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Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-21
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Jasper Farm Center, 7:45,
Jasper school.
I. v. Pyramid No. 81, A. E. o.
Sciots, 8, Masonic Temple.
Troop 25, B. S. A., 1880, NC
Cabe School.
Troop 16, B. s. A., 7:3O, at
Scout Hut.
Troop 81, B. S. A., 1880, M.
E. Social hall.
Mooseheart Legion, 8, Califor-
mia Hotel.
Boxing, 9, Ell Centre Arena.
Fox Imperial Theatre, 1.-The
Girl Said No.,
Valley Theatre, Sunny Side
Up
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-21
TOMORROW

Story Hour, 1880, city Ii
brary.
Girls high school track meet,
1:30, high school.
Junior matinee, 2:15, Fox I'M
perial Theatre.
Doughnut Sale, II, M, o.
King store.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
BY BEN GRAY.
Y. C. L. Field Organizer.)

THE number of young miners in the Ma
tional Miners Union previous to the pres
ent strike call was practically negligible. Yet
from the very first day of the strike, the
young miners actually became the driving
force. In the Taylorvie region where the
struggle spread most rapidly, and where it
assumed the greatest proportion, we find that
it was the young miners who were the shock
troops-in the militant army of striking coal
diggers In passing must not forget the
militancy shown by the wives and daughters
of the miners, who side by side with their
husbands and sons, fought on the picket line
against the state militia, the sheriffs, and the
deputized company sluggers.
These young miners readily accepted the
militant class-war program of the N. M. u,
denounced the old reactionary company"
United Mine Workers of America, and flung
themselves wholly into the struggle They
readily formed mass picket lines and marched
from mine to mine showing their solidarity
with the other miners and getting them to
join the strike. This was our most effective
weapon in spreading the strike. When the
writer in Staunton the day Mine No. 7
voted to strike, there carloads of young
miners from the Taylorville region ready to
support their fellow miners in Stanton and
to help solidify the ranks on the picket lines
N1Hey IOuS over ~ illleS OH just lew HOurS
notice.)
In Collinsville also the young miners were
the most active core of the 'Bellevlle sub
district. Here but handful of young miners
under the leadership of the Young Communist
League were mainly responsible in mobilizng
the 400 miners of the Lumaghi mine for the
strike. But here we found in addition to the
regular reactionary forces who were lined up
with the coal operators and the state in their
attempt to smash the strike--that the IW.W.
readily assumed the role of strkebreaker. The
IW.W. leaders did not hesitate to consult with
and to accept orders from the mine superin-
tendent as to what they should do. After we
had succeeded in striking the mine complete
ly-and after the picket line was dispersed
these wobblies accepted the orders Of the boss
to go to work-ani together with several
company stools they "trumphantly" marched
into the mine. But their efforts to gain a.
days work at the expense of their fellow
workers was thwarted. No sooner did they
go down the shaft when they were scurried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
By JOHN SCHNlIES.

OUR membership drive together with the
" building of our official organ, the Daily
Worker, must be made part of further Boshe-
VIKING our Party. The drive for 5000 workers
into our Party must be first, fundamentally
based upon the campaign in the industries
with the aim in view of increasing our tempo
of Party organization in order to take advan-
tage of the increasing growth of radcaliza-
ton and the development of the militant mood
of struggle among the workers.
Second, to increase the number of shop
nuclei.
Third, hand in hand with the increasing
numbers of shop nuclei we must equally in
crease the number of our Communist shop
papers.
Fourth, the campaign for new members
from the shops must not be separated from
the drive for the building of our official or
gan, the Daily Worker. In other words, if
this drive of our Party and the Daily Worker
is made into real Bolshevik campaign, then
it will mean that during this campaign our
Party has become stronger Party because it
is rooted further into the industries and
therefore is gaining the confidence and lead
ership not only among these numbers of work
ers who have Joined into our movement, but
at the same time succeeded in adding an army
mean a much broader base for our general
revolutionary activity.
Our Perspective and Drive.
This campaign must be based upon the gen.
eral perspective of our movement and all work
ers joining into our Party during this drive
must be made conscious of this fact, one of
which is building up a revolutionary trade
union center in this country. The historic
convention of the TUUL in the City of Cleve-
land and the participation of the TUUL in
leading many struggles of the workers since
the Cleveland convention should be an inspira-
ton for all Party members to actively take
part in the membership and Daily Worker
drive.
In our campaign we must lay special en-
phasis on spreading our activity much
possible among the native American workers.
Of course this does not mean that we should
neglect the foreign-born section of the Amer
lean working class, but we must have in mind
during this drive to bring the Party closer to
all workers in the industries.
Then again the campaign must be intensi-
fled not only in words but in deeds among
the most exploited section, the Negro masses.
In this present membership drive and Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

