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for the quick and decisive carrying thru,
of assignments, in this way overcomine
the impermissible lag which frequently
occurs
B. A reduction of the Central apparatus
of the Party and of all auxiliaries to the
maximum extent possible, in accordance
with the discussions with the ECCI. the
reduction of the District Office apparatus
in the concentration districts to the ne
cessary minimum, the majority of whom
are to function chiefly as instructors in
the sections, and in all other Districts to
one or two comrades, giving chief atten-
ton to mass work.
@. The selection in every district of
specific concentration sections. and. in
these sections, specific factories and units.
for the concentrated political and organi-
rational attention of the District Com
mittee. The comrades released from CEN
tral and district work, under point ''B,"
are to be assigned as full time function
aries in the concentration Districts aza
sections
d. Specific nuclei are to be selected in
each district for the direct supervision and
responsibility of &C members and Dis
trlct Organizers, these nuclei to really
work out the application of the main DO
htical resolution and to serve as examples
to the entire Party
E. Careful consideration is to be given
Immediately to the assignment to and the
training of forces for the revolutionary
trade unions to which concentrated. atten-
ton is being given thinning, metal, marine
textile).
F. The Daily Worker, which must be-
come the chief instrument for the turn
to mass work, must become the direct
responsibility of the Politburo, with one of
the members of the Secretariat personally
responsible; the staff is to be refreshed
by replacing some of the present members
with members from the shops and from
active workers in the mass activities of
the Party.
The Politburo, in carrying out these di-
receives, must bear in mind the serious
shortcomings in the carrying out of past
resolutions, and not permit the resolution
OF the 18th Plenum to remain on paper.
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York District for carving through
Plenmn decisions on achieving the
turn to firm contact with and leader
ship OF the masses and the preparing
of resolution for the New York Dis
trict convention.
Abolishing the separate existence of
District Control Commissions and the
tranSference of their functions to the
District Buros and their sub-commit-
tees
Cooptation of four new members to
the Central Committee. The four new
members are Negro comrades, chosen
IN order to strengthen the proportion
OF Negroes in the highest leading bodies
OF the Party. One of the four COM
rades was also added to the Political
Buro
The above decisions of the Plenum
were taken after hearing and discuss
ing the report of the Political Buro.
delivered by Comrade Weinstone. a re-
port on the tasks of the Party in the
election campaign by Comrade Hatha-
way, and special examination of the
work IN the Pittsburgh district which
was reported upon by Comrade Price.
The Secretary of the Communist Par
W OF Canada, who participated in the
Pienum with a delegation from the
Canadian Party, gave report on the
situation in Canada, the most import
ant sections of which will be published
IN the May issue of The Communist.
The discussion was participated in by
~ comrades in addition to the report
ers. Special conferences were held dur
ing the course of the Plenum on many
special phases of Party work, the most
important being the conference on re =
organizing and extending the distrib-
ution OF Party literature among the
masses.
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Resolution On the Carrying Out of
Main Resolution of the 18th Plenum

pECOGNIzING the imperative necessity,
in view of the danger of the Party soon
being compelled to work under war con-
ditionS, to quickly overcome the present
isolation of the Party from the decisive
sections of the workers and to sink the
roots of the Party firmly in the basic and
war industries, as demanded by the main
resolution of the Plenum, the Politburo
is instructed to Immediately and energet-
ically carry through the following mea-
sureS:
1. MObilizing the entire Party for the
decisive turn to mass work:
A. An enlightenment campaign is to be
launched in the Party press s. the Com
munist, Daily Worker and language press
immediately not only further explain
ing the full meaning of the main Central
Committee resolution, but bringing to-
gether concrete experiences and methods
which will aid the Districts in putting
the resolution into effect
B. A further popularization, particular
ly, of the resolution of the E.CCI on
Recent Strike Experiences in the u. 81,
to be undertaken and, in the light of
this resolution, the examination of the
Kentucky, Needle Trades, and other more
recent strikes.
G. The immediate organization of broad
istrict "active" meetings in all principal
istricts, especially the concentration dis
riots, with &C. representatives present to
report on and popularize the 14th Plenum
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decisions. The District Organizers are to
be aided in preparing for these meetings
a thorough and searching examination of
the actual status of the Party in the Dis
tr1ct At the same time at least IS nuclei
are to be selected where Politburo and
&C. members are to personally report on
the 18th Plenum.
D. These ACTIVE" meetings to have as
their objective the mobilization of the Par
ty for serious mass work and to prepare
the leading cadres for discussions in the
units and for section and district con-
ferences the latter to be held in no case
later than the end of June In the course
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of these discussions, the widest self-crit-
icism must be encouraged, the initiative
of the units must be developed and the
freest new elections are to be carried
through in units, sections and Districts,
in order to bring fresh, proletarian ele-
ments, chiefly from the factories forward
as functionaries.
2. Organizational changes to imlne-
diately turn the main direction of the
Party's work toward the masses.
A. Establishment of effective collective
work in the Central apparatus and dis
tricts with strict individual responsibility
on the part of each and every comrade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-28
Results of the 18th Central
Committee Plenum

