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; v4 Page Four ern romances oe Se ET “THE DAILY WORKER BRATIANO BROS. ESTABLISH NEW OIL DIPLOMACY Rumania’s Premier Hard on Investigators (Special to the DAILY WORKER) VIENNA, July 8.—Premier Bratiano of Rumania, unlike Mussolini of Italy will not be obliged to commit murder in order to hide his specula- tions. There is nothing to hide. The | gentleman robs publicly and with the aid of the press. “Open grafting open- ly arrived at” is the way he improves on one of the Wilson points that died even before Wilson. Rumania’s interesting premier poses as one of the sentinels of civilization | standing guard over the capitalist virgin in danger of being raped by the Bolshevist brute who stands grinning | savagely across the Dnetster river. But the fact is that the capitalist virgin, who fears more for her profits than she does for her virtue, has al- ready been defiled by her whilom guardian and could not fare any worse from the Red Army of Russia, than she has at the hands of Bratiano. Confiscate Property! “ The two brothers, have set up in the oil business, and horrors, what the devil do they do but turn around and confiscate $150,000,000 worth of for- eign oil preperties. To a capitalist it makes little difference who robs him, but to the whole capitalist system it does. The Communists are out to des- troy private ownership property and establish a system of common ownership to the advantage of the producers and all the people. The Bratiano brothers are pirates who have robbed SOME capitalists for their own private interest. While this kind of conduct may draw notes and threats from the governments owned by the oil magnates, it will not bring about united action of all the capitalists opinion that there is no danger of a sibly happened had Rumania taken a wallop at the capitalist system. War Against Russia. The Rumanian premier is of the against Rumania, as would have pos- war between Russia and Rumania for many years. Perhaps the danger is postponed as a result of-the big ex- plosion which destroyed & great Ru- manian munitions factory recently, and also because of the action of the Check workers in refusing to trans- port war material to Poland and Ru- mania destined for use against Soviet It is no secret that before the fall of Poincare, the little entente finahced by France was feverishly prdparing for war against the Soviet Republic. The puppets of capitalism ruling the small countries now try to make it appear that Russie is the aggressor and that only fear of a united front of Italy, France and England against such action prevents Russia from marching her troops into Bessarabia. MITCHALL'S INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA Union Music Furnished For All Occassions Write tor appointments to M. MITCHALL, (Teacher of Saxophone) 1640 W. Congress St. Chicago, III. AT Low vour DRUGS ‘Prices THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL (¥1.5¢—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth Paste .... Tbco—3 cakes Cuticura Soap. $1.00 wwe 59C r. AL rs “ FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Bivd, We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 572; Austin 4117 {We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, etc. of public) DISCUSS WORLD PROGRAM FOR COMMUNISTS (Continued from page 1.) between “leaders” and others will be different. Goethe is recognized on all sides as the greatest German poet without having been elected to this position. In this way all men of gen- ius are socially recognized without being arranged in organizations. This non-class relationship can, given certain pre-requisites, change into a class relationship. This is not foainbes among the bourgeoisie be- cause the difference between the up- | per strata of the bourgeoisie and the | average bourgeois is much slighter than between the ruling strata of the | working class leaders and the average | proletarian. The guarantees lie in the cultural uplifting of a growing number of men of our class. There will be no real danger if real progress is made in the cultural uplifting of the masses, The organizational pre- |requisite consists in the monopoly of education. Never was this problem so clear as now. At the Second Con- gress Lenin said: The problem of selecting the people is the most im- portant problem. But that represents a very long period of development. With us the most important conquest is the changing of mass psychology and the creation of new “cadres.” This ended comrade Bukharin’s re- port. Clara Zetkin: There is yet another factor: ie. net only the destruction of the bourgeois monopoly of educa- tion but the will to use the possibil- ities of education to the utmost ex- tent. Who, however, can guarantee |the complete utilization of this will? |For this it is necessary to change mass psychology, abolish the division jof labor and the distinction between intellectuals on the part of manual workers. If this division becomes deeper, it will imply not only a de- gradation of the classes, but of hu- manity. The distinction must be re- duced and finally removed. That is not simple, but it must be dong. The World Viewpoint. { | Comrade Varga: Two ideas must be kept separated here. These are the question of the ripeness of the proletariat and the question of the characteristics of individual countries, but these two matters must be treated together. I have for a long time struggled to secure that in the pro- gram there should be included, be- sides the dynamic structure of the transition from capitalism to social- ism, a concrete picture conveying from a world point of view the char- acteristics of the period. This is ab- after the revolution, production fell. We know that it must be so, but what is thé way to higher production? We may talk, for instance, of the de- velopment of types and the standard- solutely necessary, on the practical grounds, for the prevailing mistake, in all our parties, is that to the extent of 99 percent they are occupied with their own countries. How can we develop these types? There are three points to consider: 1. The ripeness of the country. Whether this group still has hopes of achieving. higher economic develop- ment under capitalism, 2. Countries in which capitXlism has already reached its zenith or has passed it, in which the struggle for power in the historical sense is al- ready more acute. 