The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily ,QWorker TENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARPY B.5.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7 ble Address: “'D; Washington Bures Press Building, 14th and F St,, Miftwest Bureau: 1 705, Chicago, 7. ts Teyephone: Dearborn fo Subscription Rates: except 2 s, $8.50; 3 m Manhattan, Bronx, Forel $ months, $5.00; 3| months, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cen TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 Taxi Men! Defeat All the Attempts to Break Unity! & New York taxi drivers, members of the Taxi Drivers Union, must now be as vigilant as hawks against the new men- ace that faces them in the form of the enemies in their own ranks — disrupters and splitters who are now planning to break up the firm unity of the drivers that was welded in the recent two strikés. These disrupters, wolves in sheeps’ clothing, all of them, the Messrs. Samuel Smith, Amicus Most and Herman Goldstein, leaders of the Bronx and Brooklyn locals of the Union have now augmented their group with three no less worthy gentlemen: the Reverend Norman Thomas, Judge Jacob Pan- ken of the Socialist Party, and Morris Feinstone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades. ‘The aim of this group is quite clear. It was an- nounced first in the April 7 e of the Socialist Party newspaper. the New Leader, and later in the capitalist press on April 9: “To build a union free from Communist elements,” a union “that will take its place in the ranks of the American Federation of Labor.” So here we have the leaders of the Socialist Party joining the whole tribe of employers, re- actionaries, thugs in the hysterical “Red-baiting” cry of “Drive out the Communists.” Here we have the Socialist leaders, pretending to be the friends of the taxi drivers, trying to stab the taxi drivers in the back by breaking their hard-won unity through the cheap method of a reactionary “red scare.” Unity is precious to the taxi drivers. Unity is the mightiest weapon that the drivers have against the taxi owners. Unity, rank and file unity, is what can really bring vic- tory to the drivers. He who makes the first move to split the taxi drivers’ ranks is by that very move an enemy and a menace to the struggles of the taxi drivers. The Socialist leaders are splitters, they are giving aid and comfort to the employers by their splitting tactics. ies what is their open purpose in splitting the ranks of the Taxi Drivers Union? They answer in smooth, deceptive phrases—“to build a union that will take its place in the ranks of the Ameri- can labor movement as part of the American Fed- eration of Labor.” This smooth talk is filled with deadly danger to the fight of the taxi drivers. What are the So- cialist leaders trying to do? They are trying to hog-tie the fighting taxi drivers to the crushing, paralyzing, corrupt, bureaucratic machine of the upper A. F. of L. clique, the Greens, the Wolls, etc. There is no more willing bunch of strikebreakers than this very same clique of $15,000 to $25,000 a year A. F. of L. “labor leaders.” Green and his henchman are now trying to stab the auto strike in the back. Green and his upper A. F. of L, henchmen have trapped and be- trayed thousands of workers into going back to work, filling them with rotten, false promises, and then breaking their unity by the special trick of long, secret, “negotiations” with the bosses. Green and his henchmen, into whose tender hands the Socialist leaders now want to deliver the taxi strikers, spurned the taxi drivers when they struck, denouncing their courageous fight for de- cent standards of living as “an outlaw strike.” This upper A. F. of L. clique of strike-breakers kicked out the delegation of hackmen that came te see them asking for support for their strike, And now the Socialist leaders want to let these high-paid professional strike-breakers, these trade union racketeers, get their treacherous grip in the taxi drivers union! es oe ‘HEY want a “union free of Communists.” How happy this makes the bosses! It is just the Com- munists, devoted, loyal, and militant fighters for the day to day interests of the workers the employers hate and fear most of all. And it is the very hatred of the bosses for the Communists that confirms the Communists as the best leaders of the taximen. Who was it who gave the best and finest sup- port to the taxi drivers strike? What paper was it that alone gave the truth about the taxi strike and the struggles of the hackmen for decent wages? Who was it who alone tore off the mask of lies and slanders the New York capitalist press? Was it Green, was it Thomas or Panken? Every taxi