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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
ere Not Successful in Our Concentration Point

as they get pay, so they will have
the initiation and book money.
While in the past we had to cut
the bundle of "Dailies" from five to
three copies day, through proper
organization of the work. we got five
subs for the everyday Daily" two
for the Saturdays Daily" and in
the near future we will have at
least eight other subs for the Sat
urday's Daily" We also got orders
for two Italian. two Hungarian and
also S. S. papers.
The main weakness of our frac-
ton is that the unemployed COM
rades are of the opinion that they
cannot fight for the everyday de-
mands of the employed. This is
due to the fact that the Lewis ma
chine, knowing that many of the
unemployed are the blacklisted,
fighting elements, they consciously
try to divide the men into employed
and unemployed. We must fight
against this division, and the best
method to use is to speak on the
conditions of the employed, to pre-
sent grievances of the employed, to
pledge support to the struggles af
the employed. Not in any mechan-
ical way, but linking this up with
the conditions and demands of the
unemployed. We also should be
able to expose the leading Organ
izers" of the Lewis machine, who
were bootleggers, store keepers, in
surance agents for periods, when
they we're off the payrolls and could
not be considered as employed"
when they were again sent into the
ranks and appointed organizers.
To sum up, we learned in this
period that in order to concentrate
We must fulfil certain prerequisites:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
March Issue of Labor Defender
Shows More Improvement

Reviewed by CYRIL BRIGGS
THE March issue of the Labor De-
fender, now on the newsstands,
shows continued technical attrac-
tiveness in makeup as well as
marked improvement in the politi-
cal contents of articles. Some Of
these still suffer, however, from an
absence Of social background of the
struggles dealt with, lop-sidedness
in stressing terroristic attacks on
the workers while dealing made
quately with working-class resist
ance, counter attacks and victories.
Lessons from Austria" by Will
liam L. Patterson; Smash Injunc-
tions," by Michael Pierce, give La
Commune" by Sasha Small; The
Fight Against Fascism," by Leo
Gallagher, are particularly worth
reading. These articles not only
picture the social background of the
struggles dealt with, but bring out
the heroic resistance of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
NeVV Masses Ball
Tonight to Mark
Arrival of Spring

NEW YORK-That outstanding
gay event of the first part Of the
year-the annual Spring FroIic Of
the New Masses will be held to-
night at Webster Hall, I19 East
18th Street.
1t is going to be a specially note
worthy affair, being the first ball
to be given by the magazine since
it became Americas first revolu-
tionary weekly publication,
The active editors and many of
the contributors, writer's and artists,
are going to be present at the frohc,
Vernon Andrsde's band will fur
nish dance music until dawn.
Tickets are 81 in advance. $3.50
at the door They may be obtained
at any time before the ball at the
New Masses, 81 East 9th Street ;
the Workers Bookshop, so East 18th
Street; Washington Square Book
shop, 27 West 9th Street; Webster
Hall, 119 East 18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

and apply the lessons of these
struggles to the situation of the
American working class today. This
is also largely true of China To-
day" by John Phillips, although the
article is marred by an all too-sim-
pie and unconvincing explanation
Of the highly complicated situation
in the struggle of the imperialist
rivals for Chinese markets and ter
ritory. Too, the article in pointing
out the effects (war danger) Of this
struggle on the American workers
ignores the utilization of starvation
wages in China to force down the
wages Of workers in the imperialist
countries.
Also worthy of special mention
are Louis Colman's review of Hugo
Gellert's pictorial presentation of
Karl Marks Capital" I'm the
Beautiful West Indies" by A. Co
mez, and the special departments
such as Young Defenders Corner"
and Voices from Prison"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

were no results! After discussion, we
agreed that the main reason for the
lack Of improvement in our work in
the point of concentration, was that
we did not build our fraction in the
local of the U.M.W.A. That we did
not work out a program with the
fraction! That our comrades who
belonged to the U.M.W.A. did not
make the local their base of opera
ton! AS matter of fact, they did
not attend their local meetings. This
at a period when there were con-
tinuous streams of grievances raised,
and local meetings we're attended by
900 to 400 miners.
While we visited individual miners,
and talked to them about an op-
position, we also raised defeatist
arguments. In order to convince"
them that Lewis was an agent of
the coal operators and that Roose-
velt was helping the coal operators
and Lewis, we used arguments
which actually convinced them that
the fight against the Lewis ma
chine was impossible. We also had
a sneaking idea that the N. M. U.
would stage a comeback" We
were glad that the miners agreed
with us. But we failed to see that
this method was not developing OPP
position, but on the contrary pre-
venting formation of any opposition
Secondly, we failed to see that we
only spoke, not to the masses of
miners in the UM.W.A., but to a
small group of ex-NM.U. members.
Certainly, had we had fraction,
and a functioning unit, to check
up on our work. this situation would
have been discovered and changed.
With the help of the new section
organizer, who was sent over two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
TUNING IN
BELOW 200 METERS
Nv I. MULMAN

