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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
SHORTCOMINGS OF THE RECRUITING DRIVE IN
WISCONSIN

first place, our campaigns are not separate on
the contrary, they can and must, be connected
with one another. For instance, through gather
ing signatures for the election campaign, we can
and must get members into the G. p shop con-
facts, prospective members into the I. L. D., L, S.
N. r., etc. build the neighborhood committees Of
the Unemployed Councils through the needy cases
of certain territory; sell literature Daily Work
ers, get subs for it, etc II we learn this simple
fact, and not only learn it, but apply it in our
every day work, much Of the confusion and waste
will be eliminated.
The second point to be stressed, and this is
a serious shortcoming-real, planned leadership
in the Section and Units, involving every COM
rade in the work. Many of our unit buros, made
up in the main of unemployed comrades, meet
during the day. They should have plenty Of
time thoroughly to go into the work, to discuss
the activity of every comrsde. Is this the real
situation? Most of them just meet for an hour
or So mechanically taking UP the agenda, with
out making the proper assignments so that the
unit meetings drag out long, no time for discus
sion, lot Of time wasted on petty things-and
then these incompetent would be leaders blame
the membership for the shortcomings in our
work. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09

We started the recruiting drive on the Jan. 3rd
Section Conference, with the determination not
only to increase our membership to $780, which
means zoo more members, but to change the COM
position of our Party: much more employed work
ers mainly from the big factories, new shop
nuclei, and Strengthening ourselves on the weak
est fronts: more Negroes more women, and young
workers; more workers won over from the most
dangerous parts Of the enemy caInp-the A. +. OF
L.. and socialist party.
To achieve this, q sharp turn is required IN our
orlentation and methods OF work. Shop work
instead of being left to a few comrades, without
the daily attention Of the unit buro, must become
tho main orientation of the Party, the basis OF
all campaigns and activities; recruiting, election
Daily Worker Drive, leaflet distributions etc. The
main yard stick in determining the work of unit
or individual comrades will be the eXetent to
which the turn toward the shop will be carried
out
How can we pay enough attention to shop work
when VIC have unemployment work to carry on,
Daily Workers must be sold, signatures gathered
Tor the election campaign, we must recruit mem
bers into the Party and our mass organizations
where many Of our comrades are active etc. -
this is the answer given by most Of our functlo-
naries This. comrades, is totally wrong. In the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
Party Recruiting Drive
.Idnssary Il Mdrch Is, 1881
WE MUST SIGNAL THE DANGER

quota, but why no results 80 far7 DO We pay
only lip service to factory work, or Is it inl-
possible task? We must state Categorically that
the units, section committees and even the Dis
tTiCt Buro have not paid the necessary attention
to this work, The discussions at various meet
ngs during the last weeks have revealed 9 ter
rible confusion, lack of knowledge and wrong
conceptions on concentration, shop br1gades and
on how to build shop nuclei We find that con-
Centration IS still done through single units or
few comrades, that our shop brigsdee arc ap~
pointed by the units or SECTIONS and above all
that our leading functionarieS In the units and
sections still believs that the new comrades Sc
cured from shops must first go through tratn-
ing as members OF street nuclei, before they can
be put into shop nuclei, These methods must be
abandoned at once.
CAN WE BUILD SHOr NUCLEI!
Even without going into details and only upon
an analysis OF contacts in shops we find that the
following immediate possibilities for shop nuclei
exist; Section 1-s; section 2-3; section 3-l Read
ing-i and more IN the other sections. Are we
going to neglect it any longer? The District
Buro decided to assign leading members Of the
District Committee to all shop nuclei and brigades
and so help the comrades to overcome this seri-
Gus danger. FORWARD TO BUILD THE PARTY
IN THE SHOPS, MINES AND DOCKS!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
Bv En- soIwAr CPhiladeIphis)


