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»T BURCK How to Organize City Conventions THE EXECUTIONER IS READY! to Fight ———— By JORGE ¦

irftE cab for esity Conventions to fight un- bread lines, Job agencies, etc., in the city, as Play Hall ' well .unemployed workers who gather fac- employment and starvation was Issued on as. at Recently we listened to a report that men- leading tories looking for work, should be adequately May 7. By this time our committees tioned how the Labor Sports Union boosters Unemployed Councils represented. In view of the fact that the com- and comrades and the got a movement started by just using a little have the purpose of these position of many of our unemployed branches should discussed imagination. Using your imagination is painful in a most concrete manner In the larger cities is faulty (in some instances city conventions to some comrades, but it's very helpful in mak- and be ready to issue calls for the election they are composed mainly of migratory workers, ing the turn to new’ methods of work—methods By the date of the workers without families or the membership is of delegates. this time which break through the self-imposed isolation convention in your city should have been es- narrow, they have very few members, families of our Party. tablished. of unemployed workers are not active, wives and we must, to the street goes a young L. S. U. mem- These city conventions must be held in every unemployed women do not participate) Out ourselves the question: How will ber w ith a baseball and bat, He whirls them city possible, during the latter part, of June or ask the un- employed workers and their families, how will as gaily as a cop does a nightstick, and—like the the first of July. They must be called in the the starving families themselves participate and cop—looks for a young name of the Unemployed Council and branches. victim. Another fellow demands, place a The convention should be held on a Sunday, voice their before the conven- is spied leaning against building doing noth- conditions, their for should convene at 10 a. m. and should last tions their miserable need ing. “Hey! Catch this!" and the L. S. U. com- relief, their experiences with etc. into late afternoon, yes even into the evening. fake charities, rade tosses the ball. For once we hope that the delegates that The decisive section of the city convention A game of catch follow's and attracts another attend will actually participate in the conven- must be composed of unemployed workers. It is youth or two. The game is extended to bring tion, This means in reverse, that, we hope the unemployed workers wlio must give the con- them in, too. An acquaintance is struck up, that leading comrades will not talk the conven- vention leadership in the discussions and de- and the L. S. U. member tells the other fel- tion to death. Discussion, planning for ac- cisions of the convention that pertain to fight- low’s how there is a club forming, and get* tivities, struggles, organization of the unem- ing for fqod and unemployment insurance. To them into it in no time: ployed, must come in the main from the un- bring to the convention large numbers of unem- That's what we call playing ball! The exam- employed workers and other delegates present. ployed workers as delegates, to delegate most ple ought to be useful to thousands of mem- at- These city conventions must strike a broader needy families in workers' neighborhoods to bers Os the , some of whom tend, the wives base than any of our united front movements to have seated in the convention are indifferent to other 'Workers( and not a few have had up to now. Delegates must be se- of unemployed workers and their children, this of whom act like non-Party workers are pois- important cured from a far greater number of A. P. of becomes an immediate and task. onous, something to be avoided.) unions, and committees of unemployed We have this task, it must be accomplished, L. local We imagine that the Young Communist must visit A. P. of L. local unions to it must not stand before us as an insoluable workers League given credit for hatching out. explain the purpose of the convention and re- difficulty. In every few' blocks in all workers' should be the ideas and are, like the above quest the election of delegates. Other workers’ neighborhoods, leaflets must be issued stating methods that example, making the S. U. something to be organizations which were never reached for for- the purpose of the city convention and calling L. proud of, an organization really attractive to mer united fronts must be visited. We must all workers within these few blocks to a meet- spread beyond the usual organizations and faces ing for the election of delegates. The meeting masses. we see at mas* at these kind of gatherings we can be held in a, worker's home, or on a street, The Y. C. L. should receive every support c# have had to