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Page Ten o— jing, which was largely from the unemployed, from open-air mass meetings, etc., and not the basic building of the Party through struggles and in the midst of struggles in the factories, in stable negihborhood organizations, in the mass organizations, trade unions, etc. Ht is | k ly the task of Bolsheviks to improve the quality of recruiting itself, so that Party recruits | are permanently as: ted into the life of the orga The proper use of the new forces | drawn to us, their activization and education | in Bolshevism is our basic task. This is the place before the leadership of the Party today as a decisive question for our future progress much more decisive | wement of the quality of our Section leaderst A most serious proble fluctuation in members with a membe until February had retained have had in February, 5 of this, we have dues-r creation of the main instrument for building a | 25,000. Two out of every th socialist society in America. Every weakness, | bers have not been rn and especially such weakness as exhibited in tuation is ig this still high degree of fluctuation, signalizes is no explanation a danger to the successful building of the revo- organization mem 1 jonary movement in America. The whole Party st be roused to a consciousness of this from problem. All the forces of the Party must be | ‘0 concentrated upon the task of holding and con- t-| solidating every new recruit. the task of everybody e! cite the different f On Using Our Strongest Weapon, the Daily Worker the | consideration the large special editions and the special Saturday circulatio) still remains con- The Open Letter Party in improving task for set a main pop ing the Daily Vork: t int alae siderably below the level of 1931. True there 2 sta gat Raat sp ae aaa ae MASS | has been a certain improvement even here, so mSDa able s two distinct sides, ‘ seen speees, his problem Das tw ee ie ny far as payment to the office of the Daily Worker which are, however, very closely interrelated for this circulation. The amount of money received by the Daily Worker for its papers has slightly increased above 1931. It is also true that there has been an improvement in circu- lation from the low point of a year ago by about 50 per cent. But this has been almost entirely the product of the spontaneous response to the improved contents of the paper and only in a small degree the planned, conscious, sys- tematic activity of our Party. Shall we wait juntil it cost our head to be caught with a copy of the Daily Worker before we realize its These are the edit improvements of the Daily Worker's contents, and the creation of ® mass Circulation of the paper. In the first respect we have made a decisive step forward. Since last August the contents of the Daily Worker have been enl: \ nd im- proved in every respect. The paper has become Of interest to its readers every day, and is more and more showing what an indispensable weapon it is in the building of a mass Com- munist Party, as well as for the conduct of the everyday struggles. It is still far from the ideal | inestimable value? We are only playing around Bolshevik newspaper; the editorials are as yet with the Daily Worker, until we have given | weak, not simple and clear enough; it is not |it q minimum circulation of 100,000 copies a yet sufficiently decisive in its role as political | - ong day. We already have grouped around our educator of a masses; it is not yet sufipiently | Party, under its influence: ‘Yar. more than that bound up with the daily life of the masses in number of workers who need a Communist the decisive districts and factories. We can say it has made important steps in the right direction. newspaper and are not served by our language | newspapers. To set the goal of 100,000 circu- | lation is merely to reach with the Daily Worker | Unfortunately we cannot say the same about | those workers with whom we are already in | the Daily Worker circulation, with regard to|contact. Until this goal is reached we must circulation the situation is really alarming. The | declare that the circulation of the Daily Worker | number of copies printed daily (not taking into |is the weakest sector in our battlefront. [ C heck. up on ius Control rchmied ‘The Open Letter set us the task of decisively ; under our leadership is the only broad, unify- | strengthening our work in the A. F. of L. and/ ing force, and the only section of the unem- other reformist trade unions. We can register | ployed with a clear and consistent program. It some serious beginnings of improvement in| has a growing cadre of the best leaders of the | this field. I have already spoken of the broad | unemployed movement. If we will give it the scope of the movement for the Workers Un-| proper guidance, with persistent, systematic sup- employment Insurance Bill inside the A. F. of| port, it can in the coming year organize mil- L. We can record that the work of the revo-| lions instead of the present hundred thousands. lutionary oppositions under Communist direc-| Since the 7th Convention, we have made an- tion is now the decisive