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Rendered Giddy by the Successes Old Feudalism In SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co.. Inc., datls, except Sunday, at Union .. Square. City, Stuyvesant c-it-le: PAIWOUK." Uaily Workrtf Page Four New York N. Y. Telephone 1686-7-S. sM g&g of°lJew*York''ciVy)? $6.00 a.*year: BB South. to Daily 26-28 Union Square Ne t York N V ME Aditv: e and mail all checks the Worker Central Organ of the Commitui.st Fans f the l'. S. A. RENDERED GIDDY BY THE “WE DEMAND!” By Fred Ellis OLD FEUDALISM IN SOUTH has By JENK HARDY. his occupation, how many times he been sick, where he comes from, the room he lives SUCCESSES many “rASTONIA,” wrote a Southerner in a recent j in, the name of his wife, how children 7 '" ('V - ; * v • • ••* ¦ s® magazine article, “is the Lexington from j she has had, the number that are still alive, By J. STALIN. us call to mind some districts of Turkistan, which the historians of the future will reckon how many of them are too young to work. where favorable preconditions for the imme- the industrial struggle, the war of a thousand The mill man can, by turning the pages of hia talking suc- the world is now of the -1 diate organization of collective farms do not battles which will convulse the South during book, tell the age of all the people who live **JILL cesses the Soviet power in the sphere just as the even a baby is of exist to the same extent as in the Northern the next decade.” In other words, in the village. Not unre- of collectivising economy. Even our enemies parts of the grain-importing districts. We historian dates the beginning of the struggle of corded.” (Ibid., P. 41). are compelled to admit that considerable suc- know that in numerous districts of Turkistan the American bourgeoisie to free itself from As long as the worker went humbly about his cesses have been achieved. These successes attempts were made to “catch up and pass” strangle-hold of British imperialism from the tasks he was a good fellow. The boss patted | that on are really great. It is an actual fact the advanced districts of the Soviet Union by first shots fired at Lexington and Concord, him on the back, provided an occasional com- | last, fifty per the 20th of February already threats of military force; that the peasants so will the historian of the future date the pany picnic and church festival, moved among cent of the peasant farms in the Soviet Union who do not for the present wish to enter the beginnings of mass revolt in the South from | his “subjects” as hero and “friend” and at- had been collectivized. This means that on the collective farms are to be deprived of the use the day when the textile workers in the Loray tempted to maintain the old easy relations of 20th of February. 19:50, we had more than 200 of irrigation works and their supplies of in- Mill of the Manville-Jenckes Company shut the early plantation period. At the first rum- per cent fulfilled the Five-Year Plan. It is dustrial goods cut off. off the power and walked out of the mill under blings of discontent, however, he immediately already also a fact that on the 28th of Feb- What has this Sergeant-major policy in the leadership of the National Textile Workers attempted to tear his subjects to the economic the collective farms had furnished more ruary common with the policy of the Party, which Union and the Communist Party, rack. He black-listed them, evicted them from million centals of spring seed corn, than 36 is based upon the voluntary principle and of a thousand class battles, the their homes, cut off their credit at the company or more than 90 per cent of the Plan, i. e., in Veterans takes into account the local peculiarities in forces which led the recent struggle in the store, raided the relief stations of the Work- round numbers 220 million poods of seed corn. building up collective farms? It is clear that South had already come into head-on contact ers International Relief and tried to starve his Nobody can deny that the supplying of 220 they have had and cannot have anything in with capitalism and its apparatus, the state, workers into submission. The courts became million poods of seed corn by the collective ; common. Who benefits by such distortions, by in all of its ways and methods—police brutal- a mockery. Beal, Hendricks, Miller and the alone, following the successful carrying farms such a bureaucratization of the collective econ- ity, frame-up, mob violence, murder of strike other Gastonia defendants were convicted be- out of the grain procuring campaign, repre- omy movement, such unworthy threats to the leaders, The transpired fore their trial began. And, just as no Negro sents an achievement. What does etc., etc. events which enormous peasants? Only our enemies! Whither can during and after the strike, therefore, were was permitted to testify aginst a white man all this prove? That we can regard the defi- these distortions lead? To strengthening our no surprise to its leaders. Nor, on the other in the feudal courts of the agricultural South, nite turn of the village to socialism as already enemies and discrediting the idea of the col- hand, can swerve proletariat so were some witnesses in the recent Gastonia assured. such tactics the lective economy movement. Is it not clear one iota in its march to inevitable power. Just trial prohibited from even testifying when they There is no need to point out that all these that the originators of these distortions, who as the new industrial bourgeois brushed aside professed disbelief in the capitalist god. ' successes are of the very greatest importance consider themselves to be “radical,” are in the old plantation owning feudal baron, so will The modern version of the old Black Codes f for our country, for the whole working class fact bringing grist to the mill of Right op- the working class, under the leadership of the is also being enacted. Black lists are made up J as the leading power in our country, and final- portunism? Communist Party, brush aside the mill owning and circulated of all who join unions or take ly for the Party itself. Apart from the direct Secondly, one of the greatest merits of the industrial barons of today. part in strikes. Spies swarm, and to be seen practical results, they are of enormous im- a union political strategy of our Party consists in the The owning class of the present South is even talking on friendly terms with portance for the inner life and training of circumstance that it knows how, at any given attempting to re-enact the medieval setting of organizer is tantamount to immediate discharge. our Party. They fill our Party with the spirit Wiggins moment, to ascertain the most important link the driving gentleman planter of the In the murder of Ella May and the of confidence and faith in its own powers. Negro of the movement, to seize it and then at the slavery epoch. It has been well established, Marion massacre the ruling class served notice They strengthen the belief of the working by same time to move all links of the chain for as a matter of fact, that the gentry of the old that militancy is henceforth punishable class in the victory of our cause. They lead at a common aim, the solution of a task. Can agricultural South, who death. There is also every indication that new million reserves to our Party. found themselves de- we say that the Party has already ascertained feated their plantations broken up by the their next sessions the legislatures of the Caro- and laws. This imposes upon our Party the task of the decisive link in the system of building up industrialists of the North as a result of the linas will pass syndicalist and anti-union in ter- consolidating the successes already achieved collective economy? But we can and must do American Civil War were the very persons The “Committee of 100” which engage against and systematically making use of them for the this. Where is the deciding link to be found? who established the cotton textile industry in rorist kidnapping and lynching bees purpose of further militants are advance. Perchance in the societies for common cultiva- the Piedmont. What we see in thfe Southern Northern organizers and local Press and These successes, however, also have their tion of the soil? No. mills of today, therefore, is the attempt to the Ku Klux Klan in dress suit. in the same shady side, especially when they are_ attained Common cultivation of the soil without so- carry over the ways and the methods of the pulpit howl against labor leaders against with relative “ease,” “unexpectedly,” so to cialization of the means of production is a feudal agricultural era into the newer period vein they used 80 years ago the abol- reds, racketeers, speak. Such successes produce at times a stage of the collective economy movement of industrialism—the attempt to harness the itionists. “Alien invaders, spirit of pride and arrogance: “We can do which is already passed.. Perhaps in the agri- remnants of feudalism and brutal exploitation stick-up men, mad yankee guerillas,”—these everything,” “Everything is a mere trifle for cultural commune? No, not in the commune. to modern machinery. are only a few of the florid invectives re- us!” These successes often intoxicate people, at sorted to by the ruling class agents The communes are present still isolated The feudal, slave-owning baron of the pre- and its render them dizzy; they of phenomena and terror.
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