The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 2

<a sec na i Party Drives Against Imperialism THREEPLY-DET |Pressmen! Not Only Now, | RADEK SEES U. . had been applied continuously to rouse all sections of the American working class to this end. Work for Recognition. Not only had the necessity for rec- ognition and trade relations been used ag an economic argument to relieve unemployment, but the political basis of the demand for recognition, that the class interests of American work- ers and farmers demanded that they stand by the workers and peasants of Russia had been carried into every union and every farmers’ organization possible in which the party could pen- etrate. In so far as the party, weak and young as it is, could do so, it has effectiv met the blockade of lies and counter-revolutionary, propaganda of the Second International and the capitalist agencies. In the campaign | ainst Abramovich, it had succeeded | completely the aims of the Barmat counter-revolutionary ,Sec- ond International. Every meeting, with few exceptions, of Abramovich, had been turned into mass demonstra- tions for recognition of Soviet Russia and for the first time the difference * between the Second International and | the Commun International made clear to large sections of the Amert- can worke' In the campaign for a labor party, the presidential campaign of our own party, in the November celebrations and the Lenin memortal meetings, and re occasions, great masses have taught the significance to the an and world proletariat of the Russian revolution and the Soviet power. New Dangers. But tho the Soviet Union is a strong ess, yet it is still subject to at- tack. Tho the capitalist enemy has been driven back he is not extermin- ated. The speaker dwelt upon the ndications of a new attempt by the imperialist powers to attack Soviet Russia, of the policies used by it to divide the antagonists and defeat the designs, and pledged the party, as a section of the Communist Internation- al, to carry on the work in the future as in the past. The movement for trade union unity, its profound meaning, its present s in creating a left bloc in the Amster- dam International, gave us a line to follow. The party must make every, use of the British Report on Soviet Russia, | the visit of Purcell, in building a united front with all progressive ele- ments in the labor movement to aid Purcell in fighting off the opposition of reactionary A. F. of L. leadership and getting the unions to work for the recognition of Soviet Russia. With a party reorganized, Bolshevized and united, the speaker believed our party would acquit itself well in the future. Discussion From Floor. Following the above report, speech- (Continued from page 1) the klan elements—was bravely conducted by the fighting coal miners of Zeigler and their be- ing forced back to work can in no "way be considered a defeat for them. They knew they would have to go back sooner or later. They knew they could not hold out against the over- whelming lineup against them. They did what tacy wanted to do. They kapt the mine shut down long enuf. to turn the eyes of the country on Zeigler; long enuf to draw the atten- tion of unsuspecting miners olsewhere to the betrayal of the subdistrict offi- cials—attention that otherwise would not have been won and that wquid again permit the sub-district machine to cover up another sample of a long record of treachery. Active Men Fired. The members of Local 992 were not fooled either when more than seventy- five of their active members were told they were not wanted as they were about to enter the pit. The reasons were various. “You called so and so a scab,” or “You were on the picket line,” etc, This was expected. Hatin't Frank Farrington, the district pres! dent, already announced fhat the “Red-necks” in Zeigler would fina themselves out of a job? This -was all part of the doulileedged attack being waged against them. Frameup Locked For, The fight is not over. A single local never did win a strike unsupported, true, but the winning of the strike against the company was only a part of the struggle. The real struggle is the fight against the Farrington ma- chine, and that is by no means over. Bighteen members of Local 992 were arrested and now await trial on the very serious charge of “conspiracy to murder.” This charge was brot by D. B. Cobb, their own sub-district vice- president. Every miner in Zeigler knows the charge is absolutely ground- less. Every man knows enuf of the desperate tactics of the subdistrict 9 machine, satellites of Farrington. to expect a frameup. Zeigler is a thorn in the side of the whole machine. The resources of the district are being gatherod to annihilate this center of progressivism. Rank and File Revolt. But the bureaucrats have taken on too big a job this time. They have sided with the operators time and ogain, they have stolen ele:tions and been guilty of maay misdeels and got- tep away with it. But