The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1926, Page 4

er eC RMES AS \ / Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Russian Communist Party Con Discusses Activities in C RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY ADOPTS STAND ON WORK IN THE COMINTERN (International Press Correspondence.) —(By Mail.)—At today’s session of the Fourteenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, a resolution (International Press Correspondence.) ‘OSCOW, U. 8S. S. R., Dec, 31.— (By Mail) — Following the report of Gregory Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, on the acti- vities of the delegation of the Russian Communist, Party in the executive committee of the Comintern, the dis- cussion was started by Com. Shumsky, “The Communist International,” de- clared Comrade Shumsky is experi- encing at the present moment exactly the same epoch as the Russian party experienced after the revolution in 1905. In support the speaker quoted as examples the danger of liquidation in the stabilization, the attitude of the Gompers trade unions in America, etc, Nevertheless the mass movement is not adapted to the stabilization. The chief danger comes from the left di- gressions in the German and Polish parties, The policy in the leadership of the Comintern is in general correct. Mistakes, however, exist. The deci- sions of the fifth congress in relation to national policy were not carried out. In consequence of the crisis the German party lost in influence. The Polish party also lost in influence in consequence of a careless leadership. The speaker demanded a firm basis in the Russian party for the leadership of the Comintern. H next speaker, Scripnik, de- clared that the Russian Commun- ist Party did not take sufficient part in the activity of the executive of the Comintern., A more lively participa- tion of the polit bureau and the cen- tral committee of the Russian Com- munist Party in the activity of the ex- ecutive is necessary. This, however, should not mean that the role and the participation of the representatives of the brother parties should be dimin- ished. It is not sufficient when simply the presidium and the enlarged ple- num work. A systematic activity of the executive is necessary, (Interrup- tion: “Correct!”) The representatives of the brother parties should remain longer in Mos- cow and take a more active part in the work of the executive. The speak- er referred to the bad leadership in connectiow with the national question, the national contradictions were not utilized. This referred chiefly to the * Balkans, France and Czecho-Slovakia. The speaker recognized that “great work was done in the executive, never- theless the mistakes make themselves perfectly clear. next speaker Riasanov; de- T clared, that the leading group of the German party, which suffered a defeat in 1923, had made great mis- | takes. The sudden alteration in the party leadership, however, represent- ed an intensification of these mis- takes. Individual fighting groups in the other parties would utilize the events Party. The speaker declared that the activity of the Comintern must be tompletely approved, at the sdme fime, however, the mistakes which had been made, must not be covered up. The speaker stressed in particular the necessity of working out the party program of the Russian Communist Party and the program of the Comin- tern, The theoretical questions which will crop up in this are of extreme importance. The program of the Rus- sian Communist Party is still based upon war Communism, | Tt was the duty of the Russian sec-| tion to sum up collectively the ex- periences of the last years, The speak- er proposed the formation of a com- mission for this purpose. FTER Riasanoy spoke Manuilsky, He treated first of all the qu tion of how for the discussion at the party congress could reflect itself in ur young brother parties. In agree- ment with the central committee of our party and with the leading organs of the Comintern we considered it previously not necessary to draw our brother parties into our differences of opinion. It is, however, now clear that this discussion will penetrate in- to Europe thru a hundred channels. We learn that the German ultra-left supported by the attitude of the Lenin- ‘Brad delegation, are beginning to ‘bombard the central committee of the German Communist Party, ‘om The speaker declared that one might mention many mistakes of the Comintern, but the first and greatest ‘mistake was that which was made by the appearance of Zinoviev, the chair- man of the executive committee of the Communist International with a co- _ Our difficulties in the Comintern in connection with the discussion will have six directions, The first difficulty is as follows: Previously the delega- tion of the Russian Communist Party in the Comintern was absolutely aoa Admission 25 Cents. in the Russian Communist | IN CLEVELAND! ANNA LOUISE STRONG | World-famous American newspaper correspondent who has recently returned from three months in China, will speak on “The Struggle of Chinese Labor for Freedom” at Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut Avenue ’, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, at 2:30 P. M. Auspices, International Workers’ Aid. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R, Dec. 31 was adopted on the activity of the lows: 1. The party congress ratifies Communist International. 2. 3. and social-democratic workers. 5. Russian delegation in the executive committee of the Communist International, with 94 abstentions, as fol- on the whole the activity of the Russian Communist Party delegation in the executive committee of the The party congress records the fact that the Russian Communist Party delegation assisted in the settlement of the dangerous digressions whigh cropped up in the various brother parties, for instance in the Czechoslovakian, German, Polish parties, etc., in consequence of the partial stabilization of Western capitalism. The party congress instructs the Russian Communist Party dele- gation to continue this struggle in the brother parties against the right and left digressions from the correct Marxist policy; also in the future. 4, The party congress instructs the Russian Communist Party dele- gation to strengthen the struggle for the unity of the trade unions and also the struggle for the winning of the broad masses of the non-party The party congress instructs the Russian Communist Party dele- gation to strive for the strengthening of the Comintern apparatus and in this connection to pursue a policy calculated to strengthen the influence of the other Communist parties in the leadership of the Comintern. united upon all the basic question of policy and tactics. Such important questions were, the j question of unity with the English trade unions, and the question of the | struggle against the ultra-left digres- jsions in the German and Polish parties. The speaker declared that in his opinion after the speech of Zino- viev which differed from the attitude differences of opinion in the Comin- tern will be avoided. But our united jattitude previously was not accidental. Our Comintern policy was closely con- nected with our internal policy. The tactic of the united frent with the peasantry in Russia had its coun- terpart of the tactic of the united front in the West as a means for con- quering the masses thru the Commun- ist parties. This Comintren policy, just as the internal policy, demands a sys- |tematic and firm policy for months jand years. This task is above all in connection with the trade tmions | where we are extremely weak. | WHE application of this tattté, how- | ever, produces a very great dan- |ger, for in the period of stabilization, without doubt attempts will be made to re-establish the ideology and tact- ics of the right, After the epoch of |the right crisis we were successful in crushing the right group. These groups have now support points: Brandler in Germany, Loriot in France, etc, A sharp and decisive struggle must be carried on against these groups. But our most difficult illness of the moment is the incapacity of our young Communist parties to apply the united front tactics. The needs of the growing. mass movement, for we have without doubt passed the deepest point of world reaction, come into collision with the incapacity of our young sections to capture the masses. Upon this basis we have had crises in Poland, Ger- many and France. The speaker fear- ed that the differences of opinion be- tween the opposition and the majority at the party congress might lead to the formation of a special line inside the Comintern, Theoretically one can already fore- see the differences of opinion in the question of estimating the signific- ance of the radicalization in the Brit- ish working class movement, in the question of estimating the tactic of the proletarian united front, in the question of the deviations and dangers which threaten us upon the‘way to the conquest of the masses. The second difficulty consists in the possibility that this diseussion and the attitude of the opposition may galvan- ize the ultra-left digressions upon a | European scale and particularly in Germany into new life. We have com- pletely smashed Scholem and Ruth Fischer, but there are groups in Ger- many which take their places, LTHO Maslov completely compro- mised himself in his processes and showed by his methods of de- fense before the bourgeois court that wé had to deal not with a tried revo- lutionary, but in a certain sefse with a hamger-on, altho the Maslov group is now so compromised