The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1934, Page 4

viet women who wished to estab- | dtface Car Union WagnerBillPart of Diser ent NewWarMachinery "7 Try ; e for to Prev Wage Raise | ae | ipany’s Mffer of 1 Cent Hourly Increase for Every Million Extr a Income Rejected Under Pressure of Workers OHICAGO, Ill—The long awaited, response of the Chicago Surface Lines to the demands of the men Was Tevealed by the unholy trio Tunning the union—Division 241— Kehoe, Taber and Quinlan, the “Ef€*4hin meeting on Monday rt, s. It was a brazen chicanery | P in™y the crooked brains of | % lawyers could conceive. | Qartere pleading poverty, in| Met President Richardson's “sab that in the worst year— | net return on the watered it (including the mules} at. before Richardson was a) 4.76 per cent. Since that | me | traffic, according to his i>: ent, increased 12% per | nt. increase of new runs did | ot i to even one fourth of ais pere=ntage. So the company offered—in case | income will reach 48 mil- | f is now 47 millions annu- B)men will receive one cent hour, and an additional very additional million of me to the company’s cof- 88, but not over 57 millions. After @ imerease will reach that figure, je men will not be entitled to ad- o pay. It might bring in too uch Prosperity into their homes, ‘md they will not be able to stand Millions for the Capitalists! Pennies 3 for the Workers! _ A Very even match from the cap- 2 point of view. A very good (Yesson for those workers who still believe in collaboration with their } as preached by the Federation of Labor mis- | BS exploiters, “4 TS. * I wrote in the Daily Worker a} month ago, the Ohicago Surface} Lines were offering a three-cent in-| trease per hour and the Quinlan- Kehoe-Taber outfit were listening | to “their master’s voice” and were | ready to bring this offer to the membership. The revelations in the Daily Worker spoiled their game. ‘Their stool-pigeons brought in re- ports that the men will not stand for it. The men were quite openly expressing their opinions that the old sell-out artists shall go, that What we need is new blood in the Jeadership. This talk was putting | Teal fear in the hearts of the old gang. So they brought in this) clownish offer of the C.S.L. and, posing as the champions of the men | recommended to reject it. Of course, there could be no opposition to such | |monthly for the entire city of Chi- a motion. Then Kehoe offered a resolution to refer the matter back to the committee which will de- and, case of mand arbitration, a 1 1 carried. After this, Kehoe came out with & great speech praising Roosevelt and digging into the “contemptible sommunists.” Well, the Commu- nistic element among the member- ship of Division 241 are Paying | back this compliment to the Tacketeers, who are bleeding the men. The main demand of our} group is to get rid of all racketeers, | whether they are of “old” or/ “young” blood. We demand rank | and file control of the union thru| the depot committees elected by the members and subject to recall. | Such a rank and file negotiating | committee would not have star) chamber sessions with the Surface | Lines officials. The men would be informed about every step made by the committee and every maneuver made by the company officials, Moreover, the men would be mobil- ized to put pressure on the company | during the negotiations. There would be daily meetings in all the depots instead of meeting once cago. There would be no arbitration, | because this is the game in which | “tails I win, heads you lose,” from | the boss’s point of view. | All the other demands—pension, pay for fallbacks, 8 hour day, were | flatly rejected on the same grounds | —‘poverty” of the company. What shall the men do at the next meeting on Monday, July 2? Reject arbitration! Reject the miserly handout which Kehoe will bring back as something | substantial! Call for a strike re- ferendum vote! Organize groups in every barn, be they only of 3 or 4 men, Write to the Opposition Group of Division 241, Room 300, 160 N. Wells St., and if you are afraid to give your own addresses, use your} friends’. Let us correspond. Meanwhile write us about the grievances and | about the stool pigeons in your de- pots. In the near future our group | will print a magazine of our own, | “The Chicago Traction Worker.” | We want your correspondence. M. NELSON. coNDUOTED BY HELEN LORE ROM A GERMAN FARM WIFE OF NEW YORK TO A RUSSIAN WOMAN WORKER ‘We give here the concluding, part of the letter from Mrs. Rosa N., farmer's wife of New York State, an open letter which is to be forwarded to Comrade Anna Vasilevna Snegirem of the Soviet Union, one of a group of six So- lish correspondence with women in America. The letter from Rosa _ told about the hard conditions on the N. Y. farms, and said the youth were anxious for a war until she explained what such a war would really signify. She speaks now about organizing the farme: “I know the farmers should or- ganize, and they might do it; only it I teil them to tind a leader @mong