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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
BY CARL PRICE

THE necessity of building the Party in the
L present strike of the miners in District Five
against starvation, is now an important and
burning question. The strike means the draw
ing in of hundreds of new fighting elements
into the Party, many of them young American
elements, Negro and women workers. 1t means
the setting up of many new units, and the re-
organization of the old units.
The strike cannot be considered victory
for the workers, unless mass Party is estab-
lished
Shortly before the strike the Party in Wes-
tern Pennsylvania, had at most rs members in
the mining fields, and not more than 25 mem
bers in East Ohio and West Virginia. Many of
these Party members belonged to units which
we're not meeting regularly and not functioning
properly.
Before the strike number of important pre-
paratory steps were taken which undoubtedly
had an effect on the rapid spread of the strike.
The Hunger March. which took place on April
18th, with nearly 100 delegates from the mine
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particularly in the steel industry and railroad
industry
The strike in Western Pennsylvania un-
doubtedly has had tremendous effect upon the
working class in all basic industries The fact
that one of the immediate results of the strike
was the building of an Unemployed Council in
Pittsburgh and renewed activity of the unem-
preventing the shipping of scabs from Pitts
burgh to the mine field, shows the effect of the
strike on the unemployed workers of Pittsburgh.
These unemployed workers. recognizing that
the workers themselves in their own organza-
ton, the TUUL, are fighting bitter struggle
against starvation expressed their solidarity with
the miners in no uncertain terms. The effect
of the strike on the steel workers and railroad
workers must not be underestimate We must
realize that the conditions of the steel workers
are nearly as bad as those of the miners that
unemployment, wage cuts, part time work, and
speed up, has been stirring up in the steel work.
ers mood for struggle
The slogan of the solidarity of the steel work
ers and coal miners must now be put forward
seriously. The strike of the miners spread to
East Ohio because the miners realize that
general mine strike is the best method of strug-
gle against starvation. The effect Of the West
ern Pennsylvania strike is clearly seen in East
Ohio Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Southern
doubtedly effected the steel workers Among
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warfare against the Soviet Union and for military in
erventon is the capitalist fear of the successful
calist construction in the Soviet Union.
In November, 1917, the workers and peasants Of
Russia, led by the Communist Party, had made an
end to the rule of the landlords and capitalists The
victorious revolution of the established the rule
of the workers and peasants-a Soviet Government.
This government is now carrying through Five Yea
Plan of Socialist Construction 1t is building
fully Socialist system of society," where all the wealth
of the nation belongs to the toers and where prodc
ton is carried on for their benefit
There is crisis in the Soviet Union, neither in
dustrial agricultural On the contrary industry
and agriculture growing at most tremendous rate
But it is Socialist industry and coectvized agriculture
No capitalist and landlord rob the tolers of the
fruits of their labor The tolerS enjoy it themselves
The we'll being of the masses is growing daily. They
produce to satisfy their needs and to develop further
the Socialist system. That is why they free from
the of excessive food supplies in the capitalist
warehouses and at the time hunger and starva-
ton among the toiling That is why the Soviet
Union has no crisis and no unemployment.
The bulk of the American farmers have been suf-
ferng from agricultural crisis since 1921, since Big
Business has begun to "defate the farmers The out
break of the industrial CRISIS in 1929 following the COL
lapse of the criminal speculative orgy in Wall Street.
has intensified manifold the chronic agricultural crisis
general world economic crisis has begun and is still
going from bad to What this did to the farmers
we'll to the workers. is difficult to describe The
income OF the farmers is falng cataSrophlcaHy Inc
American wheat farmers will get this year about 400
100000 dollars for their wheat whereas last year they
got $517,ooo000 and the year before $8340O00OO.
What the farmer Coney, who led the hunger march
Of Arkansas farmers to the town of England, said
about the plight of himself and his neighbors true
of millions of farmers all the country. He said:
Lots of people slowly starving even in good times
on meal and mollasses. That pellagra. It's all
too prevalent hereabout They finally go crazy in the
last stages"
Who is responsible for this? The capitalist system
and Big Business But they don't admit their respon-
sibility Moreover, they making the farmers and
the workers pay for the crisis The fall in the price
of wheat is made good not from the profits of the
railroads banks and spectators but from the income
of the exploited farmers and the of the agricul
tural and industrial workers
Relief to the starving farmers? Relief to the
employed workers? Hoover and the capitalists are
against it. Let them starve this is the message of the
capitalists to the toing The nice speeches of
the socaled Progressives in CongressNorris LaFol-
lette etc-mean exactly nothing and produce nothing
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together to devise and ways of dealing with the
surplus" of wheat. The American official delegate,
Mr. McKelve had only one solution for shis question
namely that the farmers curta production" The
farmers in the United States familiar with this
song of the bankers and SPECTATORS The exploited
farmers have been hearing this thing of reducing
acreage" and "cutalng production" since 1921,
when Big Business began the postwar drive to de
flate" the farmers we'll the workers But the
farmers could not and did not accept it, because it
meant still lower income and further ruin and
savement to the mortgage banks and spectators Only
Big Business stands to gain from the Hoover program
of "curtaing production"
McKelve also declared at the London Wheat Con-
ference that the United States will not participate in
any International wheat pool" Why? Because Big
Business in the United States has only three aims in
mind is to force the American farmers to reduce
acreage the second is to beat its rivals oh the world
market and the third-o wage against the Soviet
Union.
What did the delegate of the Soviet Union propose?
The Soviet Union offered to join the other wheat
porting countries in considering the question of the
distribution of the 1881 wheat harvest but upon
tain condition. What was this condition?
That the possible methods of solving this i'm
pOrtant question must not however, lead TO the
lowering of the standard of living of the working
Masses From the interview with Lubmov head
OF the Soviet delegation to the Wheat Conference)
In making this offer the Soviet Union caegorically
rejected the proposal of American Big Business that
maintained that in a world where tens of millions of
workers and farmers slowly dying of starvation the
problem is to enable the to buy wheat
instead of curtang its production Also that this
be done not by merely telling them to eat wheat
some European capitalist powers proposing, but
by raising the earning and buying of the ong
masses This is the meaning of the condition laid
down by the Soviet delegates which greeted by the
workers and farmers all over the world
What happened then this: of the capt.
tais delegates. who represent the interests of Big
Business and big landlords accepted the proposals of
the Soviet Union. The Conference achieved nothing
The capitalist and landlord delegates went home to
continue cut-throat competition among themselves
making the toing masses at home pay for the tariffs
and competition and to intensity their warfare against
the Soviet Union.
This conference has clearly shown up American Big
Business as the greatest and most malicious bumper
and exploter.
Agriculture in the United States and Soviet Union
One of the biggest reasons why American Big Bust
has become the chief instigator of the economic
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the steel workers especially. we have been TOO
slow in mobilizing for struggle.
The strikes of the steel workers IN Mansfield
etc., should sound warning. The MWlL must
react more quickly to struggle against wage cuts.
The building Of the Party must go forward
much faster in this period OF strike struggle.
Within the next few weeks large numbers OF
miners, steel workers and unemployed, must be
drawn into the Party. Fraction conferences in
the mining field to take up mass recruiting OF
miners into the Party has already begun. The
plan of recruitment into the Party is now under
way. The new members taken in, will be or
ganized into new units or placed into existing
units. and explained the role of the Party and
its tasks taken up in these units.
The recruitment into the Party among the
steel workers and unemployed in Pittsburgh.
must accompany the recruiting drive in the
mine field
Now is the time in the period of struggle, to
go forward to the building of mass Party in
the Pittsburgh district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
R4;~.~
''No Irish Need Apply"
By JORGE

