The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 3

C Danii tainty eee aes COOLIDGE’S CRONY BUTLER DEMANDS LONGER WORKDAY Urges Massachusetts to Amend 48-Hour Law BOSTON, Feb. 25.— United States Senator Wm. M. Butler, textile baron of New Bedford, the Arkwright club, and the Association of Textile Mill- owners were the principals behind the scenes in an all-day fight before the Massachusetts commttiee on labor and industry over the proposed re- peal of the 48-hour Jaw and the sub- stitution of a 54-hour law in the tex- tile and other industries where wom- en and minors are employed. The chief speaker for the textile barons was Ward Thoron, president of the Arkwright club. James Tansey of Fall River, the veteran head of the Amé6rican Federation of Textile Oper- atives, was on the job to protect the interests of the workers, In answer to a question, Thoron admitted that the mills controlled by Butler are ,Pushing the demand for the repeal of the 48-hour law. He said that unem- ployment and short-time operation were the result of the 48-hour law in Massachusetts, If the law were chang- ed to 54 hours or longer, more and steady work would be had. This is the most absurd argument to advance, yet that was Thoron’s trump card. Near Coolie Status Now. The workers would have still less work than at present if they are to be ‘forced to work longer hours. The present move of the mill owners, if successful, will reduce the textile workers to the status of an Asiatic eoolie. The average wage in the in- dustry is between $13 and $14 a week. James Tansey, of the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives and Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers’ Union, tho they argued against the proposi- tion, were nevertheless, incapable of leading a real fight in behalf of the workers. The chaotic conditions among the textile workers demands immediate solution and only a power- ful united front movement of labor will prevent the lengthening of the work week and thru its mighty pow- er, shorten the work week to 40 hours. The hearings at the state house indi- cate the intentions of the bosses— longer hours, speed-up systems, wage cuts, etc. Now ts the time to organ- ize to meet the attack. Building Socialism in the Union of Sov IS LENIN’S'PATH BEING FOLLOWED CORRECTLY? The leading article in the New Year number of the Pravda declares re- ferring to the results of the Four- teenth Party congress that the Party congress took place in a new stage of development which to a certain de- gree represents a turning point. The chief factors of this period are the following: Partial stabilization of capitalism, a certain ebbing of the revolutionary tide in the west, five years of the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia, the approach to an al- most complete reestablishment of the Soviet economy, side by side with an undoubted growth of the specific grav- ity of the socialist elements in the Soviet economy is also the growth of capitalist relations in town and coun- try, the growing activity of all class- es and strata of the population in the Soviet Union upon the basis of the development of the economy. In these circumstances it was the task of'the Party to control the cor- rectness of its ways and methods to the socialist reconstruction,’ once again. Record Economic Growth, The chief question is whether or not the plan of Lenin for the build- ing up of socialism in a backward peasant country is justifiable or not, |GET by one of the : writers. : Party Organization With an Introduction by JAY LOVESTONE. THE DAMN AND OTHER STORIES BY MICHAEL GOLD No. 7 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY "Splendid stories of working class life best of young American Poland Threatens to Harass Germany If Not Given Council Seat (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Feb. 25—Poland is sulk- ing because the chances for her se- curing a seat in the council of the league of nations, is growing less with each passing day. Prominent leaders of the government are threatening to adopt a more hostile attitude to Ger- many in order to force England, which is the stumbling block to admission, to change its position. Premier Skrznski is said to be in sympathy with the belligerent group. This is natural for his administra- tion will gain much prestige by Po- land’s admittance. Repudiation of the Locarno pact is openly hinted. Set- tlement of difficulties ‘with other na- tions will be handled independently of the league, is another threat, That Poland aspires to be consid- ered the official spokesman for the Slav peoples is evident in the claim that as it is the largest Slay member of the league, it is therefore entitled to a seat in that organization’s gov- erning body. U. S. Military Attache Thanks God for the Fascists and Legion ROME, Feb. 25. — The Italian ex- combatants’ association presented a flag to the Rome post of the Ameri- can legion at a ceremony which took place in the senate ¢hamber several days ago, attended by high officials of the