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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
Some Mistakes in the Theoretical and Practical
Work OF the Communist Party of Germany

ty, the Socialist Labour Party of Germany.
Unless we are victorious in the fight against
the social democracy this main social buttress of
the bourgeoisie we shall not be able to defeat
fascisn, e.. to fight successfully against the die
tatorship of the borgeoisie which employs fas-
cist methods. Unless we make a decided breach
in the front of the social democratic party, we
shall be quite unable to master the task Of def
nitely penetrating the mass basis OF the Center
and successfully attacking and defeating the
other buttress of the dictatorship of the bour-
geosie, the Hitler party, whose mass basis is the
middle classes.
Nevertheless. after The Hamburg election vic
tory of the C.P.G there we're those in the Party
who sought to belitte the Importance of this
election victory, basing their arguments on the
growth of the national socialist vote In spite
considerable faults and weaknesses which were
recorded and abolished Nevertheless the Party
in Hamburg succeeded In forcing breach i'll the
strongest citadel Of the German socia' democ-
rscy, and this was the decisive criterion in judg
ing the result Of the election. Those comrades
who have not recognized this undoubtedly devil
ate from the political line, according to which
the main attack must be directed against the
social democratic party. In spite of this false
attitude we must emphatically declare: it will be
possible to defeat the fascists only If we expose
the social democratic party, its alliance with fas-
cisrn and its services to the class enemy, before
the masses of the workers and win the latter
away from the social democratic leaders In car
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29

ryng out the united front policy in the fight for
their own class interests, we create among the
social democratic workers and the proletarian
youth fresh confidence in our Party as the only
leader of the proletariat.
To every Marxist-Lenlnist 1t must be a matter
of course that the first requisite of Communist
policy must be the fight to win our own class, the
proetariat. Only when we win the ma ority OF the
proletariat for Communism shall we be able To
proIetariat from the ranks of the middle classes
into the anticapitalist fighting front and thereby
creating the prerequisites for the peoples reyolu
ton in the sense of Marx and Ienin In regard
to the concrete German conditions, the XII
Plenum of the ECC.I declared, with reference
to employing the slogan of the peoples revolution
that the task of winning allies for the proIetariat
must not be opposed to the task of capturing the
majority of the working class; that the task OF
winning the majority OF the working class re-
mains the fundamental main task, the strategical
task in Germany. The G. p Of Germany has
not always and everywhere based itself upon
this correct recognition Of It's policy. We have
not always employed with sufficient sharpness
the slogan of the peoples revolution as
synonym for the slogan of the proletaran, the
socialist revolution. Thus, for instance, in the
periodical the Propagandist' the problem of win
ming allies which must not by any means be I'M
derestimated, is made the central question OF
revolutionary strategy and tactics. Needless to
say, the Party must emphaticaly oppose such
deviations and mistakes TO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
THE MAIN EMPHASIS IN THIS
RECRUITING CAMPAIGN

