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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
ROLE OF A SHOP PAPER
A Communist Weapon in the Factories

articles as we'll, and this is the roofing out of
sentiment of exceptionalism. 1t has to be made
clear to the workers in the shop that they are
not isolated on another planet and that Hoo
ver's Economic Council affects them and
war danger will affect them. We have to de-
velop them to realize that there is an interna-
tional chain of relationship in all the events
in the world and it affects the working class
in every corner of the globe. If it is Pan
Pacific conference, building Socialism in Soviet
Union, the role of Japan in the Far East, etc.
Political articles in a shop paper have to
bring to the enlightenment of the workers top
les that are on the order of the day for Party
members to discuss. We should not omit the
fact that workers are reading current events
in the capitalist papers and magazines and in
order to counterfeit this poison we should have
these current topics in our shop papers. For
instance, the S1,5O0,000000 expenses in U.S.A.
for the armament program and the contrast
of the Five-Year Plan for building Socialism
in the Soviet Union is excellent material for
a shop paper article.
Political articles to be sure have to be con-
nected with the conditions in the shop. Simply
to point out to the workers in the shop how
this situation will affect US workers working
in this shop.
Conclusion.
There is much to be improved in the issuing
of our shop papers in order to make them more
affective for their role and purpose But even
as the shop papers at present they are the
best means to rally the workers in the shops
around the leadership of the Communist Party.
The shop papers help to build shop COM
mittees, to organize the unorganized, to de-
velop the class consciousness of the workers in
the shop The six pages of good reading ma
terlal IN shop paper is a marvellous means
for agitation and propaganda. Our enemies are
realizing the Importance of these shop papers
and they are raving.
Shop papers are practically illegal in their
nature when the Party will be driven. under
ground. They will be more important than ever
before
Can leaflet, or even a Daily Worker take
the place of shop paper? 1t does not require
long discussion to make it clear that they can
not. They are supplementary to each other.
What is necessary is to impress upon many of
our leading comrades in trade unions that
Trade Union Unity League bulletin cannot
take the place of shop paper issued by the
Communist Party that one does not conflict
with the other.
There is much confusion and disagreement
on when, who and how to issue shop paper
Especially are such disagreements sharp be-
tween the heads of industrial union fractions
and section industrial organizers. There is
great indifference and under-estimation of the
role and Importance of shop paper
In order to cure all these, it would be good
move that the Central Committee Department
of Agitation and. Propaganda shall make out
an outline for discussion in the Party units on
the "Role of Shop Papers,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Worker Delegates to the S. u.

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press Service).-
The committee for foreign relations attached
to the Central Council of Soviet Labor Unions
announces that series of worker delegations
will visit the Soviet Union for the Nav celeb
rations.
A delegation of rs workers will arrive from
the United States. These workers are the mi
tlators of the recent tractor collections in the
States on behalf of the Soviet Union $4,000
were collected and 20 tractors were purchased
OF which IL are already at work on the collec-
tive agricultural "Choper." The delegation will
visit the farm and see the tractors at work
and study the conditions of the members of
the undertaking.
delegation of Is landworkers will arrive
from Norway. This delegation will also visit
Carelia in order to study the conditions of the
lumbermen there.
Delegations of raiwaymen are expected from
Hamburg and from Switzerland. These delepa-
lions will of course pay special attention to
the Soviet railway net and the repair shops
and building works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Bourgeois Bloc Government

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press Service)-The
Centrist (Catholic) politician, DR.. Bruening,
has formed his cabinet at Hindenburgs instruc-
lions. AS expected, it is government of the
bourgeois bloc, i. e. it excludes the social DEM
ocrats on the left and extends to the right to
include the German Nationalist. The cabinet
is composed as follows: Prime Minister, DR..
Bruening Centre Party); Foreign Affairs, DR..
Curtius Peoples Party; Interior and Occupied
Areas, DR.. Wirth Centre Party); Finance, DR..
Moldenhauer Peoples Party; Labor, DR.. Ste
gerwald Center Party); Economy, DR.. Diet
rich Democratic Party); Food, Schiele Ger
man Nationalist Party); Reichswehr, DR.. Groe-
ner (non-party)); Post, DR.. Schaetzel (Bava-
rian Catholic Party; Transport, Won Guerard
Centre Party; Justice, DR.. Bredt Economic
Party; and Minister without Portfolio, Trevi-
ranus Peoples Conservative Party.
The democratic "Berliner Tagebat" points
out that although the Centre (Catholic) Party
has taken four of the ministries, the Bruening
government cannot be described as govern
ment of the Centre, but is government with
dominating ultra reactionary tendency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
SITUATION IN PALESTINE
Communist Party and Arab Masses

