The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1926, Page 6

i ee ee ee ee eee Page Six Wert TH THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IM, Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (euteide ef Chicage): $8.00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.50 six memths $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinole eS J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB....nnunensnenmmnne Business Manager nD BMatered as second-class matl September 21, 1928, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. SS ____ Aivortising rater om application. Illinois Labor Can Aid Passaic Strike Aside from the relief that every worker ought to contribute to the strikers in Passaic there is a special service the organized work- ers of the state of Illinois may render the strike. The LaFollette reso- lution urging investigation of the strike by the committee of manu- factures will be bitterly fought by the Old Guard in the republican party. The Coolidge administration does not look with favor upon such an investigation, because Coolidge himself is a product of the province of the cotton and woolen mill owners, known as the state of Massachusetts. Next to Andrew W. Mellon, who is boss of the republican administration, the individual having most influence with Coolidge is William M. Butler, himself a mill owner and ex- ploiter of women and children in the scab shop paradise of New England. Coolidge and Butler are twin stars who first shone in the galaxy of the notorious political scoundrel, Murray Crane. To investigate Passaic is to investigate the whole industry. To assail the industry, which cannot bear exposure to the light of day, is to question the Fordney-McCumber tariff which assures mono- polistic ricés for the textile barons of the nation. Hence nothing) nomic conference is necessary for the but the bitterest opposition can be expected from the official machine. There is, however, one way of bringing pressure to bear upon the Coolidge machine and that is to launch a concerted attack against those senators of the Old Guard who are seeking re-election this year. Tilinois labor can play an important part in this because of the fact that Senator William B. McKinley, the traction magnate, of Central Illinois, must stand for re-election this fall. He is the chairman of the committee to which the resolution will be referred and, inci- dentally, he has the deciding vote.” A poll of the committee reveals that it will be equally divided—six to six—on the question of an investigation, counting McKinley against it. McKinley can cast the deciding vote. The duty of labor in Illinois is plain in this case. Every central labor body, every local union, every building and metal trades council, every allied printing trades and union label council, in a word every unit of organized labor should insist—not request—that McKinley for once in his career of labor-hating activity at least agree to give strikers an opportunity to get.their case before an investigation committee. Let every worker in Illinois alive to the interests of his class start a campaign that will force the political pee-wee of Champaign to take action favoring the investigation whether he likes it or not. And let them at the same time prepare for the creation of a labor party so that labor will not have to stultify itself by even recog- nizing such creatures as McKinley, or Smith or Deneen or Brennan or any of the other agents of capitalism in the\camps of the old par- ties. New Illusions for Old The British ambassador to the United States, one Sir Esme Howard, speakimg before the Chicago Association of Commerce the other day asserted that the next great war and others that will follow it will “be more clearly, more obviously economic than be- fore.” He declares that the old causes of strife such as “national jealousies and traditional hatreds and territorial ambitions” will disappear and that in the future the struggles will be just as bitter as in the past “because they will appear to the mass of the people quite clearly and undisguisedly to be struggles for food and clothing and the necessities and pleasures of life.” This talk of Sir Esme contains nothing but imperialist decep- tion. The old illusions that wars were fought for right and justice and truth or for liberty and democracy are pretty thoroly exploded. One must be a dolt indeed to believe in the exalted sentiments ex- pressed by statesmen about holy wars to preserve civilization or to lift humanity out of the abyss. All intelligent people frankly admit that at the bottom all wars are economic. But Sir Esme Howard, like other imperialists, dare not openly proclaim the sort of econ- omies that produces modern wars, so he tries to ereate new illusions for the old ones by asserting that future wars will be for the ele- mentary needs of life. Such a claim is far from the case. Sufficient is being produced in the world to enable the population of the earth to live. The potentialities of production are sufficient to enable all humanity to live in luxury. The time when one group had to