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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
LENIN ON THE ROLE OF "A
COMMUNIST PARTY.

ployers. The sphere from which alone it is
possible to obtain this knowledge is the sphere
of relationships between all classes and the
state and the government-the sphere of the
nter-reations between all classes. For that
reason, the reply to the question: What must
be done in order that the workers may acquire
political knowledge? cannot be. merely the one
which, in the majority Of cases, the practical
workers, especially those who are inclined TO-
wards economism, usually content themselves
with, e., "go among the workers." To bring
political knowledge to the workers the Social
Democrats must go among all classes of the
population, must despatch units of their army
in all directions. -.'4 <ssi, 81 -
Any trade union secretary, an English one,
for instance, helps the workers to conduct the
economic struggle, helps to. expose factory
abuses, explains the injustice of the laws and
of measures which hamper the freedom of
strikes and the freedom to picket, to warn all
and sundry that strike is proceeding at
certain factory, explains the partially Of ar
bitration courts which are in the hands of the
bourgeois classes, ETC., ETC.. In a word, every
trade union secretary conducts and helps to
conduct "the economic struggle against the
employers and the government" 1t cannot be
too strongly insisted that this is not enough to
constitute Social Democracy. The Social-Deni-
ocrat's ideal should not be trade-union Sec
rotary, but tribune of the people, able to re-
act to every manifestation of tyranny and op-
preston, no matter where it takes place, no
matter what stratum or class Of the people
it affects; he must be able to group all these
manifestations into a single picture of public
Violence and capitalist exploitation; he must be
able to take advantage of every petty event in
order to explain his Socialistic convictions and
l. oso1n ~ J= 90 al w. 81
to explain to all and every one the world his
torical significance of the struggle for the
emancipation of the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

This mistake came about because of the fact
that the Daily got its information from a
number of people by phone, wire and letters
In the confusion, some of the facts were not
gotten down correctly.
] know that the Daily Worker follows the
policy that-truth is one Of the greatest
a0eopons Of the ucorking class. The workers
who read this also know this. And the worker
readers of the Daily will always help our
Daily correct any little mistakes that may
creep in so that no class enemy of ours may
use little inaccuracy against us Gas Prose-
cutor Britt tried to use this error in Lumber
ton Court against fellow-worker Caudle).
Please print this soon. Let us show our
enemies that we are not afraid to own up to
our little mistakes before the workers. This
will only make us stronger and firmer
Yours for the emancipation of the workers,
DEWEY MARTIN,
Dist. Org. Dist 9, N.T.W.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
Shortcomings in Daily Worker Building

Leaflets, shop papers, other printed material,
are issued by the districts in the tens Of thou
sands of copies and yet, workers who read this
propaganda never see the Daily Worker men,
toned.
7. Speakers are toured by the national and
district Party centeys who never mention the
Daily Worker in their speeches and who never
call the attention of the comrades in charge of
the meetings to their failure to sell Daily
Workers at the meetings.
g. The Daily Worker does not appear in
strikes to help give leadership to the workers.
Party districts in which mining regions are 10.
Gated, make no attempt to circulate the Daily
Worker among the miners to acquaint them
with the Illinois miners struggle. Textile CEN
tiers where we have Party members do not
spread the Daily Worker among the textile
workers to acquaint them with the Southern
textile struggle.
g. The basic supporting group to build the
Daily Worker in each city must be the Daily
Worker readers OF. that city, plus representa-
ton from sympathetic workers organizations.
We have still to hear Of the first Daily Work
er readers conference being called to help
build the Daily Worker.
10. With two three exceptions, no confer
ences of Daily Worker unit representatives have
been called in the district headquarters cities.
In Detroit, Philadelphia, New York City,
California, we can note marked progress in
Daily Worker building. The Daily Worker rep
resentative in Buffalo is active, but 81 not
getting enough support from Party members
in the district. The other districts are advised
to again read the program for Daily Worker
building, published some time ago and then get
into action. .4..
Every Party member Daily Worker reader.
every Party member an agent for the Daily
Worker, distributing it in his shop and in other
shops, selling it at all shops, workers meet
ing places, working class neighborhoods and
getting subscriptions all the time.
To urge you into action, we have decided to
offer books on Marxism and Leninism Soviet
Union, Labor, Revolutionary Fiction, free with
all subscriptions. Read the announcement in
this issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

