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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

nuclei already existing, but from shops where we
have no shop nuclei. In the city of Chicago
from all the Shops only the stockyards recruit
ed new members out of the is. Outside of Chi
cago only were recruited from existing shop
nuclei-two from railroad in st. Louis and one
from Illinois Steel
There was not q serious enough approach to
shop work. Section is an example. They are
given four applications month ago from Com
monwealth Edison. Have talked to the COM
rades in Section but no meeting has been
called yet
In the ten sections which sent in plans OF
work, there forty factories for concentration.
These will have to be followed up more per-
sonally than up to now. We will have to
coordinate the unions with the shop committees
also Link up the shop work with tn ebuilding OF
the unions.
Relation between the unemployed councils
and work in the shop: We have not taken ad-
vantage of our opportunities. We should utilize
the 10000 members OF the unemployed councils
in our shop work. The same in the sections
For example section a. in the German Fraction
there are IA members of the Nature Friends
working in Deering. There will be registra-
ton of all mass organizations. This is to be
linked up with an theological campaign.
"There is a tendency in the Party where We
say the most important campaign is shop work
Shop work is not q campaign The basis Of all
other campaigns must be in the shop, but shop
work is not a campaign that we will concentrate
on for four months and then stop. We will have
bad results if we do not change this outlook"
This is correct. Shop work is not separate
campaign. 1t is the basic daily work Of our
Party. 1t is in the shop where we bring in ali
our campaigns Of the Party and through these
campaigns in the shop strengthen our Party
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
INTO THE SHOPS!
THE BUILDING OF SHOP NUCLEI

had no contacts. We are now taking steps TO
give the nucleus as much guidance from the
center as possible Our immediate aim is to
establish 9 unit in Portland and coordinate the
activities Of the two units with our main con-
centraton on the textile mill.
Quincy, Mass: Here is g shipyard, g SUD-
sidiary of the Bethlehem Steel, employing about
1000 workers. Two of our Party members have
worked there for many years. The composition
Of the workers in the shop is American, Irish,
Lithuanian Finnish Negro. The composition Of
the nucleus today is not of the best One COM
rade who was working there for seven years did
not recruit a single worker into the Party. How
ever, lately we succeeded in getting III two new
members. And we have now the basis for the
formation of a nucleus there We attached one
comrade, the section organizer, to this nucleus.
This is only beginning We have all the pos
sibiities to develop g real fighting nucleus
there"
This is good beginning. The District COM
mittee must now take every possible step to con-
suit with the comrades, to give them daily guild
ance to see to 1t that shop paper is issued
and to help the comrades to formulate the de-
nands around which to mobilize the workers.
Let us not have the past habit Of organizing
nucleus and feeling satisfied. 1t Is the everyday
work, the everyday attention, the attention to
detail which will help to make the nucleus real
fighting organization
a question TO the District:
Did we organize political discussion on the
role of the Party in these new nucleiS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
BOSTON MAKES PROGRESS.

In a report from Boston they write:
I'VE have organized two shop nuclei, one In
quincy and one in Lewiston. Here is how each
one OF them was organized:
Lewiston, Maine is city Of some $4,000
population OPP to now the Party has had no
contacts there. We never bothered with entering
this territory, but it happened that about is
miles from there, in Portland Maine, we had one
Party member This Party member succeeded in
getting q new recruit in Portland only about
three weeks ago. Having strengthened his posi-
ton in Portland, he began to- plan work. They
learned that in Lewiston there are quite few
workers who read the Lithuanian Communist
daily, and are members of the Lithuanian Work
ers Club The two Portland comrades went
down to visit some OF the contacts, discussed
with them the problems in Lewiston. Three of
those visited were workers In the BIT mill,
which employs more than 1000 workers All
three were found willing to organize and to
even sign UP for the CP, since they were all pre-
pared Tor 1t through the Communist press. And
so aucseus was formed IN one 70 the biggest
ssrsSAs mills "a that stare where up to now Ue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

