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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-08

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO

the IA editors know anything about revolution
airy Socialism and its application in the Soviet
Union can as properly be applied to himself
He quite evidently has made no study of the
successful solution of the national question in
the Soviet Union.
voluntary Cooperation of Peoples"
Ayrahm Yarmolinsky, Jewish writer and
professor at Columbia University, In his book
THE Jews and Other Minor Nationahties Under
the soviets" published by Vanguard Press
makes the following contrast between the poll
cies of the old TsariSt regime and the Soviet
Government:
while the old regime particularly in its last
years. was based upon the supremacy of the
Great Russians the new order is opposed to the
domination of any one national group by an
other Those who controlled the destinies of the
empire acted upon the belief that to hold it
together it was necessary to suppress the cul-
lures of the non-RuSSian elements. The COM
munsts who steer the Soviet ship of state act
on the theory that the strength of the Socialist
commonwealth depends upon the voluntary
operation of peoples enjoying political and cul-
tural autonomy. Indeed, the Soviet Union is es-
sentiaIy an alliance not OF states but of peoples,
that is, of peoples led by the workers and peas
ants. The chief plank in the national policy of
the new regime is self-determination for all sub
Ject natlOnallt-tS.
The principles behind this policy are old revo-
lutionary doctrines. Long before the Reyou-
ton Lenin wrote:
Just as mankind can come to the abolition
of classes only through the transitional period
of the dictatorship Of the oppressed class, so
mankind can come to the inevitable fusion Of
nations only through the period Of complete
emancipation of all the oppressed nations,
l. e. self determination
And, under the Soviet Government, the Great
Russian masses have been won to this cardinal
principle of Communism. But, say the bour-
geois Negro editors, the American white workers
are by nature different" This is precisely the
argument of the white bourgeoisie against the
Negroes-that the Negroes are different" by
nature from the white workers These bourgeois
Negro editors might just as well say that Ne
grosS are inferior. The abSurdity of this is
clear to every one.
1t is not the character of the white workers
that accounts for the hateful attitude Of large
sections toward the Negroes, but rather the
white ruling class policies put into effect within
the working class by the Greens, the VOLS and
other misleaderS of the American workers. These
nisleaders are the social bearers of the i'm
perialist poison of white chauvinism among the
working class. And it is precisely against these
traitors that the Communist Party carries on a
relentless struggle to expose their role as agents
and tools of the white bourgeoisie for the split
ting of the working class and the weakening Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03

workers talking WITH them and not TO them
for hours, trying to feel our way to the little
needs and the mood of the workers in the fac
tory or particular department.
In the Sears plant in indianapolis, where we had
a near strike situation, where IA workers gave us
their names for the grievance committee, we
finally lost contact with these workers Why?
We didn't actually establish daily contact with
them Or get thorough knowledge of the doings
in the plant. We didn't seriously try to develops
leadership from the workers themselves by pay
ing attention to a couple Of the more promising
workers
We even went SO far as to send a petty-bour-
geoiS opportunist to represent us at grievance
committee meeting. This shows that we weren't
taking seriously our task OF merging with the
workers and leading them in struggle on the
basis Of their most immediate grievances.
In the large Delco Remy shop Ia General Mo
tors Subsidiary In Anderson, Indiana, we had
different experience. Here we were developing
excellent leaders from the workers themselves.
Our comrades in the plate despite a number of
mistakes celebrating a spy around the grievance
committee, etc. had gotten the workers in mass
motion as result of petition, campaign in
side the plant against the community fund
racket.
i, Our comrades had daily contact with the work
ers knew the conditions of the workers and
reached the most burning needs of the work
ers at the RIGHT MOMENT. That is why in
the Remy plant we have the possibility of
real struggle against the General Motors often
sive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
isetheTheoreticalLeuel;
Double the Circulation
of "The Communist
By SAM DON,