tha pest. Delegates from employed comer within these few blocks, or in a hall all workers, and first of all from the members workers In shops and factories should attend. within or very near to these few blocks. If of the Communist Party. It is showing speed And yet, when we consider the cooperation within these few blocks you can register the un- recently, and .’frilly Is making headway in we have the right to expect from our sym- employed, carry on a fight for food for the smashing down the ingrowing sectarian ten- working pathetic organizations, that usually send dele- starving families, before the meeting is called dency which kept it isolate from the gates, we find that their cooperation seldom goes to elect then the workers will respond class youth. ¦ beyond the sending of delegates. At the city more readily to your meeting. In electing dele- “NO JOBS TODAY” For example, on May 30. next Saturday, comes conventions to fight unemployment and starva- gates at these block meetings attention must be T) A Q 'T' \7 T T T7' 'Tj' Conducted by the Organization Department of National Youth Day. And new methods are tion we must take a more healthy attitude to- given to delegating at least entire unem- I > the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. one F Iv. A A JL/ A A to observable. In the old days, If we recall, it from sympathetic organ- ployed family, family typical of wards these delegates worker’s a the By was celebrated by some such tiling as a very organizations they rep- suffering hardship unemployed HARRY CANNES. izations and towards the and workers un- «110 today!” That’s what the unemployed official meeting in a hall, whereat the Secre- given op- dergo. Delegates from among the Jobs resent. These delegate* should be an the wives of . The Relation of the Unemployed C'oun cils to Our Revolutionary 1 tary gave a long speech on every conceivable—- way Unions. youth hear more frequently than anything portunity to state concretely in what their unemployed workers and their children should and some inconceivable—“task before us,” the assist the un- By HOLDEN. emphasized kick organization and It*members can be named. CLARA the Unemployed Council, that there are prob- else. Sometimes it is with a latest letter of the Young Communist Interna- delegates provided (South employed in their struggles for immediate relief These must be with car- Carolina) ably very few workers in Greenville not wise by the factory bull, tional read (maybe!) and all was quite instance, convention, meals was and unemployment insurance. For fare to the with at the con- THE' Unemployed Councils should be more to it. On the other hand, certain concessions kosher—and utterly unknown to the young be win the unemployed vention, and that they will be so provided must * Phil Bard, in his picture-pamphlet "No Jobs methods must devised to consciously valued and used as builders for and gains have been made, and certain relict workers. workers in these organizations as active mem- be Indicated to them. Meetings must again be our revolutionary unions, as training by city, Tcday.” emphasizes what unemployment means and activities have been started the Elks. This year. National Youth Day Is all feathered bers for our unemployed branches: the organ- called to have them report to their neighbors grounds for future strike struggles. activity young Red Cross, etc., due to the of the Un- to the workers today—and he does it out! See what is going on In New York: A ization should assist in establishing a neighbor- and out of this must come a neighborhood Workers will often join an Unemployed employed struggles, Coun- Council. During strike the with a smack. special train chartered! (What do you old hood branch of unemployed workers in a certain branch, activity and struggle. In this way we cil who feel they are yet ready join not to one mill workers will remember that these gains roosters think about that!) It leaves Erie sta- territory where a number of its members live; will root our unemployed movement In workers’ of In a You look the first page and the our unions. textile-town, such as were made, and can only be made, because of at see Job- Jersey p. m. Passaic, of the osgenlailan should help col- neighborhoods. Securing an immense number tion on side at 12:30 for members Greenville, S. C., for example, the great ma- organization and mass pressure c! the workers. less young worker pore over the want ad sheet. speaking and lect for stswfeg the organiza- of delegates from an immense number of block where there are parades and food jority of white workers who join the Unem- Such political lessons that Unemployed Coun- There to contvfbute a certain meetings will make it possible to elect Un- are few printed words along with these sports. At 7 p. m. a boxing carnival at Bel- tion should pledge itself an ployed Council are mill workers. By visiting cil members learn, in whatever