The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUAR Y 25, 1935 Page 3 Watchers Set to Guard Rights Of Workers at Chicago Polls Communist Party Issues | Instructions for Alder-| manic Vote Tomorrow CHICAGO, Feb, 24.—The election | campaign committee of the Commu- nist Party here has issued the fol-| lowing instructions to Communists | and to all others who will act as watchers in the aldermanic elections | tomorrow. | “All watchers at the polis are to| be on the lookout against repeaters; | against stuffing of ballot boxes. H “See that no watcher inside the! polling place in any way influences, | directs, or urges any voters how to! vote. | “All watchers must be at the poll- ing places at time of opening. “They must not leave the place for a minute unless a substitute is there to take his or her place. “Make sure that the ballot box is empty before the voting begins, Ex- amine box carefully. “Permit no whispering to any vot- ers inside of polling place. See that all election posters, pictures, etc., of candidates are removed. “Have a registered voters list with you and check every name on the list “and in the precinct book. No | one is to vote whose name does not appear on the books. Indicate on | list how they vote in primaries. “If efforts are made to have any | one vote whose name is not on the | books, protest to the judge of elec- | tions. "If any voter (one who is blind | or otherwise physically incapaci- | tated) asks for assistance the fol- | lowing is the procedure: | “Two election officers, selected | from the Judges and Clerks, of two | different political parties, are to as- | Joint Labor Election Program | women’s councils, Communist Party, | KALI OPENS SOVIET CONGRESS Mikhail Kalinin, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (at microphone), is shown opening the meeting of the Con- gress of the Russian Republic in Moscow. Others seated on the presid- ium are (left to right): D. E. Sulimov; A. 8. Siselov; V. M. Molotov; Joseph Stalin and M. M. Kaganovich. Given Backing in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Feb. ers, 79 delegates from 38 organizations gathered at Musical | Arts Building, and pledged their support to a Joint Labor Election ticket in the forthcoming municipal elections, Delegates were present from Epic and Epic Democratic clubs, Utopian groups, labor unions,¢——-—— TE sp Pte on 7. For abolition of the “Red Squad.” open forums and many other groups, Preliminary planks for the elec- - A tion platform were adopted by the | and Social Insurance Bill H.R. 2827 body. These include: and State Unemployment and So- 24.—Representing 47,280 work-| only accentuated those factors that made for the unusual depth and | 8. For repeal of all vagrancy laws. | | 9. For the Federal Unemployment | News and Views of the Crisis Recent Trends ihe recent upturn in business and production began io taper off dur- ing the first part of February. and at present definite signs of down- In the last few weeks there has been a ward trends are emerging. reduction in steel ingot production contrary to the usual 1 Reserve Board for department store seasonal trend. The index of the Feder: sales registered a sharp deciine from December to January, greater than the usual seasoncl drop. ‘Textile production has failed to ad- vance over the Janvary mak. Building and engineering awards last month were only 53.5 per cent of the amount reported in January, 1934. These trends indicate the beginning of another recession in busi- ness and production similar to what took place last spring. The bour- geois economists, who only 2 fortnight ago, were visualizing a new boomlet, now speak of “an interruption” to the expansion of the past four months. Instead of a further advance in the volume of produc- tion, they now hope that the present leveling-off will not turn into a rapid downward slide. Thus, the third upturn in the past two years is petering out. It is following the pattern of the first two forward movements—a quick rise based on government expenditures, plus anticipation of higher prices. But each vpward trend was sharply checked after a four or | five month period, and a new reaction downward began, in keeping with the instability that characterizes the present period of the crisis. It is significant tha‘ despite fluctuations the economic picture retains its dominant tones: mass unemployment; stagnation in heavy in- dustry, especially in building which remains at the lowest levels of the crisis, and no activity in the capital markets, although the banks are glutted with excess funds. The “normal” capitalist solution is not operating. The very ef- forts of the Roosevelt administration to solve the crisis—inflation, subsidies and loans to big business, throttling of agriculture, etc., have severity of the cri: We are in for a period of zig-zag movements, none of which will reach boom levels. And with each inflationary dose we move claser te runaway inflation with its subsequent economic crack-up. Note on Consumption One of the results of the New Deal was a general lowering of living standards. The inflationary rise in prices, wages frozen around the N.R.A. minimums, in fact, the whole impact of the Roosevelt pro- gram has been to reduce the consuming power of the American working people. They are paying higher rents, and eating less food and buying sist him inside the booth in marking the ballot. | “All watchers have the same) OQ (AT. | to proposed so- ae Do not let any one bulldoze | cajied “anti-Communist” legislation. 