The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1925, Page 4

Page Four ~ fic “ i RAILWAYMENOF International Prospects and Bo AUSTRALIA FOR AMALGAMATION * / i 1 / HE DAILY WORKER I must, however, frankly state that even in Russia there are. .certain Marxists who express similar ideas to that of “the only French Marxist,” Charles Rappaport. THINK the matter fs clear to the Enlarged Executive. The Plenum By GREGORY ZINOVIEV. (Concluded from last issue.) VII. Coat and are no Spartacists,” é know how to value the good such What the left independents gave us. e left inde- pendents brought masses into our party (voice from the body of the hall: “Quite true!”), But on the other hand they had such serious to perfect ourselves, and to make our- selves true Communists such as Com- rade Lenin imagined them. That is one of the aims of Bolshevization. In Spite of all Difficul- Forward! Ishevization win them over to our-side. Those workers must be re-educated, we must make them revolutionaries, true Len- inists, Bolsheviks, HE pace of the revolution has, slackened. But we must not use GERMAN SCAB ORGANIZATION SEES TROUBLE Dawes Plan Will Make ob ties and Obstacles. ° it as a justification or explanation of i 3 Leninism. understands why we lay emphasis on | weaknesses that they were only able || our own faults and defects and ot our} More Strikes, it Says toe aes Mises the importance of Lenin. Lenin ig/ to overcome their detects after ©! ~OMRADHS, we were obliged to Te- ideological inertia, or to justify the Negotiate With Other unthinkable without Marx. Lenin} series of crises, We must learn how cord a number of not very pleas-| fact that the social democratic tradi- (Special to The Dally Worker) g j was Mates pupil. Leninismn: is the | tb ‘aniterunden the jaguar of revolu- ls) ¢ pacts, and’ werecobliged’ to\ adult tote Hay’ uct yet been extirpated.| BERLIN, May 27.—So bitter is the Transport Unions ee ee lareatar cn ce pos ore true undistorted Marxism » of | our |+tonary: .Marzism ails ithe valuable many defeats and faults. We must} The workers who have come over exploitation of labor under the Dawes Must ers! font ie Basis o epoch, When the Second Interna- prasad asl le < nlite look the truth in the face, We just | from the social democrats to the Com- | plan and so little hope of improvement By W. FRANCIS AHERN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) MELBOURNE, Australia, May 27.— At a conference of railwaymen, mem- bers of the Australian Railways Union held at Melbourne recently the ques- tion of amalgamation with other trans- port unions as a first move to consti- tuting the transport division of the One Big Union was discussed. The following resolution was carried:— “That an effort be made to amalga- mate with other transport unions with the view to bringing about closer in- dustrial organization, and the forma- tion of a transport department of the Australian organization called the One Big Union. Conference aguin affirms its belief and confidence in the One Big Industrial Union, and favors a shop committee system to secure con- trol at the point of production, as well as of distribytion, thus organizing both the employed and unemployed.” Negotiate With Engineers Negotiations were opened up with the Locomotive Engineers’ Union with a view to bringing about an amalga- mation of the two unions, but proved abortive.. The A. R. U. then carried a resolution instructing its organizers to enroll locomotive engineers in the A. R.U. The A. R, U. also decided to co-operate with other unions with a view to establishing a labor radio station for the broadcasting of labor news and propaganda. Call Mass Meeting It was also decided that a mass meeting of members of the A. R. U. be caljled at an early date to discuss (a) past, present, and future dismis- sals of employees from the railway services; (b) protest against the act- ion of the state railway department in | going outside Australia for their re- quirements, which can be locally pro- duced. Roley Tears Down Flag of League of ti nai had mutilated Marxism until it was unrecognigable and began to drag The whole question of | his banner in the mire, true Marxism must be treated | remained living only in Leninism, and What Len-| that is why the bolshevization of the parties must be carried out on the basis of Leninism. That is the idea we have given expression to in our theses, We shall carry it further both in theory and in practice. We are far from wishing to renounce the glorious traditions of the First International and the many, truly valuable, tradi- tions even of the Second Internation- al. It is unthinkable, for instznce, that a French Communist should not OMRADES! bolshevization on the basis of Leninism. inism is and with what fresh conclu- | sions it has enriched the theory of Marxism generally we have set forth in detail in our theses. I am obliged to admit that not all our comrades correctly