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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
TASKS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN DEVELOPING NATION
WIDE MOVEMENT IN THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE

bers Of the bureau Of the district
committee, and his report must be
discussed every two weeks together
with the reports of the fraction in
the town committee of the opposi-
ton in the A. F. of L., the local
branch Of the T.U.UL. and the local
council of the unemployed.
Mobilize Press
S. 1t is necessary to mobilize all
our Party press (including the Ian
guage press and also the trade
union papers, the factory papers and
the papers of the councils Of the
unemployed for a wide, systematic,
daily conduct of the campaign. This
campaign must always be given
space on the front page. The main
points which must be Systematically
dealt with in all the papers are the
popularization of Our proposal, and
of social insurance in the U.S.SR.
Gin the most concrete form, by print
ing extracts from the Soviet laws
on social insurance, giving statistics
on the number of insured persons,
the sums expended by the Central
Insurance Board, the hospital ser
vice and the sanatoriurns provided
for the workers, etc., concrete cri-
ticism of the projects of social in
surance advanced by other parties,
especially the A. F. Of l.. the Mus
teites and the socialists, together
with an everyday exposure of their
| rrant11ndc rne{qt :
ance to the masses entering the in
dependent struggle for social insur-
ance, and the splits they bring into
the working class in the struggle for
social insurance, which was COM
menced by the Communist Party and
conducted for long time by it
alone; the exposure of the activity
of all legislative commissions which
only trick and deceive the workers
Further, reports and information
on the course Of the campaign
meetings, demonstrations, strikes
ETC., the publication of resolutions for
our draft adopted at mass meetings
and various workers organizations
and also letters from workers from
the factories and the unemployed
Not a single issue of any paper should
appear without special section
dealing with the struggle for social
insurance, for immediate aid for the
unemployed, against the lowering Of
wages when q shortened week is in
troduced.
POpniarize Bill
s. It is necessary to widely dis
seminate our proposal adopted 81
Cincinatti among the masses, de-
manding Federal insurance for al
unemployed without exception fol-
the whole period of unemployment
on scale equal to average wages
but not less than ten dollars a week
and three dollars for every depend
ent; Furthermore, the funds must bt
found by taxing the rich. and the
progressive taxation of all income.
over 5000 dollars, ana also lit saioulc
be added at the expense Of the nih-
tary and police appropriations. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20

| CHICAGO, June 19.-While the
! bourgeois fraternal movement in the
| United States lost two million mem
bers during the past year and others
cut out many benefits and raised
dues, the International Workers
Order was among eight that gained
in membership, and was the only
one to raise benefits and cut pay
ments. Most fraternal orders are
working against the adoption of IN
/ employment and social insurance be-
! cause the leaders are afraid that
they will lose their comfortable jobs,
but the I. w. o. is the only order
working to mobilize the movement
to force the adoption Of such in
| surance.
points made by r. Saltzman, Gen
eral Secretary, in his report on be-
half OF the National Committee de-
livered here Sunday at the second
National Convention Of the I. w. o.
646 Delegates Present
The report of the credentials COM
mittee showed that 646 delegates
were present, representing 491
branches and various fraternal or
CARNATIONS.
The session opened with the cleo
ton of a preSidium. Max Bedacht,
r. Saltzman, William F. Weiner,
Blechman, Sarator; Meyers, in the
Hungarian section; Shipko and Rop-
chenko, from the Slovak section;
Lee of the youth section, Perunko,
an Ohio miner and Roniko, a Penn
sylvania miner were elected.
The election of an honorary pre-
sidium of Foster. Tom Mooney,
Thaelmann, Torgler and Dimitrov
was greeted with warm applause.
Saltzman Traces Growth
Then r. Ssltzman, General Sec
rotary, who was given an ovation as
he was introduced by the chairman,
gave his report, lasting nearly two
hours, which outlined the main
achievements and shortcomings of
the Order. AS facts showing the
remarkable growth of the Order
during the last year were related,
4 bllC SOllN SllGlO1l ACPCaUCOly Oul OU illbO
applause
The important role Of the Jewish
section as the backbone of the Order
was stressed During the past year
the Jewish section has sought to
carry out the decisions of the last
Convention, and has gained over
5000 members.
The I. w. o. now includes over
$4,000 members, including the Rus
sian Mutual Aid Society. which will
complete the amalgamation process
after the convention This remark
able growth of the Order, which
gained over 5000 members without
counting the amalgamations with
the Hungarians and the Sloyaks
must be attributed to its active par
ticipation in labor struggles. Tht
), idea of an international organiza-
ton is also a factor in the growth
as is shown by the fact that botf
Hungarian and Slovak sections grew
after the amalgamation.
2 Members Killed by Ford
Pointing out that branches mos
active in the general movement
gained the most in membership
Saltzman mentioned a fact thai
created deep impression on thu
membership; two OF the worker.
killed at the Ford massacre Marcel
1882, were members of the I. w. o
Much time was spent in discussing
the mistakes of the Order for the
purpose of aiding its future work
Saltzman concluded by pointing ou
the problems before the convention
Chief among these was the reduc.
ton in payments and the import.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20

