The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1934, Page 4

“age Four DAILY WORKER, NRW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1934 lu Carpet Mills| United Committee of Ac Drive for Western Union 10% Pay Rise ® — | eed Workers Up and/| Now Are Laying Them | ] Off Again YONKERS, N. Y.—About eight ionths ago the Al nder Smith parpet Mills, which one of the reese“carpet ma eafies in the United Stat ysy again. They began to hire yack the old hands, but the first to pe hired were the bosses ds. * Most of the carpet mill workers yave been employed by this com- gany for many years, some have siven as much as 25 and 30 of the| oest years of their life working for ti company, but when the big lay ffs came they were thrown out. | when I applied at the office they made me come back many, many | times before they put me back to work Before the boss took me back he said I would have to work two looms. When I was laid off} We were working on one loom. Our department has the smaller looms. Before the lay-off we were get- ting six cents a yard for running one loom, but now with the two looms they pay us three cents a yard. In other words they made us do twice as much work for the six cents. When we ran one loom we could run 50 yards in eight hours, ahd make $3 a day. When we were put on two looms we could not make 100 yards because ons loom was always getting out of order and we Would have many stops. It was very hard to make $3 a day. But the bosses inists upon yardage. If we don’t produce the minimum num- ber of yards they call us over and give us hell. Now with the two looms we never) have a minute’s rest. With the one loom, if the work ran good, we could sit down for a minute. When the work runs bad we sometimes have to rip out yards of bad work with- out a cent of pay, and the boss gives us hell. The Alexander Smith Carpet Shop signed the N.R.A. and got a blue buzzard. The weaving boss came to us with a big paper and told us that now the company had signed the N.R.A. and we would work 40 hours a week and get a 20 per cent increase in pay. But we never saw the increase. Most of the workers, especially the women, have been getting only two or three days work a week. We have to walk to the factory each morn- ing and bring our lunch, wait around for an hour, and then we are sent home because the boss says there is no work. Many of the workers live far from the mill and have to spend car fare each morning for nothing. The spare hands are treated even worse, they only get a day’s work when some worker does not come in. The spare hands are the oldest women, those who have slaved for about 30 years for the company. In the last couple of weeks they have been laying off most of the hands again. They say they have no orders. So the workers again find themselves without any food, without any money for rent, and again applying for charity. What we need is organization in our shop. The workers hate the A: F. of L. because they know all the betrayers of the United Textile Workers Union which is affiliated with the A. F. of L. All the work- ers should be organized into the National Textile Workers Union. eae eae NOTE.—Letters from workers in this carpet shop will appear each Wednesday in the future. Work- ers in this shop should be on the look-out for copies every Wednes- day. \ Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be Interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. | Another gentleman, |fight that has won the respect of Stool-Pigeons Frame Workers To Cut Their Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY.— Fellow workers, Chef Anderson was fired for giving a sandwich to a com- pany spy. Steward Sanborn was fired for not reporting this. Chef Anderson has since been taken back. He has been demoted from Chef to 3rd Class Cook with the miser-| able starvation wages paid a 3rd Class Cook. Steward Sanborn was/| framed by a stool-pigeon. This is a trick of the companies to con- antly reduce our wages. Fellow workers, we can stop this vicious attack on us by the com- pany by organizing to fight against these stool-pigeons. When the com- pany saw that we were dissatisfied with conditions we got free lunches | in Washington, the “sign-out” room was cleaned up, and Chef Anderson | was taken back. We must continue to fight and show by our solidarity that we will not stand for these attacks on us by the company to further lower our wage level. The company is making a drive to demote us to save money. We must organize to fight this if we are going to have decent living conditions. Fellow workers, let us demand of our unions that action be taken on these grievances. One of us alone cannot stop these attacks by the company, but when we stick to- gether we can protect ourselves and win our demands for the right to have decent conditions. Bosses Show They Fear Real Struggle, NEW YORK.