The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1925, Page 6

Se Page Six T THE DAILY WORKE! Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 47§2 ————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six mont! $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out, checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., ‘Chicago, Ilinois Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, It, under the act of March 3, 1879, : 290 ‘Advertising rates on application. a The Answer to Imperialist Threats Soviet Russia is answering in a deadly effective way the imper- jialist plots against the workers’ and peasants’ government. Following the publication of the report of the official British Trade Union delegation, a committee representing French and Bel- gian unions has visited Soviet Russia and declared for,support of the Soviet Republics, World Trade Union Unity and a solid front against imperialism. A German trade union delegation is, also now in Soyiet Russi and the favorable impressions made by its investigation of the All- Russian trade unions and their role in government and industry guarantees that this delegation will join with the Britsih; French and Belgians in endorsement of the unity drive and the working front against imperialist oppression and. war. The robber nations are worried. They have pooh-poohed the idea that over the heads of capitalist governments could be formed an alliance between the working class of their countries and the 6,000,000 organized Russian workers. They have worked along the old lines and have paid out millions for lies and their publication. They have depended upon the social- pa- triots to perpetuate the divisions in the ranks of the workers and they have sacrificed a portion of their profits to keep an upper section of the labor movement passive. They have made the task of securing unity very hard but in spite of their efforts fhe alignment of the decisive sections of the working class against imperialism is taking place. No army can fight successfully if its rear is threatened. The armies of imperialism are powerless if the trade union movements behind the lines are actively against imperialist war—and without successful war the great imperialist nations enter a period of decay. The trade unions are the combat organizations of the working class. Once they really realize the class nature of their problems and actually lead the whole working class in a stern struggle for even elementary demands of hours, wages and working conditions, the death knell of imperialism has sounded. The intensification of the class struggle in the imperialist nations is the best protection for the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in its role of van- guard of the world revolution. The interests of the working class in the imperialist nations lie along the same line. For this reason the desperate measures adopted by the capitalists and their governments only can check but not stop the drive for World Trade Union Unity. Great Britain, France, Belgium and Germany—in these coun- tries the trade unions are divorcing themselves from their rulers in spite of all the’social-traitors can do and the process is hastened by the continual onslaught of the capitalists upon the living standards of the workers in Great Britain where the appeal of the coal miners to their fellow workers thruout Europe has produced the greatest demonstrations of international solidarity in the history of the Jabor movement. Workers at last are learning that the unity of labor is the hope of the world. class Imperialism’s Degenerates The Morocean correspondent of the Chicago Tribune waxes ep- thusiastic over the exploits of the French airmen. It seems that the general staff chose a market day to bomb a certain village and tlle Tribune correspondent tells with great detail of the horrible carnag| resulting from bombs dropped in the crowded market place during a raid made by twenty planes. The town was wiped out. We read that a number of American aviators have offered their services to the French government as part of the Moroccan expedi- tionary force and that their offer has been accepted. Their division will be called the LaFayette escadrille—after the LaFayette who fought FOR a colonial people. The bombing of native villages is murder of the most cowardly kind and if the French aviators are murderers what are we to call these Americans who have volunteered to aid in, the butchery that is carried out without risk to the perpetrators? The most savage animals never kill for the sake of killing but these degenerates enjoy doing it. Imperialism needs and therefore breeds the utmost brutality. The imperialists and their mercenary murderers will have no cause for complaint when the colonial peoples perfect their increasing mas- tery of the weapons of modern warfare and, actuated by memories of the mass murder of their helpless women and children, make reprsi- als in. kind. With the brutish exponents of capitalist civilization argument is futile. The mass power of the workers and farmers alone, in the imperialist and colonial nations, can give, the proper answer to a sys- tem that wades thru blood of the toilers to its throne. A British writer declares that war between the United States and Japan is inevitable. But what about a little war between Brit- ain and the United States? Anything in, the line of murder is pos- sible under capitalism. : The Zankoy government is still slaughtering workers and peas- ants. The socialists have expressed opposition’ to all executions, without trial. So Zankov gives his victims a real trial before hanging them. Thus justice is honored, Many thanks to the bandits who he]d up the Drake Hotel. At least they shoved William Jennings Bryan off the front page. Before he has a chance to stage a comeback, let us hope the British mine strike will be in full swing. The main order of business on the Coolidge administration’s program for the next session of congress is a further reduction in taxes on the rieh. There is nothing said of an increase in the workers’ ‘standard of living. A United States battleship is visiting Ireland. It seems Mor- gan’s bill collectors have a penchant for traveling these days. _ Livery day get “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers l’arty. ° | cutive Commitee of the Letter from the Finnish Communist} | Party to the Finnish Section of | \| the Workers Party. | OMRADES of the Finnish Federa-| tion of the Workers Party of| America, At the session of the Enlarged Exe- | Communist | International were discussed among | other questions the differences, which have manifested themselves in our| | American brother party about the next | | tasks of the party, especially in the) | question of the labor party, The reso-| |lution which was with satisfaction ac-| |cepted by the representatives as well| as of the majority as of the minority | | of the Central Executive Committee is |of a very important significance both | for the development of the Workers |Party into a Bolshevist mass party and |for the awakening of the proletarian | | masses in America to independent po- | litical class struggle. quite natural, that every member of |the Workers Party now before the | party convention thoroly studies this | decision, the representatives of both groups of our American brother party in this connection proposed that also | the Central Committee of the Finnish Communist Party, whose Polbureau- members, were present in the session of the Enlarged Executive Committee | and in the commission, when the ques- | decided, | should write a letter to the Finnish | Federation of the Workers Party, so} tion was. discussed and that—as far.as the Finnish members down in the resolution would be ener- getically and wholeheartedly carried out, (OMRADES! The session of the En- larged Executive Committee of the Communist International said—as you may see from the resolution—that the es Fintiish Branch of our Party in Superior, Wis., has issued, and caused the’ publication of two state- ments in some of our Finnish papers which indicaté'a very dangerous ten- dency. These’ statements are all the more serious’Since they come from a branch to which a number of leading Finnish Comrades belong. Both state- ments while ostensibly opposing fac- tionalism within’ our Party at the same time appear to support an at- tempt to créate a new faction. The statements déal with the convention | assessment, rai8ing an issue as to the Even if it is} are concerned—the line of policy put} HE DAILY WORKER Committee of the Workers Party of America was right,in their confidence in the vitality andffuture of the labor party movement, The Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International recommended ungnimously to the Workers Party not to abandon the struggle for establishing a labor party, but on the contrary, in the most ener- getic way to advance the labor party movement, By the same, however, the Comintern corrected the previous slogan in the sense that now the ques- tion is not any more of a “farmer labor” party, but only of a labor party. As tar as the majority of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party earlier had emphasized that the labor party—when organized—must have a broad base in the organizéd masses of the trade unions, this claim as such was correct, but that step of the majority of the,Central Executive Committee was wrong, thru which ity later abandoned the labor party slo- |gan, and more than that—started a | systematic opposition to it. CCORDING to our opinion it is now especially important—and | just because of that we write this let- ter—that now—as far as the Finnish | members of the party are concerned— | | will be guaranteed, that this labor party policy gets undivided support and that the unwavering realization of this policy will be warranted in the future by the party leadership. Your party must have such a leadership, which is a guarantee for the energetic carrying out of that work, which is specially mentioned by the resolution jin this connection and which is ‘very |important for the future of all the} revolutionary labor movements in) America. We know, that the secretary of your | organization, who also is a member) of the Central Executive Committee of ene the Central Executive Committee does not hesitate to declare that these statements present the ideological preparation for a split,in our Party. The Central Executive.Committee is moved to make the, declaration be- cause of the following facts: 1. One of the two statements de- clares that the Finnish “Socialist” branch of Superior takes this and this stand. It is symptomatic for the ideo- logy of these Comrades. They find it perfectly in. order to ¢all themselves a “Socialist” branch altho the Finnish Section after its last national conven- amount as wéll ‘as to method of col- jection; they further question the wi lom of the ‘decision of the Commun ist Internatiofial in dealing with thel factional situation in our Party in that it proposed that either group having majority, the’ minority shall be en/ titled to one-third; they demand a new discussion without raising any political issue to discuss; and finall they seem to be designed to mobiliz: the membership’ against the present Central Exeéutive Committee and by | protesting “against the arrangements made for thé coming convention at the same time casting a shadow, of suspicion pon the future Central Ex- ecutive Coitifilittee of the Party. UR Party faces a difficult situation at thé @F8kent moment. Political differences that have existed up to the decision of the Comintern have caused the division of the ranks of the Party into factions. At the same time there is present within the Party a danger- ous right-wing opportunist tendency which has crystallized gradually with increasing danger to the Communist integrity of our Party. This tendency represented by Loreism can only be combatted successfully with the unit- ed efforts of our Party. In the strug- gle against this tendency the process of Bolshevizing our Party will be the most effective means. This process of Bolshevization demands a complete