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| ses | Change World! By MICHAEL GOLD OR many years Scott Nearing was one of the ablest and most esteemed revo- lutionary intellectuals in this @untry. He made a powerful impression on the plat- form, and during the late war was cer- tainly one of the best known leaders of the millions of Americans who hated that commercial and con- script war. Scott Nearing came out of a religious past, though he was a professor of economics who ef- fectively used statistics as a dynamic weapon against the capitalists. Always there was-a tinge of Chris- tian Socialism running through his statistical books, giving one an effect as if dabs of whipped cream had been placed on a beefsteak. In Scott Nearing one always felt this conflict going on—the man of science never could shake off the barnacles of his churchly past. Now it is true that nobody is born a Marxist. Many of us come out of the most curious backgrounds—I have met, recently, a former captain in the Salvation Army who is a darn good Philadelphia Communist today, and former rabbis, ministers, and even priests have been known to attain an honest realistic approach to the class struggle. No doubt but that in the revolutionary move- ment there are hundreds of people who are good fighters, yet bear marks of the confusion and mysti- |a great deal and an _interésting | cism of their personal history. A leader, however, or anyone who sets out to teach and organize the working class, must be free of such confusion. Our lives are in his hand—we follow him where he points out the road, and we have a right to demand perfect clarity and science of him. > is ed Disciple of Theosophy | Gees of us have heard Scott Nearing speak. He | Little Lefty UNEMPLOYMENT CONGRESS 1S OVER ANO ON JAN. THh tHE DELEGATES LEAVE FoR Home // DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 Love at First Sight! Jo#N I'VE BEEN | “TOMANY R \ Convention BUY “THIS ONE pe °° = ALL | Featured Story in | Working Woman | pHE WORKING WOMAN. Pub- lished monthly by the Working Woman Publishing Company. Vol. | 6, No. 1, January. Price 5 cents. | Reviewed by | PHILIP STERLING | ((AILY decked out in a two-color cover with a peppy photograph, the Working Woman makes a brave jand often successful attempt to | overcome its space limitations and succeeds in crowding into its pages | variety of material. | By far the most attractive and jexciting piece in the issue is the | |first installment of “Stockyard | Stella,” the love story of two pack- ing house workers struggling against | the economic crisis and the oppres- | sion of their employers. The story |is highly compressed to meet the handicap of the long interval be- tween installments. It was collec- has a: hard-hitting factual style that conveys | tively written by & group of packing a remarkable illusion of scientific and impersonal | house workers with the help of clarity. A great deal of his writing has this same quality, and yet the amazing fact remains that this is not the complete mind of the man. For many years Scott Nearing has been an ar- dently naive disciple of theosophy. Yes, he swal- lows all that tremendous nonsense which is as far from laboratory science as the ravings of a Holy Roller, You may say that anyone has a right to any private religious belief, if in his public life he is loyal to the working class. This is true, but sooner or later the man who leads a double life intel- lectually trips himself up. The human mind is a unity. You can’t think scientifically with one lobe of your brain, and theo- sophically with the other. One of the tendencies 4s bound to pervade the other, sooner or later. | More and more, in his public life, the economist Scott Nearing has yielded to the theosophist. * * * Putting On a Hair Shirt re recent political career of Nearing has been marked by many aberrations of the ingrown and subjective type of mind. . I remember the period when Scott Nearing was about to join the Communist Party. He applied for admission at least five times before he was ad- mitted. The Communist leaders were wary of him, and they were correct. They did not doubt his hon- esty, but they could sense the unhealthy manner in which this economist had decided to join the Party. He was not doing it because his scientific studies had finally convinced him that the Communist line was the only possible road which the working class must travel toward a new and better world. No, Scott Nearing entered the Party as another might a monastery. He was putting on a hair shirt. He was making a supreme sacrifice of some sort. He was not enlisting with comrades in a working- class fight, but joining a cult. He was sincerely moved, and intensely honest about it all, but surely you would not choose a subjective mystic to lead