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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18

NEW Observation-Disclosures
in colleges and students In high
schools throughout the country
are offered an opportunity to
win substantial money prizes, ac-
cording to an announcement
made today by the N.A.A.C.P., of
its forthcoming essay contest.
Six prizes are being offered
for the best essays. The first
three 1928, SIS and SOY are for
the best essays written by col
lege undergraduates on topics
relating to the history, aims and
achievements of the N.A.A.CP.
such as (a) The struggle a
gainst segregation, (b) The fight
for the right to vote, Co Does
the White or the Negro college
prepare the Young Negro better
for life? Cd An idea program
for the N.A.ACP., (e) The goal
of the young Negro.
The second group Of three
prizes ($25, SIS. and SOD is for
the best essays written by high
school students on any topics re-
lating to the history and work
of particular NA.A.CP. branch
es. such as (a) The Story Of the
Philadelphia Branch, (b) The
Detroit Branch and the Sweet
Case, Co The Birmingham
and the Peterson Case
cd the Cleveland Branch and
school segregation, (e) The work
Of the Los Angeles Branch. etc.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18
Return Indictments
On Four Lynchings

GREENWOOD. s. C.-Four in
dictments, charging murder, were
voted against white men here
Tuesday in connection with the
lynching of Bonnie Thompson
at Ninety-Six. October 8.
The true bills struck Burley
leopard. Clarence Mayes, Ken
nety Morris and Howard Webb.
No action was taken on the evil
dence pointing to j. Calvin Rush
police chief at Ninety-Six at the
time of the crime, as an acces-
sorry to the, "rolphing." He has
not been arrested. The other
men are out on bond.
Thompson was beaten to death
after he had had a quarrel with
one of the white men.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18
Resents Criticism OF
State of Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Atty.
General Thomas K. Knight, Jr.,
prosecutor of the "Scottsboro
boys, has written letter of pro-
test to the federal radio COM
mission because of a purported
slur against Alabama, made by
H. v. Ealtenhorn, radio news
commentator.
Mr.. Kaltenhorn is alleged to
have asserted that it was i'm
possible for certain persons to
receive a fair trial in Germany
as for the "Scottsboro boys" in
Alabama.
And Mr.. Knight had the
nerve to challenge thatl
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18
Leader Is Ousted
From C.S. Church

LOS ANGEL .ES- Mrs. Marietta
T. Webb, organizer of the East
side Church of Christ. was GUST
ed from membership by the gov
erning board OF the church last
week when she refused TO allow
the term "colored" placed beside
her name In the journal pub
lished by the mother church.
The board ruled her refusal is
direct violation of the rules of
the church.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18
ANSWERS
NO.

?. Bona fide clearance mer-
chandise. to be excepted from the
loss limitation provisions, If not
marked must be segregated from
other merchandise; or if inter
mingled with other merchandise
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-01-18

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Darcy Urges
Fight Against
Upton Sinclair
Calls for Sharp Exposure
of Epic Authors
Aid to Capitalism

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. S.
The task of the California workers
in their fight to expose the candi-
dacy of Upton Sinclair, and of
bringing forward the program of
the Communist Party is one of vital
Importance, Sam Darcy, Communist
candidate for Governor, declared at
a gathering here following his re-
turn from the East.
THE newspapers in the East and
in California say that the Demo-
cratic Party has surrendered to Up
ton Sinclair. Actually Sinclair has
surrendered to the Democratic
Party and would give the workers,
if elected, only what the capitalist
class wants to give u.s." Darcy said.
"The reason for Sinclair's can
didacy and his radical sounding
program is that the capitalist class
feels it must do something about
the tremendous spread of revo-
lutionary working -class struggles
throughout the country" Darcy
continued.
"The establishment which would
inevitably follow Sinclair's election
would not make the workers revolu-
tionary. On the contrary, it would
lead to Encouragement and reac-
ton and would be help to the
capitalist class.
The effect of the election on the
workers of this State depends not
on Sinclair, but on the Commu-
nists and those who support the
Communist platform. If we want
to free Tom Mooney, if we want
unemployment relief, If we want
the right to strike and to organize.
1sTunmmoO sql IoI sloA sSnu g
Party is the only assurance that
we will get it no matter who takes
office" Darcy declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
9O,OOO,OOO
Workers To
Elect SOviets

MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (By Wireless) d.
The Central Committee of the
Soviet Union has published its de-
ciSion regarding the election of
Soyiets throughout the entire
Union.
Elections to town and village
Soviets will take place between No
vember l and December 10, and
between December Is and January
10 the regional and republican So
Wet congresses will be held. The
Seventh All-Union Congress of So
VETS will be held January Is.
According to the Soviet constitu-
ton all workers of both sexes.
from the age of eighteen, have
the right to elect and be elected
to Soviets, irrespective of national
ity, religious belief, residence, etc.
In the forthcoming elections over
9O,OOO,0O0 electors will participate.
The number of deputies and mem
berS of executive committees to be
elected reaches 100000. This fig
ure clearly illustrates the breadth
Of Soviet democracy. 1t plainly
shows what broad masses of the
toiling population are directly rep
resented in the SOviets, what ex-
ceptiOnally favorable conditions for
bringing out revolutionary energy,
initiative and creative powers are
inherent in the Soviet system.
Undoubtedly the election cam
paign this year will be distin-
guiShed by extraordinary activity
on the part Of the electors. The
best guarantee that such will be
the case is the tremendously in
creased political and cultural level
OF the broad strata of the workers
in the Soviet Union, their burning
enthusiasm, and the enormous Gre
alive activity in Socialist construc-
ton.
This election will sum up the
whole historic period between the
sixth and seventh All-Union Con-
gress of Soviets, the great period of
the dictatorship of the proletariat
when the victory of socialism in
the U.S.S.R. was finally deter
mined.
Brilliant Achievements
For the entire capitalist world
this period was a period of the
continuance of an unprecedented
economic decline in town and vii
Iage. Only the country Of the So
VETS grew and rose rapidly. The
brilliant national and economic
achievements of the first Five Year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
C.P. Birthday Marks
Gro'Oh Of Struggles
Of the Negro Masses
One of Communist Party's Greatest Achievements
Is Seen as Opening of Door of Revolutionary
Movement Wide to the Negro People

, be sure that the Communists are
leading that struggle. Scottsboro
has become the internationally
known symbol of this achievement
of the Communist Party. The
penetration of the Party into the
South, its roofing and growth there
in the heavy industrial center Of
Birmingham, Alabama, and in the
textile centers of the Carolinas as
well as in the plantations of the
Alabama Black Belt - have shown
conclusively that at last the strug-
gle for Negro liberation has been
taken to the bosom of the Amer
lean revolutionary proletariat.
This, in itself, is historic
achievement which marks the end
of a whole period and the begin
ming of another in the development
of the revolutionary movement in
this country. This achievement is
arraying a mass of great reVolu-
tionary power against the onslaught
of capitalism, against the Roosevelt
drive upon the workers, against the
gathering forces of fascism, against
the danger of war.
The Communist Party of the
United States is able to record this
achievement on its fifteenth ami
versary precisely because it is not
an isolated, narrow, national party,
drawing merely upon its own ex-
periences and its own abilities, re-
peating old mistakes again and
again out of inability to escape from
its past. 1t is a part of a World
Party, the Communist Interna-
tional, which is the embodiment of
world revolutionary experience, the
central exchange through which all
wires pass gathering and transmit
ting experiences of all revolution
airy movements in the past and in
the present from and to all parts
of the world.
This International has to It's
credit the consolidation of a sue
cesSful proletarian revolution, the
building of Socialism in the Soviet
Union, as well as revolutionary
movements of long standing
throughout the world 1t was able
to help the American Party, on the
basis of its long experience, In over
coming bourgeois race theories, in
throwing off its back the deaden-
ing weight of opportunist heritage
from the Socialist Party and to
reach clarity and understanding on
the Negro question.
The Sixth World Congress of the
Communist International, neld in
1928, deliberated upon the Negro
question in the United States. The
resolution on The question passed
by the Congress was the first docu-
ment which marked a complete re-
orientation on the question, as far
as the American Communists were
concerned. 1t applied Leninism to
the situation and found clear an
alysis. Lenin's Characterization of
the American Negroes as an OPP
pressed nation was here applied
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

