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

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, W -ESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934 Daily QWorker A RYTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL? “America’s Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4 Cable Addres Only BY THE 50 E. 13th n Building, 7910. ™. 1 year, Scents year, $6.00: $9.00; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934 The Message of Stalin To American Workers ECENTLY it was said that there is no man to whom the toiling millions of the world listen with more eagerness than Comrade Stalin, great disciple of Lenin, leader of the Communist International and the world proletariat. Certainly the interview which the Daily Worker printed in full yesterday between Stalin and the English novelist, H. G. Wells, makes it clear why Stalin's words are so full of meaning, so precious to the working class of the world, particularly to the workers of this country. In a profound, yet simple way, Stalin was talking to the workers and impoverished farmers of the United States on the basic problem of their lives— how to end the crisis and provide themselves with work, security and peace. In speaking to the American worke does not ignore the fact that many workers still harbor illusions about the Roosevelt “New Deal” as a solution for the crisis. Stalin does not fear to define the traits of Roosevelt which make him a peculiarly effective agent of the Wall Street capi- talists at the present moment, his shrewdness, his ability to maneuver, his capacity to wield mass influence. But once having demonstrated that his approach to Roosevelt is not a narrow, unhistoric one, but a Marxist-Leninist appraisal of a capitalist class figure, Stalin, with unsurpassed clarity and rich- ness, proceeds to outline the class relations between the Roosevelt government and the Wall Street monopolies which make Roosevelt's “New Deal” the program of Wall Street profits, a program which can never solve the tremendous problems of a planned economy or find a sure way out of the crisis. Stalin N EVERY immediate, vital question, Stalin’s in- terview- enriches the understanding of the masses. mining, industrial and shipping center. The gov- ernment is massing its forces at this point in a desperate effort to break the backbone of the armed uprising Now the Lerroux government is calling the Cortes in session, the Spanish parliament, without the left republican, Soc: and Communist repre- sentatives. The main problem before the Cortes, meeting in the midst of civil war, is to set up a fascist military dictatorship and endeavor to destroy the worke: uprising. The whole structure of the bourgeois-landlord government has been badly shaken by the workers’ struggles. The armed forces of the capitalists are in the most chaotic condition, Thus far the army as a whole has not been used against the workers, because the fascists fear the consequences. Only picked troops were sent against the Asturias. So desperate was the Lerroux government that it has transported thousands of its Foreign Legion from Morocco, bands of mercenary adventurers, to shoot down the Spanish workers and peasants. As “Pravda” points out, the main weakness of the workers’ struggles lies in the apparent lack of central, decisive directing forces, and a clear objec- tive for the seizure of power and the setting up of soviets. The struggle also is marked by the greatest unevenness, outbreaks taking place in wil scattered sections and surging forward in some places, retreating in others, only to break out with greater fury. Above all, Socialists, Communists and Syndi- calists are fighting side by side, united in the main object of striving to defeat the fascist Lerroux regime. Gorman Covers Up IRANCIS GORMAN, who betrayed one million textile workers in the recent general strike, flew to San Francisco for a speech to the A. F. of L. Convention. Gor- man, United Textile leader, who was head of the U.T.W. Strike Committee, is attempting to naintain his leadership in the face of The wave of indignation against his sell out of the strike. In order to quiet the rank and file, Gorman claimed that the strike “settlement,” the calling off of the strike on the strength of the Winant Board’s report, was “an amazing victory.” He claims that the Winant report, on the basis of which Gorman ended the strike, resulted in “a plan to end the stretchout,” and “the nearest thing to recognition of the union that it was possible to get.” HAT is this Winant report which Gorman claims is an amazing victory for the textile workers? The Roosevelt board of three headed by Governor of Vermont Winant, which Roosevelt appointed, did not grant a single demand of the strikers. Re- garding the stretchout, in fact, it even calls for in- creased stretchout. The Winant report recommends “that the respective codes be amended to provide that a special committee be created under the tex- tile labor relations board to supervise the use of the stretch-out.” The Winant report proposes that “UNTIL FEB- RUARY 1, 1935, NO EMPLOYER SHALL EXTEND Party Life On Relations Between The Communist Party and Young Communist League IN MY experience as section or- ganizer of the Young Communist | League I have noticed that where the Party is giving guidance, or at least understands the Y. C. L. in its role as the leader of the toiling youth, our League functions. But it is precisely