The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 U. S. Post Office Aids National Biscuit Scabber OFFICES ARRANGE ‘RUSH SERVICES’ TO PUSH DELIVERY | Central Committee F A N) CI ST PU RPOS - Adopts Decision (Continued from Page 1) | E | BEHIND MEXICAN ‘RED SHIRT’ BANDS Anti-Clerical Terrorists Organized to Divert and Stalin. | | Giosing War Dance | Masses From Agrarian Struggie—Govern- The report of Comrade Browder 1 i | [gree crpeey Gh eomntane erowdes ment Incites Both Sides to Clashes centered around the following m: | points. First, the increasing war as (Special to the Daily Worker) q danger as expzessed in the brea MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20.—In their accounts of the anti- | down of the naval negotiations, the | Catholic struggles of the Mexican “red shirt” bands the capi- | growing wer preparations, which in Fy * Tint s rs ths U. Soave being carrie though | talist newspapers in the United States have been representing with feverish speed. Comrade | these activities as “revolutionary” and “Socialist.” Nothin “ | g | Browder made reference to the| could be further from the truth, The Red Shirt organization, | statement of Senator Nye regarding | in spite of its anti-clericalism, has | the nearness of the war Gander | taps ae tb tiitadiry th | fascist traits, : Precisely as the difficulties among front it is necessary to intensify the | “>. i Redshi: the imperialists increase, there is prea ea ye? ee ot. | carrido Canabal Hecke Paice. |a growing pressure from some of izations despil 6 decisions of | 6 Ja gi g P the last N. E. C, meeting of the |OX of the State of Tabasco and Pressure Wins | THE IDOL OF HIS PEOPLE Freedom For Jane Newton s f WD) (A A) E> OY fy O¢ fy & S$ = of socialism by our class brothers n the gigantic Soviet Union, and} the increasing leadership which the! Party is winning among the mazses on the basis of the tested road 28 Against Wife of Chicago Negro Leader Dismissed Investigation Reveals That Scab Packages Are Shipped From Chicago Plant and | Addressed to Chain Stores | (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Jane Emery Now white wife of Herbert New- The chief strikebreaker at the service of the National | tov Biscuit Company is the United States Government through its post office. This is the startling fact post office work- ers revealed Saturday. “When we came to work this morning, lo and behold parcel post section is loaded — Soviets Hail lapsed before the mighty city-wide mobilization here in defense of the of the Negro people. The| ‘ons were arrested in connec- t with the mass fight to prevent their eviction from 615 Oakwood Boulevard, when the chauvinist ~ i landlord objected to having b on,| = ie ; ee “— his wife and baby in the buildi: | high wtih big cartons of bis- endorsed ‘Fragile—Handle Care.’ Many thought that Christmas was here again,” a worker of the 2lst Street Post Office re- most influential I urther investigation made by workers revealed that the packages | are shipped mainly from the Chi- cago plant addressed to various branches of the A. and P., Butler chain stores, and others. It is reported that a special rush service was arranged for the de- livery of this scab goods. The clerks of the 2ist Street sta- tion have been greatly aroused at the job forced upon them by the government, and dissatisfaction has been expressed in discussions be tween the men all day Saturd The facts revealed by the Post Of. fice clerks have been further sub- stantiated by storekeepers in this city who have received their regu- lar orders by mail. The strike of 6,000 N. B. C. work- | ers contijued solidly in the New | York, Philadelphia, Newark, Atlanta, | Ga., and York, Pa., plants. Thus far in New York and Phila- | delphia the company, in place of | attempting to bring in scabs, has organized the supply of its cus-| tomers with goods from plants not | development of industry and agri-| yet organized. The Communist Party, having | local organizations in virtually every | one of the 40 cities where the N.| B, C. has plants, is issuing appeals | to the workers to support the | strikers of the five cities and to re- fuse to produce products for strike- | breaking purposes. Action is like- | wise being taken to reach post of- | struggle with the relics of the class | Of the Third Ward. fice clerks for solidarity action. The | Communist Party is calling for sup- | port for the N. B. C. workers, urged that protest actions be organized in | every part of the country against the use of the post office for strike- | breaking purposes. In New York, an increasing num- ber of placards are being placed in | store windows and in trade union | halls calling for a boycott of N. B. C. products. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 20.