The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1925, Page 6

costae usd : ~ THE DAILY WORK eG Wee pubtianba by th by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 (CGS cactus epllatadd mat lt hla eae SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): { By mail (outelde of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mai] and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ; Bittors. , WILLIAM F. DUNNB {"""" MORITZ J. LOEB. Manager Bntered av second-class mail September 21, 1 cago, ItL, under the act of Marc! Advertising rates on application. EE . . Complications at Locarno Labored optimism is probably the best way to describe the tone of the news dispatches emanating from Locarno where France and Great Britain, with Germany occupying an enviable strategie: posi- tion, are trying to re-make the map of Europe so that capitalism there can have a breathing spell. . New complications have arisen as a result of Italy’s ‘attitude. The news is that Mussolini will not attend, but send a substitute to keep a sharp eye on the other diplomats. Italy fears the rise of°a new German-Austrian bloc and, according to’ the rnmors, which in diplomatic circles are generally more reliable than ‘what passes “for the truth, has been proposing an alliance to Czecho-Slovakia. The British and French foreign offices are, it now appears,’ itt the light of later dispatches, more disturbed at the warm welcome extend to Georges Tchitcherin in Warsaw, than was at first admit ted; nor is there any comfort in this fact for the German govern- ment. Then, to further embarrass the allied governments, comes the news of a 100,000,000 mark loan by Germany to the Soviet govern- ment. Vor the first time since the signing of the armistice Germany meets the allied governments on an equal footing, but it is the exist- <p> 290 ence of the Soviet Union that makes this possible and millions Oe a at eae en ee eee ee German workers know it. y, 4 As for France, she must choose between the loss of her Poligh, Czecho-Slovakian, Roumanian and Jugo-Slavian allies and a secyrity pact which will strengthen Great Britain. She gets in return paly the guarantee of her eastern frontier. The attitude of the capitalist press generally that Todkrio opposite of the case—the conference marks the culmination of THE DAILY WuRKER What Saklatvala Article h HE exclusion. of Shapurji Saklat- vala, British subject,- native of India, member of the British house of commons representing Battersea, one of the working class districts of Lon- don, member of the British Commun- ist Party and delegate to the confer- ence of the inter-parliamentary ‘union has focused the attention of the Am- erican working class upon the status of the 330,000,000 natives of India within the British empire. We Communists can afford to thank the British foreign office and the American state department for an action which has brought before the workers of this country a question which, largely because there is no considerable number of Indian immi- grants here, has received but. little attention heretofore. But this is not the only issue in which®*the rulers of two great imper- ialist nations have, contrary to their, evident desire, created great interest airiong- large ‘nymbers of American workers, JIHE puerile excuse given for the ex- cusion, i, @., certain provisions of the American immigration law, only serye to arouse the curiosity of the masses. That curiosity is being grati- fied in a measure because upon this matter inewhich certain sections of the the middle class press see a viola- tion of “international courtesy” and other sections a confession of weak- ness and an elevation of a despised Communist to a position of import- ance, * chere is no neal jinity of opinion. That portion of oe »jpress which caters to the Irish popu ation takes advant- age of its anti-British prejudices to exploit the Saklatyala incident. Irish republican societies pass resolutions of protest and they, find their way into the papers. The liberal press becomes quite indignant while disavowing all sympathy for Saklatvala’s political beliefs. The very thing that the rulers wanted to suppress occurs—an in- uiry into and a discussion of India and its people, of the British empire, its present condition and of Commun- ists and Communism, of the relation of the American government and the working class to all these weighty questions, id hha British foreign office is a pon- derous machine and when it calls to its aid the state department of Am- erica—its most. powerful rival—we are justified in assuming the visit of Saklatvala to America was consider- ed a grave danger to the safety of British imperialism’ and the prestige of His Majesty’s government. A few facts stand out: (1) Saklatvala speaks officially for a militant section of:the British work- ing