The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1935, Page 5

Reformists Main Ene NOWELL C HIMSELF FOR VIEWS. RITICIZE HE FORMERLY HELD \dmits His Mistakes Had Basis in Hangover from | Petty Bourgeois Ideology—Scores Impe- rialist Theories of Renegade Padmore At the 8th Convention of the Party Comrade William Nowell was found to be pursuing a petty bourgeois nationalist line in his work in the Detroit District. He had also gone to the extent of carrying on factional methods in his work. The Negro Commission of the Convention severely criticized Comrade Nowelland he admitted his mistakes and tendencies, The Convention decided that Comrade Nowell should be removed from all leading work and to prove by practical work his overcoming of these mistakes. The following article shows that Comrade Nowell is making a suc- cessful effort to overcome his mis- takes, s 8 * By William Nowell The 8th Convention of the Com- qunist Party marked another his- orical advance in the clarification nd execution of the revolutionary Aarxist-Leninist policy and pro- ram, and in the all-round consoli- lation and preparation of the Party or leadership in the big impending nd developing struggles of the \merican workers, farmers and Ne- To People against the program of unger, fascism, and war of the american imperialist Roosevelt “New deal,” and towards Soviet power. The convention marked not only n historic conquest for the Party n the clarification and consolida- ion of the Party and the revolu- jonary movement on questions and sroblems of general policy, but also, nd especially, in clarifying the pro- ram and policy of national libera- ion for the Negro People. The analyses in the reports, and | he characterization by the C.C, of he Party of the rapid spread of vhite chauvinism among the white vorkers by the white ruling class, ind the simultaneous spread of Ne- sro national reformism and utopian eformist schemes and deceptions ‘mong the Negro workers. by the Negro reformist agents of the capi- alist class; their intensification, nutual connection and common ourpose as counter measures de- igned to divide the struggle of the Negro and white workers into a struggle between races, following ipon the increased activity of the arty among the masses; and hence he necessity of conducting a con- sistent struggle against both these deas and practices, both within and outside the Party, found their veri- ication in varying degrees of devia- ions from the Party line on the Negro question, against which the 2. ©, levelled a scathing criticism, warning of the danger of lowering she ideological and political barriers of the Party to these poisonous in- jluences and practices of the ruling lass. 1 The Renegade Padmore In this connection the convention Jealt. concretely with two outstand- ng deviations from the line of the Party: one being my own deviation towards petty bourgeois Negro na- tionalism, and factionalism, which, Anti-Fascist Groups Demand Freedom for Thaelmann, Torgler Reminding Adolf Hitler that the world will not be blinded by his beautiful speeches on Jan. 30, which marks two years of barbarous Nazi rule, the National Committee to Aid Vietims of German Fascism cabled him as follows: (‘Adolf Hitler, (Berlin: | “Occasion two years your de- tructive rule we join all liberty lov- Ing people in firmest unity with Germans fighting barbarous Nazi- dsm demand release Torgler, Thael- ; ann, Ossietaky, other political pris- oners.” ew Jersey Governor Gets Earful on Taxes PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 1—Gov- ernor Hoffman of New Jersey re- ceived an unpleasant surprise here, when after a speech, he was in- formed by John Lydig, business agent of Local 1733 of the American Federation of Dyers that his pro- posed sales tax is against the in- teresis of the workers. “T just want to let you know, Governor,’ Lydig said, “that when you get to Trenton Monday, you'll find a telegram from our local, with its 12,000 members, protesting your sales tax.” The governor muttered something about just whom should he tax, “Tax the rich,” replied Lydig. “We'll send you our suggestions for in- heritance and income taxes, and taxes on corporations and public utilities, too,” Lydig concluded. GARMENT WORKERS STRIKE ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 1—The In- ‘ational Ladies Garment Work- ers Union here has decided to call a strike of the 1,000 employes of the Forest City Manufacturing Co., operating plants in St. Louis, Col- Tinsville and Mascoutah, Ill. The workers demand reinstatement of 150 workers discriminated ogrinst for { taking part in a strike in June, 1983 and wage increases for piece workers, : ‘ it became clear to me in the course of the discussions in the conven- tion, was serving only to aid the enemies of the Party, by undermin- ing the morale, particularly of the younger Negro comrades in the Party, in their struggle against Ne- gro reformism and the Negro re- formists. The other case dealt with was the role of the renegade from Commu- nism, George Padmore, who prior to the convention, blatantly repu- diated the line