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on Page. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1934 ‘Comintern Led Policy of “The Lie They Told Goes As a Puff of Wind, Building Socialism in USSR ‘And We Get Nothing, Leninist Building of Socialism in One Country Guided by Stalin By ROBERT MINOR. Article TX ip the discussion of the American question in the Executive Com- tional, Comrade Sts to the -Lainist 1 literature when he said “Many now think that the gen- eral crisis of world capitalism will axoution not affect America. That, of course, is not true. It is entirely untrue, comrades. The crisis of pitalism is developing rapidity and can- American capital a revolutionary develop in America. when a revolutionary crisis America, tha* will be ing of the end of world S a whole. It is essen- the American Commu- should be capable of k rical moment red and of assuming ip of the impending Class s‘ruggle in America. Every effort and every means must be employed in preparing for that, des. For that end the n Communist Party must be improved and Bolshevized. For that end we must work for the complete liquidation of factional- d dey alist States of by France, worked neircle the Union lics with an iron f rvention, while the list drums of prosperity were ming and while the struggle hin the Soviet Union against ts increased in bit- z JInien of Soviet So- Republics boldly marched rd on the path towards social- Communism is the Soviet power he electrification of the coun- r Lenin had said. Under the sure hand of Stalin there was no wavering, the “impos- sible” Five-Year Plan was adopted in its maximum form. The ruthless, courageous carrying through of the industrialization of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics, maintaining and strength- ening at the same time the alliance of the proletariat with the poor and middle peasants under the leader- Ship of the workers became decisive fo: a whole historic epoch. The Letters from Our Readers CLEAR VIEW OF CAPITALISM IN “DAILY” Washington, D. C. Dear Comrade: Your letter in regard to worker correspondence at hand, and will be glad to write to you from time to time. In the meantime I wish to state that I am a regular and devoted reader of the Daily Worker. Reading the “Daily” is like taking an airplane trip, and getting a clear bird’s eye view of the whole show. It's a real bracer. I have just sent a strong criti- cism to E. Haldeman Julius, who has recently been making savage attacks against the U. S. Commu- nist Party and the Daily Worker in his publication, “American Free- man.” habi: of exposing these “dope ped- diers” such as Haldeman Julius, Heywood Broun, etc., who throw poisonous darts of clever design, principally for the benefit of the white collar proletariat, who are not yet fully convinced, due to lack of theory. Our recent expose and analysis of Gretta Palmer was an excellent example. Comradely, HW: THE DAILY WORKER AN “EYE- OPENER” TO SCHOOL TEACHER New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: For the past few months I have| found the Daily Worker indispen- sible to my growing enlightenment on the questions that once used to puzzle and embitter me, without presenting any satisfactory avenue of escape, or solution. Today, a new, healthy, and inspiring attitude has taken hold of me, with what I am certain is an unalterable devo- tion to the cause, which you so courageously and consistently sup- port. Reading the Daily Worker has driven me to study and investigate what before I was wont to accept as readily from the capitalist, liberal press. I know at last, thanks to my identity with the workers’ cause to which I am bound, that my former futile and sterile cynicism has given way to a constructive program, and even to a personal happiness. Thus has my work with children in the class-room taken on a new drive, a new purpose, notwithstanding the recent pronouncements of the for- mer Superintendent, O’Shea, I am enclosing a check to cover a month's subscription for friends and enemies for whom, I hope, the daily reading of the Daily Worker will Prove as potent a draught and an eye-opener, as it has for me. * Relief Meat Given I believe we should make a) total of productive forces of the US.S.R. rose to the level of France (the decisive military power on the European continent) and passed France! The U.S.S.R. caught up with the classic mistress of the world market, the classic country of machine industry—Great Brit- ain—and passed England by! Then the U.S.S.R. caught up with the most. powerful of all modern Eu- ropean industrial States—Germany —and passed Germany by! As a country of machine indus- id mass production, the pro- ery of production, m, steel, coi ion and electr Union of Soviet Social- | —the citadel of the world revolution — has become the strongest power in Europe and Asia. We must reflect that machine in- the b of mili! trength. Viewed as a policy of the leading Party of the Communist Interna- tional—as a policy of the Commu- nist International itself—for all of | these questions of policy were} fought out in the International arena in struggle against the coun- ter-revolutionary Trotskyists, who jeered the idea of building social- | ism in one country, and against the | Right-wing opportunists and con- | cilliators—what is the effect of this | raising of the citadel of revolution | to the position of the strongest in- | dustrial country of Europe? | Six years ago, when Comrades | Bucharin, Rykoff, and Tomsky led | their struggle against the line of | the C.PS.U. (and the line of the | Communist International), and) when the fight that these comrades | made was drawing to their banner all of the corrupt opportunist ele- ments from Brandler to Lovestone | —what was the world picture then? | (To Be Continued) | | As Pay for Hard Work in Alabama. (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) | TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala.— ie; farmers in the South, walk to Dadeville with a piece of paper | just to hear the operator of the |C. W. A. tell the poor people a lie. We all are too far apart to win | these demands. If we all mean |to do anything we will have to be |as one and join hands and face | these rotten bosses and tell them | what we want and what we need, | and tell them that the damn piece |of paper won't feed our famliy and | put shoes and clothes on them and | send our children to school. The Chambers County landlords, | some of them are working on the |roads and have tenants on their | places, and the tenant can’t get a | job and still the landlord won't furnish the tenant anything. The poor can’t get on the road for the landlords keep nearly all of us cut off. When the poor man works for Mr. Landlord, he doesn’t want to pay us anything but some sorghum syrup or some relief meat, and when the women wash for the white ladies, they won’t pay noth- ing for their washing but some old worn-out dresses, an old piece of stockings or a little meat or butter, and the meat is sometimes | some relief meat, and they say that | this relief meat isn’t to be sold, | but some of us wash-women have }some sort, so they feel they don't Farmer’s Wife Tells of Eviction By a Farmer Correspondent CLOVERDALE, British Columbia.| —We were so despondent and mis- erable, just to be thrown out on the |road, and we had done a lot of} team work for our landlady. It was) supposed to go for rent but she} decided not to credit us with it and) ve had nothing in writing. Had she given us credit for the w done, we wouldn’t have owed any- thing. We have got a shack now and are beginning to gather our stuff up| again. We slept in our own beds} last night for the first time since} Dec. 18. We tried to form a Farm-| ers’ Unity League here but most of our neighbors have a pension of need it. We have United Front meetings,but we haven’t the num- bers, and when they evicted me, I was alone and had no way of let- ting the members know. They would have come to my assistance. A couple of neighbors took me) in—they come from Levania—they| were so kind to me. A Chinese gave my husband shelter. He slept in the barn but got his meals in the shack of the Chinese. We are going to write to the U. F. L. at Chicago and get their platform and see what we can do about it here. Many thanks for writing to me, I feel so much better. jaying Off All CWA Workers in Michigan County By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent DEMMON, Mich. — Enclosed find a sub for six months Saturday edi- tion of the “Daily.” We here, in Demmon have a small territory and it’s kind of hard getting subs, be- cause what few people there are here are mostly religious people, but we are trying our best The people are looking more to the “Daily” than ever before, be- cause it’s the only newspaper that exposes the C. W. A., N. R. A,, etc., and the workers are starting to realize that these N. R. A,, ete., are a complete flop. In Michigan County they are lay- ing off all of the C. W. A. work- ers by April 1st, and most of them will be put back on relief. Butler, of Oxford, Miss., Uses Whip on Negroes (By a Farmer Correspondent) OXFORD, Miss.—I am writing a letter concerning a little trouble between a Mr. J. D. Butler, a white man, and his three Negro workers. Mr. Butler lives in town and has two of them on his farm. He told these Negroes to put his mules in the pasture and they did, but during the night the mules got out of pasture. One got run over by a truck and broke his hind legs. Mr. Butler went out on the Ne- groes and whipped them. One of his men moved off the place but the other one didn’t have sense enough to move. Mr. Butler told them not to say anything about the whipping he gave them. He told the Negro who stayed he © British Columbia | | fighting for the Negro rights. ” Writes Sharecropper “Yet We Are Still Fighting to Build the Share- croppers’ Union,” He Reports By a Share-Cropper Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala—I have been in the Sharecroppers’ Union three years and still working and I am intending to remain until death, The white people are so hard on us since the Sharecroppers’ Union has been established in the black belt. They won’t organize with us, and fight against helping us. They will not even furnish us jobs, neither will they give us food, yet we are still fighting to build the S. C. U. The bosses have set out to starve us to death, but we are set to |break their rotten