THE Central Committee of the Com
munist Party of US.A. met in Plen-
airy session April 10th to the 10Th. at
tended by SO leading comrades of the
Party from 10 districts.
Reviewing the work of the Party
since the 18th Plenum august 193D
and the tasks of the Party in the pre-
sent situation of imminent war danger
and constantly deepening crisis of the
capitalist system, the Plenum came to
unanimous decisions upon all questions
before the Party.
The principal decisions of the plenum
were the following:
Adoption of the resolution entitled
The tasks of the Communist Party of
the U.S.A." (printed in full in the
Communist April issue.
Adoption of the resolutions of the
ECCI entitled Lessons of the recent
strike struggles in the United States"
printed in full in the Communist May
issue.
Adoption of the National Election
Platform to be proposed in the name
of the Central Committee to the Ma
tional Nominating Convention which
will meet in Chicago on May % and %.
printed in full in the supplement to
today's issue of the Daily Worker).
Decision to bring before the National
Nominating Convention in Chicago as
candidates of the Communist Party for
president William z. Foster, for Vice
President James w. Ford.
Adoption of a resolution ON the meth
ods OF carrying out the main resoIu-
ton Of the 14th Plenun
Adoption Of directives to the New
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Party with the encouragement of the
widest initiative in the units and the firm
est collective leadership in the sections
and district, will alone enable the PARTY
in the New York District to carry through
the resolution of the 14th Plenum of the
c. c.
In carrying through this change de-
signed to break down the elmer oriental
ton of the district Cnnumerable inner
Party meetings, circular leadership, bur-
eaucratic directives, etc) the District
Buro must chiefly direct the affection of
the Party to the following mass tasks:
a. Work in the basic and war industries
(netal marine, chemical etc., particu-
larry in New Jersey and Harlem Con-
centrating on building shop nuclei and the
revolutionary trade unions (also work in
the A. F. of L. unions) on the basis of the
closest attention to the daily interests
and needs of the workers.
b. decisive change in unemployment
work, establishing the closest, continuous
personal contact with the unemployed,
lighting for their needs, building unem-
ployed committees and councils, and par
ticularly developing the broadcast mass
struggle, involving also the A. F.. of l..
members for unemployment insurance.
@ Concentrated attention to Negro
work, particularly in Harlem but also in
the other Negro districts winning the Ne
gro masses especially for the Party, the
revolutionary trade unions and unem-
ployed committees, through giving the
most serious attention to their needs and
interests. and, at the same time, creating
in he Party and mass organizations, re-
lationship between Negro and white which
will encourage the Negroes to remain by
waging the most relentless struggle to
clarity the Party on the Negro question,
Graduating gross programatic errors as in
the last N. Y election platform, and to
overcome all open or hidden manifesto
lions of white chauvinist tendencies.
ID Finally, increasing, sharpening, and
improving" the struggle against all social
fascistS IS. p, A. F.. of L. Musteites),
which is today one of the most serious
shortcomings nof the district
The concentrate non these basic tasks
must be accompanied in all phases with
adequate attention to such serious tasks
as giving adequate political leadership and
assistance to building the Y. c. j.. work
among Latin American etc
Ali activities of the Party are to be car
ried through on the basis of the imme-
date daily struggles Of the workers with
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Directives on the Main Points for Working
Out Resolution On the New York District

