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The daily worker., 1931-01-05

The Antl-ImperialiSt League of the United
States brings to the forefront the struggle
against American imperialism, against the pre-
parednesS for an imperialist war and the COM
ing attack on the Soviet Union The League
calls upon the workers in the United States who
suffer from the same persecution-unemploy
ment, hunger and poverty-to show solidarity
with the oppressed peoples of Latin America the
Philippines and other colonial countries under
the heel of imperialism
The anti-imperialSt demonstrations of the
workers here in protest against the terror in
Cuba, Mexico, India and elsewhere. have already
shown the spirit of class solidarity with those
oppressed peoples The best way to develop this
solidarity is to build the Anti-Imperialist League
participate in all its activities, and make the
League real mass organization. This is the
prerequisite for an effective fight against i'm
perialism and imperialist war; and against the
fascist terror in Latin America
The Anti -Imperialist League will commemorate
Mella Day in a huge protest meeting on Sunday
January H. 1881, at p. m. at New Harlem Ca
sino, 100 West 116th Street. All branches and
anti-imperialist organizations should hold similar
meetings throughout the country
Down with American imperialism!
Down with the Imperialist Agents in Latin
Anlerica
For the Absolute independence of the Op-
pressed Peoples!
Long live the Solidarity the Workers of the
United States with those of Latin America!
Build the Anti -Imperialist League
ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE OF
THE UNITED STATES.
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
Chinese Soviets Advance

ADMISSION that the Communist forces in
II China are rapidly spreading their influence,
not only among vast millions of peasants but as
we'll among the workers, is contained in two
articles appearing in the January issue of Cur
rent History, entitled: "The Strength of Com
munism in China" These articles were written
by Edgar Snow, special correspondent of the
New York Sun, and Reginald E. Sweetland, cor
respondent of the Chicago Daily News Both
agree that the Red Army in China is rapidly
Kuomintang forces with all the help of the i'm
perialists have not been able to stop it.
Referring to the Communist Party, Snow
writes:
"The Communist Party of China since the ex-
pulsion of its members from the Kuomintang by
the purgationists' in 1927 has gained in strength
Communism is no longer-if it has ever been
merely the hallucnation of alarmists in China
1t is potent factor which threatens to become
a dominating one in the revolutionary scene
The Communist Party of China at present has
no more than 100000, no fewer than 10000 mem
bers; people who think that Communism in
China lacks sufficient strength for separate
revolution are mistaken"
Snow points out not only the successes in the
villages but the growing influence in the cities
I'm the cities" he writes "the Communists
directed their energies to workers in every in
dustry In Shanghai during 1929 they were re-
SponSible for 1874 strikes involving approximately
100000 workers. He goes on to say THE
dwindling influence of the Kuomintang with
the proletariat was shown by the 5000 men,
bers in its Shanghai labor unions in $780, as
compared with more than 10000 in 1927"
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
Socialist Cities
BY G. L. GRINKO
Peoples COmmissar of Finance, U. S. S. R.

XIV.
MORE and more frequently, and with ever
IVA greater emphasis, the workers and the vari
our social organizations and individuals engaged
in the work of housing construction demand that
plans be prepared for the reconstruction of the
existing cities and especially for the building of
new city settlements in connection with the in
dustrial enterprises and plants which are now
under construction. Many such large cities as
Moscow Kharkov, and Kiev, have already pre-
pared the first drafts of plans for the total re-
construction of these cities We are on the eve
of great scientific works and great social move
ments linked up with the determination of the
character and type of socialist cities.
In the leading capitalist countries great deal
has been done during the last decade in the
field of city planning in accordance with the de-
mands Of modern technique and rational organ
ization. International socialism frequently dis
cuSsed this subject during the period proceeding
the imperialst war. But city planning in the
capitalist world cannot shake off its capitalist
character. However high its level, from the
point of view of material and technical resources
however perfect the isolated experiment of gar
den suburbs may be, they still are merely serving
the interests of the upper bourgeois layer of So
ciety. Under capitalist conditions it cannot be
otherwise. The problem of the rational organiza-
tions of the cities from the point of view of tie
proletariay, can be successfully solved only in
society whose organization is entirely subordin-
ated to the interests Of the widest masses of
toilers, really rational organized city must be
a socialist city. And there is no doubt that in
the near future the scale of housing construction
in the U.S.S.R., which is continually growing,
will bring closer the practical solution of of
the most complex and fascinating problems of
the creation of socialist city. Here the conStruc-
ton of the genuine cities of the future is really
being worked out.
From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet
Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original
collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So
cialst industrialzation, a complete account
of the Plan, containing the first two years
of its operation and political estimate of
its place in world economy.
BY special arrangement with Interna-
tonaI Publishers this 81 book FREE
WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE
YEAR, So in Manhattan and the Bronx, Sc
outside New York Rush your subscription
to the Daily Worker, so E. 18th st, New
York. Mention this offer.
The daily worker., 1931-01-05

