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The daily worker., 1930-04-19
By J. MINDED,

One of the drawbacks of the revo-
lutionary class struggle in the
United States is the lack of inter-
est on the part of the workers in
theoretical knowledge--knowledge
of the theory of strategy of the
class struggle. The labor movement
of this country did not produce a
single outstanding representative of
MARKHAM theory.
The socialist party. since it's in
ception, opportunist and reformist,
has a natural adherence to Marx
ian theory. 1t borrows it's knowl-
edge from capitalist reformists.
The only MARKHAM" literature it
ever published is capitalist in es-
sence, embalmed in MARKHAM phrase
ology. AS such, it is dead to the
interest of the working class and
its ultimate aim. The object of such
literature is to draw the working
class away from the path of revolu-
tionary class struggle into the SER
vice of the bourgeoisie.
This abhorrence for theory is not
peculiar only to the workers in gen.
eral and to the Socialist" party, it
also penetrates into the ranks OF
the revolutionary workers and even
into the ranks of the Communist
PARTY membership
The left-wing workers, who carry
on a bitter and obstinate struggle
on the economic and political field,
have a conception that theory is
some kind of high-brow invention
and a good and honest proletarian
should not WOrrv his head over it,
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
WORKING CLASS LEADERS
THE NEED OF THE HOUR

best workers must be selected for
this purpose, those who show un-
derstanding and have stood the test
in the struggle in the shops and
unions, on the picket line, etc.
The Workers School in New York
with 1000 students is the central
school from which many working
class leaders have come for the tre-
mendous job of organizing the 25,-
100000 unorganized workers in this
country, Negro and white, men and
women, young and adult, and lead
ing them in struggle. This strug-
gle on the political and industrial
field is tremendous-and were there
more leaders the work of organiza-
tion would proceed even more rap
idly.
In the Communist Party and T..
U. U. l.. this need is keenly felt.
Since the expulsion of the right
wing renegades and the carrying on
Of real struggle against oppor-
tunism in the Communist ranks, the
serious danger Of this right-wing
manifestation at this stage of the
struggle, with the workers showing
ever more willingness to organize
and fight, has become outstanding.
Correctness in theory and prac-
tice! Practice strengthened by ba-
sic theory! This is what is needed
by all--but especially by the new
leadership that is demanded by the
struggle.
In the I. U. U. L. this is cry
ing need as we'll. The old-type
leadership in the unions, protected
in its opportunism by the former
right-wing leadership in the Party,
cannot make the turn. The turn
must be made-and many Of these
leaders of the industrial unions Of
the T. U. L. l.. must be replaced
by militant rank and filers.
The training of these rank and
filers is the big job of the Workers
School.
A second task faces US in the
struggle arising in the South. Ne
gro and white workers in the steel,
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
THE LABOR DEFENSE AND
WORKERS EDUCATION

arc only now being seized upon. The
work Of education and propaganda
has entered upon it's first meager
beginnings only since the Fourth
National Convention in Pittsburgh,
Dec. 29-31, 1929.
The life of the LID, especially
in the branches, has been quite bar
rem in the past. Meetings have been
confined to the barest routine.
This shortcoming, which is only
now being remedied, has initiated
strongly against effective organiza-
ton, the systematic penetration into
the ranks of those workers still
standing aloof from the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, especially the
workers in the basic industries, Ne
gro and white, hardest hit by capi-
talist oppression. Another chiet
task is the education of those men,
bers already in the ranks of the
LID, making the life of the branch
interesting on the basis of the gen
eral tasks of the organization.
To achieve this purpose the work
of education and propaganda is be-
ing organized from the National Ex-
ecutive Committee through the dis
trict organization into the branches
special emphasis being laid on the
lower units in winning broader
masses and approaching the working
class mass organizations. This calls
for the training of hundreds of
skilled functionaries that do not now
exist. and for providing them with
satisfactory material with which to
carry on their work.
Educational Features.
Various activities. like photo-cor-
respondence and worker correspond
ence, use of films and lantern slides.
theatricals, Giving newspapers,
music, songs, expositions, are still
in their infancy. There is basis
for the rapid development of this
work through the central organ of
the LID, the Labor Defender"
which now has monthly circulation
OF $4,000 copies 100000 of Soviet
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
BY l, AMTER.