your strikes or run your locomotives, however hon- est he might be. * A Solo Dancer score: NEARING remained in the Party for sev- eral years, and always seemed to be in hot water. Scott Nearing was an individualist, he followed his own mystic impulses and logic, This may be beautiful in a solo dancer, but it gums up a po- litical movement, where men must work together, and risk their lives on collective decision>. As usual, everyone was out of step but the mystic individualist. Scott Nearing found himself ver- petually in disagreement with the Communist Party line. * . One night I heard him give a speech on the | Far East that was certainly far from Communism, Scott Nearing had taken over the whole crazy Spengler theory that the white race was degenerat- ing, and that the yellow race would conquer the world. Hearst’s yellow peril in a more subtle form. Nearing didn’t present the Communist picture of a proletarian East shaking off the chains of the im- perialists, and joining hands with the workers of the west in building a soviet world. This is exactly what is happening, it is the scientific picture of our day, but Scott Nearing preferred the false bourgeois Picture, the chauvinist picture that ignored the class struggle, and turned the upsurge of the Eastern masses into a new race war. I don’t mean to say he was conscious of the logic of his conclusions, or that he is a Spenglerite or chauvinist. But his whole speech that night could only lead to such a position. Now if I had told him that, he might have disagreed and gone on re- peating his false history. But when the executive committee of the Communist Party told him about this, and similar distortions of Communism, it was “persecution.” Yet any party has the right to ask of its mem- | bers that they subscribe to its platform; and when they speak in its name, advocate its line. After all, this is a party of volunteers, not of conscripts. If you disagree with the basic principles, your place is Bftside, not inside, where you are more dangerous, ay * * Coddling the Intellectuals : haters were many other such errors, and Scott Nearing finally was out of the Party. He said in his letter that he was tired, after 25 years of po- litical battle, and was leaving the fate of the world in the hands of the young. But a reader of this column sends me a clipping from a Canadian Socialist newspaper in which Scott Nearing announces that that little bunch of po- litical adventurers who call themselves the “Workers’ Party” are the party of the future. The Commu- nist Party has no future, he says in this interview. “So now he believes he has found a real theosophical ‘party, and he is no longer tired of the struggle, it seems. Or is the interview a fake? How the sub- jectivists drift to these little parties whose main specialty is coddling the intellectuals in their worst “occupational vices, instead of teaching them to work unselfishly with others! : | | Jane Benton. “The Slave Market, Up-to-Date” is interesting reading, useful in de- bunking Hollywood and the glamor- ous build-up given to Hollywood by the scores of movie fan magazines which have so long exercised a bale- ful influence on the thoughts and actions of millions of working wom- en. However, the story seems to lack authority. It woud be an ex- cellent thing for the editors to use more material of this type, never- theless, possibly from persons con- nected with the movie industry, whose names are well known. The magazine should pay more attention to its handling of ma- terial. “The Slave Market” uses the word “hell” as a slang exclamation, and though it is a quotation, its Prominence in a sub-headline may tend to be offensive to that large number of women who have preju- ; dices in connection with the use of such words. The same increased finesse of handling could be applied to other material in the magazine. Articles must be not only brief but because they are brief must be all the more | well-written. The fashion letter has good draw- ing but the text tends toward over- simplified writing-down. Too much of an effort to sound as sugary and idiotic as the writers for the wo-| men’s pages of bourgeois news- papers and magazines. It's a good start, though. This reviewer, if not one else, will be an interested reader of future install- ments of “Stockyard Stella.” Series of Political Education Pamphlets) “The Ultimate and “The Communist Party” are the titles of the first three numbers of a series of 15 cent pamphlets on Political Educa- tion just released by International Publishers. “Two Worlds” explains the decay of capitalist civilization and the rise of socialism in the U. S. S. R.; “The Ultimate Aim” sets forth the program and objectives of the work- ing class movement; “The Commu- nist Party” explains the structure and working methods of the politi- cal organization which guides the building of socialism in the Soviet Union. TUNING IN M.