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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Cuba and Ireland

Cuba is small island, compare
lively. but it seems destined TO be
the spearhead of the whole fight
against American imperialism.
For centuries Ireland has occupied
the same relation to the British en-
pire. This is why Ireland has played
such great role in world history
AS Lenin pointed out, the Easter
Week revolt was the first crack OF
doom for the war lords. the fore
runner of the Russian and German
Revolutions.
The United States may intervene
in Cuba, but it is apparent that Cuba
will never be conquered or absorbed
It is destined to be another Ireland,
the little thorn in the flesh that will
finally destroy the great bloody ra-
venous bull of imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
xxx

The Irish, like the Jews and Ne
groes, have suffered centuries of
slavery, and this oppression always
gives peculiar twist to races char
acter. Oppressed races become SEN
sitive in a way that others can never
understand. They develop very sharp
nostrils, as do all hunted animals,
and can quickly smell out an enemy.
Sometimes it is a delicate job to
deal with them, they are so touchy
and over-alert. The best way is to
be casual and matter-of-fac II
YOU have any race feeling in you,
eliminate it, study it, fight it. Then
when you are cured, be casual and
human 1t really isn't easy. I know
I get sore whenever hear anybody
say, Some of my best friends are
Jews" Why get sore, I really don't
know. But it smells Of patronage.
No race Of healthy individuals wants
that. Better to have persecution,
frank and bitter, something that can
be fought in the open.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
World Telegram
Publisher Admits
NRA Not fer Toilers
Paper Will Not Rehire
Laid Off Workers

NEW YORK.-Lay-offs of two
workers in the composing room Of
the World Telenram o., the same
clay that the full page MIRA adver-
tsement appeared declaring that
employers are no longer firing
workers, they are hiring today"
resulted in protest by the work
ers in the composing room Of the
Howard management. This
was revealed today in report posted
on the World Telegram composing
room bulletin board.
The lay-offs, the committee point
ed out, were unwarranted In de-
Tending the acton taken Rev Hub,
publisher of the World Telegram,
declared that it was unfortunate"
that the advertisement should hNve
appeared on the same day as that
of the lay-offs. But Huber exposed
the real attitude of the boss press
when he complacently declared that
the ad was meant primarily for ita
readers. not for the workers; "To
make the public MIRA conscious"
When asked whether the men laid
off would be rehired now that the
newspaper processes adherence to the
NRA, Huber declared that this ques-
tion was "preposterous." The chain
was not charity agency and did
not contemplate hiring more workers
than necessary, he said. Obviously
his MIRA loyalty will help him in
tensify the speed-up system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Hackmen Demand
Minimum Wage and
End Of the Blacklist
In Code to NRA, They
Also Point to Police
Abuse

NEW YORK.-In view Of the po-
lice intimidation of hackmen on the
clty's streets, and the bosses black
listing for failure to bring big pro-
fits, the Taxi Workers Union is plan
ming campaign to improve the lot
of the workers in the industry. At
a recent mass meeting the member
ship decided to work out code
for the taxi workers. A delegation
of hackmen and independent owner
drivers will go to Washington to
present their demands to the MIRA
administration. The most important
of these demands are an s18 mini
mum wage, a 40 hour week, the aboli-
ton OF the blacklist and the police
| abuses.
The delegations trip to Washing
ton will have to be covered by volun-
tary contributions of the taxi work
ers who are asked to support the
movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Camp Youth Dies
Under Train Wheels