—The writer over-| heard several large owners of mari- time industries in conversation re- cently. One was a Mr. W—— of the W—— Towing Co., Norfolk, Va., coal carriers, the other a Mr. H—— of the E—— Tr—— Co., owners of tugs and barges, Baltimore, Md. owner of a shoe factory in New England, later entered the conversation. Time after time the conversa- | tion would lead back to one ques- | tion—the wave of strikes that is| sweeping the country today. The shoe manufacturer boasted of his ability to keep his 350 workers at the machines when the rest of the shoe workers in the town were pick- eting his plant in an attempt to pull out his force. And he boasted of his bringing in scabs from a dif- ferent section of the country to work in his plant as a threat to his own workers. He called it “holding up their morale.” His plant was the only one that did not strike. The ship owners swore and threatened about what they in- tended to do at the code hearings for the marine industry. They ranted at the “Bolsheviks” and their demands, unconsciously pay- ing tribute to the militant fight of the M. W. I. U., and they showed clearly that they will use every means at their command from gov- ernment forces, violence and the trickery of the reformist unions. They will do everything in their power to prevent the three-shift plan from being put into the code. The trend of the conversation showed clearly that only the revo- lutionary unions are putting up a the bosses, that the owners will use every means at their command to prevent higher wages and better conditions and that only through the greatest united militant strug- tion Resolution Demanding Return of Last Wage! Cut Carried By Membership of Local 77 Pushes ‘Nat'l Biscuit Co. ny 6: Wanien Tad Wha ale oe end anche OO Correspondent the militant sentiment of the mem- NEW YORK—The best proof that | bership to pass a resolution for the the telegraph workers in the West- | ern Union are sensing the need for a real militant rank and file con- trolled union is found in President return of the 10 per cent. This res- olution is to be presented to the officials of the A.W.U.E. The United Committee of Action | Way to Organize (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The National Bis- White's remark made on March|™USt now wage further struggle to| cuit Co. at 15th Street and Tenth 13th. According to the N. Y. Herald Tribune of March 14th, Mr. White, | before the Senate Interstate Com- merce Committee’s hearing on the proposed communications bill, made the following statement, Union could adjust its practices to conform with the proposed bill without much difficulty, but urges |@ provision to protect the company | from labor disputes. What does that mean? It means only one thing. The company no longer trusts the ability of the A.W.U.E. misleaders to hold the mass of workers in a humble and docile state. It has already felt the tugging at the leash. These white gle. Every Friday, letters and articles | by telegraph workers testify to its value. Already Action, composed of A.W.U.E. mem- bers of the three main groups, Traffic, Plant and Commercial, are doing some wonderful organizational work. Due to their activity in issu- ing leaflets, demanding the return a United Committee of | “Western | delete the amendment to this res- olution, which specifies that the re- turn of the 10 per cent be given but that working hours remain on a 48 hour week schedule. A campaign to issue a 10-page pamphlet exposing the treacherous role of the A.W.U.E. misleaders is now under way. Workers who are | being approached for donations con- tribute readily. Some have volun- | tarily agreed to tax themselves with |the Western Union, a weekly amount. Contacts have al- ready been made in several cities, and a real national campaign is under way to unite all workers of Postal and R.C.A. in one militant struggle for | the betterment of their conditions collar slaves are being aroused from | their lethargy. The Daily Worker, | ever to the forefront, is taking a| leading part in this embryo strug- | and the safeguarding of their in- terests. It is therefore of vital importance to every Party member, every sym- pathizer, every member of a mass organization to pass the informa- tion along to every know telegraph worker, The telegraph industry is a vital basic one. Its strategic import- ance from a military point of view is unquestioned. All workers who have any con- nection with the industry commun- icate with C. Lands, c/o Daily of the last 10 per cent wage cut, the | Worker. Speed Up Rail Crews So: As to Fire Yard Men | By a Railroad Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo—Conditions on the Kansas City Southern are bad. I am working on the average three days a week. My last pay- day was $10 for three days’ work out of two weeks. Sometimes I work until noon and sometimes un- til one or two o'clock. The company wants to cut all wages 15 per cent. They also want the train crews to make a change on the time allowed for their run. If a crew is allowed eight hours for a trip from Pittsburgh to Kan- sas City, Mo., and the trip is made in fixe or six hours, they want the crew to work in the yards the