The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1925, Page 13

ae (Continued from page 2.) the political consequences in the cir- cumstances of production—the social relations between classes and the struggle of each class for power. We think it obvious, as we said at the beginning, .that when the forces of production produce something be- sides commodities—a_ social crisis, the working class is a part of this crisis and must act or perish. We repeat Marx—‘Every class struggle is a@ political struggle’—a struggle for Power, in which both classes, to a greater or lesser degree according to necessity, turn aside from the forces of production and the manufacture of commodities, to the political struggie for power, to gain by seizure of gov- ernmental authority, the prize—the ownership of the machinery of pro- duction. With the conflict taking this char- acter, we contend that the unions, while positively necessary to the struggle thruout its course and neces- Sary to “carry on production when capitalism shall have been over- thrown,” are not sufficient by them- Selves to accomplish the overthrowal —tho in the heat of class war their co-ordination with the revolutionary political organization is imperative. This is true because the unions, if they are really unions, must be in- clusive of all workers of every shade of opinion, both advanced and back- ward, and cannot by this diversity at- tain the needed unity of every mem- ber in aim and action in the long, sacrificial and complicated struggle which requires a strict but voluntary discipline for an ideal all unionists do not comprehend. A REVOLUTIONARY party is ab- solutely necessary to fulfill this distinct fynction, to weld together that’ part—and only that part—of the working class most conscious of the aims and tactics of class war, those in the unions necessarily among ‘them, -““Morédver, the ~ revolutionary party of this character views the in- terests of the working class as a whole, while unions incline to stress their sectional interests—as we see by the so-called “industrial union pa- triotism” even in the revolutionary I. W. W. There is no question of “domina- tion” of one necessary organization by another equally necessary. “Poli- tics is céncentrated economics”—and the necessary co-ordination, not or- ganic unity, now existing between the Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions is a firm strengthening of revolutionary labor unity against the world capital- ist class and should be no bar to the affiliation of the I. W. W. to the R. “ZL. U. A str misunderstanding has arigen, ditgentty cultivated by the anarchist element, that if the I. W. W. affiliated to the R. I. L. U., members would be forced to join the Commun- ist Party and vote in elections. Such is not the case. But we do not mean to say that we oppose participation in elections on principle. I is_only one and not always the most import- ant one of many useful tactics to stir class consciousness among the HE I. W. W. was justified in its opposition to the “polities” of the of Labor Unions as “liquidation” or “accepting the dictators of Moscow.” This argument about “Moscow dicta- torship” comes straight out of the stock propaganda of the Berlin An- archist International, and it is used within the I. W. W. by’those anarcho- syndicalist elements who either went over to the emergency split or who remain in the I. W. W. to serve the interests of the Anarchist Interna- tional, whose propaganda, by the way, is: just as much directed against the “dictators: of Chicago”—meaning you, fellow workers—as against the “dic- tators of Moscow.” 6 ines anarchists perform only a dis- integrative work in the labor unions, which they have no more use for than they have for the workers’ State, and sometime the I, W. W. will have to disentangle its correet theory on revolutionary industrial unionism Red International Message to LW. W. the I. W. W, is “dictatorial and im- perialistic.” But—this same Berlin group, meanwhile, thru its U. S. sec- tion, the emergency split, is busily trying the “absorption” principle on LLOW workers! Already over ‘one-sixth of the land area of ‘the earth the workers rule, and have ruled for eight years. They have gone thru unbelieveable hardships in battle the members of the I. W. W. Fellow/against the entire capitalist world. workers! the folly of “absorption?” Is this not enough to prove| Under the Soviet or workers’ council This sort|form of government the workers of of unprincipled and futile making of| Russia rule the nation. The founda- war on the labor movement of the world with a force of less than 20,- 000 members to “initiate it singly or in bodies” should get a definite repu- diation from this convention. he only feasible program-is that pro- posed by the M. T, W. I. U. No. 510 for the I. W. W. as a whole to co operate in the international with all unions based on the revolu- tionary class struggle. NOTHER case. In Chile there is an organization, founded upon this dangerous policy of “absorption,” CZECHO-SLOVAK DELEGATION IN SOVIET UNION MOURNS DEATH | OF SOVIET WAR MINISTER, FRUNZE MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Mail).—One section of the Czecho-Sio- vak workers delegation that is now touring the Union of Soviet Re- publics, recently arrived in Moscow, and took part in the memorial ceremonies in honor of the late Soviet war minister, Mikhail Frunze. After the burial the delegates had a lengthy talk with Kalinin in which they compared the conditions of the workers in Czecho-Slovakia with that of the workers in the Union of Sociatist Soviet Republics. Go to Leningrad. The delegation left for Liningrad later in the day where they will study the various factories and see for themselves the progress made in the greatest industrial establishments for the care of the workers. The delegation while in Moscow addressed a letter of sympathy to the Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Republics upon the death of Frunze, in which it points out that after having seen the Strength and spirit of the Red Army they were convinced that despite this great