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4 “Youth Work Is Vital to the Anti-War Struggle,” Says Hathaway DAILY Activity Among Young Negro Workers Stressed in Report pe 6 ule Ignoring of Demands of | Youth Held Weakness | in Trade Union Work | By HARRY GANNES CLEVELAND, April 7. — Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker, was greeted | by a rising ovation from the | delegates at the Eighth Na-| tional Convention of the Commu- | nist Party when he was introduced | by Gil Green, national secretary of | the Young Communist League and | chairman of the session, to report | today for the central committee of | the Party on work among the youth. | In his usual clear and terse | manner, Comrade Hathaway pointed | out the unanswerable neglect of the | Party in sufficiently paying atten- | tion to win the working youth for; Communism. He devoted the first | few minutes of his speech to a brief | but sharp criticism of the Daily | Worker, official organ of the Com- munist Party, U. 8. A. Danger of Youth as Imperialist War After tracing the growing danger of an imperialist war and the role being prepared for the youth by the ruling class, Comrade Hathaway said: “Wnless we develop our work among the young workers, those who will mainly be drawn into the armies, navies, the air forces of capitalism, those who will play a very decisive part in munition production for war, we will not be able te carry on the proper struggle against war. We will not be able to perform the tasks be- fore us during the period of a war situation. Therefore, at this point, I emphasize the need seri- ously of taking up the struggle of winning the young workers in the most decisive struggle against war.” Roosevelt's war policy, the use of | the New Deal in preparation for war, was traced in detail by Com- rade Hathaway. He warned: “In this struggle for leadership over the youth, the revo- lutionary working class movement is by no means alone. The bour- geoisie, with all its organizations, are actively engaged—more actively than ever before—in an effort to win the youth for their policy, for the policy of fascism nad war; the policy of extreme chauvinism. i Through offering pseudo-criticism of the New Deal, various organiza- tions of the bosses appealing to the youth, like the Y.M.C.A,, are par- ticularly trying to win the youth for the prograin of fascism and war, Hethaway pointed out. Win the Negro Youth In this respect, Comrade Hatha- way dwelt in detail with the prob- Jems of the Negro youth, saying: “we have to note the activity of the Negro reformists among the young workers. Comrade ‘Haywood has dealt at length with the whole sys- tem of activities of the Negro re- formists. He told of the develop-) ment of petty-bourgeois nationalist tendencies among the Negro people. These particularly are directed to- ward the youth. They are the ones that provide to a great extent the mass base for any growing strength that these organizations have.” Turning his attention next to the “numerous examples of white chau- yinism in the Young Communist League.” which have to be extir- pated, Comrade Hathaway gave one outstanding, glaring example. “In Gary, Indiana, where a group of petty-bourgeois supporters of the Party were holding a social gather-' ing, League comrades brought two Negro girls to the aaffir. When they got there, the people holding it objected to their admittance. It | so happened that these people were contributors to the Party or to the League. So the League comrades, after due deliberation, went to the Why ItIs Vital To Have A Communist Party First of all, because the Party is the rallying point for the best elements of the working class, of those who are in touch with the non- Party prolstarian organiza- tions, and are often leaders in these. In the second place, because the Party, as a rallying point for the best elements of the working class, forms the best train- ing school for leaders com- petent to guide every kind of working-class organiza- tion. Thirdly, because the Party, as the best training school for working-class leaders, is the only organi- zation competent, in virtue of its experience and au- thority, to centralize the leadership of the prole- tarian struggle, and thus to transform all non-Party working-class organizations into accessory organs and connecting belts linking up the Party with the working class as a whole. ~-Foundations of Leninism, by STALIN. Fodder for! work among the youth, Clarence Hathaway, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Editor of the Daily Worker, who, at the Eighth Party Convention, analyzed the progress and weakness of the Party’s Reports on Youth Activities | | | { | | Negro girls and advised them it} | would be best not to come to the affair. They did not want to lose) | the support of these petty-bourgeois. | “This is an outrageous example that cannot be justified. It requires the sharpest kind of action when! | Such cases arise.” | Youth in the Factories