The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 6

| | | Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months y mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montis 06.00 per year B §8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, I!linols —<—<—<—<—<—<$<$— $< J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB.. Business Manager —$—_—_—_—$ $$ Watered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post: Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > Advertising rates on application. The Treachery Is Disclosed ‘Action of the LaFollette forces in Montana and Minnesota reported in our columns today give the final proof to those who refused to foresee the event, that the Communists were correct in pre- dicting that LaFollette, if allowed to obtain the support of workers and farmers without an or- ganized check upon him, would do his best to destroy the Farmer-Labor movement. The very first moves to be made in the campaign should drive this bitter fact home to the understanding of the most simple-minded follower of the Wis- consin senator. In Montana the promising Farmer-Labor Party is to be scuttled in spite of its declaration in favor of LaFollette, which it had hoped would buy it exemption from the impending destruction. In Minnesota the LaFollette gang makes the issue: support LaFollette and renounce your Farmer-Labor Party or support Foster if you in- sist upon independent working class political ac- tion. The weak-kneed and weak-minded leaders who have been putting their trust in LaFollette instead of in the strength of their own organiza- tion are reaping the fruits of their own lack of character. They had swallowed LaFollette in ad- vance, without cgnditions, and then found they had to swallow also the abandonment of their Party. It is no joy to the Communists to say, “We told you so.” It would have been much better to pre- vent this betrayal, and the Communists fought against it, pointed out how to prevent, and finally launched their own ticket as the final protest against it and to preserve the fundamental prin- ciples of working class political action and the struggle against capitalism. Trust Company, and James Spyer, of Spyer & Company. Many other banks will be represented in Eur- ope by their leading spirits. The vacation of Mr. Harris is especially significant in view of his being a recognized authority on railroads and rail- road finance. Germany’s railroads are a coveted prize. Yes, the vultures are gathering. The birds of prey of American imperialism are gathering in Europe to fatten on the misery and suffering of a continent. Our bankers are congregating in the capitals of Europe in order to put the finishing touches on their scheme, the Dawes plan, to turn the countries which ‘were once the Central powers and others into cooly colonies, into American sweatshops. And the state and treasury departments are there along with them, pledging them the full monetary, military, and naval support of the United States government in their desperate effort to enslave millions of people across the Atlantic. Today the American bankers are “over there.” Tomorrow the American workers will be “over there.” Today the American bankers are sowing the seeds of another world war. How soon will our workers and dispossessed farmers wake up to this monstrous danger? Election Rainbows Great emphasis is now being placed by the well-kept reactionary press on the beneficial in- fluence on politics that the rise in the price of wheat and corn will have. Primarily, of course, the rise in the price of the above mentioned commodities is occassioned by the decrease in the crops of Canada and several European countries. But there is also another element in the much-advertised wheat spurt. This is the political element, or the extent to which the market has been artificially tampered with by the biggest business interests of the country in order to lessen the discontent amongst the farmers of the fifteen wheat growing states. In this manner it is hoped that the Coolidge vote will be increased. An examination of a chain of recent govern- ment bureau and court decisions convinces one that the Coolidge clique is deliberately setting up a lot of straw-man progressive decrees, is actively |aiming at piling up an eleventh hour so-called pro- gressive record behind which it can hide its in- herent unalloyed reactionary character. In pursuance of this policy aimed at misleading the workers and farmers, the Coolidge administra- tion made a false and empty gesture at suing the Standard Oil. No one will be fooled by this effort, especially in view of the experience of the country In the St. Paul Convention, June 17th, it was to| with government suits against the Oil Trust. Then guard against just such betrayal as we now wit-|came the peculiarly timely decision in the Coron- ness in Montana and Minnesota, that William Z.