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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
An Urgent Communist ask

ONLY two or three days ago, delegates gathered in
Cleveland at the Eighth National Convention Of
the Communist Party echoed through the hall their
determination 10 boost the Daily Workers circula-
ton to $4,000 by the end Of 1884.
Their action followed closely upon the remark
able final speech Of Comrade Earl Browder general
secretary of the Party, who declared that only the
strengthening and spreading of the Daily Worker
would enable the Communist Party to thoroughly
carry out the tasks which it had set for itself at this
historic convention.
Such determination is an accurate and glowing
tribute to the calibre of the delegates who came
together to shape the Partys policy during the next
period It is genuine expression of the love and
devotion which Communists have for their paper, as
we'll as true indication that they realize the in
calculabe power that the Daily Worker Yields in
bringing ever new recruits into the conscious
ranks of the militant workers in the United States.
This feeling of determination, of yigor and grow
ing strength should be crystalzed without delay in
the carrying out Of specific campaigns and tasks
in which the Daily Worker is intimately involved.
Such venture faces us now, in the special May
Day edition.
Comradesl The half-million copies of the special
May Day edition should reach every proetarian
remain barren. Delegates who return to their dis
tricts from the historic Eighth National Convention
of the Communist Party, with the stirring words
of Co1nrade Browder fresh in their minds, should
Immediately do all in their power to increase their
May Day orders for the Daily Workerl
Delegatesl Get your district to double the Tenth
Anniversary edition ordersl See that ample prepa-
rations are made in your district to spread every
single copy where it will best fulfill it's important
function! Get every organization in your district,
no matter how small, to take part in this mass
distribution Get every single workers club, every
branch of mass and fraternal organizations every
unit of the Party and the Young Communist League,
to send its greeting to the May Day edition with
out delay! Very little time remains in which to
make sure that these things are done.
Forward toward the spreading of a haR-milhon
copies Of the May Day Daily Worker
This is among the very first and most immediate
Of the tasks which today face every worker who
has the honor Of calling himself Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Illinois Miners Local to Send
Delegate to Visit Soviet Union

NEW YORK.-Lareine Pruit, a
miner from the Southern Illinois
field, was elected by his fellow
workers as a delegate to the Soviet
Union at a recent meeting. He is
a member of the Progressive Miners
Union, Local as, and has been an
active trade unonist for years. The
Southern Illinois miners are anxious
to get a flrst-hand report of con-
ditions in the Soviet Union, as they
have heard and read so many false
reports of that country. Pruit will
investigate wages, hours, and work.
ing conditions among Soviet min
ers while on the trip.
Local As raised $50 toward his ex-
penses on the way to the Soviet
border. The Chicago branch Of the
Friends of the Soviet Union is ar
ranging a mass Send-of for Pruit
on April 10, at which money will be
raised toward expenses. The F. S.
U. appeals for additional contribu-
tons to defray expenses Of this and
other delegates, all of whom must
pay the steamship fare. While
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Training School Problem Of Raising Party Political LeUeI

Therefore, it is not an accident
that our Central Committee is car
rying out a Systematic policy of
training the present cadres in the
Party, giving them the possibility
of equipping themselves with Marx
ist-Leninist theory as step toward
raising the theological level of the
membership and in doing this, Boil
shevize the Party as a whole.
Comrade Stain, in his report to
the 18th Congress of the C. P. S. u,
states very clearly, when the cor
rect line has been given, when the
question has been properly solved,
success depends on the organiza-
tiOnal struggle for the carrying out
the line of the Party, ON THE
CORRECT CHOICE OF PEOPLE,
on the verificatiOn of how decisions
of leading organs are carried out"
The Central Committee placed
great Importance on the selection
of students for the National Train
ing School. The school, organized
on a national basis, composed of
comrades who participated in lead
ing mass struggles, brought together
a section of the American working
class, comrades from mines, steel.
textile, marine, farming, railroad
the South, etc., including section or
ganizers, trade union functionaries
unemployed leaders and youth.
School Correctly Organized
The correct internal organization
of the school enabled the students
to work collectively and maintain
Bolshevik discipline. AS Commu-
nists always maintain the funda-
mental and basic form of organiza-
ton wherever they may be-so also
the school. The unit meetings were
held regularly each week and the
unit buro aided in co-ordinating the
work of the various committees
The students, in addition to their
regular dues payment, contributed
three cents per week from theil
weekly so cents subsidy to the work
Of our heroic German Communist
Party, developing political sensitive
ness and international solidarity
The following committees were or
ganized to carry out the interna.
organization; political and socia
life Of the school: Cd Health anc
recreation committee, which organ
lied sports, hikes and mass exer-
cises each morning during the
school. 90 Social-cultural commit
tee-organized mass singing, plays
and open forum discussions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