NEW YORK-The local district
of the Young Communist League
has sent q letter on united action
to the city committee of the Young
Peoples Socialist League.
The letter. signed by John Little,
district organizer of the Y.C.L., fol-
lows:
The recent steps toward united
action between the Socialist and
Communist youth can only be, and
in fact. have been greeted with the
greatest enthusiasm by the broad
masses Of youth. Of particularly
recent date, are such united front
actions as the participation Of
young Socialists and young Com
munists in the First American
Youth Congress; the insufficient, it
is true, but nevertheless inspiring
ard vholehearted working together
of individual members of the Young
P~c'",s'3 SCc.?'ist LEAGUE and Young
Ccmmuni5j League in the Youth
Congress Against War and Fascism
in Chicago; the joint picketing
against the fascist musicians at the
Academy of Music on 14th Street
b. young Socialists and young Com
munist-.
These and cCun,,--5 other facts
show that the overwhelming desire
for united front action in the ranks
of both the Young Communist
League and the Young Peoples So
cialist League is rapidly growing
despite all the artificial obstacles
which still stand in the way of
thorough-going united front action
between the Y.PS.L. and the Y.C.L.
The imperative necessity of inme-
diately realizing such united front
of action between the Socialist and
Communist youth, grows more press
ing every day. In the light Of these
recent developments, which we greet
as positive steps forward in forging
the invinoible united front of So
cialist and Communist youth, your
answer to the letter in which we
tried to speed up the possibility of
achieving a successful united front
anti-fascist youth action on Oct.
18th against the Italian fascist stu
dent demonstration, comes as a
distinct disappointment to us. In
fact of the progress already made
in the direction of unity, your COM
nunication can only have the eff
feet Of hindering the fulfllment of
the most fervent desire of both
young Communists and young So
eialits for united action.
Tried to Remove Obstacles
In our letter to you we attempted
to remove the few remaining OBJ
sass, which still stand in the way
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
By JAMES s. ALLEN


It was only recently that Negro
workers in important numbers
began to play an active role in the
revolutionary working class move
ment in the United States. This
does not mean that there were no
Negro revolutionists, Or that there
was no mass revolutionary move
ment among the Negroes. The Ne
gro people have rich and full
tradition of struggle against the
But it was only in the recent period
slave-owners, both old and new.
that any appreciable proletarian
revolutionary movement developed
among them. Thanks to the Com
munist Party, the long-standing
struggle against plantation peonage,
against insulting degradation and
overwhelming oppression, is now be-
ing fought in a new way, in the
closest alliance with the entire
working class.
The fact that there were so few
Negroes in the working class move
ment prior to the World War was
in part due to the fact that there
was as yet no very large Negro in
dustrial proletariat. But it was also
due to the inveterate opportunism
of the Socialist Party which
hindered a proper Marxist under
standing of the Negro question.
After the mass migrations of Ne
groes into industrial areas, par
ticularly of the North, during and
after the War, conditions were ripe
for the rapid attraction of Negro
workers into the revolutionary
movement; but it was to take a
number of years before other con-
ditions were prepared, before The
Communist Party itself should
begin to overcome the harmful in
heritance from the Socialist Party
and turn its hand to a serious con-
sideration of the problem.
At the present time, fifteen years
after the formation of the Com
munist Party, We can say that I'M
'SNNGSNAy OAlC VI 1Oo 6ICdGCoG NOLl-
tributionS to the working class in
this country is the fact that it has
seized upon the key which has
opened the doors of the revolution
airy movement wide to the Negro
people. 1t has had to overcome
numerous subtle influences of the
whole atmosphere of white super
iority"; it has had to overcome a
deep distrust of white workers
among the Negro masses. nurtured
by centuries of oppression at the
hands of the white ruling class and
its supporters among the ranks of
the Negro upper class. The Com
rnunists have established their posi-
ton as the uncompromising cham
pions Of working class solidarity
and of Negro rights, each INSOFAR
able from the other. Wherever one
hears of white and Negro workers
fighting shoulder to shoulder in q
strike, for unemployment relief, for
social and political rights, one may
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
New York Y.C.L Explains Unity Stand in Letter YPS.L

