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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
THE PRE-CONVENTION
DISCUSSION

towards mass work and organizationally con-
solidate this turn.
In this respect two great tasks now face the
Party. First, the recruiting drive for the revo-
lutionary unions which is more than a mere
recruiting drive 1t is an organization cam
paign and at the same time great political
campaign. We cannot recruit these $4,000 ex-
cept if we win the masses and build the unions
to recruit them. In many cases the unions are
not yet created. This campaign is the main
feature of our mass work for the next months
at least 1t must be the first order of business
of every unit and committee of the Party.
Right along with that must go the campaign
for the Daily Worker.
We have grossly neglected the circulation of
the Daily Worker; we have grossly neglected
the improvement of the quality of the Daily
Worker. We have not realized the Importance
of every line that goes into the Daily Worker.
Every word that is written for the Daily
Worker must be given the organized, SYSTEM
attic, concentrated attention of all the best
forces of the Party-district, national and
local, to see that our Daily Worker really rep
resents the class struggle, really represents
the whole development of the working class
in the U. S. which has come to consciousness,
which is engaging in struggle, and represents
the Bolshevik, Communist leadership in this
development.
There is too much carelessness on our part
towards the Daily Worker and too narrow a
circle of collaboration in the production of the
Daily Worker.
The editorship and production of the Daily
Worker must be broadened out so that it in
cludes hundreds of comrades in active daily
production of the Daily Worker. This is the
only possible way in which it can be made a
mass organ There are many editorial improve
ments that we must make in the office of the
Daily-these we are conscious of and if we
haven't carried them through it is because we
haven't yet concentrated our attention on it
enough. We cannot make the Daily Worker
national organ of the working class without
carrying these Improvements through and we
will carry them through. We must distribute
our paper in large amounts. This means build
ing our own machinery of circulation-we can
not continue to be dependent upon bourgeois
distribution agencies for the Daily Worker
we must have our own Party distribution. Det-
roit is giving a practical demonstration that
it is possible to give mass distribution to the
Daily Worker through our own machinery. We
must emphasize this We must not only en-
courage Detroit to multiply it's results many
times but must do the same in every district
Detroit is only beginning, but they have shown
us how to do it-this same method can be
applied throughout the Party. 1t is not an
easy task but it is very possible one to carry
through the 10000 drive that we have set
ourselves with $4,000 or 10000 within the next
couple of months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
Report on the Theses, Delivered to Plenum Of
Central Committee By Comrade Bro'0der,
be- .4 April Srd, 1880.
TX. FIGHT AGAINST oPPoRTUNIsM,
(Continued)

The general character of the mass organiza-
lions still reflects this fact. They are still
too much limited, still not shot thru and thru
with the conception of mass organizations dis
tingushed from the Party. We have to estab-
fish the idea of mass organization in our aux
iliaries and trade unions and not have duplI-
Gates of the Party. We must have organlza-
tons with their own characteristics and their
own approach to the masses, which translate
the Party line and theses and the whole Party
message to the working class into mass lam
guage The LID, WI.R., F.S.U. and the
revolutionary trade unions should in their sep
arate fields, show themselves to the workers
as mass organizations, different from the Par
ty, with their own separate functions to per-
form and with their own place. We must
come to a realization of this problem in our
Party There is still too much of the old trad-
tons which we have had for years Of the aux
iliaries as mere duplicates of the Party.
This is one of the concrete manifestations
of the ''leftism" tendencies, which means op-
portunism cloaked with "leftism" forms and
phrases. Examples of these tendencies in trade
union work were dealt with at some length
yesterday and do not want to repeat.
l want to add another concrete manifesto
ton of "leftists" tendencies which showed it
SO'i
ference. l was present when comrade
from Connecticut made a rousing speech and
brought the Unemployment Conference to its
feet with most tremendous applause when he
stated that this is no time to talk about Work
er Defense Corps but rather to talk of organ
izing Red Army. This is typical example
of what ''leftism'' MEANS the avoidance of the
real problem of the class struggle by an appeal
to Red Army as against Workers Defense
Corps. 1t may seem very revolutionary to at
tempt to jump over the Workers Defense and
into the Red Army, that is, the struggle for
power. The same comrade spoke of capturing
the City Hall and holding it for few hours
thus raising.@s the immediate problem the ques-
ton of armed instruction. This is kind of
"leftism," pure phrase-mongering, and has no
relation to the immediate struggle. In spite
of all its "leftist" appearance, it is opportunism
in practice, avoidance of the real struggle and
a mounting of revolutionary phrases with no
relation to reality at the present time.
Our whole struggle against the right danger
as the main danger means struggle against
leftist' forms of the right danger, for the
purpose of completing the turn of the Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
By BILL dunno.

