The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 5

i Wednesday, April 16, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five “AMALGAMATED BANK CELEBRATES ‘ FIRST BIRTHDAY \ Miliens Now: in Labor : Banks of N. Y. _ (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 15.—A tenfold ‘vygain in assets within one year is the record of the Amalgamated Bank of New York, announced for its first birthday celebration, tocay. In the 12 “months ‘its deposits-in the 4 per cent »jinterest department have grown to $1,600,000. The assets which began at $300,000 are now $3,000,000. This “success it attributes to the fact that “profits amounting to more than a cer- “tain rate of interest are to be di- © vided among the depositors, it Organizing Co-Op. Companies. « Added to its many other activities, which extend from transporting for-. i ign exchange to helping its custom- ars build houses, the bank announces “it is developing a plan for organiz- ing co-operative ice and coal com- panies. Vice President Held, a city *- alderman, has charge of this plan. = The bank, as the first institution to send money for customers to Russia, had to convince the conservative # state banking department of the safe- = ty of such a service. Now 325 banks -'thruout the country use the Amalga- ¥ mated to transport money to Europe. . To Russia alone it transmitted * $2,340,948 in nine months, ~ Authorization for the bank was © given by the fifth biennial convention “ of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union. The Amalgamated Trust Sand Savings Bank of Chicago was * opened April 1, 1923, and the New York bank a year later. Three other » labor banks, folowing the Amalgamat- ed example, have been opened in New * York within a year. The resources “ of the four combined have mounted ¢ to over $12,000,000. 3 Twenty Labor Banks. ‘There are reported to be 20 labor = banks in the country, with. surplus > and deposits of over $40,000,000. The - development of labor banking, in © which the Brotherhood of Loconiotive = Engineers has been the pioneer and = largest single factor, has taken place } s,.within the last three years. : ‘Perhaps There May Be Some Hope For ‘ Even the Filipinos MANILLA, April 15. —., Harold . Holdsworth, Ex-mayor of Wakefield, \ England and prominent in English “ politics who is now in Manilla with >| world tourists is quated by the local } papers as saying: “If Great Britain | has already pledged to the world to *, grant’ self-government to Egypt in :, 1923; make India autonomous; event- » ually transform South Africa into a republic; place Australia in a position to look out for herself; permit Can- ada to govern herself and loosen the » tle to bind her to her colonies as 4; soon as they are fit for self-govern- _ ment, may not the world also expect from America to grant to the Fili- ““pinos the independence for which “they have been craving all these years”. He further asserted that the British / policy with regard to English col- ‘ onies has always been liberal, As /) @ result of this policy the nations or colonies’ once fighting against Eng- \, land, he said, are now staunch ad- ® herents and supporters of the British Empire. Hamon Had No Money Scrupl: WASHINGTON.—E. J. Costello of ' Chicago, former managing editor of The Federated Press, testified before 4) the oil probe committee here that he “| was told by Jake Hamon, on the ) morning before Harding's nomination, >\that Harding and Coolidge would be . chosen and that Fall would be in the ‘cabinet. Hamon said that he would . “get something pretty good, probably a place in the cabinet.” Costello served as publicity man for -?Hamon in 1906-7, when Hamon was » Republican state chairman in Okla- ~homa. He described Hamon as the . type of politician who had no scruple _, a& to the use of money. Government Light Plant. the construction of a hydro-electric » power plant at the Great Falls of the ~ Potomac, ten miles above the city, in order that the federal government _ may furnish electric light and power WASHINGTON.—By unanimous vote = the Senate had adopted Senator Nor- ris’ bill appropriating $45,000,000 for Resolution of the Central Com- mittee of the Central Control Commission concerning the Party Structure. a ee ' (Adopted unanimously at the joint session of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and of the Pre- sidium of the Central Control Com‘ mission held on December 5th, 1923, in accordance with the decisions of the Plenary October Session of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission. se # 1, The Party During the New Ecnomic Policy. (a). The New Economic Policy, which has caused a growth of the productive forces, has proved itself to be a necessary stage on the long protracted transition road from eapi- talism to socialism. It has contribut- ed to the revival of nationai eco- nomics in general and of the state industry, the state commerce and of the co-operatives in particular, We have witnessed a gradual increase in the rate of wages, a return of quali- fied proletarians to the towns, a rais- ing of the level of culture among the broad proletarian masses and in par- ticular, the formation of new ranks of proletarian and peasant intellec- tuals, thanks to the systematic in- structions imparted to the workers and peasants in the higher educa- tional establishments. (b). The Twelfth Congress of the Party, while taking note of the re- vival of the economic life of the country has, at the same time already pointed out the rfecessity of estimat- ing eyery stage of the economic de- veloyment from the point of view of ‘Socialist construction. The dictator- ship of the proletariat, which can- not be consolidated and developed without an increase in the material prosperity, could not even have main- tained itself, if this increase in ma- terial