this is the firet “lit wi it coebe th Rusche, enpecally-wEritain, |woeee ee e es from the floor were heard from Comrades Amter, Olgin, Minor, Aske- nudze, Abern, Statchel and Krumbein. Minority criticism being directed in two lines, upon the insufficiency of done and upon Comrade Ol- writings before he joined the A resolution offered by Comrade Amter instructing the new C. E. C. to work for a united front movement for the recognition of Soviet Russia, was defeated by roll call vote upon the argument by Comrade Bittelman, who raised a point of order against it as being fully provided for in the reso- lution of the Parity Commission. Vote 39 to 20. For a Delegation of Labor, A motion by Comrade Olgin was carried providing for the gathering of |a labor delegation to Soviet Russia, after which the Parity Commission resolution on Soviet Russia was car- ried wnanimously. The convention then afjourned until the evening ses- | ston. Wwen the convention was called to or Tuesday evening, the following statement was read: Statement. to the Fourth Convention W. P. of A. Comrades:—In the issue of the DAILY WORKER of August 26, 1925, under a report of the convention now in session, beginning on Page One and continuing on Page Three, at the foot of Column Six on Page Three is the statement as follows: “Tuesday's opening session began, after an inspiring appeal from Com- rade Poyntz and a few communica- tions of minor importance, with the presentation of the report on anti- imperialist work by Comrade Gomez.” As the reporter for the DAILY WORKER, I wish to state most em- phatically that the word “inspiring” was neither in my mind nor in my article which I sent to the DAILY WORKER office this afternoon by messenger. So far as I know the mes- sneger was incorruptible, and the in- sertion of the word “inspiring” must be accounted for by. someone who handled the article after it left my hands, Incidentally, the article was also passed upon by Comrade Browder, who was likewise averse that the word “inspiring” was not in it when DAILY WORKER office. I might mention that I and Com- rade Poyntz are total strangers and that I have never been inspired by either herself or her written appeal which was read in this convention, fraternally, Harrison George. The floor was then given to Com- rade Cannon in a report: upon the meeting of the plenum of the execu- tive committee of the Communist In- ternational. The following is but an inadequate summary of Comrade Can- non's address, which took up one hour and 45 minutes and which will be published later in the DAILY WORKER: The plenum of the E. ©. C, I. dealt Miners Forced Back to Work criminal charges against members of their own union. Already from all parts of the county are coming de mands for the dropping of this perse- eution. The cry is being raised for a special sub-district convention. On this point the officials have not only Zeigler to fight—they will have to fight every honest rank and file work- er in the sub-district. Defense Committees. Local 982 is going to elect another set of progressive local officials. Altho there was absolutely no justification for the sub-district officials to remove the omes they had and put in a slate of appointed klansmen, the men of 992 are going to put miners in office they can trust to wage the fight against Sub-district President Fox and Vice-President Cobb. Defense committees have been set up in practically every local union in fhe county. One mass meeting of protest has been held and others wifl follow. A large defense fund will be raised to stop the dastarily frameup of union minera Fighting. Tradition. Zeigler is far from licked. The his- ‘tory and traditions of Zeigler are those of a battling working class community that knows no dafeat. It is one of the oldest mines in southern IMlinois. The shaft was sunk in 1905. The million- aire, Joe Leiter, who still owns it, set out to destroy the union. He barri- caded and electricwired the mine and set up batteries of cannon and search- lights. He brot in an army of gunmen to defend it. He sent for scabs. The union miners fought Leiter and his gunmen. Two miners were assas- sinated, their picket line was broken again and again. The battle raged for 18 months. But they stood firm. Let- ter had to give in. Since that time, 22 years ago, the miners of Zeigler have upheld the tra- ditions of the battle against Joe Lei- ter. Now they have not only Leiter to fight but their own officials as well. Fight Only Begun. They won that battle of twenty years ago thru solidarity and unswerv- ing devotion to unionism. They will win their present fight. But this time {it will be a victory not for Zeigler alone. The struggle will not be com- pletely won until the rank and file has rid itself of the damaging and treacherous misleadership of just such men’ as Fox and Cobb. Zeigler has started the movement that will per- form the necessary task of cleaning house in the United Mine Workers of caapsigy