The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1926, Page 6

oe Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Zinoviev Make Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outelde of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffice at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. McKinley and Watson Waver It is indeed unfortunate for senators that they have to stand for re-election every ‘s' rs, and doubly deplorable that among the 82 senators who have to face the electorate this ar are two such staunch defenders of the reaction as William B. McKinley of Illinois and Jim Watson of Indiana. Both of these inhabitants of the cave of the winds at Washington are regular Coolidge sup- porters, And both of them deeply desired to stand where they belong with the Morgan senators. But back home among their constituents their political enemies started back fires that threatened to con- sume them, so the Champaign traction magnate suddenly deserted the Coolidge camp and voted for the reservation of Senator Moses of New Hampshire, who proposed prohibiting the world court en- forcing any of its decisions by war and making all member nations of the court approve the reservation before the entrance of the United States. Unfortunately McKinley had committed himself on the question of the court and was therefore forced to vote for i to save his face. He presented a pitiful spectacle indeed. Watson, the flamboyant Hoosier, had not committed himself, so when his co-senator, Robinson, who had been appointed by the ku klux governor, Jackson, repeated the war-cry of the kleagles and cyclops of the benighted petty bourgeosie, Watson sat up and took notice. With former Senator Albert J. Beveridge out for his scalp in ease he voted for the court, this stalwart looked over the senate and discovered that there were sufficient votes to put thru ihe program of the Coolidge-democratic alliance, so he voted against the thing in order to maintain the support of the hooded:order which rules Indiana. It is plan that the defection of both McKinley and Watson was not the result of conviction, but for purposes of political ex- pedieney and both their votes were unquestionably with the full consent of the administration machine, which could better afford io have them recorded in the camp of the opposition to the world court, which was assured of adoption anyway, than risk losing their support in the next congress. Likewise the fight of Frank L. Smith, the Keeley Cure magnate of Dwight, who is the Chicago Tribune-Harvester trust candidate, does not for a moment signify that he woulf hesitate to line up with the administration were he elected. The world court question is a convenient political football for old party politicians and noth- ing more as far as they are concerned. <a 300 Hoodwinking the Farmers The outcome of the Des Moines farm conference was especially favorable to the politicians who hover like flocks of buzzards over the devastation wrought in the agricultural crisis. The discontent of the impoverished farmers is likely to have widespread political repurcussions unless the agents of the old parties can divert it into safe channels, From the beginning it was apparent that the old guard vas in full control of the conference and that the stage was set to whoop it up for Lowden. The appearance of this avowed candidate for the presidency was the outstanding spectacle of the session. Then, after the fireworks, the manipulators invoked the spirit of Sam Gompers and applied to the farmers his slogan of “reward your friends and punish your enemies” that always served to keep the trade unions of the nation from independent political action in times of crises. A committee was selected by those pulling the wires to go to Washington and crawl before the agents of Wall Street and the industrialists of the middle west in the democratie and republican parties, But not the faintest suggestion arose of the possibility of the exploited farmers aligning themselves with the wage workers of the city so the two great producing classes can stand upon their own feet and defy all the parties of capitalism. For the farmers to demand something that would really benefit them would spoil the game of the political shysters. : as Lowden Still Campaigning ank O. Lowden, former governor of Tllinois, is now busy in lowa with his campaign to secure the republican nomination for president of the United States. Taking advantage of the farm econ- ference arranged for the purpose of peddling political wares of various sorts, Lowden unburdened himself of these very precise and definite words of wisdom: ‘ “The American farmer must have an American price in the American market for his American products.” We are tempted to appply to Lowden the observation that language was invented to conceal thought, but that would be un- deserved flattery as it would imply that Lowden is capable of that chemical and molecular motion of the brain required to produce thought. Neither Lowden nor anyone else can explain what consti- tutes an American price for anything, least of all the price of farm products which is regulated by the condition of the world mar- kets. Such, however, is the buncombe that is being peddled the farmers. Of course it is no crime for an ignoramus to aspire to be presi- dent and it is not an impossibility for one so ill-equipped to reach that goal, After Harding and Coolidge the game certainly is not barred to those of deficient mentality. A gang of pure and undefiled ladies in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in a California town have been praying for the soul of Luther Burbank since he proclaimed himself an atheist. If these hags believe in the efficacy of prayer they might try to over- come the influence of Burbank by inducing their god in the skies to do even half as much for the human race as the atheist Burbank has done without the assistance of divine providence. «But not all their invocations to an imaginary god can arrest. the march of science or make christians useful members of society. 