system down by organizing into one solid union. But so far we have made it through. They shall not keep the workers down. Up until the present time we have been blessed and able to keep fighting. We have been cut from any money, or a way to get anything, but yet we are liv- ing, though it seems like we are gradually dying, but we must keep fighting for better conditions. Yet we cannot make it without a change. The capitalists have everything clenched in their hands and we must fight to weaken their tight grip and then we can eat and wear as the ruling class does. It’s bad the way we have to go up and ask, and knowing that #% is there we must organize into | ©. jStronger masses and demand the| |bosses to give us what we want. | They are perfect on telling the workers fat-mouth lies that they will give to us on a special day they set for us to come back, and then the lie they told goes as a puff of wind and we get nothing. | I love the Union fine and I have been working ever since it has been in here and I mean to fight but) the way looks dark sometime but | I am looking for a brighter day. We have to continue to beg them. | They say the food is too high for} ;them to buy for us workers. They | claim that the relief food and| | clothing they got they have to buy, | | When they know they are telling a lie. Oh, they are trying to lace it into us heavy. I just found out how dirty the low-down ruling class is, since the S. C. U. has been in here. Here, in the Black Belt is the most jim-crowed place in the world. They jim-crow here everywhere. | At the relief office they jim-crow the Negroes. They give the whites medicine and would not give the Negro even a box of black draught to take if he was sick. But we will fight on until we win our rights. Long live the 8S. G. U. and the ae By an Agricultural worker Correspondent SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The large land owners of Imperial Valley live in grand style. Beautiful homes— running filtered water — electric lights, radio, etc. But the workers who till the fields live in lean-tos. Some who have canvas tents are extremely lucky. We sleep right on the ground, in the sand. We get our water for drinking and cooking and all purposes right from the irrigation ditches. This water must stand at least all night to allow the filth to settle before it can be drunk. Often there are dead horses or cows or other farm animals in the ditches. ‘The workers are about 50 per cent of them Mexicans— 20 per cent are Filipino workers— 10 per cent are Negro workers—30 per cent poor white workers from the South. The last strike m the pea fields was one of the strikes that the growers could not understand. There was 100 per cent solidarity of the workers. ‘We elected our officers in the best way that we could and we com- menced to agitate for 2 cents a Ib. for peas, filtered drinking water, and closed toilets. ‘The Mexican and Philippino work- ers were the first to go out on strike and they went out 100 per cent strong. The Negro workers being mostly local workers who live in the small nearby towns went to their homes with the exceptiion of about 10 who were in the strikers camp. Two days after the strike the white American workers also came out. We held a mass meeting after the picket line and elected a cen- tral strike committee, The growers, having the state, county police had also organized the American Legion posts in the various towns and armed vigilantes to terrorize the strikers. ‘They were not successful as among | got it for washing. would have to pay for the mule. the strikers all of the men—from Militant Pea Pickers’ Strike Described by Negro Worker 25 years of age up had served in the armed forces during some pe- riod of capitalist wars and we im- mediately formed guards and posted them around our camp, and unless you are a member of the various camps you could not penetrate the picket lines after dark. We were not armed but cut ourselves some good elm clubs, and we declared that if we were attacked we would defend ourselves. From the desert of 3,000 white Americans I was elected to represent them on the strike com- mittee and was the only Negro on this strike committee. The strike committee succeeded in exposing the Federal and state arbitrators. Finally they had the county health officers surrounded by legion- aries and armed vigilantes, to come into the strikers camps, and this county health officer, who owns one of the largest farms in the vicinity condemned the strikers’ camp as “ansanitary.” The strike committee pointed out to him that the same condition existed in every one of the growers camps—but that meant nothing. He said we had two hours to either go back to work or get out. The growers were forced to fur- nish gas and oil, and a weeks ra- tion to every person to get out of the county. We received gas and oil and an order for gas and oil in Bakersfield and our week’s ration right in the camp surrounded by over three hundred legionaires and vigilantes, and instead of going back to work we got out. Over half of the pea crop had already been lost and the expense of evacuating between 5,000 to 7,000 workers cost the growers more than their pea crop that was left could ever amount to. All of these workers signed ap- plication cards for membership in the Cannery and Agricultural Work- ers Industrial Union. About 2,000 Western Workers and a lot of the Southern white workers had never seen this paper and one remarked | the readers of the Daily Worker to Texas Farmer Lad Tells About Graft In CWA and PWA By a Farmer Correspondent DECATUR, Texas.