The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1925, Page 4

i { ' | Page Four NEW YORK CITY AGITPROP WORK IS SUCCESSFUL Speakers ‘Clans Held Every Week NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Bertram D. Wolfe, agitprop diréctor Local N. Y. Workers (Communist) Party, is de- veloping a more efficient and enthusi- astic group of revolutionary soapbox- ers, agitators and propagandists; the “vanguard of the vanguard” to use| Comrade Wolfe’s own phrase, at the| election campaign conferences held every Saturday. Immediate Issues. , The issues of the present mayoral- ity campaign are scientifically analyz- ed in a Marxist-Leninist manner. A confused perspective on the vitalness of immediate demands as an approach | to the masses. was thoroly cleared up. In the enthusiastic general discussion on this important phase of party ac- tivity, it was clearly demonstrated that we must enter into the struggle with the workers for these demands. jdt is only in the struggle for the most mentary needs that the workers ill come to understand that they are mot attainable under capitalism. The Russian workers and farmers in de- manding “peace, bread, and land” soon realized that in order to achieve their most pressing needs, the czar and the capitalist system of Russia would have to go, and a workers’ and farm- ers’ government created, instead. In the discussion on immediate de- mands a great many other important , Questions were touched upon, which {will be discussed next week. Next Conference. ‘The next conference will take place m Saturday, Oct..10, at 2 p. m, at 108 East 14th St. feoneral discussion on the questions esked at street corners and the argu- lents of speakers. Comrade Wolfe is making these conferences very in- #tructive, lively and interesting. Every heomrade with any ability to get out as ‘chairman, or who can speak for 15 minutes, should by all means attend the next conference. It will also prove of invaluable service to the more ex- perienced speaker. se 8 Notice to Speakers. ‘The speakers at every outdoor meeting should make it a point to ‘write up their own meetings or have them written up and sent to the DAILY WORKER as workers’ corre- spondence, French Chamber May Meet on Debt Pact PARIS, @ct. 8.—The French parlia- ment may be convoked immediately to yote upon thé proposed temporary settlement of the Franco-American debt problem, Premier Painleve said today. Following a cabinet meeting today, the premier said that no action had ‘een taken in the debt matter at to- ' day’s session. “We are now awaiting the return Caillaux,” the premier said. “He will be present at a cabinet meeting next Tuesday morning, when the cabi- net will decide whether it is neces- sary to convoke parliament immedi- ately for,the purpose of voting upon ‘the American debt proposal.” ‘Washington Promises ¢ More Scandal; Mellon Prima Donna This Trip WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-— Cordell Hull, Tenessee congressman and chairman of the democratic campaign |committee for next year, has an- ‘nounced that he will bring’ before con- gress in December the scandal of the failure of thé Coolidge department of justice to prosecute Secrétary Mellon and his aluminum trust in accordance with the evidence twice presented by the federal trade commission. Russian Academy Receives LENINGRAD, Oct. 8.—Today an of- ficial reception, took place in the Academy of Sciences in the presence _of members of government, foreign’ ambassadors and representatives | of foreign scientific societies who pre- Sented their addresses to the Aca- demy. Amongst the foreign guests there were present delegates of the British London Royal Society, the Ital- jan Academy, and Indian universites, etc. Professor Karpinsky, president of the Academy, delivered & speech of welcome, Establish Large Bakeshop. CARKOFF, Oct, 8.—The Ukrainian government is planning to establish large bakeries in Charkoff, Kieff, Od- essa, Ekaterinoslav, Stalin, Artemo- Ysk, and Lugansk. chelp! There will be aj (Conclusion of Convention Report) | Report of National Executive Com- | mittee of League. | Comrade Max Shachtman, report- ing for the national executive com- mittee of the league (in behalf of the former majority of the executive), re- viewed the situation at the beginning of the formation of the league and traced its development up to the pres- ent time. He said that the league had its origin in the Young People’s So- cialist League, which had been mere- ly a social organization. At first the inheritance of the traditions of pure- ly social activities from the Y. P. S. L, were added to by the traditions of a@. purely sectarian nature acquired during the days of the undérground existence of the Communist move- ment in the United States. The com- | bination of these two @xtremes, said the speaker, had not made for the advantage of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League, but with the aid of the Young Communist Interna- tional an excellent basis had been laid in the form of resolutions’ for mass activities. But because the in- herited traditions and old forms, the excellent resolutions for mass activi- ties remained in the form of excel- lent resolutions. Comrade Shacht- man said that the youth league had needed some great blow to shake it out of the sectarian and social atmo- sphere and into.a genuine Bolshevik atmosphere. However, there