1, Repeal of the Criminal Syndi- Counting of Ballots “Check every ballot carefully and keep careful count. “Watch if ballots are marked properly. “Permit no vote stealing. “Fight every challenged vote. “Keep note of every disqualified vote. “Judge is to make a decision on | every contested case. | “If decision is not satisfactory, re- cord case so you can take it up with Board of Election Commissioners. “Be sure that there are no more votes cast than what names are re- corded in books and registered vot- ers’ lists. “Don't leave after the count. Wait until ballots are strung and sealed. For that matter, do not leave the place withont anyone substituting for you. “The law states: “‘& voter may vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot by writing the name in, at the proper place—and putting a square before it and a cross in the square.” “In case of emergency, call your Ward headquarters. “Immediately after the ballot boxes are sealed, report the results of the votes to your Ward head- . Quarters. “Every ballot must have the judges’ initials on the ballot. Bal- lots without these initials are in- valid.” WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. 3. For free use of public schools by all groups, regardless of political views. 4, Free lunches for children. 5. Free medical care for expectant, mothers, together with proper food and after-birth care. 6. Against anti-picketing ordi- nance: Home Owners Fight Taxes SHAMOKIN, Pa., Feb. 24.—After exposing the program of the rent | \ department of the Emergency Relief | Board here the Unemployment. Council is organizing the unem- ‘ployed home-owners to demand a moratorium on mortgages, cancel- ation of back taxes and full pay- ment of rent by the Relief Board. | The rent department announced | 8 few weeks ago that they would | Pay rent to all unemployed home owners but when the checks were | distributed some were as low as $1.22 per month. At a meeting called by the Coun- cil to discuss this problem last week a large group of home owners, who face eviction and loss of their homes unless they force the relief board to pay their rent, passed a resolution demanding that the | promise of the board be carried out. | All unemployed home-owners who |are faced with similar problems | have been urged to get in touch with the Unemployment Council at | the Workers Hall, 716 North Sham- Grand Concert and Bazaar. Aus- pices: Unemployment Councils of Philadelphia, Friday and Saturday eves, March 1 and 2 at Dirmyia Arena, Broad snd Bainbridge Sts. Glamorous entertainment, Puppet Show, Play, Dancing, Music, Na- tional Speaker, Serget Radamsky and Maria Radamsky. Proceeds for pub- Meation of newspaper for the unem- ployed. Adm. 35¢ for both evenings. Newark, N. J. Halt! Newark arrange affairs jokin Street, Shamokin, Pa, One of the outstanding \points in the Central Committee Resolution of the last Party Plenum is that section devoted to the still strong sectarian feature in the work of the Party, which is retarding the tempo of the mass work of the Party. This fundamental question was raised very sharply in the Open Letter of July, 1933. From the organizations don’t | Mareh 17, Paris Commune Day. Extraordinary ex- hibit, Gropper, Burck, Del, Marsh, Nigob, noted concert pianist, Admis- sion 250. Detroit, Mich. Michigan Youth Congress Dance, Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Graystone Ballroom, Eddie Conti and his N.B.C. a Adm. 40¢ in adv.,”500 at jor, | 00 Brings Voi : ~ @ Copy of Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by BURCK SPECIAL OFFER “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burok” is now available only with the folowing subseription offers: ‘Years sub and copy of book........ 3 Months sub and copy of book.. ‘Year's Sat. sah and copy of book Add 26 ¢ te (IESE PRICES nO Aap nt sg 9 Me BRONX) IT am enclosing $ “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck.” cial Insurance Bill A.S. 791, 10. Freedom of Tom Mooney and | release of present Criminal Syndi- calism prisoners now being tried in | less clothes, as a result of the New Deal. Real wages have fallen around New Deal. three per cent in the period of the Workers found that they were worse off, as a whole, during | Sacramento, as well as all other | 1934 than in 1933, and that they were in more desperate straits than | political prisoners, j | 11, Public works projects. Slum clearance and housing. } 12. Five-cent carfare and lower | utility rates. | Other planks were adopted, in- cluding ones protecting children, school teachers and national minor- ities. J obless, Faces _ Deportation | PORTLAND, Ore. Feb, 24. — | Smoke-screening the real issues be- hind alleged law-violations com- | mitted 17 years ago, the U. S. im- | |} migration authorities again took Walter Baer into custody yesterday | for deportation to Nazi Germany. Baer, who has lived in this coun- | try for more than 30 years, served | | time for law violations as a youth. | Later he became a civil engineer. | He married and has three children. | With the depression, Baer was | swept into the army of unemployed. | | He became active in unemployed | organizations, at first placing his | confidence in self-help programs. But with the collapse of the self- help program, Baer saw the need for militant, mass struggle. He was finally arrested with a group of | jobless at a relief demonstration, and shortly thereafter the