The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 4

Page Four RUSSIAN COMMUNIS T PARTY CONGRESS APPROVES WORK OF CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION (international Press Correspondence) OSCOW, U.S. S. R, Dec. 25.— (By Mail)—At today’s forenoon ®ession of tho fourteenth congress of the Russian Communist Party, Com- fade Kuibischev reported on the acti-! ity of the central control commis- | sion. The speaker said in the begin- | ming of his speech that the central | control committee completely accepts | the point of view of the central com- | mittee. The central control commis- sion tried to abolish the differences of opinion between the majority and the} opposition thus making their present- | ation to the party congress unneces- am When Comrade Krupskaya as al Member of the central commission | @igned the so-called “platform of the | four,” the presidium ‘of the central) control commission considered it ne-| cessary to address a letter to the cen: | tral committee in which the presidium | Geclares {ts agreement with the ma-| dority of the central committee and} @xpresses the opinion that the discus- sion of these questions was inadmis- sible. | In the questions of the practical work of the C. C. C, the following tasks are on the order of the day: | the growing political activity of the| working class and those strata of the | peasantry that are nearest to _it,| ereates the condition for the drawing of these masses into the work of re- construction of the state. The ©. C. C. nd its organ must particularly estap- lish a close contact with the trade unions, and organs of production, with the economic commissions in the So- viet institutions, with the delegate conferences of the working women, etc. aa important task of the C. C, C. and of the workers and peasants inspections is the active co-operation in the respective party and Soviet or- gans for the selection of functionaries | for the economic and state organs. In| connection with the organization of | the state apparatus with the view of Teally complying with the needs of the workers and peasants, the ques- tion of the advancing of workers and | Peasants to responsible posts, is of immense importance. The struggle against bureaucracy and disorder should not be stopped | for one moment and for this purpose the workers and peasants press must |the C. C. C. completely and ratifies |tenant farmers of the South, who are be utilized. All creative forces of the | working class must be drawn into the | work of the rationalization of the sys- tem of economy and administration | The control commissions must sup- port themselves on the broadest mas- ses of the membership for maintain- ing the unity of the party and for-im- proving the quality of the membership. In this connection the educational work of the party must receive main attention. With regard to the admis- sion of new members the decisions of the thirteenth party congress must be fully observed. The most import- ant task for all party organizations in the coming period of work is the carrying out of the party decisions on the work in the village. Discussion on the Report. N the forenoon session on Dec, 26th the discussion on the-report of the C. C. C. took place.. Among others, Krupskaya and Yaroslaysky took the floor. Krupskaya pointed ott that the | €. C. C. in the question of leading the | work of the workérs and peasants jn- | Spections, as well as in the work of | purifying the party of strange ele-| ments, had gained successes. But | the activity of the C. C. C. for main-| taining the unity of the party had | been insufficient. His Report Approved | TH E DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party LIBERAL LAWYER GETS WORSE END IN OPEN DEBATE Audience Agrees With Communist Speaker CLEVELAND, Feb. 9 — The debate between I. Amter, district secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, and COMRADE KUIBISCHEV Chairman Central Control Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. The speaker Minim (Leningrad) pointed to the mistake of principle committed by the C. C. C. by not giving in its report an analysis of the reciprocal relations between the work- ing class and the peasantry. Yaroslawsky (member of the C. C. C.) made a polemic against the con- ception of Krupskaya that the C. C. C. should not participate in. the work of the central committee, We have followed the differences of opin- ion in the polit bureau and we were convinced that we could abolish them. We recommended that both sides should make concessions. The Lenin- grad district committee has broken the party statutes by prohibit- ing the sending of a delegation from the Viborg district to the party con- gress. Yaroslavsky closed amidst ap- plause by declaring that the central committee must avoid that such a breach of the party statutes occurs in connection with the fifteenth party congress, by taking organizational measures, Resolution Upon the Report. HIS resolution was adopted in the evening sesion of Dec. 26: “The party congress ratified the activity of also the proposals upon the work of the C. C. C. and the workers and peasants inspection. The party con- gress approves of the attitude of the C. C. C. in cofinection with the main- tenance of party unity and the sup- M, C, Harrison, an attorney of