The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1934, Page 5

Workers and Letter From Mississippi escribes Heroic Work f Organization in South Active Among Negroes Despite Ferocious Terror | of Southern Bosses and Landlords Oxford, Miss. To the National Communist Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Comrades: It grieves us much not to be able to attend our great | Convention, but we are forced to be satisfied with writing you a letter. cera /most militant and most advanced | About August, 1932, the | comrades real leadership. It’s easy et * * +, | to organize the masses, but it’s hard tirst Communist Party unit as hell to make class conscious wes started in the State of | fighters out of them. If our plan is Mississippi by Comrade who made a_ short ston Landy, | going to succeed, and I am sure it here | will, then the first real foundation in Oxford. I myself had just joined| for a Red Mississippi has been laid. the Party two months before. I was} With revolutionary greetings from chosen to be organizer. I knew the comrades in Oxford, precious little about the C. P. and SECTION ORGANIZER. nothing whatever about organizing | ORR activities. a did not Brow aie Ww ie i 7 rs Station Goes Racketeering) mention these facts because my un- forgiveable ignorance was to cost me many a pain and was to some extent the direct cause of our little| movement being split up more than once. Of course, it’s but natural that stools found their way into} | Editor, Daily Worker, | of the Fordham section, has donated : America, our organization without much} trouble and before we could prevent it our town units wae terrorized out of existence and has never dared to reorganize since. We have had | By A. M, Socialist workers who contributed in the past to WEVD and were Leadership of Party Hailed | In Messages New York, N. ¥, Comrades: The Fordham Progressive Club, a young, but growing organization, whose purpose it is to advance the progressive thought of the workers two dollars to the 8th National Con-! vention of the Communist Party, held in Cleveland this week, We wish to thank the Com- munist Party for the help they have given us in forming this workers’ club, and show our recognition of; their leadership in all struggles of | the workers. We have also donated five dollars to the:support of the! militant taxi-strikers, Fordham Progressive Club, By Leonard Strong. . Brooklyn, N. Y. Eighth Convention Communist Party, Cleveland, Ohio. Revolutionary Greetings te the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party, the only Party that fights for the interests of the working class. Forward to a Soviet Branch 72. T. W. 0., Seglin, See. . Jersey City, N. J. To the delegates of the Eighth National Convention of the Com- munist Party of America: We are j sending you proletarian greetings and also $2 to help build up a strong Detroit Aute Workers on Picket Line Workers of the Motor Products Company who went Thursday despite the Roosevelt-American Federation of Labor agree- ment, are shown picketing before their factory gates. out on strike DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 Organizations Greet Communist Party Convention |Niece of Slain | Sharecropper at Convention By MARGUERITE YOUNG CLEVELAND, April 6—An Ala- bama Negro girl, niece of a tenant farmer murdered by a sheriff and hite gunmen for recruiting mem-| Ohio Railroad Worker Hails Kighth National _ Convention of the Party “Will Give the Rest of My Life to the Only Political Party of the Workers” ers into the Sharecroppers’ Union stood before the Communist con- | jvention, telling how the Ne }youth in Dixie are spreading “the | |news” of Communism. As she fin- ished. another Negro delegate rose, | | far back in the auditorium, and flung high her voice. The tune was | jthat of the ancient spiritual, “Old | | Time Religion,” but instead of the | words: “It was good enough Moses: it’s good eno’ for me,” this woman stang: was good It enough for Lenin; it’s good enough | for me.” | The speaker, Eula Gray. picked |up the refrain. So did James W. Ford, recent Co: unist candidate |for Vice-President, stepping for- |ward on the presiding committee's | platform. Back from the woman {delegate in the rear came another stanza, and this time the whole | }eonvention sang the revolutionized spiritual, “I am speaking for the youth at | Tallapoosa County in the Young Communist League," Eula Gray said. She is a lithe, attractive girl, her big eyes shining, her teeth white ‘and flashing. Her dress is a green cotton slip, and she wears an old| green sweater. “The Youth is 2,000 | of the Sharecroppers’ Union in the Black Belt, and they have become fertry. Norwood, Ohio. 