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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
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new memberS) THE LIFE OF The UNITS
MUST BE MADE POLITICALLY INTEREST
ING AND VALUABLE FOR NEW MEMBERS
ROUTINE AND BUROCRATTC METHODS
MUST BE LIQUDATED."
L. To educate the new members means to
help them to remain in the Party. The en-
thrsiasm Of the new member, which is so valu-
able, his militancy, must be backed up by polit-
ical training. This will help us to keep the new
members. The unit meetings the unit, must
become the main center for the training of the
new members. In this connection it is well to
recall the statement Of the last Plenum that
THE PROBLEM OF KEEPING NEW MEM
BERS is THE PROBLEM OF THE INNER
LIFE OF THE UNIT AND PARTICULARLY
THE EDUCATIONAL, WORK"
The statement Of the Org. and Agitprop Depts.
which was printed in this column outlines the
methods for making the units the center for
political education.
The problem of educating the new members
means shat special measures for the political
training OF the new members must be developed.
The six weeks training courses for new mem
bers, as outlined in the Daily Worker on Dec. %,
should Immediately be initiated.
The reading of simple propaganda literature
is an important part in the political training Of
the new members Assistance should be given
to the new members in the selection and reading
of the material The reading of the Daily
Worker must be encouraged
Personal approach, personal guidance, must be
the key method in training the members
Journalism, burocratic methods, an air OF
superiority, Is detrimental in the training and
keeping of new members.
The Party has had number Of recruiting
drives The drives increased the influence Of the
Party. Many workers joined our Party The
outstanding lesson of our previous drives is the
need for learning how to KEEP THE NEW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
BY HARRY CANNES.

MARTIAL law is about to be declared in the
N Hawaiian Islands in order to back up the
lynch law started by the United States navy.
Why at this particular moment is there such
sharp clash in Hawaii? Why does the Hoover
government which slaughters workers here,
starves 100000 and their families, condones
lynching OF Negroes in the South, suddenly or
dain lynch law for Hawaii2
In preparation for war against Japan, Ameri-
can Imperialism has always wondered how to
COW the 1396S1 Japanese residents of Hawaii.
There is an entire literature on this question.
Hawaii is the most powerful naval base the
United States has in the Pacific. War maneu-
vers are now going on, partly directed against
Japan, With American imperialism preparing It's
military and naval arm In order to get its share
Of the loot in Manchuria and the rest OF China.
1t is only in this light that the lynching OF
the Hawaiian Joseph Kahahawai can be IN
derstood.
The present flare-up grew out Of the murder
OF Joseph KahahaWai who had been accused
and tried on the charge of raping Mrs Massie
wife Of Lieut.. Thomas Massie of the U. S. Navy
-Four other men, one Of whom was an American
citizen of Japanese origin, were accused along
with KahahaWai. The men were tried by jury
Of American citizens, in which the prosecuting
attorney fought vigorously to have the men
Jailed. The jury disagreed.
After the disagreement, Lieut.. Massie, his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14

BY D. D.
The success on me recruiting campaign Will
oe determined by our ability to keep the new
members Hundreds Of workers have entered
our Party and left IS. The TuctusSon Of the
membership is responsible for the very slow
numerical increase Of the Party membership.
What are some Of the main reasons for the
1uctuation OF the membership?
/. The recruiting Is not based sufficiently on
the shop workers. shop workers have greater
sense of organization and discipline. But what
Is most notwithstanding in the shops must
be carried through on the basis OF program
of IMMEDIATE struggle in connection with the
IMMEDIATE demands
To base OUT recruiting ON the shops, especially
in the basic industries, is to place our recruiting
on the most strategic point In the class struggle
The shop is the main source from which the
Party recruits the pick Of the working class"
The more shop workers gained In the recruiting
drive the smaller will be the Yluctuation.
2 The recruiting, in many instances, Is sep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14

