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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Seattle Workers Give
ROusing Welcome to
Visiting USSR Seanpen

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 17-Amidst
cheering and applause of more than
1900 workers gathered to greet the
Soviet crew Of the recently pur-
chased Soviet ship Karise, at Moose
Temple here, a red flag with ham
mer and sickle was presented by
delegates from the Marine Workers
Industrial Union and the Interna-
tional LOngshoremen'S Association to
the ships captain.
A second red flag was presented
to the crew by delegates from Ma
chinists' Local 70 Of the A. F. Of L.,
the International Labor Defense and
the Young Pioneers. This flag will
fly over the seamen's hall in Vladivo-
Stok.
Defense Of the Soviet Union was
the keynote of the mass reception
held here under the auspices of the
Friends of the Soviet Union and the
revolutionary and A. F. Of L. trade
unions.
Hundreds of marine workers in the
audience applauded when a pledge
was made by representatives of the
seamen and longshorenen to repeat
whenever necessary the action they
took in 1919, when they stopped the
shipment Of munitions to the Amer
lean forces engaged in aiding coun-
ter-reYolutionary forces to destroy
the workers and farmers government
Of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Ben'idjii Indians Struggle
For Payments Due Them
One Group Forms Council to Unite With White
Workers and Farmers

ticaIly the same principle as the IN
employed Council. It will, according
to its constitution, participate in all
struggles for the benefit Of the r.
dian workers, as well as Join hands
with any other workers and farmers.
The control in the organization hes
strictly in the hands Of the rank and
file, On Sunday Jan. It'll, the Petit
ton Committee viii meet in Bemidji,
where methods Of work will be
adonted for furthering the struggle
for ne payment. In the evening the
Unemployed Council will hold re-
ception meeting, greeting the Indian
delegation, and where the relation
between the white and Indian work
ers can be very much improved, thus
breaking the tactics Of the Indian
representatives in office, who have
thus far, only been able to develop
and hold the Indians preju6lced and
even GntagoniStic between the white
and Indian workers, but between the
various reservations also. The Com
muniSt Party Of the Bemidji section
is active in giving the struggle cor
rect guidance and leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
CBy a Worker Correspondent

BEMIDJI, MINI. - Indian workers
in the Bemidji section, are beginning
to struggle for their rights. The first
year Of the crisis and prior to that,
the Indians received q per capita
payment from their tribal fund Of
500. The sum has continuously been
cut, till last year they received only
SIS. Now, with the fifth year Of
the crisis, they are threatened with
no payment whatever.
This situation led to the fact that
on one reservation, the White Earth,
a series Of mass meetings were held.
The total number Of heads Of fami-
lies in all meetings was $50. At each
OF these meetings a committee was
elected to represent the Indians at
reservation conference.
This conference, which was held on
Dec. "a, Undertook the task of be-
ginning action on their demands for
a per capita Of $50 A petition COM
mittee was elected to draw uD a petit
tion to be circulated, not only on the
one reservation, but CT all reserva-
tons in the state OF Minnesota, con-
sisting mostly Of the Chippewa tribe.
These petitions have been sent to
the various reservations through con-
facts received from the Indian work
'ers on the White Earth.
The conference is q success. All
work was left in the hands Of the
rank and file Indians. About so at
Tended this conference. An Indian
Workers Council has been established
in one group. 1t is based upon prac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Toll on Louisiana Cane Plantations From Sun-up
To Shutdown for Only so Cents to $l.25 Per Day
C.W.A Officials Help Supply Negro Workers for
Brutal Exploitation and Torture

running the shoes which he did have.
Now, with the approach of cold
weather, he is practically barefooted.
Catherine Plantation is Hell-HOle
The Catherine plantation, owned
by Frank Carruth, is one of the worst
hell-holes in Louisiana, but certainly
not the only one. Tregg, the brutal
overseer of the Catherine plantation,
has the same contempt for the Negro
people that all of his kind have. Like
all the others, he carries a loaded
gun, in order to prevent any express
sions Of protests from the workers,
Like the others, he takes a savage
pleasure in beating and kicking Negro
toilers.
Many Negro workers expected to
receive better treatment on the plan
tations this year, since they had been
sent there by the relief officials. They
have learned, to their sorrow, that
the relief officials were merely assist
ing the planters to obtain a supply
Of cheap labor. Back from the cane
farms, they must look to the C.W.A.
bull-dozers for employment. These
gentlemen are now arranging to send
the workers to rick Strawberries, at
another starvation rate Of payment
and under the same oppressive con-
ditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Farmer Reports
on Vain Hunt
for Relief Work
BY a Farmer Correspondent