-WEAF—Child Labor Amend- 7:00 P. ment—Walter . 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E. Read Wsz—America in Music; J. Tasker Howard, Narrator 10:30-WEAF—The Government's Subsis- tence Homestead Program and Its Development—Charles- E. Pynchon, General Manager, Tederal Sub- sistence Homestead Corporation ‘WOR—Variety Musical WABC—Mutual Health Service— Nathan Sinai, Dir. of Rescarch, Michigan State Medical Society 10:45-WiZ—Fithting Noise—O. H. Caldwell WABC—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano 11:00-WEAF—The Grummitts—Sketeh WOR—News ‘WdZ—Dance Music (to 1:00 A. M.) Block and ‘Stockyard Stella’ oe ini CzaristR Born in Leningrad in 1906, Sho- | |stakovich has already demon-| | Strated his versatility and great | |talent in three symphonies, two | operas, music written especially for | | sound films and the theatre, a piano jconcerto, and other works for smaller media, | “Lady Macbeth of Mzensk,” com- | Pleted in December, 1932, is now in| the permanent repertoire of both | the Moscow and - Leningrad Opera Houses. It is the | first of a pro- | jscced cycle of |four operas in which the com- Poser plans to trace the condi- tion of women in Russia. “Lady Macbeth |& of Mzensk” is Dimitri jbased on a novel = Shostakovich | |written in 1964 | |by Nikolai Leskov. It takes place in the 1840's, is in four acts and nine Scenes, and contains a cast of| twenty-three, besides choruses con- sisting of workers, police, guests, and prisoners. It reveals Shosta- kovich, according to the Russian musicologist Vladimir Lakond, “as & composer possessed of great | dramatic power and intense tragic pathos.” Explaining his choice of “Lady Macbeth of Mzensk” as a subject for his opera, Shostakovich writes in an article in “Modern Music”: “Why did I select just this novel | by Leskov for its subject? First, be- cause very little of our heritage in Russian classic literature has been utilized in the development of Soviet opera. Second, and this was most im- portant—because Leskov’s narrative | is imbued with rich dramatic and so- cial content. There is, perhaps, no} other creation in all Russian lit erature which so vividly portrays | the position of women in old, pre-} revolutionary Russia. | “But I have given ‘Lady Macbeth of Mzensk’ a different treatment from that of Leskov. As will be seen from the title itself the novel- hed his subject iront- | [ist apy | CHAPTER II Life of Lenin XI, LREADY by September Lenin | was urging that the moment had | come for the final stage of armed | insurrection. During October his} warnings became ever more urgent, | lest the favorable moment of the height of the wave should pass and | give way to mass disillusionment and the consequent triumph of the counter-revolution, The responsible leaders of our party are confronted with a gi- gantic task; if they do not carry it out, it will mean a total col- lapse of the internationalist pro- letarian movement. The situation is such that delay truly means death. (Letter of October 21, 1917, to the Bolsheviks in the Northern Soviet Regional Con- gress.) Again and again through the manifold urgent letters and mes- sages of this period sounds the note: “Delay means death.” With all my power I wish to persuade the comrades that now everything hangs on a hair, that on the order of the day are ques- tions that are not solved by con- ferences, by congresses (even by Congress of Soviets), but only by the people, by the masses, by the struggle of armed masses, (Let- ter of November 6, 1917, to the Central Committee.) On October 23, the Central Com- mittee of the Bolshevik Party took the final decision for the insur- rection by a vote of all against two. On the night of November 6 and the morning of November 7, the conquest of power took place with complete orderliness; the Provi- sional Government had no longer any support in any quarter to be able to make resistance; the Bol- shevik Revolution was, in contrast with the February Revolution, al- most completely birodless, the most bloodless revolution in history. The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets took over the power as the sovereign body, and appointed the Council of People’s Commissars, consisting of Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, as the man- datories of the new power of the working masses. The dictatorship of the proletariat, in alliance with the mass the peasantry, was realized. c IS essential to understand the overwhelming majority support of the population for the Bolshevik Revolution in order to understand why the final transformation was able to take place with such speed, apparent ease and complete lack of resistance. The final trans- formation