class--the workers of Battersea, and indirectly for the whole left wing of British Jabor. (2) He speaks for the 330,000,000 oppressed cworkers and peasants of India—the colony which a British statesmen ‘has called “the brightest jewel.in the imperial diadem.” (3) As a member of the British Communist Party he speaks for that party and in the name of the Com- munist International of which it is a scoot section. HE exclusion. of Saklatvala is in fact a blow delivered jointly by two groups of imperfalists who are rivals in almost every form of capital- ist activity at. the British working class, at the workers and peasants of India and at the Communist Interna- tional, Only the fear and hatred of the leader of the world revolution could bring such unity between two imperialist enemies, The attitude of the American state department is inspired principally by a fear of the impetus that the visit of Saklatvala might give to the revo- lutionary movement here. American labor is! passive and the rulers wish to keep it so. But the action of the British foreign office is based on actual conditions of the most critical nature. If there is one thing the American masses are susceptible to\it is appeals in behalf of national liberation movements— particularly if these movements are against Great Britain. The traditions of the war for independence still live sponse from large sections of the American people. REAT BRITAIN cannot afford to have popular sentiment in behalf of Indian nationalism aroused in Am- erica. The danger of the colonial liberation movements is too real for that. It is hard for the American work- ers to realize the ever-present fear of the loss of India that abides in the breast of every loyal son of the em- pire. The whole strategy of the Brit- ish imperialists is based on India. Ever since the French were driven and such appeals find a ready re-' symbolizes. - By William F. ‘By William F. Dunne from India and the adventurer Clive ) velops‘ under the influence of Soviet tection of India and the extension o the British frontier in Asia has domin.-. ated British imperial policy. HE major:factor in the Mediterran- ean policy of Great Britain has been. the securing and holding of the sea route to India, The acquisition of Egypt and South Africa have been incidental to this dominant strategy. Great Britain went to War with Germany when the latter power be- gan to build the Berlin to Bagdad rail- way which would have made ineffect- ive the British sea route to India and the Far East. Before Germany became by reason of her)rapid. industrialization. and its resulting. imperial ambition the most dangerous,.enemy, of Great . Britain, Russia. was the foe which Britain feated. One has only to read that songbird of British imperialism, Rud- yard Kipling, with his ceaseless denun- ciation ofs‘'the bear that walks like a man”sto, understand that the possibil- ity,of inyasion of India from the north was a,constant nightmare to the Brit- teh ‘Tile: epee fobters of the Indian workers and peasants could never get rid of the thought that in her drive to- ‘wards Warm water Russia would some day send-her hordes thru the Khyber Dass;.and take for the czar the rich loot, that was going to England in a thousand, ships and on which British imperialism prospered and expanded. British imperialism strives to ex- ten@ her Asiatic from north and east. On the north it now encounters the Soviet Union, in’ the east the Chinese national liberation movement de- | consolidated British influence, the pro sia and the Communist Party of Co hina a revolutionary proletarian character. 7” the British imperialists feared czarist Russia they fear the Russta of the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment a thousand times more, Czarist Russia could offer the Indian masses only a change of oppressors but the Soviet Union offers admission on & basis of full equality to all Asiatic peoples. From over the mountains that crown India’s norther border comes the news that in Soviet Russia the peasants have the land and that the factories are the property of the joint government of workers and peasants. This one fact is more dangerous to, British imperialism in India than all the armies of the czar. From the east comes the news that the Chinese workers and peasants are driving the British robbers from their country and that alone .of all the nations Soviet Russia treats the Chinese workers and peasants as equals. , The front of British imperialism in the north and east has been broken. Saklatvala is a member of a section of the Communist International and an Indian. He symbolizes in his per- son all that British imperialism hates and fears—to the British foreign of- fice he is the emblem of the Russian revolution and of mass rev@lt in India and China. He represents the. unity of the working class