The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1925, Page 4

age Four STORY OF IRISH FAMINE TOLD AT BOSTON MEETING Beaker’ ears British Imperialist Rule By GEORGE KRASKA. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, June 25.—One thousand workers gathered around the Park- Man Bandstand on Boston common last Sunday to hear the story of the} Situation in Ireland, at a mass meet- ing held under the auspices of the local Section of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief commit- tee. The principal speakers were @ohn P, McCarthy, who was in Ire- land recently and Tom Bell, acting district organizer of the Workers Party in New Engand. McCarthy told of the failure of the Potato crop owing to the heavy rains and in addition to this the peat bogs ‘were flooded making it impossible to dig’ or dry the peat which is the main ®ource of fuel supply on the west coast of Ireland. Tom Bell gave a very stirring and constructive talk on the reasons for} the existing conditions in Ireland in,} Particular, end the rest of the workers fm the world in general. Bell in his @peech quoted Lioyd George, “that Treland is a dagger pointed at the heart of England,” he appealed to the @udience of over a thousand that were Present, to help put that dagger into the heart of English imperialism by Relping these Irish workers.and peas- ants in this great hour of need. The Great applause from the mass of lis- teners in answer to Bell's appeal Showed the approval of the audience, that British imperialism must be crushed. : Support the Famine Victims Winfield Dwyer, who ran for secre- tary of the commonwealth of Massa- chusetts in the last election on the "Workers Party ticket and polled over 26,000 votes, urged American workers, ‘whether men or women, brain or brawn workers to rally to the sup Port of the famine stricken workers ft Ireland and also to the workers:of the world, for solidarity. Dr, H, A. Gibbs, as chairman of the meeting, stated that it was the duty of the Irish workers to remain loyal ‘to the revolutionary traditions, ‘and ‘mnite with the rest of the workers of the world against the common enemy, the exploiters, thus helping others by helping ‘themselves. He also ‘an- nounced that the permit for the Park- man Bandstand on the common was issued, with the understanding that mp collection was permitted, that be- ing the rale, he informed the audience / theta committee will distribute a small pay envelope and for them to put in their contributions as they feel able to, and then pass them up to the committees on the bandstand. One of the features of this appeal was a Single donation of $100 from Miss Harriet G. Flagg who was on the @latform as an invited guest of the tommittee in Boston. To Overthrow British Rule. Michael Moore, financial secretary xf the local Irish relief committee, al- 0 spoke and made a very urgent ap- eal to the Irish workers, and also di workers no matter of what na- tonality to help Ireland free itself rom British imperialism. Citing the Mmerican revolution in 1776 as an ample of the revolt against British Mmperialism, and urged that Ireland! mill algo be helped by the American | forkers to fight and throw off the oke@f Britain and establish a work- rs’ @nd peasants’ governmen:. Literature on the Irish famine was | istributed freely and the meeting | Yourned very hopeful as to the help te Boston workers will be able to| .¥8 the Irish workers and peasants. | Permit for a flower day~will be ap- vied for at once and alsé house to puse collections will be undertaken raise as much funds for the famine en in Ireland as possible. . H. A. Gibbs of 376 Boylston St., is secretary of the local com- for'Irish relief. jother new Sub makes another unist. ig OUR PUBLICATIONS Extract’ from a letter sent by the Agitprop Department of the Exe- cutive Committee of the Communist International to the Central of the Communist Party of France*) HE publication of the “Cahiers du Bolcheyisme,” of which five num- bers lie before us, induces us to offer you a few hints which we think may be likely to ald you in the organiza- tion of your theoretical organ. Some preliminary remarks The “Cahiers du _ Bolchevisme” | claim to be the “theoretical organ of the Communist Party of France (Sec- tion of the C. I.", This imposes cer- tain duties upon you, no less than your acknowledgement (see No. 3, page 129) of the truth of Lenin's words: “No revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory.” This means that your periodical should form the mirror, theoretical but not abstract, of every problem confront- ing the C the immediate future. In the introduction in No, 1: “To the reader,” we find the following pas- sag “We are no Communists unless we assimilate the teachings of that ideal thinker and incomparable leader Lenin, the sole real interp- reter and successor of Marx, and unless we do this not merely liter ally but actually and completety, For this is the teaching whose sole aim is the attainment of one great goal: the completion of the social revolntion and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, to the end that Communism may finally be realized.” HE general trend of these ideas is right, but we miss a realization on | the part of the editors that in France the struggle for Marxism and Lenin- ism should be mainly concentrated on combatting the theoretical backward- ness of the French C. P., and that the Bolshevization of the Party de mands above all a thor revolutionary Marxist tretament of the problems facing the French proletariat and the French working peasantry. This same editorial introduction, when speaking of the “Bulletin Com- muniste,” mentions no other fault of this paper beyond its having published more articles by Trotsky than by Lenin. We read further: “The ‘Bulletin Communiste’ of yesterday made an attempt at the scientific Marxist preparation of its readers. But it did this in an in- adeqnate and fragmentary manner, almost verging on dilettantism. And above all it accorded Leninsm a very subordinate position, to all ap- pearances the corner reserved for poor relations.” We are of the opinion that the new “Cahiers du Bolchevisme” share at the present time in the error of providing inadequately for the “scientific Marx* ist preparation of their readers,” for they deal little or not at all with French life and the tasks of the French proletariat in theory and prac- tice. It must be said that your peri- odical gives the impression of tend- ing to neglect French tasks and French questions. In this respect the “Cahiers du Bolchevisme” are no im- provement on the last number of the “Bulletin Communiste,” in which we find at most theses or brief reports on French questions. ‘T need not be emphasised that the struggle against opportunism is an international one, and that the theo- retical organ of the French C. P. must keep the French proletariat informed with regard to its development and | progress. But the success of the in- ternational fight against opportunism depends chiefly on a successful ideo- logical combatting of opportunism within the individual section and in the camp of the working class of the individual country. Stated concrete- ly, in the struggle against Trotskyism it does not suffice by any means if we convince the French proletariat that the French C. P. is carrying on this Numbers 1 to 5, 1924, are here dealt with. We may observe that later num- bers show a distinct change in accord- ance with the suggestion made here. “Agitprop of the Executive Committee Communist International.” the Rich Lady’s Lydia Gibson. 75 Cents Duroflex Cover The Rose Bush Pinched This and other things happen in the delight- ‘ful working class stories in the book Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children By Herminia Zur Miiblen. (Tramalated by Ida Dalles) With four color plates and cover designs by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. P, of France today and inj (CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY) struggle brilliantly. The most im- portant point is to show the working classes of France that the’ French C. P, is capable of carryinf the struggle further, and of forcing a decisive com- bat against all adversaries, above all against the social patriotic traitors in the French section of the Second In- ternational. Altho the French party acted un- animously and determinedly in repuls- ing the Monatte, Rosmer Delagarde opposition, still your theoretical pe- riodical should have made a detailed | Statement of the actual bases and fun- | damental roots of the differences be- | tween the party and Rosmer group. We must first understand the oppor- tunism obtaining in our own country, and prove ourselves capable of form- ing a correct estimate of it and com- batting it energetically, before we cah understand for the party to reject the opportunism of the Rosmer group, however unitedly. Opportunism must not only be rejected, it must pe fought. And more than this: the whole party must take part in the fight, not mere- ly the heads of the party or even merely the political bureau alone. We must go still further: the whole of jthe French proletariat, not omitting the syndicalist and social democratic workers, must learn the real nature of the struggle in the French C, P., the avowed vanguard of the French working class. OLSHEVISM has grownand become stronger in Russia itself chiefly in the course of a