'm. Z. Foster, Preside Earl Browder, General Secretary, Eighth Communist Party Convention: Comrades all! Greetings! My best wishes to you and all delegates 3 Sassembled at 8th National Convention in Cleevland. My |thanks to all women and to all men that have made personal sacri- fices to make our American Com- munist Party the only true political a for us workers in the U. 8. I'm 2 railroad worker, a swithman working in the Cincinnati Terminal of the N. Y. Central R. R. Co. For the past four years on the extra board and most of this time fur- loughed. I am working again and ae will give the rest of my life te the Mass Fight for one and only political Party for all Clean Bunks |the workers. Many lessons heve 1 | learned through the outlaw switch- men's strike of 1920 here in this terminal and the many other strikes. Federal Relief Demands Won by | Buffalo Seamen M. W. 1. U. Organizes BUFFALO, N. Y.—A newly equipped floor for bunks in the Sea- men’s Home, and three meal tickets to the Elm Lunch, a cafe near the I have witnessed the workers de- feated on account of bad leadership. The daily press, rags I call them now that I have learned, now that the workers of the U. S. have a Fighting C.P. of Germany t fe) , ; ; a revolutionary movement in the U.) thost aetive 40 tha union: uake Carriers’ Hall, were won fol several cases like that but have | somewhat dismayed to find the sta- carried on just the same. Out Of|tion a would-be commercial enter- six units only three real active units prise devoted to exceedingly un- are left, all of them in the country.| working class ideals can feel only We are really on the upgrade now, disgust at the new turn of events! but are going slow in order to clean| the station. The the units of unreliable elements and are drawing in only tried out com- rades from lower organizations. ‘he comrades in town are talking about starting up again but so far nothing has been done. The town comrades would have to mset some place in the country, since thugs are roaming the Negro section of town both day and night, breaking into the houses and lining the Ne- groes up on the inside. If they don’t find anything, it makes them sore and they often beat up both women and children and take the men to the light plant where the current is applied to thei: innocent victims till the blood comes out. In spite of all of that, some 1,000 letters have been sent to Gov. Miller oi Alabama in behalf of the nine | Sponsored by | World-Telegram of March 29, car- ries the astonishing news that the ‘International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, like the American | Tobacco Company, the Standard Oil, the General Electric, etc., has } become a commercial radio sponsor. | This brings to mind several sus- picions. For instance, among ad- | | Vertisers radio is conceded to be the most expensive form of advertising. How does it happen that a labor union, in times of strike and un-| | employment crisis finds its treasury so bountiful that it can compete with such well to do capitalist ad-| |vertisers as Liggett and Myers,, | Standard Brands, ete.? This ques- | tion is probably occurring to a lot % 3 |of the rank and file members of Sige Oeste Anos ce International Ladies’ Garment known number to Attorney-General| Workers’ Union. Knight. Two hundred fifty protest; Furthermore, the rather feeble; postcards were sent to the U. 8.) excuse offered in the World-Tele- Supreme Court, and other letters to gram, namely, that the union could different places. |afford to do this because so many Delegate to Farm Conference prominent speakers and musicians would donate their services, seems In spite of police terror, K.K.K., American Legion and wealthy riff-|, rather flabby explanation, espe- cially when one examines the list raff and rabble of all kinds, we held | of people, several eae among gd mnie farmers in an effort to get a le~ f gate to the first farmers’ national) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who relief conference in Washington,| Charges cash money for her Wo- However, it must be said we didn’t)™man’s Home Companion articles, get up enough money. Last Novem-|has donated her services. So has! ber the comrades who, by the way,| Frances Perkins, the Secretary of are all Negroes with the exception! Labor. The article carefully avoided pf three white, of which two are| mentioning Broadway singers and not active, got up enough money actors probably because there were to send me to the Farmers’ Con-|none to mention. It would be a ference, Right after I came back, great deal harder to convince Ed we got the Share Croppers Union| started, About two months ago we sent a comrade to school in St. Louis and since that comrade has been back from school our organ- {zing activities have resulted in doubling the membership of the Bhare Croppers Union. New mem- bers for the I. L. D. and C. P. have also been gained. However, it must be said that as yet the Party in Oxford is dangerously weak. The main cause for that is our inability to develop leadership among the organizations. Another setback is the tremendous illiteracy among the Negro masses of Mississippi, which