The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THUR: AY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934 COMMUNIST VICTORIES AT POLLS SPUR ELECTION EFFORTS oar. W ia al Olander Does Not Want Real Fight in Marine Strike, But the Seamen Do--And the Victory Is Up to Them ¢ In U.S. Towns Party Candidates Have Won in a Dozen Communities Many Groups Set tor State Dig into the tive supporters o! I.S.U. Chief Maneuvers Backstage for Share In Bosses’ Swag | By JOHN ADAMS in the I. S. U. office, 70 South St., New York City, on Sunday, and cested against this exemption. then can any seaman bélieve are sincere in the wage de- mands? Furthermore, in the strike call, Olander and Co. raise the slogan: they of resort for our grievances; strikes would be illegal, There is little dif- ference between the proposed N. 8. L. B, heartily beloved still by |Olander, anc Hitler’s “Labor Front’ in the marine industry of Germany. Thus, in supporting this N. 8S. L. ‘Rank and File Control Will Make A Real Fight | Olander out there, were trying to break the strike. Strike iC.P . Nominee | To Speak At 'C. P. Platform ‘Wins Favor Among Miners | | | | | Workers Counter Textile Sellout by Support of C. P. in Elections WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 26.— i The coal miners and mill workers election campaign and you will fin B., Olander shows himself to be un-| & doubt—not about the value of the campaign as an opportunity bringing forth the Comm tion; 1 about the po: Ss organizations by but a doubt about the ac- tual ability of the Communist Party | to get its candidates elected | U this doubt is blasted, the Party's pi icipation in the elections cannot reach its maximum effec- v Clo: inspection of the exper: of the Commu- nist Party ws that this lack of | confidence dozs not have a basis in fact, and that election struggles must be carried on not only for the sake of agitation and propa- ganda, but with the actual objec-| tive of putting candidates into of- fice. | Communists Elected | In the past two years Communist} officials have been elected in almost) a dozen communities in various} parts of the country. The actual | number of these election victories | is not impressive, but it serves as an excellent index of future pos-| sibilities, especially with energetic] efforts in industrial centers. The most widely known and spec-| tacular was the election of Emil Ny-| gard as Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota, an important iron mining town of| 5,000 population. He carried into| office with him Frank Plut as town! trustee, and Fred Richards as as- 8 | Less widely known. perhaps, is the | election of William Young as Mayor | of Platt, Michigan, a village of 800 population between Ann Arbor and ‘Ypsilanti. A complete workers’ slate went into office with him. The slate consisted of Milford Loder, an elec- trician and a member of the Amer- jean Federation of Labor electri- cian’s local, as village treasurer; | Peter Savage, garage mechanic; Thomas McFadden, bricklayer, and | Carman Colerian, an auto worker, | as members of the Village Council. | {ter to the campaign committee: “Wi | working class.” en | Ry: Meeting The seamen of the Atlantic Coast e going to strike on October 8. hether or not the seamen are vic- torious is mainly to be decided now, | before the strike, by the seamen themselves, The daily press (with the excep- jtion of the Communist press) is| featuring the leaders of the Inter- national Seamen’s Union as the| jleaders of this strike. It is ne | |Sary for the mass of seamen to immediately acquaint themselves | with the two major opinions in the trike situation, the group repre-| ented by Victor Olander and Co.,| of the I. S. U., and the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which represents the rank and file sea- | men, unorganized, as well as those| jin its ranks and in the ranks of | the I. 8. U. | NEW YORK.—The Spanish Cul- Workers Center, with head- ers 220 East 14th St., and ie Workers Dance League at 7 llth St., are among the many al organizations that have in- their intention of sending cult dit ted delegates to the official Communist State Convention to be held at New Star Casino from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. ish Club said, in a let have been instructed by unanimous vote at our last membership meet+} ing to donate the sum of $5 to the | campaign fund of the Communist | as the only Party of the The Workers Laboratory Theatre | | states the call. “It is timé to bring the Merchant Marine into the recovery program.” In other words, Olander wants the seamen enslaved by the adoption of an N. R. A. code for the marine in- dusiry. He knows that the code provides for a $50 a month scale for able-bodied seamen. So much for sincerity in wage de- mands. Obviously there is some- thing behind the strike call ‘of Olander and Co, that bodes no good for any seaman, “Help the President” “Help the President of the United States hoist the Blue Eagle over the American Merchant Marine,” “Help the presi- dent,” who was back of the murder of our heroic brothers in the West Coast strike. It is no accident that has also indicated its intention of sending delegates to Saturday's nominating convention. Marine Radio Men Vote To Join Strike Page 1) The membership