The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1926, Page 3

PERIALIST TOOLS DEPORT ' LABOR LEADERS Forty-Seven Workers Victims in Ecuador By JUAN F. KAROLYS, Secretary, Ecuador Section, All-Amer- lca Anti-Imperialist League. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 20 — Simultaneously with the wave of im- perlalist terror sweeping over Cuba and Central America, the republic of Ecuador has. suddenly become an in- ferno, due to the recently established military directorate and its efforts to win the favor of Wall Street and Washington. Under the pretext of putting down a “counter-revolution” ‘against the directorate which seized power thru a coup d'etat, a fierce as- sa@alt has been begun against the la- bor unions and anti-imperialist ele- ments. Already 47 active workers have been deported from the country, among them fsuch leaders as Jara, Higinio and Antonio Santos Maldonad mash Unions, Every attempt is being made to smash the labor organizations. ‘Be- sides the deportations, many workers have been imprisoned. Things have , not stopped there, however. The milit- ‘ ary government has gone so far as to arm some 3,000 young aristocrats and adventurers, “‘to defend the republic menaced by the Bolsheviks,” accord- ing to public declaration of Minister of War Bolona. All printshops where labor papers were published have been destroyed and a veritable campaign of terror has been begun. In addition ‘to the special force above referred to, the regular Ecua- dorian army has been called into play. ‘The army, consisting of 6,000 men, is commanded by a special Italian (fascist) mission, sent here for pur- of military instruction, Seize Power by Coup D’Etat. As already stated, the military dir- ectorate seized power a short time ago by means of a coup d'etat. Since it is not yet recognized by the United States government, it is doing every- thing possible to prove itself “worthy” of the recognition of American im- perialism. There can be no doubt that the pressure of American impe- rialism is to a considerable degree res- ponsible for the attacks against the { labor and anti-imperialist movements. { Tt is significant that deportations are not confined to Ecuador but, under pressure of American imperialism, have taken place in Costa Rica, Pan- ama, Cuba and Ecuador, in turn. * Helps Ecuador Workers! The Ecuador Section of the All-Am- erica Anti-Imperialist League is tak- ing up the issue energetically Organ- ized only a few weeks ago, the section is made up principally of students and workers. Among the affiliated labor organizations are the Typographical Union and the Labor Federation of Guayas. It is important that other sections i of the Anti-Imperialist League give us their help so that a real interna- tional protest will be raised against this latest outrage of American impe- rialism and its traitorous satellites in | Latin-America. It is hoped that the | league will be aie to develop a cam- j paign of as great proportions as that which resulted in the liberation of Julio Antonio Mella in Cuba. Read—Write—distribute The WORKER. cn EDITOR'S NOTE:—In this con- cluding instalment of his speech be- fore the fourteenth Russian Com- munist Party congress, Secretary Stalin pointed out the tasks of the party upon the fields of industry and agriculture. He said: i | . (International Press Correspondence) | ‘OSCOW, U.S. S. R. Dec, 18.-— i (By Mail)—Secretary Stalin then proceeded to describe two digressions in the question of the peasantry, The digression which underestimates the danger of the rich peasant and the digression which exaggerates this danger and the lessening and under- estimation of the role of the middle peasant. a The digression overestimating the danger of the rich peasant would have arisen anyhow, for the development is moving in the direction of an enliven- ment of capitalism and this necessari- ly brings with it confusion in the party. ¢ On the other hand, socialist indus- try is growing, and a struggle is pro- ceeding between it and private capit- al, At present the socialist element is preponderant. Nevertheless the rich peasantry is growing. This danger must not be underestimated, for the rich peasant represents the agent of the capitalist in the village. panne is however another digres- “The uncertainty in face of the from the rich the panic be’ this danger, This un- certainty went so far that one to | the middle peasant. The 1’ Imperialist Money Invested in Syria Cause of Butchery By LEN DE CAUX, PARIS—(FP)—The economic caus- és of the French war in Syria, official- ly declared to be in defense of the “national honor,” are exposed in a capitalist paper, the Journee Indus- trielle, which tells of the large inter- ests of French bankers and industrial- ists in Syrfi. That 250,000,000 francs of French