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eee Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 22138 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I, Phone Monroe 4713 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outelde of Chicage): 98.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.50 six menths $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to t THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinele ————$—$—— rns | J, LOUIS ENGDAHL awiirors WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.......mmnmennnen Business Manager Batered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. Sw Unionize the Textile Industry The strike of the mill workers in Passaic is entering its eighth week and is still gaining in power and numbers. Originally starting in one of the big mills it spread until it embraced seven of the larger ones, practically tying up the industry locally. Within the past ten days it has been spreading to nearby textile centers, with the result that it has penetrated the dye workers in the silk industry and threatens to involve the workers of the chief silk center of America, Paterson, with its 25,000 silk workers. There is also widespread discontent in Lawrence, Fall River, Woonsocket, and other New England textile centers; while workers in the textile mills of Phila- delphia, Allentown, Easton, Bethlehem are foreed to yield to every arrogant imposition of the textile barons. In Scranton a small-sized textile strike has been going on since the close of the mine strike. Everywhere thruout the whole textile industry, regardless of whether we consider the silk, cotton or woolen mills, the workers are seething with discontent as the result of ferocious wage cuts, long hours, speeding up, the introduction of the multiple loom system and other forms of intensive exploitation. The high Fordney- McCumber tariff that the Mellon-Coolidge outfit heralded as the beginning of a new era of prosperity {4r the workers in the woolen and other protected industries, is revealed as a palpable fraud, calculated only to benefit the big mill owners. Things in the textile industry have grown from bad to worse, until more than 90% of the slaves are unable to obtain a living wage under existing conditions. Passaic, already in the eighth week of struggle, is still advanc- ing. This strike ought to be the starting point for an intensive drive thruout the whole industry. Let the workers of the two historic centers in textile labor struggles—Paterson and Lawrence—again go out and repeat their heroic struggles of 1912, 1913, 1919 and 1924 and in a few weeks the workers in the slave pens of the mill towns will take a long step toward realizing the goal toward which they have struggled thru many weary and desperate conflicts of the past. Instead of the isolated examples of magnificent struggle we have had during the past two decades in the textile industry, let the workers in the whole industry in every mill state along the Atlantic seaboard go out in a great general strike and in the heat of the struggle create an invincible industrial union embracing all the workers in the industry that will at one stroke raise the textile workers to the level of other organized groups in this country. ~ Lewis’ Reward in Danger At the time of the settlement of the coal strike thru the infamous “Black Friday” betrayal of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, it looked as tho Secretary of Labor James J. Davis would be the candidate of the Mellon-Coolidge ma- chine for governor of Pennsylvania in order to eliminate Pinchot, the anti-administration republican governor of that state. Many of the leading papers of the state rallied to the support of Davis and were busily engaged in creating for Pennsylvania a Davis myth the same as the republican papers of the nation created a myth that Coolidge is a person of ability instead of an exceedingly mediocre down east Yankee. 4 : This prospective candidacy of Davis had considerable to do with the close of the anthracite mine strike. Lewis, who supported the strikebreaker Coolidge for president in 1924 has been angling for the job of secretary of labor. But it was necessary for him to render a last service to the master class of Pennsylvania in his capacity of labor lieutenant of capitalism; that was to crush the miners’ union. To the best of his ability he achieved that end with the “Black Friday” agreement, giving Davis an opportunity to claim part of the credit so he could use it as political capital in his gubernatorial campaign. But now, it seems, there is a hitch in the proceedings. It develops that Davis has a certain record in Pennsylvania that resulted in his spending the past few years outside the state, retaining only a “voting residence” in Pittsburgh. In view of this he will likely be discarded as candidate for governor and remain as head of the labor department of the scabby Coolidge