ton of the Party from below, in the sense OF
the resolution of the E. C. C. l. on the Arab
insurrectionary movement of October 10th,
1929, are serving to increase the influence OF
the Communists among the Arab masses. This
fact is admitted not only by the pro-imper-
ialist and Zionist papers, but even the Arab
nationalsts, who up to now have kept silent
regarding the Arab Communist movement,
must now admit the great Communist adj
vance, The immediate result is that on the
one hand, the imperialist and Zionist terror
has been enhanced and not only Jewish but
also Arab workers are being imprisoned and
tortured on the charge of being Communists,
and, on the other hand, also the nationaists
are placing their press and their apparatus
in the service of anti-Bolshevist propaganda.
Also the trade unions established after the
Hafa Arab workers Congress are the scene
of constant fights between the agents of the
treacherous nationalist and the Communists.
But neither the fiercest reprisals the
anti-Communist campaigns hinder the
growth of the Communist influence and the
decline of the nationalist influence in the
trade unions, the growth of Arab Communist
literature and the organizational strengthen
ing of the Communist Party by the influx Of
Arab workers into its ranks. In the few
months that have passed since the August up
heaval many Arab comrades have entered the
Party; purely Arab local branches have been
formed. Arab comrades have been elected to
all leading Party bodies, both local and CEN
trail Thereby trump card of the nationalists
which they used to play against the C. P. of
Palestine-the assertion that the Party is
Jewish" Party-is taken out of their hands,
This development of the C. P. of Palestine
will clear the path for fruitful and effective
work of the Party not only among the Arab
masses in Palestine, but also in the neighbour
ing Arab countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
By A. PETERSON (Dist. 2, Sec. 81,
WHAT is the role of a shop paper issued by
w +l. partv2

BY a. PEIERSON (Dlst. z, Sec. ob
WHAT is the role of shop paper issued by
W the Communist Party?
First: 1t must develop the workers in the
shops to the realization, to the consciousness
of the facts, that they are part and parcel of
an oppressed class, called the working class.
That the working class lives in society, called
the capitalist society, and that all events and
all developments in this capitalist society, af-
fects directly the workers as a class.
Second: 1t must build the Party in the shop
organizationally and help to build our mass
organizations, such as the Trade Union Unity
League International Labor Defense, Workers
international Relief, etc.
The shop correspondence, the industrial arti-
cles, the political articles-are to serve the
tasks mentioned above.
The shop correspondence which reflects the
life behind the walls of the shop where the
workers are spending the best part of their
lives, is something of great Importance. 1t is
not only a matter of having the letters in
serted in the shop paper and from time to
time to have our editorial comment (some-
thing which is surely of Importance, but also
a matter of inner shop life on which the shop
paper is to react upon. Here is one of our
good opportunities to rally the workers to our
leadership and introduce the Party as the lead
er of the workers in their daily struggles. The
shop paper issued by Communists must react
on all events in the shop by pointing out to
the workers in the shop concretely what is to
be done how such an evil can be cured, how
to fight such an evil.
Industrial Articles.
The Communist Party as the leader of the
working class is to guide the workers in all
their struggles and therefore the Party says
to the workers:
Join your militant trade union! Fight the
misleaders of labor and the labor takers in
the A. F. of LIZ
The industrial articles must be in accordance
with the Party line on trade union work. They
in the shop and point out to the workers in
the shop, why they have to come, why they
have to join, etc.
How it is important to link up organizational
work with the shop paper work, can be illus
trated by an example in a big shop where the
editorial in the shop paper pointed out to the
workers that "they have to prepare for the
coming attack of the bosses. That they have
to. get in touch with a representative of the
industrial union in their trade in order to take
up organizational problems" etc.
: The workers were pleased with our guidance.
we had a committee of II sympathizers. But
because the leaders of this revolutionary in
dustrial union failed to come to work out with
these workers plans of organization, the shop
paper lost for them a great deal of its value
They began. to consider US simply as bunch
of takers who are not attempting to do any,
thing for them.
There is something that applies not only to
the industrial articles but also to the political
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