reorganization of the Party which in turn cannot be carried out without the united efforts of all of our members. it is clear therefore that any tendency of a new division within our Party is necessarily weakening the Party, in- tensifying the inner struggles, making impossible a concentrated struggle against Loreism and a complete mob- ilization of all the forces of the Party for Bolshevization and the consequent reorganization. : Considering the two statements_of the Superior Finnish Branch in the light of these circumstances and on the basis of their contents and tone, Statement of the Finnish Federation, Workers Party, in Regard to the Statements Issued and published by the Superior, s., Finnish Branch, HE Finnish Branch of the Workers Party in*Superior, Wis., has issued and published two statements, to which statements the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Workers Party )has issued the above statement in re- ply, condemning the views ahd tend- ency expressed tn these two state- ments as non-Communistic and de- tremental to the party, which tendency ultimately will lead to’ Loteism and into the opportunistic ¢wamps, It’s tion discarded the name of Finnish Socialist Federation. The Central Ex- ecutive Committee seeg,in this a ten- dency for splitting operations within our Party. The Central Bxecutive Committee must condemn ‘this clear manifestation of non-Communist ten- dencies. : * 2. Both of the statements make an attempt to discredit the coming Party convention, the future Central Execu- tive Committee and ;the Communist International by trying to discredit he methods prescribed by the Com- unist International for the organ- igation of the future Central Execu- ive Committee and the method de- ‘cided upon by the Central Executive Committee in organizing the coming convention. This is another indica- tion of un effort to cfystallize a senti- ment within the Party against the Party, the Central Executive Commit- tee and the Communist International. 3. The authors of these statements have also found it quite possible to resort to a quite common demagogical argument in raising a financial issue. The Central Executive Committee has followed the regular procedure of our Party in issuing the call for.a con- vention assessment. This assessment was found perfectly natural by the whole Party. It is obvious that the convention could not be financed with- out an assessment. Not one of its sub-divisions has found it necessary to complain of the amount nor pro; test against the method of collection, But the authors of the statements of the Finnish Branch of Superior seized upon this assessment as a good issue to start a new fight in the Party. | ant. Tasks of the Finnish Section of | minority of the Central Executive} this question wholly against the minority of the Central Executive Committee and the policy proposed by them, and that he in a circular letter to the branches and to the members asked the comrades to approve the standpoint of the majority of the Cen- tral Executive Committee. The, at that time, one-sided position of the secretary of your organization and also of many other Finnish comrades was in part presumably influenced by the circumstance, that the minority of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party at that time de- fended the “farmer labor party” slo- gan in its former aspect, altho the changed conditions demanded a cor- rection in part of this slogan. While in this cireular letter besides that he especially appealed to the importance of concentrating all energy and atten- tion direct on the development and or- ganization of the Workers Party itself, this letter found a rather sym- pathetic response from the Finnish comrades, And this resulted on quite understandable and in themselves, right reasons. Because the Com- maunists first of all should everywhere and always look upon the strengthen- ing and development of their own party as their first and most impor- tant task. Especially the Finnish comrades whose own organization is relatively strong and who to their numbers form a considerable part— more than a third—of the party, and who feel that the greatest weakness of the Workers Party is, that it gen- erally has yet very few members and relatively few of the American HORT | workers in its ranks, therefore Finn- | |ish comrades consider the question of building the party as very import-! But it would be a great error to think, that the strengthening of the| party and its participation in such) mass movements as especially just the} Close the Ranks of the when we cite the facts (a) that they Party carried on a discussion lasting for many months. on‘ the political is- sues confronting it and (b) that this! discussion exasperated these. . very Comrades to such a degree that: they protested in strong terms against the discussion. In the face of this fact the Central Executive Committee can consider the constitutional point raised by the authors of these statements only as another convenient “issue”. 5. In one of the statements the ques- tion of a national conference of the Finnish Federation of our Party is Zaised. The statement protests;against the action of the Central Executive Committee in delaying the conference of the Federation. Here we.are.con- fronted with a very serious question. The most difficult immediate task of our Party is that of complete reor- ganization. “It is necessary to:fuse the national sections of our Party.into one real united Party,” says the Bol- shevization thesis addpted at the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Communist International. In this work the Party must have the earnest and intelligent cooperation of the leading elements in all its federations. The first difficulty to overcome is that of federation pa- triotism. An understanding and; de- sire for the establishment of the one- ness of the Party must be created and cultivated. As long “as its, organs and members act in an isoléte way, each after its.own fashion, it ig hope- less to expect useful and desirable re- sults,” states the Comintern letter