IN May a year ago, the 9th to be precise,
l Communist workers and militant MEM
bers of the National Textile Workers Union
defended themselves and their union head
quarters in Gastonia, N. c.
The Indictment by an Atlanta, Ca, grand
jury of Comrades Powers and Carr on
charge of "incitng armed insurrection" as
result of the protest meeting and demonstra-
ton against unemployment on March g is
further step in the campaign OF suppression
by legal and eXtra-legal methods which the
southern capitalists launched on April IL, 1929,
by organizing the fascist attack on the Gas
tonia headquarters of the National Textile
Workers Union and destroying the building.
This was followed on May 9 by the armed
attack of police and mill gunner on the new
headquarters and the battle there in which
Chief of Police Aderholt was killed, three
thugs and one union organizer wounded, when
the workers defended themselves
Seven NTWU organizers received capitalist
class justice-they were convicted of murder
and given sentences of II to 20 years.
As their appeal is about to be argued in
the North Carolina supreme court, Powers
and Carr, organizers for the Communist Par
ty and the Young Communist League, are
charged with melting to armed Instruction
which carries the death penalty.
It is clear that in the South the ruling class
is a step in advance of their northern brethren
insofar as the use Of the courts for the pur-
pose of capitalism are concerned in its strug
gle to prevent working class Organization
in preserving "civil peace" which means war
on the workers.
In the North the capitalist class has not
as yet openly demanded death for what are
clearly political acts. In the North the de-
mand for the death of militant leaders of
the workers has been made under various
guises-in connection with the killing of po-
lice or other persons by bomb explosions (Hay-
market martyrs, Haywood case, Mooney case,
or for alleged acts outside the realm OF the
class struggle, Sacco-Vanzetti case, etc..
But one year Of intense class struggle in
the South, in which our Party has leading
role, has already produced two attempts to
murder by legal means, by utilizing existing
laws workers whose sole guilt consists in or
ganizing and leading the working class in
struggle against the terrible effects of ra-
tionalization and the legal and extra-legal ter
ror by which it and the entire social system
is bulwarked.
The Gastonia workers were convicted for
what was clearly class activity. The first
degree murder charge Changed later to sec
ond degree murder after the first jury failed
to convict) was . declaration by the rulers
that workers are supposed to submit without
resistance to the organized attacks of fascist
and police bands, that they have no right
whatever to defend themselves.
The charges against Powers and Carr 60
step further. Made under laws passed in 1866
and 1871, these charges are another ultimatum
to the effect that the death penalty is to be
applied to any worker who urges resistance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
THE WALL STREET WAR IN
ABYSSINIA