— ‘The office force of the N. B. C. plant here has been laid off, as the 1,100 | strikers remain solid. Truck drivers refused to deliver paper for the! company here when they discovered | there was a strike in progress. Thus | far, no attempt was made to load cars. | Strikers, very much encouraged | by the splendid cooperation given | them by the labor movement, are | conducting steady picketing. | Paul Obradovich, | DaveGorman,Old CP Members Dead The working class of the United | States has lost two valiant fighters | jn the death of Paul Obradovich and David Gorman. Both were charter members of the Communist | Party of the U. S. and active for many years in the struggles of rea American workers, Obradoyvich died in Ambridge, Pa., | at the age of 45. Gorman died in| Los Angeles where he had gone to| recuperate about a year ago follow- |lin. The delegates at the Congress, | ing a physical and nervous break- down as a result of too strenuous activity in the revolutionary movye-| Punishment for the traitors and | ment. Following a memorial meeting ad- dressed by Pat Cush, Tom Myers- cough and Pete Muselin, as well as representatives of Croatian and Serbian fraternal organizations of | which Obradovich was for years an | active member, the workers of Am- | bridge and vicinity joined in a 12-| block march through the streets of the steel-dominated town. . | leges, ete. | tricts. Giant Games (Continued from Page 1) mendous interest to the speech of a worker named Kaligina, repre- senting the city of Kalinin. This town, the center of the textile in- dustry, is called here “The Women’s Soviet Republic.” The working wo- men there promote excellent mass | organizers from their ranks. They lead the town Soviet, they direct the big factories, fill the technical col- city of Kalinin was becoming ever more cultured, how the enthusiasm of creation affects even the most backward strata of the population. The Congress warmiy greeted the delegate Struppe, representative of the Leningrad region. Struppe de- scribed the remarkable activity dis- | played by the entire population in the concluded election campaign. The whole of the region opened out before the Congress in Struppe’s Speech. He spoke of the steady culture, and concluded with words full of anger, hatred and contempt for the murderers of the beloved leader of the Leningrad toilers, Ser- | gei Kirov, and those inspiring them. } Gladov, an old collective farmer of the Saratov region, with youth- | ful fire gave his impression of the work of the collective farms. The delegates applauded when Gladov told the Congress about the bitter enemy which the Soviet villages are conducting, affirming the inde- structibility of the collective farm system, Every delegate participating in the discussion, illustrated, by fig- ures and facts taken from various parts of the varied life of the coun- try, the enormous growth of the So- viet Union and the increase in the demands of the toilers, Delegates spoke from the Kazak- stan steppes. People spoke from the distant polar regions. The delegate from the Gorky region, Ostrovsky, in his speech recalled that ‘the Gorky Auto Plant, which didn’t ex- ist at the time of the previous Con- gress, now has already given the country 85,000 automobiles. The delegates plainly felt the distance separating the 15th from the 16th Congress of Soviets. The representatives of the West- ern and Voronoezh regions spoke about the great achievements of these formerly poor forgotten dis- Particularly impressive changes have taken place in Vo- ronezh, which, in the recent past, was a backward agrarian region. During the last few years, big in- dustrial enterprises have arjsen. Machine construction and the man- ufacture of cement and synthetic rubber occupy an important place in the economy of the region. Vohonezh delegate, Orlov, devoted the concluding part of his speech to the published material on the ac- tivity of the Zinoviev counter-revo- lutionary group. Reading this ma- terial, Orlov said: “Each of us is filled again and again with hatred and contempt for the pitiful dregs of the counter- revolution. With still greater inten- sity we are filled with love for our Party and its leader, Comrade Sta- like the entire country, unanimously demand the most stern measures of open enemies of the working class. As an expression of support “to the only real workers’ daily news- paper in the English language,” members of the Waiters and Waitresses Union Local 1 at a recent house party collected $4. Members of the militant left wing group of the local also decided to attend in a group the Lenin Memorial meeting at Madison Square Garden next Monday. Browder Flays Court On Slanderous Charges in Sacramento Trial (Continued from Page 1) there was no question of armed insurrection involved in these events. These statements are matter of public record. We insist that these be taken as conclusive evidence of Communist Party's position and role instead of irresponsible inventions of professionals provo- cateurs. (Signed) EARL BROWDER, General Secretary, Communist Party, U. 8. A. The following wire was sent by Sacramento defendants: the Communist Party greeting the GREET DEFENDANTS Nora Conklin, Sacramento County Jail, Sacramento, Calif. By decision of Central Committee, Communist Party, United States, in plenary