The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 4

| Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Thursday, February 28, 1924 CANVASSERS WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR GERMAN WORKERS F. S. R. Wants Volun- teers for March 9 Volunteers for a day’s house-to- house canvassing in behalf of the starving “German workers Sunday March 9, are asked by the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Ger- many. The men and women who will give their time to the cause of their comrades across the seas are urged to send im their names promptly to the organization’s office at Room 307, 166 Washington street. Aid from the American workers will not only help to keep the Ger- man workers alive, says the F. 8S. R. appeal. It will also keep alive their faith in the internation] revo- lutionary movement. Russia, Holland, France, America “and Czecho-Slovakia hastended to give aid at the first call but in view of the immeasurable need this aid must be vastly increased. The appeal follows, in part: Today the metal-workers of Ber- Hn are on strike—tomorrow per- haps, it will be the printers— the chemical workers. In the next few weeks in the Reich and in the various states, about a million civil servants will be thrown on to the street. On the grounds of the Special Powers Act, the regula- tions for the welfare of the young, care of invalids and protection of mothers and children are all set aside and unemployed benefit has been abolished. Every widening cir- eles are handed over to death by starvation or thrust into strikes, But if strike struggles ate to have any, hope of success, then it is a case of forward with the mass kitchens for the strikers and their families, with money and food from other countries. Do not forget the families of Political prisoners, The bourgeois state refuses to support them. They also need energetic help. The International Workers’ Aid takes in all those in need so far as its means and resources allow. Mysterious Fire Sweeps the Wabash Shops in Decatur DHCATUR, Ill, Feb. 27.—Fire which swept the Wabash shops here early today was brought under con- trol after a bitter battle by the en- tire fire department. * Starting in the coach shops the “flaiies"Constmed six buildings in tie Wabash yards including the coach shops, two office buildings, water sup- ply service station, blacksmith shop, twelve passenger coaches and a large string of freight cars, at an esti- mated loss of $250,000, Cause of the blaze is undetermined. Bach’s Passion Is Superbly Rendered by the Apollo Club By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN Bach’s “Passion According to St. Matthew” was performed for the first time in some years by the Apollo club at Orchestra Hal! on Feb. 25. Bach once declared that “music is for the glorification o1 God, and for pleasant recreation.” Generally speaking, to modern ears the music that old Bach wrote for pleasant recreation offers nothing but an interesting technical display, or the delights of a nap in a chair at a concert hall. But his religious music is some of the finest that the world affords. The Christ myth, with its elaborate system of enslaving be- lief will pass into the dust heap of dead legends, but the music that it inspired will remain and live, A Long, Dreamy Revery. The Passion music is an elaborate setting of that part of’the gospel of St. Matthew that deals with the crucifixion of Jesus. It calls for a large chorus, solo voices and or- chestra. The music contains little that can be called dramatic or ex- citing; it is the long dreamy revery of a soul completely at peace. The tenor solo carries the burden of it, with occasional solos for other voices with the chorus singing the words of the. mob in the story. Richard Crooks, a singer not very well known hereabouts, sang the tenor part superbly. His is one of the few voices to which the hack- neyed adjective “golden” can truth- fully be applied. His interpretation left nothing wanting. He was thor- oly in the meditative, unperturbed, spirit of the calm, faith-inspired genius whose music he sang. The other soloists, Else Arendt, Mary Welch, Burton Thatcher, and John Barclay had little to do, Mr. Barclay’s few arias showed a voice pleasant in quality, but somewhat deficient in power for his part. The Apollo club is a chorus of ; Some three hundred amateurs direc~ ted by Harrison Wiid, who is prob- ably the most able choral director in the city, and the effects its mem- bers accomplish are those to be ex- pected from an excellent chorus with | a conductor of Wild’s ability. | The club announces for its last | concert this season, to be given at | Orchestra Hall on April 7, Rossini’s | “Stabat Mater,” and “Resurgam,” by | Henry Hadley. Missouri Votes on Constitution. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 27—Missouri voted today on 21 proposed amend- ments to her state _constitutiog {drawn up by a constitutional conven- tion after two years work. Chester Dies in New York. NEW York, Feb. 27.—George Randolph Chester, novelist, known. to thousahds ag the author of “Get-rich- quick Wallingford,” died at his apartment here today. Scarlet Fever at Springfield, SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb, 27.