—I should like know how the C. W. A. and P. W. A. are administered in a typically rural region. I am a young worker, the son of a poor Texas farmer. Both of us went to the C. W. A. office | to register. My father received a| work card, but they refused to issue | me one, saying that only one mem-| ber of a family was entitled to a job. I raised a kick, saying that I had to eat also, and that my father could not afford to feed me. Pos- sibly fearing that I might cause trouble among the other workers, | they put me to digging in the ditch for the P. W. A. A local politician by the name of Hellum, administra- tor of the C. W. A., wanted to re- fuse me jobs because the bankers have not yet gotten our home, and we still have a few cows and chick- ens. My father and another worker were instructed to move a filling station, in order that the public highway might be widened. Two bosses were placed over these two men. The bosses smoked and slept while my father and the other labored with picks and shovels. These two parasites were unneces- sary to the completion of the job; but Mr. Hellum takes care of his own. A little newspaperman is one of the clerks in the relief office. He calls himself a “liberal” and de- plores Communistic tendencies on the part of workingmen. I am in- clined to think that he has a black or brown shirt hidden away in his closet. His personal treatment of the workers, with whom he. comes in contact, is certainly not com- mendable. Not long ago, some ragged, hun- gry children went into the town theatre after closing time and sal- vaged stray grains of popcorn from the unswept floor. Perhaps their father is one of the many denied work cards by the local C. W. A.- P. W. A. set-up. When the atten- tion of our “liberal” friend was called to this incident, he laugh- ingly remarked: “Maybe the brats didn’t deserve any better.” I happen to know that the local moguls consider this gentleman to be very inefficient. But he knows so much on them that they are afraid to fire him, lest he expose the whole outfit. I am a member of the local Na- tional Guard unit. But I decided Jong ago that I would never take up arms for the capitalists against my fellow workers. I am positive of this since my experience with Roosevelt's ordained grafters, NOTE: We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, cannery workers, and forestry workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Piease get these letters to us by Mon- day of each week. “Why, hell, we should have had that paper here all the time. I have been wondering if there had been union books and stamps and closer cooperation between all revolutionary organizations could not we have gained all of these workers for the revolutionary move- PARTY LIFE Party Comrade Shows Here are a few incidents to show how we grow through the Daily Worker: In the “X Radio” station we made a subscriber of an ex- service man. He reads the paper with delight. He speaks of joining the Workers Ex-service Men's League, of agitating among his old buddies and of writing sketches with a new slant for his audiences. After he is through reading the paper he gives it to another em- ployee unable to buy one with her wages. She, a true blood, American, fine type, is all what's “coming over this country, N. R. A, and all.” She enjoys the paper so much that after she is through with it, she mails it to her daughter in college. The daughter enjoys it and speaks and discusses “Communism” with her} chums, No. 2—My newsboy was con- sidered a “skunk.” During the strike of the workers in Brighton Beach he deliberately went in the bakery because the “poor boss” had a wife and children to support. Of course, the workers boycotted him. Knowing his father, with the wooden leg (lost during the last war) I never abandoned him, but kept talking to him and contrasting the titles of the newspapers when- ever I could. Last night he pulled my elbow and said: “Hey, Mrs., I would like to go up once to your meetings, but I am afraid. I used to sell five Daily Workers, and am now selling 15. I acted wrong during the bread strike, they will not let me in, I am afraid.” “Tll take you in,” says I, “but come with your two brothers, and your father.” No. 3—I sent a subscription to a nephew, a medical student in Co- lumbia. The day after the Madison Square demonstration he was in- vited to a party in a home of a Socialist. Busy with studies, hardly well informed on Communism him- self, he held his ground against five guests, showing that an outburst of thousands of workers who spon- taneously hissed and booed their class enemies can’t be wrong. I do expect results there. No. 4—In Madison Square Garden —before going there I called up a Socialist Comrade to go together. She tells me: “When I heard your voice I felt like sisters and broth- ers who have quarrelled but on the day of a death in the family they come together, and make peace.