NEW YORK.-Unemployed for two
years. John Kerr of Brooklyn seized
the chance to earn a monthly SAB
for his family of five and took a job
at the Bear Mountain Reforestation
Camp.
He worked for two months, but last
week, waiting to be sent back to
town with the other workers, he was
crushed under the wheels of an in
coming train at West Shore station.
Saturday he died at the West Point
Hospital.
According to onlookers, the men
were told that they could not work
that day on account of the heavy
downpour. When the special train,
which has to take them back, pulled
into the station, Kerr was hustled
forward and fell under the wheels
His widow and the three small
children are left penniless and with
out prospects of aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Open Letter Clearly and Sharply Outlines Basic Tasks Party Members

for a moment to take into considera-
ton our final aim, the overthrow of
the capitalist system and the estab-
lishment of a workers and farmers
government, the dictatorship of the
proletariat as a transitional period
for the building of the classics So
ciety.
There is the proletariat, the class
composed of the productive forces OF
the capitalist society, product Of the
capitalist system, upon which has
fallen the historic mission of over
throwing capitalism.
And it is the Communist Party
composed Of the most class conscious
elements Of the proletariat, rich with
the experiences of the revolutionary
movement, and armed with the
Marxist-Leninist theory, that has the
mission of raising the consciousness
| of the proletariat to its "hegemonic
role in the revolutionary struggle and
Of leading the working class towards
its final goal"
The Party will be able to accom-
plish this task by leading the daily
struggles Of the workers in politi-
calizing these struggles, in establishing
itself as the only leader of the work.
ing class in its struggle for the total
emancipation from capitalist exploit
alton. This explains the reason why
we must build mass proletariar
Party.
The question now is, how TO ac-
complish 1t in practice, how to estab-
lish the Party as the only leader OF
the working class, how to win over
the large masses of workers under
the influence of the Party, how to
organize them, how to organize the
agrarian workers side by side with
the industrial workers, how to win
over as allies the broad masses of
the poor farmers, and how to neu-
tralize the petty bourgeois elements
OF the city and countryside.
Such tremendous tasks cannot be
accomplished at once. The first pre-
requisite is the roofing of the Party
in hundreds Of factories, mills, mines
In the basic industries where the
masses are concentrated, in daily
conflict with the system that is ex-
plotting their collective work. 1t is
in the places Of work that the daily
struggles are awakening the class
consciousness Of the masses. = is
here that we find fertile soil to Draw
the most conscious of them into the
ranks of the Party. 1t is here that
the vanguard Of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

a copy of the constitution Of the
I. L. D. be given to him for study.
The opportunity was offered him by
the jury to return in six months and
apply for re-admission to the I. L. D.
In the meantime, he was advised
that he could if he wanted to redeem
himself enter Loyalty and whole
heartedly into the struggle for Negro
rights.
At the office of the greensboro
Voice, a neighborhood paper pub
Ished at 42-06 9th ST., Long Island
City, Negro women and men con-
tinued throughout the following day
to express their satisfaction and joy
with the verdict.
Il didn't know much about the
I. L. D. before now" one woman
said, land I sorta felt suspicious
about it. But after last night when
I saw where it stands, know once
and for all that it's the organization
for me. How can I go about joining
up?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

small.
You spot few Negro fans. Me-
gro workers make good athletes.
But where are the Negroes on the
field? The Black Yankees are fire
.canli-pro players. But the big
leagues will not admit Negro play-s
cr5. There IS something else to chalk
up against capitalist controlled
-r orts.
We take our seats, after wetting
our whistles. The infield has also
been wet down. So the game goes
on. Yes, with its thrills. Burt
Standish couldn't have done better.
In the first game, last inning, Cubs
ahead 2 to 0. Guy Bush tires. Max
Carey rushes in two pinch hitters.
And in five minutes the bases are
loaded, two out, and Hack Wilson
up. Hack, the old Blacksmith OUT
fielder, has been playing dandy ball
at second base. The first time in his
baseball career Poetic justice de-
mands that Hack hit homer His
schooner would be filled to overflow
ing then. But Hack grounds out.
At last the second game is over, to
2. Tho Dodgers win. The red-capped
ushers jump out on the grounds.
The slack flag Is pulled down--sig-
nificantly up only when business is
going on. In spite Of the Mississippi
Mudcat's two-hit game and Black
smith Wilson's great try, hours
and minutes Of baseball is too much.
Even when the Dodgers win a game.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Bolsheviks Showed How to Concentrate te
Build Up Mass Proletarian Party;
Took Up Day to Day Demands