government. So Lewis will have to wait a bit for his reward. Meanwhile the miners should prepare to kick out the’ traitors at the head of their union as a proper rebuke to those who betray their elemental demands for food, clothing and shelter to which every human be- ing ought to be entitled. . They Know the Bourgeois Swine The New York Times considers it something less than a com- pliment, almost an insult, to the Americans for the Soviet Union to offer for sale 124 pairs of shoes and some 600 corsets once worn by the ladies of the court of the Romanoffs. We are not inclined to believe any insulting implication is to be found in the offer, but rather a keen appreciation of the American market for sueh “relics.” “It is a fact, known internationally, that the nabgbs, the plutocrats, of the United States, constitute the most vicious, ignorant, blatant, arrogant, stupid and filthy aggregation of bourgeois swine on the face of the earth. Just as the daughters of the capitalist magnates of this country attend international rum- mage sales and bid high in order to secure titles and the syphillities that come with them, so the whole outfit will compete on the market at a rummage sale conducted for the purpose of disposing of the corsets and shoes of the prostitutes who used to adorn the court of the late Nicholas II. _ Bolsheviks are practical people and harbor no illusions; nor do they bother about devising subtle insults. Their offer was based upon a thoro knowledge of the people they are dealing with, Certainly the workers and peasants of Russia would not so debase themselves as to prize the discarded garments of their former exploiters. While there are on earth people so low in the scale of humanity that they prize everything that was ever touched by a czarist, why not let them have what they want so long as they pay for it, thereby releas- ing the money for betten purposes? u # } z Get a member of the Workers Party and a new subscription The DAILY WORKER. Ay Delegates Discuss Zinoviev’s Report | (International Press Correspondence) OSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Feb. 22 (By Mail).—The third session of the enlarged executive committee of the Communist International was opened today under the chairmanship of Com. Smeral (Czecho-Slovakia). Comrade Neurath welcomed the theses of the presidium in the name of the Czech delegation. He was/in particular agreement with the non- revision of the Fifth Congress. Be- fore the Fifth Congress the right ele- ments had a certain influence in the Comintern and the Fifth Congress made it possible to struggle against them for the first time. He was also in agreement with the theses for France and Germany; he demanded only a special numbering of the right dangers in the individual countries. In Czecho-Slovakia there is nothing to be seen of any stabilization. On the contrary, a difficult crisis is there. The elections brought a severe defeat for the coalition and since then there has been a political crisis which the banks and the clericals utilize to increase their demands. The economic crisis does not only bring the revolu- tionization of the working class with it, but also that of the petty bour- geoisie. The petty bourgeoisie is pressing for the recognition of Soviet Russia, altho Benesch is still hesi- tating and waiting for some instruc- tions from the great imperialist pow- ers. This is present in the Com- munist Party of Czecho-Slovakia, but it was only obtained by a struggle against the rights. The rights are at- tempting to utilize the discussion in the Russian Communist Party for their own ends and to re-establish their old influence. This is wrong, but it is a fact. The thesis upon tac- tics is completely correct. The strug- gle against the ultra-lefts is neces- sary, but the chief enemy is on the right. OMRADE Scholem (Germany) then spoke with a lengthened period for his speech: “Zinoviev has characterized the perspectives correctly, but they were and still are our perspectives. This point must be stressed all the more as the rights who still exist have other perspectives. The despairing perspective of Varga that only a sud- den victo.y of the revolution can save Europe from eclipse is incorrect. The victory of the revolution will be a long process. We are in agreement with the formation of a left wing in the working class movement under the leadership of the Communist Parties. “New processes in the working class movement have been mentioned, the party leadership against which we are struggling failed to observe these pro- cesses. We are fightipg against those elements who want to form a block with the social-democrat elements, who want to establish unity upon a social-democratic basis_and therefore produce confusion. The theses char- acterize the right and ultra-left dan- gers correctly. “We are not ultra-lefts in that we un- derestimate the mass movement, that is exactly what the rights do. No