rest of the time. This will lay off some more of the yard men. If these changes are made, the men will go on strike at the first of the month. We would like to get the unem- ployed railroad men and other un- employed workers to pledge their solidarity to help us win this strike, and we will help the unemployed win their struggle for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Worker Correspondents! Tell About the Company Unions Since the enactment of the N.R.A., as all shop workers know, company unions have increased rapidly in number and in member- ship. The government tries to fool the workers into believing that the N.R.A. was intended to guarantee to the workers the fullest freedom of organization. But, according to Senator Wagner’s own figures, the number of employes covered by company unions rose from 432,000 in 1932 to 1,164,000 in 1933, a gain of 169 per cent. More than 69 per cent of the company union schemes at present came into existence since the N.R.A. became a law. We have already received letters from workers in shops under the control of company unions. But we need more information. We would like to hear from workers how the company union was forced upon them. How does the company union operate to keep the workers in the plant from struggling for better conditions? What is the attitude of the workers in the shop to this type of “collective bargaining?” Was the company union in existence before the N.R.A., and if so, what effect did the N-R.A. have upon it? Did the workers resist the coming of the company union, and if so, how? We would like particularly to know of any cases where the workers successfully fought against the company union and built up a union of genuine struggle. gle will concessions be won. | Avenue makes over $20,000,000 every year, and the workers are given only one or two and a half days work |a week. We are insured by the jcompany and have to pay 50 cents ja month. If you die you get $2,000. the company should be made to pay this themselves. We want a union but we do not know how to do this. The: work- ers are afraid to do this by them- selves. Everybody wants a union, but the workers are afraid to go to them. If anyone reads the Daily Worker he is fired. NOTE: —The workers in this plant should get in touch with the New York office of the Food Workers Industrial Union at 65 West 40th St. The members of the union will tell them how to organize without endangering their jobs, Subway Workers Pushing “Daily” (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK—The B.M.T. and the IR.T. workers received the 10 per cent cut along with the rail- road workers throughout the coun- try. The subway workers are facing the unification plan of LaGuardia, which will do them no good, we can be sure. At the first sign of or- ganization the A. F. of L. Amal- gamated will be brought in. We are working hard to get the Daily Worker into the hands of the transportation workers and we Pledge ourselves to build a good workers’ correspondence. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS LET’S HAVE MORE NEWS FROM SHAMOKIN Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Last week in the town of Shamo> kin where we have a new Party Unit and two good Unemployed Councils, we had a discussion on the D. W. pertaining to the make- up and the character of the articles carried. Most of the workers were non-Party workers. When asked what was the best way to get work- ers interested in the D. W., they stated that the D. W. deals with high politics, that it writes about “foreign countries” and not enough about Pennsylvania and vicinity. When asked, “Why don’t you write something for the D. W.,” the re- ply was that they do, but it is not published. On one occasion an article was published about ithe Amalgamated Union. This article caused quite a storm in the local, and the local comrades felt proud that they had a chance to “rub it in” to the Amalgamated fakers. In that town the Philadelphia and Reading Coal are threatening to flood five of its colleries. The workers know the meaning of this, They know that the town will be obliterated, and completely starved out. We explained how such a case would be handled under Soviet power in America. We also ex- Plained how long the working day Would be and how workers would profitably spend their leisure time, ete. At this point the workers inter- rupted and asked, “Why doesn’t the meetings because the boss may fire | IRT Guard Waits 4:30 to 9 Every Morning for Job Lucky to Get Work That Brings Him $9 or $10 a Week By an LR.T. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Here are the true facts of conditions existing amongst |the I. R. T. guards. I am an ex- tra man employed at Willets Point |Terminal on the Corona Line. I report there daily at 4:30 am. which is the first run out, and cover the board until 9 am. If there is no work, I am told to go home and report at the same time the follow- ing day. At the end of the week, if I am lucky enough, I may get between two and three days for my efforts for the week. I will draw between $9 and $10. The regular guards’ conditions are just as bad. If you are late for your day’s work, you are sent to jsee the superintendent, who will | suspend you for five days; that is, for the first offense; the second jofense is ten days. Men are re- quired to purchase uniforms through Schriber & Meyer at 714 Broadway, for $32; that is, a win- ter uniform. At a guards’ meeting held March 12 at the Brotherhood Room in Times Square, the chairman, P. T. Grosso, announced that bids had been sent out for uniforms. Al- though a concern by the name of Goldstein was the lowest bidder, the contract was awarded to Schriber & Meyer, who were sec- ond on the list. At the meeting, if you ask a question concerning the betterment of the men, P. T. Grosso winks to the Sergeant-At-Arms, who is a gentleman by the name of M. Greenberg, known as “Pig-head,” who is the delegate of the Queens Queens Division, and who is ready to use force and throw you out. It is about time the men got to- gether and threw this gang out, and join a union of their own, the Workers’ Union. ONE OF THE DAILY WORKER’S FRIENDS. NOTE! We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete—and from the communications industries — post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize. Please get these ied to us by Tuesday of each week, edition carry such articles dealing’ with how we would run this or that institution, such as mills, mines, factories and educational system, ete., etc.” The workers pointed out that the D. W. is all right the way that it fights for unemployment in- surance and strikes, but that it never deals with how we could run things and the actual results ob- tained. s.N. THE SPEAKER WAS CARL BRODSKY New York City. Editor: I would like to know who did the taiking in Webster Hall on Sunday, March 11, in the name of the Com- munist Party, at the taxi drivers conference, I am a member of the International Workers Order. No- body ever heard a speaker like him before in that hall. He opened the eyes of everybody present. I in- quired for his name but nobody seemed to remember. In the name of Branch 74 of the I.W.O,, I want to give him a write-up and credit which he fully deserves, and please send me an answer soon as pos- sible, Thank you. H. B. Ask your friend, your fellow worker to subscribe to the Daily Worker, “Daily,” at least in the Saturday The Leading Political Role of the Party in Workers’ Defense Party Members in LL.D. Are Responsible for Correct Line By WILLIAM L. PATTERSON NE of the most important fea- tures of the directives of the 13th Plenum of the C. I, the Open Let- ter of our Party, and the decisions of the 17th Plenum, is the clarity with which the question of work in the mass organizations is raised. The Communists in each mass or- ganization must realize that they have a specific task; that their or- ganization is functioning on a par- ticular sector of the class struggle; that there are many sectors, and that these sectors in their totality constitute the entire class front. It must be understood that the orders to one sector check with the orders to the others. That these directives constitute a whole. That co-ordina- tion is a major strategic question. That the evenness with which these sectors move forward tremendously influences the development of the entire revolutionary front. The in- stant one of these sectors hesitates, stagnates, or falls back, it contributes tothe unevenness in the develop- ment of the revolutionary move- ment as a whole, and acts as a brake or a check upon it. For no organization on the fight- ing front are the lessons of these historic documents of the Interna-! tional, and our Party, of greater sig- nificance than to the LL.D. The sector it covers is never a quiet one, The casualties on the other sectors regard the IL.D. as the sector in which relief is prepared for them. Its. Communist vanguard must be up to the minute on the latest stra- tegic move, the most effective tac- tics. The tactics must meet the changing conditions. pies | rf CONCRETE terms, its guiding force must participate in work- ing out the preparations for every struggle. In preparing for the auto- mobile strike, they must raise the question of defense, the need for rooting the I.L.D. in the unions, the necessity for the I.L.D. drawing into the struggle, for the side of defense, the families of the strikers. The tasks imposed upon the Com- munist members in the LL.D. are tremendous. The correctness of their activities, the energy with which they participate in the prep- arations for struggle, can strengthen the morale of the workers in every other mass organization. The ra- pidity with which the ILD. re- sponds to the calls upon it, the de- gree to which it draws new forces into defense activities, will strengthen or weaken the morale of the rank and file within their mass organizations. Its activities, therefore, have a definite tendency to hasten or to retard the tempo of the development of the struggle within