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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL

In order to build TO much higher level the
struggles to free the nine Scottsboro Negro boys,
against the massacre of the Ford Hunger march
ers and for the defeat Of the boss manhunt to
secure the release Of Tom Mooney, the victims
of the bloody terror in Kentucky, Tampa I'M
perial Valley and all the class war prisoners, to
fight against lynchings and deportations, it is
necessary to bring forward very sharply some of
the glaring weaknesses of this campaign.
The sharpening of the bloody attacks organ
lied against the workers, especially the jobless
as in Dearborn, the private city of Henry Ford
emphasizes the necessity of rapidly overcoming
these weakness. The most outstanding of these
are the following:
l. insufficient penetration Of organizations
on the basis of the United Front from below; in
the Scottsboro case, the numerous Negro organ
izations, and in developing the Mooney, Ford
Kentucky campaigns, the struggle against the
labor bureaucracy in the local unions of the
American Federation of Labor. Especially in the
Scottsboro case, too much reliance on the Negro
misleed ers and too much orientation toward the
churches.
O. Very slow progress in linking up local issues
with the Scottsboro and the Mooney issues Even
where there have been outstanding prosecutions
of Negro workers. the resistance to these has not
been united with the Scottsboro struggle suffi-
GENTLY.
3. Many weaknesses in our efforts to Link up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Win Masses for Defense Struggles

the Scottsboro campaign with our struggles
against lynching and Jim Crowism, the chain
gang system various forms of forced labor and
other prosecutions Of Negroes insufficient
struggle against white chauvinisin
4. Failure to break completely with the de-
pendence upon legalism which has been In
herent in appeal actions carried through to higher
courts. Bad practices in the Gastonia appeal as
well as in many local appeals was repeated in
the absence of sufficient mass protest during the
week of the Scottsboro Appeal.
5. Not sufficient raising of the scottsporo.
Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa issues during the
Unemployed demonstrations, February Fourth.
Dramatization Of these issues in the February
Fourth Demonstrations through effective spec
tacular pageants was not done sufficiently There
is still too much satisfaction merely with raising
few slogans or carrying few placards. This is
not enough.
6. The failure to develop the mass character
Of the Scottsboro. Mooney. Kentucky. Tampa
campaigns Is reflected in the narrowness of the
conferences called on these issues; coupled with
the tendency to allow these narrow conferences
to evaporate Immediately after they are called
together, rather than seeking theoretically to
develop and strengthen them through widening
the base
7. These Shortcomings are also reflected In
the great lack Of organzational results and the
failure to connect up the raising of the necessary
funds with these campaigns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
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Listen to This!

Arthur Brisbane speaking in the N. Y, Amer
lean Of March 3, and he admits the charge we
Communists have been making against the god
awful Hollywood movies as so-called "amuse-
ments" that are aimed to keep the workers
minds off the class struggle and how to win it,
In writing in opposition to the New York tax
on movies, Brisbane says:
1t Is difficult enough, under the existing
circumstances, to keep the crowd In cheerful
mood, discOuraging active dissatisfaction With
out this laying of tax on the peoples harn-
less amusement"
Wen, If movies of the general admission type
OF rot are harmless" to the capitalists they are
harmful to the workers, which is what Brisbane
meant by saying "the crowd" And, incidentally.
by admitting this much, Brisbane admits that his
own "cherrio" line of hokum is also meant to
discourage active dissatisfaction short to
lie TO the workers, to fool the masses
That's worth remembering when some ciopey
liberal complains that the Daily Worker is too
terrible" with its stories of strikes, iaiings.
murders Of organizers and so on. But these are
the facts of the class war, the most important
things the workers can learn Brisbane, like all
capitalist editors, wants that all covered up And
they do their best to do it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
By BUICK