within the Soviet borders, the Soviet
Trade Unions will pay all expenses.
The National Office of the Friends
of the Soviet Union expects to send
about ten delegates, from the metal,
chemical, transport and textile in
dustrieS. There will be q Send-off
for the delegates at the Manhattan
Lyceum on April 10, at $50 p. M,
with speakers, dancing and refresh
nents. Admission is free and New
York workers are urged to attend
and give the delegates their greet
ings TO the Soviet workers.
There is a keen socialist compe-
tition going on in Paterson, N. j.,
among the textile workers there for
the collection of funds for their
delegates. Three candidates have
been elected, and three committees
formed to carry on the campaign.
That committee which wins this
competition will elect the delegate.
In New York, delegate will be
sent from the Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, who held a meeting
on April 6, at Manhattan Lyceum
to collect funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

lead the men back into the no-strike, no-struggle
company union trap Of the A ?. Of L. burocrscy,
Today meetings viii be held at Hunts Point
Palace, Bronx, and Anlslgamated Temple, Brooklyn,
to vote on the resolution 10 affiliate with the
A F. of L.
Vote against the splitting resolution! Demand
that the Taxi Drivers Union fight as united
independent union, built on the basis of dem
Oeratically elected garage committees! Defeat all
attempts to break the taxi drivers ranks! Taxi
men, keep your union your own hands,
Bronx and Brooklyn men! stick with your
brothers in the Manhattan local United you will
win!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Must Be Systematic
Training of New
Forces
BY Group of Training School

BY Group of Training School
Students
THE Open Letter of our Party,
adopted at the Extraordinary
Party Conference, calls sharply the
attention OF the entire Party to the
necessity of 'The wide development
of new cadres of workers: the es-
Enlistment of really collective work
ing bodies by the drawing in of
new capable working class elements, /"
in order to make firm contacts with
the American industrial workers, SO
that we can keep pace with the gen
eral revolutionary advance, with the
increased rehabilitation of the work
ing class.
The growing mass struggle S
against the capitalist offensive, of
which the recent strike wave dur
ing the New Deal is only a small
rehearsal, demands of our Party
capable leadership. The organiza-
ton of the National Training School
by our Central Committee is step
forward toward the training of
cadres and forces from the basic in
oustries, in order to give the cor
rect and necessary leadership to the
mass class battles that face us.
But this alone is not sufficient
Every Party member must become
leader among the masses. In
preparing the Party membership for
leadership, it necessitates the organ
ization of National, District and
Section Training Schools and a sys-
tematic development of study circles
In the struggle for winning the ma
jority of the working class for lead
ership Of the masses, our member
ship must be armed with Bolshevik
theory, to have the necessary weap-
ons to carry on a sharp struggle
against the Social aScistS, rene
gades and other distorters of the
teachings of Marx and Lenin. II
is not enough to say, Without revo-
lutionary theory, there can be nc
revolutionary practice" We must
make every member politically con-
scious OF this and make it possible
for them to acquire this theory. The
low political level of our Party men,
bership, in face of the present IA
vorable objective situation, makes il
evident TO all that a real turn tc
raise the political level of the Party
must be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