man who courageously braved all the lies and brutality of the capitalist press and New York police knows the answer. It was the Com- munist Party, the Daily Worker that stood side by side with the taxi men in working class solidarity. Tt was the Communists, whom Thomas and Panken are so eager to “drive out,” that stood with the hackmen on the lines of daily struggle against the employers. It was the Communists who fought in the front ranks with the hackmen. The Communist ‘Party clasped hands with the taxi men in true solidarity. Now they want to split off the Bronx and Brook- lyn locals from the Manhattan. Is it not clear as day that this will weaken the fight of the taxi men? ‘That it will play into the hands of the enemies of the taxi men? To break up the present rank and file leadership, and to accept the A. F. of L. leadership means to Jead the taxi men into the hands of the Greens, etc,, who will try to put over on the tax! men what they are trying on the auto workers of Detroit—a strike- breaking N. R. A. hearing. I means to substitute class collaboration with the bosses instead of strug- gle against the bosses, To accept Jndge Panken would be to accept as a leader one who by his tricky maneouvering got the men in the first taxi strike to go back with nothing more than a handful of empty, vague promises that were never carried out, such as the promise on the 5-cent tax. The taxi drivers have blazed the way in New York for the fight against the company union. The ve. F. of L, proposition of the Socialist leaders would be lead the men back into the no-strike, no-struggle, company union trap of the A. F. of L. burocracy. Today meetings will be held at Hunts Point Palace, Bronx, and Amalgamated Temple, Brooklyn, to vote on the resolution to affiliate with the A. F. of L. Vote against the splitting resolution! Demand that the Taxi Drivers Union fight as one united independent union, built on the basis of dem- ocratically elected garage committees! Defeat all attempts to break the taxi drivers ranks! Taxi men, keep your union In your own hands! Bronx and Brooklyn men! Stick with your brethers in the Manhattan lecal. United you will win! An Urgent CommunistTask esa two or three days ago, delegates gathered in Cleveland at the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party echoed through the hall their determination to boost the Daily Worker's circula- tion to 75,000 by the end of 1984. Their action followed closely upon the remark- able final speech of Comrade Earl Browder, general secretary of the Party, who declared that only the strengthening and spreading of the Daily Worker would enable the Communist Party to thoroughly carry out the tasks which it had set for itself at this historic convention. Such determination is an accurate and glowing tribute to the calibre of the delegates who came |~ together to shape the Party’s policy during the next | period. It is a genuine expression of the love and devotion which Communists have for their paper, as well as a true indication that they realize the in- calculable power that the Daily Worker wields in bringing ever new recruits into the class-conscious ranks of the militant workers in the United States. This feeling of determination, of vigor and grow- ing strength, should be crystallized without delay in the carrying out of specific campaigns and tasks in which the Daily Worker is intimately involved. Such a venture faces us now, in the special May Day edition. Comrades! The half-million copies of the special | May Day edition should reach every proletarian | corner of America. No area can be allowed to remain barren. Delegates who return to their dis- tricts from the historic Eighth National Convention | of the Communist Party, with the stirring words | of Comrade Browder fresh in their minds, should | immediately do all in their power to increase their | May Day orders for the Daily Worker! Delegates! Get your district to double the Tenth Anniversary edition orders! See that ample prepa- rations are made in your district to spread every single copy where it will best fulfill its important function! Get every organization in your district, no matter how small, to take part in this mass distribution. Get every single workers club, every branch of mass and fraternal organizations, every unit of the Party and the Young Communist League, | to send its greeting to the May Day edition with- out delay! Very little time remains in which to make sure that these things are done. Forward toward the spreading of a half-million copies of the May Day Daily Worker. This is among the very first and most immediate | of the tasks which today face every worker who has the honor of