this city, demonstrated that the foes of Communism know little about the country they praise so much and less about Soviet Russia. Workers Protect Their Interests. Amter, who took the affirmative on the question “Resolved that the Work- ers (Communist) Party has the only program for the working class.” de- monstrated that the premises for the revolution are presenting themselves in the European countries and are de- veloping in the United States. The workers and poor farmers—the pro- ducers of the country—will face the question of whether they will con- tinue to be oppressed and crushed, or face the combined forces of the cap- italists with their extra-legal organ- izations, the ku klux klan, American Legion, American Defense League, Dawes Minute Men etc. in an open conflict to protect their interests. Harrison made the central point of his speech an attack on Soviet Russia, He knew nothing about the develop- ment of Soviet economy, of the draw- ing in of the mass of the peasantry into activity in the local Soviets. He declared that if all that the peasants got was'the land, then there was no reason for the American farmer to want a revolution, for the American | farmer has the land. He had nothing to reply to Amter in his rebuttal when Amter told about the progressive impoverishment of the farmers in this country, the corn farm- ers’ conference only a few week ago, the increasing mortgages, the rising taxes, the growing tenantry. Mr. Harrison spoke about the condi- | tion of the Negro today, but forgot, as | Amter pointed out, the miserable con- dition of the millions of poor Negro in a worse condition than under the | chattel slave system. | Ignorance of Imperialism. Speaking of militarism, Mr. Harri- son declared that “war is not the re- port of the Leninist policy of the central committee. The _ resolution was adopted by the whole party con- gress with the exception of 40 ab- stentions on the part of the Leningrad comrades,” Open Postoffice in Lapland. MOSCOW, (Tass) Feb. 9—The first post-office has been opened at Lovo- zero, the capital of Lapland. The town is situated 90 versts off the Mur- mansk Railway and has never had any postal connections with the outside world. The mail will be delivered by reindeer carts in winter, and on foot in the summer, owing to the absence of roads, This will be the norther- most post-office of the Soviet Union. Telephone lines to Lovozero are to be laid in the spring. The present popu- lation of the town is 800 people. Lo- vozero is the center of reindeer trade. A suh a day will help to drive | capital away. Good Time plus Gain at Defense of Class Central Opera House, TAL OBJECTS, EMBROIDERED GRAND CONCERT! 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'ENSE, NEW YORK SECTION, 422, New York City, sult of imperialism, but of race pride and race prejudice.” This utter lack of understanding of the ground work of imperialism and of war, and com- plete ignorance of the reason for race pride and race prejudice, evoked an answer from Amter, who proved that | in this country, the capitalists foster race prejudice and antagonisms in order to keep the entire working class down. “Will you explain, Mr. Harrison,” said Amter “how it happens that Eng- land was against Germany in the last war, and associated herself with France? For surely tnere is closer racial affinity between the population of Germany and England than between that of England and France? And yet seven years later, we find Eng- land, the ostensible friend of France, | |turning to Germany and lining up |more with her against France? The reason is clear. Germany was the strongest competitor of England be- fore the war; today France is strug- gling against England for the hege- mony of Europe and the East. That jis the cause of imperialist war and that is the economic basis of all war today.” The questions from the floor were illuminating, One elderly gentleman | commenting on Harrison's statement | that if all the peasants in Soviet Rus-| sia received was the land, said that | that is more than the American farm- er has. He referred to the United States census and proved his conten- tion. Liberal Gets Little Support. The crowd was the largest that has ever gathered at the Goodrich House Settlement, and the applause that greeted Amter’s speech showed that the liberal attitude on current prob- lems has little hold on them, Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor, Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P, M. Dally, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P. M. Special Rates to W. P. Members THE LENIN DRIVE or Jue Thousand MNéw dibs to THE DAILY WORKER year; month: Ends February 15 And maybe you haven't yet sent in a single sub. But— IT’S NOT TOO LATE! Street City State ASN al aie ly LT dimen — | The RATES—Outside of Chicago: $6.00 per Enclosed §............06 months sub, NEW YORK WORKERS’ SCHOOL BANQUET T0 BE HELD ON FRIDAY NEW YORK, Feb, 9. = A get-to- gether banquet marking™te opening of the drive for a $10,000 fund to ex- tend the workers’ school, will be held Friday night from 6 to 8 at the Moishe Nadir Restaurant, 31 E. Seventh street, between Second and Third avenues. As the supper hour has been chos- en for this banquet and as the price of 75 cents is the regular cost of a meal in the city and