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SHOP WORK TO BE STUDIED

present war situation, the failure to grasp the
various slogans raised in connection with the
struggle against united imperialist attack
against the Soviet Union reveal total lack of
feminist understanding of irnperialist contradic-
tionS? And there certainly is a close relation
ship between our weak theological mobilization
of the Party and the development Of a vigorous
and sustained anti-War campaign, The registra~
ton of one comrade for a class on "the struggle
against imperialst war" dramatizes in a way
many of our weaknesses in the practical political
training Of the membership.
The last Plenum resolution (printed in full in
the April issue of the Communist has special
section on the election campaign with the OPEN
ing sentence: '"The election campaign this year
is of most particular significance" In connec-
ton with that we vii mention one more fact
The course on Revolutionary ParIamentarism'
has a registration of four comrades The lesson
is so obvious, comments are not necessary.
The courses in the school for LeniniSm, Polit-
zeal Economy, Principles of Communism, have
much higher registration. eve are not discuss
ing just now the social and national composition
Of the studentS). OF course this is a sign of
progress. We certainly do not sufficiently popu-
larize the elementary basic principles of Marx
1sm-LeniniSm But the high registration for
general abstract courses and the almost non
existent registration for the courses dealing with
important problems of practical political nature,
do not only refiece separation of theory from
practice but also land precisely because Of the
separation) scholastic academic approach to
the question of theory and the raising Of the po-
htical level of the membership
The low registration is not just due to the fact
that the membership is not interested" does
not respond" etc. 1t is primarily due to the
fact that the proper theological organization
measures missing. The District Committee
should look into the matter
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Demand the Immediate Release
of Edith Berkrnan!

ship, their arrival into the country, ETC. Es-
pecially was the immigration Department in
terested in deporting the militant leaders of the
Lawrence strikes.
Edith Berkman as the outstanding leader of
the Lawrence workers has been held in prison
so long that she has contracted tuberculosis and
is now lying in the hospital. Although maneu-
vers are made in the Federal Courts to issue a
decree for Berkmans deportation to Poland,
Edith Berkmsn cannot be deported there, be-
cause she is not citizen Of Poland. The Polish
Embassy at Washington, D. c., has made def
mite statement that those persons who left Pol
ish territory before 1921, that is before the
Russo-Polish Treaty was signed and who have
not reappIed for their citizenship cannot be
considered as Polish citizens, and therefore the
government does not issue passports to them.
Here is definite proof that even if the United
States government would issue decree for
Berkdnan's deportation, she cannot be deported
without Polish passport.
Held Illegally
Still Edith Berkman is held illegally, by the
Immigration Department. Here the working
class must realize that it is not the individual
Berkman-that the mill bosses are anxious to
destroy, but that for (which Berkman stands. 1t
is the right to organize into the revolutionary
trade unions, that the mill bosses are trying to
uooIIoy thTOusn the persecution OF our reVoiu-
tionary trade union leaders. The legality of our
trade unions is closely bound up with this at
tack on our leaders In fighting for the release
of these fighters, we are fighting for the right
to organize and struggle against misery hunger
Wage-cuts and speed-up.
To successfully fight against these attacks of
the mill bosses and their faithful agencies, the
workers have only one weapon and that is the
weapon Of organization, of mass organization.
The working women who comprise such large
part OF the textile workers, must make this fight
their fight
The women textile workers of Lawrence must
carry on the struggle where Edith Berkman left
OFF, We have TO build a mighty weapon with
which to successfully struggle against wage-cuts
and exploitation of the Woolen Trust, with which
to stop deportations of militant workers-this
weapon is found in the organization of q mass
National Tssple worlsen Onion
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under the conditions Of the catastrophe crisis
Of dying capitalism. MFR. Davis thus finds it
impossible to conceive of the trend of the Negro
workers to the Communist Party on the basis
of their willingness to struggle and their recog-
milton Of the Communist Party as the only force
organizing and leading the struggle against the
imperialist enemy. Mr.. Davis instead peddles as
an explanation" one of the most shameful
ISLANDERS of the ruling class against the Negro
people
When Abe Gray and two other heroic Negro
workers were murdered by Chicago police Cat
the orders of Negro and white landlords!) while
protesting against the eviction Of an aged Negro
woman, they were not "ogling' white women
When John Rayford was murdered by Cleveland
police at an eviction protest demonstration few
months later, he was not thinking Of women
When Ralph Gray, Negro share cropper OF Camp
Hill Alabama, heroically gave his life in the
fight of the starving choppers for bread, he was
not "ogling" white women.
Mr.. Davis not only knows of the heroic
example of Ralph Gray, but he openly justifies
his murder by the brutal Alabama landowners
and their police. He frowns on the attempt Of
the Negro masses to organize against starvation,
against boss terror He accepts as "an Al"
Justification the defense of the landowners terror
made by MesSrs. Walter White and William
Pickens to wit, that the "Reds started it" by
organizing the choppers to fight for their de-
mands and against the decision of the land
owners to cut off their food supplies. Mr.. Davis
says: 1.-THE defense that black Reds started it,
has been an Al excuse for police officials killing
and wounding Negroes"
From this, Mr. Davis naturally proceeds to the
claim that the mounting resistance of the Negro
toilers is doing damage" to race relations"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-02
SOME LESSONS FROM REGISTRATION AT
THE N Y WORKERS SCHOOL
By SAM DON

