The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 6

» i Page Six ! Published by tho DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ’ 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 —__.. om es — SUBSCRIPTION RATES, By mail (in Chicagy only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $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 Blvd,, Chicago, Illinois J. LOU 1S ENG WILLIAM F, I Editors MORITZ J. LOEB. 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. — ; Advertising rates on application. cel cae : o- : . . Visitors in the Soviet Union A large delegation of German workers, coming straight from the shops and work benches of Germany’s industrial life, is making an extended trip of investigation into’ conditions of the workers under the Soviet regime thrnout Soviet Russia. A similar delegation of French and Belgian workers is ending its visit as the Germans ar- rive. A Swedish delegation is on the way to Leningrad. These delegations and their results are of the deepest signi- ficance. They are not composed of union officials, but of plain work- ers from the shops. Moreover, they are not composed of Communist workers exclusively. The chairman of the German delegation is a} social-democrat, belonging to a party bitterly opposed to the Com- munists and the chairman himself freely s that he is going to be very critical of what he sees in Soviet Rus Further, he wants it fully understood that he is going to tell the exact truth of Soviet eonditions when he gets back to Germany. Whatever may be the findings of this particular worker, news| already arrived shows that the delegation as a whole is amazed at| the contrast between what the bourgeois press of Germany has said about Soviet conditions and the facts thay have found. In what other country could shop workers go and be met with a tremendous roar of welcome? In what other country would the plain workers from the shops of Germany be met with an address of welcome by the chief military commander of the nation? 3 Can anyone imagine General Hines or Harbord of the U. 8. army general staff, welcoming a group of hard-fisted, incredulous German manuel laborers, and repeating to them the invitation given by Frunze, commander of the red army? “Let the German comrades discuss this point (freedom of the toilers) with any workers, in any occupation, in any part of the Soviet Republics.” Imagine such an invitation being proferred by the stiff-necked mhilitarists of the U. S. army! And imagine what a ‘torrential avalanche of discontent and protest at capitalist oppression the in: quiring workers would be buried under! The DAILY WORKER points the contrast, and announces that by the opportunity given by the International Press Correspondence, the story of what the German workers find in Soviet Russia, what they see and say from day to day, will be told in these columns. Rockefeller Generosity Hardly a month passes that the Rockefeller family does not endow a college or jn some other way get rid of part of their great ‘wealth. For these benefactions they are praised by the press and by the colleges and churches that benefit from the gifts. Where do the Rockefellers get this money? We read in the Colorado Labor Advocate, that the officials of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, have announced a 15 per cent _ wage cut, bringing the scale down to the 1917, level despite the fact that the cost of living has soared since that time. Adding insult to injury, the company excuses this cut by claiming that the workers at one of their mines petitioned for the cut, so that the company could compete with other coal operators. But the mine where this strange petition is alleged to have comie‘has been closed down for some time. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is operated on the “Rockefeller Plan.” The employes are supposed to deal with the company thru representatives. No labor union is tolerated. But the company is not able to successfully delude, the miners even with this fake scheme. Despite the fact that the so-called representa- tives of the workers are usually picked company tools, the agents of the hypocritical Rockefeller, are not able to make the miners swal- low the.excuse of the latest wage slash. The employes of the other Rockefeller mines were asked to yote on the proposition. They rejected it by an overwhelming majqrity. Employes of some mines not only voted down the pro- .posed cut but demanded an increase of 20 per cent over the present ‘seale. This shows up the fraud of Rockefeller’s “Industrial Democ- acy” in Colorado. The Colorado Labor Advocate asks how long are the miners of Colorado going to “stand for the brazen deceit of the so-called Rockefeller Plan. . It'does not seem that they will be always meek. The Rockefeller Plan has taken them nowhere as far as wages is concerned.” The slaves of the Rockefellers bought their experience with gifts coming from the masters. They should know by now that neither Rockefeller or any other capitalist robber will ever concede anything to them except thru force. Their power lies in their collective strength exercised thru unionism. They must ditch company unionism no matter under what fancy name it flaunts its rottenness and organize a real union, based upon the