session we send to all of our beloved comrades, the eighteen workers facing trial for criminal syndicalism in Sacra- mento, the heartfelt revolutionary greetings of entire Communist Party. You are in court because you fight for the noblest of all causes, the cause of the working class. We will do our best to mobilize entire working class and all possible support of masses which can be made decisive in outcome of y our cases. EARL BROWDER, General Secretary, WM. Z. FOSTER, Chairman, Communist Party, U. 8. AL! Kaligina related how the | The 'couldn’t verify the priest’s identifi- | Jane Newton had been railroaded to a $200 fine in Judge Green’s | court, and placed on probation after an unsuccessful attempt by the | judge to have her declared insane | because she married a Negro. The| | disorderly charges were dismissed | | yesterday, the fine revoked and the probation lifted. | The mass fight here won another | significant victory later in the day in another court, when Herbert Newton and five others were freed |on charges of picketing the Oak-| wood Relief Station. The decision was made after a demonstration by workers inside the court, and their | decision to wait all night if neces- | {sary to prevent the conviction of | | Newton. | | Newton faces two other charges | arising from the struggle against his eviction. He will be tried on Mon- | HITLER GOES TO A MEETING—From London Daily Work-r And What Roosevelt Offers on Insurance (Continued from Page 1) THE ROOSEVELT BILL fits arbitrarily at any figure. Does not guarantee any specified amount. Waiting period: State law to spe- | (Continued from Page 1) | THE WORKERS’ BILL H. R. 2827) | be less than $10 a week plus $3 for | each dependent. Rates to be in- creased as prices rise. Waiting period: None. Payment day, 2 p.m., at Twenty-sixth and | cify (Roosevelt committee proposed | to begin immediately upon enact- California, | Arthur W. Mitchell, new demo- | cratic Congressman from the First | Illinois District, had refused a re- quest by 300 voters of the Third | Ward that he intercede to secure| | the release of Newton, who was in| | Bridewell jail at the time for de- address given was not in his terri- tory,” and referred the voters to Congressman McKeough, in a letter | union standards. Does not specify | addressed to David R. Poindexter, | workers’ candidate for Alderman “This is dodging the question | plain and simple,” Poindexter de- | | clared today. “Everyone knows that ; Herbert Newton was evicted from j his home at 615 Oakwood Boule- vard, which is square in the middle | of Mitchell's district. He was sen- tenced to Bridewell for 72 days for | | picketing the new high school at 50th and State Sts., demanding the right of Negroes to employment | there, If this is not a case for our} | Congressman to take up, then what | | is?” 3 Kidnap Suspects _ Named By Reilly (Continued from Page 1) | a Nazi detective last Friday who} tried to fasten the crime on Fisch, Reilly brought forward two Cath- | olic priests who declared that Fisch | jand Hauptmann were partners in illegal fur transactions in and around Hopewell, N. J., in the period |immediately preceding the kidnap- ing. An assistant of one of the | priests, who saw the two fur mer- |chants, told newspapermen that he cation. According to the story of the priests themselves, one of the {men was 50 years old. Both Haupt- {Mann and Fisch were from 15 to 20 years under this figure. Hauptmann Had $49,000 | Attorney General Wilentz said | yesterday that he would prove that | Hauptmann, who had no income | other than that forthcoming from | his earnings as a carpenter, was in | possession of $49,000 soon after Dr. | Condon gave $50,000 to the ‘mys- | terious John” at the gate of a Bronx cemetery, Notwithstanding the web of evi- | dence which is slowly but inexorably | involving Hauptmann in the com- | | mission of the kidnaping, along with | others who are being shielded, the | Nazi defendant is being accorded the consideration that is ordinarily extended to a Nazi ambassador, rather than to a burglar with a long prison record, charged with the “great crime” of the generation, A few days ago when he com- mented audibly on the poor ventil- ation in the courtroom, Judge Tren- | chard immediately ordered the win- ;d0Ws opened. When he expressed a liking for Limberger cheese recent- ly, a special supply was ordered Post-haste, State troopers, who have gained nation-wide notoriety for | four week waiting period). their brutality to strikers, greet him | Leaves way open for widest discrimination. Length of payment: Sets no term; State law to specify. (Roosevelt committee proposed for not more than fifteen weeks.) Sources of funds: under “approved” Wage taxes State plans, manding public works jobs for Ne- | Which taxes are passed on to the | comes above $5,000 a year. groes, Mitchell pretended that “the; Workers in the form of pay cuts | and higher prices. Protection: Does not protect trade against discrimination, | When Effective: Jan. 1, 1936 at | very earliest. Residence Requirements: Resi- dence, etc., to be specified in State laws. Leaves way open for widest possible giscrimination. Present Unemployed :Not one penny to the present 15,000,000 unem- ployed workers. Maternity Care: Gives a beggarly average of $1,538 a week to each State for “maternal care.” | Old Age Guarantees: Gives fifty cents a day to aged past seventy years; provides for “actuaries” un- der which young workers will pay | 1 to 2’ per cent of their wages for future old-age annuities; nothing for other categories. ment. Length of Payment: For full term | of unémployment. | | Sources of funds: The Federal Government and by taxation on in-| Protection: No _ discrimination. Trade union standards fully cov- ered. Part-time workers fully cov- ered; Negroes, foreign-born, youth | and women included. When Effective: Immediately upon enactment. Benefit payments) begin at once. Residence Requirements: No res- idence requirements or previous em- ployment in State. Present Unemployed: Full bene- fits to the present more than 15,- 000,000 unemployed workers, Maternal Care: Full maternal | benefits for 16 weeks, eight weeks | before and eight after childbirth. Old Age Guarantees: Specifically states that compensation shall be paid in full to “all workers and farmers who are unable to work because of sickness, old age, mater- | nity, industry injury, or any other cause.” Immediate pressure in the form of wires and resolutions, post cards and letters are urged by the National Joint Action Committee and the National Unemployment to individual Congressmen and to mittee on Labor. Councils. These should be sent the members of the House Com- For this purpose the Daily Worker prints the full list of the com- mittee members to whom workers in care of the House of Representa‘ The mass sentiment for the bill is growing so rapidly all over the should immediately write or wire, tives, Washington, D. C, country that several of the members have already publicly endorsed the bill, including the chairman of the committee, William P, Con- nery. The full list follows: Democrats: Chairman William P. Connery, Jr., Massachusetts; Mary T. Norton, New Jersey; Robert Ramspeck, Georgia; Glenn Griswold, Indiana; Kent E. Keller, Illinois; Matthews A, Dunn, Penn- sylvania; Reuben T. Wood, Missouri; Jennings Randolph, West Vir- ginia; John Lesinski, Michigan; Joe H. Eagle, Texas; Charles V. Truax, Ohio; Murcellus H. Evans, New Yor Subert C. Dunn, Mississippi. rk; James H. Gildea, Pennsylvania; Republicans: Richard J. Welch, California; Fred A. Hartley, Jr., New Jersey; William P, Lambertson, Kansas; Clifford R. Hope, Kansas; | Vito Marcantonio, New York City. Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota; George J. Snyder, Progressive, Wisconsin. Demand enactment of the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827, affectionately and go out of their way to satisfy his whims, Until the Daily Worker pointed out last week that he was relatively unguarded in the courtroom, the troopers al- lowed the Nazi to walk around the courtroom almost at will. The pris- on keeper has repeatedly permit- ted him to violate prison regula- tions and a State Trooper has been assigned to help him don his ex- pensive clothes, Reilly Shielding Lindbergh Name Although Reilly has patched up a true with his assistant, C. Lloyd Fisher, who stormed out of the court room last Friday in protest against Reilly's refusal to avail him- self of evidence that could have linked others to the crime, Fisher still refuses to pose for photogra- phers with his chief and is making | it clear that he believes Reilly is sabotaging Hauptmann’s defense out of fear of dragging Lindbergh's rep- | utation in the mud of the kidnap- ing scandal. In an attempt to replace some of the gilt which has been rubbed off the aviator’s name by the disclo- sures made in and outside the court toom, Lindbergh will soon make a flight over the Pacific for the Mor- gan-controlled aviation fitm in which he has a junior partnership, it is reported. The flight will also be used for the purpose of aiding in the survey of the mandated islands in the Pacific which the League of Nations has just relinquished to Japan over the protest of the United States government, | the imperialist | circles for an attack on the Soviet | Union. In the forefront of this |S. P., and to organ’@: the united | |front on a local and state scale to|Cardena Cabinet. now Secretary of Agriculture in the In his home | attack are to be Hitler German and; the point that the E¢cialist leaders | State Garrido has given an eloquent What Workers Penand | Japanese imperialism. Comrade Browder showed how in the U. S. there is being brought great pressure to provoke and Soviet Union. In this connection, regarding both the provocations, generally, for war on the U. 8. 8. R. and the role of the imperialists and chauvinists in the U. S., he pointed to the assassination of Comrade Kirov at the hands of two con- spiring counter-revolutionary groups | who are coming more and more closely together, not only in ideol- ogy but also organizationally— namely the fascist agents smuggled into the U. 8. 