The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 3

RELIEF BOARD GIVES Eight Job es DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY ee ee DECEMBER 17, 19: for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 34 Page eveland Jobless Win Parade Permit for Hunger March United Front (Cc, P. COMMISSION ~ Slate Planned | URGES NE W EFFORT ; | ‘Prison Terms) TO STEM MILITANCY . Bead pais ON RECRUITMENTS Meet to Pick Mu- This ballot is sponsored by the Daily,AWorker serra oecas coment PANTY LS (SHCTON OF comMURTET HEED TORAAY Louis Councils Plan Huge Public Trial of — 9 52,000 Siek and Aged, However, Are To Be Cut Of and Left to Starve in a Drive to Bludgeon | Threugh New Taxation | | pearing before the City Council by By Sandor Voros CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 16——As the Unemployment) Councils and the Small Home speeded forward their preparations for the gigantic march for Wint-r relief next Saturday, Mayor Davis was yesterday | foreed to grant a parade permit, and important relief con- cessions were given the jobless in ano-—--—-——-— effort to stem the rising militancy of the masses. The Cuyahoga County Relief Ad- ministration Board Thursday felt compelled to grant various partial | demands made upon ga nicl Unemployment Councils. voted | to ask authority for the extension | of cash relief po event fae we remaining nine e county im addition to the three| where it has already been intro-| dueed. Relief Increases It voted to increase the relief budget for January with $700,000 to a total of $8,009,787 to take care of | an estimate of 63,260 families. The | threatened 10 per cent cut in food | is definitely abandoned, with cloth- | ing and fuel allotments slightly increased. It voted $25,000 for 50,- 000 pair of overshoes to satisfy partly the demand for emergency Winter relief. It also authorized an | additional expenditure of $15,000 for rent to the single men although previously it threatened to cut off rent altogether. The proposed $3,000,000 relief budget for January, which is the highest in the history of the coun- ty, was the direct result of the militancy and demands of the un- employed. Seeing the tremendous mass response on the part of the people towards the December 22 re- lief march, the Relief Board and the Courty Commissioners felt com- pelled to grant these partial de- mands hoping thereby to stem the rising tide of militancy of the work- ers and put a damper on the march, ‘Mayor Backs Down Mayor Davis, who had threatened to remove the free speech rostrum from the Public Square and to for- bid all future parades and demon- strations, was forced to back down again when he saw his attack on civil rights militantly challenged. Safety Director Lavalle was forced to O. K. the proposed route of the relief march from Public Square to East Ninth Street, down East Ninth Street and return on Superior Ave- nue to Public Square and from there to the Court House. With the attack on the Mayor's announced intention of depriving all civil rights of workers taking on an ever-broadening mass character, he felt compelled to withdraw his ob- jections to the demonstration. The mass pressure even disturbed his own ranks. Julius B. Cohn, mem- ber of the City Plan Commission ap- pointed by Davis, resigned yesterday in protest of the Mayor’s action. Julius B. Cohn, member of the Re- publican Party’s County Executive Committee, in his letter announcing his resignation stated: “You are building up a situation that will make it impelling for self-respect and safety for a large number, per- haps 2 majority of Republicans, to | vote against you the next time you come wp.” 52,000 People To Be Cut Off County Welfare CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 16.—The County Commissioners announced yesterday that beginning Jan. Ist, 52,000 people, at present on coun- ty welfare, will be cut off. This in- cludes orphans, the blind, insane, tubercular and other hospitaliza- tion cases, widowed mothers and} aged soldiers and sailors. Using the excuse of lack of funds the County Commissioners are try- ing to railroad through the 4.5 mill real estate tax levy through these desperate means. The proposed 4.5 mill levy, which would put addi-. tional burdens on the small home- owners, who can least afford to pay it, while leaving the profits of the large corporations intact, was over- whelmingly defeated at the last general elections. The County Com- missioners and Mayor Davis are now trying to re-submit it to a spe- cial election and create sentiment for its passage through the suffer- ings of the needy. The Unemployment Councils, small home owners’ and other workers’ organizations are calling on all people of Cleveland to par- ticipate in the city-wide winter re- lief march on Saturday, Dec. 22, 1 p.m., on Public Square, in protest of the cutting of the 52,000 people from welfare and for the following de- mands. 1, $40 emergency cash relief for families and $15 for single work- ers for Winter necessities to be paid before Christmas. .2. Increase of $1 in relief, cash rent for all unemployed. 