understand the relation between Marxism and Leninism. I hold in my hands a state- ment by a French comrade who, partly in jest, calls himself the only French Marxist. I am referring to know Guesdes and Lafargue, that a Russian Bolshevik should know Plek- hanov only as an opportunict, and not know that Plekhanov was once the teacher of Lenin; or that a German Communist should forget the valuable contributions made by social democ- racy in to the earlier revolutionary period of its activities. We will not surrender to the present social dem- ocrats the Wilhelm Liebknecht and the Bebel of the time of the “excep- tional law against the socialists.” That which is truly Marxism in the revoltuionary traditions of the old Polish democrats must also be care- fully preserved as a valuable histori- cal heritage. The same should be Said of the “Spartacus Bund.” But it would be a profound error to regard, all the Spartacists as finished leaders, whom it is inconvenient for instance to ask how they regard the “Saxon” policy or the event of October, 1923. That cannot be allowed, comrades. We, cannot allow every Spartacist a carte blanche on the plea of an old name. But, on the other hand/ it becomes no- Charles Rappaport. It concerns a pas- sage in the speech which he delivered at,the last congress of the French party. This is how the Humanite of January 19 reports this passage: “Many comrades fail to understand the real meaning of bolshevization,” Rappaport declared. - “He expressed regret,” the paper went on to say, “that a tendency was to be observed to substitute Marxism by Leninism.” Rappaport complains “that there is a tendency to substitute Marxism by Leninism!” In other words “the only French Marxist” believes that wel want to replace Marxism by Leninism, We recently heard the same state- ment from the mouth of Friedrich Ad- ler. Adler says that a tendency is growing up in the Communist Inter- national to refer more and more rare- ly to Marxism and to speak more and more frequently of Leninism. Fried- rich Adler regards this as evidence of our renunciation of Marxism., When Adler tells such fables we are very little affected. But it is very sad when they are told by our own comrades. body to ‘boast that “we, thank god, and the left independents. Every young worker perfectly understands that the Communist movement rose up on the backs of several preceding generations, generations who had both their weak and their .strong — sides. The Communist International did not appear in the world all of a sudden, It stands upon the foundation con- structed by the revolutionaries of former generations, The. great pupil of Marx, Lenin, carefully studied the theory and practice of the former gen- erations of revolutionaries and trained the young generation in’ a spirit of reverence towards the historical ex- ploits which prepared the soil for the Communist International; Lenin al- ways pointed out the ‘lessons which we owe to the success and the failure, of those who fought before us. Com- munism began not in 1919, not at the moment of the foundation of the Com- munist International, but much earli- er; it has a glorious. and spacious past. We must acquaint ourselves with that past, we must study it; that is often neglected by us. In this re- spect the slowing up of the pace of revolutionary development has its good sides, since we are taking ad- vantage of the breathing space which history is allowing the bourgeoisie. The breathing space will be to the advantage of the working class if it is used for extending our knowledge, even tho our universities may for the time being be prisons. Systematic study with the help of lectures, party schools, study circles, ete; are assum- ing tremendous importance. We are taking advantage.of the® breathing Space not only to perfect the structure of our organizations, but algo to study, Ridiculous Predictions of Russo-Japanese By R. KAWASLINNA,. Count Soejima, one of the agents of the aristocracy and capitalists in, @ speech recently in Chicago predicted War His argument defeats his prediction. Since America as a monetary power, is the center of capitalist regime, and since a conflict resulting in war will be unavoidable because of expansion admit that the question of the period of the revolution is liable to re-ex- amination. We formerly used to count the time in months; now we are obliged to count in years, We must definitely say that in cer- tain countries all immediate revolu- tionary situation is still not existent. We must realize that we are entering upon a phase of protracted and stub- born work in the way of bolshevizing our parties. Leninism does not fall from heaven, We are faced with a serious fight against right dangers. The slogan of bolshevization, in fact was advanced in the fight against right tendencies, And in future too it will mainly be a fight against right — and of course against — ultra-left—tendencies and against