Systematically for the first time.
Following upon another period of
indecisive action due to the oppor-
tunist policy of the Lovestoneite
leadership, there was passed, in
1880, after extensive discussion and
disagreement IN the American
Parry, still another resolution,
which laid down clearly and def
nitely the basic characteristics of
the Negro question in the United
States. This document remains to-
day the basic and fundamental dis
cussion of the problem, around
which all Of the activities Of the
Party have been organized, ac.iW-
ties which led to the Scottsboro
campaign, the Hsrndon victory, the
formation of the Share Choppers
Mon, etc.
Between the Sixth and the ap-
preaching Seventh World Congress
Of the Communist International &
complete transformation has taken
place in the working class move
ment in the United States in re-
lation to the Negro. The Interna-
tional has been able to render in
estimable aid in removing the false
glasses Of bourgeois theory through
which we had been wont to gaze
upon the Negro question. 1t has re-
placed these by sharp and use
full weapon, clear and correct an
alysls of the nature of the ques-
ton. If we wish to work correctly,
we must know both the nature of
the problem we are tackling and
the method of working. We have
learned, and are continuing to learn
daily. But the principal barrier has
been overcome-We are well on our
way. The problems to be discussed
now, in the 18th year of our Party
and at the Seventh World Congress,
are, as far as the Negro question
is concerned, no longer a matter Of
principles-these lave
been settled-but the further de-
velopment of that movement which
these principles have been able to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

Plan are now multiplied by VIC
| toriouS Socialist construction in the
first two years of the Second Five
Year Plan. The country has become
still stronger, more mighty and
wealthy. The material and cul-
turaI welfare of the toilers of town
and village has increased year by
year. Unemployment disappeared
long ago. The country is rapidly APP
preaching high peak of prosperity
and general welfare.
These gains the workers of the
USSR. obtained only because the
country was developing along the
path indicated by Lenin and Stain.
These victories were achieved be-
cause the Soviets-the fighting or
gsnizers of peaceful labor and the
defense of the country conducting
the general line of the feminist
Party-raise dto active construction
the new life of millions of people
and organized and directed the Gre
ative activity of the masses along
channels Of creative work.
After the last three and a half
years since the Sixth Congress
the Soyiets face greatly
changed electorate. Overwhelm-
ing masses of peasants for the
first time are coming to the
elections, not as scattered groups
of individual peasants, but as
many millions organized in Boil
shevik collective farms, having
firmly taken the path Of Socialism.
The number of electors has in
creased in the last three years
by over ten millions. These are
the youth grown up under Soviet
power, who have reached electoral
age during this period and who
will vote in Soviet elections for
the first time.
The relative importance OF the
tOiling women at elections will
tremendously increase, CORE
spending to their increasing role
in industry and agriculture and
all spheres of social and political
life.
The intelligentsia OF the work.
ing class will form a noticeable
group at elections this yeas.
Thcy have come from the work
ing class and the peasants and
have passed through SoTiet uni
verSitles.
During the period remaining be-
fore the elections town and village
Soviet5 must, according to the de-
cision Of the government, give re-
ports to the electors on their work.
Every deputy of each Soviet must
present reports to the electors as
to how he fulfilled their instruc-
tons, how he fought for socialism.
The shortcomings of the work of
Soyiets and their various deputies
must be subjected to extensive self
criticism by the electors. express
ing the real democracy of the So
Wet system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