tile industry, the main industry in the Pied
mont region, is in state of crisis Many mills
are working either part-time or are shut down
altogether. Unemployment is on the increase.
Raising OF wages under present conditions
even for a small section Of the workers--
would automatically mean certain reduction
in profits, and it is only too well known -
the workers that the bosses would rather lose
an arm or leg than lose any sizable per-
centage OF their profits. Also, Green had Just
promised Hoover: that he would not fight for
wage raises "a superfluous pledge). Last, but
not least, the memory Of the "A. r. OF L. be-
trayals in '21-'22 and also in '2s-'29 are still
fresh in the memories Of the workers There.
fore the Charlotte News" Clan. 2nd) de.
nanded editorially: s,.a a.
when he (Green.-sG) was called "a
Washington to confer with President Hoover
it was Mr. Green's opinion that.
it would be quite improper and unsound for
labor leaders to- start any efforts which
would in any wise upset the present wage
jewels .-e- n, 'lsse.
When he (Green.--SG) comes here nert
Monday it becomes him to SET tsrnseN
straight in this regard and do what he can.
II ne proposes to set on foot general move
ment Tor unionlzation /. to diseociate 4
from the public mind the two ideas that this
effort is synehronous with general effort
to disturb the present wage standards in the
South" Emphasis ours.-SG.)
Organize not for higher wages! Or
ganize-but not for better conditional Or
eanize-so that strikes can be broken. tho
Communists and militant leaders combatted
the workers spec led up and Stretched OUT
even more! This is what the bosses demand.
ed OF Green and Company prior to the con-
ference. 60
ITO be continusd)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

EVERY Party district bureau, at its next
meeting should place Building the Daily
Worker on the agenda and then exert the
severest self-criticism for neglecting to empha-
size the securing of Daily Worker readers in
the shops, mines and mills, as best method of
securing contacts for the Party and building
a mass Communist Party.
The drive statistics published in the Daily
Worker, few days ago show: Party members
secured in the drive to date, 1878. Daily
Worker subscriptions secured 1879. This means,
firstly, that every new member secured is not
being made reader of the Daily Worker; Sec
ond, that no emphasis is being placed upon
Daily Worker building, because actually more
Daily Worker readers ought to be secured than
Party members.
So far as Daily Worker building is con-
cerned the drive has distinct shortcomings.
/. The Party districts and sections, the
smaller cities where the party has member
ship, are not giving Daily Worker Building
sufficient attention. We can say that there
are districts and cities which give Daily Work
err building no attention whatever. Only
small percentage of Party members are being
modified to secure new readers for our central
organ.
2. Daily worker representatives have net yet
been named for every district, section city
and unit.
3. Only in several districts has the work of
regular mass distribution of the Daily Worker
to workers in the industries been undertaken
as regular readers.
4. Lenin Memorial meetings will be held in
few days. At the time we write, only two dis
tricts have ordered copies of the Lenin Memoir.
rial edition of the Daily Worker for sale at
their meetings. We prophesy that dozen of
Lenin Memorial meetings will be held where
the Daily Worker will not be sold to the au-
diences and where the speaker will not men
ton the Daily Worker from the platform.
5. At dozens of other meetings throughout
all the Party districts, the Daily Worker never
appears. Only in very few instances does the
Daily Worker receive orders for bundles of our
papers to be sold at meetings demonstrations,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

