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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
The Struggle Against White
Chauvinisrn

THE struggle against white chauvnlsm remains
1 one of our basic tasks if we are to bring large
sections of Negro workers into the ranks of the
Communist Party The boss theology which
poisons the minds Of the workers on the false
illusion of superiority must be bitterly
fought. The theology perneates not only the
working class generally, but also our revolution
airy organizations and even the ranks OF the
vanguard Of the proletariat, the Communist
Party. 1t remains the task OF the white COM
rades in our Party to convince the Negro masses
that they are really carrying on tight against
this poison or else the Negro will consider us
Just another white mans party" 1t is, there
fore, unnecessary that in the forefront OF the
struggle for the rights of the Negro masses shall
stand the white members of our Party and revo-
lutionary organizations.
The case of Section No 10 (Newark), which
we are discussing, is most likely not an isolated
instance but can be found in many sections OF
our Party These manifestations Of white chau-
ynsm not only cropped up among the members
of our Party there, but even in the ranks OF the
Section Committee Some typical examples can
be given. For instance, at the Section CONFER
ence speech is made by leading member OF
the section, as follows:
"Why make SO much fuss about the Negro
question? We revolutionary workers believe
that all workers are born equal. therefore why
drag Negro workers into the Party by their
hair We must judge workers by their ability
and understanding"
Another instance. The Section Commttee was
to be proposed by the Section Buro for the con-
ference here on Oct H. A proposal was made
that "a minimum of out OF tire 10 elected
shall be Negro workers" The majority OF the
leadership of the section fought bitterly against
placing these four Negro workers on the Sec
ton Committee on pretense of "immatur1ty,
"backwardness," mot the best elements" ETC., IN
spite OF the fact that these elements were good
proletarians (the Newark Section has one OF the
largest Negro proletarian sections in the East).
This showed total underestimation OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
Capitalist progress"

The bosses have closed down the factories,
comparatively easy thing to do, though the re.
suits are tough on the workers
But how are you going to close down the Cows.
That's hard nut to crack. Yet the so-calleo
but fake farmers" Cooperative Diaries have
made the brilliant suggestion that one out oa
every ten COWS be killed!
Burn up the coffee! Plow under the COT
ton! Close the factory! Cut wheat acre
age! Stagger the workers! And kill the
cows! Such Is capitalist 'progress!"
But there's little Joker in this business Of
COW killing. Since some poor devil OF q sman
or middle farmer might have three COWS and
not ten, he naturally won't kill EVERY tenth
cow as suggested.
That's where the Tuberculin Test comes In SO
handy. The big diaries and rich farmers, the
Milk Trust that wants to reduce production, havs
it all fixed up. law Is passed under the guise
OF protecting public health" and the cow
killing veterinaries get to work at big fees, seeing
that the small and middle farmers COWS ar
"tubercular."
And then they expect the small former 10 &c
worked up over lies about how the Soyiet II
abusing" farmersi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
FEBRUARY, 1917
FEBRUARY, 1917; BY ALEKSEI
TARASOV-RODIONOV, NEW YORK
COVICLFREIDE.

IRE you one OF those who have been Nctimized
a. by the bourgeois lie that the February Revo-
luton in Russia, which overthrow the czarist
autocracy, was the work Of the socialists" and
"moderates"? Then read this book written by
the leader OF one of the first regiments of re-
voting soldiers to enter Petrograd to support
the insurrectionary workers The first book of
its kind available in the English language it gives
vivid first-hand account of the events Of Feb
ruary to April, 1917, up to and including the
first weeks of the arrival of Lenin from abroad.
Here you will see the Cadets and Mensi.eviks,
together with the ial-Revolutionaries, con-
spring with the czarist circles to defeat the
Revolution, to drown 1t in blood, and restore
the Romanoff dynasty. And at the same time
you see the Boshevik Party at work, tireIessly,
with clear, sharp line, the leader and organizer
of the forces Of the Revolution. The return from
exile, from Siberia and from abroad, of the
most steeled, experienced Bolshevist leaders, Le-
min, Stain, and others, Is shown in the details
Of daily life in the midst OF revolutionary mass
upheaval, when every detail took on historic sig
nificance. The slanderous history of Febru-
airy by Trotsky, which was written to prove that
there was no Bolshevik Party until he arrived,
is shown up in its true Menshevik colors. The
vacllations Of various Bolshevik leaders (Ka-
menev) at critical moments come into the pic
ture in concrete examples in the course of ac-
tons. All these things are dealt with only in
the course of a flowing narrative of the personal
experiences of an officer in machine gun regi
ment, who, as a member of the illegal Bolshevik
Party led the soldiers into the revolution against
the autocracy on the side of the masses The au-
thor today is member Of the general staff of
the Red Army, but at the same time he demon
strates literary skill Of a high order. This book
cannot be too highly recommended both from
a literary and political point OF view 1t is
veritable treasure for the student of revolution.
e b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
Farmers and Bankers

