The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1925, Page 13

‘ E (Continued from page 6) the original Jewish sovialist federa- tion group, the Commanist Interna- tional and the party have succeeded in geting rid of and discarding a num- ber of individuals who were also very influential and very powerful in the Jewish movement, but who were in- capable of and unwilling to accept the Communist International and its poli- cies, We refer here to such individu- als as Salutzky, B, Hoffman, and sev- eral of their followers. 4, Having won over to the policies and tactics of the Communist Interna- tional the overwhelming majority of the Jewish section of our party, hay- ing brot to complete identification with the GC. I. the best and most sin- cere, Jeaders of. the original Jewish socialist federation, group, and having gotten rid of the Salutzky-Hoffmann influence, the tremendously increased body of Communists in our Jewish sec- tion proceeded to build Communist influence among the Jewish speaking masses, In this work they were very successful. The wide influence of the party among the nonpartisal mass or- ganizations of the Jewish workers and the powerful development of the party’s Jewish daily organ, the Frei- heit, is a standing monument to the successful struggle of Communism against Loreism in the Jewish Federa- tion, The Lingering Remnants of Loreism in the Jewish Section. ERE is, however, yet> in the Jewish Federation, what could be designated as lingering remnants of Loreism. These remnants can be found in nearly every Jewish branch of the y. The comrades.of this tendency easily recognized’ by a peculiar attitude which is best de- The Strug gle Against scribed as veiled hostility to the Com- muhist leadership in the Jewish sec- tion which at times becomes open op- position. In common with Loreism in the party as a whole, these remnants of Loreism ih the Jewish section are op- posed to what they term maneuvers, and boast of the fact that they are “very strong” on organization and pro- paganda, The same as Loreism and opportunism elsewhere, the Loreites in the Jewish Federation sabotage and oppose strict party control over the activities of Communists in non-parti- San organizations. Thru the whole of the activities of the remnants of Lore- ism in the Jewish Federation, there runs a thread of sullen anger and dis- appointment in the defeat of the Salutzky-Hoffman influence and mis- trust in the present Communist lead- ership in our Jewish section, The following is a telling illustra- tion of this peculiar mood of the rem- nants of Loreism in the Jewish sec- tion. Comrades Olgin and Yuditch, and several more comrades of less prominence, are being attacked by these Loreites as traitors. Why? Be- cause these comrades have definitely, sincerely, and wholeheartedly outlived their centrist inclination and have identified themselves with the Com- munist International and with the party. These lingering remnants of Lore- ism refuse to make peace with Com- munist leadership in the Jewish sec- tion. Some of them have already reached the point of accepting Com- munist leadership in the party as a whole but they will not agree to the Jewish Federation being led by the present majority in the Jewish bureau, which is made up of comrades who Loreism Must Be Concrete have led in the formation of the Com- munist Party in 1919, plus those like Comrades Oilgin and Yuditch who came from the original socialist fed- eration group and have completely identified themselves with the Com- munist International. The liquidation of Loreism in the party as a whole means for our Jewish section the com- plete liquidation of these lingering remnants of Loreism. P In this final effort to liquidate so- cial-democratic traditions in our Jew- ish section, the Jewish comrades must continue to follow the old Comniunist strategy which has proven so success- |ful thru all these years. This strat- | egy is not to surrender and give away ja single working man or truly revolu- | tionary intellectual to the. Loreistic jtendency in the Jewish Federation. It was this strategy that enables us to assimilate hundreds of workers from the camp of the original social- ist-federation group. It was this strat- egy that enabled us to win for the C. I. men like Olgin, Yuditch, etc. Con- sequently thés strategy must be con- tinued in erder to liquidate completely what is now only a small group in the Jewish Federation. Know-Notihng-ism as the Most Mod- ern Manifestation of Loreism. ONFRONTED with the determined campaign of the party to liqui- late Loreism, quite a number of Lore- ‘tes in the Jewish section have adopt- ed the policy of either denying the existence of such tendency, or deny- ing personal knowledge of the exist- ence of such a tendency. It is 4.mod- ern expression of the philosophy of know-nothing. This innocent-looking maneuver must not fool the member- ship of the Jewish section, because it is nothing else but a clumsy attempt ak | | to evade the issue, this issue being the liquidation of Loreism, Why? Why do we call this philos- ophy of know-nothing an attempt to evade the decision of the C, L and of the party to liquidate Lorelsm? Be- cause the existence of this Loreistic tendency is so well known (it func- tions and finds its leading expression in the London-Salzman-Siegel group in the Jewish bureau), its manifesta- tions in our daily work are s0 con- crete and persistent that no one in our Jewish section can claim ignor- ance of these facts without exposing himself to the serious charge of either attempting to evade the issue, which is the same as giving support to Lore- ism, or of being so politically imma- ture as not to be fit for any leading role in our movement, The way to combat this philosophy of know-nothing is to present the is- sue in the most concrete form. Not only must we refer to Loreism in the party as a whole, not only must we refer to Loreism in the past, but. we must also point our fingers at Loreism in the Jewish section and to its re- cent manifestations. We must anal- yze and expose the opposition; 6f' the Loreites to strict party control over the activities of our comrades in the unions, the Workmen’s Circle and in similar organizations. We must an- alyze and show the true value of the anti-party spirit of sabotage and op- position manifested by the Loreites in the Jewish section to the policies of the majority in the Jewish bureau. We must also take up the experiences of each city and each