8. Countries where the struggle for power is already at an end. Within the first two groups there is a political division according to whether the country is imperialistic or is an object of imperialistic de- velopment. Bound-up with this’ question is. the development of the working class movement, and in particular the re- volutionary movement in the countries concerned. Different Types. In the first groups, i. e. in those groups of countries where progress is still possible, we find always that the working class movement is not yet strong. There is, however, the type of the labor party (British) which occurs beCause capitalism is still in the stage of upward develop- ment, and can therefore give its aris- tocracy of labor a higher standard of living. In those countries which have already reached or passed the zenith, revolutionary parties develop because the bourgeoisie is no longer econ- omically in the position to offer the working class a rising standard of living—and cannot even offer it to the aristocracy of labor. It should be a part of the program of individual countries to elaborate and to emphas- ize Bukharin’s proposition with regard to the difference between American and French capitalism. In the pro- gram we should deal with the ripeness of the revolutionary struggle. Bu- kharin’s chief idea with regard to the question, by what kind of objective paths are we assured that capitalism will collapse or can be overthrown, indicates that the dynamic of repro- duction of contradictions rests upon an ever rising series of stages. This is correct, But we must oppose the idea that these contradictions can at any time produce a crisis. Before the world war there were seven or eight imperialistic States, It is inconceiv- able that there may finally (after sev- eral more imperialistic wars) be one single Imperialistic State which will rule all the others. These contra- dictions will then simply disappear. ‘We must not give any kind of fatal- istic note to our program, neither in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense, nor by the teaching that the contradictions will become more and more involved. We must emphasize the active part to be played by the proletariat as the most real, and the final guarantee for the workers’ victory. Less Work; More Production. As far as the question of dictator- ship is concerned at first, there must be a reduction in the standard of lv- ing. I think that we must emphasize the fact thgt the possibility of nation- alization of production stands as an alternative to capitalism. We should say: you will work less, nevertheless, production will be greater. The final question is the part of the intelligentsia in the dictatorship. We Mustconsider the matter from two sides: 1, Bukharin has said that with the raising of the cultural level this dif- ference will be reduced, but that on the other side, there is a great dif- ference between the intelligentsia in the leading strata under capitalism, and in the communist state or the stage of transition. The leading stra- ta in the capitalist state enjoy an en- ormously high material standard of living. In a socialist State, that must be prevented, and in Russia it is be- ing prevented so that the intelligent- sia, as far as their standard of living is concerned, are not far removed from the proletariat. In a higher stage of development the natural con- sequences will be as follows: the power of production will become so great that each worker will require to work from three to four hours. As a result of this, the difference will finally disappear because the worker will become just as intellectually de- veloped as the man who lives by his intellect. Dwoilatski: I should like to put forward a question with regard to the problem of production. We generally assert that immediately after the so- cial revolution production will fall. That is‘clear, but in his report Com- rade Bukharin does not put the other question: how can we guarantee the proletariat a higher standard of liv- ing? In my opinion this question must be dealt with in the program because all the reformists oppose us with the assertion that, in Russia, immediately ization of production. Under capital- ist production, where monopolies are not so widely developed as in Amer- ica, this cannot be developed on such a broad scale as under socialist pro- duction. NEARING SEES COMMUNIST SOCIETY RISING FROM NEXT CAPITALIST WAR \ (By The Fede id Press) BELMAR, N. J., July 8.