the backsliding, which is mak- ing itself felt in many places. It ts enough to cite the instance of Brunn. It“is possible that similar manifesta- tions are revealing themselves in other countries. That, in view of the slackening down of the pace of revo- lutionary developments, is now to be expected. In many of our parties the majority consists of the mass which came over to us from the social dem- ocratic organizations. That factor and its consequence is making itself par- ticularly felt in Czecho-Slovakia, where 73 per cent of the party mem- bers are former social democrats. The proportion, I think, it is same in the German party, and in many other parties. Of course, we should be proud of the fact»that we are break- ing up the social democratic parties and we are attracting the workers away from them. We shall continue to sever the workers from the social democrats. But it is not enough to munist Party are excellent proleta- rians. Even in Brunn in all probabil- ity, the workers are in 99 cases out of 100 earnestly devoted to Communism and to the Communist International. But they are being perverted by men who have in fact remained social dem- ocrats and who are confusing window smashing with revolution. ~We must say that if we are obliged “to break a window pane or two” of these op- portunists, we shall do it with pleas- ure, a In conclusion, comrades, let me say) the following: Our policy on the whole remains the same, and we our- To adapt ourselves to a new situation, while remaining true to Marxism, is in its condition is there, that the league of German industrialists are planning to continue their “technical emergency aid” organization of strike- breakers and are urging that the gov- ernment also continue its support of the plan. The league of German industrialists is an organization of business. men and clerks which acts as a strike- breaking organization whenever any labor dispute threatens to tie up any industry. This precious lot of scoundrels shrewdly foresee as they say, “that as the Dawes plan obligations in- outbursts among the masses and it then would be doubtful whether the German trade union leaders could selves shall remain true to our a crease, there may be renewed radical not opportunism. It is the revolution- ary duty of a Communist. The path to victory is a long one. The path to the world revolution is a far one to go. We once thought that in five years or so our aim would be achieved, We set out on our journey, but soon realized that the path was far more stony and thorny than we at first thought. We had fo remove the stones, and pull out the thorns, we had to overcome obstacle after obstacle and at times to retreat and prepare for a fresh sally. We became convinced that there are still great obstacles to overcome. Well, we shall overcome them. But the direction remains the same: our will remains as unshakable as our aim is great. We shall suc- ceed in removing the stones and the thorns from-our path, we shall clear the road and we shall achieve the aim which lends profundity and mag- nificent purpose to our fight. We shall achieve Communism! (Stormy ap- Dlause.) (Conclusion.) IRON WORKERS SUE UNION-SECRETARY FOR $50,000 STOLEN FUNDS Civil Liberties Fights for Civil * Trial for Crouch NEW YORK, May 27.—Following the recommendation of Major Gen. Everybody Breaks the Law, is Statement of Trade Commissioners NEW YORK, May 27.—(FP).— live up to their promise to keep the industrial life of the country going at the necessary pace.” Australian Labor Party Demands More Than Minimum Wage MELBOURNE, Australia, May 27. At the annual conference of the Victoria state branch of the Au- Stralian Labor Party, held at Mel- bourne last month there was an ani- mated discussion regarding the fixa- tion of wages. Delegates demanded the amendment of all legislation deal- ing with wages, to provide that they should be assessed and paid “in ac- cordance with the values created by labor.” After discussion, the following reso- lution was agreed to:—‘“That it be an instruction to the parliamentary labor party, when in power, to amend all acts dealing with wages, to provide that, in addition to the adjustment of accordance with the standards of the time, the inereasing productivity of in- dustry must also be considered with a view to the workers sharing in any Increased prosperity.” . . ey “Business is living up t jb s Nations on Ship | that a Russo-Japanese war will take | of capitalism, war is only possible ST. LOUIS, May 27<e—The Inter- | William R. Smith that the prison | ang Ciatcdt (iy LUST es Le eae Jobless Army Grows In Sweden ae place in ten years. His reason for| where there is the inferiority complex} national Association .of Bridge, | sentences of 40 and 26 years against } asthe public is obeying the Volstead |__STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 27.~ this deduction is the conflict of inter-| of bourgeois capitalism. There can-| Structural and Ornamental tron Private Paul Crouch and Private The number of uneniployment in CONSTANTINOPLE, May 27.—The new league of nations flag, has been seized by the Turkish government and has been prohibited from being flown | here. The straits commission created under the Lausanne treaty to report on the number of warships in the black sea, hoisted the flag, a dark blue with two golden bars. Admiral Vassif Pasha, Turkish dele- gate on the commission, seized the flag by order of his government, and | ammounced that police would tear ‘e m any other league of nations flag ised. ests that has existed in Manchuria be: tween Russia and Japan where the former czar’s ambitious army was de- feated and that defeat, he said, caused the 1905 revolution. Regarding the relations between America and Japan, he said Japan was more friendly to America because of economic interests linking both coun- tries together. America fs a customer for Japan and the world financial cen- ter whose strength no country could afford to ignore. * not be any conflict in Manchuria so long as Russia is governed by work- ers and peasants. In spite df Soejima,s wish which, was father to the prediction, Russia will stand afoot helping the poor over- populated workers of Japan and unite the workers in both countries not only against Japanese aristocrats and cap!- talists, but also and equally success- fully against the American bourgeois money makers. — Speak Up Comrades! Are you going to allow the paper that is fighting your battles to go along without your help during The Second Annual Sub Campaign? Are you going to allow the paper that is building the Amer- ican revolutionary labor move- ment to go without the strength that more subs will give it? Send in that sub now— Speak Up Comrade! Let us hear you at THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. workers has filed suit against Harry Jones, former general secretary- treasurer ofthe union, to compel him to accoiint for, the petition says, “a sum in excess of $50,000” of union funds. Jones Was general secretary-treasurer from March 4, 1913 until April 25, 1925 at which time*he was ousted from office and expelled from union ‘membership when, it is alleged, he was found short in his accounts. The plaintiffs are General President. Morrin and the executive board. Frank P. Walsh is one of the union's attorne: Philadelphia May 30th Picnic. PHILADELPHIA, Pa—All prepar- ations are being compléted for the first Workers Party outing of the sum- mer season for Saturday, May 30, from 10 in the morning until midnight, The Picnic will be held at the Burholme Park. The arrangements committee has made a definite agreement with the weather bureau for bright sun- shine weather for Saturday, May 30, and comrades need not worry about rain, there will be no rain for three days before and after the picnic. By all means the comrades are re- quested to’secure their lunch tickets at the party or the Freiheit office. Two hundred comrades have already agreed not to take any lunch along which assures everyone a large var, iety of wholesome and fresh refresh- ments. Directions: Take car No. 60 on 5th Street at any time during the day and ask any comrade where to get off or tell the conductor to’ let you off at Cottman street which is 7200 North and walk three blocks West. MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF CHICAGO Tomorrow, Friday, May 29, 8 p. m. AT 722 BLUE ISLAND AVENUE MAX SHACHTMAN, Editor of the Young Worker. recently returned from Soviet Russia, will report on the 5th session of the Young Communist International. Other'important reports will also be given. Admission to all Y. W, L, and 'W. P. members by paid-up member- ship cards. - Walter Trumbull by court martial at Honolulu for their Communist beliefs be reduced to 3 and 1 years respect- ively, the American Civil Libertie Union announces that efforts are being made to bring the cases into the civil courts. John Albert Matthéwman, former attorney-general of the territory and judge in the local courts, has been re- tained to open the case in the civil courts. “We are trying to take these cases out of the hand of the military authorities because we believe that these men did not have a fair trial and the civil courts ought to review it,” the union declares, The ground on which it is expected to carry the case into the civil courts is that the military court erred in pro- nouncinga sentence that was itself in violation of the 42nd article of war, This article provides that no person shall be sentenced to imprisonment in a federal or military prison by any court martial unless the offense with which he is charged is punishable by imprisonment for at least one year under the civil laws of the state. Even if Crouch and Trumbull were guilty of forming a secret society in violation of the territorial statute, as was char- ged at their trial, the maximum sent- ence that could be imposed upon them under the civil code would be three months. Czech Workers Demand Raise PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, May 27. —tThe workers in the glove industry have made a new demand for a twen- ty per cent increase in wages, giving as their reason therefor the increased cost of living. ‘} bate on “Resolved, that Capitalism act,” said Federal Trade Commission- er Huston Thompson at a luncheon of the department of research and edu- cation of the federal council of chur- ches. Thompson says new rules pre- vent proper functioning of the trade commission. GET A SUB AND GIV= ONEI Sweden on March 1, 1925, was re- ported as 21,600, as against 20,600 on February 1, 1925. The number of un- employed reported on March 1, 1924, was 15,900, which shows a slight in- crease of unemployment in 1925. Me- tal and machine workers comprise the majority class in the total number of minimum standard of comfort in unemployed. UNIST CHILDRENS COLUM a A Junior Activities in Los Angeles. HE second anniversary celebrated by the Jynior section of Los An- geles was a success. More than eight hundred people (three hundred chil- dren) crowded the hall, and accord- ing to all reports, were satisfied that this was the best concert that they have heard for a long time. Many in- quiries were made since as to when the Junjors will give another concert, and repeated calls were made for numbers performed on that evening, such as the “Spirit of Communism,” “The Happy Prince” and the “Labor Defense Operata.” The proceeds of this affair could not have possibly gone for a better cause, as $72.32 was turned over to the Local Labor De- fense, $30 to the Co-operative Build- ing and $6.50 to the national office. The Juniors of Los Angeles are “always ready” always doing some- thing, always planning a head, At the present time all groups are busily en- gaged in a project which is something | new, something different, it is a Com- munist Children’s Week, which will be carried thru within about three weeks. More details about this later. One of the groups is having a de- better than Communism.”’ For this debate, one of the Juniors, who was trying to convince some of his fellow students that the Junior section, Y. |W. L., is the best organization for working class children to belong to, wi class. room. cepted by the Junior group and the debate will take place. The Juniors challenged by two boys from his The challenge was ac- CHICAGO LITERATURE CONFERENCE are now seriously thinking of organiz- ing a debating team, and thus be able to challenge different organizations on different subjects from time to time, = iors meet every Monday at 407 S. Pecan St. and every Tuesday and Wednesday at the Co-operative Cen- ter, Mott and Brooklyn. Meeting com- mences'7 p. m. sharp. In the near future we will also have meetings on Friday night at the Co-operative. If any further information is desired please communicate with A. Lyons, Jr., diregtor of Los Angeles, 407 For- est St., Los Angeles, Cal. A Proletarian’s Review of a Porleta- rian Playlet. EXT time some bourgeois hi-brow starts crowin’ about capitalist culture particularly about its theater, I'm gonna give him the merry ha-ha and then maybe tell him a few. And well I may. Didn't I see the juniors in “School Days”? On second thought, won't. Melted & compassion for him in his benighted and lead him gently—as gently as his atrophying them to capitalist servilit; he'll well realize that he has s something. He will see a playlet, po! traying a Communist version of a da: in a capitalist school, and if that isn’ great stuff it is, at least, potentially alive, and in the hands of the Juniors it becomes more so. Even the prop- aganda features in the mouths of George and Vera do not fall flat, as propaganda usually does, but become, inspired words. And that’s art of a high order. The wistful burlesquery of ten-year-old emanciated laundry- washing imp, Vera—is enough to make one laugh and cry at one and the same time, The rest of the players were deliciously grotesque. The play- ignorance, “I'll take him by the hand ~ ignorance, fear and servility will alg low me. And if his machine isn’t yet + { Monday, June 1, the Irish Famine Relief Committee of this city, is ar- ranging a big mass let as a whole is stirring and it's propaganda value is great. The wonder of it all is that these are not budding geniu: lected and pampered in some bourgeals school, but an ordinary Junior group—the Brownsville group—trained and dir- “ ected not by a highly tutored director,.. ( but by a gitted comrade of the Young SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD TH = DAILY WORKER Tonight, 7 p. m. at 19 So. Lincoln St. All Y. W. L. and W, P, Branch Agents and All Comrades Interested in the Work of Securing Subs for the DAILY WORKER and the Distribution of Com inist Literature Should Be Present. Important Matters iil Be Discussed. NAME STREET.