arated from the MASS ACTIVITIES Of the
Party. Struggles IN which the Party mobiiSes
thousands OF workers, struggles in which the
leadership Of the Party Is recognized and APP
preciated by the Masses yet no ORGANIZED
and CONSCIOUS attempt is being made to re-
crIit the militant workers who participated in
struggles led by the Party.
workers recruited from struggles led by the
Party are more convinced and conscious Of the
need and role of the Party. Such workers are
more apt to remain In the Party than those who
come into the Party as result Of chance and
accidental contact (Of course not for one
single moment shall we underestimate the I'M
1ortance of general and personal agitat1onO
In connection with this point we must remem-
Der the following stateemnt Of the last Plenum
Of our Party THE BUILDING OF THE
PARTY MUST BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART
OF THE PREPARATION AND LEADERSHIP
OF MASS STRUGGLES"
3. Workers JOIN our Parry, because they lcok
lIp to the Party as Party Of ACTION, a Party
Of STRUGGLE, q Party Of REVOLUTION. Yet
when a new member comes into the unit, ne
finds in most cases Just the reverse Of what he
expected The units of the Party in many cases
are not POLITICAL ORGANS Of STRUGGLE.
A worker Joined the Party because Of the
struggles the Party led, because he wanted TO
become an activs participant in the class strug-
gle The life and the activities OF most OF the
units is today Of such q nature that they DO
not reflect the struggles that the Party is lead
ing nor does it enable the new member TO be-
come active. Without an immediate, decisive
change in the life and activities Of the units we
cannot speak seriously Of recruiting and keeping
new members.
The problem OF keeping new members is also
a problem Of improving the inner life Of the
units Let US remember the words Of the 18th
Plenum ITO THIS END (that is, keeping the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
BY BEN GRAY
PART 2. (Conclusion)


The struggle in the Lighthouses must be closely
linked up with the fight for Unemployment In
Swance and immediate cash relief for each
worker, and, as the struggle develops here, this
must become the central slogan, linked up with
the slogan Of the abolition of fophouses and the
right of youth and single workers to live in
empty apartment houses, hotels YMCAs, ETC..
and to eat in restaurants, etc. Our concrete de-
mand here is for a So weekly meal ticket for
youth and single men and So room rent to be
paid weekly.
How to Develop the Fight
There Is a danger that our committees III the
Ylophouses will become mere appendages to the
official administration (through cooperation
and collaboration), as has become the case with
some of our neighborhood branch committees
and the United Charities. The racketeerng Of
Sicials Of the Enmerson Relief Commission know
very well how to use demagogy, and give all
kinds Of excuses for existing conditions. Our
committees must fling their promises and eX-
cuses back at them and speaking in the name
Of the workers, who elected them demand q
direct answer. Their answer must be brought
back TO the masses Of workers for further ac-
ton. The workers will then understand that
these committees are their true representative
they will decide what steps to take through mass
discussions and voting. The action decided on
WILL OC OLlciI ucCiolOlIS Will DdCk IL up
en- masse. Mass pcketing must be developed in
front Of the governors relief stations, the hun
ger houses, etc.. Demonstrations must be Or
ganized in front Of the central clearing house
Of the flophouses, in front OF the aldermans
home in that neighborhood and around the
flophouse itself on the basis of local demands,
especially after worker has been carried out a
victim Of slow starvation Gan average Of to
workers are carried out dead from Wrigleys
nophouse every night e., ref DR.. Cowan).
The governor and his hirelngs must be held to
account for every death that OCCURS in the
flophouse. They must be clearly exposed to the
masses as the murderers oof the unemployed.
Form of Organization.
Branches Of the Unemployed Council must be
established in every flophouse (already the basis
has been laid in three places and Neighbor-
hood Council set up in that district with dele
gates from working-class organizations and
neishborhood hranches and block committees,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14

rnother-in-lsv. Mrs. Granville R. Fortescue, and
two enlisted men, E. J. Lord and Albert Jones,
deliberately seized KahahaWai, took him to the
home of Mrs. Fortescue, where all evidence
shows the most brutal torture was inflicted on
Kahahawai, who was later shot through the
heart. This lynching was not denied by the
perpetrators They goried in it. They called
on the naval authorities to back them up They
called on the Hoover government for support.
Though the murder was committed in Hawaii,
the navy, with the help Of the Hoover govern
ment which deports thousands of workers with
out trial. will probably insist that the trial be
held in the United States, where the murderers
will be whitewashed.
So raw was the appeal OF Admiral Pratt chief
of Naval Operations, the highest officer in the
U. S. navy, for wholesale lynching, that two
American preachers in Hawaii were forced to
make a statement of protest.
Leaving aside the CUFF about falsity to the
constitution, we have this violent attack made
by Rev. Horace Leavitt against Admiral Pratt:
"a high service official in Washington, who
is reported as justifying this resort to lynch
Law, because the courts have failed puts HIM
self and the force he represents abov ethe law,
which is anarchy and utterly false to the Con-
StitutiOn he is sworn to uphold
Another preacher, Rev. Galen r. Weaver, pas
tor of the Church Of the Crossroads, added his
protest, fearing the anger Of the masses which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
SECTION 4, DISTRICT 8 CHALLENGES
SECTION g.

In the spirit of revolutionary competition to
stimulate the Recruiting Drive we challenge
Section that we Will increase our quota Of
new members from shops and industries from
organizations and from among the unemployed
above the number set to us by the District
That we recruit 200 instead Of lis new
members during the Drive from January II TO
March 1s follows: 20 metal workers, 10 Negro
workers rs women, IS miscellaneous industries
Is members of the A. 2. Of l. locals, 20 from
various organizations and IS from among the
unemployed. That we build at least one shop
unit during the drive. And we challenge Section
to do likewise proportionately plus objective In
industries and shop nuclei.
O. That we establish functioning Unit Buros
in every unit by the first Of March.
g. That our dues average for January Feb
ruary and March be at least 80 per cent Of the
actual membership by che elimination Of the
recruiting drive
A. That we issue two shop papers regularly
each month during the drive, January, Feb
ruary and March with the objective Of in
&C ing this number to four shop papers as our
section grows.
s. That we establish YCL units in the
Section with an actual membership of SO--by
he eighteenth Of March
PROPOSALS: t~"r
:. 10 send 3 gcecssl REPRESENTATIVES, from Sec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
HOBOKEN UNIT, DISTRICT 2, CHAL
LENGEs BAYONNE AND JERSEY
CITY
CITY.

In line with the national recruiting drive for
new members into the ranks Of the Communist
Party USA from jan II to March 10, 1892,
period of nine weeks;
The Communist Party OF UsA in this city de-
cided to challenge the units OF the Communist
Party in Bayonne and Jersey City on the fol-
lowing basis
The Hoboken unit Of the Communist Party
agrees to recruit the minimum OF % new mem
bers, Of these to be Negroes and 70 be
women workers into the Party, hoping that the
above mentioned two city units will accept our
challenge on the basis Of 10 and IL new men,
bers per unit.
The Communist Party OF this city agrees TO
challenge any city Communist Party unit in
Section 10 where there is no shop nucleus OF
the Communist Party iii existence in their ter
ritory, that the unit in this city VIII build one
IN the above designated period
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
&Aa;,..A
This Did Not Happen In
Moscow

About month ago, the N. Y. Times said: Ne
one in New York will go hungry or cold"
1t was bitter cold the other day, when Ben.
Jamin Strater, Al years Old sank slowly 10 the
sidewalk at 132nd Street and Lexington Ave-
nue., up In Harlem. There he lay, and passers,
by sdeStepped him Tor awhile Finally an am,
bulance came from the Harlem Hospital An
ambulance doctor, named Owens revived hina,
and cop asked him his address
Strater lnun1bled the number Of s. plaes be
once lived, when he had job. GO home and
get something to eat" said the cop. And the
doctor wrote on his report card: Starvation"
But strater had no home, and, logically, moth,
ing to eat at home He staggered away But
Two hours later, the same ambulance with the
same doctor was called to man lying on tht I
Stoop OF house block away. That was as Ysi
as Strater got. This time Doctor Owens wroSs
on his report card: 'cDOA"-which means
Dead on arrival"
We picked up Mondays paper and saw that
among New York's Sunday sermons:
!. CDR. Bagley forecasts advance in educs.
ton"
g. Father ellis attacked the theory that en-
v1ronment determines q mans conduct.
s. FaCher Casey made plea for the support
Of Catholic missionaries.
4. Rev. Mnot simons said; "we have conf
dence in our country"
s. Rev. George Luther Cady said that, In
spite Of sex films and racketeerS- 'There u.s.
thank Co., sweet and pure and noble Amer
lea, pernleated with the spirit of Jesus Christ"
6. DR.. Samuel Schulnan asserted Our ma
ton has something very definite to give to the
world"
Indians"
8. Or. Robert Norwood asserted that: '"The
clergy OF the United States have more intellecs
than any other group in America" \
9. DR.. Henry S. Coffin urged a simple life
And at last .
10. Dr. Hoffman said: 1.-THE ugly woro.s
BUNK is symbol OF the day in which we
I've"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
ORGANIZATION AS THE WEAPON
OF THE PROLETARIAT.

