The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, March 6, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five FARMERS DRIVEN|Stalin Analyzes Communist Problems in Russia INTO DEEPER DEBT yBY COOLIDGE PLAN Montana Farmer Tells Daily Worker Why By IRA SIEBRASSE. To the DAILY WORKER: “In the Coolidge plan to relieve the financial difficulty of the Northwest, the only hope offered the farmer is ih get deeper in debt,” writes Ira Siebrasse, a DAILY WORKER correspondent ftom Big Sandy, Montana. “In the ‘good times’ period of the war,” he continues, inflation reached the high point, and during this un- natural business flush agriculture ex- panded and absorbed a goodly: por- tion of credits until the indebtedness on the farms of the United States in- creased 131.9 per cent, according to the abstract of the census of 1920, “The above report shows that the ‘arm, mortgage indebtedness in- creased 189 per cent in Iowa, 226 per cent in Minnesota, 174 per cent in South Dakota, 126 per cent in North Dakota and 625 per cent in Montana during the census period. Wall Street’s “‘Normalcy.” “At the time when the farm mort- age debt of the nation had grown to 4,003,767,192.00, the Quack Eco- nomic Doctors were playing to the favor of the bankers of Wall Street in a campaign for “normalcy” and howling for prices to come down, which, of course, made money worth more when valued in labor and farm produce. The effect this had on the farmer and home-owner was to reduce their capacity to pay their debt. As prices‘came down it took more produce or labor to make a dol- lar, and in that respect it,tended to elevate the mortgaged indebtedness, For, as produce came down money went up, and the indebtedness grew in proportion to its relative value to labor and produce. “Inevitably the farmers cannot pay this increased indebtedness when their markets are ruined. Conse- quently farm loans become frozen se- curities. And the country banks break with their vaults filled with these frozen securities. $150,000,000 More Debt. “But the ‘Quacks’ have a solution of the problem for the bankers. They will, with the aid of the government, procure a loan of a hundred and fifty million dollars to revive those frozen securities thus increasing the burden of debt in the hope that the farmer will ultimately pay but ignoring the fact that they are adding more weight to the cargo that is already sinking the ship. “We farmers see it going down, so we put dit a life boat and by means of voluntary bankruptcy we keep the bilge-water out.” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! © E. W, REIGK LUNCH ROOMS Séven Places 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Hartison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Specialties: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee Commissary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton St. Phone West 2549 pte erences tite hd Special Reduction on Books at LEVINSON’S BOOK STORE 3308 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago INE: RE Granulated, use Night and Morning Have Clean, Healthy Eyes If they Tire, Itch srtese// Messs shea Reieim ' Soothes. Safe for Infant or Adult. At all Druggists. Write tor Free Eye Book, Murine Bye Remedy Co., 9 Bast Ohio St., (NOTE: Today we continue the address of the prominent Russian Communist, Stalin, before an au- dience. of Russian Communist workers, on the big problems con- fronting the Russian Communist Party. We have previously pub- lished the views of Chairman Kamenev, of the Moscow Soviet. The views of other prominent, Russian Communists Vill also be given. Today’s installment is as follows: : a Stalin Said: Causes of Inadequacies. HE first cause lies in the cireum- stance that our Party organiza- tions have not overcome, at least up to the present, some residue of the war period, a period which belongs to the past, but which has still left some traces of militarism in the Party in the heads of our func- tionaries. In my opinion one of these resid- ual phenomena consists of ‘those re- lations in the Party by virtue of which the Party does not represent an independent organism, nor an independent fightine institution, but a system of institutions, a descrip- tion of organization composed ,of a whole number of institutions, in which the employes hold high or low positions. ‘ Comrades, this view is entirely wrong, and has nothing in common with Marxism; it is a view which has been handed down to us from that period in which we militarized the Party during the war, when the U. 8, MARINES ARE WOUNDED IN HONDURAS Cruisers Sent to Aid American Capital : (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March. 5.