war against an- other to obtain food and clothing has long passed, never to return. Today we live in the era of imperialism. The nations struggle for supremacy, not in order to obtain the elementary needs of life,; but because the workers within the imperialist countries have pro- duced so much surplus that their masters must declare wars in order to control new territory in which they can dispense of this surplus created by labor at home. The identical slaves that produce the surplus for the master class are conscripted to fight in order that new territories may be conquered and that their masters may ex- ploit still other slaves. Sir Esme Howard, like the other British spokesmen of imperial- ism, try to make the British workers believe that they fight future wars in order to maintain themselves as human beings, but the workers of Britain, as elsewhere are, in ever larger numbers, coming to recognize the fraudulent nature of all wars of capitalism and will not readily embrace new illusions for old ones. Thru suppres- sion of all means of information and the violent crushing of work- ing class organizations the ruling class may be able to mobilize for the next war, but in the process of the struggle its immense futility will dawn upon the worker-soldiers and they will know how to use their weapons against their oppressors at home instead of against other conscripted slaves of other countries with whom they have no quarrel. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb, 24.— (By Mail.)—The seventh session of the enlarged executive committee of the Communist International was opened in the evening, under the chairmanship of Comrade Smeral. Comrade Rosenberg (Germany). “Up till now we have heard two long speeches concerning themselves with principles. That of Zinoviev and that of Bordiga. The speech of Ruth Fis- cher on, the other hand was alto- gether without principle. The serious speech of Bordiga made a great im- pression, it contained as a whole very many correct things. Nevertheless, the metaphysical the- ory of Bordiga is unusable for the working class movement, The right deviations are not to be defeated by metaphysics, but by concrete politics. A too speedy revolutionary perspec- tive is not a crime, but the correct perspective is better. We must not exaggerate the exist- ing contradictions between the im- perialists, for instance, the Anglo- American difference about the Eng- lish rubber monopoly. In case of an- other crisis America will do every- thing possible in order to spare its in- vested capital any convulsions. HE unity slogan is correct, Never- theless, the formal setting up of the question must be given an ob- jective content. We must make prac- tical proposals for the coming great metal and mine worker struggles in Europe. A European workers’ eco- purpose of considering objectively the economic situation and the relations of the Buropean working class to that of the Soviet Union. Up to the pres- ent, the question of the peasantry has been dealt with very little here. Under the hegemony of the proletar- iat we must approach the middle sec- tions and in the campaign for the ex- propriation of the nobles, we have been successful. It is necessary to formulate detail- ed programs of action on an inter- national scale—a program for now and one for immediately following the seizure of power. The unemployment causes anar- chist, K, A) P. deviations (The K. A. P. D. the Komunpistische Arbeiter Deutchlaide—the Communist Work- ers Party of’Germany as distinct from the Communist Party of Germany, the K, A. P. is an ultra-left, anarchist, split off from the K. P. D. the Com- munist Party of Germany.) and sta- bilizes the’ right deviations inside the party also. The right deviations express them- selves in the idea in connection with the trade union tactics that indepen- dent economic demands of the party are impermissible, K. A, P. tendencies are very often to be met with amongst the ultralefts. However, neither thi right nor the ultra-left deviations are the greatest “danger, as they can be overcome by a correct policy. Groups which change their opinions every two weeks; like the Ruth Fischer group, are the ddnger. Ruth Fischer has no right to come forward in the guise of the left, for in the question of the people’s block she committed the worst possible right deviations. PPPOSITION must not be a sport. When we see that the central committee is working upon the basis of correct principles and continuing with #e policy which has been begun in the question of the confiscation of the property of the nobles, then we will support it with all our power. The greatest mistake of our group was that we did not liquidate our frac- tion after the Frankfort party con- gress. A firm policy, a close relation be- tween the leaders and the masses, the struggle against Brandlerism which the party will never stand either po- litically or organizationally, a mutual honesty, the end of the doubled book- keeping and objective co-operative work, these things will bring the party further along its way.” (OMRADE DOMSKY (Polandy, “On the whole the