themselves, they don’t seem to understand it. I told them to organize with the poor farmers’ organization, and not with any capitalist organization. But some seem afraid, and others wait—I don’t know for what. It sure is not their fault, and if I would be more clever, and know English tier, I am sure I would find a ‘e live very isolated, and there is too much work to do, to go more around. We went a little on Sun- days, only our time is too short. Most have no money to buy news- Papers, we too: and we were in no Show for ye: lived before I married all my fife in the city, so I knew how the workers live there. I always tell the farmers here to hold with the work- ers, and go together with them They say I am righit—if they get no unemployment insurance, they | can’t buy farm products. “Now we received a letter from) > the creamery, telling us there is an| effort to make a new bill (Senate | Bill 3326). If this comes through, our markets could be forced to limit | _ or discontinue purchases of our} Products, and we couid be directed | as to where we sold our products. te aie “I only want to let you know that I receiye letters from Germany, from my mother. All her letters are dictated. She even had to write Heil Hitler in her last letter, but She tells me in a way, as we made before Hitler came to power, at they have to hunger as never fore; anybody saying something es in prison or away. On ers’ Day Hitler gave a party the mothers; they got flowers, oncert and Heil Hitler, but the mothers had an empty stomach. * “Best regards, ipily to the U. S. S. R, Any sletters received for one or all six Russian women who want ablish correspondence will “MRS. ROSA N.” | plamly name, address and _ style rik ae i! number. BE SURE TO STATE letter will be forwarded | stzm also be forwarded if sent here; and if some comrade in the U. S. would | like to write to Rosa N., their let-! ters will be forwarded to her if sent | to us. Can You Make ’Em | Yourself? | Pattorn 1915 is available in sizes | 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 4 yards 39 inch fabric. Tllus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write Address orders to Daily Worker| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th; Street, New York City, 7 | the heads of the sixteen A. F. of | decent living conditions on the job, |to prevent the | letting them read some of the best | Eighth WritesR.R. Worker | By a Railroad Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Government inter- vention in labor disputes did no’ ate with General Johnson's} R. A. Railroad men will recali| the period of the World War | old railroaders remember the in-| famous Board of Arbitration. | Mediation and Conciliation, presided | over by George H. Sines, Grand/ Lodge Officer of the “Brotherhood | of Railroad Trainmen.” We recall how for months and months all sentiment for strike ac- tion on the part of the rank and Grand h file was blocked by the Lodge officiallom, who together w L craft unions worked in perfect harmony with Brother Sine’s Board in strangling every attempt on the part of the men to secure decent working conditions on American railroads. We were told by our misleaders: “Don’t talk strike. It is against the government and unpatriotic,” and it was only after the armistice was signed that the seething indignation of railroad labor broke loose and, rebelling against its traitorous lead- ership, carried through one of the| most bitter struggles in railroad history. | Today, we face a new war, the same machinery is being hastily set up in Washington. The Wagner bill is trotted out by the defenders of Wall Street. This bill is intended to .plug up whatever gaps were left open by the N. R. A. It aims to} outlaw strikes and thus reduce all} labor organizations to useless de-| bating societies. The Roosevelt ad- ministration by chaining labor to its job again assures the coupon clippers that their profits are safe and they can continue their war plans uninterrupted. ‘We Railroad men must prepare to block their schemes. We must build in every R. R. yard and terminal a united front of all R R. men, join- ing hands with every honest rank and file R. R. worker to fight for company from making layoffs, to stop the dropping of union members who, due to un- employment and part time work are unable to pay dues, and last, but not least, to halt the shipment of arms and munitions and all war mate- rials. It is our job. We must and will succeed. NOTE: We publish letters every Fri- day from workers in the trans- portation and communications industries—railroad, marine, sur- face lines, subway, elevated lines, express companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc., and post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these industries to write wus of their enditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tues- day of each week. Letters from Our Readers URGES ALL READERS TO GET) SUBS FOR D. Ww. Provo, Utah. Dear Comrades: I have for a short time been sell- ing subs for the “Daily Worker.” I