The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 4

ee THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS MEET Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outelde of Chicago)! $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ~ Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinole J, LOUIS BNGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, » Editors ... Business Manager {eeennnnmnnnn Advertising rates on application. July 4—Anti-Imperialism Day! The widely extended lines of American imperialism reach out to all quarters of the earth as millions of American workers and farmers celebrate the founding of this nation just 150 years ago. The United States of America won its freedom from Great: Britain by armed struggle. Thirteen colonial proyinces, peopled by farm- ers, hunters and trappers, with a thin fringe of manpfacturing and trading population along the Atlantic coast, decreed their inde- pendence, fought to gain and maintain it. For a decade after the recognition of their independence by Great Britain the thirteen colonies were torn by internal strife separatism and rebellion. The diluted history taught American children tells nothing of the strife and chaos of this period. The general assumption there- fore is that once the foreign tyrants had been ousted peace, order | and prosperity reigned at once. We mention this fact because the moral justification for American} imperialism’s interventions in Haiti, Mexico, Santo Domingo, the} Philippines, China, Russia, Cuba and other colonial and semi-colonial nations is that it is necessary to institute “law and order.” | The theft of the natural resources, the enslavement of the popula-| tion, the imposition of American dictatorships—open or disguised—| is veiled by this camouflage and the cries and groans of the founded | and dying victims of machine-gun democracy are drowned by the slogan of “Americanization.” Great masses of workers and farmers are coming to understand | the hypocrital nature of the American ruling class. There is no longer any great enthusiasm created by schemes for extending the ‘Wall Street empire and the erection of a huge military machine for its use. But imperialism dare not cease its efforts for militarization of the American masses. Its interests abroad are so huge now that their loss would mean the crippling of capitalism at home. It must strive ever fot greater conquests and more complete domination of | the colonial and native masses. , In Europe and in the Pacific American imperialism comes into con- flict with other great powers having similar ambitions—Great Britain | and Japan. Sooner or later our rulers know that the imperialistic conflicts, the logical sequence of commercial competition can be, settled only by war—commercial competition carried to its final} stage. <a 290 American Imperialism Prepares for War What else can mean the great naval maneuvers in American his- tory, the extension of the military training camp system, the division of the whole nation into army corps areas, the skeleton detachments of transportation and industrial units already set up, the allotment of tentative war-contracts to the capitalists in a dozen industries, the agitation for larger naval appropriations, the war-like speeches of the militarists, the flag-waving in the schools, the militarization of thousands of children in the Boy Scouts, and finally— The setting of July 4—Independence day—as the date for a-test mobilization of the armed forces of American imperialism! The national pride in the achievements of the colonial revolution- ists 150 years ago is to be diverted into channels that will serve the bloody purposes of the most powerful and brutal group of con- querors in the world today. Against the conspiracy of the imperialists the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America opposes the slogan of “Unity of the ‘Worlds Oppressed Peoples!” Against the rule of the war lords of Wall Street it raises the slo- gan of “A Workers and Farmers Government!” : To the dictatorship of the capitalists it opposes the slogan of “The Dictatorship of the Workingclass!” The hypocrital pretense of “Defense of the Nation” it opposses the WAR OF ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLES AGAINST IM- PERIALISM. k' Hands off China! Hands off Mexico! Recognize Soviet Russia! Tender Cannon Fodder Six hundred Chieago high school boys yesterday started in to fit themselves for the day when they will be taken by the seruff of the neck and planted where they can play at being “African Dodgers” with shrapnel shells taking the place of tennis balls. They will have | a lot of fun, and should the cannons be successful in locating them, the parents of