The analysis OF the recruiting in Our district
by February 9Th shows q dangerous situation
and unless checked on time Will not help to
achieve what ne have set for ourselves. 1t is
net late yet, provided we make sharp turn
in our RECRUITING DRIVE, and in this We
ulsL have the full responsibility and co-opera-
ton Of the Section Committees and Unit Bmo5.
-Four weeks remain for the Drive, but only 30
Percent Of the quota has been reached However,
Ing danger lies not in the number but in the COM
position Of the membership While every worker
recruited is welcomed by the Party, still in our
plan We have undertaken to concentrate on min
ius. steel, marine and textile What gsins have
We made thus Tar? In the mining industry 50
percent Of the QUOTA IN the marine, Is percent;
ia the steel and metal 16 percent; and In the
textile s percent. CAN WE ALLOW THIS SIT
UATTON TO LAST? OF course not. Especially
in view of the present war situation, it must be
cur aim to increase the quota in those indus
ries. We are also tagging badly in our quotas for
working women Negroes and young workers We
have practically done nothing for the building
of tho Y. G. L.
WHY NOT A SINGLE SHOP NUCLEUS?
The fact that We did not organize a single shop
nucleus by February 9Th endangers the whole
RECRUITING DRIVE. Eight shop nuclei is our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
New Tortures for, the Workers.
Initiation, Taxes, "Anti-Hoarding"

money, the United States government is issuing
bonds, which the Federal Reserve Banks use
TO base the issuance of paper money upon.
In period of financial crisis like the present
with the huge boarding by the petty bourgeoisfe
and the bourgeoisie with the workers who still
have few pennies left in the bank withdraw
ing their money, the capitalist government
continues to issue still more paper money. At
the same time the character of the money
changes. Less gold Cand other gold basis Sc
curites) is used to back up the emission of the
paper money SO that the money is worth less
and less in exchange for other commodities.
In practice it works out in this way Formerly
the dollar would buy certain amount of conf
modities at a given price With the flooding Of
the country with a greater amount of paper
money, the purchasing power of the money
drops in terms of commodities. More dollars
are needed TO buy the same amount OF com
modities, and the price goes up TO the amount
and often above, the degree of initiation
In this way the workers living standard is
driven down. He is paid in paper dollars whose
value has been materially cut and with which
he can no longer buy the same amount of the
necessities of life he bought previously For the
unemployed the results are, of course, extremely
drastic Those who get a few dollars relief, find
their relief cut down. They can no longer OBJ
tain even the few crumbs OF bread they got
before
Initiation Grows With Crisis.
AS the crisis develops, the government deficit
grows, and more paper money is issued. With
the government issuing bonds, and the federal
reserve banks issuing paper money with the
bonds as backing, there is no limit to the pro-
cess of Initiation; there is no limit to the value
the paper money may drop to.
So far as the workers arc concerned, those
who still have few cents left i'll the bank or
in 4 their socks, it means every such dollar is
slashed by leach new wave Of initiation The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
By ". HONIG

ore Of the biggest steps forward in the fight
v for unemployment insurance and relief, has
been the establishment, since the National
Hunger March, OF unemployed workers papers
by unemployed councils in at least ten cities.
These local unemployed papers, the Hunger
Fighters" can fast become mass papers and
reach tens of thousands OF new workers In the
localities in which they are published. They
constitute one of the best potential instruments
in recruiting thousands more to the ranks OF
those fighting for unemployment insurance and
relief That is why we offer this article In
spirit of constructive, helpful criticism.
We will now take in hand those unemployed
papers which we have thus far received. The
largest of the unemployed papers is the New
York Hunger Fighter, an eight-page printed
monthly tabloid The first issue was the Febru-
srv one Inasmuch as this was issued before
the February mass unemployment demonStra-
tons it must be said that the February de-
monstration was miserably played down. There
was only an article by Herbert Benjamin, with
a comparatively small head. In the entire part
of the article which was on page l, nothing Is
said about the February demonstration.
our unemployed papers must make such de-
monstrations and the preparations for them
their main feature. with streamers on the front
page Not only an article but news giving the
details Of the New York preparations and pre-
rarations in other cities should have been pro-
minently printed on the front page.
Failure to present the February denlonstra-
ton as a big step in the fight for unemploy~
nent insurance and relief, and especially the
failure to link 1t up with the next steps IN the
fight, would seem to be an expression of the
tendency TO regard our more spectacular unem-
ploynent actions as Gust another denonstra-
ton"
From reading the New York Hunger Fighter,
and in fact all the unemployed papers, one would
never realize that there Is q signature drive 60
ing on for the workers unemployment Insurance.
bill The signature drive nust'be played Jlp big
on the front pages Of all our unemployed papers
from nov on.
The New York paper fails to any extent to re-
fleet the local conditions OF misery, the points
around which the local struggle can and must
be conferred There is insufficient material eZ-
posing the starvation conditions in the neigh
borhoods, in the Lighthouses, in the unemployed
workers colonies Of the Hoover City" type. The
paper Is far too general
There are good points too. An editorial Sec
ton, a satirical column (''Hand-Outs"o workers
correspondence (slthough very poor attempt
I'D I'D, some but not enough news about the
Soviet Onion.
From reading the New York Hunger Fighter
you would never dream that there was war
on in China, or that this war had anything to
do with the unemployed at all. War and what
it means to the unemployed Is well as the en-
poped, must be ons OF the main subjects on the
front page Of every unemployed paper,
Let uE. take the Indianapolis Hunger Tighter,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
BY HARRY CANNES.