have 15 subs sent in at present, and will send more in soon. All workers should get subs for the Daily Worker, because it is the only paper that tells the truth, and it is their working-class paper. To sell it is very easy. I have just to show the people why it is their paper by explaining to them and such as Earl Browder's Convention speech and others. To others I have to give two or three papers and wait a week or two. But I generally get their sub before I’m through with them. Now, fellow workers, let’s get subs for the “Daily Worker’? and have the whole working class look up to it as their paper. With comradely greetings, E. W. B. articles, Peat, SRA CRIT-"7711 OF SOME UNEM-| PLOLZD DEMONSTRATIONS | New York City. Dear Comrade: Much of the effect of demonstra- tions are utterly lost due to the be- havior of us workers. Imagine a worker making the world know about his destitute condition by crying: “We demand the right to live’ and at the same time laugh and jump as with joy.} Not enough criticism is being of- fered in the “Daily” concerning us workers turning a life and death} struggle into a picnic. I have known workers with empty stomachs shou‘ing, “we de- mand food, clothing and shelter.” | but the way they acted one would} have thought each of them won an Irish sweepstake or something. Everyone’s eye is focused upon demonstrators and comrades. That eye is sure critical. Now what can gentlemen of the full belly type think when demonstrators against starvation, eviction and police bru- tality act like “kibitzers” and as if they didn’t mean whatever they say or do? Surely every worker is aware of ihe seriousness of every demonstration. A demonstration is not being “staged,” nor is it an “amusing af- fair.” It is, on the contrary being forced upon us by unbearable con- ditions, directly by the boss class. No joke or laughing matter can be discovered here, workers! I hope this criticism will be taken in a comradely fashion, as I em also one who suffers plenty along with 17,000,009 o her unemployed work Comraéely. LN. | this: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 egroes W In Sunnyside hen Hirin R.R. Yard Penn R. R. By a Railroad Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.— After two weeks of hardest work as a@ coach cleaner of the P.R.R. at Sunnyside Yard, you cannot cover the simplest household necessities and two or three days after pay day you go borrowing ten cents here and fifteen cents there for car fare. Wages especially those of the coach cleaners are entirely out of propor- tion with the cost of living and therefore an adjustment of the wage rate is anxiously awaited. The unmindfulness of the higher- ups to note that the price of bread and butter for them is the same cost for coach-cleaners eats into the very bones, and is tearing every vestige of hope from the coach cleaners of the P.R.R. The system of hiring coach clean- ers during the regime of the ex- forman now a gang leader was most, pernicious. It was something like six men are wanted this morning. There are many whites as well as colored, waiting. Six whites are whispered to and told to wait. Mr. Foreman goes into the office and returns stating that no one is needed this morning. All but six go away, then the six whites are put to work. Now it is a fact that not a single colored man was em- ployed during the foremanship of this man and more colored men were turned off the job than at any other time the writer can re- member, Another grievance is one which does alone but all in general. This is the habitual holding up of em- ployes’ checks to satisfy an oppo- site party of some business trans- action without first finding out if the employe is in the wrong and that such action on the part of the company is fully justified. I wonder if the -superintendent and others concerned in such prac- tice realize the dire hardship to not concern coach-cleaners | Cooperates With Business House | in Robbing Its Employes {put. What do you think | P.R.R. holding up six checks for an| employee when the contract with the opposite party called for less} than the amount contained on one | check. | The holding-up causing the tak- ing back of furniture which has | been partly paid for entailing a loss |of more than $200. If men cannot read or write a language how can they be expected |to learn rules and_ regulations |therein. That is exactly what the | PRR. is doing. There are men in| |their employ who do not know) |many words in English and these| |men are required to tell the num- |ber of today’s safety rule and re- peat same before the time card is given. There are instances, many of them too, when men have come up to work from far out in New Jer- sey and on reaching Sunnyside were told to return home on ac- count of it being too cold for ice or because they have been fur- |loughed or for some other cause. |In many cases some of these un- |fortunate men do not reach home | until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, | jconveyance being practically sus-| | pended then. Why should a coach cleaner be |refused a job which he is perfectly able to hold just for the simple reason he is colored. That is what happens over at Sunnyside Yard. Think of it, a man’s color for which he is in no way responsible. “8 8 Note: “The eagerly awaited ad- justment of the wage rate” and an end to the “Jim Crow” system of hiring under some foremen can be accomplished only by the workers themselves through organization. We suggest that these workers get in touch with the Railroad Brether- hoods Unity Committee for organi- zation either on the job or at the New York City office, at Room 631, 80 E, llth St., New York City. Shows How Misleaders Sold Trish Labor to Traction Co’s. By an LR.T. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—I read an issue of your paper published last Friday containing a lot of news about the LR.T. and B.M.T. lines. The paper was handed to me and it was the first copy I've ever read. It ex- pressed in words the very thoughts that have been in my own mind for ears, and you can rest assured Tl be a reader and a booster from that day on. I have worked for the LR.T. for 21 years and am now a motorman on the subway division. I have a big family and. am the only work- ing member of it. Two sons and daughters of working age have not been able to find a job for nearly two years. I have listened to graft- ing politicians of Irish birth and extraction chatter about the bless- ings of “democracy.” I have watched these same frauds make a political football of the Irish workers in the U.S.A. (most of whom left Ireland to escape the crushing effect of British imperialism) by preying upon their anti-British feeling. These contemptible leeches, with the help of the jingo Irish press in this country, do all in their power to steer the Irish workers into the path of support for American im- jerialism, The biggest corporations in this land (LR.T., B.M.T., A. & P., James Butler, Danicl Reeves, 5th Ave. Ccach, N. Y. Edison, etc.), are all great exploiters of Irish and Irish- American labor, The Irish political hacks play the workers directly into the hands of the blood suckers. Are the Irish workers in America blind to these elementary truths? And have they abandoned the Irish heritage of fight—for the slave heritage of submission? Any honest person can readily see that the loudest “shouters” for “Trish freedom,” etc., in America today, are the heaviest contributors toward the degradation of Irish la- bor in the U. S. A—Mr. Geo. Keegan, Victor J. Dowling, G. E. Murray, are outstanding examples of this truth. Prominent in many Irish pa- triotic organizations, these Irish heroes are continually mouthing at the meetings, dinners, etc., of these societies. This chatter is nothing more than political and industrial “eye-wash.” The true nature of these men is most clearly reflected in the slave labor policies pursued by the corporation (LR.T.) they head. You will find their exact counterpart in all corporations em- ploying Irish labor. These men are loyal servants of the class they serve—the bankers of the U.S.A—and let every honest LR.T. worker understand fully right now, these same men, along with the Walkers, O’Briens, Smiths, Currys, etc., of Tammany shame, are the mortal enemies of all work- Labor’s friends are within its ers, own ranks. Labor's power is its unity. There is no room in the Yanks of labor today for either racial or religious issues that serve only to split and divide the workers and bring joy to the hearts of la- bor’s enemies. I have found that the Transport Workers Union is founded upon the only concept of democracy—rank and file organiza- tion and control. Complete inde- pendence in the field. The security from exposure that only honest rank and file leade: ip can give. As I have done, join the Trans- port Workers Union. Let us crgan- ize and through our united power, cram the 10 per cent cut, the com- pany union—the nine, ten and twelve hour day, down the throats of Keegan, P. J. Connolly and their whole smelly crew of belly-crawl- ing, treacherous and “yellow dog” rats, Red Tape Gets Busy on Five Starving Orphans Brooklyn, N, Y. Dear Mayor LaGuardia: It appears from the boss papers that you are a very busy man and the odds are you never heard of the Nieves family. Because if you do know about the Nieves family it is hard to understand how you heve the nerve to show your face around City Hall. You sec, Fio, that fine relief de- partment of yours has done a swell job with what is left of the Nieves family, and if they are still alive today it is cer‘ainly no fault of your Welfare Commissioner Bill Hodson. I guess you know by now it is the jobless who feed the job- less, so this story will probably not surprise you. But there are many workers who still have illusions about your relief set-up and they ough to know the facts. Up until May 22 there were seven persons in the Nieves family, They were Mrs. Ruperta Nieves and her five children, Aida, 11; Louis, 9; Tony, 7; Edward, 6, and Robert, 1, also Mrs. Nieves’ sister, Mercedes, 