in those places where |the Y. C. L. is weak that clarity |is still to be attained by the entire Party membership in order to resur- rect the Y, C. L. which will then itself be a live factor in ‘helping the Party to realize how it can give help. Harl Browder, in his convention report, says that the Y. C. L. “is looked upon as a sort of probation ary kindergarten.” This “belittling” | and misunderstanding in general of |the Y. C, L. manifests itself in many ways in the Duluth section. Although the situation in Duluth was such that something drastic had to be done to rectify it, where |we had about 40 functioning Party members and no Y. ©. L., never- theless this recruitment of Y. C. LJers into the Party by the man- ner in which it was done, repre- |sents problems which have to be met squarely. | JT WOULD have been better in a couple of the cases in Duluth if the Party would have convinced its |new applicants to join the Y. C. L. |This would have eliminated the problem now where these new com- rades are bewildered when we want them to join another Communist organization, the Y. C. L., and they | don’t see the necessity. | There is the tendency to place recruitment into the Y. C. L. and the Party on an entirely “volun- tary” basis or on the basis of “all | best elements of the working class |should be Party members.” If a |certain young worker wants to join |the Party, the Party does not con- sider carefully whether or not it is for the best interests of that re- cruit, the Party, and also the Y. C. L., to take the fellow into the Party | when he is of Y. C. L. age. Nat- \urally if the Y. C. L. were strong, this would not be a problem, the | | young serious minded people wouid join the Y. C, L. But just because this situation exists, it is necessary |for the Party to explain to the new |applicant that the Y. C. L. is also a Communist organization, though still weak, and he as a young work- er should belong to it and help build it, because the organization |deals with his problems. If we Placed everybody who was good enough for the Party as Party members, there would not, at the ON THE RU | | | by Burck 151 Textile Workers on Kalinin Soviet, Run 25,000 Cotton Mill Workers Control City in Soviet Union : When one says the economic, so- cial and political life of a mill town revolves around the mills, it is im- portant to remember that here it is the workers who own the mills, form Entire Population of Town Is 180,000, But Mills Dominate | World Front ——By HARRY GANNES | Lies From Spain | Heirs of the Inquisition ter in Germany AN attempt to discredit |# the Spanish workers, fight- {ing a glorious battle against? |the fascist butchers, worthy j descendants of the infamous | Inquisition, true sons of the | fiend Torquemada, the Ameri- }can* capitalist press is already spreading the foulest atrocity stories. | hey want the American workers | to believe that the heroic self-sac- rificing Asturias miners blew up a miners’ orphan home. The miser- able whelps of the vilest prostitute sheets in the whole world want the American workers to believe that | the Spanish miners, risking their lives for a new world, for a better | social order, are burning the chil« |dren of their own brothers. No, | gentlemen, with all your war ex- | perience you will have to think up | better ones, | American workers should be ready for the worst type of horror stories | against the workers. At the time of / the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, | the American capitalist press en- listed every diseased imagination it could hire against workers’ upris- ings. The Spanish ruling class butchers whose fruitful imagination in the past could invent the most excruciating tortures the human mind has ever been capable of, cer- tainly can invent the most fantastic horror stories. 'HAT churches are being burned |“ may be true, and that some fa- natical priests may refuse to leave the burning structure is also quite |likely. But when the American | workers know that every inch of | the churches’ huge estates has been watered and manured with tho | blced and bones of the workers and peasants for centuries, they can | understand the burning hatred of the aroused masses fighting against the establishment of a fascist dic- | tatorship which is decreeing a new age of ignorance, superstition and | medieya] exploitation. | When the workers blew up a truck | containing 52 armed soldiers sent } against them, this is a matter of armed struggle; a fight to save the lives of hundreds of workers against the armed forces of reaction; a fight for the advance of the workers’ cause, a fight to prevent a Hitler | regime with its oppression and its A Affairs of City | miseries for the whole Spanish toil- ‘New Deal’ planning” and the planning of the Sovet Union, a question upon which the Norman Thomases seek to bring such obscurities, Stalin gave a razor-sharp definition: “The United States has a different aim from the U.S.S.R. Americans want to get rid of the crisis on the basis of private capitalist activity On the question of the “similarity between the | | | | | | THE WORK LOAD OF ANY EMPLOYE EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE AP- PROVAL OF THE STRETCHOUT COMMITTEE.” A plan for “regulation” of the stretchout shall be proposed to the President not later than January, 1935. In other words, the textile workers are now hack at work under the same unbearable stretch- |present time, be any Y. C. L. in |Duluth, but every Y. C. Ler would |Se a Party member. | Recruitment of young workers of Y. C. L. age and of Y. C. L.’ers into |the Party for the purpose of build- Jing a Party core of Y. C. L.ers must be controlled to ensure the \fact that this core will held build By Vern Smith KALININ, US.S.R., Sept. Kalinin is a city about four hours’ ride by railway, northwestward from Moscow. If you have an old map the name of the city will be Tver. Since Kalinin, old revolutionist, and 30. — | the whole society, and run the poli- tical side of life, run the city. The city soviet, which is the governing body of the city, is made up of rep- of Kalinin’s various industries, most of the members of the soviet being themselves workers who do not go resentatives elected by the workers | out to the mills and workers’ settle- | ments around them. There is also a big open-air mar-| ket, and rows of covered booths, in| |which the collective farmers from} around the country bring their pro- duce for sale, that part (the largest ing masses. The Spanish toiling masses shows ing such great historical initiative, are the front line fighters of the working class of the entire world. They and their leaders remember the lessons of previous proletarian revolutions. They remember the , a on the city payroll, but continue | Part) of what they raise, which is! paris Commune, when the dogs of ithout changi: the economic basis. As you i ‘ now chairman of the Central Execu- AP my - -s after " is : a te Meson haath ag 1 ane - steand out against which they struck. Furthermore, the | tHe Y. C. L. I know of situations use Committee of the Union of eo | work at their trade, in their mills, | distributed stead psngee pocarelyete bin ruling class, after the leniency now, in our country, in place of the old econemic Winant board proposes even INCREASE 4n the jsuch as in Chassell, Michigan, * and do the city’s business in addi- | all state deliveries, pay | base, which was smashed, has been formed an absolutely new economic basis.” “The old basis which was smashed”—here is the revolutionary lesson of the October Revolution, which Stalin makes clear to the American working class. If the crisis is to be solved, the Wall Street rule must be smashed. There can be no “peaceful transition to Socialism.” Why is the Roosevelt-New Deal lanning” doomed to failure as a solution for the anarchy of capitalist production? talin answers: “You cannot ever compel a capitalist to cause himself loss and consent to lower rates. of profit for the sake of satisfying public requirements. Without getting rid of the capitalists and aban- @oning the principle of private ownership in the means of production you cannot create a planned economy,” and end the crisis. Again the revo- lutionary lessen! How simply and truly Stalin defines the rela- tion of Roosevelt to the Wall Street capitalists: “I have had some slight experience in the field of the struggle for Socialism, and this experience teaches me that if Roosevelt really tries to satisfy the interests of the proietarian class at the ex- pense of the capitalist class, the latter will replace him by another president.” If necessary, the Wall Street master, says Stalin, will replace his servant. And of the Socialist Party theory that Roose- velt’s “New Deal” planning shows the growth of the state power over industry, Stalin states, with Marxist-Leninist precision: “Economy is not in the hands of the state. y, the state is in the hands of is not the Roosevelt government which is conirolling the Wall Street monopolies, but the ‘Wall Street monopolies which more and more con- trol the government, teaches Stalin to the American working class. Sens fundamental message to the American working class is that the problem of bread, of stretchout, by permission of the recommended in- vestigaling committee. On wages, the Winant report had nothing to say. The textile workers are now working at the same starvation wages that prevailed before and a drive is on to further decrease the wages of textile workers. The Winent report does not grant or recom- mend a semblance of recognition in any shape, size or form. The Winant report recommends an “impartial board”—the textile labor relations board has been created—to have final say. Thus the Winant report recominends further Roosevelt compulsory arbitration and further investigation, which has availed the textile workers nothing in the past year and a half and against which they rebelled. The same dose is given them as was given the auto and steel workers. The employers did not pay the slightest atten- tion to the part of the report recommending “no discrimination,” and blacklisted thousands. They stated openly that they will run the industry as they please. Certainly the decisions on which Gorman called off the strike were AMAZING to the workers, but the workers know that they were not a VICTORY, but a2 SELL-OUT and a betrayal. The textile strike could have been won if mili- tant mass picketing and strong rank and file or- ganization had been establisned and if the leaders had mobilized the rest of the working class for sup- porting strikes and solidarity actions.. But Gormen tried to limit picketing, to drive out the reds and militants. He did not allow holding of union mem- bership meetings, and did not even allow all the textile trades to come out on strike, let alone seek to spread the strike to other industries. This is why the strike was not won. Because