was only the culmination * * * PED ‘EM al RIGHT // I'LL NEVER FoRcET HOW “HE WHOLE CONGRESS SUNS “SOLIDARITY® AETER ee ne SPEECH i ) ) ~ = i / ee = ey e, / WHAT UNITY // SHARE — CROPPERS AND PROFESSORS, ACTORS AND FARMERS, NEGRO AND WHITE AND ~HEN WHEN MOTHER BLOOR Got UPTO SPEAK - i, 4 /, GQ MOTHER A FaN BLOOR / Of Famous Shostakovic cally. The name indicates an in- Significant territory, a small dis- trict; and the characters are little people, with passions and interests | not comparable to those in Shake- speare’s play. Moreover, Leskov, | out no illuminating the incidents veloped in his st As a Soviet composer, I determined to preserve the ngth of Leskov’s novel, appreaching it critically, by del ussia Theme Tactic of United h Opera ;of a definite personality, deserving }of sympathy, I omitted the third | murder, undertaken solely to make | herself the heir of her slain hus- band, “Now to arouse sympathy for }@s a cruel woman who ‘wallows in| fat’ and innocent people. | | But I have conceived Katerina as a/ | woman clever, gifted and interest-| Front Carefully Analysed in C. I. THE COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL, Vol. XI, No. 24. Dec. 20, 1934. 10 cents a copy. Reviewed by ART STEIN 'HE leading article in this issue of The Communist Internation:! tanding representative of | Katerina was no simple matter. She| From Shaken Stabilization to a evolutionary literature, gives | has committed a number of erimes|Ne¥ Round of Revolutions and interpretation | against accepted moral or ethical| Wars,” is ® comprehensive analysis hich are de- laws. Leskov presents hed simply | 0f the movement of events since the World Congress. It traces the development of the collapse of capi- talist. stabilization and the factors making for the rising tide of revo- to interpret its events from our) ing. Set by fate in gloomy, miser-| lution and the unevenness of the | modern point of view. “ACCORDINGLY, the subject it- self has been somewhat altered. In Leskov's novel Katerina Lvoyna commits Tzmailova, the heroine, three murders before tenceéd to hard labor in As I proposed to ction of Katerina justify ; Lvovna and create an impression | | | A character from Shostakovich’s Opera, “Lady Macbeth of Mzensk” By R. PALME DUTT The Daily Worker has been printing serially the extremely valuable and popuiar booklet by | R. Palme Dutt, “Life and Teach- ings of Y. I. Lenin,” published by International Publishers, Due to technical reasons the installments were omitted for two days, January 21 was the eleventh anniversary of the death of Lenin. During these ten years the teach- ings of Lenin have spread to ever wider sections of the globe, inspir- ing the workers and oppressed to greater assaults on capitalism. of a long process. The Bolshevik Revolution was, in fact, the most democratic revolution in history. The myth of its “anti-democratic” character is based on the dissolu- tion of the Constituent Assembly in January, 1918: but the April Program had long before made clear that the Constituent Assem- bly could not be more than a means of agitation within the bourgeois regime, and that as a democratic instrument it was far below the level of the Soviets. In addition the lists on which the election took Place, which treated the Socialist- Revolutionary Party as a single party under right leadership, when in fact the overwhelming majority had broken with this leadership and entered into alliance with the Bol- Sheviks in a coalition, were out of date and no longer representative. The Second Soviet Congress elec- tions provided the clearest demon- stration of the majority basis of the Bolsheviks before the seizure of power. The subsequent civil war, when the counter-revolution- ary generals could only organize resistance with foreign arms, sub- Sidies and troops, and the complete defeat of these, in the face of all the odds, and in the face of the combined efforts of the strongest military powers in the world, af- forded the final demonstration in Practice of the mass basis of the Bolshevik Revolution, The eight months from March to November reveal the highest level and most intense tempo of Lenin’s revolutionary leadership. His writings during this period con- stitute the permanent classic for Marxists of leadership in the midst of a revolution and of the art of insurrection, At the same time, in the midst of the conflict, he com- pleted one of his most important theoretical works, “State and Revo- lution,” clearing the line of revo- lutionary Marxism on the urgent questions of the form and content of the state and the meaning of the social revolution, and destroying the opportunist distortions which hed grown up in the Social-Demo- cratic movement. The tasks which were now to \ able surroundings, belonging to a| merchant class which is