By SAM DON.
THE class lines are being drawn clearly. We
are in the midst of growing decisive battles
between the toiling masses and the ruling class
In this situation the initiative of the masses
can and must be brought to the highest express
sion. The native intelligence and militancy of
the workers, enriched and deepened with the
revolutionary content of Marxism and Leninism,
will develop undreamed of capacities for revolu-
tionary leadership and herosm.
The growing severity of the class struggles in
the United States deepens the waning waith of
the masses in American democracy, in the in
vncibility Of American capitalism The workers
are locking for way out of the present crisis.
They are looking for leadership. They are eager
for new ideas In face of this the old tradi-
tional American contempt for theory beginning
to be undermined.
Can We say that we have sufficiently realized,
not in words but in DEEDS, the growing inter
est in Communism, in Marxsn- Leninism in the
growing eagerness for theoretical studies?
1t must be admitted that we have not We
will merely mention the very slow growth of
circulation of the COMMUNIST. And here it is
necessary to state quite frankly that one of the
main reasons for the small circulation of the
COMMUNIST is the fact that many of the lead
ing functonaries of the Party take no PER-
]A1NS@NSU
attempts to popularize it amongst the member
ship and the revolutionary workers
We complain that the political level is low We
speak continually of the need of raising the the
oreticaI level of the membership. We en-
phasiSe the importance of the unity of theory
and practice. Yet the COMMUNIST does
not receive the organized and concentrated at
tention that it deserves.
The great majority of the present Party mem
bership is new. We are faced with the real task
OF helping the new members becoming assiin-
Hated in the Party. The raising of the theo-
retical level Of the Party is inseparably linked
up with the training of new members. In addi-
ton to simple propaganda literature, the COM
MUNIST can become an invaluable weapon in
the training Of new members
In speaking of the importance of theory,
Comrade Stain said: Theory and only theory,
can add to the movement certainty the power
of orientation and understanding of the inner
connection of surrounding events; theory, and
only theory, may enable practice to understand
not only how the classes are moving at pres
ent, but also how and to where they must
turn in the near future"
1t is in the spirit of Comrade Stains remarks,
conscious of the great tasks facing the Party,
that the raising of the theoretical level Of the
Party must be taken up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03

It's struggles against the white bourgeoisie
Racial attitudes proceed not from nature, but
from the policies of the ruling class and their
agents In the Communist Manifesto. Marx and
Engals pointed this out:
that mental production changes concomitantly
with material production. In every epoch the
ruling ideas have been the ideas of the ruling
class" Emphasis nnine-J w F)
Even the most casual study of cultural trends
in the Soviet Union, on one hand and in the
decaying capitalist world on the other, will af-
ford convincing proof of this brilliant analysis
by the founders of scientific Socialism.
There is as little reason to assume fatal
istic attitude on the ultimate attitude of
American white workers as there is to assume
fatalistic view that the Negroes are inher-
emily incapable Of the same accomplishments
as whites. The one argument is as good" as
the other.
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factories. To further their plans bill is be-
ing pushes through Congress, which will enable
the government to issue educational orders so
as to train factories for the efficient production
Of materials designed to murder millions of
workers and peasants.
The various organizations are to be under the
control of central administration Represent
atives OF labor read: misleaders of labor, of
manufacturers, of producers of raw materials
and so on must combine in an organization I'M
der the President to guide our individual eff
forts along those lines that will insure speedy
victory" wrote F. H. Payne, Assistant Secret
airy of War, in Army Ordnance, july $780,
3. We have noted the work of the National
Defense Division of the American Society OF
Mechanical Engineers.
1t has been discovered that a mechanical
army is cheaper than one not SO equipped-that
is, the cost Of killing soldier is less.
Struggle For War Material
T. "Since the United States is not self-sus-
tanning with respect to nitrogen compounds the
Chilean nitrate, one of the essential materials
in this country during the World War . is of
continued interest to those concerned with mat
erials and munitions of war" wv. Rinkenbach,
Chief Chemist, Pcatunny Arsenal in Army Ord
nance for September, 1900
The United States is deficient in great many
for its conflict with British imperialism in South
America for "Our" entrance into Chile and
Bolivia, "our" hold on Hawaii, the search for
rubber of Firestone in Liberia and Ford in
Brazil.
5. In its drive to war, the government has
not overlooked the schools and colleges. N1ilit-
airy training Is now given in many of our inst-
buttons Summer camps have been set up to
carry this training into the field. About
dozen universities have arranged courses for the
training Of ordnance students. The number OF
such universities is slowly but steadily increas-
ing
g. The question of the control of labor is
the weak spot of the whole plan effectng spec-
ally points s(0 and "a. The question that
haunts the war makers is: What will labor do?
In the meantime they are proceeding with
their plans for the miltarization Of labor. Some
suggest that labor can be conscripted into an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
UNITED STATES PLANS FOR WAR