ton to the Anti-war campaign, the
most urgent and burning interests
of the proletariat, and that this cam
paign at the present time is the chief
link to be seized to tug the whole
chain, that this campaign demands
the mobilization of all Party forces
for a whole period of indefinite
length, and that planned, unbroken,
everyday and persistent conduct of
this campaign is necessary. All the
members Of the Party must be drawn
into the conduct of this campaign
on the basis of Bolshevik inner Party
democracy, by raising the question of
the struggle for social insurance for
discussion by all the Party members,
by all the Party organisations (cells,
fractions, committees, conferences),
by the inclusion of every single mem
Der of the Party in the everyday
work for conducting the campaign.
Every member OF the Party must be-
come an agitator for our insurance
proposal, must learn to expose other
propositions.
Prepare Program Of Work
2. The Politburo, together with the
representatives OF the nearest large
Party organisations, the representa-
tives Of the Red trade unions, the
representatives of the fractions of
the national committee Of the oppo-
sition in the A. F. of L., and repre-
sentatives of the fraction in the Ma
tional Unemployed Committee, must
work out a firm and united tactical
line in the struggle for social in
surance land also against the reduce
ton Of wages when shortened
week is introduced, and for imne-
date aid for the unemployed, and a
plan for conducting the whole CAM
paign in the next three months. The
decisions of this meeting must be
sent to all local Party organisations
and is particularly important to at
tain unity Of action with the aim
of preventing such disorganising &C
lions as that of the Californian
district organisation.
). The Politburo decided absolutely
correctly that one or more active
members of the P.B. must be ap-
pointed as responsible leaders tc
guide the whole campaign. Every
two weeks the P.B. must discuss the
reports Of this leader, and also OF
representatives OF the fraction in the
national committee Of the unemploy-
ed, the fraction in the Trade Union
Unity League, the fraction in the ma
tional committee Of the opposition in
the A. r. of L., and the editorial
board Of the Daily Worker" anc
other central papers. According tc
the course of the campaign, it is also
necessary to discuss the reports Of
the district organizations.
Task OF Districts
4. In the same way, the district
organization (sboye all, in the in
dustrial districts must appoint Q
responsible leader Of the campaign
from among the most active mem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
zoo VOLUNTEERS WANTED AT
ONCE FOR JUNE "a ANTI
FASCIST DAY

The City Committee to Aid
Victims Of German Fascism calls
upon all mass organizations, party
units and sympathetic individuals
for volunteers to collect funds for
the victims of German Fascism, at
the demonstration Saturday June
oath.
All volunteers please report dur
ing the week or at the latest,
Saturday morning June Path at 10
a. m. at the office of the Commit
tee, IS Fifth Avenue, Room 5 for
the necessary materials for this
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
CoNvICTS DONATE CIGARS TO
JAILERS

SING SING PRISON, June 49,
The Prison Mutual Welfare League
gave box Of cigars to Warden
Lewis e. Lawes as a fathers day"
gift yesterday. This League is an
administration affair with
stool pigeons always praising the
prison keepers. If any prisoner dares
10 challenge such procedure he is
yictimized by the jailers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
HARLEM PROTEST
PARADE JUNE z
Wright and Williams
on Trial Same Day