—Socialist and Communist points of view Clashed in the closing sessions of the Belmar conference of the League for Industrial Democracy, and ended by agreeing to disagree. Morris Hillquit, socialist, maintained the sufficiency of the program of the recent Hamburg conference and said that the labor movements of Great Britain, France and Germany were heading in that direction. He said the European situation was hopeful and that economic restoration would come when the United States waived her war debts. He urged such a plank for the Cleveland platform of the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion. Scott Nearing and others charged {that Hillquit had minimized the tre |mendous role of Russia and done less \than justice to the significance of the |Russian revolution. They held that it was idle to talk of peace. War, |much as we may dislike it, is inev- |itable under the capitalist system. We must be prepared for it and out of it must seek to erect a Communist so- | ciety. | Nothing in Common. Nearing took Hillquit to task for |identifying the progressives and rad- icals. The progressives believe in tinkering. up the present system; the radicals believe in the necessity of a Inew system. After explaining that American capital has determined on the economic destruction or dictator- ship of Europe, Nearing said: “We live in a world where civilization must be destroyed in the interests of human well-being because civilization is the expression of an iniquitist, wasteful MA Feat SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL, NAMED covveseosessoscereen A Monthly Review on the progress of the world’s first workers’ government Made more interesting by ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS articles by internationally known writers on RUSSIA and working class events the world over. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ml. $1.00 Six Months #4 ? P] | Asia. SOVIET DIPLOMAT MEETS POPE'S BERLIN KUNCIO TO DISCUSS RELATIONS (Special to the DAILY WORKER) BERLIN, July 8—Relations be- tween the Holy See and Soviet Rus- sia were discussed at the meeting of Maxim Litvinoff, chief of the Soviet Russian delegations in foreign coun- tries, and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli, pa- pal nuncio to Berlin. The conference. took place on neutral grounds, as”) #7, the papal representative would not go to the Russian embassy. and violent form of capitalism.” Replying to those who urged that Communists be left outside the unions and a labor party, Captain Paxton Hibben said that the movement must be united if it is to be effective. Marines Bossing Latin America. Economic domination by the United States in the 20 Latin American coun- tries was described by S. G. Inmon, ecretary, committee on co-operation in Latin America, The United States naval mission to Brazil has aroused great distrust in the Argentine and started a disastrous armament race between the two nations, he said. In 11 of the 20 Latin American countries not only do United States capitalists have a dominant influence, but Ameri- can customs inspectors, sometimes backed by American marines, are in actual authority. Conflict with Japan as a result of the insult carried in the United States immigration.act excluding all Japan- ese was discussed, with Nearing point- $ ing out the economic war between the United States and Japan for power in Miss Yarnell of California poke of the excellent quality of the e]| Japanese workers and their general loyalty to other workers in times of strikes and their increasingly high standard of wages. She felt that much of the Californian opposition was based on fear of the ability and dili- gence of the Japanese, Send in that Subsoriptien T: STRIKING CLAY WORKERS CRY ‘BACK TO UNION’ Boss Had Tricked Them into Dropping Charter By TOM TIPPETT. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) PEORIA, Ul; July 8— “We were fooled by the boss when we surren- dered our union. We want our char- ter back,” declare the striking brick- makers at the Carter yards in East Peoria. Last February the men dropped their union affiliation with the Unit- ed Brick & Clay workers on an un- derstanding with the Carter company that there would be no changes in wages or working conditions. Now the men are on strike main- taining a strong picket line while they “are reorganizing their union. e Carter people did not attempt to lower wages but they made working conditions intolerable by giving their straw bosses power to nag and brow- beat the men. ‘he men while they had a union did not stand for cussing or arbitrary treatment. After they dropped the charter they found they had to take what the employer pleased to give them. Before striking they began to re- build their organization. The em- ployer refused recognition and fired every man known to belong to the new union. The three Carter yards are shut tight by the sirike. Metal Workers Unite. MOSCOW, July 8.—The British Un- ion of Metal Workers has decided to admit the Russian Metd? Workers’ Un- ion to the membership of the Inter- national Federation of Metal Workers. SOUTH BEND TO PICNIC FOR DAILY WORKER AID AT RUM VILLAGE PARK SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 8—An International Picnic will be given by the city central committee of the local branch of the Workers Party at Rum Village Park on Sunday, duly 13, at 1 p.m. Soft drinks and other refreshments as well, as plenty of entertainment are prom- ised all who come. Music and dano- ing will feature the entertainment and there will be good speakers. The profits of the picnic will go to Development of Types. In Germany the upper strata of the| bourgeoisie, consisting of at least three millions, have a standard of liy- ing apparently five times that of the proletariat. If we can win over a part of this stratum we have already se- curedafund. We must discuss the new distribution of productive power. ; Under capitalist production, a great party of productive power is used in making articles of luxury, but under socialist production, this motive would decline, This point must in some way be formulated. We need not speak othe development of types, but at least we must indicate some means by which we shall increase produc- tion. A general formula just as Varga gives, is certainly not enough. Bukharin: Replying to the discus- sion, I myself am in favor of the most careful formulation of all problems. In my report I have touched upon various questions, not because they ought all to be included in the. pro- gram, but because we need clearness among ourselves. ‘We are speaking here only of an introduction to the program which can only consist of a general descrip- tion of the period. ‘What has been said about the de- velopment pf types and standardiza- tion, belongs to another part of the program. In the introductory part, we should formulate the objective tendencies of development; that is, tendencies and their control, without detail. If we formulate more. in detail, we shall risk entering upon prophecy. As far as types of countries are concerned, Thalheimer is right in his description of the various processes of the whole method of transition. What he said about tactics does not belong to this part. We can lay it down that the process will be pe- culiar to their circumstances, and per- haps give one or two sentences on that point, and deal with this point more extensively in the section on tactics, I have dealt, theoretically, with the question of single trusts, to which Varga referred, in my book “World Economy and Imperialism.” Practical- ly this prediction of one single trust will be found to be absolutely acad- emic. For the-rést, it should not be placed in the introduction. There is another place for it. With regard to production, two sections of the pro- gram have been confused. Glowing pictures form part of a description of Communist society. If we deal with changes in production on a world scale in the general section, we shall again become prophetic. We shall run into the danger of rationalistic construction. Equal Opportunity to Die—All Artist Found in America SAN FRANCISCO, July 8—Ivor Williams was internationally known as an artist, but the best capitalism could give him was such pressing Poverty and indebtedness that he in- haled gas and died. His wife was put under arrest and kept from her hus- band’s body all night to prevent her from following him in death. ~ DAILY WORKER TONIC TO MINDS OF JEWISH TUBERCULAR PATIENTS (Special to the Daily Worker.) DENVER, Colo., July 8.—The pa- tients at the National Jewish Hos- pital for Consumptives, 3800 Colfas Ave. are eager readers of the DAILY WORKER. One of the pa- tients, A. Pinch, has said that the sick inmates are thoroly disgusted with the local capitalist press. He says: “But they (the lying capitalist sheets) shall not and will not suc- ceed to hold us in that darkness as long as the DAILY WORKER is published. It keeps us always in- formed with the latest news in the political and economical develop- ments in the world. It keeps our minds in a state of freshness; it is our sunshine in cloudy days. We read and reread each line, the pa- per is passed from one to another until it is almost worn out. Long live the DAILY WORKER (not the king or ‘kink’).” The Western Blectric expose espe- cially interested the patients, they state. Neffs Plans Picnic Next Sunday to Aid Daily Worker Fight NEFFS, Ohio, July 8,— A great crowd of workers and farmers from this vicinity is expected to attend the big picnic which comes off at Charlie Perunko’s Farm on Sunday. July 13. Admission is free and there will be plenty of good music, dancing, and other entertainment as well as de- licious refreshments. The proceeds of the plenic will be divided between the DAILY WORKER and the lan- guage federations’ papers. Every- body come, is the word. Russian Bank at Chita, MOSCOW, July 8—The Industrial bank is opening @ branch office at Will Eliminate Class War Costs. The same remarks apply to the problem of non-productive consump- tion. In the early stage, non-pro- ductive consumption will increase. We cannot immediately construct a new apparatus. In communist society there will be various factors, such as the dis- appearance of the costs of the class war, ete. Neither can we speak in detail of the various questions regard- ing the possibility of the degradation of the intellectuals in connection with the various social structures. This in- troduotory part must contain perfect- ly clear propositions, with which all comrades are in agreement, and these propositions must be quite briefly stated. I will try to put my report in writing, and to write the draft. Com- rades wil] then be able to make ad- ditions in writing. Thalheimer: 1. Regarding the dif- ferent types of countries. Distinction must here be made in accordance with the possible forms of the change to socialism. These matters should be clearly separated. 