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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
C.P. Summons Newark Cops
Relief Meeting Bring Charges
On Iron Range Against Youth

VIRGINIA, MINI, Jan. 18.-The
Communist Party of the Mesaba
Range region has issued a call to
all members of the Mine Mill and
Smelter Workers Union, unemployed
organizations and members of the
United Units to organize local strug-
giles for increased relief and against
discrimination which will lead I'D
Range-wide Demonstration for
relief in this city on February is.
In calling for a fight against the
steel trust, the Communist Party
points out that the United Units.
an organization which has recently
come into existence as a labor or
CARNATIONS, Is only a means In the
hands of steel trust to confuse the
workers and prevent struggle for
better conditions. It's organization
is very much shaped as a fascist
form, with units Of 80 each headed
by captain which could be used by
the trust to break strikes and
against the militants in the labor
movement. Its program is based
on the idea that 'the interests of
the bosses and workers are identi-
cal"
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to us they will have to go through
a process Of struggle and education
out Of their own experiences. We
know that this process will be much
faster and more complete if at all
stages Of their development these
masses see the Communists fight
ing shoulder to shoulder with them,
working together with them in the
development Of the broadest phases
of their mass struggle. That is what
predetermines our decision that it
is necessary to declare positively in
favor Of the support for and par
ticipation in a Labor Party of that
fourth type which we have de-
scribed.
In our participation in this broad
mass movement, Of course, our cen
trail task is to bring the clear differ
entiation into two distinct camps.
those who want on one hand to de-
velop this mass movement along the
moderate, liberal, social reformist
channels and on the other hand
those who want to develop the
struggle of the masses for their i'm
mediate interests without regard to
or in direct opposition to the in
terests Of private property and the
profits.
In the struggle for this differen-
tiation within this movement, we
will have two dangers which we
must avoid, two possible deYiations
on our part. On the one hand we
will have the danger of sectarian
narrowness on our part which would
only play into the hands of the
reformists. This means, first Of all,
that the basis for gathering to-
gether of the workers into such a
Labor Party must be the immediate
demands with the broadest mass
appeal. We must not allow the re-
tormist leaders to split the masses
with Speculations on these differ
enceS among the masses between
those who accept the class struggle
clear up to and including the die
tatorship Of the proletariat, the rev.
dictionary section, those that follow
the Communist Party, and on the
other hand that larger section of
the masses which accepts the class
struggle for the immediate issues,
but is not yet prepared to go the
whole way up to the dictatorship of
the proletariat.
Must Avoid Sectarlan Danger
The sectarian danger, the danger
Of limiting down this movement to
only the revolutionists and their
sympathizers must be at all costs
avoided. At the same time the
open right danger will be the great
err danger if We reach the stage of
crystallization on national scale
Of mass Labor Party, the danger
of opportunistic capitulation, sur
render to the re-ormist trends, prac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
BROWDER DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF LABOR PARTY IN IT,

possible variations serve 10 illus
trats the various relation of forces
Of the struggle between the revo-
lutionary trends and the reformist
trends and how they would result in
given circumstances in the different
types of parties, with a different
type Of leadership and program
and towards which our attitude
would have to be different. We
cannot take one and the same atti-
tude towards all the various forms
and cryStallizations which the break
away from the old capitalist parties
may take on. Our attitude must
be varied according to the form
which it does take. Especially now
in this early stage of the develop
ment our attitude has to be directed
towards helping to determine in
advance what kind of form this
movement will take so that we
become an active factor in deter
mining what will be the result.
1t is clear that we cannot be pas
Sive towards this mass break away
from the old parties. We must have
positive attitude towards it. We
must change our negative position
towards the Labor Party question
which was determined by the alb
sence of a practical mass movement
which made it a practical problem.
Now there is mass movement and
it is a question Of our Party's parti-
cipation among these masses and
influencing their course.
In our resolution we say that the
Party must declare its support for
the movement for a labor party and
fight within this general mass break
away from the old parties to deter
mine that the party form and char
acter which is taken by the move
ment shall correspond to this fourth
possible variation we have listed and
not to any of the others. that it
shall be a labor party organized
from below, rejecting in the closest
possible way the mass struggles and
bringing forward the militant ele-
ments as an integral part of the
leadership Of such party.
Our resolution points out very
sharply that within this general
movement we must carry on a
systematic struggle against all at
temptS to direct it into the chan
nelS of the progressive party or a
similar party which only masks
itself as Farmer Labor or Labor
Party, and so on. In order to &C.
compliSh this, of course, in order to
influence this movement at all, we
have to be in it and have positive
proposals to make. We cannot par
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19