Coolidge sent Addison E. Southland as min
lister resident of the United States Through
Addison the j. G. White Engineering Company
of 81 Wall Street, were given the contract for
the construction of the Tsana Dam, to cost
between SIS, 100000 and $20,0OO,0OO This was
fuel added to the fires of the war danger be-
tween British and American imperialism. Here
was Wall Street putting foot in the sacred ter
ritory of the Nile.
Now Ras Tafar who in order to clear all
claims to the throne drowned the Empress
Zauditu, is faced with revolt led by the Cop
tic priests and the feudal lords, backed and in
stigated by British and Italian imperialism in
the struggle against American imperialism for
the control of the Lake Tsana dam. In this
battle, from meager capitalist newspaper
cables, it appears that French imperialism
sides with Wall Street.
Inspired Revolt"
Latest reports from London to the New
York Times indicate that British imperialism
rests not at all content with the recent victory
of Tafari over the feudal elements dis
patch from Cairo (via London) April 16, 1880
states that "Ras Tafari of Abyssnia, who
succeeded to the imperial throne on the death
of the Empress Zaudita recently, is facing a
serious revolt in the provinces"
What will ensue will be ferocious armed
struggle-in reality war between British and
American imperialism for the control of Abys-
sinia, fought by the armies of Ras Tafari, on
the one hand, and the rebeling forces, on the
other, armed, backed and led by British and
Italian imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
International Solidarity in Defense
of Meerut Prisoners

this long drawn out case against these work.
ing class leaders as an open attempt of the
imperialist Macdonald Government to crush
the Indian revolutionary working class and
trade union movements The Macdonald gov
eminent utilities the Gandhi movement to throw
salt in the eyes of international labor, in the
effort to blind workers the world over to Brit
ish imperialism's crimes in the colonies.
"In spite of the arrests of the leaders, their
Imprisonment for more than II long months in
the notorious Meerut JAIL the long drawn out
trial without jury before magistrate who
is shameless agent of Macdonald imperialism.
the sending of fake tabor" commission from
Britain to India 'to inquire into" conditions
in the colony, the Macdonald Government has
failed to gain control of the Indian labor move
ment in the interests of British imperialism.
'The Indian nationalist leaders who at first
expressed lip-sympathy with the Meerut pris-
oners have dissolved the Defense Committee
they had constituted, because of their fear of
the workers movement. The defense of these
workers has been taken over by special COM
mlttee organized by the trade unions
The National Meerut Defense Committee in
Great Britain has organized whole week of
special campaigning, during which meetings
are being held at factories, mass demonstra-
tons organized and great quantities of litera-
ture distributed and funds collected. The ag-
1tation is being developed on broad scale in
continental Europe.
The support of the imprisoned workers in
India is being organized among American
workers by the International Labor Defense
American labor, on an increasing scale, is be-
ginning to realize that it's own fate is intim-
ately bound up with that of the colonial slaves
not only in India, but in China and the Phil
lpplnes' and especially in the Latin American
countries.
upon the late OF the 30 revolutionary leaders
now on trial in Meerut depends the immed;.+o
future of tn Indian workers. STRUGGLE Tbo
future of the Indian masses is not made BRIGHT.
er by the comical antics of the clown. Gandbi
who dances to the music furnished by British
Imperialism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
Solidarity Of Northern, Southern
Workers--A Slogan of Action!

