The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1934, Page 4

‘ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1934 Page Feur of Indust Auto Workers Union at Labor mae | COUNCL In the Plaee of Mr. Frankenstein Company Union by Board Hearing To Strike to Win Demands Phil Raymond in Speech The d bonus has beer Calls on Men Says Only Organization —> > IsReal Power ot NRA In Drive o | | @ | Through ThisBody, Wall | gress of n Workers “Industry that industry . eut to 43: Production 7 Ts it = aa needed “constant liason betwee! Shows Hows Codes Dee om 600 and 700 by Workers Will Street and Roosevelt |the Adm stration and the Cod | : 7 a y to 1,000 doors fF ay ‘ as 2 } | Authorities"—in other words, per t Hit Auto Workers gaaphacrwe ines, Better Conditions | Closely Linked manent, active supervision by in: ' a the Saas ey RS: |dustry of the United States gov- Note: The following is the dev- : vet nid in eaze Choice. (b) The establishment of (NOTE:—The following is the | onment’s carrying out of its orders astating exposure of the N. R. A = SS elected shop committees without fourth of a series of six articles “Government Pie “ representatives on auto codes made by Phil Ray- t and Tail far of victimization, (¢) The aboli- on the fascist developments of the |code authorities,” said Sloan, from mond, one of the leaders of the ve years ag | fn of company Salons, apy avetem, N. R, A. The previous article | experience in administration of the Auto Workers Union, at the Na- 5900 lamps in, Srviee-men, an industrial spy cotton textile code, “although they tional Labor Reard hearings in | 2°) Hig ch fl get : st agencies, (d) No interference with it get Pg ag SH aa have"s sete! Wine tase pe ae A Washington, on March 14. The | 1s gap lamps pe or a total Fight to eke a base sel a st influential and useful members.” gomands pee latn 2 by La aad of 8.000 lamps 8 hours at the Ape all compulsory arbitra Two committees were named ‘And immediately James %, Ben, Werkers Union, which express s. real interests of the auto work- ers, should he brought before every worker in the industry.) By PHIL RAYMOND es of $4 per day 87— by 33 Plant—Department No. - Increased output IV—Straight Weekly Wage (a) Abolition of all piece rates, | gang work, percentage, bonus, bade- | oux, and other cheating pay| schemes, the Business Congress of 4,000 ex- | pleiters that met in Washington | recently, to act for the leading industrialists. While the commit- tees met, the Commerce Depart- ment’s Business Advisory and Planning Council also assembled nett, of the Printing Equipmen' Authority, seconded the thought “Each code is, after all, a law, mad by a group of amateur legislators We must make up our minds wha’ to do, do it, and take the conse- Auto Workers Union ex-!1-3 per cent over 1929, at the pi V—Against Discrimination under the author of the fascist |TU&nces.” : a presses the sentiment of the great ent wage of $4 per dav as against) (,) No discrimination against any plan, Swope. Swope announced foie the on bree heady of automobile wo je- the wage in 1 of $7.20 per day. worker—particularly Negroes, women some plan was being arranged to i bere Rear petit ull authori ity in the renewal o Ford Plant Cylinder Block De- and youth, (b) The establishment of | merge these groups into a super- _ ae - Be ee Authorities A.) Code for the in- : partment—Production 2 years ago Of) Ci pay tar equal work te theae| council.) FY senegal olen ele ah For the second time, Gen-| 1,200 blocks a day al wages of $8 sections of the workers; the grant- ae Se Pures 6 Uh, 0 aout a ee ty og appre he open| Shameless discrimination against ee in 8h shope. oo By MARGUERITE YOUNG provisions of the code—sometimes : pote ace ced: ahve Snnikcets —Workers Unemployment am the open dustry Despite the relentl of the s rise in living nds of tens the Manufacture: Code to a In many plants, Ne- refused employment. In er oes are not permitted departments nor to operations but are limited to the most undesirable and vation wage of 43c per hour and less, to man-killing speed-up system te victimization for union activity or | even for protesting against whole- sale violations by employers of their! own (manufacturers) code. Fully 40 per cent of the automobile work- dangerous work. None of the plants employ Negro women Auto workers continue to be de- nied the right to organize into unions of their own choice. Hun- dreds of workers are being victim- ized for attempting to organize into Social