—A total of 277 cases of %earlet fever was Set to the department of health last week according to figures made public today. The Discussion Within the Ru NOTE—The DAILY WORKER will publish, from day to day, in full, the important discussion tak- ing place with the Russian Com- munist Party that has been grossly misrepresented by the capitalist press. In an introduction to this discussion, issued by the Interna- tional Press Correspondence, it is pointed out that this is the third great discussion that has taken place within the Russian Commun- ist Party since the victory of the workers’ and farmers’ revolution in 1917. This introduction, which will be followed tomorrow by the speech of Kamenev, chairman of the Moscow Soviet, at the meeting of the functionaries of the Moscow party organization, is as follows: 6. 8" ew i Ob third great discussion since the victory. of the proletarian revolution in Russia is taking place in the Russian Communist Party. The first discus:jion dealt with the Brest-Litovsk peace, with the ques- tion whether we should take up arms against the German Imperialism, The “armed discussion” against the Men- sheviki and Social revolutionaries, but they were too weak for an “armed discussion” with “German Imperial- ism” which, at that time, was still armed to the teeth. The second discussion in the party took place in the year 1920. After the victory of the Russian Workers and Peasants in the War with En- tente Imperialism and the inner counter-revolution, the Russian peas- antry numbering many millions, be- gan a “discussion” on the so-called War-Communism. The debate arose on the question of the Trade Unions. The originators of the discussion could not understand that the ques- tion was identical with the problem of the relations to the peasantry, as ‘was the case also with the discussion on the Brest-Litovsk peace. The discussion ended at the 10th with the peasants in the new economic policy, as well as with the consolida- tion of the party unity according to the line laid down by Lenin, i. e. the strict prohibition of any formation of factions or groups within the Party. The roots of the third discussion can be traced back to the discussions over the Brest-Litovsk Peace and the Trade Unions; only the number of those comrades who fought on the side of the opposition against Lenin’s line, has grown smaller (altho the leading personalities of the opposition are practically the same now as they were during the former grouping against Lenin’s tactics). The attack of the opposition is directed precisely against those principles of the Party, which in former discussions were ac- cepted as the decisions won by Bol- shevism in a twenty ‘years struggle. As at the time of the debate re- garding the trade unions, so also now in the third discussion the main ques- tion remained in the background. The discussion did not rage round the new economic policy or the relations to the peasantry (these questions seemed to play only a subordinate role), but round the question of the congress in an extensive compromise | | limits of democracy inside the Party. The resolution of the Central Com- mittee unanimously carried at an op- portune time, afforded not the least’ point of attack for the opposition. The opposition was therefore obliged to seize on the decisions of the 10th congress on Party Unity and on the old guard of Bolshevism, who consti- tute, so to speak, a personal guar- antee of unity. A victory on this question, or at least, the winning of a concession from the Central Committee would have given the opposition an oppor- tunity to begin their attack on the economic front, in regard to the ques- tion of relations to the Peasantry. It has now become clear during the course of the debate, that the opposi- tion was not able to develop a positive economic program, which was consid- ered by any great number of com- rades as worth disputing. Thus nine tenths of the discussion turns upon the question of organiza- tion. Just this fact will render the discussion irrelevant for the masses of the membership. Workers Demo- cracy with the Party was realised for Bolsheviki were victorious in_ the |the Masses of the Party Members thru the thesis of the Central Committee. The discussion concerning this ques- tion was, in its form, its extent and its method a proof that all demands for guarantees for the realization of inner Party Democracy were ground- less. There is not perhaps a single party nuclei in the Communist Party of Russia, where the widest and freest discussion was not held or will be held. There was.not a single case where the apparatus, which formed the butt of the oppbsiition, has limited the liberty of debate. The masses of the party members too have like- wise not regarded inner Party Demo- eracy as a gift coming from above, they sought and found the guarantees for the carrying out of the decision above-all in themselves and in the old guard of Bolshevism which has been well-tried in the struggle against op- portunism. The demands of the opposition to have the liberty of forming factions was energetically refused as threaten- ing the Party Unity. The great mass of the party members were con- scious of their responsibility not only to the Russian proletariat and the Russian peasantry, but also to the International Communist Movement and whole-heartedly supported the Central Committee in this question, The discussion showed that the col- lective judgement of important ques- tions of