serious Communist quite rejects the united front. We struggled sharply against the errors of the Ruth Fischer central committee in the. over-expos- ure at the time of the Hindenburg elections. (Laughter). “Already in May, 1925, we fought against the ultra-left communal policy and the right coalition experiment in the government question. Neverthe- less, instead of supporting us the ex- ecutive committee of the Communist International termed us a fraction which was hostile to the Comintern. An international ultra-left fraction does not exist. In very many ques- tions we have great differences with Bordiga; we only fought against the rejection of left working class ele- ments in the Italian party. We were opposed to the open letter not on ac- count of its ‘general; political line, but because of its internal party political line, and we cannot now any more than beforé sign a»document which terms us enemies of the Comintern and corrupt. Nevertheless, on the basis of correct perspectives and a correct estimation of the right dan- gers co-operation with the central committee is possible. I am indignant at the speech of Leminadse to the party congress of the Russian Com- munist Party, in which he declared that Scholem and Rosenberg were lost for the Comintern, “Interruption of Leminadse: “and Katz!”) We, the left opposition, will support the cen- tral committee if the united front tac- tic is correctly pursued as in the ques- tion of the confiscation. of the ducal property. We have, naturally, various differences. The central committee neglects the economic struggle, it has permitted false nuances of the Saxon policy. We hope, however, that the intention exists of avoiding further errors. We are not in principle against election agreements; we are only against their incorrect application. “In the Rhineland, for instance, a social-democrat wag elected with Cofn- munist votes and he afterwards, as mayor, abolished the eight-hour day. We are opposed to the internal party policy which rejects left elements and draws right elements into the leader- ship of the party, “The central committee overesti- mates the danger of a left split sig- nalized by the attitude of Katz, who was condemned by us (interruption: and what about your declaration of solidarity ?'). We drew openly a bor- ler between us, (Laughter)... erences ere not yet fully cleared but we shall be able to ‘ NS bu E DAILY WORKER with the central committee upon the basis of the guaranteeing of the prin- ciples of the Comintern.” FTER the speech of Scholem, Com- rade Semaoen (East Indies) de- scribed the persecutions under which the working class movement in the Dutch East Indies was compelled to suffer, Over 3,000 revolutionists, amongst them 5600 Communists, have been placed under arrest. Fifty have been murdered and the best leaders deported. Nevertheless, the move- ment is making progress. Amongst the shale mineworkers nuclei have been forced. There are, it is true, certain nationalist tendencies in the party caused by a lack of understand- ing of’ the situation:‘on the part of Dutch Communists.® The English and Dutch imperialists work together, but the Communist Party of Holland and the revolutionary trade unions do very little to support the inovement in the East Indies. The “Dutch Communist Party must!do more’ in +this respect. The Dutch Communist Pary should not mix itself in the relations of the Communist Party of the Dutch East Indies with the national revolutionary movement. A new wave of persecu- tions against our newspapers, and pro- hibitions of strikes and meetings are coming. The Communist Party of the Dutch East Indies will nevertheless continue the struggle-despite the great sacrifices which it has been compelled to make. The exécutive must, how- ever, demand from the Dutch Com- munist Party that it’support the move- ment in the colonies mpre, in the spirit of the English and French par- ties, who fight energetically and ef- fectually for the freeing of the colonial peoples, Spb ae Semard (France): “The French delegation is in agreement with the theses of Zinoviev. Recently the ecorzomic situation of the French workers has worsened; at the present time they are worse off than before the war. . “The wage struggles which are be- ginning now are a consequence of this worsening. The .strike at Citroen’s factories, the strike of the railwaymen in Alsace and Lorraine and the move- ment amongst the government officials show that certain. categories, chiefly those who Teceiye their wages monthly, are already entering the struggle. In consequence of the in- flation the index ‘is, growing steadily. The wars in Morocco and Syria will worsen the situation, “THE impoverishment of the middle class creates tbe preliminary con- ditions for a es haar of fascism which is also suppprted, led and or- ganized by the. large bourgeoisie. In the question of the Anited front we are In agreement with’Zinoviev, the only error is the