The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-25
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must send down organizers. 1t is
imperative.
Five Organizations on Trial.
Actually there are five organiza-
tons on trial. They are the Commu-
mist Party, the Young Communist
League, the International Labor De-
tense, the Trade Union Unity
League and the American Negro La
DO" Congress. We are charged with
instruction because we held a
meeting. Actually the meeting was
broken up and we were arrested.
For that they want to send US to
the electric chair.
"Comrade Powers is especially
prosecuted because he represents the
Communist Party. He is regarded
as dangerous and is held in soil
tary confinement. They refuse our
comrades even to read the New York
Times, the jailor saying it is "a radi-
cal paper
'The Ku Klux Khan parades
around the Jail Every week, clearly
with the intention of taking out our
comrades and lynching them; if not
all, at least the Negro Communists.
Comrade Tom johnson has been
burned in effigy by the Ku Klux
Khan.
81 hope that all comrades, all
workers, will realize the danger the
Atlanta prisoners are in, and that
all together we will work to get
them out. And the best defense
will be, as l said before, to send
down organizers and organize the
workers of Georgia"
Many Delegates Speak.
About sixty delegates have taken
the floor so far in the Convention.
| The entire discussion centers around
mass work and how to carry it out,
with constructive criticism of weak
nesses and a ringing note of clari-
fication on theoretical questions the
understanding of which is necessary
for correct action. Only a few
I points of some of the speeches can
here be brought out. 1.-THE principal
theoretical discussions WlL be pub
liShed I0ter.-Editor).
Carl Berman of the anthracite re-
gion stressed the revival of Party
activity with the elimination of OBJ
stinate opportunism. The miners
are starving in the mines, and would
rather be killed on the streets in
battle than be killed by accidents in
tn mines while starving at reduced
wages.
Nat Kaplan, of Boston, brought
out the wrong theory developed at
New Bedford, where a comrade had
held that the Textile Union must
be built up slowly, that it cannot
be built in struggle, obviously by
this idea setting the union against
struggles.
Bill Dunno said that in the stock
market crashes, not only speculative,
but investment capital is wiped out.
Capitalism is only beginning to I'M
load crisis on the workers. 1t means
that millions in basic industries face
struggle for very existance. Some
comrades q u ST i n rehabilitation,
thinking that because the Party has
not yet led many strikes, that the
workers are not ready. This is
wrong. We have the slogan Build
the Red Unions" But it is not done
by turning one organizer loose
among millions of metal workers to
build a union while the Party lends
no assistance. No longer will COM
rades convince us that they have
the correct line by speeches and !
resolutions. There is resistance to |
work inside the factories. We must |
eliminate the deep opportunist ten
denotes. In Pittsburgh, when we did |
that, at once the units took on new
life. The Party must improve edu-
cational work. We must make the
correct approach to the masses, max
ing use of simple language, of the
simple economic demands. In the
little mining towns, where life is
drab especially for young workers,
the Labor Sports Union should find
ripe field for organization.
Stresses Building T.U.U.L.
Tom Johnson, declaring that while /