OF Labor, Doak, who specified more clearly the
intentions of the capitalists toward the foreign
born. According to Doak, functioning an
paratus shall be set up in order to check up on
"alien gangsters" The New York Police re-
sponded very promptly to the demand of the
spokesman of the capitalist government. and
established this apparatus which is parading
under the name of 'the sBuro to check up on
alien criminals"
While formally the duty of this buro is to
deal with criminals, in fact it is an utter dis
cr1mlnatlon against the foreign born The actual
task OF this buro is to threaten the foreign born
persecute them and deport any one who takes
an active part In any working class movement
The connection between the Federal Immgra-
tion Commissioners and this buro clearly shows
what their duty will be. More than that it also
shows that this buro, which claims to be under
the direct supervision of the New York Police
Department, is also unit of the federal author
tiles that tend to discriminate against the for
eign born.
This buro cannot, and will not curb gangster-
ism, that in most cases has close connection with
the police and other forces of capitalism, and
work hand in hand against workers in strikes,
etc.
The National Committee for the Protection of
Foreign Born brands this buro as an institution
that is sponsored by various anti-alien bills The
gentlemen IN Congress are not very certain that
they will succeed in passing these bills, due to
the movement aroused to counteract them, and
therefore are trying to put forth some PROPOSE
tions that are Incorporated in these bills into
practice even before the bills will be taken up
This move to discriminate the foreign born
will be fought by the entire working class in
this country At the local and state conferences
for the Protection of the Foreign Born, which
will take place in January and February this
question will be discussed thoroughly, and on
the basis of discussion, one of the demands shall
be to abolish police supervision and all such
departments or institutions which discriminate
the foreign born workers
The National Committee calls upon all organ
izations to prepare for local and state confer
ences
National Committee for the Protection
- the Foreign Born.
aa, Room sos, 81 Union So, N. 7. g.
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
Fighting FunctiOnaries- the
Need of the Hour
BY I. AMTER.

THE masses, since the expulsion of the rotten
elements from our midst have felt new
pulsating life a quicker response to the demands
of the sharpening class struggle on the part of
the Communist Party They see the Party fight
ing on all fields that touch the life of the worker
his wife and family. They see the Party becom-
ing the real leader of the masses in the struggle
against the capitalists and the capitalist govern
ment
This they note also in the investigation of
the Fish Committee, which explicitly explains
that it is not investigating socialism, radical
ism, pacifisnl," but only Communism. Correct!
But there is nothing to investigate the Com
munist ,'arty declares openly, as 1t did in the
statement read before the Fish Committee by
Comrade Foster that it fights for the interests
Of the unemployed, the part-time worker, the
worker who still has job but has to accept
wage CUTS the Negro, foreign-born, young and
woman worker, the working class child. 1t fights
against the coming mperialist war and for the
defense of the Soviet Union.
What limits the work of the Party, however,
is the crying need Of fighting Communist func-
tionaries. Yes the Party has made or is rapidly
making the turn. What hampers it is particular
ly the lack of functionares to lead the Party
membership along the line of new methods and
the militant struggle. unctionaries-function-
aries-everywhere the demand-and the Party
itself must supply them.
The districts are developing whatever forces
they can-but this is far from sufficient. The
Central Committee last year provided a National
Training School, at which about 80 comrades were
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
We Keep Right At 1t