leadership in approxi-| other important addition to the list of mass mately 150 local unions of the A. F. of L., with | revolutionary organizations. This is the mutual a membership of from 50,000 to 60,000. This | benefit society, International Workers Order. opposition work is improving in the most im-| Since the Open Letter, the I.W.O., through its portant industries such as mining and steel. | membership campaign, has multiplied itself, In addition to those local unions in which the | and now contains about 45,000 members, Even revolutionary opposition has the support of the | more important, it has built strongholds among majority of the workers, there are serious, the workers in the basic industries and has ex- minorities in a larger and growing number of| tended beyond its foreign language sections by unions. The weakest field in this respect re-| recruiting native-bor American and Negro mains the railroad industry. Here we cannot | workers. The I.W.O. has before itself the prob- | yet say that the Party has taken up the task | lem of how to consolidate and further extend | with full seriousness, nor even made a consid-! its mass membership, without lowering its pre- erable beginning. Throughout the work in the vious high standard of revolutionary activity, A. F. of L., the characteristic weakness remains | of political education of its members, especially the formal character of the opposition work, its| through involving them more directly in the tendency to remain contact with participation | class struggle. {n union elections and formal debates, the| Surveying the whole field of language mass legalism of the work, its failure to orientate! | organizations (including the I.W.O.), we find in itself to the shops and establish its organiza- | 20 language groups that these mass organiza- tional base there, and its weakness in develop- | tions have grown from about 50,000 in 1930 to ing independent leadership of the daily struggles. | over 133,000 at the present time. Besides these The most decisive advance in the trade union! organizations led by Communists, large gains field in the past year has been the emergence i have been made in building revolutionary op- of the revolutionary trade unions as real mass | position movements inside the reformist lan- organizations, directly leading the struggle of | guage organizations, on which it is difficult to 20 per cent of all the strikers in this period,| give reliable statistics. The Party’s foreign and winning a far higher proportion of the | newspaper circulation has increased from 110,- victories won by the strike movement. Espe-| 000 in 1930 to 131,000 in 1934. Most of this in- cially important has been the advances in steel,| creased circulation has come within the past agriculture, marine, as well as the serious ad-| year. It is clear that the language press is by vances in lighter industries, such as, shoe, | no means keeping up with the extension of the needle, furniture, etc. Over 100,000 new re-| language organizations. We must set for our cruits, offset by fluctuation of about 15,000 gives | language bureaus and language newspapers the us at present about 125,000 members in the | task of raising the political standard of their revolutionary unions, The increased stability| work, to draw their membership much more in- of these organizations is due to the fact that | timately into the main stream of the American they were built in struggle, that they are mas- | Class strugle, to activize it, to bring forward new tering the art of trade union democracy, are | leading cadres, and to speed the process of a developing their own responsible trade union | Bolshevik Americanization—that is, the welding functionaries and exhibit a growing and active | of a united proletarian mass movement that inner life. transcends all language and national barriers. ‘The Unemployment Council movement was| Especially important for stabilizing the lower only in its first beginnings in 1930. Four years) Party organs and mass organizations has been Of rich experience in local, state and national) the program for Bolshevizing our financial struggles and actions, the high points of which| methods and accounting. A special sub-report were the great March 6, 1930, Unemployment) Will be made on this question. It is not a Day Demonstrations, the National Hunger! technical question. It is of first class political Marches in 1931 and 1932, and the recent Na-| importance. Bolshevik planning, budgeting and tional Unemployment Congress in Washington) ® Strict responsibility are being instituted. This in February 1934, have crystallized real mass) Must become the universal rule. There must be organizations on a nation-wide scale. In the| 20 loosening up on this question. Washington Conference, which brought together| Scores of smaller mass organizations have the Unemployment Councils, trade unions and arisen in the past year, each serving some all forms of mass organizations that support | the struggle for the Workers Unemployment In-| surance Bill, there was organized representa-| tion of about 500,000 workers. ers Unions, etc., there is comparatively stable organization of from 150,000 to 200,000, In spite) of the fact, however, that the Unemployment Council movement under our leadership is the predominant organizational expression of the unemployed on a national scale, we must say in many localities it exhibits the most serious} weaknesses. These weaknesses are both political and organizational. Especially we have not fully! involved the trade unions in unemployed work.