The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1926, Page 6

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Advertising rates on application. = Deeply Deplore Postponement Imperialist knaves and pacifist imbeciles who hailed Locarno the dawn of peace, the achievement of the ages, the beginning of the millenim, will have a difficult task explaining why there was such unanimity in Europe regarding the postponement of the arms con- ference scheduled to be held at Geneva, the 15th of this month. If Locarno meant peace why this reluctance to scrap armaments? Without exception all the nations so eagerly agreeing to the postponement (7?) of the conference, expressed deepest regrets that such action was taken, Britain, for instance, must be exceedingly pained at its post- ponement. Instead of favoring further arms limitations she has al- ready served notice that she will go no further on the road char- tered at the Washington conference and that she resents the 5: nayal quota involving that country, the United States and Japan. Her far-flung colonies and mandates seething with nationalist move- ments blending into proletarian insurrectionary threats, her strug- gle against the ever-growing power and arrogance of Wall Street bank capital, sufficiently account for her reticence in the matter of discussing limitations of armaments. sg France waits for the rains to cease in Morocco so that Marshal Petain may shower shrapnel and liquid fire into the huts of the inhabitants of that objective of imperialism, while droning air- planes, manned by such scum_of the earth as the American assassins who were there in the last campaign; drop high explosives upon de- fenseless women and children. Mussolini, the maniacal murderer of Italy’s working class, boasts of a revival of empire with himself as the Louis the Little. In the far east the “island empire,’ Japan, trembles before the <r 390 *lership in the work of the people’s wroletariat and the suppressed peo- les, and to hold its course upon the cluded new commercial and conces-| levelopment and the victory of the sional agreements with them, built up] .nternational proletarian revolution. its foreign commerce still further and 2. To conduct a peace policy to consolidated its international situa-|/orm the center of the whole foreign tion. policy of the Soviet ‘government and Thanks to the same policy the Sov-|to be at the basis of all its interna- iet Union was able internally to se-| tional gctions. cure the state budget, to progress 3. To carry on the economic recon- with the development of industry and {struction in such a way that the Sov- the further development of agricul-jigt Union will develop from a coun- ture and at the same time to introduce }try which imports machinery to a a general increase of wages and to|country which produces machinery so speed up the standard of production,| that in this way the Soviet Union en- to bring its production nearer to the}circled by capitalism’ will not become pre-war level and to secure an in-| economically dependént upon capitalist ng role for the ‘socialist ele-| world economy but will become an in- ment in the whole people’s economy. |dependent economic unit building it- Thanks to the same policy the Sov-|self up socialistically‘and thanks to its jet power consolidated the alliance}|2conomic construction a , powerful between the workers and the peas-}| means to revolutioniz@ the workers of antry, and secured the proletarian ll countries and the Suppressed peo- leadership of this alliance; raised the] ples of the coloniafand half-colonial actual role and significance of the | countries, co-operatives, drew together broad 4. As far as possible to form eco- sections of the technical and other in-| s0mic reserves as a guarantee for the tellectuals under the leadership of the |vountry in all accidents in the integ- proletariat upon the basis of social-].al and external market. ist reconstruction, and consolidated] 5 5. To take all measures to con- the unity of the peoples of the Soviet /solidate the defensive forces of the (Continued trom pago 1) Union. ountry and to strengthen the Red HILST recording these siccesses,| ‘'™Y, Navy and air fleet. the party congress recorded at ese the field of. economic yecon- the same time the mistakes made in| ‘Tuction the party,,¢ongress adopts conn ion with the provision of} °& Leninist standpoint that the. Sov- reals and in connection with the] °t Union as the land of the prolet- “ian dictatorship “possesses every- ching necessary for, the construction ot a complete socialist society.” The party congress consilers that the struggle for the victory of the social- ist reconstruction of the Soviet Un- ton is the chief task of the party. The period since the 13th party con- gress has proved in full the correct- ness of this principle. The working class of the Soviet Union in alliance with the main mass of the peasantry has achieved the first serious success- 2s in the work of socialist reconstruc- foreign commerce, mistakes which en- dangered the stability of the currency and which created a passive foreign rade balamee, the