The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1934, Page 3

W:H AT” S$ ON Beturday (Manhattan) @h ANNUAL AFFAIR of “Der Arbelter,” %. Y. Labor Temple, 247 B. sith St. at 8 Dum. Bplendid program and good eats. Ad- fission 35c, Tickets in the Arbeiter Of- Wee"250, ENTERTAINMENT and Workers Club, 79 5. 10th S @tring Orch. Surprises. Co WILLIANA BORROUGHS 5 on the Equality of Women, forkers Schoo}, 200 W. 135th St., ® pm. Adm. free. RED DANCE Studio Party, 17 Fifth Ave., ® p.m. Dancing, entertainment, refreshment. W.LR, BAND assembles at Marine Work- “es Union, 140 Broad St. at 12:30 for Thael- faann Protest Meeting. JAMES FORD Banquet Celebration at Es- Harlem 2nd floor, FILM and Photo League Party, movie ghowing, dance, entertainment; 12 BE. 17th @., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 2c. DANCE and Entertainment, good band, [fiteshments, | Steve Katovis Br. ELD, 18} 3rd St., 8:30 p.m. ANNUAL Concert and Dance, Knitgoods Workers Ind. Union, at Irving Plaza Hall, | th St. and Irving Place. Good jaca band. Adm, 400. in advance; 50c. at door. COCKTAIL Party given by ¥.C.L. Unit 5A @ 104 2nd Ave. Apt. 26, at 8:30 p.m. Ad- Mission 1c. CONCERT and Dance given by Mandolin Orchestra of the Spartacus Club, 269 W.| ¥sth St. Musical Program. Adm. 25c, “MUTUALISTA Obrera Mexicana’ Br. 515 %W.O. will hold dance at 66 E. 3 Mexican Orchestra; Mexican dis! THEATRE COLLECTIVE Chinese-Japanese Mite. East Asiatic Program, Chinese eats, | Japanese drinks. Dancing. Adm. 35c; 52 W. 1th St. SHOCK TROUPE Night. Workers Labora- tory Theatre presents the monthly premiere ef revolutionary theatre. Discussion, dancing, 42 E. 12th Bt. Adm. 25c. WORKERS SCHOOL dance and entertain- ment at 35 E. 3rd floor. Jazz Johnson and Orchestra; L. K. Luganoy and Russtan Troupe, David Kolscritta. Adm. 15c. 12th ANNUAL DANCE, Followers of the ‘rail, Webster Manor, 125 E, 11th St. Ex- eellent Jazz Band; American and Russian Dancing. Adm. 50c. Proceeds L.L.D. JOHN REED CLUB Scottsboro Party and Dance in honor of the opening of John Werley's play “They Shall Not Die,” 430 Sixth Ave, Feature entertainment and good jazz band. Subscription 25c. Concert and Dance given by Followers of, Nature, 12 E. 17th St. CONCERT and Dance-Musical and Liter- ary Program, Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St. Auspices, Needle Trades Women’s Action Comm. Adm. 5c. VETCHERINKA and Concert. Vegetarian Olub and Workers Radio Club, 220 E. 14th St. 8:30 p.m. Adm. 0c, PARTY and Dance given by Gilbert Lewis Br. LLD, at 418 W. 53rd’ St. Adm. 18, (Bronx) SCOTTSBORO Night and Dance given by| Nat Turnes Br. LL.D. at Garpy Club, 4049! 3rd Ave. Good program. GREETING Reception of) new comrades in Unit 6 Sec. 15 at 813 E. 180th St., 8 p.m. “ANTI-WAR Party and Dance, N.SL., C.C. “2. Monroe Br., 1548 Westchester Ave. J Band and Refreshments. ¥.0.L. Balloon Dance; Entertainment, ehalk talk, puppets, jazz ‘band; good eats. Given by Sec. 15, 2075 Clinton Ave. Adm. 25c. Proceeds Section Training School. DANCE, Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tre- mont Ave, Bronx, 8:45 p.m. Prizes for best dancers. FRUIT PESTIVAL and Entertainment wifen by ¥.C.L. Unit 9 Sec. 15, 2704 Wallace Ave. Apt. 8-53. Adm. 10c. CELEBRATION at the Prospect Workers Genter by closing the campaign for the “Morning Fretheit.” Concert and Dance;! 2157 So, Boulevard. PARTY, Good Entertainment given by ¥.0.1. Unit 5 at 532 FE. 172nd St. Apt. 1. ‘MIDNITE SHOW st Burke Theatre, Burke [. Ave. and White Plains Rd. showing Soviet ‘Film “Sniper.” Auspices, Upper Bronx Sec, pear M saicaiad of Working Class Women. 1934 TRAVEL RATES IN THE aber day MM "per day tourist These basic daily rates _for travel in the Soviet Union are the same as last year. No iftcrease in dollarshas been effected in view of the dollar deflation. The costs overed are: Soviet visas, meals, hotels, guide-interpreters, and all transportation on tour in the U.S. S. R. Eighteen standard itin- eraries of from 5 to 31 days duration to choose from. Write for illus- trated booklet D W 1 Consult your local agent ..about these bargains in travel. INTOURIST nc. oy Ue a Repres ar ch Dees own travel egent. rie HG Ks 'p. NewYork. ‘Offices Chicago. Or see your | Orchestra; | these races with cont (Brooklyn) DANCE and Play given by Mario Rapi- sardi Br. LW.O. at Laisve Hall, 427 Lorimer St, 8 pm. Adm. 25c, 4th ANNIVERSARY of Unemployed Coun- cils, Concert and Dance at Brighton Beach Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave. Theatre of Action; New Dance Group. Chamber Muste. Dancing till dawn. FREIHEIT