successful methods Of recruiting.
Another method which has proven most sue
cessful is revolutionary competition. Groups,
such as Party school departments, would nm
dertake to enroll certain number Of new men,
bers. In all cases the quotas were filled.
Above all, the workers are entering the Party
in masses because they see its achievements
in fighting for the interests of the WORKING
class. One worker, in applying for membership
wrote: Zone must be short siRhted to fail 70
see the achievements we have scored under the
leadership of the Communist Party in our
factory. want to be together with the rest !
fighting for further achievements want
fight for the general line of the Party. and N
therefore apply herewith for membership in
the Party ranks"
group of workers, sending in Joint appli
cation for membership in the Party. wrote:
AN energetic blow to the pessimists is given
by the workers joining the Leninists Party en-
masse Please take up into the ranks Of the
Communist vanguard, where we shall fight in
common for the general line of the Party
The workers in this country must realize the
role OF our Party, in the most powerful i'm
perialist nation of the world, and that we must
build powerful mass Party which Will be- able
to win the masses for revolutionary struggle
against capitalism We must hail the achieve
ments of the recruiting drive of the Com
munist Party Of the Soviet Union by intensi
flying our recruiting drive--in strengthening
our ranks by bringing in workers from the
basic industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
The Young Miners and Present
Struggle in Illinois

up again-this time the boss scuttled them
off to the Miners Temple where a meeting
was to take place. They would be more useful
there in breaking the strike They were.
(They were more active than the police them
selves in keeping us from getting a meeting
place. When we tried to hold a meeting
under the auspices of the N. M. U. we found
that the mayor of the town, member of the
U. M. w. A., decreed that every hall be closed
to US. Here the wobblies again were pressed
into service. They were more active than the
police in seeing that this order was carried
out. They followed our comrades around and
saw to it that every hall keeper was notified
of the police orders.
They may have succeeded with the aid of
the sheriffs and deputies, with the aid of paid
company stool pigeons, and through threats of
victimization to get the men back to work the
next day. But the victory remains ours. The
l. w. W. stands naked before the miners in its
true role as strikebreaker. The sentiment of
the miners for the N. M. U. and it's militant
program has become stronger because of this
event.
So we can point to countless other places
affected by the strike, and at the same time
point to the rehabilitation and readiness of the
youth to accept the leadership of the Y. C. L.
and to participate in the struggle. The build
ing of League and Party units in every coal
camp of Illinois is the most important task.
Units have already been formed in Spring
field Colinsville, Zeigler, Eldorado We have
many connections in Taylorvie, Livingston,
Staunton, Benld, Christopher, West Frank
FORT Benton, and several other mining camps.
The struggles of the miners for the estab-
lshment and recognition of the NMU. has
just begun-our struggles for the immediate
betterment of their conditions has just begun.
Our struggle to rally the miners, young and
old, to the revolutionary aims of the Commu-
mist Party and the Young Communist League
the only vanguard of the working classic
rally the miners against imperialist war and
for the defense of the Soviet Union has only
begun. Our answer to the reactionary Wob-
blies, U.M.W.A takers, and the state, will show
itself in the establishment of mine AMI shop
nuclei-in the publishing of mine and shop
bulletins and in flooding the coal fields with
revolutionary literature. Forward to
mass Vel. in the coal fields.
BEN GRAY, Y. c. L. Field
Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