activity of: which is a condition for further economic growth. The party congress approves of the decisions passed by the central com- mittee in| November for correcting these mistakes and instructs the cen- tral committee to strengthen the lead- commissariat of economy in order to nt such mistakes in the future. blows being delivered imperialsim in China as the fiationalist force: smash the lines of Chang Tso-lin. With China threatening to sli from their greedy clutches, all the imperialist banditti assembléd in that part of the world are increasing their forces. Everywhere the contradictions within imperialism are driving toward another world war. Only half-wits expect to achieve dis- armament in such a situation. Disarmament will only finally be achieved when the human cannon fodder take the arms placed in their hands by the imperial- ists and use them to destroy capitalism root and branch. When, thru the mighty power of the proletarian revolution, the imperialist bandits are dispersed and their citadels razed, the world will be prepared for disarmament—but not until then. Mussolini on Rampage Estimated at his true worth, the butt of ridicule of Europe, and facing the threat of revolt in Italy, the braggart despot, Mus- solini, is now endeavoring to foment a war against Germany. Or at least indulges in the threat of war in order to wipe out the opposi- tion, to, his regime by fanning the flames of chauvinism. Under the guise of unifying the nation for a struggle against a fictitious out- side enemy he will endeavor to wage reprisals against his political enemies in Italy. A paranoic, Mussolini pictures himself wearing the garb of Ceaser, but in reality he merely struts in the buskins of Louis the Little (Napoleon IIL) of Franee. The Italian tyrant threatens Ger- many in the Tyrol with the boast that the tricolor of the nation may be carried beyond the frontier and into Germany. Louis the Little also had maniacal dreams of empire, he also invaded Germany, hoping relentlessly and at one lightning stroke to erush that nation. He fought one battle on German soil and was beaten. Then came Sedan and surrender. As Victor Hugo sai¢ “He began with the black flag of anarchy and ended with the white flag of shame.” After Sedan came Metz; after Metz the Paris Commune with the crimson emblem of the revolution flying from the Hotel.de Ville. -Bonapartism in the mire, the red flag floating defiantly to the breeze. History has taught Mussolini nothing. Life will teach him the Jessons he ought ts know and thus complete his education. But it will do him no good. Louie the Little died in exile in London, but the blood-streaked monster of Italy will perish as he has lived. And not even Morgan’s millions can save him and his fascist regime from utter annihilation before a proletarian revolution, The analogy between Mussolini and Louis Napoleon can be carried far. But the aftermath of the revolution will be different. -More than 50 years seperates us from the Commune. Capitalism still had vitality, was still.in the ascendency; today capitalism is in its decline and we live in the era of the proletarian revolution. It Was Coming to Them! Down in southern Ilinois two “volunteer” prohibition agents were killed for snooping around premises on which they had no business. One of them was a constable and the .other a moron he picked up to accompany him on a raiding expedition. They in> false disarmament shouting of the vaded a ‘place they suspected was used to manufacture whiskey. They had neither federal nor state warrants. They relied upon the fear of a tin badge to bluff the victims of their raid. Evidently they underestimated the courage of the people they attacked for both of them met sudden and violent deaths. We Wave no sympathy for bootleggers, but we do insist that any person, bootlegger or working man, whose premises are invaded by any official of any stripe, without a warrant and without first establishing the fact that he has such warrant is nothing more than an outlaw, a criminal invading other peeple’s domiciles and should be treated Precisely as were these two rats in southern IIlinois. For much too long the American people have na police-ridden, and a few killings . of this sort will do much to regain rights that have been taken from them, Defending against illegal invasion.is an American tradition and welbieene see it exercised much more frequently, "Get a memberYr the Workers Party and a new. precinr The Pane, WORKER. m ~——~}-struction. tion, before the conquest of power by the proletariat of (other countries, however, with its unqualified support, in-| without the so-called help on the part of foreign capital and in an unbroken struggle against the>internal private capital. The past year brot with it a stormy development of the people’s economy in general which approach- ed the pre-war lever and showed growths in its individwal branches: In- dustry, agriculture, transport, external and internal commerée, banking and credit system, state fimance, etc. The specific gravity of ‘socialist industry, of the state and ‘co-operative com- merce, of nationalized