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The daily worker., 1932-06-02
TOWARD Revolutionary Mass Work (2sog1SlqE H H flEs9z
How NOT to Fight Against Burocracy

OF the given enterprise and not simply the send
ing out of circulars"
From all the above it is quite clear and evident
that burocracy and Journalism exist in the party
from top to bottom, and vice-versa, and there
fore the following formulation of the problem
in the resolution of District 2 is, according to
my opinion, incorrect The quotation reads as
follows: "There is burocracy and Journalism in
all the district organs being especially strong in
the Section Committees which are removed from
mass work and therefore are barrier between
the district and the units of the Party" (Ndy
emphasis)
see in this formulation of burocracy a shift
ing OF responsibility for the burocracy and form
alism existing in the District from the District
leadership to the Section leadership. This inn
plies that there is rs per cent burocracy in the
Section and there is 25 per cent in the District.
This is wrong mechanical approach of the
problem and is barrier in solving the problem,
1t is undenable that the leadership in the
Sections Is removed from mass work. This situ-
alton is mainly due to the fact that on one
hand not enough attention was paid by, the
higher organs of the Party to develop the sec
ton leadership and on the other hand that
the above mentioned circular letter leadership
was practiced
Hardly week passed during the past period
that the section leadership did not receive in
structions from above to organize either con-
ference or demonstration, giving @ 3 or s.
maximum Of weeks to prepare the conference
or the demonstration. These instructions were
carried out mechanically from time to time
without any efforts to apply new methods of
approach. We always appealed to the same
categories of workers without trying to penetrate
new strata Of workers.
In order to overcome the isolation of the Sec
ton leadership from the masses and from mass
work the continuous flow of paper instructions
from above must stop. Time and opportunity
must be given TO the Section Committees to
develop struggles in their own territories on The
basis of local issues. The simultaneous effect
that will be brought about by the stopping of
these paper Instructions and t',9 starting of
struggles in the sections on the basis of local
Issues on the basis Of the immediate demands
OF the workers, will bring about the first step
in the turn that is demanded from our Party
by the Plenum resolutions
The daily worker., 1932-06-02
Proletarlan Solidarity Against
Imperialist War Criminals

even billions of marks privately.
In an article Where Are Kreugers Milliards?"
Berlin evening paper recently pointed to some
American Investigations which revealed quanti-
ties of munitions delivered by Kreuger at his
own costs to countries which che wanted to
influence not only in the question of the I'M
ports of matches, but to take economic and po-
litical measures against the Soviet Union"
According to the American Investigations,
Kreuger has spent milliards Of marks solely for
supplying the countries with arms (Baltic
states); but Ivar Kreuger who was charac-
teristc economic leader in the present phase of
capitalist economy, is but one example of lead
ing capitalist circles and trusts making similar
efforts to accelerate the war against the Soviet
Union
The Second International with its social-fas-
cist ministers, who are still working in the
chambers Of capitalist countries not only gives
itself to war enthusiasm as in 1914, but consti-
tutes driving force of war, supporting all pre-
parations for war. The social democrats of
Japan have declared the robber war to be
holy defensive war" and proclaims its sup
port of it as socialist duty"
The only great and decisive force against the
war is the Soviet Union armed for its defense
and the international working class bound In
solidarity with her.
In full appreciation of this vital duty Of the
Workers International Relief and proletarian SOL
idarity, the International Central Committee Of
the W.IR. has decided to celebrate this years
International Solidarity Day as day Of de-
monstration and fighting against the inperialist
war The first appeal of the International
Central Committee of the W.IR. justly states:
'The Solidarity Day 1882 must become pow
erful manifestation OF the fighting will of all
workers, intellectuais of the working peasants,
officials and middle strata Millions must
pledge themselves on that day for the frmest
solidarity with the Soviet Russian workers and
peasants, and must form revolutionary united
fronts against capitalist exploitation, against
imperialist war criminals"
international Solidarity Day viii b. u TIE
The daily worker., 1932-06-02
BY BILL DUNE

NORMAN THOMAS, as one Of the editors of
u The Nation, knows that Hoover whom he
says desires peace" wrote as long ago as April
1924. to Congressman McSwain, during session
of the House Committee on Military Affairs, his
proposals for wartime organization, including
the following detailed proposal for dictator
ship;
blanket authority for the president TO
fix prices, wages, transportation charges, COM
pensation, embargoes on imports and exports, to
exercise war powers of requistion under circun-
stances that rs per cent of the estimated value
may be paid and the balance be determined by
the cour,s in case of disagreement, suspend
habeai corpus and generally complete an absO-
Iute authority over all ramifications of civilian
lite with the provision that he may delegate
these authorities. :" (Our emphasis)
For civilian read workers and we have
splendid picture of the president who so desires
peace so evidently according to Norman Thomas
but '.mpotently" eight years ago when
secretary Of the Department of Commerce he had
worked out the war measures that are be-
ginning to be put into effect-quietly, of course,
so as not to alarm the masses embarrass his
Socialist Party friends.
Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party do
not call upon the workers to organize. militant
struggles against the japanese secret agents.
their diplomatic trade and military representa-
ttves and demand their expulsion. He does not
advocate the stoppage by workers OF all war
munitions and other goods to Japan. This would
lead to war according to the Socialist Party.
OF course Japan is making war upon the Chinese
people. but that is none of 'our" business
But the Socialist Party in its convention reso-
luton on the attitude toward the Soviet Union
in one breath calls on workers to be on guard
y
preceding breath once more "emphatically" urges
"the release of political prisoners and the res
toration of civil liberties in Russia"
For the masses the Socialist Party changes its
words about the danger of war upon the Soviet
Union because workers will not support a war
on the Soviet Union. For its capitalist masters
it reiterates the SANDER of the enslavement and
Imprisonment of workers and denial of civil
liberties to the working class, in an attempt to
utilize democratic Illusions still existing among
workers and thereby weaken their struggle
against war upon the Soviet Union.
Let us quote Lenin briefly in his exposure Of
Kautsly on this same issue:
".. . the Soviets are the direct organization
Of the laboring and exploited masses themselves,
which enable them to organize and to admin
lister the state by their own efforts in their own
manner The Soviet system automatically
are exploited around their advance guard, the
proletariat The old bourgeois apparatus the
bureaucracy, the privileges of wealth, of bour-
geois education, of social connections, etc. which
are the more varied the more highly bourgeois
democracy has developed-an this disappears
under the Soviet system. Proletarian dernoc-
racy is a million times more democratic than
any bourgeois democracy, and the Soviet regime
is a million times more democratic than the
The daily worker., 1932-06-02
BY WILL NUREMBERG Member of the
German ReichStag)


ON June 70, Fourth International Solidarity
Day will be celebrated. The International
Solidarity Day is not matter for single group
or organization such the Workers 1nterna-
tionaI Relief. 1t is a day of struggle of all
workers who have become conscious of the inn
portance of proetarian solidarity as weapon
in the class struggle
This year International Solidarity Day has
special tasks and significance because of the
conditions of world politics especially the Jap
anese robber war against China and its extreme
danger of extension to the Soviet Union, and
in connection with that, the looming danger of
new irnperialist world war
The most important and decisive front Of the
class struggle is the fight against the Japanese
robber war in China, against armaments, prep
arations and provocations for war which the
mperialist robbers states are intensifying day by
day against the Soviet Union. This finds most
striking expression in the bullets of the Polish
provocateurs a~anst V. Twardowski of the
German Embassy in Moscow ard in the shots
fired by the white guard bandit, Gorguoff,
against the president of the French Republic,
Doumer.
The workers of the world must help and fight
against the imperialist onslaught against the
Soviet Union. Not only because proletarian SOL
idarity Is imposing this duty upon them and be-
cause their enthusiastic love for the first work
ers and peasants republic is driving them In this
direction but because their fate, the fate of the
international working class, Is closely bound up
with the fate of the Soviet Union.
The decisive imperialist trusts and great bank
enterprises and their military general staffs de-
sire the war against the Soviet Union and for
years have systematically, tenaciously and ex
tensyely made preparations for it on the di
plomatic, political, economic, financial and mil
itary fronts The enormous sums spent for this
purpose can only be estimated when one states
that just two Of the most worthy" and "most
representative" of imperialist capitalists, Ivan
krenger and Deterding, contributed millions,
The daily worker., 1932-06-02

Comrade Lustig is not quite self critical How
ever, the points he is making in the article
warrant serious consideration. 1t would be
well to hear from the comrades who could
answer the points and charges made in the
article. Comrade Lustigs reference TO the
District resolution deserves discussion.
ACCORDING to the resolution adopted at the
n 14th Plenum OF our Party ''The strong sec
tartan tendencies in the ENTIRE WORK OF
THE PARTY which is based on deeply rooted
Journalism is the chief obstacle which stands
in the way Of carrying out correct mass pol
lev. The resolution also states that 1.-THE buro-
cratic method OF work which is expressed in
the "circular letter" method OF leadership.
paralyzes the work of the lower party organiza-
tions and Sidetracks them from genuine mass
work onto inner" party and routine work. AND
HINDERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF CADRES
AND THE INITIATIVE OF THE LOWER Or
CARNATIONS"
Tho ink hardly dried on the paper on which
the Central Committee resolution was printed
when our section received a letter from the
city committee OF the Unemployed Councils
notifying us that special conf, renee will be
held on May 81 to take UP the question Of an
s,at5-evicton campaign in the borough of the
B<onx.
ACCORDING 10 LIle INSTRUCTION Oh Une ClUy COul-
nittee of the Unemployed Councils we were to
do the following: 'Tt is your job to see that
all that Councils are well represented at this
conference on Saturday, also all Actives in all
mass organizations, This campaign will have
to draw into 1t the widest representation from
mass. fraternal workers organizations in order
to make 1t real campaign against evictions.
SEE THAT THE PROPER REPRESENTATION
hs AT TH1S CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY"
This letter was written and mailed on the 10th
u May, 1882. 1t reached the following day,
May TO- 1882, and the conference was 10 be held
On May 81, 1882.
What is this If not sectarsn tendenciesP What
II this if not burocratic methodist What is this
II not circular letter. leadership?
This instruction from the city committee OF
the Unemployed Council is not an exception but
= rule. such and similar instructions were given
~ only in the Unemployed Council but also
= ~ Psxty during the past period, during the
- pas5o6 vtsu long speeches were delivered
The daily worker., 1932-06-02
BY J. LUsTIG

against burocracy and long articles written by
the very same comrades who sent out those in
structions.
The Party resolution also states that '"The
work of the lower party organizations must be
basically changed. Nine-tenths OF all the work
of the lower organizations must be concentrated
directly on the work amongst the masses" But
this change, this basic change can be carried
out only if '"The methods OF leadership, assist
ing and checking up OF the work OF the lower
organizations by the higher organs will be
method of personal guidance In accordance with
the special conditions of the given field Of work
The daily worker., 1932-06-02

form. If the bourgeoisie, in spite of this, new
ertheless takes the risk of plunging the country
into war, we shall have been able, with all our
pre-war revolutionary anti-war work, to create
certain pre-conditions which will help to realize
our slogan of converting the imperialst war into
civil war"
Buy the reprinted edition of the seized issue
Number 6-of the Communist International.
Read it-study it. Give it wide mass circula-
tion. Build the working class front against i'm :
perialist war and American inperialisn-the
enemy Of the American toilers.
The daily worker., 1932-06-02