decided to attend the mass meeting at Manhattan Lyceum last night, calléd by the M.W.I.U., where a joint strike com- mittee of ali organized and unor- ganized, employed and unemployed seamen, for this port, was to be elected. The strike movement is growing daily. On Tuesday ship’s delegates of twelve ships in the port of New York registered a majority vote for strike along the line of the pro- posals made by the M. W. I. U. Well over 400 seamen assembled at the open air meeting of the M. W. I. U. Tuesday at Whitehall and South Streets, endorsed the united front strike program of the union and registeretl their approval of the establishing of a joint rank and file strike preparation committee at the (Continued from In Yorkville, Ohio, an important/Manhattan Lyceum meeing. A num- mining town, John Buksa, a young|ber of speakers, including Roy Hud- miner well known as a leader of|son, national secretary of the M. W. the Young Communist League, was|I. U., Russell, a West Coast striker, elected as a Councilman in 1931. |and a representative of the Water- Three Communists were elected to|front Unemployment Council ad- the school hoard of Nevisdale, Ky.,\dressed the seamen. in July 1982 and one to the school M. W. I, U, Program Hailed board of Carpenter, a neighboring Simultaneously about 200 seamen ox etait jat an open air meeting at Twentieth Seven in Minnesota and West Streets, called by the When Peter Smilovich was elected |Firemen‘s, Watermen’s, and Oilers’ to the Village Council of Tromald,|section of the L. 8, U., voted by a a mining town on the Cuyuna iron thunder of “ayes” for the establish- Tange, late in 1932, the total of Com- ing of a joint rank and file strike munist officials in Minnesota com- preparation commmittee of all sea- munities was brought to seven. In/men, régardless of their union affi- the neighboring Mesaba range. five |liation or political belief, proposed townships had put Communists in|by Charles Robins, member of the office the previous spring. |Port Organizing Committee of the In May of the current year, three |M. W. I. U. working class candidates for town| The threat of app2aling to the offices were elected on a_ ticket/assembled seamen if refused, forced backed by the Communist Party. |Silas B. Axtel, lawyer, formerly dis- Two of these were Party areal breey for crooked dealings with In Taylor Springs, Ill., a larger town | disabled seamen and “leader” of the than any of the others cited, there|I. S. U., and Gus Brown of the I. are two Communist Councilmen,/S. U. to let Robins speak to the men. Helper, Utah, important mining city, |Following Robins’ talk Brown stated came within 30 votes of having a|that while he agreed, he could not Communist Mayor during its last|tell whether the Executive Commit- municipal election, according to of-|tee meeting Wednesday, will accept ficial records of the vote. Actually |Robins’ proposal. he was elected but counted out. | aay spite of oe in the past me ing elec- hat the I. S. U. will conduct the hits ao pesados Roa: |strike separately from the M.W.LU., munist vote in the 1982 elections|Brown, Axtel and Grange, president Was officially reported in the United|°f the Marine Cooks and Stewards Press to be at least 103,000. Since |ASsociation, forced by the sentiment then the masses have continued|°f the seamen for united action, their sharp leftward swing. Local|®P0ke favorably on the M. W. I. U. and State campaign committees in |Proposal. } all sections of the country report| , With the actions of the top offi- that they expect to double, triple, /“ials of the I. S. U., in the past, quadruple the Communist vote in|fresh in their minds, the seamen, their respective localities. sceptical about the earnestness of the I.S.U. officials, expressed their The Party Can Win the Masses intention to hold these men to their The victories won in these stall|Word and called on them to come to communities are not insignificant.|the .mass meeting in Manhattan They are conspicuous markers of Lyceum. the areas where the Communist| The requests of a number of sea- Party is taking deep and permanent en to get the floor, were warded reot. They are the living proof that Off, by Mr. Axtel with an excuse that the Party can win the masses where *|spent the time allocated him at- By their deeds, actions and own jwords, we shall prove that the jclique of Olander intend to lead this str important needs and demands of the seamen, | The seamen want an increase in wages. More than 80 ships and thousands of seamen participated |in the formulation of the wage de- |mands drafted at the Baltimore | United Action Conference on Sept. j1, which are advanced in the M. W. I. U. strike call. The M. W. I. U. | call includes licensed men and other crafts not included in the I. S. U. jcall, and tells them to formulate their own scale demands. Olander’s Sincerity |. Olander and Co. advance demands |that are lower in many instances |than those of the United Action Conference. In the call issued to |the men on Atlantic waters, the I. |S. U. officials exempt the Eastern | Steamship Co., Black Diamond and the tanker lines, including the Standard Oil, on the grounds that these companies are negotiating with Olander and Co. These com- panieS pay less than Olander claims to stand for in the strike call. Men of the Eastern 8.8. Co. met jhe and the other I. S. U. officials jhad another meeting to attend. |Their new 1934 model Chrysler | pulled out, while the remaining sea- lactions of the L. S. U. in the West {Coast strike, for which the floor was jrefused them. Strike Pledges Signed in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 26—Dele- | gates from six ships, two coal ships, | |two oil tankers, and two fishing |boais, and practically every seaman | jon the docks, assembled yesterday | |at a mass meeting at the headquar- ters of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, 382 Commercial St., voted with only two dissenting voices for the establishing of Cen-| tralized Shipping Bureaus in Boston and in all Atlantic ports and for the united front strike proposal of the M. W. 1. U. All present, with the exception of | two, signed strike pledge cards. The ship's delegates took tards with them to get the rest of the men Signed up. A United Action Com-| mittee of five, representing various organizations and the unorganized, was elected. | Harry Alexander, chairman of the | |Centralized Shipping Bureau of |Baltimore, and Lambert, organizer | of the Boston M. W. I. U., addressed the meting. An I. S. U. official, who refused to disclose his name, granted the floor, attacked “aliens,” although himself a naturalized citizen, and tacking Soviet Russia. When pressed on the question of the strike, he, supported by his friend, who claimed “full backing of the Boston police,” | refused to enter the united front| and stated that it was foolish to| prepare for the strike now, since) no one knows what may happen by | Oct, 8 and that the seamen are “too yellow to fight for better con- ditions.” Only the strenuous efforts of the these two slogans of Olander ap- pear in the strike leaflet. Olander wants the marine indus- | try in the N. R. A. because he will profit by it personally. Olander is not interested in sincerely leading a strike of seamen but will sell it out for a cut of the swag of our toil. If the N. R. A. code is adopted for the marine industry, then in all probability, the National Ship- ping Labor Board will be created. Don’t forget that Olander and Co. greeted the proposal for this board in 1933 with open arms. The N. S. L. B. would function |thus. Olander and a few leaders \of the I. S. U. would be appointed to the board, besides representatives jof the government and shipping |bosses. This board would maintain \itself, huge salaries, etc, by an |assessment of all the seamen in the industry. In other words, by giving up any demand for unions of the seamen’s choice (which the M. W. I. U. strike call does call for) and the vital question of seamen-con- trolled central shipping bureaus, Olander and Co., would collect the equivalent of dues from all seamen. Would Outlaw Strikes The board would be the last court concerned whether oz not seamen |have the right to join a union of their own choice. We seamen want the Centralized |Shipping Bureau supervised by an jelected committee of seamen, where, |regardless of union affiliation, sea- {men can register and ship out in rotation. Thus we see that Olander and Co, |do not mean business for the seamen jas regards wages, union récognition, }smashing of the blacklist system, etc. What then is to be construed from their strike call? They will “lead” a strike to scare the bosses into dealing with them, and at the same time be prepared to prevent the strike from going “too far” and hurting the bosses, Olander’s Record The recent history of Olander shoulud be briefly recalléd. Olander is the Great Lakes vice-president of the I. S, U. In 1932, the steel trust, controlling most of the Lake béats, cut wages 30 per cent. Olander and the I. S. U, madé not one effort to organize the seamen to defeat the cut. Olander has been, and still is, the state secretary of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, which includes the gangster-dominated Chieago A. F. of L. unions. Olander has never made a public report to seamen on the proceedings in the hearings on the marine code, yet he is present at all of them, as the “representative” of the seamen, The Rooseevit strikebreaking union- busting government has made Olan- der the “voice” of the seamen on the N. R, A. On the West Coast, in order to hold united ranks against the ship- ping bosses, the I, 8. U. rank and file had to set up a headquarters in the M. W. I. U. hall, because the |I. S. U. officials, bosom pals of A new genération of stamen can | find out from old timers about the | |1921 general strike, which Olander, |Furuseth and Co. betrayed. These Virginia Fair NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 26.—Alex- ander Wright, militant longshore- jare the same crew that are behind |men’s leader and first Negro nom- Olander today in a fake strike call. |inated for United States Senator in |They intend to “lead” the strike, |this State since 1900, junless prevented by the seamen, in| plans for a large elec'ion rally to order to steer it safely for the ship- |ping bosses. In 1921 they betrayed | 100,900 sean.en, | Rank and File Control Instead of letting this “built-up” jleadetship of Olander and Co. go} unchallenged, the seamen should immediately démand that the I. S. U. officials let their rank and file elect delegates to the United Action Committees in all ports, composed of delegates of the M. W. I. U,, I, S. U., unorganized and indepen- dent union men, who alone shall lead the strike. These committees are to be re- sponsible directly to the .seamen, who are to vote any decision in end- ing the strike, etc. The economic demands, centralized shipping bu- reau, etc., And the free choice of union membership, with recognition of unions and ships’ committees, are not to be lost just because the shipping bosses agree to sit down and “talk it over.” They will talk more to our understanding if their ships can’t move. Because it has been the only union to actually lead struggles on the ships and ashore, for the work- ing and jobless members of the industry, the seamen should join the Marine Workers Industrial ‘Union. We are striking on Oct. 8. Olan- der & Co. do not mean busifhéss, but we do! We will treat all strike- breakers and tricksters alike, whether they claim to be “impartial” gov- ernment men or to be our “‘leadets.” The seamen will do the striking. The seamen will lead their owh strike and build their own union. Hold the lines, fellow-workers! (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Sept. More than 2,000 county 26.— relief | workers were fired here last night in a move to cut down relief costs. An announcement was made that these workers will be put on di- rect relief, but past experience has shown that attempts will be made to keep many of them off the re- lief rolls unless they put up a stiff fight for their rights. Direct re- lief, moreover, generally averages | less than the very low wages paid on relief projects, Simultaneous with this new at- |tack on the unemployed came a proposal from the Welfate Com- mission for shifting the relief burden still further on to the ; working masses in a lottery scheme Similar to the propdsal made by the Board of Aldermen in New | York. The ptoposal was made at a meeting of the Welfare Com- mission yesterday and has the ap- proval of Welfare Supeintendent John F.. Ballenger. A committee was appointed to make a study of the plan. 2,000 Relief Workers Fired; men still raised questions about the | Detroit Counceils Fight Action Dr. Walter R. Fruit, district su- perintendent of the Detroit area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, touched the real character of the Proposal when he declared, a¢cord- ing to today’s Detroit Free Press | that “those least able to afford would bear the brunt of the lot- tery” and that “those who have means are taking this method of sidestepping their responsiblity.” Sections of the church, however, are already lining up with the dominant capitalist interests and giving their blessing to the lot- tery. A determined struggle against the relief cuts and the lottery pro- | posal is being planned by the Un- employment Councils and the Re- lief Workers Protective Association. ‘These organizations will hold a mass meeting on Wednhésday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in Danish Brother- hood Hall, 1775 W. Forest Ave., where the fight against the cuts and for adequate relief will pe | organized, M. W. I. U. committee prevented the throwing of these two men bodily out of the hall, 100 Philadelphia Dockers Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 26— One hundred longshoremen working on the Erickson Line went on strike today. The dock was unorganized, the workers receiving 45 cents an hour and less. The strike demands are 60 cents an hour, and 90 cents for overtime. The strike is under the leadership of the International Longshoremen’s Association. The workers picketed the docks, ;Seamen joining the picket line in support of the strike. Thirty police mobilized to break | picketing dispersed the workers. | Sentiment for struggle is spreading |to the other Philadelphia docks, 700 SEAMEN SIGN PETITION NEW YORK—More than 700 sea- men signed petitions on Tuesday for thé establishing of a centralized shipping bureau. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is the only union to incorporate this issue in its united action strike call. it has developed and taken leader- ship in their struggles. These isolated victories are part | of the factual corroboration for! Comrade Earl Browdet’s declara- | tion at the Eighth Convention of | tthe Party that: | Make Betrayals of the Workers Impossible! By EARL BROWDER Southern Workers Threaten Re-Strike, (Continued from Page 1) Myra Page inquired pointedly, “Does law and order in North Carolina mean the use of bayonets against unarmed strikers?” the | Governor replied, “Yes, my dear} young lady, Jaw and order in- cludes bayonets,” becoming heated in defense of his calling out Na- tional Guards “to protect the di- vine right of men to>work.” The Governor said he considered this “a prior right to the right to strike.” He further stated that flying squadrons and mass picket lines were not peaceful picketing, and were contrary to the laws of North Carolina. While the Governor held that the National Guard is “impartial,” the committee presented evidence show- ing their strike-breaking activities. The Governor then angrily de- manded, “What are you trying to do. Put me on the spot?” In the case of Criswell, the Gov- ernor refused to exercise pardon powers, although at the very time of the interview a telegram from Concord local 1092, United Textile Workers Union, lay on his desk, also requesting pardon. Regarding Riley's widow and family, the Governor said the state could do nothing, but he would be glad if the charities would help them. CAFE UNION MEETS FRIDAY NEW YORK.—A special meet- ing of the Cafeteria Workers Union will be held tomorrow eve- ning at 8:30 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. It is urgent that all Communist Party members working in cafeterias and Busy Bees attend, DR. EMIL EICHEL DENTIST 150 E. 93rd St., New York Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater Fours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sun. City 8838 is making be held at the Suffolk Negro Fair, which is attended annually by workers, Thousands of Virginia farm Will be reached by the Commu: Party’s election platform and its program for Negro liberation for meetings at the fair. ‘The first large rally of the cam- Paign was held hére several days ago in the open air and was at- tended by 300 workers déspite in- clement weather, Following Wright’s meetings at plans a State-wide tour to ali in- dustrial centers and farming dis- tricts for Wright. freely expressed among many work- ers of both races here, that if the Negro workers were not barred from the polls Wright would, in all like- lihood, be elected. Workers To Demand Perkins End Lockout representatives from trade union, student and women’s groups left for Washington this morning under the leadership of Sasha Small, editor of the Labor Defender and member of the National Committee of the International Labor Defense, to protest to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins against the blatk- listing of more than 10,000 textile strikers in all parts of the country. The delegation will demand that Secretary Perkins and other gov- ernment officials take immediate steps to compel the reinstatethent of these workers on their jobs and that deputies and National Guards- men who are still massed before many mills be withdrawn at once. Clara Bodian, secrétary of the United Council of Working Class Women, will be in the delegation as will be representatives of the marine, needle trades, taxi and food workers’ unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. Jewish Clubs to Back C. P. in Election Drive NEW YORK.—The National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Jewish Workers Clubs with 45 affiliates having a total of 4,000 members, in a@ statement endorsing the Commu- nist Party election platform and candidates, has offered its active assistance in the campaign. The statement bases itself chiefly on those planks in the Communist Party platform dealing with the Struggle for the protection of for- eign-born workers. The Jewish Workers Clubs have juts issued a 32-page pamphlet con- taining this statement as well as the national and New York State platforms of the C. P. in an edi- tion of 40,000 copies. J. C. ALBRIGHT & CO. All Makes Rebuilt Duplicating Machines & Supplies ‘Mimeographs-Multigtaphs 825 Broadway, bet. 12th and 18th Sts. Tel: ALgonquin 4-4828 ELECTROLYSIS SUPERFLUOUS HAIR ON FACE PERMANENTLY REMOVED Results Guaranteed — Personal Service MY_METHOD ENDORSED BY PROMINENT PHYSICIANS Will glve treatments to unemployed free every Friday from One to Four C.H. Landis 271W. 71st st.at 3" 15,000 to 20,000 Negro farmers and | the first time. through Wright's | the fair, the campaign committee | The opinion is | NEW YORK—A delegation of | of Luzerne County, in which is lo- cated Hazelton, scene of the heroic two-day general sitike in sympathy with the textile workers, are “e- sponding with enthusiasm to the election campaign of the Commu- nist Par'y. A dozen highly successful cai | Paign meetings have been hel! | throughout the county in the padt two weeks, carrying the Communis Congressional pletform to hun-' ers. All of the miners and mill hands who attend Communist election meetings here have been listening with new eagerness and growing sympathy since the textile strike began. Herry M. Wicks, Communist can. didate for United States Senator, spoke to six meetings in this ,county recently. Local candidates | and for the State Legislature have | also been warmly received, as has been the case in the meetings held for John Muldowney, candidate for | Congressman, The betrayal of the textile strike through the machinations of the United Textile Workers’ Union leadership and the agencies of the Roosevels government has prepared | the ground here for convincing new thousands of workers of the cor- rectness of the Communist de- | mand: “Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fascism; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes... .” Meetings are being planned now for Dan Slinger, veteran rank and file miners’ leader, who is candidate for Secretary of Internal Affairs, and Patrick Cush, steel worker, who is candidate for Governor. Meet- ings are also béing arrangéd for William Powell, Negro, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and for Norris Wood, nominee for Judge of the Superior Court. 