The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 14

St. = DNR TO as ome + keeping out of the films some of the ys Workers Party is a Commun- fst’ Party, the American section _ ofthe Communist International. It endeavors to be a worthy and effec- tive part of the international army of the revolutionary proletariat. It can do that only by developing its theory . ahd revolutionizing its activity, by Bolshevizing itself. Only as a Bol- shevik Party will it be able to ap proach the manifold and difficult problems of the class struggle in America with revolutionary under- standing and energy. In the process of Bolshevization of the party conflicts with the non- or even anti-Bolshevist ‘elements within «the party are unavoidable, and, in the Anterests of the purification of the party, even welcome. Such conflicts “must be developed by the party. to the logical conclusion of either Bol- shevizing and assimilating the not yet Bolshevist element or finally eliminat- ing ali anti-Bolshevist elements. HM non- or anti-Bolshevist ele- ments within our party have up to now found their most consistent spokesman in the person of Ludwig Lore. Since the very inception of the Communist movement in the United States, Lore has been in conflict with, altho professing allegiance to it, with the growing activization (Bolsheviz- ation) of our party, these conflicts be- came more acute and could not long- er-be slighted or disregarded. The needs of Boishevizgation forces our ‘patty to take issue with Lore and the tendency of which he is the most con- scious and most consistent represent- ative, Altho at first we did not succeed in mobilizing the. whole party for the struggle against Loreism we did suc- ceed in winning the unqualified sup- port of the Communist International. The Communist International finally accomplished the task of unifying the whgle party for the struggle against Loreism and for Bolshevization. Lore was entrenched in the posi- ‘tion of’ chief editor of the New York Volkszeitung aid as secretary of the Bureau of the German Section of our party. A party organ such as the New York Volkszeitung and a bureau of a language section of our party, are both equally important as instru- ments in the hands of the party for Bolshevizatiton. It therefore, became necessary to attempt to get Lore to LORE DRIVEN INTO THE OPEN STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS PARTY. submit to the politieal direction and|tionary party existing would avail policies of the party, the ©, Hi. OG. and the Communist International. LL attempts in that direction were frustrated by th tive oppost tion -of Lore and his close friends, The ©, F.C, was finally forced to de- mand ultimately of the German bu- reau_ to. submit to the party and its policy, This the bureau refused to do by a vote of 6 including Lore, against 3. There was only one way open for the Central Exeécutivé Committee; to suspend the non-Communist members from: thes bureau and to appoint in their: place Joyal Communists and ad- herentg’to the: Communist Interna- tional, = t y The action of Lore and his follow- erg on’ the. German Bureau demon- strated beyond doubt and contrary to all protestations of loyalty by Wore that Lore was unwilling to submit to the discipline of our international party, the. Comintern. While Lore protested -his loyalty, he held meét- ings and conferences with his follow- ers preparing for resistance to, and an eventual split from the Workers Party and the Cominterp, Under these conditions the expul- sion of Lore-from the party became an imperative necessity... The con- vention of our party recognized this and decided upon the expulsion unani- mously. : Pasco who continually claimed to have been maligned with the Comintern, refused consistently to ap- pear before the Comintern in his own behalf. In March, 1924, efforts were made to get Lore instructed to go to Mos- cow. The efforts failed because. of the resistance of Lore. In January, 1925, Lore was practically requested by the Comintern to come to Moscow. Under some pretext Lore again refus- ed. In April, 1925, a new effort was made to have Lore appear before the Comintern. Again without results, Before the Parity Commission, Lore ‘mnouncet’ his intention of going to Moscow. But instead of submitting to the C. I. and preparing his appeal he prepared a revolt against the C. I. Lore is perfectly aware that even against the unanimous decision of the party convention for his expulsion he still has an appeal open to the Com- intern. Any revolutionist who values his membership in the only revolu- By WM. F. KRUSE. AS pub RL of the largest mo- tion picture producers in Amer- ica, representing 85 per cent of ‘the industry,. are banded together under the leadership of Will Hays, one-time member, of the odiferous and oily Harding cabinet, for