calling himself a Communist! An Example of How to Fight Against Negro Oppression HE victory of the tenants of 425 East 6th St..in forcing the powerful Emi- grant Industrial Savings Bank to back down on its attempt to evict Cyril Briggs and enforce racial segregation in its 6th St. Ttenement house is a model for workers every- where in the struggle against jim-crowism. ‘The promptness with which these worker-tenants | and thousands of workers throughout the city mo- bilized their forces to repel this jim-crow attack on the Negro masses and the growing unity of Negro and white workers is one of the most inspiring chapters even in this period of rising revolutionary struggles by the tormented toiling population against their oppressors, The white workers, defending Comrade Briggs and the right of the Negro workers to secure decent living conditions, struck a blow not only against segregation but against the defeatist theory of the Negro reformist leaders that the white workers cannot be won over to the defense of the Negro masses against the attacks of jim-crow capitalism. 425 Bast 6th St. of militant working class unity and succesful struggle against segregation and jim- crowism stands out in sharp contrast to the traitor- our program of servile submission to segregation enunciated by Dr. Du Bois, of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement. of Colored People, in the April “Crisis.” Dr. Du Bois abjectly declares that the Negro masses must adjust themselves to “more or less active segregation and. acquiescence in it.” How significant that the policies of the reformist agents of capitalism always fit in so neatly with the increased offensive of the capitalist class! Du Bois’ arguments coincide not only with the de- mands of American capitalism for intensified ex- ploitation and persecution of the Negro masses, but with the needs of the upper strata of Negro land- lords and business men. This is clearly expressed in Du Bois’ arguments for a jim-crow Negro eco- nomy and in the statement by the Pittsburgh Courier, unofficial organ of the N. A. A. ©. P., that “we must make segregation pay.” Comrade Briggs, refusing to submit to segrega- tion, and the white workers rallying to his defense and waging a successful struggle against the Emi- grant Industrial Savings Bank, demonstrated the | effectiveness of mass pressure on the institutions of capitalism and the correctness of the Communist | program for relentless struggle of white and Negro workers against all forms of oppression and per- secution of the Negro masses; of the possibility of rallying the white workers to revolutionary defense of the oppressed Negro masses, The Communists who led this struggle to a vic- torious conclusion would be derelict in their duties to the Negro masses and the working-class, how- ever, if they now rested upon their laurels. The victory must be utilized to broaden out the mass fight against segregation and other forms of Negro oppression, The proposal of the House Committee to form a provisional committee agianst segregation should be carried through immediately with the support of all working-class organizations in the city. Every effort should be made to popularize the victory and at the same time to clarify new sec- tions of the white workers on the necessity of fight- ing for the rights of the Negro masses. The en- thusiastic response of the workers throughout the city in defense of Comrade Briggs should be utilized to build the broadest possible united front of work- ers and all elements opposed to segregation, jim- crowism, lynch terror and other attacks on the Negro people | 500 workers, mostly from the steel ‘The example afforded by the worker-tenants of © | Boston Iron and Metal Co. and the | Union Shipyards, scrap iron is be- | than 100 delegates, members of all DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 Baltimore Seamen, Industrial Workers. PledgeFight onWar | | | | 500 at Mass Meeting; | Students to Strike Next Friday BALTIMORE, April 9.