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Use Night Entrance 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR, 1-0135 dreds upon hundreds of new work- » General Secretary, C. P., U. 8. A. Membe: "s ‘Phone: ENdicott 2 “We still underestimate the mapicsdanlig = Tet ory Mines pees value of revolutionary parlia- mentarism. We are at a moment when it is quite possible for large masses to swing over very quickly to the support of the Communist Party, especially in the Congressional elections. There is . . . no utopianism in suggesting the possibility of many successful Communist can- didates if we work correctly and make a serious campaign.” The election of working class can- didates to office raises serious prob- | lems for the Communist Party. Once they are in office, the Party becomes responsible for giving them guidance in their efforts to carry through a working class program. How for instance, can a Commu- nist Register of Deeds play his part in giving revolutionary leadership to the workers of his community? Or a County Recorder or a coroner? No thorough answer is attempted here save this—every Communist Official will be able to act effectively only in proportion to the closeness of his contact with the working class mass organizations which made his election possible and ip proportion to the political guidance and organizational support he re- ceives from the Communist Party. |TO EVERY PARTY MEMBER: | Is there a single Communist who | would not have wished that our |Party had been five or ten times | stronger among the textile workers | to prevent Gorman’s betrayal? Is there a single Communist who | would not have wished that there |had been more organized groups in | the thousands of mills, that there | had been more organized Commu- |nist fractions in the locals of the United Textile Workers, in close contact with the textile workers? Is there a single Communist who would not have wished that there had been twenty times as many Communists in the mass meetings and on the picket lines than there were? There is no such Communist. And every Communist worked in the strike for the victory of the strike, to help the workers in the best possible manner to organize themselves, to overcome the bosses’ resistance, to organize the picket lines, to warn of the betrayal—in st to help the strike to victory. ‘t is therefore evident that every Sommunist wishes that twenty ot shirty times as many Communists 5 . | heeded, to break them away from | 2 word: evéry Communist tried his | had worked among the strikers. Just as among the textile work- |ers, so it is in the other industries, in the struggle of the unemployed, in every section of the exploited population. | | This is why we have before us| | the burning problem: We must have |more, many more Communists | among the steel workers, among the marine workers, among the long- |shoremen, among the railroad workers, among the miners, If we Communists share the in- | dignation of the hundreds of thou- |sands of textile workers over the despicable treachery, we must draw these conclusions. And, comrade, this depends on you. | Do not thousands of workers in| every one of these tremendous struggles show capabilities, hero- ism? Are there not thousands of Communists of tomorrow among the fightezs? Thousands of work- ers, where only very litle is | the links that still chain them to the capitalists, to the forces still under their influence. Who can deny this? And this is why your personal work is needed, comrade, the utilization of all your 4 ae connections in the shop, in the house in which you live, in the club which you visit, your personal friends, in order to make these Communists of tomorrow Commu- nists today, Every comrade should ask him- self personally: Have I done every- thing by strengthening the Com- munist Party to make betrayal im- possible for the betrayers? Every active worker brought into the Party, as a part of the organiza- tion, strengthened by the organiza- tion of the revolutionaries, and strengthening the organization of the revolutionaries, makes it easier to make these betrayals impossible for the reactionaries and to lead the workers victoriously. Comrade, your answer and the answer of every individual comrade must be: In answer to this base be- trayal of the textile worker we must bring thousands of workers into the Party, strengthen the ranks of the Party, strengthen the Party’s |connections with the workers. That means, strengthening the capability of thé Party, in the ranks of the workers, to lead the struggles against the attacks of the bour- geoisie and against the base treach- ery of the labor lieutenants of the capitalist class, To bring the best fighters from the ranks of the strikers into the Party is the task of every individual comrade. It is a task of honor of every revolutionary. The unit, the section, the district, the Central Committee, our press, our literature will help you, com- rade. But every comrade must transform his indignation over the treachery into organizing action. The Party's offensive to prevent. such betrayals must be sharpened. Can anybody deny that if the Communists had had more well- organized Communist nuclei or groups in every textile mill, or at least in the most important textile mills, in every U. T. W. local, or at least in the most important U.T.W. locals, that then it might have been possible to prevent this be- trayal? 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