had been some improvement. A struggle arose within the league which brot some realization that it was necessary to carry the resolutions for mass activi- ties into actual practice. There came a division in the league, not on a poli- tical question, but on questions of or- ganizational policy. Comrade Shachtman reviewed the | history of the differences between the majority and the minority of the N. 2. C. of the league and the appeals made to the Young Communist. Inter- national and its decisions, declaring that Comrade Kaplan’s appeals to the International had not been accepted but had been rejected by the Y. C. L. The decisions of the International had not been followed by a lesseming, but on the contrary, by a sharpen- ing of the struggle within the league. The struggle changed from one on or- ganizational questions to a struggle on a political line of division. Labor Party Issue Divides League. The division, said Comrade Shacht- man, came then on the question of the pagty’s position on the labor party issue, and the struggle sharpened to great intensity in the league. This, he said, had proven to be the great blow which had been necessary to bring the league to a realization of the’ necessity of real mass activities. The mass character of the league's activities became something that could.. be. noticed, said Comrade Shachtman. Actual contacts were ob- tained with the masses of young workers thru the factory campaigns that were initiated. The member- ship began to understand that its ac- tivities: were to be something differ- ent from the mere organization of dances and of educational classes on the A. B. C. ef Communism. -All of this, he said, was connected with the building up of shop nuclei. The shop nuclei of the league, he said, were as yet only a small handful, but there exists the very big idea that we cannot become a truly Bolshevik mass..Communist organization unless we reorganize on the basis of shop nuclei, Comrade Shachtman then reviewed the course of the factional struggle within the league as it reflected and duplicated the factional struggle in the party on the labor party issue. He reviewed the world development of the Communist youth leagues from the time of the active part which was played by the young members of the social-democratic parties during the world war, declaring that the youth had at first, in the days of Zimmer- wald, Kienthal, etc., played the role of the organizer of the revolutionary elements against the opportunist lead- ‘ers ofthe Second International. Onty | later! they came to the role of car- rying out special youth work as dis- tinguished from the general partici- pation in party work. he Young Workers’ League, said the speaker, despite the complete ab- sorbtion of its membership in, the party controversy over the labor party issue, has now come to the point where it can say it is on the road to real mass activities. Comrade Shachtman maintained that the league has gained in mem- bership, citing figures covering the past two years. He spoke at length on the neces- ity of Bolshevization of the league, the anti-militarist struggle, the neces- sity of reaching the youth of the farms and the Negro youth. In summing up, Comrade Shacht+ man said that in the course of being Bolshevized the league would eradi- cate the conception of “no maneu- vers.” He said that the absorbtion of the youth leaders into positions of re- sponsibility in the party would tend to obviate the danger of the youth or- ganization and the party taking anta- gonistic positions on policy. He said that the youth would always take its position in party struggles, but it should always be sure to let its posi- tion be a Bolshevik one. Wrap your lunch ina copy of the DATLY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the luneh) to your shop-mate REPORTS OF NAT KAPLAN AND MAX SHACHTMAN TO THE THIRD SESSION OF Y. W. L. CONVENTION Kaplan Reports for Former Minority of N. E. Cc, Comrade Nat Kaplan, reporting on behalf of the former minority of the N. EDC. of the Y. W. L., said that the convention must face a review of the period from the second national con- vention up to the present time, and must face the real, vital tasks which are absolutely essential to a Leninist youth organization. He then proceed- ed td point out the basic role that the league plays in relation to the party and the general class struggle. He said*that he felt that Comrade Shacht- man had-tried to drown undera flood of words the real problems which the convention must face, The mere fact that Comrade Shachtman had made a distincition between organizational differences and political @ifferences in the’ league, showed that Comrade Shachtman was not facing the differences which real- ly did exist, said Comrade From such a false beginning, he said, Comrade Shachtman had been en- abled to draw an entirely false char- acterization of the group which had been struggling thruout this period to bring the league to a correct political line, which toflay we all know to be the correct political line. Comrade Shachtman had stated that it was merely an organizational minority that grew up in the league, said Comrade Kaplan, while Comrade Williamson, on the other hand, had told Fourth Congress ef the Young Com- munist International that it was a pol- itical minority which was the reflex of the political struggle in the party