| The Party has answered in principle all the problems and found the solutions to these weak- nesses, but due to insufficient, direct political and organizational leadership by the Party, from top to bottom, units, sections and dis- tricts, and the weak functioning of the Party fractions, the full benefit of our expereince has not been carried to the movement as a whole. The result is a big lag behind the possibilities on @ national scale, with the most dangerous | weaknesses in the majority of localities. As ay result, we see in many places new organizations of unemployed, in which the left social-fascists and renegade elements live off the capital of | Our weaknesses and neglect. The xyovement| In the Unem-) ployment Councils, C.W.A. Unions, Relief Work-| special need, and each contributing to the gen- | eral strengthening of the revolutionary move- ment. We have no time to review them all here, important though many of them are, Special mention must be made of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, which has won many serious political victories in this period, chief among them the conduct of the Scottsboro case, The I. L. D., however, lags seriously behind in organizational consolidation and in the syste- matic development of its whole broad field of | activities. More serious political guidance must | be given by the Party to the work of the Com- munist fractions in the I. L. D. to overcome | these weaknesses. The Communists who partici- | pate in the broad non-Party organization of the | Friends of the Soviet’ Union, have done good | work there. Only a handful of Communists are | in this organization, but they have rallied around it the most varied circle of sympathizers, indi- | viduals and organizations which was demon- strated in an excellent mass convention held | recently in New York City. The many other | organizations, which we will not go into in de- tail, one and all can find the road to strengthen | themselves, to improve their work, to study the methods of our Party in the larger fields of mass work, by mastering the art of Bolshevik self- criticism, and detailed study of their problems. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934 “Daily Worker Circulation Is the Weakest Soviet Sowing Is Far Ahead of Last Year Shctor In Our Battlefront’-- Browder Special sub-reports will deal with the problem of our growing system of Party schools. We have advances to record in dealing with these questions in a planned way, as special problems. But again we must say, this is not characteristic for the entire Party. Planned training and pro- motion of new cadres is the essence of Boishevik leadership. If we make a ocnservative estimate of the total membership of mass organizations around the Party, ing for possible duplications of membership, we will see that we have approximately 500,000 in- dividual supporters in these organizations. Com- | pared with the estimated 300,000 at the time of our 7th Convention, this is not quite a doubling of our organized supporters. The quality of this | support we must say, however, is on a far higher | level; it is more conscious, more active, more consolidated, and has been tested in the fires of four years of struggle against difficulties, against the sharpening attacks of our enemies. largest part of this gain has come in the past year as the result of serious efforts to carry out the line of the Open Letter, and to execute the control tasks set by the Extraordinary Party Conference. We have been able to make these advances because we have begun to learn how to apply Bolshevik self-criticism. We have learned to face our weaknesses and mistakes, boldly and | openly. [On y Sere the Art of Self- | | Criticism We have learned that the powerful corrective influence of collective self-criticism. Our ene- mies gleefully exhibit our self-criticism as the sign of a dying movement. We can afford to let them have what satisfaction they get out of this, when we know that it is precisely thru self-criticism that we have begun seriously to overcome these weaknesses. to master, according to our own weak abilities, the art of self-criticism, so abley taught to the | Communist Party of the Soviet Union by Com- rade Stalin. We can still, with great profit, read again and again the reports of Comrade Stalin to the Congresses and Conferences of the C. P., S. U. As one such contribution to our 8th Con- vention, I want to read a few pages from the report of Comrade Stalin to the 15th Party Con- | gress in 1927, almost every work of which has a direct lesson for us in our work. Comrade Stalin | said: “Let us take, for instance, the matter of guidance of economic and other organiza- tions on the part of the Party organizations, Is