The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06

Of relief distribution, and has won
much more relief.
The weaknesses Of this struggle
were that the seamen did not begin
quickly enough to spread the strug-
gle to the other industries in Bal
timore, and the relief heads tried
to isolate the seamen by bribing
them with more relief, spreading
the red scare at the same time. Now
a conference has been called by the
for all industries, in order
to spread the victories on the water
front to other industries and sec
tons.
Jim CrOwism Smashed
"The Jim Grow has been smashed
on the water front" the Baltimore
marine delegate declared. In this
Jim Crow town Negro worker can
now eat in the restaurants on the
waterfront without discrimination
because of our struggles against
Jim Grow. We now have 300 marine
workers in our local.
1--WE have built the Party from a
unit of five to a unit of over 10,
and these new forces are active. We
have built a new Y.CL. unit of 80
members which is concentrating On
two steamship lines. We have
stopped discrimination in shipping
out from the port of Baltimore"
Integrate Independent Unoins
Comrade Burlak, national secre-
tary of the National Textile Work
ers Industrial Union, spoke of the
lessons in dealing with Independent
unions and Of the united front in
the textile industry. These indie
pendent unions grew up, she de-
clared, because of the urgent need
of the workers for organization, be-
cause they we're disillusioned by the
A. F. of L. leaders treachery and
because in many cases our union
was not in the field.
These independent unions will
diSintegrate and degenerate if they
stand alone and if we are afraid
to inject into them our revolution
airy policy said Comrade Burlak.
Due to our neglect, the union
drifted from the revolutionary line.
In the national silk strike the in
dependent unions joined in the
united front with the N. T. w. U.
The chief mistake in this strike,
Comrade Burlak said, was that we
fought for unity from the outside
but did not sufficiently penetrate
into the A. F. of L. locals. The
fight for the independent fedora
ton Of labor, with q class struggle
line, raised by Comrades Browder
and Stachel. is especially important
for the textile industry, because here
the independent unions have doubled
the membership of the N. T. w. U.
In the concentration points in New
Bedford and Lawrence, the union
has not succeeded in developing
struggles as yet, Comrade Burlak
said, In conclusion, Comrade Bur-
lax called for greater effort to
draw women into the ranks Of the
Party and into leading Party posi-
tions.
Haywood Reports
The center of Comrade Heywood's
report for the Central Committee
on the work among the Negro
masses was the fight of the Party
against deviations from the Party
line on two fronts, against white
chauVinism, and against the growing
petty bourgeois nationalism.
Comrade Haywood analyses thor
oughly the role of the Negro re-
formists and the petty bourgeois ma
tionalist leaders. Their role" he
said, "is to head off the growing
mass movement of the Negro masses
against reaction, in order to behead
it. They put forward reactionary
Utopias, such as back-to- Africa, to
create illusions as to the peaceful
way" out of the crisis. Unless we
are able to isolate these misleaders,
to liberate the masses from their
counter-revolutionary influence, we
will not be able to carry through
the great tasks imposed upon us by
the present situation, we will not
be able to weld that unbreakable
solidarity of the working class which
is a pre-condition for beating back
the imperialist forces of fascism and
war and prepare the masses for the
revolutionary seizure of power.
Fight On Two Fronts
"The upsurge Of petty bourgeois
nationalism and the spread of white
chauvinism calls for the strength
ening of the fight on two fronts
within the Party and the revolu-
tionary moYement-again white
chauvinism as the main danger and
at the same time more persistent
combating of the influences of petty
bourgeois nationalism in our ranks. :"
Comrade Haywood spoke of the
strengthened fight against white
chauvinism and of the necessity of
a more vigorous fight against it..
He showed that the petty bourgeois
national tendencies had influenced
even some Party members. These
tendencies, Comrade Haywood said,