womeiinmiecne stata aaeeee with the tempo of revolutionary de- velopment and the line of march of international revloution. A degree ot temporary stabilization had changed the “geography of revolution” and produced a right wing adaptation to this temporary stabilization in all the parties, of the Comintern. Of most profound significance as a modifying element of the so-called “stabilization” was the rise of nation- al revolutionary movements of op- pressed races and nations of the col- onial sections of world imperialism. The right wing had ignored or mis- conceived the importance of this fac- tor. The right wing of the C. L had con- ceived that the social democracy had been defeated by fascism and conclud- ed that Communists should therefore make coalition with the social democ- racy. But the C. I. pointed out that social democracy had surrendered to fascism and had not fought it. The second counter-balance to the partial _ stabilization overlooked by the right wing was the improvement of the situation internally and extern- ally of the Soviet Union. In Germany the right wing claimed it had a patent on united front tac- tics. The right wing had attached itself to Trotskyism in all countries. It had brought demands before the C. L for reinstatement of numerous right wingers expelled, but the C. I. re- jected those who refused to acknowl- edge their error, especially the error in Saxony. The events in the party of Czecho- Slovakia illuminates the whole prob- lem of fighting the right wing. The details of the struggle by a left wing central committee and how the Sme- ral group had given objective sup- port to the right wing by fighting the central committee upon a basis of cri- ticism of the methods it used against the right wing. Comrade Cannon dwelt at length upon the reorganization of all parties of the Comintern upon a basis of shop nuclei, The agrarian question and the correct and the incorrect Communist tactics in agrarian work was given in detail. The necessity of measures, and the example of the error of the German party in the elections in which monarchism was a danger, was given as a lesson to all party mem- bers to take to heart.’ Political prog- ress is a zigzag. In the labor party work the experi- ence of the party should allow conclu- sions to be drawn as to its charac- ter role and the attitude of our party toward it. The labor party {is the key to the labor movement. But the policy must be correct, The labor party must be a mass party. All previous attempts to crys- tallize organization had been prema- ture. Not abstract agitation for & labor party, but connection with the daily struggles of the workers. The party must make a real fight for a Labor Party and it must insist that it be a real mass party and not prematurely formed. A real accept- ance of the C. I. decision and all its implications would be the base of proper policy. The conceptions of the majority as to the character of the labor party had not differed from those of the minority until the July 3rd conven- tion. This had begun the conflict, and the speaker dealt in detail upon the cause of the discussion over the August thesis and all the events since that time. The minority had also nased two much dependence upon the farmer elements of the movement for a labor party which left the movement after St. Paul. In this and in the August thesis, where the theory of left wing labor parties, multiple labor parties and the transformation of a labor party into a mass Communist Party had proven the complete misconcep- tion of the labor party by the minor- ity—which the minority has not and still refuses to recognize and repudi- ate. The decision of the C. I. corrected both sides, it approved of neither the- sis. It was a new program and the error of the majority had been ad- mitted and corrected, the errors of ‘the minority had not been admitted and if they had the chance they would give the party another federated farm- er-labor party. Upon the basis of work done and upon the basis of a real acceptance of the C. I. decision the majority of the C. E. C. deserves and has received the endorsement of the party membership as shown in ‘this convention. : Lovestone Reports for Minority. Comrade Lovestone, reporting for the minority on the meeting of the Plenum of the E. C. of the C. L, cov- ered in the same general way the world situation as outlined ‘by Com- rade Cannon, drawing the same gen- eral conclusions as to the necessity of the party following the Bolshevik line of the Comintern as clarified by the Plenum of the B. ©. of the ©. I. Differences of the minority with the majority arise, the speaker claim- ed, over mistakes by the majority which he claimed to be so theoretic- ally confused that from the objective situation of a slackening of the in- ternational revolutionary situation, it becomes sectarian on the one hand and tainted with right wing devia- tions on the other. This was the key to understanding various activities of the majority in which the speaker claimed the party ‘had been diverted from the correct Communist line, Particularly was this the case in the matter of work for a labor » with which Com- rade Loves dealt in detail, whereupon Chamberlain PARLEY ' Chamberlain Confers| with U. §. Ambassador LONDON, Aug, 26.