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Washington Journal., 1934-02-02

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Washington Journal., 1934-02-02

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gemutb, Der 8unOesebrenhormeiiIer
oes Sddiii6en S6ngerbunoes. feier.
te neulid ieinen 20. @eburtstag.
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Geutihlono gemadt. SIN Sc6re
1905 DiOmete inn &iharo StrouS
in anerfennuna ieiner groBen Ser.
oienite Die &antate .@oroenoe.
lang. Bon 1906 bis 1926 mar
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maligen S1neer . 8Mn0es3eitrnG
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Graft eineeieht.
Washington Journal., 1934-02-02

BittOrf. Sci Ser SreibidgO III
Der 6elomarf Bittorf wurOe ser
6albmeier uno befonnte 8feroe5iih
ter &oiebrod aus DreiieI SogOf6uis,
uno 5par fonnte er cine Strede bon
nidt meniger als % &aien oiifwei-
len
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
''The Lie They Told CoesAs Puff of Wind,
And Get Nothing" Writes Sharecropper
''Yet We Are Still Fighting to Build the Share
crOppers' UniOn,'' He Reports

BY a Share Chopper Correspondent
DADEVILLE, Ala have been
in the Sharecroppers' Union three
years and still working and I am
intending to remain until death,
fighting for the Negro rights. The
white people are so hard on us
since the Sharecroppers' Union has
been established in the black belt.
They won't organize with us, and
fight against helping us. They will
not even furnish us jobs, neither
will they give us food, yet we are
still fighting to build the S. C. q.
The bosses have set out to starve
us to death, but we are set to
break their rotten system down by
organizing into one solid union.
b But so far we have made it
through. They shall not keep the
workers down. Up until the present
time we have been blessed and able
to keep fighting. We have been
cut from any money, Or a way to
get anything, but yet we are liv-
ing, though it seems like we are
gradually dying, but we must keep
fighting for better conditions.
Yet we cannot make it without
a change. The capitalists have
everything clenched in their hands
and we must fight to weaken their
tight grip and then we can eat
and wear as the ruling class does.
It's bad the way we have to go up
and ask, and knowing that It is
there we must organize into
The daily worker., 1934-03-22

stronger masses and demand the
bosses to give us what We want.
They are perfect on telling the
workers falmouth lies that they
will give to us on a special day they
set for us to come back, and then
the lie they told goes as a puff
of wind and we get nothing.
love the Union fine and have
been working ever since it has been
in here and I mean to fight but
the way looks dark sometime but
I am looking for brighter day.
We have to continue to beg them.
They say the food is too high for
them to buy for us workers. They
claim that the relief food and
clothing they got they have to buy
when they know they are telling
a lie Oh, they are trying to lace
it into us heavy. I just found out
how dirty the low-down ruling class
is, since the S. G. U. has been in
here.
Here, in the Black Belt is the
most jim-crowed place in the world.
They jim-crow here everywhere.
At the relief Office they jim-crow
the Negroes. They give the whites
medicine and would not give the
Negro even box of black draught
to take if he was sick. But we
will fight on until we win our
rights.
Long live the S. O. U. and the
Q. P.
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Columbia
Farmers Wife
Tells of Eviction
BY a Farmer Correspondent

CLOVERDALE, British Columbia.
We were so Respondent and mis-
cradle, just to be thrown out on the
road, and We had done a lot of
team work for our landlady. 1t was
supposed to go for rent but she
decided not to credit us with it and
we had nothing in writing. Had
she given us credit for the work
done, we wouldn't have owed any
thing.
We have got a shack now and are
beginning to gather our stuff up
again. We slept in our own beds
last night for the first time since
Dec. 18. We tried to form Farm
ers' Unity League here but most Of
our neighbors have a pension Of
some sort, so they feel they don't
need it. We have United Front
meetings, but we haven't the num-
bers, and when they evicted me, I
was alone and had no way Of let
ting the members know. They
would have come to my assistance.
A couple of neighbors took me
in-they come from Levania-they
were so kind to me. A Chinese gave
my husband shelter. He slept in
the barn but got his meals in the
shack Of the Chinese.
We are going to write to the
U. F. L. at Chicago and get their
platform and see what we can do
about it here. Many thanks for
writing to me, I feel so much better.
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
PARTY LIFE
''Daily YORKER -AgitatOr,
Organizer and Educator
Party COmrade ShO.Us HOpV "DGiIy'' Helped
Build Movement