Gesang Farein, oratorio on “Two Brothers” by Jacob Schaefer; Emma Redell, Soprano Soloist, assisted by Sym- phony Orchestra; New Soviet Songs; Brook- lyn Academy of Music. Tickets 50c, 75e, $1.00. CONCERT and Dance, Boro Park Unem- ployed Council at I.W.O. Center, 1373— 48rd St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Red Dancers, String Orchestra, Dramatic Group and others. MUSICAL and Dance given by Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave., 8:30 p.m. Dancing till dawn. Sunday VILLAGE FORUM, 224 W. 4th 8t., facing Sheridan Square, 3 p.m., Jack Taylor speaks on “Racketeering in the American Federa- tion of Labor.” Auspices, Ella Reeve Bloor and Rose Pastor Stokes Br. LL.D, Adm. 150. OPEN FORUM, G. Albertini speaks “Mussolini and the Italian Working Class Tom Mooney Br. LLD., $23 E. 13th Bt., 2 pan, Admission free, discussion. EARL BROWDER, General Secretary of the ¢.P.U.S.A, lectures at Workers School, 35 E, 12th St.. 8 p.m. CONCERT, International Music Week Against Fascism and War. Freiheit Gt Soloists; Civic ‘and 6th Ave. Adm. 250, Workers’ Music Worker Chorus; ‘Theatre; 14th 500, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, League. JOHN REED CLUB Forum. Stephen Graves on “Contemporary American Philo- sophy in the Light of Marxism,” 430 Sixth Avenue, 8:30 p.m. HARRY W. WICKS speeks on “The Revolt of Austrian” Workers.” Steve Katovis Br. LL.D. 15 E. 3rd St. Adm. 10c., 8:30 p.m. FILM and Photo League Symposium “The Future of the Film.” Speakers: Schapiro, Dennen, Bela, Brandon, Gerstein, Adler and Adm. 25¢. others; 12 E. 17th St., 8:30 p. JAMES W. FORD lectures on “Negro Op- pression and Anti-Semitism” st Yorkville Workers Forum, Tabor Temple, 243 EB. 84th St., 8 pm. Adm. ‘UNITY THEATRE, ‘24 B. 23rd St. presents African Festival, Horton's Shologa, Olobs, Singers and Dancers. Dancing afterward. Adm. 35c. Refreshments, 8 p.m. FREIKEIT MANDOLIN Orchestra, Pirst- mans Group rehearsal at 106 E. ith at 6 p.m. SYMPOSIUM on “Revolutionary Trends in American Literature." Speakers: Joshua Kunitz and Stanley Burnshaw. Cooperative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park Hast, 8:30 p.m. DAT Banquet Tonight to’ Hail 40th Birthday Of James W. Ford N. Y. District of C. P. Hails Ford’s 15 Years in Labor Movement NEW YORK.—The District Com- mittee of the New York district of the Communist Party yesterday called upon all members of the district to join in the celebration of the 40th birthday of Comrade James W. Ford, in the following statement: The District Committee of the Party, together with Section 4, cele- brates the 40th anniversary of James W. Ford, at the Estonian Workers Hall, 27 W. 115th St., today, at p. m. The significance of this occasion should be understood by all members of our district. Comrade Ford is not only a very important part of our district leadership, but as a result of his participation in the labor move- ment for the past 15 years, he is an outstanding leader of the American working class. Comrade Ford sym- bolizes the struggle of the Party and the Negro masses for national libera- tion. He has greatly contributed to the clarification of the Negro Ques- tion. He was the standard bearer of the Party, together with Comrade Foster, in the 1932 elections. All party members and sympathetic workers are urged to honor Comrade Ford by attending the banquet. Diarrhoea in C.C.C. Camp 987, Calif., Is Caused by Bad Food By a C.C.C. Worker MONROVIA, Cal., Mar. 1—Diar-| Adm. 15¢. ALBERT HART speaks on “Revolutionary Struggle of Austrian Workers’ gl Road. Auspices, Edith Berkman Br. .L. D., 6 p.m, CLUB PARTY at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave, 8 p.m. adapt ou dancing, singing. FORUM at Moshulu Prog. Club, 3230 Bain- bridge Ave. near Reservoir Oval, 8:30 p.m. A. Strauch will lead discussion. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance given by ‘Unit 14 for the benefit of Sec. 5 C.P. at 558 Morris Ave. Hat check l5c. FORDHAM PROG. Club, 305 E. Fordham Road regrets {t will not hold their regular weekly lecture. Headquarters were depleted. Watch announcements for further activities. | WM, L. PATTERSON lecture on “Lenin- ism and National Minorities” at Brownsville ‘Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 150. PROF. OAKLEY JOHNSON lecture on “Pascism and Proletarian Dictatorship” at Fast New York Workers Club, 608 Cleveland St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 100, A 3-COURSE DINNER servéd by the Wo- men’s Council 5 at 2918 W. 30th St., Coney Ww and | the Labor Movement.” Also Songs by Aunt | Molly Jackson. Ella May Br. LL.D., 4109 18th Ave. 7:30 p.m. Adm. Se, Dancing: will follow. DANCE at Brownsville Youth Center, 106 ‘Thatford Ave., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 20c, Members free. Newark, N. J. RED BAZAAR, Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4 at Kruegers Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave. Greatest value in merchan- ise. Dance on Saturday night. ‘Admis- sion 20¢ at door; 15¢ in advance, Boston, Mass. BIG AFFAIR at Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudley t., 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4. Hear Herbert Benjamin. Excellent program. Philadelphia OFFICE WORKERS Union House Warm- tng Party on Saturday, March 3, at 130 S. 8th St. Adm. 15c. SHOW and Dance on Saturday, March 3, at 1208 Tasker St. Auspices, ¥.C.L.. Admis- sion 25¢, at 1400 Bos-° rhea is very prevalent at C.C.C.! Camp 987 here, due to the rotten and unsuitable food we are given. For one week, one-half of the boys were vomiting from sour stomachs because of the food. Ninety per cent ‘of the boys have poison oak, the camp doctor charging some of the boys | $1.25 for inoculations, and sent some back to work long before they were cured. ‘The food we were given was often | Totten, sometimes burned, and at other times undercooked. Maggoty ‘meat has been given us. For break~ fast we are given omelets made from powdered Japanese eggs. Each | worker is issued three sandwiches for lunch, one ham, one cheese, and one beef; the bread is dry and stale. | Supper is usually beans, spaghetti and sour potatoes. | Seven times we went on strike against the rotten food. After each strike the food would improve; grad- ually it would soon be the same again. ‘The canteen overcharged us on all articles. The officers use this money with which to buy liquor. When we first entered camp, there were 230 of us; two months later there were 174; 66 either deserting or being fired for protesting condi- tions. After our enlistment expired and we returned home, we were sum- moned to the Emergency Relief head- quarters and asked why we did not re-enlist. When we explained that the conditions were so bad that we did not wish to re-enlist, the relief heads asked us why we did not join the army. Ninety per cent refused either an army or C.C.C. enlistment. | bills; } Payment of tke Adjusted Service The Fighting Vets By ERNEST LYALL MISNER The Veteran in Congress Bills, bills and still more veteran| We read the flood of legisla-| tion introduced and amended in the Senate and the House. Are the sup- porters of the administration really | waking up to the fact the masses of the people are militantly opposed to the vicious Economy Bill that made wholesale removals of the 4ged,| crippled, diseased and sick from the} veteran pension rolls? Is Congress| really interested in the welfare of the| widows and dependents of the Vet-| erans? Do they really want to pay| the veterans their back: pay, purpose- | fully misnamed a Bonus? “Friends” of the Veterans Exposed | Their scheme is simple. Dangle bait,—promise a little to the different | catagories of veterans cases—make a friendly gesture, — KEEP THEM DIVIDED. Their whole scheme is to misrepresent and confuse the issue. They add the return of the 15 per cent cut of the Federal em- ployes to the Veterans relief; they misrepresent the Adjusted service pay as a Bonus and not as back pay. Democratic leaders in the House charge the Republicans in the Senate with purposely loading the Inde- pendent Office Bill with Veteran amendments so that Roosevelt will surely veto them. The members of the House of Representatives come up for re-election next November and they make a gesture of support for the Bonus,—which the President said he would immediately veto just as Hoover did. Proposals in Congress The net proposals of. the Senate Bills which face opposition of the Democratic leaders of the House and the possible veto of the President:— The Steiwer-McCarren Amendment restores to the Spanish War Vets the old “status quo” less ten percent. They, like all other vets, should get their previous pensions. Mr. Rankin, | Mississippi proposes modifications in veteran cuts. Mr. Hopel, California, {calls for benefits for widows, Mr. Withrow, Wisconsin, amends for the Certificates (Bonus). Senator Reed, Pennsylvania, an outstanding enemy of veteran legislation, puts forward the American Legion four points which add hospitalization for vets. The entire bills if passed, except- ing the Bonus, would amount to a saving of about $138,000,000. This still leaves a cut against the veterans of over $200,000,000. About one mil- lion veterans and their dependents, service connected as well as non- service connetced are out in the win- ter cold, ori soup lines and trudge from hospital to hospital for imme- diate medical attention. Leaders of Legion and V.F.W. The leadership of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is helping this scheme. Their convention passed resolutions for the payment of the “Bonus” and the repeal of the Economy Bill, but, at the first sign of opposition by the administration, supports the Weid- man “Resolution—a form of quick Cor nal action—which proposes a commission to bring in a uniform Pension Law, NEXT CONGRESS. An admitted scheme to withdraw vet- eran legislation including the Bonus question from this session of Con~ gress. Commander Hayes of, the Legion is put forward as a new type of Legion Commander,—‘just a plain gob,—not an officer.” He is reported ready to fight the Roosevelt Admin- istration and proceeds to repudiate the fight for the Bonus. Rank and File Ready for Action’ What do the veterans say to all of this? They have a simple answer. It is the same as in the Bonus March of 1932. On to Washington before Silk Workers Force in Congress Record | |Clifton City Council} Sends Resolution to Washington NEW YORK—The mass pressure | of the workers of Clifton, N. J., the| silk town between Passaic and Pater- | Son, forced Congressman George N. Seger, of Passaic, to introduce into the Congressional record in the House, the resolution of the City Couricil of Clifton which supports the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (HR7598). Clifton {s the silk and silk dyeing center where, during the last |silk strike, militant pickets battled police for the right to picket the mills. ‘The Clifton textile workers, led by the Unemployment Councils, forced the city council of Clifton to pass a resolution indorsing the Workers Bill. The resolution states that “The Clifton City Council endorses HR. ‘7598, known as the Lundeen Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Act and that.the Congressman from this congressional district and our two United States Senators be re- quested to aid in the passage of this Bill, and that a copy of this resolu- tion be forwarded to each of them, to the United States Secretary of La- bor and to Representative Lundeen.” Seger, feeling the mass pressure of the Clifton and Passaic textile work- ers, raised the question in the House and had the Clifton resolution in- cluded in the Congressional Record. The National Unemployed Council, initiator of the Bill, states that Seger must be forced to fight for the enact- ment of the Workers Bill and that all workers and their organizations in Seger’s district should write and tele- graph him, demanding that he ap- pear before the House Labor Com- mittee and fight for the passage of the Bill This time with full support of the workers unemployed, and the farmers whom they support. Congress, the bankers, the war mongers, they all fear this unity of the veterans, just as they fear the unity of the workers in strikes and the unemployed in their demands for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, This organized mass pressure of the vet- erans and the support of the masses of the people forced the present ac- tion in Congress. It is this power which will give the veterans the pro- tection against hunger and want; it is this power that will give us our back pay. In the Field This militant voice of the vets ts heard from all parts of the country. The Rank and File Committee in ‘Washington has constant inquiries, “When do we go back to Washing- ton?” The vets in the camps ask the same question. eMset Site 2 WEST COAST reports a tri-state veteran conference of the W.E.S.L, in Washington, California and Oregon. The rank and file vets are mobilizing their forces, answer their call fall in Congress adjourns. This time united | Bill CH. R. 7598) the National Unem- a, YORK.—In answer to the ‘forts of Congress to sidestep the \ aamands of millions of workers for immediate enactment of the Workers | Unemployment and Social Insurance ployment Council has issued a call to} all affiliated organizations, unions | | and fraternal lodges to rally in a| fight to, force Congress to act favor- } ably on this vital measure. The Unemployment Council points cut that while millions of workers are looking to Congress for action to} relieve the suffering of the victims of mass unemployment, the members| of Congress, with the help of th A. F. of L. leadership are attempting | to bury the Workers Bill in the House Labor Committee and substitute in| its place the fake measure introduced | by Senator Wagner. In order to prevent this, the Na-| tional Committee of the Unem} ment Councils in its first session, outlined a program intended to popularize the Workers Bill bring pressure to bear upon Congress for its enactment. Bill To Be Circulated As a first step, 100,000 copies of the Bill as introduced by Congress- man Lundeen, have been printed. The Council will supply organiza- tions and individuals interested in the circulation of the Bill with | copies at the rate of 30c per hun- dred or $2 per thousand. | Many reports have already been} received for copies of the Bill. Some| of these which were sent to Lundeen | have been forwarded by him to the} Unemployment Council, The govern-| ment printing office rate for copies| is too high ($13 for the first thousand | and $2.12 for each additional thou-| sand), Therefore it was decided to andj § | of the main slogans will be: reprint in larg copies th eet Council. Million Messages to Congress As a further means of popularizing the Bill and of informing the Con- gressmen and Senators support which the Unemplo; s and supply Unemployment |to eve send 1 product: page of Wor mand that the n to whom it is ad support and enactment.” May First Slogan The National Committee urges all workers ‘to carry the Bill into their shops and organizations for d ‘sement. These di: serve pare of the Bill and a de- r of Congress 5 pr the ¥ 6 to demonstrate for enact- | ment of the Bill on May 1 when one} “ENACT (E WORKERS BILL (H.R. 7598)!” If this program is vigorously car- ried out, the National Council points out, the members of the House] Committee on Labor will be forced to report the Bill out for fav- orable action. If they fail to do so, | the pressure of the workers in the various sections of the country will force at least 145 Congressmen to sign a “round robin” that will serve to take the Bill out of the hands of the committee and onto the floor of Congress, All workers and their organizations should act on these proposals of the National Unemployment Council. Railroad fear Speeded Up in Long | Island R.R. Yards Wages Cut $6 Weekly; Do Twice as Much Work By a Railroad Worker LONG ISLAND CITY.—Two weeks ago I quit my job in the cleaning department at the Sunnyside and Long Island Railroad yard because I couldn’t stand it any longer. ‘We women have plenty to talk about if we want to talk. I quit be- cause I couldn’t stand working like @ slave, Three years ago I worked here and I came back last month thinking it would be the same work as before. We used to clean four trains a day, seven days a week and/ make $20. Fight Trains a Day Now we clean 8 trains a day, work) five days a week and make $14.20 a| week. We are supposed to get 40c an hour but we only get 35'4c an hour. We are supposed to get off at 8 line, o'clock but the speed-up is so strong By JAMES FORD (Organizer Harlem Section C.P.) The pre-Convention is in full swing. ‘There are many problems to be dis- cussed. But for the moment I want to discuss only one phase of our work. It is: The growth of Negro reformism and its petty bourgeois nationalist influence in our Party, which places dangers before us in winning the Negro masses for our Party and for the national liberation movement of the Negro: people, and in establish- ing unity between Negro and white workers. ‘This question has particular sig- nificance for our work in Harlem (as well as other parts of the country), since we have correctly characterized Harlem as the national and interna- tional center of Negro re‘ormism. The struggle against petty bourgeois nationalist influences at this mo- ment of sharpening class struggle, fascism and war, becomes on a par with the struggle against white chau- vinism, in the sense that great res- ponsibility rests upon the Negro comrades to combat this anti-work- ing class influence. White Chauvinism the Main Danger One of the principle weapons of the white ruling class in carrying out its policies of jim-crowism, seg- vegation, and the national oppres- sion of the Negro people, is the ideo- Jogy or philosophy of white chauvin- ism, that is, race prejudice. This idea of race prejudice springs from the false idea of “superior” races and develops into extreme nationalism. The white ruling class spreads the idea that the achievements of mod- Coins at the “euptlotiey of the. 06: cause of ‘SU 50- called white race. The bot IN PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION FORD