—Great Britain today made inquiries concerning the willingness of the United States to en- ter into a three-cornered debt parley with England and France, according to reliable information. Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, conferred for twenty-five minutes with Allanson B. Houghton, American ambassador to Great Brit- ain, and it is understood that Cham- berlain sought to learn from the am- bassador the views of the United States regarding a tripartite debt con- ference. Houghton Without Instructions. Ambassador Houghton, it is report- ed, informed Chamberlain that he was without instructions upon the matter, requested that he make ‘informal inquiries, in order that definite steps may be taken towards the suggested conference if the United States is willing to pro- ceed. Chamberlain also took occasion to consult with Ambassador Houghton relative to the proposed Huropean se- curity pact, and the attitude of the United States toward it. Official circles here are not in the least optimistic that the United States will enter into any three-cornéred debt conference, but it has been suggested that perhaps the United States would not object to Great Britain having an unofficial observer in Washington dur- ing the Franco-American debt settle- ment negotiations. British Hopes Strengthened. British hopes for the cooperation of the United States were strengthened this afternoon when \it was learned that American Ambassador Houghton had conferred during the morning with Austen Chamberlain, ,British foreign minister. Immedfately after the con- ference Chamberlain sent a message to M. Cafllaux asking for.a conference during the afternoon. No authoritative «statement was forthcoming on the subject of discus- sion between Ambassador Houghton and Chamberlain, butthe British press was inclined to interpret this meeting as indicative of possible.co-operation by the United States-in untangling The foreign @ brief an- ent this at that Am- bassador Houghton ign Minis- sion for twenty-vve mitiutes this morn- ing, but refused to disclose the nature of the conversations. ~ Caillaux Visits Financiers. M. Caillaux spent the morning con- sulting with the Frei financial ex- perts and this afternoon again went to the financial district where he con- sulted with leading British financiers relative to a possible French loan be- ing floated in London, see” : Cold Reception at Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug, 26.—Renewed of suggestions abroad, in connection with the Anglo-French debt: negotia- tions, that the United States go into an international conference for the re- adjustment of interallied debts, was received coldly today in official circles here, The policy of the government in dealing with the foreign debtors has been to consider each debt individual and separately, always opposing any proposal for submitting the debt prob- lem to a general conference. This policy was based on the belief that nothing could be gained by any other method and that a great deal might be lost in view of the fact that the United States is the biggest creditor and has the most to lose under any system of simultaneous adjustment of war obligations, Demand Se ite Settlements. In the past the suggestions for inter- national conferences always were con- nected with proposals ‘for solution of the reparations problem and would have opened the door, according to the view of the administration, both un- der Harding and Coolidge, for cancel- lation of a substantial part of the twelve billion dollars owed by Europ- ean nations. That feeling, it developed in official quarters today, still exists But Always, Rally to the Aid of the Daily Worker By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the dead hand of Victor F. Lawson continues to direct the Chicago Daily News. The will of the capital- ist-publisher is made public and it develops that Lawson lanned to make this powerful Chic to dictate public opinion and piling uted as directed by this voice from institution,” past a up profits to be distri the grave. 