ERWINNA, Pa.-Many of us here
are always looking for work, even
though tied down with farm chores,
etc. For one thing, cash is needed
for taxes, and so one goes to the
County Commissioners. So far this
has been Of no avail, except for
polite, non-committal opinions.
Well, we tried again. We went to
the county seat at Doylsstown, after
trying to get a job at the upholstery
shop that had moved from Brooklyn
and was paying So week here for
40 hours. There was no job.
We picked up a couple Of others
going to sign up for work and went
to the Administration Building in
.Doylestown. There we found others
leaving because it wasn't the right
place The Statae Highway Building,
We were told, was the place, to the
right, on Broad Street. But after a
half hours trudge we found it was
to the left.
There we were Immediately told
we must apply to Mr.. Shaw OF the
Relief, at the courthouse. Shaw
looked rather disturbed at our now
enlarged group, but informed us that
we must first go home and apply for
relief in the regular way, from an
agency, but we could go over to the
Employment Office near the Admin
-stration Building and sign there.
In three rooms we found a large
group being questioned, and some Of
the disclosures brought gasps from
even the hardened agents. One girl
had been librarian for Newton
High School at So a week; one man
had been last employed in a glass
factory in Toledo, Ohio, for 81 a
week.
One man came in who had been
sent on a job to report he was let
off after two half days. Two from
Bristol who had signed up three
months ago had heard nothing yet.
Why? Because only 800 jobs were
found, and over 100 were enrolled.
On the way home we really did
find a dozen lucky ones, chopping
the brush out in the creek bottoms,
for flood control
Wen be back, and not alone, and
demand work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
How the RFC and
C.W.A. Work in
the Black Belt
(By Woman worker Correspondent

by Woman Worker Correspondent
DADEVILLE, Ala am sending
you an article on the work of the
R. F. G. in the Black Belt. I want
to expose the way they are treating
the people, my husband, brother and
many others. They take the job that
some men had and give it to some
one that was not needed to be on the
-Tork.
What did the C. w. A. do? Moth
ng but give out little pieces Of paper
% the worker and tell people that
i they don't have work to do by
The 9th or 10th Of December or jan
uary they would give them some.
So the people went back, but still no
work. The people just carried that
little piece Of scrap paper back and
forth.
What We comrades say is that we
must organize and fight because that
scrap of paper amt worth a damn
and we are hungry as hell.
Then when my husband worked
they did not want to pay him. They
put him to great deal of trouble
to come and get the pay. He worked
in November and just got this pay
Christmas Eve. Isn't that long
time?
Oh. how bad we are treated here
by the boss. We must be organized
and fight and lead the masses in
such way as to educate them and
strengthen them for the overthrow
Of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
~@M 8
SEn the HaDEulesH
ISS5#eN HELEN sa.- - @
HELEN LUXE

'Sce2Ling Of things to save
Inc time Of the working women
and to give them time for
Farty and Unemployed work"
U-osa Ocmrada Irene H, OF Rich
end. Indiana. i have wondered
le~e all the frcless cookers which
we're 50 popular few years ago,
re ny? My mother happens to
Cvn one, and use it almost every
week, at least once. 1t cooks tough
cheap cuts OF meat tender, without
watching, ard will make beans taste
Ike something that didn't come from
Ire Comm Ss2ry and it will cook
acl2 Wheat better than by any other
l-ehod.
while it might be hard to find q
freles5 cocker on sale in most stores
st c. reasonable price, it is more than
possible to make one. They work
On about the same principle as the
bean hole, that is, the heat is put
into the food, and then kept there
by the insulating material. To be
successful. the inner container Of
cocker should be only a little larger
than the cooking vessel containing
the food. It is necessary that this
ccntainer have tight cover.
For a moderate sized family, some
sizes of lard pail would make a good
kettle for cooking beans, stews, oats,
Or whole wheat. In this case the next
re larger lard container would do
for the inside of the cooker.
After deciding on the inner part,
get a good tight box at least six
inches higher than the can, and at
least three inches larger than the
can all around, and with good lid.
Iilis lid should be hinged to the box
strips of leather Will do if they
ere strong, and you must arrange
hook or other means of fastening
The lid down.
Now if someone in the family has
peen collecting junk. you need only
get hold of good sized bale of this
caper, being sure that it is clean,
not fragran) and dry. This paper
IS the very best kind. of insulating
material if it is torn sufficiently fine
Tear it into very fine shreds, or it
may be possible to cut it into shreds.
Pack this into the box, tramping
he layers in, for a depth of about
hree inches. 1t is important that
his shredding and packing be done
carefully. When this layer is three
inches thick, set into the center of
he box that container which is to
serve as the inner part of the cooker.
The larger size pail)
Then continue packing in the
hredded paper until there is a solid
mass of it filling the entire box all
round the can, even with top of
an. When this is tight, it can be
overed, either with oilcloth, tucked
round the can and tackled to the
ide of the boz, or with a board, if
'ou have a carpenter in the house
Who can cut a round hole to fit top
pail
Now make cushion or slip of
cod strong material, as large as the
CD of the box. and bit more than
hree inches thick. This must be
tuffed very full Of the same shred
ed paper that you used in the box.
fake It SO full that when the lid
the can is in place, It is necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
A LETTER TO COMRADE CANNES
GIVES SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS

A LETTER TO COMRADE CANNES
GIVES SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS
Tampa, Fla.
Dear Comrade Cannes:
I have just finished reading your
article, Shades of Gompers Over
N. R. A.-Trickery of Cigar Union
Heads" and want to bring out some
facts which must necessarily be
written in order to have the full sig
nificance Of the agreement under
stood and also to expose the N.R.A.
machine and A. F. of L. Bureaucracy
for what they are worth.
I do agree with the characterize
ton and facts given in your article,
but believe you forgot to mention a
very essential fact, namely, who are
the A. F. Of L. officials and what
do they represent among the work
ers in Tampa. I hope that you will
either use this letter or use the facts
l give here to make a short article
or note.
In the first place I believe you
should go a little into recent history
OF the struggles of the Tampa work
ers. (And if you should do this you
will understand why the strikehreak-
ing leaders Of the A. F. of L. are
going through hours of worries, the
longest in our life.')
You must remember that only two
years ago there took place in Tampa
a general strike (the first general
strike to occur in the U. S. after
the war; that paralyzed the whole
city Including schools for 70 hours.
This strike was declared as a protest
for the imprisonment and frame-up
OF some ten workers which had it's
origin in the disturbances created by
the police, American Legionaires and
<. K. KS Of Tampa, when a few
thousand workers assembled to cele-
brate the 18th Anniversary Of the
Russian Revolution. This frame-up
served the tobacco manufacturers OF
Tampa to do away (for a whiIe) with
the outstanding leaders of the Com
munist Party and the revolutionary
Tobacco Workers Trade Union.
which had been organized in two
months time and which embraced
somewhere around 5000 workers. and
also it served to unleash reign of
terror of brutal proportions and
succeeded in smashing the revolu-
tionary union.
Only last year another strike took
place, which also was smashed
through the most violent means. The
union this time was an independent
union under revolutionary leadership
and this union also had a very quick
and unprecedented growth. CA mem
bership Of some 5000 members in a
period Of five months.)
Now, am only giving these two
examples to show you that you left
cut a very important factor. the fac
tor that gives worries" to the A. F.
of L. leadership. that is, the tremen-
dous prestige of the Communist
Party and the Trade Union Unity
League among the tobacco workers
OF Tampa, specially among the Gu
ban workers who are the majority of
the workers in the industry. Also
you should have mentioned the fact
that the workers Of Tampa hate the
whole A. F. Of L. bureaucracy like
poison because history (their very
own has shown them in unmis-
taxable terms such leaders in their
true colors Of strikebreakers and UNI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
CBy a Worker Correspondentl

