The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1926, Page 4

Page Four ~------_——_——_- et THE DAILY WORKER ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FORCES UNITED IN WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY AFTER A LONG STRUGGLE ‘To the Armenian Workers of America! Workers, Comrades:—Four years have passed since there was formed the Armenian Workers Party with the collaboration of the, at that time, existing organizations and groupings such as the Armenian Workers Union, the Armenian Labor Federation, and the left wing group of the S. D, Hunchakist Party. IRR TS SERRE REST SEND The Armenian Workers Party, dur-| very few comrades (and not the only ing the period of two years, did @/ one) who from little groups and sym- great deal to unite the toiling masses! pathizers, turned our movement into in this country and the Armenian| an organized fraction of the American workers, in turn, followed with great) Workers (Communist) Party. interest and attention the activities,! a, our great leader, Lenin, origi- led by the Armenian Workers’ Party | nated the dictatorship of the prolet- Later, however, the unification with| ariat and fought with all his strength the Hunchakist dealt a blow to our}/anq ability for the liberty of the movement. The controversial atti-)toling masses of the world, so every tude of the social democratic Huncha-|comrade of our party should follow Kist leaders and some of the steps/the same path. We demand his col- taken by our comrades resulted in a|japoration in building up our move- factional fight which has gone On up| ment. It is time to put an end to all to this time. kinds of internal and external faction- Join The Party. alism and to start real work for broad- We, the members of the former|ening the frame of the Armenian Armenian Workers Party, who up’ to| Fraction. this time have remained outside of| All Armenian workers from New the Armenian fraction of the Workers | York to Los Angeles join under the (Communist) Party, declare that we|red banner of the Workers (Comm- cast aside all the past controve: nist) Party. and personal prejudices and declare} Long live the Red November! our intention to unite within the| Long live the Workers (Commu- ranks of the Americar Workers| nist) Party of America! (Communist) Party Armenian Frac-| tion. We appeal to all the Armenian workers who are class conscious to support our effort and to Join the Workers’ (Communist) Party of this country and to aid in building the Armenian Communist Press and in drawing the Armenian workers into the campaign for the Protection of the Foreign-Born, into support of the International Labor Defense build- ing of Workers Educational Clubs as well as other important tasks of the workers in this country. Only Effective Within Party. Only within the ranks of the Work- ers (Communist) Party can we see the salvation of the workers of this country. The strengthening and growth of the Workers (Communist) Party Means the death of the bourgeois so- cial order. In making this declaration of. our intentions to enter and support the work of the Workers (Communist) Party and its Armenian Fraction, we ask an explanation from our former , leading comrades, who had left the Party and its work, such as S. Chu- ehian, S. Sidal, P. Minasin, Kasandi- sian, A. Tatian, A. Shulakian, S, Kala- mian, A. Demerazian, A. Gulasaria. ‘We want to know whether these com- ~~ fades were true leaders or not. We would like to have them answer this question publicly, We also mention Comrade L. Mar- dirassian and declare that it is not enuf for him to be a simple member, but that our expectations of him are greater than that. We also appeal to Comrade S. Sin- arian in Armenia. Comrade Sinarian should know that he is one of the Long live the Armenian Fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party of America! Signed; “Former Branches of the Armenian ‘Workers Party: Chicago, Detroit, New York, Chelsea and Los Angeles. 'Nucleus 10, Boston, Package Party Nets $61 for Passaic Strikers BOSTON, Mass., May 20.—A pack- age party arranged by Nucleu 10 of the Workers (Communist) Party at the Chelsea Labor Lyceum netted $61 for the benefit of the Passaic strikers. A short program with singing, recita- tions and dancing was arranged. Cole- man of the Passaic strikers’ relief committee spoke. Subscriptions: The Daily Worker 1 year—100 points % year— 45 points 3 mos— 20 points 2 mos.— 10 points The Workers Monthly: 1 year— 30 points % year— 10 points The Young Worker: 1 year— 30 points 1.00 % year— 10 points 50 The Young Comrade: 1 year— 10 points 5 Rates Prices on brick $2.00 1.25 S Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you can have your bust. The Chicago Party Membership A GENERAL party membership meeting will be held Sunday evening, May 23, 8 p. m., at the North West Hall, corner North and Western Avenues. The party speakers will be Comrades Ruthenberg, Foster, and Dunne. Important party work will be taken up and each member should bring his paid up membership book.