Insurance | (a) Adequate cash relief to all un- employed auto workers to be paid) by employers, and the city and state goyernments. (hb) The immediate enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill—HR 7598. | Spokesmen of the N. R. A. said at the time of the passage of the N. R. A. that Section 7A has broken | the fetters of company domination and given the workers the right to| AFL Organizer Tells Why Officials (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) In other words, the two Commit- | tees and the Business and Adyis- ory Council are to be fused, and to become the nucleus of a body iden- tical with (though of course under a new name) Swope’s National Chamber of Commerce and Indus- try! The details for accomplishing this are now being worked out. So are the lengths to which the “Coun- cil of American Industry” will go in exercising the vast power Swope called the ‘Code Authority’—which will be the Board of Directors.” On it there should be a representative appointed by the N, R. A. or the President to “protect the public and consumer interest and reeeive all data and information that is avail- able to the Board of Directors... as well as the minutes of the meet- ings of the Board of Directors,” Notice, ome representative who won't eyen attend the meeting but will receive “minutes of the meet- ings!” This lonely one, who is to organize. These statements have| e e a e mvisages for it. If we can be|« ” me be A forced Taba Oo Where workers have un-|Proven to be a hollow mockery to} B St t ut e it. be | “protect” the interests of the Bee ee ee eee ails crsur Tie Gecise ce | MURRELL RUBE hg iE scmne| rea rl es; mt ) guided by his original plan—he said | millions against the few exploiters Beg Gt Rh A) Lorganite | union of their own|Panies have discharged men for | it should include representatives of | represented by from a half to two ASiAod (nehaned feet s been flouted | union activities with impunity wher- By H. G. ‘all Ca nee apd ae all pee dozen, shall receive “information.” ray ‘the anal Gage The strikes! ever they have not been resisted by | ‘ t ern cm ate z . jk jy and manufacturing, all trade| John McGinley, of the Silk Code edgy a Cte eee in Bagewater| the organized might of the worke le TS seldom that we ort Bs das ar ee hieceterk PR stag adage riparta get al ey \ associations representing local or| Authority, warned one group meet- and of OFROTS, : ae 1 7 vidtion! 3 for the A. F. of L. official- | wording o! e aul - v" . ical divisi h ; * : és Ana VOHaReT CAKE Cate We demand an end to the victimiza- |! reasons for the A | wor 4 | geographical isions, such as|ing of the Congress of Industry Wat ee erat ances P| Be Shee! Hie ee fares tion cf Union workers and the im-|dom’s strikebreaking policy from cifically that the auto bosses are) ‘The rank and file of the A. F. of|Chambers of Commerce; that it| that they'd iter TNeay ak oeeat ee ce feign, Cheveler’s ree. strike in Detrolt, etc, have either| mediate re-instatement of all work-|their own mouths, In the March given the right to form company|t,, we learn, are suspicious of the|snould elect a Bowrd of Gonmnors a sham labor front on the bosses’ much as in. 103 ee on coante suppressed by armed, ers discharged for union organiza- |issue of the “American Federation- | unions, which shall be established | labor boards. ‘They do not want "to| which in turn should elect certain | Goss Authorities. He said: “It istered a profit of #121 a9 ne ee *e sn ay snuffed eat ter kn han jist,” official organ of the A. F. of L.,| through the so called “merit” clause. | rely on” them. But the A. F. of L.|members to “sit in Washington and | would be the better part of wisdom erperel Se eRe of the Regional Labor| We demand that all these andjappear a series of castrated and|To hide their hand in the business, | bureaucrats, to help the govern-|act as @ Board of Appeals on alllto accord labor one or ‘ae Tehas eS BS ee eon | other workers that have been fored | abbreviated reports from A. F. of L.