Matched to stop the genuine movement of the
workers against capitalist naturalization and
for better living conditions by the Hoover
Fascist Council in Washington at the recent
conference of labor takers, millionaires and
capitalist politicians.
1t was very evident weeks before the A. F.
of L. conference that the takers would be well
coined by a great section of the southern
bosses. The cordial tone and the acres of
publicity that the A. F. Of L. got before their
Jan. 9Th conference in Charlotte testfies to
that. Listen to this from the Jan. End edi-
torial of the rabid, labor-hating charlotte
News:
.. unonization of labor in the South,
movement which this newspaper does not
oppose per sc when intelligently directed
and conscientiously inten led. ="
The only division of opinion that existed in
the ranks of the capitalist class was over two
things: "a Was the time favorable for dra-
gooning the workers into the yellow unions of
the A. F. of L.; (2) Would not the worksrs
even in A. F. of L. unions. carry on a stfds.
gle for better conditions and would it not there
fore be inadvisable to permit" the workers to
get together in any form of organization?
These were--and are--the main bones of
contention in the ranks of the capitalists--but
most all are agreed that the A. F. of L. is
one of the chief means of fighting the rising
tide of militant unonism But the critical
bosses want guarantees of the effectiveness
of the A. F. of l.. in smashing strikes drug
ging the militancy Of the workers and speed
ing up production for the bosses. The second
question most are willing to take chance
on, since the workers are showing will to
organization AMI this is the best of bad bar.
gain. But the first question-whether the mo-
ment is propitious not--is still con-
troversial one among the capitalists. The tex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
Flashes from the Recruiting
Drive Front

During the fourth week New Bedford showed
that it meant business by its challenge to the
entire Boston organization by bringing more
than double the number of new members than
Boston did. The fourth week for Boston Dis
trict was poor week, only 10 new members,
with New Bedford leading with 8; Peabody
4; Boston and Worcester 2. The Chelsea
unit of the Party held local mass meeting
with so workers present During the week
eight thousand leaflets on different subjects
were distributed.
The Boston District recruited &C new men,
bers for the first four weeks of the Drive
These were recruited from the following cities:
Boston "a; New Bedford %; Haverhill ID;
Worcester 4; Peabody 4; Lawrence 8; and one
each in Brockton, Roxbury, Cambridge, Fall
River and GAINESVILLE. All of these are work.
ers except two, the textile industry leading
with the largest number
Minnesota recruited 10 new members in the
fourth week, bringing their total up to g.
Boston District and Minnesota slightly in the
lead. However, Minnesota is simultaneously
conducting a wide campaign and struggle
against the renegade Halonen and his mana
gerial supporters With the Party cleaned up
of these petty-bourgeois reformist elements,
workers will flock to our Party from the metal
mines, the docks, lumber camps, etc. The Min
nesota District has correctly raised the slogan
of replacing dozens of workers for every right
wing renegade. The 10 members recruited
this week all came from the range country
which means metal mines and lumber workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

NOTE: The excerpts printed betoW arc
taken from Lenin's famous brochure, "What
is to be done?" 10hich is included in Volume
w of the Collected Works of Y. I. Lenin,
gust published BY the International Publish
ers, 3S1 Fourth Avenue, NeaO York. This col
un,e, published IN tVo parts, includes all the
,oritings of Lenin between 1900 and 1902,
and covers the formative period of the Rus
sian Bolsheuik Party.
every one agrees" that it is necessary to
develop the political consciousness of the work
ing class. But the question arises: how is
that to be done? What must be done to bring
this about? The economic struggle merely
brings the workers "up against" questions con-
corning the attitude of the government to-
wards the working class. Consequently how
ever much We may try to "give to the economic
struggle itself political character" we shall
never be able to develop the political conscious
ness of the workers Ito the degree of Social
Democratic consciousness) by combining our
selves to the economic struggle, for the limits
of this task are too narrow. The Martynov
formula has some value for US, not because
it illustrates martyrdom's ability to confuse
things, but because it strikingly expresses the
fundamental error that all the economists
commit, namely, their conviction that it is
possible to develop the class political
consciousness of the workers from Within
that is to say, exclusively, or at least
mainly, by means of the economic strug-
gle. Such a view is radically wrong. Piqued
by our opposition to them, the economists re-
fuse to ponder deeply over the origins of these
disagreements, with the result that we abso-
lutely fail to understand each other. 1t is as
if we spoke in different tongues.
The workers can acquire class political cons
ciousness only from without, that is, only out
side of the economic struggle, outside of the
sphere of relations between workers and en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
Detroit Intends to Carry Out
Slogan every Member
a New Member"
BY T. GERLACH.

