The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1925, Page 5

ile omer eNO By ALEXANDER BITTELMAN, BJECTIVELY our party is moving) ahead toward the unification s two major groups. The comiad rty convention will undoubtedly a Way with factionalism, at least, im S organized and most objectionable rms. But this did not and could) bt prevent the pre-convention strug- e. The political and ideological basis pr unity between the majority and he minority is already here. It was eated by the decision of the Comin- brn on the American question, This sis for unity was later extended nd strengthened by the decisions of arity Commission. The Parity loi fnission adopted nearly a dozen psfutions dealing with every phase e future activities of the party, ind all of these resolutions were dopted unanimously. What does this ct mean? It means two things. RST: As far as the party is coj cerned and as far as the Comint B concerned, the old political differ inces between the majority and th ninority do not exist any longer. hese differences, which were very merican question. The future labor ty policy of the party will be (must pe) governed neither by the old thesis the majority nor by the old thesi { the minority but by the new thesi bf the Communist International, ECOND: Both groups, majority and minority, place substantially the same interpretation on the decision of the Comintern as far as our future work is concerned, but they disagree to the meaning of the decision with egard to our past differences. Why Can't We Forget Our Past Differences? W piveriinseeats the question of past differences should not enter at all in the relations between two Com- munist groups who in the present both subscribe to the policies of the Comintern. But somehow this does not happen. For some reason or other these past differences are forcing their iway thru and are becoming the “big thing” {n the discussion. Why? There e three main reasons for it. One is the coming party conven- Had there been no convention, decision of the Comintern would ‘nife finally settled the matter. All itt real Communists in the party (which means its overwhelming majerity) wouldhave proceeded tq carry this decision into existence with- out any discussion at all as to who was right and who was wrong. But there is a convention coming, with a pre-convention discussion period. Hence, the whole thing is thrown open and naturally also the question of past differences. Two is the election of a new Cen- tral Executive Committee. This means the selection of the party’s leadership, undoubtedly a great and serious matter for the party to de- cide upon. This is bound to precipi- tate a struggle, under all conditions, particularly when the momentum gen- ted in the past struggle over real ¢Bferences between the majority and t minority has had no time to lend itself, and when two organized groups stand against each othér in the party. Comrade Zinoviev must have known what was coming when he proposed that the composition of the Central Committee of our party be initiated in Moscow. He proposed that the present A PRACTICAL GROUP OF GARMENTS FOR BABY a splendid set of “first short clothes” comprising three desirable garments. Dress, Petticoat, and Combination—Waist and Bloom- ers. ‘The Pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 1, 2 8, 4, and 4 years. A 2 year size re- quires 1% yard of 86 inch material for the Dress, 1% yard for the Petti- tion. ore every day as re- tee tented. ty See MRE: pat : Delivery of coat, and 1% yard for th’ Combina-, the customer. 1e not keep a osh a WeUPOeTVVIVITULIOCUi TC ULM Vee we 4] tuture Central Executive Committee and that the present minority be as- sufed representation according to its }strength, not less than one-third, But later withdrawn as that proposal wi imexpedient. Hence, the selection o! leadership was left to the party wit very natural result of an intensive in) ternal struggle. There. is the ideological readjust- ment on the part of both groups to the decision of the Comintern on the American queStion, Both groups, have to revise materially their former views if they want to be in complete accord with the policy of the Comintern. In fact: such a revision ig taking place, such a process of readjustment is going on. The present discussion of past differences, the talk of who was right and who was wrong, is only a somewhat distorted reflection. of this process of ideological readjustment on the part of both groups to the decision of the Comintern on the ‘American juestion. Let us readjust ourselves to the