The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL {Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months y mail Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.5 months $2.50....3. nontha — Address all mail and make out checks to 3 THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL é...Battors |)! WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOBB........smmem-Business Manager tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the/Post- ce at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1878. | 230 The Cleavage in the British Labor Party George Lansbury, writing on the record of the British labor party as a government in his weekly of April 4, substantiates every criticism of that governnient made in the Communist press. Our English correspondent gives this comment, which is causing a sensation within the British labor party, in detail and it is sufficient here to mention. one or two of the most penetrating in- dictments made by Lansbury. He devotes his at- tention chiefly to» the independent labor party leadership and the fact that he still has hopes of something good for the workers from this aggrega- tion of capitalist hangers-on makes his criticism all the more interesting. He says: “It (the labor government) was handicapped from the start, because its leaders, with one or two exceptions, like parrots, went about the country declaring that a labor government was exactly like all other governments. Bankers were quite safe, eapitalists were quite safe, the monarchy was safe, and so was the empire. . . In addition, the prime minister (Ramsay MacDonald) in his first letter on India and his dispatch to Zaglul Pasha, proved that Indian policy and Egyptian policy were very largely to be carried on on lines similar to those already laid down ... . the bombing of homes, buildings and sheep in Irak, India and Egypt was accepted and defended as a painful necessity by I. L. P. ministers, who formerly were pacifists and conscientious objectors against war.” With George Lansbury, one of the most militant and influential leaders of the British workers, ex- | | the United States for weeks that carried the news | it only after the trials had begun. The protests Chicago, Mlineis | munist sympathies been found jn the United States | discharge. Advertising rates op app“cation | {enough at home, but in the colonies it is an open pressing such opinions of its official leadership, it} is evident that within the labor party, under the influence of mass pressure resulting from the proletarian disgust with the treachery and snob- bery of the leadership, there is arising a powerful left wing movement—a center group in between the Communists and the I. L. P. parliamentarians. The outcome of these developments will: very likely be a coalition of the liberal party and the MacDonalds, Thomases, Hendersons and Snowdens, a purging of the labor party of its most reaction- ary elements. Of the greatest influence in this new alignment has been the report of the British trade union dele- gation on Soviet Russia and the setting up of a joint committee of British and Russian trade union leaders to accelerate the drive for world trade union unity. This militant policy will in time force a more clean-cut struggle with the British govern- ment. In conservative Great Britain the revolutionary movement is making its greatest progress today. The Fifth Congress of the Communist Interna- tional was correct when it decided to make Great Britain the center of gravity in the revolutionary struggle in western Europe. Chinese Children and Christian . Foreigners Chinese children 10 years of age and under have had their sentences of hard labor in the textile mills in Shanghai renewed by 300 christian foreign taxpayers who boycotted a meeting ‘where their votes were necessary to endorse a city ordinance making: the labor of children of these ages illegal, Yet the American capitalist press is incensed at the action of Chinese students in boycotting Amer- iean merehants. The remarkable thing in connec- tion with the growth of the liberation movement J in China is not the hostility shown towards for- eign exploiters but the small amount of this senti ment. } As far as we are concerned the Chinese students can take the American merchants and shipowners who defeated the child labor ordinance and throw them into the harbor along with their merchandise. If any protests as a result of such action are made, the Chinese might refer the diplomats to the Boston tea party which seems to us to be a fairly good precedent—established with much less provo- cation. * . . Unity Drive Gains Impetus Unity of the world trade union movement is not | a mere ‘catchword with the Russian and British ji trade unionists. The formation of the Anglo-Rus- sian unity committee with Smillie, Purcell, Bram ley