By |. AMTER.
one of the crying needs of the militant work
ing class movement is organizers, propa-
gandists, etc. The working class lacking those
opportunities that the bourgeoisie furnishes
for its chosen few, has to develop its own
forces.
The development within the labor movement
has brought about clean line of division 1t
is no longer possible to use workers who zap
proach" the line. 1t is not possible any longer
to utilize those who vacillate. The revolution
AIRY and militant working class movement de-
mands men and women whose line is clear, free
from opportunism and deviatiOns
The workers have in their ranks plenty of
this material, which, for one reason or other
has not been developed, but lies dormant in
the ranks. These new proletarians must be
developed into organizers, propagandists, agi-
tators, educators, etc.
The Workers School,
The revolutionary movement uses its own
resources for this purpose. 1t has the Work
ers School in New York, an institution that
already has established itself in the conscious
ness OF the workers throughout the country
More schools must be established upon the
basis OF this school, school for revolutionary
trade union leaders, agitators, for propagan-
dists and educators of the class struggle
A school must be established in the South.
The awakening of the labor movement of the
South, with its tremendous possibilities.
shows the need of forces in the South. The
strike movement, the awakening of the Ne
gro masses, who are fighting shoulder to
shoulder with the white workers, the terror in
the South, demand immediate action in the.
form of leadership. The plan to establish a
school in the South must be greeted by every
class conscious worker, and be supported in
every way.
The workers must be permeated with an un
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Unemployment in Greece
by Inprecorr Press Service,

(By Inprecorr Press Servce)
The economic crisis in Greece has seriously
affected shipping and the harbor of Piraeus
(Athens seaport) is choked with over 80 large
ships which are lying idle. Over 1000 searnen
are unemployed and dependent upon the mis-
cradle support accorded to them by the "Sea-
mems Home" Even those seamen who are at
work are bitterly disconnected because the en-
ployers are exploiting the crisis in order to
worsen the conditions of the men. The i'm
fluence of the revolutionary seamen's union Is
rising daily and ships committees have been
formed ON over so ships. The authorities are
doing their best to put a stop to the activities
OF the union by repression and two secretaries
OF the union have already been imprisoned un-
der the exceptional laws The unemployed
workers demand unemployed support to the ex-
tent of two-thirds of their normal wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

elections committees shall tabulate the votes
and declare the candidates receiving the highest
votes according to allotment, to be elected as
delegates. The Negro delegates thus elected
as delegates to the Fifth Congress of the Red
International Labor Unions will also be dele
gates to the London Conference of Negro work.
ers.
Especial District Elections: In industries
where there are no industrial unions or in
dustrial leagues of the T.U.U.L. three delegates
for those locals, shop committees and left wing
mlnorities that function outside the regular
industrial unions. Special district T.UU.L
elections shall be conducted for the election
OF these delegates, similar to the campaigns
for nominations and elections as above.
The campaigns for the election of these dele
gates shall be conducted on the basis of wide
campaigns of revolutionary competition to
build the T.U.U.L by the number of workers.
Negro and white, organized and unorganized
that are drawn into participation in the cleo
ton of the delegates, by the number of new
members brought into the unions and leagues
by the number of special delegate stamps sold
by industries by the number of shop commit
tees organized during the campaign, by the
number of new subscribers gotten for Labor
Unity, by the number of unemployed councils
organized and by the number of special meet
ings held to popularize the London Conference
of Negro Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
By BOB (Jaffa).