hard, greedy, and ‘small,’ her life is sor- rowful and pitiable. She does not |ove her husband, she has no hap- piness, no recreation. There now appears Sergei, a clerk hired by her | husband,. Zinovi Borisovich. She ® | falls in love with this young man, | 5 3 aw. her husband | an unworthy and negative creature, | Ng of the revolutionary crisis. |and in her love she finds joy and | the purpose of her existence. “In order to marty Sergei she j | commits her series of crimes. When | Boris Timofevich, her father-in-law, | catches Sergei after a meeting with | her and orders him to be lashed, | she is inspired by a desire for re- | venge. She poisons her father-in- | law for the sufferings inflicted upon | her lover. Sergei now urges her to upsurge in the various countries. The “peculiar kind of depression” | in which capitalism now finds it-| self does not open up new prospecis of a boom or stabilization. On the contrary, it has brought about a | worsening of the conditions of the | workers and sharpened the class | struggle, bringing closer the matur- | Perhaps the best section of this article is that dealing with the ques- |tion of the carrying out of the) united front tactics. Our central | political slogan in the present pe- | riod is, and can only be, the slogan |of Soviet Power But this requires | conditions and higher wages can be dire Page 5 Questions and Answers This department appears daily on the feature page. All questions showid be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” ¢ /o Daily ‘Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. How does the Daily Worker manage concidering that it seems to be in con- Question: to come tinual financial difficulties. Has it ever missed s on this account?—G. S. Answer: On many occasions the size of the Daily Wor! ically cut because of lack of fund: anoe, back in 1930, it There came off the pres late even periogs wh seemed that the paper wol have to sui publication. But in each e loyal support of the workers saved the day, a sup- port that grew out of their loy that fought for their inter o the one paper ts and organized them les against the capitalists. It is this unfailing support that kept the paper going although it had littie advertising. Only a short while ago the workers contributed $60,000 to save the paper and meke possible an even greater of its activities. Such financial drives y if the paper were able to at have heard about it, and ali the worker 0 need it as an agitator and organ A mass circulation would solve the financial problems of the paper. Especially now is it important to put the Daily Worker into the hands of hundreds of thousands of workers, that the workers’ fight for improved ed into the struggle against the capitalists’ drive for war and fascism, The workers must be shown that the present anti-Communist campaign is the first step in a general capitalist offensive against all labor and liberal organizations. The Daily Worker's influence and prestige has grown steadily in its eleven years of existence. It is the one paper that fought for and organized the masses in their struggles. At present a big circula- tion campaign has begun to have the Daily Worker reach a circulation of 100,000 by July 1st. Such a circulation would solve the financial difficulties of for more effective stru: expansion would not be neces: reach all the read of us “that we change our methods | the: paper, enable it to expand its activities, and of conducting the united front to| become the agitator and organizer of the American | meet the new and changing situation. toilers. This can be accomovlished if the questioner We change our tactics not because; and all readers and friends of the Daily Worker marry him and, together with Kat- | Our former tactics were incorrect, a8) put the paper in the hands of their shopmates, lerina, he strangles her husband. | the Social-Democrats and the rene-| friends and acquaintances, and get them to become loyal readers of the one English revolutionary daily newspaper in the United States, | Thus in her love for Sergei Ktaerina sacrifices all of herself, On the | discovery of the crimes they are sentenced together to Siberia ‘at hard labor.’ When she finds that he no longer loves her and has turned to the prostitute, Sonetka, | she drowns her rival and herself. Without Sergei’s love, life has lost its only interest. “It is unnecessary for me to re- late the action further. For I have justified it chiefly by the musical material. It is my belief that in | opera music should play the prin- cipal and the deciding role.” * (This opera will be performed by the League of Composers un- der Rodzinski, on February 5, at the Metropolitan Opera House.) Cie | Life and Teachings of Lenin confront him in the succeeding years were even bigger tasks—but | to be cut short by death. The Leadership of the World Revolution IN THE beginning of the twen- tieth century Lenin had written: History has now confronted us with an immediate task which is MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN THAN ALL THE IMMEDIATE TASKS that confront the prole- tariat of any other country. The struction of the most powerful bulwark, not only cf European, but also (it may be said) of Asiatic reaction, places the Russian pro- letariat in the vanguard of the in- ternational revolutionary prole- tariat, (“What Is To Be Done?” P. 3.) The realization of this prediction a decade and a half after these words were written took place in world situation than any nrediction could have foreseen. The Russian proletariat did, in fact, become by sively by the October Revolution, the vanguard of the international proletariat, But it had to assume leadership in the midst of the con- dition of the World War; it had to assume leadership with its own base in Russia ruined and disor- ganized to complete breakdown by tsarism and the war; and it had to assume leadership in advance and in danger of isolation, while the other kattalions were not yet ready and the revolution hung fire in western and central Europe. Nevertheless, this gigantic task and world historic responsibility was faced without flinching, realistically, and in its fullest magnitude. The comprehension of the character of this task, and the discovery of the methods of its fulfillment in the completely new unforeseeable con- ditions, sprang above all from Lenin. To lead the world revolution, to mies, and to build the new order in Russia—these were the simul- taneous aspects of the hundred- fold task which now fell upon the Russian proletariat under the lead- ership of ‘he Bolshevik Party and of Lenin. To every aspect of this task Lenin now set all the powers of his mind and will, as leader of the Soviet Government, as leader of the Communist Party, and as leader of the Communist Interna- 1917-1923, until the burden broke and smashed him, body and brain, and consigned him to early death, with his work unfinished, but with the main lines laid down for his successors to compiecte. Io (To be continued) fulfillment of this task, the de- | a far more complicated and difficult | the Revolution of 1917, and deci-| fight the ring of imperialist ene-| tional, during the momentous years | gades from Communism are now} | trying to prove. We are changing) our tactics of the united front now because conditions have changed.” | The wide application of the united | front has already led to big suc- | easses. (France, Spain and Hol-| | land.) | * AG | RUT in carrying through the united | front we must not forget that our central political slogan is the) | Slogan of Soviet Power. Where, due to the pressure from below, the So- | \cialist leaders have agreed to a| united front, they have done so only | on the basis of fulfilling certain de- | |fensive tasks: the struggle against | Literature to the Masses (E following is an excerpt from the first number of the “Literature Bulletin,” issued by the Cleve- Jand District Literature Department, Because of its | fascism, etc, Our aims, however, are | value it is being reprinted for use by unit bureaus |not merely to defend the workers | | from fascism, but also to smash fas- | cism and the class rule of the bour- | geoisie in general. The editorial in No. 24 therefore concludes “that the | united front struggle can lead the Socialist and non-party masses to} the struggle for Soviet Power only | if in the process of the united front | | struggle we win over the majority | of the working class to our side and cial-Democracy. | The united front is not a “maneu- Communists carry on & consistent | | struggle against the capitalist of- | fensive, fascism, and the war dan- | main aim of our united front—ihe | winning of the majority of the | workers for the struggle for Soviet | Power. This issue of The Communist In- ternational also contains two arti- leles dealing specifically with the | United States. | \the Party Organizer and the other | | sor L. L. Lowin’s book, “The Ameri- | can Federation of Labor—Its Poli- | tics and History.” Mingulin’s re- view discusses the social forces be- | of L. and its class collaboration | | policy. | There are a Jon the united front. One js the | speech delivered by Harry Pollitt on | | the carrying through of the united front in Great Britain made at a) meeting of the E. C. C. I. The other | is by G. Lenski on experiences in carrying through the united front in Poland. Comrade Lenski’s ar- discussion of the “Left’’ maneuvers of the Polish Socialist Party, the} question of sectarianism in carrying through the united front and also the forms of the united front from below. : This number of the