of militant rank and file action, the strike was strong and effective when Gorman called it off on the bosses terms, German, in his speech at the convention, praised | where entire units of the Y. C. L. |have disappeared because the Party drew some of the leading Y. C. L.’ers |into the Party. without making it jclear what are these comrades’ |tasks. My understanding of the |local situation would have led me to having the Party assign one or two of the younger Party members to the Y. C. L. and I am sure they |wWould have been much farther ahead today. RDINARILY, a new recruit be- |Y low the age of 24 or 25 should |not be taken into both Party and| |¥. C. L. siimultaneously as we have jdone in Duluth. Only in certain special cases is it necessary to take him into the Party in order to con- vince him about building the Y. C. L. But it complicates the situation and retards the development of the comrade to understand how a Com- munist should work, unless he is very advanced, to be right off the bat a member of both the Party and the Y. C. L. This idea that the Y. C. L. cannot train and hold young recruits holds true only tem- Pporarily until abnormal situations are corrected. | Comrades still fail to understand that a Y. C.-L.er who is a Party member is not fully graduated into the Party, but has joined’the Party “in order to become better ac- quainted with its functioning, to |raise his level of understanding, to better transform Party politics into the work of the youth movement and prepare the Y. C. L. activist for future Party work.” (From the |Daily Worker article in answer to | Yorkville comrades.) Lots of Party comrades can tell you that they understand what the Y. C. L. is, do not think of its as a mass organization in the sense of some non-Communist organization, | compared viet Socialist Republics, was born in a village in this district, the name was changed several years ago to Kalinin. Out of the 180,000 population, men, women and children, of the city of Kalinin, 23,000, of whom 75 per cent are women, work in the five cotton mills located in or within a few minutes street car ride of the town. This place, therefore, is primarily a cotton mill center, which might be in importance to the North Carolina town of Gastonia, and the region around it, or any of the Massachusetts or Rhode Island centers of cotton spinning and weaving. Like the Rhode Island area, it has other industries also: Here 8,500 men work in a. railway passenger car factory, 6,000 are en- gaged in garment trades, and there is peat production in the area around the city. yards, a factory for combs, pens and other light metal articles, there is a leather goods factory, a plant that makes stereotyping zine plates for the printing industry, a winery, a starch factory, a good many handi- crafts of all sorts, and it is also a railway shop center. nomic, social and political life re- volves around cotton, as in many mill towns in America. In one of Kalinin’s cotton mills alone, the Proletarka mill, there are 14,000 workers, 8,000 of them women. There are brick- | But the cotton mills are the key | to the city’s industries, and its eco- tion to their other work, never losing their roots in the industries them- selves. Out of the city soviet of about 500 members, 151 are textile workers, elected from and by the 23,000 textile workers here. Out of women, since women are in a ma- jority in the textile industry. It is an interesting fact that in Kalinin, the head of the ruling political | party, the secretary of the city com- | mittee of the Communist Party, is | a woman, Kaligina, and she is a tex- tile worker. [cently when the chairman of the | city soviet, the chairman of the city | trade union central body, and the |secretary of the party committee | were all women, two of them tex- | tile workers. Moden Sanitary City Now, what is a city like that is ruled by workers, including textile from the cotton mills? The first impression one gets of Kalinin is of whiteness, cleanliness, and space. . The streets are very broad, and well paved. This year alone, one finds out by questioning Kalinin’s proud citizens, seven and a half miles more streets were asphalted, and the work is still going on. Where | the streets are not asphalt, they are mainly paved with heavy cobble stones. Long paved highways run these textile worker delegates, 98 are! ‘There was a time re-| workers, especially working women | for the use of tractors and harvest- jing machinery, repayments of Joans | of seed, etc., have been made. This market. is simply full of food and | green stuff, affording a wide choice. | Cows, goats, hogs and poultry are for | | sale there too: many city workers | | have a oow or some chickens, and) | it is not an uncommon sight, to hear | Piercing squeals on the street and) to see a somewhat embarrassed mill | worker going home with a small live | pig he has bought in the market, | and will fatten for pork later on. Many New Schools The new workers’ settlements around the mills are almost rest homes themselves, being built on |clean, well-drained rather high | ground, in the midst of pine forests, | the trees rising around the dwelling ‘houses. Last year alone, 14,000 | square yards of new dwellings, largely for textile workers, were | built in Kalinin. Many fine new big brick school houses rise in or on the edges of | the workers’ settlements, and every | Kalinin child gets his seven years | of schooling. Many get more, for there are in the city eleven techni- | cal high schools, one of them a tex- | tile “technicum” and one for still | higher training in textile engineer- | ing, run by the Textile Department | of the Industrial Academy. This one lis directly administered by the cen- | tral organization of the textile in-| | dustry. Tasks of the Communist Party For International Children’s Week of the working class aided in their own defeat, mercilessly slaughtered tens of thousands of unarmed and captured workers in the streets of Paris. The gutters of Paris ran red with the blood of men, women and even children. They remember Hit- ler’s fiendish tortures and execu- tions. They remember Vienna and! its bombardment of workers’ hones | . 