and program of the Party and the OI. on the Negro and colonial question and went over “body and soul” into the camp of the Negro reformist agents of im- perialism, who have been correctly characterized by the C. C. as the “main enemy within the ranks of the Negro People,” and “the chief social support of imperialist jim- crow reaction among the Negro masses.” (Haywood's Report.) Reformist Schemes Padmore, who consistently pur- sued his petty bourgeois reformist schemes and deceptions into the ranks of the enemies of the work- ing class and the Negro People, had already become the agent of Negro reformism within the ranks of the Communist Party. The logic of the class struggle and his pursuit of his erroneous views led him out of the Party. The difference between my own deviation and the advanced role and betrayal of Padmore is one of degree rather than kind, as is the case with all departures from Marxism- Leninism, ultimately, and have their basis in the hangovers of petty bourgeois ideology. The 8th Convention and subse- quent clarifications and activities in the Detroit district have aided me tremendously, I feel, in changing my orientation and correcting my erroneous views, through directing the energies of the Party and con- sequently myself, outwardly in the struggle against Negro reformist misleadership and against the im- Perialists themselves. The correctness of the line of the Party, was strikingly manifested and verified in the convention itself, in the increased representation of new Negro workers from the heavy in- dustries and from remote sections of the country. Negro Reactionary Groups Negro reformism is influenced by the rise of the Japanese movement, “the Development of Our Own,” with its program of “all dark races against all white,” it expresses it- self by the establishment of the Republican First Congressional Or- ganization of Detroit, headed by Charles Roxborough, notorious Ne- gro Republican reformist dema- gogue, red-baiting misleader of the Negro People; both of which are the direct opposite of the revolutionary class struggle program and policy of the Communist Party, of the unity and struggle of the workers and the toiling and oppressed of all races and nationalities against their common oppressors and robbers, of which the Republican lynch party of Hoover fame of the American ruling class, and the Japanese im- | perialist butchers and robbers of the | Japanese, Formosan and Korean workers and farmers are outstand- ing examples. The Japanese idea was used to mobilize the Negro masses by a frac- | tien of the Negro jim-crowed wing | of the Republican Party and to sell | them unsuspectingly into the Re- | publican Party machine, In return for their services the representa- | tives of the Japanese fraud, Mr. and Mrs. Takahashe, were amply paid for their services; and the politi- cians themselves are rewarded with handouts, the right to sell jobs, create systems of stool pigeons to Spy on the Communist Party and the. revolutionary organizations, powers of “fixer” and “go-between” the Negro racketeers and the prose- eutor’s office and the courts, and to carry out shake-downs. They were given a monopoly over the} Policy racket, bootlegging, prostitu- | tion and vice in general. Fascist Auxiliary Such practices and methods and organization form an important part of the creation of a fascist auxiliary apparatus among the Negro People which, when the race prejudice they | spread, the sweet phrases and| bribery fail, and in proportion as} they fail to halt the leftward swing and the struggle and growing unity of Negro and white workers against starvation and robbery, police ter- ror, frame-ups and lynching of the Negro People, come more asd more openly as the direct aid and insti- gators of the bloody Hitler fascist slaughter of the Negro masses and | the working class, | The method of misleading the) Negro workers by subtle deception, the use of sweet and radical Phrases, and at the same time carry- ing out the policy and program and developing movements of the most Teactionary character, of downright betrayal and misleadership, has been carried to its highest point in the activities of Sweet and Roxborough of the Roxborough political ma- chine, In the period elapsing since the Eighth Convention of the Party, the Party in the Detroit district has made rapid strides forward in the| field of Negro work, as well as the work of the Party in general; first, in the clarification of all erroneous views on the Negro question among | the Party membership and the| workers’ organizations, the rooting out of pessimism, doubt, and under- estimation of the possibility and nec- essity of developing joint struggles | of Negro and white workers, and a| mass movement among the Negro! people for Negro rights; in bring-| ing forward and consolidating new | cadres of Negro and white comrades, the establishment of the LS.N.R. and the penetration and develop- ment of activities within the Jap- anese movement, particularly in ex- posing the role of the reformist politicians and the sell-out of the leadership of the Japanese