the Soviet Union and the Party do not in any way require the formation of factions within the Party. The unity of a governing Party, which is responsible in the first place for the international rev- olution, cannot be hazarded even for | the shortest time without the most serious consequences, | The Party was no less pnanimously in agreement with the Central. Com- mittee in the second questidn: the question of the relation of the old Bolshevist guard to the young party generation. In the Communist Party of Russia every current which is di- rected against Lenin tactics meets with the most violent opposition from the disciples of Lenin, of the old THE LITTLE GREY DOG By Herminia Zur Muhlen. (Synopsis: Little Benjamin was a negro slave who lived with his mother Hannah and tis father a southern plantation in the days of negro slavery. He had just saved a little grey dog from bein; drowned by his rich master ani was feeling happy. The daughter of the rich man then came down from the northern states and wanted her father to give her a black slave asa servant.) ** Te rich man thought a while and said, “The young slaves that I own are all clumsy, incapable; the old ones of course could not become accustomed to living in a large city and would be more trouble than help to you. Whom can I give you?” He considered for a moment, then cried happily, “Now I know, Hannah is just the right one for you. How could I forget her? Of course, she has a little boy... .” “I don’t want him,” the daughter interrupted. “My dear little son must not play with a dirty Negro child. You can keep Hannah’s son here.” “You are a good mother, my be- loved child,” said the rich man, moved. “You always think of your son. d, Benjamin shall remain here and when you go back to the| rich city tomorrow, I will give you Han- nah to take along. I will immediatel; tell the overseer, so that he may tel her to be ready.” (UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS— And the rich man called a servant and bid him bring the overseer. Ah, what a sad night that was in the little hut of the Negroes. Poor Hannah hugged her little son close in her arms and cried as tho her heart would break. Her husband Tom sat gazing at her with worried eyes and was so miserable that he could not say a word. Hannah kept look- ing anxiously toward the little win- dow, trembling with the fear of see- ing the first ray of light that meant that day was near, when she would leave her loved ones. The little grey dog seemed to un- derstand the grief of his friends, he nestled quite close to Hannah's coat, looking up at them with loving, cle- ver eyes, Then Hannah cried loud- ly, “If they sell you, too, Tom, what will become of our ‘poor child?” the little de~ laid his paw on little Ben- jamin as -ho to say, “Don't fear, poor mother, I will take care of him.” Hannah noticed this, sobbingly patted the shaggy head of the cog, and said to him, “Guard my li boy, you good little dog. ‘e are all as helpless and deserted as you.” The fol! ‘morning, poor Han- nah, weeping bitterly, rode off with the young woman. Her family was not allowed to see her off, for Tom had to work in the field and Ben-| uj jamin, like all the slaves, was for- bidden to come near the house of the man. Little Benjamin lived thru many sad days. His father was so unha| py that he no longer wanted to work, and many evenings he would return home with his back ail bloody, In- stead of the carressing and joy to which Benjamin was accustomed there was a strange silence in the house. Tom sat sadly on the ground, sometimes stroking the wooly head of his little son, but never speaking. Only once in a while he would cry out, “Hannah!”, sigh deeply, while great tears rolled down his black face. And sometimes he would clench his fist, looking so angry that Benjamin took the little dog and crawled into a corner with him. | The overseer was always unsatis- fied with Tom, he complained to the master of the laziness and obstinacy of the slave. Had poor Tom known the results of his disobedience, he would have worked as industriously as he used to, in spite of his anger and unhappiness. The rich man celebrated his birth-) day. There was a great feast, chickens and, calves and latabs were roasted, the rich foods could : smel- led all thru the house, the servants brought countless bottles from the wine-cellar. After supper the young guests danced in the large hall, the older men seated themselves at a| Workers’ table and began to play cards. The rich man tg no luck, he lost again and again, until at last his new master would take him: to his estate at once. That evening Benjamin waited in vain for the return of his father. Night came, it was quite dark, and his father did not come. Benjamin sat huddled on the threshold, peering anxiously into the darkness. ‘The lit- tle grey dog lay near him. -He was sad and quiet, he seemed to feel that something was wrong. At last Ben- jamin could stand it no longer, ran crying to the hut of a neighbor, and asked about his father. The ‘stout Bolshevist guard, This guard how- ever, was not at all isolated in the battle for the defense of those results which were immediately attained un- der the leadership of Lenin. Thus, as the demands for Liberty for faction building were rejected by the mass of the party members, the old Bolshevist guard ‘discovered the young