immigra- | tion authorities arrested him on the | pretext of his youthful offense. Protests should be rushed by wire and air mail to Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, Washington, | D. C., Roy J. Norene, Immigration Inspector at Portland, Ore. | Period until today, we must admit that the Party has succeeded to |some extent in reaching larger masses, and has put before the masses the vital problems of the American labor movement. The | Party’s influence has grown and is | 8rowing—yet not in proportion to the favorable objective situation. This is due, as the resolution states, to the still strong sectarian features that prevent a stronger connection of the Party with the masses, especially in the factories, with the organized masses in the trade unions and other mass organ- izations. Has the Party taken steps to defeat this sectarianism? Yes, to some extent, as the resolution states, an ideological campaign is being carried on for the purpose of cor- Tecting, through the press, and through discussion, the various mis- takes in our practical work. But the ideological campaign must be accompanied by the concretization of all tasks put by the Central Com- mittee Resolution. This is an or- ganizational problem that we must solve, . Two Examples Have we examples that show cor- rect methods of how to reach the masses and involve them in united front struggles for their immediate demands in various political cam- paigns? We have two splendid ex- amples before us on a national scale =the Congress Against War and Fascism; the Congress for Unem- Ployment and Social Insurance. It was through intensive activity of the Party among the masses in their organizations, trade unions, cultural and fraternal organizations, that millions of organized workers were represented at the two Con- gresses. na national scale, we have another good example, such as the formation of the Youth Congress, where the Young Communist League played the main role of bringing about a broad united front of the American youth in the strug gle against fascism and war, in the struggle for the improvement of the House Hearings on H. R. 2827 Are Summarized by Benjamin | DELEGATES TO SOVIET CONGR | Tells Congressmen Bill Represents Genius =EE | Scores of nationalities were represented by hundreds of delegates at tne 16th All-Union Congress of the Soviets. progress made toward the goals set and planned startling growth for 1935. South Dakota A. F. L. Farmers Relie f Conference of U.S. Workers Joint Action Committ e Unemployment Insur- i bare the Roosevelt ger program The summary of hearings on H. R. 2827 have to corroborate and sustain claim that has been made in behalf of this, the Workers’ Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In- } Surance Bill. In this as in many r noteworthy resnects, these ‘ings stand out as the most | unique in Congressional f hearings as well as They discussed the under the Second Five-Year Plan, rd striking proof of the fact Bar: the ma: kers and I whom s i statesmen Backs |? and treat contempt, can se that are essential and can marsh ments as well for s, figures and argu- the forces needed port of their measures. Th SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 24.—The State Federation of Labor has added its endorsement to the hundreds of | others which have been coming in to the headquarters here | of Farmers’ Emergency Relief Conference, to be held here The conference has been called as a broad united front conference of all¢ jon March 25 to 27. working farmers, farm women, farm | youth, farm organizations, dispos- sessed farmers and rural wage la- borers for the purpose of winning | more relief and control over farm | relief. Lem Harris, secretary of the local | sponsoring committee writes: it seems to me, is the most si ficant and outstanding conclu that can be drawn from these hear- ings. Unity Behind H. R. 2827 Those who asnire to real democ- racy, those who take pride in what is the real Am ger resourcefulness, i perseverance and courage American m: ton, South Dakota; B Dakota, and Tuttle, O) for Farmers Holiday of will find in the the members we have the news that the Pine County Holiday Association of Minnesota— the largest county organization in the Minnesota Holid: recently en- dorsed the conference. Our first en- record of these hearings on H. R. 2827, a source of real hone for our future. These records establish the fact that the masses of producers, the workers, farmers and profes- in the worst year of the crisis—1932. Retail sales in 1934 were only 58 per cent of what they were in 1929, and two per cent less than in 1932. Since there had been an increase in prices of over 20 per cent in these two years, the physical volume of goods sold in 1934 was much less than the difference of two per cent shown in dollar sales. An analysis of the retail sales figures for 1934 indicates that there was less food consumed in 1934 than in 1933. Dollar volume went up seven per cent. But prices had gone up fourteen per cent. Thus the actual physical volume of food bought by the workers in 1934 was smaller than the ainount they consumed in 1933. The workers are faced with the necessity of continually tightening their belts. The rising cost of living is steadily cutting down the amount of food and clothing that they can buy. The reactionary Na- tional Industrial Conference Board has just announced that the cost of tiving just went up another one per cent in January, in the main