move- ment to the Negro Republican poli- ticians in the last elections. Critical Approval However, the very fact of this critical approach to Negro work, and the intensification of the struggle for Negro rights around the needs | and grievances of the Negro masses | for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, etc., has/ laid bare the major weaknesses of the work in the hangovers and de- velopment of petty bourgeois Negro nationalism, hooliganism, moral and | political degeneration and irrespon- sible practices; and moreover, has exposed these irresponsible individ- | uals of whom such practices are characteristic. The Party in clarifying and con- solidating its forces for its further activity in the field on Negro work my Within Ranks AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF SOLIDARITY Thousands of Negro and white workers greeted Angelo Herndon on his release from prison on bail, Left to right: Charles Krumbein, Clarence Hathaway, Angelo Herndon, Ben Davis and Robert Minor, in our district has encountered the stiffened resistance and activities of Negro reformism, not only of the} openly reactionary brand but also, and especially, the subtle, elusive, demagogic kind, which in the period preceding the Eighth Convention of the Party when the front of the Party in the struggle against Negro reformism was weak, made and maintained its connections inside the Party and developed more and more openly in the petty bourgeois Negro reformist activities of Joseph Billups, who became the agent with- in the Communist Party for the Negro reformists of Detroit, The Case of Billups The District Committee of the Communist Party of Detroit has expelled Billups from its ranks for his verified political and personal association with and subservience to Negro reformist politicians of De- troit, acting as agent-advisor, sup- plying information about the Party plan, tactics, organization and lead- ership; and for his well-known gen- eral political and moral degenera- tion. Under the guise of “personal \ friend” and “client” of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, Billups served as agent for Roxborough-Sweet during the election campaign. The history of the loose and ir-} responsible activities and moral de- generate practices of Billups, and the attempts of the Party to check his obvious trend is not new. The Negro and white comrades that have worked with Billups during the period he was in the Commu- nist Party, constantly recognized in him strong petty bourgeois reform- ist political racketeering tendencies as well as obviously loose practices which the Party strove to help Bil- lups overcome by giving him the possibility to get a working-class education, and by placing him among the Party leadership in our district under the guidance and with the help of the leading com- mittee of the district, in an attempt to rid him of the influence of his past life, and to develop him into a leader of the Negro masses and the working class, The Party ran Billups for gover- nor of the State of Michigan, the|the Party and plenipotentiary, ac! | first time in the history of the state or of the United States since the period of reconstruction that any political Party had run a Negro for governor; imposing in Billups the trust and responsibility of the Party towards the Negro masses and as a representative of the struggle for the rights and freedom of the Negro people, Went Backward Instead of improving, Billups went definitely backward, until the Party, two years ago, found it nec- essary to remove him from all re- sponsible activity for his general political and moral looseness and for conduct unbecoming a Commu- nist, giving him the possibility to correct himself in mass work. Instead of proving his capability to be a Communist, and of repre- senting the program of the Party and carrying out the struggle for Negro rights and in the general in- terest of the working class, Billups betrayed the trust of the Party by his open collaboration with Dr, Sweet and other Negro reformists on the Scottsboro Committee. It became clear to the Negro comrades on the committee that it was the activities of Billups in supplying..n- formation about the Party to these reformists, and particularly his slan- ders against white comrades on the committee that it aroused an obvious antagonism and provoked an open attack by one of the reformists against a white comrade active in Negro work, which made it neces- sary for the Party to again attempt to check Billups’ surrender of the principle of unity and class struggle of Negro and white, and his obvious Political association with Negro re- formism, Placed on Trial In recent months the Party placed Billups on. trial again as Section Organizer in the Negro section, which post he abused by financia! hooliganism and irresponsibility, and above all by forming closer ties with Dr, Sweet and other Negro reform~- ist politicians, and then by deserting the post without notifying the Party, becoming a “Communist” at large, self-appointed representative of cepting funds (bribes) in the name of Communism in