where for years we have been con-
centrating and can hardly show re-
suits even today.
The same can be said OF our I'M
employed activities, where, although
we have succeeded In making some
inroads, we have not understood how
to build a solid base. We have been
speaking Of the building Of block
committees, but we have not sue
ceeded. and today we have less estab-
lished block committees than we had
six months or year ago.
We write Plans of work ana again,
like in the case Of the resolutions,
as is so correctly raised in the Open
Letter, we do not carry them out.
The lower organizations did not in
|itiate United Front struggles, not
knowing how to apply United Front
tactics to daily local struggles.
The Daily Worker Workers Voice
and revolutionary literature was in
sufficiently utilized in our daily
struggles, because we did not suffi-
GENTLY realize the power of the
theological weapons, in exposing the
bourgeoisie and Social Fascists, and
unifying Of the workers In our cam
paigns.
Complete failure can be registered
in our recruiting for the months of
June and July and the inability to
stop the increased rate Of fluctuation
in our Party, because of underesti-
nation Of the role of the Party as
q leader and because Of our Sec
tartan approach.
We must renovate the Section by
recruiting into the Party new ele-
ments, especially from the shops
trade unions and mass organizations
We pledge ourselves that we will cut
down on the tremendous turnover Of
Party members by improving our
Section and Unit activity, by over
coming the deep gcing lack Of polit-
ical understanding.
We pledge to develop new cadres
who will be able to assume leader
ship in the Party and mass organ
izations.
Forward to the carrying out Of thu
Open Letter 100 per cent within tn.
next six months! Forward to build.
ing the Communist Party into I
mass Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Whole Weight of Party Must Be Thrown Into
Work in Shops to Win Over Best
Workers in Basic Industries

need for concentration, that spurs
the entire Party, composed of so
many new elements, to mass activity.
What is the fundamental problem
emphasized in the Open Letter? The
problem of building a mass prole-
tartan Party. In this very concep-
ton, in these three words, is con-
tanned the fundamental political and
organizational task before us; the
necessity of building mass Party,
which is the problem of quantity
and the necessity of developing its
proletarian character and compost
ton, the other phase of the problem,
namely, that of quality.
If we analyze the composition of
the Party as it stands today, we i'm
mediately see that our Party Is not
yet a mass Party; and though it is
proletarian in character and compo-
sition, we cannot say that the prole-
tartan elements from the basic in
dustries are predominant.
If this question is clear, then we
must also understand the problem of
concentration as the means through
which to build mass proletarian
Party. Understanding the why
will teach us the how"
It is through concentration
through throwing the whole weight
of the Party into shop work, that
the Party will win over the best ele-
ments among the workers in the in
dustries, factories, mills, mines, that
the Party will succeed in establish
ing shop nuclei and thereby linking
itself with large masses of the Amer
lean proletariat at the points of pro-
duction.
AS it now stands our shop nuclei
can be counted on our fingers. This,
by the way, explains our weakness
at this moment in taking the lead
over the numerous struggles going on
against the Recovery Act, especially
in the basic industries. This also
explains our weakness in bringing
forward the Party before the large
masses in the basic industries. It
explains our bringing the Party for
ward as an outsider instead OF an
inside organizing and fighting force.
AT this point, for the better un-
Outstanding of the main problem
which confronts us, it is necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
BOwder Hathaway
StaChel to Address
Daily Conferences
NJ a SIS Organizations
and Unions Will Meet
This Week