a moribund Party. One Of them
told me:
"Comrade E., am disguised with
the leaders, let me know if one of
them ever joins your ranks" I
will The second, a French Com
rade, promised to join me in an
evening at the Clarte where we WIN
speak French and meet the French
Communist Comrades.
have six more concrete examples
to give which makes one sometimes
forget the heartaches, but space in
limited in the Daily Worker.
I only want to repeat that more
than ever we owe every minute Of
our lives to push the DAILY" where
each and every worker will find
the best way to express his mill
fancy. AS an agitator, the Daily
Worker is above criticism. AS an
organizer it is learning more and
more. AS an educator, it is becom-
ing better and better. My fond
est hope is to see each comrade
put to the task where he fits best
in order to save energy, time, and
misunderstanding.
Comradely yours,
M. E., Brooklyn, N. =.
How a Negro Comrade Corrected
the irresponsible Abtitude Of =
Boston Unit Toward the Daily
Worker
In the South End Unit T the
Party in Boston the careless and
irresponsible attitude Of the oozn-
rades toward the Daily Worker and
their total lack Of realization Of its
Importance in penetrating the
masses Of workers, resulted in the
accumulation of a large bill which
the unit found it impossible 10 pay,
and worse, the stopping of the daily
bundle of five which the unit had
been receiving.
OF the entire unit, composed Of
fifteen Negro and white comrades,
only one, a Negro Comrade, w,
sufficiently understood the possible
consequences Of such negligence to
take some action. without the CO.
operation of the unit, and on his
own responsibility, he ordered ten
copies Of a Saturday issue of the
Daily Worker and went from house
to house in his own neighborhood
until he sold them. On subsequent
Saturdays he did the same thing,
always selling ten, until by his own
efforts he succeeded In building up
route.
For forty weeks to date Comrade
w. has continued his work faith
fully, and he has not once been
careless about paying his bills. This
unemployed worker walks five miles
every Monday to pay for the bundle
which he sold on Saturday. And
he gives all the money for the sales
to the district, not retaining even
the profit allowed him.
Section D. w. Agent, Boston.
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Texas Farmer Lad
Tells About Graft
In CWA and PWA
BY a Farmer Correspondent

DECATUR, TexaS.-I should like
the readers of the Daily Worker to
know how the c. w. A. and P. w. A.
are administered in a typically rural
region. I am a young worker, the
son of poor Texas farmer. Both
of us went to the C. w. A. office
to register. My father received a
work card, but they refused to issue
me one, saying that only one mem
Der of a family was entitled to a
job. I raised kick, saying that I
had to eat also, and that my father
could not afford to feed me. Pos
sibly fearing that I might cause
trouble among the other workers,
they put me to digging in the ditch
for the P. W. A. A local politician
by the name of Hellum, administra-
tor of the c. w. A., wanted to re-
fuse me jobs because the bankers
have not yet gotten our home, and
we still have few COWS and chick
ems.
My father and another worker
were instructed to move a filling
station, in order that the public
highway might be widened. Two
bosses were placed over these two
men. The bosses smoked and slept
while my father and the other
labored with picks and shovels.
These two parasites were unneces-
sary to the completion of the job;
but Mr.. Hellum takes care of his
own.
A little newspapeTman Is one of
the clerks in the relief office. He
calls himself a liberal" and de-
plores Communistic tendencies on
the part of workingmen. I am in
clined to think that he has a black
or brown shirt hidden away in his
closet. His personal treatment of
the workers, with whom he. comes
in contact, is certainly not COM
mendable.
Not long ago, some ragged, hun
CRY children went into the town
theatre after closing time and SAL
Vaged stray grains OF popcorn from
the unswept floor. Perhaps their
father is one of the many denied
work cards by the local G. w. A.
P. w. A. set-up. When the atten-
ton of our liberal" friend was
called to this incident, he laugh
ingly remarked: Maybe the brats
didn't deserve any better"
I happen to know that the local
moguls consider this gentleman to
be very inefficient. But he knows
so much on them that they are
afraid to fire him, lest he expose
the whole outfit.
I am member of the local Ma
tional Guard unit. But I decided
long ago that I would never take
up arms for the capitalists against
my fellow workers. I am positive
of this since my experience with
Roosevelt's ordained grafters.
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

A. the way is paved for factories
to be run full speed at a "a hour
stretch during war time by women
Increase Work Among Factory
Women
Generally speaking, along with
the improvement of the Party's mass
work, we also see improvement in
our work among women-substap-
tial increase of Negro and prole-
tartan women in the Party; in un-
employed and farm movements, in
our mass organizations, etc. This.
however, cannot be recorded as a
result on our part of systematic
planned work among women based
around their demands. 1t is rather
due to the abilities of our Party
and the Trade Union Unity League
to involve women in the general
strikes and struggles of the workers
and to the increased militancy and
rehabilitation of the workers which
is reflected among the women
masses.
Among the million and a quarter
workers involved in strikes since
Roosevelt's administration at least
100000 were women workers in tex
tile, needle, shoe, food, furniture
and other factories. In addition to
these, wives of workers in basic in
dustries, in mining, metal, auto,
played their part in the strikes, and
proved the most militant fighters.
The Party and the T. U. U. L.,
however, underestimate the readi-
ness for struggle among the masses
of women (not in theory but in
daily practice.) We did not recog-
nize the need for special forms of
agitation and propaganda against
fascism and war to follow up the
program laid down at the Anti War
Congress. At the numerous Anti
Fascist meetings leading speakers
did not show concretely what Fas-
cism means to women, against wage
discrimination, high cost of living,
relief for unemployed women, ETC.,
and the way out by contrasting
conditions Of women under Fascism
with those under Soviet rule.
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Didn't Lead Fight Against Code
Discrimination