Make Use of Labor Research Material!
The articles Of the Labor Research Associa-
ton, printed in the Daily three or four times a
week, must be utilized by our comrades in the
districts much more than hitherto.
These articles are full of facts and figures on
wage-cuts speed-up, unemployment hazards in
industry, war preparations, etc. etc.
Comrades as rule (and in many respects
the most burning questions OF the day: wage
justified) have standing cry: MATERIAL.
NECESSARY! We must have material to pro-
vide our speakers with to make speeches de-
liver lectures and develop our campaigns gen.
orally" 1t is obviously necessary for the Agit-
prop Department directly to provide the districts
with much material as necessary. Labor Re-
search articles If utilized, certainly can fill the
bill Of the much-needed material in the dis
tricts
But are these articles and material made full
use off Not in so far as we know.
The Agitprop Department. &C., has called
to the attention Of the districts, through a
special communication, the need of making use
OF L. r. A. material In this communication we
suggested methods how to do this We have
also made arrangements with the Daily Worker
so that every district can obtain special bundle
OF Dailies when these articles are printed, and
them "facts FOR speakers" for their lee
turers and speakers But only one district, Chi
cago, has taken note OF this communication and
made the necessary arrangements. The rest OF
the districts not heard front And the dis
tricts still need MATERIAL"
Let every district Immediately make arrange
ments with their sections and units and let
every district at once make arrangements,
through the Agitprop Department, &C., to get
special bundles Of the Daily Worker when these
articles are printed Preserve these articles in
special file to which you can refer whenever
necessary and use the material
Labor Research articles must be made real use
OF in our daily work.
AcITpRop DEPARTMENT, g. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
CLEVELAND EXPOSES WEAK
NESSES IN CONNECTION WITH
SHOP WORK.
The recruiting plan of District states

The recruiting plan Of District sJaJes
SIN analyzing our shop activity, we must con-
ereJely learn from the experiences of our com
radeS inside the factories Let us therefore take
the experience of one shop nucleus, the FB in
Clveland This nuclus with a membership of
ten was allowed to drop its activities for close
to two months when the factory shut down last
october. Instead OF utilizing theperiod when the
plant was shut down to maintain the nucleus,
finding methods OF reaching the workers at home,
distributing the shop paper to them reaching
the workers on days when they came to the en-
ployment office for a job, this task was utterly.
neglected.
with the start of work, the nucleus has again
begun activities, but we have not yet found
methods OF overcoming the difficulties in the
factories where the workers are employed on
different shifts This lack of response shows an
lIrlsystematic study Of conditions in each par
ticular shop and the necessity, as pointed out In
the Central Committee resolution, Of adapting
our activity TO the particular characteristics OF
each factory"
Another report from Cleveland states:
II wish to bring out one more fact in con-
nection with the hesitance Of some workers to
Join our shop nuclei and of the Party members
TO carry on work within the large plants, be-
cause OF a fear Of being unprotected and losing
their jobs. One of the workers in the FB nu-
cleus Joined the street unit in Collingwood.
After having attended two meetings of the street
unit he was asked to attend he meeting of the
shop nucleus. This he didn't do. 1t is quite
possible that he was more hesitant to attend the
shop nucleus meeting than a street nucleus
meeting"
Note: This report shows that the one hand
the worker who joined the street nucleus did
so because the shop nucleus failed to become
the leader of the struggles of the workers in
not particular shop by falling to raise actual de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