theses are correct. The estimation of the Polish party however, is incorrect. We made sev- eral ultra-left mistakes it is true such as the criticism of the Bulgarian and the French parties, the underestima- tion of the trade union work and the over-estimation of the shop councils, but the statement that we practically ruined the party is a great exaggera- tion. Even the Fourteenth Party con- gress which liquidated Mhe ultra-left errors, recognized that our work had resulted in the progress of the party. The chief task of the Polish party at present is the creation of a block of the workers and peasants and the suppressed nationalities. In this we have achieved some successes. At the beginning of our activity there were two members of parliament of ours in parliament, today we have 17 members of the workers’ and peas- ants’ block there. We have overcome our mistakes and retained our posi tion in the trade unions despite; the persecutions, For this reason the pominant note at the last party con- gress was directed against the right. The situation in Poland is catas- trophic, “In the future we shall faced with revolutionary and counter- International Press Correspondence. | BK E DAILY WORKER Liquidating the German Leftists. THE speech of Arthur Rosenberg, of Germany, at the seventh session of the enlarged ewecutive of the Comintern is a sign of the disintegration of the ultra-left in the German party as it is being faced more and more with the correct policies of the leadership of the Coniintern and the German ewecutive. No longer does Rosenberg, a representative of the left, dare to speak with the tone of a confident and sharp enemy of the Thaelmann-Newmann-Geschke executive ; and the beginning of the recognition of the errors of the leftists is noticeable. The speech of Comrade Thaelmann is an indication of the ideologicab liquidation of the ultra-left opposition in Ger- many—the greatest menace to the party. The dark predictions of failure made by them against the party leadership have not materialized, hie united front campaign for the confiscation of the property of the nobility of the old regime has, despite the pessimistic prophecies of the leftists, led to a strengthen- ing of the influence of the Communist Party. The general anti- Communist polities of the opposition has led, wnder the ham- mer blows of the executive of the Comintern and the party leadership, to its splitting up. Open party enemies like Katz have been expgljed and the proletarian elements are making the first steps,towards unity under the central committee's leadership by disidentifying themselves with the ultra-left in- tellectual leadership. The German party goes forward with great strides dnd is regaining the confidence of the masses which was lost during the regime of Fischer-Maslow and their And thru its leader, Thaelmann, the German party has friends cir Kate. placed itself definitely on record for the present leadership of the Comintern. “The German delegation is firmly convinced that the Russian Party should remain in leadership of the Comintern as it is the only party which has conquered power and it has now worked for the concrete building up of social- ism for eight years.” sudsky by a correct application of the united front tactic. The struggle be- tween Germany and Poland over the permanent seat in the council of the league of nations, which is actually the struggle over the German-Polish frontier, is becoming more intense. In such a situation the concentra- tion of the struggle against the ultra- lefts would mean a nourishing of the right danger which could lead to a catastrophe as in 1923, We want to assist the central committee, we do not want to take a part in the lead- ership, we want to take a part in the work.” ig Baten ae THAELMANN (with lengthened speaking time). “This German question is. connected with the whole tactics of. the Comintern. A collective leadership of the Com- intern is only then possible when the essential connection between the pol- icy of the individual’ parties and the Comintern is cleared up. The tactics tern. The open letter resulted upon the initiative of the executive. The left movement in the trade unions is growing outside of England also, in Norway and Sweden for instance it has produced great suceesses. In Italy also there are important results to be observed. ORDIGA opposes the system of the Comintern with another system which is not in the least Communist, in the question of the state and in the organizational question, This sys- tem is anarchy plus social democracy. Bordiga’s speech is the finst attempt to oppose the Comintern and the® Rus: sian Party one to the other. The Ger- man delegation is firmly convinced that the Russian Party should -re- main in leadership of the Comintern as it is the, only party which has conquered power and it has’ now worked for the concrete building» up of socialism for eight years. The%Ger- man delegation strongly condemns the of the Comintern consist in placing |attitude of Engel in the Russian‘ ques: the revolutionary tacties of the prole-| tion. It will not permit the differences tariat