|Green, Lewis, Hillman argued for/ment’s polley of trustification for| questions that may arise in the in- | generosity!] places on che voce et the automobile companies have increased earnings many fold. Lower Living Standards That the real wages of the work- tomobile ind ic: consumr vitally family e Detroit of one food to every item, workers Inhuman Speed-Up On top of decreasing wages and rising living costs has come the in- tensification of the hellish speed-up system—speed-up which causes men To remedy the condition described above, the Auto Workers Union and the delegates elected from the shop demand: That the Manufacturers’ (N. R. A.) Code for the automobile in- dustry, whic hwas renewed until September Ist, 1984, shall be im- mediately cancelled. That the following code for the automobile industry shall be adopted and en- forced: T—Inereased Wages (a) $35 Minimum wage for a 30- into the company unions against | organizers all over the couniry,| elimination of the words “company | the bosses and starvation for the their will shall meet together imme-| dealing mainly with the results of {union,” but the “merit” clause, the | masses, “have kept them in check.” diately in meetings outside of com-|the N. R. A. pany proper with company offi- | cials and foremen barred from these | meetings, so that they can freely de- cide to which organization they wish | to belong. Workers in the automobile in- dustry have found through bitter | experience that they cannot depend upon government agencies or the A. F. of L. officials to safeguard their interests. It has only heen! | One bureaucrat, W. B. Hammill of |Des Moines, Iowa, brags that they jhave had no strikes, and he tells | why: | “We have had no strikes because we are determined to assist the government in the New Deal.” That the New Deal leads to actual cuts in money wages, not to say the tremendous drop in real (or the} |means by which the bosses were to| The rank and file, according to | put the company unions inte action, | the admissions of the A. F. of L. |was agreed to and OK'd by these | leaders are getting fed up on the| | gentlemen. |New Deal. They came into the A. By helping company unions, by | P. of L. for struggle to win better | breaking strikes, as the gentlemen | wages and conditions. The A, F. of from Iowa informs us, the A. F. of | L. bureaucracy is clearly lined up L. leadership is determined to help | against them and on the side of the |the Morgan - Rockefeller - Mellon | bosses and their government. Do| | government, graced by Roosevelt, to|we require any greater testimony | put over the new deal. for the necessity of the greatest | Rank and File i jattention to opposition work within terpretation and enforcement of the | national code provisions.” They | would be, in effect, a Super Code Authority—the last court of de- cision in broad policies of employer- employe relations, as well as in those governing production, dis- tribution, organization of industry, etc.! And the nucleus is already functioning in just this way. The Committees are now preparing “re- ports” on what they will actually do about the much publicized dema- gogy of shortening hours and in- through the exercise of their united | | purchasing power value) of wages, |the A. F. of L.? Do we need any |ereasing wages (of which, more thorities before pressure became strong enough to force equal rep- resentation.” But McGinley was over-cautious. Since the Congress of Industry, highest government authorities have made it amply clear that they con- sider one government representa- tive on each Code Authority suffi- cient. Another point in the Swope Plan was that the whole question of com- pliance under the codes—including “compliance” in the bogus promise of collective bargaining to labor— to faint at their jobs and is the hour week, with corresponding in-! might and the strike weapon that |i, contained im this very series of| ‘They are, indeed, having a hard | more impressive argument for Asad Cire ted foscat ts placed in the hands of the Code direct cause of growing number of creases in wages to cover further the workers have been able to im- | reports from which we culled the/|time of it. The same Mr. Hammil|ning these members of the A. F. of} 7 ry’ at will | Authorities, “ : serious accider nd deaths. A few rises in cost of living. 30 per cent prove their conditions and receive| above gem. |from Des Moines, complains to his|l. who are’ being consciously and — ly tell Roosevelt and the N. R./the governing board of cod examples from the Briggs and Ford imerease for those now receiving consideration for their grievances.