|}ado case after years of costly litigation. An “at- THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from Last Issue.) One of the finest things about Russian industry now is just this spirit of self-imposed discipline. The old coercive meas- ures are done away with forever. A visitor to any factory is always struck by the fraternal spirit prevailing between the workers and the foremen. The conception of a boss or a driver is now unknown ‘in Russian industry, except as a matter of unpleasant history. This democratic fraternalism that one finds in the industries also runs throughout the social life. The workers make no pretense at formal bourgeois democracy. They are not so foolish as to expose their new society, beset as it is yet with a thousand weaknesses, to the organized attack of a parasitic class to reinstate itself to power. But among themselves the realest kind of a democratic spirit prevails. Let me give a little illustration of it, which, al- though not altogether apropos, yet may have some value to indicate the general situation. One day, during a big demon- stration, when the streets were crowded with people, I saw Karl Radek threading his way through the throng. The crowd recognized him about the same time that I did, and without a by-your-leave, a dozen men made for him and tossed him into the air unceremoniously a score of times. The place was never the headquarters of the Communist International, and a few minutes later, Budenny, the well-known cavalry gen- eral, who also was making his way along the street was given exactly the same treatment as Radek. Of course both took it good naturedly—it would not have helped them any to do otherwise. As for the crowd, they looked upon it as perfectly natural, for after all, were not Radek and Budenny just two honored comrades of theirs? It was just a little incident of present-day Russia, but I wondered what would happen in any other European capital if a street crowd were to try to similarly treat men as prominent in the government as Radek and Budenny. Revival of Industry. Consequent upon the solution, or partial solution, of the foregoing and many other problems, as well as on the improvement of industrial management generally, which is in itself one of the supreme problems, the industries are gradually being revived. When I was in Russia in 1921, it was the common expectation that, with the industries so completely collapsed, it would take them at least 10 years to make any real showing of recovery. But these lugubrious prophecies have been belied by the facts. Thé progress toward rehabilitation has been much more rapid than even the most optimistic would have dared to hope three years ago. ‘ ; Although listening to statistics is tirésome, still I must inflict a few figures upon you at this point. Comrade Martens assembled the latest data for me relative to production, and I want to give you some facts drawn therefrom. Agricultural production has now reached about'75% of pre-war quantity, as against about 30% at the lowest point of the crisis. Heavy industry is now at about 35% of the pre-war rate, and light industry 69%. Industry as a whole is producing at approx- imately 45% of the pre-war standard. Compare this as against a general production of 12%, which was the rate at the depth of the industrial crisis in 1921. In various industries making mun mmmenemameammnmmnntsanmanconsarnnanat ENC SN BR AMR A NPT RAAB LINAS REOPEN IR BITS Foster made the following declaration: “Relative to the candidacy of Mr. LaFollette, | feel it incumbent upon me to state the postion of the Workers Party in this matter. In the coming nego- tlations between the Farmer-Labor Party and other groups relative to combined action upon a presiden- tial candidate, the only basis upon which the Work- ers Party will accept LaFollette as a candidate is, if he agrees to run as the Farmer-Labor candidate, to cept that party’s platform and its control over his electoral campaign and campaign funds.” Here is food for thought for all those honest and sincere believers in the establishment of a Farmer- Labor Party, who thought that they could, at the tack” on a few far-western second-rate trusts fol- lowed. Now the government is planning to initi- ate proceedings to dissolve the Sisal Sales Corpora- tion on the ground’ that it is violating the anti- trust law. The Federal Trade Commission deci- sion on “Pittsburgh plus” and the wheat market manipulations are of the same school of strategy. Finally, Attorney General Stone declared that the Burns-Daugherty Spy system would be abolished, but that it would take years to do so. All of these “progressive” signs in the political sky are out-and-out attempts on the part of the biggest business interests to show that the pres- same time, hitch their wagon to the star of the)ent government is really not a big business govern- middle-class, petty-bourgeois, anti-labor and anti- farger personal ambitions of Senator LaFollette. Onc} again it is demonstrated to them that the Communists are the only reliable political leaders for the toiling masses of the world. They now have the choice between abandoning their prin- ciples and surrendering themselves helpless to the campaign of an individual, or of joining hands with the Communists in support of Foster and Gitlow, and in the struggle for working class or- ganization against the capitalist system. These things were inevitable. They happen be- cause LaFollette represents a class that is hostile to the workers and farmers. The LaFollette move- ment wants to use them in the same way that the republican and democratic parties have been using them. It was the duty of every