the little boys will have the satisfaction of knowing) that their sons died bravely fighting to preserve civilization from whoever the diabolical enemy of civilization happens to be. It may be Japan; it may be Russia; it may be Britian or it may be Mexico. Besides preparing the boys’ bodies for war, the militarjsts will, also prepare their minds for the struggle against the working class, from whose loins those boys sprung. How tragic, that the flesh and blood of the workers should be used against the workers? What 2 pity that the workers not only produce surplus values for their mas- ters but they also give them their children for use either in fighting some competitors or fighting the workers themselves? Fall of Hope or Full of Hop The bible says that “hope deferred maketh the heart sick” but the ezarist in France either never heard of the bibilical saying or else it means nothing to them. The latest contribution made to the gayety of nations by the Rus- sian monarchists, yellow socialists, democrats, and plain bandits who inhabit the cellars and dives of Paris, Berlin and London, is the for- mation of a “national parliament” in Paris which is designed to sup- plant the Soviet government. On the roster of the committee organiz- ing this burlesque outfit are the names of men prominent in the Czarist regime when that gentleman existed. A few well known “so- cialists” are among them. : Where are they, getting the money to indulge in their antics? | Much tho the Soviet government may appreciate innocent hilarity it is not likely that the pantomine is financed from Moscow. Is it possible that Britain driven to desperation by the progress made by the Soviet government in the Orient is preparing to stake her in the East on the last throw of the imperial dice? aa Ee ee | the principal speaker. THE DAILY WORKER TO FIGHT RULE OF IMPERIALISM Demonstration Against Oppression Nationwide The militant workers of the country will gather by the thousands at antl-/ impertalist meetings, demonstrations, and picnics to express their working class solidarity and protest against | the attempts of big business to cre- ate a war spirit by forcing a mobiliza- tion of workers on July 4, Thousands of leaflets have already | been distributed, bearing the declara- | tion of the Workers (Communist) Party which calls on the workers to | denounce the exploitation by the im- perialists of the victims of the profit system. Meetings in-New York. New York has already held an anti- imperialist night of open air meet- ings at which speakers carried the | | | | ! nother Chinese Puzzle message of opposition to exploitation | The new Chinese wall—of workers and peasants. How can this wall be penetrated? is the problem of world imperialism. of the United States’ workers and the | colonial peoples to thousands of New | York workers. Five large meetings were held in Union Square, Harlem, Brownsville, and Williamsburg. A meeting will be held in Chicago tomorrow at which C. T. Chi, member of the Chinese Students’ Alliance, will speak against the use of American troops to shoot down the striking Chinese workers. Chicago Demonstration, James P. Cannon, member of the Central Executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, will be H. V. Phillips will speak on Imperialism and the Negro, and Ella Reeve Bloor will speak on the DAILY WORKER. The picnic and demonstration will be held in Beyer’s Grove, California and Irv- ing Park Blvd. : Protest In Minneapolis. On July 5, at 7p. m., a nionster protest and indignation meeting will be held in Minneapolis, at Washing- ton Square, to demand the with- drawal of American troops from China | and protest against the enslavement of the Chinese workers by foreign imperilaism, including American cap- italism. A picnic will also be held in Min- neapolis on July 4, at 33rd Ave. south, and East River Road, where speeches will be made. An anti-imperialist demonstration will be held in Akron on July 5, at Schocalog Park, The Armenian branch of the Work- ers Party of Chicago on the same day will hold an anti-imperialism pic- nic at Reese Park, 6400 West Grand | Ave | Anti-Imperialist Issues. | Thousands of copies of the DAILY | WORKER have been distributed thru- out the country containing articles ex- | Posing the bosses “Defense Day” and | exposing the profit grabbing domina- tion of imperialism. | Many copies of anti-imperialist books have been sold during anti-im- |perialism week, including Lenin's | State and Revolution, Imperialism, the | final stage of capitalism, and the De- | cline of Capitalism, by E. Varga. } Special “Workers Monthly.” | The July issue of the Workers | Monthly is a special Anti-Imperialist number and contains many important articles