The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 13

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The Comintern Letter to the Communist Par the executive that all hopes of settl- ing the differences in the course of normal co-operation are shattered. The attacks made by Comrades Mas- low and Ruth Fischer force upon us the urgent necessity of laying the question of the German party openly before all the members. M** our enemies break out into a howl of triumph, and~-point their fingers at the sore points of the Ger- man party. May the bourgeoisie and the social traitors of whole Germany fling scorn and derision upon the Party. Lenin taught us to expose ruth- lessly all the errors of our party, the sole party of the vanguard of the re- volutionary proletariat, with Bolshe- vist openess, without considering the enemy. There is no party in the world able, like the Communist Party, to recognize and to expose its defects openly and to its logical conclusion. This is the sole pledge for the rapid and complete overcoming of these er- rors. 5 The executive is profoundly con- vinced that no Communist worker in Germany will permit himself to be confused or misled even for a moment by the shrieks of triumph which may certainly be anticipated from the bourgeois and social democratic press. And may all the adherents of the right and ultra-left in our own ranks too consider the right moment to have come to venture forward again. the Brandlerists declare that “the left are bankrupt.” The Communist Party of Germany will none the less advance in serried ranks without lend- ing an ear to the cries of the right or ultra-left opponents, Old Soak at Central Theater Well Acted _But Theme Is Mushy “The Old Soak” with Harry Min- turn in the leading role now at the Central Theater at Van Buren near Michigan Ave. is intended as a pro- paganda play against prohibition, and too bad it does not stick to that one point. But it is ambitious. It preaches against the supposedly “bad people” who ruin the chances for happiness under the present system of society. Ard so it suffers the fate of teing unconvincing. This is the story, The Old Soak since prohibition chases boose and bootleggers. Previously he used to get “it” easily and everything was normal in the Hawley household. Now the head of the family dev-tes ai his time and money to chasing “it.” This brings unhappiness to his wife and two grown up chi‘cren. His eldest son who outshines him in his wife's eyes because he sticks to his job is not as good a boy as he ap-, pears to be. He steals from his firm where he holds a position of respons} | pility to gamble in stocks. He is for- ced to rob his mother to make good on his theft.. There. is a villian in the story, the .village banker, The villian shields his true character by pretending to be a church going, god fearing person. This shield of “re- spectability” enables him to ply his crooked deals undiscovered. But the “Old Soak” discovers his true char- acter when he learns that he is the financier of the bootlegging deals in the village. The banker, Webster Parsons, en- veigles the son into a deal in which he robs the boy of $10,000. The drunk- ard father to protect his son who is now involved in greater debt than ever, forces the banker t> return the money under threat of death. The banker hands over the $10,000.— Everyone is happy. It is to be hoped that the Central Theater will put on dramas that will be both more educational and con- vincing. Ashland Carpenters Licked — SHENANDOAH, Pa.— (FP) — Ash- land earpenters and joiners who have been on strike since April for $1.1214 per hour pay signed with the master builders at the old wage scale of $1 an hour. (Continued from page 6) following its close, proved finally to May We repeat once more; it is not the German left which is bankrupt, but some of their leaders. The German left, with all its faults in the past and in the present, has never been merely a group of individ- uals. It has a great historical role to fulfill, It drew the lessons of Octo- ber, 1923, it defeated Brandlerism, it united the torn party at the moment of its severest crisis. E German left must uphold and continue the best traditions of the vanguard of the German industrial proletariat, and of the best and most powerful party organizations, as those of Berlin, Hamburg, the Ruhr area, and the Rhine country. At the same time it must show itself capable of eliminating everything that is wrong, immature, and un-Bolshevist from its past and present. Then it will not only be the left, but the real Bolshe- vist, leading heart of the German G.. PB. Lenin taught us that when we open- ly and ruthlessly criticise our own errors before the whole working class, then these errors have already been half overcome. During the course of the twenty-five years of its history the Russian C. P. has more than once ex- posed and overcome its weaknesses— free from all petty bourgeois senti- mentality and all- egotism. The Ger- man C, P. will follow this example. The main defects are not to be found in the thoroly sound proletarian membership of the party, but among the leaders of the leaders, who have proved incompetent. The party is confronted by great new tasks. The situation is not developing against us, but for us. For some months the "They are trying to break the Zeigler Spirit. | They removed Zeigler’s fighting union officers. class struggle in Germany is no more on the downward but on the upward line. It is only if the whole party recog- nizes all the signs of the times, and if it relies upon itself, upon its own powers, upon the Communist Inter- national, and upon the unconquerable force of the German working class, then it can overcome the crisis and lead the German proletariat to vic- tory. In this case victory ig certain. (Signed) Executive of the C. I.: Zinoviev, Bucharin, Manuilski, Piat- nitzki, Losovsky, Soviet Union; Jacob, France; Bown, Great Britain; Kuusin- en, Finland; Scheflo, Norway; Kil- bom, Sweden; Kolarov, Bulgaria; Di- mitrov, Bulgaria; Boschkovitch, Jugo- Slavia; Katayama, Japan; Roy, India; Mitskevitsch Kapsukas, Lithuania. Delegation of the German C. P.: Thalmann, Ruth Fischer, Dengel, Schwan, Schneller, Scher, Kuhne, Strotzel, Heinz Neumann and the Central Committee of the C. P. of Germany. (Section of the Commun- ist International.) Resolution of the C. C. of the Communist Party of Germany on the Decision of the Executive in the German Question. 1 The C. C. of the G, C. P. approves * the report on the negotiations be- tween the delegation of the G. C. P. and the executive of the Comintern; it agrees without reservation with the decisions of the executive. 2. The C. C. is in agreement with the open letter addressed by the .ex- ecutive to the members of the Ger- They murdered Mike Sarovich. They arrested 26 of his co-workers. They are trying to railroad 15 of them to the FIGHT the Zeigler Frame-up! i | {The mine bosses, the Ku Klux Klan, Farrin and the State Power are all lined u : conspiracy, against the Zeig "Act Quickly! The Danger Is Great! Time Is Pressing! Hurry Up With - | - HELP! Send contributions to 7 “9 ty of Germany man party, and recognizes the correct- ness of the criticism exercised by the executive with regard to the Maslow- Ruth Fischer group which hitherto led the G, C, P. 3. The C. C.agree with the organ- izatory decisions.of the executive, and resolves to carry them out immediate- ly. 4. In order to persuade the broad- est masses of the party members in all the districts and organizations of the correctness and necessity of the decisions arrived at, the central is to organize a far-reaching enlightening activity thruout the whole party. 5. The Central Committee, as unit- ed body, has to carry out the deci- sions of the executive, and to defend them against all resistance. 6. The inner work of the Central Committee is to be organized in ac cordance with the new course, along the line of increased collective work, that is, of the most intense mutual co- operation among all the members and candidates of the C, C. 7. It is only possible to avoid a party crisis if the C. C. brings the whole party nnitedly together in ac- cordance with the new decisions and leads it unitedly forward on the path of practical positive tasks. 8. Every attack against the general lines laid down by the Comintern, and against the decisions newly made in the German question in particular, must be ruthlessly combatted, from whatever side it may come, whether from the right or from the ultra-left. Passed by all votes against one and one abstention. ‘ete dae miners, — ~ Icheeetianal Labor Defense 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. 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