BATON ROUGE, La.-Negro work
2rs Of this v-cLnity are returning from
seasonal work on the cane planta-
ticug, their hands caIloused and no
money in their pockets. These work.
erS toiled from sun-up until sun
down for sums averaging so cents
to SIPS per day. Due to rain and the
slowness Of the planters in repair
ing brolIen-down machinery, their
wages averaged SO per month
they were lucky enough to collect
that much.
Cheat Workers Out of Wages
The planters have a favoute trick
Of pretending not to have sufficient
funds when payday comes. Des-
perate for cash, the workers will set
tie for a fraction of the amount due
them. The planters also iuggle their
books in order to cheat the workers.
Anyone who protests is driven away
without being paid cent.
Out of their miserable wages, the
workers must buy food, the planters
furnishing nothing but leaky shacks
and little hrewood. One aged Negro
Of this city went to work on the
Catherine plantation, hoping to earn
enough money to buy a pair of shoes.
The old man shaved in the fields,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
PARTY LIFE
''Less Talk, More York." Says
Party Section S of Chicago
Section Examines the York of Each Member
During Lenin Week

that, we can see that the Open Let
ter cid not as yet, penetrate deep
into the Party.
The Open. Letter instructed each
Party member to begin with him
self, and in the light Of the Open
Letter, try to improve his work. We
invite our membership to join US
in this determination: did we
honestly do this? We ask the COM
rades in the units to follow the ex-
ample Of the Detroit unit and use
the Party Life corner Of the Daily
Worker to relate their experiences
and opinions.
Our Section Committee found, after
months of discussing our work in the
light Of the Open Letter, that we
ourselves had not yet fully begun
to understand it and its application
in our work We hammered away
at our membership about the i'm
/ poItanee of the Open Letter. At a
special membership meeting of our
Section, we even presented q resolu-
ton, which was adopted by the mem
| bsrShip, which stated that "the poll
teal level of our membership was
very low" But we failed completely
te5search out the real origin Of this
low political level!
Section Carefully Examines Work
Quite by accident, so to speak, we
stumbled on the truth. Instead Of
looking with a searchkght, trying to
discover what was wrong with our
membership, we sat down and began
to- search out our own weaknesses
and shortcomings. What we did find
wa. a revelation to every one Of us:
We found that the looseness, ire
sponsibility, Inconsistency and mis-.
| conceptions which existed in the
Party, were to a great extent in our
selves.
We did not merely discuss the Sec
! ton Organizer. We examined his
work in the Section-his approach
to shop concentration, etc. We like
wise took in turn the Org. Sec, the
Agit-prop, and so on, down the line.
In each case closely examining their
work, analyzing the main weaknesses.
ferreting out responsibility, loose
ness, and wrong conceptions and at
the same time giving each comrade
definite assignments to overcome
their particular shortcomings in the
work,
At a special Functionaries meeting.
where. this document was discussed,
some comrades said we were merely
giving out another document. Others
ssifb- that this policy Of self-criticism
was merely new form Of fetishism:
that instead Of worshipping such
terms as "sectarianism, "opportun-
ISM or "tailism" Section had
merely discovered a new god to wor-
ship, In other words, that the Sec
tiion was just making a gesture to
the membership in order to white
wash its Sirls-another confessional
We convinced the comrades that
this policy was actually being car
ried into life by the Section. That it
was not a new poMcy-but that we
were Simply carrying out the Lenin-
1st principle Of Bolshevik discipline.
in order to improve the leadership.
and to more ably carry out our plan
of concentration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
FEMINIST sELF-CRITICISM
VERSUS CONFESSTONALISM


