The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER Friday, December 26, 1924 Page Five ;—______ THE PARTY DISCUSSION CONTINUED Re CE een ee ee ~~ ~~ eee ABOUT THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE PARTY (The following article unanimously accepted by the editorial staff, was published in the Eteenpain, Finnish Daily, Worcester, Mass. Dec. 3.) CCORDING to the custom in the communist movement, the central executive committee of our party has started before the convention a gen- eral discussion on party questions and the tasks confronting the party. This discussion ‘has two purposes. First, to get. the attention of the member- ship to their own party, and, second, to have the membership express their wish and their criticism on the activ- ities of the party and its units. ferent sets of theses, The minority says, that even they do not see the possibility for the formation of a big farmer-labor party, at present time, but that they wish to carry on pro- paganda work according to some feat ures of. the united front. The major- ity also.adyocates propaganda work among poor farmers and farm work- ers and in this respect they are com- pelled to work sometimes and in cer- tain districts according to the tactics of the united front. The majority repudiates the slogan “for the farmer- labor party,” because the lattter has thoroughly merged into the LaFollette carry our propaganda thru the slogan of “farmer-labor party,” on the condi- tion, that we don’t try to make of it a magic word, supposing it solves all the problems. It should be used only in the sense of propaganda and not as a too fargoing maneuver as the OC. E. ©. has hitherto used this slogan, We know very well; that the present controversy in the C. HB. C, does not lead to a split, but it has a certain disturbing effect on the party mem- bership, it has distubing influence on the stability of the party. 1t will in- jure the unity, which we should be better able to build up. Again the C. B. C. will send representatives to various districts to explain “the changed situation.” This will require money and the membership was al- But for this very reason we must car- ry our agitation everywhere, and in iMPO A some states we have possibilities to CAN'T BREAK KY, MINERS’ STRIKE Living Cost Soars As Bosses Cut Wages (Special to The Daily Worker) HILLSIDE Ky., Dec, 25.—Coal op: erators are scouring the country-side getting men to work in the mines of District 23, westhern Kentucky, under heavy guard, The miners of this dis: trict have been on strike since April 15. When the men went on strike they were receiving 76 cents a ton for loading coal. They are now asked to Who Killed Hannibal Hurst? Would You Suspect His Wife? tis Daughter? Or Person or Persons Unknown? You will be interested in solving this my aged, prominent financier. Th ry—the murder of an details of this thrilling story will be unfolded in g y “DARKENED WINDOWS” the new detective-love story now appearing in THE BEST EN- TRENCHED. CAPITALIST DAILY OF CHICAGO. SYNOPSIS: “Who killed Hannibal Hurst? Who killed Hannibal Hurst? Who killed Hannibal Hurst? Who killed Hannibal Hurst? sure as I’m sitting here, Just what it is I haven't found out yet, but I’m on the track. Per s I've got closer than they like, tho I didn’t know they d spotted me. But if they have. t explains our friend with the Before all, the fact must be estab-|movement. The majority claims that |reaqy last year dissatisfied because of | accept 46 cents a ton. bg vee sh og Hi aaa eds Pas gory to seat pour Hished, that the party has in every|the last named movement will re-|the dictation of the C.'H. C. how party| Formerly the miners received $6.9 Oc MECIA OL” buwpoct Berecn’ oy {nice little: theory, Mr. Graham) fiut-the way made progress during the year. | Present the same as the “radical” gov-| questions should be handled in the|a day for driving a mule eight hours, | r AWhe. e FT pare Tehiak abontsit-the’anser Gane Its membership has increased, the |®Tments do in Huropean countries. | gistricts. $6.85 per day for tracklaying, $6.59 | ater. Peawtiak dadiak’ | “Could there be any connection be Girculation of party papers ‘has grown |!t may be so, but it may be different ‘As to the other questions the ©, B.| fo" common day labor and $6.06 for | ho killed Hannibal Hurst? ltwenn the-two crimes;-do you think$ and the importance of the whole par- too. It is wrong to compare thought C. shows the same wrong methods. outside labor. Now the coal operators NOW GO ON WITH sed Graham, loath to give up a solu- ty is bigger. One of the reasons for |!essly the political movements of this 112), for instance, money was needed | W#nt the men ee tia Laiphties THE STORY! |tion which would exonerate Bvadne, this progress, is the fact, that the par. |Country, such as the LaFollette move-| 1, carry on the farmer-labor agitation, | 7#Y for bap Pree: vee ie teaae “But it would be very much to the |the murdered financier’s wife. ‘You ty is now the only representative of |ment with certain movements of}... in the first place, appeals wore | ving, $4.09 for common day labo advantage of other parties to have me |spoke of these trouble-makers, the & clear cut class struggle among the labor organizations in this country. As @ consequence of this fact alone the W. P. has the best opportunities to become a large political mass or- ganization, However, such organiza- tions are not built in a day, especially not on the American soil. All the traditional obstacles, that a strictly revolutionary. movement meets in this country, must be understood and cor- rectly estimated, and on the other hand, in the midst of the most ardent enthusiasm and optimism, the infant age of our movement and party must be taken into consideration. The W. P. has not yet acquired the experience which is an important condition of Progress and which will be gained thru the practical work. Let us go straight to the point. Aside from this general progress, our party. activities still manifest some weaknesess owing to the young age Buropean countries, that have history, political experience and the develop- ment of decades behind them. We should not depend too much on pre- dictions and presumptions, because these may collapse. Still less should we build the party tactics according these lines, We remember very well how Comrade Pepper in his flaming articles, when McAdoo was exposed in the oll scandals, told, that only a “miracle” can prevent the creation of a third party. And according to this prediction—whtch was alone a mirac- 'e—the boasting and noisy campaign was started for building up a farmer labor party, a campaign which ate up energy and funds. This campaign lasted over two years, but suddenly a meeting of officials is called and all the previously accomplished organizing work is repudiated and our own can- didates are put in the field of elec- tion. And after all this, we get theses and statements, in which the idea sent to the membership and branches for volutary contributions, with the result, that the most dutiful mem- | bers responded. But right after, an ob- ligatory special assessment was levied, thus some paid only one assessment while others had to pay several times that amount. It seems, the C. E, C. is afraid, that the membership has nothing to do in the party. Therefore the C. E. C. is feverishly piling up one duty after another. All kinds of deci- sions and duties are imposed upon the membership at the same time. All of them are “important” and “most im- portant.” As a consequence the mem- bership is receiving these orders smil- ing scornfully and do not even try to act in accordance with them. It seems, that there are too many office holders in our national office and somewhat poor order. But in spite of this, when some new activity is started, again a new department is established and it and $2.56 for outside labor. The cost of living in the strike area is exceedingly high. The men pay $15.00 per month house rent, $4.60 fo: a ton of coal, $1.85 for a bag of flour, 45 cents a pound for coffee, 45 cents + eck for meal, 15 cents a pound fo: sugar, 60 cents @ pound for butter and 60 cents a dozen for eggs. Your Union Meeting FOURTH FRIDAY, DEC, 26, 1924. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting 269 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1564 No. Robey. 122 Blacksmiths, 64th and S. Ashland v enue. 429 Boiler Makers, 105th and Avenue B 55th and Halsted. 333 62nd and Halsted 182 19 W. Adams 683 Engineers (Locomotive), and Sacramento. 845 Engineers, 180 W, Washington St. St. Madison out of the way,” said Detective Flint after an attempt had been made to black-jack him. “What parties?” asked Graham, the lawyer, with quick interest. Flint, the detective, hesitated. He| had spoken without thought and said more than he intended. “Well.” he said, “you know, I suppose, what America is up against with all these Communists that we've let in, don’t you? The country is fairly rotten with their plotting.” “Oh, come now! You don’t mean to say that you believe all the stories you hear?” exclaimed Graham. “Wh they are nothing but hysterical inve tions, most of them, Not that I've thought much about it, to be sure.” “It's funny all the things men like you don’t think about,” Flint. “Do you know, I sometimes wonder what you do think about. Read your newspapers. man; look at the retorted | Communists; well, you remember, the kitchen maid said she heard Mr. Hurst call out, ‘You damn Communist.’ and I Was wondering——” “Now you begin to see the direction in which I have been working,” said lint, smiling. “But see here. Mr. Graham,” he added, “it’s hands off with this affair I've told you about. . It’s too delicate, not to say dangerous, a proposition for a novice to mix up in. By a look or a word, without suspecting it, you might queer my whole game. I must have your word that the minute £ vegin to seé the same hand, or head rather, in this attempt on me and in the murder of Hannibal Hurst, you will step out of the game. Until then I shall be glad to keep you posted as to all I do in tonight's affair.” Graham gave his promise readily. All his interest in the Hurst case cen- tered in Evadne. If she-were freed ~) bomb outrages! Look at the strikes! |from all suspicion of connivance it - hi ire Tr of . Is this ot peso ‘pitiaag nag wamntGE to about the creation .of .farmer-labor Tacasuepaews, TABOR Ga bik +6 OF ae emenie Piven” read Who do you suppose is behind them? | mattered not a whit to him who was poe will 45 i ' this, fn order to find the remedies. 1t|P&"tY is still more fundamentally: re-| ree) that the next convention should| 118 1850 Sherman Ave., gtr Soccernet Sant og act ech eine ‘ fs clear that not all the party units, nor the membership as a whole, are the proved and enthusiastic Commun- ists, that they should be. Our whole movement is still in its propaganda phase and the activities confronting it do not harden the membership, nor do they show the same sacrificing en- thusiasm as in other countries, where the conditions make it possible. Owing to this, many members take their party duties very lightly having little Yegard for the common will—a cen- tralized party. In this respect, taking into consideration the situation under which we are, real Communistic re- sponsibilty can be developed only thru suitable educational work. But our party has weaknesses of an other kind, too, The higher units of the party and the leadership need im many respect to be remedied. The whole history of the American Com- munist movement shows, that it has pudiated as useless and unsuccessful. This has been done too Irastily. Such politics creates confusion and no one outside the C. E, C. has energy en- ough to find out what is going on at each time. Now the members of the C. EB. C, accuse each other for the mistakes that have been. made in propagating and building up the farmer-labor move- ment. The fact is all the leaders of our party at one time, overestimated the possibilities. on..this. field. of ac tion, The whole C. B. C.'talked about federated ‘farmer-labor party, its ‘sig- nificance and its power too enthusias- tically basing its estimation on’ mere illusions. Now, when those great hopes have not been realized, some of them again begin to overestimate, that the coming of LaFollette has “wholly” destroyed and eaten up the farmer- labor movement. This is no more true than the assumption of a year ago. The conditions, looked at from the strive to prepare a strict budget for the national office, because the fin- ancial burdens of our party are becom- ing too heavy. It is important also, that our district offices should get their share of the propaganda funds. For, if they have no resources to car- ry, out propaganda, they are of no use. Generally speaking,-we should not. try to undertake too big tasks, neither financially nor: politically, when-our movement is only in its: preliminary As to the reorganization of the par- ty, we have already expressed our op- inion, Several writers have lately been dealing with this question. The C. I. Ras decided that the Communist parties in every country should strive to reconstruct themselves upon the basis of shop nuclei. This principle, as has been many times pointed out, is the best method of organization. But it is plain, that in the execution S. Ashiand Blvd. | ttioners, 3420 W. | Couneit, 180 w. | jton reet. District Council, 808 8. | 175 W. Washington St.) 4839 S. Halst . Scar), 912 4 237 5 Ganauotors ‘apitol a.m, 3 Electrotypers, 175 W. Washington Street. Sleepin: Bias: 10 i: Cutters, 18 W. Washing- 190. Machinists, 113.5. Ashland Avs. — | 492 Machinists, 55th and Halsted | .. Streets... 746 Machinists, E. cor. Lexington | and Western. Machinists, 58rd PI. and Halsted k Yards), 3749 8. 2901 'W. Monroe St. Workers, Emily and Mareh- ve. Garment Workers, Joint ‘d, 328 W. Van Buren St. 113 Machinists, 113 S. Ashiand Bivd. 37 Pain Fy Sheffield “Why, yes—in Europe.” “Europe!” scoffed Flint. “Why. they've got this whole country in a net—threads running everywhere. And there are big hands holding the threads, let me tell you.” Fiint low- ered his voice to a whisper. “I don't mind saying to you, if you will swear to keep it to yourself, that I’ve been following one of those threads. I got hold of it by accident, and I think it is leading me to some pretty dirty business. There’s a big bunch. invdt and they are plotting something as WHO KILLED HANNIBAL HURST? We'll give you just one second to guess! “Give me warning and I will be come the soul of discretion,” he: said. “I'll even swear not to recognize you if I meet you disguised as the very devil himself. According to the story books, that’s the sort of thing you do. isn’t it?” Graham laughed gayly at his own nonsense. He was ready to laugh with- out any excuse whatever. He was ex- cited; he was treading on air. Com- munist plot—of course; it was a Com- munist plot. No shadow could tall or Evadne. AND NOW WE'LL TELL OUR STORY! THREE THOUSAND yellow daily papers of the United States employ tens of thousands of editors, feature writers, reporters, fiction writers who daily dip their poisonous pens into black ink for and soil mountains of otherwise pure white paper with fies, suffered from the weakness of its of the same, we are confronted with] 3: chool and eld Ave. alf-truths, vicious oppositi doh rtical i b ee op ae hich shool and eld ths, opposition and hypoertical evasion about i ee sap Sanban Reis lave ase i Our party must direct its work and |2°veT2! dificulttes in this coutnry. For| °'7 Plano ‘ana ‘organ Workers, 60 W everything that pertains to the worker and his class interests. ways been directed towards the com- mon good. ‘We have published recently a re- port of the latest grouping and pol- icles of C, E. C. We declared out+ right: we were angered at this un- ceasing splitting and grouping of C. B. C, and also at the production of theses before every convention. The existence of these different fac- tions in the C. E. C. does not show up only before conventions. Also be- tween ..conventions the quarrel goes on among the membership. Some person or group, interested in a “new policy,” drafts his theses and starts the quarrel, and soon the fight is in full swing. Then again “the situation ig changed” and it is necessary to ex- plain it. The C. . C. of the party must do something else than draft theses; it must do something else than split hairs on questions that only after a decade will be important. Its members must stop factional politics, the basis of which many times may only be the question who will become a@ member to the next C. E. C. The playing politics for the sake of politics should be stopped. Now there is a difference of opinion » @m the question in what relation we should stand towards a farmer-labor party. It is permissible to disagree a clear question like this ‘We believe that at the present time tl has been no need to draft dif- movements at present, have not changed very much within two or three years in this country. We, and the Finnish membership in general, have always emphazised the building up of our party, we have always been very unwilling to follow the too fligh- ty maneuvers and movements of the party in its agitation for the farmer labor movement, because it has been plain to us, that our party is unable to build up such an enormous move- ment in a day. We have emphasized the strengthening of the party by car- rying systematical agitation, by in- creasing the membership, etc. And in this respect we are in accord with the majority of C. E. C. But at the same timé we are of the opinion, that also the minority has tendencies in the same direction. We cannot accept such a one-sided declaration, that the farmerlabor agitation has now be come wholly hopeless, when it has hitherto had so great possibilities. In short, the viewpoints of both groups have some sound points. Disagree- ments are very small and can be maie big only by political dabbling, by in- triguing and by writing separate theses. This is only doing harm to our cause. The unity of our move- ment should be build on the fundamen- tal point, that at last, after numerous mistakes and incorrect estimates of conditions, we must give our main strength for building up our party. Insurance Policy Speakers to Address All Mass Membership Meetings ! B’ debision of the Central Executive Committee, the first order of 4,D., iness at all mass membership meetings is to be—INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925. This part of agenda will be in charge of the following speakers: Wew York City, Dec, 28, 2 P. M... L. &, Katterfeld this reason we must start easily and carefully in this respect and the party convention must act carefully in re- gard of this matter. It is evident, that the’party must en- large and strengthen its activities in labor unions as well as on the other fields of agitation and recruiting. The solution of these questions will large- ly depend on how perfectly and sound- ly our party can approach them. Be- fore all, we need at present time stab- ility, familiarity with our work, educa- tional Communist propaganda, which should have far-reaching aims, but which’ should be strictly controtied and based on the understanding of the ideology of American workers. Simply, we need awakening and organizing work, The conditions and the shar- pening of the class contradictions of capitalism will work for us, But we should be able to speak to the masses about our party, about Communism, More Iron in Russia, MOSCOW.—In Viatska province o sew deposit of iron ore has ben dis covered, containing millions of pounds of high quality. A new supply of mag aetic ore has also been discovered in Kirvarovsky basin, Philadelphia Afire By ELIAS MARKS, Philadelphia Freihelt Manager. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 25— Please donot misunderstand the head- ing of this notice, we do not mean that there is a conflagration in Phila- evening, Dec. 26, the Fretheft will hold its third an. nual masquerade and balloon ball at the Moose Hall, Broad and Master Harrison Street. 988 Railway Carmen, 11405 Michigan Avenue. 306 Railway Clerks, Atlantic Hotel. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT | SOCIETIES MEETING TONIGHT. German-Hungarian—634 Willow St. John Freifogel Sec’y, 3741 nary Ave. Newark, N. J., Now | Has English Branch of Young Workers League | By JOSEPH ROGEN. ‘ A group of young people met,jp the Economic Hall at 71 Montgomery | St., Newark, to organize an English | branch of the Young Workers’ League. | Comrade Ginsburg, a delegate of the executive-comm! of New York, pointed out the necessity of organiz- ing a branch of the Young Workers’ League in a great industrial center, such as Newark. He then outlined the purpose of the Y. W. L., fts prop- er functions and its intentions. After several discussions, in which all those present participated, the branch was formed. The following officers were elected: M. Maitlin, organizer; Alec. Barnett, recording secretary; Segelotsky, financial secretary; Lesley Kun, edu- cational director; Joseph Rogen, liter- ature agent; L. Kun and 8. Green, delegates to ©. C. C.; A, Seltzer, In- dustrial organizer. The new branch outlined an educa- tional program which includes a class in the A. B. C. of Communism (date of the beginning of the class will be an- nounced later) series of lectures and several socials. This English branch will meet ey- ery Friday night at the Bconomic Hal] at 71 Montgomery St. These peddiers of poison tried to bury Soviet Russia under an avalanche of their filth. They stab every strike in the back. They stretch to the breaking point and then tie into a knot the brains of millions of proletarians with their fake propaganda. THREE THOUSAND daily yellows in the United States spewing poison. stories. If not in the news columns, then in feature f not.in feature stories, then in lurid fiction. It’s this peleen we fight. The capitalist press must be discredited, must e exposed, must be boycotted, must be pointed out as the arch enemy of the working class. 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So that your branch will answer | committee secretaries, are requested to so 0! the details yr i i i; otal © oes pe ey apa lara a chanain, [tit the noted Cv est | preminen Mee CNT Ne ake TE Age “PRESENT” when we call the roll on January 13, 1925. i NSB ANG | eh een t3 Yaka nap Wott aig ae! ileal Drags seh ml as Gamba dah MR ag Slade 7 PAF Sg He ORS SR SN - 7 , . i i