on capitalist exploitation. | Anti-lmperialist meetings have | already been held on the Pacific coast, in Denver, St. Louis, Kansas City, De- troit, and many other cities. Worker Is Murdered MT. VERNON, Ill, July 3—Great mystery surrounds the death of Calu- ge Loge, 20, found dead in the south- east pat of Mt. Vernon, his jugular eral hours as his clothes were wet with dew. Loge worked as a drayman. Boosting “The Daily” ‘a | “Mother” Bloor is here shown get- ting “subs” for the DAILY WORKER in her tour east from San Francisco. future] She will be at the Workers Party pie nic at Beyer’s Grove Saturday, COAST WORKERS IN “HANDS OFF CHINA DEMAND Many Races Contribute to Shanghai Strike By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 3.—At a “Hands off China” meeting held here three hundred white, Chinese, Japan- ese and Negro workers applauded the | demand that American troops be with- | drawn from China. $ A representative of the Kuo Min | Tang spoke. There was also a speak- jers representing the Japanese Work- \ers’ Association. Emanuel Levin re- presented the Workers (Communist) Party. There was a fine spirit of interna- |tional solidarity of the workers’ | against the oppression of imperialism | manifested. A collection of seventy |dollars was taken, and the net pro- \ceeds will be sent to the Shanghai strikers. A large delegation the Kuo Min Tang pi present from Foreign Exchange | NEW YORK, July 3:—Great Britain pound sterling 4.85%;° cable 4.86%. | France, franc demand. 4.68%; cable | 4.69. Belgium, franc demand 4.65 Yr) cable 4.66. Italy, lira, demand 3.53% | cable 3.54. Sweden, krone 26.79; cable 26.82. Norway, krone 18.32; cable | | 18.34. Denmark, krone 20.55; cable Big Parents’ Meeting Is Planned for Next Monday in Harlem, N.Y. NEW YORK.—This Monday, July 6, at 8 o’clock sharp, there will take place at the Harlem Headquarters, 64 Hast 104 St., a big meeting of all the parents and relatives of the members of the Harlem Junior Group as well as all adult workers in Harrem Section who are interested in a real proleta- rian children’s movement will not fair to come. Speakers in English and Jewish wilt |take up very important problems deal- ing. with our work among the children and particularly the question of the Junior Camp at Camp Nitgedayget. There will also be organized a Par- ents’ Club of Harlem consisting of all parents and’ relatives of Harlem Ju- nior and militant workers generally in- terested in Junior work and which will have for its purpose the closest possible cooperation with and support of the work the Young Workers League is doing among the proletar- ian children in Harlem. ALL RELATIVES OF JUNIORS— ALL WORKERS INTERESTED IN A WORKINGCLASS CHILDREN’S MO- VEMENT—SHOULD BE PRESENT. MONDAY, JULY 6, 8 p. m. at 64 East |104 Street.—Organization Committee, | Parents’ Club of Harlem. Trainmen Demand Increase The 4,500 union employes of the Chicago elevated lines for the second time voted down by referendum the offer of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co. to renew the agreement that expired n June. The men ask a 5c. hourly in- rease over the 7lc. scale for train guards and 77c. for motormen. Write the story about your shop— Cicer a bundle to distribute there. ‘UNITY OF ALL WORKERS INTHE ” WORLD-T0 AID STRUGGLE OF HINESE, I COMMUNIST AIM - (By International Press Correspondence.) MOSCOW, June 17.—(By Mail.)—The Executive Committee of the Communist International and the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Red International of Labor Uniens have addressed a telegram to the Executive Com- mittee of the Second International and to the Central Committee ofthe International Federation of Trade Unions as\follows: epee events in China are taking an ever stronger char- acter. The Chinese working class organizations have requested in numerous telegrams all working class organ- izations of the world without distinction for help. Ignor- ing the existing:differences between you and us, we, hold it tobe our duty in this moment to propose to you a com- mon organization of the moral and material assistance for the Chinese Workers. Only one opinion upon the cruel acts of violerice committed against the Chinese workers and students and against the whole Chinese people by the mili- tarists. of the imperialist powers, can exist amongst class conscious workers. There can be no doubt whatever about the robber character of the imperialist action in China. Such a policy on the part of the imperialist powers brings the danger. of world conflicts once again near. It is the elementary duty of the European and American workers without distinction of tendency to assist the Chinese peo- ple as speedil® as possible. We propose to you