mands and grievances OF the workers, develop
ing struggles and doing everything in its power
to politicanze these struggles The shop nu-
cleus was divorced from the shop. Also because
insufficient attention is being given TO the ques
lion OF safeguarding our Party comrades who
are working in big shops. Neither in the nucleus
itself nor the Party frnctionaries pay sufficient
attention TO this question. This must be changed.
The &C resolution Of the XIII Plenum on this
question states:
1.-THE task Of the districts and sections is to
develop the work in the shop units individually,
with individual approach to each unit; to dis
cuss with the members Of the shop units, or
With one or two Communists in the shop, the
concrete possibilities for work in short period,
working out the special tasks that can be ac-
comphshed in the given circumstances during
Z week or two and developing this plan Of work
gradually and Systematically We cannot help
The situation by declarations that Communists
in the shops are poisoned with opportunism and
With unwilHngness to work in the shops, nor by
the conception that our weaknesses can be over
come by disciplinary measures, exclusions, etc.
The most dangerous form Of opportunism in
practice that binders us from building the shop
nuclei is not in the Communists working in the
shop, but in the approach Of our functionarics
TO them. The fear of difficulties Of shop work
by the Communist workers is because of the fact
that we do not know how TO carry out this work.
All the attention Of ne Party must be concen-
trated on helping our comrades in the shops to
solve their problems" (Our emphasis)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
AGAINST THE LINE OF LEAST
RESISTANCE IN THE RECRUITING
DRIVE.
Pittsburgh writes:

Pittsburgh writes:
eve must resolve that during this recruiting
campaign we shall establish the Pittsburgh dis
trtct sa basic district OF mine and steel nuclei
A systematic, planned drive must be organized
and carried through in every section to recruit
employed workers from the mines and mills
We must guard against the line Of lease resist
snce, Of recruiting only from the ranks OF the
unemployed While we must make energetic
efforts to win the best elements of these workers
for our Party, we must place special emphasrs on
those still employed in the mines and mills,
concentrating on the Pittsburgh Coal, Pittsburgh
Terminal Vesta Mine, Jones 81 Laughlan This
must be done through establishing new mine ana
steel nuclei, strengthening the existing nuceli
anc activlzing our members"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
KILLING MINERS IN
THE i. s. A.
ny BURCK.

were employed in 1929 an average of 221 days.
Multiplying the number of men by the number
of days, they arrive at the number of man-shifts
worked, which is then divided by 300 days to
arrive at the number of "30O-day workers" This
is necessary for comparison of rates in a series
Of years or in several different industries. The
unadjusted figure would understate the hazard
of coal miners giving death rate of only 80
per 10000 workers.. The adjusted figure
481,545 "300-day workers"-gves the official
estimate OF As deaths per 10000 workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

in weight. has grey eyes and greying hair, thin
at the top He speaks Russian, English and
German and understands other Slavic languages.
J. w. Doty, OF Denver, Colo. also using the
names OF Dewey, Roberts and Clark, member Of
the Trade Union Unity League and OF an Un-.
employed Council Cbut not OF the Communist
Party, has been exposed by the Denver District
organization Of the Communist Party, and driven
out from all workers organizations as a Pin
kerton detective and an undercover agent OF the
railroad and traction companies in Denver.
He is about As years Of age, heavy set of about
200 pounds in weight and about feet inches
in height He has flabby, boated face shifty
look and whining approach.
All workers and working-class organizationJ|
are warned against these stool pigeons 81
CENTRAL CONTROL CONFESSION. nj
:, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE u.sAAs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
CHICAGO MAKES HEADWAY IN
THE SHOPS FOR CONCENTRATION.

The Chicago district reports:
"In 3 period of approximately six weeks up
to November 1st 80 workers were recruited from
10 shops that we have for concentration. is of
these workers were recruited inside OF Chicago
and II outside Chicago. Most were from basic
industries. They were not recruited by shop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
Hoover Dam Damns Hoover