fascist government and of the United States. Colonel McCabe, American military attache, quite appropriately represent- ed the American government and the legion, thus symbolizing the identity of the two. McCabe referred to the Italian king as “the greatest soldier in Italy, great in war and peace.” The premier, Mussolini, whose butcheries and crimes have aroused even a sec- tion of the liberal ‘world, he charac- terized as the “illustrious head of the great Italian government, who with great ability and success guides the destiny of Italy.” FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED. MILWAUKEE, Wis:—Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from ‘Frank dilder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, Get your tickets now for the Inter- national concert of the T. U. E. L., Sat., March 13, at 8th St, Theater. whether the difficiit:method of ap- proaching socialism thru the new eco- nomic policy is being, correctly util- ized. Where does the development of the Soviet Union lead, to socialism or to capitalism? Is it possible to build up socialism in a backward country, when the world revolution délays its appear- ance? The tremendous significance of the party congress consisted in the fact that these great questions of principle were put and answered. The party congress declared once again that the party was one of the troops of the Communist movement of the international working class and for this reason the chief aim of the party was an aim for the develop- ment and the victory of the interna- tional proletarian revolution. After the party congress had re- corded the general economic growth and the growth of the significance of the socialist economic elements, and the offensive of the proletariat com- mencing upon the basis of the new economic policy, it pointed to the ne- cessity of so leading the work of eco- nomic reconstruction that “the Soviet Union in its capitalist environment could not develop into an economic dependent of capitalist economy, but should develop into an independent economic unit, developing socialistic- ED AGITATOR 10 The organizational structure of the American Communist move- ment: Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party—Shop i Nuclei Plan—Charts, etc. 15 Cents a Copy. WAVE OF TERROR SWEEPS GREECE AS ; y THE DAILY WORKER ~~ —— ss. een ane nner eee veo cineca IEOR SP aR ant chara TREES RATS EAT EET ee nee —- Page Th PANGALOS MILITARY DICTATORSHIP PERSECUTES WORKING CLASS LEADERS By A. M, (A LETTER FROM ATHENS) Since the time of the 1924 government of Nikalakopoulos Kondilis, a wave of savage terror has swept over the country. It commenced with the dissolution of the mass union of “Ex-Soldiers in the Great War,” which as a section of the international union bearing the same name, led by Henri Barbusse. The union had 30,000 members, the majority of whom were peasants, and covered ‘the whole country. June, 1925, was suppressed in blood: A demonstration of tobacco workers In Xanti and Kovalo in November,}t¥0” has once more 1924, was dispersed with bloodshed. Condemn Many Workers. . In June, 1925, nine workers were condemned by ‘the court martial in Saloniki to a total of 132 year’s im- prisonment, merely for having con- ducted propaganda in defense of the autonomy of Macedonia and Thrace. A special military commission un- dertook mass deportations of revolu- tionists by arbitrary means to distant barren islands of the Aegean Sea. Up to July 1925, the number of de- ported exceeded 350. Let us give a brief example of how the deporta- tions were affected. Comrade Kolo- soff, member of the central committee of the Young (Communist) League was deported on the grounds of his name having a Bulgarian ending— “off” and that he was an agent of hos- tile Bulgaria. Despite the increased terror, the Mikhalakopoulos-Kondilis government proved to be incapable like all pre- ceding governments -of coping ‘with the tasks facing it, and on July 24, 1925, it was overthrown by General Pangalos, who established a military dictatorship existing to this day. With the object of gaining the sup- port and confidence of the masses, Pangalos during the first days after he seized power, released from prison and returned from exile a consider- able section of the political prisoners with the exception of the leaders and important figures in the revolutionary movement. However, Pangalos soon followed in the footsteps of Zankov. The government tried to “save itself” from the “internal enemy”—the Com- munist Party, which was displaying particularly energetic activity in Macedonia, Trials came one after the other. The Communist Party was driven underground. The activities of the I. C. W. P. A. were persecuted everywhere, Recently, the trial of the irty- ally and thanks to its economic growth, capable of serv’ as a pow- erful means for the revolution of the workers of all countries and the ex- Ploited peoples of the colonial and half-colonial countries, Expressing the will and the opin- fon of the working class which car- Tied out the