The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 5

, — Tuesday, April 1, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER GOMPERS TOOL FEELS TIP OF LABORS’ BOOT Fails to Wreck Farmer- Labor Party, W. Va. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLARKSBURG, March 31.—The efforts of W. 'T. Harris, president of the West Virginia Federation of Labor, a.disciple of Gompers, and his cohorts to wreck the Farmer-Labor Party of this state was decisively de- feated at the convention held here re- cently when his resolution calling for non-partisan political action was turned down almost unanimously and its author driven irom the platform, Following the convention the Ka- nawha Valley Central Labor Union, enraged over this attempfed betrayal wanimously. passed a resolution de- manding the immediate resignation of Harris and the other officials of the federation who participated with him in the plot. The Central body charged that since the organization of the Farmer-Labor party it was sabotaged by the heads of the fed- eration, Lackey Harris Foiled. The attempt to steal the convention and subvert the purpose of the organ- ization was made in a roundabout way by the slick lackey Harris, He ob- jected to the call sent out by the duly elected officers of the party but the call was endorsed by an almost \un- animous vote. Next, aided by a ma- jority of his executive board he intro- duced a resolution favoring the non- partisan plan. After a bitter debate during which Harris insulted the con- vention for not following him, a vote was taken with only four in favor of the resolution. He then left the convention in rage, but on his way out he was in- formed that charges were préferred against him for pernicious political activities in the interests of the capi- talists, He stopped to hear the docu- ment read and left without saying a word in his defense. The convention reaffirmed its dec- laration of principles adopted in Clarksburg last July when the party was formed, elected a permanent chairman and secretary, an executive committee, nominated a state ticket and adopted plans for congressional, senatorial and county organizations. State Ticket. The State ticket as unanimously ratified by the convention is as fol- lows: $ Governor—Dr, A, 8S, Bosworth, El- kins, Randolph county. Secretary of State—W. F. Naylor, MeMechen, Marshall county. Superintendent of Schools—Mrs. Della Tetrick Franklin, Huntington, Cabell county. ~ tee g Auditor—Joseph R, Diggs,” Fair- mont, Marion county. Treasurer—Dr. John §. Thayer, Grafton, Taylor county. : Attorney General—G. H. Duthie, Clarksburg, Harrison county. Commissioner of Agricylture—J, B. West, Mannington, Marion county, U. S, Senate—Dr. M. S. Holt, Weston, Lewis county. - Noah Zinn of Clarksburg, w: elected chairman by unanimous vote and Joseph Diggs was elected secretary-treasurer on the second ballot. The executive board consists of A. F. Boyd, Fairmont, first district; - 8. W. Perchon, Century, second district; L. F, Farley, Mt. Clare, third dis- trict; Mrs. D. Frankl ton, fourth district; A. C. Matewan and E. H. Hartwicke, Char- leston, fifth district, Against Capital The convention a pl which declared the capitalist system responsible for the great ills from which modern society suffers and dec- lared that the workers should organ- ize to establish a form of society where the wealth of the nation Would be accessible to all and not as now in the control of a few. BURNS MUST GO! Economic Chaos and Unemplayment Are Raging In Germany (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, March 31.--Some idea tr the ty ihe sccicoe rought on J govern- ment in co-operation with the indus- ere Fi : Pg the unem- loymen igures December; 1908 For every 100 positions open for ee 100 cants; for every pen for women, there were 495 appli- cants, and of every 100 applicants of both sexes only nine were placed in positions, in one month thru- out Germany. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! there were 1,282 appli- | Ni 0} The Bei port ing the continuation of the re- given: by Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Commun- ist International, at the city meet- ing of the Collective Bureaus of the Leningrad Communist Party Organization, e # V. The Majority of the Central Committee and Our Opposition, HIS is the reason, comrades, why we,’ the majority of the Central Committee—the overwhelm- ing majority“if I am uot mistaken: 565 to 3 (including candidates)—hold fast to our position. You may be- lieve us, and I know that the ma- jority of those present in this hall believe us (applause), that we are not clinging to the epaulettes of the Central Committee. It is well known to you that a few years ago some of us sat together with the Mensheviki in united Cen- tral Committees. .. Cannot Tolerate Fractions. We shall do our work in whatever place the Party sends us. But so long as the Party does not dismiss us, we shall do as Comrade Lenin taught us to do, we shall fight en- ergetically and passionately against the tolerance of the freedom to form fractions. (Applause.) We are prepared for the severe accusations which will be brought against us, for Savage attacks against the representatives of the present majority of the Central Committee. But~ we have a thick that we are, are skin, we have gone thru a lot al- ready, and we have managed to fight for our views under tho most diffi- cult circumstances, 1 tell you in ad- vance: you will hear many Jamen- tations, you will be told that we act ruthlessly, ete. But we shall fight to the end. You comrades of the opposition. believe that you will now conquer the freedom of group formation, but we say to you: No. We are convinc- ed that when the question is put to our Party generally with regard to this question, the unanimous anwer will be: that our Party, pursuing its activity under the conditions of the new economie policy, surrounded on all sides by the bourgooisie, and showing to the whole world an ex- any freedom to form fractions and groups, “Fraction of Loudest Shouters.”” We do not doubt but that the Party will answer again, this time as at the time of the Tenth Party Congress, with the same reply. | Comrades, ut the present time our debate has reached a somewhat diffi- cult zone, just as in the year 1921. For me it is especially disagreeable to have to polemize against Com- rade Trotzky in his absence, but un- fortunately Comrade Trotzky was unable to come. The core of the present opposition is the fraction of “democratic centralism.” We of: Petrograd, poor provincials little acquainted | re cluded in the digest in summarized form. Following are the decisions of the committee for the week ending March 29th: Use of Courts. Instructed party members in trade unions not to make use’ of courts in the fight within the unions. Elected a sub-committee to draw up a state- ment on the subject for the party press, Membership Meetings. Authorized a series of membership Ruthenberg, for the purpose of mobi- lizing the membership for the June 17th Farmer-Labor Party convention and informing the membership in re- ag to the present status of our la- rp eos ‘ Sport International. Refered to the Y. W, L. the ques- tion of establishing branches of the Communist Sport International. Esthonian Federation. Instructed Esthonian Federation to remove A, Machie as editor of “Uus Ulm” for publishing non-Com- munist articles. Appointed Ben- jamin Gitlow to represent C. E. C. at Federation Convention. Non-Party Speakers. Instrytted all party units to se- mission of C, E. C. before engagi f prominent non-party speak- ers to speak at party or united front campaign meetings. Decision does not apply to working class non-party speakers. Jewish Federation. Approved appointment of M. Holt- man as secretary of Jewish Section of the Party and A. Saltzman as busi- ness manager of the Freiheit. With- approval of editorial board of Freiheit proposed by Jewish Bureau consisting of Schacno Epstein, M. Epstein and Katz until receipt of further information, Milwaukee Election Campaign, Authorized issuance of statement strongly criticizing Socialist candi- dates, but advising workers to vote for same’ 8fhce there were no can- didates of a revolutionary party. ei eee ere Refused consent to postponement of convention of Italian Section un- til after next National Convention of the yy, but authorized Bureau to penis convention from May to une. h-Lewis Debate. to | Resolved, that John L, wis lied Nero ¢ i Tom erscough e ace! tance of a wage red nin District Cannon-Edwards Debate. AY Jam deine with Pond Edwards of Indiana Farmer-Labor Party. Directed District Organizers. an THE PARTY AT WORK The Work of the Party C. E.C. meetings to be addressed by C. E.) THE Members of the Workers Party: The Central Executive Committee of the party has decided here- after to publish a weekly digest of its decisions for the information of the party membership. Each party paper