DiSCI
Let us take as an example the In
dustrial Codes. Here we have
concrete instance where the gov
ernment gave official sanction to
use women as cheap labor source
by fixing lower wages for women in
25 per cent of all the Industrial
Codes, in auto, shoe, printing, cloak
manufacturing, etc. Also, no code
was drawn up to fix wages for
domestic workers who embrace
three million women, out of whom
1,138,000 are Negro. Then too, the
N. R. A. gave the official sanction
through General johnson, Frances
Perkins & Co., to do away with the
meager labor legislation barring
women from working nights in tex
tie mills in Massachusetts,. Surely
these issues gave the Party and the
T. U. U. L. an opportunity to develop
struggles and involve thousands of
women around their particular de-
mands, but we did not do it on a
large scale.
While we did raise the demand
For equal pay irrespective of SEX
color, Or age" at the code hearings.
we did not bring these issues be-
fore the workers in the factories
and working class neighborhoods
We did not make the fight against
wage discrimination a part of our
fighting program against Roosevelt's
N. R. A. in the shop nucleus or
trade unions.
Learn to Garry on BoIshevik Work
Among Women
The fact that only is per cent
of the T. U. U. L. membership are
women and only 80 per cent of the
Textile Workers Industrial Union
are women, coupled with the fact
that in recruiting during November.
December (1933) and January
(1934 of the 66 textile workers to
the Party only IL we're women
This shows that there is still q
lack Of political understanding re-
garding the increasingly important
role of women in the economic and
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
THE DAILY WORKER AN eye
OPENER" TO SCHOOL TEACHER

NeW IOrk, N. Z.
Gentlemen:
For the past few months I have
found the Daily Worker indispen-
sible to my growing enlightenment
on the questions that once used to
puzzle and embitter me, without
presenting any satisfactory avenue
Of escape, or solution. Today, a
new, healthy, and inspiring attitude
has taken hold of me, with what I
am certain is an unalterable devo-
lion to the cause, which YOU so
courageously and consistently sup
port.
Reading the Daily Worker has
driven me to study and investigate
what before was wont to accept as
readily from the capitalist. liberal
press. 1 know at last, thanks to nv
identity with the workers cause to
which am bound, that my former
futile and sterile cynicism has given
way to constructive program, and
even to a personal happiness. Thus
has my work with children in the
classroom taken on a new drive. a
new purpose, Notwithstanding the
recent announcements OF the for
mer Superintendent, O'Shea.
I am enclosing a check to cover
subscription for friends and
for whom, hope, the daily
reading of the Daily Worker will
prove as potent draught and an
eye e-openet, as it has for me.
Sincerely,
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Militant Pea Pickers' Strike
Described by Negro Worker

25 years of age up had served in
the armed forces during some pc
riod of capitalist wars and we i'm
mediately formed guards and posted
them around our camp, and unless
you are member of the various
camps you could not penetrate the
picket lines after dark. We we're not
armed but cut ourselves some good
elm clubs, and we declared that if
we were attacked we would defend
ourselves. From the desert of 5000
white Americans I was elected to
represent them on the strike COM
mittee and was the only Negro on
this strike committee. The strike
committee succeeded in exposing the
Federal and state arbitrators.
Finally they had the county
health officers surrounded by legion
aries and armed vigilantes, to come
into the strikers camps, and this
county health officer, who owns one
Of the largest farms in the vicinity
condemned the strikers camp as
"unsanitary." The strike committee
pointed out to him that the same
condition existed in every one of the
growers camps-but that meant
nothing. He said we had two hours
to either go back to work or get out.
The growers were forced to fur
niSh gas and oil, and a weeks ra-
ton to every person to get out of
the county. We received gas and oil
and an order for gas and oil in
Bakersfield and our weeks ration
right in the camp surrounded by
over three hundred legionaires and
vigilanteS, and instead of going
back to work we got out.
Over half of the pea crop had
already been lost and the expense
of evacuating between 5000 to
1000 workers cost the growers more
than their pea crop that was left
could ever amount to.
All of these workers signed ap-
plication cards for membership in
the Cannery and Agricultural Work
ers Industrial Union. About 1000
Western Workers and a lot of the
Southern white workers had never
seen this paper and one remarked
The daily worker., 1934-03-22