statement that the civil war was set up agi@ condition for the social-democratic workers, The eva- cuation of the colpntes and the fi ternization with the Riffs were how- ever actually set,up as conditions. This was a great mistake. We must learn to make a, difference between our program and,,gur immediate de- mands, The mistakes in the applica- tion of the united, front were correat- ed at the last party. conference, These mistakes consisted.in an underestima- tion of the trade union movement and in the issuance of slogans which the masses did not understand. Since that time noteworthy Progress has been made in the applieation of thé united front tactic, understandable slogans set up. Like that of the sliding scale, and the united front has been put upon a broader basis. We shall fight against all those who oppose the pol- icy ot the December conference, those from the left as well, “The right deviations are however more dangerous because the right ele- ments carry on a fractional work, the supporters of Souvarine and Rosmer continue their wérk of disruption in- side the party. ‘The theses of the right are completely opportunistic, Cautier has declared that the French party must cease to march at the rear of the Russian part¥* Loriot called the decisions of the fifth congress, idiotic and demanded a “coalition with the social-democratic leaders, “In connection“ with the Morocco war the rights adopt an attitude which borders upon a reactionary race theory. They declare that in conse quence of the differing cultural levels any fraternizatiofi is impossible, the demand for evactiation they say is ad venturism, They set up defeatist slo- gans not only a® conditions for the united front, but*#lso as programmatic demands. “ie “The liquidation of the left mistakes was not the consequence. of an inter- ference on the pagt of the Comintern bat it was done ‘from the strength of the party itself. Afterwards, during the reorganization we committed a number of blunders, For instance, we failed to form street nuclei and sub- district leaderships, We will however put this right. The rights however are opposed altogether to the reorgan- ization, “Loriot demands that the local or- ganization be made the center of the party work because he says in the nuclei the working class elements dom- inate too much, The development has contradicted the pessimistic pro- phecies of the rights. The party has 60,000 members. and jit is being strengthened by good elements from amongst the peasantry, this was shown by the Paris peasant confer- ence, We are conducting a succegs- ful agitation amongst the small people, “From our recent actions we refer only to the struggle against the Mor- |: 24-hour general occo war and strike which was’ the first politica strike in France. Apart from the left and right deviations there also exists a confused sort of centralism which demands absolutely’ free. discussion and the calling in of the supporters of Rosmer and Souvarine. This stand- point means the giving up of the party and we are fighting against it ener- getically. We will bring about a real BolsHevik democratic centralism and we will become a disciplined section of the Comintern.” Scholem to get around the most im- portant questions. Whoever does not grasp the importance and the signifi- cance of the open letter of the exec- utive committee of the Communist In- ternational not only for the German party, but also; for the whole Comin- tern understands nothing. turned to the other extreme and this tendency objectively considered, liquidating the Communist spread itself onan international scale. The open letter made it possible for the French party to free itself from the left deviations, it also altered the ultra-left“course in Poland. turn towards the masses, that he only opposed those who. wished to utilize this turn for a fraternization with the social-democra¢y, he however failed to say who those people were. When how- ever we took ‘the first steps on this road towards the-masses, Scholem de- clared that the connection of the can- didate lists for counting the votes left over (a technical device possible under the German electoral system for two parties whilst running separate lists on separate policies to unite the votes in each district: left over on a national scale and thus elect another candidate or two between them. Without this connection of the lists the votes of each geparate party would have been insufficient to count for the elec- tion of a candidate. In this case the Communists proposed this correction of lists to the social-democrats, the latter however rejected it) was a liquidation of the Communist Party and led the way toward a unification with the social-democratic party, And this argument made a certain impres- sion. the development is proceeding slowly, they cast the poison of mistrust of the forces amongst the masses. of this deviation and it is here where it joins hands with the