between the Pepper-Ruthenberg’ group and the Foster group. As a matter) of fact, said Kaplan, the former ma-| jority of the N. BE. C. had been per- meated with the political misconcep- tions of the Foster group of the party. This had had something to do, he| said, with a certain hesitancy in car- rying out the decisions of the Y. C. L, to which the Y, C, I. had called atten- tion. On the matter of trade union work for the league, the former majority of the N. EB. C..had taken an impossible position before, the second conven: | tion, declared.the speaker. In the be-| ginning the-former majority had been an opposition in principle against the struggle for economic partial demands among the young workers which had | been set up by, the Young Communist | International. Comrades Abern and Edwards had angued against the pro- gram of the, ¥;C. L, said Comrade Kaplan, at the.Third Congress, and to | substantiate.their. arguments, they had compared;,the conditions of the American young workers with that of | the young workers of European coun-| tries, claiming that the relatively high level of the Young workers in this country made it timnecessary to carry on such a struggle. These comrades said Comradé Kapian, had claimed that there was no difference between the conditions 6f the young workers and the adul » ae Both the adult workers and the young workers have the same/tonditions as equal wages and hours, hid ad argued, so why struggle for’ special interests of the young workers? -When Comrade Bam- matter came over here for the Young Communist International, said Kap- lan, these comrades had expressed strong opposition in principle to the setting up of special youth demands, and had contended that the role of the youth league was only to participate generally in strike movements. Com- rade Kaplan cited as concrete ex- amples cases relating to the struggles of the Chicago garment workers and of the cigar workers and miners and the case of the unemployment crisis of 1924, when, he said, the former ma- jority of the N. B. ©. were’ victims of what Comrade Varga had described as “the optimistic illusions of the Am- ericdén bourgeoisie.” Of a statement fo Comrade Shacht- man that the political level of the Young Workers League had been raised and that the N. FE. C. had en- tered into political activities, Comrade Kaplan asked what kind of political activities? The*N, BE. C, had been drawn into political activity against the labor party policy, in the party, while the majority of the league mem- bership supported the line of the Co- mintern behind the Ruthenberg group, During the party convention the N. B. ©. had published a hurried edition of the Young Worker carrying on the first page a big head-line: “Foster Group to Lead the Party,” and this was another N, E. ©, political slogan that was not realized in practice, Comrade Kaplan reviewed at some length various campaigns which had been undertaken, He declared that these usually began and ended with publishing Something in the. paper, The comrades of the former N. B. C, majority would exhibit an issue of the Young Worker containing their articles, and would say, “Look.at the campaigns which we have run!” When the campaigns reached beyond the limits of purely journalistic treatment it was usually like the cantpaign among the young miners; the organ- izers who started out, for the coal fields went instead to Boston or New York. “What was the political line of the former majority?” asked the Speaker, “Opposition to the labor party.” He quoted Comrade Shachtman as writing that the advocacy: 6f a labor party was the creation of a new illu: sion and that the real danger to the party and the league was not Loreism ‘ ~- tT Y Kaplan. | the | a THE: OAILY WwW ‘but the labor-partyismi Of the Ruthen- berg group. Comtade™ Shachtman makes a strange impfessfon, said Kap- lan, when he speaks now’of the form- er majority's “energgli and merciless fight in the league and the party.” Kaplan analyzed , the {membership | figures’ given by Shacht@fan and stat- | ed that these were hopelessly at vari- | ance with the facts, .. Discussing the two"iajor decisions | of the Young Commuffist International in regard to the American section, Comrade Kaplan said that the former majority of the N. B, 6. had shown a characteristic hesitation in carrying them out. During the six months period be- tween August, 1924, and February, 1925, said Comrade Kaplan, there had | been some extension into mass activi- ty, and this was due to some extent |to the pressure and criticism of the | former minority. |N. BE. C. to completély!immerse the |Y. W. L. into the fight against the | | labor party policy, which had absorb- | jed nearly all of the ledgue’s strength and attention, was an expression of | | the effort to get away from mass ac- tivities again and into sectarianism. Therefore, said Cdémfade Kaplan, this opposition to the former N. E. C. majority must not be falsely char- | | acterized; it was carrying on the role |of fighting’ for the line of the Com- munist International and the Y. C. L, ; While the former majority was fight- ing against that line; Because this | former majority. group was drganical- | ly connected with a similar group in | the party from which it absorbed its | ideas and misconceptions, the political | life of the,¥y W. \L. suffered heavily. | The last deCision of the Communist | International supporting the Ruthen- | berg group of the:party, said Kaplan, is in effect an endorsement also of the comrades who had been fighting for the line of the Comintern in the Communist youth league. Comftade Kaplan reviewed the great ecutive Committee faces in the im- mediate present and future. izationally, he said, we are but a | Small group, but we possess the basic prerequisites for carrying on the Y. W. L. to a brilliant record as th American section of the Young Com- munist International. * First and fore- most must come a solidly united rank and file, and second a uflited leader- ship. However, he said, just as we are obtaining the requiréd unity of the rank and file- and preparing to make the first steps toward carrying on our new stage of work, we are already promised am‘ opposition, a1 opposition not based of policies nor upon a difference of point of view. The promise of such“opposition was contained, he said, in’ the resolution offered by Comrade Williamson on) behalf of the former Majority of the N. E. C., the present ‘minority of the Y. W. L., which undertakes to make a realignment against the present lead- ership of the.party anf the league. | He asked that the’ entite membership of the youth, league (beslined up solid- ly behind the Comintern and the de- cisions for mass activity laid down |by the Young Communist Interna- | tional. 0 A resolution in support of the re- port of the former majority of the |N. E. C. was defeated by,a vote of 23 jto 28. The resolution supporting the report of the former minority of the N. E. C.,.the present majority of the convention, was pa yy. 28 to 23 votes. In this vote, @ de Cannon, one of the party delegates, being re- leased from the unit rule by the party delegation, *voted inj favor of the former majority of the N. E. 6, | Uncle Sam’s Navy Builders Ask for WASHINGTON, Oct, 8—An average wage increaase of 10 cents an hour is asked of the government by the navy yards. When the machinists in the Wash- ington yard last year asked that their scale of 80 cents an hour be raised to 90 cents, they got’ a compromise in private employment in similar work have risen beyond that figure. Hearings will be held this month by the. wage board representing the navy department, jE RIES, 6" French Iron and ; Sle Steel Production * : Declining Again Ts PARIS, Oct. 8—French iron and steel production is showing a decline, altho still higher than it was last May, The last statistics available are for August and show that thonth’s produc- tion of iron was 712,000 tons. It ‘was 724,000 in July, 703,000 tons in June, and 706,000 tons for May. Steel pro- duction in August was 616,725 tons, 625,000 tons for July, 600,000 tons i June, and 596,000 tons in May. Many furnaces are dampened, leaving 144 operating at the end of August. LIT lat SE Seaplanes Rush Antitoxin NORFOLK, Va., Oct, 8.—Spread of diphtheria in the village of Hatteras, N. C., caused one death, that of a 12 year old girl, Seaplanes have taken antitoxin to the village and physicians hope to prevent an increase in the number of cases, + If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study. it. Send for a catalogue of all Com. munist literature, ~ determined | st Loreism | The efforts of the | Organ- | Ten Cent Increase |. workers in the Washington and other | of\ 82 cents. Since that time wages. RKER New York City Party Activities | Important N. Y. Party Meetings All I. L, G. W. U. members at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th St., | Saturday afternoon, October 10, at 2 p.m, | All members of the Amalgamated | Food Workers of America, hotel work- lers, bakers, butchers, etc., on Satur- |day afternoon, October 10, at 5 p. m, |at 108 East 14th street. | All members- of the independent | unions on Saturday afternoon, October |10 at 3p. m., at 108 Hast 14th St. |Denver, Colo., Juniors | Supply Entertainment at Workers’ Gatherings DENVER, Colo., Oct. 8—The Junior |Group of Denver was organized by | Mother Bloor on June 2ist of this | year‘at a picnic given bethe Workers | Party. This group grew very rapidly |gaining fourteen members the first week. We now have forty names on | our books. Qn August 23rd we gave our first | entertainment which was a _ great } success and gained for us much | popularity. Thus we -were able to give good publicity to our work. For instance a committee from the I. W. W. attending our entertainment in- | vited the group to attend their picnic Aug. 30 at Rockey Mountain Lake Park. The Juniors put on an enter- tainment for which they received many treats and complimefts. | ‘They were next invited to furnish |the program ‘for the Liberal Church affair.on Sept. 6th at which they made a little money. On Sept. 20th the Workers Party | gave a picnic for the DAILY WORK- | ER and the juniors again came to the | problems which the new National Ex- | front and helped to get a good sized | collection for the DAILY WORKER. Grape Carnival and Dance for Pittsburgh Workers on Saturday } | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 8—A grape ;carnival and, dance by Local. Pitts- ‘burgh, Workers Party will be ;jheld Sgturday, Oct. 10, at the Interna- jtienal Socialist Lyceum, 805,James St., N. S. All the proceeds, will go for work in the district. Admission 35e. Everybody welcome to thefirst dance of the season. H3at indict Labor Faker. ST. LOUIS, —(FP)— Harry