PERTALISM! In every section of China, the
masses are raIlying to the leadership Of the
Chinese Communist Party to the support of
the Chinese Soviet districts and the Chinese
Red Army. Won Wiegand and his diplomat in
formant are not the first to admit this. In
his dispatch Won Wiegand further admits:
"Msgovernnent, official graft and extortion,
hopelessness grown out Of years Of economic
misery and social distress, prepared the way for
the Soviet idea" g. '.ef,
What he does not admit, however Is that the
foreign imperialists are as much responsible for
these conditions of mass misery as are their
Kuomintang tools. Won Wiegand further states
that he investigated" the growth Of Communism
in China and fully agrees with his diplomat
friend: efs>4
81 agree with my diplonatst friend in Peipng
Communism today is meance in large sections
Of China The fact alone, as / found In one of
the government reports, that Generallissimo
Chang Kai-shek last summer sent thirty dig-
sions Of troops into Kiangsi province, under the
personal command Of the Minister Of War him
self, General Ho Wing Ching to eradicate the
Red forces, and failed at that, established beyond
doubt that Communism has again become
menace in China. f
when an army of more than 800 900 troops
is considered necessary against an enemy, as
in that campaign, the enemy must indeed be
formidable" TE
What Won Wiegand omits to state is that
those OF the Marking troops willing to fight had
to fight the entire population Of the districts
they invaded Men, women and children de-
Tended their liberties against the Marking
butchers.
The Marking generals themselves we're forced
admit this to be the main reason of their failure
to eradicate" the powerful Chinese Red Army
In addition, tens of thousands of the Marking
troops deserted to the Red Army.
Today again, the Chinese Soviet districts are
being attacked by the armies of the Kuonnintang,
this time aided by. the troops and warships of
the Japanese and other imperialist powers.
Workers of America! Rally to the defense of
Soviet China! Defend this rising flourishing
world against the aggressions of the dying
world Of capitalism, which Is trying to solve
its crisis at the expense Of the life blood of
the toiling masses of the world, at the expense
of the re-conquest of the Chinese Soviet dis
trcts at the expense of the Chinese Revolution
and armed Intervention against the Soviet
Union. Ring the Soviet world with an iron
defense. 1t is your world, Negro and white
workers! Your hope Of the future! Your road
of escape out Of the misery and oppression of
capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Communism Is on the March
in China

steadily tightening their net around 1t. Several
weeks ago, martial law was declared against the
masses and followed by savage terror aimed at
suppressing the mass ant-imperialist, anti
Kuomintang movement in the city The terror
has failed of its purpose The revolutionary
movement continues TO spread and grow. The
Japanese now plan an attempt to drown the
revolutionary movement in blood.
These preparations for new bloody attacks
against the revolutionary Chinese masses are
explained by the terror of the imperialists at
the tempestuous upsmge of the national revolu-
tionary movement, the growing influence of the
Chinese Communist Party, the growth of the
Chinese Soviet districts Admission to this ef-
feet has been made repeatedly in the imperialist
press and is contained in recent dispatch to
the Hearst newspapers by Karl H. Won Wiegand,
Hearst newspaper correspondent at Shanghai
The dispatch states:
'"China will be the second Soviet nation In
the world 1t may at first be only Southern
China and part of the Yangtze valley which
will become sOvietized but that Is on the way
with big strides
zone of the keenest and most deliberate dip
lomatic observers in China made this statement to
me in Peiping the other day-a man who weighs
carefully what he says and doesn't say 1t until he
knows what he is talking about.
Red China looming on the horizon-a China
with 5oO000,00O people, almost one-sixth of the
population of the earth, alongside and adjoining
Red Russia!
That startles you said my friend. I wish
it would startle the world to realization of
what is going on in China these days, and es-
pecially in those regions more or less remote from
communications and transportation.
81 am no prophet but I have studied the
march of Communism in China these days, and
have come to the conclusion that it is far
greater menace than the world knows When
you go to Marking and to Shanghai look into it,
and shall be surprised if you do not come to
similar conclusions"
Communism, which is liberating the op
pressed Chinese masses and raising their ma
terial and cultural conditions, is not considered
by these masses as menace. They know that
the real menace to the tOiIing masses of the
whole world is NOT COMMUNISM, BUT M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
By CYRIL BRIGGS