October révolution, the Party congress declared that “our country, the country of the dictator- ship of the proletariat, possesses everything necessary for the construc- tion of a complete socialist society” (Lenin) and that “the struggle for the victory of the work of socialist re- construction in the Soviet Union is the basic task.of our party.” In this way the party congress gave the correct answer to those who have recently attempted and still attempt to shake the will of the proletariat in its work of socialist reconstruction. The party considers it even necessary to stress the fact that the preliminary condition for the solution of the tasks facing us is “the struggle against the disbelief in the building up of social- ism in our country and against the at- tempts to regard our undertakings, undertakings of a ‘logical socialist type’ (Lenin) ag state capitalist un- dertakings.” Chief Dangers, The Party congress pointed to the following chief dangers: The abso- lute growth of private capital, chiefly commercial capital, accompanied by a comparative diminution of its role, to the growth of the differentiation in MEET ME AT THE Manhattan Lyceum CAFETERIA 66—68 E. 4th St., New York, N. Y. A Labor’s Eating Place That Deserves Your Patronage. Under the Ownership and Manage- ment of the Ukrainian Labor Home, In,, a Co-operative Labor Organization Special lo Prices American, Ukrainian and Russian Kitchen, Best Cup of Coffee on the East Side phone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Sungeon Dentist 249 East am St., Cor. Second Ave. YORK CITY Office Hourt A. Daily, exe SS A SS a THE 4TH NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY—PLATFORM—RESOLUTIONS—ACTS AND FIGURES ON THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT. FIFTY CENTS The newspaper of the union was closed down and the leaders thrown into jail. A meeting of peasants in. Trikola, there were 6 killed and 20 wounded. been staged. This trial is against the central com. mittee and @ number of active work- ers, both} mpresentatives of the Bal- kan Federation and the Comintern, and of all those who took part in the Third Extraordinary Congress of the Greek faunist Party in December, 1924. ig this congress the Greek Commu: Party put forward for the first time ‘the slogan of the right of self-preseryation of the nationalists of Mecedonja and Thrace even to the ex. tent of théir being separated from Greece. After the congress ended the central committee conducted an ex- tensive campaign on this question for which the ‘Communists in Greece re- ceived thie’ mame “autonomists.” The trial was’ postponed as the public Prosecutor demanded a new document be added*to'the case, supposed to be from the ‘Comintern, It was a fabrica- tion of the’ well-known Drujalovsky bureau in Berlin, The charge is extended to another seven comrades including the secre- tary of the General Confederation of Labor, the printing worker Evangelo Evangelos. Eleven comrades have already been languishing in prison for eight months. A few days ago the Police arrested two more members of the central committee, Nineteen are being sought for by the authorities. Among those brot up for trial are the| members of the central committee, Maximos, Bulopolis, Sklazos, Apostol- idis, Kaitas, Nikelaidis and the secre- tary of the Piraean organization of the central committee—Fultsakes, All| are charged with “state treason,” in that they ‘wanted to betray Greek Macedonia’ to Zankov’s Bulgaria and that the ‘Greek party is only a section of the ~ Bulgarian Federation, in which thé “majority are Bulgarians. The charge represents the Communist Party Congress @s an assembly of plot- ters. All’are threatened with the » There has already 1, STALIN General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the village and the strengthening of the capitalist top strata of the peas- antry; to the growth of the town bour- geoisie who “in its struggle for the subjugation of the main masses of the middle peasant economies seeks to ally itsblf with commercial capital- ist and Kulak economies.” The Party congress struggles de- cisively ,against the unimportant group of the new opposition . which became panicy in face of the dangers mentioned, overestimated them and attempted.to draw: the party along an incorrect .path. This had serious con- Sequences, for the oppositional group, because it exaggerated the Kulak dan- ger, failed to recognize the signifi- cance of the mass of the middle peas- antry and the great historical tasks of the party in connection with this mass, i Warn Against Misrepresentation, For this reason the Party warned against any misrepresentations of the actual situation in the village and Stressed the fact that the middle peas- antry “irrespective of the process of differentiation, represented the main mass of the peasantry,” and that for this reason “any underestimation of the middle peasantry, the lack of un- derstanding for the tremendously im- portant role of the middle peasantry. and the attempt to lead the Party from the