—Sev- eral American .marines have been wounded in Honduras and. more than mine square blocks of the city of Ceiba are in ruins, according to a report here today. The report, while unconfirmed by the state department, was said to have been received by the navy de- partment.. There it was said that all statements must come from Secre- tary Hughes. ang of Ceiba was said to be the last, move- of the government troops before abandoning the city. The battle between government forces and the army of General Fer- rara-is said to have been in progress before. Tegucigalpa. No _ reports, however, have been received by the state department. Dying for U. S. Plutes. American marines may be sent to Tegucigalpa, Honduran capital, to otect American interests, it was indicated today at the state depart. ment. Marines were landed last week at Ceiba following an attack on the American consulate. The Boncilla forces under General Ferrara have surrounded the capital and are now about to march on the city, the state department has been informed. In ‘addition to its own people the American consul at Tegucigalpa is reported to have taken almost the entire foreign colony there under its protection. There are now three American vessels in Honduran waters. Fr Chicago Every. Broadw: Tickets $1.50 at the Tickets on sale i fet NEW YORK READERS—NOTICE ! — FUN! 2emember the Date Grand Masque ana Civic Ball Hotel and Restaurant Workers A. F. TERRACE GARDEN, 58th St., near 3rd Ave., N. Y. City Monday, March 10, 1924, Beginning 8 P. M. Cabaret will be ORCHESTRAS ' PRIZES FOR THE MOST ORIGINAL COSTUMES EXTRA ATTRACTION—A $25 dress will be given to the lady who J draws the lucky number — Door—$1.00 if Purchased in Advance West 5ist St., New York City and at Jimmie gins Shop, 127 University Place ‘ V. BERNAU ‘~~ REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE 2034 N. HALSTED STREET ~ Notary Public presented thru their talent ILL PLAY Lincoln 8208 | articles, th question of the self-activity of the Party masses for good or ill, and the military commands were of su- perlative importance, I cannot recol- lect that this view has ever been expressed in so many words. But none the less it is a view whose fun- damental elements at least are a continual hindrance to our work. Elimination of Bureaucracy Needed. Comrades, we must fight against such views to the utmost of our power, for they represent the most actual danger, and they create con- ditions which favor the distortion in actual practice of the correct lines laid down by the Party. _ The second cause consists of the existence of a certain pressure on the part of our state apparatus, which is Lureaucratic in character, upon the Party and the Party func- tionaries. In 1917, when we were on the up- ward path towards October, we imagined that we should create a commune which would be an alliance of the workerg, that we should do away with all bureaucracy in the administration, and that the state would he able to be converted, if not immediately, then in the course of two or three not too lengthy tran- sitional periods, into an alliance of the workers. Actual practice has, however, shown us that this ideal is still far removed, and that the eman- cipation of the state from the ele- ments of bureaucracy, the transfor- mation of Soviet society into an al- liance of workers, calls for a high level of culture among the popula- tion, and for a perfectly secure and Shavian Play Press Agent’s Medium to Boost Coming R. U. R. The value of the stage as a means ‘of radical and revolutionary propa- ganda is better understood on the continent of Europe than among Eng- lish speaking peoples. Whatever has been achieved in this direction, either in England or America, has been due largely to the genius and efforts of Mr. Bernard Shaw whose play, the “Devil’s Disciple,” is now being pre- sented by the Theatre Guild at the Great Northern Theatre. Mr. Shaw is far from being a revolutionist in this play, but here, as always, his pen is the pen of a social rebel. “The Devil’s Disciple” is an attack on Puritanism, a form of religious faith and practice not so dead as we radicals like to believe. As one watched the interesting presentation of last Monday evening one felt that it would be hard to duplicate Mrs. Dudgeon, no; nor Uncle William, nor Uncle Titus, in any evangelical church in Chicago. The players themselves were, of course, not equally convincing; they never are. Mr. Sydney as Dick Dud- geon, and Miss O’Brien Moore as Judith Anderson, fulfilled our highest expectations. Miss Johann as Essie, and Mr. Hughes‘as Anthony Ander- son were distinct disappointments. Mr. Croker King -as ‘“Gentlemanly Johnnie” played a charming