continuous struggle against every description of opportun- ism and every nuance of un-Marxist tendency, And how have the Bol- sheviks conducted this struggle? Not merely by referring to Marx and Engels, but by the simultaneous, com- prehensive, thoro, and concrete Marx- ist analysis of every contested Rus- sian problem both in the sphere of theory and of practice. The Bolshev- ism of the French C, P. will only be- come a true Bolshevism after it has adopted the same methods for France, and after the French bourgeoisie and their social democratic footman have accustomed themselves to recognizing in the Bolshevism of the French par ty a revolutionary force and danger arising out of the depths of the French proletariat. Another necessary factor for the realization of this aim is a firmer con- nection between the revolutionary fighting ideas of the Communist movement in France today with the glorious revolutionary struggles of former epochs of French history. Just as the Bolsheviki are proud of being the executors of Russia’s champions of liberty, the French Communist worker should be proud to look back upon the great revolutionary move- ments which have been enacted hy the exploited classes of France, and which are enshrined in the history of France from the times of H»bert and Babeuf to the times of the heroic HE DAILY WORKER N anportint point off | “agenda of the coming party fence of the French C. P, is “The ;j@gological struggle against pai | Maeatism (Jauresism) in the ©, Py’ his is an extremely important point. You are right in laying special emphdsis upon combatting Jauresism as.one of the first necessities of the fight against opportunism, for Jauresism is a paci- fic idealism. But the struggle against Jauresism should not be confined to fighting po- litical pacifism, but must extend to the philosophical idealism of Jaures, Proudhonism and Sorelism, The French proletariat shoukt be given a clear idea of this struggle by means of-a determined fight against every description of fashionable French idealism (Bergson, Duhem, Renouvier, Poincare, etc.) The present is an eminently suitable moment for the wide dissemination of Paul Lafargue’s excellent. materialistic writings. You must demonstrate that Renaudel, Longuet, Frossard, and their ‘like have no right to refer to Lafargue; you must show how they are not only political traitors, but are following theoretically in the footsteps of Eduard Bernstein, deserting to the camp of the reactionary idealistic, bourgeois French philosophy. The fight for the dialectic material- ism of Marx and Engels signifies the development in the proletariat of that revolutionary viewpoint and that revo- lutionary theory without which there can be no reyolutionary Leninist van- guard. But again we repeat that on French soil the first necessity of the struggle is the fight against every variety of French materialism. (It need not be said that this does not exclude, but rather include, propa- ganda for materialist works already translated from the productions of other nations, or the undertaking of translations of materialist writings from other languages.) E make a brief summing up of what appear to us to be the main defects of your periodical: 1. A lack of articles characterizing the concrete tasks to be accomplished by the French C, P., economically, and ideologically. 2. Entire lack of collaboration on the part of leading French comrades. (With the exception of; Comrade Treint.) 3 3. A complete lack of: information for the readers with references to) current French politics, the, attitudes of*the various parties, parliament, etc. 4. A lack of clear and precise) delineation of the tasks «involved by | the Bolshevization of the French C. P., in view of French ier d and French tasks. 5. The lack °of a bibttdgrapby of French literature, ibchas ages news: papers. vit And now our advice: 1. The Cahiers du: Bol HELPED CREATE SOLIDARITY AMONG THE WORKERS The “Hands Off China” mass meeting held here, again demonstrated the growing solidarity of the workingclass. speaker, William F. Dunne, editor of t! On the platform with the he DAILY WORKER, and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, were four members of the Kuo Min Tang party, all young Chinese workers and followers of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. William F, White of Girard, O. presi ided as chairman. The spokesman of the Kuo Min Tang party opened the meeting and pleaded fora square deal for the oppressed Chinese workers, peasants and students now battling the + IMPORTANT MEETING N.Y. DAILY WORKER BUILDERS MONDAY NEW YORK, June 25, — Every DAILY WORKER Builder in New York is requested to attend a very important meeting at 