3. Public investigation of dis- “sQercation against Negroes. ofthe Workers’ Unemployment Bill. Insurance 6. Immediate stopping of all evictions and foreclosures. nival—Saturday, Dec, 29 at Ger- mania Hall for the benefit of the |Union are already working jointly and Land Owners Federation | United Defense ActionPlanned For Hillsboro Reply Is Expected from| State Committee of Socialist Party CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 16.—The | preparation of a united working class front against the bosses when | the 15 Hillsboro defendants are put | on trial on Jan. 7 is being pushed by the Chicago District of the In- | ternational Labor Defense. The International Labor Defense, the Mid-West Committee for the | Defense of Political Prisoners, the Jan Wittenber Defense Committee | and the American Civil Liberties organizing & mass campaign and raising funds for the defense. A | reply to united front proposals to | the State Committee of the So- cialist Party is expected shortly. The Hillsboro Defense Commit- tee and the International Labor De- fence are organizing a series of mass meetings in the coal fields, | visiting Progressive Miners locals and auxiliaries, and have called for the election of a workers’ jury of coal miners to attend the trial. The I. L, D. has succeeded in get- ting State Senator Monroe to be a witness for the defnese, and to speak at a mass meeting to be held in Montgomery County before the trial. Recognizing the mass resent- ment against the criminal syndical- ism law, Senator Monroe intends to | introduce a bill at the next session | of the legislature, calling for the | repeal of this anti-working class | law, under which the defendants have been indicted. A workers’ delegation will go before the two houses of the legislature with peti- tions and protests from trade unions | and fraternal organizations to reg- | ister the working class demand for the repeal of the law. An attempt by Albert Goldman, former I. L, D, attorney who was | expelled for his anti-working class acts, to enter the defense has been repudiated by all of the defendants, including Jurkinan, organizer of the Young People’s Socialist League. Goldman, who after his expulsion joined the Trotskyite clique, now claims to be a member of the So- cialist Party. After the I, L. D. and the defendants had agreed that, four Socialist. lawyers would par- ticipate in the defense, Goldman attempted to smuggle himself in among these lawyers. Only Native-Born Get Relief, Is Ohio Scheme As 400 Are Deported COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 16. —| Four hundred foreign-born unem-| Ployed workers have been deported from Ohio to twenty-three foreign countries in the past eight months, | the State Relief Commission dis- closed yesterday in announcing its. drive to deny relief to all but! native-born. | Blatant cases of discrimination on relief to the American-born Ne- | RTO people were pointed out to Gov. | White last month when a commit- tee from the Unemployment Coun- cils presented the relief demands of the unemployed to the State legislature, then in special sessions. (Concluding Article) Lies week the dyers of Paterson will elect the officers of their union. The rank and file of the union are therefore confronted with | a test which will prove as serious as the role played by them during the strike. The task now is to in- sure the victory by placing the leadership of the union in the hands of the very workers who Proved themselves as the most mili- tant, and devoted during the strike. However, if this is to be accom- Plished, the Communists and the other militants must overcome Weaknesses which were apparent especially during the strike. Most important of all, it should be recognized that especially in the early stages of the strike, the rank and file group was very narrow. The Dyers Club was confined to a handful of workers. This was not because there was only a handful who were willing to follow its policy. It was mainly because the Dyers Club hesitated to place confidence in many active and devoted work- ers in the local. It was isolated from most of those who, as the strike Daily Worker. Art bargains — | syecial prints for as Jow as 10e— ! Bunin’s Puppets—dance groups— — dramatic croune—dancing, Hold _ this date open! showed, proved themselves the |pear and defend themselves for this | National Student League, | picked up in a Negro neighborhood City Officials ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 16.