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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934 PARTY LIFE Comintern Based on Princi ple Of Democratic Centralization | Central Committee’s Power Is Derived from Rank and File of The discussion arose in our unit over the ma tory assessment for German stamps. We want to know tral Committee has without the consent of the rank and file membership. We have given discussion and t section committee, wr he Cen- this considerable p with our it so far have Rot kad an e satisfactory answer. It’s the principle and not the cause, for which the assessment Was made, that has caused this dis- cussion. We wish to t NTS PASS U! DISTRICT 12, SECTION 13. P.S—The unit insisted that the above should be printed in the Daily Worker, as all of us are now in the Communist movement, and therefore not politically developed as to its democratic working con- trol by the members of the Party. Give us a plain understanding on this matter. The best answer to the above question, raised by the unit of Grants Pass, is to quote from the Constitution and Rules of the Com- munist International, of which the Communist Party, U. S. A., is a Sec- tion: “The Communist International and its Sections are built up on the basis of democratic central- ism, the fundamental principles of which are: (a) Election of all the leading committees of the Party, subordinate and superior (by general meetings of Party members, conferences, congresses and international congresses) ; (b) periodical reports by leading Party committees to their con- stituents; (c) decisions of superior Party committees to be obligatory for subordinate committees, strict Party discipline and prompt ex- ecution of the decisions of the Communist International, of its leading committees and of the leading Party centers. “Party questions may be dis- cussed by the members of the Party and by Party organizations until such time as a decision is taken upon them by the com- petent Party committees. After a decision has been taken by the Congress of the Communist Inter- national, by the Congress of the respective Sections, or by leading committees of the Comintern, and of its various Sections, these de- cisions must be unreservedly car- O TEMPORA O MATRIS—SO THIS CAPITALISM! We ask the indulgence of the comrades for interrupting the series of letters from women in the Soviet Union, to quote an excerpt from a letter from Comrade Active of Chi- cago, relative to what befell one of the cast of the program given by the Solidarity Handicrafters, a pro- gram reported on last week. Shir- ley and Joe-Joe, ages three and four, our readers may recall, were mentioned as opening the program with brief features. And now you g-class mothers, just listen , as Comrade Active tells it Is “I'm trying to keep my mind off that show .. Sundays ago to line up our activi- | to} ties for summer work—down Shirley and Joe-Joe’s house. . . In a few minutes the house was| packed with kiddies. I was waiting -—I couldn’t think just what for... finally it came to me—Where’s my dJoe-Joe? ‘I see your toe sticking out from there, Joe-Joe—you come out from that hiding place and give your Mildred a little bunch of greet- ence. ‘Where's my Joe-Joe I think we'll have to go without Joe-Joe” Father: ‘Joe’s in the morgue.’ Me: ‘Oh, in that other dark room? Well, I’m not go- ing out in the sunshine without my boy.’ going ‘m looking around, but it’s so quiet I get woozey and shriek: ‘Where's Joe?’ “Father: ‘Joe’s dead.’ “Three days before, he had been well; his father had told me so at a W. I. R. meeting we had both | attended, relative to a South Side Child’s Center. But Thursday he went to sleep. Saturday morning | he died at C. Co. Hospital. Sat- urday when they (the parents) went down, his body had been dissected and labeled. He had died of infantile paralysis. Body refused to an undertaker. Martins had not signed for autopsy or release of the body for experimental purposes. . . . “T’'m in favor, naturally, of scien— tific exploitation of nature . . . but this was real exploitation of the destitute workers . . eight days after Joe-Joe Martin had died a letter came to his parents that gave them permission to claim his body. Of course the letter had been dated back. The Martins went for the body. They ‘came too late—the very idea!'—it had been buried in Poiter’s Field. ‘You and I can see back past the date on that letter into the dissec- tion rooms of C. Co. Hospital. ‘Life- is-like-that'—to a charity worker who, incidentally, ds a Socialist.” And wasn’t that a sweet Mother’s Day bouquet from capitalism to Mrs. Martin, Joe-Joe’s mother?— Capitalism, which hands out such power . I went down a few) The | . anyway. . .| Party Membership ried out, even if a Section of the Party membership or of the local Party organizations are in dis- agreement with it.” In other words, the membership of the Party elects its Central Com- mittee, through its delegates to the National Convention. The Central} Committee is empowered to make/the girls who had been receiving | all decisions, which are binding and|25 cents a hour would be cut to| obligatory upon all Party members. | Join the Communist Party |this time about Militant Strike at ProsperityLaundry In Muskegon, Mich. By a. Worker Correspondent MUSKEGON, Mich.—In the latter part of March the Prosperity Laun- dry put a notice on the board that 20 cents and that anyone who ob- jected could come to the office and get their pay. Out of 13 girls work- ing there, 12 walked out although they had never been organized and jdemanded 30 cents a hour, which | Was refused. It was two weeks before they called for any help but then some of our comrades took a hold. In half of the girls |went back to work at the reduced 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. | Please send me more informa- || tion on the Communist Party, Name | | Street .sssccceeceeveervscececes LAS ta eee eer ScoaauGi Oates | scabs into the laundry. committee was called for a meeting Licks Boots of Rich But Stays Thin Anyway By a Worker Correspondent wages. On May 7 a picket line was es- tablished and of course the strike- breaking police stuck their dirty noses into the affair and escorted The strike with the boss and he made arrange- ments to meet them in the morning, but when morning came, through outside advice that during the night, he refused to he had gotten | Militant Thunder of Arizona Farmers Disturbs Politicians’ Radio-Pienie Cry for ‘Cancellation Truster Speak of Debts” Routs Brain- ing on Inflation (By a Farmer Correspondent) PHOENIX, Ariz.— On Saturday. }March 24, Arizona locals of the | Farmers Educational and Co-opera- |tive Union of America held their \third monthly radio-pienic. The farmers gathered at Tempe, near here, and one of the features of their program was memorial ser- | vices for John A. Simpson, national |leader, who died recently. | Among those who paid “tribute” to Mr. Simpson, were scoundrels and social-fascists such as Milo Reno, United States Senators Gore, Fra- ier, Wheeler and Thomas. | All these gentlemen sung the |same tune about the dead Simpson. | They called him a “militant farm | leader!” In tearful voices, sputter- ing sickening honey phrases, these fakers talked about Justice, Liberty, Humanity and God! After lunch, State Senator Colter addressed the farmers. Besides be- ing a politician, Mr. Colter is an astrologer and a mystic. He has been a candidate for Governor. Now he is building about himself a group to support him in the coming race for State Governor. | | ‘The Senator cast many slurs upon SALLISAW, Okla—Sallisaw has| make any settlement. So the picket |Mexican and Japanese workers and had three bank failures, several| ine was strengthened and real mil-| poor farmers. leading merchants have gone broke, itant action was started, a con- This man talks of} | unity among the farmers. But by | and the remaining ones are scarcely | tinual hammering at the police all|encouraging prejudices in white/| making enough to pay the rent on| day, and when the scabs came out|farmers against poor Japanese and their buildings. plastered, as well as papers carries a society column in|some of their cars. which the ladies aid meetings, the | The Mill Men's Union of one of jat night eggs flew pretty thick in| Mexicans, he is leading the white Sallisaw boasts a weekly paper,|their direction, and some of them! farmers themselves up a tree. in fact two of them. One of the| were well | A Brain Troster Speaks | | John R. Murdock, Dean af Ari- bridge parties, and various other|the big factories was called upon,|zona State College, Tempe, was | social functions of the week are de- | |scribed in great detail with colorful jand flattering adjectives. Last |week a member of Sallisaw’s “poor | white trash” desired to have an ac- |count of a birthday party published in the paper’s society column. | The editor’s wife, who conducts the column, ordered that the item about the birthday party be placed at the bottom of the column be-| cause “Mrs, Rider is very poor,”| jand some dignified member of Sal- llisaw’s aristocracy had been hor- rified because “just anybody could get in the society column these} | days.” Ostracizing a family in the col- umns of the Democrat-American | because they were very poor ap- | pears amusing to the paper's only |empioye in view of the fact that) all the paper’s bookkeeping entries | for several months have been made | in red ink, the editor is eight weeks | | behind with that employe’s salary, | and the editor gets more gray hair jeach month trying to figure out | |how he will pay his rent and grocery | bills. | bouquets to bourgeois| mothers, and such thorny ones to; | working-class mothers, reserving the ; thorniest ones of all for Negro | mothers! (Cf. treatment of the | Scottsboro Mothers at the White | House.) Oh, is there going to be a | revolution—is there going to be a | revolution—AND HOW! | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Patern 1869 is available in sizes | 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards | 39 inch fabric. Tlustrated step-by- | step sewing instructions included. Ak 1869 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style number, BE SURE TO STATE THE | SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. iv “ay - as some of their members had wives scabbing, and this was stopped. The factory was also stopped from send- ing their laundry to this laundry and now the other A. F. of L. unions are being called upon to take the }Same action. Also the brewery here | is going to be boycotted if they con- | tinue to send their laundry and they have already had one case of that, as they refused to pay a decent wage when they rebuilt their plant. The picket line keeps up a con- stant line of militant songs. Never See Any Money, Sharecropper Writes By a Sharecropper Correspondent GOLD HILL, Ala—We Southern | Negroes are just galloping down tc destruct! mn because we have to pay flour, 48 lbs. $2.40; lard SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY “| meat per Ib. 10c; cotton dry goods | per yd. 15c; work shoes a pair $5.) We work hard, almost barefooted and half naked and always hun- gry and never see any money. Day work is 30c and we can hardly get a day’s work to do. We never get any money because pay day we owe it all. We farmers have not been out of debt for seven years. We don’t even have two cents to pay our monthly dues. Eggs per dozen are 7 cents, and they take our corn for debts and we don’t have bread to eat. My Jandlord’s name is C. W. Heath. } sugar per Ib. 10c; white) given 20 minutes to speak on infla- | tion. This brain-truster proceeded to divide America into classes. “There are two classes,” he stated, “debtor and creditor.” Not finance capital versus workers and poor farmers, but creditors and debtors. Then he “proved” that really every American is both creditor and debtor! A farmer interrupted the profes- sor. “You say there are classes, and then you say we're all creditors an’ debtors both. . . In other words, there are no classes. Which is | right?” | The “brain-truster” hemmed and |hawed. His face became scarlet. He |tried to say ‘something, then | changed his mind. He was stumped! Next, a farmer-woman said she, }as a poor farmer, was “all debtor” |class. She had no kinship with | creditors who were bankers! As a \class conscious farmer, the woman |said. she demanded cancellation of all debts! | The College Dean lifted his hands. | |“That’s Shayism, Bolshevism!” The | farmer-woman looked him straight {in the eye. Other eyes, from every- where in the room, were sticking into the professor like pins. “How about the other fellows?” he asked. “That's none of our business!” the woman firmly replied. “To hell with him!” men cried |from all sides, Time Up | The brain truster’s face turned) crimson red. He pulled out his} |watch. “My time’s up. . .” | The next to speak was Mr. J. E. Russell, Prescott. Mr. Russell is a lawyer and he spoke against the Sales Tax. One hundred per cent, the farm- ers voted against the Sales Tax. Mr. Murdock sought vindication. He wanted to know from what source the State would get money “to balance the budget.” There was a battery of answers. Rancid ButterSent As Relief to Dairy Area By a Farmer Correspondent WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wisc.— Eggs that are tainted and musty are given to families on the relief lists, where there are children un- dernourished through no fault of their parents. I know of two cases of illness caused by musty eggs; also know of one case where there were two nearly good eggs out of three dozen eggs given a family of five, where there were children, and these eggs were to last that destitute family for two weeks. And two pounds of sugar was sup- posed to last them a week. One family in the city became violently ill from eating tainted government pork that was sent by a distributor. Butter is sent into a dairying country where farmers cannot sell their products and get any price for them, sent from New York and God knows where else, butter renovated which when heated emitted a rancid odor worse than the old tallow candles of olden times. How long can any corporation or company put out such stuff without the pure food law author- ities getting after them in a big way? Why is such an example set by the government itself in its horrible dole system? If there is illness which develops in a family that is on relief and destitute, there is so much red tape and delay before they even get a doctor or medicine that the subject could die before getting aid of that kind. Then, when through investigating for many days they find the family in need of special foods, they may or may not get the required food stuffs, but what of the thousands | of other cases that do not come to that point or gain their atten- | enough interest for investigation? | The other subject I should like tion to the extent of awakening to mention is the C. W. A. and | its way of operation. They do not live up to the safety laws laid down for almost any business in the U. S. The men who have pull with the big shots are put into the boss jobs. In hundreds of cases they know nothing about the work, and so put other’ men into danger. Then, too, they send men from one city to another, sometimes 40 miles from their homes, in the most extreme weathers. Remember that these men are not able to fit themselves up with warm things. They had to pay their own transportation on $17.50 per week wages. Then they were sent into territory where unemployed, who resented these men being sent. There is one more subject I wish to speak of. Under the im- pression thet Roosevelt meant what he said when he stated no one need lose their homes or farms, people» who believed him tried to remain on their farms when the sheriff came to put them out. In the middie of the winter on one farm, their things were thrown out, among them a baby’s crib and medicine. The farmer’s neigh- bors tried to put the furniture back into the house. They were met by sheriffs and deputies, and a regular war was on, Finally the farmers got so wild that they tried to hang the farmer who had tried to put their neighbor off his place. It quieted down, how- ever, and they were given one more week. In just as éxtreme weather at the end of this time, their furniture was put on a truck and hauled to town. The baby was still sick. Why should these things be said if there is no truth in them? What is the meaning of so many words | that are not backed? NOTE We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, lumber and forestry workers, and can- nery workers every Thursday. | These workers are urged to send us Jetiers about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday ef each week. “Tax the rich! Tax large incomes!” | The professor objected to taxing jthe rich. “That will take away |their initiative. Then, they won't |do anything. . A farmer shot back. “The rich | don’t do nothin’ anyhow!” Laughter and applause. The poor farmers.of Arizona are militant. They want to organize. At the last radio-picnic there were representatives from the U. S. Gov- ernment. But there was not a single Negro, Mexican, Japanese, Indian agricultural worker or poor farmer. Nor did anyone from our Party take the floor and present the Communist position upon the farm problem! There are about 800 farmers in Maricopa County (Phoenix) alone who belong to this Union. And the President of the County locals is a Socialist, Mr. Humphreys. How doubly serious the task of our Party is can be gathered from the report of the President of Oak Creek local, Yavapai County. This farmer stated that his local has affi- liated with Trades Council, an A. F. of L. out- fit. The farmers united under Social- | ist leadership affiliated with social- fascists from the A. F. of L. will form a united front not against Wall Street, but against the farmers| themselves and workers. Such an alliance will be used to break both | farmers’ strikes and those of work- | ers. unite. But they must develop their own rank and file leadership. They must also ally themselves with the workers. Furthermore, American workers and poor farmers must not only declare solidarity between themselves but also with those of other countries. WORK HARD BUT GET NOTHING By a Sharecroopper Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala.—Since I came into the movement with the work- ing women, I have heard that the North is in a tough shape. As in the South we work hard and don’t get anything for the hard work that we do. I am in need of clothes and food and shoes. We have one little baby boy. He is just two months old. I need clothes for it. My husband is now movement. I am doing all that I can for the movement. I work around the Women’s Local and they have meetings, every week and they are doing fine, But we all are in need of everything such as bread, clothes, and shoes. All I have are but two old pairs of shoes which have holes in them, the County Central} The impoverished farmers must} in Montgomery working for tHe ‘Southern Bosses ‘Hunt for Delegates To C. P. Convention: | By a Sharecropper Correspondent | | DADEVILLE, Ala—We have had | little terror here and many of the comrades are a little bit shaky yet, | although I have not quit work, but | We are working underground. | The bosses here in the South read about the Cleveland Convention, and even found out that some of our comrades were delegates, so they tried to raise hell. They sent the sheriff out searching for them but |no one was harmed. | I am sending you some more | articles for the Daily Worker. This | little place where the articles come from, where I visited some time, the boss is real hard on the comrades. Of course, it’s tight everywhere, but it’s bad there as well as elsewhere, LETTERS FROM OUR READERS RED FLAG LOOKS WELL ON PORTLAND CITY HALL May First is a holiday to all the workers all over the world. In Portland the workers had a dem- onstration and a parade. Thousands of workers marched down the street, and there were cops at each corner. While we marched down the streets we all sang songs. All of a sudden some one shouted that they had put up the workers’ flag on top of the city hall, and all the workers cheered. Even after the demonstration the red flag was flying on top of the city hall, and they even had to get the fire department and steeple- jacks to get the flag down, but we all know that some day it is going to stay up. —A. R. L. “FORWARD” MISREPRESEN- TATION Chicago, Ill. On May 3, or about then, in the Jewish Socialist “Forward” was published a picture of the huge Communist mass meeting in Union Square, New York, and it was’ labelled “Socialist demonstration in Madison Square.” T am a native New Yorker, and | recognized Union Square. Please check up and publish. —A COMRADE. RevolutionaryRoad Only Way for American Youth (Continued from Page 3) (e) The New Pioneer must be built into a mass organ of work- ers’ children with a circulation larger than any other revolution- ary magazine. aig ee oe 'HROUGH all of the above tasks it is necessary to radically im— prove the recruiting and organiza- tional consolidation and growth of the Y. C. L, The League must con- centrate to recruit from the most important shops and from the na- tive American and Negro youth. Its first task in this connection is to build a Y. C. L. shop unit wherever there is a Party shop unit. At the same time it must intensify its re- cruiting among all strata of toiling and student youth, in order to in the fastest possible time catch up and surpass the Party in size. To accomplish this it is necessary to first solve the tremendous turn- over in the ranks of the League. This turnover is due to the lack of mass activity and political life in the units, the routine and technical character of the work, the lack of personal attention to new members, and the failure to draw new mem- bers into responsible work. All of these flow from the bureaucratic methods of work of the leadexyship which stifle the initiative of the membership. They must check-up and control the work of their lead- ership in carrying through the deci- LL the work of the League must be guided by the perspective of winning the majority of the work- ing class for the overthrow of Amer- ican capitalism and the establish- ment of Soviet Power. The masses of youth must be taught on the basis of their own experiences that there is no way out of the crisis for them except by smashing the dicta- torship of the capitalist class and in its stead establishing the dicta- torship of the working class, with the toiling farmers and Negro people. Such a government will es- tablish real democracy for the over- whelming majority of the toilers and a stern dictatorship against the capitalists and their agents. It will take over the banks, factories, rail- roads, mines and the farms of the big corporations—in the interests of the toilers. Soviet Power in the United States will mean for the young workers, students and young farmers the greatest opportunity for future de- velopment. It will mean the estab- j lishment of vocational training for youth under 18 years of age at full wages; it will mean opening up all the institutions of learning for the VII. FOR A REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT sions of this convention. They must also bear in mind when electing new functionaries that young work- ers from basic industries, young girl shop workers, Negro youth, and above all mass workers, must be placed in leading posts. Those who in practice prove their failure to carry out the line of our League must be removed. The Convention places before the National Committee the immediate task of developing systematic Marx- ist-Leninist education in the ranks of the League. Every Y.C.L.er must | study the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and bring them to the widest masses of youth. Schools must especially be estab- lished for shop workers and new members and the political level of the entire League raised. The seri- ousness of the present world situa- tion, the closeness of imperialist war, means that we must rapidly improve the fighting fitness of our League, do away with all forms of looseness and carelessness, safe-| guard cur members and organiza- tion from the activities of spies and create firm working class discipline on the basis of understanding. The entire League must be prepared for sudden changes and must learn to react to the daily issues, must learn to work independently of its center. This means that more political re- sponsibility must be placed on the units and sections. masses of young workers at the ex- pense of the government. It will mean immediately a six-hour day for young workers, with rapid in- creases in pay, and the establish- ment of living and cultural stand- ards undreamed of under capitalism. Capitalism means hunger, fas- cism and war, Soviet Power will mean peace, plenty and the greatest democracy for the sons and daughters of the working masses, Sie crs a In_the first section of this Resolution, published yesterday, the seventh paragraph contained the words “unemployed youth” in error for “employed youth.” The correct text of this paragraph is here reprinted: “To the employed youth, the “New Deal” means exemption from the minimum wage agreements through “learner” and “helper” clauses, and for all it means in ac- tuality lower wages due to higher prices. It means increased speed- up, Which has already resulted in a growing toll of industrial accidenis The Struggle Movement of the Unemployed for A United Demand, Raise Issues By P. FRANKFELD (Excerpts from Speech at 8th Convention of C. P. U. S. A. at Cleveland) During 1933 we had in the Pitts- burgh district a registered member- ship of some 23,000 unemployed workers in Allegheny County alone. For 1934, these first three months, we can already report a registration of close to 14,000 unemployed in the same county. We have 100 locals in Allegheny County, five locals in Westmoreland, three in Washing- ton and three in Beaver Counties making a total of 111 locals. These locals are located in steel and mining towns in Western Pennsyl- vania. Through our Unemployed Councils we have been able to penetrate towns like Duquesne and Homestead, towns that have been closed to us and to all labor or- ganizations since the 1919 steel strike led by Foster. In Home- stead, where Burgess Cavanaugh did not even permit Miss Perkins of the Department of Labor to speak, we have held both open and some- times illegal meetings under various guises—right under the very nose of Burgess Cavanaugh. We have some fifteen Women’s Leagues or- ganized and affiliated to the Un- employed Councils, 12 youth clubs, and only six pioneer groups. Of course, this is not much to speak about, not much to show as an achievement but shows that we are at least conscious of the problem and some consideration being given to organizing the women, youth and children. We have led some important struggles to win the women, youth and _ children—not only to mobilize them for struggles but also to win and organize them under the leadership of our Party. So far as Pittsburgh is con- cerned, we have 49 to 50 locals and close to 4,000 Negro workers or- ganized in the Unemployed Coun- cils of Pittsburgh. This is due to the fact that we have led serious struggles around the special de- mands of the Negro workers. In Clairton, Pa., where recently a big strike took place, we had no or- ganization. Now we can report a local of 600. The leadership of our Unemployed Council has not been limited to Party functionaries, but we have succeeded to a degree in bringing forward non-Party work- ers, But as yet this leadership is by far too narrow and must be broadened. At the very head of the Unemployed Councils of Pitts- burgh we have a Negro comrade elected as chairman of the organi- zation. Only yesterday, we received re- ports of struggles being conducted against evictions throughout Pitts- burgh. In Hazelwood, the workers mobilized and drove the deputy sheriffs clear out. Our many loca! in various blocks and neighbor- hoods mobilized and stopped doz- ens of evictions that were taking place. Rent payments have been stopped, and this explains the growth of eviction struggles. One of the basic reasons for our suc- cesses in building our movement has been our choosing of one single issue, affecting and agitating broad masses of workers at a given moment, and correctly picking this issue, utilizing it, and developing real struggles around this one single issue as a sort of main concen- tration—while linking it up with more basic demands—and then fighting out this issue to a suc- cessful conclusion, For instance, in the fight for in- creased relief, in the past six months we succeeded as a result of our main mass delegations, com- Pittsburgh Councils Fight Around One Central of Women and Youth mittees, struggles to increase relief from 90c to $1.10 per week per person—an increase of 22 per cent. | Not a hell of a lot, but something |the workers felt they won as a re- sult of struggle. The question of single men’s and single women’s relief was undertaken sharply by our Council and won for them and by them. Mass committees and delegations are a matter of daily routine not only in the city of Pittsburgh, but throughout the county. So far this year, the first three months of 1934, we have already taken down to the Welfare Bureaus the cases of 25,000 families, and in most cases ob- tained favorable results. We have organized mass hunger marches, children’s and youth marches, mass women’s delegations on their de- mands, etc. But one thing I wish to emphasize in connection with the whole discussion on Negro work. It is not enough to talk and pass pious resolutions on the Negro question and fighting against white chauvinism. We must undertake especially through our mass organi- zations serious struggles in behalf of the oppressed Negro people by organized mass delegations, demon- | strations, committtes, etc. In Pitts- burgh, the reason that we have some 4,000 Negro workers in the Unemployed Council has been the fact that we have led and organized serious struggles against discrim- ination, for special demands of the Negro jobless, and at the head of these delegations and demonstra- tions marched white workers to- gether with the Negroes them- selves. As a result of the correct application of the united front tactic from below, joint united struggle of our members and rank and file of Unemployed Council League, the Muste controlled Penn- sylvania Unemployed Leagues, have only three locals, one of which is under the leadership of the Com- munist fraction working there. Whereas the Socialist organization has not shown any growth in ac- tivity or membership in the recent period. But it is nui sufficient simply to point out the achievements. We must also examine the weaknesses of our unemployed movement. First, the serious lack of Party fraction work. Only recently have we se- riously taken up organization of unemployed fractions. The ques- tion of lack of collective leadership, the Unemployed Council has been one or two men organization in the entire county. While we have recruited into the Party Negro and white members, this was not done systematically, nor with sufficient vigor in building the Party and increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker. The main weakness |4s in the concentration point of the Party. We have only two or three small locals around there. In con- nection with concentration we have not undertaken serious struggles in order to root the unemployed move- ment in the south side and through it being able to help build the Steel Workers’ Union. In connection with the Party and fighting for its line—this is only a phrase. Where we build a mass organization we come in contact with stool pigeons and crooked politicians and the hegemony of the Party has been challenged and in some cases we have lost out be- cause of no fraction there, And the most serious lesson learned in fighting for the line of the Party has been the life and death ques- tion of organizing the instrument of the Party amongst the masses inside of the Unemployed Council through the Party fraction. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Overweight and Pimples A. Z., Long Beach, N. ¥.—We dis- agree with you about not being fat. A boy of 14% years who weighs 140 pounds is considered a great deal overweight, even is he is 5% feet tall. There is no question that a proper diet may improve your pimples and blackheads as well as the rashes that you are getting on the back of your hands, around the knuckles. . You better consult a physician and let him examine your urine, as well as give you a thorough exam- imation and advise you regarding your diet and mode of life. Mike Gold Is Supremely Alive Conchita—Your friend wins the bet! We can assure you that Mike Gold is alive and well. There are no “ghost” writers on the Daily Worker staff! Yes, his book has been translated into Spanish. It is called “Judios Sin Dinero.” Children’s Toys in Soviet Russia Anxious Mother, Bronx—Those who are spreading rumors that Russian children have no toys are lying. They have more and better toys than they ever had before! Not only have they the ordinary toys that children all over the world have; but they have some toys which even children of mil- Jionaires do not have in this coun- try. At the House of .oung Tech- nicians which will be completed this summer in the Moscow Gorky Park of Culture and «test and which By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. is entirely devoted to children, the most eminent Russian engineers are setting up a special model telephone and radio station, a miniature aero. drome, an electric railway and garage for pedal toy automobiles and other toys which children all over have always dreamt of but have never had a chance to see or use. The toys at the Moscow Gorky Park of Culture and Rest fulfill the highest aspirations of a child: to have true miniature copies which are real and useful of everything that the grownups have. The elec- tric railway in the Park will be ene trusted to the children who will serve as stationmasters, dispatchers, mechanics and signal men. A true children’s paradise! REMEMBER June 9th! Daily Worker Day and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Mountain. Tickets available at all Work- ers Book Shops. —Philadelphia, Pa.— FOURTH ANNUAL Russian Tea Party given by Friends of the Soviet Union Friday, May 18, 8 P.M. Broad Street Mansion S.W. Cor. Broad St. & Girard Ave. Program: Andre Zibulsky, Degeyter String Quartet, Russian Chorus DANCING TILL'2 A.M. ADM. 55c. — CHICAGO — of INTERNATIONAL FOURTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION the WORKERS ORDER Sunday, May 20th, at 7 P. M. Ashland Boulevard Auditorium Corner Ashland Ave. and Van Buren JOSEPH BRODSKY, Main Speaker Colorful Program and diseases among youth, espe- cially girls.” Admission 30¢ in Advance Dancin Follows 35¢ at Door