man who pretended to be a leader of the workers and farmers to guard against this betrayal. The responsibility rests upon these misleaders. The Vultures Gather The king of world finance, Mr. Morgan, is sail ment. The powers behind the throne in Wall Street are attempting to feed the voting masses on rainbows. But these are only campaign rain- bows, golden election promises that are always turned into leaden performances. The Coolidge administration can as much change its black capi- talist character as a leopard his spots. jre-Ms Send in that Subscription Today. The Trouble in Persia Proceeding along its well-known lines, the Chi- cago Tribune has discovered that the killing of Imbrie in Persia by fanatical religionists was in- stigated by the Bolsheviks. One can always de- pend upon the Tribune to trace the cause of all trouble to the Bolsheviks; the only time they fell down was in the case of the Japanese earthquake. \nd while Communists takepride in the work that they actually do in leading the dispossessed masses in revolt against capitalism, they find it necessary to modestly decline responsibility for ing for Europe. Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, Secre-| earthquakes and such natural phenomena. tary of the Treasury, one of the wealthiest men But it is very interesting to examine the line in the country, and the leading Pittsburgh banker,|of reasoning by which the capitalist newspaper is now in London, keeping a watchful eye on the correspondent would convince the world that the Reparations Conference. Bolsheviks were responsible for the killing of Im- Never before in the history of American finance] prie, He proceeds by the well-known principle of or, politics have so many bankers engaged in an establishing & motive. He proves that the Russian exodus, as it were, to Europe. One tends to won-| Communists had good reason to be rough with Im- der what is it that is drawing our moneyed lords] brie if they ever caught him in Russia, because to Europe? What has caused our bankers to rush} Tmbrie, as vice-consul at Petrograd in 1918, had in droves to Paris and London? Our financial powers are preparing a coup|yjet Government. participated in white-guard efforts against the So- He later directed a spy-system @etat in their drive for the throne of world com-| from Viborg against Russia, and personally made merce and industry. When one goes over the list) five trips into Russia in disguise, in his machina- of big bankers who will be in the capitals of| tions against the workers’ government. Europe during the summer he is impressed with The correspondent has made out a good case the galaxy of financial wizards. We find in addi- against Imbrie as an enemy of the international tion to the above mentioned that Europe will be working class, But having established a motive, the summer vacation and hunting-ground of Otto| he fails in the next step of his bourgeois legal code, H. Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb, & Company; A. H. Har-| py disclosing no evidence to show that, much as ris, Chairman of the finance committee of the New| the Bolsheviks may have been opposed to the spy- York Central Railroad, which has close connec-|ing activities of Imbrie, they had anything to do tions with the First National Bank; Owen D.| with the fierce protection of their sacred shrine by Young, one of the fathers of the Dawes plan, and] fanatic Moslems. the directing head of the General Electric Com pany; Seward Prosser, Chairman of the Bankers Gend in that Subscription Today. . . \ New Party Indus By JAMES P. CANNON Assistant Executive>Seeretary- (Editor’s“Notes):— The complete new industrial registration of Party members which is about to begin in accordance with the decision of the last meeting of the Central Execu- tive Committee is ‘an absolutely in- dispensible basis for the proper development of our Program of Ac- tion and the preparation of the Party for the organization of Shop Nuclei, which is demanded by the Fifth Con- gress of the Communist Internation- al, Youare requested to read this and other articles to follow on the subject and to respond to the regis- tration of the Party. * * @S = ‘HE complete new ind’ jal re- gistration of the party member- ship, decided upon by the last meeting of the Central Executive Committee, is to begin on August Ist and must be completed before the end of the month. The successful carrying out of the Program of Action laid down by the last meeting of the C. E. C. depends to a very great extent upon the speed and thoroness with which the Party organization responds to this indus- trial registration. The Party members, and especially the branch secretaries, who are directly responsible for the THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA. By T. F. MRODE, HAT might be the beginning of the end of this government's crusade against Soviet Russia is now to be seen in the capitalistic moving pictures. The film was shown at the Rivoli, one of the largest and best- known moving picture theatres in New York, and therefore, in America. A film not in the usual “topics,” but one of several reels. It might be called, “A Prelude to Russian Recog- nition,” but has the surprising title, “The Truth About Russia.” A Communist movie man who saw it, said: “I wish f£ had done as much for Russia as to have made that picture.” The Council of Commissars would give unanimous approval to “The Truth about Ri as the whole truth, and propaganda quite to their taste, One is not greatly surprised at first to see the pictures show compliment- ary scenes, incidents in Russia, but the truthful and approving captions registration of their branch members, must therefore make the industri: registration a first order of business and allow nothing to interfere until they have completed the work. The registration carried out last fall proved to be of tremendous advantage to the party. While only partially successful, it nevertheless gave the Party invaluable information on the basis of -which it was possible to broaden and develop our trade union activities and to estimate the forces of the Party. The new registration about to begin” will be carried out according to an im-, proved system which will automatical- ly provide for the District and Local offices to gain the same information in regard to the members of their organ- izations as that secured under the last registration by the National Office and to secure it at the same time as the National Office. For a modern Communist party, a complete and thoro knowledge of the location of its forces is indispensible. In order to guage the strength of the party, to measure its ability to carry out a given task, to estimate its forces in relation to the forces of its enemies in the labor movement, the Party must know who its members are, where they work, what organizations they belong to, etc. Without this informa- tion, the Party is stumbling in the dark, ne tee na accel Rieneitansbeeg thee eo) quickly make one sit up and wonder. Then when a caption states that the Russians love to beautify their cities we begin to note that none of the remarks are critical of Russia, as we have been used-to. There is NOT ONE harsh or insulting, ironical or criticising caption in the whole series of pictures. No reference to “how badly Russians treat their women,” even when women are shown helping the A. R. A. get relief to the starv- ing. The film began by showing the vast extent of Rw and the spectators were given a brief history of Russia, truthful and with no exaggeration or condescension in the captions. The history ran down to the late czar at reviews. No applause was heard but a moment later when the Red Army was shown, its spirit, tone, discipline, soldiery, marching skill and infective enthusiasm caught the spectators there was mighty, gen- erous applause, » For instance, after the czar's fam- ily were pictured, the spectators were ‘ Friday, July 25, 1924 By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER typical showings, the following results have been produced: Industry 1921-22 1922-238 Gains Coal mined, 590,000,000 poods, 653,000,000 poods, 11% Coal coked, 6,000,000 poods, 19,000,000 poods, 216% Oil extracted, 224,000,000 poods, 317,000,000 poods, 40% Gold mined, 272 poods, 452 poods, 66% Iron smelted, 10,477,000 poods, 18,832,000 poods, 75% Metal working, 45,131,000 rubls., 66,058,000 rubls., 47%, Textiles,. 157,000,000 rubls., 265,000,000 rubls., 68% In 1923, «says Reznikov, another economist, production increased on an average about 50% over 1922. Many of the industries ran far ahead of the program set for them. Not only is production in general increasing, but so is the efficiency of the individual workers. In the textile industry last year, for example, the output per worker increased 17% over that of the previous year. Other industries made similar showings. Besides, the amount of coal burned per given quantity of pro- ducts is rapidly decreasing, and other vital economies are being made, due to the better methods employed and to the healthier condition of industry generally. Comrade Martens” gave me another official statistical table, relating to 20 basic industries and indicating the progress being made in various directions. Month Number of Value of Value monthly Workers totaloutput output per worker October, 1922, 624,000 61,000,000 rubles, 88 rubles. October, 1923, 844,000 94,000,000 rubles, 100 rubles. All these figures, which I hope you have followed, prove conclusively that Russian industry is mastering its stupendous problems and is decidedly on the upgrade. But it is still weak and faced with enormous difficulties. One of these is to re- vive the peasant market, for the peasants, deprived of indus- trial products for so many years, have gone back largely to primitive methods of home production. Kameney says that where the peasants bought 22 rubles worth of commodities before the war they now buy only 6 rubles worth. The Com- thunists are not overlooking this important problem. They are working diligently to win the poor peasants’ support by increasing their consuming capacity and then by furnishing them the commodities necessary to satisfy it. But the great- est problem now confronting Russian industry is to provide sufficient capital to operate the industries. Large sums of money are required to rehabilitate the old industries and to found new ones. But if this is not forthcoming in the near future by means of loans in the foreign countries, it will even- tually be raised anyhow by Russian industry itself. Given a few more years’ time, the Russian workers, in spite of the broken dewn state of their industry and its exceedingly meagre and primitive condition at the best, will develop an indus- trial system and a degree of prosperity that will surprise the world. As time goes on and each gain reacts upon the whole system, the present tempo of improvement is bound to increase. The existing conditionashows that the Russian workers are definitely mastering the very greatest problem of the revo- lution, that of reorganizing the industries upon a proletarian basis. (To Be Continued Tomorrow) tional, and has made it one of the chief tasks reshape itself on the basis of the Bol- shevik form of organizat -, OD the basis of Shop Nucle! ‘The “Bolshevizing “of the Party”, the Fifth Congress, absolutely requires the development of the Parties from the territorial to the shop basis. Our party cannot even take one step in this direction until it has registered the Party membership. During the past the trade |ternational, political and organi: union activities of our Party. aye tional, which our party has inherite increased and developed. We have made our influence felt in the labor movement and we have drawn the fire of the reactionaries in such a manner as to prove beyond all question of doubt that the Communists are at work. But we cannot rest on our lau- rels. The truth of the matter is that we have made only a beginning in the trade unions, what we have done up till now is only a drop in the ocean. The party must go deeper into the unions. ‘The party members must become active BRAM AT ; told that after hundreds of years of tyrannical domination by these czars. the Russian people set out, deter-|drals, mined to “achieve their own free- dom.” Kerensky was shown, receiving no applause and then came more aston- ishment. ‘These New York capitalistic | dent new joy of life. spectators were told that the Ker- harder in the struggle. do it quickly. other lands. streets, wit! crowd or road-shouldered establish a government. Then followed a whole series of pic- | cognition. —the Third International, the Amer-| street gates, dancing children, women and|of Lenin that has been shown, men and those enormous crowds of der why they gather by the hundreds/ Trotsky, Zinoviey, of thousands. It is the new life. j|others were also applauded. of the Third International, are shown, | film: greeted by thousands of smiling,|by a silhouette picture of Mi laughing, joyous Russians. Sittings} and the Kremlin, burned amid are given showing the International |ing shells and the firing of ¢ ial Registration ing the past year, the Executive in the Trade Union Educational ‘ommittee of the Communist Interna-|League. They must organize the Com-| tional has been persistently raising the | munist fractions in local unions, and question with our Party and all other |connect the local fractions in a syste- sections of the Communist Interna-;matic manner on a national scale. of the organization of the |Inactive Party members must be dis- parties on the basis of Shop Nuclei.|covered and drawn into trade union The Fifth Congress has confirmed this | activity. To do this work, to check up attitude of the Executive Committee jon it, to see that our party members| are organized for maximum results, of every party of the International to |complete registration of the Party’ membership must be in the hands ot the Party organization. The industri: registration is the very foundation for, ent trade union work. which was the outstanding slogan of |y slogan of the Fifth Congress of the Communist International “Bolsh vize the Party” will be received wit warm enthusiasm in our ranks. W want to be a Communist Party in th real sense of the word and we want slough off all relics of the Second In- from the past. ea This is a giant , indeed, and i will not be accomplished in a day in a year, but we will make that ow aim. We will strive by all means weld the forces of our party into single piece of metal that becomes ev: One of the most important prelim inary steps toward this goal is th complete registration of the part; membership. Let us do this now an being addressed by delegates fro Italy, France, Germany, Austria, ani After the caption of Russians lov ing to beautify their cities many ex| amples of Russia’s splendid architec} tural art were seen, including cath Kremlin buildings, and othe: public edifices and fine parks an always that huge, vag Benth faced Russians radiating the resple: The reception of Lenin’s pictur ensky government had failed to sat-| WS also surprising ant helped agai isfy the people and that the Bolshe-|confirm the suspicion that this pj viki were “the only reds” who could|ture is the beginning of the pro; ganda to prepare Americans for It was even stated th: tures of Soviet officials, the Red Army | the greatest crowd ever assembled man, was that in a pictuy ican Relief Association workers and| of what seemed the whole steppe full activities, parades of arriving dele-| millions looking at the finest pictu Lenin was shown twice in the fil people that are making the world won-| and he was enthusiastically received| Kalenin and th ‘Tachai Delegates arriving for the sessions | kovsky's 1812 Overture preceeded ¢ nd was made more impressi RUSSIA IN 1924 = ~ = RMSE SSRI