will receive this digest and all party editors have been instructed to translate and publish same. Obviously the decisions of the C. E. C. cannot be published in full, but all the decisions relative to the general work of the party will be in- lin Indiana establish contact with Farmer-Labor Party in that state. California Farmer-Labor Party. Instructed California party organ- ization to make a campaign for en- dorsement of June 17th Convention by California Farmer-Labor Party Convention. Illinois Labor Party. Instructed Party members in TIl- linois to support movement for a la- bor party to include all Farmer-La- | bor party groups in Illinois and to participate in formation of local | branches of such a labor party. Minnesota Situation, Instructed Party members in Min- nesota as to their policy in Minnesota structions will appear in party press for guidance of whole party in simi- lar situations. Instructions have appeared in the ‘DAILY WORKER on Monday, March 81, 1924, New York City Organization Bulletin. Refused consent for publication of ‘an Organization Bulletin by Local Greater New York. Diretted that Local Greater New York and all other party units should elect special committee to furnish such material to the DAILY WORKER in order to increase interest of membership in DAILY WORKER by making it the medium thru which they will secure information in regard to all party problems, Broms’ Expulsion, Refused to take action to reopen case of Allan S. Broms, expelled tvom the party, on the ground - that no new facts warranting such action were before the committee. Russian Recognitio: Authorized the preparation of a pamphlet on Russion Recognition by Comrade Lovestone, to be published by party literature department. C. E, Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. Big. Revolutionary Bazaar Coming in New York Next Week HM de aoeass pax Bic Uotee les participating in the great - bor Pageant of the French and Rus- sian Revolutions to be presented dur- ing the Third Annual International Bazaar of the National Defense Com- mittee, at Central Opera House, April 10 thru 13, are urged to attend with- out fail the rehearsal this Saturday at 288 East 10th Street. The pageant is under the direction of eminent artists and with th ample of discipline, cannot tolerate | Farmer-Labor Party. Full text.of in-|- Struggle Within the Russian Party with this fraction, but in other or- ganizations it caused enough com- motion at the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Party Congresses’ (it was not for nothing that Comrade Lenin named it the “fraction of the loudest | shouters”)—its adherents were Sa-| pronov, Ossinsky, Rafael, and some other Ukrainians, in part really old Bolsheviki, in part old Mensheviki. These comrades hang out the at- tractive sign of “democratic ven- tralism” as a designation for their fraction. It is written in our stat- utes that the Party works on the basis of democratic contralism, But as you are well aware, it is often possible to draw wrong conclusions from the best of premises, Lenin's Advice. | As early as the Tenth Party Con- |} gress, these comrades adopted their present line. Their motions were re- jected by the Tenth and Elexenth Party Congresses, if | Comrade Lenin said that this} fraction Was more lacking in prin-! ciple than any other which he had} jever encountered in the course of| his “long struggles (the fraction of | the “loudest shouters”). And | fresh question can scarcely be raised | in the Party, before this flighty | | group appears on the surface again. “Aha! democracy?” they cry, “this is where we come in again.” And now the old song begins again to a new tune: Allow frac- | | | gress as have joincd them—Preobrazensky, Smirnov, Serebryakov, comrades who on the motion of Comrade Lenin were not re-elected to. the Central Committees at’ the Tenth Party Congress of the Russian Com- munist Party. All these are comparatively prom- inent workers; the Party has. tried them, and proclaimed thru Lenin’s mouth: You are of no use as leaders for the Party. At the Tenth Con-| gress this group was let droy col- | lectively on the motion of Comrade | Lenin, who spoke openly tc the Con- | follows: “These comrades are of no use as leaders of. the Party, and I advise the Congress} not to elect them.” } Congress Follows Advice. | The Congress followed his advice | and did not elect this group. Now | these on»-time meinbers of the | Central Committee have joined the | group of “democratic cemralism.” — | Comrade Trotzky has not express- | ed himself clearly. When the reso- | lution was drawn up, he was oppos- | ed to any formulation containing | severe condemnation’ of groups and fractions. But after he had con vinced himself that -we were really severe in our judgment of his pres ent allies of the “democratic cen- tral,” and had politically almost an- nihilated them in the public opinion of the Party, then he abandoned his | reserve and spoke the. words to tions, ete. And now important members of the Central Committws which so much weight is attached. (To Be Continued Wednesday.) Your Union Meeting | | First Tuesday, April’1, 1924 | No. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. | 39 Amalgamated Clothing, Workers, Labor Lyceum, Hall, Kedzie and Ogden Ave. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ww. 175 Washington St. \ Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 409 S. Halsted St., 7:30 p. m. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1564 N. Robey St. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 409 S. Halsted St. 80 We Washington St. Asbestos Wk: Bindery » 19 W, Adams 8t., Wo 6:30 pv. m. Boiler Makers, Chicago and Western. Boot and Shoe Wkrs., 1939 Milwaukee, Brick and Clay Workers, Clark and Devon. Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. B. 8. L. W., 738 W. Madison St. 13 S$. Ashland Ave. iversey and Sheffield. 1023 E. 75th St. Carpenters, 9442 Cottage Grove Ave. Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chi. e, Ul. 1128 Carpenters, Moose Hall, La Gra 1727 Carpenters, 14th St, Hall, North Chi- cago. 1786 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. 5 , 2525 S. Hi St, BlocBlicians, Armitage and Crawford. 2 Elevator Constructors, 2901 W. Monroe Street.> Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. Firemen and Enginemen, Lake Street. Hatters, 166 W. Washington St. Hod Carriers, 225 E. 15th St., Chicago Heights, Il. Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Machinists, 3257 Sheffield Ave. Machinists, 7414 Wentworth Ave. 5445 Ashland 3127 W. 38th St. ine Fire and Offers, 357 N. Clark. Meat Cutters, 11405 ee Ave. St. California and Maiptenance of Way, jadison. Painters, 6414 S, Halsted St. ters, N. W. cor. State and 55th. Painters, 9202 8. Chicago Ave. Painters, 220 W. Oak St. Painters, Chicago Heights, Carpenters’ Painters, 810 W. Harrison. ‘sinters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. P Plasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. | Ralway Carmen, 2345 S. Kedzic Ave. Railway Carmen, 1126 W. 18th St. Railway Clerks, 11411 Michigan Ave. Railway Clerks, 5436 Wentworth Ave.| kage obh Clerks, 509 W. Washington. treet. Railroad Trainmen, 20 W, Randolph Street, Signalmen, 426 W. 63d St. a Slide Wkrs, Great Northern | jo 83 Switchmen, 901 E, 75th St. 112 Teamsters, Laundry, 220 8, Ashland! Bh 12757 Tent and Sail Makers, Washtenaw and Wabansia Ave. 17352 Theatre Wardrobe Attendants, 912 Capi-| tol Bldg., 2 p.m, Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. . Ward ‘Superintendents, Pa Hontg, 130 p,m. (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings Bre at 8 p. Los Angeles Reader Likes O’Flaherty’s Column the Best “The DAILY WORKER. has more truth and philosophy to the square 222 69 17183 7 16171 ights, better shape numerically,” he. said, Bursted Canadian Bank Hit Union, | Says Shopmen’s Head | (By The Federated Press) | MONTREAL, Mar, 31.—Weleom- | ing the biennial convention of Divi-| sion No. 4, railway employes’ depari- ment, American Federation of Labor, in session here, Mayor Martin urged the . beneficial results of unions in| protecting the weak. Labor, he| argued, has just as much right to or- gahize as bankers, lawyers or mer- chants. | R. J. Tallon, president of the divi- sion, in his report characterized the last two years as a period of hard pulling against the current of return- ing “normalcy,” whose general sweep had a tendency to bring to an end many of the advantages of labor won dyring the war. “We were never in “but our membership is suffering from that general feeling of apathy which prevails in the ranks of labor on this continent.” Charles Dickie, secretary treasurer, said the organization had been in- volved to the extent of $16,405 by the failure of the Home Bahk. Twenty-five per cent had been re- ceived but it was uncertain how much more the union would get or when. 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