—Arne Swabeck. That Was a Mistake | About This big feature will be given to our readers on JUNE 1 (not June 15 as an- nounced Wednes- day)—which gives us a better and more urgent reason to ask you to Order a bundle Rates: 2 Cents 3% Cts. Saturday Issue THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, It, for the June | coples every day. copies only on... Address city ost The Future Belongs to the Youth! THE YOUNG PIONEERS Are Celebrating the Opening of the Campaign for the LENINIST YOUTH CAMP. - ree ra Applaud Zi NOTE:—Owing to the fact that The DAILY WORKER appeared in four-page issues for several days, followed by the flood of news on the British general strike, the pub- lication of the closing speech of Gregory Zinoviev at the Enlarged Executive Committee meeting of the Communist International was delayed until today. The report of Zinoviev's speech, as furnished _by the International Press Correspond- ence, is as follows: ae ae OSCOW, U. S. S, R.,—(By Mail)— Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Communist International was greeted with great applause then commenced his closing speech. We can say with a good conscience that the enlarged E. C. ©. I. has done everything in its power to study all corners of the European working class movement ‘and the revolution- ary movement of the whole world, to explain the past mistakes and to find the correct line for the whole of the world proletariat. Our work was not done smoothly and without hin- drances, but despite the difficulties ;we have succeeded in solving the most important problems of the time satisfactorily, “The session of the enlarged E. C. C. I. were held in a period when the Stabilization of capitalism is begin- ning to shake. It was however, not a period of shaking for the bolshe- vization of the parties but of consoli- dation, Our most important problem |{s the,problem of building bridges be- | tween the masses of the proletariat and its advance guard. For this rea- son the tactic of the united front and in particular the trade union ques- ; tion played a very important role in our sesisons. Last year still very great doubt existed in the ranks of the French and the German parties in connection with the formation of the Anglo-Russian unity committee. Today it has already been proved that the Anglo-Russian committee is one of the most important bridges to the masses, ™~ The Amsterdam rights are working feverishly against us, especially in England itself.. Many signs point to the possibility of vaccilation in this respect. Naturally however, this dan. ger must. not be overestimated for our friends in. England are als» at work. Petty.diplomacy will not at. tain much in this respect. Tke course of the class struggle and the will of our comrades. is decisive here. The course of the class struggle, particu- larly in Great Britain however, is fa- vorable for us and it will bring ali disruptive plans to nothing. We must however be on,,our guard and when we are beaten back here and there we must redouble our work for the inter- national unity of the trade union ;movement. The slogan of interna- tional unity will be for months to come, perhaps for years, the most im. portant slogan of the Comintern. The organizational form ofthe work in this connection is not of decisive im_ portance. If one bridge is endangered we shall defend it and build three others. ()'% enemies will interpret our dis- cussion as a great crisis inside the Comintern, I must emphasize what Bucharin said however, that there is no great crisis here, actually no crisis at all, Naturally however, the symp- tomatic significance of our discfissions must not be underestimated, It is absolutely not to be under- stood how one can possible vote for the Zinoviev theses which were unani- mously accepted by the Russian dele. gation, and in the same breath say that the epen letter and the resoltion of the German commission are incor. rect. The line of my theses, and that of the open letter and the German resolution is the same, HE attitude of the Comintern against the right and against the ultra-left is nothing new, nothing ac- cidental, not a changing affair, but the fundamental of Leninism, the funda- | mental of the Comintern. Even Marx was compelled to fight these two devi- ations eyen jf they went then under other names. For this reason we do not need any new attitude, all we need to do is to retain the old principles of the Comintern with the necessary firmness. And we have done this very well. We have undertaken no revis. fon of the Fifth Congress and we have dealt out strong blows both to right and ultra.right in accordance with the situation in the parties and countries in question. Neither the ultra-lefts nor the rights are today what they were a few years ago, An 1920 and 1921 the ultra-left consisted of comrades who came from the fight with the illusion that victory de- pended on us alone. At that time there was something fresh and revolu. tionary in these elements. Today this is no longer’ the case, In the same way the rights in the years 1920, 1921 consisted to a certain degree of ele. ments who fought against the social democratic remnants in themselves, The present rights, however, are part- noviev's Glos ly figures who-remain for @ tine with us in order to spoil