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

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Reorganization and the Right Dangers Commenting on the calblegram from the Young Communist In- ternational urging the Young Workers League to support the unity resolution of the Central Executive Committee, The Darty Worker stated editorially, “With the right danger completely overcome and the last remnants of. the disease being eradicated .. .” Some mem- bers of the party have interpreted this statement to mean that the right wing danger in our party has been completely eliminated. This is, of course, not the case. There aré still strong.right wing ten- dencies in the party against which the party must continue to carry on a struggle. The point made in our editorial was that the unifica- tion of the party already achieved had made clear that the right wing in the party will not be able to gain control of the party or to exert influence over a large part of the membership. The reorganization of the party naturally has created opposition from the right, which manifests itself in an effort to hinder the reor- ganization program now being put into effect by the Central- Exe- cutive Committee. The nature of the opposition to the reorganiza- tion of the party on the basis of shop nuclei and street nuclei has been greatly clarified in the history of Ludwig Lore.’ Lore was an opponent to the reorganization of the party. He has openly stated this since his expulsion from the party. Today Lore is openly in opposition to the party and the Communist Inter- national and carries on a campaign of slander and misrepresenta- tion against the party and of criticism and belittling of the Commun- ist International. Lore, while he was still in the party, made his objections to the decisions of the Comintern in the form of complaints that the Comintern was not correctly informed as to the conditions in the United States and in relation to the Workers (Communist) Party and for a time stated his determination to appeal to the Comintern in person. His attitude toward the Comintern, altho masked under the claim of misinformation and determination to make an appeal, was opposition to the role of the Comintern as a leader of a world party. Since his exclusion from the party he has come ont in the open under his true colors, He is fighting the Comin- tern and its American section. The history of Lore’s evolution is of importance in judging the question of right tendencies in the party. The cablegram from the Young Communist International em- phasized the need of a continyed determined struggle against every manifestation of right tendencies in our party. The present united leadership in. our party is assurance that new manifestations of right tendencies, whether they be in the form of opposition to reor- ganization or hidden opposition to the Communist International, will be met by determined struggle to eradicate them from the party. The best weapon in such a struggle is the education of the member- ship of the party in Marxist-Leninist principles, the systematic cam- paign for the bolshevization of the party, This is the program of the Central Executive Committee, which is set forth in the. unity resolution endorsed by the Young Communist International. ; The Saturday Magazine Section of The DAILY WORKER HEREAFTER— (Beginning with the NEXT issue, Dec, 12) Will Be a New and Unique Section Under the Editorship of ROBERT MINOR T will contain more carefully selected ma- terial. It will be more instructive, more readable. It will also be more entertaining,— for it will print some of the best short stories ever written, by the greatest artists in the world— It will be enlivened by the best cartoonists— geniuses of America and Europe—some of whom you know and some you never heard of— Ail by poets whom the bourgeois editors want to hang for understanding too much of life, and— THEORY!?? Do you sometimes feel depressed and discouraged with the thought that you don’t know enough of the meaning of life— that you don’t understand enough of the great Bolshevik THEORY which is marching thru the world, placing in the hands of “un- educated” workers the power that tears down empires, to blast the “Rock of Ages”—? Do you want the joy of knowing and feeling that you possess something of-the great wis- dom of the Bolsheviks—? The SATURDAY MAGAZINE OF THE DAILY WORKER will try to give it to you—in short, simple explanations, (but not too simple—not vulgarized), from the pens of the men who are -unmaking an old world of tyranny and making a new world _for workers. And this, too, will be entertaining and readable. Subscribe to The DAILY WORKER NOW and get the new Magazine Sertion next Saturday, Dec. 12 THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1) Coolidge prosperity comes in. Those farmers who are in the busi- ness of buying up cattle to feed dur- ing the winter on the cheap corn, are not doing it this fall as the corn is wet, and when shelled starts to rot. That also explains'why corn is not be- ing rushed to market, The bankers of course are coming to the rescue—with seven to twenty per cent loans to “save, the crop.” Of course the U. S. government gives them the money at one-third of what they loan it to the dear farmers. Bankers’ Schemes Bunk. The farmers look upon,this “bank rescue” as the bunk. The banker is after the surplus that he sees in sight, later on, in the form of interest the farmer cannot pay unless corn goes up. It