The Scovllle Manufacturing Co.: Col. L. j. Her
mann, Works Manager of the Remington Arms;
g. H. Pease of the New Britain Machine Co.;
and M Stone, President of the Colts Patent
Fire Arms Co.
War Makers Committee
The Army Ordnance Association is also be-
ing aided by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
to which is affiliated $4,000 business organiza-
tons i'll this country. This group has organized
National Defense Committee. This committee
has as its membership F. j. Haynes of Durant
Motor Works; A Brousseau President Of Mack
Truck Co.; W. L. Clause of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co.; G. w. Davis Of Dallas Light and
Power Co.; Carl Gray of the Union Pacific
System; and Kent Hubbard of the Connecticut
Manufacturers AssrL-as choice a collection of
anti-Wor, ing class individuals as could be found
anywhere.
The Association has also dragooned the aid
OF the American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers This society has created special sec
ton devoted exclusively to war problems. 1t
is known as the National Defense Division
Besides these there are many minor groups
devoted to the same purpose.
g. The country has been divided into IL pro-
curement districts and II local sections under
the control of the Ordnance Department. At
tached to each district is an ordnance officer
manufacturers in his district. James L. Walsh
writes, "the total army requirement. for ord
nance have been broken up into district quotas
and manufacturers in each district have been
designated to practically all the more important
items" (Army Ordnance, July. 1900
Army Officers For Industrial Plants
Attempts are being made to carry this milit-
arization step further. Walsh continues
There is a growing demand that full time Of
ficers be assigned to each individual plant to
give continuous assistance in the preparation OF
the factorys emergency production plan" And,
of course If workers found it necessary to strike
for decent living conditions, these full time army
officers would be right there to assist in carry
ing out the factory's production plainly shoot
ing down the workers.
Factories all over the country are sending in
their war plans to the War Department. These
are gone over and returned to- the individual
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industrial army and sent back to their every
day tasks-at army pay and maintenance.
Others oppose this fearing revolution by the
workers To the latter school belongs G. B. Ross,
in the office of the Assistant Secretary OF War.
Bernard Baruch, furious at the thought that
workers during the last war were paid sum
that enabled them to keep the wolf from the
door, suggests that prices, including wages, be.
kept at the level they are now - that is the
maintenance of the starvation wages paid to-
day. His promise that commodity prices would
also be kept down is not worth the paper it
is printed on.
Shipping Arms To Japan
The attitude of the United States to the Sow
let Union is so well known that it is unncces-
sary to cite instances. Today, when Japan is
driving to war with the Soviet Union, we learn
of shipments of arms and cotton needed for ex-
plosives being sent from United States to Japan.
All this is done with the approval OF the gov
eminent Was it not President Hoover, one
time mine-owner in Czarist Russia who said
sit is the ambition of my life to see the Soviet
Union overthrown"? &
Hoffman Nickerson in the Army Ordnance for
January, 1881, has this to say: there has arisen
in Russia a government possessed by new and
intense religion known as communism, and
should the existing communist crusade gain
Roadway in Europe, and should non-communist
elements abroad turn to us for help, we might
see fit to join in an anti-communist crusade"
can close in no better way than by quoting
from three typical patriots who are helping to
prepare for the next imperialist slaughter:
l. Human race develops by war. Races per-
ish in peace. Culture is increased by the in
venton of new weapons" Dean Hoover
brother Of President Hoover. July, $780, in
Quartermaster Review.
q If armies went to war today. the con-
fusion and loss of life would be catastrophe. J..
The infantry are but tank foddel.' Ma ior Cen
eral Fuller Of British Army, in Army Ordnance
for January 1881
B. Social discomfort intensified by radical
agitators now. has become the problem Of in
dustry for enormous investments Of capital are
at stake" T. G. Gerlach, President, Illinois Man
ufacturers Assn, National Defense for Dec. 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
June Issue of
The Communist"