omintern decision. RST, let me state that the Comin- tern decision is not a document to wibble about. It is clear and un- nivocal and permits of very little terpretation. It says what it means id it means exactly what it says. ‘When Comrade Kuusinen introduced e report of the American Commis- ion to the Plenum of the Enlarged ixecutive of the Comintern, he formu- ted the issues in the American party in the following way: “The question upon which the con- flict arose in the American party was whether the party should fight in the immediate future for a Labor Party or not.” The point that needs,emphasis here (emphasis and not interpretation) is the expression in the above statement of Comrade Kuusinen which says: “in the immediate future.” Why must this be.emphasized? Not because it adds. to or changes anything in the Comin- tern decision, but because it disposes once and for all of the myth that the majority was opposed to the fight for a Labor Party in principle. According to Comrade Kuusinen the question was, shall We or shall we not fight for a Labor Party in the imme- diate future? The majority said: No. The minority said: Yes. On this point the minority was right. Not on the question of principle, because the question of the labor party in prin- ciple was never involved. Anyone who tries to misrepresent the past discussion as a discussion on the labor party in principle is failing in his duty to adjust himself correctly to the decsiow’ of “the Comiftern on ithe American question. What was the basic feature: of, the political analysis given by the major. ity following fhe last presidential ele: tions? It was this: That the La Fol. lette movement had captured or swal- lowed the labor party movement and that the backward working masses are accepting the petty bourgeoisie La Fol- lette movement as their own! move- ment, as the new party that they wanted to see created. ij This statement was a correct ex- pression of the real situation, On this point the decision of the Comintern says: “Prior to the last presidential elec- tions, however, the petty bourgeois liberal opposition movement led by La Follette came’ to the foreground and irresistibly captured the mass sen- timent of the semi-conscious, anti-cap- italistically inclined workers and farm- ers.” And further on we find the same point elaborated even more. Says the decision of the Comintern: OUR DAILY PATTERNS A JAUNTY “PLAY SUIT” 4905, Chambrey, pongee and repp pockets are arranged. This is a very practical model, 2% yards of 27 inch material, ,. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! silver or stamps for our and. Winter, color ‘af tad "children's sveind comprehensive article on di a. ress. king, also pointe for the needio 30"ot “the wee — DOBBY * Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. would supply very satisfactory’ ma- terials for this garment. The front forms extensions under which ample The “drop” back fastens over a waist portion. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A 4 year size requires 1925.26, 2 8 Valuable hints to the home rremansntintot “The semi-conscious laboring mass- es, however, saw in La Follette a standard bearer against big business and followed him blindly, for the farmer-labor movement still lacked political independence to @ certain de- gree. The majority of the workers in this movement desired the formation of a labor party, but they did not yet demand an independent proletarian class policy; they rather preferred to accept the guardianship of an oppo- sition party of the petty pourgeois.” This is precisely the political analy- sis given by the majority and it was upon this correct political analysis that the majority hosed its opposition to the fight for a labor party in the immediate future. This opposition was wrong. Why? Because we failed to see the inevitable coming of a fresh movement toward a labor party in the immediate future, because we were too skeptical about the ability of the labor party movement to recover soon trom the disintegrating influence of the La Follette movement, and be- cause we lacked confidence in the itality of the labor party slogan un- fer these conditions to promote a labor party movement, Passing Differences and Fundamental Differences. HE dedision of the Comintern sets the party right on the question of fighting for a labor party in the imme- diate future. But that is not all. The Comintern decision sets the party right on many other points which are much more basic and fundamental for our future labor party policy. For instance: How