108 East 14th street, Monday evening, June 2, at eight o'clock. Plans for the entire summer work J. will be discuss: Nose! $125 — Cloth Bound bring These stories will make your children proud of being in the working class—and ranks of the future. it will them into its fighting “HANDS OFF CHINA!” MEETING AT YOUNGSTOWN, 0., armed forces of the imperialist na- ‘ions of the world. Wm. F. “Bill” Dunne greeted the Kuo Min Tang committee in behalf of the Workers (Communist) Party and pointed ‘out the significance of the events now tak- ing place in China. In the past such events would hardly been noticed by the capitalist press, but today they are featured on the front page. Rus- sia under the czar was a bitter ene- my of China, but today Soviet Russia occupying one-sixth of the earth's surface stands side by side with the oppressed workers and peasants of China and together they control the destiny of the entire world and if the Chinese workers and peasants throw off their imperialist yoke the down- fall of the rule of imperialist nations is certain to occur. Resolutions pledging solidarity with the oppressed Chinese workers, peas- ants and students were adopted by a rising vote. They were in part as follows: 7 Resolved, by this mass meeting of workers and citizens 3s Wea in Youngstown, Ohio, at 525% West Ray- en Ave., on Sunday, Jine 21, 1925, that, we hereby unaninioisly protest against the use of Américan armed forces as strikebreakers against the Chinese workers, students and peas- ants, and that we demand the imme- diate withdrawal of all armed civil- fans, naval and military forees from Chi territory theréby ending this present unwarranted interference with the legimate aspirations of the struggling masses in China, and Resolved, that copies of this reso- lution be sent to Secretary of State, to the Chinese legation, to the Kuo Min Tang and to the labor press of the United States. William T. White, Chairman of the Meeting. Your neighbor Ba like to read this issue o a ie DATLY| at Wednesday evening's Be neigh borly—give| China” meeting, may reclaim same at On the Periodical“Les Cahiers du Bolshevisme”|| [BER ALS OF (Communist Party of France) must be made into a French Ai al fighting periodical, the contribu- tions belng predominantly French, 2. The periodical must carry on an intense and. comprehensive propa- ganda for the Bolshevization of the party in the sphere of theory, the ac- tual problems of the France of today being held in view. For this purpose the editors must secure as far as pos- sible the services of French collabor- ators, 8. A theoretical Communist organ must accord a maximum of attention to Marxism (Leninism) in the sphere of philosophy (dialectic materialism), to political economy, to sociology, to history, and to the latest achievements of natural science, Belles letters and art should also be represented by Marxist criticism of the works of in- fluential writers and artists. 4. The periodical must publish ef- ficiently reasoned articles exposing the class character and class policy of Herriot's government, unmasking the Policy of the French socialists, the im- perialist colonial policy of France, its role in the league of nations, etc. This should not be done in a general form, bat by a constant criticism of every actual step taken by our class enemies, 5. The periodical should carry on thoro propaganda for revolutionary parliamentarism. This should be done not only by reference to examples of revolutionary parliamentary politics in other countries (Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht 1870, Bolshevist Duma fraction 1914, Karl Liebknecht 1914, German C. P. parliamentary fraction 1924, Repossi in Italy, November 1924, Lanzucky and Vassiltschuk in Polnad, December 1924, and so forth), but by throwing light upon all revolutionary tactical questions connected with revo- lutionary parliamentarism in France at the present time (methods of mass mobilization, line of conduct to be pursued by deputies outside of parlia- ment, and so forth). 6. Bolshevism means relentless self- criticism and severest self-control, HE periodical should therefore march at the head of every en- deavor to expose the weaknesses and faults of the C. P. of France. Enthusi- asm and propaganda for worthy slo- gans is not sufficient, the party must learn to lay its hand in every instance upon the weak spots hindering the realization of the slogans in every stage of development. Decided and candid self-criticism is the best anti- dote to Rosmerism. 