capital is invested in finan- cial and industrial enterprises con- cerned exclusively with Syria, is re- vealed by this paper. The money was mostly invested before the war and represents gold francs (1 gold franc, 20 cents). ‘ French capital is chiefly in rail- roads, streetcars, ports, public ware- houses, posts and telegraphs, silk and agricultural industries, flour mills and banks. While the French have not found mineral resources’ in Syria, they have rich supplies of wool, silk, cotton, agricultural products and to- bacco, The construction of railroads is of immense importance for this French trade, but @.number of pro- jected railroads has been hindered by the growing restiveness of the Syr- lans, CANADIAN WANTS TARIFF WAR ON U, S, PRODUCTS Unemployment Used as Basis for High Rate OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 20.—The Can- adian government has found itself up against by the motion of Arthur Meighan, conservative, to amend the governor general’s reply to the speech from the throne in such a manner as to demand a tariff wall against im- portation of commodities from the United States, Unemployment the Issue. Such is the, widespread suffering from unemployment in Canada, that political capital is being made of it by the conservatives, and’ the amend- ment as introduced by Méighen calls up this menace and says’ the govern- ment must provide work for Canada’s producers by raising the duties on United States commodities. It says: “Particularly to give to the producers of farm products, coal and other primary products, the advant- we they are under, present world conditions, entitled to enjoy in the markets of this country.” Say U, S. Began Tariff \War. Meighen demands to know in his amendment why dairy products, fruit, and vegetable products from the United States, come into Canada with almost no tariff—‘and satiate the Can- adian appetite and destroy! the Can- adian market before the Canadian goods come to the consumer.” The conservative leader proceeds to say that while the United States kept its own tariff on Cahadian and other countries’ goods at’ low figure, there was some reason for Canada doing likewise, but in 1921 the United States changed this: “Ever since, the Americkn farmer has monopolized his own market and | ‘Howl About D had almost equal play in ours with the farmer of this country.” “The party is the instrument for the dictatorship of the proletariat.”—Len. in, ‘Hear the message of Leninism at the Lenin Memorial meetings, however is the struggli the con- quest of the middle peasant, the strug- gle to divide the middle peasant from the rich peasant and to i: the lat- ter by the establishment of the firm alliance with the middle peasant. The roots of both digressions ac- cording to the opinion of the speaker are to be found in the following fac- tors: the first digression consists in the underestimation of the role of the rich peasant, the capitalist ele- ment in the villages. This digression comes from a denial of the differen- ciation in the villages, it declares that the rich peasant is disappearing. This digression leads to a denial of the class struggle in the villages. The Seoond digression consists in the over- estimation of the role of the rich peas- ant, in the panic in face of the capital- ist elements. This digression comes from. the fact that the differenciation in the village is universally capitalist. This digression leads to an unchain- ing of the class struggle in the vil- lage, to the declaration of the civil war in the country, to the disorgani- zation of the work of reconstruction, Plans of Lenin. Both digressions are to the rejection of the co-operative equally damaging. Fortunately, there are forces in the party which will stifle both digressions before they get a chance to develop (applause). Nevertheless, the party must concen- trate its fighting capacityin the strug- gle against the second digression (ap- plause), The slogan of a firm alliance with the middle peasantry can always be wiped out by phrases about Marx- ism and Leninism. ~~ Y Nad speaker proceeded to a discus. sion of the qui of internal HILLMAN GANG LOSING HOLD ON MEMBERS Webster Hall Meeting Disgusts A. C. W. (Continued from page 1.) low discussion the meeting would be adjourned. And so it was. If Hillman has many more of these “victories” the Amalgamated Trade Union Educational League group will have the majority of the A. C. W. membership supporting its policies in the union—the policies of class strug- gle against the bosses for the benefi of the workers. The calling in of the police is especially resented by the workers. The following is the resolution passed unanimously by the great mass meeting held at the Manhattan Ly- ceum by the action committee: Tailors’ Resolution. “WHEREAS, the policies