against the ta of the bour-/| which showed themselves at the Four- geoisie. The tactics of the m-}teenth Party Congress to be: wtilized lary proletariat counter the attempts|for ultra-left purposes as Korsch and of the bourgeoisie to, others would like. The Leninist’ unity stabilization of world, capitalism and]of the Comintern must not be, shaken. at the same time the proletariat}The statement of Neurath, the enemy strengthens the revolutionary class]is on the right, is incorrect’ and) un- front. Having passed the crises the] dialectic, this was said by Chancellor Tchek and the Polish parties are with} Wirth following upon the murder) of the assistance of the.Comintern pro-|Rathenow. The question of where ceeding along the road of consolida-|the enemy is, differs according to time tion. The same is true of the Italian}and place. At the present time:'the Party in which Bordiga has lost his}enemy is on the right in France and one-time supporters, and in which 90]on the ultra-left in Germany. per cent of the members stand upon} Scholem and Ruth Fischer declare the basis of the tactics of the Com-jthat the successes which have recent- intern. The British Party has an al-jly been won are due to the objective most completely proletarian leader-| situation, we declare on the other ship and it has achieved very great}hand that another factor was -also successes in winning the masses. It} present, the correct tactic and the in- has no differences whktever with the] ternal party policy, Comintern, The Anglo-Russian unity ber speaker then described the per- committee has become an important manent crisis in Germany and the revolutionary factor, At the Fifth|attempts which the bourgeoisie are Congress the German delegation made | making to-solve it by “rationalization.” a great mistake in the trade union|The agrarian crisis is beginning to question. sharpen, in this connection the party The Russian standpoint showed it-}has already cofiducted a successful self as better for western Europe|campaign. The bourgeoisie is prepar- than the western European stand-|ing am attack for the purpose of low- point. The internal developments ofjering wages 10 to 15 per cent and the German Party>represent one of!for this reason it is ‘the greatest successes for the Comin- How Long The following estithate of economic conditions in Ameriva’is taken from a necessary to trust has on hand has greatly increas- ed, and foreign iron has been sold in the United States in many places, in spite of the high protective customs, Gold Still Coming. Foreign trade brought fresh record figures during the past year, and here the point of leading importance is the great increase. of the imports. This is the reason why the export surplus is less than last year, altho the export figures have diso risen greatly. Despite the large investments of capital abroad, the import of gold has once more greatly increased, The Weak Spots. The capitalists—as is always the case in a boom—are of the opinion that these brilliant conditions will last for ever, The more sensible report on the world:economic situa- tion for the last ter in 1925 by the famous economist of the Commun- ist International. « at By EUGENE! VARGA. At the present tinié there is a boom in America such as'that country has never yet experiended. All records have been beaten im many branches of industry; the building industry has new buildings In hajfd to the value of 6 billion dollars; “Steel production shows an output of¥45.5 million tons for the year, increasing during the last few months to an avérage of 50 million tons annually; and 6,462 mil- lion dollars have been newly invested in foreign trade and dther ments, invest- U, S, Booms. “Not a cloud in the sky,” d6 the gen- eral expression of opinion to be heard in business quarters with regard to the situation at the end of 1925. This survey shows a definite im- provement in the economic situation. Almost every branch of industry par- Buffalo Council for Protection of Foreign- Born to Meet Sunday at the Engineers’ Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N, Y., March 24.—The second sitting Uf the conference for In the next few months the slogan of the dissolution of the reichstag will become very important, The Red front fighters league (Communist sympathizing organization) very often manages to carry thru actions to- gether with the reichsbanner (Nation- al Flag) a youth organization uniform- ed and recruited from the three re- publican parties, democrats, social- democrats and the center. Its mem- bers are probably however 80 per cent recruited from the ranks of the social democrats). The campaign for the confiscation of the nobles does not merely include the social-democrats and the Communists but it has be- come a real people’s movement. The significance of this campaign .consists in the following: It is led by the proletariat, it strengthens the anti- monarchist tendencies, it strengthens the contradictions amongst .the bour- geoisie, it loosens the relations be- tween ‘the bourgeois and the. social- democratic parties, it strengthens the class basis of the proletariat and gives the® possibility of approaching sec- tions of the population which -have hitherto been inaccessible to us. Bae significance of the open letter is shown by the fact that éven the bourgeois press prophesized’ a ‘con- siderable increase in the influence of the party after this letter, Thanks to the excellent results of this letter we were able to carry out the campaign ffor the expropriation of the nobility and to build the united front commit- tees in the shops and factories, The letter also guaranteed us good success in the trade union question. The chief enemy inside the party is on the ultra left. Apart from the ultra-left there are certain tendencies existing like those of Ruth Fischer. Scholem can now see the way open for co-operative work. . But when we issued the slo- gan away with the bourgeois block and for the connection of lists in the counting of the votes left over, Scho- lem and his supporters were very Pessimistic, they spoke then about parliamentary cretinism. The Saxon Policy was only successful by fight- ing the ultra-lefts. In the question of the confiscation of the property of the nobles the ultra-lefts pursue a policy which objectively results in. a strengthening of the social4lemocracy. Scholem rejects the letter of. the E. K. K, I, but at the same time he recognizes the policy of the central committees to be correct, This policy is, however, based upon the letter of the BE. K. K. L Scholem’s standpoint is therefore, contradictory. Our tac- tics will also in the future base them- selves upon the open letter...Scholem declares that hé stands upon the basis of Leninism. This is just a8 true as swhen Streseman says that he stands upon the basis of the Weimer consti- tution, (Laughter.) Scholem con- tends that there is a basis for the un- derstanding. That is true, but this basis is the opén letter of the E. K. K. I. and the recognition of the cor- re¢tness of the policy and tactics of the C. C. An understanding is only possible upon this basis. (Applause.) CHOLEM did not like the idea of going to Canossa, or falling on his knees. No Bolshevik speaks like this, |that is the language of a German na- tionalist when he. refers to the “vic- torious enemy.” Scholem protested against the pact of the letter which attacked “corrupt elements.” — (Scho- lem interrupts: “not corrupt, only mad.” Thaelmann answers him: “As long as he supported you, you did not think him mad.”) Katz is an agent of the bourgeoisie, nevertheless Scho- lem signed the letter of the seven members of parliament which declar- ed themselves in solidarity with him. Scholem spoke about the danger of a split. We draw a distinction between the ultraleft workers and their lead- ers, and we have been able to. dis- cover that in Wedding there are three districts which are not in agreement Thaelmann Speaks on German-Communist Problems | letters from Berlin and from Leipzig from ‘ultra-lefts who reject the policy of Scholem and declare themselves for the C. C. Ruth Fischer sung us a hyinn of peace here, but it was only a Continuation of the old policy of double bookkeeping. The aim of her speech was to cause trouble in the German Communist Party. Double bookkeeping towards the BH. K, K. IL, personal dictatorship, a lack of recog- nition of the role of the party and an anti-democratic internal party policy, these were the characteristics of the Ruth Fischer-Maslow regime, Ruth Fischer defends Maslow even now de- spite the fact that he has recently written that the tactic in the ques- tion of the confiscation of the pro- party of the nobility is dangerous and that only 40 or 50 per cent of the party will be left, that we are faced with another Nueranberg, that is to say with the liquidation of the party and the unification with the social-de- mocratic party. Is Ruth’ Fischer in agreement. with this?’ The . central committee declares that that ig dook- ing neither for Heidelberg nor Nue- renberg. HE contention that Ruth: Fischer wanted to carry out the open Iet- ter ds the last word'in double book- keeping. In Moscow she ‘signed the E. K. K, I. letter, and in Berlin she fought the policy which sought to car- ry out the spirit of the E. K. K. I, let- ter, she carried on a concealed frac- tional work in order to attack the cen- tral committee in the rear, she op- Posed the connecting of the lists in order to make difficulties for the cen- tral committee, etc. The question of Maslow is not a personal question but one of principle. His attitude before the court was not worthy of a reyolu- tionary. We demand from workers that they defend revolutionary prin- ciples before the courts and the lead- er Maslov acted miserably.. Neverthe- less the leadership of Berlin-Branden- burg greeted him by telegraph, Ruth Fischer spoke demagogically about disruptive phenomenon, about the case of Katz and about the expulsion of the twelve workers in Hanover. We want to win the twelve workers back again. But one must understand that Ruth Fischer speaks of the twelve workers in order to protect Katz. Ruth Fischer was behind Katz, she sent him into the executive and she de- fends him