locality they each help finance the work employed Council at your city convention, which pictures, but you don't need them. You read the mont Park at Garfield, N. J. But that’s only fund for month to these workers, and explaining the National Tex- are. will be of the greatest value when they are the will actually represent the masses of unemployed life of one day! among unemployed, etc. tile Workers’ Union to them, probably 90 per involved in strikes. every young worker in it. You see your your city. later Spartakiad What, however, is of tremendous importance in cent of them will come into the union. This own fruitless effort for work partrayed as you . Next day, Sunday, at 10 a. m. a If the Unemployed Councils are well organ- opens Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, an all day is the question of adequate representation from UNITS’ LEAGUE COMMITTEE is one simple and direct way of building the know it and as you felt it. at ized, strikers need have no fear of these work- finals, with a baseball the unemployed workers. It Is of course, under- FOR WORK AMONG THE UNEMPLOYED NTWU. Then general meetings can be called affair of track and field ers taking jobs, will The jobless youth by the being jjiie eve- stood that all unemployed branches and the Alfred Wagenknecht, Secretary. of all the mill workers who are members of their but see that these millions are game In the middle and a concert in unemployed workers and Unemployed Council has the Unemployed Council, another of all the prepared for war. These young workers do not ning! It seems that thfe Y. C. L. learned members will help them strikes, make Communism workers of a different industry, etc,, the role win their by know from personal experience the horrors of the secret of how not to picketing, attending meetings, raising relief, for National of the respective unions explained, and last odious to the youth. All aboard mem- etc. tile capitalist war. Bard pictures one of way. Having workers of all industries meet to- Youth Day! bers recruited in this • ”" gether struggle the worker-victims of the last World War te/> • * But the Unemployed Councils have an even and together in the same or- ganization, ing story, and what he the youth greater value to our revolutionary unions than the Unemployed Council makes each his advises to Gangsters strike not an isolated affair, but the concern of do in imperialist war and grounds the next that the capi- Graft that of recruiting for new members. all the in that The unem- Wait a Bit The experiences gained by workers, as mem- workers locality. talists are preparing right now. By HARRY CANNES - ployed . Just a bit and you’ll hear the wind blow, bers of the Unemployed Councils, will be of and employed workers are closely linked wait year the lower ranks of the petty bourgeoisie the in future up, because of the stagger system, which causes Decoration Day this will be filled with a when Row the police executed gangster's United States was traced. The previous ar- utmost importance strike strug- numerous of the thousands of employed workers to be partially lot of cries. The will and the thin but still ranks benefit of Capone was ticles showed how they flourished during the gles. Through the organizational activity of war young workers be begin wholesale for the unemployed, straw bosses and higher paid workers to previous rise of War; became part of the httreancracy the Unemployed Councils, and through strug- and because of continuous lay- plugged full of capitalist propaganda war. pointed ent In articles. The World for get nipped in Andy Mellon’s tax trap. The news with In the A. F. of L. gles for relief, against evictions, etc., leaders offs. The stretch-out also throws thousands out gangsterism along of’the This little pamphlet gives a sharp answer to the is being gently so far. Not higher taxes are trained. Mass demonstrations, hunger of work. Also, in workers’ families, where one broken bosses’ war preparations and should be widely on the big incomes, says Mellon, but taxes on marches and parades train for mass picketing or more are working, there are sure to be some distributed. everybody of lower income. The N. Y. Times of and meetings during strikes. Confidence out of work. It is not necessary to “establish” mass Tuesday of it smoothly, like this: Capone and the Chicago City unity of the employed and for tell* A1 Government in our leadership is gained. An understanding unemployed. Ss The main thing is that this little pamphlet, to in “The Administration would not be partial MfICARFACE" AL CAPONES spectacular rise for the Western Electric Co., a Morgan corpora- of the difference between our organizations example was tried one city, where unem- at 5 ployed which sells cents, should be distributed by an increase of existing rates, but w’ould rather » prohibition. Gangsterism a tion. however, like and those of the A. F. of L. is