to capitalism, its government or any of its Of
fetal agencies, who advises his class to hold
meetings and make protests in spite of sup
pressive measures.
In other words, capitalist government in the
South intends to allow no joint meetings of
Negroes and whites, it intends to allow no
mass protest against unemployment, or no
mass protest against lynching; it intends to
allow no meetings for union organization or
for calling strikes; it intends to suppress such
activities and classifies as "inciting to armed
Instruction" any attempts to resist suppress
sion.
This is the political meaning of the charge
of "inciting armed insurrection," carrying the
death penalty made against Comrades Powers
and Carr and the denial of bail to them be-
cause the "crime" with which they are charged
is a capital offense.
In addition to such cases as those in Gas
tonia and Atlanta capitalist justice has evolved
a whole series of lesser charges carrying with
them chain gang sentences, Jail and prison
sentences and fines. Not single organizer
of the class struggle unions or the Commu-
mist Party but has from one to half-dozen of
such charges against him. The whole legal
fabric is utilized against the workers and those
who dare to organize them.
The entire working class in the South lives
under the shadow of prison walls. This meth
cd, the application of the legal code to the
capitalist necessities in the class struggle, has
been made into fine art in the South. While
in the North and the entire capitalist system,
the legal code is framed for the advantage of
the capitalist class as against the working
class, in the South it is, more clearly than
anywhere else in America, weapon in the
hands of the rulers for dalv use.
For the Negro masses the legal code has
features little less horrible than lynching. But
for the white working class the legal code
also has its terrors. In CASTOR County, some
thing like 80 per cent of the workers pass
through the courts, jails and chain gangs in
the course of year.
Following meeting of the state prison
commission on Feb. % of this year in Raleigh
N. c., A. D. Mclean, member of the COM
mission, declared:
81 am just beginning to learn that the
prison problem is one of the biggest prob
lens in the state. For the prison popula-
ton has increased 300 per cent in nine years.
IS per cent of the white prisoners are under
81 years of age and two-thirds of the prison.
ers are now white, rather than colored."
Nine years cover approximately the period
of rapid expansion and intensive rationaliza-
ton in the textile industry-which in North
Carolina employs white workers almost exclu-
sivey and is the main industry. Other highly
rationalized industries in other states have
likewise developed working class living under
the constant pressure of the most vicious forms
of capitalist justice.
Southern industrial capitalism, built rapidly
in the war and postwar years on the surviv-
ing semi-feudal agricultural economy with the
reactionary heritage of chattel slavery tradi-
tons and poisonous hatred Of the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
BY HARRY CANNES.

GREAT BRITAIN digs up the mummies of
King Tut and Ra Ouer in Egypt but Wall
Street finds live one in Emperor Ras Tatarl
in Abyssinia, below the Soudan. This is not
a fight over individual kings but over King
Cotton, which in the present sharpening ag
rarian crisis, becomes of utmost Importance in
the struggle between American and British i'm
perialism.
Abyssinia is little-known country, near the
North East coast of Africa, situated between
the Jaws of the vice of British and Italian
Imperialism Its chief Importance in the strug-
gle between British and American imperialism
lies in the fact that Lake Tsana in Abyssinia
controls the waters of the Blue Nile in the
Soudan, and British imperialism controls the
Soudan.
Struggle over Cotton.
To break away from dependence on the
United States for cotton, the British masters
have been frantically increasing their cotton
lands in the Soudan. In 1925 they had under
cultivation s7,475 acres; in 1927, 218,546 acres.
In 1926 the British opened the Seminar Dam
on the Blue Nile in the Soudan, with great
ceremony under Lord Lloyd's supervision. The
Seminar Dam canalizes 100000 acres of some
of the best cotton land in the world.
But the control of a proposed dam in Lake
Tsana, Abyssinia, is the key to the control
of the Soudan and its vast cotton area.
Here enters Ras Tafari, American imperial
ism, and the now armed struggle for the con-
troll of the building of the Lake Tsana DAM
Ras Tafari has lined up with American i'm
perialism to combat the encroachment of Brit
ish and Italian imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19

Statement of the International Labor De-
tense, through its General Secretary, J.
Louis EngdahI, urging American e0orkers to
protest the persecution of labor IN India,
and not to , mieled by the Theatrical ac-
tivities of Gandhi" The statement follows:
american workers will not be misled by
the theatrical activities of Mahatma Gandhi,
in India, especially by his circus salt-making
stunts, but will concern themselves with the
growing persecution of Indian workers under
British imperialst rule, especially exposing the
farcical trial at Meerut of the 80 revolutionary
leaders, including three English workers.
"Not only the large numbers of Hindu work
ers in the great industries automobile, textiles,
transportation, etc., etc., in this country, but
all American workers must join in denouncing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
Soviet Industrial OUTPUT
Doubled

industrial output in the Soviet Union, twice
as great as pre-war production in the same
territory was shown in preliminary figures
published for the first half of the year, Octo
per to March 81, according to United Press
dispatches from Moscow today.
production far exceeds the goal originally
laid out for the period under the Five-Year
Plan. The figures show production at 28.s
per cent compared with 21.5 for the correspond
ing period year age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19

The Daily Worker is the Party's
hest instrument to make contacts
among tie masses of workers. to
build mass Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street,
New York City.
!, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-13
BETTER WORLD
COMING SAYS
EX-NAVY HEAD
Prohibition Is Viewed Here
to Stay, in Some Form,
by JoSephuS Daniels.