first for Buffalo, already in the second week,
two new shop nuclei have been organized one
in a steel plant and one in tannery. These
are both large plants, one of them employing
thousands of workers, many Negro workers
being amongst them One new shop paper has
already been issued, called "The Tannery
Worker"
A regular weekly Workers Forum was
started last week, with packed hall, at which
II workers made out applications among them
one Negro worker from the same plant where
one of the nuclei had been organized.
All of this shows that in the highly indus
traized Buffalo district, with its steel, metal,
chemical, aeroplane and shoe plants--thou-
sands of unemployed amongst then--that there
are excellent opportunities for Communist
work and for building the Party. The Begin
nings made in Buffalo have yet to be CONSOLE
dated in Buffalo, so that we keep the new
members and strengthen the Party At the
same time similar actvzaton must take
place in all other parts Of the District. A be-
ginning has already been made around Schen-
ectady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Flashes From Recruiting Drive
Front

The New York District of the Party has
now passed its $50 mark in the membership
drive thus giving 25 per cent of its quota.
The number of new members up to Jan. are
PSI.
$4,000 pamphlets, "Why Every Worker
Should Join the Communist Party" have al
ready been distributed out of which 10000
have been paid for to the District Office
Two new shop papers were started, the
Western Electric Worker in a basic industry,
and the Fighting Leather Goods Worker. The
district has set for itself the task of reaching
rs per cent of the quota of new members by
the Lenin Memorial Meeting which takes place
Jan. % at Madison Square Garden.
The district is now making energetic eff
forts for the registration of all members in
order to properly issue the new membership
cards and institute the new dues system on
sound basis. One new shop nucleus has been
organized in a textile factory in Long Island.
However, both as regards shop papers and
shop nuclei, greater efforts are being made so
that we hope to reach our quota by the end
of the drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Prefers Flowing Spring In
Place of Sewer

H. T. Ahrens, of Spokane, Wash, reader
of The Daily Worker sent copy of a let
ter he sent to the Trotskyist organ. This let
ter follows in part:
"'The Militant was unsolicited for some
hope that It would be the last to be forwarded.
l prefer to drink from flowing spring in
place of sewer.
Reading your periodical depressed me in
as much as it plainly gave proof that it is an
enemy of progress, and not working for the
emancipation of the masses. The only feature
to be admired is the plain expression 'Oppos-
ton carried at the head of the title page.
1t truly is in opposition to the greatest move
ment ever inaugurated in human history. 1t
opposes the efforts of the people who are Gre
ating a new world and arc given proof of sue
cess, although greatly handicapped by cond-
lions inherited from the Czarist regeme and
the Opposition of the capitalist powers.
"The enemies of Soviet Russia and the
enemies of labor have every reason to applaud
your papers tactics There is nothing so de-
testable as the acts of the disrupter who cloaks
himself with radical phrases and hides behind
a smokescreen of radcalism in order to frus-
trate the efforts of those who battle for eman-
cipaton from the monster, Capitalism. l think
the black hundred of Gastonia and the mnions
of the textile barons of Marion, who fight in
the open, are preferable to those people who
fight against workers and world movement
by using DISCUSSES.
Il would greatly appreciate if / am no
longer insulted by the receipt of The Mill
tant -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Negroes Join Communist Youth

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 12.-Twelve Negro
workers joined the Communist Party, five
joined the Young Communist League, and
three Negro children joined the Young Pho
neers at meeting ON unemployment, called
by the Young Communist League. The ma
'--::tty- of the workers who responded to the
call for the meeting were Negroes.
Comrade Patterson, Negro Organizer of the
Vel. of District spoke, followed by D. E.
Farley, section organizer of st. Louis Ben
Gray, field organizer of the Y.C.L., was chair.
man. An unemployment conference and mass
demonstration before the city hall will be held
in the near future.
The police attempted to break up an open
air meeting at which Patterson and Gray were
speaking, but the solidarity of the workers
thwarted their attempts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Flashes From the Recruiting
Drive Front