to our Party on organization. “Unlike a centralized Party, the Workers Party as it is at present constituted is not a party of united action. The Party members of the various national sec- tions are not fused together into one whole but are divided among them- selves. They do not discuss questions interesting all the workers and the whole party but they live the exclusive life of their own national minority or of its working class section, so iso- lated from the American workers that they even do not sufficiently know the direct interests of the whole working class of the United States.” oe the Communist International judges the organizational. short- comings of our Party. In the face STATEMENT OF THE FINNISH BUREAU 4. Even the Party constitution must | of this undisputable condition the Cen- supply the authors of these statements | tral Executive Committee sees in the with another artificial issue. In,their | protests of the authors of the two Statements they protest against the| statements of the Finnish Branch in Central Executive, Committee’s call Superior an appeal to federation pa- for a convention which does not per-| triotism which tends to aggravate the mit, as they state; the constitutional conditions criticised by the Commun- 60 days of discussion, The insincer-| ist International instead of helping to ity of this statement becomes clear] alleviate them. Under existing con- ‘| pressed in those two statements even in stronger terms than the C. E, C, of our party does and states that such views and tendencies will not have lieves and tendenéies as expressed in| any support of the bureau or the great those statements, but there is noj|majority of our membership now or other way for the bureau to judge the|in the future, actions of the Superior comrades than} The bureau of the Finnish section as expressed in those statements andjof the party calls upon the Finnish therefore the Federation Bureau fully|comrades in every branch to close endorses the statement of the C, B, C.| their ranks and condemn the tendency of the’ Workers Party and declares | expressed in those two statements and that the Finnish Federation Bureau| stand by the party and the federation condemns the vyiéWs and tendency ex-lin a united front and fight vigorously 2m mg THE In the August issue of THE WORKERS M hard for the bureau of the Finnish Federation to believe that the Su- | perior branch should such be- 1% By WM. Z. FOSTER. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE A PICTURE OF THE GREAT standing in contradiction to each other, Quite to the. contrary, fhe great signification of the labor party slogan is just in it, that it is one of the best means, thru which the Work- ers Party indirect can develop to a Bolshevist mass party, Such a nar- rowness of understanding—even if de- prived from right motives—which can- not see this meaning of the labor party slogan, can very easily lead to such efforts, which are akin with some one-sided I. W. W. tendencies, looking. upon the building up of their y own organization, of their own party, as a separate mechanic issue, having no understanding for uniting it with the movements of the big masses or with the struggles for getting the masses to move. This would be a serious fault-and especially just. in America, where all attempts to build revolutionary mass organizations— whether parties of the workers or revolutionary economic organizations ~-haye been in vain, if not combined | with struggles to get the masses mov- ing. We hope that you, Finfish com- rades, now notice this and concede it, and that you before the party conyen- tion will decide to follow the right pol- icy put down by the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional. i fal connection with this question the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist International unani- mously condemned that Second-and-a- half International tendency, which is , absolutely strange to the main princi- ples of Communism and which the edi- tor of the paper of the German Fede- ration, Ludwig Lore, represents over there. We hope, that you, Finnish comrades, also take a clear stand in this question. Let it be, that Lore in some details perhaps has happened to be right, the main thing is, that the the Workers Party took his stand in \labor party movement, would be tasks, | political line, the principal.standpoint Hhaewercieneste foto arty ditions this appeal to federation pa- triotism can have only one result— that of widening the gap between the federation and the Party and thus cre- ating a spirit of split instead of one of unity. as The attitude displayed by these comrades should be sufficient proof of the wisdom of the Central Execu- tive Committee postponing the federa- tion conventions until after the party convention. The Central Executive Committee is adopting uniform regula- tions for the cailing of all federation conferences after the party convention to enable the Party to mobilize its forces for carrying on the Bolsheviza: tion of the Party, especially the reor- ganization of the language sections into a centralized Party organization. 6, The authors of these two state- ments also raise the issue of faction- alism within our Party. A-party in which the political prob- lems of the working class do not cre- ate lively controversies and political alignments is a dead party. It is true that these controversies may and do at times take on a serious and even dangerous form for the party. It is inevitable that a sharp struggle over political questions should develop such a situatfon. The solution is not that adopted by the Finnish com- rades of Superior, but for the party to unite on the basis of the platform of the Communist International for the Workers Party. What our Party needs in the present situation of factional strife is common action on the basis of the now settled point of political orientation. The appeal for the cre- ation of a faction against factionalism cannot tend to unite but is merely a factor of further division. The Com- munist International was fully aware of the situation