II The establishment of fmnctioning shop units
IN the big shops in the basic industries
mining steel and metal, marine, chemical
railroad, textile packing house. etc.. this
general policy TO be adapted to the situa-
ton III the districts IS concretely specified
later.
p The activization of the existing shop units,
md increasing of their membership,
= increasing the percentage Of Negro and wo-
men workers, increasing Party membership
IN the revolutionary unions. and members
Of the American Federation OF Labor unions.
- The regular Issuance of shop papers in
every shop where we have d unit where the
shop conditions make this feasible, and the
improvement of the quality Of the shop
papers. The shop papers must become active
organizers and base themselves on the con
ditions in the shop, linking them up with
our political struggles.
81 Special attention must be given TO the en-
phasis on the necessity of united fronts be
tween the employed and unemployed in cont
mon struggle
s. The regular fnctioning of fractions tn the
Unemployed Councils, consisting Of Party
members and members Of revolutionary I'M
ions, functioning Of fractions i'll the rero-
lutionary unions thinning textile marine
needle, etc., the building Of fractions i'll A.
F. OF L. opposition groups in the most I'M
portant unions, and in the fraterna1 and
language mass organizations, LID, WIR.,
F.S.U. for the building up of these basic
mass organizations.
y In the course of our mass campaign and
particularly in this membership drive, the
Farty must have in view through our frac-
tions TO penetrate into the broadest mass
organizations, hitherto not touched by our
Party, in order to create 2 wider legal base
in case Of attempts to make our Party lie
gal especially in view Of the approaching
war and sharper mass struggle
- Closing the gap between the actual member
ship and active membership through
~ The politica1izstion Of our units, connect
ing our daily work With the campaigns OF
ths Party
D. THE establishment of collective leadership
and collective methods OF work
. The drawing in OF more capable shop work
srs into al leading bodies and special at
bsntton be given TO the drawing in Of Negro
and women workers
y Tbs tntsnsttication OF the training of shop
workers on special methods Of legal and
Illegal work in the shops and mills Oirec-
tives on how to carry on this work will be
found in rnprecorr No. SO, 1890, Factory
Work'D
81 The betterner1t of our inner Party appa-
ratus, Unit Buro, Section Committee, Dis
trict Departments, etc., especially Org. De-
partments, and particularly in Districts Of
.centration.
o. To utilize the membership drive to increase
the circulation of the Daily Worker and
other Party press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
If M'COoey Were President

ut was Mccoy alone among the bosses,
who, before the legislature, admitted himself
to be what he was-a boss Of patronage and
fayors.'
The above with some punctuation added to
make it ineligible, is taken from the N. z
World Telegram Of December "a, from an editor
ial be it said in which the Scripp-Ho editor
laments the very existence of bosses OF pat
ronage' as revealed by the Tanmany CRATER
Mccoy, alone among the other grafters.
One would think from this, that the World
Telegram, in common with the rest of the cap
italst press, Mortified at the idea of patronage"
which in plain English means the distribution
of well paying official Jobs by the politician in
power to serve as a kind of bride for supporters.
But we have looked high and low and in vain
in the capitalist press to find enc word condem-
ming the punishment openly and officially dished
out to McFadden the Pennsylvania republican
who told Congress what he thought OF Hoover.
McFadden is to be "denied patronage" in Hoover
appointment TO postmastershps, customs coIlec~
robbing the Indians
We have nothing 10 say for McFadden, who
probably has some capitalist axe to grind. But
if he wants to call Hoover traitor, we fail
to see why the boss press approves the patron
age pressure of Hoover while condemning the
patronage pressure of Mccoy. The whole afs
fair from both the Hoover and MCCOY angles
proves that capitalism is rotten
But we see further an effort of Its press apol=
ogists to defend it, rottenness and all, In tbs
virtual acceptance of the feudal axiom: The
king can do no wrongs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
A New Sort of Bo0tleggers

1t appears that new brand OF bootlegger has
shown up or one we hadn't noticed before
Since states have been taxing gasoline, and now
are raising the old taxes, "ilict diStileries and
bootleg filling stations are we informed
selling about one-fifteenth of the total gasoline
used.
That makes about billion gallons a year, 1t
Is estimated, and with taxes at four cents gall
1on the gas bootleggers are cleaning up $4,000 COO
a year. And believe us. this is getting the "le@
gitin,ate" oil thieves the Dohenys, Rockefellers,
and Sncliars sore
Hence we and other papers are being supplied
with boiler plate news put out by the American
Petroleum Institute at $50 Park Avenue, n. "
City, with all sorts of propaganda against the
bootleggers. Some of 1t says:
"When gasoline is selling at the refinery scs
four cents gallon and legitimate maxketers
must collect and pay over four cents gallon
In taxes, 1t Is easy to see the advantage an out-
law has"
Most amusing, however, Is an article appealin$
to the oil workers: Need Aid of Oil Workers in
War on Tax Evasion says the headline, and
proceeds:
Workers at ref.neries will check the move
rnent of gasoline by tank car. Reports Will
be sought on filling stations selling at pr..ss
suspiciousIy below established market QUOTE
tionss Workers will be asked to report the
location Of crude stills and refineries tbs
movements Of blind tank truck. Transporting
fuel by night over state lines, gasoline pipe
tapping and other forms of theft
Just why oil workers, who are especially the
victims of wage cuts speed-up and police brutals
ity when they strike against the Rockefeller and
allied robbers, should lay awake nights WORRYING
about collecting taxes to pay the cops that beat
their heads off, is beyond U.s.
Also, we see q grand glorious regime Of gra<t
IN not only gas, but everything soon to be taxed
by the Hoover Hunger government. with bootleg
cigarettes and what-not.
Tax lodging and smuggling to evade taxea,
have, however, patriotic precedent in the &C.
tons OF our founding fathers" who became rich
smuggling tea into the colonies. Was it not John
Hancock who was scheduled to be tried for
smuggling on the day of the battle Of IexingtonS
Anyhow, the Boston Tea Party was staged By
the smugglers who we're sore because the Br1tish
Government had taken the tax OFF OF tea. thus
putting tn smugglers out Of business, the carra
dumped in the habor being the first one arrivinn
tax free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
Fighting the New Offensive
Against the Foreign Born