prosperity had created a pre- ponderance of private capital over state capital. Economie Co-Ordination Necessary. The extraordinary difficulties with which the economics of the country are meeting at the present moment, are mainly expressed in the fact that the products of our state industry do not find a sufficient market. If dur- ing the last year the disposal of our products has met with ever-increas- ing difficulties, this to a very great extent is attributable to the extra- ordinarily high cost of production, to the exceedingly high trading ex- penses and, in addition, to the un- justifiable methods of an exaggerated computation of prices at the expense of the consumer. The underlying causes of these difficulties are the dis- parity and the lack of co-ordinatio. of the various elements in the state economics, both between themselves individually and between themselves as a whole and the market, the ir- rational or insufficiently rational es- tablishment of industrial and com- mercial undertakings and the conduct of their operations, in particular the inability of our still bureaucratic commercial and co-operative organi- zations to reach the rural markets. The central task remains, as here- tofore, the linking up of the state industry with the peasants’ agricul- ture, i. e., in the first place the es- tablishment of proper proportions between the productivity of our state industry on the one hand and the requirements and extent of our main- ly rural market on the other, This task can be carried out to the extent to which the linking up of the va- rious factors and elements of the state industry between themselves is appropriately and systematically ac- complished. In view of the foregoing the whole Party must arrive at the conclusion that the continued economic revival, which will enable us to overcome the existing crisis within the more or less near future, will serve the cause of socialist construction only insofar as we learn to co-ordinate the ele- ments of the state -economics in their relation to each other and to the market generally. Danger of Degeneration. From this there arises the unique importance of the “Gosplan” of the rying out planned economics in the Twelfth Congress, of manufactured goods and to pro- market crisis demands, however,| fromthe Party a complicated and} systematic work for carrying out the measures indicated by the Twelfth Congress regarding the concentration of industry, appropriate organization of the apparatus of trade and indus- try, the promotion of agriculture, the raising of its technical level and its adaption to the struggle on the world market by various means, among| these being the extension of agricul- tural credit, ete. These tasks are confronting the Party in all their full extent and in the most pressing man-| ner. There is no doubt that the) Party will concentrate all its forces in order to carry them out effec- tively. (c) The objective contradictions presented by the actual stage of the transitory period and which result from the simultaneous existence of} the most varied economic forms, from the prevailing market relations, from the necessity for the state in- stitutions to employ capitalistic forms and methods of work, from the necessity or relying for support upon a staff which is still a stranger to the proletariat, etc.—these contra- dictions find their expression in a whole series of negative tendencies, the fight against which must be plac- ed on the order of the day. Among these tendencies there may be men- tioned: striking anomalies in the ma- terial situation of Party members, determined by their varying func- tions and the so-called “wasteful ex- penditures”; the growth of connec- tions with bourgeois elements and the ideological influence of the latter; the narrowing of the intellectual horizon by officialdom, which must be distin- guished from the necessary special- ization and, arising therefrom, the weakening of the connections be- tween the Communists working in various spheres; the danger of a loss of the perspectives of socialist con- struction as a whole and of the world revolution; the danger, already indi- cated by the congress, of a “New Economic Policy” degeneration on the part of a portion of the function- aries who, owing to the nature of their activity, come most into con- tact with bourgeois elements; the process of bureaucratizing which is to be noted in the Party apparatus and, arising therefrom, the threaten- ing danger of the Party losing con- tact with the masses. 2. Party and Working Masses. The confidence of the proletarian masses in the Party has increased. This finds its expression in the Soviet elections, in the collapse of the Men- shevist and Social Revolutionary par- ties and in the formation of a body of non-party workers who are actively supporting the Party. At the same time the active Communist workers, who of course should form the con- necting link between the Party and the non-party masses, are almost en- tirely absorbed in administrative and economic work and thereby unavoid: ably lose ‘contact with the work of production. The fundamental task, therefore, in this connection is the recruiting of new party .