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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
By A. BITTELAfAN
Excerpt from Comrade Bittelman's Speech
at the Plenuml


THE report on the 18th Plenum of the ECCI
1 has once more brought to our attention the
growing danger that confrontS all parties also
our Party, in the present situation, namely, the
danger of tagging behind the rehabilitation Of
the masses. The question I want to raise is this:
Why is it that this danger OF tagging behind Is
especially dangerous at the present time
Comrade Browder proceeded very correctly in
his report when he stressed the proposition that
the chief means with which to overcome this
tagging behind is the turn to shop work, the
building up OF shop organizations, Party and
union in the decisive industrial plants and sec
tions Of the country.
But we have been speaking about shop nuclei
snd shop work for the last six years, and the
Comintern has been pressing this matter Tor
about the same length Of time. Why is 1t, then
that if we should fail now to make the turn to
shop work that is called for in the reports ana
resolutions of the Pontburo, the results may
prove to be more fatal for our movement than
was the case five four and three years agoF
I remember a speech by Comrade Foster de-
Hvered at one of the Plenums Of the Central
Committee Cor perhaps it was Party conyen-
tom some five or six years ago. In that speech
poster outlined a program Of building shop nuclei
in the heavy industries, proving that by build
ing its organizations in the shops the Party Will
he able To Mace itself at the head of big strike
movements of the workers This was correct ana
hasically important even then But at the pres
ent time it would be totally insufficient merely TO
restate that proposition. We must realize that
ali that the XII Plenum said on the question is
absolutely correct that failure to turn our face
II, the shops and organize our forces there 70
lead the maturing class battles may spell olsas-
ter for the workers and for the Party, Why?
BECAUSE we are no longer in a period OF Just
preparing ourselves generally" for the class
struggle. or of strengthening our Party generally
as the leader Of the working class This gen
erallv" is no longer In existence We all know
md we all speak about impending and developing
big class battles Of the proletariat in the United
states. We all know that big battles are coming
that important struggles are breaking out in sew
eral basic industries-in mining, in textiles. And
let us now begin to hasten our preparations Tor
struggle in the steel industry more intensiVely
than we ever did before.
What are the dangers confronting us in the
steel industry? If in the next several months
we do not succeed in really putting our foot into
a number of important plants In the steel in
dustry. the danger is not merely that there will
be fewer shop nuclei in the respective districts,
or that we shall not have made enough progress,
but that maturing struggles of the workers
against the capitalist offensive viii not come to
fr,ution and that big sections Of the working
class win be defeated without battle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
No SIackening In Our Unemployed
Work

% Only by organizing the struggle for the
/ nninutest interests Of the unemployed, ana
! showing to the unemployed, through Their own
| experience, how through struggle they can Sc
l clJre relief can we enlist the mass OF the
/ unemployed around our organizations. Con-
| cere demands are to be formulated Tor all tne
Unemployed Committees in their sphere. In
| the employment agencies the Unemployed
| Committees are to put forward the demands
| for fare and lunches when coming for en-
! nloyn1ent At thesoup kitchens the unem-
4 ployed should put forward demands for sutf1-
I Gent and good food and fight against any
form of discrimination. At the lodging houses,
/ demands are to be put forward for clean beds,
no limit on the time unemployed can stay, and
similar demands At all the institutions the
demands for the control and administration by
! the unemployed themselves, must be put Tor
ward In the neighborhoods, we must demand
free rent for the unemployed, free gas, cleo
tricity, water etc The committee must put
| forward demands for food, fuel milk for the
children, ETC. Demands must be put forward
| for relief to the young workers. and the set
! ting up of lodging houses for the homeless
Young workers Such demands must be linked
I'D with the struggle against the terror against
the unemployed, discrimination etc. All these
demands must be elaborated, developed and
| modified by the unemployed themselves on the
basis of their experience,
Cc) In the center of our activity among the
unemployed, and on the basis of the struggle
for immediate relief must go the demand for
unemployed insurance amounting to full wages
and to be paid to all unemployed throughout
the period Of unemployment. In the meantime
this demand must be made to the city, town.
and state governments. The fight for unem-
ployed insurance must also be organized where
possible on state lines, through the center OF
thecampaign is the fight for federal unemploy-
ment insurance
(From the 18th Plenum Unemployment Reso-
luton which appeared in full in the october
issue Of the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