OF deportation and the agitation conducted by
the Party and the Council for Protection OF the
Foreign Born in Michigan against the Alien
Registration Bill, by the Council for the Protec-
ton Of the Foreign Born in general, against de-
portations, discrimination etc, no real struggle
was conducted on concrete local issues by the
revolutionary unions, by the unemployed councils
(as III cases of discrimination in mines, mills,
shops discrimination OF relief assignment OF
jobs, etc. in spite of hundreds of such concrete
cases.
g. Our Party press with few exceptions) did
not follow UP the campaign systematically. We
had cases where not one of the protest resolu-
tons voted at hundreds OF meetings held all
over the country, where not one OF the protest
kilograms sent by the Council for the Protection
of the Foreign Born, by mass organizations with
many thousands OF members to Secretary Of La
Dor Doak, found space in our Party organs. How
can the attention of the working class be aroused
when the campaign remains only within the
walls Of the meeting halls?
Z. Because the districts did not realize with
few exceptions) the tremendous importance of
this movement, did not realize that through the
Development of this movement 1t is possible to
tie up strongly the Party and this section of the
American working class to draw this section of
the American working class into the daily strug-
gle. TO penetrate into the mines into the steel
mills ETC., where the foreign-born workers con-
stitute so per cent OF the employees.
Did the Party correctly estimate the impor-
tance OF the campaign for protection of the for
eign born at the beginning. and take measures on
how to conduct it2 I believe it did. 1t is not
n tI1e rff j.
problem OF drawing the masses Of foreign born
workers into this campaign and in general into
Tie daily struggle, that we failing. We are
failing in the concrete carrying on of the cam
paignin making the District Committees, the
revolutionary unions. the yeft-vtng locals IA the
a. y ~ T. and ethsg naaM examinations, ecw7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
&4:~.A
A Nice Little Example
BY JORGE

Concerning Hoover's Thanksgiving Proclznaan
ton that pleasantly reminded us of the irnaRs
mary fact that education is advancing" we
might cite little example from Chicago as told
in clipping from local paper the name and
date of which the comrade who sent it--wneN
will they learn that such details are necessaryee
forgot to note
1t tells of what is happening among the Osz87
cago school teachers, and specifically one schoea
teacher, Estelle de Lila, 20 years Of age, wih@
jumped out a window and committed suicide Cd
Tie home of her sister, Mrs Shirley, at 555S So
Spsulding Ave, because Of dependency ana
desperation at getting no wages for months ana
months
Sim just burden to eYeryone don't warss
to live" she sobbed and rushing into room she
locked against her sisters entry, she leaped 10
the street.
What beautiful example of capitalist indik-
ference to the suffering of the workers. And
to school teachers, whom capitalists expect to
hide from the children Of the workers that there
is one country ruled by the workers, where there
Is no unemployment and nobody who works
starves to death or lives in individual dependence
upon someone who does, where-indeed, school
teachers are in big demand and have recently
received big raise in wages TIL Soviet Union
Of course!
We recommend that school kids, especially In
Chicago cut this out and paste it on their teach
ers desk,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
LET'S EXCHANGE EXPERIENCES

All Party members urged to write the drives
workers
shall better organization
the whole Party benefit
Districts Sections
members? How will building
taking to challenge other
know it.
elaspa be
the Recruiting Drive of the
All articles the Recruiting Party
andor organization shall be addressed to:
Department Central Committee Station City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
BY F. BROWN
PART III.