Jones, farmer general _ secretary-treasurer. Intl, Ass. of Bridge Structural; and ‘Ornamental Iron Workers, ig at, lib- erty on bond following his indictment [by a grand jury at St. Louis: on charges that he misappropriated “a sum in excess of $50,000”,,0f. the union’s funds. Personal debts, con- tracted by Jones during hisyterm of office, 1913 to April 1924, are, alleged to have been paid out of the union treasury. Jones was expelled from membership last spring. ar Build the DAILY WORKER. ii ‘ QOUMONERAARUAEEEEEGE { { | SOUTH-SLA Lat yes FIV. CONVENTION AT PITTSBURGH ENDORSES CENTRAL EXECUTIVE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 8—A successful conference of the South Slavic branches of the Pittsburgh district was held on Sunday, October 4, in the city of Pittsburgh. Delegates representing over 25 branches attended. ~ The convention lasted the whole day.and marked a big advance in the party work in this district. The question of reorganization of the party, thé DAILY WORKER and ‘work amongst + the Negroes and in various non-parti- 7 san South Slavic organizations were AMERICAN BANKERS IN WAY TO GET MORTGAGES ON ALL GERMAN CITIES J. the most important problems discuss- ed and acted upon, $20 was contri- buted to the party district work, $37.- 85 was contributed towards work among Negro workers, $10 was sent to the DAILY WORKER and $25 for Pittsburgh defense and $20 donated to Radnik. Resolutions dealing with Bolsheviza- tion of the federation and approving the Communist International decision on the party situation were adopted unanimously. After Comrade Jakira, the new district organizer of District 5 made a lengthy report on the party convention and on the current work in the district, the following resolu- tion endorsing the présent leadership (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct, 8—Only one of the ‘first loans to German municipalities and. industries. ex- pected to reach a large total in the next few months is the loan to the city of Frankfort of $10,000,000 be- ing negotiated by Speyer and Co., Wall Street bankers. The company refuses either to confirm or deny But cables from tive Committee was adopted by a una- nimous vote: Having heard the report of Com- rade Jakira, our dsitrict organizer, on the party national convention and on the future work in \the district, the district convention of the South Slavic section of the Workers Party of District 5 resolves: 1, We fully approve the actions of the party convention and pledge our- selves to do everything in our power issue would~soon be announced. New York bankers are anticipating the visit of President Schacht of the Reichsbank in the near future, and think that his visit will facili- tate these loa Fascist Council to Enact Legislation to put these decisions into effect with- out delay. 2. We fully and unreservedly en- dorse the Central Executive Commit- tee elected by the convention and pledge ourselves to give our District Executive Committee and the district organizer our full hearted support and to do everything in our power to help build a strong Bolshevist party or- ganization in District 5 and in Amer- ica generally. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. the basis of shop nuclei, report of the loan. of the party and the District Germany have declared that a bond LANGUAGE SECTION BUREAUS ARE GETTING BUSY ON REORGANIZATION The various language sections of the party are beginning to respond to the party’s reorganization program, Several bureaus are arranging special propaganda tours by speak- ers in their respective languages, to win over and mobilize the com- rades of the various branches for the reorganization of the party on “begs . Prohibiting Strikes ROME, Oct. 8—The fascist govern- ment is preparing to enact measures which will place labor disputes and strikes under the strict control of the government. The fascist grand council has de- cided upon the creation of the office of labor magistrate. This magistrate will supervise, the execution of labor contracts, acting as an arbitrator in all labor disputes and his decision will be final. The grand council has also decided to enact a measure that will make strikes punishable by law when they are called for what they consider po- litical purposes or in public services. They are trying to break the Zeigler Spirit. They removed Zeigler’s fighting union officers. 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! The mine bosses, the KuKlux Klan, Farrin and the State Power are all lined up in conspiracy against the Zeig Act Quickly! The Danger Is Great! Time Is Pressing! - » Harry Up With ; -HELPE Send contributions to « | International Labor Biebanee 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Hl. The Bulgarian section bureau has recommended the following comrades as members of its reorganization commission: Theo, Tsecoff, Geo, Raduloff, Theo, Marinoff. he Swedish language section bureau has recommended the fol: lowing reorganization commission: . N. Bull, Elis Petersen, S, Swanson. Both of these recommendations Have been accepted by the or- Ganization department of the party, and the commissions are proceed- ing to work, “ | CANTEVEAVEOEAAGOEEEOGGEUAGGGEGEUAUGEGEGEEOUESOOEEEUHEOETOOEEOGOOOOUGEAAENEEEOGOENGGOEEGEOUEEREEETGOLIY Mer 2€ ‘on’s machine, em, is dastardly ; f er miners. ! baa a + dot ON oat 1% eta * » AGam | ye caralen