1 > ~ ci det a member for the Workers Party and @ new subscription r the DAILY WORKER. SINAN LE. | Sroups: (International Press Correspondence) OSCOW, U. 8. S, R., Dec. 23,— (By Mail)—In the closing speech of Gregory Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, in the de- bate upon the political and organiza- tional report of the central committee, at the fourteenth congress of the Rus- sian Communist Party, the speaker divided (the questions into three (1) Questions of principle; (2) The history of the differences of opinion; (3) The solution of the situa- tion and the practical program. The speaker reminded his audience that attempts had been made to avoid the discussion at the party congress thru a previous understanding. The speaker and his comrades, however, rejected this attempt because without giving any guarantee for the future it demanded their capitulation and a revision of the organizational deci- sions of the Leningrad party confer- ence, This circumstance and one or two statements of Stalin in his speech moved the speaker tq demand a co- speech. The speaker then proceeded to make a long polemic against Bucharin. Bucharin had accused the speaker of interpreting the N. E. P. simply as'a retreat and this’meant to leave Leninism, The speaker reminded his audience |that he had often spoken about Bol- | shevism as a whole being and advance |against the bourgeois system, against |the counter-revolutionary social-demo- jeracy and against imperialism and |that he had stressed that the retreat jhad been carried out in order to ad- vance more energetically, After quoting from his own work, “Leninism” the speaker declared that jhe categorically rejected all attempts |to represent him as an apologist for |the retreat. With regard to the accu- sation in the quéstion of the under- estimation of the middle peasantry the speaker pointed out that the slogan: “Faces towards the village!” had come | from him, This slogan referred to the whole peasantry and therefore also to the |middle peasants. In the question of |the leadership of the revolution, the |Speaker declared that at the moment |the forms of the proletarian dictator- |ship had had to be mildened upon the basis of Soviet democracy. N the question of the puilding up of socialism in the country, the speak- er quoted the words of Stalin accord- ing to which the organization of so- cialist production is only possible with the assistance of the proletariat of several of the civilized countries, and denied that he, speaker, had referred in the politbureau to the technical backwardness. The speaker also denied wishing to hide the mistakes which he had made in October, 1917. Bucharin had accused the speaker of not mentioning the peasantry in his description of the events of 1905 in his history of the party. The speaker ad- mitted that this was a mistake, but that one could not conclude from that he ignored the peasantry, for in his book the peasantry was mentioned many times. The speaker rejected the accusation of Buchatin’ that he had declared that there was still no social- ist fundament existing“ in the Soviet Union. Much progress has been made and the Soviet Union fs approaching the pre-war level. It}would neverthe- less be incorrect to eortend upon this basis that we had built up the funda- ment of the socialist economy, ise speaker then proceeded to the question of the. differences of opinion with regard to the policy in the village. In his ‘speech Stalin stressed a thesis which was not con- tained in the decisions of the October plenum of the central committee nor in the resolution of the Moscow party conference. This ig’ the thesis upon the concentration of* the fire of the party against the digression which un- derestimates the significance of the N. EB. P. The party congress is naturally the sovereign power. It can adopt de- cisions independently from the plen- um, The speaker contended neverthe- less that that which had been added by Stalin was of a polemical charac- ter. The further the events developed, the clearer it became that to direct the fire against those who pointed to the Kulak danger would be a serious political mistake. The fact that the Kulaks will grow rests:upon the whole present economical and: political situa- tion. With this growth the political appetite of the Kulaks:will/ grow also and he will find his, political supple- ment in the town.,,We can fight against this danger if we foresee the danger in time. " By H. M. WICKS, pe Chicago Tribune, as the chief spokesman in the middle west for the industrialists who oppose entang- lements in European affairs is piti- fully ailing about the iniquity of the Mobgan senators who voted the Unit- ed States into the world court. In an editorial yesterday morning that pa- per .exclaimed: “We Don’t Know Where We're Going But We're On Our Way,” thereby expressing the per- petual bewilderment of the class for which it speaks. For so many years the industrial- ists have been political masters of the government that they still imagine they speak for the nation when they speak for their particular strata of the capitalist class. The Tribune thinks something “extraordinarily fancy would be achieved” if, of the 48 nations signatory to the world court protocol, Santo Domingo and Li- beria would insist that the southern states grant the Negro full political rights before the United States could acquire judicial rights in the court. Such a conception could only find lodgment in a brain that still views the world as an aggregate of separate nations, each following its own special destiny. Are not the spokesmen of isolation aware of the fact that Santo Domingo was forcibly conquered by the gallant marines of the United States and held by military terror until the tentacles of finance capital had sunk so deeply into that unfortu- nate nation that they can only be re- moved by insurrection? Is the Me- Cormick sheet unaware of the con- quest of Liberia for the glory of Amer- iean rubber interests? Can it point to one small nation in the league or the court that is not under the im- perialist domination of one or more of the great powers? The United States is not, as the Tribune would have its readers be- lieve, a weak, gullible nation, being hoodwinked by Europe into dangerous experiments, It is an imperialist giant, the mightiest power in the cap- italist world, entering the world court with the object of using it to further its plundering expeditions. Far from resenting the presence of Santo Domingo and Liberia, or having anything to fear from them, the Wall Street gang welcome their presence, confident that the economic and mili- tary power of the United States in those republics will force them to sup- port American imperialist policy, Realizing full well the great power of finance capital and perceiving the flagrant manner in which whole sec- tions of the press, the pulpit, and other agencies for manufacturing “public opinion” were corrupted by the millions upon millions spent to put the United Sthtes into the court, the agents of the fsolationists ought to perceive that the same methods will be used to debauch other nations now members of Pig court ed | them, They Don’t Know Where They Are Going Would a good Am#fican newspaper, boasting that it is fHé world’s gieat- est, so defame the exalted senators of the United seg by insinuating that they are moi susceptible to bribes from the House of Morgan than the represe: ives of weaker governments? If k can, as the Tribune declares, debauch the United States senate to gain a political ad- vantage in Europe,,, why cannot the same procedure be used to bribe the members of the wond court? The industrialistsg:dizzy from their defeat, may not know where they're going, but the victersin ‘the fight | know precisely where they’re going, and why, ee The lamentations of the industrial- ists only expose the true character of that class that for so long ruled the United States. They are typical of the capitalist class in general. When in power they are arrogant and blood- thirsty, smashing with the most ter- rible frightfulness every yestige of opposition to their power. @In defeat they are snivelling, whining creatures, cringing like kicked dogs momentarily expecting another wallop. Those responsiblé for the murder of the working class from Coeur d’Alene to Calumet and Lud) can expect no sympathy from us,” Their present plight strikes no re sive chord in the hearts of intelligent workers and their efforts to comé back into power on the wave of entment aroused because of the t lery of the sen- ate will fail if it ig ithin our power to defeat them, Only the mass power of labor di- rected against all’gapitalist elements will benefit the working class and we, as Communists, wilhstrive to prevent the workers being? misled by any of ape They many not!’ ‘know where they are going, but we w where we will send them all befbte another decade has passed, bulss ao After that talkj,with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The DAILY WORKDR, It will help convince him, ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE WORLD COURT BY WICKS WILL APPEAR TOMORROW Tomorrow will appear the third of the series of articles by H. M. Wicks on the world court. This ar- ticle exposes the hand of American imperialism in ereating the court, and re the eonquest of Europe by Wall Street, Other articles in the series deal with the decisions of the world court against rn on the Soviet Union its lizing of the plundering colonial peoples. s Closing Speech | ; The speaker admitted that in“ the | question of approaching the middle | Peasant, much had been done with success, On the other hand, however, nothing had been achieved with re- gard to the approach of the village poor, This represented a tremendous political danger. The policy of the party in the village is basically cor- rect, nevertheless, in the course of car- rying out this policy a number of dif- | ficulties have been encountered. At present the task is to work with all forces to approach the village poor. The fire must therefore be directed against those who do not see the | Kulak danger sufficiently. The speak- er protested against the allegation that he regarded the land workers ob- jectively as the dominant factor. The land worker is exploited by the Kulak. The speaker admitted that the central committee was not responsible for the dissatisfaction in the ranks of the village poor. The danger must, how- Jever, be recognized, not in order to fall into a panic, but to see the polit- ical problem, The speaker referred to the formu- lation of Lenin at the eight party con- gress upon the two counter-agents: the working class and the poor peas- ants on the one side and the middle peasants on the other side. And so it must remain, not on the one side the working class and on the other the village poor and the middle peasantry, fh Speaker than proceeded to answer the attacks against his article “The Philosophy of the Epoch.” First of all the speaker denied having written the article as a platform for the party congress. The greatest ac- cusation consisted in the fact that the slogan “equality” was used in a vulgar-democratic sense. This slogan was characterized as a social revolu- tionary and liberal demagogic one. The speaker declared that the attempt to prove that he had wanted to fling the slogan “equality” into the masses in a bourgeois democratic sense, re- presented an unheard of misinterpre- tation. The speaker admitted that the term “socialist equality” would be more exact and he had altered the slogan in this spirit. When, however, Rykov and Kalinin considered this slo- gan as demagogic, then that meant an| overestimation of the N. E. P. The speaker then protested against. .the actions of a group of young red pro- fessors who are engaged in revising| Leninism. What Is (Continued from page 1). /'*+!! ers. He calls them Communist be- cause he believes that is the easiést way to discredit them. +f 96 Green is also carrying out better than they themselves, the propagandists and politicians rép- resentative of the most reactionary section of American capital. He praises the state department for its patriotic and democratic stand on this question and pledges his supportpHis stand on the question connects pup with his unprincipled attack on, ;the visit the Soviet Union. 4 May Shatter Prejudice. As for his second reason that’ he already is convinced of the state of affairs in the Soviet Union. This is very likely true. It is only natural that Green’s prejudice and “patriot- ism” would lead him to fall victim to the lies concerning Soviet Russia that have been so widely spread by the yellow press. These same prejudices lead him and his associate bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. to completely dis- count the very fair and impartial re- port by leaders of labor in Great Britain. He so fears that prejudices similar to his held by a considerable section of the trade union movement run the chance of being shattered by an impartial report made by compe- tent American trade unionists that he seeks, by sheer intimidation to wreck the movement in advance, | What harm can there be in sending a delegation of*reliable trade union- ists to report back their honest reac- tions to what they see in Russia? It is safe to say that Green knows in advance that their report will be more or less favorable. He wants no such report. It would endanger not only the, propaganda of the anti-Soviet rec- ognitionists whom Green supports but would also seriously embarass Mr, Green and the intolerant position that he holds now regarding the Russian workers, Opposed to these two utterly groundless and hypocritical objections by Mr. Green thes follow five justifi- able and sane reasons why a delega- tion should go: Reasons for a Delegation. 1, Since 1917 the United States has been flooded with reports and counter-reports concerning the state of affairs in the Soviet Union.” These rumors and stories have contradicted each other in such a fashion as to make an understanding of the actual situation in the Russian Republic im- possible. The workers of this coun- try have been the target for whole campaigns of propaganda that have been conistently filling the employer press of the land directed against the efforts of the people of Russia to re- habilitate their nation...‘T" trade union movement lead in dissolving w! myths have been thus circulated. The Ater- lean workers doservasto-be-informed in this movement that is considered of $ In the question of the composition of the party membership the speaker declared that the Leninigrad confer- ence was of the opiniop that at the present moment fifty per cent of the Leningrad metal workers should be drawn into the party. This in no way represented an inflation. In the ‘pres- ent situation, in the present relation of class forces, the slogan must be: Working masses, closer to the state, to the party and to the work of econ- omic reconstruction! HE speaker then proceeded to the question of the Leningrad organi- zation and declared that it was aot isolated. Describing the differences of opinion, the speaker declared that he had altered his attitude after he was accused of being a liquidator and a defeatist. Leningrad was entitled to one of the first places as this organiza- tion had won a prominent importance in the historical development. The Leningrad delegation had the complete right to make proposals to alter the political line. The speaker then described the differences of opin- ion in the central committee. After the second discussion with Trotzky, Bucharin and Kalinin took the point of view that no organizational con- Sequences were necessary as these would’ not be understood by the masses of the party. The speaker and his comrades, however, were of the opinion that in as far as Trotzky was ‘accused of being a half-menshevik, he could not take a place in the general staff of Leninism (Interruption of Trotzky: Correct!) HE speaker contended that the same was true of the present dis- cussion, If the party congress serious- ly considered that the speaker and his comrades were defeatists, then they should not take part in the highest leadership of the party. The accusa- tion of defeatism was never made against Trotzky. The differences of opinion had ac- cumulated and it became ever more difficult to work together. These dif- ferences of opinion are arising in the party. It cannot be doubted that new groups are growing up in the party the job of’ thwarting Russian recognition, it constitutes one of the main if proposal to send a labor delegatiow'to }} and