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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27

ent armament levels without affecting any ma
TONS present security relative position but
we are not at present in such position that we
can lead in movement of that character. In
the meanwhile, as Geneva comes nearer it is
more and more difficult to see what course the
conference will follow. So far no concrete pro-
poSalS have been advanced by anyone" The
U. S. Navy Department in urging 10 and IS
year plan for bigger navy does not recognize
1.-The possibility of an agreement for further re-
duction in naval armaments by the Naval Pow
ers." 1.-THE navy does not expect any Such
agreement to be reached at Geneva and this
opinion is shared by most other government
officials" IN Y. Times Jan. 2, 1892. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Journal of COM
merce (Sept. I'D wrote the following: g. E. it
is pointed out that the u S. government is not
so optimistic as to believe that the forthcoming
naval conference will succeed in wiping out the
ornaments of the world or any extremely large
part thereof"
Capitalist diplomats come to a conference not
to talk peace and to disarm They come to form
war alliances and to bargain for a balance of
power. This is the real business The Herald
Tribune (Dec ~ blurts this truth out quite
openly. THE whole history of the conference
method since the war would appear to teach
the simple truth that you do not get something
for nothing. The idea that nations, simply by
sitting down in conference, would suddenly per-
ceive common interest which had escaped their
individual diplomats has proved illusory. Why
=. are not the armament burdens reduced?
Simply because each nation finds either in its
own arms or in the policies of others, some
reason for maintaining its ornaments, more
compelling than its desire for reducing them.
1t would seem to be evident that the only way
in which conference can affect this solution
is by series of bargains which will remove or
diminish the reason for which present arnla-
ments are maintained" These conferences re-
suit in establishing alliances and agreements be-
tween the imperialist countries The Journal of
Commerce april IL, 1890, in pronouncing "last
rites" at the London Naval Conference con-
cludes thus: GAS a result the conference has been
throughout struggle for strategic advantage,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
LET US BROADEN THE BASE OF THE PARTY
RECRUITING DRIVE

such as the arrangement by every unit of mass
meetings in front Of the shops, in the neighbor-
hoods open forums in the territories on What
is our Party" linking up these meetings with
special tasks of the Party-as the role of the
Party in Scottsboro, the role of the Party in Or
ganizing workers in the struggle against wage
cuts, and unemployment Such meetings must
be carefully prepared and shall be utilized TO get
new contacts with the workers.
This recruiting drive must also develop new
forms OF agitation and propaganda In New
York the Communist Party sent out a special
letter to all mass organizations explaining the
role Of the Party. This is good beginning
Leaflets shall be issued and mass meetings shall
be arranged by the fractions in all the trade
unions and language organizations. This can be
done very effectively if these meetings will be
closely linked up with the tasks of the Party
in the building Of these mass organizations and
leading the workers in general. At these meet
ings the role of the Party shall be explained
and the best workers shall be urged to join the
Party This does not replace the method which
Is being used-the Party fractions invite the
close syrnpathiZers in that particular oryariza-
ton and on the basis Of heart-to-heart talk
urge them to jon the Party Both methods
must go hand in hand
Especially now when the bosses are doing
everything possible to spread lies about our Party
in order to detract attention of the more and
more radicalized workers from our Party. it is
our task Systematically and continuously to de-
velop broad agtational campaign to bring our
Party forward as the leader of the working class
This phase OF the drive must be kept In mind
by the districts, sections and units and steps
should be taken to carry It through.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
Geneva and the Coming Imperialist War
By BARD.

