The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 6

{ | — ABS * rule on the ruins of capitalism. Only then will they be able to put * fields.of Wyoming and other states! Page Six* THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 3113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. po WR a cori ead emda : SUBSCRIPTION RATES e By mail (im Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 ‘per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 threé months Address all mail and make out checks to ; THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, Illinole i thst ae Ph TS J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOE SLIT rth a a AA ne SORES he post-office at Chi- ed as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at th = cago, IiL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Business Manager a a - BE SE ep 290 Advertising rates on application. The Dawes Plan No Miracle Worker According to data on the industrial situation in Germany, the condition of business is worse there now than at any tjme since the Dawes plan was ratified. Trade is so slack that twelve commercial and technical expositions have been cancelled. Evidently the Dawes plan, which was touted as a cure-all for Germany’s ills has fallen far short of being a miracle worker. Hundreds of thousands of German workers are unemployed. Workers are being shot down in the streets of Berlin by police. In all probability Germany is on the eve of another serious industrial crisis. Capitalism is doomed. All the wise men of the East and of the West cannot save it. A Dawes plan may be able to set the wheels of industry in motion, but no Dawes can find a market for goods if such a market does not exist. As usual the German workers will suffer from the breakdown of German industry. They suffer when they are employed and they suffer still more when they are unemployed. While German industry is going to pieces and the standard of| living of the workers is descending, the delegation of German trade| unionists in the Soviet Union are able to report that the conditions| of the workers and peasants in Soviet Russia are improving and that their industries are constantly on the up-grade. This object lesson cannot fail to have its effect in stimulating the German workers to cast off their fetters and establish their own an end to unemployment and poverty. Adding Insult to Injury The reason the workers in the oil fields are not organized is because they were paid so royally that the incentive to organize simply did not exist, writes an oily press agent in a capitalist paper. As if nobody ever heard of the conditions of the oil slaves in the The press agent adds insult to injury by admitting that’the oil workers have been toiling for a stretch of twenty-four hours a day. If there is a human being living who likes to work for a boss twelve hours at a stretch, he is welcome to the luxury. But he has not been located to date except in the columns of “successful” fiction. The responsibliity for the lack of organization among the oil workers rests mainly with the reactionary bureaucracy of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. The oil workers are exploited as merci- lessiy as any other category of labor in the-country: ~The oil mag- nates are rich and have at their disposal the officials of the states and counties in which they operate. Those uniformed officials to- gether with private detectives make it impossible for any organizing effort to succeed that is not backed up by the collective might of the labor movement. : Those who are now at the head of the American Federation of Labor are too busy collaborating with the employers and acting as stoolpigeons for the capitalist government to make any serious effort to organize the workers in the oil fields or elsewhere. The job of organizing the unorganized is waiting for the progressives and rad- ieal workers. If it is left to the reactionaries, it will never be accomplished. THE DAILY WORKE TheReorganizatio Phone Monroe 4712 |/ nofthe W orkers Party LETTER TO. THE.C. E. C. FROM THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ‘ tion bureaus close to the general guid- (Continued from Yesterday's Issue of | ing organs of the party, aindentifying + The Daily Worker.) | them with the general party: machine, thus enabling them to strengthen and improve the quality of their work. Of has to grasp the new role of national sections in order to un- HAT is why such a structure must derstand that a correct reorganization | be created for the agitational and of the party will only help to strength-| propaganda party committees. In or- en the work among the proletariat of| der to guide the work in the agita- each individual nationality. Even be-| tional and propaganda departments of fore now, the national sections of the| the party committees the national Workers Party have to a certain €X-| fraction bureaus should be inchided in tent exercised some influence upon the | fy) force, or where this is not re- public opinion of the workers of their nationality, since it was they chiefly who were the active workers, in all