return for supply- ing information to and acting as representative for Dr. Sweet and consequently to Roxborough of the First Congressional Republican ganization and the Republi Party, of which Roxborough is Jim-crow Negro reformist chief, and| Harry Toy, Wayne County prosecu- tor, is chief in Wayne County. The Sweet “left” Negro reform- ist type is characteristic of the more subtle reformist demagogues of the capitalist class who mouth radical phrases and pose Ss “friends”-of the Party, the revolu- tionary movement and the Negro workers; while at the same time their main object is to attempt to utilize the movemeni for their own ends, working through those po- litically degenerate elements of the type of Billups to accomplish their aim. It was on the basis of the pub- licity that Dr. Sweet received through the workers’ press and or- ganizations during the time of the association with the Scottsboro Committee of Detroit, the informa- tion he received from Billups about the working of the movement and the radical phrases and front that he was able to put up as a conse- quence that he was run on the Re- publican ticket for State Senator in one of the biggest Negro dis- | tricts by the Roxborough Jim-Crow wing of the Republican Par in an attempt to check the leftward swing of the Negro workers, while the police of Harry Toy, prosecutor and candidate for Attorney Gel eral, beat, framed and jailed star ing Negro workers and barred the C. P. and the L. §. N. R. from the streets in the Negro section. Sweet's Position Dr. Sweet has posed as a sym- pathizer of the C. P. and the revo lutionary movement for some time. Here is a sample of his “sympa- thies”: When a white and a Negro comrade known to Dr. tended a meeting of the First Con- gressional organization, at which Sweet spoke, calling on the Negro workers to war Politically against Sweet at-| of Negro People |STRUGGLE AGAINST @ WHITE CHAUVINISM _ IS URGED AS VITAL the white workers, directly support- | ing the reactionary program of the | Japanese movement dd making | overthres to the o nizations; and | when the comrades attempted to |ask questions they were prom ordered to leave the meeti chairman after he had been called | into conference by Dr. Sweet | ‘Therefore the extent of the be- | trayel and anti-Party, anti-wo: class activities of Billups can only |be properly estimated and appre- ciated on the basis of the analysis of the activities, program and con- nections of the Negro national re- |formist wing of the Republican lynch party of Hoover fame, for which Billups had become repre- | Sentative within the Communist | Party. The Party, the Negro masses and the revolutionary movement would misjudge and underestimate the danger of the activities of Billups | if we did not reason in the follow- ing manner, on the basis of Billups’ known connections and activities; the copying of Party forms and | methods of organization by the Ne- gro politicians and the attempt to use these forms and methods against the Party by Roxborough and Sweet; the fascist terror drive against the Party in the Negro sec- tion, while Sweet and Roxborough | activities were protected by the po- lice, especially preceding the pri- |maries and up to the elections, the ordering of Communists from Sweet's and Roxborough’s meetings jand the general activity of the Politicians and their knowledge about the inner activities of the |Party, that: the information given | |to Sweet, Roxborough-Toy and the Republican Party of Wayne County and the State, became the property of and the guide to the tactics and | attacks of the Republican Party, the prosecutor's office and the po- | lice. Consequently the Party, the | Negro masses and the revolutionary movement can only understand the activities of Billups as directly stool-pigeoning for the Republican Politicians, and indirectly for the police. Such is the inevitable trend of political irresponsibility, degen- | eration and betrayal against which the Party, the Negro masses and the revolutionary movement must constantly be on guard. The activities of Billups are directly analogous to those of the renegade, George Padmore, who operates on an international scale: | the only difference in the position of Padmore and Billups in the Communist Party; and the ability of the two agents, of which Pad- | more had the greater advantage in serving the enemies of the working class and the Negro people. The political degeneration of Billups is characteristic of the process going on before our very eyes in capitalist society, and par- | ticularly among the Negro reform- |ist agents of the capitalist class, and is an exact reflection of the same: that is the union of all forms of vice, crime, disease, pros- titution, policy racket, bootlegging, ete., and the vendors of the vices, into systems and organizations, making them legitimate businesses as a part of the spoils system of the capitalist political parties, the mon- | opoly over which, inthe Negro sec- | tion especially, is the privilege given | Battle Must Be Fought Along With Attack on Reformists the Negro misleaders of the Negro