WITH the great advance of the revolutionary
" mass movement in Palestine after the Au-
gust insurrection. growing differentiation
within this movement has taken place. The
nationalist leadership of the movement, before
all the clergy and the commercial bourgeosie
under the pressure of the British officials
and out of fear of the further development
of the mass movement-are inclined more and
more to the Right. There is no doubt that
the nationalist leadership, in spite of its big
phrases, has in reality already capitulated to
British imperialism, and that the journey of
the Arab delegation to London only serves the
purpose of sealing this capituation by the be-
trayal of the interests of the peoples not only
to the imperialists but even to the Zionists
Hence it is not to be wondered at that the
bitterness of the masses towards the nation
alist leaders is increasing, and that the toilers,
before all the fellaheen, the town workers, and
the poor handicraftsmen, are beginning to
realise the treachery of the aristocratic
leaders.
In this process of regrouping of the Arab
revolutionary movement the Communist Party
of Palestine is playing not insignificant role.
1t is showing the workers and peasants that
the national emancipation of the toiling
masses must be closely linked up with their
social emancipation: the enactment of labor
legislation, the distribution of the big landed
estates to the Feahin are connected with the
fighting slogans against imperialism and
Zionism and in this way every worker and
peasant, even the most backward, can realize
that the C. P. is not only fighting for ma
tional emancipation, but is aiming at the
emancipation of the Arab masses from the
hard yoke of economic exploitation.
These slogans of the C. P. of Palestine, as
well as its fundamental turn to the Arabisa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Working Class Education to
Train Organizers

derstanding of the class struggle. They must
grasp its theoretical basis, so that they will
be able better to carry out the concrete work.
This cannot be done on a narrow basis, but
must be expanded as much as possible The
number of possible and eligible educators is
too limited today-there is positive dearth
OF comrades able to lead educational work,
Self-study circles are the remedy They en-
able the workers in their circle to analyze the
problems, develop their initiative and thus
furnish the revolutionary movement with more
leaders.
Support Education Conference.
These problems cannot be settled by good
wishes. The revolutionary labor movement
must solve them jointly Therefore the plan
OF holding conference to discuss and work
out ways and means of developing working
class education, to build up leadership, is
splendid and necessary one.
All working class organizations must SUD-
port the Working Glass Educational Confer
ence, which will be held in the large auditor
lum OF the Workers School, 26 Union Square,
on Saturday, April 10, at p. M Elect dele
gates to this conference. Make yourselves an
integral part Of the movement for working
class education.
No organization of the working class must
fail to do its share in providing leaders, edu
Gators, agltators, propagandists This is the
need OF the hour: Every worker must recog-
nize and support it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. s. A.
% East 125th Street,
New York City.
l. the undersigned, want to join the Commu.
mist Party. Send me more information.
Ttfs
Address .................. city.........
Occupation ...................... Age......
Mail this to the Central Office. Communist
Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him a copy every
day for a week. Then ask him to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

The Daily Worker is the Party's
best instrument to make contacts
among tie masses Of workers, 70
build a mass Communist Party.
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London Conference of Negro
Workers

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New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
TUNNEY TALKS ON
 CROSS SELECTION
Declines to Give Political Plans
 Before Conference

New York, Doc. 1G tUP)-Jauns J. "Gouu' TWuu-y, who makes his debut as a major on inc s,aE ot Doan Wilbur L. Gross Whou the lat ter is inaugurate5 as ConuaCticut's -oysrnor on JauuuH 7, IS "lurrrDst- e5 in politics.
 That was the eAt,Ht 10 which tue r-8r.d hcayyN.jlNt boxing cham DIou. St td,at Of Shakespeare and alleged crouy q. George Barnard Slew would cor4lut himself or Dean tross -Npressed nope that Tunuey would take part in Connecticut uoi- ties
 "1A other business matters" said EU1uey on his arrival here yoSfs rGaE rem 11-lr to Irtsbar-h, "I could eNgr-~. au opulou on ug oN4 IT, SUous5uIty, Tut a- d subordinate. one can't ralsg such a statement tor t"ar fAat il might cm5arrass oIl-'s chet.
 T would certainly not l-ha 10 ~ay anything tGN- might -I}. .mu4r- r4s~m7nt 10 u.an Cross, for he is such q splendid 7Dd kindly gntl-- mdn. l appr-oiat. his 4IoMtmat It of myself 10 lis ~tar .alI am ntaG- r~ted iu pol!tca a4jrs. bat pr.r.r 10 say nothing stout ny own plans 0ntH I have talked H..a hIn and learned what h. lay Wish 3ue to do."
 THnu4E. B forusr priyats fu he m#Hl@e ,orrs dur.1g tA. Har. a0s appointed a major ou Dym Cross staff recently.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
THEATERS TO AID FUND
 WITH SUNDAY MATINEES
strand and Embassy Will Contribute Gross Receipts at Special Aft
 CruOOu Entertainments.