The main resolution of Nle 14th Plenum
of the Central Committee, Which is taking
place at a moment of the mast acute war
danger, in estimating the Wyrk of the
Party as a whole, emphasizes the failure Of
any section of the Party to really make
the turn to mass work as repeatedly de-
manded by E. c. c. I. The resolution
states:
although the Party has recognized
the necessity of this turn, and although
the Party ca nshosw a number of sue
cesses in the attempt to carry out the
turn in practice (strikes, Scottsboro
Hunger March,, the work of the Party
fundamentally remains in the same .
groove"
Sectarianism and deep-rooted for
n,aIism in the responsible Party organs
have been the chief obstacles to overcom-
the inner" orientation of the Party and to
achieving the task ito firmly root itself in
the decisive industries by means of solid
personal contacts with the workers"
What is true of the whole Party is
even more true of the New York District.
Although some successes have been
achieved Cecruiting, trade union work, a
few shop nuclei and groups) no essential
change has occurred in the contents of the
District mass work since the 18th PIenum
In order that there now may be guar
sntee that the District will completely
overcome its annorw journalistic, sectar-
ian line, which caharcterizeS all leading
organs of the sections and district, and
make the turn to a broad mass policy
the Central Committee proposes special
measures to encourage the widest self
criticism from below, the development of
the initiative of the members and nuclei.
the overcoming of all bureaucratic ten
denotes to deaden or destroy inner Party
democracy, and to refresh the leading
cadres in the units, section, and District
Committees. The G. G. proposes the
thorough preparation and the carrying
through of serious discussion in the I'M
its and sections on the great shortcomings
of the entire district to be followed by
section Conferences and District Con-
vention, the latter to be held in the mid
die of June. A leadership for the units,
sections and district is to be elected.
chiefly from the factories, with the mem
bers and the debates from the units given
the opportunity to freely express their
views on each and every candidate Such
q releasing of all the inherent forces of the
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the particular objective of developing the
greatest mass resistance to the extremely
acute danger of a nimperialist war, dir
ected chiefly against the Soviet Union.
and the greatest mass support for the
Election Campaign
The Polburo is to more closely super
wise and aid the district in carrying thru
these directives.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
MOST SUICIDES
On TUESDAYS

NEW YORK, Dec. % GN.SO.
1t is with a feeling of happiness
that DR.. Harry Marsh Warren,
for the past 26 years a crusader
against self destruction, reports
that at this time of the year
when the spirit of Christmas is
in the air-the tendency to COM
NIT suicide touches a low point.
The springtime months of May
and June, and not the Yuletide
season. is "the danger period" ac-
cording to DR.. Warren, who is
founder and president of the Ma
tional Save-a-Life League. Then it
is that many persons-especially
young folk, disilluSioned in love
contrast their drab existence with
the beauties of nature and appar-
ent happiness of others.
Career success, Or rather lack
of success, is of course also a big
factor in suicide impulse-perhapS
the dominating one.
The most common hour for sui.
eide is II a. m. on Tuesday, DR..
Warren has found. People see
lads" in the Sunday papers, look
for jobs on Monday and. failing
to obtain them, decide to end it
all when they reach a low frame
of mind along about II o'clock on
Tuesday morning.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
WORK WORRIES.
NAR|LYN,DON

NEW YORK, Dec. % Q.N.SJ .
1t seems that even stage and
screen stars have to give a
thought to the unpleasant subject
of work, now and then.
And so Marlyn Miller and Don
AlVarado, who went down to see
some people off to Europe last
November 80 and got carried off
to Europe themselves, have put
aside thoughts of marriage for
the present while they check up
on those jobs they left behind
when they so remantically slowed
away. At least, that is what they
said today.
They walked down the return
ing gangplank of the Europa yes
terday with many understanding
smiles for each other. After all,
they were engaged and everyone
knew about that farewell party
that ended in an unplanned trip
to Europe.
Today Miss Miller wants to
know if that revue job is still
ready for her, while the hand
some Don wouldn't mind being
told if Ann Harding got another
leading man for that picture.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
MOVE To MAKE
MEASURE RIDER
ON NBEERB|
Gasoline Tax Expiring This
Year, Congress Forced to
Seek New Revenue