—For ap- appointment to present cases of discriminated families needing emergency relief and demanding an | end to the Jim-Crow discriminatory | policy of the relief department, | three Negro and five white workers were last week sentenced to the| workhouse on long terms. The workers are: Samuel Dukes, | M. Wess and John St. Clair, | Negroes; and Lillian Davis, Frieda Jones, Hilda Morris, Erwin Gold- | berg and Alvie Weckmark, white workers. All received sentences of | six months and $500 fines, with the | exceptions of St. Clair and Wack-| mark, who were sentenced to one year and $1,000 fine each. The | sentences were handed down by Judge Finnegan in police court. After an appointment had been made, the Unemployment Council led 200 workers to the City Hall on Dec. 1. They were met by fifty police, who denied them admittance and started to club those in the front. During the police attack, St. Clair, one of the Negro workers, was knocked to the ground by ten Police, who stood over his body and beat him without mercy. When Hilda Morris and Alvie Weckmark came to St. Clair’s rescue, they, too, were attacked by the police. The Unemployment Councils have | arranged a mass trial of the city | officials and the police department as part of a wide mass movement demanding the release of the pris- oners, At the trial, which will be held Friday night, Dec 21 at 8 o'clock at Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finnie Avenue, the mayor, the chief of police and members of the Board of Aldermen will be asked to ap- attack before the assembled work- ers of St. Louis. Anti-Fascist Student Is Freed in Chicago By Mass Pressure CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Augustus M. Kelley, a senior at the University of Chicago, who was sentenced on a trumped-up police charge, had his sentence suspended by Judge O'Connell as the result of mass pressure. Kelley, who is a member of the was along with two other students. They | were turned over to the Red Squad who Held them incommunicado for 24 hours, and fingerprinted and mugged them. At the trial the other students were released, but Kelley was con- victed on the false charge that he had littered the neighborhood with application cards for the Young Communist League. Mass pressure was brought to bear by the Na- tional Student League, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Stu- dent Union Against War and Fas- cism, and. the sentence was sus- pended. New Center Is Opened In Negro Neighborhood By Detroit Communists DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 16.—Sec- tion 1 of the Communist Party in this important concentration dis- trict is opening its new headquar- | ters at Ferry Hall, 1343 East Ferry | Street. It is a step toward better | mass work among the 170,000 Ne- groes who live in the district, and among the workers of various na- tionalities, among them Polish, Bul- garian, South Slav, Jewish, Italian and other groups. Ed Williams, section organizer, will speak at a celebration on Sun- day at the new headquarters. Mass organizations and all workers are | urged to participate. | More than $3,800 is still needed to put the Daily Worker drive | over the top. Send your dollar | bill today! were able to win the majority in| officials. | Broaden Base | By making the workers realize | that the rank and file elements and | tinual threat of united action of the | workers, the boss looks upon an! the Communists are not some “out- side group” but those in the union who are most devoted and could be depended. upon to serve in the interest of the workers, the Rank and File Group in the union has thereby laid a foundation for itself among the most active workers, especially the shop chairmen and delegates. The fact that its policy proved a key to the success of the strike, now presents a splendid op- portunity for organizing the entire leadership of the unign on the basis of rank and file control. This control must be expressed in hundreds of workers being in- volved in leading activity in the day-to-day life of the union. It means instilling a consciousness of this in the minds of from two to three hundred shop chairmen and America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New York (Cut out and sign this ballot today) BAL LOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social O Insurance Bill and vote FOR [] Name AGAINST Address Vote without delay and re the worker who gave City turn your ballot at once it to you, or mail it to to the “Daily Worker” Women Urged to Back Fight To Save Saar Region From Hands of Hitler Fascists By MARGARET COWL MEN throughout the world have seen, with growing horror, the life which the Nazis have forced upon the German women. “Kirche, Kueche, Kinder.” (Church, Kitchen, Children). This is the Nazi program for women, designed to make the women “child breeders” for the Nazi war machine, Shall the women of the Saar also be given over into the hands of Hitler, for the carrying out of the same policies? We women, in work- ing class organizations in the United States, realize that this is one of the issues that will be de- cided on January 13th, 1935, when @ vote will be taken in the Saar, to determine whether or not the 800,000 population of the Saar will become part of Nazi Germany. Thousands of Nazi Agents Hitler has sent thousands of his | agents in the Saar to campaign for a Nazi victory. Nazis are now reg- istering inmates of insane asylums, the dead, as voters. They have spent | millions of dollars to import into If the Saar becomes part of Ger- | many, the anti-fascist women will | see their husbands taken to concen- | tration camps, “shot while trying to |escape.” They themselves will be treated to the Nazi dictum of star- vation for anti-fascists, so that (as a leading Nazi states) “this breed shall be weeded out.” We must defend our sisters in the Saar. We must facilitate the work of the anti-fascists in the Saar, who fearlessly, despite Nazi terror and | persecution, go from village to vil- lage, town to town, campaigning zealously against Hitler, for “status quo.” We pledge that we will by prac- tical means, to the best of our abil- ity, assist that fight, provide shoes for the feet of the “status quo” campaigners, clothes for their backs. We consider that sending clothes and food to the wives and |children of the anti-fascists is a | duty. To Raise Fund Above all, we pledge that we will j assist the anti-fascists of the Saar, nicipal Ticket CHICAGO, Dec, 16.—A series of ward conferences to nominate al- dermanic candidates on a united | front workers ticket for February | elections will be held by working class organizations during the next two weeks. Sounds Serious Warning Against Neglecting Drive | As Result of Failure | portance; Cites Following on a results of the recru |munist Party throughout to Understand Its Im- Districts’ Figures searching and critical analysis of the ng drive being conducted by the Com- the country, the Organization Calls for the conferences are en-| Commission of the Party’s Central Committee yesterday dorsed by six locals of the Socialist- controlled Workers’ Committee on Unemployment, the Small Home Owners’ Federation of Austin, the Polish Chamber of Labor, the Tax- | payers’ Association, a branch of the Protective Home Circle, the Jewish Workers’ Party (Paole Zion), the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League | Unemployment Councils, the Com- munist Party. Petitions for nominations of can- didates to fill the 50 seats of the | City Council must be turned over to |the Board of Election Commission- ers before January 12, and all nom- inees will have to get the required number of signatures in each ward before then. The schedule of ward conferences follows: Date ‘Time Address Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m., 876 Townsend St. Dec. 23, 10 a.m., 1326 E. 55th St. Dec. 28, 2 p.m., 233 W. lith 8t | , Dec. 23, 2 p.m., 9233 8, Cottage Grove Ave. | Dec. 23, 10 a.m., 10105 Ewing Ave. Dec. 28, 10 a.m., 1335 N. California Ave. Dec. 30, 10 a.m., 3437 W. Roosevelt Rd. Negro Rights | Fight Backed _ By Educators RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 16.—The reformist policies of the National | Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban mission, were severely condemned at a three-day conference of Negro and | white students and professors which | met at Shaw University here Friday | through Sunday under the auspices of the International Student Serv- | ice. Speakers from the floor pointed | out the danger that those organi- | zations, under their present leader- the Saar thousands, in order to| by raising funds for their anti-fas- | ship and reformist policies, might have additional votes for Hitler. They are using terror, physically attacking anti-fascists. The head of the Workers International Relief in the Saar, a woman, was so badly beaten by the Nazis for her anti- fascist activity, that she had to be taken to a hospital. The United Anti-Fascist Com- mittee of the Saar, composed of workers, middle-class people, Cath- olics and other religious groups, political parties, etc., say with great determination, “We will not have the Saar turned into another con- centration camp for Hitler.” They are determined that in the Saar, Political parties, trade unions, fra- ternal and educational organiza- tions will not be declared illegal. They are determined that books shall not be burned. nor culture wiped out in the Saar. cist press, for leaflets, for their | speakers, so that they can reach | | every township of the Saar. calling | the workers to vote against Hitler. All women’s organizations should | collect tinned goods to send to the | Saar, clean clothing, in good con- | dition. Each organization should sell | | at least one book of certificates, the | | total amount of which is three dol- lars. These can be ordered from the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, New York, N. Y. The fight of the anti-fascists of the Saar is our fight. We under- stand that a victory for Hitler now will be used as a blow aimed against the workers of the entire world. We women give word of our soli- | darity. We stand staunchly behind | the fight for the “status quo” of the Saar. Chicago City Service Workers Talk Strike As Pay Is Cut Again CHICAGO, Dec. ‘16—Rank and file protest against continual pay cuts for city workers by political officials has forced A. F. of L. union leaders to threaten a strike of sey- eral thousand city workers if cuts are not restored. The walkout would involve all or- ganized truck - drivers, building trades workers, and maintenance |men and would stop garbage re- moval, operation of movable bridges, and the street lighting sys- tem. These workers will vote on the strike proposal if the City Coun- cil does not agree to decrease the | number of payless days which) mounted to