The proletsriat has no other weapon in the
fight for power except organization. Disor-
yanized by the domination of anarch1c conf
petition in tn capitalist world, oppressed by
forced labor for the capitalists, constantly
Forced 80 the depths" of utter poverty, ignor-
ance and degeneracy, the proletariat can be-
come and inevitably will become an indom-
table force only because its intellectual unity
created by the principles Of Narxism is fortl-
fled BY the material unity Of organization which
YIELDS millions Of toilers into an army Of the
working class.
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ton g. -.,,..t
q That units be urged 70 90 likewise In
challenging one another and send representatives
TO respective units 10 convey challenge and
stimulate revolutionary competition.
s. That we issue weekly bulletin--during the
Recruiting Drive showing progress unit by unit.
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Party Recruiting Drive
January II March IS, 1882
DRIVE

Dscs challenges spirit Revolutionary competition
Recruiting Drive We presented the Central
the assigned from 115
members and factory
nucle 8
us II OF accept challenge
Comadey
DISTRICT BUREAU,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-30
Little Theater Items

ity has been added to the cast Of this comedy. In short, Frank Gemf- no is now member of the person. nel of "See Naples and Die" Mir Gemino will add to the general di- version of this drama by playing both the guitar and the mandolin. He will play genuine Neapolitan melodies and since he is Neopoli- tan himself, he will undoubtedly know all the fine points of his act. MT Gemino has taken an active part in many amateur minstrel shows, and is member of the Brass City quartet and the North End Thomas club minstrels.
 There is young league of na- tions in "See Naples and Die" as practically every country is repre- sented on the stage. There is quite a variety, starting with Americans and leaping to Scandanavians. not to mention Englishmen. Italians. Russians, Germans. Rumanians. and Viennese. The cast is strug- gling with the many languages and hopes eventually to overcome the difficulties which one meets in a foreign tongue. It is quite an effort to rise to the occasion. when you are called upon to rattle off a few lines of Italia, then jump to Rus sian and then French, with just a sprikling of Scandinavian, and here and there a dash of English. If you 1 have a spare moment sit down and | try this and you will soon realize that life isn't all it's cracked UP | to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-30
She Knolus Her Noes!
Girl Given Big Job
BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer

Hollywood--A lace-edged baby diaper and a refusing. spirit.
 Those are the two factors which have counted most in the screen career of Constance Cummings.
 The diaper is a superstitution. The refusing" spirit a we'll de- ,veloped talent. I say talent" be- cause so few persons in our film colony know how to refuse. To most movie folk the proper an- swer to anything is '.yes."
 "The diaper really is mothers idea" Connie remarked to me one day. "She is prouder of it than any of my other baby things, which mothers always manage to save.
 There's a history to that dia- per - it has lace edge and my initials on it for one thing. It seems that when was only two years old my mother asked, Is my baby going to make a name for herself some day?'
 1T couldn't talk very we'll at the time, so I just grabbed the diaper off a table and waved it. From that moment the diaper was pensioned. Mother put it away for safe keeping and when I got my first professional job on the stage she brought it to my dressing room. I've had it with me ever since a superstition, guess"
 Then there's that refusing" talent. When Miss Cummings made her entrance into pictures everyone immediately started telling her what to do if she wanted to be suc- cessful. One advocated having her hair dyed. Another said she should have her teeth whitened.
 "In fact, one of my new &C., quaintances even went to the trou- ble of making an appointment with her dentist for me-" Constance de- clares. "Then she almost ordered me to let the dentist put some kind of strange dye-shellac on my teeth. I baked obstinately and thereby lost a possible friend.
 "I also refused to have my hair changed from it's natural sandy color to a platinum shade. That didn't seem such a peculiar sug- gestion, though. But imagine whitening teeth! Not for me. I wasn't in love with a career to that extent.
 And for a while, it looked as though I was going to lose out. was brought out here originally to play opposite Ronald Colman in The Devil to Pay But after making tests I didn't get the part. Perhaps if had followed the sug- gestions made to me would have"
 However, that's the way Con- nie does things. She's gambling fool-can make pair of dice ac- tually do a Bing Crosby. In fact she will gamble on, almost any, thing. She gambled on her career when she insisted on being just herself. And she won. Nothing but leading roles are handed to her now. And in slightly more than a year she has played in nine pro- auctions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-30
"Mouthpiece" Features William State Offers Star in Thrill- ing R0le-Strong
 Supports