established. And, workers broke into shops to "unite” with came with was Prohibition was rich manure the hundreds of thousands among the young spread taxes over a broader field, that is, set plant firmly embedded in the soil of American to the poisonous growth of gangsterism: It fed most important of all, is the political training the employed workers, and probably antagonized the workers, and adult workers. In but telling words, up a more diversified tax system.” capitalism long before Capone or prohibition it, it, developed it into of the the workers get in the actual fighting for re- employed thinking the unemployed A1 nurtured one Sounds nice, don’t it? Yes, it don’t! Not if arrived on the scene. Gunmen found lucrative leading businesses of American capitalism. lief demands. When starving workers are re- had come after their jobs! They are already introduces Bard's drawings and united, they like wage you understand it. But the Wiley Times con- pickings in the trade unions; the newspapers At the inception of prohibition the existing fused relief by city, state or federal officials, whether it or not, and calls on the young workers to rally behind the cuts, speed-up, unemployment, tinues : employed them frequently. AH leading capitalist gangs in all cities put their hand to earning by the charities, by the manufacturers and evictions, lay- Young Communist League in the offs, etc., struggle against “It significant officials have in mind corporations made free use of them. an extra dollar by engaging in bootlegging. At other capitalists; or when, through mass pres- affect both. However, the employed is that dying capitalism and the misery it causes the sales tax perhaps, a res- At the same time all the capitalist political first there was a wild scramble. Bribery of sure, they can force relief from these officials, and unemployed should be organizationally a small gasoline and. youth of the working class. of stamp taxes might be machines found them indispenslble during elec- government officials was not yet worked out they get a training that will be of the greatest closely linked up, by having representatives toration or excise worthy of every large city in the United to a system. It was haphazard. The field was during strikes. from our unions on the Unemployed Council consideration.” tion time. In value day said voting careful scrutiny there began a process of elim- Greenville, for example, are committees, and by having Unemployed Coun- Oh, yes! But just the other Hoover States is done under the crowded. Then In the workers by of the killers employed by the capitalist politi- ination. already pretty wise to th» line-up against us. cil members on union and TUUL committees. that it.was impo.jible to cure economic evils talking cal machines. Their function, however, is not Capone Consolidated The Committee, elected by the Unemployed In every locality, a joint TUUL committee of legislation. Only he was about unem- unemploy- merely to sit and watch. In Chicago the elimination took place first Council members. Shortly afterwards, the two employed and unemployed should be established. Workers! Join the Party of ployment, dodging the demand for organizational ment insurance at full wages. Taxes to feed politicians centered their by ordinary shootings. Soon the field was re- cil, saw two big mill owners sitting there as These links would make it eas- The earlier American Your Class! starving workers are not on his program. But election campaign in the saloons and dives. Here duced to four or five gangs, each with its'poli- Council membres. Shortly afterwards, the two ier for the workers to join in common strug- banking gles and taxes to make war, to buy bullets and poison they recruited their assistants. It was an easy tical alliance, with its big support, with mayors—of Greenville, and West Greenville, for relief better working conditions. gas to kill workers who object to starving, that way of capturing ward elections; they were used its alliances in the Federal government prohibi- where demands were also made—led the Ku The Unemployed Councils should be training Communist Party USA ts “sound legislation.” by higher politicians, judges, mayors, governors tion department. Capone decided that greater Klux Klan in full regalia, who denounced the schools for women workers. We are always P. O. Bax 87 Station D Perhaps Mellon will put a tax on windows, one on up to the presidents. Once firmly entrenched, consolidation would mean greater profits, and Unemployed Council and beat up some of the talking of the need for organizing women work- . of straws that broke the French camel’s gangsterism and rowdyism became an accepted with the help of his connections in the City workers. Police officials state daily that the ers, the need of having women's departments the back and caused a . Anyhow, wait a and inseparable part of capitalist politics. A Hall, the police