the Comintern from within. The worst of the ultra- lefts and the rights is that the ultra- lefts lead Communism away from the masses and the -rights -lead the masses away from real Communism. Both must be fought energetically and in the past we have done this. The speaker then mentioned various ul, tralefts who had left the Comintern, for instance, Gorter @¢nd Pannekoek and a number of German K, A. P. work- ers who were honest fighters and it has been worth white to attempt to convince them. These were jmade of different stuff than Katz. S¢ghumacher was once again different, We have still a rather generous collection of ultraleft elements inside the Comin- tern and-I hope that they will,not lead us but permit themselves to he taught. On the right we had also a great num- ber of people who left us, for in- stance, Levi, Frossard,...Friesland, Hoeglund, Tranmael, etc, . Amongst them were very capable people. I don’t intend to speak about people like Bubnik who simply sold, them- selves. Some rights still pemain in- side the Comintern and of these some are developing jnto real and honest Communists. Those comrates are worthy of remark who left’us but later found their way back’ to the Comintern like Serrati. Wé fought very strongly against him but when we observed the first signs ‘that he was honestly beginning to sée his mis- takes, the Comintern and the Italian party did everything in order to make his return possible. Many ultra_lefts, Italian and German comrades, have come back and it is the task of the Comintern to make the return of such comrades as even as possible. All forces which we can bring into the line of the Comintern must be utilized for our struggle. HE enlarged executive fought against the rights in France, Cze- cho-Slovakia, Norway, and pally also {in Germany and against the ‘ultra-left ‘in Italy, Poland, Norway, ‘aia above jall in Germany. The Comintern re- | jected the attempts of certain German ultra-left and French rights~to shift their own mistakes onto thé’ central committee, and in this the ©¢mintern was @orrect. The speaker condemned | attempted to utilize the differnces of opinion inside the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for petty fraction- al purposes. ap The attempt to represent the exe- cutive as tho it only fought against the right or only fought inst the ieft, has been brought to tought by the sessions of the enlarged execu- tive. We have proved that the Comin- tern struggles, mercilessly against the Ultra-left, but that at the same time it makes no concessions to the right. The Comintern remains and_ will con- tinue to remain on the basis of Len- r i Iga were still pessimistic ten- dencies in the commfssions, but we must objectively record thesfact that the parties @re strengthening, that their forces have become. better. Altho the parties are still weak in forces, it must be said thatthe poli- tical level of the average comrade is rising, that the social composition of the parties has improved, and that many comradés have deyeloped to leadership from working class cir- cles. I believe that our decisions are ab- solutely correct. The blows delivered |similar groups and also the rather heavy blows against the French right | were completely justified. Politics are embodied in persons and for this reason it is impossible to fight against errors without hitting people here and there. e In a number of partie we have achieved important eee. In the past year the British and the Italian parties have made tremendous prog- party despite the great difficulties. in coming out of its isolation and at least to a certain extent in, breaking down the wall between tha, social de- mocratic and Communist... workers. The circulation of the organ of the Red Front Fighter League has increas- ed by 40,000 in the last two months, The membership of the Red Women Taken singly, these are small matters, but altogether they show that we are on the way to the masses, "he French party has also been successful in its efforts to reach the masses, HE Comintern cannot dg wonders. But nevertheless it was,able to as- sist various parties to overcome their internal crises. After the Paris Com- mune it needed a decade for the so- clalist movement to stand on its feet once again. In Italy, however, where the victory of fascism was certainly as great a defeat for the working class movement as the defeat of the Paris Commune, the Italian working class needed much less than ten years in order to get once again onto its feet, In Bulgaria, also whéte a whole Communist. generation was physical- ly destroyed, the Communist Party will need less than a deeade to re- cover. inism, 1 against the Ruth Fischer group and | lress. This is also true of the German | The C, P, of Germany was successful | and Girls’ League is steadily, growing | ing Speech This is partly due to the quitker tempo of history. But the experiences of the Russian revolution and of the Comintern are of very great assist- ance, Great Britain is facing tremen- dous struggles which will be similar to social transformations. If a min- ers’ strike takes place, our first and most important task will be to organ- ize world