CHOP WORK, our struggle against inperialiSt
" war, are the very central tasks of the Party.
Real political clarity as well as an understanding
of the methods of mass work, are essential for
the mobilization of the Party to understand how
to win the masses in the factories, to win them
in the struggle. against imperialist war.
We will this time deal only with one phase of
our activities in the theological mobilization Of
the Party for shop work, for the struggle against
imperialiSt war. The spring term of the New
York Workers School has two special courses
dealing with shop work. One on Methods Of
Shop Work" the other on Problems of Shop
Nuclei" Certainly two very important and
timely courses But how many have registered?
Exactly one for each of the courses
OF course such classes is only one of the
auxiliary weapons in developing shop work. But
it is certain an important one The total lack of
interest in the classes on shop work is primarily
due to the fact that we look upon it as mere
routine, at best important organizational
detail, and not as decisive political task
Is it necessary to study methods of shop work.
Is it not most essential to study Eve say adj
visedly "study'D each experience of shop work,
to generalize experiences of shop work? The
resolution of the last Plenum of our Party states
"Up till now the Party has not found the fit
methods for carrying on shop work" This single
sentence is decisive in understanding why the
Party has not yet made the essential change in
becoming a Party of the masses. And it is from
this angle that we raise the question of the
registration for the classes on shop work
Let us now consider another course given this
spring term in the Workers School, namely, the
course, Struggle Against Imperialst War" How
many have registered for this course? Exactly
one comrade. Did not our discussions on the
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relations, against the whole vicious system
capitalism
Mr.. Davis and the other bourgeois Negro edi.
ors taking part in the Crisis Symposium" on
Communism, attempt to present themselves as
neutrals." And what do we find? All of their
arguments reflect the most servile acceptance Of
the prevailing ruling-class theories of Negro
nferiority, the slave psychology of the parasitic
Negro bourgeoisie, which in turn reflects the
interest of this class in the preservation of the
system of Jim Crowism as a condition for its
existence. These arguments reek with the smell
of the Jim-Crow ghettoes. This explains the
boot-licking serviIty of the Negro n1isleaders to
the white ruling classes, their dastardly betrayal
of the liberation struggles of the Negro masses,
their complete bankruptcy.
In tomorrow's paper, I will have more to say
on Mr.. Davis article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-02
When Are Negro Prob
lens Not Problems?