CHANGHAT dispatches of March II report that
v the Japanese are now threatening the revolu-
tionary masses of Hankow with a blood bath.
Notice to this effect was given by the japanese
Consul at Hankow who threatened the masses
with similar action as at Shanghai" At Shang
hal, tens of thousands of unarmed workers and
babies were butchered by the japanese invaders
who rained death by bombing planes and artil-
lery on the densely populated proletarian district
of Chapel. AS the flames spread, Japanese planes
swooped low and raked with machine gun bull
lets the workers trying to escape from their
burning huts. The Hankow workers are now
informed they must stop their angry protests
against the bestial crimes of Japanese i'm
perialism or face similar massacre.
HakoW is the most important industrial city OF
Central China. 1t is near the Chinese Soviet
districts Imperialist gunboats and troops are
there now helping the Kuomintang to hold the
city against it's revolutionary working-clasS pop
uation and the Chinese Red Armies which are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

the houses Of the bourgeoisie, hotels YMCA,
YWCA, ETC., from the use of the unemployed.
To turn all war funds for unemployed. To unite
the struggles against hunger and war.
This movement must penetrate into the fac
tories, winning part time employed and employed
workers who, in this period, are working under
most severe exploitation, speed-up and wage cuts,
and simultaneously develop mass movement in
the factories and in struggle against Speed-up,
lay-offs wage cuts, for hour day in all the fac
tories and hour day in railroads without reduc-
ton in wages, building factory branches of the
TUUL unions, 1t is necessary to penetrate into
the local unions Of the American Federation of
Labor with campaign for the Unemployment
Insurance Bill Our movement must broaden
itself among all the categores of the workers,
especially among the Negroes, women, youth and
children, so we can have on our side the decisive
section of the working class. 1t can be accom-
plished if we will overcome some of the narrow
sectarian otlook in our work and broadening in
activity, engaging thousands Of active workers in
every day work and struggle. And bring to the
ranks of the Communist Party thousands of
workers.
Above all we must reach the workers in the
shops This is our weakest link. We are making
progress in this respect at a snails tempo. The
main reason for it is that we did not reach the
workers with demands ana slogans as prdCGlCaI
and concrete as we did with our unemployed
work, and also, in many cases it appears that
our Party has become a Party of unemployed
workers only At one of the meetings of the
unemployed, Party member made speech to
the workers showing that it is our Party that
leads them in struggle. There were at this
meeting also employed workers and after the
meeting was over an unemployed worker come to
the speaker and asked the question: Does the
Communist Party admit to its ranks also en-
ployed workers." The question put in such a
sharp manner may be exaggerated to some ex-
tent, but the Party in Chicago district must fully
realize the danger that exists if We don't pene-
trate into the factories and unite the struggle OF
the employed and unemployed as one in the
common front against the boss class. The diff
cultes that exist in shop work we can overcome
by giving the most detailed attention to the
problems of the workers in each, shop, and If we
are net able to overcome them, it shows that we
are not real bolsheviks. There are no difficulties
which the bol5heviks cannot overcome.
While we must increase our activity among the
unemployed masses tenfold, it must be brought
to the forefront to the Communist Party. TUUL
and the whole revolu' icnary movement in Chi
cago and throughout District that our main
task is to penetrate into the factories and mass
organizations of the working-class and partic-
ularly the local unions Of the American Fedora
which must be linked up and carried to frgther
victories in struggle against canitar~n, tho Uc-
tenn Of war and hunger for the masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

