The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1926, Page 6

Page Six TH E DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml, Phone Monroe 4712 (International Press Correspondence.) i ebsaraede U. S. S.R., March 14 (By Mail).—The nineteenth session of the enlarged executive committee of the Communist International was continued under the chairmanship of Comrade Geschke with the discussion of the German Party problems as fol- SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months {| $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIIInols ——$. $$ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL lows: WILLIAM F, DUNNE \ peerens: eananis MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager | Epnet Maver, | Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. OMRADE ERNST MEYER then de- clared in his owt name and in the Advertising rates on application, <r 290 a =—=====3 | name of his political friends that they |were in agreement with the resolu- ° . The Third Annual Drive Is On |tion of the German commission. It is not absurd but shameful that com- is day is important in the record of working class struggles in| rades like Scholem and Urbahns who This day portant in th d of I 1 t 1 les like Schol d Urbah h the United States. Not because it commemorates some heroic deed |@¥e learned nothing from recent sea Reeds ‘ ‘ le and up and speak here long past, but because it initiates another forward stride of the | done. Altho tley them- living present. It marks the beginning of a period of activity inj‘° anneal commie abla which tens of thousands of workers who have not hitherto been gre selec eat ey reached by the message of. Communism, of the pfoletarian reyolu- | mintern lessons, The German workers, tion, willbe enrolled in that vast army ever increasing in strength | ae Ride ables bet and intelligence that is the mainstay of the only Communist daily |more mature and cleverer than th ; in the English language, Tus Dairy Worker, [peepee enti p Pry The Third Annual National Builders’ Campaign is. on! Between Geena pile ah cominitiee wwtich dis- now and July 4th the Communist forces and. their. sympathizers] credited the left opposition, nothing are pledged to add ten thousand more workers to the subscription|could discredit it more than the lists of Tux Darzy Wonxer and other publications of;the only Com-|*Peeches of the last four speakers. munist publishing house in the United States. All Communists will without. question exert,themselves to the utmost in order to obtain a part of this ten thousand _as they realize that ten thousand new names on the subscription list means much more than their numbers indicate. But in, order to add special zest to the drive there are a number of prizes, the first of which is a free| the’ miktakeg d¢the gail tee iwe CAG trip to Moscow, seat of the first workers’ government, and while | not see our present mistakes, We car there the winner will have the privilege of attending the epoch-|ried on the struggle against the right making sixth world congress of the Communist International where| better than the ultra-lefts. We voted the representatives of the vanguard of the working clagg of the whole| £0" the expulsion of Schoenlank while world will take inventory of the forces of the revolution, and pre-|S°Dlem withheld his vote and pare for a continuation of the struggle against imperialist tyranny. In addition to this prize for the individual obtaining the greatest number of subscribers, the city realizng the highest percentage of its I am in agreement with the descrip- tion of the crisis by the resolution and when I propose to mention the fact of the relative stabilization in the reso- lution as it is mentioned in the other theses, so this is not done from poli- tical differences. We have recognized Scholem and Urbahns want a repeti- tion of, the right mistakes in order to be able to build up their left fraction Schwann voted against the expulsion..| Referring to the speech of Urbahns the speaker declared\that no one wished to deny the historical service of the German left in the years 1921- 24, but nevertheless in 1925 the left fraction has collapsed miserably, chief- ly thru the peoples block theory of Ruth Fischer and Maslov. The mobil- ization of all the forces of the party is necessary in order to be able to support the German proletariat in the difficult struggles which lie ahead of it, IT am»convinced: that the over- whelming majority of the German party membership will energetically reject any fractional machinations, | Ruth Fischer Talks. \ OMRADE RUTH’ #ISCHER. com- menced her remarks by pointing out the fact that no-one denied the istence of a favorable situation for he German party andi'the possibility | of winning broad masses. The draft | resolution however ig silent about the | political tasks, it