DISCUSSES ANTLWORKING CLASS INFLUENCES OF WHITE CHAUVINISM, | When I say to tk that sometimes we don’t finish till 9 or 10 o’clock and we don’t get paid extra for this. The foremen are terrible. only work for the bosses and they don’t care about the poor Workers. he other women why don’t we drop everything at 3 o'clock and go, they say they're afraid to | lose their job. If you ask the women about some sort of organization, they say; lose our jobs where will we go? Note The writer of this letter and all railroad workers confronted with organizational problems and griev- ances on the job should immedi- ately get in touch with the Trade Union Unity Council, 799 Broadway, They | if we} Five More AFL Locals Press Conger Immediate Enactment ot Social Insurance 5 . Y . |\National Jobless Councils Seger to Put HR 7598 | Call for Action on H.R.7598 | meeting on Feb. ess for Bicknell U.M.W.A. Local Unanimous for HR 7598 AFL AUTO LOCAL ACTS 2 Painters and 1 Jewelry Local, Indorse Bill NEW YORK.—Pive additional locai unions of the A. FP. of L. have +~ dorsed the Workers Unemployme, and Social Insurance Bill (E.R. 7595 nd demanded its enactment by the present session of congress. These local unions include one miners’ local, two painters’ locals, one auto and one jewelry workers’ local. Local Union 6803 of the United Mine Workers of America, at Bick- nell, Indiaan, have unanimously ‘in- dorsed the Workers Bill (H.R. 7598) and called for its enactment. Largest Metal Union Indorses a4 The White Motor local in Cleve land of the Automobile Worken Union (A, F. of L. unanimously in- dorsed the Bill (H.R, 7598), and voted to communicate with the other locals in favor of the bill, This local is the largest local union of the A F. of L. in the metal industry in the city of Cleveland. The plant is 100 per cent organized. ‘Two local unions Nos. 905 and 490 in New York, of the Painters, Dec- orators and Paperhangers (A. F. of L.), have indorsed the Workers Bil. Local union 499 wrote William Green, Congressman Lundeen and Congress- man Connery of the House Commit-~ tee on Labor calling for action at the present session of congress op the bill. Each of these two loca! unions numbers ‘approximately 700 members. Farmers and Co-ops Indorse The International Jewelry Workers Union, local one, New York City (A. FB. of L) at its membership 27, endorsed the Workers Bill, (H.R. 7598), and sent a telegram to the Labor Board in Washington, urging them to speak in favor of the bill. The New Co-operative Co., of Dil- lonvale, Ohio at its last regular meeting adopted a resolution de- manding that the present session of Congress enact the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) as “the only bill meeting the urgent need of the present situation.” The Davison County Labor League with headquarters at Mitchell, South Dakota, at its meeting of Feb. 23, voted to indorse~the Workers Bill (H.R. 7598) and instructed its se} retary to wire South Dakota senators’ ! and representatives to vote for this Room 238, where they will be given | advice on organizing the workers in rank and file action committees and unions, and give contact with other workers in the industry, who have grievances, “Detroi t, Mich. ¥.C.L. DANCE and Play Unit for the benefit of Young Erskine St. on Saturday, March Adm, ,8k,’2-course,32 2. 3, 8:30 p.m. ox,,,, hm hm hm bmn given by Brew-| | | bill. The National Unemployment Coun- ceils calls on all workers and workers’ organizations to get behind the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and to demand that their own Congressmen, Congress- man Connery and Lundeen, fight ‘for enactment of the bill at this session of Congress. PHILADELPHIA, PA. > Send to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, names of those you know who are not read- ers of the “Daily,” but who would be interested in reading it. Negro Question to Be Taken Up Earnestly in Pre-Consention Discussion NEGRO REFORMISM root among sections of the white workers. It is the greater danger. Social Fascist Enemies of the Negro People The princivle agency for extend- ing and spreading race prejudice, white chauvinist tendencies into the ranks of the working class has been the leaders of the American Federa- tion of Labor. The A, F. of L. leaders bar Negroes from the trade unions; in the South, the A. F. of L. leaders sul the Ku Klux Kian against the Negroes; it has supported and consistently followed the policy of the ruling class, of jim-crowism, seg- cegation, and of organized pogroms against the equality of ne Blacks can. deny. Equally blameable