Darned few OF our Party members arc inter-
ested in farmers. Lenin wrote books about them,
but because he called them peasants" some
Party members think that farmers are not I'M
portant so while they might be devilish inter-
ested in peasants they haven't time" to study
the farmers.
And sometimes those who DO study gst into
the wrong pasture. Some months ago. some
comrades, too much impressed by the fact that
some "farm bloc" takers were talking about
moratorium on farm mortgages, sort OF ran
couple OF miles and a half ahead OF the mass OF
mortgaged farmers and cried out that mora
forums were out Of date and we couldn't or
shouldn't have anything to do with such de-
mands.
Anyhow" they added "its a demand now
taken over by the takers" Which Is strange
reason to give up any demand, when we know
that whatever the takers say they won't fight
for what they pretend to demand"
Nothing less than cancellation" was the pro-
posal in effect. And, of course If we Com
munists are merely hunting for perfect slogans.
cancellation of all debts is a dandy. 1t would
fulfill our Communist idea of what ought to be
done But whether we can get masses OF farm-
ers to fight for it. and we mean fight, might be
another question. 1t all depends on the gwen
conditions in specific areas.
The Montana Record-Herald recently tells
what the farmers want 1t is a three-year mora
forum, and resolution OF the state Farmers
Union can organization led by reformist trick
sters who are daily getting more reactionary)
demanded that the Montana governor use ponce
power of the state" to enforce the moratorium
OF course it's absurd to expect the capitanst
government to "use the police" against the cap
italist bankers, and the only way to enforce sucn
a moratorium is for the farmers to organize ana
refuse to pay their debts and resist foreclosures
But it is also clear that the farmers want q
moratorium, They're mistaken II they think
they'll be better off three years from now, put
they want debts postponed till then.
The TOP layer of the Farmers Union and the
other so-called farmers organizations" how
ever. are said in the same paper under Wasn-
ington, D. c., date-line, to oppose a mora
torium" and they add that any proposal 70 con-
press will fail because 1t lacks their support
Why do they oppose it7 Because, they say, .
SUSPENSION OF payments on interest or principal
of the more than 81, 900, 1000 Eyes, LOT more
than thatD outstanding in loans, would oesttoy
the integrity OF the system" 50, to keep the
system (tfle bankers) properly Integral" these
misleaders OF the farmers are going 70 taAe tlie
Integrity" out of the farmers HIDE
Are we Communists interested In saving the
system? If not we should be leading the figno
for a moratorium among the farmers who Will
Hpht for that But enforced by the farrieTs
and not depending on governors or Congress-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
BY GROPPER