the purpose of best books and plays of our present day. It is now openly boasted, as, for instance, in the current World’s Work in an article by Edward G. Lowry, that “The immediate, problem of the motion picture makers is to prevent ‘he prevalent type of play and book from becoming the prevalent type of motion picture,” And the Film Dally gloats editorial- ly over the news that among more,| than a hundred conspicuous success- es of the stage and best sellerg of the bookstores, “The Green Hat,” “They Knew What They Wanted,” and “The Firebrand,” have been banned from the movies, All were eminently suc- cessful, and one of them was the win- ner of the Pulitzer prize as the best play of last year, Blacklisting Ideas, This is how the scheme works, ac- cording to the Chicago Dally News; “When any member company of the Hays’ organization {s offered the screen rights to a book or play of a ‘questionable nature, its representa- _ttyes {mmediately mnform the offices of ‘thé motion producers and distributors, representing about 85 per cent of the producing element, Jf the Judgment of the member company is confirmed that fhe picturization of the book or ‘play jg inadvisable a notice is pent to all other member companies giving Stop and Listen—But Don’t Look ———— aes of this last chance and ap- pe But Lore knows that he is not tell- ing thé truth when he says that he is better than his reputation. He knows his fundamental: disagreement with the Comintern. He knows that he has only two ways open—submission or fight. In proof of our contention that he is not a Communist he chose to fight the Comintern. | Bape: has since published several declarations, A signed one pub- lished in the New York Volkszeitung of September 1, 1925, and an unsigned editorial published in the Volkszel- tufg of September 6. Every sentence of either, one of these declaration has Loreism written all over it. ‘On Sep- tember 1, Lore still promises to sup- port the ©. L policies. But on Sep tember 6, he takes issue with the major policy of the Comintern, that of acting as the leader of its world party. On September 2, Lore gives space in the-Volkszeitung to a declar- ation of the five former members of the German bureau suspended from that body with him in which they de- clare above their signatures, first, that there is no °Loreism; second, that they believe in Loreism, and third, that they feel in duty bound to demonstrate their loyalty to Lore- ism by deserting the party. On Sep tember 4, Lore opens the columns of the Volkszeitung for an public dis- cussion of the Workers Party. This discussion is indicative of the direc- tion in which Loreism is developing. On September 5, we find as part of ths discussion a contribution giving a “history” of our party made out of whole cloth. On the 6th, the 8th, and 9th, we find articles signed by a pseudonym containing open and vio- lent attacks against the Comintern, its theories and policies. Lore, who on September 1, still -protested his loyalty to Comintern -polies, finds .it perfectly in order to open the col- umns of his paper to these attacks. . But that is the logic of his course. This course leads further and further away from the Comintern into the camp of the enemies of the working class, the social democrats. Levi traveled that road; so did Hoglund and Friesland. OME few of the members of our party have in the past not clearly 7 Daily News states plainly that: “Dur- ing the year just passed this plan (the Hays’ economic blacklist) has result- ed in more than 100 plays and books the name of the book or play. That|—including some of the best sellers ends that book or play’as a possible | and most conspicuous stage successes subject.” “ It should be noted that this black- list is one of the most vicious attacks ever directed against the creative spirit in‘dramia and literature, and at the same time supplies a club with vhich to bring authors to the financial terms of the filmwrights. This eco- nomic weapon is typical of 20th cen- tury capitalist development, the pro- duction end of the industry is con- trolled almost to an air-tight extent, }the censorship is economic in basis. —_———. Every writer today looks to potential movie receipts to outweigh all pos- sible income from publication or stage rights, and this threat of blacklist is a heavy club against struggling writ- ers and playwrights who may jy to tell a little of the truth about the con- ditions ag, they. see them. Thus we have a more effective ban against in- dependent thought among the liter- at! than ever existed in czarist Rus- sia, and the probable result will be on one side the more general prosti- tution of literary talent, and on the other a piled up collection of hooks and plays worthy and possible of film production only after the astablish- ment of the American workers’ and