contents itself with | generalities about the winning of the | masses in order to ¢oncentrate its | whole forces upon thé’ internal party | situation, The draft‘ Yesolution must inevitably sharpen ‘thé crisis inside the Communist Party éf Germany. No| one denies the nece&sity of winning the social democratic workers. The draft reSolution “however is silent about the concrete questions of the application of this tactic in Prussia, in Saxony, in the Beflin municipali- ties, in connection with the unemploy- ment, the chosing down of the fac- tories, etc., it only gives a confused and unclear platform, The draft resolution is in contra- diction to the open letter which char- acterized the left as a kernel around which the party was to mobilize. The fact that Meyer deals with October, 1923, as a small matter shows how deeply the central committee has fall- en ideologically. The dangers from the right are the greatest dangers, and, that is our point successfully. We shall however not do them this favor. It is still de manded of us that we make a few steps nearer to the central committee. We are prepared to do this in the form that we request the central com- mittee to utilize us not so much in the central committee as in the prov- inces for the practical.work. In the quota will receive from the Communist Party of Moscow a silk banner commemorating the event. The second highest percentage from the cities wins a silk banner from the Berlin Party. All in- dividual workers scoring 100 points or more receive a book of the famous cartoons that have appeared in the various publications of the Daily Worker Publishing Company, while all those obtaining 500 points or more receive busts of Lenin. On all fronts in the labor struggle Tue Dary Worker has been} practical work we shall gladly leave the unwavering champion of the elementary demands of the working} the struggle against the ultra-left dan- class, at the same time pointing the path to emancipation from, the|%¢"S to our onetime ultraleft com- debasing thralldom of capitalism, The miners of the anthracite, rates The cooperative york . be A x : een us and the central committee the furriers and garment workers, the textile workers of Passaic| which has now gone on for six months and Paterson, learned that in their struggles the one voice that al-| must be strengthened. We support ways spoke for them was that of the Communist press and in those}the fentral committee unconditionally sections where the workers have been in action and where we have bade oumigaaetd eit var eee ae stood with them against the combined forces of reaction, the workers ¢ should be called on to stand by their Daily as ‘it has stood by them, gig cle A th hues t ; with one or two formulations concern- to help it grow into a mightier power so that other workers in other | ing our group, struggles that are now on the order of the day may have as their ehampion a paper that speaks to hundreds of thousands where be- | Norwegian Left, | fore we could only reach tens of thousands. FTER Ernst Myer Comrade Han- sen (Norway spoke. He began by . The Defeat of McKinley pointing out that he only represented his own point of view. The Norwe- The defeat in the republican primaries Tuesday of William. B.|gian right party leadership supported McKinley by Frank L. Smith is, for the most part, a repudiation by |the liquidatorial tendencies and even the registered voters of their own party of the Mellon-Coolidge ad-|P!@ved @ fractional game with the ministration that forced the United States to adhere to the world palecapticcagies: Hh igi dba sien court. McKinley, who rode into office on the Harding landslide of | tendency in the Comintern to concen- 1920, was one of the most mediocre of the old guard. Smith is of|trate the whole fife upon the left the same low degree of intelligence, with no principles and but onelalone. Only the aggressive attitude of impelling motive—greed for office. the French rights brought about a The issue appeared to be the question of the world court. Un- aan povided pigs AE doubtedly many voters were swayed by the issue. It is question-|tack the left still more sharply then able whether Smith ever thought of opposition to the world court} the right on an international scale. until he saw an opportunity to utilize it against McKinley. If old|The speaker declared himself in agree. party platforms mean anything Smith, who is chairman of the repub- ihe belt on iisnigre gd Kabobs, liean state committee and who acted in that capacity during the pride tha, Genie ing prisoners Coolidge campaign, is guilty of violating his own. party platform|coming dangers, He then read the which eategorically declared for adherence to the world court. This| following declaration upon the voting: charge was brought against him by McKinley in the primary cam-| “AS the German resolution to “paign just closed. strengthen the right tendencies inside , Brash the varior sections, I shall vot The outcome of the primary election is a sad commentary upon | against it. 7 ee the right to ode the general intelligence of the republican voters. Either they did| my situation more clear by a detailed not know what they were yoting for when they gave Coolidge his| statement.” of difference with the draft resolution. Instead of pointing this qut the reso- lution opens volley after, volley against the left and the ultrajeft. The condi- tion for the winning, of the social- temocratic working-,masses for the Communist Party isthe winning over of the ultra-left workers and the abandonment of the A. P. tenden- cies of the past y We are how- ever opposed to the{™blood-purifying UNIONS PREPARE FIGHT. AGAINST ANTI-AWEN LAW Conference Called for Sunday Morning, Or aoe Many local unions furuout the city have elected delegateg.to the Confer- ence for the Protectign of the Foreign- Born, which is to eld at Room 300, 180 West Washington, Sunday morning, April 18, at,10 o'clock. The appeal to which mapy unions have already responded was sent out by Machinists Locals 84 and 337, The call follows: 4 Locals Send Out Appeal “The Machinists Local Unions Nos. 84 and 337 have considered the matter mentioned below and taken action as indicated. The committees elected by both tocals and authorized to act, here- with submit the matter for your con- sideration. “There are now pending before the United States congress several pro- posed bills of a particularly vicious, anti-labor character, introduced by representatives Me Clintio, Sosnow- ski, Hayden-Taylor, . ell and others. They are now being’ considered in committee and liabléto come up for action any time. “Yellow Tickét” System. “These bills propose to register all cure,” which if it only expelled a few hundred workers, would expel just those workers who are decisive for the party, | Remmele. Answers. | IOMRADE REMMELE: Ruth Fisch- er presents herself as the savior of the party from right dangers and em- phasizes that unless she leads the German ‘central committee all the dan- gers wilf raise their heads again. Ruth Fischer had the opportunity even af- ter the publication of the open letter to work. However, after she had signed the open letter she organized a rebellion against the contral com- mittee and the B, C. C, I. with all means, She voted against every prac- tical proposal or she withheld her vote purely for the purpose of work- | ing out a platform even if it should have no political basis The question of Ruth Fischer is not merely a Ger- man question, it is an international question. The speech of Hansen showed us this, There is a danger of the international connection of the ul- tra-left groups with the aim of oppos- ing the Bolshevist policy in all coun- tries with another one. Hansen _at- tempted to connect the German ques- tion with the Norwegian one. But where does Hansen take his authority to fight against the right dangers? He sent an open letter to the Treanmal party promising them under certain conditions to withdraw the Communist candidates for the muncipal elections. Hansen also took up an opportunistic attitude to the case of Maslov. If one attempts to.oppose the Bolshevist pol- icy of the Comintern with a West-Eu- ropean policy as Bordiga recommends, then that leads the way Katz has gone who also went from country to coun- try in order to form his Western Eu- ropean Bolshevism. The path of Han- sen can also lead this way. Long be- fore his expulsion from the party Katz had committed treachery to the party with his Western European Bolshev- ism by writing the basest slanders against thé Communist Party and the Comintern im the 2nti-Bolshevist or- gan, “Die Aktion.” The Communist Party and the Comintern will fight en- ergetically against any attempt to present us with this “west-European Communism.’” OMRADE FERGUSON (England) emphasized the great importance of the German question for all sec- QUESTIONS FOR NEXT MONDAY’S CLASS IN TRADE UNION TACTICS Meets every Monday night at the DAILY WORKER bullding, 3rd floor. First leasen of second term: Trade Unien Organization of Un organized Werkers.» a. Organization in heavy industry. b. Organization in light industry. INSTRUCTOR, ARNE SWABECK, Questions for Monday, April 19. 