BY L. W.
ONE Of the many schemes advanced by the
v Negro and white middle class to enslave the
Negro masses is sponsored by Attorney Ramon
A. Martinez and his associates, group of Negro
intellectuals of Detroit and vicinity who have
organized "a back to Africa" movement, known
as the Negro Nationalist Society, which was
launched Tuesday, May 16, at the Central Com
n1unity Center
The daily worker., 1932-06-02

same time an important prelude for the big In
ternational Anti-War Congress, to be convoked
by number of personalities closely connected
with the W.IR., as Maxim Gorid, Rornain Rol.
land, Theodore Dresser, Prof. Albert Enstesu,
John Dos Passoe, Mry. sun Vat Sen, ste.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
!. Musical Street Bedlam

At dhe International Electrical Congress in Paris French expert expressed his view that the disagreeable feature of noises in big cities is not the qdAntity but the quality. Io remedy that he would not campaign for noise abatement. but for change from harsh noises to musical ones. He suggested that motor horns. for example. might be made to sound two or three notes from some famous and liked musical composition. . Then they would please the ear and sooth the nerves even as they warned pedestrians or other motorists to get out of the way. Other harsh city noises would similarly be convert cd into few sweet strains of music.
 The suggestion sounds all right at first. but various questions finally begin to arise. Would all the musical phrases be alike' Would they all be from the same compost ton? If the choice were left to individual discretion. might not the result be about as terrible as anything we have now! Anyone who has ever walked through the hallway of a conservatory of music while the rooms were full of praetieing musicians, knows what bedlam can result from a tumble of otherwise lovely music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
French Food and Character

Parisian cooking is said to be undergoing an epochal change and the price of meat is unusually high. Paris economists explain the latter fact from their own viewpoint on the simple basis of supply and demand A butcher has come forward with a further explanation of the explanation. He says doctors are responsible for both the evolu- ton of cooking and the high price of meat.
 French physicians, he maintains, have in- duced their patients to give up fancy sauces and stews and to eat plain grills. This mesns an excessive demand for steaks and chops and other cuts which may be grilled, and falling off in demand for the less expensive cuts which have always been used in deli cious French stews, pot-aufeu, blanquette and other dishes of that type.
 It does not seem an important matter, yet in land where the art of cooking has been so highly developed and so distinctive such simplifieation of diet may eventually ef- feet change in national character. The abandonment of French sauces may be only first step in social changes of vast import.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
In Wet New York

national director of prohibition says it is not true that there are 32,000 speak easies in New York. A survey made by his forces shows only 3,844 places where liquor is sold, including speakeasies and night clubs or restaurants. Even this number, to an outsider. looks like quite few. And # the liquor industry is distributed through the other boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Richmond and the Bronx, there should be 5000 or 10000 of them altogether. There may be quite a few places. too, that the enforcement people do not know about. One naturally wonders how this compares with the saloons of the old regime Un- questionably New York is wet No won- der Nicholas Murray Butler and John D. Rockefeller, Jr, dwelling in the midst of all this liquidity, want to do something about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
Improper Transforming

Two things lately have hurt the reputa tion and prospects of World War veterans. One is the march of the Bonus Expedi- tionary Force" The other is the revela- tion of enormous sums paid to veterans for disabilities having no connection with their war service In both of these matters the veterans have suffered from unwise leader ship, and from the folly and cowardice of congressman using the national treasury for political purposes. The rank and file of the service men probably realize now along with the civilian public, that the bonus army should never have been encouraged to march fo Washington. and that there should have been no legislation granting pensions for non military disabilities.
 The bonus expedition will hardly be re- peated. The non-service disability pensions are viewed with growing alarm. Amounting already to $100, 100000 a year. there is prospect of their rising soon to several hun dred millions, if action is not taken to rem- edy this mistake. Judging from the present mood of the public. and of most of the responsible leaders of the veterans themselves. it will be remeded soon. It should be rem- edied for the sake of the veterans them- selves. If they take vast sums for improper reasons. at time when it is impossible to collect enough taxes to meet legitimate public expenses. they cannot expect to have their proper demands respected and the war-dis- able adequately cared for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
Back To Log Cabins