role charmingly. The cast as a whole worked with that grace and finish which we never failed to find in Guild performance: The organization of the Theatre Guild marks an epoch. in the devel- opment of the theatre in these states. Socially significant plays had been in existence almost half a century. They had been translated and read and sporadically produced but the i was the first group to undertake sys- tematically their production on the professional stage. It has continued this effort six years, and its com- panies have vistied Chicago three times. Their most notable visit was last season, in Karel Capek’s “R. U. R.”, the most powerful satire on modern capitalism ever staged. To see “R. U. R.” is to gain a new sense of the blended terror and majesty of labor’ struggle. The Robots are res numbers and have made them so. out pity; capitalist civilization has willed it so. Their one passion is hate; pain has taught them that. Their one purpose is work; they un- derstand no other, until they learn— REVOLT! And when they do re- volt and conquer, what then? What is it all for? The answer is found in the epilogue. I wish the Labor Defense Council all possible success in its plan to stage this wonderful tragi-comedy again next April, I am glad, too, that the play is to be intepreted by a group of young actors who realize its value, not alone as a better of gin ean cr) @ message to at working class. Mie —L. H. U.. Role of Robots Under New Machine Age Treated in Survey ' (my ‘The Federated Press) 4 NEW YORK, Mar. 5.—In issuing what they call a Giant Power number, the editors of the Survey Graphic have ‘attempted to forecast on the basis of technical ex; ce the so- cial ¢! which emerge from the mi ee revolution now in @ March issue of this rf hy ication contains material of pri-| 4! ae concern ae’ labor, Bemascns es, red under super- Vision of Robert W. Bruere, director .4|Bureau of Industrial Research, sug- ing chine age.” A series of illustrations wd Joseph Stella stegeat, more vividly than any of the illuminating meaning of the phrase, peaceful environment, in which the necessity for the existence of great military bodies can be dispensed with, Insufficient Activity in Nuclei. Our state apparatus is bureau- cratic, and will remain bureaucratic for some time to come, Our Party comrades are working in this apparatus, and the envision- ment and atmosphere of this bures cratic apparatus is such that it facil- | itates the development of b#auc- | racy among our Party functionaries and Party organizati me. The third cause of the inudeova- cias Hes in the insufic'er’. activity of ,11any of our nuclei, in the bach wardness and even total illiteracy of the border districts in particular. The nuclei in these districts show little energy, they ‘¢ pehindhand politically and culturally. There is no doubt that this circumstan.: cre- ates unfavorable conditions for a change of line in the Party. The fourth cause is the lack of a sufficient number of Party politically schooled comrades in the provinces. Not long ago I bes:d an address given by the representative of the Ukrainian organizations in the Cen- | tral. The speaker was an extremely | eapable and promising comrade. He said that out of 130 nuclei, 80 pos- | sess secretaries appointed by the leading Party organization of the| gouvernements. “2 In reply to an interpellation to tha effect that these organizations were | not acting rightly in doing this, the | comrade began to explain that there ' were no members of the nuclei who could read or write, or who had been members of the party for any length of time, and that the nuclei them. | selves beg that secretaries be sent them, etc. Provincial Members Lack Training. I am willing to admit this comrade had exaggerated by 50 per cent; that the root of the evil does not lie in the lack of trained members in the nuclei, but in the fact that the lead. ing organization of the gouverne- ments had been following its old tra- ditions and giving the nuclei too much of a good thing. But if the leading Party organiza- tion for the gouvernements is right to the extent of 50 per cent, does this not show that if there are such nuclei in the Ukraine, there are bound to be many more such in the border districts, where the organiza- tions are young, where there are fewer persons able to read and write than in the Ukraine? This is one of the causes which has’ prepared favorable conditions for the distortion, in the provinces, of the essentially correct lines pre- scribed by the Party. And finally, the fifth cause: This is insufficient information. We in- form badly—above all the Central —perhaps because we are all over- burdened with work. And we are badly informed as to what is going on in the provinces, This must cease. It is one of the leading causes bringing about inadequacies in the Party. (To Be Continued Friday) SOCIALISTS HEAR COMMUNIST TALK BY MRS. STOKES S. P. Failed in Crisis, She Points Out (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Mar. 5.