animated by the same spirit that has in the past
led to international rivalreS and wars" Lenin
imperialism, p. 1000 expressed it clearly when
he said that these peaceful alliances prepare
the ground for wars and in their turn grow out
of wars the one conditioning the other, gener-
ating the alternating forms of peaceful and war
like struggle out of the same basis of imperiast
connections and the relations between world
economics and world politics"
At the coming Geneva Conference the i'm
perialsts are going to make it appear that not
they and their system are the causes of excess
sive ornaments and wars, but that the Soviet
Union is the reason why they have to maintain
large armies and navies. In other words Russia
is the sole menace to peace and reduction of
ornaments.
This idea is definitely expressed in the follow
ing editorial in the Press Herald, Portland,
Maine Nov. 20):
"The stumbling block which the disaDnanent
conference at Geneva is going to run against
when it is assembled is Russia.
Europe fears Russia as it fears no otherfna-
ton. 1t is afraid to accept Russia in the family
of nations and it is afraid not to take her in
If the Soviet government promises to disarm
there will not be a government in the world
which will accept her word that she will do So
How under these conditions, can it be expected
that general disarmament agreement be
entered into? The system under which Russia
operates is antagonistic to the economic system
under which all the other nations are operating
One system or the other will prevail The Soviet
dictators expect that it will be their system
which will eventually dominate the whole world
To help bring this about the Red dictators are
prepared to use force In the face Of this will
the nations of Europe beat their swords into
pillow shares?"
The capitalists are attempting to hide their
feverish war preparations for war against the
Soviet Union by singing out the U.S.S.R. as the
sole menace to peace. The disarmament con-
ference will strengthen these forces which are
striving to lead the workers into another world
holocaust, this time against the only workers
republic, the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27

The recruiting drive of the Party is on The
quotas are set The concentration is designated.
The major orientation of the drive to the shops
is being more and more hammered out in near
ly all the districts, at least the directives prove
this. The recruiting is being carrid ethrough
by the units, new members are coming in
All this, of course Is progress in the drive.
While it is correct that in this recruiting drive
especially stress the quality of the recruiting
the connection between recruiting and the mass
campaign Of the Party, we can already notice,
however, a definite tendency to narrow the re-
cruiting campaign to the closer groups of work
ers around the Party. While the method of ap-
preaching the most active workers in the shops,
in the unions, in the mass organizations is
correct one, we shall not and cannot limit our
recruiting campaign to the selective method only.
Recruiting into the Party is part of our mass
activities, part of our dolly campaigns and
struggles. In every day work we must bring the
Party to the forefront show the role Of the Party
and urge the militant workers to join our Party.
This can be done II simultaneously with bringing
in the closest sympathizers into the Party, we
carry ON a real mass sgitational campaign to
bring forward our Party as the leader Of the
working class.
The directives of the Central Committee give
the clear line So far we have limited ourselves
to the qualitttive method Of recruiting. We shall
net rut one against hte othcr-guaIity and guam
Lty must go hand in hand.
II is therefore necessary for every District,
section and unit to consider as well the question
OF how TO broaden our recruiting drive in con-
nection with our everyday activities The method
Of open meetings and inviting few Sympathizers
shall not replace the mass forms Of recruiting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
(For the Lenin-Liebknecht- Luxembourg
Campaign
Part TT

The lessons of the year 1905 enabled Lenin to
draw up that strategic general plan which led
the proletarat to victory first in February and
afterwards in october, 1917. This feminist
strategic plan is the basis of the entire policy OF
the c. P. S. U. in the period of the dictatorship
Of the proletariat and the building up Of So
cialism. The feminist strategy and feminist
tactics are the basis of the strategy and tactics
of the Communist movement of the whole
world.
The experiences Of the Bolshevk in the Feb
ruary revolution in 1917, their tactics in the
period between February and October in the
fight for the revolutionary way out Of the crisis
against all the remnants of Czarism, against
the bourgeois Provisional Government, against
the Mensheviki and social revolutionares for
the complete isolation Of these petty bourgeois
parties, the fight for the majority of the work.
ing class for winning the main masses of the
peasantry as the firm allies of the proetarat
in the fight for power the winning of the work.
ing masses of the natonalities formerly OPP
pressed by Czarisn for the proletarian revolu-
ton, the fight for the Bolshevst Sovets for the
power of the Soviet, for the october revolution
as the first stage of the proletarian world revo-
luton, the experiences in the organizing of the
revolt and the seizure of power, the role of the
masses in these historical fights as we'll as the
role of the Party of Lenin in them are of the
greatest Importance to the working class and
the Communist Parties of all countries.
Already on the eve OF the revolution Of 1905
when the Russo Japanese war took place. Lenin
by his declaration OF the question Of the policy
of the proletariat in regard to war laid down
the most consistent revolutionary and interna-
tional standpoint Of Rolslevlsm. his thesis be-
came the Point of departure of BolsheviSt pol
icy with regard to the wars of the imperialist
epoch. Lenin's slogans regarding the "trans-
formation of imperialist war" regarding support
of the revolutionary and national wars Of enan-
cipation by the proletariat, which were developed
aad applied on the largest scale BY the Bolshe-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
The Historical Experiences Of Bolshevism
and the international PrOletariat