branch and show the presence of anti-party tend- encies of a Loreistic nature. It is only in this manner that we will suc- ceed in liquidating completely these Loreistic tendencies. “There Is No More Communism Here” meloaw asoBy Ye ‘ANVELT: . Aue days ago in the town of Yuri- “% eff, Esthonia, another attack of vengeance commenced against the class conscious Esthonian workers, agricultural laborers and soldiers ac- cused of having “prepared an armed rising and espionage in favor of the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia. Comrade Heidemann, whose name the Esthonian bourgeoisfe used for the whole “case of the 77” is a former independent socialist who broke away in 1921 from his former com- rades (who had now merged into one “socialist” party with the rest of: the Esthonian menshevik debris). He was leader of the local organ- ization adhering to the Comintern, of the labor party and trade unions of Yurieff. When all the workers’ or- ganizations were smashed up by the secret police in 1924, and all the most prominent workers were ar- rested (as a result of the triaY of the “149.") Comrade Heidemann went into hiding. In September of last year he was arrested at a conspirative flat, in connection with which the secret police asserted that they had found the traces of an organization of fighting troops among workers and soldiers of the Yurieff district. known workers and agricultural la- is more or less powerless to suppress the struggle of the workers and the peasants on. behalf of the Soviet power so popular among the toilers of Esthonia. The tiniest of the Baitic Lilliput- ians continue to slide into the eco nomic abyss without slackening its speed, and it is not surprising that such an “independent state” is not agreeable to the toilers. There is no need to talk of the heavy industry which was consider- ably developed in pre-war days; noth- ing remains of this but utter ruin in the full sense of the word. A section of agriculture—the farms of the colo- nists on the former lands of the lana- owners—is experiencing a serious and long drawn out crisis, since the holders are in the overwhelming ma- jority of cases assessed with high lease payments and are incapable of standing on their feet. OW, in addition to this a law has been passed according to which land will be sold to the lease holders as sacred property for the incredibly high price of 90 rubies per dessiatin (without buildings). trade since the purchasing power of the masses who are becoming more and more impoverished ts negligible, and at the same time imports exceed exports by 25 per cent. present, It is not surprising that the unemployed, whom the menshevik pa- 60,000 ( g ee g E f | i ; rf : i : i? | f 4 Ue HH a and that the bourgeoisie carry on a ite ane. death strugats, against them. om the yery _ commencement “independence” the ideal of a section of the Esthonian bourgeoisie has been to transfer the country into a petty-bourgeois Denmark, without heavy industry and its inevitable po- litical appendage—the proletariat; economic disorganization has brot the country “to this impasse. LL that has to be done now is to settle up with the declared prole- tariat and—unemployed, and the petty-bourgeois idyll will have been realized. The secret police and the court martial must put an end to the most advanced elements, who still have some work or other, while want and poverty must push the rest over ithe frontiers of Esthonia, or simply send them to the cemetery. Thus the “independent” court works untir- ingly. The old absurd cases are hashed up again, obviously nonsensical accusa- tions are invented, and the proletar- ians sentenced one by one or in groups to long periods of imprison- ment, if not to death. Here the “in- There is a complete stoppage in|dependent” court does not bother as other bourgeois courts do, about the “secret society” or simply guilty of possessing or distributing literature, or carrying on agitation against the existing order,- etc; ¥ NCE a, worker is discovered, for in- stance, distributing illegal litera- ture, that alone brands him as a mem- ber of the Communist Party, and he receives a heavy sentence. Already li fi i ; 8 ga member of the legal organization— tA the Local Transport Union and the Sports Society—in which Commun- of | ists participate, his;membership, of.an illegal organization is proved, and he is sentenced to imprisonment in a house of correction for three years. HAT is how the “evil spirit”—sym- pathy for the Soviet power—is be- ing knocked out of the Esthonian pro- letarians; but the end of these highly cultured operations is not yet in sight, Searches and arrests still continue, those who caznot be brot to trial un- der any pretext whatever remain un- der the surveillance of the police or are deported to the U. S. S. R. But nevertheless the bourgeoisie and the kulaks are trembling, sensi- tive to the fact that horny hands are waiting for the moment to clutch them by the throat. On May 1 the entire bourgeoisie of Esthonia were armed to the teeth and with shaking knees read the quite ordinary May ist manifesto of the Communist Pary and awaited a repetition of December, 1st which now haunts them in their night- ly dreams. Their hearts are only tran- qufi on the days when some foreign fleet or other hovers near Reval, when the British, Italian, Danish, Dutch and American fleets come there, and even the mighty fleet of their neighbor Latvia, in the form of its solitary armed barge—in order to show their teeth at Soviet Russia. O, miserable pygmies, you will not be able to uproot from among the workers and peasants the ideas they have inherited from the great October, Continue to imitate the biggest wWork- shops of the White Terror, but your court martial will not exclude the pos- sibility of a return of the revolition- ary tribunals of 1917, but on the cor- trary they will only hasten it. Dynamite on the Boulevard. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 7.—Four persons were injured slightly and the fashionable Armour boulevard apart- ments section were thrown into a panic by a dynamite explosion in an — apartment house here. Windowa were blown out of the Sheridan apartmont next door. Mr. and Mrs. H, J, Steph enson, tho 22month-old daughter of . Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Morris and Phillipi Morris, 2 years old, were cut by flying glass. a eamedieedt Sin i tanta niinalio AP SES RATT IS °F ST a ttt hati apna Nidiendincinnathateeiien «Ze —