other mass organizations. It, in turn, is affected by their devel- opment. The relation of each of these mass organizations to the I.L.D.; to each other; the I. L. D. relation to them, must not only be exceedingly clear to the rank and file of the ILD, and particularly to its Communist membership; it must also be equally clear to the rank and file member- ship of other mass organizations, and particularly clear to the Com- munists within those organizations. Only this clarity can bring about or- ganizational and political unity, co- * Pre-Convention Discussion mass struggles. Only this under- standing can give these struggles continuity. Only an extensive study of the directives contained in the leading organs of our Party can give to the membership this clarity. Often we hear from leaders of the I.L.D, such statements as “The Party and the leading Party com- mittees underestimate the LLD., and as a consequence, the relation- ship between the Party and the ILD. are extremely poor.” Those who are members of the Party functioning in the I.L.D., must be made to realize that they are mem- bers of the Party within the IL.D., not members of the IL.D, within the Party. Ae Eee T does this mean? They must understand that the I. L. D. is guided by a clear understanding of the principles of class struggle. That the fundamental line of class struggle is worked out by the Party. They must know the Party. They have been placed by it in key posi- tions for the purpose of warning it of the slightest evidence of any un- healthy relations between it and the mass organizations. They are the custodians of the Party’s interests. Only through this, do they become the true guardians of the interests of the working class. Only in this way do they become the guiding revolutionary force within the mass organizations. They are the party within the mass organizations. It is for them to recognize that the weaknesses of the forces of the revolution lie in the weaknesses of ordination in the development of the Party in the ge organizations. That the strength of the mass or- ganizations is the strength of the Party within the mass organizations. Without these “belts and levers” re- sponding in the most sensitive way to the guidance of the Party, the functioning of the very brain of the Party itself is limited. Certainly we can speak of “a tendency on the part of the Party and the Leading Party committees to underestimate the I.L.D.”; but primarily the reason for this lies in the failure of the Party within the LL.D. to maintain Bolshevik vigilance, The Party in the I.L.D. must keep constant check-up on itself. To relax its vigilance is to weaken its connection with the main arteries of the Party. It is to fail to call the attention of the cen- tral organs, to the need of a greater co-ordination, and a more constant check-up. This cannot be done abstractly. This demands the regular func- tioning of the fraction, the Party core within the LL.D. This core must have its fingers on the pulse of the masses in the ILD. It must have its eye on every move of the working class in every basic mass organization. It must raise its voice in the Party bureaus, in the Party's leading committees, showing these leading bodies how the changes are affecting the ILL.D., and how the effect upon it, in turn, retards or develops the movements in other organizations. It must call to the Party specific remedial steps. With the aid of the Party, work out pro- grams of action for future work. If this had been done as we developed the Scottsboro case, particularly at ® slack moments in the case, the ef- fects of this case upon the whole fighting front of the working class would undoubtedly have been greater. This will be done if we not only learn the directives from our Party, but also how to apply these direc- tives. The correct application of these directives by the Party in the ILD. will bring a new sense of ap- preciation of its value as a political- ideological forces in the destruc- tion of the illusions entertained by the working class as to capitalist justice and democracy, and thus greatly aid in the development of the fighting front of the working class as a whole. It is evident that they have not yet been regarded in this fight. eae ene 1 the Southern California, Rocky Mountain, and Michigan Districts of the I.L.D., we are pre- sented with crass examples of the failude of the Party members with- in the LL.D. to understand the basic directives of our Party, and of the C.I. ‘They have not realized the failude to study these directives, in itself constituting an act of criminal negligence to the working class. The failure to carry out these directives aggravates that offense. The lack of Wrong Defense Policy Hinders Effective Mass Work trial in Leipzig had carried out the directives of the Party.on this spe- cific question. What was the answer of these leading comrades in the Party to the direction that self-defense was to be the key note of the trial, and that the trial was to have been made an offensive