class strug- gié; a union that will fight for immediate gains and prepare the way for the final struggle to get rid of Rockefeller, not only in Colorado but thruout the United States. Rockefeller can afford to endow churches and goosestep universi- ties with the money ‘plundered from its overworked, ill-paid wage slaves. Not So Bad en S. Stone, late president of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, did not leave one million dollars to his widow as was originally reported. This was an outrageous exaggeration, no doubt conceived by his enemies, perhaps William Lee of the train- men’s organization or by John L. Lewis of the mine workers. No, indeed, Stone was too honest a labor leader to leave a million dollare to his widow. The poor fellow had only $150,000 to his name when he passed away. It is true that not every worker saves that much money in a lifetime, but when one considers the number of banks that Mr. Stone was interested in as grand offieer of a powerful union and when one knows that he°was financially interested personally in| other companies, he might have left more money. Stone’s holdings were entirely in stocks and. bonds.) We would like to know how much (if any) stock Mr, Stone’ Hiéld’in the New York Central Railroad? ,Or in the scab coal mines’ that he man- aged in West Va. Mr Stone wast honest » leader! The pov. fellow left onl} $150,000 behind: him, when: slit, have left j THE DAILY WORKER The following. vais eekak os ORE was unanimously ado} adopted by Ae Parity Com- mission for submission’ 't6 the National Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to be held August 21: HEN, on November ®?)|4917, the Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants Councils, directed by the Bolshevik Party led by our Comrade Lenin, seized state power from the treacher- ous hands of the Kerensky regime, a new era‘in human history was begun, an era of the proletarian revolution, And the fire of proletarian emancipa- tion lighted by the immortal Red Guard has not failed to light:the path and warm the faith ef the exploited and oppressed of all races and in every land. Now, in the eighth. year of the Soviet Power, the Union of; Socialist Soviet Republics, triuniphant ove every foe, internal and external, stand like a giant citadel of ike dice power from the Baltic to.the Pacific, from the Black Sea to the Arctic ocean, HRU the dark and terrible years since 1917, the workers ‘and peas- ; ants of Soviet Russia have starved and battled against every sort of dis- couragement and assault. Unified and led by their vanguard; the Communist Party of Russia, they themselves have been the heroic vanguard of the world proletarian revolution, Suffering unexampled sacrifices and starvation, the workers and Peasants of Soviet Russia have proven their right to rule and won fervent admira- | tion and active support of the workers of all the world. Ringed around with the invading armies of the combined | Practically ratifies the criminal syn- imperialist nations’, murderously at- tacked by white guard armies under Yudenich, Denikin, Kolchack, and the rest, betrayed and stabbed in the back by the menshevik assassins of the Second International who were sub- sidized by the allied robbers nations, and starved by the allied blockade and the drougth and crop failure along the Volga—thru all, the armed workers and peasants have clung persistently; SPite of all pretenses-of democracy to the state power of Proletarian Dic- tatorship, and today all their Com- munist theory is justified, all their sacrificial action is rewarded as the Soviet’ Power stands unified and ex-! class tended triumphant and strengthened, [necessity of all class conscious work- —_—_— The Struggle Against’ Loreism In Our Party By MAX BEL BEDACHT. HE Loreist concept of party tasks proceeds on the erroneous theory, that@here eXists a difference between the’ task of building the party and that of entering, political activities, and executing maneuvers. Again and again ‘we meet the argument that we nftst/first build our party before we can enter this or that action. This at- titude is social-democratic. The task of building the party can-| not be separated from the political ac- tivities of the party. Our only source of new. strength is the working class. | We endeavor to set the toiling masses into motion in the direction of a decis- ive struggle against capitalism. Our party cannot carry on this struggle without the masses; the masses can- not earry on this decisive struggle without the Communists. We build up the party in the same degree as we succeed in identifying it with the struggles of the masses. ‘As long as We are a small party our participation in these struggles will be one with comparatively small means. But just jo the joy'of the world’prolétariat and he chagrin of world imperialism. The reactionary generals are de- teated, the invading armies of the “democratic” allied robbers driven into the seas and across the borders by the pressure of Soviet arms and the threat of revolution by the workers of the western nations, the counter-revolu- tionary lackeys to the bourgeoisie or- ganized in the infamous Second In- ternational which has sold: itself to the capitalist, discredited and un- masked, roost like clean: vultures or ‘Our