that the Com- munist masses abandon it, other peo- ple are rais{ng the ultra-left standard, The four points of the ultra-left ideo- logy in Germany are: 1, That the German party as a purely workers party according to its composition, is different to the Rus- sian party on account of the peasant element, in the latter, of Zinoviev in the Russian question, | 2. That the policy of the German Communist Party is determined only by the interests of the proletariat, whilst the policy of the Russian Com- munist Party is dictated by the inter- ests of the workers’ and peasants’ re- public, 3. That the»Comintern is an in- strument of Soyiet policy as Professor Korsch declared who not long ago spoke of a “red imperialism.” 4. The fourth point of the ultra- left ideology is that Leninism does not preserve the Communist Party from degeneration. The speaker addressed to the oppo- sition the question: Did they not think that their attitude would assist to a certain extent the ultra-left di- gression? sists in the possibility of the coming to life of the right fractions. The party congress must declare clearly and firmly that both the right and ultra-left digressions in the West will receive an energetic opposition. (Ap- plause.) The fourth difficulty consists in the fact that up to the present the inter- national social-democracy has utilized all the failures of our economic re- construction to frighten off broad masses of the. working class from Communism. It is now attempting to present our successes as a future to capitalism in an$wer to the enthus- fasm of the European proletariat which expressed itself in the sending of workers’ delegations, This discussion can supply the so- cial-democrats with new weapons ‘The fifth difficulty consists in the fact that we are now attempting to create a collective leadérship in the European Communist Parties. Our comrades in struggling for the leadership can util- ize.the Russian difference of opinion. Sixthly, the signficance and author- ity of the Russian Communist Party in the Comintern may fall. Objective- ly this would mean a growth of the influence of the European parties. This is in certaim connections a cer- tain advantage, / In conclusion’ the speaker argued against the Ukrainian delegation which criticized the policy of the Co- mintern in the question of the German Communist Party. He proved that this criticism was incorrect, As early as the Frankfort party congress we struggled against the transition of the leadership into the hands of Maslov and Ruth Fischer, The task of the Comintern is to take the peculiarities in the development of the European Communist Parties into consideration. In the West we have two sections in the membership: On the one hand is the section recruited from tiie so- cial-democracy. The right digressions and crises come from this section, ‘The second stratum is the younger workers’ generation without any so- cial-democratic tradition, but also without any political schooling, The chief task of the Comintern is to synthesize these two strata, 1 Siting Manuilsky Lominadse spoke. The speaker declared that the party congress must approve of the policy of the delegation of the Russian Communist Party of the Comintern because this policy was correct in all basic questions, Certain mistakes of the executive committee of the Com- munist International in connection with the German Communist Party were only present in questions of de- tail. The opinion that the leadership of Ruth Fischer and Maslov should have been prevented in 1924 wag in- correct, but the crises which ripened in the summer of 1923 might perhaps have been settled somewhat earlier. A mistake was made in making too large concessions to the German Com- munist Party at the last enlarged plenum of the executive committee of the Communist International by mild- eMng under the pressure of the Ger- man delegation the demands for the normalization of the party life in Germany in the theses upon Bolshevi- zation. a The speaker declared that the pres- ent mistake was thatyZinoviev did not separate himself sharply enough from Ruth Fischer and Maslov, The speaker The third difficulty con- | ‘ess omintern ° —+* recently with such leaders as Maslov and Ruth Fischer, demned in party shameful attitude before the court. The resolution of the party confer- ence declared that up to that time no political process in which Communists took part had proceeded so inglorious- ly for the Communist Party as the Maslov process. No Communist ac- cused before a class court could abandon the defense of the party pro- gram, the party policy and the party tactics as Maslov had done, With re- gard to Ruth Fischer, her policy both before and after the open letter of the Comintern was the! policy of double bookkeeping. The speaker then dealt