When Communist is faced with a
problem, if he is a real Communist he
will make careful study of the prob
lem and then proceed to find solution.
Apparently, the only time when this
axiom does not hold true, is when a
problem happens to be a Negro Prob
lem.
We have all agreed for the last few
years that the Negro question is i'm
portant, demanding careful and imme-
diate attention. Yet very little Roadway
has been made in the Negro territories
AS for example in Harlem. Our main
shortcomings are-lack of trained COM
rades well versed in the theory and
practice of Negro struggles.
When the Workers School goes ahead
and organizes course in Negro Prob
lens our comrades consider that these
problems are not problems for them.
In fact, last term IN a class of 10 stu
dents only taOo comrades mere 10hite
comrades, the rest were Negro COM
rades from the various branches of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
This term zoe find jatst tao aohite COM
rades to make up the class.
This situation can still be corrected
registration is still open until Friday,
May 6, classes are held same night at
Z to 1920 pm. Comrades, this is the last
call if you are interested in obtaining
working knowledge of Negro Problems
take advantage of this opportunity
now.
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= BY ANNA BURLAK
assistant Secretary National Textile Workers
Unionl


TWENTY-FIVE weeks have passed since the
beginning of the historic Lawrence textile
strike of october, 1881, when $4,000 textile work
ers struck under the leadership of the National
Textile Workers Union. 1t is also twenty-nine
weeks since Edith Berkman, the outstanding
courageous leader of the Lawrence strike has
been arrested and held without bail for de-
portation to filoody Poland.
During this period, the Wooden Trust, at whose
orders Edith Berkman is still being held, has
been intensifying its attack on the workers in
the form of one slashing wage-cut after another,
through the most vicious speed-up system This
speed-up is put through in the Wooden and
Worsted mills in Lawrence through efficiency
men or fish men" as the workers Of Lawrence
call them. They are now operating in all Am
erican Wooden Mills in Lawrence by carrying
guns in their pockets
These same efficiency experts. who we're the
burning issue Of the first Lawrence strike Of
February, 1881. were driven out Of the mills by
the workers of Lawrence under the leadership of
Edith Berkman and the National Textile Work
ers Union. The efficiency men were brought back
into the mills by the United Textile Workers and
REVERE, who broke the great October strike
Since then thousands of workers have been
driven out into the streets through the terrific
methods of speed-up. The Washington mill has
closed down indefinitely, throwing out over 1000
workers. These mills which are still running are
doing so with the smallest number of workers,
and even these work only one and two days a
week.
Government Acts for Bosses
With the mill bosses preparing still more wage
cuts, still greater unemployment and misery it
is not surprising that the Immigration Depart
mcnt is not releasing its hold on Edith Berlman.
The immigration Department with william
Doak at its head leads the way in terroridng
and arresting militant leaders and workers for
deportation wherever strike or any struggle
of the workers takes place. Nowhere was this
more evident than in Lawrence during the tex
lille strikes when hundreds of active workers
were arrested and questioned as to their citizen
- NJ. ~ - 49,.
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This is no new cry from the betrayerx Mr.
Pickens not so long ago bewailed the damage
done to good relations Of the races" in the South
because the revolutionary white and Negro
workers Numbered their protests against the
murderous Scottsboro lynch verdicts and ripped
the cover of the monstrous system of national
oppression and economic robbery Of the Negro
masses, exposing the role of the boss courts as
instruments Of the ruling class for the mainte-
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euRsCRrprroN RArna

Pickens, MIR. Davis and other agents Of the i'm
periaIsts are defending and attempting to
maintainI BY their thunderous protests in the
Scottsboro case, by their relentless struggle
against lynching and national oppression of the
Negro masses, the revolutionary workers have
dealt blow after blow to these trace relations"
The Communist Party states frankly its inten-
ton to mobilize the white and Negro workers for
revolutionary struggle against just such race
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nance of the oppression of white and Negro
workers.
"The damage done to good relations of the
races!" Serfdom on the plantations, lynching of
Negroes who dare to demand pay for their labor,
hideous frame-ups of Negro workers and their
children in the courts, legal lynchings by the
score, slavery in the factories, Negro workers
dashed in the prison hell-holes and on the chain
gangs-these are the good relations which MIR.
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clear A tool and toady of the white ruling class,
Mr.. Davis Sharnelessly peddles the most vicious
ISLANDERS of that class against the Negro masses
Forced to admit that Negro workers are increas-
ingly turning towards the Communist Party, Mr.
Davis offers the following profound "explana-
ton" of that. to him. distasteful fact:
81 have known personally of some racial
brethren going Red purely because of the
chance to mingle freely with white women in
the movement Then they need no longer
cgle secretly or with their personal safety
threatened
In his servile acceptance of the inlperialst
theories of Negro "inferiority," "initativeness,"
and "Servility" Mr.. Davis cannot see the leading
role of the Negro workers. He cannot see the
growing resistance of the Negro masses to the
sharpening imperialist terror and oppression
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-02
BY JAMES W. FORD
TU