WHAT are the reasons for the organizational
w weaknesses of the movement for the pro-
lection of the foreign born?
1. Because our agitation and organization
work is not systematic and concrete
2. Because the movement was reduced mainly
to movement Of language mass organizations
The revolutionary unions and rank and file Of
the A. F. of L. were not involved in the struggle.
8. Because OF the wrong tactic in applying the
united front we did not succeed in penetrating
the hundreds of workers organizations led by the
reactionaries. Either these organizations were
approached from the top, or where our forces
succeeded in bringing the campaign before the
masses OF the organizations that we approached
for the first time, it was done in too general a
manner, or directly on the basis of the Party
program and not on the main issue on which the
united front should have been established
namely the struggle tor the protection OF the
foreign born-on the basis OF concrete issues.
especially local cases; deportations, discrjmina-
tons, etc. Thus right and left opportlinist deva-
tons weakened mass mobilization.
a. Because our propaganda took too gen.
eral character: For example, we said that the
reaction against the loreign-born workers and
the Negro masses Is intended to divide the work
ing class and in this line create the basis for
the lowering Of the standard Of living, which Is
the absolute correct assertion and clear to us
but we did not explain how this maneuyer OF
the capitalist class works out in practice We
did not explain It's dialectical development SO
that the workers could see and grasp the cor
rectness Of this analysis.
3. Because outside OF the struggle conducted
Nv xhe Tpts.nasanA rAber paSsuss asaiuse essss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29
ORGANIZAToNAL AIMS.

This recruiting campaign shall be a national
campaign commencing January II to March 1S
with the following orgsnisatiUnal aims:
u DOUBLE TIE PARTY MEMBERSHIP
y ESTABLISH 100 NEW SHOP UNITS
a ESTABLISH 80 NEW SHOP PAPERS
4. EXPERIENCES IN RECRUITING
OF MEMBERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29

The November December number of die In
fernztionale", the theoretical organ of the
Communist Party of Germany, contains long
article by Comrade ThaeImann on some mis-
takes which have appeared In the theoretical
and practical work of the G. P. of Germany In
the year 1881. We give below, In condensed
form. the main contents of this article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29

The Party has valuable experiences m con-
rect5on with recruiting drives in the past and
especially with the results of the recruiting IN
the last few months carried on in nearly every
District The common experiences can be sum
married as follows:
u The recruiting campaign isolated from Che
general campaign Of the Party.
p insufficient orientation TO the shops and
factories according to the plans of concen-
tration.
81 Major concentration upon. recruiting from
mass meetings.
d A numerical approach to the recruiting cam
paign without considering the quality Of the
members brought into the Party drom shops,
mills and mines. On the other hand, ten
dency to place too high standard for mem
bership.
81 Not involving sufficiently every existing shop
unit and the individual members in the unit
in the recruiting drive as well as members
of the street units for the building of new
shop units Recruiting by only few MEM
berS in the nuclei.
g. Insufficient organizational preparation for
quick assignment of new members to units,
Tor the keeping of new members and I'M
provement OF the Organizational apparatus
in TIE course of the drive.
y Insufficient drawing in of the new members
into active participation and development of
new cadres.
81 Inactivity OF fractions in drawing in active
workers of the mass organizations.
IN this recruiting drive all these defects must
be wiped out and right from the beginning the
emphasis must be On the correction of these
shortcomings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29

scious OF the necessity to participate in the CAM
paign This is the major reason that explains
why the whole movement it now is. is to :
great extent purely a language movement buip1
on the efforts of few comrades, active IN tho
Language organizations close to the rsrI. ~
EI::zsssss.x-~r\ On h aentannA fvA -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-29

This is the second installment OF the Central
Committee directives on the struggle for the
protection of the foreign born, The last will
be published In subsequent issue.-Editor).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-12
BISHOP T. F. GAILOR'S
WIFE KILLED IN FALL
Tennessee Woman Attended Many
Episcopalian Conferences
Here.