of the Hillman administration are responsi- ble for the terrible situation that ex- ists in New York, the policy of class collaboration pursued by the G. E. B. being a policy.of keeping peace with the bosses by giving concesions to the bosses at the expense of the workers, thus worsening their conditions, and “WHERBAS, this policy has brot the following evils from which the work- ers suffer, standard of production, acute unemployment, the throwing of workers out of the shops, reductions in wages, and Against Terrorism. “WHEREAS, this policy is main- tained by keeping in office in New York against the will of the member- ship an administration that is corrupt and inefficient, that sells out the inter- est of the workers, and holds on to its power by conducting a war of terror- ism and gangsterism against the rank and file, and WHEREAS, the protest against these abominable conditions was met by Hillman, the G. E. B. and the New York administration by depriving workers of their jobs, by terrorism pre- venting the workers from expressing their opinion, by abolishing local meetings, by expelling local unions, and by suspending or expelling those who gave leadership and expression to the discontent of the masses to the policies pursued by the organization, and “WHEREAS, the decision of the G. E. B. on the New York situation does not deal with these difficulties con- fronting the New York workers but instead appoints against the will of the membership as manager with dic- tatorial ‘powers A. Beckerman, who has refused to have the cutters ce-op- erate with the tailors in their strug- gles and who has and still continues to advocate the giving of more con- cessions to the manufacturers, includ- ing piece work, and ~ Violates Constitution. “WHEREAS, the decision of the G. E. B, in violation of the organization not only appoints the manager but continues in office all the officials who have not the confidence and respect of the rank and file, and “WHEREAS, the G. E. B. has failed to restore the jobs to the workers who were deprived of their jobs on account of their political opinions, and “WHEREAS, the G, E. B, has failed o reinstate with full rights in the or- anization all those members who ave been suspended and expelled for|in the New York market.” tions for the work: Further increase of the production of the country, the transformation of our country from an agrarian into an industrial country, the safeguarding of the predominance of the socialist elements in the peo- ple’s economy over the capitalist elements, the safeguarding of the ne- cessary independence of the people’s economy of the Soviet Union in its’ capitalist environment and the in- crease of the income from sources other than taxes in the state budget. bas speaker pointed to the follow- ing tasks upon the fields of in- dustry and agriculture: the develop- ment of the socialist industry by the betterment of the technical apparatus, the raising of the productivity of la- bor, the speeding up of the capital turn-over, the levelling up of the raw material and metal balances and also the balances of basic capital and rail- way tyansport in accordance with the growing needs of industry, a strength- ened development of Soviet industry upon a communal scale, the technical raising of agricultire and its indus- trialization thru the drawing in of the scattered peasant economies into the work of socialist reconstruction by means of mass co-operation and the raising of the cultural level of the peasantry. — 'N commerce the tasks are ag fol- lows: the extension and improve- ment of the commodity extension sys- tem, co-Operation and state commerce, The creation of a unified apparatus and plan for the organs responsible for the pro mn of cereals, An in- creased commodity turn-over with the in the village at present! policy, He showed the following direo- capitaligt countries, with guarantees |tatorship would &® dmpossible their political opinions, and “WHEREAS, the decision of the G. E. B. on one joint board does not go far enuf because it does not include the cutters’ local, and is not consti- tuted on the basis of proportional rep- resentation, and “WHEREAS, the decision of the G. BE, B, instead of establishing unity in the organization and solidarity within the ranks,.initiates a civil war of gangsterism and terrorism against the membership,; “THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that we members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in mass meeting assembled in Manhattan Ly- ceum this 16th day of January, 1926, demand that;,in order to end the chaos and demoralization that is un- dermining and; destroying our organ- ization in New York to achieve unity in the union,and re-establish solidar- ity within the ranks and to build a better and stronger union