YESTERDAY I dealt with
4 the article of Dr. William
Kelley, editor of the Am
sterdam News, in the So
called Symposium on Com
munism in the April Crisis.
Today I will deal with that
of Mr.. Frank Davis, editor
of the Atlanta World.
Since, after reading some
of the statements of Mr..
Davis, you might naturally
conclude that the gentleman
is the Grand Kleagle of the
Ku KluX Klan, I hasten to
explain that Mr.. Davis is a
bourgeois Negro editor of a
boss Negro newspaper. His
affinity with the XII KluX
Khan is nevertheless quite
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him a ring or pendant or an old
watch. He pays her for it but
rarely will she accept the 5O-cent
hunting offer"
Hershon shows the novice gold
hunters how to test, on the door
step, the quality of the metal
which they seek to purchase and
resell at a profit. He coaches
them in their sales talk.
One theatrical company, most
of them girls, got broke near here
last year. They came into Indi-
annapolis and canvassed the town
for gold and more than made ex-
penses," he said.
=
TTERSHON'S gold purchases
l. l. from the iobless is but one
fourth of his business. He start
ed it eighteen months ago as the
depression becamcs-a reality and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
Fog Blanket
Hides Sea
Hop Plane
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Aug. 26-Fog banks
off Ireland and steady. drizzling
rain over half the Atlantic lay today
in the aerial path charted by Amer
ica's two young bachelor ocean
filters The filters left Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, Thursday in
their monoplalne Green Mountain
Boy in an attempt to reach Oslo
without a stop
Although a dozen or more trans
Atlantic ships are on the north At
lantic, the big red plane. piloted
by Clyde Allen Lee and John Boch-
kon, apparently had not been
sighted.
Lee and Bochkon roared away
from Harbor Grace at SOP a. m.
eastern standard time). They
expected to reach the Norwegian
capital within thirty hours. Unless
they have met with heavy head
winds, they should have neared the
Irish coast early today.
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a pick or sluice pan when they
climb apartment house stairs, in
stead of mountains for their gold.
And the man who knows them
best partly is responsible for these
hunters of gold turning profitless
days of job-hunting into salaries
that. in some cases, have averaged
as high as SIS week.
The man is Benjamin Hershon.
manager and owner of Standard
Gold Smelling and Refining Com
pany.
Behind his iron wicketed win
dow he deals with those on their
"uppers,' who pan the homes of
the city. the old stocks of heir
looms, for old gold.
Ancient watches, bar-pins that
Great-Grandma Mary whoozis
gave as a wedding present to
Mama. baby rings, old spectacles,
discarded crowns of teeth, and
other pieces Of the yellow metal
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Il pay him $50 week aver
age for the gold brought in, for
which he probably doesn't pay
more than SIS to $40"
Then" continued Hershon,
there's another old man here who
has been operating for three or
four years. He is more successful
than most of the hunters for
hes got a line that's his own ex-
clusively."
Hershon says the old man works
in this manner:
He goes to the door of the
home. If the housewife answers
the door. and says she's busy and
has no time to hunt for any old
gold she might have, the old man
stops her with, But, lady, here's
so cents. I'll give it to you Just
to hunt for some old gold. Just
anything will do
The result is the woman finds
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form the paintings that the city
Klondikers toss under Hershon's
wicketed window.
n
THEY work street at time.
= In fact, I've known compan-
les of them to come into this city
who've been making city after
city, going from house, house
and buying old gold and resell
ing to me or other refiners and
smelters in other cities" he ex-
planned.
There's one man in Indian
apolis who lost lot of money in
real estate. He was broke. To-
day he's earning about s35 a
week picking up gold trinkets
and odds and ends of rings and
watches from city householders,
who are hard up and need the
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
LAKE ROUTE IS LISTED
Motor Club Suggests Week End
Trip to Maxinkuckee.