HANDHI has arrived in London. The leader OF
the Indian National Congress has come to
take his place side by side with the Maharadjas
and Zemindaris the big money-lenders and
mill-owners, side by side with all the servile and
exploiting classes of India in their deliberations
with British imperialism Gandhi and his as
sociates of the Indian National Congress have
come to join the imperialist and native exploit
ers in their task of safeguarding British domina
ton and of celebrating new methods for the
oppression of the Indian masses.
At the height of the struggle eof the Indian
masses for freedom, the Indian National Con-
gress made peace with the irnperialist oppres-
sors. The participation of the Congress in the
Round Table Conference sets the final seal on
the betrayal embodied in the Gandhi-Irwin-
Pact. Now even the blind can see the true value
of Gandhis doubts and hestations. His day to
day vacillation from feeling like going to
feeling like not going" had only one purpose
in view: to deceive the masses into believing
that the Congress was still the champion of.
their interests, and thus to paralyze the opposi-
ton of the masses to his trip to London.
Blu all these elaborate maneuvers are In vain.
Now that Gandhi is in London, it will be OBJ
vous to all that he has not undertaken his trip
in order to serve the cause of the national lib
Grafton of the Indian people The object of his
participation in the Round Table Conference is
to deferd the interests of the Indian exploiting
classes against the onslaughts of the Indian
masses through the consolidation of the British
overIordship in India.
The proceedings of the Round Table Confer
ence will undoubtedly provide many valuable
lessons for those sincere but misguided revolu-
tionary elements in India who still cherish illu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Socialist Ways and Means

Out in sunny California, in the city of Pasa-
dena pink handbls were passed around recently
notifying one and all that mass meeting on
UNEMPL OYNfENT would take place on Satur-
day, September 49, in Gold Shell" park.
1t was shell game, all right The circular said
the meeting was under the auspices of long list
of citizens of Pasadena, among whom glist-
ened the, name Of the mayor, Monsignor McCar-
thy numerous doctors and notables, and the
reader was informed that it was his civic ard
patriotic" duty to attend.
Further the meeting was to discuss ways ard
means Of solving the serious situation; to wit
UNEMPLOYMENT. And professor was going
to speak. Hot stuff!
But, says reader, 1.-THE ways and means dis
cussed came out to be an appeal to vote for the
socialist partyl" But that only makes the more
interesting the part of the leaflet, which spoke
Of a /. this serious situation confronting the
rich and poor alike"
Well, we admit that the rich are pretty much
unemployed But that the situation confronts
them alike? However THAT is the kind OF
anti worker applesauce put out by the fake So
cialists", and not only in Pasadena
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Bing Bang

A. B. Bing, an insurance agent with Offices az
Al Park Row did the dutch last Monday. and
the Times tells US: "Dr. Miles who established
the death as suicidal, said there was no money
in the pickets Mr. Bling had suffered nanciaI
reverses"
The editor Of the magazine called Fortune"
which told everybody how to get rich, Jumped
out Of window recently for like reasons as
Mr.. Bling.
Denis Steiner, for twenty years manager OF
the Electro Chemical Corporation shot himself
Monday "over financial reverses" says the
Times, in story alongside that of Mr.. Bing
while on another page we read that in Phila-
delphia william E. Caveny director and counsel
for bank that busted Monday, shuffled Off his
mortal coil in his garage the same day that
Mr.. Bing banged.
All of which led conrade to write US:
1--WE should concern ourselves with suicides OF
workers, but the capitalist press does not bother
reporting them any more, there are SO many
capitalists committing suicide.
THE old capitalist system just amt what it
used to be- It's getting too tough for some Of
it's own patriots and stand-patters.
For reports of workers dying if one takes
a walk around Houston Street, East Third or
East Fourth. near the river, workers dying of
starvation are a daily sight. A friend who lives
down there says: They drop like flies But
it's not news for the capitalist press and they
don't report it-E. D."
Now, workers, don't you ever ever commit
suicidei That's just what the capitalists would
like you to do, rather than see you fight along
with your class for life.
Let the capitalists kill themselves. But don't
take after theml See what can be won By class
struggle! Look at the triumph of the working
class in Soviet RUSSIA Join us, fight to live
Fight for food with the whole working class
Join the struggle where there is hope, well
founded hope of better life through the strug-
gle that we assure you will be victoriousl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Congress

