The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 4

?age Four THE DAILY WORKER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CROOKED SAYS. NEARING Punishes Reds; Crooks Go Free By SCOTT NEARING. (Federated Press Staff Writer) The department of justice is that part of the state which spies on citi- tens and prosecutes those who are caught breaking the law. It necessarily follows that the en- emies of the modern state are the enemies of the department of jus- tice, and are to be hunted down and punished accordingly. This is the explanation of the treatment meted out to Debs and to Morse by Attorney General Daugh- erty, who did his best (to all ap- pearances) to k#ep Debs in prison and to get Morse out of prison. Debs was a humanitatian, a pro- tester against war, and advocate of a new and kindlier socigl order. He committed no act. He was merely agitating against that form of so- ciety which made possible the war and the department of justice. Morse, to put the matter mildly, ‘was a profiteer, who had resorted to methods that gave him illegal access to the funds of the United States government. Apparently Morse had not only obstructed the government, but he had robbed it. The Red Raid. The same contrast exists between the ferocious red raids, initiated by the department of justice against people who were, for the most part, foreigners, and unable to defend themselves with the same facility as Americans, and the failure to prose- cute the war profiteers and grafters, the violators of the anti-trust laws, and the other measures inteyded to curb the rapacity of big business. The department of justice has no necessary connection with “moral right” or “just conduct.” It is an agency for administering the law. In League With Crooks. But that is not all. The department of justice is an agency for administering some of the law, some of the time. The laws against the opponents of the established order are enforced with savage barbarity. ‘he laws against those who plunder the people and the government may be enforced, or they may not. There are cases in which the de- partment of justice goes even fur- ther, and thru its highest officials suggests ways in which the laws may be broken, and then protects the law- breakers. If the testimony given before the senate committee means anything, it is_that the department of justice is a jobbing house, distributing favors, immunities, privileges and occasion- ally serving as the bulwark behind which powerful men hide when they commit crime. The department, like any agency of the vested interests, must be seen realistically, as a part of the machin- ery of the established order. A bank- er collects interest as a matter of course. A landlord racks rent from even the most poverty stricken. The department of justice, without any reference to morality, equity or recti- tude, projects and serves the exist- ing order with zealous solicitude. GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE, Call REPUBLIC 3788 ——————— A BARGAIN 6-Rm. Cottage for Sale Rich} ° Monday, April 7, 1924 The Discussion In the Russian Communist Party Today we publish the resolution submitted by Comrade sinsky, of the Russian Communist Party, to a meeting of the Party nuclei bureaus and of the active party workers of the Moscow organization. Comrade insky spoke on the “Immediate Tasks of the Economic Policy.” He was in opposition to the majority of the Russian Communist Party led by Zinoviev, Stalin, Bucharin and others. Following Comrade Ossin- sky’s speech we will publish the resolution of the Thirteenth Party Conference on the entire discussion. se OSSINSKY SAYS: N VIEW of the fact that the Teso- lution of the litical Bureau of the Central Comittee on the “Im- mediate Tasks of the Economi¢ Policy” represents mainly an expo- sition of the resolutions adopted by the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party with the addition, however, of some new proposals of doubtful worth and the omission of some questions which nave become ripe, the meeting considers it nec- essary to amead the resolution of the Political Bureau in the following fundamental respects: The Amendments. 1. It is necessary, not only to bring forward the questions regard- ing the fundamental and decisive significance of knitting together the nationalized industries anj the pcas- ant economy, but also to explain the reasons for which this knitting to- gether has not been realized during the past period and the reasons why the connecting of the villages with private home industry and with pri- vate commercial capital have devel- oped more successfully. The funda- mental reasons for ell this are: The lack of a plan uniting the work of all the branches of state economy, the ‘casualness and the unsystem- atized work of the leading organs, and in connection with this, the dis- harmony and crudeness prevalent in the work of the whole economic peripheries. Tho reproaching “a number of economic organs” for having incor- rectly applied the directives of the Twelfth Congress; and for having raised the prices higher than was justified, the resolution loses sight of the fact that such a reproach implies also the lack of leadJhg on the part of the highest organs in the commercial aetivity of the eco- nomic organs. The reproach in the first place must, therefore, be di- rected against the highest organs, 2. Setting aside the question as to whether, under the conditions of the new economic policy, eri: are un- avoidable, or whether it is only so- called “depressions” which are un- avoidable, it is nezessary to state that the present crisig has nothing to do with such unavoidable eco- nomic disturbances. It is not the result either of a sudden reduction in the demand from the peasants, resulting from a bad harvest (which might be a possible cause of a depression and could not be over- come), or of a change in the move- ment of world prices. impossible to explain it by. point- ing out the disparity between industrial and agricultural produc- tion, a disparity which, it is alleged, results from objective factors. If the development of the state indus- try is proceeding in an elementary way, and is not balanced-by the de- velopment of agricuiture, this is due to the lack of a plan of man- agement, Improper Credit. The principal causes of the pres- ent crisis are (a) the