with the situation of.the Communist Parties in Germany, Italy and Poland. The crises im these parties are con- nected with each Other. Whilst the Communist Parties: in Czecho-Slova- kia, Holland, Sweden and Norway are experiencing .a period of struggle against right opportunism, in the most |important sections of the Comintern |we have a strengthening of the left |digressions. In the opinion of the |speaker the struggle in the Russian party would certainly strengthen the | ultra-left digressions and’a further de- velopment of the struggle would re- sult in a still further strengthening of these digressions, The Comintern had previously succeeded in overcoming the left digressions in Italy, Poland and Germany, digressions which al- most led the parties to a catastrophe, but these dangers can arise once again if the discussion is carried into the Comintern. For this reason the Russian Communist Party must sep- arate itself definitely from the ultra- left and the right who are seeking to utilize the present discussion for their own ends, Maslov October by was con- the German Ihe last speaker in the discussion, Schmidt, stressed two mistakes in jthe work of the Comintern: “ 1, The underestimation of the sig- nificance of the united front move- ment and, 4 2. The insufficient practical lead- ership of the work carried out by the individual sections of the Comintern. | The underestimation of the slogan for |the united front expressed itself par- |ticularly in countries like Norway, | Sweden, Finland and Denmark. | In Holland also the Comintern must |work harder in order to urge the Dutch Communist Party to fight for the real unity of the working class | which can only be achieved thru the trade union movement. In a number of other countries, for instance Czecho-Slovakia, tifé “slagan of the united front is not Weipg-earried out with sufficient energy. In the question of the leadership in the practical work carried out by the individual Communist . Parties, the |speaker declared that the Russian “|delegation and the Comintern had in this connection a correct general ling, but that the Communist Parties of the West and their leaderships very often showed a lack of independence and in- itiative and waited very often in the smallest questions for directives from here. This mistake in the work of the Co- mintern, in particularly the present one, must be corrected, because the present discussion can find its reflec- ‘tion in the brother parties. For this reason our delegation to the Comin- tern must be instructed by the party congress to abolish both of the mis- takes mentioned. With regard to the slogan of the united front thru the trade unions, in this ¢onnection scep- ticism must be fought, The extent to which our Communist parties succeed in becoming real mass parties will depend to a great extent upon the correct carrying thru of this slogan. INOVIEV then closed the discus- sion. In a short speech he de- clared that he did not understand what Lominadse meant when he, de- manded that he, Zinoviev, should de-|structor last Monday and will direct | ion. Should they refuse to finitely separate himsélf from Masloy. With regard to the regret expressed by several speakers in the debate that the discussion would be carried into the Comintern, he could only say that even before the party congress this discussion had pénetrated into the European press, “ conference on account of his | DETROIT NUCLEI IN AUTO'PLANTS SHOW: ACTIVITY Abern Addresses Re- cruiting Meeting DETROIT, Feb, 11, — The shop | nuclei, consisting of three shop nuclei in a large automobile plant, held a successful recruiting meeting Sunday, Feb. 7. Comrade Abern, member of the C, E, C., delivered a very interest- ing and educational talk on ‘shop nucleus organization and its practical | work, He gave an outline how the | shop nuclei work can be made more | effective thru a properly organized | executive committee. Great stress was laid on the workers press correspond- ence, the need of workers writing for their shop papers and how the mem- bers can easily be trained to write about the shop conditions and the struggles to gain better c6nditions. He also dealt with the matter of a Shop Bulletin, I. L. D. work, urging a shop I. L. D. branch, laid plans for educa- tional work; means for increésing DAILY WORKKER subs, distribution, the trade unions campaigns of the, party, the various party campaign. Comrade Abern’s speech was well re- ceived; it gave new life to some of the members who have been indiffer- ent towards the shop nucleus work. A number of members were transfer- red to the nucléi and six new mem- bers were brought in thru the activi- ties of the comrades in the shop and the well presented speech by Com- rade Abern, At this meeting $335.00 was raised towards financing the shop paper and other shop campaigns that will confront the nuclei in the future. 