7. Special attention must be devoted to the trade union question. Here too the specific problems of the French trade union struggle must be dealt with in concord with the general directions laid down by the C. I. and the R. J. L. U. The question of the it and tactics ‘of our trade m fractions should be dealt with the periodical by comrades playing ‘a leading role in the trade unions. COMRADE BABY JOHN'S PARTY BRINGS TOTAL OF $21 10 DAILY WORKER ZEIGLER, Ill—(By Mail)—Sever- al of us comrades and sympathizers had gathered at Comrade Neraliches house wheh baby boy John was named. This was a happy occasion. Speeches were made, in regard to the Communist movement, and labor conditions in general. Along with all these things our great Daily was not forgotten, as it plays the great role in America’s labor movement. The hat was passed and $21 were collected. The following are the names of those who contributed in the collection: Comrade baby boy John gave his first help for our movement, which was $2.50; Matt Neralich, $2.50; V. Cennich, $1.00; Marko Perak, $1.00; Ivan Perak, $1.00; D. Manovich, $1.00; John Smolich, $1.00; Ch: Pesko, $1.00; John Harvoli, $1. July Harvoli, $1.00; Joe Shul, $1.00; Mary Shul, $1.00; L. Vuckovich, $1.00; P. Jurasovich, $1.00; Mary durasovich, $1.00; §. Visnavich, $1.00.—Fraternally yours, Victor Cernich, Sullivan to Address Big Street Meeting in Utica Friday Eve. UTICA, N. Y., June 25.—Comrade Sullivan of Buffalo, N. Y. will be the principle speaker at the open air meet- ing to be held here Friday evening, June 26th, at 8 p. m. just below Franklin Square. Every Utica com- rade must be on hand to sell litera- ture and help in every way to make this mi ds effective as we pos- sibly can. Announce Speakers for South Side Meetings The South Side English branch ‘will hold two street meetings on Satur- day, June 27, at 8 p, m., Karl Reeve and George Meyler will be the speak- ers on the corner of 30th and State Sts., and J, Louis Engdahl, Cline, Zokaitis and others will speak on the corner of 32nd and State Sts, Did You Lose Something? Chicago comrade who lost umbrella “Hands Off er ee ee x 5 ‘ ® slogan .of: “Go to th masses,” without which no Bolshevism gets further than paper, must be concretely elucidated from every pos- sible aspect in the periodical. Not only must the party attitude toward the broad masses of the working class still outside of the party be discussed, but at the same time the ways and means to be adopted for gaining their allegiance to other parties. The ques- tion of agitation and propaganda among the workers, among the various classes of the peasantry, civil servants and private employes, the intelli- gentsia, women, and youth, must be accorded special treatment. The peas- antry question in particular must be given careful discussion. 9. The periodical “should devote special attention to the various vari- eties of French chauvinism, not omit- ting the fascist reaction extending its organization under the leadership of Millerand, and should expose its class 8, The } character and its economic roots. 10. The struggle against Trotskyism must not be carried on solely by means of the propagation of articles and writings translated from the Rus- sian, but should be aided by a de- tailed criticism of the French allies of Trotskyism. The conflict’ with Monatte, Rosmer, and Delagarde must be so conducted that the workers of France are thoroly enlightened as to the fundamental differences between the French C, P. and this group. The passing of resolutions does not suf- fice for, this. 11, The Cahiers du Bolshevisme should be written in a more powerful and vivid style. Even theory should be so freated as to arouse the interest of the more advanced French workers. 12, Information given to the French proletariat on the successes and the fighting problems of the Russian C. P. and the Union of Soviet Republics attach special importance to showing how the economic situation of the proletariat has been improved. 13, Your periodical should follow the example of the old German Marx- ist periodical, the Neue Zeit, and pub- lish supplementary numbers dealing with questions of the day in politics and science, if possible in Mterature and art as well. (Translations from the Russian might be employed here, in so far as the subjects and treat- ment are sure of gaining the interest of the advanced French workers.) ‘T might at the same time be made possible for the perfodical to issue a monthly. supplement (again similar to the monthly supplement to the old Neue Zeit. This should be devoted specially to philosophy, problems in natural science of general interest (the atomic theory, evolution, Darwin- ism, cosmology, etc.), belles lettres and art. (The Bolsheviks, especially Lenin), have always attached the gteatest importance to the applica- tion of orthodox Marxist criticism to these subjects. Lenin himself [Georg Plechanov, L, Axelrod, and others also devoted attention to this line of work] wrote three briliant Articles on Leo Tolstoi, besides articles on Alexander Herzen and others, and a whole book on dialectic materialism.) 14, The Cahiers du Bolshevisme should possess correspondents in the most important sister parties, so that the periodical is in constant receipt of brief synoptic articles, comprehen- sible to the advanced French worker, ‘on important questions and stages of development in the sister parties in question. 15. Your periodical must maintain close and constant contact with the agitation and propaganda section of NEW YORK QUIT SOCIALIST FOLD Pick Prdathes, Society Worker and Labor Faker By WILLIAM WEINSTONE, (Specia! to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 25—The deser- tion of the socialists by the laborite progressives was revealed at the sham labor fusion conference Satur- day night when the nominations of candidates were made to head the city ticket. Not a single member of the American laborite group was in- cluded among the standard bearers of the ticket. The candidates nomi- nated: Norman, Thomas, Joseph Beardsley and Harriet Stanton Hatch are all members of the socialist party. This action confirmed what appear- ed obvious at the opening of the con- vention when the appointment of committees on credentials and rules failed to include Jerome de Hunt who was formerly associated with the farmer-labor party which merged into the American labor party and one of the signers of the call for the fusion convention. De Hunt Lefko- witz and similar “progressives” were not at all present at the convention. The socialist machine made every ef- fort to cover up this desertion of the progressives by refusing to read the names and organizations present at the convention. The desertion is an echo of the break between the socialists and the progressives at Chicago in February. The separation of the progressives and their formation into an indepen- dent political group headed in New York by Colonel Fisher, a prewar pa- triot and Hopkins of the committee of 48 famie has had its effect upon the so- cialist and progressive alliance which made up the American labor party. Just as Yellow as Ever, The break, however, has not made the socialists any less reformistic. The nomination of the Reverend Doc- tor Thomas as standard bearer of a party claiming to stand upon the plat- form of the class struggle, of Harriet ‘, Stanton Blatch, a setlement worker * for controller and Joseph Bearsley a labor bureaucrat bitterly fought by the workers of his union as a class collaborationist for the office of Boro president indicates clearly that the socialists are completely in the morass of opportunism and seek every opportunity to make their party a good, innocuous middle class organ- ization. The desertion of the progres- sives completes the picture of the des- perate opportunistic folly of the social- ists in the last election in abandoning their organization influence and social- ist candidates for the “progressive” LaFollette and war patriot, Major La Guardia. The socialist party has lost even the faintest spark of class con- sciousness and no longer makes any pretext of disguising its desertion of revolutionary policy. The socialist candidates will meet with as little enthusiasm as the con- vention showed in making its nomi- vations. The Workers Party candi- dates are to be nominated within the next few weeks and the slogan of a labor party will be revived by the workers with corresponding enthus- iasm. Lighting Kills Five Women PARIS, June 25.—Five women were killed and three seriously injured by lighting in Higuera de Vargas, Spain, according to a dispatch to I'Intransi-” the central of the French C. P. 16. The editors should secure the permanent collaboration of the best theoretical men in the party. Sf Fight Enslaving Imperialism The Issue wherever workers gather. 2 Cents a Copy “THE DAILY WORKER, Enclosed $........ Name: Street; City: i DURING ANTI-IMPERIALISM WEEK June 29 to July 4 Everyday during next week special articles dealing with anti-imperialism will be in the DAILY WORKER. will carry additional features of educational and propa- ganda value against imperialism. For all week and especially July 4 which has been turned into a mobilization day. ORDER A BUNDLE Take it to your shop, union or open air meeting— AT THE REGULAR RATES duly 41 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. for a bundle Of 000 Coples of the DAILY WORKER during the week of June 29 to July 4, Send the bundle on Mon., Tues., Wed., Thur., Fri., geant today. Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there, of July 4 \ 3, Cents a Copy