Wiki during the imperialst war Of 1914, played
the greatest positive role in bringing about the
victory of the October Revolution and became
the basis of the policy of the Comintern in the
epoch Of Imperialism.
For all countries without exception the pres
ent moment demands the broadcast populariza-
ton of the teachings OF Lenin on the hegemony
of the proletariat in the revolutionary fight, on
the role Of the proletariat as the leader Of all
toilers in town and country in their fight against
misery and hunger, against exploitation and
political oppression, against social and national
oppression, against the whole capitalist system.
The teachings of Lenin on the allies Of the
proletariat and in particular on the alliance Of
the working class with the peasantry, on the
leading role of the working class in this alliance,
is of greatest present Importance for all coun-
tries.
The task Of organizing the united front Of all
exploited and oppressed under the leadership Of
the proletariat was raised by Lenin to the level
of the world problem of the revolutionary al
lance Of the proletariat Of the advanced capt.
talist countries with the ensaved peoples OF the
colonial and semi-colonal countries. The popu-
larzation Of this task is Of extraordinarily
urgent Importance both to the imperialist coun-
tries and also to the dependent and semi
dependent countries in both henispheres
For all countries and especially for Great
Britain, Spain, India and the South American
countries in which the Parties have not yet be-
come mass parties, the popularization Of Lenin-
list teachings of the Party as the advance guard
Of the working class, as the leader Of the broad
masses, as the highest form Of the class union
Of the proletariat, az firm uniform organiza-
ton Of the revolutionary will Of the working
class, represents a highly important everyday
task
AS result of the growth Of the Communist
Parties in the Central European countries and
of the rapid training of new cadres which are
not yet sufficiently Enthusiastically steeled, the
problem of their theoretical schooling acquires
urgent Importance In all Communist Parties
The influx into the Party Of considerable Num-
ber OF the best social-democra$ic workers con
stitltes . TREMENDOUS Victory for Ocuanaaln1en,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
FEW NEGRO WOMEN IN THE
PARTY.

Or let us take the Cleveland district. Here
we have had more or less Of a functioning
Wonen's Department for the past year. The
Department has initiated a number of success
full unemployment struggles and demonstrations.
involving thousands of women At the present
time there are in Cleveland over a thousand
women organized in Unemployed Block Commit
tees and branches, and are the most active Sec
ton in the struggles Of the unemployed. How
ever, how does this reflect itself on the Party
membership? There are only 78 women in the
entire Cleveland district-out of which 30 are
wage earning women. Very few of these are
Negro women or women working in basic in
duStries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
WHY SUCH A SITUATION?