against the rul- ing class. Their answer was that “too much was at stake to take any chances.” That lawyers were neces- sary to handle the case completely. That it was impossible for these “leading” comrades under the tre- mendous risk of long sentences of imprisonment, to defend themselves. This was itself a capitulation to bourgeois ideology. The greater the risk, the more reason why leading | comrades must defend themselves, for the more clearly can they expose the class character of the struggle in the struggle in the courts, and thus mobilize the masses on the out- side for the movement in their de- fense, The Party within the LL.D. failed also. It capitulated to the weak- understanding of these directives means an inability to see the one- ness of the struggle, to see the ne- cessity for the unity, for the co- ordination of the “belts and levers.” Leading members of the Commu- nist Party, functioning in mass or- ganizations in these districts were arrested in struggle. Immediately they were directed to take the offen- nesses of the other comrades. « Its attitude was to insist upon the cor- rectness of self-defense, of an of- fensive action. Anything else was a deviation from the line of the Party, from its basic directives. Anything else strengthened the illusion of legalism within the minds of the working class as a whole. Failure on the part of the Party members with- in the LL.D. to hold fast to a cor- sive, to turn these actions in courts into a trial of ruling class democ- racy and justice. They had before them the heroic manner in which George Dimitroff in the Reichstag rect position also tends to weaken PARTY LIFE Cleanse Party St. Paul Worker Shows Membership of 100—Only 86 Daily Workers Sold I would like to offer some criti- section which I hope may be con- structive and healthy if generally applied. When I was transferred to this section the thing which first struck me was the bureaucracy which I saw all around me. After some work I was made Daily Worker agent for the section. In this capacity I got a good chance to find out how this bureaucracy affected the work of the section. I will show it with rela- tion to the sale of Daily Workers, but anyone can readily see how it must affect any other work of the section just as adversely. Its worst effect is on new-comers to the Pagiy. They come in expect- ing militancy and action. They get a lot of talk—about how, and when “they have been in the Party as long as some of us have” they'll know that such and such is impos- sible—about how this has been tried and can’t be done—and (the other side of the medal) about how this (really impossible this time) is simple to accomplish. New-comers listen to this talk and are discour- aged and don’t act—or they try action, and are discouraged. The result: either disgusted, they leave the Party, or else, they settle into the “spitoon philosophy” class of the self-styled “old members.” When I first attended unit meet- ings in this section, the question of establishing a Daily Worker route came up for discussion time and time again. It was always lost in a barrage of talk when one of these “old Party members” would monop- olize the floor and butt in on any question raised without waiting his turn. Finally I volunteered to establish a route which I did. On this route I found that, contrary to what the “old member” comrade had said regarding this section, it was easy to sell literature around here. I added the sale of “Labor Defenders,” “Sov- iet Russia Today” and pamphlets to my route. Shortly after, I accept- ed the position of section Daily Worker agent, and with the help of the section buro, set up an ap- paratus for selling the “Daily.” This consisted of a committee made up of three Daily Worker executives and a Daily Worker agent from each unit. These men were to push the sale of Daily Worker by indivi- dual efforts and suggestions. Immediately when we started to work, there appeared to be some sort of hindrance going on. The committee didn’t function properly. Most of the comrades didn’t show up to the meetings. Then I received instructions from the committee handling the St. Paul Nygaard meeting to order 500 Daily Workers for that meeting. I discovered that the chairman of that committee was the “old member” comrade who monopolized the floor at our unit. I got in touch with him and finally convinced the comrades that 250, at the most, Daily Workers would be enough. I sent in the order for 250. At the meeting 48 cents worth was sold. In the meantime, I had received instructions to order 50 Daily Work- ers daily for distribution among the packing house workers during the South St. Paul strike. I was in- formed that a comrade from each unit would assist me in selling them. The Daily Workers came, but no comrades appeared to help. When I went to the Unemployed Council where we were supposed to meet, no one was there. I wasn’t surprised: after the “flop” talk and the “flop” action, almost any comrade would have gotten discouraged. Finally I got a non-Party