everything satisfactory in this respect? No, it is not, Often questions are decided, not only in the locals, but also in the center, so to speak, “en famille,” the family circle. Ivan Ivanovitch, a member of the leading group of some organization, made, let us say, a big mistake and made a mess of things. But Ivan Federovitch does not want to criticize him, show up his mistakes and correct him. He does not want to, because he is not dis- posed to “make enemies.” A mistake was made, things went wrong, but what of it, who does not make mistakes? Today I will show up Ivan Ivanovitch, tomorrow he will do the same to me. Let Ivan Ivanovitch, therefore, not be molested, because where is the guarantee that I will not make a mistake in the future? hus everything remains spick and span. There is peace and good will among men. Leaving the mistake un- corrected harms our great cause, but that is nothing! As long as we can get out of the mess somehow. Such, comrades, is the usual attitude of some of our responsible people. But what does that mean? If we, Bolsheviks, who criticize the whole world, who, in the words of Marx, storm the heavens, if we re- frain from self-criticism for the sake of the peace of some comrades, is it not clear that nothing but ruin awaits our great cause and that nothing good can be expected. Marx said that the proletarian revolution differs, by the way, from other revolutions in the fact that it criticizes itself and that in cri- ticizing itself it becomes consolidated. This is a very important point Marx made. If we, the representatives of the proletarian revolution, shut our eyes to our shortcom- ings, settle questions around a family table, keeping mutually silent concerning our mis- takes, and drive our ulcers into our Party organism, who will correct these mistakes and shortcomings? Is it not clear that we cease to be proletarian revolutionaries, and that we shall surely meet with shipwreck if we do not exterminate from our midst this philistinism, this domestic spirit in the solution of important questions of our con- struction? Is it not clear that by refrain- ing from honest and straight-forward self- criticism, refraining from an honest and straight making good of mistakes, we block our road to progress, betterment of our cause, and new success for our cause, The process of our development is neither smooth nor general. No, comrades, we have classes, there are antagonisms within the country, we have a past, we have a present and a fu- ture, there are contradictions between them, and we cannot progress smoothly, tossed by the waves of life. Our progress proceeds in the form of struggle, in the form of develop- ing contradictions, in the form of overcom- ing these contradictions. As long as there are classes we shall never be able to have a situation when we shall be able to say, ‘Thank goodness, everything is all right’ This will never be, comrades. There will always be something dying out. But that which dies does not want to die; it fights for its existence, it defends its dying cause. There is always something new coming into life. But that which is being born is not born quietly, but whimpers and screams, and the new, between the moribund and that which is being born—such is the basis of our de- velopment. Without pointing out and ex- posing openly and honestly, as Bolsheviks should do, the shortcomings and mistakes in our work, we block our road to progress. But we do want to go forward. And just because we go forward, we must make one of our foremost tasks an honest and revolutionary self-criticism, Without this there is no pro- ress,” and under its political influence, allow- | We are beginning | Stalingrad Plant Turns Out | Hundred Thousand-Tractors of training new cadres and the related question | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 12 (By Radio)— Today at 12 noon, the hundredth thousand tractor was turned out at! the Stalingrad Tractor Works. Lenin’s words, ago, that “100,000 tractors is the best. means for winning the middle peas- ants to the cause of communism” have become reality. | At the present moment, over 200,- 000 tractors are operating in the| | spoken 15 years| collective and soviet farms. Other mighty giant works of socialist in- Year Plan, are rapidly catching up| to the Stalingrad works—the Khar- dustry, children of the first Five _ be about 60,000 tractors, the Cheliab-| ~ insk works, which have produced | 3,000 caterpillar tractors. The projected capacity of the | = Stalingrad works has already been | achieved, ‘Vienna Workers Resist Attempt — | At Fascization ‘Patriotic’ hade Union Rejected in Two | Big Plants | VIENNA, April 1 (By Mail)—The | 400 workers of the great Vienna} | printing office of Vernay & Co., have | | decided to pay no more contribu- | tions to the printers’ trade union | now that this has been coordinated | | by the appointment of governmental | commissars, In the Bally shoe factory, em- ploying 600 workers, a workers’ meet- ing was held at which the former Social-Democratic head shop stew- ard proposed that the workers should join the Patriotic Front in order not to lose their work