written in Tombs Prison.)
The workers Of the United States
have learned many lessons in the
past few years. They have seen
the American Federation Of Labor
in treacherous action at time when
leadership in struggle was needed.
In the South, as well as in the
North, one struggle after the other
sabotaged and sold out by these
traitors.
They have also witnessed the So
called 'progressives," the Musteites
Of Brookwood College. who pre-
tended to be radical and then
knelt at the feet of the A. F. of l..
and Confessed" "War to the death
against the Communists and Boil
sheviks-long live the fascist A. F.
of L." is their war cry. These
Musteites, mounting radical phrases
and Critical" of the A. F. of L.,
are the most dangerous enemies Of
the workers, since they use "pro-
gressive" working-class language,
but lead the workers directly into
the ranks of the fascist A. F. of l..
The socialist party-the social
fascists-with the trade union So
cial-fascist Musteites---no longer
even pretends to stand for the work.
ing class-but for all the. people.
They talk humanity" "justice," :"
etc. These petty-bourgeois liberals,
fostered by the capitalist class to
deceive and betray the workers, are
doing their vile work in the unions,
hand in hand with the Musteites.
Fascists and social-fascists-open
enemies of the workers-open tools
of our class enemies!
The workers have the Communist
Party and the Trade Union Unity
League-sufficient, and yet every
where is the demand for clear,
fighting working-class leadership.
This can be supplied only from the
midst of the revolutionary working
class itself.
Workers must be trained for lead
ership in theory and practice. The
The daily worker., 1930-04-19

Anniversary. November, 1929) and
$4,000 of the International May
Day, 1880, special editions. Although
considerable attention has been given
to such features of the Labor De-
fender" as Voices From Prison."
sufficient development of this work
has not been registered, undoube.
edly due to the lack of the proper
stimulation from the center, includ-
ing the more energetic organization
of correspondence between the LID.
branches and the class war pris-
oners, discussion of prosecutions in
other countries, especially in India,
China, Japan and the Latin Amer
lean countries at the present mo-
ment.
In view of these tasks, the LID.
endorses the Working Glass Educa-
tional Conference as a medium for
exchange of opinions on how to
carry on these activities in all work.
ing class organizations. 1t greets
this effort and will give it all pos
sible support.
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
WORKERS SPORTS IN FRANCE

The yearly convention OF the r. 3.
T. 1.-THE workers sports organization
Of France) has ousted an oppor-
tunist from the leadership. The
renegade, Garcheri, was kicked out
Of the craftsmanship and Comrade
Doriot was elected in his place.
The convention Of the F. S. T. ac-
copied the line Of the Red Sport In
tsrnational and follows it closely.
The French government is bitterly
opposed to the workers sports Or
ganization.
The Secretary Of State has just
barred their spring track and field
meet. Nevertheless, the F. S. T..
had decided to go through with it.
The sport meet was scheduled in
Ormesson, about twenty miles from
Paris, and was held despite the
army of police on the field. The sec
retary Of the F. S. IT,, Comrade
Hanotin, was arrested and the class
court has sentenced him for two
months. In the meantime the
preaching Of neutral sports" is ad-
yeeatsd by the French reformists.
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
Hail Revolutionary Working Class Education C0mte,ece
Central Comm. Gyeets Drive
for Woyklngclass Education
Points Out Need Especially Among Workers
in Basic Industry and South

h1HE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the Communist Party the
drive of the Workers School and Trade Union Unity League
working education the United States
struggle the of revolutionary
spirit the working Glass; and the increasing sharpening of the
the
against capitalism This particularly of the work
South considerable numbers of certain basic sections
proeara who during the past period have
manifested growing miitancy.
In order forward these struggles larger numbers of bet
equipped fighting leaders needed The working class education
the
tasks providing trained leadership for rapidly growing
The of the Party of the
United the April H Working Class Education Confer
being held in New York big forward in this dre
unqualified support the drive the Workers School
establish school in the South to enlarge the
Communist Party and establish self-sudy
School ITSELF we
militant workers to aid this drive
that the purpose O the drive may be achieved.
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
Soccer League Open
for Spring Games

The Workers Soccer League of
New Jersey, affiliated to the Labor
Sports Union, has opened its gate
for spring competition. The seven
teams in the first division are con-
sidered to be equal in strength to
any amateur team. The member
ship are an all-proletarian element,
mainly from the basic industry. 1t
il worth while to mention that five
clubs before playing in the United
States Football Association decided
to leave the BOSSES organization
and Join the workers league, and
they are now participating in the
competition.
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
National GMaydsmem,S Letter

Russia or its defense to do with us ?
(Such questions will be answered in
the Rebel Guard. Editcr)
Conditions in the Guard are
pretty bad. That is why your paper
has made such tremendous hit.
| don't see why we are forced to
buy dress uniforms and to pay for
them out of our small pay checks.
l bet there is plenty of graft for
the officers. Besides uniforms we
have to pay for dances and beer
rackets and othe. affairs which
make some of US forget the serious
business we are really in.
] hope you continue to distribute
your paper. / will write some more.
Yours, A Worker in the Guard.
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
Communist Party National
Training School and
the Next Step
Necessity of Theoretical Training for the
Glass Struggle

agencies to come to the conclusion
that the Party and more so, the
broad working masses are very
backward theoretically, that the
teachings of Marx and Lenin still
did not imbue and develop the Amer
lean working class. This theoretical
backwardness cannot be separated
from the general organizational
backwardness of the American
working class. Both of them go to-
gether.
"Without revolutionary theory,
there can be no revolutionary
practice"
This fundamental truth, stares
glaringly at us in our everyday life
and struggles. In certain sections of
cur Party itself there is manifested
too much the tendency of repeat
ing phrases, of making statements
without an attempt to analyze their
meaning and their political implica-
tions. There are tendencies of US
ing a common denominator" to
characterize all political tasks and
problems. The party membership
and even leading party cadres did
not learn yet how to use the Marx
ist feminist method of analysis of
problems, of drawing conclusions on
the basis of serious study CT these
problems along the general political
lines laid down by the authoritative
Party organs. The absence of the
ory, the insufficient measures taken
to spread the teachings of Marx and
Lenin represent within themselves
very serious state of affairs which
must be remedied Immediately.
For Successful Drive.
The National Training School be-
sides arming So workers with the
weapon of Marxism, Leninism, vii
also help greatly in discriminating
MarXism in the ranks of our Party
The more such schools we will build
the greater will be our success, the
more effective will be our Party
the stronger will be the working
class. All this therefore means that
we must build a revolutionary edu'
cational .enter in the U. S., which
concretely expresses itself in max
ing the present drive of the workers
school success. The Workers
School drive must receive the utmost
attention from every working-class
organization and class-conscious
workers.
Significance of School in South.
The activities of the Workers
School must be considered from a
broad revolutionary aspect. The
present drive of the Workers School
which aims to establish school in
the South is of historical Importance
It will mark a wider penetration OF
the revolutionary movement in the
South. 1t will strengthen and pro-
vide leadership to the ever growing
class struggles. Again we must re-
peat the words of Lenin: without
revolutionary theory, there can be
no revolutionary practice" So fal
the American masses are not yet
imbued with the revolutionary the
ory of Marxism and Leninism. II
is our task to make the teachings
of Marx and Lenin permeate the
minds of the masses of American
workers,
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
To the Rebel Guard:

am a member of the 165th In
fantry (the old 69th) and have read
two or three issues of your paper,
which was distributed at our an
mory. 1t has interested us very
much as most of the things written
in it are quite true.
Everybody from the buck privates
to the officers know that the guard
is purely strike-breaking organi-
zation. AS most of US are workers
we certainly don't like the idea Of
breaking strikes that other workers
may take part in.
There are few things in your
paper which l do not understand
very well. For instance, what has
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
By LEON PLOTT.

THE results of the National
1 Training School of the Com
munist Party conclusively prove the
Importance of this institution. In
spite of the great shortcomings the
National Training School made
valuable contribution to. the revolu-
tionary labor movement. For per-
iod of six weeks, 90 hours a day,
95 workers from all over the United
States were actively engaged in a
serious study of the tasks and prob
lens of the American working
class and the revolutionary Marxist
feminist methods and tactics in soiv-
ing these problems.
Worker Students Self.
All the students with few eXcep-
tions were workers. Their social
composition was as follows: tex
tile workers; a seamen; metal
workers; 8 wood workers; miners;
2 laborers; 2 steel workers; 2 auto
mobile workers; food workers; 2
students (Chinese and Japanese); l
shoe worker; l housewife (Negro);
unskilled factory worker; needle
trades worker; 1 aluminium worker;
1 printer and / clerk. Among the
students were six Negroes, three
women, two Chinese, one Japanese,
and one from Argentine. One of
the best features of the school was
the fact that it had five workers
from the South, one of whom was a
Negro.
As result of the Training
School, the Communist Party got
four section organizers in the most
industrial districts of the country,
one district organizer, seven for
general Party work, one agitprop
director, three for work in the
Young Communist League, six for
work in language bureaus and for
eign language papers, two for
work in the International Labor
Defense and 8 for leading trade
union work in the various parts
of the country.
Concrete Benefits.
From the above one can clearly
see the concrete organizational bene-
fits derived from the National School
that will no doubt greatly strengthen
the Party and its mass work. Such
school, however, must be estab-
lished not only nationally but also
on a district scale, where larger
numbers of comrades could he given
q theoretical and political training
of Marxism-Leninism. The National
! Training School is definitely linked
up with the most burning problem
facing our Party-Training of Cad
res. These training schools are also
part of the great tasks of the revo-
lutionary working class to spread
the teachings of Marx and Lenin in
the U. S., to imbue the active forces
OF the working class with revolu-
tionary theory and combine theory
and practice in our everyday strug-
gles. The greatest weakness of the
American working class is precisely
the lack of any theoretical training.
A similar situation prevails in the
ranks of the American Party.
One only has to look over the
sales transactions Of our publishing
houses and literature distribution
The daily worker., 1930-04-19
BOOKS
Reviews and Notes of
Interest

The Nineteen, by A. Fadeyev.
Translated from the Russian oy
r. d. Charques. lnternatlonai
Publishers. Boards, $1.o0. Cloth'
$3.50.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-28
WOMEN HIDE ACE
TO RETAIN JOBS
Economical Justification for
Usual Reticence.

Westinghouse woman's proverbial
reticence where age Is concerned has
economic If not ethical justification In
our modern Industrial system, accord.
ing to officials. of the United States
women's bureau.
The woman over twenty-elght who
tells her employer the truth about her
age is likely to find herself out of
job, says Miss Mary V. Robinson, d.
rector of the bureaus division of pub.
lie information.
The bureau finds the term, colder
worker" is being applied to all wonl-
en- employees between the ages Of
rwenty-eight and sixty-eight, and that
1t is "fairly typical" for Industrial
concerns to employ only women un-
der thirty.
with the problem Of finding work
becoming more acute for women in
their thirties, naturally to the women
of over forty forced to seek 4 job the
situation seems almost hopeless" Miss
Robinson said.
"Many women In their fifties, de-
spite years of satisfactory and loyal
service, are kept through wrong types
of efficiency methods in constant dread
of losing their positions; and those
who have crossed the sixty mark, even
though still hale, fit and useful, gen.
orally are regarded as hopelessly be-
yond the dead line Of employment"
The women's bureau recently made
a survey of women hand workers in
the cigar industry, where hundreds
have been thrown out of work by fac
tory mergers and installation Of auto
matte cigar making machines.
A number of those questioned
frankly admitted preyaricating about
their age in their effort to find new
work.
Miss Robinson raises the question
If 1t isn't "a shortsighted civilization"
that offers wage standards too low to
provide savings that would insure
against unemployment, and age stand
ards 100 low to provide jobs for capa.
BILE applicants.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-28
Widows Search Finds
Reward After % Years