coming to the leadership. It can- not be doubted that the leadership must be in the collective hands of the central committee. The speaker denied the contention that the opposition demanded the head ! isolated and that it would never be | at Party Congress of Bucharin. The speaker quoted the words of Lenin that even in the sharp- est struggle one could not be angry with Bucharin, The speaker pointed out that the foreign Communists and the Communist and social-democratic press would be extremely interested in the discussion. The speaker de- claped that he was decisively against the stopping of the discussion because he and the other accused had had no opportunity of replying to the accusa- tions before the masses. fs HE speaker then proceeded to the question of the solution of the situation. After having declared that he put forward no special line against the line of the central committee, he proceeded to enumerate these con- crete proposals: 1. A struggle against the revision- ist “school” of the young red profes- sors. The slogan must be “Back ‘to Lenin!” : 2. The impermissibility of a revi- sion of Leninism in the. question’ of state capitalism, 3. The thesis upon the concentra- tion of the fire against one of the ai- sressions in the peasant question must be rejected. 4. In the question of the composi- tion of the fire against one of the di- sions of the thirteenth party confer- ence must be retained. 5. Discussion of the question of the extension of the internal party demo- cracy. . 6. Stopping of the campaign against Leningrad. The Leningrad organiza- tion must be given the possibility of choosing its own leaders. 7. The central committees must draw all the forces of the one time grouping into the work and give them the possibility of working under the leadership of the central committee. (Noise, interruption: Repeat it!) 8. A guarantee for the election of officials. x 9. In the first session of the central committee the question of the limita- tion of the functions of the polit bureau, and the secretariat subordi- nate to it, ae speaker closed with the de- mand that the discussion should form the close of a chapter and that a new one should begin in which co- Operative work were possible, The responsibility rests upon the major- ity of the party congress. (Long Snd protracted applause on the part of the Leningrad delegation). Green Afraid Of? The Watchdog of Capitalism (From the Proletarska Pravda, Kiev.) tine WHAT IS HE AFRAID OF? The capitalists are very well satisfied with the attacks of Presi- dent Green on the proposed workers’ delegation to Soviet Russia. of the true condition of the ‘Soviet Republics from the mouths of their own representatives. An American trade union delegation composed of bonafide representatives of various unions and trade union communities viewing at first hand the actual state of affairs obtaining in Soviet Russia would, with its report ot the American workers, eliminate once and for all the confusion that exists regarding the state of the Soviet Union, a con- fusion that has been fostered by the enemies of labor, 2. The world trade union moye- ment is at this time deeply concern- ing itself with the problem that has been termed by the British Trade Union Congress, “World Trade Union Unity.” This involves to a large de- gree the participation of two coun- tries, the United States and Russia, in an international family of trade unions. The British mission to Rus- sia reported favorably on the genuine- ness and power of the Russian trade unions, It remains for American trade unionists to siitisfy themselves as to the truth concerning the Russian workers so they can be free to deter- mine on reliable information whether or not it is advisable to unYe with the Russian workers in a world wide consolidation of trade union forces. Bosses Send Delegations, 3. America ig one of the tew coun- tries with a large trade union move- ment that has not, s0 far, sent a labor ation to the Soviet Union, As one of the greatest labor movements in the world it would constitute a shirking of its duty to” and all other workers union movem fail to teipate trade|involves the future so much importance by workers abroad, and that constitutes, of itself, one of the major problems contront- ing American trade unionists; their attitude towards the workers of So- viet Russia on the basis of trust worthy information, 4. A number of delegations repre- senting industry and capital interest- ed in the vast resources of the Soviet Union are being sent from this coun- try on journeys of investigation to Russia, These missions seek to make findings looking towards the exploita- tion of the illimitible stocks of oil, minerals and other industrial mater- ials to be found in the colontes‘of the Soviet Union. They seek also to up- set the reactionary influences respon- sible for the present attitude of the administration at Washington. ” ‘The reopening fo trade and. intercourse with a country like Russia which covers one-sixth of the land area of the earth and which containg untold treasures could not help but react ta- vorably upon the well-being of this country as well as Russia and would consequently make for the material betterment of the workers in America, 5. The official British trade union mission reported that the Russian trade unions, comprising close to seven million workers are a dominant factor in Russian affairs, are organ- ized on genuine trade union pri and are the basis upon which is built the new industry and social lite of thelr country, It is to th advan- tage of the American trade union movement to apprise itself ; facts concerning an exp of people, What is Mr, Green i wm Tisiad J