soon shall we begin to resort to organizational measures in our labof party policy? Says the Comintern: “It would be a mistake for us to begin too prematurely with the or- ganizational measures for the forma- tion of a labor party. This could only give the La Follette crowd a trump card in their fight against the labor party movement and-aid them to re- consolidate their ranks. We, however, should drive an ever deeper wedge into the La Follette movement.” How shall we fight for a labor par- ty? Merely by the use of the slo- gan? No! “This is not to be done abstractly, for it would not succeed in this man- ner, but in immediate connection with the most urgent everyday demands of the workers.” When are the conditions ripe for the formation of a labor party? “The conditions for the successful formation are not ripe as long as there is not a firm mass basis of trade union support. The majority of the central committe was absolutely right in emphasizing ‘this point.” Is Communist leadership in the bor party an absolute prerequisite! ‘or its formation? No! “The Communists need not demand nor even expect that the labor party will immediately be a revolutionary, radical party of workers, in which the Communists will have to take the lead. In this respect the slogan has been put somewhat too narrowly by the minority of the C. E. C. It is very possible that in America at first there will be for a time at the head of the labor party similar reformist labor traitors to those in England, or en worse.” Shall we form labor parties consist- ing only of the Workers Party and its ympathizers? No! “If the Workers Party were merely to be combined with the organizations sympathizing with it, no labor party could be formed from this combina- tion.” Shall we split off the left wing from the broad labor party mev-rent to transform it into a mass Communist Party? Says the Comintern: SYLVAN LAKES PARK Free! $800 Touring Car; _—_—_— DANCING ALL DAY await you, Park Buss; it tak minutes, By Troll get off of the Comintern Will Be the Pol son 908 POSNER pCR te "HayOFity “retain a majority in the PUBLIC FESTIVAL for the Benefit of the DAILY WORKER and UL ELORE Under the auspices of the workingmen of Philadelphia, Trenton and Roebling Sunday, August 16, 1925 $120 Radio Set; $60 Gold Watch and 96 other valuable articles: FIRST CLASS ORCHESTRA REFRESHMENTS Singing Contest — Athletic Events — Bathing — Fishing Boating and Other Amusements. REAL HUNGARIAN GOULASH AND |PAPRIKA FISH Ticket $1.00—Children Free DIRECTION—By Boat: Take the Wilson Line Bont (Chestnut Street Pier) at 9 A. M, to Burlington, At Bur By Busses: At Camden Ferries you direct to the Park. leaves every 30 A re Campden Ferri the Tr A nslingt Broad and get ny at 13th Street, walk left one squ meer" fter the’formation of the labor party, whafthé executive emphasized a year ago’ should be kept in mind, hat it is mot advisable to endeavor split off @ left wing from the L. P. s soon as possible in order to trans-| rm this split-off section into a masa Communist Party. We must rather endeavor to win increasing: masses !n) {he labor party for the revolutionary | point of view and to let this left wing) grow within the labor party and at the same time to take the most ad? vanced and’ revolutionary element¢ into the Workers Party. This ab is to be observed both prior to t formation of jthe labor party and sup- sequently”. i) Shall we minimize the role of the Workers Party? “The: role of the Workers Party as the Communist Party of the country should neither be obscured nor min- ithized.” HE Comintern decision demands that our party adjust and further develop its labor party tactics on the basis of thé present situation in the United States; This is already being done. The Central Executive Com- mittee has alteady formulated a labor party. program. which is .adjusted to meet. the present situation. On sev- eral important occasions (of which I shall speak in detail in my subsequent articles) the Central Executive Com- mittee began to apply this reformu- lated policy,; Its successful continua- tion will depend in a large measure upon the unffication of the Communist forces in the party and the complete liquidation of Lorersm. This will be the big job of the coming party con- vention, Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 4.68%; cable 4,69. Belgium, franc, demand 4.51%; cable 4.52. Italy, lira, demand 3.63%; cable 3.63%. Sweden, krone, ‘demand 26.85; cable 26.88. Norway, krone, demand 18.54; cable 18.56. Deniiark, krone, demand 22.98; cable 23.00. Germany, mark, no