Communist 1934 and contains an index of all | articles published ‘uring the year. International is the last for the year | liquidate the mass influence of So- | famous statement Volunteers Needed To Distribute Hearst Expose Seventy-five thousand copies of an anti-Hearst News Page has just been issued by the Friends of the Soviet Union, The issue is dedicated soleiy to a merciless exposure of Hearst’s lies about “famine” both in 1934 and 1933, of “terror” and “discontent.” Hearst's leading authority, Dr. Ammend, is turned inside out and is shown to be connected with the Nazis. The cartoon pithily sums up by showing Hearst stuffing the cannon of Japanese and German im- perialism which is directed against the Soviet Union with lies, hate and poison. The title of the cartoon is “I thought, my friends, you might like to know the plain, uncensored truth.” || “ volunteers are needed to dis- tribute this attractive News Sheet. Report at F. 8. U. 80 East 1lth Street, Room 233. \ | | | | | |week. | | and unit literature agents throughout the country, Functions of a Unit Literature Agent 1. A unit literature agent must realize that his task is one of the most important in the whole Party structure; that our literature is the connect- ing link beaween the workers and our Party; he is responsible to see to it that we carry out the slogan of “Theory to the Masses” and Comrade Lenin's that “Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” 2. A unit literature agent is not the only one | ver” of the Communists. Only the| to sell literature in the unit. He is the one to see to it that he gets literature from the section litera- ture agent and brings it to the members in the unit, 3, He must insist that the question of literature | is thoroughly discussed at the unit buro meeting at | ger. But we do not conceal the! jeast once a month. 4. He must insist that literature be placed | on the agenda of every single unit meeting. Litera- ture ‘must not be taken up at the same time as dues; quite often we find the famous point on the unit agenda as “dues and literature.” The two items should not even come one after the other; they One is a review of | should be separated by another point. 5. When he gets literature from the section, he |a review by I. Mingulin of Profes-| must get enough for each member in his unit to take along and sell to his fellow workers on the job, in the union, in his fraternal or any other organization they may belong to; and, finally, to hind the development of the A. F. sell to our neighbors, house to house. 6. This means that when we come to the point of literature on the agenda, the unit literature Iso two other articles | agent must explain to the other members the im- portance for every member, first, to buy literature for himself or herself to read and study, and, sec- ond, for every member to sell outside of the unit mecting, 7. The unit literature agent must know what kind of work each member does; what unions they belong to, what other organizations they are mem- ticle is especially interesting for its| bers of, and when the various organizations have their meetings, 8. He must see to it that our members working in the shops and mills and mines have appropriate trade union literature to take to the job. These members must gain the confidence of the workers and sell them the pamphlets. The first pamphlet you sell the workers will open their eyes. They will want to know more. We must be ready to give them the information. We must be ready with more lite erature. We must likewise have appropriate literas ture for the comrades belonging to the various other organizations. 9. All comrades must turn in the money for literature sold to the unit literature agent every The unit literature agent must pay every penny he receives for literature to the section lit- erature agent every week. Units dealing with the District Literature Department directly must also settle up every week. 10. Unit Literature Funds. Since there are a few thousand units in our Party throughout the country, it is practically impossible for our Party to give a couple of dollars worth of literature on credit to each unit. This means that each unit should immediately raise a literature fund of at least $2. This can be raised by taking up a collec- tion, asking for donations from sympathizers, or from the unit treasury. No time is to be lost in | raising this Jiterature fund. 11, Literature at every meeting. If it is a union meeting of the A. F. of L., or a company union, or an independent union, or a T. U. U. L. union, we | must be there with literature. If it is a meeting . of the I. W. O., or the Fraternal Order of Eagles, or the Moose Lodge, Knights of Pythias or Colum= | bus, or the Sons of Italy, or any other meeting—we ; must be there with literature,