and other prominent British trade union of. ficials acting in concert with the representatives of the All-Russian trade unions, the immediate con- vening of the committee in London on April 6, the adoption of a practical program for reaching the membership of the trade unions in every country over the head of the right wing leaders of the Amsterdam International, all show that the strug gle for consolidation of the world trade unions into one pow@rful body is actually under way. The British ruling class, by rejeeting the miners’ _ minimum wage bill and continuing the war on the * trade union movement in genéral, are furnishing the advocates of unity in Great, Britain with their most telling arguments. Sere nae veer on jand a member for the Workers Party. ing to pay a certain price, even to Barmat, the Release roach and Tramball An outburst of popular protest is forcing the reduction of the savage sentences given Privates Crouch and Trumbull of the Hawaiian army of occupation for expressing Communist opinions. It is hinted that the terms will be reduced from 40 and 26 years to 3 years or less. The DAILY WORKER was the only paper in of this Case. The capitalist press paid attention to must not be allowed to die down. conscious soldiers must be freed. The Chicago Tribune corroborates the charges made by us to the effect that had soldiers with Com- These class- | they would simply have been given a dishonorable But Hawaii is a colony, it is “the most important military post in American control,” the huge fleet gathered by our imperialist government made Hawaii its base of operations in its latest maneuvers preliminary to its cruise of intimida- tion in the Far East. Imperialism rules harshly dictatorship. The workers and their organizations should flood Washington with protests until these soldiers are released. Let the imperialists know that the work- ers of America are at least alive to the plots and barbarities of their rulers. Tom Mann Goes to Poland The Polish embassy has given permission to Tom Mann, veteran of a thousand battles: of the working class in a dozen different countries, to en- ter Poland as representative of the Workers Weekly. We hope nothing we say wilt-cause the Polish government to change its mind, but if it thinks that Tom can be fooled by any prepared-in-advance prisons which he will be allowed to inspect they have another guess coming. Tom Mann will find out more about the Polish government and its murderous assault upon the workers, its tortures and murders than it knows itself. That he does not speak Rolish is no handicap to Tom. In Russia it is a matter of public knowledge that he can talk with Russian workers and peas- ants and make himself understood and understand them altho he knows but two words of Russian and they know no English. Tom Mann will turn the torture government of Poland inside out and let the workers of the world see what makes it go. The fact that he is allowed to enter:Poland as a ‘correspondent shows that the world-wide demonstrations of the workers against the terror of the Polish government is having its effect. Starvation in Stable Roumania Routhadia is one of the little darlings of the allied imperialists, an important link in the chain of kept) nations that are supposed to bar Bol- shevism ‘from western Europe. Roumania has had no revolution, the boyars— the landlords—with the backing of French finance and bayonets are in full control—but the workers and péasants are on the verge of starvation. Across the border the Russian peasants, under the Soviet government, travel each month farther away from the danger of famine and hardship. Soviet Russia has a Communist government. Roumania is semi-feudal but is admitted freely into the congress of civilized nations. Its.govern- ment is a government of terror, It crushes merci- lessly even peasant parliamentary movements. But the peasants, altho, saved so far from the mistake of revolution, are starving nevertheless, Will the enemies of Soviet Russia who are also the enemies’ of the whole working élass, the Snow- dens, Wolls, Greens and Jouhauxes, who wasted so much pity on the peasantry of Russia, please ex- plain why in safe and sane Roumania, an almost purely agricultural country, the people who raise the grain are starving? “The Mire of Party Strife” Speaking of the candidacy of General Hinden- burg, Fritz Ebert, son of the late German presi- dent, remarks: “We republicans, especially the republican war veterans, are most indignant that the person of the aged field marshal, who was equally venerable: to all Germans, is thus dragged into the mire of party strife.’ Fritz must be congratulated on his chioce of words if on nothing else. If any one should know what “the mire of party strife’ in Germany means, it ought to be the son of a socialist president whose administration sold itself to the big industrialists, to the allied imperialists, to everyone who was will- banker. Yes, “the mire of party strife” so far as the Ger- man social-democracy is concerned, is black, deep and filthy, stinking with the putrid bodies of mut- dered workers. But Hindenburg is able to’ stand this kind of an odor as well as the most experienced social- democrat official. The Ungrateful Chinese Stadents, The students in the south of China are an un- grateful lot. After John D. Rockefeller has donated millions for their education in the American style they go right out and boycott honest American business- men. No American college student would be guilty of such unbecoming conduct. On the contrary, they make the finest strikebreakers in the world, showing that we Americans are the natural leaders of the backward peoples of the Orient. Every day get a “sub” for the DATLY WORKER (0! .) , TB, DA WORKER of the existence of a huge industrial proletariat, there is in America no mass political party. It is characté?- istic of the United States that thé question of political and organization- al independence from the bourgeoisie is in that country still the fundamental problem. There is a wide gulf ‘be- tween the task of the proletariat to break away from the bourgeoisie, and that of the party to become a mass party; and this gulf can be bridged over only by a labor party. The labor patry is based on collec- tive membership; it therefore repre- sents the most primitive political form of organization. The historical rea- son for this phenomenon is the early development of imperialism, the early division of the workers into labor aris- tocrats with closed unions, and lower unskilled masses whom it was impos- sible to organize because their ablest leaders went over to the bourgeoisie. The first shock received by British imperialism rendered the trade unions Politically active. with the proletari- zation of the labor aristocracy, it be- came possible to develop a mass po- litical party of the proletariat. In the United States the division of the prole- tariat is. still sharper because the so- cial divisions are emphasized by racia differences, and because the central: ized government had cut down the privileges of the labor aristocracy which had the effect of increasing the latter’s political activities. After the war, it first became pos- sible to form a mass proletarian party in the United States. The task of the American Communist Party is: to build a bridge connecting the histori- cal task of the proletariat with the aim of the party to become a mass party. The speaker says that he will refrain from discussing factional mat- ters before the plent The Labof Party Problem. The theses on Bolshevization should contain the tasks of the American Communist Party in the labor party The labor party problem also con- cerns Canada, South Africa, Australia, and perhaps even Holland. The speaker warns against attempting to solve the problems of the Far West with the Mid-European slogans and methods. That would be just as er- roneous as to attempt to solve the problems of the Far East with Mid- European slogans. The labor party in the United States may be opportun- istic, but we must get into it none the (Continued tren fegesslast issue.) Continue Discusslow of Bolshevization. MOSCOW, Marci 29—(By Matl)— At today’s session the debate on Bol- shevization is coltinued. Comrade Tondl (Czecho- Slovakia) declares that with constant friction, victory is im- possible, The workers will not per- mit the movement to suffer under personal questions. The workers want unity. Comrade Pepper (America): “The nature of the problem at present con- fronting us has not,yet penetrated our consciousness, The first period of the Comintern’s activities may be called the Mid-Eurgpean period. The second period is characterized by the extension of the Comintern’s sphere of influence to the Far East. Since the Fifth World Congress, it has be- come clear that the present period is characterized by fhe acquisition of new territories in the Far West.. The main political problem in the Far West is the labor party question—just as the question of the social-democracy dom- inates central Europe. Since the Fifth Congress, the tactic of the Comintern has produced new results in England. [n.the first place —a minority movement which has be- come a mass movement; in the second place, the crystallization of a left wing in the labor party. In this res- pect we have noticed a certain oppo- sition on the part of some of the Brit- ish comrades. Now it is clear that the tactics of the Comintern were correct. Already the left wing is pursuing an inde- pendent policy against the right. All this proves the necessity of develop- ing the British party to a mass party. Our next task therefore is, to find the specific English method of developing @ mass party. This can be accomp- lished of course only thru the collec- tive work of the British party. Galla- gher did not at all attempt to bring up the real problems; he spoke on generalities but not-on the main prob- lem of how to formv # mass party un- der the given cireumstances in Eng- land. The Communist Party of Great Britain has done good work in the trade unions, but failed to bring up the most urgent. political questions, and the problem ofthe monarchy and the house of lords,..; « U. S. Politically: Backward. The United States 4s. politically be- hind the European-countries. WALSH IS'KEEN |[asiescerr << By 1.0Flahern ||*ANISE’ SPEAKS — FOR NEW PROBE OF Ob LEASES Dense Sham Battle with-G. O. P. GREAT FALUS4an Mont., April 16.—If Senator Walsh of|Moentana, has his way, the senate will devote consider- able of. next winter’a session to an- other investigation of government oil leases. mye Field Adjoins Teapot Dome. Walsh declared"¥here today he would demand an investigation of the holdings of the Midwest Refining com- pany in the Salt Creek fields in Wy- oming. This field,-ome of the richest in the country, adjoins Teapot Dome. The inquiry would air the interior department's part in the leasing of the field. Walsh said the Midwest company, of which Harry M. Black- mer, of Denver, formerly was chair- man of the board, had gained what amounted to almost. complete domin- ance of the field. 7 Works on the Quiet. At the same time, Walsh announced he also would investigate the disposi- tion of $230,000 in liberty bonds which were traced-at the recent Tea- pot Dome trial at Cheyenne, Wyo., from the defunct Continental Trading company to ex-Seoretary of the In- terior Albert B. Fally For weeks, Walgh, has been work- ing quietly on the Midwest case and said he expected li trouble in get- tag the inquiry auth 1d by the sen- AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) He worries about the Germany of the kaiser, Hinden- burg, the Barmats, and the Dawes’ plan. But what about the Germany of the working class? The Germany that Berger pities, had enough lethal weapons to murder Liebkhecht and Luxemburg and thousands of other workers. It had enough guns to shoot down the workers of Halle only a few weeks ago. Berger has no words to waste on the slaughter of German workers by the ruling class of that country. ed by the allies. T is well that Berger has finally thrown off his pacifist mask. At best that was the extent of his so- cialism. When the left wing elements left the socialist party there was very little socialism left. But, thousands of workers have mistaken pacifism for real socialism. Berger's self-unmask- ing is useful in disillusioning them. This is important, because Berger stands for the socialism of the second international more shamelessly than any other socialist leader in the Unit- ed States. Hillquit and the other traitors are too clever to expose them- selves as Berger does—for the pres- ent. » e- @ p ockecn reading the poison spread among the workers of Milwaukee oy Victor Berger, the importance of mereasing the circulation of The DAILY WORKER impresses itself forcefully on one’s mind. What effect will Berger’s propaganda have on the mind of the average worker who reads Last Year’s Strike Injunction Jails a Belleville Worker BELLEVILLE, 2 Wh, April 16—Ninety days in prison are being served by Wm. T. Christopher, former business agent, Belleville Central Trades and Labor Assembly, for assisting girl strikers in the struggle last summer for a union shop. The charge against Christopher is violation of an injune- tion issued in behalf of the Charles Meyers & Co. pants shop when the strike was called in July, 1924. Eight girl employes, called out by the Amal. gamated Clothing Workers’ Union, and a former business agent of the building trades council were also ad- judged guilty of contempt but were let off with fines ranging up to $100, The strikers demanded a 44-hour week instead of the 50 hours fixed by the Meyers company and agked 18 to. 20 per cent increases-over the com: pany wages of $6 to $12 a week. © ‘tH Amalgafnated strike had the backing, of the Belleville A. F. of L. central body. go sayy Co-operative Farming Increases. A tremendous increase in co-opera- tive marketing in the : southern states during the past te: is reported by the bureau of agricultural econom- ics, United States ent of agri- culture. It reports in these states there are now. somé@ 913,000 farmers who are members co-operative or- ganizations as co: with 104,000 in 1915. i ne Deny Envoy Was Punished. WASHINGTON, April 16.— State department officials deny the charge made in a letter from F, de P. Davila in Mexico City, that Willis C. Cook, minister to Venezuela, has been mys- teriously detained in Washington for the past year, and suggesting that Go- mez, the tyrant of Yenezueia, caused him to be recall the United States because Cob! rted some of the atrocities of ez’ rule. Cook is declared to ha’ in Caracas for many monthsaet. No denial is made that Gomez dsjan absolute dic- tator, a terrorist and torturer—the de. partment prof 8 not to know the facts pro or con! tty) GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Initiative. The process of development jof thé United States will slow up con- siderably, singe the world is full ot conflicts for America, and since there are in the United States a most cen- tralized industry and a powerful pro- letariat. The American Communist Party must play the role of an initia- tor and organizer in the labor party; this will make a mass party out of it. (Applause.) No Mass Party Tradition Here. Cannon (America): In America there is no mass party tradition. The main task is therefore to carry on Marxist-Leninist propaganda. Com- rade Kun’s statements on this point are of great significance. The speaker suggests that great care be taken itt connection with the slogan “Profes: sional Revolutionary,” for otherwise there is the danger that the party may become merely a party of functionar- ies. The two problems facing us are: Trade union work and the formation of shop nuclei. The American ‘trade unions are extremely weak; hence thc immediate task should be to create trade unions. Shop nuclei are. of especial importance in the United States, but they also involve special difficulties; the small party, weak trade unions, a large industry, and the tendency to do everything outside the shop or factory. The party is divided into language federations; centralization is there- fore the first problem. As to the labor party question, a comparison with England is out of place. In England @ mass labor party is already in ex- istence; besides, the American masses are. not as class conscious as the English. The labor party question is for the present, a question of working in the trade unions, The speaker is not opposed to a labor party as such, but only to its being a parallel organ- ization to the Communist Party, A labor party must be the reflection of the unity of the working class. A la- bor party cannot at once be formed; our immediate task is to propagate a labor party on the basis of partial de- mands. Slogan Against Opportunists. Comrade Kuusinen: Bolshevization is a slogan against the opportunists, but not for sectionalism. Kreibich de- clared in the Czech commission that not only was a ‘correct policy neces- sary but its, correct execution as well. The speaker points out that correct In spite | less, for the purpose of taking over the policy is. the | peat: renee heme ocdametcentersbachevee detheleentesec 6. a: ic een thereat ie tote os or > eit oe de for its cor- By Tr. 7 O'Flaherty it? Some, will. be convinced that they must, defend, Wall Street's country. Doesn't it's their? Others will pot and cynical and will lose all faith in the working class movement, on ee potential fas- cists. HE D) nebieicie is the only antidote fo the deadly drug carried in the colun of such papers as the Leader. It is moré dangerous than the capitalist prebs. The workers, at least, are ‘Schooled to expect nothing that is td ‘their interest from that quarter. But a kocialist paper! And when they see a socialist paper come out for a larger air navy, defense, and so forth, you cannot blame them for having a funny sensation inside their think tanks. *. 2 8 HEN one turns to The DAILY WORKER, with its virile work- ing class tone, its bitter hatred of capitalism and all its works and pomps, its anti-capitalist-militarism, its defense of Soviet Russia, Red army and all, its constructive pro- gram for the organization of the working class, its vision of a social- ist society where the , worker alone will rule—it seems a scandal that during a subscription drive we find on. ly a few miserable subs come in daily instead of hundreds. Let our answer to the treachery of Berger and the rot- ten socialist party, as well as to capi- talism, be-a new enthusiasm to put our Communist paper into the hands of the workers, Get more subs and let The DAILY WORKER defend so- cialism against the socialists. Chinese Just Can’t © Understand Triumph _ of Reaction in U, s. WASHINGTON, April 16.—Pro} 'es- sive leaders who are seeking to re establish orderly government ©‘ in China, and to start that nation on the road to a humane administration of industry, are reported, in letters received in Washington from Amieéfi can sources in China, to be shocketl at recent tendencies in the United States. mingtang party and the Chinese stu- dents are united in a campaign to im- prove the conditions under which wo- men and children are employed in the factories in the big port cities, where foreign influence has penetrat- ed. The fact that child workers in nied protection by the federal consti- tution is a serious blow to this move- ‘| ment, except with those who point to America as a bad example. it ‘The recent strike in*Shanghal is re- a eleanup of these bad factory con- (id6ns, which are due to merciless Sun Yat Sen is dead, but his Kuo- American factories are now being de-}: ported to have’ been aimed to compel} \ Sessions of Enlarged Executive of the C. L ree radii: He then cites. an ar- ticle ‘by Thalheimer, on the united front, and another one by Kreibich,on thie’slogan of a workers’ and peasants’ goveriment, and shows that both of these articles contain etroneus views. Kreibich did not grasp the revolu- tionary meaning of the slogan; the speaker also suggests that Thalheimer and Kreibich have misunderstood the decisions of the Fifth Congress on the trade union question, The parties have already begun the Bolshevization work, but they have as yet not fully grasped the Bolshevist method of concentration of action. The theoreticians give too little atten- tion to the Marxian interpretation of current events, ‘The daily party work must be bet ter organized, and the reorganization on the shop nuclei basis offers rich possibilities. This also makes posst- ble the extension and education of the staff of new organizers. Thé speaker then polemizes against -Thalheimer and Kreibich, Who in tkeit artivles treat the question of continuity of party leadership too mechanically. The mere submission of Conirade Kreibich does not suffice. There are in Soviet Russia many specialists who submit to discipline, but they are not elected into the party executiye, The former social-democratic leaders must be Bolshevized thru constant-work but it is not absolutely_necessary that the executive should do the massag- ing. Expulsion from the party is not the normal method of Bolshevization, but it is sometimes necessary, as in the case of Bubnik (Czecho-Slovakia). Formal democracy is just as errone- ous as autocratic leadership, or a mix. ture of formal democracy and auto- cratic leadership. A party leadership is good if it extends and develops simultaneously with the activization of the party masses. As to the inter- national leadership, the speaker is of the opinion that when Kreibich and Thalheimer opposed the Russian influ- ence in the executive, they were really opposing the Bolshevik leadership, of the Comintern. The so-called inde- pendent Communists are fighting the Comintern, and Paul Levi who had also followed his own course and found the social-democratic party, _ should serve as a*warning to Thalheimer and Kreibich. Objective criticism for the improvement of the work is desirable, but the leading role of the executive must remain. (Applause.) (To be continued in next issue.) “ANISE SPEAKS AT SANITARIUM ON SOVIET RULE Jewish Workers Aid Children’s n’s Homes DENVER, Goins. As April 16— When Anna Louise Strong was here, she addressed among other meetings, pa- tients and workers at the Jewish Con- sumptive Relief Sanatarium near Den- ver, Colo. As this is a charitable institution maintained by Workmen’s Circle branches and other Jewish or- ganizations, the patients who are mostly Jewish workers who are try- ing to recuperate from the ravages of tuberculosis, which the wage sys- tem has inflicted upon them in their struggle for a livelihood, the patients are incapacitated from earning a live- lihood and have very little or nothing themselves. In_spite of this fact in a personal solicitation by a committee which con- sisted of O. Fine, M. Kronetz, Klein, and Mazor, to the patients and work- ers collected $113.75, which was sent direct to Anna Louise Strong for the children’s homes in Russia, The money was sent by manager of the sanatarium, Mr. Sorkin, Attorney Approves Graft. WASHINGTON, D. C,, April 16.— Attorney General Sargent poses that he will back the United States shipping board in turning the five gov: ernment steamships operating” in the Pacific over to the Dollar Line. Rob- ert Dollar is the notorious open shop- per who was largely responsible for the frame-up of Thomas Mooney. The shipping board has moved for dismis- sal of the suit filed in the supreme court of the District of Columbia by the Pacific Mail-Steamship com; which had put in 4 lower bid for the f ships. The steamers were built at 4 Cost of thirty million dollars and sold for ave million dollars. Scott Reprieved Until July 17, SPRINGFIELD, IL, April 16.—Rus- sell Scott, condemned to die on the scaffold in Chicago tomorrow for the murder of Joseph Maurer, loop drug store clerk, was given a chance for his life today when Governor Len Small Samra a stay of execute until July . %, ‘Alfonso Greets Rotary Hone. RID.—King Alfonso received eS rm fer tional President of Rotary Hill ‘the latter's departure for’ Bar- last night. RIRERRE OST 38 “fie for. _ the Dat rg & ee) eee ‘