to organize together with us meetings and monetary collections In of the striking Chinese workers and the families of the dead and wounded Chinese. The question is one of permanent aid. We also propose that an international conference be called for a detailed consideration of the question of other forms of help for the Chinese people, Having regard to the urgent nature of the matter, we re- quest an immediate answer by wire. Executive Committee, Red International of Labor Unions, . LOSOVSKY. Executive Committee of the Communist International, Z KUUSINEN. “) SE ES NPL CS EEL LEI SDN AT Minjonatics Do. | | MOTHER BLOOR REACHES They Teach, Claim|| CHICAGO ON HER COAST TO COAST AUTO HIKE F e SEATTLE, Wash., July 3—A resolu- Mother Ella Reeve Bloor arrived a the DAILY WORKER office at tion was ‘presented to the 2,000 dele- gates to the nineteenth annual meet- ing of the northern Baptist church convention here, advocating that “all missionaries whose beliefs do not ac-| "Ne ® om. yesterday, well and cord with historic Baptist canons be hearty, after covering the $10 miles from St. Louis in an all night ride in a salesman’s auto. Comrade Bloor will speak on “From Coast to Coast For Communism” at the recalled.” The special committee appointed to investigate the Baptist board of for- eign missions reported that some of the missionaries sent out “do not themselves believe the gospel which they sent to proclaim to the heathen.” One missionary has resigned and one was recalled because of their “modernist” views, the committee re- | ported. | Greek Military Rule 0. K.'d. | ATHENS, Greece, July 3—The na- |tional assembly has accepted the military government set up by the re |cent coup, with a vote of confidence jin Gen, Pangalés, who appointed him- \self premier, of-185 to 14, 20.57. German: rk. quote, Shan- | ghai, tael 78.50; cable quote, i LIQUIDATE LOREISM IN WOR. To the Membership of the Party. Comrades: r AND POYNTZISM ERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY The Bolshevization of our Party and its future growth demand a quick and complete liquidation of the non-Communist tendencies of Loreism and Poyntzism, This mandate of the Comintern is so specific and at the same time so universally accepted by the party membership that there should be vein severed. He had been dead sev- | 2° difficulty in liquidating this tendency in the shortest possible time. Loreism and Poyntzism are one tendency. Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz has been the most consistent and militant exponent of non-Com- munist conceptions and policies in our party, She stands for an ideology | that is absolutely metfacing to the he | Her " |tions of our New York organization is positively disintegrating. | The Comintern has snarply con- |demned the tendency represented by Comrade Lore as a non-Communist tendncy. Comrade Lore consistently supported the right wing in the Comintern, in the cases of Levy in Germany, Serratti in Italy, Brandler in Germany, and Trotsky in Russia. He developed opportunistic concep- \tions regarding the Labor Govern- ment in England and the Hbrriot government in France, He has had @ supercritical attitudé towards the Comintern and has advocated loose conceptions of discipline incompat- ible with real Bolshevik organiza- tions, as well as showing in-his writ- ings in the Volkzeitung various other non-Communist deviations. In all these, he was supported aggressively by Comrade Poyntz, who was the |most militant figure in the tendency. The Central Executive Committee \is glad to state that due to recent developments in the party our mem- bership in New York is becoming fully conscious of the harmful influ- ences of Poyntzism which is being combatted in a very effective man- ner, The Party cannot tolerate the op- portunistic manouvers of Comrade Poyntz. The Party hab a right to de- mand of every Party comrade abso- lute sincerity and frankness with the Party and the Communist Interna pine influence upon certain sec-+- althy growth of a Communist Party. tional. This Comrade Poyntz obstin- ately refuses to do. Instead, she is Playing a shallow game of diplomacy with the Comintern at the same time that she is carrying on a violent cam- paign against the Central Executive Committee of the Party, Her speech and misrepresentations are now be- ing circulated widely thru illegal channels in the Party. What is the decision of the C. I. regarding Loreism? The Cominterr demands the total liquidation of this tendency. With this demand the overwhelming majority of the Party is in full agreement. * What does Comrade Poyntz do with the C. I. decision? She evades it. She has no courage to stand up and defend herself, nor is she Communist enough to admit