go Housing committee-to check
up on the cleaning of rooms; sani-
tation, general welfare and care
taking of the property of the school.
Lbrarian-care of the librarian and
literature.
The organization Of the school
itself is a real lesson on how to or
ganize to work collectively Many
weaknesses manifested themselves
during the term (sectarianism, lack
Of critical self of short
comings, up-consciousness ten
denotes of white chauviniSm) but,
in the main, the instructors and
students worked together collec-
lively, in a comradely and discip-
lined manner.
The comrades were divided into
six groups each group electing it's
own leader, the leaders working
collectively with the instructors,
planning and organizing group dis
cussions, individual discussion, in
dividual study, ETC., checking up on
production. This was carried out
in the following manner:
Cd Group leaders were respon-
sible, first, to see that each member
of his group received the necessary
material for each assignment.
90 That the schedule of study
and group discussions were carried
out and organized in a disciplined
manner.
90 That the group leaders read
the material over in advance, in
order to prepare and lead the dis
cussion and involve every member
of the group.
"a All fundamental questions
were discussed in the group with
the object of Qualification and all
disputable questions were referred
to the conferences of the general
body.
60 That the group leader pay
special attention to any comrade
who was tagging behind the rest OF
the group; at the same time giving
ample opportunity to those who
could advance more rapidly, to dc
SO.
(6) Every group to meet at least
once every week, to check up or
their work, criticize the weaknesses
of the group in general and the in
dividual comrades in particular, IL
order to make better plans for the
next week.
Cd Group leaders held regular
meetings to check up on the pro-
duction OF the school as a whole
mistakes made, shortcomings. anc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

how to increase the production of
the class.
tS) A library was available, con-
sisting of practically all the pub
LEGATIONS of the International Pub
fishers and all current literature,
making it possible for the comrades
to read additional material that
would help to advance the studies.
90 Each group was responsible
to contribute at least two articles
to the Wallpaper besides individ-
ual articles) in competition with
their competing group on the life
of the school, criticism of the weak
nesses reflected in the work of the
school, progress made and expert
ences in the field.
Used Socialist Competition
The principle of Socialist Com
petition is seldom used in the Amer
lean Party. 1t is a powerful instru-
ment at our command. which when
we learn to master, will be an added
force to the revolutionary move
ment.
Comrade Stain in his speech to
the 18th Congress of the c. P. S. u
said Tn reality victory was secured
and won by a systematic and fierce
struggle against all sorts of difficult
ties" +. one of the methods for
overcoming these difficulties was
"The development of competition
and shock brigade work among the
toiIers."
This principle was applied by the
instructors to Our work here in the
school.
We had the problem of getting q
lot Of work done in a comparatively
short time. Among the students
some comrades were more advanced
than others, some could study faster
htan others, some had difficulties il
reading, some were strong on Ger.
tain subjects and weak on others
The comrades were practically al
young workers, relatively new in thu
Party, with many y-bourgeoi.
illusions and habits and strong
tendencies of individualism.
To overcome these in the shor
period of the school was tremend
sue task that challenged the Boil
shevik determination of our Part,
| instructors.
These problems face every Unit
every Section of our Party. The,
can be solved collectively, with tn,
proper application of Socialist Com
petition. Our comrades are gooc
J conrades-they WANT to overcom,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Chicago Armenian.
Workers Attacked
By NatiOnalists
Anti Soviet Tashnags
Clash with Armenians
In Boston

CHICAGO, April 9.-Demonstrat-
ing against the Armenian National
Club, reactionary counter-revolu-
tionary organization, who we're
meeting at the West End Woman's
Club this afternoon, 200 Armenian
workers were attacked by this group,
emerging from the building to start
the fight.
Ten men were seriously injured
and rushed TO the hospital during
the clash.
BOSTON, April e.-Members OF
Tashnag, reactionary Armenian
anti-Soviet organization, clashed
with Holy Trinity Church members
at Steiner Hall this afternoon.
The Tashnags stormed the meet
ing, seeking to defend themselves
from the charge of responsibility
for the murder of Archbishop Tou-
rain. Several score men and
women were injured and ten were
arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Practical Work Must Be
Enriched By
Theory