seventy-eight during the past year. | Representatives of all city work- ‘ers’ unions except three have been | forced to endorse a strike yote if) the cuts are not restored. Some of the union leaders with political affiliations have raised the |bugaboo of responsibility to the |public to prevent a strike, forget- {ting the situation of workers who depend on city work for a living. Exactly how these leaders repre- | |sent the workers in. their unions can be seen in the typical case of Alderman Oscar Nelson, who, be- | sides playing a political role in cut- ting city workers’ pay,. also serves as vice-president of the Chicago ' Federation of Labor. By GEORGE MORRIS cere elements in the union: It was made clear to all workers that only ,of the Communists and all others |-soon found that active rank and file {if such a large number are ac- ‘leaders on the settlement committee | tivized as leaders, will they be able |and shop chairmen and delegates, | to preserve their gains, Immediately upon return to | both against the reactionary higher | work, the workers began to see that | although the strike 1s over, struggle only changes form. find that unless there is a con- the agreement as a mere scrap of paper. The shop chairmen and delegates already had to decide that unless Anthony Ventura, one of the meni- bers of the settlement committee, is veinstated in the shop where he worked, within two days, a strike will be called in the shop. The clause in the contract that vacancies left by union workers must be filled by union members is meaningless unless a shop committee is alive and enforces it. Such points in the contract as: no discrimination, equal pay for equal work, equal distribution of work, no additional help hired un- Jess those working in the depart- ment work 90 per cent of their work time, no discharge without cause, two hours minimum pay if They | | delegates of the Paterson shops. in | called to work, sanitary conditions, | | who follow a line of militant policy, | comes in. { | Just as during the strike, Jeader- | | ship was won by those who were in| the forefront on the picket lines, in| all committees, and worked tire-| jJessly for success, so in the every- day life of the union the militants | wili maintain leadership if they are | jin the forefront to fight for every | | Srievance, no matter how small it | |may be. Some workers make the | |Serious mistake in thinking that \differences with reactionary offi- cials are expressed only during strikes. It should not be forgotten that there is a grievance commit- tee composed of equal representa- tion from the bosses and workers, and an impartial chairman. The Policy of Anthony Ammirato, now president of the Paterson local, is | to place all confidence in the com- | mittee and in dickerings within the | framework of the N. R. A. The policy of the militants is to pri- | marily depend upon the organized | Power of the workers in the shop | to back the workers’ representatives | on such committees. It is a deter- mined attitude of the workers that | lend themselves as control forces for the development of Fascism and for a possible Fascist dictatorship | against the toiling population, Negro | and white. The Conference maintained that | the objectives of all Negro organiza- tions or groups claiming friendship. for the Negro, should be, first, com- | plete political, economic and social | equality in the present system, or} failing that, under a revolutionary order; and second, the organization of the masses of both races for goals that have to do with their common status. Speaking on the Negro’s future, W. O. Brown, professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, re- viewed the present efforts of re-| formist organizations to achieve | some amelioration of the Negro’s| position within the frame-work of decaying jim-crow capitalism, and | concluded that only through the emergence of a new system will the | Negro be able to overcome his present oppression. “Integration of the working class | is the true test of the effectiveness | of an organization,” he stated. “Any organization failing to include t objective in its program is useless. | There can be no integraton of the Negro people in America without an integration of the working class.” League and the Inter-racial Com-| sounded a call to intensified | The statement, citing recruiting figures in the Party's concentration recruiting of new members, this figure is below that of Septem | districts, showed that only two of | ber, with 145 initiations; November, them have showed a definite up-/| 159; first two weeks of December, ward trend as a result of the | 62 hese figures speak for them- | recruiting drive | The remedy proposed by the Or- selves District are the No. 3. Very interesting figures of District No. 3, ganization Commission in - janalysis is to strengthen and| Where in September, we find a total broaden at once the understanding of 138 : ares tor October, |of the open letter by every Party November, 65; and for the first two | member, and the establishment of | recruiting as a daily, basic task in | connection with