in the imperial- ist nations with the colonial peoples and wherever he speaks, there the two great forces which will overthrow world imperialism are seen in action, (To be Continued) Convention of the Y. W. L. Adopts. Resolution RESOLUTION ON REPORT OF THE Young Workers League which has suf- fered considerable disunity and fac- party. Likewise, it lays the basis for ysponsibility of the decisions of the the unification and development of the | Communist International. Any propa- ganda among the youth to the effect that the Communist International acts represents a great step toward “the peace of Europe” is the etact|__REPRESENT ATIVE OF THE WORKERS European tour of Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, ar- ranged to organize European capitalism against Soviet Russia and the Communist International. The conference not only canngt bring peace but it can do nothing else than create fresh alignments bearing within them a more menacing threat of imperialist war and con- sequently a threat to the whole working class. British Fascism The rapid rise of fascism in Great Britain, “the cradle of democracy,” as sheehas been called so often by soft-headed persons who can very easily fail to hear the moans of the tortured natives of India, Egypt and southern Africa, is the best of all testimony to the failure of social-democracy as expressed by the Ramsay Mac- Donalds. ~~ The social-patriots of this type are loud in their condemnation of the Communists and are attempting to blame them for the open violence against workers and the organization of fascist bands like the one in Liverpool whose services were offered to and accepted by the chief of police of that great seaport. In London and Manchester similar organizations have been formed. British laws have no provi- sions for these extra-legal bodies, but they are both tolerated and en- couraged by such speeches as that of Sir William Joynson Hicks, home secretary, yesterday, delivered to a meeting of members of the conservative party presided over by Lord Derby. The home secretary said that “the destruction of the Communist menace in Great Britain is a matter of life and death,” and with the home secretary, responsible under British law for its administra: tion, using such a tone it is little wonder that the ex-officers, younger sons of the first families, belly-crawling middle class elements and other riff-raff should feel that they have been issued letters of marque and reprisal against the Communists and all other militant workers. There is no difference in the attitude of the home secretary and that of Ramsay MacDonald. Both are frightened by the breakup of British capitalism at home and the empire abroad on which it de- pends. Both will fight the working class to the death. Let the tories and social democrats blame the Communists for the violence of the ruling class. The masses’ of workers are already learning that British rulers, altho they mouth democratic phrases, are just as ready to break strikes with bayonets and machine guns as any other desperate despots. Not the Communists but the decay of British imperialism and aocila-democratic treachery are responsible for the rise of fascism. PARTY TO THE Y. W. L. CONVENTION Tie following resolution OTR ER RY and approving the report of the fapronentative of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Commun: ist), Party to the convention of the Young Workers (Communist), League was Passed by the youth convention by a vote of 29 in favor, none voting against, and®2? abstaining: : s “The immediate problem of the Communist movement’ if the United States lies in the development of the degree of class conscidtisness of the massés of the working class, and also to develop the anti-capitatiet tendencies of the toiling farmers, and the drawing of the. proletariz into more active, conscious and militant prosecution of the class struggle and toward the proletarian revolution. é 2h eH : The Proletarian Youth. » © } The important share of the Young Workers«beague im this task, in addi- tion to full participation in, and support of, all the*actiong of'the ‘Communist Party, is to apply the correct Com~¢—————————wemmiengphaghiet ere munist tactics and policies to th¢| party has<already reached the point specific: problems of the young work-}o¢ development. where opportunistic ers and proletarian chfldren, and also deviations among its leaders can no to the, problem of the youth of thé} jonger be tolerated. In the expulsion farms. of Lore and several, of his aides from In the carrying out of this task in| the party, and also. in the removal of accord with the principles, policies} Comrade Askeli from the editorial tionalism as a result of the party dis- upoh, misinformation regarding Amer- pute. We, declare that we are in fulh ikan conditions, is a direct blow struck