places. At first the motion was accepted in si- lence. But when a speaker represent- ing the Patriotic Front rose and spoke of their aims, he was shouted | down after the first few words. The result of his speech was that al- though the motion had originally | been accepted, but apparently with- jout its significance having been | understood, not a single worker, |; man or woman, joined the Patriotic | | The | Front. Bronx Conference To Hit High Cost. (Of Living April 14 Workers Will Demand Lower Rate for Gas, Food, Milk NEW YORK. — A conference against the high cost of living will be held on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., Bronx. ‘This conference is being called by the committee of 25 elected at the first conference held Nov. 18, at the same place. The first conference started the campaign against the high cost of living. As a result of it, many militant struggles were led in differ- ent parts of the Bronx. They ended victoriously for the workers, bringing down the prices on bread, rolls, and gaining the sympathy of hundreds of workers. In order to strengthen the campaign and to widen its leadership, the committee of 25 is calling this April 14 con- ference, “The burning issues of this cam- paign, such as lowering the prices on milk on gas and electricity, putting forward the demand for unemploy- ment insurance, all these are vital issues for every working class family. The committee declared yesterday. Above all, the struggle against imperialist war and fascism, and to rally working class women around this issue, will be stressed. “In order to make this a broad united front conference, we are calling upon all workers organiza- tions regardless of their political belief and affiliation, neighborhood centers, house and block committees, to support this conference and elect delegates. If you do not meet be- fore April 14, you can be represented by the officials of your executive.” 19 Jailed in Turin for Anti-Fascist Action ROME, April 1 (By Mail) — Nineteen persons have been ar- rested in Turin, on the charge of being in communication with the Italian anti-fascist organiza- tions in Paris, and distributing anti-fascist propaganda material. The proletarian revolution can not take place without the forcible destruction of the bourgeois State machine and its replacement by a new machine.—Lenin. ‘Long Live Red Army’ Cry Paris Conscripts Returning from Drill PARIS, March 30 (By Mail).— | Scores of soldiers, returning today | after their period of military train- ing, formed compact groups in the | | Eastern railway station here, sing- | ing the Internationale, and shout- ing “Long live the Red Army!” ‘Thousands of young men released after their compulsory period of military training, are returning| home now to face unemployment | and misery. French Workers Protest Today Against Wage Cuts Veterans’ Pensions Cut; Their Leaders Call for Fascism PARIS, April 13.—Nation-wide | demonstrations and mass meetings against the civil service pay cuts and mass dismissals of the Doumergue “economy” program are scheduled! . for tomorrow and Sunday, and on Monday many of the 800,000 state) employees are to carry out a short | protest strike. Meanwhile, the Doumergue cab- inet today passed a second “econ- omy” decree, cutting veterans’ pen- sions by 3 per cent. The cut is to be effective April 1. Last night, the National Council of the Confederation of War Vet- erans, the top leadership of the offi- cial veterans’ organization, voted to accept the cut on condition that the government institute a series of changes which would sharpen its fascist character. 25,000 Farmers to March, Demanding Release of Leaders Freedom of Harry Lux Burleigh, Object of Huge Demonstration LINCOLN, Neb., April 13.—Plans for a protest march of 25,000 work- ers and farmers to converge here from three states on April 16 to force the release of Harry Lux, State Organizer of the Farmers Holiday Association and Robert Burleigh, a worker of this city, were announced today. The two prison- ers were jailed for “contempt of court” for protesting a Nebraska farm foreclosure last year. The workers and farmers will go to the Federal Court, third floor of the Post Office building, at 9.30 a.m. when the two defendants are to be tried. After the trial they will march to the State Capitol and pre- sent their demands to Gov. Bryan. The plans were made public by the Emergency Defense Council of the Farmers’ Holiday Association. A vigorous campaign is being carried on in this city to rally local workers to support the protest ac-. tion. NEW RAIDS ON ATHENS TRADE UNION HEADQUARTERS ATHENS.