as an excep- tionally good meal willbe furnished, it is expected that not only the en- tire student body and:all of the nu- merous friends of the workers’ school, but the entire party member- ship will be present at this ban- quet. Moissaye J. Olginy Bertram D. Wolfe, director of »the- workers’ school, and other speakers will de- liver brief “after dinner” speeches and the entire banquet will be over in time for those who wish to at- tend the bazaar of the International Labor Defense to get there at the regular hour. Any worker is welcome to attend this banquet, but he must send in his 75 cents at once in order that the necessary number of reserva- tions may be made and meals pre- pared. All notifications to attend, must arrive not later than Thursday morning, Feb. 11, at the workers’ school, 108 E. 14 street, Room 34, WORKERS’ SCHOOL OPENS DRIVE TO RAISE $10,000 Campaign Starts Friday, February 12 NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—On the com- pletion of its first three-months term of this year, the Workers’ School, with 700 students in it central build- ing at 108 East 14th St, and with annexes in Harlem, Bronx, South Brooklyn, Brownsville, Passaic, Pater- son, Elizabeth and Union City, finds itself the largest workers’ school in the country and much’ too big to put up with its present nadequate facil- ities. After a series of tings of repre- sentatives of the 8! t body and of a special finance committee, full plans have been made forthe launching of a $10,000 drive to.make the equip- ment of the school adequate for so large an institution. . Opening with a big student banquet or mass meeting Friday, Feb. 32, and closing with a big concert in the Cen- tral Opera House on Sunday, March 14, the students and..friends of the Workers’ School will,give an example of six weeks of unparalleled activity. Altho the district has authorized two months for the $10,000 drive, the drive committee and the student body are convinced that six weeks are more than enough and before the six weeks are over, the total will be com- pleted and they are announcing the concert in Central Opera House as “the celebration of the successful drive for the raising of $10,000 for the Workers’ School.” The treasurer of the drive committee is Alexander Trachtenberg, the director, A. Ra- vitch, and the director of the Work- ers’ School is Bertram D, Wolfe. Have You Qualified for Daily Worker Banquet? Lists to Close Feb. 15 NEW YORK, Feb, 9—The lists for DAILY WORKER banquet in New York are to close on Feb, 15, so that the names of all those who prov- ed their loyalty to The DAILY WORK- ER by securing the required $10.00 worth of subscriptions may be printed in the program for the banquet, which will come at Yorkville Casino, Sun- day, Feb, 21, February 15 is also the closing date of the Lenin drive fot 5,000 new read- ers for The DAILY WORKER, Every reader of The DAILY WORKER in New York should participate in these events. Call at the New York agency, 108 East 14th street, Room 32, for in- formation and supplies. RUSH! $3.50 six months; 8. $2.00 three PIERCE-ARROW SHOP NUCLEUS ISSUES PAPER Buffalo ‘Workers’ Point’ Too Sharp for Bosses The Workers (Communist) Party Shop Nucleus in the Pierce Arrow Motor company, Buffalo, N. Y., issued the first number of its shop bulletin, The Workers Point, on Feb, 5. The bulletin is headed with a cartoon de- picting a gleeful worker jabbing an arrow into the back of a fat, frighten- ed boss. The bulletin consists of one sheet paper, neatly and attractively mimeographed on two sides. The leading article deals with the walkout of seventeen metal finishers in the body department of the plant, due to delay and failure in supplying them with stock, These workers are piece-workers and when they do not receive materials they have to stay in the shop without being paid for their time, The article also goes into the evils of the piece work system as a whole, and calls for its abolition and for a 44-hour week. A short snappy editorial takes up the “dynamite plot” trial of ten mem- bers of the Street Car Men’s Union and their acquittal. It points out that the workers must not be misled by the verdict of “not guilty,” and recalls to the workers the cases of Tom Mooney, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the 106 other class war prisoners who are in jail for their working class activity. It points out the need of a powerful defense organization and calls upon the workers to attend the Internation- al Labor Defense protest meeting against the use of the frame-up and the labor spy by the enemies of la- bor, An interesting article on the aims and purposes of The Workers Point, an invitation to the workers in the plant to write for the bulletin, and a to The DAILY WORKER, are other features of The Workers Point. Activities of the type represented by this bulletin are a crying need of the automobile industry, one of the largest and least organized in this country. The shop nuclei, with their agitation and propaganda concentrated in the shops, with their bulletins taking up, in a simple and intelligent manner, the shop problems and gen- eral questions of interest to the work- ing class, promise to be the starting point for the organization of these vast, unorganized industries, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. Italian Fraction Convention in New York City, Feb. 27-28 The bureau of the Italian fraction of the party has decided to hold a convention on February 27-28 in New York City. The convention is being held for the purpose of electing a new bureau and for working out plans to establish 11 Layoratore ag a daily pa- per. In preparation for this conven- tion, meetings on the question of lan- |guage fractions and on the Italian daily will be held in the following cities; meeting halls to be announced later: New Haven, Torrington, Waterbury, | Naugatuck, New London. February 14. | Sormenti and Weinstone. New York and Union City, N. J. Sormenti and Gitlow. | Philadelfhia, Landersville, Anthra- cite and Chester, Sormenti and Gitlow. Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo. February 10-11 Coco and Gitlow, ; Cleveland, February 13. Coco and Amter. Detroit, Feb. 14-15. Coco and Rey- nolds. Chicago, Feb. 16-17. Coco and Abern. Youngstown, Feb, 18. Coco and Amter, Pittsburg. Feb, 20, Coco and Jakira. This tour and convention will be a big step toward establishing the lan- suage fraction work among the Italian comrades, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Finnish Branch, W. P., Quincy, Ma Russian Br., Boston, Mass. Finnish Br., New Rochelle, N. Y. 7.50 Workers Party, Palo Alto, Cal. 3.70 S. Berlin, Chicago (collected)... 4.55 Finnish Br. W. San ran- cisco, Cal, 32.61 Section 2, W. Chicago. 14.50 Nick Popovici, Warren, 0, 1,50 G. Anderson, Camden, N, J.. 1.00 $ 75.86 Total today , Previously received .. . 34,233.40 $34,309.26 Grand total ,,. WITH THE Y CONDUCTED - BY Thi and Social Democratic ing the Most Stupid ist Party. Here is a Te decisions of the 14th Congress of the Russian Communist Party are of great significance to the party and to the International. The relative stabilization of capitalism (which is connected with continually increas- ing contradictions), brought new dif- ficulties for the Soviet Union. In this situation, the decisions of the con- g@ress emphasized again that the Party of Bolsheviks is persistently continuing its fight for world revolu- tion and the overthrow of capitalist society. The congress also firmly establish- ed the fact that the working class of the Soviet Union has all the neces- sary conditions for the building of so- cialism. The Russian Party showed that in its attitude it is neither pass- ive nor pessimistic. Under all condi- tions it continues to go forward to strengthen the forces of the world revolution, emphasizing that socialist construction in the Soviet Union is now one of the fundamental factors for the strengthening of the interna tional proletariat, strengthening it: ion for the pyerthrow of capitalisnf ‘0 successfully conduct socialist con- struction it is necessary to involve in it the participation of peasantry, which constitutes a big part of Soviet economy. Without the transformation of the individual peasant’s economy on the basis of collective production and ownership the development of so- cialism will not be successful. It is necessary to use simple and clear methods and forms in order to at- tract the bulk of the peasantry toward this aim. They must be understand- able to-everybody. It-is- necessary to connect their private interests with those of building of a collective sys- tem, thus utilizing their private in- terests as a driving force towards the establishment of Socialism in the U. 8.8. R. These-methods are now real- ized in the form of consumers’ co-op- eratives and agricultural co-operatives plus the growth of socialist industry which will bring machinery to the villages, electrify them, and so create the technical basis for collective pro- duction. The dictatorship of the pro- letariat, the credit system, the ideo- logical work and so on are very es- sential conditions. The building up of the system of “civilized co-operat- ors” (Lenin) is the task for the com- ing period. This explains (in the U. S. S. R. there are millions of landowning peas- ants) the necessity of a certain free- dom for private capital and the re- establishment of market relationships —or the so-called New Economic Pol- icy. The present period of N. E. P. is the offensive period against capital- ism, which is going thru the form of the competition and struggle of the socialist and capitalist elements of Soviet economy. The events of the last two years show us that the so- cialist elements are conquering and will unquestionably conquer finally. Therefore, besides some other reas- ons, it is understandable and clear why it is necessary to have a correct policy toward the middle peasantry which constitutes the central figure in the Soviet agriculture. The policy must be: closely knit alMance of the proletariat and the poor peasantry with the middle peasantry, Every depreciation of the role of the middle peasantry is dangerous. The Congress firmly emphasized the dangers of such a deviation. The New Economic Policy brought and continues to bring not only..ab- solute and relative growth of social- ist elements but as the same time in- creases of the capitalist elements in Soviet economy (absolute but not rel- ative), We see also. the growth of the differentiation in the village, that is. the growth of the poor and rich ele- ments, And the growth of the rich peasants (capitalist elements) is the second danger which it is nécessary to consider. The Congress stated very firmly that it is necessary to fight against deviations which conceal this differentiation and depreciate the dangers of the rich peasantry (Iu- laks). The Congress declared that both thest deviations are dangerous, emphasizing that the interests of the moment demand that special atten: tion must be paid towards the depre- ciation of the middle peasantry, be- request that they read and re one consciousness and determina. Party in the socialist construction of the Soviet Union. The Congress em- phasized that it is necessary to have cause it can destroy the line of the) Bucharest, WORKER UNG WORKERS LEAGUE The Russian Party Discussion (This article is the summation of a discussion held at a meeting of the N. E. C. of the Y. W. b *. and represents its viewpoint.) °° @ The Ignoramuses and Knaves of the Bourgeois Press Have Been Writ- Nonsense About the ‘ Recent Congress of the Russian Commun- Short Outline of the Real Issues that Confronted the Russ- ian Bolsheviks and how they Solved Them. a firm line to lead the party thru all the difficulties, always taking into con- sideration the degree of the class re- lationship of every movement. The Congress declared also—that the state industry in the Soviet Union is of a “consistently socialist” type. There are and can be defeats and shortcomings partly as a result of the existence of the market relationship. but these do not change the socialist character of the state industry. New elements of the proletariat must be educated in this spirit. This will strengthen their attention and inten- tion to correct all these defects and to make better he socialist industry. On the question of the growth of the Party, the Congress declared that the proposition of the opposition means depreciation of the role of the Party as the advance guard of the proletariat. The policy of sharp re- striction of acceptance of non-prole- tarian elements into the Party must be continued, but at the same time the Congress declared that it would be incorrect to have a mechanical ap- proach and make proposals such as the immediate excessive broadening of the ranks of the Party. The Party will continue the policy of steadily re- cruiting new proletarian elements and will pot before itself the task of rais- ing,the quality of its members, and will fight any depreciation of the role of the Party and the advance guard of the proletariat. The Congress emphasized the neces- sity of Party unity and the strict real- one of the decisions of the Con- ress. The Leningrad organization is one of the bost proletarian organiza- tions of the Party. and will unques- tionably support the carrying out of the decisions of the Congress. The right elements-in--the labor movement, such as, for example, the Lore elements in the United States, are beginning to stir, and try to in- terpret the decisions of the Congress as moves towards the right. This is not the first time we hear such things. The right elements were mistaken in the past and they will meet with dis- appointment in the very near future. They forget that one of the funda- mentals of Bolshevism is that it can- not be right or left. The struggle against Loreism will be strengthened tenfold. The hopes of these “friends” are in vain. The bourgeoisie papers, such as the New York Times and others, speak agian about the Soviets’ return to capitalism. They sang victorious songs when the Russian Communist Party at first instituted the N. B. P., they were cruelly disappointed after- wards, Now they sing the same, true, somewhat moderately, but this time too, we say to them: “You are mis- taken, sirs, you will be beaten this time as you were before. Our brother Russian Communist leads the Soviet Union to Socialism. utilizing the capt- talist elements and methods so far as it is nuecessary; the Party of scien- tific Marxism keeps them under its control and the facts (bitter facts for you) prove daily the growth of social- ist elements in Soviet economics, There are dangers and difficulties; the Leninist Party sees this and. struggling successfully, goes forward to Socialism. e express our confidence in and greet the decisions of the Congress which is the highest expression of the opinions and policies of the Russian Communist Paryt, the advance guard of the Communist International. PROHIBITION OF INDEPENDENT STUDENT SOCIETIES, ROUMANIA.—The weekly organ of this society, “Viatea Universitara’ (University Life) which conducted a sharp struggle against the Fascist students, was interdicted by the 2 Corps commander in Bucharest, The official communique based this prohi- bition upon the necessity of prevent- ing conflict between divergent student organizations, It is noteworthy that the Fascist organizations are given all possibilities of movement and ac- tion, and that they are actually sup ported by the government and mill- tary authorities. The League itself was dissolved and all organizations were threatened with the same fate by the military powers if they should admit any of the former members of the suppressed society into their ranks. The most radical paper In the “Facla” invited the students to publish their manifestoes in its columns despite threats of sup- Pression by the military authorities,