masses as a part of their reward for misleedership of the Negro masses; reflected in Billups in the over-growth from moral to political degeneration, his reverting to, and developing hang-overs bourgeois national reform- im-proletarian political rack- bourgeois Negro reformist Politics has become one of the ma- jor means of demoralizing, bribing and forcing even large numbers of Negro workers into supporting the capitalist political parties and the programs and schemes of the Negro reformist politicians Proved His Role Billups has proved his role more conclusively since his expulsion from the Communist Party by carrying on a campaign of sianders against the Communist Party, directly aiding the enemies of the Party and the workers in their furious drive against Communism, headed by the yellow chain of filthy sheets of William Randoiph Hearst. Therefore, under the present con- ditions in our district when the Party is mobilizing and consolidat- ing its forces against the bitter ate tacks of the enemies of the revolu- tionary movement, against the fas- cist attacks of American capitalism against the Negro people and the working class; the Hearsts, the Father Coughlins and the whole host of fascist “New Deal” reac- tion; when the Negro reformist misleaders and betrayers of the rights of the Negro people stand ready, with sweet words in their mouths but with dagger in hand, to stab and throw into the cauldron of Democratic and Republican fas- cist stew for the beasts of American capitalism every young revolution- ary attempt of the Negro masses to struggle from under the yoke of robbery, hunger, discrimination and lynch rule, the activities of Billups and all like him beeome the jmain danger to the unity of the Party and the development of joint struggles of Negro and white work- ers for the rights of the Negro peo- ple and in the general interest of the working class, and must be fought as such. It is, above all, the task of the Negro Communists to treacherous role of Billups to the Negro masses as the reason why it becomes necessary in the interest of the struggle for Negro rights and the liberation of the Negro people and the working class, to cut out these roots of race against race theories and practices that have wormed their way into the Party, in order that the Party may con- solidate itself for the accomplish- ment of one of its major tasks in the struggle for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern- don, against discrimination, robbery and lynching of the Negro masses; for the unity of the Negro and white workers in the struggle for equal rights and self-determination of the Negroes in the Black Belt of the South. oo ooo WINNING YOUTH FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT OF CRISIS By JOHN LITTLE Y hig Eighth Convention of our Party placed before the mem- bership as an immediate and de- cisive task the problem of winning the majority of the toiling and stu- dent youth for the revolutionary Way out of the crisis, Tt is now possible to estimate the extent to which these decisions have been carried out, in the period that has elapsed since the Convention. A considerable change can be noted in New York District, of the attitude of Party membership to- wards recruiting into the Y. C. L, This was particularly so during the period following the Kighth Con- vention until National Youth Day (May 30th); wherein the Party in @ real, concerted manner directed its attention to the building of the League. This tempo was not maintained following N. Y, D., however, it left a definite impresion in the minds of the Perty membership towards the political understanding of this Problem. Guidance of Party This is evidenced in the closer guidance and interest demonstrated by the Party as a whole towards the problem of the Y. C. L. As a result the situation of the Y. C. L, has changed considerably. At the time of the Convention, the League had a membership of 1,000. Today the N. Y. League has grown to 3,000 members. There has been a radical im- provement in the social composition of the Y. C. L,, the large proportion of the membership being workers, many of whom are in trade unions. While our League formerly counted 19 shop units, they now number 50, many of which are sit- uated in important enterprises. However, this does not as yet com- pare with the strength of the Party in the shops, and the need for help- ing the Y. C. L. build a League shop unit wherever one from the Party exists, is a8 necessary as ever, ‘The slight though important be- ginning in develo youth work within the A. F. of L. unions, de- spite the persistent resistance of some Party members, are additional indications of the results of the fight for the carrying through of the Party line in the Y, C, L, Trade Union Work The increased attention that the Y. C, L. has been paying to trade union work is seen by the greater number of League members joining and becoming active in their re- spective trade unions, This has re- flected itself in the sharpening of the fight for the line of the Party within the trade unions as in the Radio and Shipping Clerks