Word has been received in Washing
ton of the death of Mrs Thomas F.
Gailor, wife of the Bishop of Tennes-
see, who was killed in a fall at their
Summer home at SeWanee, Tenn,
Thursday. Mrs. Gailor had just re-
turned home after attending the tri-
ennial convention of the Episcopal
Church in Denver with Bishop Gailor
one-tfIne presiding bishop of the church
and one Of its most prominent officers.
She was 70 years old.
They resided at Sewanee. where the
bishop is chancellor Of the University
Of the South, during the Summer
maintaining Winter home at Mem
phis. Funeral services and burial were
held at Memphis. Mrs. Gailor had
attended numerous church meetings In
this city and was well known through
out the church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-12
EMIL SPAIN, VETERAN
GROCER, DIES AT HOME
Native of Germany Had Conduct
ed Business in Southwest Sec
ton for 80 Years.

Emil SPAIN, Sc, Of 3817 Thirteenth
street, who conducted a grocery store
in the Southwest section Of the city for
38 years, died yesterday at his home
Pneumonia. which developed from a cold
he had contracted only few days be-
fore. was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held Wednes-
day morning at $50 o'clock at st.
Mary's Church. followed by burial in st.
Mary'S Cemetery.
Mr.. SPAIN. a native of Germany,
came to this country at the age of 10,
and shortly afterward entered business.
He had been in the same location, 1923
Sixth street southwest. for 80 years.
and was one of the veteran business
men Of that section. He retired three
years ago. He was a prominent member
Of several German-American clubs.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nav
SPAIN: sister. Mrs. Matilda Duvall;
two sons. Karl and Bernard SPAIN. and
four daughters. Mrs Helen Winter
meyer Miss Marie C. SPAIN. Mrs. Hilda
A. Ring and Miss Anna C. SPAIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-12
New Lords PRAYER
EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN
BIBLE REVISION GIVEN.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 12.-An insight
to the kind Of phraseology the new
American Bible Of Or. j. M. Fowls
Smith and DR.. Edgar Goodspeed Of the
University Of Chicago is to have was
made public today.
The Lords Prayer, for example. will
read as follows:
"Our Father in heaven,
your name be revered.
"Your kingdom comet
Your will be done on earth as 1t Is
done in heaven!
"Give us today bread for the day.
"And forgive us our debts as we have
forgiven our debtors,
And do not subject us to temptation,
But deliver US from the evil one"
The new Bible is to make its appear
ance next November 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-12
j. BRADLEY TANNER
FUNERAL is TODAY
Chief Clerk of Court of Claims
Died at Atlantic City While
on His Vacation.

j. Bradley Tanner, chief clerk Of the
United States Court of Claims for the
past 10 years, who died in Atlantic
City, N. j.. Saturday. was to be buried
In the family plot in Rock Greek
Cemetery late this afternoon, following
funeral services at st. Thomas Church,
Eighteenth and Church streets.
Mr.. Tanner had gone to the seaside
resort for vacation when stricken,
about three weeks ago.
He was appointed to the chief clerk
ship by President Wilson, after having
practiced law In New York. He was
born and educated in this city, the son
Of Capt. John B. Tanner, a Civil War
veteran Of the Union Army. His mother,
before her marriage, was Miss Helen
James Of Wilmington, Del.
Mr.. Tanner was O Mason, q member
OF the Cosmos Club and Of st. Thomas
Episcopal Church. He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Katrina Green Tanner;
daughter, Mrs. Mario Vangeli. wife of
Lieut.. Vangen, u. 8. NJ, Of Annapolis,
and a sister, Mrs. Ethelbert Green Of
East Orange, N. j.
The United States Court of Claims
adjourned shortly after It convened
this morning out OF respect to Mr.. Tan
ner. Court business on today's docket
was postponed to future date.