Warren William, stage hero on the screen a little more than a year, reveals the stuff of which stars are made in "The Mouth piece," a Warner Bros picture which opened at the Warner Bros State to-day.
 William, dashing swashbuckler of "The Honor of the Family" breaker of hearts in Beauty and the Boss," has 8 role in "The Mouthpiece" which fits him like the proverbial glove. It gives him a chance to demonstrate the great dramatic talent which made him a legend on Broadway and the charm which brings him thousands of new fans in each city in which he is seen.
 "The Mouthpiece' deals with the tragic fate of a great legal light who sends an innocent youth to the electric chair in an excess of prosecuting zeal. He learns his ghastly error too late. His con- science destroys his value as a prosecutor. In a revulsion of feel ing he turns to the defense of per- sons accused of crime, bringing all the energy and skill that had won him fame as the criminals neme- sis to the defense of those same criminals.
 It Is powerful drama all the way through, modern and up-to-the moment in theme. There is stir ring action, high-lighted by in- tense scenes in the death house and the courtroom. There Is also a dominant note of romance all through the story, the Mouth piece" being a man who loves reck- lessly and is loved by reckless wo- men.
 The theme of "The Mouthpiece" is we'll handled, two directors col laborating on its production, James Flood supervising the dramatic situations and Elliot Nugent CO., ordinating the dialogue with the action.
 The cast is also excellent. Sid- ney Fox, diminutive star of strict ly Dishonorable," plays the fea- tured feminine lead. Aline Mac Mahon, whom you remember as Edward G. Robinson's cynical sec- retary in Five Star Final" plays a very important role in a some what similar capacity. Others in the large cast who play their parts particularly well are Guy Kibbee, William Janney, John Wray, Ralph lnce, Noel Francis, Mae Madison, Morgan Wallace, J. Carroll Naish, Walter Walker, Stanley Fields, Jack LaRue, Emerson Traceysand Murray Kinnell.
 'The Mouthpiece" is a picture with a topical value which exposes the hidden practices of lawyers who work outside the law. Every man, woman and child will enjoy 1t, both for its dramatic exposure of 'inside stuff'' and for its reck- less romance. We urge you not to miss it!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-30

Due to the fact that the set Of "Se Naples and Die" as described by the author, is so similar to that of Hotel Universe" it has been rather 8 problem to combine the elements of the last set, in new arrangement, so that 1t will make sufficiently different one, to be in- teresting. This has it's advantage. however, because it will save on the cost of the set, as it is largely a matter of alteration. Miss Schoeni estimates that the entire cost of construction and painting will be well under $25.
 There are going to be various and sundry sound effects off stage for "See Naples and Die". An automo- bile race plays an important part; this impression will be imparted to the audience by means of news reel disc. To add to the general ex- citement which usually reigns back stage, there is also the slight com plication of horse hoof, areoplane, and carriage wheel sounds, all of which have to be produced at the proper moment. Imagine what an embarrassing situation it would be, if the wrong sound was produced at the wrong moment, when for in- stance the lines on stage call for the whir of an oeroplane, and the clopperty-clop of horses hoof resounded through the theater. This particular play will no doubt take years off the lives of each and every stage hand.
 A new and intriguing personal