20. The father was dead and the family lived on a monthly check they received from the Bureau of Child Welfare. This check was so Substantial that they cculd afford sumptuous quarters at 115 Hudson Ave., Which is a frame tgnemen: building in the poverty-stricken Navy Yard district of Brooklyn. Mrs. Nieves died on May 22. A good guess as to the cause of her death was the rich diet made pos- sible by the monthly relief check. This death in the family meant one mouth less to feed and consequently Jess need for the check. The Bu- reau of Child Welfare evidently realized this lessened need and on June 19 sent the following letter to the family: Dear Madam: This is te inferm you that the Board of Child Welfare has taken action to discontinue your allow- ance, Yours truly, (Signed) JOHN T. EGAN, Executive Secretary, So here you had five children, paren-less, and their 20-year-old aunt starving in their Hudson Ave. quarters. There was no moncy for rent either and that meant future residence in the gutter. Only, as you know the jobless help the job- less, so Mis. Emilio Castro, whose husband has a part-time job and earns $15 a week—sometimes—took the children and their aunt into her own home. Mrs. Castro lives in slightly less sumptuous rooms on the top floor of a wooden shack on 213 Sands St. Maybe ail this is boring to you, Fio, so I will cut the recital short with a few subsequent develop- ments. When Mercedes—the aunt —told the Bureau of Child Wel- fare she would take care of ihe \ ri g iminate Against Increased Speed-up | PARTY Lire Less Pay, at Mott) Tells of Struggle to Build a | Workers’ School in Boston ‘Haven R. R. Yard By a Railroad Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—The Pullman Co. utilizing the present depression to make more profits, called on their |employes to vote foz the 5 day week “in order to emvlov more help.” The | which such an employe hes been! men on the Mott Haven job, such as| of the} mechanics, electricians, helpers, and | car cleaners, etc., voted for the 5- day basis. They were forced to do so, otherwise facing the loss of the job. With the 5 day basis the com- pany began to pile more work on the men, with the result that no more help was hired. Even those that were laid off lately were not put back to work. The Pullman Co. is now performing the work in five days with less help and there- fore less pay. Besices this, the company intro- duced the 10 per cent wage cut in January 1932, with a promise that it will be restored in January, 1933. But up till now the wage cut still remains. At a conference held in Washing- ton by the representatives of the Brotherhoods and the Railroad companies in May 1932, where an understanding was reached, it was decided that 2 and a half of the wage cut would be retur 1, 2 and a half in January, 1935, and 5 per cent on July 1, 1935. The leaders of the brotherhoods have made this settlement without asking their members, and the promises made by the company are not binding, just as they were not before. The workers of the Pullman are the most exploited. They are not organized and therefore are re- ceiving less pay than those working on the Grand Central line. Some of the workers of the Pullman Co. working at Mott Haven yard tried to put up a petition to the boss to restore the 6 day week. The men on the job were afraid to sign the petition, in order not to be perse- cuted, or to lose their jobs. The workers feel very bitter against the company and its treat- ment. There is one solution for the workers on the job—to organize and to fight for improved working con- ditions. Co. A WORKER OF THE MOTT HAVEN YARD. Penn. R. R. Cheats Dining Car Workers By 2 Railroad Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—We dining car workers of the Sunnyside Yards have plenty of grievances. Here are some of them: 1, Fourth cooks should not wash dishes and work in the pantry with only a fourth cook’s pey. He should get the pay ho is now getting and a@ regular pantryman be tapen on, so increasing employment without cutting wages. 2, The No. 1 waiter should not do paniry work where the Penn has stationary pantries. The Penn should put on a pantryman, so easing the burden of the No. 1 waiter and increasing employment. 3. Where there is no stationary pantry, the No. 1 waiter should get higher pay. The Penn saves the wages of a paniryman at the ex- pense of the No. 1 waiter. They should also pay the No. 7 waiter, who has no station, for there are trips where he has no orders outside of upstairs and doesn’t make a nickel extra. The No. 7 waiters are also re- quired to canvass with the coach lunch. They are supposed to get 5 per cent, but there is no way of telling whether they get it or not because of the way the company figures its books and takes its time in paying. 