liquidators from the right. Scholem is in agree- fhent with the campaign for the con- fiseation of ducal property, does not grasp the fact that. this cam- paign would have been. qhite impos- sible but for*the open letter, which dispersed the poison of mistrust and made it possible to concentrate the party “members upon the central tasks. mistakes as trumps against the cen- tral committee. Scholem says that w are making mistakes in the economic policy, At the moment the leadership of the economic struggle depends upon the strength of our influence in the| banknotes crosséd@’ the six borders trade unions and the responsibility for the ebb of our influence to be borne by the bad trade ufiion policy of Ruth Fischer and Scholem, ened by the errors of the ultra-left. On the other hand a correct mas: policy brings dence and new members to the party. Scholem ‘and Ruth Fischer contend’ that the party is winning reformist Brooklyn Housewives’ lamsburg Council of Workingclass Housewives 1s holding a protest meet- ing ee the brutality of the police ine evening, March 18, at eight o'clock | 7 Se dangerous. Scholem declared that the Open letter was the first step to the liquidation of the Comintern, Scholem declared that he struggled against the Ruth Fischer group, but this struggle was only the struggle of a competing group. Scholem has attempted in meetings of the party officials to present the central committee as @ Brandler group, 'B desire to win over the ultrateft workers, but the diplomacy of party deception, the deception of the executive must stop. Scholem says that he supports the central commit- tee in the question of the confiscation \of the property of the nobles, but he makes his reservations. Does he want to repeat the attempt of Ruth Fischer? Does he intend to agree with every- thing here and then go back to Berlin and fight against the central commit- tee and the executive? We shall energetically fight against this sort ‘of diplomacy. At the present moment there’ are no dangers from the right in the German Communist Party against which we ought to concentrate our fire. The fire must be concen- trated against the ultra-left. The letter of Becker does not mean ahy serious danger and it has been_ condemned by the central committee. The-central committee will under all cireumstances guard the independence of the party. The errors of 1923 when the Communist Party was made de- pendent upon the vacillations of the reformists will not be repeated. It is ‘to be expected that in our future dif- ficulties the ultra-left will cause vacil- lations. We will struggle against.the dangers from the right, but at the moment the dangers from the left are foremost, The German delegation ex- pects that the executive will consoli- date the course and increase the tempo in this struggle. We must not lose a year in.our struggles with the ultra- left deviations. (Applause.) (To be continued) Sold to the Highest Bidder! | ism which after Locarno is twice as Imperialist Poland giving in to:the American°dollar after-the French franc has sunk to. low levels. workers. and rejecting good Tevolu- uionary elements. ony Scholem is'in error when, he thinks that blackmail of the party will bring any good results. Katz embodies all anti-Bolshévist, anti-Moscow devia- tions, atid for this reason he was ex- pelled. The letter of the seven mem- bers of parliament in the Katz affair was absolutely impermissible. We re- gret that we were compelled to expel twelve workers together with Katz. We will try to win the workers back, but with Katz we cannot make any arrangement. Korsch spoke about a red imperial- IOMRADE Braun (Germany): “We must not permit the diplomacy of NOTES OF AN INTERNATIONALIST. The Bank-Note Counterfeiting Affair and Governmental Crisis in Hungary By JOHN PEPPER. The opportunistic errors of 1923 of Party, HE events now taking place in Hungary, the political detective Story of the counterfeiting affair, shown’ unparalled picture of -pol- itieal ;corruption. % What happened? How. can, we con- neet upon @ world scale the political threads of this banknote counterfeit- ing story? Three. Hungarian gentlemen were arrested in the Hague: a former col- onel of the general staff, the secretary of the fascist party, and a manufac- turer, They were engaged in passing counterfeit French banknotes to the extent. of 10 million francs. At first glance this was an ordinary, though interesting story, but within a few days it became evident that this banknote counterfeiting affair pos- sessed high political significance and that it contributed tremendously to the sharpening of the class struggle in Hungary. The French government made strenuous efforts to expose these diluters of French valuta, France is involved in a severe inflation crisis and it developed that the Hungarian counterfeiters had put into circulation millions upon millions of spurious French banknotes, ‘ The Hungarian police tried to hush up