Now and then some squirt of a member in
the Hoover cabinet spouts off something about
the terrible sacrifices the Russian workers are
making to complete the Five Year Plan They
are making sacrifices, too, but the cabinet mem.
bers and the boss press which talk about it 20
on from that to outright lies about forced La
bor' and "20 cents q day." and all such rubbish.
Well, how does socialist construction match up
with capitalist construction on, let's say the
Hoover Dam? The Hoover government ia boss
lots bigger, but it got started about twenty years
after the Hoover Dam, which was begun back
in Roosevelt's administration. Dnieperstroi viii
be finished this year. The Hoover Dam-after
the revolution, maybe.
Then, while the Dnieperstroi workers are GER
tainly working hard, they are getting pay raises
and, when not volunteering to work longer, have
the 7-hour day. The Hoover Dam is being built
by government contractors, a gang called the
Six Companies" just like the Chinese longs and
fully as vianous. Wage cuts and no safety
provisions that cost workers their lives brought
a strike not long ago that was ruthessly crushed.
Not long ago a worker wrote us about the
terrible conditions of the workers, sleeping like
hogs on dirt floors without bedding, and the
swarm of prostitutes that gathered round the
gin mills Quite a nice place to represent
Hoover!
Now in paper Of that locality, we see that
there Is also no provision for schools Tor 300
kids OF the workers employed there, who live on
the federal government reservation. The gov
eminent is fully responsible. Altogether, we think
that the Hoover Dam is properly named.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
AS ANSWER TO THE CHICAGO CHALLENGE PITTS
BURGH MAKES OTHER PROPOSALS:
Pittsburgh proposes:

proposes:
present membership by so
Quic thanth District
of average Gncudng
stamps January February March
be equivalent to 80 per of membership
will gain quota coal miners $3.50 District
before District likewise.
organize coal steel metal
recruit Party steel
dustry.
quota shop District does like
wise
Chicago your opinion? Answer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
Warning Against
Spies

Alexander Schuwalow (alias John BrOvel), OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, whose photograph appears
herewith, has been exposed and expelled by the
Pittsburgh District organization OF the Commun-
mist Party as a spy.
He came to Pittsburgh from Buffalo, N. Y,
in the beginning of $780, and was Investigated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
BY LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.

by LABUh HESEARCH ASSUCIAIIUNo
THE U. S. Bureau of Mines has announced the
official estimate Of death and injuries in
American mines during 1929. Coal mines had
the highest fatal accident rate, with As deaths
among every 10000 full time workers
Death rates are based not on the total num-
Der Of men employed but on an adjusted figure
which the Bureau of Mines calls "3O0-day work
ers" In coal mines, for example, 654,s4s men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

upon information that his wife In Buffalo was
receiving checks drawn by a detective agency,
and 1t was definitely established that he is a
traitor and spy, who plies his despicable trade
especially against the foreign born workers and
had applied to take course toward becoming
an immigration Inspector for the U. S. govern
ment.
He is about As years old, OF Russian BIRTH
about 5 feet inches in height. about lao pounds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

No general figures on non-fatal injuries in
coal mines available but the Bureau of
Mines gives estimate based on figures from
operators taking part in the National Safety
Contest. How this UNDERSTANDS the problem is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11

discussed in Labor and Coal, by Anna Rochester
especially pages 117 and 237). The number of
non-fatal injuries in coal mines in 1929 was
certainly between 10000 and 100000, instead of
the 10000 given below.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
War Is Not An
Accident
BY v. 1. LENIN.

Excerpts from an article written November
1914)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-22

Margiotti, of Pittsburgh, counsel
for Davis, Livine admitted that
Mayor Broening might have
added these remarks as his own
to the official report of the
supreme council.
Two bookkeepers, employed by
Mracus and Mayer, Philadelphia
printers, were next called. This
firm printed the tickets for the
1881 Moose charity ball.
Bess Elgar and Gertrude Sobel,
the bookkeepers, identified &C
counts as those kept for the
propagation department of the
Moose, which handled the promo
ton of the charity balls.
James w. Reed, of Scranton,
Pa. printing solicitor for the
Eureka Printing Company, testi-
fled his firm printed part of the
tickets for the 1881 charity ball.
Bares Printing Deal
Reed testified he obtained the
order from Bernard c. MCGUIRE,
promoter and real estate opera,
tor, of Aurora, Ill. Mcclure was
hired by the propagation depart
ment for work on the charity
ball,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-22
MISSOURI GRID
ACE ENDS LIFE
|. IN BALTIMORE
Harry Jackson Makes Good
On Second Attempt to
Commit Suicide