-members from the ranks of workers at the bench. It is the task of the Party organizations to devote special at- tention to this type of Party worker, to do everything possible in order to prevent their being divorced from the work of production, to help them raise the cultural level and use every means to render easier the possibil- ity for them to take effective part in all Party affairs. The work of en- larging the proletarian mainstay of the Party must, in the next months, be one of the most important tasks of all Party organizations. The in- iative of certain organizations which have already developed their activi- ties in this direction must be sup- ported by all industrial organizations our Party organizations as well as into the All-Russian Confederation of Agricultural and Forest Workers. Intelligenzia Favor Soviets, Anfong the-intelligenzia, as the re- sult of general causes as well as of the improvement of their position in our country while at the same time the middle classes in Germany are being pauperized, there is to be noted a general swing of opinion in favor of the Soviet power. Of especial im- portance is this turn of opinion among the rural teachers and among the instructors in agriculture, who can be considered as being one of the most important connecting links between town and country. This turn of opinion among broad strata of the intelligenzia in favor of the Soviet power, while being in itself an outstanding. positive phenomenon, can, however, also have consequences of a negative character, as it in- creases the danger of the Commun- ists being ideologically surrounded. The struggle for the ideological purity of our Party against petty bourgeois and “Smjenoehov” (an or- ganized movement among intellec- tuals, especially emigrants, in favor of the Soviet power as being the upholder of the independence of Rus- sia) obsurantism is, therefore, an equally important task of the Party. 3. Party and Workers’ Democracy. The negative phenomena of the last month in the life of the working class on the whole, as well as within the Party involve the unescapable conclusion that the interests of the Party in regard to its struggle against New Economic Policy ins#u- ence, as well as regarding its fight- ing capacity in all spheres of work, demand a serious change in the pol- icy of the Party in the sense of a real and systematic carrying out of the principles of workers’ democracy. In view of this the October Joint Ses- sion of the Plenums of the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee have decided as follows: “The Plenums of the Central Com- mittee and of the Central Control Committee entirely approve the pol- icy in the direction of democracy which was recently adopted by the political bureau, and they also ap- prove of the intensification of the struggle against ‘wasteful expendi- tures’ and against the disintegrating influence of the New Economic Policy }upon certain elements of the Party, as proposed by the political bureau.” Workers’ democracy means liberty of frank discussion of the most, im- portant questions of the Party life by all members and that all leading Party functionaries and commissions be elected by those bodies immedi- ately under ¢hem. It does not, how- ever, include the liberty of formins fraction groups, which are extremely dangerous for a governing party since they continually threaten to split and disintegrate the government and the State apparatus as a whole. It‘ is obvious that within a party, which represents a voluntary union of people on a definite basis of ideals and practice, there can be no tolera- tion of the formation of groups, the ideological content of which is direct- ed against the party as a whole and against the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, as for instance, the “Rabot- shaya Pravda” (Workers’ Truth) and the “Rabotshaya Gruppa” (Workers’ Group). Workers’ Democracy. Only a constant, vital ideological life can maintain the Party in that condition in-which it had arrived at before and during the revolution, with a continual and critical study of its past, with the correction of its mistakes and with the collective dis- cussion of the most important ques- tions. It is only these methods which can give effective guarantees against of our Party. The Party must ren- der easier the influx of new elements of industrial workers into the Party organizations and their promotion from candidates to Party members. In the same way it is necessary to give increased attention to the work among the growing proletarian youth, Regarding the peasantry, among whom proletarian and _ semi-prole- tarian strata are again appearing, it the nuclei, to direct their work into oceasional divergences of opinion re- sulting in the formation of fraction groups with all the consequences mentioned above. fey In order to avert this the leading Party organs must lend an ear to the voice of the masses of the Party, and must not regard every kind of criti- cism as an indication of the forma- tion of fractions, and thereby drive conscious and disciplined Party mem- (see resolution of | the Teuth Congress “On Party Unity’’| and the corresponding resolution of | the Eleventh Congress); the purging | of the Party; the limitation of admis-| sion to Party membership of non- proletarian elements: the laying} down of certain lengths of member- ship as necessary qualifications for holding certain offices in the Party; the confirmation of the secretaries by the superior Party authority (see| Party statute). In view of the un- avoidableness of maintaining under | the New Economic Policy certain limitations in the future also, there must at the same time, based on the experience already acquired, particu- | larly by the inferior organizations, be | a re-examination of the fitness of| some of these limitations, for in-| stance, of the right of the superior au- | thorities to confirm secretaries. In no circumstances can the right of con- | firming secretaries be converted into| a right of practically appoititing| them, 4. Immediate Measures for Realizing | Workers’ Democracy. In order to prevent the line of the Party from being diverted, in order to realize effectually the workers’ democracy and in order to secure for the entire mass of the Party mem- bers the possibility of systematically influéncing the direction of the whole Party policy, the following measures must in the first place be realized: (a) Strict observation of the elig-; ibility