is the banker that really owns the farm and the farmer just runs it these days for him. Why should the banker not be concerned when he holds a mortgage on each acre of land on the average of sixty dollars per acre and does not want to take the land over, for land suckers are now all gding to Florida? “Turn your corn into hogs,” shouts the “expert” of the government to the farmer. The farmer retorts: “When we turn it into hogs the market day comes, we find the prices demoral- ized and that means we will just sink deeper into debt.” “More credit is about all the ex- perts think of. More credit, more debts, with another corn crop next fall, and the old cycle beginning again. Yesterday it was the wheat gowers who were in desperate straits. Then it was the cattle men who were going bankrupt. Today the corn growers’ plight calls for ‘experts.’ Tomorrow it will again be these or some other branches of agriculure. The farmer hasn’t the chance of a wax ¢at in hell to get on a permanently sound basis with the cost of the things he must buy so high, with the markets in the hands of speculators, the government in the hands of Morgan’s - bank agents.” Co-ops, Declining. The co-operative societies urge the farmers to come in out of the rain. But with the potato co-op, the raisin growers’ association, and many other examples of collapse, not to mention the wreck-strewn path of the co-op- erative movement, of Farmers’ Alli- ance Days, rising before the farmer it becomes hard to get him to go again. Coolidge and his “experts” may call this mere calamity howling, but it is a mighty chorus that is doing the howl- ing. Some of that howling is already turning to direct action, we note in and around Chicago. Direct action against the “T. B.” experts. Milo Reno, president of the lowa Farmers’ Union, (Continued from page 1) hands thrust under their overcoats, thought that they were being handled by pickpockets and therefore very nearly precipitated the trouble which apparently the police were trying to provoke. At any rate the police thugs succeeded in keeping up a constant appearance of confusion and disorder on the stairway, evidently calculated to discourage anyone fiom entering the hall. A member of the conrfnittee of the | International Labor Defense, under | whose auspices the meeting was held, ‘compelled the leader of the gang to show a police badge and to give the | explanation that he “was acting under jorders to search everybody for weap- ons.” The spokesman gave his name as “Captain Lynch of the police de- partment.” Tho some timid ones turned away, the hall was filled by a crowd of about 506, F Audience Laughs at Cop Comedy. The meeting was called to order promptly by Robert Minor, as chair- man, who then brought the audience to a laughing mood by saying: “There was once an imperial government in the old Russian empire. “It used to send its agents to all public meetings that were permitted; and these agents stood at the door and searched the pockets of all who attended. That’s how they prevented the overthrow of the czar’s govern- ment.” Liberal Publicist Speaks. William H. Holly, a prominent law- yer and president of the Chicago Lib- eral Club, was the first speaker, Mr. Holly declared that no man or woman who valued the right of freedom of speech and of public asemblage would or could remain quiet when such out- rageous acts as the imprisonment of | Benjamin Gitlow and Anita Whitney \for their political opinions take place, | He expressed his opinion that “in pris- on Gitlow will be more dangerous to the government than he would be out- repression of political freedom will crystallize opposition. I for one will not be quiet while Gitlow and Anita Whitney are imprisoned.” jtda Goodman Wins Crowd with Speech | Ida Goodman was introduced as “a | young woman who has done tireless jand heroic work for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings.” Thunderous applausé greeted the young woman's stirring appeal to all working people to “remember that Tom Mooney and Billings are still rot- ting in the penitentiaries of California, ‘and remember that they are ~ your fighters, your champions, your own side, because the glaring example of! Cal’s Experts Can’t Help Farmers a so aroused the farmers’ union dele sates in a recent convention in South Dakota against this “T, B.” expert lope that the farmers threatened to wse shotguns to keep bureaucracy out of that state. ‘We had our-hopes of a united front of farmers somewhat encouraged when the press reported, a couple of weeks ago, that “The National Farm: ers’ Union,” and a number of other farmers’ organizations, had agreed to form a national farmers’ federation of co-operatives, etc., but it was all a false alarm. It was only discussed in a hotel room, and never got into the convention for discussion at Mitchell, South Dakota, at all. Farmers Restless. About the only,cheerful note that I can sound at this writing, is that the farmer is kicking, against conditions now, which if kept up long enough, may be turned into positive directions so that he may jgin the wage slaves in dumping the, whole capitalist sys- tem overboard..,At present they run away crying: jolshevik” when a Communist approaches them, with a message that calls for a united front with all labor,throughout the world. But when terms and names are left out many farmers are ready to applaud the fundamental things we advocate. The propaganda, ,of the capitalists against all revolutionary movements must be