necessity of a special approach towards the Me-
gro workers and the necessity of drawing in and
training Negro workers who represent an OPP
pressed section of the working class for leader
ship in our Party and for leadership in struggles
If we examine the L.SN.R. groups in the Sec
tom, we will find that not the slightest effort
is being made to draw in white workers. on the
basis of developing struggles for Negro rights
The mass organizations, presumably under the
influence of our Party in the Section, show very
strong manifestations of white chauvinisrn-
There is no exception to this rcle. In the Jew
ish Center, which is controlled by the Interna-
tional Workers Order meeting OF Womans
Council composed only Of Negroes, held meet
ing Some white women opened the door and
instead OF entering this room and working
closely together with these Negro workers, they
stood at the door as a sort OF barrier to prevent
other white workers entering. This also mani
tested itself in another mass organization, where
talk such as this went around: why DO the
Negro workers pick on this hall? 1t cost us SO
much to build it. They are just dirtying up the
place"
What was the action OF our leadership In the
section who were aware Of this situation? Dao
they take any steps to eradicate this situation!
Did they carry through discussion IN tneSe
mass organizations and mobilize the membership
in these mass organizations to carry on strug-
gle against white chauvinism? NO.
A decision is made by the Section Buro, IN
which it naively states: only members OF the
Section Buro can be present at Section Buro
meetings, except when called in" In addition
to being burocratic, there was another intent IN
this motion, and that was to prevent the COM
rade in charge of LS.N.R work from attending
these Section Buro meetings because he was
"roieino too much hell" and rightly so.
We cannot speak of winning the Negro masses
to our program of struggle unless we purn OUT
the sores that exist in our Party that make II
impossible for us to break down TINS mlstrus' oi
the Negro masses of our Party. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02

November Issue Of ''The Com
munist" Just Off the Press.
Special 18th Anniversary
Number
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
R4%~.@
Its the WARP
By J0RGs


Those more than Is years old ougrt ia rsns
the old saying used during the war by any hi2A
way robber of a merchant as an excuse for hi
prices: Its the war"
We were reminded by comrade Of the Wor
ers' Ex-Servicemen's League, who, though jobles
for IA months, had never been given the slight
est attention by either democrat or republica
party until now. But now-Tt's the elections
So he, being voter, is the subject Of sym
pathetic solictude
The republican, Herbert BrowneI, cendidss
for State Assembly in the Tenth District, sen
him neat little photograph disk with recon
on 1t OF Brownells speech, opening UP with tn
Yale Military March
He didn't say how jobless worker might la.
hold of phonograph, but he, the candidate, wa
sterling son of Gotham and supporter o
Seabury, and SO on.
The democratic party candidate having fat
tened on graft of office, was in funds enough Il
send man to see this worker. They don't wor'
for nothing, as Tammany lady recently sal
although Communist Party workers AWAY
do this work for nothing. And that's what tn
jobless worker told the democrat, and said: .,
stand for and Will vote for the Cornrnunig
PartyI"
You tell EN- that, too, on election dsyg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
SOCIALIST
COMPETITION

bourgeois intelligentSia speak with such arrog
ance and scorn. The talents of the working class
and the peasantry are as yet untapped and
they are enormous.
The workers and peasants are still SHY" have
not yet accustomed themselves to the idea that
they are now the ruling class; they are not re-
solute enough Such qualities in millions and
millions of people who all their lives have been
forced by hunger and poverty to work under the
stick, could not create revolution all at once.
But the strength, the itallty the invinctbility
OF the october Revolution of 1917 lies in the fact
that it arouses those qualities breaks down the
old obstacles, tears up the WORKOUT roads, leads
the tolers to the path of the independent crea--
ton of new life.
Accounting and control-this is the chief eco
nomic task of every Soviet OF Workers, Soldiers
and Peasants Deputies, OF every consumers CO.
operative, of every union or committee of sup
plies, of every factory committee Or organ of
workers control generally.
We must combat the old habits of regarding
the rate output and the means Of production
from the point of view of subject persons, whose
only concern is TO evade extra burdens, to grab
something from the bourgeoisie. This struggle
has already been begun by the advanced, class
conscious workers who resolutely repel those
came in during the war; who regard the peoples
factory, the factory which has become the prop
erty of the nation, as they formerly regarded
the factory, /, G., with but one thought in mind:
Ito grab something and run away" All the
class conscious, honest and thinking sections of
the peasantry and the toiling masses will join IN
this struggle on the side of the advanced work.
ers
Accounting and Control BY the Masses.
Once the political rule of the proletarlst has
been established and assured, accounting and
control, if carried out by the Soviets OF Workers
Soldiers and Peasants Deputies as the supreme
state power or at the order or direction of this
power, accounting and control carried on every
where, generally and universally, accounting and
control of the amount OF labor expended OF
the distribution Of goods etc, becomes the
quintessence Of socialist reconstruction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
BY Y. /. LENIN.
Written in 1879
TNSTAILMENT 2.

"They" think that the common" people, the
common" workers and the poorest peasants
cannot cope with the great, truly heroic. IN the
world historic sense of the word, tasks OF orga-
nization which the socialist revolution has laid
upon the shoulders of the toilers. The intellect
uals who have been accustomed to serve the Ca
oitalists and the capitalist state consoled them
selves with the thought: "They cannot do with
out US" But their impudent calculations have
been upset; already educated people are desert
ing their ranks and are coming over to the side
Of the people, to the side of the toilers, and are
helping to break the resistance of the servants
Of capital And the organizing talents of the
peasantry and the working class are very great
md these talents are just beginning to reveal
themselves, to wake up to draw close to the liy-
ing creative gfeat work, to undertake the con-
Struction of socialist society.
Develop the Initiative of the Workers,
One of the most important tasks, If not the
most important task now, is to develop as widely
as possible this independent initiative of the
workers, and all toilers and exploited in general,
for creative organization Of the work. We must
at all costs destroy the old, clumsy, savage obi
Gus and disgusting prejudices that only the So
called upper classes" only the wealthy or those
who have been cshooled by the wealthy classes,
can administer the state, can manage the organ
lied construction of socialist society.
This is a prejudice. 1t thrives on rotten routine
and conservative slavish habit, but even more on
the filthy covetousness of the capitalists who are
interested in plundering while governing and
governing while piundeing. No, the workers will
net for a moment forget that they need the
power of knowledge. The extraordinary interest
e1 the workers are now displaying towards
e2eon proves that there is no illusion among
workers on this score and that there cannot
he sny The rank and file worker and peasant
\ 10 is literste, knows people and has had prac-
: exparience is quite capable of carrying on
I y,rg work. There are very many Of these
} z the common people" about whom the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
One Weeks Recruiting in
New York City
BY LENA DAVIS.

The party registration will be followed by re-
cruitng campaign The purpose of this campaign
is to penetrate into the large factories and to
build shop nuclei We should examine the re-
cruiting we have been doing up to the present In
order to correct the weaknesses and make every
recruitment bri!.g added strength to the Party
forces in the weakest points-the big factories.
In the past week AZ new members entered the
ranks of our Party in the New York district
We welcome these workers who have accepted
revolutionary leadership Of the Party and en-
rolled in the ranks of the fdvancc guard OF the
working class. However, when we examine the
composition of these new recruits, we see the fol-
lowing
Food Metal 3 Miscel Q
Housewife Building M.
AeA Building 2 Medical !
Transport 3 Marine Office /, ETC.
What does this indicate? That while we have
succeeded in winning new members from light
Industries, we have secured only limited num-
Der from the heavy basic industries The ex-
tended wage cuts just carried through In the
basic industries must be answered by the Party
on its recruiting campaign with positive organi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
PARTY LIFE a ss central

rational gains for struggle.
The new recruiting campaign must be planned
so that our new members shall not be brought
in like the past,-loosely at mass ara open air
meetings, ETC., around general slogans, but our
recruits shall be won on the basis of concrete
demands and struggles and through continued
factory work. especially in the big factories talk
ing to shopmates. visiting contacts. arranging OF
gate meetings, organizing Of grievance and shop
committees, building OF the group OF revolution
airy unions, issuing Of shop papers. etc
Such activity will mean that the members
gained will be modified around concrete issues
affecting their daily needs and this will activize
and help us keep our newly gained members. With
a correct approach and plan of work they will
be able to draw in the other workers in the fac
tory into struggles.
Therefore, new members will be OF such
character that will not only bring quantitative
increase, but at the same time change the social
composition of our Patty. f.
The Party members will be activized The
work and prestige OF the Party will grow and In
this way our Party will be on the road Of becon-
ing mass Communist Party
Comrades:--
What Is your nucleus doing to develop shop
activities? What suggestions do you have?
Every active Party member has sufficient ex-
perience IN the everyday activities to give to
the Party concrete suggestions how to better
cur work. Write for the Party Life column
Send short articles concerning any phase OF
our Party work, giving special attention to our
| mass activities.
Send all articles to the Party Life Editor
| Org Derartment c. G. p. o. Box 81, Station
| New YORK CITY.
| fa~~~uAss,{y,>esst e. @.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02