due to skyrocketing food prices which rose 3.4 per cent in one month. The cost of living was 5.3 per cent higher than it was last year, and 11 per cent above itr level in 1933 That the dollar volume of retail sales rose last year over 1933 was in great part due to government expenditures. It did not represent a real increase due to recovery. In fact, the total increase in retail sales was only a little over 75 per cent of the emergency outlays of the | government. This indicates how much of the money poured out by the administration goes directly and indirectly to the capitalist class, and only succeeds in increasing their surplus funds. When Roosevelt “primes the economic pump,” he is lining the pockets of the rich. The Gold Decision The nine old gentlemen in the Supreme Court have now rendered their decision on the nullification by Congress of the gold clause. As was to be expected from their previous actions with respect to other phases of New Deal legislation, there was no hesitation by the ma- jority of the court in upholding the government, although it had vio- lated the capitalist holy of holies—the sanctity of contracts. To have ruled against the government on the gold clause would have precipitated a financial panic that would have wiped out the gains of the capitalists derived from Roosevelt's inflationary policies. Conse- quently the court mumbled a few words of moral censure, but made it perfectly clear that Roosevelt could go straight ahead manipulating the currency of the country. It pointed out that the question was one of “power,” and that in this respect Congress had the power to “ex- pressly prohibit and invalidate contracts,” if they interfered with the carrying out of policy. “Dozens of endorsements have been pouring into the Conference | Office in Sioux Falls from all quar- ters of the countryside. Almost every type of farmers’ organization has signified its support of the Farmers Emergency (Conference. Farmers Union members will be interested in | the new endorsements of Farmers Union locals coming from Col- dorsement of a Taxpayers’ League comes from the Boyd County Tax- payers League meeting held last week at the County seat in Butte, Nebraska.” All communications relating the conference should be sent to Lem Harris, Conference Secretary, Box 366 Sioux Falls, South Dakota. | to reasoning to justify its ruling. The economic forces of the day dic- tated the decision, just as it had forced Roosevelt to go off the gold standard and devalue the dollar. The Court could not nullify Roose- velt’s inflationary step, because that would have meant bringing down the whole crazy structure that has been thrown together since 1933. To save itself in the event of a hostile decision, the Roosevelt regime would have been forced to repudiate the Court in one form or another. Bet- ter to violate the sanctity of contracts, than to reveal to the r eS, that the Supreme Court like God is on the side of the most powerful economic battalions. The gold ruling has taken the lid off the inflationary schemes of | the administration. Roosevelt has been given broad powers to resort | to those further inflationary steps, toward which the whole New Deal | decision has been interpreted abroad as a sign that the stabilization of international exchange has been definitely put off. The monetary strug- | gle between the competing imperialist powers, as a phase of their strug- gle for markets, will thus be very much intensified. Index of Business ‘Activity | | The weekly index of business activity of the New York Times dropped to 87.1 for the week ended Feb. 16, 1935. Three series of the combined index declined, the largest loss in weighted importance tak- ing place in steel mill activity. sionals are rapidly graduating from a condition of mere discontent and becoming intelligently aware of the causes for these conditions. They prove also that on at least one re- medial measure, a high degree of unity has already been achieved, That measure is the Workers’ Un- employment, Old Age and Social In- surance Bill—H. R. 2827. “For those who have attended these hearings and for those who | read this record, there can be no question as to whether those who appeared here have a right to speak for the masses. It was the masses themselves who spoke spoke through work veterans and profe: who are true spokesmen because they come from the very midst and depths of our toiling population. They came from the chief industrial centers and from the rural sections. They came from the West as well as from the East, from the South as well as | from the North. They represented | the most skilled and talented as well as the most impoverished and un- derprivileged of the producers. They each one of them displayed earnest- ness, sincerity and a serious attempt | to inform themselves and others | such as is seldom encountered in a legislative hearing. They demon- | Strated that they had arrived at | their conclusions in consequence of Combined index 7 Freight car loadings . Steel mill activity ootaeoas Electric power production . Automobile power preduction .. Lumber production .... Cotton cloth production |@ searching study and analysis of Weeks Ended their own experiences. And all of Feb. 16, Feb. 9, Feb. 17, | them unanimously came to the same 1935. 1935. 