credit, etc., is growing in .the pi ’s economy of T present the party is beginning to work under new international and internal circumstance: tenance and extension of ti ing space upon the field of foreign politics has become a whole period characterized by the so-called peace- ful existence of the Soviet Union side by.side with the capitalist countries altho the contradictions between these two camps have become not weaker but stronger. This breathing space brings with it the possibility of internal reconstruc- tion and in consequence of the eco- nomie relations with foreign coun- trigs, certain advantages which can be uséd to speed up this work of recon- the Soviet Union ich consists of various economic forms, natural peas- ant economy, small modity produc- tion, private economic capitalism, state capitalism and?socialism, In this way the economic adwance of the pro- letariat upon the basis of the new eco- nomic policy and the advance of the economic system ofjthe Soviet Union in the direction of sopialism is taking place. The socialist state industry is becoming ever mome the advance guard of the people's economy and leading after it bay whole people’: economy. M aed party congress. pointed out ‘that this success could not have been obtained without the active partici- pation of broad masses of the workers in the general activity for the build- ing up of the socialist industry (the campaigns for the raising of the pro- ductivity of labor, the productive councils, ete.). At the same.time, however, the spe- cial contradictions of this growth and the specific dangers and difficulties caused by this growth are develop- ing. To these belong the absolute growth of private capital, a phenome- non which is bound with its relative decrease, the special role of private commercial capital. which takes its business into the yillage, the growth of the Kulak economy in the village and the differentiation in the village, the growth of a new bourgeoisie in the towns which strives to unite eco- nomically with the. commercial capi- talist and Kulak economies in the struggle for the subjugation of the main masses of middle peasant economies. ie AVING regard ‘to all these consi- derations, the party congress in- structs the central’committee to be guided by the folldwing directives up- on the field of its @¢onomic activity: 1. To pay chiéf”attention to the task of securing ‘the victory of the socialist economic férms over private capital, to strengthidhing the monopoly of foreign commeréé, to the growth of socialist state indwStry and the mob- ilization under its leadership and with the help of the co-operatives of the greatest possible masses of the peasant economies for the work of socialist reconstruction, 2. To secure the economic inde- pendence of the Soviet Union in or- der to preserve it from developing in- to a pendant of capitalist world econ- omy and for this purpose to pursue 4 course for the industrialization of the country, for the development of production from the means of produc- Uon and for the creation of reserves to allow economic room to maneuvers, 3. To strive growth of pro- duction and of ity circulation in the country the basis of the resglutions of party confer- ce, = / On the other hand, how- ever, in consequence ofthe strength- ening connections betweén the Soviet economy and world capitalism, the de- pendente upon the latter is increased and this conceals within it a series of new dangers which must be drawn in- to consideration by the party in its socialist struggle and in securing the necessary economic independence of the Soviet Union. A partial stabiliza- tion of capitalism and a_ relative stréngthening of the political power of the European bourgeoisie must be recorded The role of the United States of America has increased enormously most to the extent of its financial world hegemony. Further, the gradual twilight of the British empire as a world power ~is setting in. The following facts must also be recorded; the contradictions between the victorious and defeated states, the contradictions in the camp of the victorious states themselves, the contradictions between Europe and America, the undermining of the whole imperialist system on the part of the awakening colonial and half- colonial peoples, whose movement which in various places has taken on the form of wars for national freedom, has reached unparalleled and gigan- tic dimensions, and finally, the growth of new forms in the European work- ing class movement, in close ebnnec- teion with the proletariat of the Soviet Union (the struggle for the. trade un- ion unity, the -workers’ delegations to the Soviet Union, etc.) HE comparative stabilization of Bu- rope» and the “pacification” of Europe under the hegemony of Anglo- American capital, called a whole sys- tem of economic and political blocs in- to life, the last of which was the Lo- carno conference and the guarantee pact’ pointed against the Soviet Un- jon, These blocs and agreemen' which are covered by the allegedly pacifist league of nations and by the Second International, mean ential- ly nothing but a new arrangement