these shortcomings, but they need
the HELP OF ALL OF US.
Through Socialist Competition we
were able:
ID To bring these shortcomings
to the open and thus help to over
come them.
20 To raise the production Of the
whole school; by helping the weaker
comrades, and more developed COM
rades advanced still further.
90 To understand Socialist Com
petition as a powerful weapon to
aid us in our practical work.
"a To study Individually and to
develop and clarity ideas collec-
lively.
(5) THE POWER AND EFFEC-
TIVENESS OF COLLECTIVE
WORK.
We learned that Socialist Com
petition does not mean that one
conrade could see how far ahead he
or she can get of another comrade,
or one group to get ahead Of the
other, but he had as our task the
strengthening of the Party.
To do this, we had to be self
critical, examine ourselves indivi-
dually and collectively, in the light
of our work in the school, effort,
discipline, activity, etc, in order to
put in our best efforts, and to help
the other comrades by our expert
ences and to learn from them; thus
we all go ahead
The task of all OF us, after the
conclusion of the N. T. S. is to
continue further the study Of Marx
ism-Leninisln, by spreading the
knowledge gained by us amongst the
workers, through the organization
of Workers Schools, study circles,
neighborhood classes, trade-union
schools, amongst the unemployed:
to develop local cadres in our Dis
trictS to carry out the line of our
Party.
1t is our responsibility in the
everyday struggle to carry into
practice the application of revolu-
tionary theories acquired in the N.
T. S. Every Party member must
become politically conscious of the
need to support the efforts of our
Central Committee to establish and
continue the regular systematic
training of trained organizers and
professional revolutionaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Soviet Airnen
Rescue 5 More
From Ice-Floe
Three Planes Reach
Floating Camp in
Bering Sea
lspecial 70 the DaiIy worker

Special to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, April 8 (By Radio.
Pilot Molokov yesterday made
second flight to the Chelyuskin
ice-floe camp, remaining in the
air two and half hours without,
however, being able to locate the
camp, because of the extremely
bad visibility. He returned to the
rescue base at Cape Van Karen.
A violent snOwstOrm is reported
at Anadyr, delaying the continual
ton of the flight of Pilots GaIy-
shev, Doronin and VodOpianOv,
members Of another Soviet rescue
expedition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Former French Premier's Son
appeals for Aid to Thoelmann

PARIS.-A stirring call in defense
of Ernst Thaelmann, leader Of the
German Communist Party, has been
written by Jean Painleve, we'll
known biologist, and son of Paul
Painleve, former premier of France,
Painleve writes:
1.-THE lowest of the revolving
things staged by the Nazis is the
vain attempt to drag Thaelmann,
flashing symbol Of human honor
and freedom, into the mud.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

ut is necessary that the message
of the millions who all over the
world are fighting irrecOnciIiably
against the insanity of dying ca
pitalism penetrate through his
prison walls.
'This is no time to Withhold
sacrifices. On these sacrifices the
future depends. Thaelmann, leader
and beacon of the vanguard of the
working class, shows the way to
victory.
Signed, Jean Painleve."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Especial to the Daily worker.)


MOSCOW, April 8 (By Radio =
Slepniev, Kamanin and Molokov,
Soviet airmen, yesterday rescued
five more of the Chelyuskin expedi-
ton from their ice-floe camp In the
Boring Sea.
Slepnievs plane was slightly
damaged, and he remained on the
ice-foe, intending to leave today,
carrying three or four more pas
sengers back to Cape Van Karen,
Siberia.
The three planes, standard Soviet
two-seaters landed on the airdrome
which the Chelyuskin men has pre-
pared on the ice. One of the re-
turning planes carried two, the
other three rescued passengers.
Pilot Kamanin is 26 years old,
son of a shoemaker, a member OF
the Young Communist League since
he was 10. He is now commander
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Communists in
Austria Given
Long Terms
4 Workers Convicted
for Fighting Beside
Republican Guard