American Pledge to the S 4 Woe around the chancelleries‘of'Paris, Lon- don and Washington, thé allied block- ade is broken, the famftie-ended, and with the powerful Red/Army and the watchful Red Navy guarding*the outer fortications, the workes and peasants of Soviet Russia are successfully ham- mering out Socialist reconstruction and building stone by stone the struc- ture of a new society, HIS tremendous success of the eco- nomic restoration of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republic recognized in the Report of the British Trade Un- jon Délegation in 1924, has penetrated even the most remote sections of the world’s working class, together with the growing fraternal relations be- tween the Soviet Union and. ‘the racer and nationalities oppressed by ‘worl¢ imperialism, is stirring ald ‘sétting in motion the exploited and*'suffering masses of the entire world, The movement for International Trade Union Unity, the shattering of the leadership of the treacherous, class, collaborationist social democra- cy in the unions of both Europe and America, the struggle against the Dawes’ plan, the mobilization and march to the left of the British work- ers, the Indian strikes, the rebellion of colonial peoples in Africa, the savage clashes in the Balkans, the sporadic workers’ revolts in Lat! mérica and the intensification of a national revo- International Labor Defense Endorsed The following saad libs was unanimously adopted by. the Parity Com- mission for submission to the Nation: munist) Party to be held August 21: Y Bee recent action of, the supreme court in upholding ‘the constitu- tionality of the New York criminal anarchy law, under which Comrade Gitlow was sentenced to prison, fore- shadows another period of prosecu- tion andrepression of' the working class: movement) under which the lib- erty of its best’ fighters will be placed + in jeopardy. This new decision marks another stage in exposing the sham character of the supposed rights of freedom of speech, press and as- sembly stated in the constitution and dicalist laws of 35 states and makes concrete the danger of the enactment of a federal law of the same charac- ter. This presents the greatest danger to all) working class organizations, especially to its most advanced and militant sections. This decision, taken together with the fact that in and cessation of war-time persecution at least’ 128 workers are stil} confined in state prisons for no other crime than activity in the interests of their demonstrates the imperative tendency for our party’ are. with this process, ove the party. siaesiaia has al- ways maintained an “attitude of “superior .criticfsm. Neither the left wing, nor the party was*their move- ment. From the hts of their “intellec su) they consider the: developments* the do- ings of our movement and’ pass judg- ment “over’t it: This’ judgment, of course, is always against the party’s and the Comintern’s doings and in- variably in favor of their own concept, that of Olympians. But in spite of the “serious shortcom- ings” of party and Co: these Olympians condescend to e it with the honor of their memberghip, “Altho I am a member of it, I cannot take re- sponsibility upon myself to:advise any one else to join” declared:Lore in a meeting of German-speaking comrades in New York at the timesof the: or- ganization of the Communists in.an underground party in the face of wholesale persecution of party mem- bers by the government., Here we have Loreism again in ‘Reinkultur.” as the athlete gains and improves his abilities in practice so does the party build itself in action. The Commun- ists will win leadership only if they really lead. The workers will learn to follow the Communists in’final ac- tion if they see them march and fight with them and ahead of them in all preliminary actions. EN Loreism expounds this theory of first building and then acting, it tries to cover up its opposi- tion to action with a plausible form- ula, This formula is the more danger- ous because the special regard these opportunities seem to have for our party carries an appeal to loyal and well-meaning party members. Thus the ideological influence of Loreism in the party tends to paralyze the party's activities to a much larger. degree than the organized strength of the | Lore group would indicate,. The last party discussion, for instance, reveal- ed to what a degree this, .untenable theory of a dualism of party building and party activities, is aceepted even by leading-members of ourparty who otherwise, admit the dangers of the Lore tendencies for,our Party. The Comintern took cognizance of this tendency in our party when it wrote into the decision on the. American question the following, fundamental principle that the Communists must continually influence the workers in a revolutionary sense, and that this task cannot be accomplished by mere agitation and propaganda. Any, ideo- logiéil struggle against Loreism must, therefore, also uproot these tenden- cies where they have lost their clear identity with Loreism, and especially when they make their appearance as “pure Communist principles.” Com- rade Lenin called this tendency in- verted opportunism,’ * It is evident that’the ‘opportunist tendency of Loreisny finds the more bases for al rar aac | expos- ure the