Accounting and control, necessary for the
character. Only if the masses of workers and
peasants, voluntarily and conscientiously, with
revolutionary enthusiasm help to check UP and
control the rich people, the scoundres, the para
sites and the hooligans will these remnants OF
the cursed capitalist society, these dregs OF hui
mainly, these hopelessly decayed and withered
members of the human body this infection,
plague, ulcer and sore which socialism inherited
from capitalism be destroyed
Workers and peasants, toilers and exploited
The land, the banks, the factories the mills have
passed into the possession of the entire nationl
Take upon yourselves the responsibility for ac-
counting and controlling the production and dis
trbution of goods This is the path and the only
path to the victory of socialism the pledge OF
victory over all exploitation, over all want and
poverty For there is enough bread iron, lum
Der, WOOL cotton and flax for every one in Russia
If only labor and products are correctly dis
tributed If only this distribution is controlled in
a business like practical way; ii the enemies OF
the people, the rich, their parasites, the scoun-
drels, the idlers and the hooligans are to be
conquered not only politically but in daily
economic life.
War to Death On the Hooligans.
No mercy for these enemies OF the people, these
enemies of socialism, these enemies of the toll
ers War to the death on the scoundrels, the
idlers and the hooligans. They are all OF the
same kth and kin, all are the children OF cap
italism, the sons OF aristocratic and bourgeois
society; society In which small group OF land
owners and capitalists robbed and Knocked the
people, society in which want and poverty
threw thousands Oh the path of hooliganism,
venahty rascality. made them lose their human
form; society which inevitably imbued the
proletaran with the desire to evade this degrad-
ing toll, If only for moment, to get a crust of
bread by whatever means in order that he, and
those near and dear TO him, should not starye.
should not bs underfed
frc be continued In subsequent isscs)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-02
DISTRICT, SECTION AND UNIT
LITERATURE AGENTS

See that you are supplied with the following
literature;
For the NOV, 18th Campaign
Csnts
The Decisive Year by "A. Heller ...... 10
Anti-Sovet Lies and the Five-Year Plan,
by Max Bedacht. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10
Soviet Dumping" Fable by M. Litvinov.,..
Modern Farming style, by Anna
Louise Strong 70
New Condittons-M.w Tasks, by J. STAIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
LAMMoT DU POINT, JR.,
WEEDS Will MINGT0N GIRL
Ceremony Performed in Home
Town of Couple by Episcopal
Rector.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del. May 23.-Miss
Ruth Foster. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William B. Foster of Wilmington. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
$4,000 EXPECTED
AT CADET CONTEST
Rival CoIored High Schools
to Compete on Thursday
Before Big Crowd.

With Armstrong seeking to avenge
a string of defeats, dating back to 1926,
at the hands of Dunbar; with Dunbar
out for new record of consecutive
victories and with Cardozo going into
competition for the third year and hop
ing to trcunce both veteran contenders,
the annual competitive drill of the
cadets of the colored high schools
Thursday is expected to bring a record
breaking crowd to Griffith Stadium.
Between 10000 and $4,000 compli-
mentary tickets have been issued. In
addition, there will be the customary
general admission, the fees from which
this year will go partly to the benefit
of underprivileged school children for
clothing and food instead of being de-
voted entirely TO the military establish
ment, as is customary.
To climax the company competition,
which start at o'clock and winds up at
4:30 o'clock, there will be a silent