party members to be on their side against the attempt at splitting the Party according to generations. The declarations of the Leaders of the Youth League, of the Youth or- ganizations of Petrograd and* other industrial centres, stand opposed to of Our Advertisers help make this Paper possible. Patron- ize our Advertisers and tell them you saw their Ad in The Daily Worker. hatred, pointed out the political faults At the same time not one of the com- rades of the majority though? of tak- | ing advantage of these faults to ren- | der the position of the leaders of the | the leaders of the opposition. opposition impossible, or to deprive | ssian Communist Party will emerge from this discussion, not only richer in experience, but more firmly united and with more closely consolidated ranks. She Will Recover. LITCHFIELD, Ill., Feb. 27—Mrs. Maud Coss was badly burned about the face and arms when she threw a sack of gun powder into the kit- chen range along with some rubbish. She is expected to recover. A thousand new members wanted for the “I-want-to-make-THE DAILY the decision of a few University | them of their positions. WORKER-grow” club. Write for Party nuclei, who demand liberty of The Communist Party of Russia DAILY WORKER grow” club. forming factions. The unity of the | ———————_____ old and young Bolshevist guard was KKKKHKAS NANAK NKANEN NANG ANA NANNAN ASN not only not shaken during the de- bate, but strengthened by the fact that the youth gained an insight into the roots of the discussion, which dated back as far as the old struggle of Bolshevism. It was only now that they began to understand the real im- port of the old struggles within the} party. The result of the discussion will be decided at the All-Russian Party Con- ference. According to all indica- tions, there is no longer any doubt as to what form the decision will take. Not even a very small minority have | definitely adopted the standpoint of the opposition. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority (in some districts 90 and even 100% of the membership) declared themselves to be absolutely for the old Bolshevist guard, The great majority of the Party | took full account of the fact that the Communist Party of Russia is not merely one of the Communist Parties, but is a governing party, whose crisis is at the same time’'a crisis of the proletarian state, that the Commun- ist Party of Russia is the leading party of International Communism and-its-crisis means a crisis for the Communist international. The overwhelming majority of the Party, soberly and without faction OPEN FORUM 208 East 12th St. NEW YORK Workers Party, Down-Town English Branch | MARCH 2 H 8:30 P. M. Sharp | Speaker: | HARRY WINITZKY Labor Conditions in America Admission Free Special Masque at the Purim Bazaar and Exhibition of the Jewish Workers’ Relief Committee at the ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Van Buren St. and Ashland Ave. SATURDAY, MAR. 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Negress informed him that a strange master had taken Tom with him that morning; he was sold and would not return, (To be continued to-morrow) The Paris Commune 1871—1924 NOTICE The Labor Defense Council will give away a copy (in English) of Iury Libedinsky’s vivid novel of revolutionary Russia to every one who sells a full $6.00 sheet of RUTHENBERG APPEAL COUPONS. WE MUST NOT LET RUTHENBERG AND FOSTER GO TO JAIL FOR LACK OF SUPPORT March 16th, 1924 will bring with it the commemoration for the brave ‘wWotkers who rose against their op- pressors and established the first Dictatorship in France fifty-three years ago. On this occasion the Young Work- was empty. “One more game,”| ers League of Chicago will hold a purse said he to his friend who had won) mass meeting all the money. “We will gamble for my strongest and best slewe.” And he thought to himself, “If I Tom, that will not be a misfortune, for lately he is lazy and obstinate, anyhow.” agreed, The whole life} Editor of the ater ain deouided Robert Minor, Editor of the Liber- bundle of paper.| ator, will speak at the mass meeting rich man drew a card, his friend} which will be held in Douglas Park and fate of a bu n a few cards, to acquaint the work- ers, young and old, of the struggles lose| Which the Communards faced during the Paris Commune. Max Schachtman, Editor of the Young Worker, J, Louis Engdahl, Daily Worker, and did the same. They threw the cards| Auditorium on Sunday, March 16th, on the table. When Tom came to work the fol- Iwing morning, the overseer told him to go to the house of the rich} THE DAILY WORKER. Get o1 man, the master had sold him and his The ren man had lost.| at 8 p. m. Admission free. y of your shop-mates bhp How man: » to eubseribe today. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN By selling Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons you will help the Michigan defense and at the same time add to your library the greatest work of literature that has out of Russi since the revolution. THE DEFENSE NEEDS $15,000 BY MARCH IST! Buy and Sell Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons! GET BEHIND THE RUTHENBERG Coupons Sell for 10c, 25¢, 50c and $1. APPEAL! SEND ALL MONEY TO A Full Sheet Sells for $6. LABOR of i DEFENCE DEFENSE COUNCIL A,’ cee. ! 166 West Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL.