The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Haywood Reports to 9Th Party ConVention


Of our Party, attacking the party
and the c. I. with the worst SIAN
ders. Padmore, Haywood warned,
had sunk into the swamp Of Coun-
ter-revolutionary petty bourgeois
nationalism.
Haywood gave in detail the tasks
Of our Party in its work among the
Negro masses-the building Of the
L. S. N. R. fractions in the reform
ist organizations, the work to enlist
Negro masses in the trade unions
and the unemployed councils. the
building Of the circulation of the
Liberator on a mass scale, the fight
against white chauvinisn as the
main danger, the recruiting of adj
ditional Negro masses into the
Party, the fight for all the immedi-
ate, economic needs and demands of
the Negro masses and the Party S
leadership in this struggle.
Kentucky Miners Join Party
How the Party has gained 200
members in Kentucky after the ter
ror which followed the defeat Of the
1881 strike there, was described by
another young worker delegate to
the Convention from the vel. in
Kentucky. IT bring greetings to this
Convention from the Kentucky
miners" he declared.
The miners who were at one
time affected by the red scare are
learning that the New Deal is the
same old dirty deal Of high powered
rifles, machine and shot guns" he
said. The miners Of Kentucky are
learning to stop their feuds and
instead of turning their guns
against each other, to turn them
against their real enemies, in the
spirit given us by Comrades Stain
ard Browder."
The young Kentucky miner told
of the establishment of new Party
nucleus in Louisville, and the action
of the members of the Socialist
Party Of Lexington in joining the
Communist Party after the sell-out
by the Socialist leaders of the Aus
trian orkers. Oppositionists are be-
ing built inside the U.M.W.A.. he
said, and now exist in two of the
key mines in Bell County. The
committees of unemployed organ
lied under the leadership of the
Party have won relief from the
county authorities in Bell County.
In one case where the workers
were refused food by the County
they began to help themselves and
then the County came across with
relief A woman's committee has
been built in Bell County to fight
for the demands of the unemployed.
"One Of the achievements of the
Party has been the organization in
Everts, Kentucky, of Party unit
Of 16 former members of the I.W.W.
in this historic town." he stated.
Honor simms' Memory
After the Kentucky delegates
speech, Hudson spoke of the work
Of Harry Simms, Y.CL. organizer
killed by the Kentucky gun thugs
in the Kentucky strike. The Con-
vention rose and stood one minute
in silence in honor of Simms.
'The steel workers are on the
verge of another strike wave,
James Eagan, head of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
said. 1.-THE workers are in the MOOD
for organization and strike. The 1C
per cent increase given them by
the Steel Trust as a concession to
prevent struggle was not enough
even to keep pace with higher living
costs. The chief grievance of the
steel workers is the intense speed
up The small concession of 10 per
cent increase will not hold the
workers in check"
Eagan analysed the lessons Of the
recent strikes led by the S.M.WIU.
especially Ambridge.
Our chief mistake was that we
did not build the Communist Party
in Ambridge during the strike, and
did not build groups and depart
ment committees of the union ir
the mill Therefore. the terror pre-
vented us from organizing for some
time after the strike was broken
We did not sufficiently introduce
the Daily Worker into the unior
during the strike. The terror wat
brought in to Ambridge because the
bosses knew they would not be ablt
to work through our union leader
ship as they did through the Anal
gamated Association in Weirton anc
Clarion, where the A. A. officials
sold out the workers"
Cites Shortcomings
Eagan declared that the unior
had not followed out the policy o.
concentration sufficiently. we con.
centrated for strike in places where
it was easier to organize, like Am.
bridge and Greensburg," he said, ii
we had concentrated all our forces
on striking the j. and L. in Pitts.
burgh then the smaller mills out,
side Pittsburgh would have followed