loss the Russian workers would close their ranks in a still more determined manner to carry on the work which their Red Army leader left unfinished. Raps Social-Democrat Press. The head of this section of the Czecho-Slovak workers’ delegation, Tatirek, declared to the workers of Kharkov, after viewing their in- dustries, before leaving for Moscow that “I am ashamed to confess that under the influence of the social democratic press | had always regarded Russia as an economically and culturally backward land. But I have now come to the firm conclusion that the social democratic Press reporting is a slanderous misrepresentation of the real situation in the Soviet Union. What we have seen went far beyond our expecta- tions. There are perhaps countries in which the workers are materi- ally a little better off than those in the Soviet Union, but nowhere in the world is there a more progressive, really proletarian legislation than that in Soviet Russia, nowhere in the world is the cultural and economic development advancing so rapidly as here.” from its incorrect anarchist views on the state. To anybody but an an- archist it should be clear that the rep- resentative rights and powers of the I. W. W. imside the Red International of Labor Unions would be similar to the rights of the industrial unions represented at this convention in the I W. W.—and only the anarchistic emergencies call this arrangement a “dictatorship of Chicago.” As to the already disproven charge of “liquidation” — would someone Please point out a union anywhere in the world that was “liquidated” by the Red International? is, however, ground for the charges made by both the L. W. W. and the Anarchist International against each other over liquidation or absorption. On one hand the L. W. W. Paper Solidaridad, issue of October affiliated with the I. W. W., calling itself the Chilean administration of the I. W. W., using the I. W. W. label and the I. W. W. preamble, yet affi- liated also to the Berlin Anarchist International, which is stabbing the I. W. W. in the back with its brand new section, the emergency program split. We declare emphatically that such a situation calls for this con- vention to state its attitude towards the Berlin Anarchist International of union splitters—otherwise the I W. W. remains affiliated by way of Ber- lin, with its own split! Moreover, it is astonishing that some I. W. W. pa bers support every policy of this treacherous crew, Golos Truzenika, the Russian paper, for example, could well be the official organ of the Ber- lin International anarchist group, instead of going under the label of the LW. W. as it does. This we show that “absorption” is fatal and futile, and prove that co- operation is the only policy the I. W. W. can propagate and practice. But the most complete and effeetive co- operation will come only when all unions of the world are willing to en- ter into one great international based upon the class struggle for the goal of proletarian revolution, and the I. W. W. would do well not to lag be- hind history, but begin and keep con- tact amd correspondence with the Anglo-Russian Committee for the world unity of all unions, and thus show that the I. W. W. has not for- gotten how to lead the American workers along the pathway to power. LL field, tion of the new society within the shell of the old is being laid with the 6,500,000 industrial workers organized in twenty-one great industrial unions of Soviet Russia. Capitalist and anarchist “news” agencies have continually lied and distorted facts about the conditions of workers under Soviet power. But now the Russian unions are driving these liars to retreat. They go to the workers, the plain workers of other countries and invite large delegations of them ,straight from the shops, to visit Soviet Russisa and investigate thoroly, without obligation or hind- rance or limitation, the conditions of workers under the Soviet republic. We hope that the L. W. W., if the oac- easion should offer, will join in the | response to such an invitation. know that when the I. W. W. fully understands the Russian revolution, which it will eventually in spite of the anarchists trying to prevent it, the Red International of Labor Unions will be honored by the presence at its council table of dele- gates from the I. W. W. In the meantime, in the name of the executive bureau of the Red In- ternational, we invite the seventeenth general convention of the L W. W. to Rame a delegation, representative of the important industrial unions of the IL. W. W. to visit the next world con- gress of the Red International of La- bor Unions. | Analogy | By H. C. FILLMORE. (Worker Correspondent). Ice is my name—cohesive, united, © strong— Ride I the river. Master am I. Make me bigger, oh drops, Build up my power! Water is slave, mine now and always, Made but to serve; Might is right, steel-like is my body; Rule I forever! * © ¢ Moves on the water, southward its course— Nor answers the boast; Rises one day, irresistible, mighty; Smites the bold braggart— Smashes and crushes, bears to obliv- ion, Ice-power no longer; Sunshine-lapped, runs now in freedom forever, Slave turned to master. Chicago Civic Opera Artists Render ‘Faust’ and Are Much Praised “Faust,” at the Auditorium Theater this week was thoroly enjoyed and fully deserved to be for it was one of the finest presentations of Gotinod’s masterpiece. Charles Hackett made an ideal Faust. He gave much feeling to his performance. Miss Edith Mason’s beautiful soprano voice and personal charm created a Marguerite that reached a high mark. Virgilio Laz- zari’s delivery of the role of the devil a part often taken by Chaliapin, the famous Russian singer, was rather unique and truly refreshing. He was a good natured cynic with a fine sense of humor, His bass voice was deliver- ed with a purity of tone that was en- tirely delightfull. Young Bonelli’s per- formance as Valentin was so excel- lent that he deserves as much praise as the rest of the leading artists, His voice was good, he used it with ease and with a fine musical sense, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER.