The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 12

Te ante om tr Re on FI ee (Continued from’ Page 1.) munist speech. These were his only two appearances in and only contri- bution to the congress. In the execu- tive committees’ report, they accused the Communists of assisting the De La Huerta uprising. This in spite of the fact that Morones during the up- rising denied this statement of Gom- pers. and accused him of misusing his friendly relationship with Mexi- co in order to satisfy his hatred of the Communists. He even went so far as to use his influence over one of the Mexican papers to ‘publish the reply of the Mexican Communist Par- ty and their denial of the accusation made by Gompers. Gunittio Vargas, the Spanish-speaking secretary of the Pan-American federation, has admit- ted that this statement was not true and that it had only been »put in the report because Gompers_ insist- ed upon it. Morones warned the dele- gates in the last few minutes of the congress, that if these people, (mean- ing the Communists) who parade as the real liberators should by any means find their way into the con- gress, it would be their painful duty to expel them. He assured them, how- ever, that this did not mean that the organizations they ‘‘mis-represented” would be expelled. They would re- main, I suppose, providing they elect- ed delegates suitable to him and his chief, Gompers. One of the immediate reasons for this attack upon the Mexican Com- munist Party was the hissing of Gom- pers and Morones by Mexican work- ers on the opening day of the con- gress. The other immediate reasen was the complete victory of the Com- munists over Morones’ lieutenants ‘in the convention of the Agrarian League of Communes of the state of Vera Cruz. This convention, with 400 dele- gates representing the most power- ful agrarian league in Mexico, endor's- ed the Communist Party, affiliated with the Peasants’ International, elected a Communist president; vice- president, and secretary, and a Com- munist sympathizer as treasurer. This was a blow to the Morones-Tre- vino-Rico group of class collabora- tors who had boasted that they put this organization under yellow social- ist. leadership. One has to come to Latin-America to really fully understand Gompers’ trickery and duplicity. Here he is Comrade Gompers, the socialist, the radical, the man who has devoted his THESIS ON ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION AND PARTY STRATEGY (Continued from page 7) Communists therein are then Com- munists in “theory” only; but in fact they became centrists, 59. The support of the F. F. L. P. came to 90 per cent from the W. P.; now the minority thesis says “Oppo- sition on part of the Foster-Cannon group was responsible for the failure to organize the F. F. L. P.” If the group charged with neglect would have added any momentum to the F, F. L. P. it would have been a W. P. affair 99 per cent. This is where the united front becomes an ingrown front, an obsession, a shibboleth, a password for a sect going down to oblivion. L. Our Slogan: A Labor Party Con- trolled by Labor Organizations. 60. The economic conditions will force a labor party in the near future. Many comrades object to carry the labor party slogan for the following reason: Since we will hardly be able to act upon this slogan in the im- mediate future it would be a “dead” slogan. 61. It has nowhere been recognized as a principie that a slogan is “dead” Just because we cannot act upon it for the time being, e. g. “Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” “All Power to the Soviets,” “Recognition of Soviet Rus- sia,” propaganda in colonial countries, in the army and navy, etc. No valid reasons have been advanced why this particular slogan occupies an alto- gether different position in this re- spect, and the political field: Strong, unified unions “amalgamation,” and a political union, “a labor party controlled by labor organizations” should always be ready to galvanize the labor move- ment into real life. 63. To speak of the “class F. L. P. slogan” as “the most _ effective agitational weapon which to deny is to deny the fundamentals of our Com- munist principles” shows the minor- ity lacking all realism. But to raise the elimination of the F. L. P. slogan at the time to the central point of con- tention shows -that the majority is underestimating all the other prob- lems confronting us. M. Corrections. 64. With the reactionary repub- lican party winning hands down against a stand-pat democratic plat- form and candidates, without appar- ently any concession to any popular junrest nothwithstanding the- unpre cedented provocation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal; with both the pol- itical and the economic organizations of the workers at their lowest ebb in the last fifteen years; with the farm- ers rebellious unrest adroitly diverted by a buncomb third party movement; the minority thesis declares “the cap- italist class is desperately hanging on to power.” 63. With the exaggerated and often downright untruthful statements con- cerning the F. F. L, P. having made an international laughing stock of the comrades responsible therefore, the minority thesis declares “the F. F. L. 62. A united front on the economicP, represented 600,000 workers.” THE PIOUS MARCOSSON A Review of the “After Lenin—What” Articles in the Saturday Evening Post By JOSEPH KALAR. HERE are several ways in which capitalism exerts an anti-Bolshe- vik influence on the masses. We have, first of all, the amusing and ut- terly impossible caricatures as dished out by the newspapers to newspaper intelligences, the second-hand infiu- ence of the artists who maintain that under Communism individuality would disappear, and lastly, the polite and urban monstrosities executed in subtle shades by the more intelligent run of lackeys. The newspaper caricatures are not usually effective, except on very immature and impressionable minds. To the intelligent mind, even tho it may be serving capitalism against Communism, such mental in- ventions are exceedingly humorous. The artists exert ‘an influence only among their own set—for it is up to them to fear the displacement of a inc censcnehitsceennantactctehananinaaniamtabi system whereby they profit. But the real dangerous sort of anti-propa- ganda is found in the subtle produc- tions of semi-intellectuals. It is with- in this type that Mr. Isaac Marcosson, a very willing lackey, of the Curtis Publishing company, can be classed. Capitalist Poison Gas Factory. His “After Lenin—What?” articles are given great prominence in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post. The Post is too polite to revert to the caricature type of anti-propagan- da, so it employs a man like Mr. Mar- cosson to write articles from the very scene of Communism. The danger in Marcosson’s articles is that occasion- ally they verge into something that appears intelligent. Mr. Marcosson seems to be struggling between a sympathy for the Communist cause, and the possible chance of a large check from the publishers. It is this sort of semi-sympathetic literature that gives great harm. The case for “ede 8 [neennhaneenmenmmmenninetemmennatammeddtiiimemmenemes “ee e whole life to the libération of the un- derdog. It-may seem absurd to think that Gompers could be even consider- ed a socialist or a radical anywhere. He is a little too old to adapt him- self to the changed environment he finds in Mexico, however, he makes a brave attempt, and the interpreters give the socialist phraseology to his Speeches. Besides, it is under this cloak that the counter-revolutionaries the world over do their most treach- erous work. Gompers and Hughes, hand in hand, are penetrating Latin-America in the interests of American imperialism. Where the democratic labor wing can- not accomplish the job, then all the forces of the army and the navy come into play. The most brilliant chap- ter in the history of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, says Gompers, is the part they played in helping to defeat the De La Huerta uprising. It isa frank admission that the pur- pose of this alleged labor organization is to assist American imperialism to defeat British imperialism in Latin- America and then to establish world domination. We know but little of the Latin- American workers and they know lit- tle of us. These workers have very Jommunism is represented as a hope- less one—even tho the case may be a justifiable one. In this way, the great middle class of boobery and bourgeois feel that Communism is im- possible, To one with a_ half-way knowledge of capitalistic propaganda, the reason is plainly seen for this smearing of falsehood with a sweet- ness satisfying to the mediocre men- tal palate. Marcosson evidently has a hard°time to suppress his feelings of sympathy, if artificial, but the knowledge that the Curtis Publishing company is one of the most reaction- ary of forces in the United States, with a far-reaching effect on the mid- die mass, is sufficient to curb any. sympathetic break. ; The Poor Boob! Marcosson is still of the dpinion that Communism and Bolshevism are upheld by fanatics of a very imagina- tive mental strain, who cannot see the impractibility of a Communist state. To one who has studied Marx- ism as applied by the Communists, this is absurd. There is nothing what- soever romantic or adventuristic about Communism. It has the satisfaction of a reality. To the Marcosson intel- lects, we advise a study of Commun- istie principles, say, a study based on “The A. B. C. of Communism.” Such a study should prove profitable. The nature of Marcosson’s intellect can he grasped from this excerpt from his first article: “Far more damning than all this is the crusade against God, because Sov- iet propaganda respects neither deity nor man. The youth of Russia is be ing reared on the idea that there is no creed but a perverted Communism. All sense of the spiritual, the saving grace of individual as well as nation, is crushed. Atheism rules. The anti- religious literature is an offense, to the eye and to the mind, I have nev- er seen anything so sacriligious. It is this undermining of what might be called the moral influence that consti- tutes perhaps the worst indictment against the Bolshevik order.” Blow number one of which I shall speak a little later. And again, in the same article, he says: “What we term fair dealing and op portunity they denounce as tyrannous capitalism.” How Sermons Are Cooked Up. His diatribe against the atheistic doctrine of the Bolsheviks is perhaps the most effective. The great blood- sucking class of ministers are gen- erally numbered among the readers of the Post. In its columns they will find nothing that is apt to bruise their already hardened conscience. This blow of Marcosson’s gives them the cue. From the pulpit they will preach against Sovietism because it endan- gers their meal ticket, they will add imagination to the already reality, and thus give the religious millions a per- verted caricature of the Soviet gov- ernment. And the American nation is weak, particularly in this supersti- - we, Ate a SS yh ee 0g . ef Labor . strong revolutionary tendencies. The labor’ movements in many of the re- publics are young and inexperienced This is an asset and not a liability. Thanks to this, they are not yet firm- ly orientated. They are not complete- ly under the domination of reaction- ary machines such as we suffer from. They are looking for action and revolutionary leadership. Only the Communists can supply this. The Communist Parties, legal or illegal, in Latin-America have influence far be- yond. what their organized strength would indicate. We must not allow the invasion of Gompers to further create the impression that there are no anti-American imperialist forces in North America. “The manifesto issued by the Work- ers (Communist) Party, and the mani- festo issued by the T. U. E. L. and the Pan-American Anti-Imperialistic League, are only the beginning of the campaign for uniting the Communist and left wing forces in North, Cen- tral, and South America, so as to strengthen them against American im- perialism at home and abroad. This is a big and important task, one in which our party must play a major part, FAMOUS MOVIE FILM, “POLIKUSHKA,” WILL RETURN TO CHICAGO The famous story, “Polikushka,” by the immortal writer, L. N. Tol- stoy, which was made into a mov- ing picture by the Moscow Art The- ater, is coming back to Chicago for one evening only. The picture was shown in Chicago at the Orchestra Hall only once last winter. Thou- sands of workers who were unable to see the picture at its first show- ing are anxiously awaiting its com- ing back. The picture will be shown THURSDAY NIGHT, JAN. 15, at Gartner's Independent The- ater, 3725 Roosevelt Road, near In- dependent Blvd. Mark the date on your calender and tell your friends about it. All friendly organizations are re quested to postpone their meetings on that date. SR tious strain. And the great 100 per cent American mind becomes moulded into one form, the great American eye is furnished a pair of spectacles that looks at Communism, but not into. To the reader of Marx and to the reader of Bucharin’s “A. B. C. of Com- munism” the statement above quoted, “What we term fair dealing and op- Portunity, etc.” causes nothing but amusement. But to the American Dublic, accustomed as It is to receive dishes made to the capitalistic order, it will have the semblance of truth. 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