overcome, with logical scien- tific literature written in the language of the farmer... ; The farmer needs a “left wing” leadership just as much as the trade unions need it. It is our opinion that such a leadership, is appearing just over the hill. Steamers Collide During Heavy Fog in Chesapeake Bay BALTIMORE, Md., Dec., 6—During a dense fog which enveloped Chesa- peake Bay, the british steamer Mom- bassa and the Italian freighter Campa- nia collided, a few miles below Bal- timore. The Mombassa was towed into port after Having shipped con- siderable water. °* . Owing to the the steamer, Gov. John Lind, inbound’from Tampa, Fla., with a cargo of phosphate rock, went aground in the bay, Fireman Is Killed When Wall Collapses “Y., Dec. 6—One and four others. the_burning build- lody corporation - loss is about BUFFALO, N. collapsed. $150,000. x Try to Terrorizé Meeting brothers, and thgt;your most sacred duty is to move ses of working people into such etion as will get them out.” Machinist Leader Speaks. Pete Jensen, widely known leader in the International “Association of Ma- chinists, made a graphic presentation of the danger to tlie entire abor move- ment if the acts of tyranny such as shown in the Gifidw and Whitney cases are to continue. Jensen brot the crowd to wild applause with the declaration that “when activity in the labor movement is punished with pris- on, then we must all be ready at all times to do our part and take the re- sults. The famous Daugherty injunc- tion in the shopmen’s strike of 1922 shows what the enemies of the labor movement intend to do to extermin- ate it. The cases of Ben Gitlow and Anita Whitney are the cause of the labor movement, and the labor move- ment must get them.out.” While awaiting the arrival of C. B. Ruthenberg from another meeting, the chairman, Robert Minor, described the political background of the prosecu- tions that are new’ going on for the suppression of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, of which Ruthenberg is general secr ; and in which his activities have. ¢ d him repeatedly to be faced with jmprisonment. “Am- erica as much any country in the world,” said M| , “is a land whose history is hou up with the events of revolution. Its .Ajstory has been made by revolutions. ‘The war of independ- ence against Great Britain was a rev- olution, Also, the second supreme crisis, the civil war of 1861, was to a certain degree g revolutionary strug- gle in which capitalist class un- dertook to overthrow the semi-feudal oligarchy of the gouthern states and to secure undigp) rule for its own class. The capitalist class played its. own revolutionary role in history. Now however, it has become reactionary, it retards the further development of productive fore and consequently another class takes over the role of the revolutionary class—the working class. “As the capitalist class, in order to obtain state power, had to fopm its class party under the hame-of repnb- lican party, and in order to obtain state power had to go thru whatever actions history brot forth, which in- cluded under Lincoln not only ballot- ing, but also civil war—just so the future ruling, class, the industrial workers, have to form their class party in order to ob in state power. This class party © faces the need to go thru whatever forms of action may be placed before tit ‘by, history, gee be- THE GROWN PRINCE OF WISCONSIN POLITICS ON |: THRONE IN WASHINGTON |" ROBERT M. LAFOLLETTE, Jr. ~ es 8 8 Robert M, LaFollette, Jr., senator from Wisconsin, who succeeded’ his late father, has temporarily snubbed the republican senators by refusing to attend their caucus called before the convening of the sixty-ninth congress which opens today. In- stead he attended a meeting of con- gressmen from Wisconsin and other states known to support the irrecon- cilables, where plans were made for a united front against the admin- istration policies. A statement will be issued before the opening of con- gress setting forth the position of this group. It is not thought that young LaFollette will ever wield the influence of his father, but will become an adjunct of the Borah group, iinois Power Trust Out to Extend Control Permission to purchase the proper- ties of the Chicago Suburban Power & Light Company, furnishing electric light and power to West Chicago, Winfield, Villa Park, Westmore, Wayne, High Lake, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles and Lombard, is requested in_a petition filed before the Illinois commerce commission by the Public Service company of Northern Illinois. The company requests permission to extend its super-power system to ‘he communities named, It already serves 221 cities and towns in north- eastern Illinois. cause the leaders of this party frankly tell the masses that-in the struggle for power no ruling class has ever sur- rendered its position without resist- ing by every means including civil war, this recognition of historical fact is seized upon as an excuse for the im- prisonment of leaders such as Gitlow and Ruthenberg and the effort thus to destroy the new revolutionary party.” Ruthenberg Tells of Tyranny. Ruthenberg, whose entrance to the auditorium brought an_ovation, plung- ed immediately into a recital of the supreme court’s decisions which in the past few years, since the fright caused by the Russian workers’ revolution, have broken down one by one all of the supposed rights guaranteed by the U. S. constitution. “First it was the right of publishing one’s political views,” sadi Ruthen- berg. “That was taken away when Gitlow was condemned to prison for the publication of the Left Wing Man- ifesto. Another stage is reached when Anita Whitney is condemned by the sugreme court's action in upholding her conviction for ‘belonging to an or- ganization’ that holds certain views. There are other stages which are shown by the brutal repressions of the I. W.