8 8 HEY are striving, with these les-” sons in mind, to make events | turn out as they did in Russia, with | the victorious establishment of the | workers’ state, with a decisive de- feat for all the forces of reaction. | And it is in this light that every , Worker will understand the heroic |battles of the Spanish proletariat. | Hail the splendid fight of our | Spanish brothers! They are speed- | ing history at express train pace, | they are heroic pioneers in the | rapidly maturing new round of rev- | olutions, Let us now unite our forces to give them every aid we can and to smash the efforts of their de- tractors and their enemies, cee ene S winter approaches, the news |44 from Germany is not startling. |It is of the nature of that calm which precedes the tropical hur- zicanes. The maturing battle against fascism in Germany has not yet expressed itself in incidents, but that this battle is preparing is ad- mitted by even the most reactionary writers for the American press. Let us read in and between t lines of the latest dispatch on Ger- many to the New York Times by’ Otto D. Tolischus, He declares Hit- ler will soon make a speech plead ing for huge collections to keep pople from starving and freezing this winter. And here we have the ; } the textile workers for their fight in the face of the |and do not consider the ¥. C. L. eens SPORE Se OEE working conditions, of security, of unemployment, troops and terror. But Gorman concealed the fact |Party members as a fraction within ee bined si difficulti a of security and peace are now revolutionary ques- | that when national guard troops murdered strikers |the ¥- C. L., but still in their day By J. HART ledo, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Sanj organize the children in every jumezous difficulties threaten. tions, that the masses can never achieve a happy to day work fail to carry out their in New England, his lieutenants, Joseph Sylvia, Ri- Francisco, textile, ete.) against school, and around each one cre- to make the coming winter one of mud’ wipbre ‘life. thvoueh “any 6 att z Bi Cnt a. convictions. It should become rec-| The week from Oct. 8 to 15 is set aut i 2 olid united front of parents, | itereasing discomfort and discon- Pair ot? the October ee ees Sed a viere, etc., condemned the mass picketers as “reds, [ognized as a crime for any Com-|aside each year in the calendar of hed icttier g Soe oe Bat Ble ah and children, In this way | tent. Nazi Germany is already suf- Pe iutahary sete ieiirana hie | hoodiums and vandals” and washed their hands of j|munist to miss his unit meeting.|the revolutionary movement as In- the growth of independent activi- | we will center our activity for | fering by shrinking foreign trade Se ere tower. the path of “get- | the mass picketers. They sang the same identical |If Y. C. L. Party members are to|ternational Children’s Week. ‘This ties of school children and child|1.C.W. in the basic points and de- | Md her inability to pay for neces- | ee gene ee the ‘old | Soag as the mill owners against the murdered | become model Y. C. Liers, as they|year we celebrate the fourteenth | japorers, (Conn, Pa. newsies in velop real mass activity in behalf |S@tY raw materials.” } For this reason, Stalin's message, which the Daily Worker alone of all papers in the country was able to give its readers in a complete text, 4s a sharp weapon in the struggles of the American working class to win a better life, to end the yoke of the capitalist crisis. The Battle Goes On in Spain EWS reports from Spain are marked primarily by the fact that after five days of fighting the workers are still con- tinuing their struggle against the fascist Lerroux government, despite the repeated claims of the government that the in- surgent forces had been vanquished. What thé situation actually is cannot be told from the heavily censored cables from Madrid. In several parts of Spain soviets were set up. In many other sections, from Nofth to South, strikers. Gorman and his aides must bear responsibility for the murder of strikers on tie picket lines, just as great as the responsibility of those who pulled the triggers and the employers and the government who unleashed the terror. Gorman and his aides deserted and condemned the strike were Picketing and fighting in the face of troops. Fancy rhetoric and empty boasting will not save Gorman from the indignation cf the rank and file. They know that the same desperate conditions pre- vail now as before the strike, with biacklist and ter- ror in . The rank and file must organize the re-strike movement, this time on the basis of rank and file control of the strikes and the negotiations. Only this rank and fite action will prevent future Gorman-Green sell-outs. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. should, they must attend Y. C. L. |meetings without fail. But they have two unit meetings to attend each week and cannot attend both if they regularly are going to do mass work. When considering the unit attendance of these comrades, it is found that they cannot attend |two unit meetings every week, then the Party should so arrange it that he attends Y. C. L. meetings with- out fail and Party meetings at the | designated times. | * | WHENEVER the Party wants some | comrades to graduate com- | pletely into the Party, it should be |taken up jointly with the Y. C. L., jso that the vacancy can be filled | with somebody else in the Y, C. L. In conclusion there is one moze question. Both Y. C. L. and Party must learn to work together. We have found that joint meetings held occasionally to be very ef- fective. Joint buro meetings also. These meetings lose their purpose if the discussion is allowed’ to he abstract and not deal with the problem of exactly how both the Y. anniversary of this week—founded in 1920 at the time of the proleta- rian uprising in Germany, when the imperialist armies were attempting to crush the newly formed Soviet Republic. This year has seen an unpre- cedented attack carried on against the living standards of the masses of the workers and their children under the banner of the N.R.A. One out of every five children suffers from malnutrition. Over three mil- lion children are not in the schools because nearly 3,000 schools have been shut down. And yet the capi- talist class hastens its preparations for war among the children. Not content with the established war- mongering institutions such as the Boy Scouts, which are not growing as ranidly as before, they are devis- ing new forms for developing the wer spirit among the children. (Hearst newspapers sponsor Junior Birdmen of America and nine Scout Service.) Begin To Answer Attacks But this year the masses of work- Massachusetts.) In Tampa, Utah, Pa., Cleveland, New York, Philadel- phia and Chicago, as with the adult strikes, children have come forward against the starvation pol- icy of the Roosevelt administration and have blasted the brazen lie about the “abolition of child la- bor.” Week of Solidarity Therefore, International Chil- dren’s Week this year must be a week of solidarity of the adults, youth, and children in the struggle for the children’s demands. This must be linked up with the educa- | tion of the children in the spirit of proletarian — internationalism; and against the jingoism of Mr. Hearst and the Boy Scouts. We must teach our children of the work of our brother movements in Cuba. Mexico, Canada, Latin America and especially in Germany and the So- viet Union. ‘Where must the greatest activi- ty for International Children’s Week take place? In the schools. There are child issues in every of the children. Support C. P. in Elections ‘Through our work during and be- fore International Children’s Week we must show the children and parents what their support of the Communist Party in the elections will mean. In each section of our program we must show that a vote for our Party will mean a vote for free food, and clothing, for better conditions in the school, for child and teacher, and against child ex- ploitation, for government mainte- nance of children below 16 at the rate of $3 per week. But above all on 14th LC.W. we must strengihen our Pioneer move- ment in the schools and mass or- ganizations, The slcg2n, “A chil- dren’s group around every branch of every workers’ organization!” must be realized during this time. Especially must we stress this point before every trade union and un- employed organization. The work in mass organizations has begun to develop; but in unions and unem- In short, starvation confronts the masses, and discontent, class bat- tles are maturing. Mr, Tolischus next points to great differences be- tween last winter and this winter, showing the weakening of the Nazi grip on the country. “There is no doubt,” he writes, “that sentiment in Germany is undergoing a change.” The change is against the fascist. regime, “Today the Nazi regime is frankly on the defensive,” he adds, “politically and economically, at home and abroad.” With fascism on the defensive and discontent rising, we may ex: pect a growth in the offensive o: the revolutionary forces, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Germany, Contributions received to the credit of Harry Gannes in his so- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Da- vid Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—s500. Nine BoD aed aR a dain A 4 ‘ seas ‘ at hres movement we have hardly| A U. S. Sailor ............9 1.00 a F Peete e eens wena . L. and the Party are going to|ers and their children have begun | school. ere patriotism being ‘un. The International Chil-| Androw Morse: a oi SOO and 7 bie rose the workers seized power in a carry out a certain campaign. to answer the attacks. Millions of| taught in every school. Fascist |dren’s Week must be the signal for Frevicusty raeeved Sc ES. number of towns and cities. The most stubborn ADDRESS... L. K. workers and children have come out | tendencies are showing their ugly|a basic change in these organiza- —— battle is going on in Asturias, a very important Duluth, Minn. !in a tremendous strike wave (To-| forms in every school. We must | tions Total to date ...........829.15 , 4 | t }