slogan of a firm alliance with the middle peasantry to the an- tiquated slogan of the neutralization of the middle peasantry, and the fear of the middle peasantry led objective- ly to a destruction of the dictatorship of the proletariat, because the work- ers’ and peasants’ bloc would be de- gtroyed.” , z The Party congress decisively con- demned the deviation which underes- timates the growth of the Kulaks and also the deviation which underesti- mates the role of the middle peasants, The Party congress, however, strejs iet Republics CHICAGO I. L..D, 10 GREET TRUMBULL ON MARCH 4TH AND STH Chicago workers should reserve Thursday evening, March 4 to greet Walter Trumbull, recently released | from Alcatraz, after serving a sen- tence for Communist activity in Hawaii, at the railroad station and Friday evening, March 5 to greet and hear Trumbull at the . North Side Turner Hall. There will be | other speakers on the program. Robert Morse Lovett, Ralph Chap- lin and. Max Shachtman are among those on the list of speaker: been a precedent and the court-mar- tial in Kazani sentenced to death three Macedonian autonomists, who were executed on Dec. 13, 1925, It is a question of the life or death of the best representatives of the la- bor movement in Greece, and the de- struction of the revolutionary move- ment according to the Balkan meth- ods of the Bulgarian hangman, Zan- kov. The government press is raising a great shindy with regard to the imag- ined transfer of the presidium of the Balkan Federation to Saloniki. The secretariat of the Intern. League of Struggle along with the Third In- ternational demands from the Greek government that measures be taken against the growing revolutionary movement in Greece. Pangalos is or- ganizing a special secret police for the persecution of revolutionaries and Communists under the title of “min- istry of social defense.” Measures have already been taken for hounding down democratic writ- ers such as Rosa Imvrioto, and a well- known novelist Varnalis, who sympa- thizes with the labor movement. Laws of exception are being prepared against the Communists, similar to those existing in the neighboring fas- cist states. The proletariat of the whole world should protest against the savage re- actionary campaign and against this military dictator, The destruction of the workers’ and peasants’ revolution- ary movement in Greece cannot be permitted. We demand the liberation of the courageous defenders of the na- tional minorities in Macedonia and Thrace, defenders of the common in- terests of the working and peasant masses in Greece. A sub a day will help to drive capital away. . ed_the special necessity of the strug- gle against the latter deviation, which comes forward under “left” allegedly Leninist slogans and which demands complicated methods of struggle for the isolation of the Kulaks and for the winning of the middle peasantry ortto our side in order to overcome it. The Party congress approved of the i Policy already decided upon to devel- op the Soviet democracy thru an ac- tivization of the Soviets and the co- operatives in town and country, me activization of the trade unions, etc. “The proletariat and its party as the French Troops in Morocco All Dressed Up; No Place to Go RED REVEL I$ BROADCASTED PARIS, Feb. 25.—The French army ‘ in Morocco is likely to be in a pecul- jar fix with the end of the rainy sea- son which is drawing near. They have | —_— between 150,000 and 200,000 troops in| | the Riff. yerts say this force could | Thousands Scramble for quickly wipe out Abd-el-Krim. | Tickets The gled political situation here stavasvelelad complicate rs tremendously. Be-| ‘The sharp fight between’ the world iba Micac trite: : ae ype forces | court senators and the non-world Preaek coed a ironies ‘idee the |courters lost its attraction and failed consent of the Spanish for their army|to make the headlines as the radio to enter this zone, For over a year| broadcasting station at the top of the they have failed. The Spanish pro-|prake Hotel stopped sending out the pose that the French hold the line and | strains of “Mamma Loves Papa” in they will press the Riff chieftain from | oraer to give way to an important an- their side until he ds caught in the/nouncement of an annual Chicago trap. Their attempts so far have been | gyent, seen Sranich are atrata that it the| .,With bated breath thousands of ra: French enter the zone they will quick- j alo ati Hetensd 10. €oy Sha ae ly overrun it and that; the final re-|P!ece of imformation which the speaks y 1 8 lan tiene ‘0 th fens sult- will be its coming under French | ° isp nt ge lyiges paren Recs administration, Another angle is that pent aed Raph Aiea 5 pa a ¥ be the British do not want the French | Chanting language of the speaker ai 6 IU | yped the program which was soon he country across Gibraltar, | dropped in the country across from |to inform the ethereal audience of the i 5 ‘ playing of “I Want My Baby” A “White Terror in sheep herder radio fan, on the prairies Poland” Is Subject jof Nevada, sighed