the, sometimes fairly numerous, edu- cational, social and other working class institutions in their language (such as for instance, the “People’s Houses” of the Finns). Moreover, the national sections actually control their point of view of general party inter- ests. For instance, a party policy was not always pursued, since the national sections, owing to the fact that they e separated from general party life and the inadequate (and sometimes distorted) understanding of general party duties which resulted, could not always be fully acquainted with the forms of agitation and , propaganda corresponding with the aims of the partyin each given period. Moreover, this work could not be sufficiently in- tensive, since its nature was dictated by local interests and did not embrace the interests and aims of the struggle of the whole working class of the United States. Only by bringing the national sections together and fusing them will it be possible to extend and intensify their activity, The existing national sections, or federations must not lose their mass character, On,the contrary, they must attract all the workers and clerical employes of their nationality who ac- cept the view of the class struggle. ie existing national federations by their agitation and propaganda work in thé working class bodies and organizations of their particular na- tionality must win the workers be- longing to the national minorities of America away from the influence of the social-democrats, the nationalists, the clericals and other bourgeois ten- dencies. The national federations must be a reservoir drawing the best elements into the Workers Party and the workers and clerical employes of their particular nationality into the Américan Trade Unions. The national federations must not isolate them- selves from one another, but on the contrary set up closer contact not only ‘among themselves, but also with the “Anterican workers belonging ‘to theit trade unions, and interest selves generally more than hitherto in American life. the national sections in the form above indicated cannot enter the Workers Party as a whole. The party thembers belonging to the present national sec- tions must join the party nuclei of the factories where they work, or, if they do not work in enterprises, the nuclei of the streets in which they reside. It is there that they must pay their party dues. Thus the national sec- tions will not form parts of the Work- ers Party. The members of the pres- ent natfonal sections’ will enter the party thru the nuclei, It will of course be understood = of a town district, in Uniting for Action No more encouraging news struck the eyes of the workers of the United States in many months than the story in yesterday's DAILY WORKER of the action taken by Locals 3 and 4 of the International Printing Pressmens’ and Assitants’ Union, when they voted to accept a proposal for joint action against the employers in wages and disputes over working conditions. | ' This action was taken despite the efforts of tools of George L.| Berry, the scabby president of the International, to block it. The few Berry henchmen who dared open their mouths against the unity pdet were howled down and talked down by the membership and their leading spokesmen. : No group of organized workers in the entire trade union mové- ment of the United States have been more mistreated than the press- men and feeders. At every step they have met the combined opposi- tion of the employers and the empolyers’ tool, George L. Berry. It seems, they are not going to tolerate Berryism any longer. The Chicago locals of the I. P. P. & A. U. have set a splendid example to the entire printing trade. This first step is important, because the first step in the right direction is always the hardest. There is no better way to break sectional and craft prejudices than by melting them in the furnace of a common struggle against the enemy. This applies toall other unions operating in the same indus- try as well as to the pressmen and feeders. _ Amalgamation! This is the golden word that should be on the lips of every class conscious worker in the craft-ridden trade union movement of the United States. =f General Feng, of China, is said to be going back on chirstianity. He is. Feng is actually calling on his countrymen to free themselves from the imperialist robbers who looted China with the aid of the bible, dope and the sword. France politely informs England that an anti-Soviet coalition might endanger the peace of Europe and particularly of Poland and Roumania. France’s devotion to peace is not due to the existence of the Red Army! Perish the thought. If the pressmen keep after “Majah” George L. Berry, he may have to go to war for a living. He will need all his “military” ex- perience in defeating the determination of the wnion members to get rid of him. tpt George Bernard Shaw declares that he is insane. We believe | tionalities to general party life. Hence All members of the Workers Party, Finns, Germans,’ Russians, etc., must set up party fractions within their wide national sections, which will elect their town district, town