8, R. and the rem- nants of the Zinoviev-Trotzky counter-revolutionary groups, whiie | in the U. S. the pzess generally and especially the Hearst press is engaged in the most vicious cam- paign of slander and provocation against the Soviet Union, only equalled in the counter-revolution- ary sheets of the Cannon-Muste Trotzkyists groups. From these Comrade Browder drew the conclu- sion of the need for more intensive and practical struggle against the war danger against war prepara- tions, for the mobilization of the masses in defense of the Soviet | Union. New Deal Estimate Confirmed Comrade Browder, in his report, | reminded the C. C. of the Party’s analysis at its previous C. C. re- garding the course of the Roosevéli government as being fully con- firmed, The Roosevelt government | though still using demagogic phrases about “new deal” and “so- cial security for all” is, in reality, carrying through the most vicious attack on the living standard of the masses, as shown in the “se- curity” proposals of Roosevelt to Congress and in his message to Congress. This represents a grow- ing attack on the unemployed, low- ering of wages for the employed, a free hand to the Wall Street monop- olists and open shop reactionaries against the workers and their or-| ganizations, Comrade Browder pointed to the role and the activ- ities of the A. F, L, bureaucracy | as proof that they continue to fool the workers with promises in the same way as does Roosevelt making all the moze easy the carrying through of the attack on the masses. Increased Mass Work This attack must be answered by | the masses through the develop- ment of the broadest united front around the only genuine social in- surance proposal as embodied in ;the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill which already at the recent Congress in Wash- ington brought together represen- tatives of millions through their or- ganizations, The Communists have shown by their struggle in the interests of thé masses, in the trade unions. that they fight for the unity of | i | the trade unions, that they exert ell their force to build the unions and to develop the struggles of the masses. As a result of the carry- ing through of the correct change in the tactical line in the trade unions as called for by the changed situation, as a result of the de- velopment of improved methods of work in the trade unions, on the basis of the united front we have already achieved much progress in advancing the rank and file move- ment in which the Communists play an important role. In this same spirit we must further entrench our- selves in the unions, further im- prove our methods of work for the purpose of strengthening and build- ing the’ unions among the steel, auto, rubber, textile, railroad, marine, needle and other unions, for the purpose of developing the struggle for the interests of the workers, for the recognition of the unions, for defeating the company unions. In connection with the united Soviet Workers Pour Ire on Zinoviev Clique GROUP HID IN COAT-TAILS OF FOREIGN CONSULS, SAYS IZVESTIA (Special to the Daily Worker) ; MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (By Wireless), | | —The mood of grim indignation felt by the entire Soviet Union toward the counter-revolutionary Zinoviev | Clique was reflected in a leading editorial in yesterday’s Izvestia, the Soviet government organ. “Millions of workers and collec- tive farmers,” Izvestia declares, “Party and non-Party builders of socialism, who by dint of all the strength of their brain and hearts | are building,a new world, read the | stern indic‘énent of the prosecuting | magistracy with anger and indig- nation, against the Zinovievite or- fanization, The entire country saw hot these people—the Zinoviev’s, the Samenevs and those surrounding them—sank in their fall to the {limits of the base role of inspirers of murderers, inspirers of those who, attempting to break up the great work of socialist construction, stop at no means, Exposed On All Sides “The entire country saw that these persons threw off their de- fensive hypocritical masks only when they had been exposed on all sides by the evidence of their ad- herents and associates in common, revealing them against the Party, the working class, against socialism and against international proleta- rian movement. Not very long ago they appealed to the generosity of the Party at a Party Congress; they repented of their sins, they made common cause with the Party, they glorified its conquests and victories. The Party accepted them, returned them to its ranks, gave them its generous confidence. But here again they cynically betrayed the Party. “Vowing fidelity to the Party, they organized against the latter in their underground groups and centers, Eulogizing its victories and achievements, they malig- nantly laughed over its difficulties and waited for their “failure.” Flattering its leaders, they pro- voked hatred toward them. Not sparing words about