4. They have a cafe car on the Philadelphia run, where the chef gets $145 a month. He works harder than when he is a chef on a regular diner (10 to 14 hours a day), but gets less than if he were chef on the regular diner. Youcan see what the company saves by such a rate. We must fight for higher pay for cafe chefs or the company will cut all the chefs. A 5. There are waiters in charge at $90 per month doing the stew- ard’s work. The waiters on the car are required to pool their tips and divide equally with the waiter in charge. In this way the Penn gets rid of a steward at $150 per month and forces the waiters to pay Part of the wages of the waiter in charge. Also they keep the waiters from rising to stewards at $150 and stop them advancing higher than waiter in charge at $9 per month. Fellow workers, every one of us should join the Brotherhood of Dining Car Cooks and Waiters and make it our union to fight for bet- tering our conditions. We know the leadership of this Brotherhood does no’ fight for our needs. We can ge: our own fighting leaders if we are in the Brotherhood. We who are in the unity groups urge all the dining car workers in these groups to join the Brotherhood. We know that without organization we can’t ;get anywhere. Let's all join and make the Brotherhood of Dining Car Cooks and Wai‘ers a real rank and file unicn and, under the lead- ership of a fighting organization, win better conditions for all of us. RAILROAD WORKER. children if they continued to send the relief check, the bureau in- formed her she was not eligible as guardian because she had only lived in New York City for one year. When Mrs. Castro offered to act as guardian, she was told only @ relative of at least the second de- gree was eligible. I forgot to. tell you that Mrs. Castro has several kids of her own, and cannot feed the Nieves family much longer. So maybe the fine job your welfare department started Will be successful after all, and maybe there won’ be any need oi a monthly check because there won't be any Nieves around to re- ceive it, H, K, Boston School Gains in | | By J. G. Boston, Mass, The need for theory can never | be overestimated in our work. Just |as our organizational activities in | the factories, on the farms, among the Negroes, all form integral parts of our Party work, so must the task of raising the political level of the masses be considered an integral part of our movement. In reso- lutions, at conferences and in speeches, the need for Marxist theory is stressed. But in practice, jin our day to day struggles, in all too many cases, it is still brushed aside as-an insignificant part of our work. This alone proves the deep impressions that the neglect of theory within our Party has left among a large majority of our Party membership. This shortcoming be- comes more and more serious, when comrades commit political and or- ganizational errors in their daily assignments, which with proper theoretical equipment would never occur. Two years ago. I asked the local district to assign me to the work of organ: g and putting on a per- manent basis a Workers School in Boston. The district flatly refused this request, giving the reasons: “We're in the midst of an electicn campaign and couldn’t spare the forces, and we haven't the money with which to back such a venture.” I maintained that I needed no “forces,” only one comrade to as- sist me, and that I would organize & committee of sympathizers and raise funds from people seldom ap- proached for money. Again the dis- trict organizer refused to sanction this work, stating that “there was no need for a Workers School at that special time.” Hard Work Popularizing School I went to work and organized a committee of non-party comrades first, then we raised $100 and then after much searching located suit- able headquarters. After this, it was a simple enough task to ob- tain the district's approval. Our work in popularizing the Workers School in Boston was a difficult task. Not only had we to pene- trate the so-called “outside” organ- izations around the movement, but we had to combat in our own Party the underestimation of the study of Marxist theory, and in most cases, an actual contempt for it. During the first year of the Work- ers School of Boston, we ran two semesters, enrolling altogether 150 students. The proportion of work- ers was as high as 80 per cent. This, however, was not significant, since of this 80 per cent only about 20 students. wase of one trade group, and thase were white collar workers. Our itdustrial unions, like the Necdle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Furniture Workers In- Gustrial Union, as. well a good op- position group both in the LL.G. W.U. and the N.S.W.U., did not con- sider the school as theirs and did not come to school during this first year. We ran 14 Sunday night forums, which could not be consid- ered successful, since these also suf- fered from the general attitude around us, the neglect for the study of theory. At the same time, the Party and League formed about 35 per cent of the total registration. And on the whole the school gained quite a bit of popularity, Growth This Year This year, the reorganizing of the school was a comparatively easy task. Our committee was larger. The school has become known not