('Fewer -falutin' phrases, and
more simple, everyday deeds &. y
-Lenin.
To the honest Party member, who
carries his assignments to the shop
gates, and learns the problems of
the workers in the course Of concen-
tration, the Revolutionary phrase
monger is a stumbling block in the
work; or in plain, everyday lingo, "a
pain in the neck!" 1t is not strange,
therefore, that the comrades WHO
really carry out the work have so
little patience with those who talk
well, but do little!
We are referring here to some COM
rades in our section, who are in the
habit Of coming to their unit meet
ings and, during discussions, deliver
themselves of some choice political
remarks on "the correct Party line"
on the open Letter" and even
quote sections from Lenin, Marx and
Stain; but when it comes to accept
ing some assignments, these COM
rades even more eloquently' beg to
be excused!
In the light of the above statements
it might be well here to give some
concrete examples Of how one unit in
particular "a concentration unit at
the North Western Railroad yards
district concentration and the ma
jor concentration point in Section
,FiveD proceeded for long time to
carry its concentration work after
the Open Letter. This unit presents
a classic example how not to do work.
This unit in particular, endorsed
the District Resolution-the Section
Resolution-made its own resolution,
and plan of work for three months.
Not one of its decisions were carried
into life, after period Of two
months! We held a special meeting
with the comrades, and began a close
examination of the work. A check-up
of the assignments revealed the fol-
lowing situation:
Open Letter Not Taken Seriously
Out of IA members, only three were
actively engaged in the work at the
shop gates. Comrade - ASSIGNED
to sell Daily Workers at the gates,
reported that his little boy. Bobby,
tsix years old, was not having any
luck at all with the sales. The unit
as whole, expressed amazement at
this. While they had assigned this
comrade for this work, they had not
checked, to see how he was doing it.
at this point, one of the leading
comrades, district functionary, OBJ
jected that the discussion was not
political enough. When another com
rade took the floor, he said: Nov
III make my confession" And he
admitted, that While he was very
busy with other work, he could have
given at least one night-but never
did
Small wonder then that Section
Five haz not yet recruited one rail
road worker into the Party, during
the Lenin Memorial Drive! But it
also proves that we have not yet
outgrown the old sickness of believing
that documents alone will make the
Revolution for us-or as it is often
said-"make the turn" Further than
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
High Living Cost
RObS Farmers Of
Wheat Price Gain
BY a Farmer Correspondent

SPOKANE, Wash.-1The farmers of
eastern Washington in some locali-
ties suffer poverty. In other local.
ties, in rich soil districts, attempts
are made at 5 cent and 10 cent sales.
These we're not successful owing to
lack Of leadership.
The farmers get less today for
wheat than last year when the
higher cost of living is taken into &C
count.
Spokane is digging sewers with
.C.W.A. money. Seventeen thousand
are registered for this work, but only
1000 are working. The work is being
done with picks and shovels. There
is not a piece of modern machinery
to be seen. This again gives proof
that capitalism is destruction. Two
five-hour shifts are being worked at
so cents per hour. Men with large
families are given preference mas
much as then a saving is made in
relief supplies.
Single men are scheduled to re-
ceive one days work per week at 81
which must cover expenses for food,
shelter and clothing H. T. AHRENS.
signature AuthorizeO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Potato Crops in
ArOOStOOk County
Bound to Govt
lBy a Farmer Correspondent

ANSON, Vaccinations in Aroo-
gtook County, Maine, the so-caned
second richest county in the state,
are terrible. A lot of farmers have
not paid their taxes for one to three
years. In many localities farms have
been forecloSed, and the original own
ers left on them with the chance
to redeem them. The farmers must
pay the taxes and try at least to
make some payments.
The government for the last three
years or more, has been lending the
farmers credit to nay for fertilizer
to raise potatoes (the principal and
big money crop OF the county,. That
gives the government the first claim
on the crop.
One man went to the government
agent and asked if he could sell
enough potatoes to buy some storm
windows. you cannot sell a potato
until we tell you that you can" was
the reply.
At the county seat, Houlton, the
barter system is in force. The farm
erS aim to exchange butter for gro
ceTtes and necessities. The merchants
complain that they need some money
to do business, not butter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

To commemorate the tenth an
niver5ary Of the death Of Lenin,
Section 5, Chicago, undertook to
examine the work of the Section,
on the basis of the carrying out
Of the Open Letter. As result of
this examination, the Section is
sued a Section Disciplinary Letter,
in which the work of each conrade
on the Section Committee was ex-
amined and criticized. This letter
was discussed in each of the units
Of the Party. The results Of this
thoroughgOing analysis and self
criticism Of the Section, are given
in the two articles written by the
Section Organizer, which we print
today and tomorrow in this column.