175 party members were present. The nuclei executive committee is calling together the executive com- mittees of the three shop nuclei to reorganize into a more effective and functioning committee and to discuss |the questions brought out by Com- rade Abern, Due to the increase of members in Nucleus No.1 and 2,, it necessitates a new program. All com- rades who are members of the exec- utive committee of Shop Nucleus No. 1, 2 and 8 must attend the committee meeting Sunday Feb. 14 at 12 Noon, | at the House of the Masses. | By Shop Nucleus Organizer. CAPITAL CLASS BEGINS SECOND _ B-WEEK COURSE Questions for Next Mon- day Evening i | The Monday night class in the first volume of Marx's Capital at the Chi- cago Workers’ School began its) second semester last Monday evening, with a good attendance. The lesson for next Monday night includes pages 154 to 173 and the foot- | note by Frederick Engels on pages 159-160 must be read in order to get the answer to some of the questions. |The questions are as follows: | 1-Under what condition does money acquire to the full extent the form of human labor in the ab- stract? 2—What constituted the fallacy in the late William Jennings Bryan’s “16 to 1” free-silver agitation? (Bryan advocated free coinage of silver at the ration of 16 silver dol- lars to one gold dollar.) 38—What is the difference between at aorataon ne THE YOUNG WORKER! PLAN CELEBRATIONS FOR FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF YOUNG WORKER The National Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League has set aside March 7, 1926, as the day for celebrating the fourth an- niversary of the existence of the Young Worker. The Young Worker was born as an instrument of struggle. It is the struggling weapon in the hands of the fighting young workers and Com- munists of this country for their actions in the shops, factories, trade unions, etc, Within our own organization the Young Worker has had to put up a steady struggle for its own existence. The fourth anniversary is the fourth round in the battle for the preserva- tion of the life of the paper. Already it has been forced to make a tem- porary retreat back to a semi-mronthly. Now it is not only fighting for its forward march to a weekly again, but at this moment is fighting for its existence even as a semi-monthly, * ‘This can mean only one thing to our comrades and to our young worker readers. The fourth afniversary of our “collective organizer, agitator and propagandist,” the Young Worker, must be celebrated with Young Worker life-saver affairs being arranged thruout the country. Young workers! Young Communists of the Young Workers (Communist) League! This is a call for the rallying of our full strength behind our official spokesman, All our talents, organizational ability, revolutionary experience must be concentrated in one direction during March 7: preservation of the Young Worker. Start now to make arrangements for your affairs. Secure your hall. Ar- range your program. Send in repots of your arrangements. FOUR YEARS OLD! With the Young Workers (Communist) League FIVE .TOWNS LINED UP BEHIND YOUNG WORKERS CONFERENCE “More to Follow,”’ Says Organizer for Conference WHEELING, W.'Va.—I went a little out of my territory in my work of helping to organize for the Hast Ohio young workers’ conference. I crossed the river to “Little Siberia” as the state of West Virginia is known to the ie workers. The name, no doubt, comes from the cossack methods of the military in their intervention in labor disputes here. The thing which drew me here was my hearing that there are about 125 young workers on strike. Wheeling is completely controlled by the Wheeling Steel corporation, a sub- sidiary of the United States steel trust. You can see here and smell the steel trust wherever you go in Wheeling and vicinity. Perhaps there is no other place in this country where young workers are exploited to the extent that they are 7 in West Virginia. The young strikers reterred to are those who went out against the ten Per cent reduction in wages in the Imperial Glass company of Bellaire, Ohio, This work was particularly dangerous. One young worker told me: “Your yes are soon ruined in the glass works and you have to work in water, with Sas all about you. It was much better that we go out and even starve than work for such wages.” The militant stand of the young workers, however, was frustrated because of the large army of unemployed workers there is in the circulation of money as capital and its ¢irculation as mere money? 