member to help me, and we sold as many as 120 that day. The next day again no one showed up. I sold what I could and notified the Daily Worker by air- mail to stop the bundle. I gave as the reason no cooperation. The bureaucratic comrade with his long standing in the Party, who Was responsible for the order of the large bundle, as chairman of that committee, had never given a thought to the problem of paying To Improve Work of Units of Comrades Stunted Daily Worker Sales cism and suggestions of the St. Paul | of Burocracy How Superior Attitude the bill for the same—the bili which is in my name. Financial Irresponsibility in Re- lation to the “Daity” At this time I received a state- ment from the D. W. telling me that our section is in debt to the | “Daily” to the tune of $377.80. This, of which I had heard nothing from the section, completely disgusted me. I consider it a crime to order Daily Workers with no thoughts of how they are to be paid for. After all, we are not capitalists, and the | D. W. is not a capitalist paper, and | we can’t treat it in this high-handed capitalist manner. When I couldn’t get any action | out of the comrades on this serious | matter, I quit as D. W. agent. The | section organizer called me a “poor | Communist”; I answered him that I might be a poor Communist, but |I couldn’t stand to see our best | Weapon, the Daily Worker, run into the ground because of our lack of co-operation and collective work. Another comrade took over the | work. When he got a C.W.A. job, I | was again instructed by the bureau to take up the work as no one else would co-operate. This I did, but on a different plan: We decided not to try to sell the D. W. indi- vidually, but to check up on units and work collectively. This brought some improvement: four out of fhe nine units respond and 50 Daly Workers are sold a day by these four unite. But this is not enough; the five units must be awelvened, far only 86 Daily Workers come daily to our section. Although we have a membership of over 100 in our section, only ten Party mem- bers are D. W. subscribers. This ts a bad reflection on the low politi- cal level of our comrades. Who is to blame for this situation? I think I have shown one of the basic causes. Another facet of this situation is shown in the D. W. work in South St. Paul particularly. Our largest unit, No. 7, is in South St. Paul. No member of this unit is a subscriber to the “Daily,” and no one has ever secured a sub. From a financial point of view this is inexcusable, since all of these comrades are em- ployed. These comrades are in- volved in building the T.U.U.L. in the packing plants. They have a large membership in the union and about 28 Party members. They or- der a bundle of ten Daily Workers a day. Even with this small num- ber, the “Dailies” are not all sold, as a bill of over $8 to the D. W. at- tests. At the last section committee meeting I severely criticized the work of these comrades. Another ‘old member,’ a leading comrade in South St. Paul, immediately rose to defend and, incidentally, to ex- plain the situation. He said, “I fully appreciate the importance of the ‘Daily,’ but comrades in the unit cannot imperil their jobs to attend to the ‘Daily, and those unemployed comrades who are black-listed al- ready can’t have anything to do with the work of selling Daily Workers because they expect to get their jobs back.” This comrade has a@ very smooth way about him; he likes to tell the new-comers what they should do and what they shouldn't do. He gives them a lot of talk, and they, who are new to the movement, are quick to swallow the “red scare” attitude, and try to keep the Party in the background. Comrades, let’s get going on some well-drawn plans and sane aetion. New members are eager to co-oper- ate; we can’t let bureaucracy tum them away. L. & La St. Paw Seotion. Join the Communist Party 35 KE. 1%h STREET, WN. ¥. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. GRAND CONCERT and DANCE Sat. Eve., Mar. 31 @ Webster Hall 125 E. 11th Street Scheff's String Orchestra Revolutionary Dances ‘Muth’s Accordion Players Excellent Dance Orchestra Tickets 35 Cents in Advance at Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. 25 Per Cent of Proceeds to Victims of German Fascism. SYMPOSIUM SCOTTSBORO TRIAL presented by Prospect Workers’ Club 1157 So, Boulevard, Bronx Friday, March 30th, at 8:30 P.M. Speakers: Ruby Bates; Carol Wise King; Schwartzbach COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr, Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By Dr. Joseph Lax Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises . — CLEVELAND — EASTER FROLIC Sunday, April Ist, at 3 P.M. Showing Soviet Film “Potemkin,” Singing, Drama, Dancing, Eats Serbian Hall, 1565 E. 36th Auspices: Unit 8, Sec. 11, C. P. HAROLD M. MANN Woman’s Club Th the prestige of the Party members within the other mass organizations. Their capitulation was a major erro 62 East lth Street : Chicago, Til. 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