L.
THE financial crisis in the United States at the
present time is bringing out some new, vital
problems for the American workers.
It is not only matter of the initiation which
the Glass-steagaIl bill is bringing (an initiation
airy movement which began long before this
measure was passed., but the whole development
of the credit crisis carries with lit new and
greater burdens for the workers
The Hoover hunger government very cleYerly
put over the Glass-Steagall bill as a measure
separate from the new policy of taxation closely
connected with it, Even the manner of passing
the Glass Steagal Bill (the "details of which we
will discuss later contains for the workers inn
portant lessons Of the powerful role of finance
capital OF the closer linking Of the big bankers
with the government apparatus of the whole
rotten situation of the structure Of American
capitalism and especially of the extreme severity
of the financial situation, carefully hidden by
the capitalist press.
On top of it ALL the Hoover government has
discovered new method of swindling the work
ers The anti-hoardng drive now being carried
on, comparable only to the Liberty loan" drive
during the last world war, is intended to rob
the workers and the petty bourgeoisie of what
ever cash reserves the bankers failed to steal
in the bank failures.
How Initiation Works.
Just how initiation works is not explained to
the masses by the capitalist press Whenever
the capitalist governments issue more paper
money than there is need for in the process of
circulation OF commodities, initiation takes place.
The main factor IN the development of infla-
ton is the budget deficit of the government. In
order TO meet its deficit, the government merely
prints mere paper money
In the United States hc process is little
more complicated. Instead OF printing paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
The Kentucky Strike--Our Mistakes and Their
by BUECK

at the mines Our Kentucky comrades are
capable, they have initiative and they want to
work, but they are absolutely without expert
ence with militant strike tactics. AS a result
the united front at the mines is weak.
The mine committees are not representative of
the masses of miners and exercise no real lead
ership over them.
There is insufficient Experimentation in
the committees and too little division of work
The whole burden of organizing the strike &C
tivities, carrying through the distribution of re-
lief, defense activities etc, is thrown on a few
of the comrades in mine strike committees.
The strengthening of these mine strike COM
nittees is therefore of vital and immediate i'm
portance.
Rehabilitation of Strike
Outstanding has been our failure sufficiently
to broaden and politicalize the struggle If the
Kentucky strike is to be the wave of struggle
which will sweep us into the South, it is neces-
Sary to place before the workers in clear and
sharp manner our revolutionary position on
every vital question facing the Southern w1k.
ing class This we have failed to do An OK
ample:
1t is obvious that in the territory whre fully
80 per cent Of the workers are unemployed the
basis for successful strike must be the solidar-
ity OF employed and unemployed
In the present strike unemployed and black
listed miners constitute the very backbone Of
our forces In some sections everything is de-
pendent upon the complete support Of the strike
by the unemployed and blacklisted miners. Yet,
up to the moment of the present writing, we
have not worked out concrete and under
Standable program of demands for the unem-
ployed
We have organized no hunger marches or
other mass actions of the unemployed. We have
raised hardly at all in our agitation the basic
demand of Unemployment Insurance We have
failed completely to popularize our revolutionary
program against unemployment and its conse-
quenceS
(TO BE CONTINUED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
So This Is A Liberal