We have received the following, which speaks
for itself:
Red Sparks:-It was with a sense of relief
that I recently read your article in the Daily
Worker that criticized some of our comrades for
their snobbishneSS. The article was timely and
very much in order. I am not so sure, however
that your advice, though well directed has as
yet brought about the desired results.
MANY complaints have reached me relative
to the clannishness of certain groups of workers.
and especially of those in the needle trades
Many of the members of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union and their friends, who when
they return from trip to sea, very naturally
seek recreation and relaxation, and properly
they turn to the affairs under auspices of the
Party, the T. u. u. L.. or the various revolution
ary unions and councils.
"Our members often bring their friends with
them AS friends they are all potential mem
bers. They have invariably been struck with the
cold reception that is given them.
"In part, they are brought to these affairs
with the idea of assuring them that revolution
lists in this country are comradely human beings,
with common problem and purpose, whose
greatest desire is to see the movement grow in
strength to its ultimate success. They are turned
away almost with contempt, are made to feel
NSoAooSN' Se0Se
OF formality exists in our ranks. And the result
is expressed in justfiable resentment at their
treatment and rejection of those people who
represent the industrial organizations based on
proletarian lines.
I'VE Of the Party must learn to understand
and appreciate the value of our social affairs as
means for winning over new friends and SYM
pathzers. Intelligent revolutionists cannot be
made through the medium of bazaar or dance.
but the bazaar and dance can be used as a very
practical method of approach. In this period Of
crisis innumerable workers are cropping for :
way out OF their misery. Our organizational
structure Is not yet developed to the point where
we can reach all, and when those who do UNDER
stand the line, wilfully do not make the most Of
our present facilities for further organization
their neglect is next to criminal in its nature
So comrade, even though you may have to
write ten articles, awaken these comrades to A
sense OF duty and obligation to themselves and
all others concerned. Coulradely. joseph
Leedes." ..=:s. -~..---.-., , :,
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party o. 8. A.
43 East 125th Street.
New York City.
Please send me more information on the COM
munist Party.
Clty ......................... state ...........
Occupation ................-....... age ......
Mail this to the Central Once Communist
Party. 43 East 125th ST.. New York. N. X.
The daily worker., 1931-01-05
Fight Against Police Supervision
of Foreign Born Workers

THE establishment by the New York Police De-
partment of "Buro to check up on alien
criminals" should not be considered as an in
dependent move on the part of the police 1t is
not true that the establishment of this buro was
brought into effect in order to rid themselves of
criminals"
IT urge he strengthening of our deportation
laws so as to more fully rid ourselves of criminal
aliens"
That was the demand of the capitalists through
President Herbert Hoover upon opening the ses-
sion of the Congress of the u S. A., at the same
time when the police gassed 500 delegates that
represented 100000 organized workers that pro-
tested against all discriminatory bills pending in
Congress.
This command of Hoover's was picked up by
the newly appointed secretary of the department
The daily worker., 1931-01-05

given training for the struggle and this merely
emphasized the need of functionaries. This year
the Central Committee is arranging three
months Training School for about rs students
who must help to supply the great dearth of
functionaries. These comrades must be- active
comrades from the shops and mines, comrades
who must be given a better training, so that they
will be equipped for work their return to their
shop or mine, or be taken over entirely for Party
work; comrades who will fill the gaps in the
Party organization, in the field of the West and
South, in the unions, mass organizations, etc.
The units and sections of the Party must i'm
mediately begin to select the comrades to be re-
commended to the districts. They must propose
young, promising material, comrades who have
made or are making the turn, comrades with
initiative, with a dee~ sense of responsibility,
comrades active in the unions
But one more feature must be -ilbered:
The training Of these comrades must be made
the business of the masses of wc-';ers The mass
organizations clubs, fraternal lodges, ETC.
must accept responsibility in financing the
students. They must be made part of the organ
ization that is giving the rs workers this revo-
lutionary training. Workers Educational Confer
ences must be held in every district, and ways
and means be worked out to finance the students.
This is one of the most important tasks con-
fronting the revolutionary movement, and there
is no doubt that the revolutionary workers and
organizations will do their part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
u. S. Treasury Head, Mellon,
Gives Pay Cut To Thousands