A weekend motor trip to Maxim
kuckee, second largest lake in the
state, through Culver military
academy, was recommended to city
motorists today by the Hoosier
Motor Club.
Route, covering a distance of lis
miles, is over road % to Logansport,
thence on road Is to Rochester and
to Argos on U. S. Road 81. From
Argos the route is on road 10
through the two points.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
WALKER COUNSEL DENY
LINK WITH SHERWOOD

Missing $4,000 a Year Clerk Is Pics
tured as Big Business Man.
By United Press
ALBANY. N. Y. Aug. 26.-Russell
T. Sherwood, the lawyers clerk who
deposited S1,OO0,OOO during the time
he is represented as being Mayor
James ]. Walkers financial agent,
was depicted at the mayors custer
hearing before Governor Franklin
D. Roosevelt today as a man of
great business activity.
Several witnesses we're called by
Walkers counsel in an attempt to
prove that the New York executive
had no connection with the alb
normally large banking accounts of
the $4,000 a year clerk.
Sherwood has been missing since
the Hofstadter investigation-out of
which the custer charges against
Walker grew. He was subpenaed in
Mexico City as a witness, but ig-
nored the summons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
MINE LEADERS,
HOME BOMBED
Strikers Gather Forces for
Another Invasion.
("Little Egypt" the cockpit of Illinois and
center of mine strike turbulence.
story on Page 49,
Bv United Press

BIZ United Press
TAYLORVILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 90
Bombing of a striking mine leaders
home today was the ominous prel-
ude to another invasion of the
southern Illinois coal field. an
nounced by officials of the strikers
for next week.
Leaders declared reinforcementS
had been promised from mine re-
gions in Oklahoma, Indiana and
Kentucky for the next drive into
Little Egypt where an army of
1880 invaders was routed Wednes-
day night by bullets.
The front porch was blown off
the home of Raymond Tombozzi,
strike leader, here Occupants
were shaken from their beds. but
none in the house was injured.
Plans OF the miners protesting
against operation of southern ILL
nois mines under a S5-a-day wage
scale to reinvade Franklin county,
scene Of the battle of Mulkeyville. 3"
were announced at Gillespie. Mass
meetings we're called to decide on
the exact date and tactics.
No decision had been reached rs
to whether the men would go armed
or would rely on their fists
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not stepping stone to prosper
ity.
Purchase and refining of gold
and other metals from filings.
sweepings and dust in jewelry
companies, dental Offices, and the
resale of gold to dental practi-
TONERS forms the bulk of his
business.
He estimates he has added APP
proximately $4,000 in hidden
gold. gold that was not in circu-
lation. to the nations gold re-
serves in the eighteen months OF
dealing with the city miners"
and persons who are victims Of
unemployment who sold their an
tiques.
And those who come here OF
their own accord TO sell their old
gold there's another story, toe
Hershon added.
Ito Be Continuedl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
SOCIETY QUEEN
FUNERAL SET
Mrs, Mccormick to Lie in
State; Burial Saturday.

(Other Details, Page One. Second SectiOn)
By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-The gray
stone mansion at 1000 Lake Shore
drive where Edith Rockefeller Nc
Cormick lived in more affluent days
was reopened today so her body
could lie in state there.
The funeral services will be held
at 3 p m. Saturday in the drawing
room on a lower floor where Mrs.
Mccormick, as queen of the city's
society, had entertained notables
from many lands.
Mrs Mccormick died from cancer
late Thursday in her Drake hotel
apartment just across the street
from the mansion she closed because
of financial stress.