| \ definitely betrayed by their leaders? | 4: ¥ at to do for them. plants will indicate terrific speed-up that exists in the industry: above this minimum. time. (b) No over- (ce) A guaranteed minimum of The Auto Workers Union greets the| It is this principle of class col- strikes now developing in the auto|laboration with the bosses which | fellow strikebreakers that the new | members who have come into the A. > * A proposal for such an organiza- association is unable to exact com- pliance, the complaint shall be : Ais 1, |¥- of L. recently want to strike ; E | tion was brought right out into the | turned over to the Federal Trade, Briggs, Highland Park Plant—De- 40 full weeks work a year. industry and calls upon the workers | activates William Green and Wil “against the miserable conditions. HAT has this New Deal, that the open by one of this group's spokes- | Commission or the Department of! j partment No. 337—Metal Finishers II—Abolition of the Speed-Up everywhere to organize into unions|liam Collins in trying to stem the |. came into the A. F. of L. for| *’ 4: F: of L. leadership is helping }men in the public sessions last | Justice.” used to put out 300 to 400 bodies (a) Abolition of the inhuman of their own choice, to set up united auto strike. There is one little fact, laction, but find they have to buck |e government put over, achieyed| week. Lew Hahn, department store} And this principle the Congres: in 9 to 10 hours. At present, tWo speed-up system and aN speed-up, committees of action, to organize incidentally, we want to TENOR on against’ Greens, Collins, and for the workers? We do not need to magnate, of the Retail Code Au- | of Industry also adopted. As Wil- shifts of 6\2 to 7 hours turn out 560 devices. (b) Election by the work- | the fight against intolerable condi-| here, which will be dealt with more | (1... smaller editions, the Mr, Ham- | 8° outside of the doctored and care- | thority, proposed “united councils | liam H. Davis, N.R.A. Director of bodies with a reduction of 40 per) ers of department committees to ditions and to prepare for strike/fully in a later article. In their | its. fully culled reports of the A. F. of |of related and interdependent in-| Compliance, personally declared to cent of the working force ergulate all production schedules. actions to win the above demands, | “determination to assist the govern- | : L. leaders as given in the March |dustries and codes—a super code | the barons: Briges, Mack Avenue Plant—De- TII—Right of Workers to Organize disregarding the A. F. of L. officials) ment in the New Deal.” the A."F./ “It is difficult,” complains Ham- |‘‘Federationist,” So great are the |authority to harmonize conflicting | “We shall turn the question of partment No. 65—three weeks ago, (a) The right of workers to or-, who attempt to hold them back|of L. leadership is mainly respon-| mil, “at times te convince new interests.” Sloan at the same time the men were getting 62c per hour. The Fight Against White Chauvinism in the Pre-Convention Discus RESULTS OF LONG MONTHS OF WORK OFTEN WIPED OUT BY FAILURE OF Ry JAMES 8. ALLEN The question of white chauvinism has been discussed frequently in the Party. It is raised again in the Resolution of the Central Commit- tee in relation to the necessity of ganize into unions of their own troopers fully the working class to our program on the Negro question, Only Determined Fight Can Ovyer- come Distrust of Negro Masses capable of winning | yet from victorious struggle. ‘sible for the company unions in the | members to rely on the Boards for (Continued on Page 5) of the direct pressure of environ- ment as the result of mistaken social-democratie conceptions which have been prolonged in our moye- ment by the general white chau- vinist, atmosphere in which we live. made the Negro program an |integral part of its activities, 3) The “inability” of some white comrades to recognize even more open acts of white chauvinism and |lead a struggle against them, leay- the social-democratie position on the national and colonial question in general which led to their ‘‘so- cialist colonial” policy (i.e. social- imperialist policy) still maintains a place in our ranks and hinders a WHITE COMRADES TO WAGE INTENSIVE FIGHT ON ALL must give expression to are not something which we mechanically slap on from above, but demands which the Negro workers feel as their own, demands in addition to and aboye those put forth by the told the group meeting of the Con- sion of the Commun MANIFESTATIONS (Continued on Page 8) ist Party OF PREJUDICE of the fact that they have been forced into an even worse position in every respect than corresponding strata of the white population, De- mands raised for white workers in any specific situation do not there- own class interests, are other ques- tions, questions of tactic, which must be solved on the basis of our program for each locality for each situation. c ; : s The pitfalls that these miscon- intensifying our organizational work x ey a st ig no ing this for Negro comrades to do. |The ‘Socialist Party conception that | full realization of the importance | white workers. This arises out of|fore, cover the demands of the cepti F among the Negro workers, and in einen taut Negro yi eee itt These subtle forms of white chau-|the “Negro problem is to be solyed|of the Negro question. 