—Two anti- war committees were organized aboard ships in Baltimore harbor, a one-hour strike against war and fascism at Johns Hopkins University, Friday, April 13, was pledged, two anti-war and anti-fascist mass meetings of seamen and steel and chemical workers were held, and a city-wide Youth Conference against war and fascism planned for April 29, as part of the April 6 activity | of the Baltimore Youth Provisional Committee Against War and Fas-| cism, and its affiliated organizations. One hundred students represent- ing several colleges, meeting in con- ference at Johns Hopkins university, at the call of the youth committee of the anti-war League, | lead Friday’s strike. student anti-war | Seamen delegates to the April 29) | city youth conference against war | | and fascism were elected at a mass | meeting of young seamen at the South Broadway seamen’s recrea- tion hall. | A delegation of seamen and mem- {bers of the | League went from this mass meet- |ing to an open air mass meeting! % jin Curtiss Bay, where more than! and chemical industries, voiced | their determination to carry on a struggle against war and fascism in| this Baltimore suburb which is a| center of war preparations. At the| ing shipped, or manufactured into shrapnel. At the Davison Chemical plant, chemicals for explosives and poison gases are manufactured. At the Center Chemical plant, sulphur is manufactured. The workers greeted the anti-war speakers with enthusiasm, and. when a drunk objected to Benjamin, a young Negro speaker, the audience voted to eject him, and responded warmly to the speaker's appeal for Negro and white unity. Many signed up to support the League Against War and Fascism. Sa arias Organize League in Huntington, Cal. HUNTINGTON, Calif. — More political parties, including the Soci- alist Party, which has carried on an active fight against the League Against War and Fascism, met here on March 30 and organized a Hun- tington branch of the League. we eae 500 Meet in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, April 6—Nearly {500 workers attended an anti-war outdoor meeting staged by one of the downtown vnits of the Young Communist League on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of America’s entrance into the last world slaughter. Speakers pointed to the relation- ship of war and fascism, showing the fascist mobilization now going on and calling for organization to combat it, Speakers were Carl Wendell, rank and file member of the A. F. of L.; Dorothy Zadow, representing the youth section of the American League Against War and Fascism; Sam Jones, representing the Relief Workers’ Protective Union; Sarah Richards, representing the Y. O. L., Harry Buchanan, representing the International Labor Defense; Tom Patterson, representing the and the} National Student League, voted to} Young Communist} | “SEVERING, GERMAN SOCIALIST LEADER, GIVEN PENSION BY HITLER”’—News Item, N. Y. Times, April 5. By Burek | | | | | Delegate to Vis NEW YORK.—Lareine Pruit, a miner from the Southern Illinois field, was elected by his fellow- workers as a delegate to the Soviet Union at a recent meeting. He is a member of the Progressive Miners Union, Local 46, and has been an active trade unonist for years. The Southern Illinois miners are anxious to get a first-hand report of con- ditions in the Soviet Union, as they have heard and read so many false reports of that country, Pruit will investigate wages, hours, and work- ing conditions among Soviet min- ers while on the trip. Local 46 raised $50 toward his ex- | penses on the way to the Soviet border. The Chicago branch of the) Friends of the Soviet Union is ar- ranging a mass send-off for Pruit on April 13, at which money will be raised toward expenses. The F. S. U. appeals for additional contribu- tions to defray expenses of this and other delegates, all of whom must pay the steamship fare. While Biinsis Miners’ Local to Renu Soviet Aipinen it Soviet Union: | —_— | within the Soviet borders, the Soviet | Trade Unions will pay all expenses. The National Office of the Friends of the Soviet Union expects to send about ten delegates, from the metal, chemical, transport and textile in- dustries. There will be a send-off for the delegates at the Manhattan Lyceum on April 13, at 6:30 p. m., with speakers, dancing and refresh- ments. Admission is free and New York workers are urged to attend | and give the delegates their greet- | ings to the Soviet workers, ‘There is a keen socialist compe. tition going on in Paterson, N. J., among the textile workers there for the collection of funds for their) delegates. Three candidates have | been elected, and three committees formed to carry on the campaign. That committee which wins this competition will elect the delegate. In New York, a delegate will be sent from the Metal Workers In- | dustrial Union, who held a meeting on April 6, at Manhattan Lyceum to collect funds. Former French Premier’s Son Appeals for Aid to Thaelmann PARIS.