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES years ago
Johan William Tornoe, Norway's vice
consul at Cardiff, while walking on the
cliffs here, was seized with heart
attack. Miss Jessie Hart, nurse,
who CHANGED to pass at the moment,
went to Mr.. Tornoe's assistance. She
guided him to the nearest seat and
held his head in her lap until he died
a few minutes later.
From that time until the present
Mrs. Tornoe has yearly visited Car
diff in an effort to find and thank the
nurse who went to her husbands as
slstance. Each time her visit proved
fruitless, but she never lost hope of
finding Miss Hart.
This year she came again, and as
the result of an advertisement In n
local paper, she succeeded in getting
in touch with the former Miss Hart,
who now Is Mrs. Jessie Thomas, liv-
ing in Rhondda valley. The meeting
took place here and Mrs. Tornoe ex-
pressed her deep appreciation Of Mrs.
Thomas kindly act, performed %
years ago.
Many persons have become ac-
quainted with Mrs. Tornoe's long
search for the nurse, and all were
gratified that her persistent efforts
had at last been rewarded.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-28
$3.50 Sock Worth 500,
So Declares This Lady

Springfield, Mo.-Flned $3.50 for
assaulting neighbor woman, Mrs.
Sarah Youngblood Wright declared In
Justice court It was worth a hun
dred."
"Been wanting to sock that woman
for long time said Mrs. Wright to
Judge Hubbard. "The other day she
stepped out In her yard and made
signs didn't appreciate, SO invited
her to n vacant lot.
"She put her hands on her hips and
snarled at me, How close do you want
me to Gomez / was close enough, SO
spit on my hands and socked her one.
What / mean, she toppled.
"Yessir, 1t was worth 500.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-28
Shot as Coyote, Animal
Proves to Be Silver Fox

Torrance, Cnlif.--A sleek little ami.
nal shot by Arthur Hodge us a coyote
furnished Mrs. Hodge with hand.
some neckplece when 1t was deter.
mined that the intruder was not a
coyote but silver fox. The fox had
been making dcpredations upon the
Hodge family chicken pens and had
evidently escaped from some fox farm.
Value of the pelt has been estimated
Mt $3.50.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23

to handsome young MT. Herbert, her mother was riding about African jungles on the lofty back of an ele- phant and coolly viewing exotic sights through an aristocratic pince-nez.
 If the Dowager's reaction is any thing like that produced in the Baby" Countesss own domain by the news, the oyd Seafield castle will ring with protests of refined rage and distress when her mother returns from the tropics.
 Listen to what one conservative Scottish newspaper had to say about the twenty-four-year-old Countesss marriage to the young Gusrdsman:
 "Fhppancy, of this kind and pro- ceedings such as described do not make edifying reading where the name of Seafield has ever been identified with more orthrdox ways in the cele- bration of what is known as the hap piest day in young girls life.
 Tt was quite well known how the
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23

Seafield trustees, in discharge of
 their great and important trust,
 have always sought to establish the = most intimate and friendly relations between their tenantry and her who they hoped would one day succeed to the estates.
 This hurried and secret marriage came, therefore, with sense of shock and distaSte that is manifest through out the entire estates.
 News editors of London newspapers, we are told, telegraphed to their cor respondents in Scotland to send them reports of the marriage rejocings. There were no rejoicings"
 Editorial comment like this made the Baby" Countess smile broadly.
 What. no rejoicings among the ten antry?" she said. That's too bad" Then, undi8tressed by the crushing dis approval of her adjacent Highlanders, Lady Seafeld fed with her groom to Paris for a gay honeymoon.
 On their return, the lucky MT. Her bert will resign his commission and take a position in London The very heather of old Scotland may turn up its nose in disapproval, but Lady Sea field and he will try to struggle on as best they can.
 After all, the Countess still has her
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23

Seaheld family history were not in the least surprised when the Baby" Countess Haunted traditions and kicked over the royal traces of formal matri- mony by clipping
 For, according to legend, her pater- nal grandfather, the gay Viscount Reidhaven, and later the Earl of Sea field, also participated in secret mar riage. This was brought out few years ago when an octogenarian, Alexander Grant, came forward with an extraor- dinary suit, claiming he was the legal sor and heir of this adventurous Scot tish nobleman and that the vast estates of the house of Seafield belonged to him, and not to the Baby" Countess
 The story he told was truly anaz- ing one but, despite his assertions, the English courts threw out Grants claim. In fact they were so im-