As thousands of old, abandoned farms are being occupied again, in many sections of the country. there are numerous families moving into log cabins long disused. Many such houses still make comfortable homes. with little chinking and patching and whitewashing. Itis surprising how long good logs will last without any attention.
 There is fascination about log houses, too, for most city folk The more people have been accustomed to modern city con- strueton. the more some of them seem to fancy the solid. primitive homes of their pio- neer ancestors There is romance in the crude construction.
 It is not only the back ito the farm people, either. who care for log homes. There is real vogue for them among summer resi- dents as many summer resort will testify. This tendency is especially strong in Canada. where incoming Americans often build new log cabins and lodges of beautiful construc- ton, with native stone fireplaoes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16

We don't suppose that the age old argu- ment of ownership of the shore will ever end. Despite court decisions there are always property owners ready to contest the rights of people to trespass upon what they con- slider their land but which apparently is common property to others. The latest row is at Cosy Beach. Silver Sands. A property owner fenced off the shore in front of her cottage in such way that other resi- dents had to swim out around the obstrue- ton or pass around the cottage. It was more or less a test of the Connecticut General statutes No doubt if the property owner wins the case there will be q scramble upon the part of other shore owners to fence off their land. too. and to keep people from utilizing the beach in front of their summer homes The point is too technical for US 10 hazard any opinion. There certainly must be some point at which private own. ership ends and public ownership begins. Whether it Is the high or low water mark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
Leases


 A city real estate authority urges tenants to take leases now on whatever terms they can get. He says it is evident that they can never get them so cheaply again. At pres ent, rentals are not covering the cost of maintenance of apartment and business prop erty. They cannot remain at this point. but must soon rise at least enough to carry the property for the owners. The probability is that they will rise beyond that point in the very near future.
 From the owners point of view. any lease which will pay its share of carrying charges for the present and few years more is advantageous. A steady tenant is a strong bar against the sheriff at the door, A few stores or apartments leased at bedrock prices will protect him now, and he can take his chances at renting the others for more later. The moral is. for the tenant to get the good lease while he can.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
You Get a Bit of Everything
 in This Volume

You get a little bit of everything in "Thc London Omnibus" an exceedingly bulky volume in which Doubleday, Doran and Co. is pre- senting something like a cross sec-
 ton of modern English literature.
 For one thing, you get 8 full
 length novel, "The Water Gypsies, by A. P. Herbert-a delightful tale of how the daugh-
 ter of g London bargeman tried to
 make life. give her a break. You
 also get first-rate mystery yarn,
 "The Man at the Carlton" by Ed- gar Wallace, and you get Noel
 Coward's popular play. Private
 Lives"
 And that isn't all, either. There are articles, short stories, essays and what not by a whole boatload of distinguished writers-H. G.. Wells, Rebecca West, Arnold Ben- nett, Virginia Woolf, Max Beer Ibohm, Julian Huxley, w. Somerset
 Maugham, Havelock Ellis, Richard
 Aldington, P. G. Wodehouse and
 Aldous Huxley. This is mixed com
 pany, with a vengeance, but there's nothing the matter with hash if the loriginal ingredients are good.
 Consider, too, the boon this book
 will be to those who want to ap- pear conversant with modern
 writers but who can't be bothered to do much reading. Thumb
 through this book and you'll be able to discuss postwar English l literature with a lot of verve, if nothing else. And that, very likely,
 is what the publishers had in mind. The book costs $2.50 and is the
 August choice of the Literary Gt,f11
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-16

How would you like to be presented with a case of fifteen year old whiskey as a stock dividend. It would be most appropriate for anybody with whiskey taste. And that is just what one dstilling company, that is gambling on repeal. is going to do. Its stockholders have just been notified that all of record on September IS, l934, will get case of twenty-four pint bottles for each five shares of common stock they hold. To us it sounds like an attractive stock sales proposition. Of course if the prohibition laws should still be in existence at that time you won't get this nice dividend but you Il still have the stock. However the concern has 10000 cases of the l5Year old whiskey on hand. made before the dry laws went into effect. The line forms at the right. boys: Get your places early.