“ For the sake of getting her attention we exchanged papers. I took her “New Leader” for which I was a constnat contributor in their Women’s Sphere for years (how could I have been so blind?) and she took my Daily Worker. Re- sult: She promised to come with me to hear some of our speakers at home or in the Workers Center. In Madison Square I chummed with my old Comrades expressing my surprise to still find them with Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City ment? Increase Mas WomenWorkers Doubly Exploited in U. S. Industry | By ANNA DAMON | Can we speak of winning the | | majority of the working class in the U. S. A. for the final struggle of power without bringing to the |forefront the struggle around the| daily needs of the eleven million | gro and white women and leading | the fight for their demands? | | Can we speak of an effective | Struggle against fascism and im- | Derialist war without winning the} | millions of toiling women in the U. 8. away from the ideological and organizational influences of paci- | | fism and patriotism? | The 13th E. C. C. I. Plenum, | Resolution om fascism and the} | danger of war and the tasks of the| Communist Parties points to the! immediate necessity of broadening | | our work among women: “Increasing the mass work among women, at the same time promot- ing and training even now a body of active Party women who, during the war, could in a number of cases replace mobilized comrades.” What is the meaning of this declaration in the thesis of the E. c. C, I. Plenum? Why is this great emphasis now | Placed on work among women in the present period of intensified struggle against fascism and war? Precisely because without the tens of millions of Negro and white wo- men employed in industry and agriculture, without the women em- ployed in their homes, without the wives and daughters of the work- ers there can be no serious thought of putting up effective resistance against fascism and imperialist war rushing upon us. Since in war time practically the entire male population capable of carrying arms will be sent to the front, almost three quarters of the workers employed in industry will be made up of women; the one Sincerely, —R. RB. million Negro domestic workers will be placed in factories, This means that the women will make up the bulk of factory workers producing | War materials as well as manning | transportation, Women Will Replace Men in th Coming War How important the U. S. govern- ment considers women for use in war can be seen by the statement of Major General Ely of the U. S, Army, made in April, 1931: “Women will play a greater part in future wars. Governments, in- | doubly exploited wage earning Ne-' cluding our own, have been study- | (ing the use of women in war. Wo-|0ur Work among women—substan- man power in many instances sup- plements and in other cases sup- plants man power in war.” There are in the U. S. close to eleven million wage earning wo- men, two million of whom are Ne- gro women. of all wage earners. In addition there are twenty-three million housewives, millions of whom are employed part-time or doing sweat, shop work at home and are not. listed as wage earners. It is significant to note that dur- ing the ten years 1920-30 (post war period and crisis) the number of women wage earners increased by two and a quarter million. This means an increase of 26 per cent, whereas the number of men in- creased only by 15 per cent and the general population by 16 per cent. These figures show that wo- men are displacing men in many instances as a cheaper labor source, which has the effect of a general lowering of wages for all workers. Due to rationalization and mech- anization of factories women are to be found in almost all industries and can at a very short notice re- Place men. Over 180,000 women are working in metal industries in- cluding iron and steel, 50,000 in the automobile industry, 25,000 in rubber factories, 82,000 in the making of electrical supplies, and 86,000 in chemical industries, 452,990 in the textile industry. The rayon plants, employ from 50 to 60 per cent wo- men. With so many millions of women in production coupled with the fact that night work for women has been re-established since the N. R. s Work Among That is 22 per cent! 4 A. the way is paved for factories | to be run full speed at a 24 hour | stretch during war time by women. Increase Work Among Factory Women Generally speaking, along with | the improvement of the Party’s mass work, we also see improvement in tial increase of Negro and prole- tarian women in the Party; in un- employed and farm movements, in our mass organizations, etc. This. however, cannot be recorded as a result on our part of systematic planned work among women based around their demands. It is rather due to the abilities of our Party and the Trade Union Unity League to involve women in the general strikes and struggles of the workers and to the increased militancy and radicalization of the workers which is reflected among the women masses. Among the million and a quarter workers involved in strikes since Roosevelt’s administration at least 300,000 were women workers in