with the spring season the short wave
receptions are being disturbed due to the
change Of the season. Those who are ind
ing their receptions disturbed, should not
think that their sets are out Of order. For
the last week, not only Moscow stations
we're bad, but even the London stations.
at times, disappeared from their given
wave lengths. Our advice to short wave
listeners is to be patient. and not TO call
for any servicemsn for their short wave
receivers. The trouble is in the air, and
not in the sets,
Very interesting programs are coming
in with good receptions on the South
and Central American stations, on the 49,
50-51 meter Bands between to 10 pm,
every day in the week.
Below is the program of the RV-5o. an
all English broadcast for the last week Of
March Eastern Standard Timel
March %, Fridsy-Reyiew Of tht week;
Discussion; 4-6p.m.
March "a, Seturday-Talk, An Old Boil
shevik's "Reminiscences. 10-11 pm.
March rs. sundsy-Talk, Workers in the
Chemical Industry, 81 pm; The Soviet
Educational System, 1911 am: by En-
gineer Eric Godfrey: In Soviet Telephone
Factory, AS pm.
March rs. Monday-Talk by Robert
Burns: Further News from the Factory
Newspaper" AS pm.
March 20. wednesdsy-Talk: How Social
Insurance Is Paid in the U.s.sR., as pm.
March 80, Friday-Review Of the Week;
Discussion; AS pm.
Those listening in on their short wave
sets are requested TO try and get veri-
fcation from every station listened to. We
are expecting to have contest of verih-
cation. some time in August, when the
anniversary Of the club will he ceIebra ted
program Of about 90 minutes. is sum
cient to send away for a verifcation.
o. s. stations, amateur stations in code
or voice. or any other form Of reception,
will be accepted
NOTES: The next meeting Of the City
Central Executive will be held Monday,
March 26. 7:30 pm, at the Vegetarian
Workers Club. 22o z. 14th st. All orga-
mixers and secretaries are urged to attend.
All comrades capable Of teaching the
Morse Code are urged to Join our club.
Send in your names and addresses. so
that we can notify you OF our branch
meetings in your neighborhood
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
A. F. of L. Leaders Curb
Union Spirit in Oil Fields

line where I've been, which had
been affiliated with the A ?. Of L,
had either rebelled or disinteTated.
HERE, however, almost all crafts
II in the city Of Tulsa are orga-
nized and the oil workers are al
most throwing themselves into the
arms Of the A. F. Of L. But already
great dissatisfaction is becoming
noticeable In local unions because
not one of the craft unions has done
anything for the workers except
collect dues and tell them to be pa
tient, "the government would take
care Of them"
In some unions a spirit Of hope
lessness is perceptibly developing
which promises eventual disintegra-
ton In locals like the food work
ers there is not enough aggressive
ness or Leadership to oppose A. F.
Of L. tactics and inactivity. but
among the oil workers there Is a
dey clipping storm Of protest and re-
sentiment which is causing Wildcat
Williams quite little concern.
II is apparent to me. judging
from the areas I visited. that A. F.
Of L. leadership Of workers is not
accomplishing anything for them.
The A. r. Of L. seems to be actually
cooperating with the employer 30
keep the workers from demanding
the end Of abuses and improvement
Of conditions. The only function
the A. F. Of L. serves, as near as I
have been able to ascertain, rs 10
keep the workers who are orga-
ni7ed from asking too much.
There had been a strong union IN
the oil fields long before the depres-
sion. Around the war days the area
was pretty well organized. But the
organization gradually disintegrated
due to two factors One, the wages
paid at the period were high with
the result that workers had no IN
centive to organize; and two, A. r.
of L. organizers were simply indif-
ferent TO keeping the men in line.
Membership dropped rapidly I'M
til, when the 1929 crash came. there
we're fewer than 1000 members in
the whole Oklahoma oil area, and
most OF these were not paying dues.
To Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

younger elements, and some of them
are asking for Communist literature.
All this was just the preliminary
step to our work. We can't say that
we have been fully successful in
overcoming the old looseness in the
work. For example, after we agreed
and decided to present our program
at the following local meeting Of
the UM,W.A. and modified the
non-Party elements, all our comrades
failed to go to the meeting, But,
instead of having this impermissible
failure remain a secret" the Unit
Buro has taken it UP, and the COM
rades responsible for their failure
to carry out decisions will be given
an opportunity to explain it to the
unit.
We agreed to recruit SO many new
members into the Party from
amongst the employed, and assigned
comrades to visit these elements.
There was no check up. Three
months after the decision, when we
checked up, we found that the
reason no one Joined was because
we did not ask them. That doesn't
mean we did not discuss the Party
with these prospects. We did. We
told them what the Party is doing,
etc. They agreed, but we never
asked them point blank to Join. We
changed this, and Immediately the
following we're the results; Two
wanted more time to think it over,
the others promised to join as soon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