in our Party and has decided upon the only effective method of unity. The work of the Party Com- mission has brought our Party a great deal nearer to the solution of the Problem of fagtionalism. A comple- tion of the work of this Commission and the work of the Party convention will finally reunite all the forces of our Party for common action and will thus eliminate the elements of intense factional strife. While the aversion to factionalism contains a healthy ten- dency it is non-Communist to specu- the Workers Party of Communism by him is wrong and opportunistic, The last fact and not the first should be the measure for a true Communist when estimating Lore, Consequently stand against Lore must be taken without evasions, not giving him even the slightest par- tial support. One must decisively part with Loreism. In the Finnish Federation Lore is certainly rather un- known and thus the greater is the reason to expect, that he will not re- ceive even the shadow of support from the Finnish comrades. Comrades! Worthy of your special attention in ‘the resolutions are the points about the centralization and the basic organizations of the party and of the work in the trade unions. We hope that the comrades of the Finnish Federation with. energy will go to assist in the work carrying out these decisions, We believ® that you yourselves, comrades, thru this will come in the closest contact with the American comrades and proletarians. You will be Americanized in the revo- lutionary Bolshevist sense of this word, you will develop from being members of that separate “Finnish by-movement” of the Workers Party to real members of the American Com- munist movement and of the Workers Party. And you understand of which great use your ability and your ex- perience will be for the American Communist movement. We on our side, we assure you, are working with all energy to strengthen the Communist Party in Finland, to prepare and lead the revolutionary movement in Finland. Comrades, there is no reason for even the slight- est doubt, that the revolutionary pro- letarian movement in Finland marches forward with sure and strong steps. The Central Committee of the Com- nunist Party of Finland. .—-KULLERVO MANNER. Statement of the Central Executive Committee The exploitation of existing anti- factional tendencies within our Party by the authors of the two statements in the factional manner apparent in their documents is only another indi- cation of their aims. 7. A further indication of the dan- gerous attitude of the authors of these statements toward the Party is con- tained in their not having submitted either of these statements to the Cen- tral Executive Committee before pub- lishing same. 3 oe Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party calls the at- tention of the comrades of the Finn- ish Branch of Superior to the dan- gerous direction their statements in- dicate. If they persist on continuing on this road they will find themselves in the camp of Loreism. Stich a course will inevitably lead them far- ther away from the Party and they Comintern. ‘he Central Executive Committee sufficient confidence in- the loyalty of these Comrades to our Party and to the Comintern to hope \that they Will speedily abandon this road and return to the path of com- mon Communist action with and with- in our Party. These Comrades must open their eyes to the fact that their activities and criticism play into the hands of the enemies of our Party and strengthen their efforts to get into control of the Finnish workers, particularly the Finnish Socialists and anarcho-syndicalists who welcome ev- ery schism in the ranks of the Party and the Comintern. HE Central Executive Committee calls upon all the members of our Party and especially upon the mem- bers of the Finnish Section to close their ranks against any attempt to lead them into the swamps of oppor- tunism and Loreism. The inner unity of our Party and the international unity of all the Communist parties un- der the banner of the Communist In- ternational are the most valuable achievements of the revolutionary ex- perience of the prolétariat of the world today. To guard this achieve- ment and to defeat every attempt of disruption is the aim to which we must devote the energies of our Party and to which especially is devoted the great process of Bolshevization which 0000 MAN: LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS can be achieved only by united action. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, Wm. Z. Foster, Chairman, C, E, Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. ‘ late upon this tendency for the pur- pose of creating further divisions. Se- rious Communist leadership must use this anti-factional tendency among the members for the creation of an en- thusiasm for complete Party unity thru a united line-up of the’ whole Party in common struggles. the tendency expressed in the state.) ty has done in this country among ments, and do all in its power to edu-| the Finnish workers in educating them cate and organize the Finnish mem-| along the ideology of Communism and bership of the party to a such part] will throw. the Finnish workers as a of it that it will and-is able to help] prey back to the social-democratic and build a fighting Communist mass} anarcho-syidicalist ideological fu party in the United States, ence. Comrades turn back at once We. point out to our Finnish com- from this rades who may sympathize with the tray nig iahien cm oe tendency and views expressed in the sa cd pores i Statements of the Superior branch;| onal and fight together with the t by doing so they expose to a very| Communist elements of the party to great danger all.the work what our] build of the Workers Party a united federation in conjunction with, the par-] Communist fighting party under the program outlined by the C. 1, Down with all right wing opportun- ONTHLY— istic tendencies in our federation and AWAKEN in the party. m bal Executive Committee Finnish ‘. nikita Federation, sf NEEDLE TRADES UNIONS Workers Party of America, Fehle Burman, Secretary, 4, he