sions about what tbs Congress will do. The
Indian workers and peasants will not be slow
to realize that the vague and hypocritical de-
mands on their behalf which were drawn up at
the Karachi Congress, were intended only to
mask the cowardly capitulation Of the so-called
National leaders.
The heroes Of the Indian revolutionary strug
gle now undergoing torture in the medieval
dungeons and prisons Of India or exiled for life
to the deadly Andaman Islands, will doubtless
appreciate the cordial shaking Of hands between
the National" representative Of India and their
torturers
The British imperialists on their side, are
doing and will do everything possible in order
to help the Nationaf Congress to deceive the In
dian masses Noble lords and representatives OF
the imperialst Labor Party eulogze the great
ness of Gandhi. His imperialst masters accept
his eccentricities with an indulgent smile.
Gandhi may even be permitted to render hoIn-
age to his Majesty, the King Emperor OF Br1-
tain and India, dressed only in loin-cloth.
No doubt, great concessions for subject nation!
The Indian national bourgeoisie may acclaim
the generous reception accorded to their repre-
sentative But what of the demand for COM
plete independence, accepted by the Lahore
Congress only. two years ago? Can anyone in
his senses pretend to believe that India will be
granted independence by the Round Table Con-
ference, that independence can be achieved by
negotiations with the British in1perialists?
This is the crucial question No diplomatic
jugglery at the Round Table Conference, no new
maneuvers on the part of Gandhi, can alter the
plain fact that the participation OF the Indian
National Congress in the Round Table Confer
ence means the open and unequivocal abandon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
The PIenum Must Have an lmme-
date Effect

About two hundred comrades attended the
last problem. How much Of force are these
comrades in effecting change in the methods
of work in the Party? How well are these
comrades mobilizing the Party to bring about
the turn in shop work, that the Plenum en-
phasized?
1t is not sufficient to praise the Plenum reso-
lutions It will not do to refer to the good
discussion that took place at the Plenum. The
decisive question is, how we carry out in prac-
tise the line of the Plenum. The line is not
something abstract, general. 1t ennbodies di-
receives for immediate tasks. Every phase OF
our work, no matter how small it is, must show
the effects of the Plenum resolutions.
The Party is at work The problem is OF
making our work more effective We must not run
in circle The Plenum therefore raised sharp
ly the question of our methods of work, of
raising the political level of the membership We
must therefore in our work show "A combina-
ton Of revolutionary zeal with the practical
spirit which constitutes the essence of Leni-
nisrn." (Stalin)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
R4..~
Can You Beat 1t?

We were busy yesterday training the crocodile
just when, and when not to bite, and the phone
rang
Hello" said voice over the wire. "This is
the Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New
York VIII you do us favor, Jorge2"
We kicked the crocodile under the desk and
gave diplomatic answer: what dye wantP"
"Well, you know we're running a big ball at
Rockland Palace Saturday night, 155th ST. and
9th Ave. A lot depends on it. It's got to be
success II not, our trade union mass revolu-
tlonary work will suffer. We won't make that
decisive turn to the shops. Can't you give us
write up in the column"
We demurred at writing advertisements.
But the decisive turn was already begun on
the concentration point of Red Sparks, and the
necessity OF self-criticism hove into sight:
Let's get around that, Jorge. Well bring YOU
over some, errors we have made, some weak
nesses-there's a lot of EN- So then, you can
criticize us and link up the bali at Rockland
Palace"
We were so kerflumixed at this offer to swan
Self-crticism for column space that we forgot
to thank the T. u U. L. genius for the offer
before hanging up, promptly yanking the croco-
ollie out from under the desk, posting it at the
door and instructing the varmint:
When you see an out-Worn method of work
coming in, labeled TU.U.C.-bite, durn YOUR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Kentucky's Brave Defenders"