g. Insufficient struggle against the National
association for the Advancement OF Colored
People which must be fought more theoretically
than ever as the eXecutioners of the boys while
It is made over clearer before the masses that it
is only the mass protest modified by the inter-
national Labor Defense that can save them.
Our major task Immediately, is to overcome
these weaknesses. The Scottsboro Detroit
Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa issues CRY loudly for
an intensification of mass protest The Develop
ment OF these struggles to real mass propor-
lions becomes the best basis for our actiyities
against the prosecutions and increasing terror
growing out of the war situation, nationally and
internationally. and in defense Of Soviet China
and the Soviet Union
In some respects the Scottsboro and the
Mooney issues parallel each other at the present
moment The Scottsboro appeal is under con-
sideration" by the Alabama State Supreme Court;
the most recent development in the Mooney case
CWalkers trip to San Francisco is under con-
sideration by the Governor of California Gov
ernor Rolph. Any tendency to wait on the de-
cisions of the Alabama Supreme Court Judges or
California's Governor must be overcome COM
pletely.
This mass mobilization can be achieved on the
basis OF carrying through the correct policies of
the International Labor Defense, especially in
CoiAieCIlOu WIFI drawing all possible OrgaOlZa-
tons into the defense movement The defense
struggle must be rooted i'll all organizations
especially the Trade Union Unity League and all
its affiliated organizations, the UNEMPLOYED
Councils, the Communist Party, the Young Com
nunist League, the local unions of the American
Federation of Labor and the independent Trade
Unions the workers fraternal organizations.
labor sports organizations, women's organiza-
tons, the Pioneers, Councils for the Protection
OF the Foreign-Born and the Anti Fascist Fed
erations. Some of these conference were con-
siderable Of an achievement
1t is only on the basis of overcoming our weak
nesses that we will be able to carry through
successfully the next steps in the Scottsboro,
Detroit. Mooney, Kentucky, Tampa struggles.
T-sEPARE FOR MARCH is
The anniversary of the Paris Commune
March 49, must be THE NEXT BIG DAY in the
Scottsboro. Detroit, Mooney Kentucky, Tampa
Campaign, combined with the struggle against
lynching. against deportations against injunc-
lions and for workers rights-FOR STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE REACTION. NATIONALLY
INTERNATIONALLY
This must be day of parades, demonstrations.
mass meetings to open the doors CT prison to
the Scottsboro boys win freedom for Mooney and
Billings, defeat the Ford-Murphy attack on the
unemployed In Detroit, and win the release of
the Kentucky, Imperial Valley End TAMPA yic-
Tins and all clas war prisoner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Preachers Get All the Breaks

Well boys and girls we see that the Methodist
Episcopal Church is wringing all the blood out
OF their hymns, and the example given Of one
hymn that's to be de-blooded is the old revival
meetin' verse;
ITO the bIest fountain of thy blood,
'gncarnate God, fly;
Here let me wash my spotted soul
Susanna don't you cry"
Let's see, we made mistake in that last line.
1t should be: From crimes of deepest dive" But
that was the old version. And now we see from
dispatches sent from Memphis, Tenn, that "Sus-
anna don't you cry" is more appropriate
Seems that an Episcopalian sky-pilot named
Noe" said moe" to his wife for 10 these MANY
years He wasn't going to have any spotted
sour he told the court, where his wife had
brought suit for divorce on the grounds that he
RETAINED from physical relations with her.
No. Stree. He was trying to live spiritual
life OF absolute idealsm." And when the Judge
finished listening to the case he told this sanity
mans wife she couldn't have any divorce Upon
which she tainted. And when she came to, she
told the absolute idealist" to get away from her,
adding, rather strangely, you have done enough
to me-"
But If one preacher got the breaks because
he didn't, on the very same day, March /, press
reports from Santa Rosa, Call tell of another
Holy Man who came out pretty good although
he did.
The Rev. Hugh Brunk who was convicted Of
raping 17-year-old girl last June, and got
nothing more serious than sentence in the
County Jail, was released before his time was up
by the kind indulgence of county officials.
OF course, the girl in the case was not the
wife of naval officer and it didn't happen in
Hawaii, SO that the capitalist papers only had
q Few lines on an inside page. But, no matter
whether preachers do or don't they get all the
breaks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Party Recruiting Drive
n January Ii March IS, 1882 -.-
STATUS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
COMPETITION BETWEEN CHICAGO
PITTSBURGH>A1INNE
UNTIL FEBRUARY 18th

No. of Women Recruited
Pittsburgh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chicago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Minneapolis .s.s............s...66
New Members Recruited by the Old Shop Nuclei
PltCSburgh .,s.st.s.sss.s..s....30
chicago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Minneapolis ....................19
TOTAL RECRUITED
Pittsburgh Gee. Quota 500 e. Recruited 500
Chicago Quota 1000 =. Recruited 1871
Minneapolis Quota 400 .. Recruited 392
All three districts decided to increase their
quotas
What are the major weaknesses:
l. The old shop nuclei are still a negligible
factor in the recruiting drive.
g. Dues payments do not show yet a suffi-
Gent corresponding increase to the new mem
bers recruited.
HERE ARE THE FIGURES
District November February
Pittsburgh ST. 1861
Chicago 1908 2z56
OF course, there is improvement, but more is
necessary.
8. Our Party fractions were not sufficiently
involved in the Recruiting Campaign.
4 insufficient drawing in the new members
into the mass activity (no reports received.
S. insufficient results from the concentration
places.
More speed in every District
Involve every Party member in recruiting new
naen ')ers!
Penetrate into new territories!
Intensity the activities in the shop!
Org. Department &C. y
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-17
BY SISTER MARY
L,.sn AAru.An