chaotic nature of our industrial construction; (b) ! the casual and improper credit policy; owing to the latter, in the period of spring and summer 1923, the financial means of the state bank were totally engaged in opera- tions of industry and wholesale trade on unsound bases and with- out retaining a reserve for the au- tumn period of gram crop. NORTHWESTERN RUG & CARPET CLEANERS, 1414 N, Western Avenue Phone Armitage 8310 SAVE MONEY! Best Make Sewing Machines $10, $15, $20 5 year guarantee—City wide delivery 970 MILWAUKEE AVENUE Phone Monroe 4630 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Your 45 SMITHFIELD 8T., Near Tth Ave 1687 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur 51, Phone Spaulding 4670 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. Painters and Decoraters PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES Estimates on New and Old Work 2619 MILWAUKBE AVE, CHICAGO The resolution must be modified, in order to state the real causes of the crisis and in order to make clear the concrete fanits committed; to sereen these faults means to prevent their being corrected, 3. In the resolution of the Politi- cal Bureau, there is no mention of the question of the administration of industry, which has a tremendous importance among the actual tasks of economic policy. It is necessary to put forward and work out con- eretely the question of establishing a close connection oetween the trusts, which at present in fact are autonomous, on the one hand, and the Supreme National Economic Council on the other, as well as the task of creating a tirm and well- connected system of slate economy on the basis of an economic plan and of a correct leadership of the state enterprises. This will strengthen to the highest degree the position of our State Economy in its struggle against private capital and KKKKAAKANA KANN NNN NALA KK NANAK NNN NNN NNN NI MMIII The Robots Are Coming! V It is also} also in regard to a real knitting together of the State Industry with the villages, 4. The resolution of the Political Bureau, in one of its points, lays down a totally incorrect task, name- ly, to include in the calculation of the price of products merely “the necessary minimum profit.” Such a task implies a revocation of the resolution of the Twelfth Congress, a transition to the position of a common bourgeois “fiscal economy,” it excludes the possibility of basing the state budget on incomes deriv- ing from industry. The correspond- ing task can only be formulated as follows: “Obtaining the greatest profit with a given average price and with the obligation to strive to reduce the price by means of en- larging and perfecting the working capacity.” Help Co-operatives. 5. The resolution of the Political Bureau does not give a correct esti- mation of the successes of private capital in general and, in particular, of private commercial capital which has already come into possession of 14 per cent of the wholesale trade, 15 per cent of the wholesale-retail and 80 per cent of the small trade, and has also accumulated large sums in goods and stable values, It is necessary to dedicate far greater attention than hitherto to the work in the sphere of commerce. In con- nection with this it 1s necessary (seo Comrade Lenin’s article on Co- operation), in the fight against pri- vate commercial capital, tu bring to the forefront the co-operative or- ganizations, elaborating a plan of increased credits to them, both by supplying them with gouds from the state industry and also with finan- cial means. 6. The demand for an active teade balance put forward in the resolu- tion occupies a very extended, but completely unjustified position, This demand, in its essense, means: To export as much as possible, to im- port. as little as possible and fur- thermore only to import means of production. To accumulate the dif- ference in the form of a gold fund. Regard, however, must pe had to the following: (a) Soviet Russia canrot allow herself the luxury of spending means for the transition from bank notes to metal currency, but must spend these means for productive purposes, (b) The import of the necessary industrial raw materials (cotton) is to possible, (c) The private, importation of articles for mass consumption in which we are lacking could be the principal and most profitable weapon for the state in its tight against speculation in goods, (d) The importation of articles for peasants’ consumption is a very important means for developing our export. From this point of view it is necessary not to strive at the greatest preponderance of exports over imports, but at maintaining a solid equilibrium between the first and second, Foreign Credit Necessary. On the other hand, to the extent ‘to which Soviet Russia obtains for- eign loans and will be able to com- mence a large scale importation of means of production, and partially also of articles of consumption in which she is lacking, her commercial balance can become a negative one without any detriment to the devel- opment of the productive forces, be- cause her financial balance will be a positive one. It is necessary, not to proclaim the abstract slogan of an active trade balance, but to proceed to- wards elaborating a rational plan and to make a large use of goods intervention (i. e., partial impor- tation from abroad of goods which we lack and of those which the price has particularly increased). 7. The lack of a well thought out credit policy, the practical autonomy of the state bank (for instance, the abolition of credits to industry which took place in autumn, without the consent of the State Planning Commission and the Supreme Na- tional Economic Council), the at- tempt, instead of aiming at a gen- eral economic plan, te regulate economy from the financial centre, the failure of these methods of a unique “planning”—all this demands decisive steps towards including the plan of the distribution of credits into the general economic plan, and also a corresponding modification of the mutual relations between the State Bank and the State Planning Commission, 8. The central question of the proletarian economic policy in the sphere of industry is the work for systematically improving the posi- tion of the working class. Successes in this direction are the most im- portant guarantee for industrial successes. Measures for raising the standard of living of the workers and be developed as_much as New DAILY WORKER Power Forces Extension In Power Column 10,000 New Sub Campaign Huge Success So Far 'HILE Detroit was casting defies to Chicago and Chicago was tossing the gauntlet to the whole country and Toledo was making claims of being the best sub-getting city for THE DAILY WORKER in the United States, making mince meat of previous the great 10,000 new sub campaign is records and reputations and is forcing the erstwhile champion individual boosters to look-after their honors. So great have the returns been thus far in the drive, that the prophecy that the 10,000 new subscribers would be secured long before June 15 seems to be coming true. Dope Upset. MSx*Y surprises are resulting and the pre-campaign “dope” on the final standing of the various cities has already been upset. 