regional, state and national leading organs (bureaus), BUT. . . . The national fraction bureaus must abandon their isolation and become bodies for adapt ing the party members of their na quired, in part, so that/they may be able to conduct the wor nationals in their own la) leadership, responsibility and control of their activities He withthe Agit- prop Department and tite: correspon- dent party committee as'f whole. It will therefore be*seen that the national bureau fractions will be by their activities, but on the other hand they willbe included in the,system of a united party machine their func- tions will be different from what they have been hitherto. While the na- tiopal ‘bureaus hitherto! were inde- no means limited to the: extent: of! limited liability companies—the com- reaus must be formed in the superior party committee (Regional and Cen- tral Committee). Within the non-party working class organizations and instances of the various nationalities—Finns, Poles, Jews, etc.—such as cooperatives, People’s Houses, mutual aid societies, etc., the duty of the party members of the corresponding nationality is that of a party fraction with the same functions as the party fractions with- in the Trade Unions have or should have (see our instructions of Febru-| ary, 1924, on fractional work and the corresponding section of the thesis on party structure adopted by the organ- izational conference). In these na- tional non-party organizations—such as cooperatives, mutual aid societies, clubs, peoplg’s houses or printing, The alteration of the functions of a national organization within the or- Sanizational structure: of te, party, raises the question of party dues, , It will of course be understood that after reorganization party dues will not go to the national organizations but to the town committee (thru the town district committees), which should re- tain a certain percentage for its own needs and transfer the remainder to the~superior party committee. The question will arise, as. to what means the national .organizations. will con- duct their work. (agitation, propagan- da, education, ete). The only answer can be that this work will be financed by the party committees which will assign the necessary funds for this purpose, Piiits § . The very ‘first steps towards the publishing, newspaper and similar rades come into direct~ contact with wide sections of workers, clerks or farmers of their own nationality and speaking in their own tongue. Con- sequently the influence of the party will to a large extent be exercised pendent leading party bodies repre-| thru the national fractions in the senting the national sections in the | above-mentioned organizations, and party, and had the right,ot. directing | the work and policy which the nation- the whole work of the national sec-| a] sections of the Workers Party are tion without exception and to collect carrying on at present, as well as the membership dues, they jwillhnow lose those functions, but, on the other hand, will become a part of the gen- eral party apparatus, working under its control and direction and accord- ing to its directions and performing the whole of the agitational and prop- aganda work among their own nation- alities. The Central Commfttee should see that statutes be drawn up regulating the work of the fraction bureaus of the national sections in their new form. These statutes should provide for the ratification by the Agitprop Departments of the party. committees of the decisions of the national frac- tion bureaus, the summoning of na- tional conferences with the agreement of the competent party committee. etc. wr a town district fhe com- rades belonging to one national- ity and using one language avail them- selves of the Agitprop Department of the town district committee (that is, the competent. national bureau) for agitational and pro; anda work among the workers of the working class organizations, etc. The most capable comrades, should be entrusted with responsible, work—re- ports, lectures. and other, forms of propaganda and agitational work among the workers of ; national: ae the limi order to listen to reports and to take, part in the- oretical discussions, in order to raise the level of party edycation and to determine the methods of agitational, Propaganda, party educati ional and club work. These meetings have no right to adopt DECISIONS on party questions—questions of policy or in- ternal party questions, eto; This right belongs to the factory. clei, the street nuclei and the loc (where they still exist) the general meeting of the party members or the party conference which are to.be;the: party organizations of the urbansdlistrict or town, since for the party there can be no difference of interests: demanding should be assembled discussion or decision.’ a national section alone. . The wo! the Agit- Prop Departments of t! wn -disrict committees, as all the ities of the | latter are directed by the tawn com- mittee, whicn also has: its Agitprop Department, which in its turn in- cludes the national fraction bureaus, in the work of reorganization the duty arises of bringing the national frac- English [| Declaration of the Communist Party of Cyprus on the Inauguration of the Colonial Constitution of the Island r YO the workers of England and the International proletariat! On the Ist of May, the very same day on which the proletariat of the whole world, under the red flag, pro- claimed once more its just demands /and protested at the same time against the dishonesty and baseness of the various fascist governments and against the endless intrigues of the imperialists, here in Cyprus, in the corner of the Mediterranean, En- glish imperialism, by “letter patent,” declared Cyprus to be a colony, thus adding thtee hundred thousand work- ers and farmers more to the millions of colonized peoples who are bound in heavy chains behind its bloody chariot. This fact was not allowed to pass unnoticed by the bourgeois press of London, which hastened to pronounce and comment upon it in accordance with the interests of its patrons. Many newspapers werd full of praise for the new political change in the island, as conferring more liberties on the country, while others, inspired George is a little too hard on He isnot craay but just wetting a little bit foolish. : % i 4 by the Foreign Minis of Greece, vociferously proc that it was the duty of Engla: ede the island in favor of Gr ce whose function it is to control the agitational propaganda work among their own nationaliti Similar bu- 6 mye with the well-known, desire of its in- habitants, ‘sade English workers! wm Proletarians of the whble world! THe Communist Party’ of Cypris as the ouly sincere ler of the real interests of the inhabitants of this miserable island, is)eompelled to appeal to you in ordery to protest on the one hand against uke lies of the bourgeois press whic has always been continue its unjusPfule over the island, and on the othef°hand against the lies of the bout “press which has always been a to blur the truth in seeking to miginterpret the real aspirations the enslaved peoples. “og Imperialist England which has al- ways been exceedingly cautious in concealing from the peoples she has enslaved her real plans of exploita- tion by means of granting sham pseu- do-liberties, has played the same game in Cyprus, for the famous legislative council which was setiap in 1878 was uothing more or Jes#®than a puppet in the hands of a si¥and immoral governing clique, The duly elected presentatives who were returned | i8 legislative council were possessed of no real legislative power, ferything was [entry dependent the whim and the boundiéss of the ee otional ity within the town district, within} decision of party bodies, will carry agitational and propaganda work among the working class masses of their own nationality, will be carried on inside of the national fractions in close contact with the corresponding party committees. While the agita- tional and propaganda work will be conducted by the reformed national bureaus, included in the apparatus of the Agitprop Departments, the work of the fractions in the cooperatives, be directed by other corresponding departments of the party committees, trade union, organizational, ete. It is therefore necessary to organize such national Communist fractions in all non-party organizations, Latvian, Lithuanian, Jewish, Polish, etc., both town district, town, regional district and national. The national fractions in all the above-mentiotied organiza- tions—workers’ clubs, workers’ insur- ance societies, sport societies, ete— will carry out,the policy of the Com- munist Party, raise questions for dis- cussion and bring forward proposals corresponding with the general tac- tics of the party, or upon the special on agitation on the instructons of the Workers Party, explain the activities of the fracton among the non-party working class members of the organ- izations, etc., etc. T the head \of the national Com- “thiunist jon’ of the: local, dis- trict and central national bodies of the organizations there should be bureaus for guiding the fractional work. Their activties as we have said, wll be guided and controlled by the compe- tent party committees—town district, town, etc. It should also be provided that the bureaus of all fractions of similar in- stitutions of one nationality, for in- stance fraction bureaus of Finnish | workers’ cooperatives, may have a sin- | gle central bureau uniting the activi- ties of all the local and regional bu- reaus. Those bureaus in their turn should maintain ¢ontact with the local | regional and central committees of the party thru the corresponding depart- ments of these committees. The lat- reaus (cooperatives for instance), of all nationalities, in order to exchange experiences, coordinate activities and | even for united action. As in the case | of the nuclei, we shall not here give theses regarding the fractions, but would refer you to the instructions which were adopted by the Presidium in February, 1924, and by the organi- zational conference in March, 1925. j colonial office, which had only one aim: to suck from the blood of the country, the shameful tribute of £92. 