that can ef- fectively fight:to better the conditions of the workers; “1. Sunde Joint board including the cuttersibe established in New York with delegates elected on the basis of proisortional representation. “2, That the officials of the New York organization resign and that general elections be held for the man- ager and all! other officials, which shall be supérvised by rank and file committees, &nd that all those sus- pended and expelled for their political opinions shall be permitted without discrimination’to participate in the elections, “*” “3, That there shall be no increase in dues without a decision of, the membership. “4, That general amnesty be de- clared for’all those who have been ex- pelled and suspended from the organ- ization on account of their political opinions. That they be reinstated with full rights in the organization. “5. That no piece work be estab- lished in agreement with the bosses for an active trade balance and there- fore an active budget balance for the purpose of maintaining a stable cur- rency and offer guarantees against an inflation. The absolutely necessary creation of a reserve for emergencies. With regard to the’ class relations we have the following tasks: The safeguarding the alliance of the proletariat and the village poor with the middle peasantry. The safeguard- ing of the leading role of the proletar- iat in this alliance. ‘The political iso- lation and the economic forcing back of the village kilak and the town cap- italists. ad In connection with the Soviet recon- struction, a sh#trp struggle must be carried on against bureaucracy, The working masses! must be drawn into this latter struggle. E speaker discussed the new ideology of the bourgeoisie which declares that an unconscious degener- ation is taking place amongst the Bolsheviki and that the bourgeois re- public is gradually returning, It is unnecessary to contradict these stupi- dities. Our party forces are not made of such material that they will degen- erate, They have Lenin's works in their hands and they are learning and understanding Leninism, The how) about a degeneration will frighten no one. Even the author of this ideology, Ustralov, must §erve us, He may dream of degendfation, but he must do our work, hewise it will go badly with him (Applause) * + conclusion ‘the speaker dealt with the que¥tions of the’ party. The successes of the proletarian NO STRIKE WATSON-PARKER BILL TERMED “THE RAILROAD LOCARNO”; INSURES PRESENT GREAT PROFITS By LELAND OLDS, Federated Pre: An increase of more than $7,00,000 in the market value of railroad stocks in 1925 shows what railroad owners are getting out of a friendly government and employe co-operation. This boost high profits will continue. market value of their investment in the industry? Means More Work On Same Pay. The 1925 railroad stock market is hailed by The Wall Street Journal as the best since 1910 with the average price of rail stocks at the highest level since prewar days. This reflects, says the journal, “the, various records established and improved conditions.” Most of the records have meant that the employes gave more work for the same pay. Pennsylva: stock is now ‘selling at over $54 a share of $50 par value. This means a gain of $11.75 a share on.10,000,000 shares since the low point of 1925, increasing the wealth of the owners by $117,500,000 within the year. The 1925 increase in the-market value of New York Central stock meant a gain of $57,967,803 for the owners, Enormous Profits. Railroad profits at $1,135,000,000 for 1925 establish a new record, In only one other year, 1916, have railroad profits exceeded a billion’ dollars. In that year the amount was $1,059,000,- 000. This year’s profits exceed 1924 by about $150,000,000. The gross revenue paid the rail- roads by the public in 1925 amounted to $6,175,000,000, a figure exceeded in only two years in railroad history. HORTHY GOVT, MAY FALL OVER FORGERY PLOT VIENNA, January 20.— When the Hungarian parliament opens today there will be stormy scenes and a probable fall of the Bethlen cabinet when the premier asks for a vote of confidence. The political gravity of the case cannot be exaggerated, des- pite the effort to minimize the scandal of the international counterfeiting plot by princes, dukes and Horthy government politicians. Forging 30,- 000,000,000 of French francs was the largest job of the counterfeiters. Putrid Politics. Rumors of government overthrowal, regentships and the exit of Horthy’s white guard dictatorship are flying about, Premier Bethlen is likely to do everything possible to conceal the extent and political meaning of the disclosures, Some charge Bethlen with seeking to protect Horthy for a price of getting Horthy’s place. The whole affair is rotten with graft and in- trigue. Meanwhile, it