VIENNA.-The first Of the Aus
trian Communists to go on trial for
participation in the February up
rising were sentenced last week.
F. Bettini, chief defendant, was
given two years at hard labor. Ru-
dolf Schnederle, a dairy worker, and
two other workers we're given Is
months each.
A laborer, named Chmelicek was
given eight months at hard labor
for standing as a sentry in front of
an inn for five hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
l2O Killed in Anti-W ar
Uprising in B o livi a

TACNA, Peru, April 9. = News
brought out Of Bolivia by travellers
reveal that the anti-government
and anti-war movement Bolivia
has taken on serious proportions.
One hundred twenty persons were
killed in a revolt of military cadets
at La Paz last Thursday. Fighting
also took place at Siles. The travel
ers report also that the leaders of
the La Paz uprising were summarily
executed the same day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
rs Workers Leaders
Arrested i'm Latvia

RIGA, Latvia.-Forty-fve Com
munist leaders were arrested in a
concerted drive throughout Latvia
last week. Among them were sew
eral trained in the International
Lenin School at Moscow for politi-
cal propaganda in Latvia,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Baltimore Seamen,
Industrial Workers
.PledgeFight OnWar
500 at Mass Meeting;
Students to Strike
Next Friday

DALI 4NlOfLEt April 81 O anu
war committees were organized
aboard ships in Baltimore harbor.
a one-hour strike against war and
fascism at Johns Hopkins University,
Friday, April IS, was pledged. two
anti-war and anti-faScist mass
meetings of seamen and steel and
chemical workers were held, and q
city-wide Youth Conference against
war and fascism planned for April
%, as part Of the April activity
of the Baltimore Youth Provisional
Committee Against War and Fas-
cism, and its affiliated organizations.
One hundred students represent
ing several colleges, meeting in con-
ference at Johns Hopkins university,
at the call Of the youth committee
of the anti-war League, and the
National Student League, voted to
lead Fridays student anti-war
strike.
Seamen delegates to the April %
city youth conference against war
and fascism were elected at mass
meeting of young seamen at the
South Broadway seamen's recrea-
ton hall.
A delegation of seamen and mem
bers of the Young Communist
League went from this mass meet
ing to an open air mass meeting
in Curtiss Bay, where more than
500 workers, mostly from the steel
and chemical industries, voiced
their determination to carry on a
struggle against war and faScism in
this Baltimore suburb which is
center of war preparations. At the
Boston Iron and Metal Co. and the
Union Shipyards, scrap iron is be-
ing shipped, or manufactured into
shrapnel, At the Dawson Chemical
plant, chemicals for explosives and
poison gases are manufactured. At
the Center Chemical plant, sulphur
is manufactured.
The workers greeted the anti-war
speakers with enthusiasm, and when
a drunk objected to Benjamin,
young Negro speaker, the audience
voted to eject him, and responded
warmly to the speakers appeal for
Negro and white unity.
Many signed up to support the
League Against War and Fascism.
Organize League in Huntington, Cal.
HUNTINGTON, Calf. More
than 100 delegates, members of all
political parties, including the Soci-
alist Party, which has carried on
an active fight against the League
Against War and FaScism, met here
on March 80 and organized a Hun
tington branch Of the League.
500 Meet in Los Angeles
Los ANGELES, April 6-Nearly
500 workers attended an anti-war
outdoor meeting staged by one Of
the downtown Units of the Young
Communist League on the occasion
of the 17th anniversary of Americas
entrance into the last world
slaughter.
Speakers pointed to the relation
ship of war and fascism, showing
the fascist mobilization now going
on and calling for organization to
combat ii.
Speakers were Carl Wendell, rank
and file member of the A. F. of L.;
Dorothy zadow, representing the
youth section OF the American
League Against War and Fascism;
Sam Jones, representing the Relief
Workers Protective Union; Sarah
Richards, representing the Y. @. L.,
Harry Buchanan, representing
the International Labor Defense j;
Tom Patterson, representing the
Communist Party, and Elliot Hull,
representing the United Front Con-
ference Against Hunger.
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of one of the best air attachments
of the Red Army in the Far East.
Pilot Molokov is also worker, a
member of the Communist Party,
an airman since 1919 and one of
the best pilots on the trans-Siber-
ian air line.