The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1925, Page 13

(Continued from page 2) front to the capltalist class. And when the class stands up against class, it means not only an economic but also a political struggle, The conference recognized the sig- nificance of this struggle. It did not remain within the narrow bounds of the economic struggle, but declared War against the danger of new wars as one of the preliminary conditions of unity, new wats however belong to the very nature af capitalist condi- tions. A These elevon mfllion workers how- ever not only found a common lang- urge, but they also gave certain or- ganizatory foundations to co-operation in the interest of the realization of the aims they had set memselves. When the organized masses of work- ers of the two strongest trade union organizations of the world join in try- ing to reach an aim which at firat sight appears a very modest one— the unity of the international labor , Movement—this represents a force which must be taken seriously. The ~Anglo-Russian advisory committee is not yet organized, but it is already, among many milions of workers, the most popular organization in the world, We shall see how those peo- ple who can see no further than the end of their nose into the depths of the international movement, will be able to resist this alliance, those who By ALOIS NEURATH (Prague). The Economic Situation. Sedge: the second party session of the Communist Party of Czecho- Slovakia, the Czech bourgeoisie began to engage in their new campaign against the proletariat.’ It was not the first time since 1920 that they en- deavored to provoke the workers of Ostrow and particularly to defeat this ' most important section of the Czecho- Slovakian proletariat, in order in this ‘way to prepare for the certain defeat of the workers in all other branches of industry. In the autumn of i924, the Red Trade Union organ- izations in common with the leaders of the Communist Party of Czecho- Slovakia succeeded in frustrating this maneuver of the bourgeoisie. Strongly backed by the social democrats of all nations in this state, but especially by the Czech government socialists, the exploiters continued indefatigably their efforts in this direction. As a matter of fact, the conditions of living of the Czecho-Slovakian workers have changed very much for the worse during the past two years. The rise in price of all foodstuffs, the Pressure of taxes, the cutting down of the staff of officials and the undar- . hand manner in which the unemploy- ed were. treated—all, these. measures of government and bourgeoisie, which were against the interests of the whole working population, were enuf to drive the proletariat to despair. When the slaves of the mines in the Ostrow district made thefr demands it transpired that more than 90 g | i E : f § : Hf 5 g F erart 8 | = = F i E E g F dare to assert that the Russian trade unions can have no significance in the west European labor mo¥ement. Our firmly united trade union move- ment can give the international labor movement not enly 6% miliion organ- ized, cisely allied workers, but sn- other trife—thass 614 million ‘work- ers ata in tha possession of power, they have the power literally in their hands. In the scales of the struggle be- tween labor and capital, every tnou- sand workers is of importance, Ana wherever there are three workers, we must go and organize them so that none remain unorganized. This is how we must regard the tasks of the international labor movement and our duties in the struggle against cap- ital. The Immediate Prospect. ask for approval of our work which we have carried out un- der extremely difficult and complicat- ed circumstances. We steered a straight course for unity, we showed that for us it is no matter for jest, but that we are ready to work with earnestness and perseverance in the interest of this aim. We have al- ready achieved something in this dir- ection, and it is not for nothing that the bourgeois press has raised such a hue and cry against us. The Times declares that the declaratton is writ- S$ in previous years, the capitalists of other branches of industry, es- pecially the employers in the metal and textile branches, are now anxious to follow the example of their fellow- capitalists in Ostrow and to put their wage -slaves on short commons. From Bodenbach to Komotau, the workers in a number of large and me- dium-sized works of the metal indus- try are locked out on account of the demands of a comparatively small group of metal workers. As for the employers in the textile industry, it is up to the present only evident that they are making certain preparations far severer blows against the work- ers. At the present moment, the coalition parties are at daggers drawn about the customs on corn. There is however, no doubt that the family quarrel in the coalition will sooner or later come to an end thru a for mula for agreement being found, and the necessary concession being made to the agrarians. After the agrarians it will be the turn of thé cotton-lords and it may be taken for granted thar this coalition government will to the best of its ability serve one master after the other. Apart from. many other examples, the way in which the coalition government is now proceeda- ing against the paper workers who are on strike in Bohmisch-Krumau, shows clearly what it is prepared to do for the knights of industry in the struggle against the wage slaves. The workers in one of the largest paper factories In Czecho-Slovakia (about 1,500) are on ‘strike. The Czecho- Slovakian authorities immediately turned the small town of Krumau tm to a military camp. The struggle of the Krumanu workers has been going on for weeks; their ranks are un- shaken. The employers are now hop- ing that it will be possible to force the rebellious wage-slaves on to their means of the brutal pro- the gendarmerie, police and armed guardians of democratic and order. nm Bubnik’s Partisians in Alliance With the Bourgeoisie, The Problems of th ten “in the language of belligerent class-war” and contains @angerousl? ambiguous phrases. “And,” says the Times, “class-war means, in the lang- uage of the Communists, selzing and actually fighting.” Mr. MacDonald, in his Easter mes- sage to the workers, issues a new slogan: the necessity of a bloc be- tween the English and German trade unions, There is ny need to be a British ex-prime minister tn order to understand that such a bloc has ex- isted already for ages and is con- firmed by the fact that the trade unions of both countries belong to the same international, ~ Cramp, the well known leader of the British railwaymen proposes founding a continental international. If he were consistent he would arrive at the conclusion that every country ought to have its own international. Cramp proposed leaving Russia and the east to the Red International of Labor Unions, America to the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, while the whole of Europe, with the exception of Russia, should belong to the Am- sterdam International. know that MacDonald, round whom the right leaders of the general council are gathered, is pre paring for a great attack on our coin- rades on the eve of the approaching congress of the trade -unions. The For the Unity of the Trade Union Movement bourgeois press on the other hand is trying to compromise the leaders of the trade union movement, and clam- ors: “They have capitulated to Tom- sky without resistance ana uncond?- tionally.” The bourgeois newspapers further write that “the plan accepted by the conference is reminiscent of a military aliance between two states.” All these attacks of the bourgeots press are merely witness to the fact that the proletariat is on the right path. The British comrades and we ourselves are faced with a difficult task, and we must find the best means for mutual suport in all the difficulties we shall meet by the way. We do not in the least understand why the Amsterdam International will not oven meet us. Are Oudgeest and Sassenbach afraid of us? .fs it pos- sible that they are afraid we shali corrupt them if they sit at the same table with us? We have nothing to fear, we have nothing to conceal from the workers, and we say: “Let us discuss our proposals together.” We are convinced that in spite of all difficulties, in spite of all the in- trigues of the bourgeois press, we shall achieve our objects and over- come all obstacles. No one will be able to arrest the many millions of workers in their elementary efforts for the unity of the international Ja- bor movement. Czech Communists spectively in the name of party mor. als. By welcoming this ’moral strug- gle” of our right, the bourgeoisie showed that it was also interested in —the purity and integrity within the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia, as indeed it stood up for the maintenance and se- carity of the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia with admirable fervor. When the Pol-Bureau caught Bub- nik at his criminal work and turned him ont of the party, the bouregois Press howeld at the injustice which had been done to a man whose only care had been the purity of the C, P. of Czecho-Slovakia. The rage of the bourgeoisie and of social democracy over the quick and energetic action of the Pol-Bureau is much miore com- prehensive now that we have a clear- er survey of the events than was the case in February of this year. The bourgeois parties dread the next elec- tion especially because of the infiu- ence of the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia. They could therefore hardly contain themselves for joy when they saw Bubnik, Warmbrunn and their com- panions “at work” in the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia, The Block Fights the Dangers of the Rirght. — block formed in Moscow be- tween the left wing and the cen- ter is justifying its existence. The hopes of the bouregoisie and of the right elements in the party that this block could again be shaken, have Proved to be deceptive. It is now quite amusing ‘to watch the somer- saults turned by the social democrat and bourgeois editors. At the con- clusion of the discussions of the E. C. C. I, they hoped that the Prague dis- trict organization would rebel against the Pol-Bureau, then they expected the Kladno group to prove particlarly uncompromising and, above all, they were perfectly certain that Brunn would take up an attitude of opposi- tion to the C. C. and the © I. And now we are at the ena ot the decisive Communist International . Stalin prophesied in vakian Co’ ya rapidly than could anticipated: those who. openly oppose the Comintern are generals without troops, he’ the Bubnik group, they shox them de- cided opposition and weat them with the contempt they deserve. Until a few hours ago, Roucek was able to play the part of an influential and loved ‘leader, i.e., just as long as he succeeded in deceiving the workers as to his real political conviction and as to the fact that at the bottom of his heart he had never for a moment been anything but a genuine and true social democrat. When Roucek had resigned from the party, ia conference of Brunn representatives thanittddsly accepted this resolution. The party loses a dozen or at the most twe dozen of those leaders who, conscious- ly or unconsciously looked after the affairs of the bourgeoisie within the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia. Not a single worker has gone with the rene- gades, and these gentlemen, having lost their game in the C. P. of Czecho- Slovakia, will now. have played thetr last card as camp-followers of the bouregois and social democrat Parties. 7 outrageous game of the right clique leaders in the G. P. of Czecho-Slovakia is at an end. The struggle of these elements against the party leadership and against the C. L has seriously injured the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia, that cannot be do- nied. Having rid itself of these nox ious and hampering ments, the party must, without delay, turn its attention to healing wounds it has received in the fight against opportunism. And this work will be accomplished-in no: time, The inimical ele- the ever in the solution of all the other tasks with which the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia is faced, it cannot be shaken, The Walden Book Shop | 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn Just South of Jackson) CHICAGO eh te Ne oh Ns mi ie; Fhe dat Bat it eee ah it bak Bis eG