the work of every |party member in trade unions. | shops, factories and mass organiza- ions, | The statement of the Commission follows in full: | (Statement by the Organization Commission of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the United States.) | From the reports of the various districts, and from the fact that very little material has been reach ing the Party Life column, and Party Organizer on the experience: | of the recruiting drive, it is evident that there is no real drive. This is proved especially by the dues figures of November and the first two weeks of December. The average weekly | initiation for all districts for | November, was 497. If we compare | this figure with the average weekly | initiation for October, which was | 479, at a period when no drive was | going on, then we see that the im- | provement in recruiting is only an | average of 20 a week. | The figures on initiations for the | first and second weeks of Decem- ber, are the following: first week, 593; second week, 525, which makes a total of 1,118. At first glance, there appears to be a real improve- ment. However, if we consider that | New York alone registered 491 ini- | tiations in the first two weeks of | December, then the picture is a | different one. The figures show something more, —that in’ December, at the moment that the drive should have regis- tered a high point, approaching the Lenin Memorial meetings, we will register a drop below the normal average during the month before the drive started for practically all districts, with few exceptions These figures should sound an alarm in the ranks of the Party. Let us examine the concentration | districts: | Concentration Districts Examined | District No. 5. Initiations for this | district in October at the time the drive was not going on, was 59; in November, 56. We have no reports for December, but the figure for | November is already indicative of | the trend. District No. 6. October, 155; Nov- ember 177; and 109 in the first two weeks of December. Here the trend is upward. If also weak, yet we can notice a drive. From the reports | and from the activities of District No. 6, it is evident that the District | and Section leadership took steps to carry on the drive. is upward, especially if we consider that in September, the figures | showed only 42 initiations. Here also, we explain the upward trend YOUNGSTOWN ‘DAILY’ NEWSSTAND } YOUNGSTOWN, O. Dec. 16— The newsstand selling Daily Wor! ers and L’Unita Operaia in Youngs- 334 East Federal Street to 917 Him- rod Street. Daily Workers can also |be bought at the Workers’ Center, 1313 West Federal Stzeet. Paterson Dyers’ Elections Place Important Tasks Before Workers more impartia! than the average arbitration board. But whether the union will con- tinue along the path that will make for a rank and file controlled or- | ganization, or whether it will be what Gorman, MacMahon and Am- mirato would like it to be—a bu-| reaucracy—will largely depend upon the outcome of the elections in the union next. week. The strike has advanced a large number of new leaders—workers who have been tried in the struggle. The strike has likewise shown which of the officials have proven themselves worthy of further support. But the strike has also exposed such offi- cidls as Ammirato, as are reaction- | ary to the core. These must be de- feated at all costs if the gains that were won are to be preserved. The workers should elect officials such as will take a lead in ac- tivizing a large force in the union apparatus, and base themselves on this rank and file control. Party Must Grow Another serious weakness in th \by the measures taken to carry on \the drive. District No. 8 October, 141. — jand here we immediately see that “We have formed a group of |town, Ohio, has been moved from | readers and sympathizers of the | Daily and hope that we never lose | the paper. Enclosed find $3 which | that weeks in December, 77. This figure shows that after a continuous drop, only in December were some steps taken to improve recruiting. Drive Not Effective Viewing these figures given for the concentration districts, and dis- trict No. 3, we see that with the exception of districts 2, 6 and 7, no drive is going on. What is the ex- planation? Is it because the deci- sions of the Eight Party Convention, the directives of the Central Com- mittee, the Open Letter to the Party members, have been forgotten; or is it because the District and Section leadership do not understand the importance of the drive, —— do not inderstand the importance of closer Personal connection of the Party members with the workers in the places of work, in the trade unions in the mass organizations? Certainly this is not the case. The fact, however, that no recruiting drive is going on shows that the basic organizations of the Party, nuclei, fractions, do not understand et how to connect all their activi- ties with the building of the Party. And in its turn, this shows that no ‘real steps were taken by the Dis- trict and Section leadership to raise the consciousness of the basic or- ‘ganizations of the Party to