revolution, they rallied their cadres against it. While calling for socialist con- struction, they organized their forces to deal a blow to this con- struction, Criminal Masking “And this unheard-of and crimi- nal masking, wherein even the ‘ miserable remains of any attitude of principle disappeared, finally led to their present degeneration, to the Position of counter-revolution, to- ward complete betrayal of the so- cialist fatherland, toward criminally and shamefully hiding in the folds of the swallow-tail coat of foreign consults and hoping for interven- tion, toward the bloody murder of the priceless Kirov. Propagating their solidarity with the Party in the class-room and outside, these people created their special “se- pulehral little world’ with furious hate against the Party, accumulat- ing counter-revolutionary rot and which already very little differed from the ideology of the scum of éhs White-Guard fascist kitchen, hasten war between Japan and the| filth and cultivating an ideology! | Will be forced to reconsider their '“shelving of the united front until | the 1€36 convention of the 8. P.” | demonstration of the meaning of the “Mexican Socialism” being practiced by the millionaire capi- | talists and landlords who rule Mex- Labor Party Question | | Most of the discussion centered | jaround the question of the Labor |Party (see Browder’s remarks on | | this question in a previous issue of | | the D, W.). The revort and the dis- | cussion as well as the resolution ex- | | Plained what changes had taken |place that once more placed the question of the Labor Party on the order of the day, At the time of | the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International (1928) it! was decided that: “The Party concentrate its at- tention on the work in the trade unions on the organization of the unorganized, etc., and in this way lay the basis for’ the practical realization of the slogan of a broad Labor Party organized from be- | low.” After 1928 because of the changes | in the trade union movement, their decline, especially among the masses of the workers in the basic indus- tries, the dissipation of the Labor Party movement and its diversion | into bourgeois reformist channels, with the aid of the La Follettes and the Socialist Party, the whole Cool- idge era, etc, any Labor Party could be either an appendage of the old bourgeois parties, or consist of the Communists and their closést supporters, Under these conditions the slogan could not be used in the interests of the masses. Now however, with the growth of the trade unions, the growing radicalization of the massés bership, the beginnings of mass breakaway from the two old parties, the slogan became once more a very potent force for the separation vf the masses into a Labor Party for independent political action—that is, those large masses who already through experience are willing to take up the militant struggle for their immediate interests as against the policies of the Roosevelts, and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and other reformists while they are not yet advanced to the point of accept- ; ing the full program of the Com- munist Party. This position of the Party has nothing to do with the renegade Lovestone position on the Labor Party—to be organized by Green, Hillman, Gorman, Dubinsky, Wald- man, Lovestone and Zimmermans, any more than the Party policy in the trade unions has anything to do with that of the Lovestone rene- gades who unite with the Dubin- skys and Gorman, with the Jewish Daily Forward to fight against the Communists and all militant work- ers. Our object in organizing a genuine Labor Party is to free the masses from the bourgeois parties, prevent the breakaway from being diverted by the La Follettes, Sin- clairs, Olscns, etc., into some new Progressive party or into a Labor Party dominated by the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the Waldman So- cialists, The C.C. meeting took up many other questions such as the work among the youth, the women, the farmers, etc. Special attention was given to the work among the Negro | masses, especially with regard to | penetrating the Negro mass organ- izations and the mobilization of all forces for the Scottsboro boys. Discussion on Weaknesses The discussion while revealing progress on many fields especially in the work in the A.F. of L. unions, at the same time was self critical. The failure to bring the Party mem- bership up to 40,000 by the end of the year, the slow growth of the circulation of the Daily Worker, the weakness in the organization and leadership of the trade union frac- tions, the slowness in carrying through of the policy of concentra- tion as laid down in the Open Let- ter was thoroughly discussed by the meeting, and steps taken to im- prove the work and to create bet- ter guarantees for the carrying through of the decisions of the Party Committees. The Plenum decided to organize a Party discussion onthe resolution adopted to begin with the publica- tion of the resolution and to last until March 