CONTENTS
l. The Imperialist Offensive and the Fourteenth
Plenum of the Central Committee
z. The Struggle for the Majority Of the Working
Glass and Our Mass Work BY O. Kuusinen
3. Some Elementary Phases of the Work In the
Refornlist Trade Unions. BY VIM e. Foster.
4 Fascism, Social Democracy and Communism.
BY w. Knorins t I
5. Lessons of Two Recent Strikes. In the Light
Of the EC.C.I Resolution on Lessons of
Strike Struggles In USA" BY Jack
Stachel
g. The War offensive-Tightening the Capital
list Dictatorship In the United States BY
Bill Dunno.
Z. The Second Five-Year Plan. BY Moissaye
J. Olgin. rt-. j..
g. Marxism and the National Problem. By J.
Stain.
g. Lenin On Literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03

THE Indianapolis section in Southern and Cen
trail Indiana is new section of the Party
embracing mainly native American workers. the
majority of whom come from Pioneer. stock.
They are part of the decisive section OF; the
American proetariat.
Criticism of Wrong Methods of Work
These new militant workers who joined our
Party invariably offered constructive criticism
on the WRONG METHODS OF WORK Of the
Party, especially on our wrong approach to the
native worker. We weren't fusing with the AM
erican worker We didn't speak hts lingo but
some strange jargon. And our foreign and
high falutin language was simply evidence of
our sectarian formal and burocratic approach
to the American workers.
We didn't try to find out thru close contact
with these workers their most intimate needs
and moods We didn't have faith in the Gre
alive power Of the workers and tried to actiWze
them from on top instead of developing the ac-
tivities of the masses who were NOT inert I'M
der the blows of the crisis.
1t was in this situation that the Fourteenth
Plenum resolutions came to our Indiana Com
munists as a beacon light Their immediate
enthusiastic response to the apr arance of the
Resolutions in the Daily Worker indicated that
the Central Committee had found the key to
Overcome the isolation. of the Party from the
decisive sections of the American proletariat.'
The comrades said: This resolution is what
we've been holering for. Now we will build the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-03
Why Workers Find It Diff
cult to Stay in the Party

IN the resolution of the 14th Plenum. tip
" on the fluctuation of the Communist
Party membership.
Last February 1 was urging shopmate to
come with me to a nucleus meeting He
agreed and attended one meeting, but the
next week he refused Here arc the reasons
why, and what he said.
When we first got to the meeting l intro
duced him and he sat close to me- AS usual,
routine work was discussed, the Daily Worker
distribution was taken up--somebody to vol
urlteer was the cry.
MY shopmate was then asked whether he
had any time for that. Then when the ques-
ton of leaflet distribution came up he again
was asked to do that. But that isn't ALL He
was also asked whether he could work with
the Negro director. Then. learning that he
only works four days week, he was asked
to assist the unemployed council.
But here the comrades did not stop. He
was also asked to attend the food workers
meeting and join the union; to join the
!. L. D., and to assist in the nucleus affair
that was to take place the following week.
Now on some financial matters. After
having bought ticket for IS cents for the
nucleus affair, he also bought the Labor
Unity for 10 cents, the Communist for 20
cents, two Inprecorrs for 20 cents Working
Woman for S cents, Daily Worker for cents
and the Western Worker for cents.
TO make the picture complete an appeal
for funds was made and he Clipped in so
cents, after he saw me giving another SO cents
to cover the budget for printing, etc.
The next day he asked me jokingly: what
kind Of racket do you fellows haye?" ]
asked him what he meant. "Well, he said,
ito be frank with you, brother, the Coni:nn-
mist Party Is too much for II cost me s
in one eycrirs ard if wcu'd COAL 6 4. M
asked ne l would not aye ben, ea'e. TO VIZ
tbs weeh, and FOR So ccu'I buy shoes fol-
my children. 1t too much for me-"
Now comrades, these are the facts Take
them for, what they mean. XII
Los Angelica