A campaign for enactment of a
general manufacturers excise tax
appeared certain today as leaders
in fiscal affairs planned for legis-
lation after the Christmas holi-
days.
The first phase of the campaign
may come in the Senate in con-
nection with the beer bill. Some
advocates of new tax bill are
preparing to add a sales tax
rider" both to raise needed rev.
enue and assure Presidential ap-
proval of the beer measure.
Although House Democratic
leaders have postponed final de-
cision on new tax legislation until
January. agitation for the sales
tax has begun.
Gas Tax Expires
With the gasoline tax expiring
this year, Congress is virtually
compelled to consider some sort
of tax legislation. The continued
decline in receipts from last
years billion dollar tax bill is
chiefly responsible for the move
ment for a sales Or general excise
tax.
Representative Treadway CRO
of Massachusetts, said:
"The Federal budget must be
balanced and Congress should
attempt to enact sensible tax
bill before the new adminiStra-
ton comes in. The general
manufacturers excise tax is the
only real source of revenue to
which Congress can turn.
Il am confident the House
will reverse its attitude of last
year and pass a sales tax bill.
Many members who have seen
the effect of the miscellaneous
and nuisance taxes of last
year have changed their minds
and now are for the sales tax"
Representative Smell of New
York, Republican House leader,
also called for enactment of the
sales tax.
Garner For Delay
While Speaker Garner, major
ity Leader Rainey of Illinois and
other Democrats are anxious to
balance the budget, they hold
that the time is not ripe for ac-
ton.
The outcome of the economy
drive as we'll as the fate of the
beer bill are considered important
factors by them.
Some Democrats, as well as
some Republicans. hold the en-
tire question of taxation should
go over until Governor Roosevelt
becomes President. They expect
him to call an extra session of
Congress.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
BOARD 5
'SH|RK|NG' HIT

The Federal Radio Commission
has "practically frozen the radio
situation in the United States" ,"
Senator Dill CD of Washington
charged today at Senate hear
ings on the Dill-White radio bill.
He said:
"It is virtually impossible to
secure any change in the stu
atiOn."
Commenting on a statement
by Duke M. Patrick, general
counsel for the commission, that
18 cases we're heard personally
by the commissioners during the
last fiscal year, Senator Wheeler
Cd of Montana accused the
Federal agency of Sinking its
responsibilities" observing:
"It seems to me the first
thing these Government boards
do is to see how much work
they can get out Of"
The Dill-White measure pro-
poses a score of changes in the
1927 Radio Act.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
Broker Hits Back at Mother
Of Mary Miles Minter

LOS ANGELES, Dec. % GN.SO
Leslie B. Henry, Pasadena broker
and clubman, today struck back
at Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, mother
of Mary Miles Minter, former film
star, who charged that he had
lost her fortune of $500,000.
Henry denied he had manipu-
lated Mrs. Shelby's securities ac-
count, but confessed that he had
lost the money fulfilling the
somewhat unusual requirements
insisted upon by Mrs. Shelby"
"Inside Out"
Henry's attorney declared he
would turn inside out" all trans,
actions handled by Henry for Mrs.
Shelby since 1919, including the
period in which Mrs. ShelbyS
daughter, Miss Minter, was build
ing the foundation for the Min
tel millions.
Henry, who a month ago as
sertedly wrote Mrs. Shelby a "Sui-
eide note" was released from Jail
last night on $4,000 bail.
Miss Minter, who resides in
Beverly Hills, displayed little in
terest in the proceedings.
The suicide letter alleged to
have been written by Henry, one
The Washington times., 1932-12-23

time president of the Tournament
of Roses Committee, said Henry
planned to kill himself by driving
his automobile into a locomotive
in order that $250,000 life inSur-
ance could be used to repay Mrs.
Shelby. The letter read:
yesterday your attitude put
the seal on a death verdict
that has hung over me for
years. Tomorrow, when you
read this, 1 hope that the
death 1 am cOurting will not
have proved as vain in your
service as my life has been.
"When this reaches you, 1
will be out of reach of anyone,
SO don't, 1 pray you, trespass
advice in these lines. For me
in all my wrOngdOingS there is
no hell beyond"
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
MELLON DEFERS
HOOVER VISIT

NEW YORK, Dec. % G.N.SD.
With plenty to occupy my mind"
and unworried at the prospect Of
being out of a job" Andrew w,
Mellon, United States ambassador
to the Court of st. James, today
prepared to enjoy the holiadyS
with his family in Pittsburgh.
The ambassador said he had
no definite appointment with
President Hoover but that he will
go to Washington after Christ
mas.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
Ice on Parkway Puts
Ban on Auto Traffic

A coating of ice Whi ! formed
on Potomac Parkway last night
has made that highway unsafe
for automobile traffic, Frank T
Gartside, chief of public parks
said today. He closed the park
way until road conditions i'm
prove.
Skating, possible this morning,
was banned this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
Auto Crash Victim
Is Dead of Injuries

Messiah .Adison, colored, of OF
ney, Md, died yesterday at the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital of injuries received Wednes-
day when he was struck by an
automobile driven by Aubrey F..
CurtiSS, of Pineview, Va, near Oh
ney, Md. According to Mont
gomery County Policeman John
w. Butts, AdiSon and his brother,
Walter, were walking on the left
side of the road when the man
was struck.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
TWO Missing Boys
SOught by Police

Two boys are being sought by
police today. Raymond C. Bobo,
8, son of Mrs. Bessie Bobo, of
the 14o0, black Girard st. N. W.,
went to the movies last night and
has not returned thus tar. Albert
White, colored, IA, is missing
from his home in the 1400 block
Sixth St. N. w.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
MAN, 85, FOUND DEAD

The coroner has issued a GER
tificate of death from natural
causes in the case of James S.
Barnard, 65, known also as Ed
Linn, who was found dead last
night in his room in the 900
block I St. N, w.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23
PLANTS TO MODERNIzE

SAN FRANCISCO GNSO.-In-
dustrial plants in San Francisco
are planning the expenditure of
$522,000 for plant modernization
and purchase of new facilities,
according to a survey made here.
The Washington times., 1932-12-23

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The Washington times., 1932-12-23

Mr.. AND MRS. CHARLES F. SULLIVAN
SAVING FOUR LIVES in rescue of two naval
planes lost in the fog at San Diego more than
rescue as far as Pilot Charles F. Sullivan
cerned His heroic exploit also won in marriage Miss
Winston Kelly, sister of Comdr. Frank Kelly, of the
U. S. S. Pennsylvania. Photo by international News
Photographic Service.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-23
Committee Favorable To
 Alaska Court Reduction

The judiciary committe of the House of Representatives, in a report last week, approved leg islation to eliminate one set of court officials in Alaska by merging the Second and Fourth judicial divisions into one divis- ion. The proposal was ap- proved by Attorney General Mitchell and is designed to save S25,000 annually. It pro- vides for one district judge and court clerk, one district attor- ney and one United States mar- shall for the two divisions. The court will hold terms at Nome and Fairbanks as required.
 The bill has not been passed upon by the senate judiciary committee and it is reported to be doubtful if the measure will be taken up by the upper house before congress adjourns.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-04-23
Rustgard Named For
 Second Division Judge

John Rustgard, attorney gen. eral of Alaska, and one of the Territory's most prominent and highly regarded public figures, has been nominated by Presi- dent Hoover for the position of Federal judge of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, ac- cording to press reports this week. It was understood that MT. Rustgard had applied for the federal judgeship of the Fourth or Fairbanks division some time ago and is said in Juneau reports to have been somewhat surprised at his name being presented for con- firmation as judge of the sec ond division. It is said, how ever, that the nomination will not alter his position with re- spect to his candidacy for the republican nomination for re- election as attorney general of Alaska.
 Press reports say he has stat ed emphatically that he will not withdraw from the race at this time, believing that any confirmation of the appoint ment before April 26, the date of the primary election, is un- likely.
 Whether MT. Rustgard ac- cepts the presidential appoint ment in the event of confirm ation or not, his nomination is a source of qualification to his many friends here and else where throughout the Terri torys