-W. with the sanction of the supreme court. Now we are approach- ing a further extreme stage where the supreme court is asked, Jn my own| case, to uphold a conviction for the crime of ‘assembling with’ an organ- ization that holds certain views. It is hard to imagine any more extreme de- sree in the process of destroying the boasted ‘guarantees of freedom’ in the American constitution. ‘ “But in spite of all repressions, in spite of all Daugherty injunctions and imprisonments for political opinions, the working class revolutionary move- ment will go ahead, and it is the view of the party which I represent, that the struggle will end and cannot end otherwise than in the establishment of the workers’ Soviet republic of Am: erica,” A large collection was taken up in the audience, which will be immediate- ly applied to the defense of the prose- cuted members of the United Mine Workers at Zeigler, I. Many of those present responded enthusiastically to the - appeal of George Maurer, local secretary of the International Labor Defense, to be- come members of the defense organ- ization, and many subscriptions were taken for the new monthly magazine, the Labor Defender, organ of the In- JARDINE CALLS CONFERENCE TO ; AID STOCK JOBBERS AND BANKERS GOUGE FARMERS TO THE LIMIT By W. H. GREEN. OMAHA, Neb., Dec, 6.—Secretary Jardine has raised an alarm for the financial despots, the transportation exploiters, the stock jobbing interests and the manufacturers of shoddy, The old hen that had been laying golden eggs for the financial and manufacturing section of the country has not been producing the regulation amount of hen fruit lately. A packed jury of pro- fessional agriculturists, hackneyed lawyers, railroad cappers and clever poli- ticians will assemble in Chicago to hold an autopsy on the lately deceased farmer, The pioneers who builded this in- land western agricultural empire will concern ‘themselves very little with this much heralded gathering. Those ploneer farmers who are not carried away with the jazz momentum of the moment or the insidious ropaganda in circulation know that the oppression of interest bearing debt is what is crushing them into slavery. Knowing that our entire financial system is based on interest bearing debts those students of agricultural economics are not submitting their case to a jury such as will be assembled in Chicago. Revise Co-operatives, From the advance press notices it is evident that the overworked co- operative:.panacea, is in for another sprinting. ..An ounce, of prevention fit- teen years ago would be better than a ton of cure now. \ The writer gave the first ten years of this century toa fight for compe- tition. It was not altogether an ama- teur fight either. Courts, attorney gen- erals, legislatures and congressional committees were personally petitional. The nextsten! years was enthusiasm for co-operative idea and we furnished the meeting hall, advertising and everything for the first meeting of the Farmers’ Union north of the AS WE SEEIT -:- Mason® and Dixon line, And aside from the co-operative organizations operating under the sufference of the trusts the share of the business trans- acted by the co-operatives is not even fractional. Soviet Co-operatives. When acting as a delegate to the peasants’ congress in Moscow in 1923 we were selected to act as spokesman for the nineteen nations attending to reply to the address of welcome from the Soviet asgocation of co-operators, After listening to the xeport of the Soviet co-operators which disclosed that over eighty per cent of the grand total of all business was transacted by the mutual societies we were com- pelled to declare that the fraction of the business done in America by the co-operative societies was negligible. We qualified this, however, by saying that co-operation’ could only prosper where the form of government was friendly, which was not the case in the United States. The farmers of the midwest are going thru a financial gethsemane and they are not looking for any instant relief. They know that there are remedies for cancer, tuberculosis and other dread plagues but that no one has ever devised a remedy for interest bearing debt. By T. J. O’Flaherty : (Continued from page 1) minister was sitting unnoticed nearby with a very amused grin on his face. The correspondents seemed to enjoy the situation as much as Comrade Tchitcherin. The poor barons are no longer even good copy, except when a reporter is short of material and wants t6'fill in with a light yarn. oe 8 1 New York a fight has raged for years between two sets of religious officials for the possession of the mitre ‘and“crook of St. Nicholas Cath- edral. ““A’ gentleman styling himself Archbishop Platon, claimed title in vieW°of!‘the fact that the czar was dedd’tind ‘that the Soviet government id Bet Ware any more for St, Nich- las thati*they careg for the perfume of 4°polé'cat. A lower court decided in favor of Platon.