from the Bellon banks. The White
Tar Co. of New Jersey, also located
at Kearny, and controlled by Mellon,
slashed wages.
Andrew Mellon, as secretary Of the
treasury, handed out billions OF dol
lars In tax returns to the big corpo-
rations, many millions going into his
own pocket.
When the crisis started, Mellon
made statements urging" the bosses
not to cut wages, but he himself has
been one Of the leading driving
forces in slashing wages. He con-
trolls the Pittsburgh Coal Co. in
Pennsylvania, as well as many other
coal companies that are trying to
force the miners into starvation.
Thousands OF miners in the Mellon
mines are striking against starvation
wages.
The action Of Mellon is approved
by the A. r. OF L. which works with
the Hoover government and has aid
ed 1t In its long history Of wage
SlaShtnG 49,. 80 --
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Bank DepoSitors
To Demonstrate
FM. Their Funds
Saturday, August Is,
at 1870 before
City Hall

NEW YORK.-IssuinE leaflets and
stickers broadcast throughout the city
the United Depositors Committee
leading the fight to recover the full
deposits of the small depositors OF
the defunct Bank of the United
States, is completing preparations for
depositors demonstration, Saturday
August Is, at 1890 pm. before city
hall From there the demonstration
will march to the state banking de-
partment to place the following de-
mand5:
l. That small ccpositors shall
be paid first and in full.
2. The reorganization of the
bank. so that the depositors mo-
ney be paid in full.
3. The assessment Of all the di-
rectors and all stockholders.
4. The prosecution of ali guilty
officials of the banking depart
ment.
:. The prosecution OF all the
directors.
s. That the state shall make
good the losses of the depositors.
The Daily Worker has repeatedly
pointed out that the various reor-
ganization plans proposed by former
directors and the state banking de-
partment we're primarily intended to
stave off the rising anger Of the
swindled depositors. Further that
the property upon which an early
liquidation would have realized some
thing, has now been surreptiously
transferred to relatives and friends
of the bankers. There exists no
possible basis for the reorganization
of the ruined bank in which the
depositors would have their full de-
posts restored
The demands for the assessment
of the rich stockholders and the
officials the amount Of the last de-
posits and the guarantee Of the re-
covery Of the money by the state
remains the valid demands depo-
sitors can raise without resorting 10
false hopes about reorganization Of
the bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
STOP 2 EVICTIONS
IN DAY in HARLEM

NEW YORK. The Harlem Un-
employed Council held a successful
open air meeting yesterday at 18th
ST. and Lenox Ave.
While the meeting was going on,
Mrs. Emma Doctor, an unemployed
woman with three small children. was
being evicted. The Council nobilized
the workers TO proceed from the
meeting TO the scene of the eviction
at 10 West 1S4th st. There the
furniture of the evicted worker was
put back to the cheering Of the work
ers. A meeting was held in front Of
the building, where hundreds Of the
workers pledged themselves 10 fight
gair-t evictions. A block committee
RI ed there and then.
rrom this meeting the Unemployed
Council was called on to prevent an
other eviction. At 3o4 West l2ath St.
Mrs. Mary Griffins had been evicted
with her three small children. Under
the leadership of the Council. workers
returned her furniture to the fiat,
and held an anti-eviction meeting N
front OF the house.
Theheadquarters Of the Harlem On
employed Council are at 10 W. l2sth
suseN ~sxlisafssg1 eRr.-
~ NM - XsXI<f "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