is the leadership of the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party leaders cppose the slogan of self-determination for the Negroes in the Black Belt of the South, the highest expression of equality, be- cause the white landlords will resist it. Then the fight for equal rights for Negroes is wrong because the - | white landlords will resist this also. Let the Negroes remain jim-crowed and ted. Let the ideas of white chauvinism prevail. This is the logic of the Socialist Party leaders. Chauvinism is the international leaders see them as the “white man’s burden,” that the Blacks are made urgecisie goes further and tells the white | the Socialist: members of er re tand “superior” Danas, ie a “superior” to Chinese, Indians and Negroes and that they must treat 3 that the “colored” races are made by god to be exploited by the white race. However, the white ruling class has demon- also. Nevertheless, the and | economic condition by the white proletariat will free the Negro slaves.” It was in this sense that the first MacDonald “Socialist Labor govern- ment of England acted when it used bombs’ to kill and massacre Indian workers and when it sent troops in- to Africa to shoot down defenseless Negro women in 1929, These agents of the white ruling class have developed the ideas of chauvinism to a very high degree. They are to be held directly respon- sible for the spread of chauvinism among the white workers. They have made the task of overcoming chau- vinism a difficult one, but it must be fought against. The A. F. of L. and the Socialist leaders are the principal cause for Geveloping cleavage between the Negro and white workers. Negro Reforiist Enemies of the Negro People At the opposite end of the pole, so to speak, are the Negro reformists. They too are agents of the white rul- ers, among the Negro people. They help to antagonize the Negro work- ers against the white workers. In this period in which we are now their service to the white rulers, in addition to doing everything to fur- ther widen the gap between Negro and white workers, is to head off the Negro masses from Communism or revolutionary struggle against the principal enemy for their needs, the white ruling class. This Negro reformist leadership has had a deadening effect upon the Negro masses since the Civil War. Since the Civil War the Negro peo- ple have been under the scourge of jim-crowism and_ segregation and have been misled by Negro reformist leaders in the unequal fight for na- tional liberation, without betterment of their conditions. These Negro leaders have either pointed to heaven or to some far off distant future where the “troubles of the Negroes” will be solved. The post Civil War leader of the Negro people (accepted by the white ruling class) was Booker T. Washing- ton, His philosophy was the follow- ing: the Negro can only better his becoming more | as “efficient” at a trade and subordinat- ing any social or political aspirations | et he might have to this. Booker T. Washington was able to sell this idea to the white rulers in the following way: “There is more profit and less waste in utilizing “efficient and trained Negro artisans” who would be educated in such a manner as to make them satisfied with the existing conditions such as disfranchisement, etc., than to use unskilled labor.” For this service to the white capitalists Booker T, Wash- ington got large sums of money for Tuskegee Institute. From the Booker T. Washington | sci philosophy sprang the petty bour- geois Negro Business Men’s League of which he was the founder, and his successor at Tuskegee, Dr. Moton, is the present head. ‘The struggle against the Booker T. Washington leadership was de- veloped by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois sup- ported by other Negro scholars as William Monroe Trotter, both of whom were graduates of Harvard University and well educated, par- ticularly, DuBois. This fight was a fight of “Higher education for Negroes versus the Booker T. Washington Industrial Education.” It was fought bitterly. | ant It resulted in the formation of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. The social characteristic of this organiza- tion today is that of the petty bour- geois middle class. Of it we shall speak later. Hatred Towards White Workers The Garvey movement arose as a Negro nationalist bourgeois move- ment. By taking advantage of the unrest and resentment of the Negro oppression, Garvey built up a program of Negro bourgeois na- nalism and racialism. Garvey de- nied the principle of working class struggle