the h, when we have these together will make it y easy to get the next Fellow Workers: | , So tk we will be building About two weeks ago, in two issues;| slowly but surely as we go along the Daily Worker had a third-pase| making it harder for higher-ups to article on the railroad question. Tt ).disrupt u did not mention Detvoit activities | So. once again, I am asking the and I think there is a good reason, | Party leaders to take steps to find namely the Detroit activities aré/the Party members of the railroad mostly minus. | tfades on the west side of Detroit. Now, in the Daily Worker of Feb.| tn this connection the section leader 20th, on page 6 is a VERY good edi-|of Hamtramck, Michigan, has my torial on R. R. Concentration. I hope} jhanks. He got the first Party mem- that you will take the following s!wrt} her released and active and found report as a basis for a new and! the second contact from the west REAL attempt to get the Party mem~}'si¢e, bers on the Detroit west side to} The Party member I .am looking carry out the provisions of the Openj.for on the west side can also be of Letter and the Feb, 20th article. |.much use to us in advising us how Without bragging I think I can/to approach the foreign-born rail- safely say that Detroit rail work is/toad workers of that railroad point, lagging because practically all of the)many of whom are carmen. They planning, and day-to-day propagan--aiso hold their meetings in Dom dizing among the rail workers in De-| Bolski1 Hall on the west side and the troit has been a one man job and a/ Party units could help us to cover non-Party member at that. It took| their meetings with Railroad Unity a@ year of patient work with one) News, or such cases as leaflets for Pariy member to get him active but? iiéetings such as the one at which it has borne good results. I under-| Brother Weinstock spoke. stand that there is now a Party|>-In connection with the two articles member on the west side RIGHT IN| two weeks ago. That part of the THE VERY GROUP with which I) articles was especially to the point am now concentrating on the west) wherein it was pointed out the im- side. “portance of concentrating in the The first Party member mentioned strategic terminals. However, as De~ has done good work and we now have|troit wasn’t mentioned I want to & very good opposition committee m/ point out a few facts which I think his local (the carmen). This is on! are of the greatest importance. the east side. On the west side ba 1. The importance of Detroit as now have found one good sym-/| 4 large, strategic point, its many pathizer who is intensely interested) “guto factories which will some day and doing our work and also thre?}..manufacture munitions, good militants who want to get|,..2. Mhe fact that the Grand Trunk Railway has its largest ter- | minal .here and IT IS A CANA~ 3 DIAN-OWNED road. B A Wi | ‘That Detroit is practically ecome or cer the largest border city and rafl- | termina! on the whole foe. im }afrontier (and perhaps Buffalo). Correspondent -is.0ch.2an Piya dies Sena! | Britain, and that Great Britain | and the United States are two op- | posing imperialistic nations that may some day be fighting each *'* other for world trade. 5. That for the above reasons, | and with concentrating herein De- — te | opportu: | also have another + Way but etroit, Mich. } two February 21, 1934) comp: By a Worker Corresnondent NEW HAVEN. Conn.—In rezavd to} Worker Correspondence. I wou'd like) to say that onvone with even a vatt) grammar s~hovl education can bea} worker corresrond-nt. I only went to) troit, so close to Windsor, and with the sixth grede. I was working in a1" ‘he problem of the G.T.W. men in factory when I was only 11 years oft: iichigan so closely allied to Cana- age. | dian National men in Canada, I Any worker can go down to the 5 ove that herein lies the basis and 10 cent st-re, get a w tabret r a future solidarity with the for a ni a bunch of envelones. ‘ n workers. Especially in | another nickel, a good lead p= yiew of the fact that many G.T.W. | { that writes black, a writing pe “mon are still Canadian citizens, bottle of ink. Now you are all set fer!\g5 I suggest a real Party concen- ( work. The rest is as easy as Dp | tration in Detroit and that Raiiriad Jf Go and ming’e with the down and| Unity News get in touch with the rank and file movement in Canada and print articles by them, Tn closing, I am not a Party mem- There you will hear many a taledsper as I have already been “put on listen to the sky pilots defending the\¢he spot” by the company for my Tich man’s wealth, hear what he activities and think best to be cau- to say. Attend the Salvation Army! tious until I am back to work reg- neetings; you will see plenty to write {a rly and can then get support about there. Bb Atcend the board of aldermen meetines, there you will sce plenty to write about for the Dai'y Worker. A rrest place to go is the employment offices. red e worker corresnondents are get- ting more popular with the wo:kers every day. I know n2onle who started | off with readinz correspondence have. periences. They know; they know f! port and lose effectiveness in case of discrimination. I do wish, however, that the Party would take more steps to he'p with the Unity program here, and really, it’s not correct that a non-Party member should be doing the Patty work and hunting for Party members. It should be the opposite, that Party. members should be look- become affectionate towards the, ing for “us sympathizers.” Daily Worker. The more the better. | Fraternally, Editor’s Note—And most impor- sinh Se aie eae aks ode e shop; 7 cia & parame then io hee ‘ JOIN THE Communist Party you and the other workers are do- 35 EK. 12th STREET, N. ¥. © ing about it. }Please send me more informa- sion om the Communist Party. Name VETERAN REVOLUTIONARY WORKER DIES ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — Matthew | Barbarich, aged 46, died Feb. 12 in the local hospital. He was a mem~ ber of the Communist Party up un- til his death and a worker. When employed as a brakeman for the US. Steel Corporation mills, he suffered an accident which cost him a leg. 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If any of our readers happen to day, March 1, and the Harlem Work~|haye an idle dictaphone with a ers’ Club, which dispenses the treat-| transcribing unit and a shaver for .cylinders, we should appreciate if ment, will charge a fee of only 15 cents. We plan to go there ourself,| he or she would loan it to us, the as a bourgeois physician,| price of a new set being over $500 with a small red goatee and accom-|and beyond the means of @ prole- tarian physician, 4 panied by our favorite monkey, Mona,