Is it enough to dismiss the shortening of
no shop work among women as some of our
women's work organizers do by a general state
ment We'll the whole Party isn't doing much
work in the shops. How do you expect the wom-
en- to do it?" We think it not quite So Our
women comrade organizers should examine
rather than cover up the failure in our shop
work in the spirit of Bolshevik self-crticism
and overcome it.
This holds good for the Women's Department
@. G. as we'll as for the District Departments.
Why was it that in spite of the numerous in
structions that went out from the Center, the
representative Of the Women's Department C. c.,
Conrade Rogers in a weeks tour covering
basic districts, did not succeed in holding one
single meeting with a group Of shop workers,
Party members and sympathizers, and thus
laying a real foundation for delegate meetings
from among the factory workers. More than
this, why was it that not single factory gate
meeting was held which could have been ad-
dressed by Conrade Rogers during her tour.
Why was it that not one single shop nuclei in
any of the districts where large numbers of
women work, and where no beginnings to date
have been made with work among the women,
called Comrade Rogers to any of the meetings
70 discuss with her how to carry on work among
women. We must state very definitely that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27

but at the same time 1t increases the danger
of social democratic deviations In the Commune
list Parties. The danger Of anarchist and putch-
list tendencies spreading is no less great, in view
Of the increase of fascism.
Hence the very great Importance OF the Boil
shevistic experiences In the fight on two fronts,
of the experiences of interchangeable struggle for
the purity Of Marxist-Leninist teachings In adj
dition to broad BolsheHst agitation among the
masses, the January campaign has the task OF
bringing about turn for the better on the front
of theoretical work Of the parties.
In connection with this turn, Confade Stains
letter con some questions of the history q
Bolshevism" is Of enormous historical and po1it-
ical Importance both to the C.P.S.U. and the
other sections Of the Comintern. Comrade
Stains letter is call for the greatest vigilance
on the theological front. The Communist Par
ties must above all strengthen the fight in their
own ranks for the theological purity Of Marx
ism and Leninism, against the underestimation
Of revolutionary theory, against the separation
Of theory from the practice Of the revolutionary
fight, for strengthening the Communist eonosp-
tons of the Party in theoretical work. against
any Cancellation and rotten liberalism towards
all deviations from and distortions Of Marsdsm
and Leninsm. This letter raises the task of
studying the history TO the Comintern and Of
the C.P.S.U, the history of every Communist
Party in closest connection with the most i'm
mediate tasks by the Party cadres and the pop
uarization of this history among the masses, TO
an exceedingly high political level This letter
warns against the percolation Of hostile, social
democrats theories" and attitudes into our
pes0 and into Communist literature, thing
wtdse ~ alEnady harpMAd a. - Mu11n1M
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WHAT is TO BE DONE?

In order to overcome the present criminal ne
glect of our shop work among women the entire
Party must be modified for this work. The
District Committees must assume full political
and organizational responsibilities for develop
ing work among Negro and unemployed working
women. This must be one of the major tasks
in connection with International Women's Day
campaign and the recruitment drive.
Let us carry through in practice the teach
ings Of Comrade Lerin: ''The Communist Won-
ems movement itself must be mass movement
part of the general mass movement not only Of
the proletariat but of all the exploited and op-
pressed, of the victims Of capitalism We must
win over on our side the millions of toiling
struggle and in particular for the Communist
transformation of society There can be no
mass movement without women"
The Party must become conscious Of the rap
idly increasing rehabilitation and n1iltancy Of
the Negro and white working class women. The
Party must learn how to win these categories
of workers for the Party and the TUUL. The
entire Party, especially the shop nuclei and
trade unions must be modified for this task.
The Districts plan of work for L w. D. should
have as the central task work among industrial
women in the shops and among the unem-
ployed. Our work should not be merely meet
lngS from Cne OUTSIDE OF Cne factories DuJ pro-
vide for informal meetings in private homes
with our present shop contacts.
Let us discuss with them their daily problems
in the factories. Advise them and lead them in
their struggles against increased misery and ex-
ploitation. 1t is only through direct knowledge
and participation in their struggles that we can
gain the confidence of the working women. Let
us prove to them, through deeds that the Com
muniSt Party is their class political Party This
cannot be accomplished only through distrbu-
ton of leaflets, mass meetings and demonstra-
tons. We must begin patient systematic, well
planned legal and semi-legal work in and around
the factories.
Let the district department for women make
a beginning in the recruitment drive to orien-
tate the work among women toward the fac
tory workers. Let us carry through in our daily
work the fine paper plans of work.
Double the number of industrial women in
the Party!
TriIe the number of Negro women by March
9Th!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
ORIENTATE TOWARDS THE SHOPS.