4—What is the difference in prac- | Steel corporation, tical results of the formulas C-M-C and M-C-M? this entire vicinity, Take the Wheeling Can company, which is also part of the Wheeling as an example. Here you find about three hundred workers employed, most of whom are young boys and girls. The girls are running F-Whid to One diMdesncd bekbeen. punch presses for twenty-five to thirty-one cents an hour, You find young @ hoard and capital? boys and girls getting from thirty to thirty-six cents per hour. Not only that, Comrade H. M. Wicks was the in- ‘but they are forced to work nights without receiving any special compensa- the class again the’ coming Monday. Grand Rapids to Hold Labor Defense Rally work this overtime they are immediately fired. You find them rushed and bullied. The chief bully of this joint is a guy named Humphreys, whose brother is the general manager of. the Wheeling Steel corporation. He is ell known for his slave driving and bullying among the young workers, It is in an atmosphere of this kind that the basis is being laid for the big GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—A splendid mass young workers’ conférence in Bellaire, Ohio, on February 28, Already entertainment, the net proceeds of conference arrangements committees have been organized in Bellaire, + Zinoviev stressed that he was con- | which will go to the International La- | Side, Yorkville and Powhatton Point. vinced that the decisions of the party |bor Defense, has been arranged by congress were predetermined also for|the Finnish section of the Grand | of Bellaire, in of the Comin- | Rapids I. L. D. for Saturday evening, ence, Zinoviev déplared that on his |Feb, 13, at 8 p, m. at the Finnish the future leader tern. art no single attempt had been made | Hall 5th and Davis St, D hd ie Bixeis Poieil.cahs speaker for | ‘2. 9t@er to, put across this conference, Communist Party into the Comintern. |this occasion, will. deal in his talk a One must remember that all the dis- | with the aims and accomplishments of cussion articles in the Pravda are also | the International Labor Defense. to take the discussion in the Russian read abroad (Interruption: And also the provocative articles in the Lenin- grad Pravda!) Zinoviev protested againgt the suggestion that the Lenin- grad comrades were ultraleft, The minority will naturally subordinate it- self, but the minority will defend its | Siskind will lecture on opinions before the party congret Naturally the discussion in the Rus-|on Sunday evening, Feb, sian Communist Party means diff-|at 1844 Pitkin Ave,, culties for the Comintern, but all of us will help the Comintern according to our forces to perform the . work which lies before it, (Applause of the Leningrad delegation.) “ “The power of the working class is organization. Without organization of the masses, the proletariat—is noth- ing. Organized—t is all. Organiza: tion is unanimity/of action, unanimity then dealt with what had happened of practical activities.” on 1 Daath it Siskind to Lecture in Brooklyn Sunday Night NEW YORK, Feb. 11 — Women's Day Celebration In Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 at NORTHWEST HALL Cor, North and Western Aves. (3rd floor.) All friendly organizations are requested to arrange other affairs on day, Shady- Tomorrow a metting will be held of the locked-out young glass workers It ts almost positive that this groung will line up for the confer- Some of the localities have already elected their delegates. The full support of the entire labor movemnt of East Ohio and vicinty is needed E. C.. Makes Pre- _ Decisions on United Front Campaign issued to specific youth organizations, 5. The D. B. C.’s shall gather a list of all available youth organizations for this conference and the nuclei shall be instructed to begin the agita- tion for the conference in the various shops and factories. 6. The league shall publish two pamphlets during this period: (1) A cdntrast of the conditions of the Rus- sian and American youth, (2) a pamplet on militarism, the menace of new wars and the youth, 7. When sufflicient interest has been\ aroused, a local non-partisan committee shall call a conference of youth organizations and delegates from shop meetings, which will or. Mnize local united tront committe arrange for meetings, ete, 8, When possible, Trum! tour for the united front to speak before local co: The N, E. ©, decided that among George |the immediate measures which. must “The Indus-}be-undertaken for our united front trial Situation in the United States” 14, at 8 pom., Brooklyn, campaign will be the following: 1, All D. EB. C.'s of the league shall form a special committee to be in charge of this work, © 2. The agitprop shall prepare a special thesis explaining the meaning of the united front, and its special application in this campaign, . 3. Articles shall be written for the ng to the masses the necessity of the united front, ete, abs a - AheltKl atiaraliads 4.0) Sh aA hina )