Although Buffalo district was slow in get
ting started in the DRIVE, progress can be
reported with the arrival of the new District
Organizer. The district is active amongst the
unemployed having assumed leadership over
several thousands of unemployed workers
whom the city tried to "jibe" out of their
wages after they had received temporary en-
ployment. The Party also plans to hold meet
ings in front Of factories where workers are
scheduled to be laid off,
On January 20 the Party is cooperating
with the T.U.U.L. in organizing a meeting in
the largest hal-Engineers Hall--in Buffalo
A conference will also be held of trade unions
and other organizations on January 20. Dur
ing last week over 5000 leaflets were dstrib-
uted by the Party to unemployed workers
One meeting Of the Party was held amongst
the unemployed at which IA metal workers
Joined the Party.
After recruiting % new members in the
third week Of the DRIVE, which was really the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Recruiting Members in the C.PS.U

The Communist Party of the u. S. A. can
learn many lessons from the experiences of
other parties in their recruiting drives. And
despite the fact that the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union works under immeasurably
more favorable conditions and has many diff
ferent tasks--the building of socialism rather
than revolutionary struggle for the overthrow
of capitalism, we can nevertheless study with
the greatest value the recruiting campaign of
the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union.
The development Of the revolutionary move
ment of the workers and farmers in this coun-
try demands the recruiting of the most militant
and class conscious element of the working
class into the ranks of the Communist Party.
And in the Soviet Union the success of build
ing socialism demands recruiting of new forces
from the factories into the Party.
report by the Communist Party organiza-
ton in the Krasnyi Putilov works in Leningrad
on the recruiting drive for the past year show
membership of $500, of whom 1889 have
been recruited during the past year. While
the Party in this country measures its social
composition in terms of the percentage Of ac-
tual workers in it's ranks, the Putilov organiza-
ton reports that 65 per cent of the new men,
bers have worked from to 40 years, SO per
cent from to years, and only 2 per cent
have worked less than 2 years. Last year the
Party members constituted 1872 per cent of all
workers, this year they constitute 81 per cent.
Much Of the recruiting is done through con-
versations with non-Party members during the
dinner hour. This has been one Of the most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
BUILD THE PARTY OF THE
WORKING CLASS

Worker drive the slogan of Revolutionary
Competition is being raised among our mem
bership in the different districts. This in it.
self is a tremendous step forward for our
Party, because only in united Bolshevik
Party can such slogan be raised for its men,
bership and for the working class Since we
are emancipated from our former group and
faction outlooks and since we did and are
cleansing our Party from all concealed right
wing elements and renegades of the Commu-
mist movement, and since all loyal Party COM
rades acting and approaching all our tasks
from a Party point of view the slogan of
Revolutionary Competition will not only be
paper slogan but will be transformed into
actual deeds in all our tasks no matter how
difficult they may be.
Must Guard Against Past Mistakes.
However, one thing we must sharply guard
against and that is, that all new members
that we gain for our Party, all new shop nuclei
that we build during this campaign, all new
Communist shop papers that we get out and
all the new subscribers for the Daily Worker
should not be permitted to drift away from
our movement, but on the contrary they must
be made into living reality and revolution
airy force of our Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Biro-Bidjan Youth Greety
Working Youth of u. S. A..

A conference of the working youth Of BRO
Bidjan in the Far East, the district allotted by
the Soviet Government for Jewish colonization,
was held at Techonkaya on January 5, 1880. The
conference dispatched the following cable to the
American "Icor':
"Thefrst conference Of the Jewish working
youth of Biro-Bidjan sends its proletarian greet
ings to the "Icorp and the Jewish toiling masses
of America who are cooperating with the toilers
of the Soviet Union in building up socialist
BRO Bidjal-one of the corners Of our country
which is being built up in a Bolshevist manner.
of America and in the first place, upon the work
ing youth to rally around the ".Icor" which, in
it's untiring struggle against the various enemies
of the Soviet Union, accompishes the cause of
the solidarity of the workers and toilers Of both
countries m3g
(signed) The Praesidium Of the Conferred
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hundred Proletarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Workers! Join the Party Of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
AZ East 125th Street,
New York City.
/, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Address ...............m.... city,.
Occupation Observation-Disclosures. Age.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
Party, AZ East 125th St., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
The Right Danger and the
Recruiting Drive
By l. WINOKUR.
(Shop Nucleus /, Detroit.)

(Shop Nucleus /, Detroit.)
THE Right danger in the Recruiting Drive
lies in the underestimation of the radical
ization of the masses In Detroit at present
we have the best opportunities for bringing
closer and into the Party many American and
Negro workers. The tremendous rationaliza-
tion-wage cuts, speed-up, etc.-and its con-
sequence, form large field for work for our
Party.
In the past in our drives to secure new
members for our Party we went every place
but in the shops for recruits. We did not
think that the fellow-worker along side of US
should be drawn into the Party. We felt that
getting the shop mates was the work of the
next comrade
Recruit in the Shops.
We had the idea-which still exists in the
minds of some comrades-that the American
worker was immune from Communism and our
propaganda and that it was a waste of time
and energy to go after him. Instead, we ap-
preached our inner friends in small groups
and foreign born workers, who were easier to
talk to- had less risk of loosing ones job, and
were easier to get into the Party $50 we
thought). But if we do not orientate our
selves to the shops, how will our Party be-
come a real leader of the masses?
In a previous campaign for membership in
this district, at the Lenin Memorial Meeting
of 1928 we took in 100 new members for our
Party. Where are those hundred members
today? How many are still in the Party?
How many shop units have we as a result of
that campaign?
In Negro work this district stands as glar
ing example in the underestimation of this
field of work. Out of a population of 100000
Negroes, our district until less than month
ago had only two Negro members. However,
since the reorganization of our district forces
we have in the 10 days of our drive for new
members, taken in 81 Negro workers out Of
about so new members.
Becoming Stalwart Leader.
In the auto industry we find women re-
placing the men in greater. and greater num-
bers-with the same long hours, a greater re-
duction in wages, and the same intense speed
up. And yet there are less than five women
in the Party today who are auto workers
There is gross underestimation of the role
of women, even among our Party member
ship, where men comrades working side by
side with the women workers in the shops do
not find it necessary to try to draw these
women workers into our movement.
With the cleansing of the Party of all such
renegades as the Trotskyite- Cannonites, and
the renegade Lovestone and Co. and the re-
cruiting of new live elements direct from the
shops and factories our Party will truly be-
come the "stalwart leader Of the American
masses"
The Washington times., 1930-05-19
1926 81 IS NOW THANKS TO CUT
WORTH S1.10 INTEREST RATE

NEW YORK, May 19.-Due to
prevailing low rates on praett
cally every class Of money accom-
modation, long as well as short
term, the possibility that clearing
house banks will shortly be forced
to reduce the amount Of interest
paid on deposits is looming
strongly in Wall Street.
Reports have been current for
week that definite action along
this line will be taken shortly,
perhaps at the next meeting of
the clearing house committee
having authority in such matters.
Agitation for a reduction Of in
terest paid by banks on deposit
has developed as a result Of the
cheap cost Of other accommoda-
tions. Call money Is currently
available at between 21a and 3
per cent; bankers bills are
quoted around 21a per cent and
short-term loans Of other type
are available at 3 to 3K per cent.
The Washington times., 1930-05-19

Drops in the general scales of
wholesale prices in all industries,
compared with 1929, are shown
in figures for April disclosed yes
terday by the Labor Department.
With the levels of prices in
1925 used as the basis for COM
parison with a value of 100, aver
age wholesale prices in April,
1880, were 90.6, whereas April,
1929, they were 96.8.
Based on these figures, the pur,
chasing power of the dollar, as
compared with what it was in
1925 now is $1.103.
Farm products were 104.9 in
April, compared with 95.8 this
April. Other foodstuffs were SO,
compared with 1913. Textile
products were well down, having
dropped from 95.5 last April to
85.5 this year. Building materials
decreased from 97.9 to 94.7.