Special Sunday shows will he glv- cn sunday afternoon at the Strand and Embassy theaters, the total proceeds from which will be added to the city emergency relief fund. Announcement of this contribution to the fund by Warner Bros, owners of the thoater was made by Man aeers Samson and Labide Of the two theaters.
 Doors for the performances will open at o'clock and the entcrtain- utut Will start at 1;30. 4 program ot motion pictures will be shown. I'm admission price for aI! seats will br 25 cents,
 Emplovcs Of the heaters will con- tribute their services gratis for the .t,FJ.uT.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
CORNERS FACES CHARGE

Waterbury, Ice, t6 LpD-Fraul Corners. -3, of -25 Ferry street, Nv Hner wl be trled in city court here Saturday morning on a .tHn@e Of op"aH.u@ an automobile w1l@ under lae induenc" ol liquor. II, appeared m court yesterday and ~a- granted a coutinuanca.
 lonu.rs 1yas arrested Sunday arnr his truck hsd collide1 with an .tomoHla driven by Edward E. Morgan oC His o'}. \ companlon, puEI BarH.tr &. or 45, Chapel street. Nsw Haven, WAS arrested on a drunkenness char4e. No one was injured in the crash.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
GIRLS PICKET SHOP
 IN WAGE PROTEST
100 Patrol Street Before New
 Haven Shirt Factory

Now Haven Dec. 16 P)-More than lou girl pickcters, many carry ug placards, gathered today in front of Lesnow Brothers shirt factory, Wltra 800 struck yesterday ill pro- test against a 25 per cent wage cut.
 Strike leaders claimed most of the BIO who remained at work after the cut WAS announced yesterday had Joined the Walk-out and that "only a haudtW' remained tt their beuch-
 William and Sm0 foSnow. oTnors. J-al.d assertions hy strikers th.er the factory Was a ''sWrat shop and that rmroyn4 were underpaid They c1- hiWt7d paNrolls showing workers re- l-ivod between 4 and S&u per Week. |hosy earning small amounts were described as 'IneSpcrionged' work cI~.
 William Lcsnow said competition had forced two decreases Ill the wage scaIe during tho last jour months.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
Two Men Missing in
 Fishing Trip On Sound

DrlUgQ p0Tt, Dec. l6 lP1-MIasluE since last "Wednesday, when 1hey loft here in a motorboat 10 go to Long Island OF d fishing tip Herman Gussenlov,u. 5e, and Charl's F'ri- borg #rr hug sought by l}r.dgg- port and Long Island police today,
 Tha men had only planned 10 go for tAo day. Both ver" out c. work and thought they might b. able to sell 1Ae fish they caught, They went iu b. motorh05t 15arzs rot.
 Families Of both mon fear they arc drowned. The men would lavo Ho,ia.d tltm r. Eora thiS tb,y told police N-oa porting te mattor to- dl>.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-16
CITY COURT JUDGMENTS

Property Of Helen SchWub on Bas- sctt street was ordered toroelosed ill ravor of the Savings Bank oL New Britain in an action decided in city court yesterday afternoon. Attorney John F, DoWncs represented the plaintiff. Judge Morris Il. SaAe pre- sidsd. The debt is S6,4C3.oo,
 Abraham Eosenblatt Was granted 8 foreclosure judgment against Herman Eeigcnbaum and others for a debt of $6,S98.75. The property is on Lafayette street. IIwglrtord N @aNe up@stnrtd tue plaintiff. Tn judgment Nas given by Judge a~l,y J. 'raceski.
 The Banks Law pubIishing Co, waz awarded a judgment Of $-b426 against Attorney VI. W. Rosenberg for 4on-plyment of a ut Of books, Tla defendant claims the books w,re not complete and offered to return them.
 Soizfield Hifkiu vas awarded a ud-Hni 1y -tuputation a=amst A. I&.rg- u Attorney Harold l hoplo- vl.z r,pl>~,nfrI the plaintiff