of functionaries, with the limi-| tations mentioned above; it shall be! regarded as inadmissible to impose such functionaries against the will of an organization; in particular, there must be a strict observation of the eligibility of secretaries to nuclei. (b)_It shall be obligatory to sub- mit all essential questions of Party policy, so far as exceptional circum- stances shall not render this impos- sible, for discussion by the Party nuclei and by the Party masses as a whole; the number of party discus- sion clubs shall be extended; unjus- tifiable appeal shall not be made to “Party discipline” in the event of it being the right and the duty of the members of the Party to discuss ques- tions in which they are interested and to adopt decisions regarding them. (c) Attention must be paid to the task of pushing forward new func- tionaries from the rank and file, in the first place from among the workers. (d) Special attention must be paid to enabling a body of comrades, who are in close contact with the masses of the Party, to acquire a proper con- ception of the policy of the Party. (e) Delivering accounts and re- ports ‘by the Party organs to the bodies by whom they are elected and to the broad Party mass. (f) Increase in the educational work of the Party, at the same time carefully avoiding by all means all bureaucratic tendencies, among the entire Party mass as well as among the Communist Youth Leagues and the women in particular. (g) Attention must be paid to the mutual exchange of experience of the functionaries in the various fields of work; compulsory conferences shall be periodically convened by the Cen- tral Committee, as well as by the pro- vincial gouvernement and district committees, to be attended by the re- sponsible functionaries in all fields of work. (h) The inforniation of the Party members shall be increased by means of the press and by visits to the va- rious localities by members of the Central Committee, the Central Con- trol Committee, the Provincial and | Gouvernement Committees and by members of the collegium of the Commissariats. (i) In the periodical press the col- umns devoted to Party life must be increased, (j) At the next Party congress ttrere’ must be submitted a proposal regarding the convocation of gouv- ernemental and All-Russian Party conferences twice a year, In order to secure the effective carrying out of all the measures men- tioned above regarding the realization economic staff of the socialist state|is necessary to improve. by every|bers into aloofness and create in and of all the organizations for car-|means the qualitative composition of|them a spirit of fraction forming. In no circumstances can the Party provinces. It is necessary to secure|the channel of cultural and political;be regarded as a mere institution or effectually for them the position in-| activity, in particular to intensify} 4M office, but at the same time it can- dicated by the resolution of the|their work of helping to spread a}not be considered a debating society Knowledge of scientific agricultural|for every tendency. The Tenth Con- of agricultural credits, etc. ‘The measures adopted in recent| methods, and also their work in the|8tess laid down the principles of times in order to reduce the prices| co-operative fief, in the organization] Workers’ democracy, but the same Along | Tenth Congre mote the export of grain, have al-|with this the village proletariat (es-|Hleventh and Twelfth Congresses, ready led to a certain recovery in| pecially the committees of landless|also laid down a series of limitations the trade turnover and to an increase | peasants in the Ukraine) must be|as to the exercise of these principles and afterwards the “te the District of Columbia at cost. in the price of grain. The struggle |given every support, and the prole-|of proletarian democracy: Forbid- : A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN UNGLE WIGGLY'S TRICKS — of workers’ democracy, there must be a passing from words to deeds by proposing to the lowest nuclei, to the district area and gouvernement Party conferences, to systematically renew the Party apparatus from the bottom upwards at the regular Party elec- tions, by pushing forward for the re- sponsible posts such functionaries as are able effectually to ensure democ- racy within the Party. 5. On the Control Commissions, (a) The most important tasks for the improvement of the Party appa- ratus have already been put before the Party. This work needs much time in order to yield effective and perceptible results. The basic condi- tion for successful work on the part of the Control Commission and of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, regarding the improvement and puri- fication of the state apparatus, is that they be supported by the whole Party and by its organizations, and that the working masses be drawn into this work. There must be the closest connection between the Control Com- missions and the corresponding Party committees; every means must be used to increase the interest of the public opinion of the Party and of the working masses for the activity of the Control Commissions and of | . tact with production; reports must be regularly given by} the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspec-| tion. | (b) The experience of the last} months has shown that, besides the| Central Control Conn@ssions, ques-| tions of the state apparatus must also| be dealt with by the local gouverne-| mental and provincial Control Com-} missions, and that the problem of} the extension of the functions of the subordinate Control Commissions must, therefore, receive attention. (0) Among the means for attract-| ing the working masses to the study | and to the improvement of the state} apparatus, there may be included aux iliary nuclei in the shops and in the state