tex- tile, needle, shoe, food, furniture and other factories. In addition to these, wives of workers in basic in- dustries, in mining, metal, auto, vlayed their part in the strikes, and proved the most militant fighters. The Party and the T. U. U. L., however, underestimated the readi- ness for struggle among the masses of women (not in theory, but in daily practice.) We did not recog- nize the need for special forms of agitation and propaganda against fascism and war to follow up the program laid down at the Anti-War Congress. At the numerous Anti- Fascist meetings leading speakers did not show concretely what Fas- cism means to women, against wage discrimination, high cost of living, relief for unemployed women, etc., and the way out by contrasting conditions of women under Fascism with those under Soviet rule. Pre-Convention Discussion Didn't Lead Fight Against Code Discrimination Let us take as an example the In- dustrial Codes, Here we have a concrete instance where the gov- ernment gave official sanction to use women as a cheap labor source by fixing lower wages for women in 25 per cent of all the Industrial Codes, in auto, shoe, printing, cloak manufacturing, etc. Also, no code was drawn up to fix wages for domestic workers who embrace three million women, out of whom 1,138,000 are Negro. Then too, the N. R. A. gave the official sanction through General Johnson, Frances Perkins & Co., to do away with the meager labor legislation barring women from working nights in tex- tie mills in Massachusetts. Surely these issues gave the Party and the T. U. U. L, an opportunity to develop struggles and involve thousands of women around their particular de- mands, but we did not do it on a large scale. While we did raise the demand “For equal pay irrespective of sex, color, or age” at the code hearings, we did not bring these issues be- fore the workers in the factories and working class neighborhoods We did not make the fight against wage discrimination a part of our fighting program against Roosevelt’: N. R. A. in the shop nucleus, or trade unions. Learn to Carry on Bolshevik Work Among Women The fact that only 15 per cent of the T. U. U. L. membership are women and only 30 per cent of the Textile Workers Industrial Union are women, coupled with the fact that in recruiting during November, December (1933) and January (1934) of the 66 textile workers to the Party only 11 were women ‘This shows that there is still a political life in the United States. Comrade Kuusinen’s report of the 13th E. C. C. I. Plenum states, “We have not yet learned to carry on Bolshevik work among prole- tarian women. The first task of all Sections of the Comintern in this sphere is to get rid, once and for all, of the under-estimation of this work, to get rid of the idea that this work is not part of the general Party work.” This applies with full force to our Party. Space does not permit discussion of the problems of work among un- employed women, struggles against inflation and high cost of living which directly affects the women who make up 90 per cent of the consumers, the struggle for chil- dren’s demands, etc., which would prove that the Party still does not recognize special work among wo- men a component part of general Party work. Make Turn Toward Systematic Work Among Women The districts should without delay review International Women’s Day campaign and the status of work among women and lay immediate plans of work in connection with May Day campaign and the International Women’s C Against War which will be held in Paris in August. The plan should be in line with the concentration of work of the District. Each District must choose one or two important factories where women are employed. There the shop nucleus or individual Party members must be made responsible to form circles by grouping con- tacts of women with a view of developing women’s delegate meet- ings. At these factories as well as other large factories where women are employed the Party must carry on simple agitation through shop gate meetings and meetings in neighborhoods, THE WORKING WOMAN, shop bulletins, group meetings, etc., based around the grievances of the women. The lack of political understanding re- garding the increasingly important role of women in the economic and Party must link up these grievances with the danger of fascism and war and the need for the women to e Must Win Over Women to Gain Majority of Working Class organize a struggle against them. The fractions in the trade unions, especially textile, auto, mining, steel and A. F. of L. opposition should review their work among women and work out ways and means of recruiting women into the T. U. U. L.; how to build Auxiliaries; how to begin a movement in the A. F. of L, opposition among women, es- pecially in the Hosiery Workers Union. Win Women for United Action ‘Through the fractions in the Na- tional women’s organizations and in the mass and language ‘organi- zations, Councils of Unemployed, I. Ww. 0, F.S.U., L. S.N.R., LL. D., plans should he laid for broaden- ing the anti-fascist work among women. Special women’s mass meetings, forums, education classes should be arranged as well as wo- men’s literature to be issued. The mass organizations under our influence should take initiative in penetrating the Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs, Women’s Trade Union League, Young Women’s Christian Association, Girl Scouts, Cause and Cure for War, Women’s League for Peace and Freedom as well as church and neighborhood organiza- tions under bourgeois leadership. With the correct approach we can win masses of Negro and white wo- men for united action against lowered standards of living, against fascism and war. Let us carry through in life the decisions of the 13th Plenum of the E. C. C. I. and the 8th Convention Resolution of our Party which states: “The Party must take the initia- tive in leading struggles in defense of the daily needs of white and Negro women in factories, among the unemployed, to combat the pacifist and reformist propaganda “Daily Worker”--Agitator, Organizer and Educater Build Movement bewildered with | How “Daily” Helped One of them @ moribund Party. told me: “Comrade E., I am disgusted with | the leaders, let me know if one of them ever joins your ranks.” I will! The second, a French Com- rade, promised to join me in an evening at the Clarte where we wf! speak French and meet the French Communist Comrades. I have six more concrete examples to give which makes one sometimes forget the heartaches, but space in limited in the Daily Worker. I only want to repeat that more than ever we owe every minute of our lives to push the “Daily” where each and every worker will find the best way to express his mili- tancy. As an agitator, the Daily Worker is above criticism. As an organizer it is learning more and more. As an educator, it is becom- ing better and better. My fond- est hope is to see each comrade put to the task where he fits best in order to save energy, time, and misunderstandings. Comradely yours, —M. E., Brookiyn, N. ¥. rp ret How a Negro Comrade Corrected the Irresponsible Attitude of a Boston Unit Toward the Daily Worker In the South End Unit of the Party in Boston the careless and irresponsible attitude of the oom- rades toward the Daily Worker and their total lack of realization of importance in penetrating masses of workers, resulted in accumulation of a large bill the unit found it impossible to and worse, the stopping of the bundle of five which the unit had been receiving. Of the entire unit, composed of fifteen Negro and white comrades, only one, a Negro Oomrade, W., sufficiently understood the possible consequences of such negligence to take some action. Without. the co- operation of the unit, and on his own responsibility, he ordered ten copies of a Saturday issue of the Daily Worker and went from house to house in his own neighborhood until he sold them. On subsequent Saturdays he did the same thing, always selling ten, until by his own efforts he succeeded in building up a route. For forty weeks to date Comrade W. has continued his work faith- fully, and he has not once been careless about paying his bills. This unemployed worker walks five miles bees i he gives all the money for the sales to the district, not retaining even the profit allowed him. —Section D. W. Agent, Boston. Lumber Mill Boss Tries to Shift the Burden on Workers (By a Farmer Correspondent) MARLOW, N. H. — Recently, a large crowd gathered at the local Grange Hall to attend a meeting called by the Watson Manufactur- ing Co. The crowd consisted of workers, farmers, citizens, and town and local State officers. Mr. Watson addressed the meet- ing by saying that the object was to discuss the possibilities of con- tinuing the operation of the plant at Marlow, or shutting down the plant entirely, or selling the plant te the villagers, or to an rl z tric plant. It is one operated by the Watson the other two being located bury and Leicester, Mass. plant at Marlow is the smallest the three. At the Marlow the workers produce mi sion lumber, etc. A gang of al 20 or 25 workers are employed the mill, in two shifts a E 3 Fy E ae ip i FE The workers are practically all native Americans, having originally been farmers, hunters, trappers, This boss, whom the workers know so well, does not disdain to speed them up and to tell them that he is doing all he can for the workers. And now, after this boss has made some handsome profits; as he himself admitted at this re-: cent meeting, he is talking of shut=" ting the mill down. He has a scheme now to get whatever he can out of you from your savings and then let you pay the high taxes on the mill. Get organized in a strong work- ers’ organization, with real work- ers’ _ solidarity. Elect workers from the mill to be your shop com- mittee, to be in charge of every- thing. Py tape EDITOR'S NOTE: This worker © is right, oniy a worker’s own com- mittee can be effective in protect- ing the interests of the workers. Form a Union to draw up a pro- gram for working conditions, and__ to fight for these conditions. If the plant is actually closed, this same organization must fight for relief from the town or county carried on among women, and win them for united fight against fas- cism and war” and state, and join up in the na- tional fight f Tnemployment | surance ‘and. rellele igi every Monday to pay for the bundle which he sold on Saturday. And” \ (| | Se