BIZ United Prcss
DALLAS, Tex. May 13.-A world
that is pushing upward through un-
rest. considerable lawlessness and
greed toward a modern era Of pro-
hibition, and new moral righteous
ness was pictured to the United
Press today by Josephus Daniels,
former secretary of the navy and
chairman Of the convention COM
mittee of the navy and chairman of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
south.
World progress and prohibition
are safe" Daniels said, IF not in
the present form. then in some more
modernistic forms.
The open saloon is gone-buried
and decayed It's filthy debauchery
belongs to another age, with horses
and buggies, six guns and celluloid
collars"
Every progressive innovation has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-13

given us new abuses and new laws
to govern them. Take the automo-
bile. See how our petty courts are
burdened with traffic violation cases.
Prohibition is an institution Of
progress. It will require time for
the nation to adjust itself to the
new condition but 1 believe the in
tent of the dry law will be accom-
plished in few years"
Daniels said he recognized d
strong wave of resentment against
prohibition and took heed of the
indicative trend shown in magazine
straw votes.
But I think the opposition will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-13

die out" he said. IF it doesn't. the
will OF the majority viii assert itself
through its legislators in congress,
which is the proper place to UNDER
take action.
Prohibition may or may not be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-13
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

more Christianity today than for
merry, Daniel replied:
Say the people are going to the
dogs or say they are bound straight
for heaven. You are right either
wav."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-13

called holy. 1t is a righteous move,
at least, and is such an improvement
over the saloon days that it already
is a tremendous success"
Asked if he thought there was
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

AS Carmody read O'Toole's leaf
let, feeling of dread took possess
sion of him. The worthy doctor
had theory that every human
being was an animated repository
of Syphilis, either congenital or
acquired. He then went on to
enumerate the symptoms. Johnny
had them all.
Suddenly a sharp pain stabbed
him in the back of his head. Drops
of cold sweat stood out like beads
on his forehead. He trembled all
over. His heart beat so rapidly
that he could feel the bed shaking
under him. He grabbed the enam-
elled rods behind his head to
steady himself. If he only had
hooker of whiskyl A few stiff
drinks and he would laugh disease
out of the room. He decided to
get up. But his watch showed it
was A M. and Bills Place would
be closed by now. There was
nothing left for him to do but to
agonize thru the night. He would
see DIR. O'Toole in the morning and
learn his fate. Finally he slept
from sheer exhaustion.
$3.50
A middle-aged lady, thin, pale
and sad-looking advised Johnny
that DR.. O'Toole was busy just
now but would be ready to inter
view him in few minutes. Would
! Mr.. Carmody please take a seat?
While waiting he whiled sway the
time glancing thru magazines de-
voted to the healing methods OF
the DR.. O'Toole school.
1t was a rather gloomy place
On the glass panel in the door OPP
ening on the corridor one could
learn that this was the American
Therapeutic Institute" The office
was arranged like the dressing
quarters of bathing resort. Oc-
casionally patient emerged from
booth, gave some money to the
sad-faced female and departed.
"This fellow must have gooC
practice unused Johnny, as HI
listened to the sound of swapping
and slapping, groans and sighl
that came from the booths.
Johnny was nervous. He wa
torn between the desire to learl
what was the matter with him ant
a desire to walk out and hope TO
the best without seeing DIR. U
that he had nothing to fear fror
Toole. He argued with himsel
that he had nothing to fear fror
an interview with the doctor, ye
he was unable to set his mind q
! rest. Surprising he had diabetes
Well, that would be preferable
syphilis. 1t was more respec'