against capitalism; he used the grievances which were grievances against white bourgeois capitalism to develop his nationalist movement. ‘The program of Negro bourgeois na- tionalism was clearly demonstrated by the “get-rich-quick” conan, “Black” Siar such stock, Steamship Lines,” “Negro Factories,” te. From the very beginning Garvey was opposed to Negro workers join- ing or organizing trade unions and even after he went to Jamaica he opposed the trade \unions of the Negroes, where there is no excuse to oppose joining unions because of the exclusion policies of white unions as in America and South Africa, since there are no white unions in Jamaica. But more of Garvey. My aim now is to give a thread of the role the Negro reformists are playing in hin- dering the development of class con~ sciousness among the Negro masses and widening the cleavage between white and black labor. Advocates of Segregation With the development of the Negro intelligentsia, middle class intellec- tuals, a layer of small capitalist business men and bourgeoisie in America and Africa, as well as Negro bourgeois politicians, native chiefs, there has grown up a very substantial block of Negro reformists. They line up with the white bourgeoisie against the class interests of the Negro masses, This group supports “ghetto life,” racial segregation; they are em- ployed by white capitalists and phil- thropists to work out separatist “ghetto” programs for the Negro masses in order to keep the ranks of the workers divided. The Urban League has followed a vicious policy of creating hatred among Negro workers against white workers. The Urban League leaders tell the Negro workers: The white capitalists are your friends, They supply you with jobs; the white workers don’t want you to have a job; you should accept a job even at lower wages than the white workers from your white friends, the capital- ists. This is the counterpart of the policy of the A. F. of L. leaders. To- day Kinckle Jones, a leader of the Urban League, is a high paid official in the government. These leaders place the whole blame of the plight of the Negro people upon the white working class and free the white capitalist class of all the blame. This is the fun- damental policy of the Negro reform- ists. It is not difficult for them to influence the nationalist tendencies among sections of the backward rank | and file of the Negro people, espe- cially since chauvinism has been raised to such a’ high degree by the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party lead- ers. It is not difficult for them to develop the hatred of the Negro peo- ple on nationalist lines against the white working class. Crisis Increases Oppression Meanwhile the economic crisis has not let up. The conditions of the Negro people become worse. The at- tacks upon the Negro people during this crisis are severe. The whole na- tional oppression of the Negro peo- ple, jim-crowism, segregation, lower standards, discrimination by the NRB.A. and on jobs, discrimination in getting relief, increased lynchings are the outstanding expressions of the catastrophic conditions of the Negro People today. The government has used all of its agencies not only to attack the liv- ing standards but to tighten its grip upon the masses in order to prepare the way for fascism and to prepare for war with their terrible effects upon the Negro people, examples of which we find in Austria and Ger- many where fascism exists. The Negro reformists are more and more the willing agents of the government in its attacks upon the Negro masses. These savage attacks against the Negro people and lynch terror have caused the widest indignation among | BEA white and Negro workers and have brought them into militant struggle against oppression and lynching. The indignation of the masses against lynching, the revolutionization of the Negroes against the whole system of capitalism has caused great concern and fear in the ranks of the white rulers. ‘They are therefore calling upon their willing tools,-the Negro reformist leaders, to help them head off the Negro masses from Commun- ism, from revolutionary struggle. This accounts for the feverish activ- ities of the Negro reformists for the fake anti-lynch bills ve ’ | | now before #3 REW Dafty Worker Benefit Show Hl “Ten Days That Shook. the World” S"* ™= and Workers Newsredt. “Bread” Saturday, March $rd, 8 F. M. et 3039 Salmon Street Admission 15¢. Philadelphia MOVIE SHOWING “Ten Days That Shook the World” and “Bread” March 4th, 7:30 P. 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