NEW YORK. - Two conferences
will be held on successive days at
the end of this week to bring about
further improvement in the six and
eight page Daily Worker, it was an
nounced by George Wishnak, bust
ness manager, yesterday.
On Thursday, Aug. 81, delegates
from local mass organizations will
meet on the second floor of the
Workers Center, so E. 18th ST., to
hear Earl Browder, general secre-
tary of the Communist Party, and
C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker, speak on the role they can
play in boosting and improving the
paper.
The following night, September /,
Jack Stachel, acting secretary of
the Trade Union Unity League, and
C. A. Hathaway, will address repre-
sentatives of trade unions at the
same address.
Both conferences will begin at
1880 pm.
Letters inviting the organizations
to elect and send delegates to these
important conferences, signed by
Hathaway, have already been sent
out.
Mass fraternal organizations
which are expected to participate in
the conference on Thursday night
include the International Workers
Order, the United Ukrainian Toll
ers, the Lithuanian Literary Socie-
ty, Lithuanian Sick and Death Ben
eft Society, Jewish National Com
mittee, Hungarian Press Fedora
ton, Hungarian Cultural Fedora
ton, IGOR, Lettish Alliance, Rus
sian National Mutual Aid Society
and the Finnish Federation.
Among the trade unions that will
meet on Friday night are: Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
National Building Trades Commit
tee; Laundry Workers Industrial
Union; Marine Workers Industrial
Union; Food Workers Industrial
Union; Metal Workers Industrial
Union; Office Workers Union
Furniture Workers Industrial I'm.
ion and the National Textile Work.
ers Industrial Union.
If no regular meetings of any Of
the above organizations are SEIZED.
uled before the dates of the two
conferences, the officers of the va.
rious trade unions and branches will
be expected to constitute themselves
delegates, and assume the response
bility for their organizations rep
resentation at the conferences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
F. BROWN

1t is only with full understand
Ing of the Open Letter, which char
acterizes with thoroughgoing critical
analysis and places with full clarity
the central tasks before us, that we
shall be able to solve successfully the
fundamental organizational problems
that confront u.s.
There is no doubt that the Open
Letter is document of the utmost
Importance, the line Of which, con-
gciously applied into practice, will
really enable the Party to make the
necessary turn.
Those who may claim shat the
Open Letter does not contain any
thing new, manifest complete con-
fusion, and are in the category OF
those elements who will not help TO
rarry out the Open Letter, but on
tl4e contrary will become a hindrance
with which the Party will have to
deal very sharply.
OF course the problem of building
mass Proletarian Party, the CEN
trail point of the Open Letter, and
he problem OF concentration rising
as q natural consequence, are not
new. What is really new, however,
Is that this fundamental political and
organizational problem of the Boil
ihevik Party has remained with us
merely a theory echoed on occasion
ls,.a magic formula for solving all
problems. What is new in the Open
letter is, first, that it is document
n which the theory. the perspectives,
Ire combined with the organiza-
ional measures to be taken in solv-
ng the tasks set; secondly, that by
It's clarity, sharpness, and concise
less, it raises before the Party, the
central task to be solved. Another
Important feature in the Open Let
er and, in some respects, this is also
lew in our Party, is the simplicity
md directness with which the imme-
late tasks are connected with the
,erspectives in the light of the Len
MIST theory Of the mass proletarian
'arty, in the light of the theory Of
roietarian hegemony in the revolu-
lonary struggle. II is the grasp OF
bis theory that brings to the con-
ciotsness Of the Party. the urgent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Tania Sander, Party
Member Dead, Funeral
to Be Held Today

NEW YORK-Tania Sander,
81, a charter member of the Com.
munist Party, and active in the
United Councils Of Working Class
Women in Philadelphia, where she
participated in a number of gar
ment strikes, died last Sunday
night in Mt. Sinai Hospital of per-
nicious anaemia. She, is survived
by her husband, an instructor in
the TWO school.
The funeral will take place from
the Workers Center, so E. 18th
ST., at IL p. m. today. She will
be buried in the TWO cemetery
on Long Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29