farmers’ Soviet republic, A Chinese Wall Against Labor -- «. Thought, The movie world is starying for new stories, The junk produced today is hackneyed beyond expression, The producers even go so far afield for ideag as the desks of country news paper editors—only a (lesperate plight can explain @ search for new ideas In such unlikely places, Yet the Chicago —hbeing kept from the screen. These rejections included not only dramas and books that had been much talked about and discussed as possible men- aces to public morals and decency, but also a number of others wu sainst which no protest had eve. oedh dir- ected.” This means that the -Hays’ organization must encourage the pro- fessional smeller of anti-bourgeois se- dition to launch private information against anything he may see in print or on the stage in order to put the purse-string censors on guard against it, . It is now openly admitted that one of the chief functions of “Czar” Will Hays’ directorate over the movie world is to establish a screen black- list against all books or plays objec- tionable to bourgeois morality. In the movies, henceforth, any criticism of “American institutions,” of the bourgeois’ church, state, property, home, marriage, is taboo. The only effective answer that la- bor can make is to develop and sup- films, but thig shortage would further Increase the demand for labor films and therefore help insure their sup- port, Educational and entertainment films both must be made available for understood Loré’s policies and atms. But now it must be clearly apparent that one cannot be an adherent of Lore and at thé same time 4 revolu- tionary Communist. One cannot fol- low Lore who fights the Comintern and at the same time be a loyal mem- ber of the Comintern. Lore and his close friends have dropped their masks. Every member of our party with whom the services in the world army of the revolutionary proletariat is a matter of proletarian revolution: ary honor will repudiate Lore and his followers as enemies of the revolu- tionary proletariat,.as enemies. of the Workers Party,.as enemies of the Communist International, Lore is now. eligaged in} attempting —]. i to split‘our ‘party. \ Thru nuclal Lore. of. © 7 ist nucle! which he miaintalifed. ix the of” German branched all thfuout the of >) existence of the Workers Party he |) now endeavors to cause a mass with- drawal from the party to build up his own private workers’ educational organization. It becomes the Communist duty of every party member to fight this crea- tion of Lore. These workers’ educa- tional organizations are sailing under a false flag. They are not Commun- ist, they are not revolutionary, They are anti-Communist .adjuncts of the anti-proletarian social-democrats in America. UR party members and especially those in the German Federafion will close their ranks for a decisive struggle against the antiBolshevik influences and anti-Bolshevik activi- ties of Lore and his organization out- side and the remnants of Loreism within our; party. Every member must be mobilized inthe next few weeks to defeat the efforts of Lore to destroy our German branches and all energy must be devoted to the tre- mendous task of Bolshevist reorgan- ization. With the progress of the Bolshevization of our party it will be- come invulnerable against all attacks by renegades from. within and with- - out. ba Clean the party of Loreism! Long live the Workers Party! Long live the Comintern! Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, c. E. Ruthenberg. General-Sec’y. | FAMOUS RUSSIAN POET IN CHICAGO FRIDAY, OCT, 2ND Mayakovski to Speak on | Russian Poetry Wladimir Wladimirovich Mayakov- ski, one of the most outstanding poets of the Russian revolution is coming to Chicago on Friday, Oct, 2. He will: speak here at Temple Hall, cor. Van Buren and Marshfield. on the new Russian ltersture and poetry, Those. who were deploring thé “destruction of civilization” by the Bolsheviks will have a chance to take a look at the new civilization, the new culture that is being built by the revolution. A powerful poet and a powerful per- sonality, Comrade Mayakovsk! will read some of his own poems and will talk in the name of the New Russia, the Russia of the Soviets. A tremend- ous welcome is being arranged for him by the local Russians and the literary world, It {sg expected that the Temple Hall will be crowded to capacity, Details will be announced later in the press, : the workers, The committes for In- {ternational Workers’ Aid has ‘done | this, and {ts films should be more widely distributed among labor circles so that ite Import and production ef- | forts could more rapidly be broaden- ed, Class Iineg in the movies are be- ~ coming more and more clear, The masters’ taboo is the best recommend- ation for a picture, 0 Ae date tae t —"“ TREE I IETS IEE A IE EN