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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

Editors Note: In connection with the Lenln
Memorial of the Communist Party, the Daily
Worker will run a Lenin Corner throughout
the month of January containing some of
Lenin's most important writings on Party or
ganzation and the imperialist war. While the
education of the working class in the teach
ings of Leninism is part of the everyday task
of the Communist Party, the popularization
of Lenin's teachings, particularly in these two
respects, is of special Importance during this
month, in view of the membership drive that
is being conducted by the Party. The deepen
ing economic crisis of capitalism and the ever
sharpening danger of a new imperialist war
makes it an absolute necessity for the work
ing class to understand the role of the Com
munist Party and the tactics it must employ
in and against mperialist war.
The present article is taken from Lenin's
Imperialst Wharf.-The Struggle Against So
cial. Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism, which
constitutes Vol. XVIII of his Collected Works,
published in English by international Pub
fishers. rs.s .s
From the first moment of the collapse of the
Second international and the betrayal of the
working class by opportunist socialism at the
outbreak of the last imperialist war, Lenin
exposed the true nature of the war and fought
bitterly against the social-patriots of every
stripe. Plekhanov, the father of Russian
Marxism," and one of the most outstanding
theoreticians of the Second International, be-
came rabid supporter of czarism and of the
Allied imperialists during the war
Speech at G. v. Plekhanov's Lecture on the
Socialists Attitude Towards the War.
Delivered October IL, 1914
Brief Newspaper Report.
"Our theses, as prepared by the Central
Committee of the Party, have been forwarded
to the Italians and many of them, unfortunate
" not all, were Incorporated in the Lugano
resolution" thus Comrade Lenin started his
speech.
The first part of Plekhanov's lecture, where
he analyses the betrayal of the German Social
Democrats, is very pleasing to the opponent,
but he cannot say the same thing of the Sec
ond part where Plekhanov tries to justify fully
the position of the French Socialists
How can one defend French Socialism which
is appealing to the Italians to join the war,
Lenin asks. Even in the very elastic reso-
lutions of the International, he says, it is diff
ficult to find passages to justify that appeal.
The present war; he continues, shows what a
tremendous opportunist wave has risen from
the bottom of European socialism To rehabili-
tate themselves, the European opportunists
have resorted to the old threadbare argument
about maintaining the organization "intact."
The German orthodox Socialists have aban-
doned their position in order to retain the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE
Revolutionary Competition.

In revolutionary competition, the Newark
unit leads the district, filling its membership
quota lao per cent, and getting four Negro
members. The Paterson unit which challenged
Newark is far behind, having recruited not a
single member Downtown No. is also run
ming away with Downtown No. 2, recruiting
eighteen members, fourteen of whom are sea-
men, and only one office worker. The two
Upper Bronx units are tied with four each,
but Upper Bronx No. 2 has the higher rating
due to the composition of their recruits. South
Brooklyn seems to be asleep, and it looks like
East New York will run away with the prize.
Williamsburgh is also beating Brownsville,
altho the latter is putting up stiff fight In
the last week Yonkers awoke, and challenged
the Passaic unit; however, it remains to be
seen if the challenge is more than paper talk.
On Sunday special membership meeting
of the League will mobilize the members for
the last month of the drive. More emphasis
towards factory work. Having filled our quota
of three shop nuclei, we must take all steps
to build these up, and we also add the forma-
ton of two more nuclei to our quota in the
membership drive. Altho the district has only
gotten 40 subs for the Young Worker, we ex-
pect to fill our quota of $50 by the end of
the drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Fighting in the Capitalist
Schools!
Dear Editor:

Dear. Editor:
I want to tell you about what happened in
my school, Our Pioneer group is called the
Karl Liebknecht group, in Minneapolis. Our
leader came to school one day, and gave out
some leaflets about Thanks giving
Then our principal Miss Cecil, said: 81
don't want you to give out those leaflets. If
you do. will take them away from you. The
children in my school are happy
Then our leader pointed to some children
with torn clothes and shoes, and she said:
Are these children happy"
Then. the teacher took away the leaflets
from the children as they came into the school.
But she did wrong by taking them away, be.
cause that made the children more anxious
to read them.
But we Pioneers will keep up our work.
Come on, comrades, we have to organize and
fight with our parents to win the strikes We
also must fight for better conditions in our
schools.
Always for the working class,
A MINNEAPOLIS PIONEER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Resolution on the Daily Worker

(Adopted By the International Labor Defense
Convention.)
The convention of the international Labor
Defense, held in Pittsburgh, Pa, December 29,
80 and 81, 1929, recommends to all its men,
bers, branches, locals and districts to cooper
ate in supporting the Daily Worker and Sc
cure readers for this working class daily paper,
the only one in the English language in the
United States
The Daily Worker is the central organ of
the Communist Party, and although there are
many members in the international Labor De-
tense who are not Communists, it is understood
by us all that the Daily Worker is the fore
most fighting organ for the masses of workers.
The Daily Worker fights the attempts of
the capitalists of all countries to plunge US
into a new world war; it defends the Soviet
Union against the international exploiting
class; it speaks uncompromisingly for full So
cial, racial and political equality for the Negro
workers and poor farmers; it aids in the or
ganizaton of the unorganized workers into
unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity
League; it battles for the liberation of the
colonial peoples from imperialst exploitation
and their own native oppressors; it effectively
exposes all reformist and reactionary labor
leaders and organizations; it takes part in the
struggles of the workers against the speedup,
against low wages and long hours and fights
valiantly in all strikes to help the workers to
victory
This convention desires especially to COM
mend the Daily Worker for the assistance given
the International Labor Defense in all its fields
of work. The Daily Worker supports the /.
L. D. as the only working class organization in
the United States having correct program and
policies No matter where the LID. engages
in the defense of workers arrested for their
activities in the labor movement, the Daily
Worker Loyalty assists the LID. to mobilize
masses of workers against the exploiters and
their government for the freedom Of the de-
PENDANTS Gastona, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cal
ifornia--everywher we find the Daily Worker
fighting uncompromisingly against the terror
ism and Justice of the capitalist class and
its political lackeys.
The Daily Worker has been of first assist
ance in our effort to make the LID. a work.
ers mass organization 1t steadfastly calls
upon all workers to join our organization. We
must help to secure new readers for the Daily
Worker, especially among the workers in the
basic and war industries and by so doing, we
will at the same tim secure these new readers
as members of the LID. We must also make
use of the Daily Worker by inserting advertise
ments and publicity about our defense CAM
paigns and the affairs we hold to raise money
for defense of class war victims. By assist
ing the, Daily Worker we build the LID.
All delegates to this convention are earnest
ly requested to discuss this resolution in their
branches locals and districts and in this way
to widen the circle of readers and supporters
of the Daily Worker. ys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Activities Increase in Chester,
Wilmington.

At the last Section 4, District s, General
membership Meeting of the Communist Party
held in Chester, Pa, resolution in regards
to the membership drive was enthusiastically
adopted The basis of this resolution is the
building up and developing of every phase Of
Party work, not so much theoretically, but to
get down to real organizational work.
Already 5000 leaflets have been distributed
at the Viscose Plant, where Rayon is manu-
featured. We have 10000 leaflets to dis
tribute turnout the Chester Industries by
February 10, 1880.
A nuclei has just been. organized at the
Sun Ship Yards Plant; such nuclei must be
organized in the basic industries of Chester
A strong Marine Workers Union has been
organized and it faces a bright future. A
textile union has been formed. Recently seven
Negro workers joined the Party.
Activity is also planned in the numerous oil
plants in Marcus Hook These plants are
Sun Oil, Sinclair Oil, Pure Oil, etc. Contacts
have already been made in these plants At
the T. U. U. L. Conference held on Sunday
in Philadelphia, six delegates represented
Chester-5 metal workers, one textile worker,
one marine worker from Wilmington. A meet
ing has been called in Wilmington to organize
a local of the ANLC and YCL
heretofore work has been truly Spasmodlc,
but now the work is being done a function
ing basis. New life in our units has made
its appearance. Our activities in the future
shall be concentration of all of our forces
into the basic industries. "Laggards" and
won't works" will find no room for them in
the Communist Party from now on. The Com
munist Party of Section is steeling itself
for the coming battles. The following resolu-
ton was adopted:
Resolution
l. To get 35 new members, not less than
one-third must be Negro workers. q Thirty
five Daily Worker subscriptions. 8. Five shop
nuclei. A. Six shop committees. 5. Ten frac-
tions within clubs, unions, etc. g. Three new
union locals. 7. Two T. U. U. L. locals. g..
Two A. N. L. C. locals. 8. To start issuing
five shop bulletins. 10. To sell 300 "Why
every worker should join the Communist Par
ty" pamphlets.
We intend to reach this goal before Feb
ruary 10th and we challenge Section 7, Balti-
more, in this drive, that we will carry our
quota out before they will. We intend to get
so per cent of our quota by the Lenin Mem
orial Meeting Well, Baltimore and Washing
ton better get busy before we hit you badly
Section 4, District 3, Executive Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
NEW MEMBERS SINCE START YCL DRIVE
DISTRICT 2.
Zalisko Repudiates Trotzkyism.

On the basis of the following statement by
Mike Zalisko, young factory worker, the
District Committee of District No. readmit-
ted him into the Party:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
By ERIK BERT.

THE annual convention of the American
i Bankers Association was held in San Fran
cisco, September 30-October 3.
They discussed, particularly, the great ques-
ton of the movement among bankers-branch,
chain and unit banking that is, the present
advance toward greater indignation, toward
further justification of the financial resources
of irnperialist America.
Two aspects of the development of banking
within the United States during the past de-
cade were considered. The first was the Sc
verify of the crisis which the small banks have
passed thru during that period. The second
was the Capitalization of banking capital which
has gone on concurrently with the first devel-
opment, or, more exactly, the evidence of this
GENERALIZATION in rapidity and extension of the
development of branch, group and chain bank
ing.
The crisis thru which the small banks of
the country have passed is indicated by the
following data. From 1921 to 1928 inclusive
5000 banks failed and tied up deposits of
billion and a half dollars. Eighty per cent
of these banks were in cities of less than 5000
population and seventy per cent were capital
lied at $4,000 or less. The period began with
the suspension of SOP banks in 1921 The peak
for the eight-year period was reached in 1926
in the midst of the Coolidge era of prosperity
with $50 suspensions
These failures were reflection for the post
part of the depression which struck the agri-
cultural industry in 1920 and 1921. The sub
sequent depression which brought about the
failure of tens of thousands of farmers thru
out the country was accompanied by the fail
ure of the banks-the small rural banks-which
had provided their credit facilities.
Concommitant with the elimination of the
small banks, there has been a great extension
of chain banking. A survey made by r. S.
Hecht showed that chain and group banking
systems taken in the broadest sense of the
term totalled 272. These 272 chains controlled
1874 banks and about $12500, 100000 in ag-
gregate resources. Approximately per cent
of the banks in the country and II per cent
of the country's banking resources were con-
trolled by these chains.
The first twelve states in the number of
chain controlled banks were Minnesota, Mich
igan, New York, Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas,
Washington, Nebraska, North Dakota, Calf
ornia, Oklahoma, Kansas. WI 5. a. r. & 81 + sss5S
The chains have made the greatest inroads
in these states where the individual banks
were hit hardest. The foregoing statistical
data concerning chains can hardly be consider
ed as precisely indicative Of the recent prog
ress made by chain and group banking 1t is
not so much in these total figures that the
story must be seen (tho the data is the best
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Young Communist Push
Forward!

With month left for the completion of the
membership drive, the Young Communist
League District . is sure to reach its quota Of
200 new young proletarian members in the
League The goal set by the district for three
shop nuclei has already been accomplished with
the organization of shop nucleus in a textile
factory shop nucleus in printing plant,
and for the first time in the history of the
American League, nucleus on board a ship
employing from two to three hundred workers,
the majority of whom are young. The dis
trict has also recruited nine young Negro
workers in the League and fourteen young
marine workers.
NEW MEMBERS SINCE START YCL DRIVE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

had such breathing space, brightly lighted. AL
SO your kitchens, we have sampled those ALSO.
and it is wonderful this communal kitchen
way of getting good food and comfort for the
workers at cheap rate Also your splendid
clubs with concert and cinema hall combined
Your creches are marvellous, we don't have
anything so well equipped. shall be able to
put the lies down the throats Of those who
try to condemn you. w
All power to the Soviet Union, the Workers
Republic, the first workers government in the
world only wish other countries will follow.
your example s$EfsSss ps W. sssas
f. MACKENZIE (Sc0tlarf1A y, 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Conditions in Russian Textile
Factories.
Statements by Two English Textile Workers
on Their Impressions in Russia.

On behalf of the British Textile Workers
Delegation would like to give few impress
sions of our recent visit to Ivanovo-V oznes-
ensk. In the first place let me state that we
have never before seen anything to compare
with either of the three factories we have Wis
tied, namely, Djerzensky Milatovi Combine,
- and Krasnie-Talka. From what we could see
the conditions of the workers are better than
any other textile workers we know of, includ-
ing those Of our own country. The things
that impressed US greatly were the lighting
system. The modern methods of production,
the building itself, where we found hundreds
of windows SO placed as to catch the maximum
amount of sunshine, and the wonderful ven
tilating system. Compare these with the COM
ditions obtaining in the majority of factories
in England, i. e., obsolete methods of produc-
ton, bad lighting, lack of sunshine and poor
machinery, and you get the reason why, in our
opinion, you will soon be miles ahead of Eng
lish textile production, if you continue at the
present rate of progress. Another few things
which impressed us: the dining rooms, the
workers wardrobes, hours of work ca and
the creches where you are rearing your future
generation, wonderful scheme this, and lastly
the happiness Of the workers. say this only
after careful and personal investigation.
F. CONROY England.
III. t4s
| would just like to say how pleased ! am
with your working conditions in your mills.
l noticed how spacious were the different de-
partments and how well lighted both by day
and by night 1t would be pleasure to work
in such mills, and everybody seems so pleased
and so happy and asked how we liked their
mills. They seemed SO delighted about it
themselves I have never seen anything like
them in our country / come from Scotland
/ work in a jute mill and would be only too
pleased if our mills were so well equipped and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

The article in yesterdays edition entitled
"Growth Of Tendencies Towards Fascsm,' was
written by Comrade Tom johnson from st.
Clairsville, Ohio jail -
The Washington times., 1930-09-10
7 R A D {
LAGGARD
Times STAFF Photo

PITTSBURGH. Sept. 10 QN.SJ
Slow naturalization of the con.
Fl iently expected seasonal recov-
cry in iron and steel will be noted
by the iron age in it's weekly
summary Of the iron and steel
trade tomorrow. Although demand
for finished steel thus far this
month has been moderately larger
than in the corresponding part Of
August, nothing resembling a
broad buying movement has set
in and the persistence Of discord-
ant market tendencies continues
to obscure the outlook.
Curtailment of pig iron produc-
ton is apparently still under way
with four additional furnaces,
three of them steel plant stacks,
taken out of service SO far in
September.
Sharply contrasted with the un-
checked decline in pig iron re-
quirements is the increase Of SIS
per cent il. steel ingot output in
August, and the further gain this
month indicated by current esti,
mates. Present ingot production
is fully 50 per cent Of today'S,
which is 3 to 4 per cent larger
than the total officially record
at the close of 1929, and is 11a
per cent higher than the average
last month.
The gain in steel also contrasts
with market tendencies in pig
iron. Prices on foundry iron for
local delivery have receded SOC.
a ton at Cleveland, and SOC con-
eessions on attractive tonnages
are reported at Chicago. Scrap
ms ,etS, on the other hand, are
holding their own with heavy
melting grade up Csc ton at
Pittsburgh.
The Washington times., 1930-09-10
CHASE MERGER
RUMORED

Rumors linking the Corn Ex-
change Bank Trust Company in
a prospective merger with the
Chase National Bank created con-
siderable stir in Wall Street. The
banks control combined assets of
close to $4,000, ,O00. 900 and in the
event of a consolidation would
strengthen the position of the
Chase as the leading institution
of it's kind in the world.
Although the report was denied
by two officials of the Corn Ex-
change, executives of the Chase
were evaSive in their replies to
similar questions. Because of the
attitude of the latter institution
in the matter, the story was given
some credence. A high official of
the bank informed newspaper
men, through a junior officer.
that he had nothing to say.
According to the merger story,
Chase has for several weeks been
conducting an exhaustive study of
the Corn Exchange situation with
the purpose in view of making an
offer for acquiring the bank. The
latter has AZ branches in the
Borough of Manhattan, six in
Brooklyn, eight in Queens. eight
in the Bronx and two in Rich.
mond.
Besides its main headquarters,
Chase operates 46 branches in
Greater New York and has Of
fices in London. Havana, Panama
City, CriStobal. London. Berlin,
Paris, Rome and Mexico City.
Since the panic last Fall, Chase
has made great strides in its ex-
pansion program by acquiring the
Equitable Trust Company and
more recently the securities dis
tribution organization Of Harris
Forbes & Co.
The Washington times., 1930-09-10
MERGER TRIAL
|TSMATHER

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 10
QNSO.-With court circles agog
over the prospect of Samuel
Mather, reputed to be Ohio's
wealthieSt citizen, appearing as a
witness, trial of the Injunction
suit against the merger of
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Com.
pany with Bethlehem Steel Cor.
poration today was devoted to
the monotonouS and technical
testimony to establish the fair.
ness Of the merger terms.
The likelihood of Mather's an.
pearance on the witness stand in
the trial Of the Injunction suit
developed yesterday when New
ton D. Baker. chief counsel fol
sponsors of the steel union, said
that the noted philanthropist and
financier has expressed himself
as being willing to testify.
Baker stated that, "it is most
likely" that Mather win be called
It did not appear probable, how.
ever, that he will testify before
next week. S. Livingston Mather,
son of the financier, testified as
a special courts witness" re-
Gently and declared that in vot.
ing his personal holdings in favor
of the steel merger he was in.
fluenced largely by the attitude
of his father.
w. B. Campbell, partner in
Price, Waterhouse d Company,
the auditing concern which pre-
pared the figures upon which the
merger terms were based. was
still on the witness stand under
the direct examination of F. H.
Wood, Bethlehem attorney. when
court adjourned yesterday. The
witness was questioned in detail
about the basic figures Of the
merger ARRANGEMENT.
The Washington times., 1930-09-10
Debate Payment of
st. Paul Bond Int.

Considerable interest exists in
Wall Street as to whether the di-
rectors of the st. Paul r. r. will
declare the October payment on
the adjustment mortgage bonds
when they meet on Thursday. AS
far as could be learned consider
able difference Of opinion exists
among the members of the board.
Some of the directors feel that the
212 per cent payment be made
while others contend that 1t
should not be declared in view OF
the reduced earnings Of the road
so far this year.
The Washington times., 1930-09-10

ehas always sold high on earnings.
Net for the first six months was
80 cents a share.
I hear that the breakup value
of Lehman Corporation is above
500 a share against /, a current
market price of II.
am told American Interna-
tional still has further to go on
the present move.
The Texas Pacific land trust
pool is beginning to market up
its favorite, at the same time tip
ping it around the street. They
are talking Of much higher prices
but I wouldn't advise following
move very far.
understand the rails will get
a play in the next few days to
bring the averages up.
I don't believe the utilities are
going much higher on the present
bulge and advise profit-taking on
any further advance. United Air
craft started UP again yesterday,
as predicted here last week. The
stock crossed an important resist
ance level, hitting a new high for
the move, and it looks higher.
Briggs and Kelvinator are two
loW.priced stocks that seem in
line for renewed pool activity.
Allegheny is one of the cheapest
stocks in it's selling range.