1. Is it essential that in a given trade or Induatry all the forces of the unions he mobilized for an or ganization @rive and, if so, how can this best be accomplished? workers, committee, selected, sage of the pending bills. SS proposed bills, if adopted, will estab- lish an efflelent blacklist system, help to lower the atandard of living of the workers in general, and put the gov- ernment further on record as an in- strument of the employers against the “The American Federation of La dor in its Jast convention went on rec- ord condemning the proposed bills. Our local unfons have decided to do everything possible to fight the pas- sage.of these bills. We have gone on record to call on the trade unions of Chicago and other workers’ organiza- tions to unite in this fight. We, the have been au- thorized to call a conference to de- cide ways and means to fight the pas- tions of the Comintern. In Germany we are faced with the prospect of new fractional struggles which can do our parties very great damage and hinder their progress. In the present situa- tion with the objective situation in favor of our work, it is absolutely es- sential that all forces of the German Communist Party should rally’ round the central committee. We must place before Ruth Fischer and her allies the question very clearly, will_you support the central committee loyally and carry on your-work of disintegration? We have not heard one Single serious political declaration from any ultra- left speaker, we have heard nothing but personal.complaints and attacks against individual. comrades, These attacks wefe only a cover for their own mistakes. When’ Ruth Fischer led, the Com- munist. Party of Germany there was no mass work done. The ultra-left party leadership took up a passive attitude to the question of interna- tional trade union unity and to the question of unemployment.. In an- swering the question of how they in- tend to conduct themselves in the fu- ture Ruth Fischer and Scholem Mmit themselves to phrases to avoid a di- rect: answer, only Urbghns declares open war upon the present Comintern policys.-This fractional struggle must ceases, All. sections .must.see to it that. the resolution in. the German question is carried thru, OMRADE LANGSETS (Norway) answered in the name of the Nor- wegian delegation to the declaration of Hansen. Hansen presented him- self here like a naughty boy declaring “I am also wicked; beat me, too,” and he was beaten, Hansen said that the Norwegian central committee was in- capable of fighting against the dan- gers from the right. The Scandinavian commission was able to convince itself that our central] committee is able to fight against dan- gers, both from the right and from the ultre-left. The remarks of Hansen lose their yalue when one remembers that the Norwegian party also had an exper imilar to the Katz effair for which the Scandinavian commis- sion made Hansen responsible. Ye dpeaker then made the follow- “The Norwegian delegation will unanimously vote for the draft resolu- tion présented here and it declares Discussion of the German Party Problem that the utterances of Hansen repre- Sent only his personal opinion.” Dorlot ‘of France. JOMRADE DORIOT (France): Thé situation of the Communist party of Germany demands an active inter- ference on the part of the Comintern, because the difficulties are not only ip the German Communist Party, but we have to deal with a broad maneuver of the international ultra-lefts. In .the beginning of the Plenum all the ultra- lefts were opposed to Ruth Fischer, but now we can see another picture. The ultra-left comrades no longer at- tack Ruth Fischer, but the Comintern. We.are faced with a clear attempt to form an international fraction, per- haps with an attempt to form an ultra left international. This is nothing new. During the dominance of Ruth Fischer in the German party she at- tempted to form an ultra-left wing in the French party, but without success. The ultra-left has no political line, it only demands the struggle against the right. But the Comintern is doing this quite independently of the de mands of the ultra-left. The Comin- tern supported the French party in its struggle against the right wing. One can only fight against the right wing on.the basis of Leninism, but certainly not with the assistance of the “western European bolshevism” that Maslov proposes. Ruth Fischer lost. connection with the German masses, and for this, not the interna- tional, buth Ruth Fischer’s sectatrian policy is responsible. The errors of Ruth Fischer affect the whole inter- national working-class movement, The incorrect policy of the German central committee in the Hindenburg elections was responsible for the fafl- ure of thd party in the French munici- pal elections For this reason we shall fight energetically against any attempt to give over the leadership af the German party to the ultradeft. The Comintern does not need euch saviors from the right dangers; ft will defend itself against the attacks both from the ultra-left and from the right, and ft will form a good, healthy Lenin- istic kernel in the Communist Party of Germany. After Doriot, Comrade Hansen pro- tested once again in a declaration against the comparison with Katz, whereupon Remelle replied that if Hansen wanted to save himself trom going the way of Kats he would have to alter his policy, as