is learned that the counterfeiters first forged a great number of Czecho-Slovak bank notes, and that when Czech detectives in- vestigated, they found that the heads of the Hungarian police were involved in the plot. Czechs Stirred. Public mass meetings are being held in Prague and other Czech cities at which attacks are made on Hun- gery as a menace to neighboring coun- tries. “Hangary’s fascism is leading Europe into new wars,” states one former cabinet minister. It is also charged in ‘Czecho-Slovakia that Hun- gary has 200,000 troops in violation of treaty provisions which limit it to 30,000. the party had fulfilled its-tasks. The proletarian dictatorship can not exist from itself, but only thru the party and its leadership. Who shakens and weakens the party, shakens and weakens the prol- etarian dictatorship. The party is the leading force in our state. But one may not identify the party with the Soviet organs, The statement that the Politibureau is the highest organ in the state is wrong, The central com- mittee of the Politbureau are party organs and in all questions of politics the leading role belongs to the party. The composition of the party bat- talions is. important. The speaker presented a rich and embracing ma- terial upon the growth of the prolet- arian percentage in the party, The growth of the workers’ numbers in- side the party keeps pace with the growth of the industrial workers. On July 1, 1925, the total figure of the working class was 6,500,000, and from this figure there are 543,000 or 8% in the party. On October 1, the total figure for the working class was 7,000,000 and the number in the party 570,000 or 8%. The percentage of workers in the party in comparison with the workers in the large scale industry. This percentage is 25.5. The speaker raised the question’ whether or not it was possible to raise the per- centage of workers in the party ‘to 90%. That is nonsense. We have at present in the party 380,000 workers from the shops. The number of other members is 700,000. If this latter number is to be only 10%, then the party must grow to one of 5 millions. One thing is’ certain and is that the specific gravity of the ty in the working class has grown endous- . These exceptions were 1923 ‘with $6,357,000,000 and 1920 with $6,310,- 000,000. Railroad dividends for 1925 totaled $329,000,000, another record. Last year the amount was $320,000,000, in 1923 $296,000,000 and in 1922, $272,000,000. In 1916, the highest prewar year the total was $313,000,000. The “Railroad Locarno.” Such figures suggest that the pro- posed Watson-Parker railroad labor bill expresses the desire of the rail- road owners to maintain a very satis- factory status-quo. In the Wall Street topics column of the New York Times the bill is described as a “railroad Locarno” which will outlaw strikes as the European Locarno is supposed to outlaw war between the signatory powers. Says the Times: “After 15 years of almost constant quarreling the two sides are gding before congress with legislation to establish machinery which will give every opportunity for fairminded in- vestigation before the public is called upon to suffer from interrupted trans- portation service. Among those men- tioned yesterday to whom the compro- mise is something of a personal triumph were W. G. Lee and W. N. Doak, president and vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, and W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania.” Held in Jail Month for Reading I. W. W. Papers; Now Sells ‘Em SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)— Harry Clayton, an I. W. W. newsboy, was arrested for violating a San Francisco city ordinance against selling papers. Prior to his trial he was held on $20 cash bail, but after being convicted and held for sentence, bail was raised to $1000 cash, for this minor offence. Clayton refused to stop reading I. W. W. papers. The police justice there- upon held him in jail for a month, be- fore finally dismissing the case. (pe situation in the village is not so; 60d. In comparison with the whole Aricultural population,‘we have only 0.37% peasants in the party. The best elements of the peasantry must join the ranks of our party. The ideological training of our members has improved considerably. The best proof of this was: the the polemic against Trotskyism, We are now faced with a new discussion. I am ‘certain that the party will also easily. overcome this discussion also, The party fears no discussion (ap- plause). himself the right to com: the opposition of the Leningrad comrades in his closing speech, Stalin then summed up his speech. The contradictions of the capitalist world can only be overcome by the workers’ revolution in.the west. The contradictions between the Soviet Union and the capitalist countries