The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23

his was the tlrSC great mass meet
ing of this native ever attempted in
ing of this nature ever attempted in
Extremely Successful Lenin Meeting
In Bronx Coliseum
Leo Patterson, for the National
Committee of the Young Communist
League, a Negro worker, spoke first,
at Bronx Coliseum, outlining the
main struggles of the young workers,
Negro and white alike, in the fight
against starvation and war.
C. A. Hathaway district organizer
Of the Communist Party called at
tention to the completion of 93.7 per
cent of the First Five Year Plan in
the Soviet Union in four years and
three months (the whole plan would
have been finished if it had not been
for the rising war danger) as proof
that Lenin knew what he was talk
ing about when he laid down over
ten years ago the guiding principles
of the plan.
Lenin relied on the Communist
Party to carry through this great
work, and to lead everywhere to the
overthrow of capitalism, said Hatha-
way, and described Lenin's idea of
the party as one eliminating all OPP
portunism and maintaining one Boil
sheVik Theory. "Lenin never lost
sight of the fact" said Hathaway,
that the task was the destruction
OF capitalism, with the proletarian
in the leading role, taking as allies
the poor peasants and the oppressed
peoples, such as the Negroes in AM
erica, and taking advantage of every
weakness or contradiction in the
ranks of the capitalist enemies"
Answer To Socialists.
"Lenin," said Hathaway, brushed
aside all such milk and water soci-
alism as that put forward by the
Socialist Party Of America"
These Socialists now say, the speak
er pointed out, that LeniniSm ap-
plies only in backward, Asiatic coun-
tries" but we, the workers of this,
the most advanced Capitalist i'm
perialist country in the world see that
these slogans Of Lenin apply right
here.
Hathaway made a thrilling appeal
for solidarity of Negro and White.
referred to the Scottsboro case COM
ing up in few weeks on new trial,
and called on all to take the strug-
gle against war into every factory
and workshop and to the ranks of
the unemployed. He used the re-
Sponsibility of the Communist PARTY
IN this most important irnperialist
country, U.S.A., as an argument for
! new recruits to its ranks, and for
mass support of the struggle to save
the Daily Worker.
"The Party Of Lenin."
The tenor of the meeting, of both
meetings for that matter, was IL
lustrated by the great red banners
on the walls:
Join the Party of Lenin, the Com
munist Party Vanguard of the Work
ing Glass; Proletarians of All Coun-
tries and Oppressed Peoples Unite %
ana Organize Your Neighbor and
Resist Eyictions Of the Unemployed, !"
and Down With Lynching and Race
Discrimination, Full Equality for
Negroes and Self Determination for
The Black Belt" and Fight I'm
perialist War Preparations; Defend
The Soviet Union, Chinese People and
Latin American Masses!
With these were slogans for the
speeding of the $4,000 financial drive
OF the Daily Worker and for mass
organizations and workers to support
it and for new readers.
The meeting was well managed in
TINS respect: it started on time and
closed promptly at 1920, without con-
tuSion OF the program or any ap-
parent rushing.