quote, Shanghai, tael, demand 78; cable, no quote. Build the DAILY WORKER. WORKERS PARTY AND. KUOMINTANG HOLD A JOINT: MASS, MEETING H ARTFORD, .Cohms- Aug. 11—A iccessful “joint meeting was. held ere by the Workers Party and the uomintang|;Party oh Trumbull | ear Pearle Sts, Four hundred workers endorsed a resolution pro- testing against the imperialist cam- paign in China, and calling for sup- port of Soviet Russia. The speakers were L, Lee, repre- senting the Kuomintang Party, and Wm. Simons, District Organizer of the Workers’ Party, Connecticut Dis- trict. Comrade Simons and local Hart- ford comradse paid a visit to the lo- cal headquatters of the Kuomintang Party, and were impressed by the files of ten Chinese newspapers, pictures of Sun Yat Sen, the Kuo- mintang leader, and of several Chi- nese revolutionary martyrs, who fell in the struggle against their oppres- sors. The meeting served to establish closer relations between the Work- ers Party, Local Hartford and the Chin workers of Hartford, 70 of whom are organized in the Kuomin- tang Party. ffs 19 BURLINGTON, NJ, $300 Parlor Suit; Free! — on committees will Sylvan Lakes Street. Th to the : ug ; The Daily Worker Is a Labor Paper. THERE'S AN “ARGUMENT” ON EVERY PAGE. From one Builder after another we receive letters telling us how they get the subs they send in—and whom they get the subs from: And all of them show what a great number of good arguments there are for the DAILY WORKER. One gets a sub from a plumber, another from a brick- layer, another from a machinist—and all say something like this Builder who asks that his name not be used: * « ‘es ° The DAILY WORKER: These subs I am sending I got from two different work- ers with only one argument. I showed the machinist all the news about his trade and also about the situation in his union (the DAILY WORKER had a number of items in that issue) and from then on the job was easy. Then on the same day, and in the same issue—I showed a clothing worker the big stories the DAILY WORKER was running on the situation in his trade in both New York and Chicago. That worker would have followed me to give me his sub. I am sure that if we had more people to show the work- ers that the DAILY WORKER is a paper that carries news of interest ONLY to workers—and in every trade—we would not need special offers, special prices, premiums and all sorts of subscription bait. There’s a good argument for the DAILY WORKER on every page. Yours for more Builders to give these arguments, * * * . This loyal builder who has steadily contributed his ef- forts with splendid results is the type the movement needs more of. With a fairly large size army of Builders, no “bargain” metods to build the DAILY WORKER would be necessary— as this builder well suggests. Without question—there is an argument (and a good one!) for the DAILY WORKER on every page. NEGROES HAVE || AS WE SEE IT et eee |. ce ee speak of freedom, from their masters PETTIGREW SAYS 22a Praises Soviet Union, Condemns Wall Street see the once despised Rifflans now ex- alted to the position of almost equals by the proud militarists of France and Spain, They can, see the Chinese, "§ long trodden on by every capitalist SIOUS FALLS, sabe Deki Aug. peddler that came along, rising to the Spam meh ina aah ce height of their dignity and showing J0th anniversary of the freedom of the American Negroes, said that the Ne- en Re, groes should have ben given the land on which they worked when freed. The Negroes were justified in leaving the south, Pettigrew said. America is a backward and barbar- ous nation, Pettigrew continued, 56 per cent of the land in the middle west is owned by “parasitical land- lords”, and that most of the wealth of the United States is in the hands * HE Communists tell the Negroes that their freedom depends on their own organized might. It is un- fortunate that many white workers should be prejudiced against the Ne- groes.. This prejudice, like all other brands of race and color prejudice is the fruit’ of ignorance. The radical white workers know that all world of a few persons. Pettigrew de- labor, black and white and of all nounced the domination of Wall | Shades in between, are brothers and Street. that they have only one enemy: the exploiter. The radicals want unity of all workers. Labor fakers like Green should support the Soviet Union. He want disunity so that he and his kind urged confiscation of land, railroads | C4? be in a better position to sell and banks by the workers. them for cash. He praised Lenin, and declared that the workers and farmers of America see T is now definitely established that the man who helped Ellis Searless, editor of the Mine Workers Journal, prepare the articles exposing “radical activities’ in the United States, is no other than Bert Clarke, former public- ity man for the Logan County, West Va., scab coal operators, the same gang that employed the notorious Don Chaffin, to shoot down members of the U. M. W. of A, Clarke is now | suing the officers of District 14 and also John L, Lewis and Thos, R. Ken- nedy of the Internaitonal Union. The old story of thieves falling out, ae) Your Union Meeting Second Wednesday, August 12, 1925. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 Throop St. Monroe and Racine. Makers, 13 Garfield Blvd. Western and Lexing- HE distress in Ireland is not due to crop failure but to unemployment according to the most recent dis- :| patches, There are over 60,000 un- Van Buren Street. employed within the jurisdiction of , 387 N. Clark St. 126 Ao nated cage i Asiand. Give. the Northern government and 100,000 = a, Tae ase WY. 8 .|in the area governed by the Free 64 Sherman & State. This shows an appalling per- centage of unemployment. Granting that one out of every four of the four million population of Ireland, north in 10 W. Monroe St. Dist. Council, 5448 5444 Wentworth 697 he 448 Agnland Ave: and south, is a worker in some call- m. ing, the figures mean that one out of Sen, “Vig WW Hartieon ee.| every six is without work. The Irish 5324S, Halsted St. | workers are learning that capitalism Metal, 4 .jand not British rule only is their en- emy. | Brookhart Still Leading. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Senator ai | Smith W. Brookhart was tcoding his |democratic rival, Daufoi Ste *, by 213 | votes today in the recount of lowa’s 7 Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St pada ahpnithanaeee) yore for the senatorship. The figures were: Brookhart, 164,344; Steck, 164,131. These figures represented the complete uncontested votes for 43 counties, Joe Kaizer Candy Co. - Caribinier Is Executed. HOME MADE CANDY | BARCELONA, Aug. 11.—Ramon Ro- ICE CREAM LIGHT LUNCHES | mero, the caribinier found guilty of PHILIP RACHEFF, Manage: murder in shooting Captain Alonzo, {whom he held responsible for his dis- 4975 EASTON AVENUE * (St. Louis, Mo. | missal from the caribine troop, was St. Louis, Mo., Attention! Phone Forest $749. executed by a firing squad, ‘the-cocky_ invader the color of their ¥ U.S, SOLDIERS ARE READING DAILY WORKER Interested in Crouch and Trumbull Case By L. P. RANDALL. LOS ANGELES, Calif. Aug. 11— The other day, while selling DAILY WORKERS at the slave market, a re- cruiting officer was there looking for young men willing to “travel and see the world.” A civilian, who was in conversation with the soldier at the. time, asked me to give the paper to the man in U.S. uniform. The writer was pleased to do so, and he found out that the “boy in gray” knew a lot abput the Crouch-Trumbull case. “Where did you get your informa- tion from concerning the conviction of Crouch and Trumbull?” this Uncle Sam servant was asked.—‘From: the DAILY WORKER,” was the answer. Now this soldier can be seem read- ing our daily in public while waiting for the next boy hungry enuf to jein the army or navy—as the case may be, Raulston Criticizes Darrow. Judge John T, Raulston, in an ad- dress at the North Shore Congrega- tional church here, criticized Clarence Darrow, his religious views and his defense, and praised W. J. Bryan in a flowery eulogy. Raulston revealed how biased was his attitude toward the Tennessee anti-evolution law, when he presided over the Scopes trial, BELLAIRE, Ohio, Aug. 11—A_ pie- nic will be held at Klee, Ohio, on Sun- day, Aug. 16, beginning at 11 o'clock, a. m., by the city central committee of the Workers Bellaire, Ohio. (Communist) Party of New Writers Are sure to develdp with the growth of the Com- munist movement in this country. To these new writers the Little Red Library presents an unusual op- portunity. Original manuscripts on any subject, from a\ working class viewpoint \ will be given the closest \ attention. ‘ When you write, whether it be on social and industrial problems, fiction, poetry or art— Be sure to confine the size of your work from 10,000 to 15,000 words. I Already Issued: No. 1 Trade Unions in America by Wm, Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon, and Earl R. Browder Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration by Earl R. 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