ex- pressed itself in the wish of the lat- ter to make our country into a pend- ant of the capitalist system, E shall defend ourselves with the assistance of the whole proletar- fat of the west. But finally, the con- tradiction between world capitalism and world socialism cannot be over- come by us. That is the task of the victorious revolution in a number of countries, We will overcome the contradictions between the socialist and capitalist elements in our own country with our own strength, He who does not be- eve it is a liquidator, We do not fear any difficulties. Who ever is afraid should make way for n with more courage (ap- plause). We are Bolsheviks in order to face difficulties and to overcome in wealth reflects the assurance thet Can railroad employes show a similar boost im the SOUTH AMERICAN RED BLOG WINS MANY ELECTIONS Communists Take Lead Over Opponents BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 20—Close ap on the heels of the impressive Com- munist electoral victories in Chile end Uruguay, comes an important vietory in Argentina, indicating widespread development of the Communist move- ment among the South American masses, In the municipal elections in @he | province of Cordoba, the party prea- ented eleven candidates, in some cases forming a workers’ and peasants’ bleg with the inclusion of non-Communist elements. In three localities: Gener- al Roca, Las Varillas and Canade Verde, the Communist candidacy triumphed. The significance of the victory should not be underestimated; it marks the entry of Communist re- presentation in municipal councils in the province of Cordoba, The eocial- ists did not elect a single represent- ative. Cordoba is an industrial prov- nce, one of the most important im Argentina, A short time ago the Communists won the leadership of the Provincial Workers’ Union of Cordoba, displac- ing the former committee made up of anarcho-eyndicalists. Another import- ant development fs the fact that many Prominent militants among the syndi- calists and anarcho-syndicalists are Joining the Communist Party, Score of I. W. W. at San Quentin Prison Emerge from Dungeon SAN QUENTIN, Cal—(FP)—Over 20 criminal syndicalism prisoners who have spent a number of weeks. in solitary and in the dungeons in © protest against ill-treatment of two their number have been taken out of the hole and their privileges restor-- ed by the San Quentin authorities, Of the 60 I. W. W. prisoners still in San Quentin, 50 are eligible to apply for parole, but have refused to do so, since they feel they have committed no crime and are entitled to a full pardon. Only 12% of the 150 prison- ers condemned under the criminal syndicalism law have ever applied for or accepted a parole, and most of those because their prison experiences had broken their health, i. Lost Airmen Rescued, "~~ CAPE MAY, N. J., Jan. 20—after being wrecked at sea for nine days, Charles R. Warren and George Hand, New York airmen, were being detain- ed at the U. S. coast guard base here today, pending an investigation of the facts surrounding the disabling of their seaplane off Atlantic City on Jan. 2. The men, half-crazed with hunger, were rescued late yesterday afternoon by the revenue cutter “Kickapoo,” eneration of Russian Communists Frightens No One Apart from its great successes, the party has made mistakes. Lenin has taught us not to be proud: But we must point to our successes. By the Bolshevist advance upon the econom- ie tront we have shown to the world that we do not merely understand how to destroy capitalism but that we understand also how to build wp eo- cialism, the new society, This eon- quest cannot be taken away from us. / We must show the proleiariat of the west and the oppressed peoples of the east these successes, We prove that the workers after they have won pow- er, know how to administrate a great country and to build up socialism up- der difficult circumstances, What does the proletariat of west need for victory? Above all belief in its own forces and the con- ;Sclousness that the working class is not merely called upon to be a des tructor, but a constructor, that it will build anew. vo that has been achieved, that is the beginning of the end for capitalism and the surest sign of the victory of the proletarian revolution. For this reason we are not working uselessly when we build up socialism, In this work we shall win upon an international scale, (Long and pro 4 tracted applause), s Attar the speech of Comrade Stalin, Comrade Molotoy, spoke upon organ: izational questions, then followed the speech of Comrade Zinoviey upon the report of the central committee, Com: rade Bucharin held a speech in the discussion, i Bs ‘ Cie tN, . , NOTE—The next instalment jwill contain the speech of Comrade . tov upon the organizational of the party,