months after the previous organizer
left, we started to change our whole
approach. We re-organized our
Unit. We dropped three useless
members" and two others were
put on probation. An Unemployed
Council was organized, with all our
unemployed brought into the U. G.
Through the U. G. we sent dele
cation to the local. and got endorse
ment of the U. C. Washington Con-
vention, and also a leading local
comrade was accepted unanimously
into the U.M.WA. We organized
our comrades in the UM.W.A. into
a fraction, adopted program of de-
nlands, listed group of is miners,
assigned comrades to visit them,
win them for our demands and
bring them to meeting The meet
ing was not successful. Only few
showed UP. But, instead of cursing
and condemning these workers, we
went to check up on the reasons why
they failed to come. We found that
the place of meeting was known for
years as radical center, it could
be easily watched, and so the work.
ers would not come. We Immediately
changed our tactics and divided the
work of the leading comrades, and
instead Of calling the workers to
one meeting we established three
groups, of from five to eight in
group. We have now three groups
that are beginning TO function and
two others in process of formation.
We attracted to these groups some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Necessity of Workin g
Out Sharp and Clear
Program Stressed

Namely, our units. as weak as they
are, must meet, check up on the
work of each member; organize
work of each member; change the
methods, when we find that the old
methods could not be applied. Our
fractions must make their program
applicable TO the everyday needs of
miners and mobilize wide masses OF
the miners to support us; regard
less how strong the machine may
be- This mobilization shall not be
sided, through personal and in
dividual contacts. but must be given
at the local meetings where the
masses are. Our comrades must be-
come the leaders in their locals and
have a solution for every problem
of the working class. Finally, dis
cipline-which we demand of or
binary workers-rnust be applied to
ourselves first.
While we agree in our Unit that
our work, since the Open Letter,
has not been work of which we
should be proud, nevertheless We
are of the opinion that with the
changed situation in our Unit. with
the help Of the section and district
committee, out Unit will, in the
near future. become a real Commu-
mist Unit, leader of the masses in
our mine, and shall win the ma
iority of the workers in our mine
far revolutionary struggle against
the bosses. their government, and
their agents in our ranks, Lewis and
the local Lewis machine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Anna Stem in "The Girl With
The Band Box" At The
Acme Saturday

Beginning this Saturday, the Acme
Theatre will present two Soviet produc-
tons, "The Girl with The Band BOX, 3"
in which Anna STEM plays the principal
role, and "Igdenbu." picture Of life in
the little known district OF Siberia
The Anna steu picture THE Girl with
The Band Box" is story Of life in q
Moscow suburb. Miss STEM play the role
Of Natashs, milliner, The picture was
directed by the Soviet producer B. Bar
nett, who directed The Patriots" which
was shown here short time ago.
'Igdenbu," directed by Amo Bek-Nszs-
row from a scenario by S. G. vitkin and
Bek-Nszarov. tells the story Of the native
Monaghan tribes and their struggle for
existence IN Siberia on the banks Of the
river Amur 1t shows not only their
nomad life but their hunting Of the wild
animals, especially the Siberian tigers.
Both pictures were made in the Soviet
Union and are now shown for the nrst
time in synchronized form, The pictures
have English titles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN

MONG a number of letters that came in response to
n the expose of conditions in Morrisana Hospital in
New York, which appeared in Wednesdays column, two
contain criticism of my comment.
1T your column with much pleasure
that much reply to the letter
describing Moania Hospital printed in Wednesdays
paper
that the in the hospitals exploited and that
they organized against that exploitation But think to
to that
followed should be firm and determined fight
the patients This should first
Especially treatment of the colored patients
that has part in the heaess attitude
there also the attitude which has been fostered
them for the and hatred To fight this
attitude for the unfortunate patients those
responsible conditions in the hospital the authorities will not
the lot Of the patients easier will bring ocy to the
other employees the workng-cass point Of
which such crimes matter under what
with the proearan attitude should be the
steppng-one unity with the patients against the
expos that feeling would be reinforced by active by the
patients and expaien for better conditions for the
But to that fight should be made this issue
the treatment of the and especially coored patients
in these institutions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
First Hand Testimony