NEW YORK-A protest parade
has been called by the Harlem sec
ton of the International Labor De-
Tense for Thursday afternoon, June
%. This is one of series Of protest
actions between now and June "a,
when two youngest Scottsboro boys,
Roy Wright and Eugene Williams,
go to trial in the juvenile court Of
Alabama.
This parade will be preceded by
open air meetings throughout Har-
lem, with speakers from the I. L. D.,
the Scottsboro Action Committee,
the Harlem Liberator, and other
groups leading the fight for the free
dom Of the ScottSboro boys. The
parade will also be a mobilization of
workers for the protest denionstra-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
NEWS BRIEFS
AssAILs NAVAL PROGRAM

NEW YORK, June l9.-The plan
Of the Roosevelt administration to
build 80 naval vessels was assailed
yesterday by the Rev. G. Everett
Wagner in his sermon in the Union
Methodist Episcopal Church. He con-
trasted the expenditure or hundreds
Of millions for war purposes as an
act of intimidation of other countries
He said that the navy was being
built to protect large investments
abroad while people perish in the
slums of the cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
ANTI-FASCIST MASS MEET
THURSDAY IN BROOKLYN

NEW YORK.-An Anti-FasciSt
mass meeting will be held Thursday
night, June % at the Savoy Man
sion. Goth Avenue and 64th Street
i'll Brooklyn, at p. m, arranged
by units 7 and 10 of the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
VOTE ON PROHIBITION

Three states, New Hampshire, Con-
necticut and Iowa, vote on repeal
of the Eighteenth (prohibition) am
endment tomorrow. Connecticut is
traditional wet state. New Hamp-
shire, until a year ago was "dry,"
while Iowa has long been regarded
as dry" state. Early canVasses
indicate that all three will vote
against prohibition. The drys expect
to carry two Southern states, Ar
kansas and Alabama, on July 18, but
there is some possibility that they
may even lose one of these.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20

number of repeated Instructions on
the necessity OF doing this. The
Party did not attempt to propose to
the workers that they should organ
Use q joint struggle of all workers
organisations on the basis Of the
united front from below for Federal
unemployment insurance on a single
occasion, for the appropriation of
funds for public works, for the APP
preparation Of funds to assist the I'M
employed.
A number of facts from the recent
period show that a non-serious and
inattentive attitude to the campaign
continues to exist in the Party lead
ership. This leads to the greatest
lack of clarity in the question of our
attitude to Federal or State insur-
ance, and to retreats from the line
of struggle for Federal insurance
adopted by the Party (e.g., the article
OF Comrade Bill Dunno in the Daily
Worker" on December 1st. 1892.
Confusion in Districts
A dangerous diSorganization Is in
troduced into the campaign for social
insurance by the fact that, after a
three-year struggle for Federal in
surance, the Californian district or
ganisation published it's proposal for
State unemployment insurance, from
which the demand for Federal unelm-
ployment insurance is omitted, and
the amount Of relief made to depend
on the average wages received, while
a demand is included for 3 per cent.
Of the wages to be deducted from the
employers, for the insurance fund. In
the same way the Chicago organise
ton put forward the demand for I'M
employment insurance at the ex-
pense of the employers and the State
government, while the demand for
Federal insurance was completely left
out How does it happen that the
Californian district organisation
takes, in essence, the line Of the pro-
posal of the A. r. of L.? How does it
happen that the Chicago organise
ton replaced the demand for Fed
eral insurance by that Of State in
surance? Would such things be pos
sible if the Central Committee had
really led the campign in planned
and proper manner?
Proposals for Campaign
With the aim OF giving the cam
paign for social insurance the widest
militant mass character and ensuring
the leading role of the Communist
Party in 1t, it is necessary to intro
duce series OF varying measures Of
political and organisational nature:
/. 1t is necessary, above all, to
instill the most complete understand
ing into the whole Party that the
campaign for social insurance, along
side and including the struggle
against wage cuts with the shortened
week Irrespective of whether such a
short week is adopted and the
struggle for immediate aid for the
unemployed, touches vita44y, IN addi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20

ton against the Nazi terror in Ger
many TO be held on Union Square
Saturday, June "a, at 2 p. m.
The Harlem parade will begin
promptly at p. m, starting from
151st st. and Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
COURT MARTIALED FOR
DEMANDING BETTER FOOD
IN FORCED LABOR CAMP
Youths Call Camp Roosevelt's Chain Gang
Days Pay Fine for Breaking Army Laws

better food and improved
Bottom located miles from
Mountain Bridge Hoffman and Irving Tapu tried before
dismissed They charged with being
and obstinate characters"
Beec constitutes II the Civilian Conservation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
COMBINE SHIP AND ANYWAYS
LINES

NEW YORK, June ia working
agreement has been concluded
whereby the International Merchant
Marine-Roosevel steamship com
psny becomes general agent of Pan
American Anyways, the principal syS-
tenn of its kind in the international
field. All bookings for the airways
will be made through the steamship
company. This will further CONSOLE
date the position of American i'm
perialism in the southern republics.
TO BOOST TOBACCO PRICES
NEW YORK, June 19.-The Ma
tional Association of Tobacco Distri-
butofs, at two-day convention,
adopted code for uniform profits
on cigars. cigarettes and other to-
baocos that will boost prices. After
prices have been coordinated and
approved by General Hugh johnson,
administrator of the National Re-
covery Act consumers will have to
pay "pre-depression prices for to-
bscco. Nothing was said about in
creasing wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday,

Tuesday
LECTURE, Fascism in o. 8. and How TO
Fight 1t. Open meeting, Unit IL, Sec. 5,
G. p 400 Boston Rd., Bronx.
DRAMATIC (SINGING) CHORUS OF
WORKERS LABORATORY THEATRE, W.
I. r. rehssrsals, $50 pm. a Z. 18th St.
Singers, dramatizers, aeeompanist, etc,
needed. Attention male voices and accor-
dionists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
LEGION MEMBERS AID TRIBES
MEN

CASABLANCA, Morocco, June 10
Officers Of the French Foreign
Legion are in a panic because Of
determination of many of the legion
naires with the native tribesmen.
Four members have been arrested
charged with supplying munitions to
the Moroccans. Two Of them are
French and two are German. The
foreign legion is recruited from many
countries and is used in colonial
and semi colonial countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
CLASSIFIED

TWO ROOMS and kitchen. All furnished.
All Improvements. For July and August.
s25.O0 per month. 3sS E. 10Th ST., one
flight up.
HELP WANTED: Several men to sell n
timely article on commission or salary
basis. Apply 90 Union Square Room ILL.,.
Between 1873 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
Wednesday

SITUATION IN GERMANY sTRUG-
GLE AGAINST FA5CTSM." Speaker, @. A.
Hathaway. Ambassador Hall, Third Ave.
and Claremont Parkway. pm. Auspices
Sections IS and 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20
Task OF Districts

4. In the same way. the district
organization (aboye all, in the in
dustrial districts must appoint a
responsible leader Of the campaign
from among the most active mem
Evening star., 1933-08-22
Abbey Players Not to Tour.

The Abbey Players of Dublin, Irish
Free State. will not visit America next
season. Although some of them had
signed conditional contracts to plav in
the United States the management de-
cided they must stay at home. The
Aopey Theater receives q grant from
the government, and this Influenced the
decision.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
Wales Would Get Mansion,

Prominent business and professional
men In North Wales are backing q plan
for the purchase of q mansion in the
Snowdonia district to be presented to
the Prince of Wales as q gift from the
Welsh nation. II the Prince accepts
the gift 1t Is suggested that he might
dy to the mansion for week endA
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-17
DOLLARS COME HOME

Trace the course Of a dollar spent for
property Improvement, repairs, OF replace
ment
Part of it goes to local merchants,
who provide the needed materials.
Another part goes to the workman on the
job.
The workman spends his part for the
necessities Of life. The corner grocery,
the drug store, the department store get
itand through them it goes to their EN-.
ployes, to the farmer and the manufac-
turer. Then the circle begins again-the
money enters new pockets, passes through
other industries, travels to other sections
of the country.
The part of the dollar going to the
store providing the supplies follows much
the same course 1t pays the stores work
ers. 1t pays bills. 1t goes to factories to
purchase new stock. From the factory it
goes to other workmen, to related indus
tries supplying raw materials, to in
vestors.
And, at last, the dollar comes back,
through one channel or another, to the
original spender.
In a short length of time that dollar
has had thousand uses. 1t has done the
work of thousand dollars.
That's the beauty of money which IS
actually circulating is used an infinite
number Of times. and it does as much good
each time.
Now is the time to obtain needed re-
pairs at the lowest cost in decades-and
at the same time do your bit in fighting
depression.
Jobs are cheaper than charity and
without the jobs, there won't be anything
for charity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-17
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

Perhaps in no other industry is there
such variety Of conditions as in the news
paper business. Totalled indiscriminately,
there are something over $4,000 news
papers in the United States, ranging from
the smallest country weekly which prints
only two pages in its own shop, with addi-
tional pages printed by a syndicate, to the
great metropolitan dailies which employ
thousands of persons each.
For the smallest, probably not more
than % pounds of paper is required each
week, while the Chicago Tribune uses for
one Sunday edition all the paper produced
from timber grown on 240 acres of land
According to Grove Patterson, the
well-known writer, the New York Times
employs 300 persons, with a payroll OF
$25, 900, 900 year. Hearst's newspapers
and magazine use more than $50,000,000
worth of paper year in normal times
But in spite of the disparity between
the smallest and the largest of American
newspapers, the publisher of the small
country weekly need not be overawed by
the size Of his metropolitan rival. The
local newspaper has a place in the life of
It's community which the great dailies can
not usurp if the local publisher is alive to
his opportunities and makes the most of
them.
Now, as always, the home town news
paper is the best and cleanest exponent OF
constructive journalism.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-17

SPEED IN FALLING

If one should fall from an airpiane
OF balloon at a height however great. his
velocity would never exceed / ID miles an
hour at any point before reaching the
earth, according to the conclusions OF the
Army Air Service as a result Of expert
neists made with dummies.
This is contrary to the belief formerly
held by most persons that body con-
tinually increased its speed when falling
from any distance. The fact is that this
rapid increase Of speed in the case Of
body similar to that of man continues
only until it has fallen about l,2O0 feet,
after which it maintains constant rate,
due to the resistance of the air.
This discovery also explodes the
theory that person falling from great
height would lose consciousness and per
hans be dead before striking the ground,
for ii is we'll known that aviators have
driven their planes at speeds of more than
$50 miles al hour on straightaway
course, and at much greater velocities
when diving 10 make an outside loop.
The knowledge that falling speed i
limited il not of much practical benefit %
ane who falls from great height. how
ever. for the lis miles an hour possible
81 attainment Il quite sufficient to effec-
slseiy put hlm ont Of business when ne
strikes the earth.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-17
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL aIwaysssek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpieee Of any person. clique.
faction or class; always do Its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption Or
iHj~stice; denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ
Ization; tolerant Of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
ana NOT eontaminate the reader; never com
promiss with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-17
WEATHER CONDITIONS

A Modern disturbance, which
is central this morning over the
upper Ohio Valley, has caused
rains throughout the Ohio Valley,
Tennessee, the lower Lake region,
and in the Atlantic States from
the Carolinas northward during
the last "a hours. There have
also been showers in southern
Florida and Arkansas, rain on the
coast of Oregon, and snow in
Western Montana. Pressure is,
low this morning over most sec
tons west Of the Mississippi Val
ley, with a disturbance central
over Utah; while pressure is mod
erately high over New England
and in the Lake Superior region.
Temperatures are somewhat below
normal this morning from the low
er Ohio Valley southwark to the
Gulf Coast and over Florida, ex-
cept in the extreme south portion.
and on the Pacific coast; while
elsewhere readings are generally
above the seasonal average.
G. s.. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.