2 { the imperialist oppression of the Negro workers or at most only in arinten iniseued tek ee connection with fascism Comrade Beis a Lo Mecne Vea ae are |Vinism are not so much the result! when the laber problem is solved,”' ‘The special demand’ which we! Negroes in the United States, out |an incomplete and highly unsatis- against fascism. Precisely in ee ipvoraes, so saiaition, soins on the | Te tea at nolating aut su | factory manner The falurg to|gewatt facia, Preiser im the fsm’ at the same time correctly|Jaunching attacks against acts of white chauvinism hecause it leaves in Tee ee must this question . Sages shaeiningl ee white chauvinism. The Negro people mtr : ‘ le ral y the Party in connec- labelling white chauvinism as the Have dana Cnt fon ceiitnes the inequality as between white and most serious, right opportunist, in- fiuenee at work on this field within our movement An — intensive, uncompromising struggle against white chauvinism) is the prerequisite for the successful Our main strength in overcoming dis- trust and lack of confidence in the is Party among the Negro masses precisely in the struggle waged the Party among the white workers for the overcoming of prejudice, for New York Holds Section Conventions Sun. Negro worker unaltered, no matter if the level of this inequality has been raised, as, for instance, in win- ning @ wage increase in a factory both for white and Negro workers without changing the basis of dis- tion with every immediate demand and struggle in which white work- ers are involved, if the South is not to continue to be one of the most fertile fields for fascist recruitment. Shunning the problem, evyadi it, 3 = ’ -. = - ss a ay ae eri: ee precisely in the South, is to hel eld of the Negro question. “Th ie Rovkimg-class solidarity and in mo-| CHAS, KRUMBEIN TELLS RESULTS OF FOUR SECTION CONVENTIONS ALREADY HELD |%™™tion azeinst the Negro, | Precisely in E field of the Negro question. Tt is) pitizing them in the struggle for Opportiainin Sabie leak of csias the pivot from which all other ques-| Negro rights. Our program is most estes aa + : SUB = zs: Sabena —- tadlan Wuvitaisces Cannel Counterpoise With Ghan- tions swing. acceptable to the Negro masses.) NEW YORK.—Eleven section con- The weaknesses in the fight for the | emphasized this fight on two fronts, The argument that too mueh in- ag wh, sats Fature To Root Out Chauvinism | But, they ask, can we swing and/yentions of the Gommunist Party. demands of the unemployed (in-| “The reports at the Harlem con- epalism Hampers Work Some comrades have learned from bitter experience that often months of struggle in which Negro workers have participated side by side with white workers are unproductive of organizational results, or that or- ganizational results which are ob- tained as a result of long months are we swiiging the white workers to the support of this program on every issue which faces both the white and Negro masses today? Is the Communist Party to be trusted —they ask, ith thousands of demagogic promises still ringing in their ears—to carry out its program on the Negro question? Every act of white chauvinism in a Party or- New York district, will be held tod: | and tomorrow, Charles Krumbein, | district organizer of the New York | district of the Party, announced. Four section conventions of the New| | York district were held last Sunday. | “The four section conventions | of the Communist Party held last} Sunday resulted in decided gains) cluding the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill) of the work among Negroes, youth and women, in the fight against the im- mediate war danger, etc., were taken up with self criticism by the dele- gates. The sections where the biggest strikes were held (shoe, hotel, taxi, vention, as well as the discussion of the delegates, brought out that growing out of the increased in- fluence of the Party among the Negro masses, the Negro