tered and thus became the recipient Of still
more bruises. Daybreak found me soaked to
the skin with rain and mud, my clothes by
this time torn almost to shreds and did not
know where in. hell was. For several hours
1 was just lost that's ALL At about nine could
see mine in the distance so crced the noun
tain not knowing I would find some sort OF pig
trail or COW path soon. Presently heard
barking dog but that was much preferred to the
barking I'd heard a few hours before. Now
house I'll beheading for somewhere soon.
But how little I realized where. woman at
the house, between spits of her snuff tobacco,
directed me to the pike and Appalachia, but
before I got out of the woods, 1 was spotted,
arrested again and handcuffed, this time by
the Virginia coal operators "law" who had ey-
cry trail and road covered There's no doubt
they were informed of my being in there and
as soon as-they got me they demanded to know
where Grace was, mentioning his name as well
as my two names. 1t was not hard to convince
them that 1 didn't know where Jim Grace was
however, and one of them remarked, you
wouldn't know II he'd been killed. would ya?'
After being taken from Office to office, they
noticed my bruises and took me to the doctor
who informed them I had no broken bones.
Then one of the Flaw" in those coal camps took
me to Appalachia, said he was sorry for me,
etc. and told me to "scram"
With water still oozing out Of my shoes and
my clothes SO wet that both the coat sleeves
and pants leg had raised to high tide levels,
/ had TO "scrarn" from there SO as to avoid any
yagrancy suspicious and session with the APP
palachan "law." then remembered that Bruce
Crawford, who had been shot by the Harlan
thugs for things he had written in his "Craw-
fords Weekly about things in Harlan, lived a
short distance away in Norton, Va. So came
on here where I knew would get help out OF
my raiment difficulties and I can close by say
ing that, though find 1t difficult and painful
to scribble this information, I'm glad I'm able
to also that I'll still be able to do more for
the N.MU. and the working class generally
alive, than would otherwise, for IL they would
have managed to plug me over that mountain
side, they'd never have been able to find me
TO hold Red funeral
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

plants especially those resulting from hydrogen
sulphide and carbon bisulphide are given in the
report of DIR. McCord:
IAN instance is cited when 70 patients suf-
fering from conjunctival Inflammation we're
under treatment. They complained of darling
pains in the eyes, a feeling of sand, photophobia
tears halo and rings around lights. The eyes
we're red the lids swollen the follicle velvetlike
and conspicuous.
1.-THE sovent--carbon bisuphide-is 50 poison
Gus that it has been practically discarded In the
rubber industry but it is still used for treating
alkali cellulose in the churn room of artificial
silk factories The workman is compelled at the
end of the process to put his head into the
churn to remove the orange -colored sticky mass,
and SO is exposed to fumes Of carbon bisulphide
Further trouble, including sharp pain, photo
phobia. and conjunctivitis, is claimed to be set
up by traces of sulpheretted hydrogen generated
at the spinning troughs. ="
1t is pointed~out also by this authority on in
dustrial health In the rayon manufacturing pro-
cess, MANY steps are carried out at high tenn
peratures, thus introducing the danger of, burns,
as well as the systemic effects OF high tenn
peratures In the same manner wetness pro-
vides opportunities for falls, as well as the con-,
stitutional harms of excessive moisture"
All Of these dangers to health should be
stressed In campaigning among these textile
workers for social insurance legislation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Against the Capituation OF the Indian National
CONGRESS
ny BuRCK