NEW YORK.-Andrew Mellon Sec
rotary of the United States treasury
and one Of the leading figures in
the Hoover government. has ordered
wage-cuts for thousands Of workers
in the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co.
and subsidiaries. Mellon, in line with
the Hoover policy Of wage-slashing,
has ordered wage-cuts from 10 to 20
per cent.
The government itself is further
ing wage-cuts, as shown by the
slashes in pay for 1,4o0 workers at
the Hoover dam in Las Vegas. New.
Capitalist newspaper reporters who
interviewed officials Of the Coppers
Seabord Coke Co. of Brooklyn said
these officials admitted this morn
ing there had been 10 per cent
wage-cut in the company" one Of the
officials adding, "that's the cut that
is making the rounds"
Another section Of this company,
the Koppers seaboard Coke Co. at
Kearny, N. j.. also said that wages
had been slashed there 10 per cent
ION orders from Pittsburgh. that u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Insult Thugs Blow Up Ky.
Relief Kitchen; Rush Funds!

house to house. Other hunted or
ganizers, from their quarters in the
hills, are in constant touch through
couriers with miners in the camps.
Starvation Disease Spreads
The starvation disease, flux, is still
unchecked. Solid food is needed des-
perately. Aside from what the relief
sent in, grass and green apples are
all that theminers and their families
have to live on. More food must be
sent into Kentucky Immediately. Ter
ror or no, thestriking miners and
their children must befed, the cpl
denic must bechecked. Send every
available penny you can collect to
the Penn Ohio-W. Virginia Kentucky
Striking Miners Relief Committee,
Room $50, 100 Broadway. N. Y. City.
Collect food and ship it Immediately
as it is needed desperately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
OPEN AIR MEETS,
HARLEM TONIGHT
Fight Race Hatred and
Evictions

NEW YORK. - Since July 4, Ne
gro tenants living around nth st.
and Pleasant Avenue have been sub
jected' to vicious terror campaign
aimed at driving them out OF the
neighborhood. This campaign was
melted by the Landlords who In their
desire to force up rents in the neigh
borhood, have been evicting the white
workers in order to exact double the
rent from Negro tenants. Using this
rent discrimination against the Me-
gro workers as threat against the
whites, they have tried to raise the
rents Of white workers, telling then,
that if they did not pay the raise,
they would be evicted and the apar-
nents rented to Negro workers.
Petty bourgeois and shop keeper
elements among the whites have used
this fact to incitA the white workers
against the Negroes and have rnisled
these workers from the correct tactic
Of organizing with the Negro work
ers to fight the rent increases of the
landlords. The Communist Party has
denounced these nisleaders of the
white workers and has called for a
united front OF the white and Negro
tenants against their common enc
my, the landlords.
A Tenants League has been organ
lied in the neighborhood and Soil
darity Meeting will be held this eve
ming at 117th Street and First Ave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

ing, getting more of a mass char
acter. Latest reports state that many
violent battles have taken place in
various parts OF Cuba. Bloody Ma
chado, president of Cuba, is reported
to have left for Santa Clara, dis
trict in revolt, in order to bargain
with the nationalist leaders. This
is to give the Nationalist leaders an
opening to quash the revolt before
it reaches mass character and goe-
beyond the wishes of the petty-bour-
geois leaders, Menocal, Mendiesta and
Capote.
A reign of terror has been I'M
loosed in Havana, the stronghold of
the Cuban proletariat. All houses
are being searched for arms and
wholesale arrests are being made.
The arrested-and workers are ar
rested on any pretense-are sent TO
the Havana Fortress where many are
murdered outright.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

pool, a gang Of white hoodlunls en-
coraged and aided by the city q !
the police beat up these Negro work.
ers most viciously.
But these happenings at the SWIM
ming pool are only part of the
discrimination and systematic ter
ror carried on against the Negroes
in this city. Only a few days age
three colored youths were arrested
by uniformed thug named Geiger
for no other reason than walking
home with white workers.
The white and Negro workers, es-
pecially young workers are being
modified for this demonstration, in
which the working class will show
the bosses that they will not stand
for discrimination and terror such
as is now being directed against that
most exploited section Of the work
Ing class. the Negro worker&