and Trade | Union | Comrade Hathaway dealt exaus- | tivély with youth work in the fac-| | tories and trade unions. Through- | out his whole speech the main em- phasis was placed on the role of the Communist Party in winning the} young workers. | | “In the past, the problem of win- | ning the youth,” he said, “was con- sidered the problem merely of the young workers themselves. If the movement did not go forward fast enough, we put Comrade Green and | other young comrades on the carpet. We criticized them. We never examined our own role. We did not} criticize the role of the Party.” | The main problem among the! young workers before the Eighth! Convention, Comrade Hathaway | | stressed, was the making of the Y. ©, L. into a mass organization. He | declared it was the convention’s task to go back to the districts and see to it that the League became a larger organization than the Party. “When one states that,” he added, | “we have to be very careful that this | does not become a mere phrase.” Dealing with economic and trade| | union struggles among the youth,| | Comrade Hathaway stated: | | “There have been many cases of open resistance to the develop- ment of special youth demands, and special forms for young work- | ers. Many of our trade unions are so deeply influenced by a craft | outlook, purely trade union ap- proach to questions, that the prob- lem of winning the young workers to a revolutionary consciousness is | entirely ignored.” As the crassest example, Comrade Hathaway cited | the following: “In the fur industry, where our | proaching war. Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union fur section has shop control, there are 2,500 floor boys who re- ceive $8 to $10 a week. They are npt organized, nor covered by our | union agreements. Under the pres- sure of Y. C. L. comrades in the last | strike the union was compelled to bring forward the demand of $20/ a week for them. They were called | out and struck, When the agree- ment was made they were left out. Many were fired for strike activity. | And no steps were taken to fight for | their reinstatement.” Due to the fact that his time was soon up, Comrade Hathaway could deal only briefly with the Young Pioneers. He urged Communists in all mass organizations to do their utmost to recruit the children for the Young Pioneers, and to get sub- scriptions for their magazine, The Young Pioneer. Youth Important In Strength of Revolutionary Movement “Tf we go forward on the basis of the line given at this convention, penetrating the factories,” he said in his conclusion “if we go forward | on these fronts and in connection | with these develop a much broader activity among the young workers, bringing them to the fore in the| struggle, then, comrades, I am sure that the young workers will play a very big part in building the revolutionary movement in America. “Tt is from them that we will get some of our best, some of our ablest, most militant and most energetic cadres, It is from them that we will be able to develop that force that will play a leading role in the trenches and in industry in the ap- | We will then be} in a better position to approach our revolutionary tasks.” Immediately on the conclusion of | |agree with the very excellent jand independent unions under our | — WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 Chicago We Shop ecle | 85, Is Report | For N.Y. Area Weakness in Meeting) “Red Scare” Noted by Krumbein CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 8—“We | unanimously and wholeheartedly | re- port given by Comrade Browder, declared Charles Krumbein, organ- izer of the largest district of the Party, New York, in the course of the discussion. | He related the advances made since the last Party convention, mercilessly scoring and critizing | weaknesses which prevented even! greater gains. “Since the open letter, the New! York district has more than doubled the membership in the T. U. U. L. Part of last Saturday’s great demonstration of Chicago work surance Bill. protesting against C, W. A. layoffs and demanding relief for the un- employed and passage of the Workers’ Social and Unemployment In- control, and greatly increased our “ opposition work in reformists’ trade unions,” asserted Comrade Krum-} Canadi an Com m U bein, | “Our Party has increased 100 per | cent since 1932 and 41 per cent since | the open letter. Shop nuclei since} the open letter, have gone up from! 39 to 85. | “I want, also, to criticize ourselves | directly as a Party district. We were not sufficiently alert to meet the red scare and to bring to struggling and striking workers ‘the role of the|he said, of this struggle, and pro- | Party.” | posed an ideological campaign in Comrade Krumbein concluded his| the Party, that the districts include speech saying: “The convention| building W. E. S. L's in all plans | shows already some improvement in| of work, and that the C. C, issue the sections and districts. It shows|a statement defining