the whole matter but the new French ambassador suddenly appear- ed ‘in Budapest, and the. represent- atives of the bank of France and of the Parisian police. took . personal charge.of the affair in idapest, bringing to light the biggest political revelations seen in Hurope since: the Panamia affair, aed | First “they arrested the servant ie ticipant in the counterfeiting of the notes, The honorable police minister had conducted the investigation against the counterfeiters and at the end of the investigation it developed that he himself was one of the organ- izers of the band. He himself had . taken the general staff colonel who was the band’s agent in The Hague, to the Hungarian foreign ministery. He himself had applied for the diplo- matic pass, he himself had had the suitcase filled with counterfeit bank- notes stamped and sealed as courier baggage. But even with this the story is not yet ended. It developed that the fake banknotes were fabricated in the state institute for the making of mil- itary maps and that the director of this institute, an officer of the general staff in the Hungarian army is also guilty. Evidence piled up against Count Csaky, the minIster of war, and he fled with his wife, And still no end! Documents and confessions showed that Zadrvetz, the Bishop of the Hungarian army, the confidential | agent of Horthy and the Pope, is also involved in the counterfeiting “affair and now the civil courts and military courts are squabbling as to which hag jurisdiction over the examination of this “holy” bishop. This is not yet the end of the thread. At the end of the whole affair there stands the Hun- garfan fascist party, there stands Al- brecht, the fascist grand duke of the House of,,Hapsburg, there stands Horthy, the Hungarian regent. The arrested men state definitely that they it undertook the counterfeiting and pas- | sing of*the banknotes not for profit but for political reasons, They want- ed to organize a large scale putsch in order to put the fascist royal candi- Prince- ‘Wind: tz,,.then his | date, the Grand’ Duke Albrecht, on the | war. It then further developed that thé |throne. To organize this new king- ty séneral staff colonel arrested in The |dom they needed enormous sums of as & brother-in-law of Count | money and the counterfeiting was to | Scholem said that he accepted this In the present moment when of the Communist Party This is the most characteristic point but he Hag: Csaky, the Hungarian minister ofjfurnish the sinews of war for this war. It then further developed that | campaign. i the general staff colonel, who is ‘Horthy was in agreement with member of an old noble-family, travel-|fascist putsch, His present position led to The Hague on, the official di-/cannot be maintained and he wanted mn courier pass of the Hungar-,)to assure his retirement’ with honors ian government, that the counterfeit |and riches, The exposure of the bank- note counterfeiting had a catastrophic effect upon the whole’ fascist con- spiracy. The legitimigts, who advocate the.son of the deceased Kaiser Karl as the future king of Hungary and who was supported by powerful ele- ments of the big landowners and big bourgeoisie, are utilizing this deadly embarassment of the fascist Horthy band for a powerful advance, At the same time however there is develop- ing an unparalleled ferment among . the worker and petty bourgeois mag- ses of the whole country, Count Bethlen, Horthy's minister president, is now trying to go over to the legit- imists and at the same time to make an alliance with the social-democrats, Nepsava, the central organ of the * Hungarian soclal-democratic party ade mits that “all Budapest is in coma but nevertheless the soctal-democrats, instead of organizing the mass Scholem’s, policy was to utilize local between Hungary and Holland as di- ‘plomatic gage. - At this point the Hw police and the Hungarian go" ent made the most vigorous efforts to put an end to the entire investigation, but their resistance was broken by the terror of the French government. Then came new exposures, Prince Windisch-Gratz, one of the most prominent feudal] princes in Hungary, one of the props of the old Hapsburg dynasty, was arrested as one of the chiefs of the counterfeiters’ gang. His grandfather was the commander- in-chief of the Austrian army which in 1849 drowned out the Hungarian revolution in blood, He himself had Hapsburg goy- f° the counter-re- volution against the Soviet regime— and now chief of an internat banknote counterfeiters’ wholesale s0- |rising of the workers, are ciety. This is not.enuf, Twenty-four | trust in the “strong hand” of Hoi hours later the Hi in minister of |minister president. If Horthy is The danger of a split was strength- successes, self-confi- Council Protests Police Brutality in Passaic (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 16 — The Wil- ’ Passaic strike on) Thurs police, Nadossy) fidential agent | overthro' ’ Union