department, the criminal court workers who join the Unemployed Council will in our unions, how to reach women workers, Please send was me more information on the Com- bit and you'll hear a fearful clamor of protest capita®* the help gang- and the state’s attorney’s office able to nevet* get jobs, that no meetings will be held, etc. Well, here our Practically every official elected with of is chance. munist Party. when the tax collectors begin to work. sters repays his supporters by many favors. This liquidate nearly every one of his rivals. Capone's that the organizers will be run out of town, demand the Unemployed Councils' make, are fortifies the gangs and makes them more power- followers were the first to use machine guns etc. And finally, the frame-up and railroading demands that are of special interest to women as an killing. ful weapons in his hands. The capitalist state efficient method of to the chain gang, of the Trade Union Unity workers. Actually, the women, more than the Name finds one of its strongest pillars in the crim- “I Paid Him Plenty” League organizer, has pretty well lined up, in- men. feel the responsibility when there is no j and gangster element that grew out "Bugs” Moran the final of the court room, the ac- money pay inal of The massacre W’as side and outside all to the rent. They worry more when Address Pentecost—and 11 American conditions and flourished with the act in establishing Capone's dominant place In tors who are on one side of the fence. the kids can't go to school for lack of clothing. Religious Racketeers rapid development of capitalism. the gangster and political world in Chicago. The link-up between the mill owners. KKK, They suffer more when the kids are sick and Election Methods Caponp bragged about his payment to the Chi- police, and city officials of Greenville has been they can’t pay a doctor or get medicine. And City Bute Before our eyes there reposes a printed cir« cago Attor- letter, The election methods used by this element are politicians. When Assistant State's so plainly brought out during the activity of they get fighting mad when the kids go hungry. cular sent out by the St. Paul's Evan* manifold. In Chicago they used the “short pen- ney William H. McSwiggin was killed in Chicago Not only the women mill workers, who are or gelical Lutheran Church. 147 West I23rd St, (a .Mall this to the Central Office Communist cil” stub of a pencil concealed between the in 1926, and suspicion turned to Capone, the ganized and activized during struggles of New York City, and signed by the Rev. Fred PL ” the Party. P O Box 87 Station D New City thumb and forefinger to mark ballots of an op- multi-millionaire gangster replied: “I was no ker, who though a capitalist “crime reformer Unemployed Councils; will be of great help to York Bosch, D.D., Pastor. posing Invalid); McSwiggin. paid paid Capone, on to Occupation Age “My candidate thus making them foe of I him and I him is on intimate terms with went our textile unions, for example, but in times of It is dated May 12. and is addressed: they stuff ballot boxes (throw In enough votes plenty.” relate that he was told by the big shot himself strike, wives of mill workers, and other women, Dear Friend.” Red Sparks was not sent one, to candidates); gather repeaters something ' “$6,000,000,000 graft government elecet their “If one thinks there is trivial that went to who have been active in Unemployed Council as such infernal scoundrels know that we are no (men who vote once); oppos- gang Sullivan, more than kill about power.” said Edward D. officials.” work, can also be drawn in to play an impor- friends of theirs. It was brought in by some- ing poll-watchers. In New York they are the authority on gangland, “let him bear in mind Capone estimates that $30,000,000 a year is tant part. NTWU has been saying; “It's impossible to body who received it through the U. S. mail, “mechanics” of the voting machines to see that that Capone's men as early as 1926 netted paid for police protection in Chicago alone. He build mill locals.” For two years we have done from which Mr. Fish has succeeded in barring they register sufficient votes for either their $70,000,000 that year.” (N. Y. Times, June 27, ought to know as he pays a great share of It. In the South, one of the greatest problems is Communist Rev, nothing much but say that. For two years we some papers. This “evangel,” republican or democratic employers. They do 1930). In 1931, at the pinnacle of his fame, recog- breaking down the wall of hatred and suspicion Bosch, makes no bones have led no struggles whatever in New Bed- about tins racket. plenty of slugging in New York because put weekly. a business man, friend of between the white and Negro workers. If white He but Some the estimate at sls 000.000 nized as successful ford. The New Bedford workers, who have writes about “the third great Christian Tammany Hall is