it led in that direction. . BOSTON C. L. U. GETS RESOLUTION “ON NEGRO WORKER DISCRIMINATION BOSTON, April 14—At the last meeting of the Central Labor Union here Brother Jeaacs, delegate from Janitor’ Union Local No. 5, introduced the fol- Enel adinigsion to colored craftsmen; ©’ pr | it resolved, that the Central Union recommends to all its affiliated untons to accept without dis- erknfipeton Negro workers within the crafts. unions ani “Be it further resolved, that the Cen- tral Labor Union urge all its affiliated unions to (stimulate organization among the unorganized Negro work- ers and that it co-operate with Negro membership in their re- organizations of working-class charac- ter which are working in this direc- ‘The American Federation of Labor is making a drive to ot- gantze the unorganized and, whereas, there are 50,000 colored people in New ny ‘per cent of whom are wage workers and that to date various craft unions have withheld ¢———____ ~~ This statement of Kearney’s is con- tradicted by Samuel A, Allen, execu- tive secretary of the local Urban League in his report on the unemploy- ment situation here. Allen asserts that one of the causes of unemploy- ment among the race are the unwritten laws which caused barriers that over- ride the theory of racial equality in labor unions, see BOSTON, April 14. — Last Sunday, April 11, the Boston local of the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress marched tion and, “Be it further resolved, that the Cen- tral Labor Union issue literature and launch a campaign especially designed to organizing the Negro workers. Referred. This resolution was introduced in connection with the campaign of the tocal Central Labor Union to “organize the unorganized.” President John L. Kearney of the Central Labor Union protested the first provision of the resolution wherein the Central Labor Union_ recommend the affiliated locals accept without discrimination Negro workers, because he alleged. in Boston in a body in the parade of the local Central Labor Union. This parade was planned in connection with the campaign to “organize the unorgan- ized” and the American Negro Labor Congress is devoting all its energies to full co-operation in the campaign. Notices were sent out to all the churches of the race and to all local organizations, including the U.N.L A. and Urban League inviting sympa- thetic and interested workers to par- ticipate and make a united front in an effort to do away once and for all with the discrimination shown members’ of the race in the trade union movement. there was no discrimination shown. foreign-born residents of the United The asebitien “wae DY fterred to States once every yéar; to compel _ Attend Conference. “We request that your organization #veat majority in Illinois in 1924, or they do not now know what they, are voting for. A vote for the republican party in, 1924 was a vote them to report to the authorities all| co on record to assist in this fight and Se eS feat: on, which |’, Don’t Waste ‘your’ breath, pit ‘It on for the world court, if old party platform mean anything. Now, in ; removals from city*to city; seed a preliminary measure select dele- E : pprer ‘ ‘1926, the same voters repudiate their vote of two years before by|(YOMRADE BLAESKLE (Y, C, L.|nent or temporary), to issue to each) gates to attend the conference, to be ov registrant a certificate of iidentifica- tion which is to bé “exhibited on de- mand any time anyplace. It is pro- Germany) declared: held Sunday, April 18, at 10 o'clock at 180 W. Washington, Room No. 300. “Anticipating favorable action, we PULLMAN WILL HOLD CONFERENCE defeating McKinley and endorsing Smith. “ : ‘Already at the Berli - Of course, it is a well known faet, that platforms of both the] gress ier Youle senda dase deniocrat and republican parties are. not written as a matter ef prin-| represented the standpoint of the Co- ciple, but merely in order that all elements within the parties may | ™intern as the only delegation there. have the uimost latitude in. espousing their own particular ideas.| Te ¥- ©. L. is firmly behind the Co- : 5 ‘ ‘ ‘ err mintern and the party leadership, The “vat only thing demanded is unquestioning servility on the main opposition which existed in the ¥. C. SSUES, L, is firmly behind the Comintern and In the present election Smith also had the tremendous advantage | the party leadership. The opposition of being state chairman of the republican party, hence he had all the| Which existed in the Y, C. L. a few months ago has been liquidated ‘machinery in his hands to use for his own’ purposes. ious employment, and all other mar! fication certitficate on which all details: : eaaW Faget Si gy r Gramkov who signed the declaratton 4 of his life are recorded, U! remov- i As far as the working class is concerned there is no choice be-| o¢ Ruth Fischer-Urbahns