8 * * ‘o daily a “perpetual In the trustification of industry, control has passed out of the hands of individual management. This control has been taken over by great inanimate corporations, in’ which the leading officials are usually parasite pensioneers, while the real work of the management is carried on by salaried “white collar” slaves, not many leaps ahead of the cruelly exploited wage worker. Thus individual management in the reat industries has gradually disappeared, allowing even Sage E. H. Gary, head of the steel trust, to spend as much time as he desires experimenting in diets, and hypocritically advising the workers what, and how, and when to eat. * * . But it has always been claimed that the capitalist daily newspaper must have its “personal touch.” It is charged that the hicago Daily News had its “genius” in “Vic” Lawson. But Lawson is dead and the Daily N is is going on just the same, because the printers, stereotypers and pressmen are still at work in the mechanical departments, the army of “white collar” slaves still comes down daily to the business offices, while in the editorial departments, the brass checkers all know what is expected of them by their capitalist masters, dead and alive, and they obediently write and edif accord- ingly. The Daily News has been institutionalized just as much as the traction trust, the gas trust, the phone trust, the electrio trust, or any other public utility. It does not need the personal management of any individual. . doseph Pulitzer started the New York World and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. But he has long passed on and the properties are now in the hands of his parasite and aristo- cratic sons, who thrive on the rich dividends that come to them automatically. The name of ames Gordon Bennett was associated with the New York Hérald and Telegram, which he placed in the hands of a corporation at his. death. But the properties finally fell into the hands of the steel magnate, Frank A. Munsey. So papers: that ith a multitude of other po pow daily news- come the direct, organs o' special interests, nstead of being the mouthpieces of individuals holding them as private property. Thus the real function of the capitalist press is unmasked. It stands forth as one of the most. active protectors of property interests under the will continue to perform this function until — regime. It capitalism. falls. There are no capitalist dailies in the Soviet Union today because all power there is in the hands of the workers and peasants, and the last remnants of the propertied interests are being wiped out. ° Thousands of extra copies of this issue of ee ' the DAILY WORKER will be distributed among the pressmen in New York City, who are solid in their su rt of the Chicago press- men fighting not only their boss, the Cuneo Printing Co., but also the strike-breaking head of their own organization, President George L. Berry. While mer warring for better conditions in the pri are employed and inting industry, the pressmen and all other printing trades workers must realize that it is one of their greatest tasks to build up their own ress,—to Y WORKER. ag their support to the strengthening of the DAI- The pressmen are interested in the DAILY WORKER now because it is fighting for them in their immediate strug- gles. The pressmen, like all workers, however, must at all times remain loyal to the DAILY WORKER, building its power, because ist main ask is to end he robber system of private profits that crushes all labor. The DAILY WORKER points the way to developing the final battle for the emancipation o' men! , Rally to its standards! with the result that the American debt funding commission is expected to give little if any consideration to the suggestion of a tri-partite conference between the United States, Great Brit- ain and France for the settlement of their war debts. “The United States loaned the money separately and now we want and are going to have separate set- tlements,” a member of the debt com- mission told International News Service. “Any conference, such as is now proposed, for instance, is out of the question.” pies Anglo-French Agreement Reported. LONDON, Aug. 26.—It was reported in diplomatic circles this afternoon that an agrement on the terms of the French debt settlement had been reached by Winston Churchill, cha: cellor of the exchequer, and M. Ca‘ laux, French minister of finance, sub- ject to confirmation by the British and French governments, according to the Evening Standard. Oe eeeeeeeeeeeSeeSF Lovestone declared, ‘what a labor party is, what is its role and what is the role of our party in relation to the labor party. This,'the fight upon Lore, Loreites and Loreism—not merely ideological iggle but also drastic organizatio measures — and a stopping of the campaign of extermination against those who fought for a labor party—these three Policies must be the basis of party policy and the basis for the process of unification of the two groups, mi- nority and majority. Comrades Abern, ‘Ballam, Foster, Ruthenberg, Bittelman, Weinstono, Manley, Gitlow, Browder, Engdahl, Schachtman and Bedacht spoke upon the above report, both’ minority and majority presented ‘fesolutions upon the subject and Comrade Cannon sum- med up the discussio® In a 30 minute speech, Adjournment’ was then taken until Wednesday noon. One Thousand Fight Fire. MARTINBZ, Calif, Aug. 26.