of forces for a new war. In answer to these blocs of the capitalist countries under Anglo-American hegemony which are accompanied with an normal increase of armaments and therefore, carry with them the dan- gers of new wars, including also the danger of an anti-Soviet intervention, the proletariat of the advanced coun- tries is drawing closer to the proletar- iat of the Soviet Union, With slogans of’ the struggle for peace against all new imperialist wars and against arm- ed attacks upon the Soviet Union. PON the basis of this estimation of the international situation the party congress instructs the central committee to con its policy with regard to the f¢ “ Congress of Russian Communist Party by Vote of 559 to 65 Supports the Central Committee the tempo of the socialist accumula- tion, 5. To develop our socialist indué- try upon the basis of the increased evel of technique, at the same time, however, in the closest unity with the capacity of the market to absorb and in agreement with the financial possi- bilities of the state. 6. To support the development of Soviet industry in the provinces, dis- tricts, republics, etc, by promoting the initiative in the provinces, etc., with regard to the organization of this industry the purpose of which is to satisfy the most varied demands of the population in general and of the peasantry in particular. 7. To support and bring forward agriculture in the development of the increase of agricultural culture, the development of technical culture, the increase of agricultural technique, (tractorization) the industrialization of agriculture, the regulation of the division of land and the support of the various forms of collectivism in agriculture, HE party congress is of thé opin- ion that one of the struggles against the disbelief in the building up of socialism in our country and against the attempt to consider our undertakings, undertakings of a “logi- al socialistic type” (Lenin) as state apitalist undertakings, Such tendencies which make the conscious attitude of the masses to the work of industry in particular, impossible are simply calculated to prevent the growth of the socialist ele ments in economy and to render th struggle of private capital against th latter more easy. For this reason the party conference considers a wide- spread educational work for the pur- pose of overcoming these mutilations of Leninism to be necessary. ITH regard to the relations of the classes, the party congress ob- serves the following basic phenomen: which are determined by the economic development of the Soviet Union: Growth of the industrial proletariat, strengthening of the rich peasants in the village, growth of the new bour- geoisie in the town, growth of the ac- tivities of all classes and groups in our country. One of the basic forms of the class struggle at the present moment is the struggle between the capitalist and socialist elements in economy, the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat for the conquest of the masses of the peasantry. This struggle finds its po- litieal expression chiefly in the at- tempts of the Kulak elements in the village to win over the middle peas- antry and in this way to extend their influence to the Soviets. F the viilage poor, above all the land workers, are the support of the proletariat in the village, then the middle peasant is and must be the firm ally of the proletariat. One~“may not forget for one moment that in con- sequence of the confiscation of the large landowners and the transaction f their property into the hands of e peasantry, in consequence of the licy of the committees of the. village poor and of the decline of the influ- ence of the Kulaks in the village and finally in consequence of the removal of the land from commodity circula- tion (nationalization of the land) the middle peasantry was strengthened extremely and now this section, de- spite the process of differentiation, forms the main mass of she peasantry. Without having this mass as a firm ally, or should this mass only be neutral, we cannot after consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, build up socialism, For the main way to the building up of socialism in the village lies in the growing economic leadership of the socialist state indus- try, of the state credit institutions, etc, which are in the hands of the proletariat, in the mobilization of the chief masses of the peasantry in the co-operative organizations, and in se- curing the socialist development of these organizations by utilizing, over- coming and abolishing their capitalis. vlements. Any underestimation of the middle peasants, the lack of under standing for his specially importan: role, the attempt to lead the party from the slogan of the firm alliance with the middlé peasant to the old slogan of his neutralization, leads to a destruction of the dictatorship of the proletariat because it destroys the workers’ and peasants’ bloc. Tes struggle against the Kulak latter, The lack of understanding of the these two directions is connected with two digressions from the correct party policy which was laid down by