You have to be old enough to remember Gro
yer Cleveland at least, if you are not mystified
by the title of this Spark 1t was used in the
days when the poor Irish peasantry was immi-
grating by shiploads to America. Yes before
Russians became menace" Such a sign was
seen in "help wanted" ads in the papers, and
tackled on to similar notices at factory gates
Yes, by the brow of st. Peter and the shin
bone of Cardinal Hayes, the Irish were then
treated like an Irish cop of today treats striker
We were reminded of all this by picking up
one of Ryan Walkers relics. Comrade Walker
has great collection of this that and the other
in cartoons, and dug up a copy of Puck" dated
March %, 1885,
Ihere IN the double page center was draw
ing by j. Keppler, showing the lobby of Uncle
Sans HOTEL and the bottom line title: 1.-THE
U. S. Hotel Daily Needs Bouncer" That was
before Doak, who fills the bill perfectly at pres
ent.
A big husky, with a belt labelled "bouncer"
and cap labelled Arthur" meaning President
Arthur, we imagine, is flinging Irish out Of the
door with both hands, while Parnell at the door
way, hesitates before entering. Another Mick
with German companion shrinks in fear
You see, in those days Germans were danger
Gus foreigners" because the ones who immi-
grated to America were outlaw revolutionists
fleeing from BisnarcSs oppressive laws and
bearing the Communism of Karl Marks historic
"First international" the international Work
ingmens Association.
Getting back to the cartoon: On the wall Of
the "U. S. Hotel" is list of Rules and Regula-
tions" reading as follows:
Guests are Required to Preserve Order"
mo Bomb-Throwing"
mo Incendiary Talk"
mo Communism"
mo Fenianism."
We have not the slightest idea that it will do
any good, but you soap-boxers might kid the
Irish cop that guards your meeting by re-
Winding your audience of these old days when
Irish were looked upon as devilish undesirable
citizens and Communism was said to be import
ed from Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
What's All the left" About?

Picked up the paper last Thursday Che
World-Telegram of N. Y) and bless me if there
wasn't a headline reading: Labor group starts
riot in Commons" and the first paragraph of the
story read:
was the scene of unparalleled disorder today
when the left wing Laborites resisted the sus-
pension of one of their number
We'll" thought Red Sparks to himself, "have
we been all wrong in saying that the left labor
ties Cor "socialistsD are only sort OF come-on
guys to get workers into control of the right
by pretending to be left? Here is story that
seems to indicate that they were making real
scrap against that old counter revoutiony RAM
say Macdonald. What's it all about?"
So we read down through the story, story
kicked and tackled attendants" who tried to
remove J. McGovern of Glasgow from the sac
red House of Commons after he had been sus-
pended on the motion of Macdonald
But what was the cause? Had McGoverr
demanded immediate freedom for India and
release of the Meerut prisoners? Had he pro-
tested at the wage cuts being put over on the
British textile, railway and mine workers!
Maybe he had demanded that the Labor Gov
eminent stop plotting war on the Soviets?
Alas! Nothing Of the kind! This left"
Iaborite was interested in none Of these basic
things. All his revolutionary fervor was spent
on demand to know why-as the United Press
dispatch put it-"why Scottish preachers had
been imprisoned for preaching on the green
(park)."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
r u " T 7 by the Organization of
L AN | / l. | t. the ntra Commute Commun Party,
D@M'T PAY RENR TRIKE!l
DEhAND=A REDUCTION EM RENT. 4
DEMAND. REPAIgS O-YOUg-AEAgTMENT5

rELLoE TENANTS OF 2. 9Th. sti
To-o1Y e Rent PAX ARD The LANDLORD WILL Be AROUND
TO COLLECT THE MONEY FROM US WHICH He DELL NpS THAT
w PAY HIN CIV THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY uoNTH.
After have paid him rent some Of us Will not
have cent left to lave to buy food with.
FELLOW TENANTS The tenants Of &354 z. 9Th. St.,
have united together told Kre. Bloch, the owner
OF the house that they Will pay she has
made repairs and granted then ell
NOT ONE TENANT IN 554 Z. 9Th. ST. WILL pay
rent to-day !
Ars Bloch lie thinking over the rent.
When sho thot business, she will more
than "thtnk 1T OVER che Will roduco the ront and
mako repairs
Tho fight Will stronger our victory certain II
we join togsthcr. To Will SHOW the landlords
those houses TINT fighting common fight
We oan also force tho landlords to
IL overa. To force them to reduce our rent md
uako repctrs In the apartments.
NO RENT on RENT DAY UNTIL OUR PEgT rs HEDUcEDi
NO RENT ON RENT DAY eNTrL The APARTMENTS ARE
REPAIRED
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PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. U. S. A


yet this task has not been fulfilled-and hardly
begun. ~l.slissa%
The convention will turn the membership of
the Young Communist League to the basic tasks
of the YCL: the organization of the millions of
unemployed young workers; the organization of
the young workers in the shops and mines for
struggle against the wage slashes, lengthening
of hours and speed-up, which are taking place
now, and will face the young workers and the
entire working class in the coming months. 1t
will deal with the vital problem of lining up
the young Negro with the young white workers,
to form solid ranks for the fight against jim
crowism lynching, etc.
The young miners of Pennsylvania Ohio and
West Virginia demonstrate that the young work.
ers will Highland fight like hell What they
need is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. into the
volutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity
League, organization into the Young Commun-
list League.
This convention of the Young Communist
League faces basic problems that must be solved
Face to the factories-each individual member
of the League an organizer of the Young Com
nunist League in the shop in which he or she
works-nass sale and distribution of the Young
Worker-building up of the Labor Sports IN
ion-preparation, organization and mobilization
for struggle against the coming attack on the
Soviet Union These are the vital tasks-and
the Sixth Convention will set the League on
the path of performing and realizing them.
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voted long meeting to this strike preparation.
The minutes of May 7th in view of later devel-
opnents are an interesting record THE COM
rades from Avela proposed that we have the
perspective of calling strike within eight to
ten days. 1t was decided that the strike be
Immediately prepared in Avella, that the Dis
trict Office shall send comrades to Avella units
to guide them in the work. New forces must
be brought in and local leadership built up
Special attention must be paid to linking UP the
fight against wage-cuts with the struggle
against unemployment. The Unemployed Coun-
Gil of Avella Sec..cn must be drawn into the
strike preparations and the demands shall also
coordinate the struggle of the employed and un-
employed ....... The Secretariat then assigned
added forces to work in this Section. 1t was
emphasized that the strike shall not be called
from Pittsburgh and that the largest number
of miners shall be drawn into the work of draw
ing up the demands, and into the preparations
for the strike.
However, the fact that the speed of develp-
ment of the struggle was underestimated,
shown by the following sentence in the min
utes Special attention must be given to calling
out all mines of the section, and spreading the
strike, so that it will not consist of merely
strike in the P & w. and the Duquesne Mines"
Our underestimation of the power and scope
OF the mass movement which was developing
against starvation conditions should serve as
lesson to the Party in the other demonstrations
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in randh
impera and nterveni
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The leaf1et reproduced
herewith is enc of a series
of such leaflets issued by
workers who have orga-
nized to fight against high
rents. St. nuclei in all dis
tricts and sections of the
Party can develop similar
movements around de-
mands for needed repairs
and reduced rents. The
response and militancy of
the workers in the fight
against high living costs
manifested in recent and
present, rent, bread. meat
and other such strikes,
proves that this is a fertile
field for development Of
mass struggles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
GOV. LONG DETAILS
POTL|KKER RECIPE
Threatens Suit to Protect
His Dunking Rights and
Tries Own Brew.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28.-Threat-
ening suit" against the corn pone
crllrnblers for infringement on his
dunking rights, Gov. Huey p. Long to-
day took command of the "potlikker'
kettle in his hotel kitchen and showed
the chefs how to make the savory brew.
According to Southern etiquette, au-
thorized the titled chef, Take a bite
OF gatherings, mouthful of criSpy
cracklings, two sips of potlikker and a
nibble of corn pone dunked-Ah"
And the doctor of laws sat down to
partake of his own cooking. Here
the governors story on the ethics Of
potlikker:
BY HUEY p. LONG. LID,
Governor of Louisis ana, and .. s. Senator
NEW ORLEANS, February % (P-
Crumbling cornbread into potlikker is a
matter of i'll manners and bad ethics
in cracking bread and chitterling time,
If at no other time.
I can see how, mayhap, in the intense
hot season, that the potlikker might be
consumed with a thin cr1mbling for
those fearing to bite heavy on solid
corn pone during bot weather. After
the crop is laid by there Is a season
when people do not work so hard and
Some
heavy grub that Is required for many
work days-in fact, some avoid too
heavy rations then; that's the fish sea-
son, you know.
Holds Crumbling Horrible.
But, excepting for such season, to
crlmble corn pone into potlikker Is
horrible manners. 1t would not be
countenanced at any camp meeting on
~ e. ~ h
AS I said, take the case Of cracking
bread and chitterling times. The pot
lil1ker and the gatherings are eaten
at the same meal of victuals; in fact,
one takes q bite of the GATHERINGS and
then a sip or two of the potlikker. using
the same pone OF bread with them both.
Surely no one would argue to crum-
bic the corn pone In with the chit
terlings; If not, then how could he eat
the corn pone with both of the dishes
of victuals unless he dunked the corn
pone with the potlikker? To argue to
the contrary Is not only bad manners,
but Is not sound common sense.
Would Floor YearIing.
True, genuine corn pone is composed
of corn meal, hot water and salt, cooked
in a greasy skillet, hard enough I'd
knock down yearling, that's the corn
pone. If you would have good old
Louisiana corn bread substitute clabber
for the hot water, and If your taste
requires little richer substance, add
one egg Now for the balance Of the
grub.
The potlikker: 1t is made from boiling
turnip greens, turnips and a piece Of
salt fat meat for several hours. The
green's and turrlips are taken out of
the pot, and the liquid remaining is the
potlikker.
Says Rights Infgringed.
want to thank the thousands of
sane and sensible Americans who have
90 Loyalty stood on guard against the
eenseless attacks Of the crumbling pot
Nkker consumers.
7 hope this thing does not 60 so far
that I viii have to bring suit to estab-
Lsh my rights. There has been some
infringement already.
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$4,000 FIRE SWEEPS
PAPER WAREHOUSE
Early Morning Blaze in Rosslyn
Calls Out Five Arlington and
One D. G. Apparatus.

Six fire comprehensive from Airing
ton County, Va, and one from the
District-were called upon yesterday
morning to fight blaze which dam
aged the Rosslyn warehouse of the
Washington Paper stock Co. to the ex-
tent of approximately $4,000.
The fire was discovered about $50
o'clock by o. r. Carr, Waterman at the
building, in which waste paper was
stored He saw smoke pouring from q
window on the third floor and tele-
phoned both the Virginia and the Dis
trict fire departments.
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OFFER $40 TO HEAR SMITH
Tickets for New Workers. Raleigh
Address Popular.

Offers as high as $40 for tickets TO hear
the address of Al Smith here Monday
were reported tonight with no sellers.
Representatives and Senators, who
have been allotted five tickets, have been
besieged with kilograms and phone calls
from constituents asking for tickets.
IF everybody that have refused to
give a Smith ticket 20 votes against me,
I'll never win another election" Rep
Tesentative johnson OF Halifax said.