agreement with the last be “any of, ainst the idea of a single world the, Comintern on the questién of the — and is an anti-Bolshevik tend- party. leadership, and we pledge the, ency. The willing and enthusiastic Young Workers League to give tg acceptance and carrying out of the loyal support to the central executive |latest decision of the Communist In- committee elected by the party on OA ternational, as well as of all other basis of the decision. decisions of the Communist Interna- tional, is a part of the process of Bol- —— _fo_undermine Prestige hevization and centralization of the international party—the Communist The Young Workets League in its International—and of the Young Com- thifd national convention assembled, munist International. declares that the interests of the re; volittionary youth démand the“ sincer- pk cis fe aoe aero tra est and most unreserved and aggrtes- 2 We call upon the party to recognize sivé support of all decisions of the|the ‘important role that the league Communist International regarding | must play in relation to the building the Communist work in America, The | up and bolshevization of the party. Young Workers League considers it The youthful proletarfans in the especially necessary at this time tg|¥. W. L. representing the most ex- be on its guard against all tendencies ploited section of the working class, toward the undermining of the prest-|the young workers, entirely free from ige of the Communist International. |a labor aristocracy, is the best blood This is particularly necessary at a that can be infused into the party, and time when the social-democrat Lote, represents a tremendous force work- (who only one month ago was a mem- ing in the direction of our party be- and tactics of the Communist Interna- tional and the Young Communist International, the Young Workers League ‘requires and demands the correct political guidance of the Amer- ican section of the Communist Inter- national, the Workers (Communist) Party of America. It is the duty of the Young Workers League to see to it that the organization as a whole conforms in its activities to this guidance jn harmony with and support of the leadership of the world Com- munist Party, the Communist Interna- tional, and the International. In this duty, the Young Workers League plays an active and not a passive role, in the application of the Policies and tactics of the main cam- paigns and activities of the Party to the specific field of the Young Work- ers League. The correctness of the Political line of the Party, is a matter Young of vital importance to Workers League. The Results of the Party Convention. the Young Communist ,The Fourth National Convention of the Workers Communist Party adopt- ed resolutions submitted by the Parity Commission, which laid down a cor- rect Bolshevist policy by which not ohly the Party, but also the Young Workers League can develop into a mass Communist character and be- come the organ of leadership of the American proletarian’ revolution. These resolutions, as well as the other actions of the convention, are of Communist character and free from the right-wing sectarianism which for the past year and a half have en- dangered and obstructed the deve- lopment of the Party toward the goal of becoming a Leninist Party. We declare our wholehearted support of the Party convention's resolution on the immediate tasks of the Party, on the Young Workers League, on the trade union work, on the labor party campaign, on the question of imperialism, on work among- women, on the organization and revolution- izing of the Negro workers, on agsi- cultural work, and on other major campaigns of the party. We fully and heartily accept these resolutions as eyed down the correct policies equal- ly for the Young Workers League. Liquidation of Loreism ‘We welcome the action taken by the national convention of,the party for the liquidation of Loreism in the party, and we declare that this action The A. F. of L. and the American Legion Three important things for workers to remember in connection with the convention of the American legion now in session in Omahaz 1. It is a gathering of ex-officers—strikebreaking fascist ele ments. 2. President Coolidge considers it important enough to ‘travel half-way across the continent to make a speech there. 