fs oe dat saeneietentt ‘bos on Saturday Night va ape ote cephig nsec Nap allay the} Section One to Have tween Sinith and McKinley. Both of them are lackeys of big busi-|in the name of the Hamburg or any ee city, whether for a day or a year, other Y. C, L, organization, but solely for himself. Gramkov did not come here as the delegate of the Hamburg organization, but only personally with an advisory vote.” ness, both of them traction tools. McKinley himself, is a traction magnate controlling public utilities in central and southern sections of the state, while Frank L. Smith, as chairman of the state com- merce commission has been and is the loyal lackey of the Samuel M. Insull publie utilities combination in Chicago. Both Smith and McKinley have shown themselves, by their records in public life, to he bitter enemies of organized labor. The utter depravity of certain labor leaders is nowhere better revealed than in their support of Smith, whose opposition to the world court only developed when he was in dire straits for an issue to use against McKinley. His plat- form means no more than the republican platform of 1924 which he endorsed as state chairman of his party. IOMRADE ROSENBERG declared: altho the description of the past of the Communist Party of Germany differs in various points to the opinion of Konrad and myself we shall never- theless vote for the resolution because its political line and the description of the tasks of the party including the sketching of the internal party course are correct. .. Get a member of the Workers Party and a new subscription z The DALLY WORKER. posed to enter on “this certificate of identification a photograph of regis- trant, his flinger-print, signature, full name, sex, nationality, race, place of birth, complete physical description, whether married or-single, name and age of all members of family, resi- dence here and before entry in U. S., occupation, name of present and pre’ complete record of case must be tached. “The majority of the workers in the basic industries of this country are of foreign birth and the proposed bills are clearly aimed at the working class as a whole, The employers are pre- paring for a slump in industry and with it for a new attack upon the workers with the object of destruction of their unions—it ‘possibl Aimed at Workers. “The intent of the pro} bills is clearly to intimidate the foreign-born workers; to prev hem from join- ing unions, to preyégt them from par- ticlpating in strikes, and to compel them to accept a stati, of subjection forced to do scab during tim: of confilcts with the employers. The your Uncle Sam th h tion of “Imperialist Bully.” sion fs 35 cents, remain. secretary. “Joint Committee of Local Unions Nos. 84 and 33' Stanley Clark to Speak in Detroit DETROIT, Mich., April 14.—Stanley Clark will be in Detroit Saturday, April 17, to speak on “Uncle Sam, Im- perialist Bully,” at Eastern Star Tem- ple, 80 West Alexandrine, American imperialism is the great- est menace to world peace today. The invasion of Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies, the Dawes plan in Burope and the exten- sion of its influence in Asia Minor and the Far East by Wall Street finance capital always aided and abetted by its political expression, ‘the adminis- tration in Washington, has earned for pt riza- Admis- teenie SEND IN A S¥B. “Fraternallly yours, Martin Perner, Machinists’ AGAINST ANTI-ALIEN BILLS SATURDAY A conference to protest against the anti-alien bill will be held in Pull- man, Saturday night, April 17. Plans will be laid as to how to combat thege vicious proposals soon to come up for consideration in congress, 4 The Aswell bill, for example, provides for flinger-printing, registering, photographing every alien, He must carry with him at all times an identi- ($$$ Chinese Talk Tonight changing his employer, or in any way changing his physical appearance, he must report to the local postoffice. Reasons are asked for every move he iakes. Every petty arrest is recorded. Since this legislation provides for deportation on, failure to comply with all the provisions, and since workers can ‘be deprived of their naturalization papers even after they are granted, these laws would put a powerful weapon in the hands of the master class, : Against these proposals of the open- shoppers let us form a Un Front pt Labor, Native and Section 1 will hold a discussion meeting of its membership tonight, April 15, at 180 W. Washington St, The subject will pe the latest develop- ments in China and Mexico, The cussion will be led by James Dolsen, ‘ r All members of the section are urged to attend, ‘ ¢ Earthquake In the Azores. pte LISBON, April 14.— A severo eartli quake ‘has wrecked hundreds of houses in Horta, Fayal Island, Azores. Thousands of inhabitants are without shelter, but no deaths hay reported. A |