—Fire which threatened to destroy the $5,000,000 plant of the Associated Oil Company, one of the biggest refineries in the United States, and the entire town of Avon, was under control today after a four-hour fight in which appa- ratus from half a dozen towns aided more than 1,000 fire fighters, Pe rane an Natives Capture French Garison. LONDON, Aug. 26.—The Druses tribesmen, in rebellion against the French administration in Syria, have captured the’ French garrison at Dier- ezzor, according to a Cairo dispatch received here today, ination of the Pega struggle into the all the workers. Press- MAKE DARING DASH FOR LIBERTY FROM MILITARY PRISON HONOLULU, Aug, 26—Followin a gun fight police today captured five military prisoners from Fort Shafter who late yesterday staged a sensational escape. The prisoners beat down their guards, beat down their guns and fled to the country in a stolen auto- mobile, where they were caught to- day by pursuing officers. The two Communist soldiers, Crouch and Trumbull, were only recently re- moved from thi ime guardhouse, Bandits Invade Heyworth, Ill. $2,000 and some checks, hich was of mild proportions, was not more than ten miles from’ here. ITALIAN FLEET ImiTATES U. S. HAWAIIAN MANEUVER IN SICILY ROME, August 26—The Italian ficet, playing summer war game, Nine men early today held up the entire town of Heyworth, Ill., cut all} . its telephone wires, looted the state bank there of $2,000 and escaped. After cutting off communication the bandits dashed down the main street in an automobile. and staged several minor holdups, then descended on the bank, bound and gagged two watchmen, went thru the place and left with currency total- They drew guns ismographic record of the University of California today re- vealed an earthquake had been record- uc WAR ON BRITAIY FOR SEA RULE Also Fight for Job as World’s Banker; Editor's Note—The following news article was cabled to the United St ‘day by the Moscow correspondent of the In- ternational News Service, eee MOSCOW, Aug. 26.—England fight ing America for the supremacy of the seas, for oll, for mar » for the right to be the world’s banker—this is the picture In the foreground of Bolshev- Ism’s vision of the future, Today Karl Radek adds his voice-to the ominous prophecy of Leon Trotsky that the next world struggle will be between the two giants of the English speaking race. Money Interest Supreme. Neither he nor Trotsky allow other factors than those of economics to weigh in the balances, Strictly Marx- lian and rigidly materialistic, they ar- jgue that the money interest ii the long run will outweigh the ties of blood, of language and of common tra- ditions. Writing in Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party, Radek’ de- clares: “The world’s history does not know a case in which two mighty in- dustrial powers, possessing the great fleets, have not struggled against each other for the supremacy of the world. That is why the Anglo-American con- fiicts must lead to war.” Seek to Co-operate Now. He admits that the time is not yet ripe for the fulfillment of his forecast. England and America now try dén- scientiously to cooperate, he says, but the relentless force of economics pushes them steadily apart. Radek’s views may be taken as -typ- ical of Bolshevik thot about America. “England,” he cites, “has issued an embargo on the export of capital, whereas the United States during the last six months has exported not less than $1,070,000,000, w Australia Borrows in New York. “Australia,” he continues, “could not receive a loan in London,-but had to borrow $75,000,000 in New York. London could lend Australia only $25,000,000, “The British pound depends entire- ly on the support of thé Federal Re- serve bank,” he declares, adding that “Great Britain tries’ nevertheless to keep her military forées- or-a-level in’ dependent of the grace of America. The British admiralty 4 in $250,- 000,000 for the inéreasé of Britain’s fleet.” On the Huropean: continent, believes Radek, France and Germany will be the doubtful factors when It comes to & contest between America and Eng- land. “France,” he says, “will be the chief European trump which the Unit- ed States may play against Hngland.” As to Germany, Radek advances the hope that she may everttually be won tor Russia, and intimacy with the So- viets would keep her from fighting on the side of England. England Lost the War. = “The struggle for gaining Germany will continue between us and England, and the worse grows the position of England, the more chances there will be for us to win.” power about which we can say, “This one lost the war.’” Four Killed When Auto Driver Tries to Beat Electric Car they died within a the driver of an automobile, said, tried to beat a Rockford terurban electric car to a just east of this city, late . dead are: « Leo tims of the crash being mang! the ruin, Daskalakis was found fatally set by the bureau of the budget for the completion of final estimates of federal expenditures for the fiscal year 1926-27, the perenniat controversy be tween the budget director and the gov- ernment departments over how much are —