Aside from the new Southern District where
there were very few members previous to the
Recruiting Campaign and it can not be COM
pared with the old established districts in the
first four weeks the Detroit District thus far
has shown the greatest activity in the recruit
ing campaign. The Detroit District in the
first four weeks of the drive has secured PA
new members, as against 979 in New York,
30 in Chicago and 1853 in Philadelphia its
nearest rivals. While on the basis of the pre-
sent quotas outside of the South, the order is
Philadelphia $50 of its quota.
Detroit 1880 of its quota
New York 1890 of its quota
Chicago $50 of its quota
in reality the Detroit District occupies first
place when it is remembered that all but the
Detroit District of the above mentioned dis
trcts are working on the basis of the quota
set by the National Organization Department
and the Detroit District at its membership
meeting on December 10, the day of the open
ing of the membership drive voluntarily raised
its quota from 400 to 500 in answer to the
challenge by the Cleveland District.
Were the Detroit District to work on the
basis of the quota set by the National Organ
ization Department its percentage at the pre-
sent time would be $50 or 212 60 above Phia-
delphia, its nearest rival.
In actual members recruited the Detroit
District is occupying second place only to the
New York District with Chicago third
Comparing Districts.
Bat in order to secure the actual participa-
ton of the districts and the membership in the
drive and to estimate to what extent the slogan
every member secure a new member" is be-
ing put into effect it is necessary to take into
account not only the present quota of each
district but to take this in the light of the
actual membership of each district If we
do this the results for the above mentioned
districts at the end of the fourth week of the
drive is as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22

The above figures give the correct picture
of the actual recruiting power of the district
in the light of the membership of the district.
1t is true that not only the number of MEM
bers must be taken into account in each dis
trct but also the objective factors. But
tainly no district can argue that it is exempt
from wage cuts, unemployment, and general
offensive of the bosses.
Activize Every Member
If are to put the slogan 'every member
secure new member into reality then the
districts must not be satisfied with merely
making their quota but strive to put every
member into action. The above percentage
shows that the Detroit District during the first
four weeks of the drive nearly fulfilled this
slogan. With four weeks out of nine gone we
have 44.4fo of the time gone and with 1850
of the quota filled, and with the quota being
equal to the District membership. Upon this
basis the Detroit District feels confident that
it will make its quota and thereby fulfill the
slogan EVERY member secure a new member"
This does not mean that every member in the
Detroit District is on the job. The district
through the active membership is pulling along
those inactive elements in the drive All these
inactive elements must now get on the job
and make possible not only the securing the
quota of 500 but go way over the top.
with regard TO the NUMBER OIL Negro WORK
ers recruited the Detroit District has already
surpassed its quota of rs adopted at the Dec.
10 membership meeting and had secured SO
Negro workers into the Party the first four
weeks of the drive.
With regard to the number of new shop
nuclei organized the Detroit District has or
gained eight factory nuclei in the first four
weeks of the drive. Four in Detroit and four
in Grand Rapids. The quota set by the Ma
tional Organizational Department was ten new
factory nuclei but the District raised this
quota to Is.
With regards to the factory papers. The
district has already published six factory
papers and others are being planned The Ma
tional Organization Department had decided
that the quota be three new factory papers.
But the Organization Department was not
aware of the fact that the factory papers that
existed previously had practically been liqui-
dated, with only one paper having been pub
lished in the last ten months in two editions.
In the light of this the district decided to raise
the quota to ten factory papers, this includes
the publication of the six papers that had for
merly existed and four additional papers. The
district feels confident that it will have more
than the ten factory papers by the end of the
drive with six papers already published
Not Pushing Daily Enough
In reference to the Daily Worker the district
has secured only 81 subs. This is great de-
feet which cannot be wiped out by the fact
that the district is selling and distributing 800
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
Letter from Dewey Martin

