ORKER

“If by autoc:
without prior discussion and
opinion or in private session,

U.S.S.R.

debate,
the government

y or dictatorship is meant government
either by public
of the
is in that sense actually less of an autocracy or
a dictatorship than many a parliamentary cabinet.”—
Sidney nd Beatrice Webb, in “Soviet Communism,”

“Communists maintain that the religious beliefs of a
person are his private concern in relation to the State
and governmental policies. The State should not dictate
religious beliefs. We Communists are completely opposed
on principle to State coercion in regard to religious be-
liefs."—Earl Browder, in “What Is Communism???

ISSUED MONTHLY BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY UNIT OF THE CITY COLLEGE

Volume 2, No. 1

April, 1936

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Students to Strike
For Peace April 22

In 1917 American colleges were recruit-
ing grounds for the world slaughter. City
College was a barracks. But times changed

and today the vigorous student move-
ment, under the leadership of the Ameri-
can Student Union, stands as a strong,
youthful barrier to the warlords. Today
the student movement is not content with
“Peace Assemblies” where venerable pro-
fessors mouth soft phrases about war. To-
day the student movement realizes the
necessity for determined, forceful action.

Strike! This is the watchword on hun-
dreds of campust Strike against war!

Not only will thousands of City College
students walk out of their classes but un-
der the sponsorship of the Strike Commit-
tee they will also hold an Anti-War Con-
ference of five panels: A.S.U. and War,
Science and War, Literature and War, Na-
tional Minarities and War, Political Par-
iles and War.

While some teachers have indicated
their desire for some peace action, the Stu-
dent Council committee consisting of
many student organizations has announced

(Continued on page 3, col. 3)

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Teachers March May Ist

INTO THE STREETS MAY list!

LS.A. Progresses

meetings, the LS.
made enormous strides toward progressive
Faced with the necessity
ot reacting vigorously and quickly to the
President’s questionnaire and of protect-

At its last two A.

trade unionism,

ing individual members threatened with
dismissal, the Executive Council provided
effective leadership, and a united member-
ship. Brushing aside intra-organizational
bickerings, it directed its strength in a mil-
itant struggle against the wanton acts of
the College adminisration.

Contrast the time-consuming debate of
the fall and winter meetings over the ac-
ceptance of the S. T. committee’s report
with the efficient conduct of the March
meeting. The Council, anticipating the de-
mands of the membership, came to the

(Continued on page 4, col. 1)

“Do you realize that the hardest blows
struck in the cause of a living wage for
the teacher were brought about by the
American Federation of Labor?” In those
Education Graves
pointed to the long tradition of the Ameri-
can Labor movement’s struggles in behalf
of the interests of all workers, including
the teachers. since May 1, 1886,

America’s first May Day celebration—
when 60,000 New York workers marched
in defense of the 8-hour day, the hard-
gains in American democracy have
been protected by the organized pressure

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of trade unions and farm organizations.
It is not Mr. Morgan’s leisure class but
the -American workers and their allies

who are responsible for our great achieve-
ments—free speech, free press, free as-
sembly and free education,

In 1936, May 1st will bring hundreds of
thousands more into the city streets in a
gigantic united front demonstration, for
the first time joining Socialists, Commun-
ists and trade-unionists.

On April 25, the second May Day con-
ference will be held at Hotel Delano, 108
W. 43 Street, at 1:30 p. m. In the inter-
ests of planning as broad a demonstration
as possible, the A.F.A. and 1L.S.A. should
be represented among the 1,500 delegates
who will attend.

Today, when fase war are
threatening, when economic security is be-
ing attacked, a demonstration
be an effective answer to the capitalists
of the world.

The Teachers Union (Local 5 of the A. F.
of T.) has already endorsed the May Day
demonstration. This action, in essence,
calls upon labor for unity in our present
struggle to prevent the curtailment of
tree higher education and a living wage.
Teachers and workers at City College
must likewise call upon labor to fight the
reactionary policies of the Robinson ad-
ministration, and to obtain the essential
rights of democracy in our College. Let us
make May Day the greatest contribution of
the American workers, the day of unity
between teacher and worker.

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