reformisis, bourgeois nationalism, has increas- ed its activities, and an intensified campaign of exposure of the Negro reformists must be carried on,” eon- sistence on the Negro question has the effect of driving white workers away, of diverting them from “more important” questions, is the rankest kind of opportunism, but it is in- sufficient to label it as such and let it go at that. Comrades who advance such arguments are at- tempting to cloak their own chau- vinism with an expansive concern There has been a marked ten- dency to counterpoise the struggle against the influence of petty-bour- geois nationalism to the struggle against white chauvinism, Although there is an intimate connection be- tween the two struggles, they are waged on different fronts and can . in no way be counterpoised to each of hard work, are lost overnight ganization which is overlooked|for the Party,” Charles Krumbein,| ete.) will hold their conventions this} “"Ued Comrade Krumbein. for the proletarian revolution. More Ghee on bere: ones the mistaken because of the failure on the part| Without a struggle precisely by |district organizer for the Commu- 'Saturday and Sunday. Pree iar ana rh tie ea ae Oe ce epenly Napda a prints oe cone pe a eee ‘8 Benne bakes Eh i nas. Fe. bag 74 8 | Sitio: rea Te. ee peat Must Win Negro Workers a newly organized section. This sec-| the basis of much inertia in regard |! Chauvinism, in others it arises ing all manifestations of prejudice. Negro workers will readily unde: stand that white workers who have | hitherto been under the influence of chauvinism cannot get rid of it at the word of command just be- cause they have joined one of the revolutionary organizations. But | they will not understand, will not take the Communist Party seriously and rightly so, if they do not see a | question Within the Party, white chauyin- ism, in its most subtle expressions, is still the principal obstacle to more effective work in wining the Negro masses for the Communist moye- ment. Here it is not a question of open acts of white chauvinism, which are the least of obstacles he- y are readily apparent and it. The most serious ex- | tions, section 4 (Harlem), section 14 | (Middle Bronx), section 9 (parts of Queens, Suffolk, Nassau and Jam- | aica Counties), and section 11 (Boro! | Park, Coney Island and Brighton), | were characterized by the high po- | litical level of the discussion of the delegates. The resolutions of -the 13th Plenum of the Communist In- | ternational, and the C.C., as well as the draft resolution of the New “In the fight against the imme- diate war danger, against the whole program of the capitalist govern- ment of war, fascism and hunger,” declared Comrade Krumbein, “it is particularly necessary to work among the white workers against, | white chauvinism and at the same time to draw new masses of Negroes to our Party. The Negroes are the most oppressed sections among the tion has made progress in gaining new members and work among the city transportation workers, rail- road and metal workers. In section nine (Jamaica, Queens, etc.), good results were secured in the unemployed work, especially in Nassau County, where a county re- lief organization was organized with the help of the Socialist Party lead- ers, in order to prevent the workers to the Negro, This shows a com- plete lack of confidence in the Party position on the Negro question, a failure to understand it and realize its importance. . The working class as a class, even the most backward section in this ere the South, will foliow e Party program ineluding self- jdetermination, not out of any gen- era] humanitarian impulses, because out of the failure of the white com- Tades to lead in the struggle against chauvinism. The real connection is this: that the struggle against white chauvinism within as well as outside the Party, when led by white Com- munists, supplies the chief arsenal of weapons for the Negro comrades in their struggle against bourgeois nationalism. The argument of Dr. DuBois | } bg i . ; CHARLES KRUMRBEIN working class.” from forming their own organiga-|in their struggle for their day-to- working j constant cand dic nas bean ei me ie of Beate chauvinism In} york qistriét, which served as. the (Organieer, NY. dls eta) Taking up the problems of each! tion. Inside this county-formed or-| day class interests ag well as in the pn he Ph glo 4 ber ig waged A Nie ihe | 4 basis of discussion, were properly section separately, Comrade