~ But there was a big fly in the dintment in the person of ‘John S. Kedrovsky, of Hartford, ©orinS°who arrived in New York in 1923 With’ credéntials from Russia. Wihatly Kédroysky got the chuéch and Platoi} anti-Bolshevik, who was siftpportde’ by Dr. Manning ‘and the Bomb! Sijiad is twiddling his thumbs. NoW, acéording to Platon the church is gore’ tothe devil. mee es *¢ © shad Russian peasants are growing moré and more favorable to the Soviet government according to Wal- ter Duranty, Moscow correspodent for the New York Times. This is bad news for those who hope against hope that the Soviet government is liable to fall at any moment. It appears that the peasants are getting thoroly sick of the policy of the private trad- ers to charge excessive prices and are now insisting on government stores. They are now doing just what the Soviet government wants them to do; they are taking an active interest in the government. According to Du- ranty the peasants are poor prospects just now for a counter revolution. ee 8 A JURY sitting on the famous Rhinelander: divorce case decided that the young mental defective Kip had mo legal reason to seek annul- ment ;of his. marriage with Alice (Continued. trom yage 1) Heiped..Banks; Not Farmers, Did the farmer who actually needed help get.any, of this.money? Not a bit of it.;. It was used to bolster the depleted reserves, of northwestern banks and loaned to an exceedingly small number of farmers, who still were able to givemsecurity for their loans to the banks, The. stipulation wes made by Coolidge that only those farmers whose credit was good could avail themselves of the money, and this provision, of course, excluded all bankrupt farmers. since, obviously, ‘they were unable to furnish the re- quired security to the banks and con- sequently were prevented from taking advantage of this “Coolidge prosper- ity”. The Coolidge money helped the banks that were on the verge of col- lapse, but it did not reach the bank- rupt farmer for whom it was sup- posedly intended, . Farmers Awakening. The farmers out here in the west are more and more getting their eyes open as to what they may expect ternational Labor ense, Tt was stated that a vigorous protest will be made against. the at terrorization, which was ¢} ized as an attempt to frig! ay the fast-growing membership! of International Labor Defense. = eee from “their” govertment in the way f economic assistance when’ they are in distress, They learn by experience and facts will convince them... now they are watching dios) the gesture that is being made administration to pr A hy es Northwest Farmers Getting Wise Jones, slightly colored, the daughter of a workingman. This case has held the front page of the capitalist press for more than a week, tho the 100 per cent Americans deeply disap- pointed when a righteous judge clear- ed the court for fear the delicate ears of society ladies might be contam- inated by the passionate mesBages in the letters written by the young moron Rhinelander to the quadroon girl who ensnared him. se 8 PINION was divided as to whether the millionaire moron was more sinned against than sinning. One could hear a tired and hungry worker of K, K. K. vintage express the opin- jon that it was a darned shame a wealthy young man should be seduced by a girl not of Nordic breed, The fact that the aristocratic scion never did a day’s work in his life and was feeding his imbecility on the product of. the labor of others did not matter in the least.. Which shows that Kip is not the only moron in the United States, It makes, no difference to the workers which way the decision went. What should concern the workers is where does this young parasite Rhine- lander get the money with which to pay the price of his amorous meand- rings? It comes out of the toil of the workers in whatever industry the Rhinelanders have their money in- vested in. ** © big there ever lived a mental defec- tive, it is this young Rhinelander. Yet he is immensely rich and cannot help growing richer under the cap- italist system. Harry Thaw was in jail for several years not so much because he killed a competitor for the affection of an actress but because he was too crazy to be at large. While Harry was in jail, his fortune increas- ed by millions. Yes, sir, this is a land of opportunity, Thousands of sane and moral workers are toiling away in factories and minés, to en- able the moron Thaws and Rhinelan- ders to live lifes of profligacy. ‘The useless parasites are onthe top of the heap in America and for that matter in every other country where capital- ism exists. the farmers in the corn belt and roll- ing over in their minds the plan put forward by Jardine,/the secretary of agriculture, for co-operative market- ing of farm products. But they are not at all hopeful of the results, Somehow’ they feel that “the big fellow,” the banker, will be the one who will profit from any “aid” that is extended to the farmer and, besides, they are not so sure but that there isn't a good deal of politics mixed up with it. Just like it was in the 1923-24. bai Will Call Impeachment Session Despite Texas Attorney General’s Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 6.—In spite of the ruling of the Attorney General Dan Moody that a special session to impeach the governor of Texas for the “misuse of state funds” cannot be called and financed by private in- een ct 28 1 dividuals, yhe speaker of the house Lee Satterwhite, declares that a spe- cial impeachment session will be called and that each member of the house will cover his own expenses and stated that “funds from private sources will not be accepted.” —