makes it hard to sell literature. It is therefore to be expected that the discussion of the draft resolution of the Party has not been as fruitful as would or should be the case in the more advanced sections of the country. z However, we have studied the draft resolution with keen interest and while we give it our most hearty endorsement in its entirety, we wish to draw certain questions to be found on page seven of the draft resolution to your attention. It says in part about the out of town sec- tions, “That closed guidance must be given them by the district cen- ter.” We comrades in Oxford take comrades both in the units and mass | Wynn, Jack Pearl or any other pro- | fessional actor or singer that work- [ing for nothing was exactly to his advantage. _ Of course, Mrs. Roosevelt andj | Miss Perkins will not be working for nothing. Their political positions | have already netted them thousands |of dollars. And there is no reason | why they should not speak for their | very good friends and the workers’ ; enemies, the misleaders at the head jof the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union. Now that the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers’ Union feels that jit may call upon the demagogic Roosevelt administration for free S.A. Branch U. U,. I. 6, eo Comrade E. Browder: Enclosed please accept our small donation of one dollar to help carry on successfully the historically sig- nificant Fight Communist Conven- tion of U. 8. A. This is donated by a small group of workers who are preparing themselves ideologically to join the Party in the near future. A group of Workers. Sota Epis Communist National Cleveland. Four hundred workers, Negro and white assembled in Corgan farewell banquet send heartiest revolutionary greetings to Eighth National Con- vention. We pledge untiring struggle under the leadership of the communist Party for national liberation of Negro masses and emancipation of the working class. Convention, Chairman. * New York. Communist Party. Convention, Cleveland. The Artef Players Collective ex- tends revolutionary greetings to the outstanding leader of the struggles of the American working class, the Communist Party of the U. 8. to its eighth historical Convention now assembled in Cleveland, Ohio. The Artef, which is a revolutionary working class theatre, ascribes its success and achievements on the cultural fleld to your guidance and leadership and pledges its undivided support towards the cause of Com- munism. Onward, comrades, shoul- der to shoulder we are marching with you in the struggle for a Soviet America. Mike Walsh, . Artef, Theatre, I. Gorelick, Mer. PR Brooklyn, N. Y. Eighth Convention Communist Party, Cleveland, Ohio, Mella Branch of the International Labor Defense composed of intellec- tual workers at meeting of our branch, last night, resolved to send to the Righth Convention of the Communist Party of the United States our most heartfelt and sincere revolutionary greetings. We assure you that we have the fullest confi- dence that from this Convention ¥ill come new strength for our tasks. Speakers, we wonder if it is not Possible that this close and friendly cooperation with the bosses did not by chance bring about the new in- crease in wave length just lately granted to station WEVD by the Federal Radio Commission. % The abridged translations of it for granted that the district cen- ter should not only be made to re- port back the receipt of weekly re- ports from district rural sections, but should be made to criticize such letters in detail, because such letters are supposed to reveal to what de- gree the various organizations are functioning along correct Party) lines. The old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link j tells us that special effort should be made to strengthen such weak ‘fi local units wherever they are to be * found, and what could be more ap- propriate than constructive critizism of the weekly report sent to the dis- trict center? Criticize Methods Here. we also think it ridiculous of the district center to, shall we say, appoint a certain comrade to build a Young Communist League 4 in some far off section, knowing that the said comrade does perhaps correspondence of revolutionary soldiers, cited below, were se- jected from articles published in the “Kheist No Tomo” (Friend of the Soldier), the Communist Party of Japan’s organ of sol- diers, and permit an estimate of the Japanese Communist Party's intensive, painstaking work among the mass of soldiers. The correspondence on “Twenty days of battle in a barracks” deals with the experience of groups of Revolntionary soldiers in one reg- iment, and shows how much per- sistence and enthusiasm the Jap- anese comrades bring to this cele as 1—A TWENTY-DAY BATTLE IN BARRACKS (The experience of N Regiment be- fore the departure for the Front.) Days go by without rest or sleep in the barracks where reserves have been gathered for the formation of a@ war-time staff. All are excited, exclamations of “Banzai” (Hurrah) resound banners 5 flutter. Not one of the soldiers utters a word about either his family or his native place. The officers, endeav- oring to exhibit the power of the Imperialist Army inflame the ex- cited soldiers still more with mili- tary-patriotic agitation. ‘We were separated from the first party dispatched to the front im- mediately after settlement in the barracks, For some reason or other we 15 or 16 men were put in the second draft. Everyone was busy not even know what the Y. C. L. is, , Such an organization function, not / even to provide the said comrade ~ with a piece of literature for correct instruction, but nevertheless expect- ing flourishing reports in a short time about a perfect functioning Y. C. L. Since it is expensive as well as slow to send comrades off to school, we have planned to build a romplete ring around Oxford of mass ag well as Party nate wil hoa when the ring is complete, whicl seon will be, we hope the district center will cooperate with us by fending us a comrade to teach the Julio Mella Branch, Tnternational Labor Defense. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested im reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, | We, fifty-six members of the Julio Greets U. S. Communists March 20, 1934, TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.P.U.S.A.: Dear Friends: We have followed with the greatest interest the growing struggle in the United States against Hitler fascism and its savage terror. Your mass demonstrations against the brutal regime of murder against the working class, your crowded mass meetings, your street demon- strations and your “putting on the spot” of the fascist German ambassador, Dr. Luther, the swastika ambassador, has awakened an enthusiastic echo among the fighting German comrades of our Party who are unafraid of death. In the name of the German working class and all anti-fascists in the country and in the name of our strong German Party, with its 100.000 members, we express to our American brothers and sisters, who have been so helpful and active in the carrying out of revolutionary internationalism, our deep revo- lutionary thanks, We know that your actions in the United States were a very important element of the storm of the international working class in the demand for the release of our courageous revolutionary heroes, those on trial in Leipzig—Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff. The Central Committee of the German Communist Party, now after the murder of Thaelmann’s best friend, John Scheer, who was a leading member of our Political Buro, is deeply concerned as to the fate of our jailed perty leader, Thaelmann, The most brutal mistreatment has | been started against him by the Hitler bandits, He is kept chained on hands and feet. His life is in the greatest danger. We know that in all countries the soctal-fascists are sabotaging the mass struggle for the release of Thaelmann, because they hate Thaelmann, who has always conducted an untiring principled struggle against social-democracy. Even during the period of social-democratic rule in Germany they persecuted him to the extreme. The social- fascists of all countries will gladly consent to the murder of Thael- mann by the Hitler bandits because Thaelmann always called for a brotherly united front of the social-democratic workers with their Communist comrades and because Thaelmann, at the head of his Party, understood how to win over broad sections of the social-demo- cratic workers for the struggles led by the Communist Party. Dear friends of the leadership of our American Party! We can assure you that the determination to struggle on the part of the German comrades who are at the front in the struggle for the world revolution has been mightily strengthened. The rising struggles of the German proletariat would be broadened still more if in the United States a growing number of Thaclmann shop committees, committees of struggle against war and fascism; if a broader collection of funds for the victims of Hitler fascism; if a still broader mass offensive against the barbarous Hitler terror and the whole fascist dictatorship, | were set in motion, Hitler fascism continually tries to deceive the German workers as to an alleged “sympathy” of the American working class with the fascists. You must expose and destroy these lying phrases. Help to increase the difficulties of the capitalist Nazi-regime and to weaken the internal political position of the fascist bandits by your struggles in the United States. Every struggle of the American workers and farmers in giving help and support to the German working class, every mass movement against the terror and for the release of our beloved leader, Ernst ‘Thaelmann, represents support for the struggle for the establishment of German Soviet power. With brotherly international greetings, CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF GERMANY. | | Bad Dogs Don't Hinder Communists “We, the youth, because we lead squads, organized groups to dis-| tribute leaflets. We suggested one way to begin. All went out together and put leaflets everywhere. The} landlords couldn't understand how ! the leaflets were in such peculiar places. One of the youth girls—the landlord asked her was she out dis- | tributing them League things. She told him: ‘What the hell difference | did it make?’ Ome of them asked | the girl—he found leaflets in his kitchen—he had ‘bad dogs’ and he did not see how the leaflets were put there. I told him ‘bad dogs’ do! not hinder the Communist Party.” To appreciate “bad dogs,” one ;must know Dixie. They are a ter- ror. But this 23-year-old Eula has withstood far more, as have many. mony others who aid the swift work of the Communist Party below the Mason-Dixon line. They take it in | their stride. They have built the | Sharecroppers’ Union, more than 6,000 strong, in Alabama, Kentucky, the Carolinas, and other deep South States. They have recruited hun- |dreds ‘into the Communist Party. They have taken the first steps to- | | ward uniting the Negro and white | steel mill hands in a Steel and |Metal Workers Industrial Union jlocal in the Alabama bailiwick of |a mighty steel trust. New members |have been flocking in, ever since |the Scottsboro boys were tried, to join the International Labor De- fense. There are 2,000 in the Bir- mingham district. Red Words to Spirituals That’s when they started setting {revolutionary words to their spirit- ual tunes. That’s how Eula Gray’s uncle, Ralph Gray, came into the Sharecroppers’ Union. He had been organizing for it about two months when the landlord-law began to show its force. One Sheriff Young | went to the Gray cabin in Dade-| | ville, one night, banged a shotgun over Gray’s head and hit his wife with the weapon. Then they real- ized what it meant when they were watched in their meetings. They decided never to “let the lights ; shine on"—never to be caught on |the road ahead of auto headlights But one night when Gray and sev- eral friends were on their road to| jthe meeting, the headlights shone | }on them, and he didn’t dodge fast ‘enough. A shotgun bullet whistled into his flesh. He fell, They picked; him up and drove him toward the | jail, but he died before they arrived. They flung his body into the jail- yard and kicked it. No arrests have been made—in fact, there was no inquest. | But his name has become a sym- bol in the movement for Negro and white unity. Poems have been ded- icated to his heroism and songs are men at which a committee of nine lowing a mass meeting of 300 sea- was elected to present the demands for Federal reliet. The committee headed by Michael Young, Great Lakes organizer of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, demanded a clean centralized place for the sea- men, who have been kept in the Erie County flop houses all over the city, and three meals a day in a urant handy to the Lake Car- riers’ Shipping Hall. The Federal Administrator R Clark, when he was informed thet the delegation was backed by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, gave the demands the proper hear- ing, and the results followed. The mass meeting of 300 also dis- cussed the problem of the code for the lakes, and a petition is being circulated for open election of rank and file delegates to present the seamen’s demands to the shipown- ers turn down the proposals. 7 chanted by Young Pioneers to their martyred comrade, Ralph Gray. And Eula Gray told the conven- tion: “We, the youth, must con- tinue to spread the news. After the movement started in the Scottsboro case, 200 youths in the Black Belt; had a mass meeting in the defense of the Scottsboro boys. We have seven units of the Y.C.L., 10 to 15 in each unit... . We have organ- | ized a class to sing songs in the, League in the Black Belt. Our) plans? We are working to draw in 100 youths in the next three | months, to establish a National! Students’ League in the high school at Camp Hill and to build the Young Pioneers to draw up a pro- gram for National Youth Day, May | 30, and hold mass meetings among the youth in all parts of the Black | Belt. The schools in the rural route last year only had two months of school. in the name of the C.W.A., ran about two months, and i was closed. Now we have.no school at all. The teachers taught this school in the name of the C.W.A.