ting the family of an unemployed
Negro worker-man and wife and his
three children; he had been accused
of calling police to terrorize neigh
bors who had come to the defense
of the evicted family.
Other charges against him includ-
ed: depriving a family Of relief by
reporting to the Home Relief Buro
that a jobless woman had refused
a SO a week job as housekeeper
and calling police aid on several
other occasions to terrorize Corona
workers.
Church Oyerflows
The trial arranged by the Haywood
Patterson branch of the I. L. D. was
held in the Methodist Church, Burn
side Ave. and 35th ST., the largest
church in Corona. About 400 workers,
Negro and white, were packed into
every inch of available space to hear
the proceedings. Net all who came
could find room. The overflow sec
ton Of the audience waited outside,
listening through the open windows
to this strange event, conducted in
the broadsst. most democratic work
ing-claes manner.
Refer came to the trial with a
professional attorney, Gregory, to
defend him. Instead of entering into
tie open spirit OF the prosecution,
which tried to explain the nature Of
the case and to point out the signi-
fic1nce of Refers actions against
- III 10 Of
tempted to use all the triciierieS and
slly5tcr- methods used in capitalist
courts. He fumed and ranted, made
constant objections and Interruptions
while worker after worker took the
stand and told story after story prov
ing the viciousness of Refers acts
against neighborhood workers.
Futile Histrionics
Facing the bitterness and sullen
discrimination of the gathered work
ers, Refers stage shrieks and gesti-
eulaticns Gid not help him.
The workers listened tensely to
the piling up of evidence against
him. There was a moment Of silence
when t. was revealed that he hac
obtained commission of $3.50 fol
renting the house from which he hac
eyicted workers family. The gath
cred workers held their breath, anc
throughout the hall could be seer
the clenching and unclenching Of
fists, black and white.
Landlord Gets Mixed Up
The landlord who came to testify
for Refer got confused in his story
and had to run away to escape the
anger and ridicule Of the audience.
Witnesses for and against Refer
brought out very clearly the fact tina
Refers acts were not merely the act.
of one individual, but that they wer
primarily acts Of oppression and ex
ploitation of workers by capitalist
es employers and landlords.
Refer. Negro, acting as agen
for his bosses, was guilty of persecut
ing other Negroes. The workers WHIT
came to the trial clearly realized TIT
tlass character of Refers actions
when the proceedings were over.
Given Another Chance
The jury recommended, after find
ing Walter Refer guilty, that he b,
Expelled from the branch, but tina
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

ud1loAlAs
Who were the numerous leaders
of the fighting masses in those days,
the heroes of the titanic struggle for
the overthrow of capitalism, the he
roes of the many battles of the Civil
War, of the reconstruction period?
The Bolsheviks grew out Of the ranks
Of the steel workers, of the textile
workers, of the miners. The VIC
torious october revolution was the
fruit Of clear understanding of the
problem Of the proletariai reyolu-
ton and OF the dictatorship Of the
proletariat combined with a system
attic concentration activity for years
as the practical application Of the
feminist conception of the mass
proletarian Party.
Resolutlon-adopted by Section
Conference, Section No. 4, District
No. s Chicago, Communist Party,
U. S. A.:
We accept fully the Open Letter as
adopted by the Extraordinary Ma
tional Conference of the Communist
Party Of the U. S. A.. held in New
York City July Ito, 1888.
In accepting the Open Letter we
realize the great significance Of this
Letter and we are ready to carry on
the work in line with the Open Let
ter.
We pledge to make 1t our revolu-
tionary duty to bring about a de-
cisive turn in our work In most
speedy way in view Of the tremen-
dously rapid development Of the
crisis and the growing revolutionary
advance.
The Open Letter asks why is II
that the Party adopts resolutions ano
does not carry them out? Why is II
that the Party, from top to bottom
is not working to determine the bes,
ways and means for establishing
contacts with the most important
sections Of the workers, learning tc
overcome their prejudices," etc.
Because, says the Open Letter, "Ir
the Party and particularly among
the leading cadres there is a deep.
going lack Of political understand.
ing"
To apply this concretely we car
point to the shops in our own terri
tory. especially thu ~swart- Warner