15th or for about 60 days, The discussion to take place on the three main questions of the resolution (trade union work, united front, and the Labor Party) with special attention to the question or the Labor Party. The discussion to take place through meetings in all Party nuclei, through section meet- ings of functionaries, through the press, etc. Win a free trip to the Soviet Union cr a yacation in a workers’ camp by joining the Daily Worker subscription contest, A Shock Bri- | gader button will be presented generally and the A. F. of L. mem- |: ico under the sheltering wing of Yankee imperialism. The State of Tabasco, under Gar- rido’s prcudo-socialist regime, has become a stronghold of large feudal landownership. Garrido himself and other members of his famtily are the most powerful landlord exploit- ers. Simultaneously it has become part of the plantation kingdom of the United Fruit Company which monopolizes Tabasco’s banana pro- duction, operating under the name | of the Cuyamel Fruit Company. A brother of Garrido is the United’s chief agent in Tabasco. The slight benefits which. peasants in other regions of the country have | received through the “agrarian re- form” have not been s¢en by the peasants of Tabasco. In the whole State there are not more than eighteen land grants (ejidos), It is no wonder that General Calles, “father” of the caste of new mil- lionaire exploiters which rode to power in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, has hailed Tabasco as a model of what is to be accomplished by the “Socialism” of the P. N. R— the National Revolutionary Party which is the political machine of the Mexican bourgeoisie and land- lords wihch dominates the govern~ ment. In the State of Tabasco, “Boss” Garrido first created the Red Shirt organization. Its detachments were formed by Tabasco’s army of pub- lic employees, forcibly recruited. Through the school system and the autocratic control exercised by the Garrido farnily over the population, which it directly exploits, thou- sands of young toilers have besn drafted into the organization. In this far flung tropical state, Garrido has introduced a regime of Nazi barrack discipline. As a leader, together with Calles’ son, of the Calles faction of the P. N. R., Garrido was brought to Mexico City a few months ago to be Secretary of Agriculture. He imme- diately set out to establish the Red- shirts in the capital city, by drafte | ing all of the employces of the De« partment of Agriculture. Thosé who refused to join or absented them- selves from the “Red Saturday” propaganda sessions were fired. Behind the Religious Conflicts? The chief cry of the Redshirts is the “disfanatization” of the Catho- lic masses. Their program of action includes the burning of shrines and churches and armed attacks upon churchgoing crowds, such as the one realized on Dec. 31, in which five parishioners were shot to death. It is obvious that these violent meth- ods against the Catholic believers not only do not weaken their fa- naticism, but have the very opposite effect. ‘The P.N.R., the political machine of Mexico's owning class, is desper- ately bent on fixing the attention | of the tolling masses on the church conflict at a moment when these masses are pressing forward in the struggie for land, against further attacks on their miserable stan- dard of living and against the re- gime of fendal terror which is es- pecially acute on the countryside. By fomenting réligious clashes it hopes to keep back the struggles of the toilers for their economic and political demands. The anti-clerical campaign also has its origin in the inner factional struggle of the P.N.R. The game is to incite the clerical elements against the government by radical noise-making about “socialist edu- | cation” and thus appear before the woyking class as the “defenders” of the “Revclution” against the at~ tacks of the “clerical reaction.’ At the same time government gives full rein to the propaganda of the clergy which incites the Catholic masses to lynch the Red- shirts and the advocates of “So cialist Education.” The Catholic press circulates freely and shriek~ ing headlines which call for the plood of the infidels. (Meanwhile, of course, the Communist press is banned). The deceptive nature of the offi- cial anti-clericalism is further borne out by the government's extreme leniency toward the higher clergy. It has carefull avoided proses cution of the bishops and high church officials accused of law vios lations, until they are safely out of the country. One man who has not been “frightened” by the government's “socialist” talk is United States Ambassador Daniels. When the new cabinet entered office, the am- bassador made it his business to invite the new Secretary of Agrie culture, Garrido Canabal, for a pers sonal conference in the United States Embassy. The invitation was accepted and the existence of a “close understanding’ between the violent “anti-clerical” and Mr, each contestant upon receipt of the first subscription, | Daniels has been widely commented “on,