1934. | firm conclusion—the Workers’ Un- 87.1 87.9 817 | employment and Social Insurance 648 66.3 69.1 | Bill is the one measure all need and 30.0 73.0 56.7 iecporyd as the means of meeting 1018 1013 ogs the vital oon ce eee under 96.0 95.2 712 imony that has been re- 62.7 66.6 11 corded in these hearings also served 92.8 *915 89.6 to answer clearly those who think ~ By .F. hundreds of others that could be cited practically in every major industrial center. Furthermore, through the correct mobilization of the Party forces inside the cultural and fraternal organizations under the influence of the Party, we have been able to make of these organ- izations instruments to reach the organized masses under reactionary leadership. The outcome of these activities was also evident in the large repre~ sentation of the proletarian, cul- tural and fraternal movements at the Anti-War and Unemployment and Social Insurance Congresses, where the delegates, for example, of the fraternal movement represented hundreds of thousands of organized workers in organizations that pre- viously were never reached. ‘How did we succeed in mobilizing these larger masses? Not only through agitational campaigns around the issues involved, but be- cause the Party learned how to apply concretely the united front policy; and more, because we suc- ceeded in mobilizing the basic Party organizations; the units in the fac- tories, in the neighborhoods, the fractions in the mass organizations, to establish direct organizational contact with the masses. Trade Union Problems ing the trade union problems, rec- ognized the achievements made in this field, especially in the last period. It is shown how our forces inside the A. F. of L, unions sur- rounded by the most militant, ener- getic workers, were able in many cities to take leadership in the struggle of the workers, in strength- ening everywhere the opposition to the bureaucracy; and more, in many cities, becoming the driving force for strengthening the unions, making them instruments of strug- gle, serving the interests of the working class. In this field, also, we succeeded, because after having given the correct line and clarifying the Party membership on the cor- economic conditions of the youth, represented by the Youth Congress. Besides these examples, there are rectness of this, we were able to follow it up with organizational measures, BROWN The last Party Plenum, discuss- | We should note that the Supreme Court did not resort to legal At this point we must ask. our- selves: Can we be satisfied? The | answer is: No. While it is true in the last period that some forward steps were made in correctly apply- ing the line of the Party, neverthe- less, we must be on guard against self-satisfaction, against taking for granted that because the line is correct, because we have already had some results, the process will speed automatically. No, this is not the case. We must be on guard against such tendencies. It is only through continuous follow-up and close attention to the smallest de- tails, that we can concretize the line of the Party, overcome the ob- stacles of sectarianism and success- fully carry into life the line of the Party, Next Steps What are the next steps? What are the next tasks? These are con- tained in the Central Committee Resolution. The problem before us as discussed in this part of the resolution, is in carrying this task into life, This depends primarily on the ability of the Party to turn to mass work and to overcome the remnants of sectarianism. The ex- periences in the struggle around the unemployment and social in- surance; the struggle against war and fascism, the experiences in the trade union field concretely point the way to be followed, show how to overcome the past weaknesses and make a real turn possible. How does this sectarianism ex- press itself? In the trade union field, for example, while to a great extent much has been overcome, yet we are confronted with the resist- ance of many Party members to enter the A. F. of L. unions. This shows the lack of understanding of one of the basic tasks of the Party —the necessity of connecting our- selves with the organized masses for the purpose of taking leadership in the struggle of these masses, to revolutionize these masses. Sectarianism prevents the develop- ment of a broad united front, as expressed in the idea of many Party members that certain workers are not mature because they are still urMer the influence of the So- “Revised, SECTARIANISM HINDERS THE BUILDING OF A MASS PARTY cialist Party or the A. F. of L., or;among the workers in the shops, various churches. This again shove | mills mines, factories, etc. There the lack of understanding. While |are still nuclei in our Party that there are profound political differ- | have practically crawled into a shell, ences between the Communists, the | looking down at the masses from | class-conscious workers, and those | above, exaggerating the danger of | Workers still under the influence of | exposing themselves. This shown |the reformists, yet, between us, the |clearly the lack of basic political Communists and the other workers, | and organizational understanding of there are problems of common in-/the nature of the shop nucleus as terest. For example, the struggle | the Party in a particular factory, for unemployment and social in- | mill, mine, etc., which, if it cannot | surance, or some local problems, or | sometime speak verbally to the | issues in the factories such as wage | workers in the shops because of the | cuts, discrimination, etc., on the basis | terror, victimization, etc. yet can united front. It is by developing | their homes through the the united front struggle that the | papers, etc.” workers, through their own experi-| The problem to be solves here is shop the working class, but that they are | ing and to make clear that precisely | the best elements of the working | because the Communists must be class; that the Communist Party is the best element; this quality can the only Party of the working class | express itself only through the per- —its vanguard, | Sonal, comradely contact with the Another Expression | workers, through the ability of giv- Sectarianism has expressed itself | ing guidance to the struggle of the in such open examples as the aban- | Workers. doning of mass organizations, not| Sectarianism, which expresses it- of which we can and must build the |speak to their fellow workers in| ences, will learn that the Commu- | to destroy the illusion?’ of superior- | nists not only are part of them, of | ity, or fear, or lack of understand- | understanding that in breaking as individuals with the reactionary or- ganizations and their programs, they are breaking away from the masses in these organizations. Instead, it is our Communist task to mobilize these masses inside their organization, around a platform of struggle, orientating the masses to | participate in the daily struggles, to fight the reformists or reactionary leadership in these roganizations. This sectarianism is especially evi- dent in the lack of Communist forces working in the Negro organ- izations, in spite of the fact that there are thousands of Negro work- ers inside the ranks of our Party, and thousands upon thousands out- side who are sympathetic to our Party, participating in the united struggles, In the Factories Sectarianism — especially in the factories, where still many of the shop nuclei do not understand how to reach their feow-workers in the shops; how to mobilize them around the shop nuclei; how through the daily work of the shop nucleus to raise the prestige of the Party | self in the lack of understanding | that every struggle, every campaign or profess to believe that the masses who endorsed H. R. 2827 did so simply because they favor “some kind of out of work insurance” and not because they understand the difference between this and other measures and plans. Certainly even the most simple and apparently un- tutored worker who has appeared in these hearings has shown a greater awareness of differences as between genuine and spurious so- cial insurance plans than most of the members of either house of this Congress or any other legislative body in this country can show, Even when unable to phrase their views Perfectly, they have each one dis- Played a sometimes conscious and sometimes instinctive capacity to differentiate as between genuine and merely formal support of their pro- gram. Members of Congress will do well to realize that the masses are rapidly arriving to a state of po- litical maturity which makes pos- sible such a critical attitude. They are no longer satisfied with blan- dishment, with political diplomatiz- ing which substitutes, as far as: most Politicians are concerned, for earn- est service. Life and Death Question “In relation to the life and death question of social insurance, those in power are bringing forward the Wagner-Lewis spurious social curity bill. In these hearings, and elsewhere, we workers have made clear that we are not to be fooled and defeated by this device any more than by any other method se- | led by the Party must not only aim | that may be employed to deprive | to raise the class consciousness of us of social insurance. We expect |the workers, but at the same time | those members of Congress who must utilize these campaigns to draw | align themselves with us in the de- |in the best elements into our ranks, |mand for genuine scoial insurance Concretely, this sectarianism ex- | to fight as consistently and as re« presses itself in the weakness of | sourcefully as we do against those recruiting as one of the main, daily | who are opposed to us. We say if tasks of the Party, of each Party member. It is by smashing these sectarian tendencies, of which I enumerated @ few, by developing a concrete plan of work on how best to mobilize the basic organizations of the Party as the transmission belts to move the | Masse organized in the trade union, |in cultural, fraternal, Negro organ- ‘izations, that we will be able to | speed the tempo of our mass work. | This requires not only continuous discussion to clarify the necesity of the tasks of the units and fractions, of each individual Party member, but the working out concretely of the organizational tasks, and at the same time, carrying on a more vigorous check-up on all decisions from the top down. | you are for the Wagner-Lewis Bill, then regardless of the reasons you may give for this, you are objectively and actually supporting the effort of the ruling class to defeat our | demand for genuine unemployment and social insurance. If you are | with us you must stand as we do, \firmly and uncompromisingly, mili- tantly and consistently opposed to |the fraudulent Wagner-Lewis Bill, You must help us expose this | scheme, You must help us discredit | it. You must help us convince ever | larger masses that only a bill based |on the principles of H.R. 2827 can | comply with the need and demand | of the masses for real social insur- ance that will provide safeguards against hunger, misery and want in @ land of plenty.”