We cannot at the present period Of sharpen
ing class struggles be satisfied with good meet
ings of Mothers Leagues Women's Councils
Womens Clubs of Housewives ETC. Such meet
ings are necessary and should be held, but they
must not become the central activities. Once
and for all, the districts must make real turn
in our work among women away from the
housewives and towards the factory and unem-
ployed women workers
One Of the main reasons for not recruiting
more industrial and Negro women into the Party
and into the TUUL is due to the fact that these
women do not yet see in the Party and in the
TUUL the form of organization which deals
with concretely and fights for the special prob
lens of women, in addition to the general work
ing class problems. In other words, our Party
and the TUUL have not yet formulated spe-
cial slogans and demands for industrial and I'M
employed working women, nor have we devel-
oped delegate meetings, the form of organiza-
ton which could attract women from the fac
tories and which would develop them politically
to join the Party
Our present slogans and demands for women
in factories and among unemployed merely
agitational and abstract in form. At times they
do not get beyond the appeals in our Party cir
cuIars, the Working Woman, and on few occa-
sions the Daily Worker
The special women's demands by far too few,
and inSufficently concrete from the Central
Committee have not been utilized by the dis
tricts nor have they been concretzed and made
fighting demands for improving the conditions
of the industrial and unemployed working
women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-27
BY A. DAMON.
(WOmen's Department c. c.

WHILE improvement in our general
W work among women can be recorded the
basic task of shop work among women remains
totally neglected.
The Party registration recently carried
through shows glaringly our main weaknesses
with regard to the social composition of women
members in the Party.
The total number Of women in the Party so
far registered is 1854, which is 1872 per cent of
our total membership. Out Of this number only
814 are wage earners The remainder, TAO, are
housewives.
The Districts where the wage earning women
are distributed is also very limited. New York
has 682, about Al per cent All the other dis
tricts combined have the remainder Of S72, or
SO per cent.
In the industrial districts chosen for concen-
tration by the Central Committee, we have
hardly q handful Of industrial women. Within
the last months no change to any great extent
can be recorded in the districts We want to
take as an example two districts of outstanding
importance-Detroit and Cleveland. "a similar
situation can be found in most districts with the
exception of New York;
FAIL TO PENETRATE FACTORIES.
Detroit district has a total women membership
of H. Out of these only IL are recorded as wage
earners. This category includes school teachers,
welfare workers. office workers and mattresses.
Practically none work in basic factories concen-
trated upon by the district and the central COM
mittee. When we compare this insignificant
number OF women in the Party with the total
number of wage earning women in Michigan
State (36O701, out of which 82,329 are directly
engaged in manufacturing and chemical indus
tries according to 1880 I. S. Census report, we
can readily see the failure of the district in
penetrating the large shops where women are
employed; and we see the tremendous task
facing the District to recruit industrial women
into the Party.
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Party Recruiting Drive
January II March IS, 1882
CRUTTING WOMEN INTO THE PARTY

orientation for work among women is still among
the housewives and contrary to the decisions Of
the 18th Penum of our Party.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-13
Center Meeting
At Rose School

Rose Mesquite Lake farm center
met last night in the Rose school
for an interesting program which
opened with motion pictures of the
lumber industry and OF Oriental
markets. the latter being taken on
the trip to the Orient made by B.
II. Crocheron, head of the extern
sion service of the University of
California.
Community singing was led by
II. Lee Landerman, assistant farm
advisor. accompanied by Mrs. Mel
vim, who later played violin solos.
Frank Beyschlag, farm advisor,
spoke on the activities of the ex-
tension service; Assemblyman S. E.
Robinson talked on taxation and in
predicting that the state would
take over a large part of school
support, pointed out that this
would mean Capitalization Of
authority which might affect the
schools.
f. T. Hewes, vice-president of the
farm bureau, spoke on the activ-
tiles of that organization.