our political ists (Continued from Page 4) revolutionary - nakers. trugeles of the veterans. There | an is under-estimation in the union among d that the and new trained leadership. cadres and guided Cleveland the plant in shortcomings of spoke of Hailed By Convention the youth ‘s must be brought system- for A delegate from the Fisher Body the | shop nucleus in the plant, which has 6,000 work- we have begun to grasp our prob-|line in this work. He took up the|ers. There was not enough work lems, As a result of this conven-| demands of the veterans, and the|inside the plant. Mass meetings tion, I am certain we will be able to| fight for the bonus, and called for| were called, but those who gave go forward much faster and, in this| Stronger exposure of the American! names to join the Auto Workors’ , Meet the great tasks ahead of | Legion as a part of the fascist) Union were not followed up. ;movement. He took up the short-|the A. F. of L. finally was a comings in the campaign for the! pet immediate demands of the veterans. | The Party is lagging behind in this | field. he said The Fight Against Fascism Comrade Rebecca Grecht, trict organizer from New Jersey, “In colonial countries Communists | 0% UP the question of the fight) the Party, are Kept in cages chained to an tron | mado’ the ‘masses ‘poliically alive post, just as the Roman patricians| .n4q conscious of this ficht,” shel chained their runaway slaves,” D. Z.| said. “In New Jersey there has Manuilsky reported at the 17th Con-| been a rapid development of open gress of the Communist Party of the | fascist organizations, which are Soviet Union. conducting a definite drive to win Outstanding among imperialist| the workers, especially in the tex- ae powers which enforce their rule by | tile centers. One effective method and the achat eed frightful repression of rebellious col-| of combatting fascism is the cam-|"¢Volutionary opposition. enial peoples is the British empire,| paign for defense of the foreign- A food worker of New Yo Ralph F ‘ox Writes. on Colonial Policy of the British Empire comrades to build an group inside the A. F. of L Clothing Workers’ Union, workers, how the workers When iahte 4,000 of the workers into the A. F. of L., we did not send in our opposition The | language buros should give more dis-| help, he said, in recruiting foreign- born workers inside the mill into A member of the Amalgamated] from Rochester, N. Y., told of how Sidney Hillman helped cut the wages of the were forced to give 15 per cent of their wages back to the boss as a “Joan,” of building the de- whose growth from earliest times to| born workers, and exposure of the! voted his speech to the work inside the present day is analyzed by Rlaph | national chauvinist Fox in “The Colonial Policy of the | fascist. organization: British Empire,” released this week| base themselves on by International Publishers. |German and other the Italian,/ side the A. F. of L. forei ‘ogram of the} the A. F. of L. He polemized against ome of which! those who under-estimate work in- It is the Party n-born| which must form and lead revolu- Fox's account of the rise of the | workers, The role of the social fas- | tionary opposition groups inside the movement in India,|°!St union leaders must be exj revolutionary aes supporting fascism. Asia, Africa and the,Near East con- |‘ stitutes a valuable supplement to Manuilsky’s discussions. The book costs 75 cents and can be obtained | at workers’ bookshops in quantities | Bee ace from International Publishers, 381| Comrade Phil Frankfeld, leader| the cafeteria workers ir Fourth Ave. New York. jof the Unemployed Councils of | © 1,500 Members, the 1 | Pittsburgh, declared that the Party a fs ee pls pee ena % = | ‘ : eles aune bel rkers it Chaco War Spurs oN onan nae ae euowe wie Yhe| Union. He analyzed the lesso j iwia | C. W. A. Reyolt in Bolivia |& number registered in the| Strike in New York. Der ae | ils y. vent into ‘ SANTIAGO, Chile, April 8—|the ‘struggles of the Unemployed | poste, Lightfoot, of | Growing disintegration in Bolivia! Councils in the Pittsburgh district, etsy s as the product of the long war) where, in 1923, with Paraguay over the Gran/ workers Comrade|combat the efforts of the A. F. of L. unio: Weaknesses in Unemployed Councils ns. |the trade unions into direct 23,000 unemployed | cago, especiall were registered, and, in| pioved end among the |A. F. of L, he said, in order to William Grecht then took up our work in| Green and the government to turn auxil- | iaries of the government. The revolu- tionary union has been built among kers in New York it cafe- filiated of strike, and the relatively| the hotel and restaurant workers’ Chicago, | poke Party among the Negro masses in Chi- unem ‘ 7 . in the stock . The rel evidenced by series of} 1994, 14000 in Allegheny County key task now is to. ite uprisings agains! @ government | alone. Struggles against evictions ei = in many parts of the country. | id masses from the reformist }and