—A stirring call in defense of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, has been written by Jean Painleve, well- known biologist, and son of Paul Painleve, former premier of France, Painleve writes: “The lowest of the revolting things staged by the Nazis is the Communist Party, and Elliot Hull, representing the United Front Con- ference Against Hunger. vain attempt to drag Thaelmann, flashing symbol of human honor and freedom, into the mud, “It is necessary that the message ' of the millions who all over the world are fighting irreconciliably against the insanity of dying ca- pitalism penetrate through his prison walls. “This is no time to withold sacrifices. On these sacrifices the future depends. Thaelmann, leader and beacon of the vanguard of the working class, shows the way to victory. | | | Rescue 5 More. From Ice-Floe Three Planes Reach| Floating Camp in Bering Sea (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 9 (By Radio). —Pilot Molokov yesterday made a second flight to the Chelyuskin ice-floe camp, remaining in the air two and a half hours without, however, being able to locate the camp, because of the extremely bad visibility. He returned to the rescue base at Cape Van Karem. A violent snowstorm is reported at Anadyr, delaying the continua- tion of the flight of Pilots Galy- shev, Doronin and Vodopianov, members of another Soviet rescue expedition. . (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, April 8 (By Radio) — Slepniev, Kamanin and Molokov, Soviet airmen, yesterday rescued five more of the Chelyuskin expedi- tion from their ice-floe camp in the Bering Sea. Slepniev’s pla was slightly damaged, and hé remained on the ice-fioe, intending to leave today, carrying three or four more pas- sengers back to Cape Van Karem, Siberia. The three planes, standard Soviet two-seaters landed on the airdrome which the Chelyuskin men has pre- pared on the ice. One of the re- turning planes carried two, the other three rescued passengers. Pilot Kamanin is 26 years old, son of a shoemaker, a. member of the Young Communist League since |4 Workers ‘Communists in Austria Given Long Terms ra. Consieted for Fighting Beside Republican Guard VIENNA.—The first of the Aus trian Communists to go on trial for participation in the February up- rising were sentenced last week. F. Bettini, chief defendant, was given two years at hard labor. Ru- dolf Schnederle, a dairy worker, and two other workers were given 15 months each. A laborer, named Chmelicek was given eight months at hard labor for standing as a sentry in front of an inn for five hours. Chicago Arnal ‘Workers Attacked By Nationalists Anti- Soviet Tashnags Clash with Armenians In Boston CHICAGO, April 9—Demonstrat. ing against the Armenian National Club, reactionary counter-revolu- tionary organization, who were meeting at the West End Woman’s Club this afternoon, 200 Armenian workers were attacked by this group, emerging from the building to start the fight. Ten men were seriously injured and rushed to the hospital during the clash. Rien Pe BOSTON, April 9—Members of Tashnag, reactionary Armenian anti-Soviet organization, clashed with Holy Tri Church members at Steiner Hall this afternoon. The Tashnags stormed the meet- ing, seeking to defend themselves from the charge of responsibility for the murder of Archbishop Tou- rain. Several score men and women were injured and ten were arrested. 45 Workers’ Leaders Arrested in Latvia RIGA, Latvia.—Forty-five Com- munist leaders were arrested in a concerted drive throughout Latvia | last week. Among them were sev- eral trained in the International | Lenin School at Moscow for politi- cal propaganda in Latvia. 120 Killed in Anti-War 4 * een Uprising in Bolivia 'TACNA, Peru, April 9. — News brought out of Bolivia by travelers reveal that the anti-government and anti-war movement n Bolivia | has taken on serious proportions. | One hundred twenty persons were killed in a-revolt of military cadets at La Paz last Thursday. Fighting also took place at Siles. The travel- ers report also that the leaders of the La Paz uprising were summarily executed the same day. of one of the best air detachments of the Red Army in the Far East. Pilot Molokov is also a worker, a member of the Communist Party, an airman since 1919 and one of the best pilots on the trans-Siber- “Signed, Jean Painleve.” he was 19. He is now commander Must Be Systematic Training of New Forces By a Group of Training School Students ‘HE Open Letter of our Party, adopted at the Extraordinary Party Conference, calls sharply the attention of the entire Party to the necessity of “The wide development of new cadres of workers: the es- tablishment of really collective work- ing bodies by the drawing in of new capable working class elements,” in order to make firm contacts with the American industrial workers, so that we can keep pace with the gen- eral revolutionary advance, with the increased radicalization of the work- ing class, The growing mass struggles against the capitalist offensive, of which the recent strike wave dur- ing the New Deal is only a small rehearsal, demands of our Party capable leadership. The organiza- tion of the National Training School by our Central Committee is a step forward toward the training of cadres and forces from the basic in- dustries, in order to give the cor- rect and necessary leadership to the mass class battles that face us. But this alone is not sufficient. Every Party member must become a leader among the masses. In preparing the Party membership for leadership, it necessitates the organ- ization of National, District and Section Training Schools and a sys- tematic development of study circles. In the struggle for winning the ma- jority of the working class for lead- ership of the masses, our member- ship must be armed. with Bolshevik theory, to have the necessary weap- ons to carry on a sharp struggle against the Social-Fascists, rene- gades and other distorters of the teachings of Marx and Lenin. It is not enough to say, “Without revo- lutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary practice.” We must make every member politically con- scious of this and make it possible for them to acquire this theory. The low political level of our Party mem- bership, in face of the present fa- vorable objective situation, makes it evident to all that a real turn to raise the political level of the Party Training School Problem of Raising Party Political Therefore, it is not an accident that our Central Committee is car-, rying out a ssytematic policy of training the present cadres in the Party, giving them the possibility of equipping themselves with Marx- ist-Leninist theory as a step toward raising the ideological level of the membership and in doing this, Bol- shevize the Party as a whole, Comrade Stalin, in his report to the 17th Congress of the C. P. S. U., states very clearly, “When the cor- rect line has been given, when the question has been properly solved, success depends on the organiza- tional struggle for the carrying out the line of the Party, ON THE CORRECT CHOICE OF PEOPLE, on the verification of how decisions of leading organs are carried out.” The Central Committee placed great importance on the selection of students for the National Train- ing School. The school, organized on a national basis, composed of comrades who participated in lead- ing mass struggles, brought together a section of the American working class, comrades from mines, steel, textile, marine, farming, railroad, the South, etc., including section or- ganizers, trade union functionaries, unemployed leaders and youth, School Correctly Organized The correct internal organization of the school enabled the students to work collectively and maintain Bolshevik discipline. As Commu- nists always maintain the funda- mental and basic form of organiza- tion wherever they may be—so also the school. The unit meetings were held regularly each week and the unit buro aided in co-ordinating the work of the various committees. The students, in addition to their regular dues payment, contributed three cents per week from their weekly 50 cents subsidy to the work of our heroic German Communist Party, developing political sensitive- | ness and international solidarity. The following committees were or- ganized to carry out the internal organization; political and social life of the school: (1) Health and recreation committee, which organ- ized sports, hikes and mass exer- cises each morning during the school. (2) Social-cultural commit- tee—organized mass singing, plays must be made, and open forum discussions. (3) Housing committee—to check up on the cleaning of rooms; sani tation, general welfare and care- taking of the property of the school. Librarian—care of the librarian and literature. The organization of the school itself is a real lesson on how to or- ganize to work collectively. Many weaknesses manifested themselves during the term (sectarianism, lack of critical self-examination of short- comings, group-consciousness, ten- dencies of white chauvinism) but, in the main, the instructors and students worked together collec- tively, in a comradely and discip- lined manner. The comrades were divided into six groups—each group electing its own leader, the leaders working collectively with the instructors, planning and organizing group dis- cussions, individual discussion, in- dividual study, etc., checking up on production. This was carried out in the following manner: (1) Group leaders were respon- sible, first, to see that each member of his group received the necessary material for each assignment. (2) That the schedule of study and group discussions were carried out and organized in a disciplined manner. (3) That the group leaders read the material over in advance, in