more the pi itself, the more the party of pro revolutionary action, as evident that the (The party is never their party, The party is one thing; and a Loreite is another thing. Tho the two may meet, they never merge. This inabil- ity of the two to merge, demonstrated by the attitude of Loreism toward the party, must also be officially recog- nized by the party. The recognition of this inability to mergé must in turn be demonstrated by the party in a re- lentless attitude toward Loreism. ia the past the struggle against Lore- ism*was a sporadic one. Since the tendency was net crystallized in a dis- tinct group’ but manifastid., itself mainly in what indiv! party mem- bers .of that tendency: or did. Comrade Lore: himself ‘was again and again the object of criticism and at- tack for his consistentynon-Commun- ist attitude. In the left wing move- ment at the time of the birth of our party Lore was the of very justified suspicion attack. At that time his attitude’ of superiority led him to a criticism‘of ‘the left wing which in many points coincided with that of the right wi the days of the underground state of war of the party ‘Lore was a permanent one. At the time of the formation of the. Workers’ Party, Lore’s membership ins our party be- came so questionable} that he was treated completely as an outsider. Several times during-the existence of the Workers Partycwe find the party in fight against Lore and Lore- ism, Even the walls of Sing Sing prison could not prevent Comrade Ruthenberg from taking issue with Lore because of the latter’s attitude toward our underground party. Com- rades Lovestone and Pepper took is- sue with Lore in the “Toiler,” in the underground “Comniunist,” and in the “Weekly Worker.” The party took issugewery decisively against Loreism whem it raised its head in a dangerous | in the Jow- ish Federation, like it. } al Convention of the. Workers, (Com- ers banding themselves together on the: platform’ of the common fight for the release of all class war prison- ers and for the defense and support of new victims and their families. HE International. Labor . Defense which was recently organized at |@ national conference in Chicago, as a hon-partisan organization, for the defense and support of all workers persecuted for their activity in the class struggle in America and for the assistance of the victims of the white terror abroad, has taken upon itself obligations which should be regarded as the common obligations of all sin- cere and class conscious workers, The Intertiational Labor Defense fills a long-felt need in the American labor movement. It brings new cour- age and hope to the working class fighters who languish in prison and gives the assurance to all workers on the firing line of the class struggle that they will not stand alone and their families will not be neglected in time of persecution and imprison- ment. The International Labor De- fense has already made substantial Progress in its work, has given ‘ub- stantial evidence by the actions it the part of some of the members of the then C. E. C., the majority of that body proceeded firmly with ‘its meas- ures, It put the “reiheit” under im- mediate control of the C, E. C., and, finally expelled Salutsky, who had de- veloped his non-Communist atittude quickly into an anti-Communist one. SB Mor hing the last two years, with the slow process of Bolshevization, the Lore tendency crystallized slowly as a group. In this crystallization it was aided considerabaly by the‘ fact that outstanding adherents of this tend- ency were not only permitted to oc- Our Readers’ Views To the DAILY WORKER: I am ly- ing on my back in, the Morton Hospi- tal, Taunton, Mass., with a broken leg (femur) and am likely to be here for some time. Am enclosing $1.00 which is, all I can raise to have the DAILY WORKER sent me for as long as that will pay for. If any local comrades or sympathizers could visit me here, welcome would be a cold word to describe my sentiments. I can see enough in the bourgeois press to convince me that the Riffs and the Chinese in two widely separated parts of the world are bothering the imper- ialists somewhat. But even tho I know the lying bour- seois propaganda for what it is, I hate to have to read it alone without the Communist light rays to illumine it. Quite a tempest in a teapot this Scopes’ trial seems to me. Both sides in the controversy seem to be convinced that the questions of sci- ence and religion can be fought out on their own feet without any ques- tion of their merit or demerit to a par- ticular class. Let them ‘go ‘to it, tho. There is no doubt that the wide pub- licity given the matter will force open new though cells in.the brains of the static ones. Some day before long we well get Marxian-Leninist questions attracting the attention aig Darwin- jan ones now are. {5 {% | Entering the horhitat re, 1 asked my religion. religion, I am a Communist. : we get along very. well w or other spooks.”. There are lots of,, catholics among nurses and patients here, 80 we have plenty of beads and the poor, hurt children are told “God is punishing you. Be resigned.” It ‘makes m grind my teeth at times to keep from opening direct battle with the expo- nents of such a theory, but I have to lie silent. But I know the day is al- most here when the working class in those of their children. The capital- power will blow ‘wilthe dark mists and terrors from ithely minds and ists will beat us {ti/iany a-battle yet, but for all wePWilliwin the war the class war.