The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Continued from Page y

Committee. the Convention heard
its own social composition analysed
and this showed the Party's sue
cess in extending its roots in the
basic industries and in the decisive
sections of the laboring class OF
the United States. Of the 470 dele
gates, 233 were regular delegates
121 fraternal delegates from Party
districts, and 1l6 national fraternal
delegates. They we're 80 per cent
proletarian in social origin, ga per
cent petty bourgeois, and IL per
cent housewives.
80 A. F. Of L. Members
A total Of 80 delegates were Amer
lean Federation of Labor union
members, IS Independent union
members total Of ga per cent of
the Convention holding union men,
bership. There were las native
born, SO foreign-born among the
voting delegates. They came from
the following industries: Steel and
metal, lumber, auto, textile. mining,
transportation, including IS marine
and Is railroad representatives,
agriculture, farming, needle trades,
building trades, food, printing, shoe
and leather, professions and office
work. There we're 214 men, 10
women among the regular delegates.
The largest group-65 per cent
we're between Is and 30 years old.
Their Party membership varied
in length from charter membership
to several months-the largest num-
Der having joined since the open
Letter was issued last summer.
Through the final session, as be-
fore, speeches by rank and file
workers, particularly Negro, farmer
and basic-industry representatives,
we're mingled with the contributions
of veteran leaders and representa-
tives of brother parties of the Com
munist International in other ma
tons.
Robert Minor, recent Communist
candidate for Mayor of New York
City, stirred the convention anew
when he asserted that the Scots
boro case is to the working class
what the bred Scott case was in
the chattel-slayery- abolition move
ment before 1861. Hailing the rapid
spread of the Party's influence in
the deep South-one of the most
inspiring factors reflected through
out the CONGRATULATIONS brought
forth a burst of applause when he
declared:
I'VE speak of the backward
South'-but backwardness is a
twO-edged sword The South
is the weakest link in American
capitalism"
In a recent district convention OF
the Party in the South, he said
go per cent of the delegates hao
never belonged to trade union
which shows the swift progress OF
Southern workers directly into revo-
lutionary activities as they are
reused to movement.
A Negro steel worker, in the Com
munist Party but a few months
told the Convention how Negroe:
among the 1000 workers in ht
plant are surging toward the Com.
munist program as he did. A Ne
gro Share-cropper reported like
wise. The representative of the
Communist Party Of ireland, Com
rade Sean Murray, was cheerec
anew as he declared the unity Of
the revolutionary Irish in Ireland
and in the United States, The
delegates whistled and clapped as
he announced that the year-old
Communist Party of ireland has
won Q place in and will win the
leadership of successful movement
for liberation Of the Irish worker;
both from British imperialist op-
preston and from their own capt.
talists'.
A spontaneous ovation broke out
as Comrade Murray told how, under
increasing Fascist attacks, the Irish
Party stands and grows.
The convention reached new peaks
of enthusiasm as it affirmed the
nominations for the Central Com,
mittee and adopted resolutions Of
greetings to the Communist Inter
national and the Communist Par.
ties of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Ire
land, Canada, Mexico, Germany
China, Japan, Great Britain anc
the Philippine Islands. The Con-
vention also adopted a resolution Of
greetings to the International Labor
Defense and to Alfred Tiala, Farmer
leader now imprisoned in Indiana
because he participated in one o.
the thousands of cases OF mass re-
sistance and the beginnings of re-
volt that is taking place on the
Farm side all over the country
They greeted, also, Phil Frankfeld
Pennsylvania unemployed leader
who goes TO prison shortly on 6
charge rugged up on the basis o.
his leadership Of unemployed work.
ers.
Browder called for a higher leve
Of leadership" both among the tor
sections and the rank and file o.
Communist Leaders. He commended
the high political development re-
f1ected in the Convention discus.
sions, but insisted that this be ex.