NEWARK, Jan. 18.-Newark au-
thorities have threatened to make
an example of Frank Carlson, ar
rested together with II other youths
last Saturday for picketing the
Newark CyC.C. headquarters in
protest against military discipline
invoked against the West Orange
C.C.C. strikers.
Carlson, who is District Organizer
Of the Young Communist League,
has been singled out for special
persecution. Captain Michael
Quinn, in charge of the Second
Precinct police station, expressed his
determination to railroad Carlson
to jail in a talk with Sol Golat,
attorney, and Sam Stein, district
organizer of the International La
Dor Defense. Quinn complained
that Carlson was the most militant
on the picket line, and that when
asked at the station to stop his &C
tivities against the registration Of
young workers in the C.CC., he
firmly refused to betray the inter-
estS Of the working class youths.
Carlson's trial had been set for
Tuesday morning, Jan. %, at the
Second Precinct court, Seventh and
Summer Ave. The I L. D. has or
ganized telephone and postcard
barrage Of protests against the ar
rest of the IL anti-militarist youths,
and is urging workers to pack the
court on Tuesday in solidarity with
the youths.
kilograms, postcards and resolu-
tons should be addressed to Judge
Seymour Klein, "a Commerce St.,
Newark N. j. Telephone, Market
2-2660.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
BrOwder Outlines The
Tasks of the
Communists

class struggle so that a class strug-
gle leadership will be developed in
the organizational Capitalization of
such a Party. The Communist Party
therefore must not now take the
initiative in the organization of
Labor Party on a national scale. In
the various states however, the sit
uation will be of many sorts. acc
cording to the various stages Of tbs
development of the movement. It
will be necessary to study the sit-
uation in each place, study the relas
ton Of forces, the tempo of Develop
ment and give a concrete answer
in each state and even in each city
Very often We will find in certain
cities it will be much farther dee
veloped than the state as a whole.
In those states and cities where the
conditions have matured for the
formation Of mass Labor Party we
must be prepared to ourselves in
itiate the organizationa1 steps either
directly or through people and or.
CARNATIONS close to us.
While we have warned against
premature organizational moves. al
the same time we must emphasize
this does not mean sloWness of in
itiattve on our part or lack of in
ltlative. The development in this
movement does not necessarily take
It's first steps with organizationaI
measures. We have Immediately
taken political initiative on this
question directly from the Political
Buro with the speech which made,
on the decision Of the Political Buro.
in Washington at the Unemplov-
ment Congress. In this sense we
want the greatest initiative dis
displayed. Only when the masses
see the Communists as the political
initiators Of those steps which they
themselves will conclude are neces&
sary for their own life's interests.
only then will we begin to win them
for our whole program.
Extract from Report Of Ear
Browder to Central COMMITTEES
Meeting January, 1885.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
What VIII Be Role
Of the Communists
In the Labor Party?

tees and habits which will be a very
strong factor at work within such
mass Labor Party.
It is clear, as our resolution points
out, that in this situation the simple
slogan for a Labor Party under
which we operated years ago would
express such conflicting tendencies
that it is not sufficient to be the
effective banner for our struggle.
Yes, we are for a Labor Party, but
We are for a particular kind of La
Dor Party. We are for a Labor
Party of the nature that we speci-
fed in the resolution under point
D, the fourth possible type. We are
against this movement being Or
| ganiZed under the leadership of the
LaFollettes, with the program of
the Progressive Party. We are
against all Of these various COM
promises between the idea Of a mass
Labor Party and such a progressive
bourgeois party. We Communists
enter the movement for the Labor
Party only with the purpose of
helping the masses to break away
from the bourgeois camp, break
away from social reformists and
find the path to the revolutionary
class struggle.
This means also that all prema-
ture organizational moves must be
very carefully avoided. In this
early stage Of the movement it is
especially our enemies within this
movement that will press most en-
ergetically for quick reorganiza-
tional crystallization of the new
party, before the masses find out
what it is all about and while they
will still by habit put their old
leaders in the positions of respon-
sibility and power.
Our Tasks
On the other hand we must be
speeding up the political differen-
tiation within this movement so
that when we come to the stage of
organization the masses will already
have a basis for political choice be-
tween the class collaboration and
class struggle. We must already
have a broad section of this move
ment crystallized on issues of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
L a b or Party Must Be
Based On Mass
Organizations
BY Earl BrOwder

OUR resolution points out that the
v political changes that have taken
place in 1884 among the masses de-
mands that we review our whole
attitude towards the question of the
Labor Party. One feature Of our
approach to this question has re-
manned constant throughout the
whole period since 1923. The correct
basic approach to the question
which we have never changed as
formulated by the Sixth World
Congress in 1928. At that time we
were faced with situation in which
practically there was no mass move
ment for a Labor Party. We had
to determine how we should read
just ourselves towards this question
when there was no mass movement
for it.
The question was greatly dis
cuSSed in the commissions of the
Sixth World Congress, and finally
the decision which was written into
the thesis of the Congress was that
proposed by Stain. will read it
to you-it is brief, only few lines
but It stands as an essentially
correct approach for this whole
period, when we opposed practical
proposals for Labor Party, as well
as now when we decide again to
revive the question.
"0n the question of the organ
izing of the Labor Party, the Con-
gresS resolves that the Party con-
centrate its attention on the work
ia the trade unions, on Organiz-
ing the unOrganized, ETC., and In
this way lay the basis for the
practical realization of the slogan
of broad Labor Party organized
from below"
In 1929, year after the Sixth
World Congress, in discussing what
this means practically in our con-
crete work In the United States, we
came to the conclusion that this
correct orientation required that we
should come out against all of the
current proposals then being made
for the organization Of a Labor
Party. We declared that any prac-
tical steps towards organizing a
Labor Party in those conditions
could only result in the building of
new appendage of the old parties.
The only ones who were practically
for Labor Party would have been
the Communists, the narrow move
ment of the Socialist Party and
few scattered burocrats. True, the
process of rehabilitation of the
masses under the impact of the
crisis was already beginning then,
but this rehabilitation of the masses
was not taking such forms as to
give promise Of any immediate mass
Labor Party emerging. The best
proof that our Judgment was cor
rect at that time is the fact that
in the five years that have inter-
vened, nobody has been able to do
anything practical with the idea
of a Labor Party.
Situation is Changing
1t is clear now when we look back
over these years that if we had
been playing around with the slogan
of Labor Party in the absence of
mass movement it would not have
advanced us one step. We would
not have developed a Labor Party
and we would have taken attention
away from the basic tasks of the
movement directly connected with
what was going ON among the
masses. The question which we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
Full Time Employees
Decrease 1880 Since
1929, Report Shows

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 18.-
According to a report from the De-
partment of Commerce Bureau of
the census issued here on Jan. IA,
the number of full-time employees
decreased 1913 per cent since 1929
in independent stores or from 1888
915 to 1,908,401. The number of
fun-time employees in chain stores
decreased 17.3 per cent between 1929
and 1888 or from 829, 291 to 685, POT.
Both independent and chain stores
increased their part time payroll,
the independents by AS per cent
and the chains 800 per cent. The
total payroll decreased 4S.9 per cent
in the independent stores and 3O.8
per cent in the chains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
Lubin Admits l0.9W
Rise In Food Prices
Ov er Last We ar

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 49,
Retail prices of food went up is
per cent during the two weeks ended
Jan. 2, it was admitted by Com
missioner Lubin of the U. s. Bureau
OF Labor Statistics. The price of
food, according to this under-esti-
nation of the government, was 100
per cent higher than the CORES
ponding period a year ago.
In two weeks time fruits and veg
etables went up 3.5 per cent and
potatoes went up SO per cent. Egg
prices, during this two weeks period,
went up 19 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
Political Changes
Determine Review
Of C. p. attitude

have to answer now is whether in
1894 this situation is changing
in such a way as to require us to
revise our practical attitude to-
wards this question. We say, when
we look over the situation Of the
past year, definitely: Yes, the stu
alton is changing. There has be-
gun in this year the clearly discern
able beginnings of mass disin-
tegration Of the old Party system
the beginnings Of the breakup of
the old parties, the distinct poSsib-
iity appears now that new mass
party may come forth out of this
disintegration of the old parties, the
Democratic and the Republican
parties. This is something new in
the political life of our Party which
we have not seen since 1923-24
when in the period following the
postwar crisis, similar break
away movement developed which
was finally corralled into the La
Toilette movement.
Under present conditions in 1884
what can we say about the possible
character and form which such a
mass break away from the old par
ties will take? What are the pos
sible variations which such a new
mass party will take? It is clear
that there is large number of pos
sible forms in which this movement
might emerge. In our resolution we
point out four possible variations,
four possible types which this move
ment could take.
What Kind Of Labor Party?
First of all it may become
popular, populist or progressive
party of the type of the LaFollette
party in Wisconsin, of the Sinclair
movement, of the Olsen, Long move
ments, crystallized as a new mass
party on a national scale. Or
secondly, it might be a party similar
in composition and character to
that, but which would put forward
name of Farmer Labor Party, or
Labor Party even, differing only in
its name and in the degree it deyel-
oped the demagogy which would
come with such name. The third
possible variation, might be more
concretely Labor Party with a
predominant trade union base, with
a program concerning immediate
demands, possibly with a vague
demagogy about the cooperative
commonwealth such as even Olson
carries on in Minnesota, but domi-
mated by a section of the trade union
bureaucracy organized from above
with the assistance of the Socialist
party and excluding the Communist
and the militant elements. The
fourth possibility is that this mass
break away might crystalline in the
form of a labor party built from
below, as pointed out by the Sixth
World Congress resolution, on pre-
dominantly a trade union base in
Guiding also all mass organizations
of the workers, but in conflict with
the bureaucracy or with the larger
part of it, putting forward a pro-
gram of demands closely connected
with the mass struggles, strikes,
unemployment, and so on, with the
leading role being played by the
militant elements including the
Communists.
OF course you must not under
stand these four types we list as
rigid, fixed things. They can de-
velop in all possible varieties
with even parallel developments
of different types and at various
stages the movement might reflect
one type and then another. But
these four types that we give as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19

directly to the Communist Party.
We have nothing in our political
experiences which would lead us to
expect that We, still small party,
can overnight bring these masses
to Communism.
We know that before they come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19

ticipate in it effectively if we stand
merely as inactive critics of it.
Neither can we expect that with
such mass break away of millions,
in which millions will be shifting
from old political allegiances over
night, that these millions will come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
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Evening star., 1935-03-29
CITIZENS DEBATE
LUNACY MEASURE
Conduit Road Association
I Divided on Resolution to
- Back New Bill.

Terming the present method of
trying lunacy cases in the District
archaic, brutal and barbaric," Frank
Shall introduced a resolution at the
meeting of the Conduit Road Citi-
zens' Association last night support
ing the bill now before Congress re-
vising the method CT trying such
cases. The resolution was tabled
until the next meeting after long
debate, in which opinion was divided
Not Ordinary Problem.
IN opposing the resolution, Albert
Lyman stated that when a person is
found to be insane his property is
taken from him and his affairs put in
the hands of relatives. Under the
proposed law. relatives of the patient
would appear before the examining
board and give the history of
the case. Lyman claimed that
this testimony could be given in
such a manner that ordinary &C.
centric actions would appear to be
the actions of an insane person. and
these relatives could then be given
full charge of the affairs of the
patient when he was found to be
insane.
Favor Inheritance Tax.
A resolution was passed favoring
the enactment of legislation to give
the District an inheritance tax law
similar to the laws in operation in
several Of the States.
The plan to demoliSh the municipal
swimming pool in Potomac Park was
scored in another resolution, which
Evening star., 1935-03-29

was passed. This asked that q SWIM
ming and wading pool be constructed
in the Conduit road area.
A proposal that the association
favor the sale of liquor on Sunday
met with considerable disapproval,
and was finally defeated. A resolution
was passed, however, favoring the
ending of the hidden bar.
John j. Minor, first vice president,
presided In the absence of Ellis r.
King, the president.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
WOMAN GIVEN DIVORCE
FROM SUICIDE HOAXER

Mrs. Helen A. Aiken, 4716 Eighth
street, was granted an interlocutory
decree of absolute divorce in District
Supreme Court yesterday from Wilfred
A. Aiken, who disappeared In July.
1881, leaving a suicide note in his
automobile parked near the Potomac
River.
Police dragged the river for several
weeks after Aiken disappeared, only
to learn he had perpetrated hoax
and was living in Florida.
According to the suit, filed by the
wife through Attorney Jean M.
Boardman, Aiken had been associ-
ating with another woman named as
correspondent in the case.
Evening star., 1935-03-29
HONOR GUESTS NAMED
Kappa Sigma Fraternity to Be
Host to Officials.

Commissioner George c. Allen, Gov.
Harry w. Nice of Maryland, Gov.
George C. Peery and Lieut.. Gov.
James A. Price of Virginia will be
honor guests at the banquet of their
college fraternity. Kappa Sigma, April
5, it was announced yesterday.
Alumni of the local George Wash
ington University chapter will be
joined at the banquet to be given
at Columbia Country Club by repre-
sentatives from University of Rich
mond, University of Virginia, Wash
ington and Lee, Johns Hopkins, Ran
dolph Macon, Hampden Sydney,
Emory and Henry and Lafayette.