3. Colonel William Donovan, former head of the rainbow divi sion and now chief investigator for the department of justice, is one of the influential candidates for chairman of the American legion. Having noticed these three things we can then begin to under- stand the alliance between the American legion and the officidldom of the American Federation of Labor—an alliance that was perfected at the legion’s San Francisco convention and that ‘has been endorsed at every convention of the American Federation of Labor held since. Both groups of reactionaries havé picked out the Communists as a target for attack and both stand for American capitalism—first, last and all the time. The reason for the community of interest evident here is that both groups—labor officials and fascist ex-officers—are part of the machinery of American imperialism. ‘Phe legion has its minor differences with its masters over ques- tions of the bonus and political jobs for its members, the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor has its minor differences over questions of rec ‘ognition and legislation, but both, groups unite to support the ruling class against the basic interests of the working class. The left wing of American labor must realize. that, essentially there is no difference between a strikebreaker like Berry of the Press- men’s Union who belongs to both organizations, his legion colleagues, da oi a i Bk igen sie bee and men like Lewis, Green and Johnston whorare, the loud speakers action for the of Loreism for 7 oanee in the labor palogs.” “iit in the Young Worked) lesgse The board of the Finnish laliguage organ of the party, The Tyomiés, the nation- al convention of the party indicated a correct line in the fight against op- portunism, The third national conven- tion of the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League heartily endorses these actions of the party convention, and pledges the Young Workers League as a whole to the complete elimination of Loreism within the le } Bolshovization. and nization The resolution on Ishevization and reorganization of the party marks a new and important step forward for the party, and the Young Workers League pledges itself to keep step with the party in the Bolshevization and reorganjzation of the Young Workers League. The thorogoing re- organization of the league on the basis of shop nuclei and the develop- ment of a centralized apparatus are necessary and significant steps toward the Bolshevik centralization of the league, and lay a sound basis for carry- ing on: real.Communist work among the proletarian youth, We pledge our- selvesto carry on energetically the reorganization of the league along the lines laid down by the Comintern and the Young ,Communist International. We also pledge ourselves to give the league's full assistance and encourage- ment to the central executive commit- tee of the party for the reorganization and Bolshevization of the party. Decisions of Communist International The main political. | line adopted by the Workers Communist Party is de- rived from and laid by the deci- sion of the Comm International. We greet with he: approval the de- cisions of the Comr it Internation- al for the guidance of the American party, The decision on’ the labor party question.is of mo: tous importance, not only to the but also to the league, as the means by which the proletarian masses tan be brought to class consciousness and thereby on the way toward’ the Com- munist leadership and /revolutionary program, and thus the means by which the party and | become the leading. tions of the Ame: International, re during its fourth which declared th; come clear that tl is more loyal to | Communist Inte: closer to its views the unification of the party) openly works to discredit decisions, with the aim to destroy the possibility for building up in this Communist International, and a power- ful section of the Young Communist national is the best and most reliable guide—and, together with the Young liable guide—for the Communist reyo- PE Pe EL ee EE POE Eee ber of the central executive committee | coming a real Bolshevik section of the jommunist International. This can the Communist International and its hest. be accomplished by a close co- yperation and mutual representation a all important party committees, country a powerful section of the| between the party and the league, and y. seeing to it that the leadership of e ,youth are members of the party International,, The Communist Inter- and letting them share in the work esponsibility of the party, there- y..creating a closer bond between Communist International, the only re- the party and the youth. ‘The party should make every effort lutionary organization of the entire|to help the Y. W. L., in the drawing world. We declare that the process of | in of the young proletarians into its Bolshevization of the Young Workers | ranks. League of America and the elimina-| ists, the party must help in the estab- tion of Loreism, includes among other | lishment of a unit of the league. This things, the elimination of all tenden-| must receive special emphasis in cgn: cies ‘to question the judgment and re-’ nection with the party’s a * The following is a list of campaign meetings, with date, place and speak- Where a unit of the party ex- ers noted, being conducted in New York City by the Workers Party in sup- port of its candidate for mayor, Benjamin Gitlow: FRIDAY, OCT, 9—10th St. and 2nd. Ave. Stokes, Brodsky, Weinstone, Cohen, Chorover. 106th St. and Madisony.Codkind, Bentall, Landy. 110th st, and 5th Ave.: Bentall, Codkind, Benjamin, Stachel. Intervale and Wilkins: Greeht,- Royce, Pollak, Pasternak, penaye big si eg Brooklyn: Poyntz, Nesin, Primoff, Rosen. n SATURDAY, OCT. 10—7th St. and Averiie A.: Clarence Miller, also Rus- sian speakers, 38th St. and 8th Ave.: Greek Meeting, John McDonald. 110th St. and 5th Ave.: Codkind, Weinstone, 103rd St. and Madison Ave.: Codkind, Weinstone, Poyntz, Stachel, Landy,, 149th. St. and 3rd Ave.: Baum, Chorover, Sorenson, Siskind. Grand oH dMavemeyer Brooklyn: Nesin, Primoff,. Sherer. Stone and Pitkin, Brooklyn: Bert Wolfe, beats; J. Ruben- stein, “Mitnik, voy } © ©) -wtsthe. ct Bi i: VOLUNTEERS WANTED! tte Readers of the DAILY WORKER are asked to help with the work of building the DAILY WORKER in New,York,,not merely with cash contributions, but also with contributions,of: their time and energy. A number of campaigns In which the! NewYork agency is now en- gaged could be increased ten fold if the working force was available, It makes no difference what your ability, there will be a place to make use of you, if you will volunteer your services. Call on L, E. Kat- terfeld, manager of the New York agency, at 108 East 14th street for particulars, or telephone Stuyvesant 8100, Watch the A. F. of L. Convention! he DAILY WORKER is again on the job! J. Louis Engdahl, editor, is in Altantic City to give the readers of the DAILY WORKER full reports of every step taken by the Am ee, Federation of Labor convention now in session... eports now appearing be followed | ba ar met oe icant from the pele sh ‘floor. RDER A BUNDLE for distribution- to Subscribe poh on of every worker first hand reports session of organized labor. Po it ai lS ES SRE ea Re ote ARS oe OTE Ba rae eee RAE A MBhaactr a AEE Wan ct A Bate reorganization particularly in’ view of the fact that there has arisen a notion in the minds of some of our party members that a party nucleus in a factory makes it impossible, or in many cases due to the weakness of the party nucleus, inadvisable to form a league nucleus. H The party must help in the builéing up of the league, by alding the league in the placing of organizers in the field, particlarly in the section of the country where the basic industries are located. The party must also aid the Young Workers League in the work of edu- cation, by providing the comrades who can undertake the work of educating the mass of our membership and by aiding the league in the building up of a Leninist central school for the training of league propagandists and functionaries, The third national convention of the Young Workers League calls upon all of the youth members to close their ranks in hearty and willing support of the central executive committee of the Workers Communist Party and the in- coming national exécutive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League, and to eliminate all past fac- tional differences and all factiona! strife within the league, so that we can rally as one solidified, united Communist youth league, pursuing our activity in the spirit of Lenin for the American proletarian revolution. , ae See « The following telegrams of srectttie were read: October 3, 1925 Y. W. L. National Convention Workers Hall 1902 West Division St., Chicago, ll. Revolutionary greetings to youth convention. We feel sure your deliber- ation will result in more powerful united Bolshevist league working in closest unity with party for Bolshevi- zation and reorganization. New York District Workers Party pledges un- qualified support in upbuilding influ. ence and leadership of the Young Workers League over the broad ee of American working class yout Comradely yours, i a Weinstone, 4 Guides 2, 1926. * Baltimore, Maryland. Young Workers League 1113 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. Yowls Locel Baltimore extend» heartiest greetings and congratula- tions to the third national convention of the Yowls of America, May we con- tinue our work in future in the trag Communist spirit, ‘ Martin Reed, *_* + October 2, 1925, Baltimore, Maryland. Young Workers League 1113 West Washington Blvd. Ps Chicago, Ill. The Workers Party Local Balti: extends Communist greetings to tha thirds national convention Yowls most successful movement youth movement, Ellen Zetron. ae October 4, 1925 Hartford, Connecticut The Youg Workers League 1113 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ml. Greetings Young Workers Lene convention, Y. W. L, of Hartford, Conn, *6e «@ oe vege A further report of the proceedi of the Y. W. L. convention. wit be Pear in tomorrow's jesue of the DAILY WORKER | : 4 AB Morea Ca catia anno waatipapate