ment Of the demand for independence. The pur-
pose of the conference is nothing else than the
completion of the work begun by the Simon
Commission 1t meets in order that British i'm
perialism can enlist the aid Of the Indian CAPT.
tshsts, as well as of the Princes and landlords
against the growing threat of workers and
peasants revolution in India.
At the time OF the Gandhi- Irwin Pact. the
Congrass pretended that it was not peace" but
! truce" that it was not the end but merely
suspension Of the fight. The participation of
the Congress in the Round Table Conference
gives the direct lie to this pretense. AS the
League Against Imperialism has repeatedly en-
phasized and as was clearly formulated in the
resolution of the last session of its International
Executive. 'the directing committee of the In
dian National Congress has become open
agent of British Imperialism and Of the rich
landowners and capitalists, and traitor to the
cause Of Indian independence to Wlish it has
rendered so much solemn hp-service." For this
eliminating act Of long series of betrayals the
left" wing phrase mongers, Jawaharlal ~Nehru
and s. c. Bose, will have to account before the
Indian masses along with Gandhi and the other
groups Of the National Congress
Wherein lies the duty of all fighters against
imperialism in the face of this betrayal? Our
duty is above all to mobilize the masses of India,
Of England and other countries against the IN
dian National Congress and its supporters
abroad 1t is necessary to expose the counter
revolutionary sabotage Of the struggle for indie
pendence undertaken by Gandhi and the leader
ship Of the National Congress. Demonstrations
should be organized against the Round Table
Conference, against Gandh and the other Con-
gress leaders. We call upon all the workers and
particularly upon the masses of India to show
by these demonstrations that Gandhi speaks
not in the name of the Indian nation but in
the name of handful of Indian capitalists and
noney-lenders-
Down with Gandhi and all Indian exploiters
in the service Of British imperialism!
Down with the Indian National Congress, the
enemy Of India's emancipation from the imper-
ialist yoke!
Long live the struggle of the Indian workers
and peasants!
Long live the mass revolutionary struggle for
the overthrow Of imperialism and the achieve
ment Of complete independence!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
BY TOM MYERSCOUGH

AFTER being searched no fewer than six times
n bewteen nine o'clock Friday night at Neon,
KY, where we were arrested and about O'Clock
Saturday morning on top of big mountain
near Larde Va, where we were taken from the
car and again looked over" to make sure we
had no arms, Jim Grace and were invited" to
fight by three heavily armed Harlan County
thugs to whom we had been turned over by the
thugs of Letcher County.
I got to Norton, Va. where now write these
lines over trail" that sure was never
"blazed before know it was not the lonesome
pine for I hit too many of them as I rolled
and slid down the side of that steep and prob
ably the highest mountain in this part of the
country And Daniel Boone was never over 1t
for tablet on a monument of some kind deco
rates every spot where he was supposed to have
stopped But down the trail" / started with
dive over the edge as the three thugs began to
"blaze" it with their guns, all the trees struck
down by lightning during many storms and all
the leaves of perhaps hundreds of autunns are
still there
must say here that a terrible electric storm
with its usual strong wind and exceptionally
heavy downpour of rain perhaps helped more
than any other factor in my getting away
and thus be able to write this description. Too,
if I hadn't made up my mind TO go over the
side of that mountain, would know nothing
about my obituary notice which the Daily Work
err would carry for they had their headlights
shining down the road.
Poor Jim Grace I don't know yet what has
become of him. All know is that they picked
me for the first victim and after they had
figured that they had either got me or would
no longer be able to, there came a pause in
the shooting Then I heard many more shots
but they didn't seem to be coming in my d.
rection Must have been aimed at Jim who
only, few minutes before had said This
amt the road to Harlan. it's atop the Big
Mountain on the road to Appalachia. They're
a fixin' to kill U.S."
The rain never ceased. This and the wind
permitted me to keep moving down often help
ing me TO slip and fall off the crags I encoun-