sheriff sales are being carried The full extent of the unrest/out. Successes have been gained in cannot be learned because of the|combatting the Musteite and S. P. ary competition with strict censorship which has been leadership in the unemployed! youe among the Negro imposed. It is known that a/ leagues, A serious shortcoming is}, — net se group of cadets in La Paz re-| the lack of Party fractions. volted, and that the president of| «party the municipal council of the capi-| tion of the Da ghaileng ed the Communist P: Chicago y Worker must be | Harlem to compete in revolution- ae 1 ho: are leay |ing trades workers who are leavil for the Soviet Union at the inv recruiting and the circula- 2 Negro. Mine Workers tal has been put under arrest. An) strengthened,” Comrade Frankfeld) Arrested in CongoRevolt uprising was also reported in | said. “The Unemployed Councils} Cochabamby. j|are also weak around the concen-| et Sarees Z | Poo er |tration point, the J. and L. steel| BRUSSELS, (By Mail).—A MEXICAN PEASANTS FIGHT | yy) new revolt of the heavily ex- HIDALGO STATE, Mexico, April! Gomrade Negarelli, of New York Ploited Negro wor! 8.—Seven members of a big ranch-| took up the lessons of the last dres in the -|Chincolobwe mines in the Bel-| Comrade Hathaway's speech a dele- | er’s family on the La Canada ranch! makers’ strike, where the Party|gian Congo was reported here gate made a motion that the speech be published immediately as a pam-~ phlet addressed to the Party, Young | Communist League, and the Amer- were reported killed when they | underestimated the mood of the| last week. clashed with a group of peasants de-| dressmakers for strike, and after) Ten of the manding the distribution of the| the 60,000 struck under the I. L. G.| have already worke: ican Youth, the state agrarian plan. leaders | been arrested and| rancher's land among them under | w. U. the Party had to fight a a new detail of police is on the tendencies for liquidation of the way to the scene of the outbreak. | ered around | pl orkers March Against CWA Lay-Ofs/ Railroad Worker at nvention Describes Struggle on the Job Inspires Delegates with Vivid Details of the Fight for Unity, Day-to-Day Demands you work for the the working class you are I continued trying. let me inte me to build a n the railroad indus. st d just how it. If I was going to to go underground, how was ‘oing to build the Party nucleus? ed up on it. By H. G. h CLEVELAND sor Hall I have the Party they to’ unio: ce of the P ique experier ing way all were treated by trade e to hear e district things over with h some help. bawling out because th e thing to do was to e cellar and preserve where. I didn’t know benefit I would be to the Commu- t f I had to hide away from my the Comm it aims to do. the Party brea out fellow put ques- of Communism simply and 1 his fellow workers, This delegate had to overcome " the greatest obstacles in order to get into the Party. Once havir found his way in, nobody could keep him away, or inactive. From his very first tence, the conven- tion w: held by the speech as if by a powerful magnate. He v one of the first to pi ich the discussion on Comrade report. I took n word by word. I wi every Party member, every worker, to observe how he puts the bi ing of a united f of workers of diverse political views, how this new Party member works ¥ the railroad brotherhood, single- handed, as. it were, yet correctly; and with what results! Convention rules prohibit giving this comrade’s name or the locality he comes from. Here is his speech in full—that is, as much as he could deliver before his time was up “Looking for the Party” for Years “The greatest difficulty I had was in finding the Party. I have been looking for the Communist Party since the overthrow of the in Russia. I used to talk unist out in the open. At it never interfered with my work, because we have so-called ‘seniority’ rights on the railroad. I didn’t find the Party until a year ago, I started what the Commu- nist Party calls an opportunist or- ganization. And what brought the Communists out? I was teaching ‘Communism’ to the best of my ability. And the Party never showed its face until just before elections. Then I just turned the organiza— tion over to the Party; put on their | speakers. Even after doing this, ald not admit me. I couldn't d the reason for that wed me the danger of be- g a Party member. “You may arrested!’ I understood all They didn’t have to tell me ever Czar be that. Farewell Party for Workers Enroute to The Soviet Union NEW YORK—A farewell celebra- tion will take place on April 11, at Webster Hall, for a group of build- a- tion of the Building Trust of Mos- cow. They will work on a number of buildings in the Soviet Union, and plan to introduce the latest American technique, especially in the painting and decorating field Among the speakers at the celebra- tion will be James W. Ford, Sidney Leroy, Walter E. Lohe, Sarah Rice, and other: Are you doing your share in the Daily Worker sub drive? Every reader getting only one new sub- scriber will put the drive over the top! bin TIVE or six of us reserves were sent to the guardroom the following morning. Obstinately, we answered | “Don’t know” to all questions and we were released after two days. The news reached us after that that the regiment commander had declared that nevertheless “he does not prohibit leaves of absence” on the following Sunday. All rejoiced; indeed, after such an affair, no- body expected absences to be per- mitted. We realized our strength for the first time and daringly began to prepare for the second struggle. Before the leave of absence, every Sunday morning, the commander of the regiment repeated: “You have read and seen the supreme decree. The greatest offence is overstaying a leave of absence. Warriors must respect orders and observe fidelity to the emperor.” We repeat these words after the commander and think to ourselves “A warrior must be clever.” “Away with the supreme decree.” Such was the unanimous || opinion of all. We began immedi- ately to set up a plan of struggle against the “Supreme decree.” On Saturday evening, there was a meeting of reserves and two years’ service men. Fifty to sixty men from every company were in the toom. “How shall we put an end to the operation of the decree?” “We will all protest and simply not carry it out.” “That’s right.” “Count me in.” “Are there any objections?” Thus the resolution was immedi- ‘ately accepted. All the parts were cd Soldiers Describe Activities of the ‘Communist distributed. We decided to com- municate our resolution to the soldiers of all companies during the night. It is true, several did not regard it seriously enough. Several skipped: for joy when they were in- formed about it. There were also some among the youth who were afraid. In such cases, perhaps in- sorrectly, the influence of old soldiers and threats were brought to bear. But during the night the prepara- tions in general were carried out. eis ar ws. and in the morning, as usual with a stern face, the com- mander made a speech. The officers lined up the ranks. After the com- mander a soldier in the front rank were filled with confidence in their) time from the masses, Official gelec-j and slogans: “We protest own strength and in the power of! tions were not made, but the sol-| blank against the Imperi: solidarity. Craven fear before mili-|diers said: ‘It is necessary to ob-| “Recall cv tary discipline quickly vanished.| serve the directions of Kumako.”| at once.” All were full of impatience, and/“It is necessary their hands itched to do something. RE Sel “Provide for the famili Kisi,” and about ten soldier repre-|and who occupy the front line sentatives were clected generally. | “Leave of absence, free 50 or 60 men gathered together as|and correspondence.” “Reduce usual in order to consider what to/ term of service to one year.” undertake on the day of the jubilee, | others. so as “To arrange for this.” A sug- gestion was made to issue leaflets 'HE day of the regiment jubilee drew near. “We will arrange a demonstration again on the day of the jubilee,” was the talk of the Soldiers, and the initiative came this the soldiers began to speak. to follow after | of those called away to the arm: Gradually, one after the other,| Their | Party of Japan point | speeches are st War.” yone out of Manchuria ssembly | end. the| calle And Japanese Bosses Gear War Machine for Anti-Soviet Attack repeated: “The duty of a warrior ... the observance of fidelity...” A voice is heard from the read rank: “The warriors protest!” Voices re- sound simultaneously from all com- panies: “We protest, we protest!” For the time being the commander of the regiment was stunned and stood ten’ minutes like one rooted to the spot. The officers also dropped their arms and only ex- changed glances. Against their will they came to permit the leaves of absence, After this they exposed the five or six known persons, who this time sat for three days in the guard-room, The examination went easily, On the next Sunday the leaves of absence would be abso- lutely unobstructed. The joy of the soldiers in all companies knew no bounds. They A modern tank is here shown taking part in military maneuvers of the Japanese army. helmeted infantry advancing in combat formation. \ accompanied b: clamations That's right.” | support you.” About ten proposals were accepted in this manner. But how should we sign our- Selves? Here we were at our wits What, after all, should it be called? y in general whom represented. Somebody exclaimed: “And what if we call it the Military-Revolutionary Com-| mittee of the Japanese Communist} Party?” | Everyone stared, but nobody was| scared. The suggestion was im- mediately accepted. A “troop of death” was organized | for distributing leaflets; several} men were organized for the pre-| paration of leaflets for the follow- ing Sunday. ear ea T night, as usual, the commander of the regiment again summoned six