81. enormously considers to be the
cause of the rise to power of fas-
cism. Neither do we insist that the
Y.P.S.L. shall abandon what we con-
slider its thoroughly false and dan
-gerous theory that it is possible to
tight against faScism by supporting
bourgeois democracy through the
theory Of the lesser evil, and the
way fox -t'e rise to power of fascism,
as in Germany and Austria. This
policy is what we call social fascist.
Our Characterization of it flows from
our basic principles. We will not
and we cannot change our position
on this question.
ut is not true, however, that we
have ever classed the members and
followers of the Y.P.SL. as social
fascists. On the contrary, we have
always considered them our class
brothers. We consider that while
the Socialist youth have as vet fun
damental disagreements with the
Communists, they are moving in the
direction of revolutionary class &C.
ton.
Counter Revolutionary Groups
"On the other hand, we do not
consider the Trotskyites and Love-
stonites in the same category.
These despicable people long age
left or rather were kicked out OF
the revolutionary movement. They
are moving not in the direction CT
revolutionary action, but of coun-
ter-reyolution, in fact, they have
already arrived in the camp of the
counter revolutionistS.
The Y.C.L. is not interested in a
united front with anybody and
everybody. The YCL. is interested
in a united front which will in
volve the broad masses of youth
regardless of their political differ
ences, in successful common struggle
against the common enemy on i'm
mediate issues. If in order to more
quickly unite these large masses Of
youth, it becomes necessary at the
same time to unite with certain or
CARNATIONS or with certain people
which, or who. have policies which
we believe to be fundamentally
false and dangerous to the inter.
ests of the working class. then We
do so, not for the sake of abstract
unity with these organizations OF
people, but for the sake of the
united front struggle of the mass o.
members or followers of these or.
CARNATIONS or people.
Unity of Masses of Youth
From this point of view. it is
clear that while the YCL is anxiou;
to unite with the YPSL, it is moi
willing to unite with the counter
revolutionary renegade groups. A
united front with the renegade
groups will not result in uniting
masses of youth who are now seua-
rated as a result OF the counter
revolutionary policies of the rene
gades in joint struggle on i'm.
mediate issues. On the contrary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

it will result in separating the
broad masses of youth already more
and more engaged in joint struggle
on immediate issues as a result of
the introduction of the program
and policies OF the renegades. 1t
would serve not to unite i'll action
a larger mass of youth despite their
political separation. 1t would serve
to politically separate the same
masses of youth despite their unity
of action. This united front with
the renegade groups would be a
force not for unity but for further
disunity. 1t would simply and
solely be a united front between
the YCL and the agents of the
counter-revolution against every
interest of the working class youth.
I'VE have already had sufficient
experience with the renegade
groups to know that their purpose
in entering the united front is
merely to act as disrupters and
splitters. We can point to the ne
Sotiations for a united National
Youth Day demonstration, on May
30, as an example of how the Trot-
skyites acted as the splitting force
preventing unity between Socialist
and Communist youth. We can
point to the actions of the Trotsky-
ties in the First American Youth
Congress where they tried to split
the united support of this confer
ence for the peace policies of the
Soviet Union by SianderouS at
tacks against it. Surely our work
ing class comrades, the Young
Socialists must realize that it is
only in the interest of the working
class as whole to refuse to have
any dealings with the counter
revolutionary Trotskyites and Love-
Stoneites.
Destroy Artificial Barriers
I'VE hope that this statement of
our position will serve to remove
that lack Of understapding which,
according to the letter of the YPSL,
is responsible for the hesitancy of
the YPSL in uniting with the Vel
on Oct. IL.
I'VE repeat again that the YCI
is determined and will continue to
fight for united action on Oct. II
against the Italian fascist student
demonstration. 1t will continue to
fight for united action of all other
immediate questions of the class
struggle, such as in connection with
the textile strike, the coming ma
rine strike, the anti-war demon
stration on Nov. IL, Armistice Day
etc. Do not let these artificial bar
riers stand in the way of achiey-
ing such unity. Let us know i'm
mediately by return mail or tele-
phone when a representative COM
mittee of the YPSL can meet us to
make all final arrangements. Let
us transform these united front ne
gotiations, already too long drawn
cut, into united front actions.
"Con-adely yours.
JOHN LITTLE.
Young Communist League, Dis
trict No, g."