the fourteenth party conference and_ the, October plenum of the central com- The party congress decisively condemns the digressions which un- mitt derestimates the differentiation in the village, which overlooks the dangers which are bound up with the growth of the Kulaks and the various for | Aorgamge Reson. A pore Bie Hy Bynes Ve workers in the struggle against the Kulaks, party congress condemns just as de- cisivély the attempts to conceal the basic question of Communist policy in the Village, the question of the strug- gle for the middle peasant as the cen; tral question of co-operation-as the basic organizational form of the movement of the village towards socialism. gle against this last digression. ing regard to the relatively greater preparation of the party ‘for the im- mediate struggle against‘ ‘the village usurer and with the overcoming the first digression, overcoming “of the second digression represents a much more difficult task, tor this demands complicated’ meth- ods of struggle and a ‘whification of Yhe methods for the political isola- tion of the Kulaks with the methods for the drawing of the peasant mass- es into the work of socialist recon- struction. ond digression threatens*a:return to the policy of struggle against the Ku- iaks with the methods of war Com- munism, and with an abandonment of must proceed thru the organization of the village poor against the Kulak and thru the consolidation of the alli- ance of the proletariat the village poor with the middle peasant for the purpose of winning the middle peas- ant from the Kulaks and isolating the great importance of the struggle in ciple of voluntarism, without the re sponsibility on the part of the elected organs to their electors, without trust n these organs on the part of the members. The enlivenment of the Sov- iets and the growth of their connes: tion with the broad masses of the working population is the necessary condition for all the further work of 1 the party and the Soviet power. HE enlivenment of the village Soy- jets and the co-operatives which release the initiative and the activity of the peasants, assumes from the point of, view of the maintenance and consolidation of the: proletarian 1 ership, the enlivenment and the uni; fication of the growing activity and the consolidation of the proletarian organizations. Only upon this condi ” tion can the proletarian dictatorship be consolidated and the carrying out of a correet political line from the point of view of socialism be guaranteed. From this proceeds above. all the slogan for the enlivenment of the trade unions, these proletarian mass organizations which must {n- clude the whole proletariat. The trade union democracy must be the method by which the participation of the masses in the general work is’ made easier, the possibilities of chosing new comrades to place in higher posts, en= larged, the leading bodies of the trade union organizations renewed and the class consolidation and the raising of class consciousness in the prole- tarian masses made possible, x N order to carry out this whole work of enlivening the mass orgat zations of the proletariat and the peasantry, it is necessary that the leading “forces of these organizations also, that is to say, the Russian Com- munist Party in all its parts, take the way of a logical internal party democ- racy. The party congress ratifies the November declaration of the plenum of the central committee in relation to the internal party democracy and proposes to the party organizations to pay attention to the following tasks upon. ‘his field: (a) An increase of the activity-of the broad party masses in. discussing and solving the most important ed tions of party policy. (b) A logical carrying out of the electoral system of the leading party organs and the drawing in of new ° forces to the party work, an increase in ‘the activity of the party members and the education of new party. for es to assist the old. (c) Raising of the quality ot the active party members, in particular, raising the theoretical level. (d) The ‘spreading of the basic _ principles of the Leninist theory in the broadest party circles. HE consolidation of the party and the strengthening of its leading role upon all the fields of the. subor- dinate work of reconstruction which in the present complicated situation jis more necessary than ever, asst a correct regulation of the composi- tion of the party. The panty con- gress holds it to be necessary upon this field to carry on a policy | directed towards raising the quality of the party organization and towards draw- ing greater numbers of workers into the party and steadily raising the spe- cific gravity of its proletarian kernel. © At the same time the party congress ratifies the necessity of the firm car- rying out of the measures of lmite- tion in relation to the acceptance of proletarian elements. into the party. It_rejects, however, the policy which leads to an unnecessary swelling of the party membership and its over- flow with half-proletarian. elements which have no training either from the trade unions or other proletarian organizations. The