Harry Elmer Barnes, who writes in the N Y.
World-Telegram under the heading of 1.-THE Lib
eral Viewpoint" does his bit of confession Of
what liberal" is when he wrote the following
lines as a prelude to an argument against "short
selling"
IF there is any one cause above all others
for gloom on the part of the we-wishers of
capitalism, it is the seeming failure of the
leaders of capitalism to learn anything OF Inn
portance through experience They appear
unwilling to surrender any transient and du-
bious gains from unsOund practices in order to
realize the greater gain of the preservation Of
the capitalist system"
Now Matte VOL or Ralph M. Easley might
have written Sf1at, in fact they have written
things just like it, But they are not known as
liberals"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09
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A Tough World for Babies
y E0Rq9

IF my rather goofy-looking dad" unused LIhldy
Junior as he was Whisked out the window, hadn't
been kidnapped, so TO speak, by j. r. Morgan's
partner and used as advertisement for Arn-
erican Imperialism, this would have never have
happened. In fact if was just workers kid,
nobody besides my pappy and nanny would
have cared boot if lived Or died, not to speak
OF all this hu1abaloo.
But then, if l was workers Kid, jttsS plain
Doughboy'S brat, although nobody would have
kidnapped me for ransom my dad probably would
be out Of work or have wage cut and could
darncd well starye to death get ricketts, and dis
OF pneumonia through lack Of proper eats-ea
many thousands have died. It's a tough world
for babies!
What gives me the belly-ache is to see how
much fuss is being made in the capitalist r,apers
over the Morrow family, because they are rich
bankers and diplomats, but hardly word about
my dads folks, because they are workers They
arc given the cold shoulder Granddaddy Lind
pergh once said something unkind about capital
Ism ana war, too, and that makes it worse.
Funny about this kidnapping business
capitalists can have their own Sheriffs and even
private hired thugs kidnap National Miners
Union orgGN'T2'7 I'D 7. L. d. lawyers in KEN
lucky and Tennessee, and l. I'm ND or kin
them and The capitalist press dom say Rool
Back III 1906 the bosses kidnapped Meyer, Hay
WOOD and Pettlbone in Colorado and took them
to Idaho and Senator Borah who was then
prosecuting attorney, tried to hang them on
frame-up Yep, the same Borah who Couldn't
do anything about kidnapping in Kentucky. And
Teddy Roosevelt then said that Kidnapping was
all rightee, because Meyer, Haywood ana Petit
bone, also miners organizers we're 'und2sirabIa
citizens
We'll, 1t sure makes a lot of difference whose
kid Is kidnapped Now 1 suppose after this IL all
over, they'll take me back home and make a
Boy Scout out of me- It's a tough world for
babies and Rcd Trade Union organizers! -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-09

Daily Worker Fund Growing
too slowly. Suspension danger
advances by leaps and bounds.
Rush every possible penny to
save the Daily Worker.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
New Transit Suit Authorized.

NEW YORK, September % R.-
benjamin. F. johnson of winchester
KY, obtained Federal jourt authorize
ton yesterday to institute suit looking
toward the appointment Of new re-
ceivers for the Interborough Rapid
Transit Co., and the Manhattan Rail
way Co.
johnson, a Manhattan Railway stock
holder. seeks to have the present re-
ceiverships set aside on the ground he
believes the appointments were irregular
and void.
He also asks for an accounting of
sums allegedly due the Manhattan from
the Interborough, fixation Of amounts
to be paid by the Interborough receiv-
erS for the privilege of operating the
Manhattan, and the awarding of dam
ages for alleged violation of the Man
haitian lines lease to the Interborough.
johnson said he held 100 shares Of
Manhattan stock with . par value OF
$4,000.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
THREE QUARRY FIRMS
MERGED IN MARYLAND
New Company Has Capitalization
of 50,000-Thomas P. Muir
ray Is President.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 22.-Papers
were filed here for the incorporation of
the Construction Materials Co., q con-
solidation of three Maryland quarry
concerns, for the purpose of conduct
ing a general business in stone and
other construction materials. 1t is cap
italized at $350,000, with all the stock
subscribed.
The three properties combined in the
new company are the quarries of Thom-
Deposit Granite Co. and the woodstock
Quarries, at Granite, Md. Mr.. Murray
is president, Harrie r. Williams, vice
president, and j. Wesley McAllister, sec
retary-treasurer.
At present the headquarters are at
Port Deposit, but Baltimore headquar-
ters will be opened within the next few
weeks.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
TRUST COMPANY QUITS
SECURITIES BUSINESS