The Daily Worker is glad to print the fol-
loCing letter which explains itself. The
Daily Worker did sag, in one of its early
articles on the kidnapping Of TotheroO that
the organiser lVas logged, having obtained
that impression from one of the first stories
sent in from the South. 1t is q matter of no
great political Importance whether Totherow
tcas "1opghly handler mhile kidnapped, or
'tlogged" while kidnapped. The fact that he
1ods kidnapped and threatened ouershado1Us
all else. But the Daily Worker ,oishes to
maintain strict accuracy In neWs articles and
wW publish corrections of any mirtokes
made. 1t also urges upon all of its cores
pondents ertreme care in neaos Writing, and
that corrections be sent in qchen, as is some
times unavoidable, errors are made
~
To the Editorial Committee of the
Daily Worker:
The Daily Worker is the only English Ian
guage national labor daily in the United States.
1t is the only newspaper that fights for the
workers every single day of the year. 1t
came out for the textile workers of the South
every day of our struggles and was-and is
our champion. 1t exposed the lies of the boss
es' press like the Gastonia Gazette and the
Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News.
NN''''iS
conditions, against the wage-cutting sdrive of
the BOSSES when we will have to face the COM
bined forces of the BOSSES their thugs, their
government power, and their servants, the
American Federation of Labor takers, the
Daily Worker will be one of our greatest helps
in the fight.
Just because the Daily Worker is so inn
portant to us. we must help the Daily Worker
along. The Daily Worker is the only paper
of the workers that is controlled by the work
ers and the interests of the working class
The Daily is the only paper which we can
criticize freely in order to help it be a mass
organ of the workers.
We therefore want to call to your attention
an error that crept into the story of the kid
mapping of Ebert Totherow, youth organizer
of the National Textile Workers Union. That
story talked of the "flogging" of Totherow.
While Totherow was roughly handled. he was
not fogged Of course, it does not make very
much difference. The purpoye was the same
to try to scare Totherow. Nevertheless the
fact remains that Tothcrow was not logged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party u. S. A.
IS East l25th Street,
New York City.
l. the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Name .'.......'..'..''... .....'......"...
Address ..............-.... Uity.........
Occupation Observation-Disclosures. Age.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
'erty, I3 East 125th St., New York. NJ Y
New Britain herald., 1930-09-25
x5;1 yst B, Will 42?
Today You Say-And That Is That-But Tell Me Are
 You Very Fat

Well. if you are-It's probably your own fault-You don't know how to cat right and that's one req son.
 II you would like to learn how D lose the fat you hate-and no one else likes-do as l did-Take this 3h day test
 Cut out candy, cakes-pies and ice cream-cut down potatoes, rice --butter-cheese, cream and sugar.
 Eat anything else you feel like eating but moderately-lean meat fish-chicken-vegetables and fruit are best
 Take one half teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts-in glass of hot water every morning before break fast--dont miss a morning-follow this advice. One woman lost 19 pounds in 4 weeks-another got rid of 47 pounds in months-a New York woman lost l 4 pounds with one bottle of Kruschen and is full of vim and pep, so she writes
 At Fair Drug Dept. or any drug store in the world you can get these magic salts-one S5 cent bot tie lasts 4 weeks-Ask for kruschen Salts-an enemy to Fat.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-25

years as hunted fugitive. He shuffled from town to town, some- times travelling by bus, and always avoiding railroad stations, boarding trains outside the station in the rare instances he rode them.
 Hammond was once one of Tren- tens most highly respected citizens. He was state senator for three terms and was a member of the city school beard. At one time he was assistant prosecutor of Mercer county. His home, in an exclusive section of Trenton. was sold after his disap- pearance to satisfy creditors claims. This left his wife penniless and she was forced to adopt an assumed name and take up teaching.
 If Hammond is convicted on all the five indictments against him, he faces a minimum penalty of 3 years in jail. according to Trenton authorities. He said he would not resist extra dition.