party co. condemns such attempts which have - nothing in common with Leninism and which deny the correct relation -be- tween the party (advance guards of the class) and the class and make the Communist leadership impossible. The leading role of the party can only be assured with an absolute anity of will, with a unity of the party ‘orees, with the maintenance and con- solidation of the Bolshevik protetar- an discipline in the party. gee party congress ratifies the pol- icy of the central committee —— vas directed towards prev ‘pen discussion. with individual ‘cad. ors of the Leningrad organization and cheir sympathizers outside the cen- ral committee and to thrashing « che differences of opinion int ind securing a nee of the party. The party cual instructs the central committee to struggle .dect- sively against all attempts to make a breach in the y no matter from where or from pone it may. The party congress is the Leningrad organization will in the first ranks of the fighters the unification of our Leninist At the same time, “however, the figure of agriculture, and the HE party congress stresses in par- ticulag the necessity of the strug- Hav- possibility of the All the more because in the present circumstances this sec- che present party policy in ‘the. village which has already produced. serious political successes and with the aboli- ion of the alliance between, the prole- ariat and the peasantry, that is with he end of our whole work of recon truction, HE party congress ratifies com- pletely the’ decisions of the four- genth party conference in the peasant juestion , (including the extension of ease rights, the right to employ labor ,ower, the assistance for industry and the transition from the system of ad- ministrative pressure to the system of conomic competition and economic truggle and the énlivenment of the Soyiets, etc.) which _were directed to che further betterment ‘ot the policy of the party towards consolidating the illiance between the ‘working class und the peasantry. The party congress leclared that this turning of the party policy alone which comes: from the altered class” relations, has radically umproved the situation inthe village, has raised the authority: of the prole- tariat and its party amongst the peas- antry and has created-ca-firm basis tor a wide organizational: work -for the purpose of drawing the peasant- ry into the work ot building up. social- ism, 20 At the same ite the party congress sompletely ratifies the?’ decisions of he October plenum-of the central conmmittee upon the work amongst the ‘Mage poor. Only in so far as the wrogress Of the productive forces in che village, under the ‘present circum- stances of increased activity of all class groupings, is accompanied by the organization of the poor peasants and the land workers, can the neces- sary reciprocal relations: of class forc- es and the leadership of jthe industrial proletariat’ be guaranteed, Whilst ratifying the decisions of the central committee upon the material aid for the village poor and upon the organ- ization of groups amongst these latter, the party congress stresses that there can be no question here either of re- turn to thé committées of the village poor nor a returh to the system of pressure from the times of war Com- munism and to the practice of sup- pressing the Kulaks, etc. It is a ques- tion of organizing the village poor. With the assistance of the party and the state power they must overcome the remains of their pauper phsycho- iogy in the struggle on the economic and political front, (collective econo- mies, artells, co-operatives, peasant committees, Soviets) and they must go the way of organized class resist- ance again: e village usurers and bego me the firm support of the pro- jetarian policy and its struggle for the anification of the middle peasantry vnd the proletariat. HE party congress declares that agricultural co-operation, in rela- fon to its economic work, from the standpoint of the mobilization of the masses and its correct socialist lead- ership, ds still very fat from the com- pletion of its great role. The party congress makes it the duty of al) party members to pay ithe greatesi attention to the development of agri cultural co-operation and to take al! measures to guararitee > correci growth. The increased activity: ot the mass- es together with the growing activity of all class groupings upon the basis of the economic progress’ is a factor of the highest political importance. The proletariat and its party as the basic and leading social force must utilize this growth for the purpose of still further drawing the masse: into the process of socialist recon: struction upon all fronts and into the struggle against bureaucracy in the state apparatus, This growth of the activity of the masses found its expression in the town in an enlivenment of the town Soviets, the trade unions, the workers co-operatives, etc. In the village the pip gs of the activity of the mass- es of the middle peasantry and of the village poor four in The party congress consolidation of the all tween the proletariat of the. Union, and the