where as a result we have built our League and intrenched ourselves among the organized youth. The most serious weakness in the work is that it is general in char- acter and insufficient even at that, and the lack of a persistent strug- gle on the part of the Party for developing youth demands and youth forms in the trade unions as in the Millinery and Needle Trades of the I. L. G. W. U. The wealth of experience that the League has obtained during this last period in the participation in and leading of economic _ struggles, united front work, struggles against war and fascism, unemployed strug- gles, accompanied by greater politi- cal guidance on the part of the Party will, without doubt, assure the rapid growth of the Y. C. L. into @ mass organization Jarger in com- position than the Party. Break for Sectarianism The bare beginnings that the Y. Cc, L. has made to break with its sectarian past necessitates greater political and organizational guid- ance from the Party. While in a number of fields of its work the Y, C. L. in fighting for the line of the Party has been able to ob- tain positive results, there still re- main serious weaknesses. ‘The work among the Negro youth remains one of the most outstand- ing of these. The Y. C, L. has not really established itself in the eyes of the masses of Negro youth as their champion, their defender; struggling for Negro rights, and working for the development of a broad liberation movement among the Negro youth. While it has taken up numerous struggles such as at the Empire Cafeteria, in Harlem, and at the Kresge Store in Crown Heights and began the building of the Young Liberators throughout the city, this work has not received full cooperation and guidance from the Party in the respective sec- tions. How else can it be explained that in the Crown Heights Section (No, 16) weeks passed before the Party began to assist the Y. C, L. in the struggle for jobs for Negro youth and against discrimination at the Kresge store? While this occurred the Party, be- cause of lack of vigilance over the Y¥. C. L., permitted a development in the Y. C. L. of white chauvinism expressing itself against Negro leadership to proceed unhampered, A serious lack of understanding of the Negro problem expressed itself within the Section and Units of the Y. C. L. without the Party being aware of it. Had the Party in Crown Heights seen to it that the Party line within the Y. C. L. was being carried out there would not be such occurrences. And what is Conservatives Enlist Police In NAACP Election on Coast |and remove them from the influ- | ence of the Negro reformists in LOS ANGELES, Calif, Feb. 1— Probably what was the hottest and, too, the mest irregular election of @ local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, took place at the First A. M. E. Zion Church, Picaco and Paloma Streets, this city. Advance preparations for the election indicated that the use of armed forces would be necessary to insure a winner frem among the ranks of the reactionary clique con- trolling the local branch of the NAACP. Many incriminations and much mudslinging was in- dulged in by the opposing forces. The young progressive forces led by Ellicté Johnson, who was seek- ing the presidency, were bitterly opposed by the incumbent “me, too, boss,” “hat in hand” reactionary clique. Sensing a probable rout, the Old Guard reqliested Chief of Police Davis to send a squadron of his in- famous “red squad” as an intimi- dating curb on the militancy of the young progressives. The church auditorium was packed with people and the atmosphere was tense, The presence of the “red squad” had its effect in intimidating some of the supporters of the progressives, and Attorney Thomas L. Griffith, | Jr., was duly re-elected as presi- dent, with Miss Zella Taylor, an- other member of the reactionary clique, as vice-president. The action of the Old Guard in| calling in the police to supervise | the elections has left a bad taste in | the mouths of rank and file mem- bers, and dissatisfaction is rife in | the local N.A.A.C.P, branch. | ‘Pharmacists Establish UnemployedAssociation | One hundred unemployed phar- the Pharmacsits Union Friday aft- erncen and formed the Unemployed | Pharmacists Association. A commit- for unemployed pharmacists, and |another committees elected to pre- j sent relief cases at the Home Re- ‘lief Bureaus, ployed Pharmacists Association wijl be held at the heaciquarters of the | Film and Photo League, 31 East 21st | the M., Orot., | have consolidated macists met at the headquarters of tee was formed to formulate projects The next meeting of the Unem- | more, it would have been able to nip in the bud any tendencies pointing in this direction. During the past period, the Har- lem section of the League parti pated in numerous strike and un- employment struggles (Spick & | Span, Salvation Army), in which the majority were Negro youth. Dur- ing that period, hundreds of Negro youth joined the Y. C. L, but to- day, in review of the situation, ap- |proximately the same number of | Negro youth are in the Y. C. L. as there were at