political life in the United States.
Comrade Kuusinen's report of
the 18th E. G. G. I. Plenum states,
I'VE have not yet learned to carry
on Bolshevik work among prole-
tartan women. The first task OF
all Sections of the Comintern in
this sphere is to get rid, once and
for all, of the estimation of
this work, to get rid of the idea
that this work is not part of the
general Party work" This applies
with full force to our Party.
Space does not permit discussion
of the problems of work among un-
employed women, struggles against
imitation and high cost of living
which directly affects the women
who make up 80 per cent of the
consumers, the struggle for chill
dren's demands, ETC., which would
prove that the Party still does not
recognize special work among wo-
men component part Of general
Party work
Make Turn Toward Systematic
Work Among Women
The districts should without delay
review International Women's Day
campaign and the status of work
among women and lay immediate
plans of work in connection with
May Day campaign and the
International Women's Congress
Against War which will be held in
Paris in August.
The plan should be in line with
the concentration of work of the
District. Each District must choose
one or two important factories
where women are employed. There
the shop nucleus or individual Party
members must be made responsible
to form circles by grouping con-
facts of women with a view Of
developing women's delegate meet
ings. At these factories as we'll as
other large factories where women
are employed the Party must carry
on simple agitation through shop
gate meetings and meetings in
neighborhoods, THE WORKING
WOMAN, shop bulletins, group
meetings, etc, based around the
grievances of the women. The
Party must link up these grievances
with the danger of fascism and war
and the need for the women to
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
COmintern Led Policy Of
Building Socialism in USSR
feminist Building of Socialism in One Country
Guided by Stain

By ROBERT MINOR

total of productive forces of the
U.S.S.R. rose to the level of France
(the decisive military power on the
European continenD and passed
Francel The U.S.SR. caught up
with the classic mistress of the
world market, the classic country
Of machine industry-Great Brit
ain-and passed England by! Then
the U. S. S. R. caught up with the
most powerful of all modern Eu-
ropean industrial States-Germany
and passed Germany by!
AS a country of machine indus
try and mass production, the pro-
duction of machinery Of production,
with its basis in iron, steel coal
and iron production and electric
power-the Union Of Soviet Social
ist Republics - the citadel of the
world revolution - has become the
strongest power in Europe and Asia.
We must reflect that machine in
dustry is the basis Of military
strength.
Viewed as a policy of the leading
Party of the Communist Interna-
tional-as a policy Of the Commu-
mist International itself-for all of
these questions of policy were
fought out in the International
arena in struggle against the coun-
ter-revolutionary TrotSkyists, who
jeered the idea of building social
ism in one country, and against the
Right-wing opportunists and con-
cilliators-what is the effect of this
raising of the citadel of revolution
to the position Of the strongest in
dustrial country Of Europe2
Six years ago, when Comrades
Bucharin, Rykoff, and Tonsky led
their struggle against the line of
the CPSU. (and the line Of the
Communist internationally, and
when the fight that these comrades
made was drawing to their banner
all Of the corrupt opportunist ele-
ments from Brandler to Lovestone
what was the world picture then?
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker., 1934-03-22
Must Win Over Women
to Gain Majority of
Working Class

organize a struggle against them.
The fractions in the trade unions,
especially textile, auto, mining, steel
and A. F. of L. opposition should
review their work among women
and work out ways and means of
recruiting women into the T. U. U.
L.; how to build Auxiliaries; how
to begin movement in the A. F..
of L. opposition among women, es-
pecially in the Hosiery Workers
Union.
Win Women for United Action
Through the fractions in the Ma
tional women's organizations and
in the mass and language organi-
zations, Councils of Unemployed, I.
w. O., F. S. u, L. S. N. r., 1. L. D.,
plans should be laid for broaden
ing the anti-fascist work among
women. Special womens mass
meetings, forums, education classes
should be arranged as well as wo-
mems literature to be issued.
The mass organizations under our
llllluGilCS SllOulQ JdhC lIllIldLlNc III
penetrating the Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, Women's Trade Union
League, Young Women's Christian
Association. Girl Scouts, Cause and
Cure for War. Women's League for
Peace and Freedom as we'll as
church and neighborhood organiza-
lions under bourgeois leadership.
With the correct approach we can
win masses of Negro and white wo-
men for united action against
lowered standards of living, against
fascism and war.
Let us carry through in life the
decisions of the 18th Plenum of the
E. c. c. I. and the 9th Convention
Resolution of our Party which
states:
'"The Party must take the initia-
tive in leading struggles in defense
of the daily needs of white and
Negro women in factories, among
the unemployed, to combat the
pacifist and reformist propaganda
carried on among women, and win
them for united fight against fas-
cism and war;