this important problem, nor concrete measures for the mobilization of the Party inembers for recruiting. The quality (composition) of ree cruitment in November and Decem- ber shows an improvement. It shows that what little activities the units and fractions carried on in regard to recruiting, they are better orien- tated concerning the quality of ree cruits that the Party wants—work- ers from the basic industries, mem- bers of trade unions, especially A. F. of L., ete. Furthermore, the figures show in the last three or four months, we have a lower fluctua- tion. Yet we shall not sound a bold note of victory, inasmuch as in the last two months of the year, many of these Party members that did not appear in the figures of the previ- ous months, appear through the Payment of back dues. Alarm Must Be Sounded The conclusion is that January 21 will show that we are unable to reach our goal set in the drive. The alarm may be sounded; and already now, all measures must be taken in all districts to stir up and intensify the activities of the basic organiza- tions towards the goal of recruit- ment as a basic daily task. We propose that each district shall seriously analyze the activities in the drive in connection with all activities of the Party, and with real Bolshevik determination, take all measures necessary to orientate atin apeeye eet the units, fractions and individual December 6h, ‘Ale hese, Wee txerod Party members along the line of the Open Letter, through which the campaign was initiated. Furthermore, to check up on all plans that we laid down in the campaign, to find out the reasons why the plans were not concretized, and above all. to help the comrades to understand the importance of the problem of building the Party in connection with all activities which require deeper discussions, and con- tinuous guidance of the leading comrades to the activities of the sections, units, fractions and indi- | we contribute to the Daily drive.” | vidual Party members, which re= Siempre Viva Club, Tampa, Fia. ‘ ° many workers are sympathetic to | the Communist Party, and would | join it. Unfortunately, however, the narrowness which characterized the rank and file group within the | | union is only because the Commu- nists within were too hesitant in approaching workers. The Commu- | nist Party in Paterson should lose | |no time in taking advantage of the | | wonderful opportunity before it as |quires material on the experiences \of how the basic organizations are tackling the problem, how their ac- tivities are reflected in recruitment; in a few words, a better utilization of the Party Life column of the Daily Worker, of the Party Organ- izer, of the District organizational bulletins, to raise the understanding mn fundamental organizational problems. (Signed) sion of Organization Commis- the Central Committee, Cc. P.U.S. Ae WHAT'S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Corliss Lamont will lecture on “The Soviet Union and Religion,” Friday, | a result of its work among this Dec. 21, 8 p. m. at Musicians Hall, largest section of the Paterson | 1 8 eS ee | workers. The lessons to be drawn | from the strike must be put very | simply and made the basis for rapid | recruiting—so rapid that within a | few weeks the majority of the mem- bership in Paterson will be of | ayers. The larger the number of Commu- nists, the more the Party is rooted in the dye plants, the more will the workers be guaranteed that the Policy of rank and file control will | be carried out. The Communist Party trains its members to expose \ every trick of the bosses or their) j; agents in the union; to unmask| uch as the renegade Rubenstein, | door. Mass Meeting and send off for Dele« to National Congress for So- and Unemployment Insurance, Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m. at Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother Bloor, William N. Jones, Preiheit Gee sangs Farein, Workers’ Harmonica Band. John Reed Club presents Michael Gold, author of “Jews Witheut Money” on “The Crisis in Modern Literature,” Thursday, Dec. 20. at # p.m. p at Musicians Hell, 120 Ny 8th St. Adm. 30c. Malden, Mass. Mess meeting for Unemployment Ins surance, Odd Fellows Hall, 45 Holye oke St., Tuesday, Dec, 18 at 8 p.m. sharp. union is that the number of Com-| who are especially dangerous, as Linden, N. J. munist Party members in it is far they parade as progressives; to in- | towards cooperating with all sin- finest militanis. It was only during later stages of the strike that the militants made a holder advance | s members of the local executive and many others, are good only if | decides far more than arguments in board. of those on all committees, | there are live wires in every shop to | a committee. All such committees and particularly in the members of | see that they do not remain on! are meant to be instruments in all shop committees, It shguld be paper. And this is where the ‘role | the hands of the bosses, and are no | too small for the big task that faces | still a spirit of discipline and mili- | them. 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