Krum-| ganization the Communist Party| proletarian reyolution itself this is : my fe Negro these organizations, precisely by the} 1) The reluctance to advance white Communists. What drives Negro workers away js not. so much expressions of race prejudice, but the failure or hesi- tancy on the part of white Commu- nists to fight against these expres- sions. The crucial point, the real|other times on the ground that too test, in the eyes of the Negro masses | Much insistence on the Negro ques- of both the correctness and the| tion has the effect of driving white Sincerity of the Communist program | Workers away from us. is the degree to whieh the white| 2) Adding Negro members to workers in the Communist Party; committees and advancing special and under its influence have been |demands for Negroes as an “after- able to disassociate themselves from | thought” and mechanically, which | special demands for Negro workers in every sphere of activity, some- times on the ground that there is general demands already | no necessity for doing this since our | embody | . the demands of the Negroes, at| bership since applied in these four conventions to the concrete and practical problems of the sections.” “All four of these sections recorded decided increases in mem- the extraordinary party conference, the increase being from 50 to 100 per cent. In all of the sections fresh new forces, many new Party members, were among the delegates, and were added to the section committees. The four section committees were strength- ned by the addition of these new the “white superiority” ideology and | has a paternalistic tinze, and shows | elements, who are taking an active have hecome really effective shock-! that the Party throughout has not | part in the work in the sections, In \fact the discussions showed that the new members spoke with more enthusiasm than many of the old Party members. The four section conventions already held showed | real progress in concentration. They showed the building of shop groups in their concentration points, which included city -transport, railroad, shoe, metal, etc.” The section conventions, Comrade Krumbein said. were carried through in the light of the sharpest Self criticism, especially on the ques- tions of the concentration work in {the shops and the trade union work. bein commented, “The Harlem sec- tion convention took note of the increase in membership of one hun- dred per cent in the past year,’ Krumbein said. “Harlem is the na- tional.as well as district concentra- tion point. The excellent report of Comrade Ford as well as the speech of Comrade Heywood, stressed the need for an increased -fight against white chauvinism, and at the same time, strengthening of the front against the Negro reformists.” Comrade Krumbein was one of | the reporters at the Harlem con- vention. The speeches of all three comrades, as well as the discussion, has led important and successful struggles for relief and is building the Unemployment Councils in spite of the treachery of the S.P. leaders. “The section convention of sec- tion 11 (Borough Park, Brighton, Coney Island, etc.) marked the fact that the Party has real influence among the transportation workers. In section 11 there are many ad- herents of the Socialist Party. Al- though a number of former Social- ists have joined the Party, one of the chief tasks of the section con- vention noted in section eleyen is the securing of new members among the Socialist rank and file,” the only road to success, Our posi- tion on the Negro question is as inseparable a part of Communist policy as is the dictatorship of the proletariat, and is based upon the same Marxist-Leninist analysis, Lack of Boldness Helps Class Enemy There cannot be ‘too much” in- sistence upon the Negro question, just as there cannot be “too much” insistence upen the programatic de- mands of the Party in general. Method, manner of placing. the problem before the workers in the most intimate connection with their people, that the white workers in- cluding those in the Communist Party, cannot be trusted, can be overcome by showing the re- verse to be true from day-to-day evidence. A persistent struggle Paras Seas relent ig] inst - cent: of white oheainies, will conyince the Negro masses that here is the Party, at last found, consisting of white and Negro revolutionary workers, whose program of proletarian rev- olution inyolyes, as an integral part, the liberation of the Negro People, n ait | repan