even now. The expulsion of Schoenlank and the punishment of Becker prove that the C, C. fights also against the right, and if it becomes necessary, we shall struggle just as energetically against the right as we now struggle against the uitradeft. Ruth Fischer wanted to present herself as left. The atti- tude of the nuclei meetings in Ber- lin, the decisions of the districts, the conference of the secretaries, all these Prove that the C. C. represents the best traditions of the left and that the party masses are behind the C. C. Ruth Fischer demands a concen- tration party congress. If she wants to conceal the diffierences to continue the anti-Bolshevik theory and prac- tice, to re-establish the old internal party policy and to continue double bookkeeping then we reject such a concentration party congress. Ruth Fischer is politically and morally dead. Fee consolidation of the party is making great progress. Our bat- talions are assembling, the leadership is winning the confidence of the mem- bership, the party has achieved real successes. The central committee is strong enough to fight against its op- Ponents and to defeat them. We want to enlarge the basis of the central committee to draw in the best prole- tarian elements and thus to consoli- date the party, to widen the influence of the party, to mobilize the masses and to win influence in the shops and factories and in the' trade unions in strengthen our trade union opposition.| with Scholem. The C. C, has received to observe weak points. ‘certain amount of uneasiness is Wélng ‘felt in particular with regard to'the enor- mous speculations in building Jand in Florida, and in buildings and building shares, Altho the building sites already sold ensure sufficient oceupation.., the building trade for the first few months of 1926, everyone is very well aware that there is a great deal of, unsound speculatién involved. fae 3 Farm Trouble, The second weak point is the posi- tion of the farmers. The .wheat.crop was “exceedingly small;.the, maize crop was on the other hand extreme- ly large, but there is a difficulty in utilizing it, as last year’s failure of the maize crop caused the number of pigs to be greatly reduced. The farm- order to create the red class front,” (Stormy applause.) Will the American Boom Last? number of orders which the steel;among them are, however, beginning {ers are dissatisfied ‘with the “organiz- ed” sale of agricultfftal products, In this connection an attempt ‘is “being made at reviving the farmers’ bloc in the senafe, & Unemployment Threatens. The third weak point is'the general discontent among ‘the workers. For in America there is not only the work- ers’ aristocracy, actually able, at the present time, to save toa certain ex- tent. There are also innumerable mil- lions of badly paid»workers; Negroes in’the south, immigrants in the east, A crisis with mass unemployment threatens. ee, Crisis Must Come, American capitalism js still on the upward trend, expansion, This improves the posi- tion of the working class, especially of the workers’ aristocracy. But on the other hand it is nonsense, or mere apologetics, to s: entirely free from crisis, ot ef the dis- appearance of all class differences be- Listowel the working class and the bour- Bevisie, It is true that American capitalism the Protection of the Foreign-born Workers, Buffalo Council, will be he! on Sunday afternoon, March 28, at 3 o'clock. The meeting is to held in the Engineers’ Hall,.36 W. Huron St. This second meeting will consist of many more organizations than were represented formerly. Numerous unions and fraternal organiz is have placed themselves on record as opposed to the Sscabby anti-foréign légisiation now before Gongress, and have ‘sent protest resolutions to their congressmen. It is expected that plans for an extensive timates this danger and bases pty campaign aga ‘bills will be drawn py "Wd concrete arrangements egal md sie hinheet Dotnk Bt dim, a ret made to line Up all workers against this menace, The campaign will be its policy upon a slow winning ov consumption has been so great of the masses, We must win th ous: of| Opened with a great 4 meeting at 8:15 o'clock in the evening of the same has been working with brilliant suc- cess for the last decade; but it is none the less subject to the universal lawe of capitalist development.’ — q cantar Emigration Exceeds immigration, WASHINGTON, March 24.— Immt- gration bo hg show that during the seven mon’ Jan, 31, 1926, this count? Toa 8,707 unakilled labe bail ae coming into th period those who emigrated Awe > RE. ee ae) revolutionary convulsions. Despite its generally corrupt policy, the central committee fails to appreciate the sig- nificance of these faetsy A putch from Pilsudsky is to be , the bour- geoisie regard him as the last hope against a proletarian revolution in case the loans go“wrem@® The C. C. ticipates equally in the general prog- ress. Even the textile industry, left far behind for sd“long a time, has been swept into the, gereral w: of prosperity by the } excellent cotton crops. Stee! Prdospers, The steel industiyehas reached the y