—Police raids on Trade Union headquarters in Athens and Pireaus resulted last week in the arrest and sentencing of five work- ers for Communist activities. Their sentences totaled 22 months at hard labor. At Katerina, the Communist can- didate for Mayor was arrested for selling copies of the newspaper “Rizopastis” and his wares con- fiscated. A mass demonstration by workers, however, compelled the police to release their prisoner and return the confiscated copies of the — ERNST THAELMANN (Continued from Page 1) saved the defendants in the fire trial.” Gallagher discussed the present situation in Germany, the danger of fascism in the U.S.A., and the Scottsboro case. “Germany is one vast concentra- tion camp, and no one dare open his mouth. The fascist dictatorship, however, is in decline, and hasn't the power it had a year ago. People who originally had faith in the Nazis are beginning to realize there is no possibility of improvement in their intolerable conditions under Hitler. “Fascism also increases the war danger. In regard to war, Hitler is between the devil and the deep blue sea. If he makes war, it will mean immediate revolution at home. If he doesn’t, revolution will come any- how. And after fascism there will come Communism, “There is great danger of fascism in U.S., unless workers learn the | lessons from Germany, recognize the misleadership of the officials of the Socialist Party, A. F. of L.and form @ united front against fascism. The N.R.A. is a big step toward fascism. it is organizing industries under codes that create the machinery | for a fascist corporate state, and is) trying to abolish the right to strike | and organize in trade unions. “The Scottsboro case is part of these growing fascist tendencies. It} is being used to terrorize the) American Negro workers and divide them from the white. The activities of the ILD. in bringing the case to the attention of the workers throughout the world has put the entire Southern white ruling class on the defensive, and is showing the Negro workers that the only possibility of destroying race pre- judice, with its Jim Crow and seg- regation laws is a united front with white workers.” After speaking in Detroit, Gal- lagher and Mrs. Wright are leaving for Chicago. Farm Workers Win 100 P.C. Wage Rise After 5-Day Strike Communist Leadership ; Workers Vote to Join Ue, BRIDGETON, April 13.—Winning all their demands for increased Wages and recognition of their union, more than 250 agricultural workers on the Seabrook Farms near here returned to work today after five days of strike. They have won wages increases of 100 to 150 per cent. The strike was led by Agricultural Workers Union with the active co-operation of the Communist Party unit of Camden. The strikers have voted ‘to affiliate with the Trade Union Unity League. ‘The demands won by the workers are: 30 cents an hour for men, 25 cents an hour for women, and the same for young workers and recog- nition of the Union. Former wages were as low as 5 cents an hour. Valuable aid was given to the strike by Eleanor Henderson, of the Farners National Committee of Ac- tion, who was jailed during the strike, and was immediately released when the workers threatened to continue the strike. One of the outstanding’ features of the strike was the fight of the strikers, mostly native born whites, against white chauvinism, one of the strike leaders being a Negro, Jerry paper. Brown, Thaelmann Beaten: When He Refuses To Reply To Nazis ‘USSR Showa Big Gains in All Industry; Enthusiasm Mounts As Production Sweeps to Prosperity (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 12 (By Radio) —A summary of pro- gress in agriculture and in- ~ dustry shows a powerful rise + in the second year of the & second Five-Year Plan. On April 4, 25,000,000 acres had been sown throughout the Soviet Union, against 9,500,000 acres on the same date last year. This victory is due both to the enthusiasm of the shock-brigaders , of the Socialist fields, and to the achievements attained through the steady application of the plan of extra-early and early sowing. Industry in the Soviet Union in the first quarter of the second year of the second Five-Year Plan shows a further steady growth. In all the most important branches of heavy industry, the output shows a marked increase over the same period of last year. In coal the increase is 30 per cent; in oil, 27 per cent; in pig iron, 61 per cent; in steel, 49 per cent; in rolled metal, 42 per cent; in loco- motives, 45 per cent; freight cars, 55 per cent; tractors, 59 per cent; motor trucks, 27 per cent; motor cars, 650 per cent; chemical ferti- lizers, 563 per cent. These figures contrast strikingly with the continued economic de- pression of capitalist countries. The year 1934 is becoming a year of great new victories of Soviet eco- nomics. A powerful new wave of Socialist competition is rising among the masses of the towns and country- side. The powerful sweep of the movement of shock-workers and enthusiasts of production for mas- tering modern technique is extend- ing daily. This provides the guar- antee of constantly greater vic- tories. Police Attack Farm Strike Pickets Pea Pickers, Demanding Increase Pay, Victims HAYWARD, Cal., (F.P.).