4 crunchy tidbits. crackers-or
y biscuits" as our English
cousins cali them-are indispen-
sable. but there are numberless
ways in which they may be used
10 excellent advantage in the daily
round OF cooking.
The cracker Is always ready and
will keep in good condition almost
indefinitely. Naturally. certain
varieties keep better than others,
but there is little danger of act
nal molding and spelling and a
short sojourn IN moderate oven
will restore the desired crispness.
There is no waste, for the brok-
on odds and ends can be used to
the last crumb; those from the un-
sweetened varieties like soda, milk
ard butter being especially suited
for saYory meat and vegetable
dishes. and those of the sweet va
rieties finding their way into pud-
dings and other desserts. Either
kind Of cracker-crumb are excel
lent for thickening fresh fruit
pies.
Soda cracker crumbs are excel
lent for thickening soups and
chowders. Use l tablespoon fine
crumbs 10 a cup Of liquid, sprink-
ling in the crumbs q few minutes
before the dish is done. A little
time must be allowed for the
crmumbs 10 expand and thicken
the liquid properly.
Crackers Achieve Variety
You will find a special cracker
for every purpose if you take the
trouble TO study the array your
grocer has on his shelves. Their
crisp freshness is appetiling in
warm weather and very often care
fully selected crackers can be
served with fresh fruit in place Of
cake. This means saving Of both
time and effort for the cook.
Crackers are particularly suit
able 10 serve with soups, either
hot or jellied. The crisp texture
Of the cracker contrasts pleasantly
with the liquid smoothness of the
soup.
Salads gain importance when
accompanied by a bread-stuh of
some description, and how much
easier it is TO serve crisp crack
ers than to make sandwiches OF
bread and butter. Crackers them
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-17
Alfalfa Contract
Cause OF Action

Because he said Joe Horkheimer
failed properly to irrigate and har-
vest alfalfa on land leased to him.
as provided in the lease, Peter
Nickel yesterday afternoon filed
suit in superior court asking judg-
ment returning the land to him,
and giving him $3.50 damages be-
cause of an estimated loss on the
alfalfa.
Nickel also asked that the judg-
ment award to him any rent which
might be due at the date of the
judgment
According to Nickel's complaint.
Horkheimer was to irrigate, cut and
bale the alfalfa according to the
best farming practice, and in such
a manner as to obtain the best pos
sible grade of alfalfa. Since Aug
ust. 1880, Horkheimer continuously
has failed to irrigate and harvest
the alfalfa properly, the complaint
charged.
Nickel estimated this failure has
lost TO him his share of the alfalfa
crop. estimated at approximately 35
tons. For this ne asked $3.50 dam
ages.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-17

with the Aikens children Tuesday,
Mrs. Claude Torrance returned
from Ontario Friday after seeing
her children established with their
grandmother for the summer
months.
Mrs. Burta Fac McInnis was an
evening caller of Lenora holland
Thursday.
Mrs Ray Payne is somewhat i'm
proved after being i'll for some
time
Mrs. Gavin, Mrs. Briggs and Mrs.
Coy Denham, were dinner guests
of Mrs. Sadie Fishburn, Thursday.
Mr.. Cheser and daughters,
Karye and Argyne, left for Long
Beach Sunday, expecting to return
Thursday.
Mrs. Mae Fleming and children
visited Mrs. Della Wallace at Melo-
land, Tuesday.
Mrs. Vincent Hamerson visited
in San Diego over the weekend,
returning Sunday. Her daughter,
Lorna, is visiting there.
Geo. w. Hargis has taken over
the ice house of the Imperial Ice