—have no pay yet and don’t think to get any, or very little... . We call our units together. we suggest plans. And the youth takes a part in most everything. I think that is alt I have to say—and long live the Com- munist Party!” There are ten in Eula Gray's im- | | mediate family. They have one family treasure. Ralph Gray had an old shotgun. One of the bul- lets struck it on the stock. His kin have a habit of handling the gun, fingering the bullet nick, Soldiers Describe Activities of the Communist Party of Japan caring for the horses, cleaning the arms in preparation for the offen- sive. But we lay peacefully on the parade ground under the trees, passing time in conversation. Nobody knew why we had been left behind, no one of those left behind knew the others; therefore, everyone acted carefully and talked only about the summer rains, about sick relatives, told of the Russian- Japanese War, etc. Then we ob- served that something in a uniform with wide epaulets was perambulat- ing nearby. One of the comrades surmised that “That is a gendarme snooping about here.” And then we understood that it was a spy. Like ® flash, we all stood up at once, but the gendarme, evidently scenting trouble, set off at a run. It became clear to us now why they had not dispatched us to the front and who those left behind were. From the conversation it was re- vealed that we were all members of the “Nomin Kumeai” (Peasants’ Union) and consequently of the same ideas. But now, we decide, it is impos- sible for us to remain silent. We will begin an active struggle, we resolved. “Are there any objec- tions?” But just then they sepa- rated us Bast one went to this, another that company, A method of communication was worked out. Responsible persons were elected. An “order to advance” UT the first attack failed. How- ever much we had agitated, how- ever much we had tried to explain “to whom the war was profitable,” “how the families lived who were left behind in the villages,” “that Manchuria is for the bourgeoisie and landlords,” and so forth—all was in vain. The war fever excited all. They were polite to us only at a distance. When we approached they snorted and scampered off. But our spirits did not fall. And well after a week had gone by the results of our agitation began to tetl. They were detected when the troops began to leave the station amid the “joyful cries of those who saw them off.” Even meetings with relatives had been prohibited till this time. And now when, perhaps for the last time, the soldiers saw their wives with children on their backs and their aged parents, the effects of the officers’ agitation completeiy vanished. However much they shouted “Banzai” (Hurrah) only an insignificant handful of soldiers re- sponded. What had become of the former enthusiasm? All had pale, gloomy faces. The number gradu- ally increased of those who said, “That was the truth which you told us.” All looked as if they were pe- ing buried alive. But—‘to do nothing.” The chagrin of all knew no bounds, when we explained about how we would all go together to the front and against whom we shouid turn our arms, Then we was immediately aizen, cheered un and decided te begin a re more general offensive, to carry on intensive work also among the regu- Jar soldiers (on actual service). Those who remained behind and were not dispatched in the fron’ ranks were subjected to a :nercilt military drill. The soldiers shou “It's better at the front. It's better to go to death.” “Let us go and drink tea with bis- cuits,” we invite five or six regular soldiers and start a conversation about the village, about the family, ete. “What will happen to the family if I die; will they be able to sow the fields?” “Try going blind, of course, your bride will forsake you,” or about children that must scon be born or about sick relatives, or about whether “It would be good if there were no war,” and “What should be done in order to end the wank . . regular soldiers at first felt shy about speaking. There were even those who became gloomy when the conversation turned to family questions, The first.day pro- duced no substantial results, but al- ready on the second day 20 were gathered together and on the third day about 50 regulars. Besides, the reserves called upon us with the request to relate what is going on throughout the world. On _ the fourth day 100 more men were gathered together at the canteen. And those with one and two years’ service began to talk freely about their discontent, They began with || Japanese War had a daughter who abuses of a company commander who had punished one young soldier when he had broken down with fa- tizue from the morning drill, Some- body said that one of the soldiers; who had been through the Russian- | had been sold into prastitution. Questions came to light also about those who were in arrears with rent payments for last year. All the con- | versations led up to one point, “War is not needed.” ‘We talked a lot about the need to protest against the war, which is being carried on to occupy Man- churia in the interests only of rich man. and landlords; about the need for the families of those who were called to the army, in particular for those in the front line. The no- tion that “War is not necessary” was converted into the cry “Down with war!” which began to resound on all sides. A remarkable anti-war meeting was opened. The orderly officer arrived in a hurry. However loudly a soldier shouts in a secluded place, as soon as he appears before an officer he again becomes undersized. ‘The command was heard: tention!” Then one of the soldiers stood up and, turning to the officer, said: , “For some time past we have been somewhat fed up with talk about infringements of discipline. There is a request that at the canteen and at places of amusement the sol- diers be not compelled to salute, etc. Just because this is demanded at “At- such places people forget to salute | there where they should.” In a chorus all supported “He's right!” The officer, flushing all over, vithdrew for aid to the regiment headquarters. But when five or six staff men appeared at the canteen the electric lights suddenly went out. The sounds of blows resounded. of bursting beer bottles, of a silent struggle in the darkness. When the officer on duty switched on the light the staff men had already gone. The officer on duty pouted but being alone there was nothing for him to do and he cheerlessly set sail for home. The anti-war meeting was continued. (To Be Continued.) New-Formed Group to Produce Revolutionary Animated Cartoons. NEW YORK. The Workers Animated Film Group has been formed from members of various {cultural organizations including the | John Reed Club, the Pierre Degeyter Club, the Film and Photo League and the Workers Laboratory The- atre. It is launching the production of a series of revolutionary mated cartoons, (of the Mi y Mouse type), the first of which is to be “Battle in the Barnyard,’ based on a story by Helen Kay. The Group 1s holding a party raise funds for its first tonight at 92 Fifth Aw to ion Tt opened in January again | labor paper printed at New York called the Daily Worker. I can hardly wait until I will be able to subscribe for this wonderful work- ing class voice in print, the Daily Worker. The Soviet Ambassador Troyan- ovsky and his wife made a wonder- ful impression upon the workers of this district. Troyanovsky is a great Bolshevik upon the workers of this district Troyanovsky is a great Bolshevik diplomat, and any one could see and hear for themselves that the U. S S. R. is the leading nation of the world and Russia's success is having a telling effect upon the minds of the workers all over the world. Many men and women of the U. S and other countries closed their hearts, eyes and ears to the Soviet Union just yesterday. Today all eyes, ears and hearts and minds ‘are opening and anxious to learn more about the Communist Party of these United States; so that we too may enjoy the real and true freedom | within the boundaries of U. 8. Soviet | America. As one of America’s 100 per cent Americans, I cannot find ‘words to express myself, how thankful I am that at least I have found my own mind and offer myself to the Com- munist Party. In Soviet Russia, true blue blooded women and men are standing up head and shoulders above others in every nation in our world. Men and women are making sacrifices against many odds, and every one of them we find that they are Communists Communists on every part of this earth are proven leaders of ability and they have a full knowledge of the functions of world capitalism, and its connection with present day | Christianity. The churehes and | man’s theories and capitalistic laws are for one class of people. Capital- ists can not hide these any more; we have eyes and can see, ears and can hear. To think that at last we, the working class of people, are waking up to the fact that capital- ism is the fruit of our labor and the day is not far distant until we who labor will demand that which is ours: the wealth of the world. | The Communist Party of the U. S. A. is new to me, but I am willing to make the necessary sacrifices to be- | come a worker for the Party. It is true and I know that I have much to Jearn, and I will do my part by study and reading and speaking the truth in regard to the functions of our working class political party. My greetings to ail of you and thanks to those who have made it | Possible for us new Communists te | have a political party and the only | rank and file political party in the | world. I trust the Convention will be a success. I want to be one of you. | 2.6. apitalism Is Bankrupt! ‘hich Way Out? DEBATE * COMMUNISM MAX BEDACHT Member C.E.C., Communist Party ° FASCISM CARLO M. FLUMIANT Editor “International Observer? Friday, April 13th —8PLM. — C W IRVING PLAZA . Syiasz* Tickets 28e im advance; S5e st door CONCERT @ GRAND BALL @ Saturday Eve., April 7 at 27 West 115th St. EUGENE NIGOB, Piano Recital AND OTHERS Dancing Till Dawn Solidarity Br. 691 L.W.0, Admission 35¢ PHILADELPHIA, PA. LL.D. Annual Bazaar Friday and Saturday April 13th and 14th Ambassador Hall 1710 N, Broad Street Kantor’s Dance Orchestra Admission—One Night 18 cents, Both Nights 15 sents