2. How far can we go into detail in describing the various forms of tran- sition? We should distinguish the various basic demands with the great- est clearness (e. g. the expropriation without compensation of great land- owners), but on the other hand we should be very careful in giving these differences in detail because the main point will still be experience. I think that we all assume that the German, English and French revolu- tions have given rise to definite tran- sitional demands, and that also the Gernfan revolution will bring us new experiences, the specific forms of which we shall only slightly forsee. I say this only by way of explanation. We have tried to work out a program of first general principles, but in a few weeks the conditions have already changed. Then the second question: the de- gradation of the proletarian intelli- gentsia in the period of transition. Here one must raise especially the question of change in the division of labor. Together with this question we should consider the division between manual and brain work, between town and country, divisions within industry, and within the professions. One other point with regard to the danger of de- gradation of the intelligentsia must be mentioned. The greatness of this danger is in a high degree dependent upon the type of transition, and the relative importance of the various types of conditions. For instance, a working class of twenty millions as against a peasant class of from ten to fifteen millions presents a different spectacle than three million workers against eighty million peasants. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities Open Air Meetings. Saturday, July 12. Section 2—110 St. and 5th Ave. Speak- ers to be announced. Section 4—Grand St. Extension, Bklyn. Speaker to be announced. Section 5—Stone and Pitkin Aves., Bklyn. Speaker: George Powers. Section 6—25th St. and Mermaid Aye., Coney Island. Other meetings are being arranged which comrades will find advertised in the local party press. Young Workers Hold Grand Picnic Here Next Sunday, All Day The Karl Liebknecht branch of the Young Workers’ League of America, will hold a grand picnic at Brand’s Park, 3259 Histon Ave., on Sunday, July 13. Tickets bought in advance will be 35 cents. If purcnased at the gate, they will be 50 cents. A lively program of entertainment is promised to all young workers who wish to come and enjoy a ripping good time. From 10 a. m. to when- ever the music stops—there will be fun for all who come, Bring your friends, ydung workers, whether they belong to. the league or not and get them interested in the peppiest bunch of young people in the country. No Wob Scare This Week. SAN FRANCISCO, July 8.—One week elapsed; no wobblies blamed for causing the foot and mouth disease. PHILADELP Wednesday, July 9, 1924 BRAZIL TROOPS REBEL AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT Military Rule in Force in Some Sections RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 8.— A section of the army of the state of Sao Paula rebelled against its officers jearly Saturday, seized public buildings lana caused considerable excitement before order was restored by federal troops over Saturday and today. The movement apparently started over dissatisfaction at the decision of the Sao Paula state government to re- new its contract for a French military mission, which has been instructing the state’s military forces for the last three years. ‘Troops in several barracks gathered quietly in the early morning, seized a number of officers and started a parley with the state government, Street Fighting. The officers, backed by Governor Carlos de Campos and the federal gar- rison, refused to yield to the rebels’ demands, and there was some street fighting Saturday. A dispatch to the government organ, Jornal do Commercio, here today says the insurrection has been quelled. The federal government, however, has declared martial law in the federal district (Rio de Janeiro and environs), the state of Rio de Janeiro and the state of Sao Paula. Rail communication between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paula city, the second city of the republic and center of Bra- zil’s coffee industry, has been taken over by the military and public traffic prohibited. The military also has as- sumed control of telephone and tele- graph communications. Send in that Subscription Today! Party Activities Of Local Chicago Open Air Meetings. This Week. WEDNESDAY—Fullerton and Halsted. North Side Branch, Y. W. L. THURSDAY —6ind and Halsted, Engle- wood, FRIDAY—North and Rockwell. N. W. English, |W. P.| Division and Wash- tenaw, Hersh Lekert, Y. W. SATURDAY—Rooseveit Park, Douglas Park Jewish, W. P. 30th and ‘State, South Side English W. P. 112th and’ Michigan, Pulman Sub-CCC: SUNDAY—Marshfield and Roosevelt, Marshfield, Y. W. L. Meeting’ of Enlarged City Executive Council, Wednesday, July Sth, at Room 303, 166° W. Washington St. Special mat- ars jetictine che language sections will be taken up. See that your language City Central sends a dejégate. ea Central Room to Rent. Single or double. WINOCUR, 3538 Thomas St. Four blocks from Hum- boldt park. ATTENTION. NEW YORK! People’s ‘ound Amusement Park and Bathing Beach “Where There is no Color Line” BARRETT BEACH, Port Monmouth, N. J. filtes Swings, Rifle Range, Jazz irchestra, Ba all Diamond, Tennis Courts, Hiking Rendezvous of the East Fine Country Roads OPEN FOR PICNICS, Playgr OUTINGS and EXCURSIONS 1000 Feet of Beach 50 Acres of Playground Restaurant—Furnished Rooms CYRIL V. BRIGGS, Manager. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Pic te nee Servise tas SMOTHEIELD ot or ates 7th Ave Ave. Phone Spaulding 4070 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. HIA NOTICE Help the Starving Children of sana ATTEND THE FIRST GRAND ANNUAL PIC GIVEN Internationale (International NIC BY THE Arbeiter-Hilfe Workers’ Aid) SOUTH PHILA. SCHUETZEN PARK 83rd and Tinicum Ave. Saturday, July 12, 1924 Dancing — Games — Refreshments — Sports Articles Left from the Bazaar will be Raffled Off * ADMISSION 25 CENTS DIRECTIONS:—From Subway take Chester Car No. 37 at 13th and Market St. Get off at 84th ®t. Walk one square South. From South Philadelphia: Take Southwestern Line on Jackson St. or Moyamensing Ave. and get off at Schuetzen Park stop.