The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-22

and degradation for employed and unemployed,
is the background for the demand of Work on
Wages. The struggle of the Marine Workers
is carried on against shipowners subsidized by
the Federal Government to increase their
swollen profits, against the decentralization
carried on by these shipowners that throws
thousands of marine workers on the beach, and
against the labor lieutenants Of the ship own
ers-the officaldom of the racketeering craft
unions
Build the Union.
The conclusions reached in The Struggle of
the Marine Workers are the building of the
militant, fighting Marine Workers Industrial
Union and the defense of the Soviet Uniors
by the marine workers against the imperialist
attack by refusal to load or transport the
arms AMI munitions the capitalist class will
attempt to use against the workers and peas
ants of the Soviet Union. Cameron points out
the imperative need for modifying the work.
ers in the chemical industry under the lead
ership of the Trade Union Unity League for
an aggressive struggle against capitalist ex-
poitation and in defense of the Soviet Union.
The answer of the working class to the "chal-
lenge of unemployment" in Grace Burnham d
pamphlet, must be the organization of the UNI
organized, Negroes and whites, women and
youth, employed and unemployed, led by ths
T. U. U. L. Henry Hall points out that the
conflict of American capitalists with other inn
perialists in China has brought Manchuris
into the life of the American worker" and hin
conclusion is that sit is against this danger (o{
an attack on the Soviet Unon) that the work.
ers of the world must remain on constan&
guard" He has said too little in both re-
spects. What imperalst war means to thu
American worker should have received mon
extended mention than these few words
should have been pointed out that remaining
on constant guard" against the attack on IL
Soviet Union means becoming a part of tfe
revolutionary trade union movement and of tlie
Communist Party. These pamphlets which
deserve widespread reading should lack MOTH
ing in eXplictness. In them conclusions mus
be drawn-directly, conclusions which hammer
away at the need for the organization of th1
working class and at the tasks which lie be~
fore. similar deficiency must be noted g
Anna Louise Strong's pamphlet. She notes II
passing that sin rich America farming il
bankrupt; it cannot produce a decent living
wage by living Standards" and that "many
millions of farmers sons have been dislodged
into the unemployed of the cities, sacrificed
to the machine and to farm efficiency-that
efficiency which after all these sacrifices gives
no decent living" But she does not say what
this most important harvest that has ever
occurred since prehistoric man first learned q
cast grain on the soil for food" means to Thu
American agrarian masses as a solution 70
their misery, nor does she point to the need
for the organization of the defense of thie
epoch making colectivization, for the defensx
OF the Soviet Union. Both should have been
made clear. The absence of explicit concl,k
sons in two of the pamphlets we find SET
ious shortcoming. M
Implicit conclusions may suffice for workei&|
who are already class conscious but certainlx
not for the unorganized workers and agrarisn
masses who should be reached through thesN
pamphlets, We have previously touched OF
the excellent features of the group in its enx
tirety. Because of the extremely Significant
stories'they carry these pamphlets should fin
widespread distribution and discussion. Then
publication is. certainly to be welcomed as par
of proletarian pamphlet literature of rathex
widespread diversification Of subject matte&
They must become powerful weapon in Thu
education Of the working class. The pamph..
lets which the publishers note as being Il
preparation indicate that the arsenal will 81
a ready enc. H
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