BALTIMORE, Sept. %
I.N.S. ).-Harry r. jackson,
SO, who starred as a football
player while attending the Uni
versity of Missouri, from
which he was graduated in
1924, today made good his at
tempt to end his life.
His body, with a bullet wound
in the head and a pistol, lying
nearby, was found today huddled
in a dirty corner of Pier Six,
Pratt Street.
The coroner said the body
apparently had been lying on the
pier for eight hours.
Second Attempt
Four months ago Jackson
attempted to take his life in a
rooming house in the "flop-house"
district along the waterfront. He
swallowed poison and was taken
to the Volunteers Of America
Hospital.
There he told Capt. John
Logan, the superintendent, he
was estranged from his wife, Mrs.
Catherine Pontius Jackson, who
lives in New York. Logan sent
for her and she came here, re-
manned by her husbands side
for some time, and then returned
to New York. Logan said today
he thought they would reconcile
their differences and live together.
Intimated Deed
A passport was found in Jack
sons clothes. 1t was made for
his entrance to Brazil. 1t bore
the name of Harry r. Jackson, st.
Joseph, Mo.
Logan said Jackson's father is
a business man in st. Joseph. He
added:
"He told me sometime ago
that if he ever was found dead,
1 should notify his father in st.
Louis. I have been keeping in
touch with him since his dis
charge from our hospital. He
has been trying to get work."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-22
REGIMENT NEAR
At NEW SCHOOL

Replacement of the old Bust
ness High School by the new
Roosevelt High School probably
will result in the creation of a
cadet corps regiment.
According to Col. Wallace M.
Craigie, U. S. A., retired, director
of military training in the Dis
trict schools, the increased enroll
ment at the new school will pro
duce sufficient number of
cadets to raise the former Bust,
ness High School separate bat
talon to g. regiment.
With organization of the cadet
corps proceeding at five high
schools, Colonel Craigie is await,
ing the recommendations of the
school principals for candidates
for the cadet colonelcy. An ex
animation will be held early next
week to name the brigade com
mander.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-22
SEE
PRESIDENT

Delegates to the twentieth an
nual convention of the Interna'
tional Association of Public EN-
ployment Services, meeting at
the Washington Hotel, cut to-
days morning session short in
order to go to the White House
to meet President Hoover.
Brief addresses featured the
session, H. C. Hudson, of Toronto,
Canada, general superintendent
of the Employment Service of
Canada, speaking on Highway
Construction Camps as a Partial
Solution of the Employment
Problem" while Meredith B.
Owens, of the Social Science Re
search Council. of New York,
talking on JOB Specification as
a Basis for the Operation of
Employment Exchanges"
The afternoon session of the
convention was devoted to an
open forum on employment
Office Publicity"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-22
P. D. LOAN PLAN
OPPOSED

The suggestion of J. E. Tyler,
jr., a Richmond banker, that a
small loan department be created
in the postal system. was opposed
today by Arch Coleman, First AS,
Sistant Postmaster General, who
said it was inconsistent with de,
partmental policy and would be
IAN unnecessary entrance of the
government in competitive
field"
Coleman added:
81 am sure the POStOffice De-
partment would not approve a
plan of that kind. 1t is a non
postal function and there seems
no necessity f1e the POstOffice
or any other Government branch
entering tn field. There are
plenty Of small loan companies"
While the savings bank division
of the postal department is per-
forming nonpostal function, Mr.,
Coleman explained, it is not in
competition with private enter
prise, since its interest rate is
lower than is usually paid by
banks.