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Turtle Creek, Pa. has turned in 10 against a measly 6 from St. Louis! Come on you big cities, home of the indus- trial workers, centers of the. revolutionary movement in America; the country towns are sticking it all over'you! 24% of the period of the drive is over and those who want to keep their records clean must get into action now. Get Your Name on Honor Roll *Fomornow we will publish the names of those militants who in the last few days (April 3-5) have made their efforts for organizing the working class into the militant movement count by getting new sub- seribers for THE DAILY WORKER. The Honor Roll is growing larger every week but we must do better still, we must give every, militant in the entire country an opportunity to get onto themselves thru the columns of THE DAILY WORKER. We must tighten up-the lines and sweep the masses, already rebelling against their masters, into the ranks of the class conscious workers, Has your name been on the Honor Roll? Every reader of THE DAILY WORKER should get on it at least once by getting at least one new subscriber. Send for the trg! subscription cards and the premium subscription cards or use the coupons appearing elsewhere in this issue. Get a new yearly sub and get your choice of The Labor Herald, The Liberator or Soviet Russia Pictorial, free for half year. Or get a trial sub at the special rates of 2 months for $1.00. also for strengthening, reviving and freeing our trade unions from the stultifying influence of the “Party absolute tranquility” must be elab- orated on a large scale and more carefully, Raise Standard of Living. It is necessary also to bring for- ward and to elaborate the question of measures for the fight against unemployment, a question which has been totally omitted from the reso- lution of the Political Bureau. It is also necessary to remark that the establishment of plannedness in our economic construction, introducing it into the system of our State Indus- try, will, by facilitatmg che acumu- lation of productive resources on the part of the state, become a power- ful factor, reducing’ unemployment and raising the standard of life of the proletariat. 9. The fact that the resolution of the Political Bureaw recognizes the necessity practically to carry out the resolutions of the Twelfth Con- gress regarding the State Planning Commission, and in general regard- ing the establishment of a planned administration of economy, can only be welcomed. But to the natural question, why was this not done after the Twelfth Congress, the resolution gives an evasive answer which is not to the point, and which provokes grave eflections regard- ing the future. This resolution con- nects. the possibility of a planned administration with the introduction of a stable valuta, “IM thereby seeks to explain the dilatoriness in executing the resolutions of the Twelfth Congress, by the necessity of first of all carrying out the cur- rency reform. Such a presentation of the question is incorrect and dan- gerous because, without the general and uninterrupted equilibrating of the finances with the other elements of the state and national economy, there can be no talk of securing a real stable currency. It is incorrect to assume that the prerequisites for the planned administration of econ- omy can be prepared piecemeal. It is precisely this way of handling the matter which, from time to time, causes a sharp disparity in the fun- damental factors of economy and which appears to be one of the main causes of the present crisis, which, to a considerable extent, seenis to be a crisis of disparity and of lack of prevision, Necessity of Public Reports. 10. The tremendous importance and the complicated nature of the questions which the resolution of the Political Bureau places before the Party for discussion, necessitate a detailed handling of all their points in the press, the publishing of the mos} important figures and material regarding all the most important questions of economy, the edition of special manuals and the like—all of which has not been done up to the presei%. The discussion on the eco- nomic construction was introduced in such a way, that it cannot be cor- rectly developed and utilized by the outlying sections of the Party, and by the mass of the rank and file nuclei. If we wish to have a really general Party discussion, these foults and omissions must be imme. diately remedied. (To Be Continued Tuesday.) Great Majority of Workers’ Children Are Undernourished (By The Federated Press) , NEW YORK, April 6—One child in every three in working class fami- ties is undernourished, a survey of the Mulberry district in New York City discloses. Four thousand chil- dren under the care of the Associa- tion for Improving the Condition of the Poor were examined by experts ef the association and of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Co, Accepted methods determining un- dernourishment are condemned by the report as producing falsely op- timistic statistics. The method gen- erally used by schools and clinics is to confine the test to average weight for age ari height, declaring all children 7 or 10 per cent below: the average to be undernourished. Other factors must be considered, this sur- vey shows General physical condi- tion, muscular development, luster of the eyes, color of the skin and other tests are as important as the weight test. 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