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, September 22.-Direc-
tors of the Baltimore Trust Co. have de-
cided to discontinue any interest in the
retail securities business, according to a
statement given out by Howard Bruce,
chairman of the board of the trust COM
psny.
With this end in view, the Baltimore
Gillet Co. will become inactive. Gillet
& Co., who have completed financial
arrangements necessary for resumption
of their own operations in the invest
ment barking business, will, at an early
date, resUne business in their own
name, taking over the entire organiza-
ton of the Baltimore -Gillet Co.
Officers of Gillet & Co. will be:
Charles B. Gillet, president: William S.
Merrick, vice president; Ridgley Fisher,
vice president; Richard Bond, vice pres
ident; L. v. Cochrane, treasurer; T. P.
Winand, secretary.
Charles B. Gi1let is also director OF
the Maryland Casualty Co., the Equi-
table Trust Co. and q director and
member of the Executive Committee of
the Fidelity & Guaranty Fire Corpora
ton and the Maryland Title Securities
Corporation.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
STOCK LIST SAGS
| IN FINAL TRADING
Heavy Profit Taking on Yes
terday's Advance Puts
Leading Issues Lower.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 22.-Stocks
closed lower today as heavy realizing
made itself felt after yesterdays spec
tacular advance.
The advertising the market received
in yesterdays buoyant advance brought
in heavy buying orders at the opening
today. They were offset, however, by
the realizing on the part of those for
tunate enough or well-informed enough
to have bought stocks prior to the rally.
The two parties collided, with the SELL
ing slightly more influential and
somewhat lower range of prices during
the first hour
The surprising thing was that the re-
action was so small, confined for the
most part to point or less. Yesterdays
advance was one of the most violent on
record. 1t more than Cancelled half the
loss during the reaction from the highs
Of September 8.
By all precedent it should have stim-
ulated much more profit taking than it
dic. 1t was an invitation to the most
courageous bears to offer stocks for the
decline. The fact, however, was that
the selling was taken with unimportant
declines from yesterdays finals.
At intervals volume was very large,
but then again it died down. In me
first hours the tape was behind three
minutes and in the second hour at times
1t came almost to standstill. The sig
n1ficant thing was that the activity was
all on the side of advance.
1t was no easier to give convincing
reasons for the abrupt reversal than it
was yesterday. If one had been so dis
posed he could have enumerated many
discouraging business situations. For
one thing. there are plenty of dividend
uncertainties still existing The decline
In electric power production was ac-
celerated in the last week for which fig
ures are available. The unemployment
outlook was little better; most authori-
ties predict it will be worse next Winter.
Moderate improvement in car load;ngs
is the most important offset. 1t is also
apparent that politics is not a market
factor for the moment The speech of
the Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency on utility regulation was read
with interest, but it had no effect on
the prices Of the electric light and
power stocks, operating CT holding,
which moved with the general list.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
STEEL MAY LOSE PLACE
AS MARKET BAROMETER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 22.-Wan
Street. or at least the major portion of
the trading element now active in the
market place, has long been educated to
the theory that "as steel goes. so goes
the market" Thus far there has been
no real reason for any really pronounced
trend away from that age-old belief.
Steel has long been reliable barometer
of general conditions, and undoubtedly
will be found the same good guide-post
again as the trend line of business lifts.
But some keen observers are leaning to
the belief that it may be wise market
policy for a time at least to disregard
this method Of reasoning.
In short, such observers feel that re-
coyery may be well along in various
other lines before it begins to show sub
stantially in steel, due to changed con-
ditions In that industry from those pre-
yaiIing in more or less similar times In
the past.