men, But it proved that in the rush the squad for the protection of those who distributed leafiets was not set | up. The distribution of leaflets! proved unsuccessful, | We wece in such a frame of mind) that we wanted to cry and cry; in-| deed, it seemed to us that it would| not be regrettable to die if only these leaflets were distributed, It is true that all this is scanty| experience, but absolutely not one} soldier is for the monarchy. | I understand clearly that the workers and peasants in military uniforms are our adherents. (To be Continued.) | unity of the rank and file. ‘T Am a Communist” Before I got into the Party I as transferred to another job, railroad workers were approv- z Roosevelt. T was a new man on the job. One said: ‘Are Hoover man?’ I kind of T said: ‘I don't know, boy: I dare tell you my political views or not. I said: ‘I would like to work here at least a month or two any- way. It’s ho secret,’ I said, ‘where I come from. The officials on the toad, they all know my _ political You man know them, too. I am a Communist—that is, I will one just as soon as IT find the arty. I voted the Communist ticket ever since it’s been on the ballot. I think it’s been on the bal- lot in this state for four years. I am going to continue voting for it.’ “At that time the boys had to switch a few boxcars. When they done that one of them was in a hurry to whisper to me and tell me what a bad spot I was in. ‘They were all stool-pigeons.’ He was the only one that was ‘radical’ or ‘pro- gressive,’ he said. I shouldn't be so open. I said: ‘They couldn't tell the officials what they don't al- ready know.’ Finally the boys did come around with their troubles. I began talking unity. I told them this is the reason we were receiving no decent pay, because we were calling each other stool-pigeons We must get together. If we couldn't agree on political beliefs, let's agree on working conditions Due to that policy I got two of the workers into the Party. “It took considerable study and fight to learn how to activize them, I was reading them the Daily Worker ‘We must activize!’ That Was something new. I didn’t know how to activize. Some, however, seemed to think I was too active already—that is, the Party. So I had the problem of activizing. T am isolated away from the center. I have belonged to the Brotherhood for 25 years. I never attended lodge meetings because T realized they were doing nothing for us. I decided the thing to do, to activize, was to go back into the lodge and get some action. Fights for Unity Program “ I got in touch with the unity program. I started going to the lodge. The first time I went to the | lodge I brought out the unity pro- gram. First thing I was denounced by the local chairman for being known as a ‘dynamiter and radical,’ I told him I was well aware of that fact and I didn’t want to lose the reputation of being a militant fighter for the workers. I told him I was coming out with a program of I told him I thought it would take long before the rank and file would agree with me on this point. “The N. R. A. came in. They were all talking about it. All we had to do. the: aid, was to sit down and be quiet, and we would get the six-hour day, increased wages. There were going to be jobs for everybody. So I stepped forward. I asked the spokesman of our local when all this was going to happen. ‘Why,’ he says, ‘by the first of October.’ I said, “All right, I just wanted to be informed now.’ I says, ‘By October first? All right, I want to make a statement. It | won't be October first this year, nor year, nor the year after, un- take action to get it our- “I had my pockets full of N.R.A. pamphlets gotten out by the Part: I handed them to the lodge room. I said, ‘Boys, study up a little bit. I could have gotten on much faster in the lodge, but something hap- pened. “As fast as I would get one of the boys to understand the program, he would stay home the next lodge meeting. So that left me alone again. We had to have five for a quorum. I drive about 65 to 75 miles to go to lodge meetings, and my activity led to no quorums. So I wondered what was the matter. I hed to start looking the boys up. I did. They said, ‘What’s the use?’ I said, ‘We have to go in there and take possession of our organ- | ization. That's all.’ “In our locality every fireman has gone on record for the entire unity program; not only gone-on ‘record but have notified the grand president, Robertson, to that effect. “Other comrades I am working with have gone into the trainmen’s lodge and done the same thing. One of the firemen on a furlough got back into the shops and lodge to put over the program. I went into the ladies’ auxiliary of the firemen to put forward the Com- munist program and defense of the Soviet Union. They, as a result, are electing a committee of three to form a unity group of the dif- ferent crafts and unite them. This | has been set pp ready to function when I get back from the con- (Prolonged applause.) vention.”