—Deputy sheriffs and state police have started the threatened new attacks on Cali- fornia agricultural workers by dis- banding a picket line of 50 strikers. Pea pickers, who had walked out in a demand for increased pay, were the victims. They promised to re- turn in greater numbers. Police are patrolling all highways, armed with tear gas and guns, and hint that Alameda county may be the scene of the state’s next bloodshed. N. Y. Anti-War Group To Plan for Aug. Ist At Monday Meeting NEW YORK—The New York City Central Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism will meet in full session on Monday, April 16 at 8 p.m. in Irving Plaza Hall, lth St. and Irving Pl. This special meeting will hear { ‘ f } reports by the general secretary, Norman H. Tallentire; James Ler- ner, National Youth Organizer, on the progress of the work in the colleges; David L. Lee, on the work of the speakers’ bureau, and Grace Allen on preparations to send a women’s delegation to tne great Anti-War Congress in Paris in June. Preparations are now going for- ward for International Anti-War Day, 20th anniversary of the out- break of the World War. At Mon- day night’s conference, plans will be laid for mass action on Aug. 1. The organization plans to run 100 street meetings a week during the coming months in preparation for August 1. A speakers’ class has been organized which will meet at 7 p.m. in Irving Plaza. To facilitate the work of the speakers’ class a Research Bureau has been set up. The Research Bureau will be formally organized at a meeting to be held in the office of the League, 112 E. 19th St. N. C., Room 605, Tuesday, April 17 at 8 p.m. Your revolutionary greeting to the Daily Worker on May Day will show that the workers sup- port our “Daily.”. The task of our Party today, the tasks of this Convention, have been clearly and systematically set forth in the documents before us for adop- tion, especially the Theses and Decisions of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, and the Draft Reso- lution prepared for this Convention by the Central Committee. My report has been for the purpose of further elaborating these fundamen- tal directives and discussing some of our central problems concretely in the light of these direc- tives. All these tasks set forth in the documents before us are particular parts of the one general task to rouse and organize the workers and op- pressed masses to resistance against the capital- ist program of hunger, fascism and imperialist war. They are parts of the one task of winning the majority of the toiling masses for the revo- lutionary struggle for their immediate political and economic needs as the first steps along the road to proletarian revolution, to the overthrow of capitalist rule, the establishment of a revolu- tionary workers’ government, a Soviet govern- ment, and the building of a Socialist society in the United States. It is ghe source of our greatest strength that in our k in the U.S. A, we are not isolated from ov@ brothers in the zest of the world, We ‘ are organizationally united in one World Party with all that is most fearless, devoted, honest and energetic in the working class of every capitalist country, as well as of the toiling masses struggling for their liberation throughout the world. We draw additional strength and inspiration from the magnificent achievements of our brother Communist Party in China, which stands at the head of the powerful and growing Chinese Soviet Republic. We are proud and inspired by our unity in one Party with such fighters as George Dimitroff and his comrades, who, single handed, met and defeated the Nazi murder bands in the courts of Leipzig. It is our strength that we are of the same Party with Ernst Thaelman, and the thousands of heroic fighters in the German Communist Party, who, through prison cells and concentration camps, defying the Nazi headsmen, maintain and carry on every day struggle for the overthrow of Hitler. We take special pride in the achieve- ments of our brother Communist Party in Cuba, which roused and led the mass upheaval that overthrew the bloody Machado, and which is now gathering the forces of the Cuban masses to drive out Machado’s successors and estab- lish a Soviet Republic of Cuba. We are stronger in the knowledge that the Communist Party of { the Philippine Islands stands, shoulder to shoulder with us in the joint struggle to over- throw American imperialism, Our work in the United States gains additional power from the fact that, reaching across the border, both north and south, we grasp the hands of our brother Communist Parties of Canada and Mexico, Throughout Latin-America, our brother Parties are challenging us to socialist competition as to who can strike hardest and quickest against the imperialists and their agents. When we con- template the tasks of struggle against imperial- ist war, for the defeat of our own imperialism, our muscles are further steeled by the knowledge that our brother Communist Party of Japan is blazing the way for us by their heroic struggle for the overthrow of Japanese imperialism in the midst of war. Above all, do we arm our- selves with the political weapons forged by the victorious Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the mighty swerd of Marxism-Leninism, and are sirengthened and inspired by the vic- tories of socialist construction won under its Bolshevik leadership, headed by Stalin, Our World Communist Party, the Communist Inter- national, provides us the guarantee not only of our victory in America, but of the victory of the proletariat throughout the world. { | ' |