—Rose Pas- tor Stokes addressed a large meeting in the auditorium of the Rand School, under the auspices of the Saturday Comeraderie, an open forum main- tained by the New York branch of the League for Industrial Democracy —which was once known as the In- ter-Collegiate Socialist Society. Mrs, Stokes, keeping close to her subject, “Why I Am a Communist,” opened with an outline of her early life and those influences which rought her, in 1906, into the Social- ist Party. She\continued the story thru the years of service there—as also in the one-time Intercollegiate Socialist Society—-to the time when the left wing developed and she dis- covered there was a Socialist machine that preferred to throw out the ma- jority of its members rather than og to the revolutionary rank and file. (She reviewed the events in Chi- cago, in 1919, when the left wing delegates were thrown out of the Socialist Party convention, and con- nected up the treachery of the Amer- ican Socialist Party with that of the Social-Revolutionaries of Russia dur- ing the early months of 1917 and in id | their later role as counter-revolution- aries. She described the role of the yellow German Social-Democracy and other socialist parties of Europe “which, when there is any leaning to do, always lean strongly to the bourgeois right, but never to the pro- letarian left.” Communists Face Realities. She proved to the satisfaction of the large audience that the Commun- ists faced realities, while the social- ists turned in fear away from them or else were too sentimental’ to rec- ognize them. No révolutionary work- er should stay in the Socialist party | which had dwindled to a controlling element—a handful of petty bour- eis politicians. She talked of the orkers Party and the character of its leadership and its rank and_ file. She said she was proud and’gldd 0 belong to ‘a company of men and women, who in a crisis, were not con- cerned with saving their own skins, but only with directing the workers’ strugglesand affecting workers’ unity, tegaraless of the ice they person- ally had to pay. At the close of her talk, Comrade Stokes was greeted with ty plause. Discussion and questions which followed lasted long past the closing hour. “No Difference,” Shiplicoff. Abraham Shiplicoff of the Socialist Party, maintained in reply that there was really at bottom no difference be- tween the socialists and the commun- ists—-that they both believed in the min ip-se ‘phrases counted, but actions, again went into further history of betrayers who adhered to the 2 International, sabotaging every ef- fort of the revolutionary workers to form a united working class front | against the capitalist enemy. veral Russian Social-Revolution- were present who attempted to defend the Kerensky groan rainst their own record by citing their an- cient sacrifices to the cause of the Lin cl inoly In reply Comra ficii id Bal + “Babushka, sacri ing for the of the revolution, was glorio’ bushka, turning from od er riya) vi was pitiable!” is bro’ enthusiastic response from the audience, — mf DON, March bec LO) , 5. G was pews Ty recovered tay ge indidposition due to a severe cold and was seen about in the gardens of the Palace. i Your Union Meeting First Thursday, March 6th, 1924 Name of Loc! lace of Meeting. Allied Printing jes Connell, 59 E. Van Buren St, 6:30 p. m. Amal, Clothing Workers, 409 8. Hal- sted St. Boiler Makers, 2 Boot and Shoe, 1 Boot and Shoe W! Brick a n. Clay, Shermanville, Til. Clay, Glenview, Til. d Struct. Iren Wkrs., District |, 738 W. Madison St. Carpenters, 113 8. Ashland Bivd. Carpenters, 6416 8. Halsted Bt. Cerpenters, 1440 Emma St. Carpenters, Ogden and Kedzie, Carpenters, 758 W. North Ave. ae Clerks, 431 8. Dearborn St., Room 1327. 1507 Ogden Ave. Janitresses, City Hell, Hearing Room. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Ladies Garment Wkrs., 1214 N. Ash- land Av: ent Workers, 328 W. Van mc OW. am ters, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago Heights. 2 & Organ Whrs., 180 W, Wash. bers (Railway), Monroe and Peoria bers, Monroe Peoria Sts. Railway Carmen, 1259 Cornell St, Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel Ave. Railway Carmen, W. 17th Bt. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington. Railway Clerks, 8138 Commercial Ave. 38 Signalmen, 6236 Princeton Ave. Sign Hangers, 810 W. Harrison St. | Miner Hurt Over » South Chi., 11037 Michigan | 4 ‘Don’t Cheat Your Neighbor-- You know what you think of Three Years Ago, No Compensation Yet or aC | Johnston City, Ill. | The DAILY WORKER:— | We hear a*lot from the officials of | District 12 of the wonderful compen- | sation law of Illinois. I admit it is | a good law for those who fit in nicely into the machine and carry out its | instructions but anybody who tries | to do something for the rank and | file gets no benefit from it. | I was hurt in December, 1920, was | operated on the 12th day of Febru- | ary, 1921, and the operation was not | successful. The arbitration board met on the 12th of May, 1921. I} was awarded $3,994. The company | appealed the case to the commission- | er. The commissioner sustained the | award, ‘ Then the conipany appealed for a reduction in the amount. { The case came up on the 5th day of’ June. The commissioner denied the company’s appeal. Then the company appealed the case to the circuit court. It is still there, I do not know when I am going to get any justice as I am not able to do} my work as a loader in the mine an! I am hardly able to support my fam- ily at the work I am now engaged | in as timberman. | I appealed to our union attorney | many times but I can get no satis faction from him. This is the situs tion that I am in. I have secured | help from my friends but they can- not help all the time. All the doc- tors the company sent me to get ex- amined tell me that I am not ablo| to do any hard work. But in spite | of this I am obliged to do hard work. | There are men in this community | who never have any trouble in get- ting their compensation. I cannot) understand how they can get it and} I cannot. I have never done anything to harm the organization or any mem- ber. But during our election in 1922 I prosecuted some of the officials from our local for taking votes from | Jchn Hindmarsh and giving them to | Farrington. This may be the real cause of my failure wo get my com- pensation. TONY SHRAGAL. Did you volunteer for Ger-| man Relief Day? Slate, Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwaukee, Stage Employes, Masonic Temple, 10:30 a m. Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington St. Teamsters, Houston Ave. 764 Teamsters 220 8. Ashland. 755 Teamsters, 30 5 110 Uphelsterers, W. Washington St. 17616 Warehouse (Note—Unless ot are at 8 p, m.) C. E. C. Sustains Hendin Expulsion Denying His Appeal The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has sent the following letter to Leon Hendin, a former member of the Workers Party in New York, who appealed to the C. E. C, against his expulsion from the Party: Leon Hendin, New York City. Dear Comrade: Your letter ad- "*dtdssed to the Central Executive Committee of the Party complain- ing because of the manner of your pi poh from the Party was con- sidered by C. E, C, and I am in- Ste to make the following re- PY? » Upon receipt of the information that J. B, Salutsky had called a meeting in New York City for the organization of a Communist Edu- cational League, the C. E. C. noti- fied the New York district organ- izer that any member of the Party who participated in this meeting would be expelled from the Party arid directed him to notify those persons who were scheduled to speak at the meeting to this effect. Undoubtedly in the interview on December 19th with Comrade Lifschitz, to which you refer in our letter, you were advised of he decision of the C. E. C. Comrade Lifschitz later reported that in spite of the warning by the OE. G of the Party you had btn in the meeti: ommunist Educational ague, and the C, E. C, of the party there- upon directed your expulsion from the party. Since the question at issue was one which was handled directly by the C, E. C. and involved the dis- cipline of the Party, in fact.that your act was a violation of the di- rection of the C. E. C., there was no further ne@i of action on the part of the branch, and the C. E. C, therefore believes that th tion of the branch was justified and insofar as it is concerned, the mat- ter is closed. * Fraternally B iv oc C. E. Ruthenberg utive Secretary. W. Washington. stated all meetings PEN FORUM NEW YORK Workers Party, Down-Town English Branch MARCH 9 8:30 P. M. Sharp Speaker: G. SISKIND Communism And Religion Admission Free RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS JN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. 73 W. VanBurenSt, Phone Wabash 6680 CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ———ATTENDED TO- If You Are Want a Fresh JUST LIKE HOME MEAL EAT AT LERNER’S PRIVATE RESTAURANT 2709 W. DIVISION ST. 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