only in Boston, but even in some other cities nearby like Lynn, Salem, Quincy and even Providence. We rented larger headquarters, handled a larger supply of litera- ture and drew in more instruc‘ors. The support of the Party and League, as far ‘as student registra- tion is concerned, increased sub- stantially, forming now 45 per cent of the student body. Twelve courses were offered and several unions and fraternal organizations sent scholarship students to the school. We succeeded in drawing in quite a group of shoe workers this time, as well as furniture workers, marine workers and dye house workers. The needle trades workers still: did not respond to our consistent pop- ularizing of the school, which we carried on at all times. During the two semesters which we ran this second year, we en- rolled 350 studen's in Boston, or- ganized a branch in Chelsea (which offered three courses and enrolled 50 students) and one in Malden (with one class of 25 students) and ran a short series of lectures on Fundamentals of Communism in Quincy. Our “experimert” of send- ing our instructor in Negro Prob- lems to the South End (similar to New York’s Harlem) proved suc- cessful and the attendance rose from 12 to 45 in a comparatively | short time. Our class in Trade Union Strategy and Tactics, which during the first semester did not materialize, now number 28 stu- dents, representing the five main trade groups in Boston. Our sev- eral classes in Fundamentals en- rolled 40 students each. To reach the broad strata of in- tellectuals coming toward the revo- luticnary movement and to dring the clarity of the Marxist approach in subjects of art and culture to them, we ran a Series of 12 lectures on “Marxism and Culture.” This was an experiment on our par‘, but proved on the whole successful. ‘We sponsored a series of eight lectures on “The Soviet Union,” which was also conducted last year. This, too, had a fine attendance and brought our program nearer to the so-called petty-bourgeois cle- ments, who can nevertheless be reached through the channels of friendship to ‘he Soviet Union. We drew in and developed four comrades in the work of instructors, sending them out to organize and } | ‘ j | tion by Some Party Comrades Spite of Lack of Atten- {conduct our classes | Malden and Quincy. in Chelsea, | Financially, the school was selfs sustaining throughout, carrying ov each year a balance of approxi- mately $75. The literature sales of the district increased noticeably with the functioning of the school, On April 1, we cailed a conf>r- ence which was attended by 86 dele egates representing about 30 organ- izations and the branches of our Boston school. In the resolution Passed, we pledged to apply our- selves more energetically toward the dissemination of Marxist. theory ameng workers around us in the shops, in our neighborhoods and organizations. The fact alone that our call to this conference was so well answered, proved once more the need for theory and the good work a Workers’ School can do toward raising the political level in a district. Our tasks outlined at the confer= ence have not yet been tackled. The Party must take the leadership in the work of the local school com- mittee, which although loyal and hard-working throughout the two years, is not as yet prepared to go in to the unions and organizations of workers and to actually take the initiative toward. organizing study groups, open forums and classes there. Two comrades, applying themselves seriously to this work, utilizing the experiences of the school these past two years, can do a great deal. We, too, benefitted ind eR fagesiiians of former at- mpts in nat organizing al Workers School. None of them ever succeeded in running for more than & semester. before they disbanded, What they needed was prepara- tory work, consistent popularization. of the school, disciplined registra- tion and attendance, and finances. This we well remembered in organ- izing the Workers School two years ago and made every effort to es- tablish efficiency throughout our work. I feel that our experiences in Boston have demonstrated once more, that the so-called cry of “lack of forces” is no excuse for neglect- ing important Party work. We have also learned the absolute necessity of DAILY work in holding the work together, and in preparatory work well ahead of time where needed. We have seen many workers com- ing closer to the movement and actually participating in the Party’s activities, helping in strikes and some joining up with us in our struggles. The recent demonstrat’on. against the German cruises K-~s- ruhe in Charlestown is a vivid ex< ample of how students of the Worx- ers School have realized the unity of Marxist theory and practice. With the organization of Workers Schools on a national scale, we feel that we are at last realizing the full meaning of Stalin’s slozan: “Wiih- out practice theory és sterile, out theory practice is blind!” Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. 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