more efficient than Thompson precise sum, a huge one, editors, judges, mayors, millionaires, Capone and Negro members of the Unemployed Coun- festival, small, Whatever the It Is been amazingly loyal to the union under the Pentecost or Whit Sunday.” A and Company or the Cermak crowd of Chicago, ranking on a par with the big capitalist statement about his business principles. cils join in common struggles, it will be the pink envelope enclosed, printed: other made a circumstances, and who are militant, are un- is on which Is they are not so quick on the trigger. corporations. Prohibition has created one of “Prohibition is a business.” he said. “All I one biggest factor in building our revolutionary “My My doubtedly thoroughly disgusted with the inac- Pentecost Gift for CHiurch and Russian The “Bloody Twentieth” the major industries in the United States, boot- do Isr to supply a public demand. I do it in unions on a sound basis, of unity of black and paragraph tivity of the NTWU. By organizing neighbor- Relief.” The third of the letter In Chicago. Morris Eller, one of Thompson's legging, which according to an ex-Federal pro- the and least harmful way I can. white. Probably the outstanding thing that has ought be hung somewhere, pos- best hood branches of the Unemployed Council, and to framed and leading cronies, assured his election by the simple hibition head, does $3,000 000,000 business a year. “I can't change conditions. I just meet made the Negro workers of Greenville have sibly along with by fighting for relief demands, the New Bed- its author. Here it is: process executing his opponents., On . the Council, and to of formost Since all profits smell alike to the exploiters, them without backing up. . . My customers faith in Unemployed some “We are asking a ford workers would undoubtedly rally to us for special, liberal dona- April, 1928, Octavius Grandy, a Negro opponent and because the rate of returns is particularly include some of the finest people In the city, extent lose suspicion of the white workers, is tlon on that day, as Holy may direct, again, and we would again have a strong, mili- the Ghost 1 of the Eller faction was moved down by ma- high In this field. It has become a reoognized or in the world for that matter.” the fact that some white workers went to stop for two purposes; first, our own treas* \ tant organization. In Danville, also, the church chine gun fire. Eller's ward was the scene of industry with good banking, political gang Capone right when he said lie was just an eviction at a Negro worker's home. Also, un- ury, which needs strengthening; secondly, for and was employed ex-strikers, sold out by the United so many murders, kidnappings, beatings and support. a business man among business men, working several itmes all the white workers at Unem- of suffering persecuted Textile Workers, will without doubt rally to the relief our and mannings that it is now known as the “Bloody According to Albert R. Brunker, chairman under conditions he did not create, but which ployed Council meetings voted to do so, should us Lutheran brethren in Russia. condition by the hundreds, as soon as we establish an Tbeir Twentieth.” Manny Eller, son of Morris, be- of the Civic Safety Committee of Chicago (N. grew up out of the very foundations of Amer- an eviction occur. is terrible; they arc reaching tlicir hand* Unemployed Council of the NTWU. came a Judge in the Criminal Court where lie Y. Times. January 30. 1931), “Scai-face” A1 Ca- ican capitalism. But he was merely discreet In some textile centers, where the majority across the sea for help. He dare not disap- passed on the crimes of his father’s political pone had 6,000 city, state and federal officials when he said that "some of the finest people” of mill workers are unemployed, the building of Let up realize the importance of the Unem- point them. About $70,009 are needed at once. gunmen. He evicted many workers and on Jailed his payroll. As a sidelight he added that were his “customers.” These fine bankers and Unemployed Councils should be the major task ployed Councils as builders of our revolutionary When the donations are received, the Church , thousands of others. 80 per cent of the judges In Chicago were exploiters are also “stockholders” in Capone's of the National Textile Workers' Union. In unions, and their function as political train- Council will decide how much shall be used A! Capone started ills reign in Cicero, a sub- criminals and that it was useless to attempt big business New Bedford, for example, thousands or mili ing schools, whose lessons will be of (he utmost for Russian relief, and how much we ahall urb west of Chicago, where 40.000 workers slave sucMssful prosecution of gangsters. Mr Bran- TO BE CONTINUED workers arc out of work. For two years the value in .future strike struggles. keep for ourselves.”

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