the time of the Eighth Convention. Obviously, something is wrong with the work of the Y. C. L. This tremendous fluctuation among Negro youth can be, in the main, explained by the lack of experienced cadres which would educate these youth | Harlem. Here, too, had the Party more closely assisted the Y. C. L. in the solution of its problems, as- suring its line within the ranks of the League would the influence that it had obtained during the course of these struggles, so that today the League would have within its ranks many more Negro | youth, This example is not isolated only to this section, but can be applied with minor exceptions to all other sections in the District, and espe- | cially to those sections where the | Negro population is relatively small in comparison with Harlem and Crown Heights. In Section 1 of the League a sit- uation developed in which the en- tire section committee lost its main orientation of work among the youth in the shops and trade unions. Here a sharp decline took | place in the work among the em- ployed youth and the work in the “¥” and Settlement Houses became the main orientation of the League. Certainly one cannot be counter- posed against the other, but even | Street, Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 1 p.m,' more surely one cannot displace the ;other. Had the Party in this sec- | tion been paying more attention |to the Y. C. L,, this situation would not have developed. Unemployed Youth The work among the unemployed youth is another of the serious shortcomings in the work of the |¥. C. L. Here, there has not been a firm line for the carrying through of the tasks that the Party set for the unemployed youth. The Party in the respective sections has not been a decisive factor in orientat- ing and in coordinating the strug- gles of the adults with those of the youth, and at the same time has not assisted the Y. C. L. in the development of its independent ac- | tivity among the unemployed youth. | Instead the tendency has been to | withdraw active League members away from youth work and into the general activity. It is obvious that |if the line of the Party is to be | applied within the Y. C. L,, the| | Party must combat any such ten- dencies and actively assist the Y. C. | L. in developing the struggles of | the youth for immediate relief and | unemployment insurance, | Strengthen the Party ¥. CL. | The strengthening of the strug- gle for the line of the Party within the Y. C, L, must be undertaken in all seriousness by the entire Party |if the League is to be a broader | organization than the Party. This | must be accomplished in a two-fold | Manner: (1) By sending into youth | work more experienced Party com- |rades. The first step in that direc- | tion has already been taken by the | Party district with the assigning of 100 Party members to the ¥. C. L, (2) By educating the Y. C. L. mem- | bers in the spirit of the Party, teaching them the correct Party line and instilling in them loyalty | and devotion to their Party. In | this way to increase the number of | Communist Party members within form the Y, C. L. into the best as- | sistant of the Party in the struggle jfor the majority of the working | class, the Y. C. L. who can really trans: | Hopkins Says Relief May Be Cut Off WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1— Using the same bludgeon methods that Mayor LaGuardia of New York City brought into play last Sep- tember in order to put across his odious wage-robbing sales w*2s, F, Administrator Hopkins to- y “warned” Congress that unless it passed the bill providing dicta- torial relief powers to Roosevel.. tee lef would terminate on Feb. 10. Hopkins said that he was dis- tributing the last $50,000,000 of re- lief money on a “day-to-day basis.” This hand-to-mouth relief to the twenty millions now living on the hunger doles, will be terminated, Hopkins said, “because the relief administration cannot obligate it- self after Feb. 10 unless Congress passes President Roosevelt's $880,- 000,000 relief bill.” Hopkins said that his decision to make February allotments on an emergency basis for the month of | February does not mean that relief | vill terminate in the States. Alabama Cops Launch New Attack on Workers BESSEMER, Ala, Feb. 1.—With the arrest of Saul Williams Sunday night, Bessemer launched a renewed terror drive against the mine work- ers and their organizations. Williams, a militant Negro worker, | was pulled from his bed and taken to police headquarters “on sus- | picion.” No charges have been made | against him, Every attempt to con- | tact him has been blocked by the | police who are holding him incom- municado, | RELIEF ROLLS CUT |_SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 1.— | Two hundred unemployed workers, | who, according to Administrator | Paul H. Davis of the State Emer- gency Relief Administration, are “suspected of Communistic active ities,” were cut off the relief rolls [here today. Davis also issued a | threat to all relief staff workers’ or- ganizations that those holding posi- tions in the 8. E. R, A, who were would be fired, a