order to prepare and lead the dis- cussion and involve every member of the group. (4) All fundamental questions were discussed in the group with the object of clarification and all disputable questions were referred beh ae conferences of the general (5) That the group leader pay special attention to any comrade who was lagging behind the rest of the group; at the same time giving ample opportunity to those who could advance more rapidly, to do sO. (6) Every group to meet at least once every week, to check up on of the group in general and the in- dividual comrades in particular, in order to make better plans for the next week. (1) Group leaders held regular meetings to check up on the pro- duction of the school as a whole, their work, criticize the th | i how to increase the production of | the class. (8) A library was available, con- sisting of practically all the pub- lications of the International Pub- lishers and all current literature, making it possible for the comrades to read additional material that would help to advance the studies. (9) Each group was responsible to contribute at least two articles to the Wall-paper (besides individ- ual articles) in competition with their competing group on the life of the school, criticism of the weak- nesses reflected in the work of the school, progress made and experi- ences in the field. Used Socialist Competition The principle of Socialist Com- petition is seldom used in the Amer- ican Party. It is a powerful instru- ment at our command, which when we learn to master, will be an added force to the revolutionary move- ment. Comrade Stalin in his speech to the 17th Congress of the C. P. S. U.) said “In reality victory was secured and won by a systematic and fierce struggle against all sorts of difficul- ties”. . . one of the methods for overcoming these difficulties was “The development of competition and shock brigade work among the teilers,” This principle was applied by the instructors to ot work here in the school. We had the problem of getting a lot of work done in a comparatively short time. Among the students, some comrades were more advanced than others, some could study faster htan others, some had difficulties in reading, some were strong on cer- tain subjects and weak on others. The comrades were practically all young workers, relatively new in the Party, with many petty-bourgeois illusions and habits and strong tendencies of individualism. To overcome these in the short period of the school was a tremend- suo task that challenged the Bol- shevik determination of our Party instructors. These problems face every Unit, every Section of our Party. They can be solved collectively, with the Proper application of Socialist Com- mistakes made, shortcomings. aud Level Practical Work Must Be Enriched By Theory these shortcomings, but they need the HELP OF ALL OF US. Through Socialist Competition we were able: (1) To bring these shortcomings to the open and thus help to over= come them. (2) To raise the production of the whole school; by helping the weaker comrades, and more developed come rades advanced still further. (3) To understand Socialist Com- petition as a powerful weapon to aid us in our practical work. (4) To study individually and to develop and clarify ideas collec- tively. (5) THE POWER AND EFFEC- TIVENESS OF COLLECTIVE WORK. We learned that Socialist Com- petition does not mean that one comrade could see how far ahead he or she can get-of another comrade, or one group to get ahead of the other, but he had as our task the strengthening of the Party. To do this, we had to be self< critical, examine ourselves indivi- dually and collectively, in the light of our work in the school, effort, discipline, activity, etc, in order to. put in our best efforts, and to help the other comrades by our experi~ ences and to learn from them; thug we all go ahead. The task of all of us, after the conclusion of the N. T. S. is to continue further the study of Marx- ism-Leninism, by spreading the knowledge gained by us amongst the workers, through the organization of Workers Schools, study circles, neighborhood classes, trade-union schools, amongst the unemployed; to develop local cadres in our Dis- tricts to carry out the line of our k i It is our responsibility in the" every-day siruggle to carry into practice the application of revolu- tionary theories acquired in the N. T. S. Every Party member must become politically conscious of the need to support the efforts of our Central Committee to establish and continue the regular systematic petition. Our comrades are good camrades—they WANT to overcome training of trained organizers. professional revolutionaries, oa Sr arcane See =