—Pfatormally, H. C. Fillmore, care of Morton Hospital, a5 Mass. read ‘this, ucive to has already taken, tt defends and supports all class jwar fighters ir- respective of their organizational af- filiations, and has been widely ac- claimed in all sections of the mili- tant labor movement. International Labor’ Défense is an absolutely indispensible organization » |for the militant labor movement and {merits the unqualified support of all those who stand on the platform of the class struggle and who recognize the necessity of a common fight against persecution and reaction. The International Labor Defense must be built into a mighty organiza- tion embracing scores of thousands of workers and exploited farmers, re- gardless of their political affiliations. To Workers Party endorses the International Labor Defense and pledges full support to its activities in ‘defense and support of persecu- ted warkers in America and all countries of the capitalist world. The convention calls upon every Party member to do his full duty by joining the International Labor De- fense as a dues-paying member, by giving méral and material support to the organization in all of its work, and by carrying its message into all labor organtzations with which they | are connected and to strive in every way to draw them into its ranks. $$ portant. party, Positions. But.whatever the causes of this crystallization Might have been, the fact remains: unchallenged that Lore- ism, .while:in: the first period of the existence. ofiour party merely a tend- ency, hasbecome a distinct group which menaces the Communist: integ- rity of oun party and tends to arrest the party's progress toward complete | Bolsheyization. i wart, organizational steps, such as are proposed by the parity res- olution (on .Loreism, are absolutely in our fight against Lore- cupy but were even appointed to im-|ism, rie will not be sufficient. oviet Union lution against foreign imperialist op- vression of the Chinese people,. all points not only to the revolutionary stimulus which .Soviet Russia affords all oppressed by its very existence, but point as well to the menace to capitalist imperialism which such ex- istence constitutes, ENSING its historic doom, the sinister forces of world capitalist imperialism again are gathering \their armies and navies, again loosing their floods of lying propagandists, again mobilizing their lackeys of the. social democracy and trade union reactfom aries to attack the. Union Socialist Soviet Republi¢s ‘the §o-called “Se curity Pact” in the west, the arming of the puppet ‘tiatfons on the Soviet Union’s western frontiers, the estab- lishment of a Britishnaval base on the Dago Islands in,the- Baltic, the ef- forts of the imperialist powers to unite their forces against Soviet Rus sia in China against the Chinese-Sovtet rapproachment, the provocation of British courts trying Soviet citizens on Chinese soil, the attempt to sever trade relations by the Baldwin cabl- net, the British naval, maneuvers in the Baltic, the” military preparations in America, and Coolidge’s continued and studied insults tothe Soviet Un- ion, all indicate an ‘approaching new war of violence and ‘imvasion against the wrokers and peasants of Soviet Russia. N this hour the Workers Party of America, knowing. its duty and ready to act with vigor and decision, Pledges anew to the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia its every effort to defend and advance the world proletarian revolution, to support Soviet Russia and its allies among the world’s exploited and oppressed, to extend and intensify the movement for recognition of Soviet Russia by the American capitalist government on the basis of the common interests of the workers and poor farmers of America with the workers and peas- ants of Soviet Russia. ‘We shall make afl efforts to resent a new militant at- tack upon the U. S. S. R. and to hold aloft the banner of the Proletarian Dictatorship before the eyes af the toiling masses still exploited by the Dictatorship of the American bour- geoisie. Loreism, the theory of BA and inaction, must be overcome by an antidote of decisiveness and activits. Loreism must be dtownéd by Bolshe ism. This is not mérely®*a'‘ phras Bblshevization will dtown Loréism— first because it will draw all Commun- ist elements of the party away front inaction where idle speculations mz make the victims ‘6f-*'Loréism, -and pulls them into the "Mechanism of revolutionary political) action; an’, second, it will make existence for th> unassimilable non-Communist ~ elc- ments within the party a pityaical im- possibility. i document RUSSIA TODAY. (COMPILED. ‘BY INTERNAT! 38635, Aug. 21; Ther “RUSSIA TODAY”—TOMORROW! Technical difficulties have kept out today’s i Tomorrow—and everyday following—a generous instalment will be printed. Look for it—and pass it on to the men in your shop! BIRTH DATES OF CLASS WAR PRISONERS IN AUGUST Represa, Cal., ‘Folsom Prison—H, C. Duke, August 20, San Quentin Penitentiary, San Quentin, Cal—Roy House, No. O'Mara, No. . taiment of that great TONAL LABOR DEFE