000, a share of the Turkish debt, in total disregard of the prevailing mi- sery of the suffering pepole. HIS was the state of affairs down to the 15th of Moy this year. ‘Let us now examine what are the liberties so graciously granted along with this our Official colonization. It is absolutely absurd and an abuse of language to talk of liberties! The increase of the native seats on the Legislative Council from 12 to 15, which has been trumpeted all over the world as a magnificent conces- sion of further libetries to the popu- lation of Cyprus, is simply a pivce of bitter irony, for the number of official parasites has at the same time been increased from 6 to 9, so that the same order is maintained. No other change has been effected. And how is it with regard to the share of the Turkish debt of £92,000? This con- tinues to be a heavy burden on the shoulders of the long-suffering peo- ple at @ time when the financial crisis in the Island is admitted to be without precedent. Has not Cyprus become a colony? By what right is the pay- ment of this barbarous inhuman tri- bute demanded, when there exists no real indebteness to Turkey? It can only be characterized a suppres- by capital- F finds it | reorganization of the national sections will come up against the question of the party press: The situation which at present exists in the Workers Party with regard to the party press is entirely dpnormal. As a matter of fact, the party and the Central com- mittee have ng control whatever over the party papers,isgued by the vari- ous national sections in their own languages... The papers of the nation- al sections can write what they like, without even following the general Policy of the Central Committee and the party. This “freedom” of the press from party control is in full ac- cord with the general independence of the national sections of the party centre. This situation must also be changed especially after the election of party committees common for all nationalities. 1 tee must place the party press in all lanewages unde: ol. The" Cerne publishing houses, banks, etc., will ee or some other compe- tent party committee must be in a po- sition to give direct instructions on Policy to the editors of all papers which are recognized, or desire to be recognized, by the party as party pa- pers. The ‘party should transmit its instructions on policy to the press thru the compétent national fractions, i. e., thru thoke’'party members who are shareholders fn a national paper, or are on its directing badies, editorial boards, ‘éte;"In this way the Central Committee“ may, thru the correspond- ing frattiotis;“ exercise a controlling influence “over a paper which is not officiaHy ‘4 plrty paper, introduce de- sirable'“¢émrades on to the editorial boards 6r’*have them appointed as editors, ¥t@ ‘Of course wiS: regard to the papet#’ Which belong to the party the Central Committee must. have the unconditibnal right of directly ratify- ing the appointment of the editors. 1 Conclusion, we desire to draw your attention” to’ two important points." FIRSTLY ‘It is quite clear, as we stated’ above, that it is no easy mat- ter to reform the old structure of the party ‘Intinediately. The old. organ- ization has’ become deep-rooted a fact which must’not be underestimated. Thereforé*gteat caution must be ob- served “if the reconstruction of na- tional sections. First of all, an exten- sive Idéblogicat Campaign must be initiated’ for the reroganization of the Workers ‘Party, for transforming it into a cehtralized party and for break- ing down ‘the federalist principle of party structiire as absolutely failing to comply with the requirements of an active proletarian party. This ide- ological ‘campaign must be pursued ter may also unite the fraction bu-| simultaneously and parallel with a de- termined agitation for the construc- tion of the party on the basis of fac- tory and workshép nuclei explaining “this measure. A number of instruc- tive reports for agitators, editors and active workers must be devoted to questions concerning the reorganiza- tion of the Workers Party, and these comrades must be clearly given to \ understand the need for this measure t mperialism in C necessary to, fill. its huge coffers in order to, tain that invincible guard, the English fleet. It is of no concern to. its ad ninistration whether this m i Tung from starving villagers, clad. in rags, who, unable to earn their daily bread, are obliged ot feed on roots and old herbage. Bt we Not only protest against the continuation of the foreign yoke, we also protest against the clergy and our. bourgeoisie who are clamouring in favor of the union of Cyprus with Greece, This bourgeois m{nority, consisting. of money-lenders and big merchants in close co-opera: tion, is struggling hard for the union, as it sees by this) means an easier way to achieve its: plans of. exploita- tion against the poor villagers and Peasants of the Island. We strongly Protest against the national aspira- tions of the bourgeoisie which are trumpeted forth now and again, and declare that the Cyprian proletarians and the masses of the Cyprian peas- ants are against the national dreams of the bourgeoisie, for they know very well that under the umion @ new yoke is waiting for them, far worse than the present, a new conscription and new duties as guards on the-sea coast, Workers of England! The workers and ‘of Cy- prus appeal to you and ask you to take up their claim Against ‘the consti- tution of their slavery to imperialism, and. be made active advocates of re- organization... The Central Commit- tee and the other competent party committees must direct this campaign in the press, It will thereby become possible still further and still more extensively to acquaint the members of the party with.the proposed recon- struction and its absolute necessity and usefulness. The comrades be- longing to the national sections must understand that their organization is not ® measure directed against the national sections, but that it exclu- sively pursues the general aims of the party and is in the interests of the whole party, including the national sections themselves. The aim of re- organization is not, by clumsiness and carelessness to destroy the organiza- tions and work created by the na- tional sections, but, to strengthen the organizational influence of the Work- ers Party over the proletarians of all nationalities in the United States, By making use of all, the available mate- rial, by Jemonstrating, the advantages of the new forms of organization over the old, by treating the question se- riously and in a business-like fashion, and insistently quoting the arguments in favor of the reorganization of the Workers Party, insistently repeating them if necessary in the press, at party meetings, .conferences, ete., the leading organs of the party may achieve success, all-the’ more since the first practical steps and the suc- cess which accompanies them will speak eloquently in favor of the course adopted. The second point is this: Perhaps in addition io the inevitable conserva- tives and sceptics there wll be found comrades who under-estimate the diffi- culties and who will want to break up the national sections befote the new form of organization—the nuclei—will be sufficiently numerous’ and strong in a particular town district, town or region and sufficiently adapted to life, to serve as a foundation for the new form of party organization. We issue @ warning against such a step. Only when the town district and town committees, as the result of the or- ganization of factory and street nuclei, establish close contact with these nu- clei, will it be possible finally to re- organize the old organization, the na- tiowal sections and. the given town district or town. To break, however, one organization. without creating something in its Place, would be ex- tremely disastroous, The first thing is to organize factory and street nu- clei, to set up ward, town district, town and regional committeés, which are to be elected at the Meetings or conferences of all the members of the. party of all the nationalities in the ward, town district, town or re- gion (we repeat that the organization of certain ward, town district, town, etc., committees may be proceeded with even before there are nuclei in all factories and streets). At the town or town-district conferences the delegates to the party. congress are to be elected. The Central Committee, elected at the congress, after care- fully examining all the pros and cons and after careful Preparation, will thru the regional, town or town-district committees, proceed to the reorgani- zation of one or several of the existing 17 national sections, which are sufficiently prepared for such reorganization on: the basis of the fraction as above set forth. Only when the reorganization of the na- tional section has given good results, of which we do not doubt, it will be Dossible gradually to Proceed to the recrganization of the remainder, The rate at which reorganization is uudertakea you must determine for yourselves. We shall help you in every way we can. But for that pur bose you must send us information 4S to the progress of the work, ypru Proletarians of the world! N May day, when our conquerors were officially. proclaiming to us our condemnation to live under Bri- tish imperialism, our thoughts turned to you, who with .your huge proces- sions demonstrated once more to our exploiters that. you mean to stand together, ever watchful guardians of our rights. We have. placed our faith in you for the attainment of our-real liberty, for our autonomy, hd pias imperialism! ng Live the liberation peoples! ee ae: Long Live the international Pro- letariat! f Long Live the revolution! The Central Committee of the Cyprus Communist Party Shell Shocked Dough. WASHINGTON, Aug, 16,—(FP)— Protests by rich owners of country estates around Northport, Long Island, against construction of a 1,000-bed hos. pital for shell-shocked soldiers of the latet war have been overruled by the federal board of hospitalization, These tragic invalids, shrieking at the hor- rors they cannot forget, will be housed in a $3,000,000 building in the neigh- borhood of some of the men whose fortunes were made, or were multi. , While the slaughter on the west A front went on/ International Social \ |