frankly her oppor- tunistic mistakes and put herself in line with the C. I. policies. Instead, she attempts to crawl out from un- der the C, I. decision by the ridicul- ous assertion that there is no such thing as Loreism or a Lore group in our Party. Comrade Poyntz, the most energetic leader of the Lore group, denies the existance of Lore- Such opportunistic manouvers and insincere diplomacy with the C.I. cannot and will not succeed in our all the efforts of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee to Bolshevize the New York organization and to liqui- date the Lore group. The following are only a few of the outstanding facts in the struggle of Comrade Poyntz against the Party and the cL 1, She refused to accept the poli- cies of the Party for the bolsheviza- tion of the Party school in New York, She called it “fake” bolshevi- zation and was ultimately forced to resign her position as director of the school. é 2. She sabotaged and resisted all the efforts of the C. B. C. to: break away from the Lore group its. prole- tar elements and: thus liquidate the! group. ai 3. She systematically “poisoned the minds of the »membership with distrust towards the ©, I. and its lea- dership. a dh Be ies 4. She cemented and solidified the right-wing Lore. group in the bureau of the Jewish Federation, bolstering up its opposition to. the Party and to the C. 1; and last, .. 5. She assumed: the: role of ide- ological leader of ‘the opportunistic tendencies in the ~Commipnist’ frac- tion in the needle tradés, unions in New York. 8 i The role of Comrade Poyntz in the needle trades controversy is well known to the Party. At the time when the Party was making strenu- ous efforts to liquidate the opportun- istic tendencies of some of our com: rades in the needle trades, Comrade Poyntz made use of her position as a member. of the New York District Executive Committee to encourage the opportunistic opposition to the Party, thus making it harder for the Cc, B. C. to establish correct Com- munist policies for the Communisi fractions in the’ needle trades unions. Comrade! Poyntz, as one of the most militant leaders of the Lore group, remained true to her ideology, rate {leading the opportunists against the For over 16 months Comr Party. — ; ; ically; In her attempt to : Poyntz was reststing .calistic, opportunistic, Anti-Imperialist Picnic this after noon at Beyer’s grove, California and Irving Park Blvd, Comrade Bloor addressed several meetings in St. Louis, Including a speech at the Workers (Commun- ist) Party membership meeting, and a public meetings on the lawn of the. Labor Lyceum, at which many subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER were sold. Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there. quences of the C. I. decision of Lore ism, Comrade Poyntz has been put- ting forth all kinds of ridiculous claims and assertions. First, she maintained that there was no Lore group in our Party. However, when she found that this denial of the ex- istance of a Lore group was more damning than a frank confession of guilt, Comrade Poyntz began putting forth another claim, namely, that she was all the time a loyal supporter of the C. E.-C. majority. As proof of this she cites her support of the C. BE. C. majority at the last Party con- vention and also her support of the Cc. E. C. majority on the Labor Party issue. According to her (statements be- fore the Plenum of the C. BE, C. on May 12th,. and later on before the District Executive Conimittee of New York she always knew that the C. B. C. majority were “un-Marxian, syndi- and sectart- an.” In the same way she describes the C. E. C, thesis on the Labor Par ty, and yet she found it possible, ac- — cording to ‘her own admissions, to support the C. E. C. majority at the last Party convention, which shé claims to have known to be “syndi- calistic and opportunist,” and to vote for the C. B, ©. thesis on the Labor Party which she also claims to have known to be “sectarian and un-Marx- ian.” In other words, by her own public admission, she has supported a,leadership and policies which she says she Believed were un-Marxian, syndicalist, opportunist, and sectari- an. This admission of Comrade Poyntz is itself sufficient to discredit her claim of being a Communist. The Party and its Central Execu- tive Committee are determined to liquidate completely the tendencies of Lorism and Poyntzism, No amount of. diplomacy and manouvering on the part of Comrade Poyntz will pre- vent the Party from remaining loyal to the policies ‘and tactics of the Communist International. » Loreism and. Poyntzism must be liquidated, Fi Workers Party of America Central Executive Committee, Wm. Z. Foster, C,H. Ruthenberg, Executive Sea'y,