deeply and bemoan- of Kenosha Meeting Jed the fact that he did not live near | Chicago. The announcement stated that there were only two days left before the Fourth Annual Red Revel actually takes place! This astounding bit of news simply KENOSHA, Wis., Feb. 25 — Mrs, A. Sokolicz, recently return from Poland, will speak here for the International Labor Defense at 3 o’clock, Sunday afternoon at Tatra Hall, 17 North | flabbergasted thousands of the hear- Main street, ers, The office of the Red Revel com- Her subject will be the “White | mittee was soon flooded by telegraphic Terror in Poland.” The other speaker will be George Maurer, tary of the Chicago lo- cal International Labor Defense, who will relate the latest developments in the Bimba “Blasphemy” trial, as well as in a number of other cases of false legal persecution of workers. requests for ticket reservations which might be called for in time to avoid |the crush at the box office, Money jorders began to pour in for tickets to |be sent by special delivery mail... In- |dividuals crowded the office at 19 §; |Lincoln St, in a last minute reminder of the Red Revel. There is not the slightest bit ef doubt now left that the Temple Hall, at Marshfield and Van Buren, which is to house this year’s Red Revel, will | be packed to the windows on Saturday night, February 27, which is the night: upon which thousands of Chicago workers, artists, boys, men, women, girls and the rest of the intellectual proletariat of the city, will gather to demonstrate the scientific fact) that all work and no play drives people to good entertainments. And those who have composed those crowds of ex- ceedingly fortunate individuals that attended the last three Red Revels need not be told that his Red Revel with its masses of masks and plethora of prizes, will be the event of the year, OFF THE PRESS Novien 1 SOON! (About Ten Days) THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY No.7 The Damned Agitator and Other Stories by Michael Gold. 8 “The unions are the pillars of the workers’ power.”—Losovsky. Popular Education in Ossetia. MOSCOW, 8S. S. R., Feb. 25.—In Southern Ossetia, an autonomus dis- trict in Soviet Georgia, there have been opened 120 illiteracy liquidation stations and 20 adult schools in the native language. The number of li- braries has been increased to 14, the number of itinerary courses to four, and the number of permanent schools to 150. Great attention is being devoted in Ossetia to publishing activities com- prising books and newspapers in the native language. The Paris Commune chief leading forces must utilize the | growth in the activity of the masses | to draw the masses still closer into| the process of the work of socialist | reconstruetion and into the struggle | against burocracy in the state appara- | tus.” | One of the preliminary conditions | for Soviet democracy, however, is the | development of an internal party de- mocracy, not the weakening but the | strengthening of the leading role of the party. The party congress re- jected the policy proposed by individ- ual comrades for an exaggerated ex- tension of the party. This would lead to an inflation of the party, to an overflow of its ranks with half-pro- letarian elements which have not yet gone thru the school of the working class organizations. Finally, the Party congress dealt with the questions of the trade un- ions and the youth movement. New Opposition Destroyed. The new opposition made powerful and long ago secretly prepared at- tacks against the leaders and the central committee of the party, The opposition attacked the policy of the central committee. It attempted to shake the Leninist line of the party. The efforts of the new opposition, however, proved as unsuccessful as the efforts of all previous oppositions. It broke against the steel wall of the Leninist majority of the Party con- gress and suffered a complete defeat, It remained an inconsiderable minor- ity. The Party congress . approved the policy of the central committee with a tremendous, with an over- whelming majority and condemned the fractional activities of the opposi- tion, Unity of the Party. The article closes: We are devel- oping a party democracy. We shall carry out the treatment of the most important political questions in the | party organizations. We strive and will continue to strive to develop an objective criticism inside the party. We, however, do not permit any form of fractional activity, no mobilization or bringing together of forces upon any new or old fractional platform and we ghall never permit this, Our slogan was, is and will be: “The (%.8} 187 ALREADY ISSUED: No. 1—Trade Unions in America. By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas, P. Cannon and Earl R. Browder. No. 2—Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration. By Earl R, Browder. No. 3—Principles of Communism. By Frederick Engels, Translated by Max Bedacht. 4—Worker Correspondence. By Wm. F. Dunne. 5—Poems for Workers. 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