institutions—these nuclei to be| set up by the Control Commission and | by the Workers’ and Peasants’ In-} spection along with the trade unions. The Party nuclei in the shops must| be closely connected with the auxil-| jiary nuclei to the Workers’ and Peas- | ants’ Inspection and supervise their work thru the shop committees. Fight Bureaucratism. | (ad) A particularly important task of the Control Commissions at the} present moment, is the fight against} the bureaucratic perversion of the| Party apparatus and of the Party/ practice, and to render accountable those Party functionaries who hinder a realization of the principle of work- ers’ democracy in the practice of the Party organizations (restricting the liberty of expression at Party gather- ings, arbitrary limiting of eligibility and the like), (e) Of especial importance at the present juncture is the fight of the Control Commissions against the so- called “wasteful expenditures” in the state apparatus and on the part of certain of its officials. The demoral- izing influence of the negative aspects of the New Economic Policy upon members of our Party, and in particu- lar upon certain responsible func- tionaries, must be energetically coun- teracted by the entire Party. (f) There must be a more careful employment of the @xtreme Party disciplinary measutes (expulsion from the Party). The greatest len- iency must be acéorded to industrial workers at the bench, and the most drastic measures (expulsion from the Party) must here only be employed where the circumstances render it unavoidable, i. e., where all other means at -the disposal of the Party have been exhausted. Finally, those who have been pre- viously expelled from the Party, in particular industrial workers, must be accorded really comradelike treat- ment when they express a desire to re-enter the Party and when in such cases there is good reason for believ- ing that they will properly fulfill the demands of the Party laid upon them. 6. Party Organization and Work in the Economic Sphere. One of the greatest and most val- uable of our advantages is that we have within the ranks of our Party, collaborators in all spheres of eco- nomic work, from the simplest prole- tarians at the bench right up to its most responsible administrators. All these functionaries must, and by a proper arrangement of the work they can contribute their extraordinarily, many-sided collective, economic, ex- perience towards the creation gf a real Party management of the work in the economic sphere. Workers in the economic sphere must be accord- ed in their work a sufficient degree of independence and. initiative, to- gether with the full support of the Party. The systematic leadership by the Party must not by any means per- | into Russian Communists Make Their Position Clear against the fundamental causes of the|tarian elements must be drawn into|ding of fractions the experiences the lowest more systematically and the suggestions nuclei, 7. The Work Among the Masses and the Attracting. of the Masses Into Practical Constructive Work. The work of a sting the masses practical ruction must be intensified, particularly in view of the de r of the apparatus being alienate of state d from the masse For this on the duty of delivering reports and accounts osed on workers in the economic sphere must be extend- ed so as to include delivering the me to the masses (General meet- gs of workers and of their dele- gates, conferences of non-party work- lers and peasants and the like). Spec attention must be also paid to bringing trade unions into contact with production. The influence of the trade unions in the selection and pro- motion of new candidates for eco- nomic positions, and in the control of the work of economie organs must be increased (of very great importance also is the control regarding the punc- tual payment of wages and in a proper manner, etc.); the trade un- ions muSt convene conferences deal- ing with the question of production by units (T 3), attended by repre- sentatives of the shop committees and of the administrators of the un- dertakings; the render reports on their work in the trade unions must trade union press, which must be im- proved and rendered more efficient. Every means must be employed to increase the efficiency of the institu- tion of workers’ reports to the press, carefully preserving it from all bu- reaucracy and officialdom. The Party and the Soviet periodical press must give the greatest and most consider- ate heed to the demands and pro- posals emanating from the masses, In the elections to the workers’ and peasants’ councils, attention must be paid to the candidature of new ele- ments, selecting, besides party work- ers, active non-party workers also, and to drawing the latter into active work (Work of the departments of the local Soviets, meetings of the de- partments and of the executive com- mittees with the representatives of the workers and peasants and of the auxiliary nuclei to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, etc.). To extend the practice of the hold- ing of large-scale conferences of non- party workers and peasants; to facili- tate the growth of all kinds of volun- tary, self-governing organizations: cultural and educational, sports and the like; in particular those which touch the family and social life of the working masses (communal kitchens, etc.) securing for them the possibility of a proper development. ings of the nuclei must be extended, and, based on the experience of these open meetings, there must be selected bodies of those non-party workers and peasants who are to become ac- tive helpers of our Party. _ 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 Yea ear 7th Ave. mit hair-splitting discussions over every casual and secondary matter. 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