1 employed City Hospital would like to Ann
Rivingtons letter it should be answered.
Remember that the 81 hour only the minimum The
great majority of work 70 hour This
confined split into morning and
The night shift is also twelve hours This should clear illus
taon of how much time recreation Things
per patients
has greatly Increased Therefore peedup
the attention patients other
would get no attention at all.
Nurses workers. working for living Undoubtedly
hem preudiced against Negroes you
single category of workers that has within
ward ementsP Moreover these prejudce
the direct result of the efforts of the hospital authorities
split the workers.
If does not the call of patient Immediately
to be cranky towards patient is because physically
exhausted have just finished days For
the duty children
seriously sick child with temperature neglected
because possible give
Do therefore blame for negectng the child? This typical
example of neglect by the Rvngton would doubt
blame for the lack Of this child
81 hope that letters attacking group workers.
in the future, will take the opportunity point
ing evils not the result seeking perverted pleasure
but are inherent in the capitalist system itself
"A Member of the Hospital Workers League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
By JOHN l. sPIYAK

TULSA, Okla. - The oil
fields here are going through
an organizationaI Renaissance
following years Of abuses by
the petroleum industry, but
the strong union spirit now appar-
ent everywhere is being tightly
cuubed by the American Federation
of Labor.
This area, more than any I have
visited so far, has strong union SYM
pathies and an eager desire to or
ganize not only in the oil industry.
but in almost every craft in Tulsa
and the state. Where. in other
areas, I found union labor utterly
crushed and respondent, here there
is an electric spirit among the work
ers for unionization, a spirit which
is being kept in check by one Wild
cat Williams, a gunman appointed
by the A. F. Of L. as international
organizer for the Oil Field. Gas
Well and Refinery Workers Of
America. The appointment was
made after ne had successfully kept
the unemployed from Selling ware
houses containing food Wildcat
Williams is being directed in a good
deal Of his work by Judge G. Ed.
Warren, president of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor and, at the mo-
ment, candidate for Mayor Of
Tulsa on the Democratic ticket.
partly as a reward for keeping the
unemployed down." as Wildcat ex-
pressed it.
The desire to organize developed
because Of the stupidity of the oil
companies. When the N.R.A. was
rendering the country with assur-
ances that collective bargaining
would be guaranteed, the petroleum
industry workers we're thoroughly
disorganized and not even thinking
of organization. They were too glad
to get little work. even at wages
below living costs. But the oil COM
panies, fearful that some one might
come in and organize them, tried to
steal a march by starting company
unions. The result was that the oil
field and refinery workers, realizing
what company unions were, called
meetings Of their own and orga-
nized themselves. AS soon as a To-
cal was organized it appealed to
the A. F. Of L. for charter.
The A. F. of L., which had no
organizers in the field at all and so
far as was able to learn has none
now except Wildcat simply charter
the locals that the men themselves
organize, collect dues and tell them
to be patient!
In Brockton, the only other sec
tion I visited which had a strong
union, the A. F. Of L. leaders had
countenanced and aided in the re-
duction Of wages until the men re-
belled blindly and we're organized
into another union which now con-
trolls labor in the shoe industry in
that city. The A. F. of L. had failed
the shoe workers completely.
In Charlotte the A. F. of L. Cen
trail Trades had been wrecked and
was impotent.
In New Orleans the A. F. of L.
unions had disintegrated completely
since the depression and what few
were left of the membership were
being given the run-around by a
small-time politician.
Organized labor, all along the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM
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i0.o0-First Nighter-Sketch
10:30-Stoess Orch.
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Clarence A. Dykstra, City Manager
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s:OO-Osborne Orch; Interview by Radie
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9:3o-Book Play
s:45-willy Robyn, Tenor Marie Gerard
Soprano
lo:oo-Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty
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11:00-Three Scamps, Songs
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Buro of Pennsylvania
Mine Nucleus Examines
Own Experiences
BY the Buro of Mine Nucleus No -
West Brownsville, Pa.

Il
Reading the Discussion Column
in the Daily" in preparations for
the Eighth Party Convention, our
unit decided to send into the
DAILY" its experiences. We believe,
that by doing this, we are helping
the Party to crystalline q better I'M
derstanding in the units. section
and district committees, what are
our tasks in the carrying out of the
Open Letter and the 18th Plenum
of the EC.CI., Of winning the ma
iority of the working class for the
program of revolutionary struggles.
Our Unit was assigned to con-
centrate in mine. It is a
key mine in very important min
ing center. We had 10 members in
the unit. of whom only one worked
in the mine, and two others be-
long to the local of the U.M.W.A.
We worked out quotas, program,
etc. However, when we came to
check up on our work recently, we
found that we failed to recruit a
single member into the Party. We
cut the bundle of the daily" from
five to three; there was no oppo-
sition in the local; there was no
organized unemployed movement
AS matter of fact Qpr Unit did
not meet for nearly three monthsl
This does not mean that our COM
rades did not work They worked
hard. They went into the patch,
they talked to the miners, yet, there