action in support of the strikers. In France the crisis is be- coming ever riper, it has even pro- gressed during the course of our ses- sion. I believe that the slogan of the workers and peasants government is suitable in France just now. We must connect this slogan with the daily questions and as the crisis becomes ever more intense, so we must put the slogan of the workers and peasants ever more into the cen- ter of our agitation. The speaker is in agreement with the German central committee and the report of the Ger- man delegation in the-analysis of the German situation, Even-if the crisis in Germany is not so intense as the crisis in 1923, it is nevertheless no isolated episode. A very important fact is that a crisis is mtensifying in three great parallel countries. At the same time the revolution in the East is maturing and this shows that we are approaching a new turning point. Altho there exists no immediate revo- lutionary situation, there is a gradual transition from the defensive to the offensive. In 1923, both the internal and external difficulties of the revolu- tionary struggle in Germany were very great, These external difficulties have now become less by the parallel in- tensification of the crises in, France and England. HE attractive force of the Russian revolution for the world working class was never so great as it is to- day. Despite all difficultfes the whole working class of the world feels that we are in the middle of the work of socialist reconstruction. The social democratic workers who were poisoned for ydars by the slan- ders of the social democratic leaders felt thru their proletarian instincts the successes which the work of socialist reconstruction brought to us even in the first years. This is a very im- portant contribution to the psychology ofthe masses. T is important that the decisions should not merely be adopted but studied and carried out. We must in- troduce more democracy and more col- lective work into our ranks. This is possible because the parties are con- solidating themselves, their forces have come stronger and because we are not in a period of immediate civil war. Naturally, less democracy and more civil; war against the bourgeoisie would be better. In the present situ- ation, however, the internal party de- mocracy is very important. We must improve the organizations of the Com- intern and abolish their defects. ‘INHE setting up of two perspectives for the future remains correct. The task of revolutionary leadership is to” judge the situation objectively, to re- tain both perspectives in\mind and to do everything to speed up the more favorable and shorter perspective. We |shall perform this task also. Crises cannot be avoided. It is our task to utilize our great historical experiences in theory and practice to overcome these crises. It is necessary to re- tain the greatest possible objectivity and calm and mot to be afraid of en- ergetic arguments. Communism is a robust child which will pass all crises and overcome all errors. This natur- ally does not mean that we should produce mistakes and crises. But where they are inevitable, we must | overcome them. We have already won |the sixth part of the earth and even our enemies are now convinced that they can’t take it away from us any more, We stand at the beginning of a great national revolution in the Orient, particularly in China with its almost five hundred million inhabi- tants. In the most important coun; tries of European capitalism, above all | in Great Britain, the Communist move- ment is growing. We have argued | very much here, we have dealt out hard blows, but now let us get back to work in closed ranks. A future gen- eration will not see the victory of Communism in Europe, our own gener- ation will see it and I hope not only in Europe. (Applause). The Comin- tern is growing to fight all difficulties, it does not exaggerate, it knows that great weaknesses are present in all countries. We are, however, certain, that the Comintern will get rid of these mistakes and that the proletar- iat will be victorious and we are all prepared to give our lives to assist the world proletariat in its struggle. (Protracted applause and the singing of the International.), HAIRMAN Geschke: We close the sixth session of the enlarged executive with the call: Back to work for the carrying out of the de- cisions, for the blishment of the united front. Warm revolutionary greetings to the international work- ing class, abo: 11 to our comrades in the prisons, Long live the Com- intern! Long live the Communist Party of the Soviet Union! Long live Soviet Russia! Boston Communist Youth Greet Y. C. I. _ in Kostroma, U.S.S.R. BOSTON, Mass.—The Young Com- munists of ‘the Kostroma District in the Soviet Union have sent our Bos- ton comrades their hearty greetings and we have responded in part as follows: . . “From .our YOUNG WORKER of May ist, 1926, we find out of te many presents and greetings you have ex- tended to us thru Comrade J. William- son, for which we wish in the name of the Young Workers (Communist) League of this district to extend our heartiest thanks and Communist greet- ings.» 7 “The conditions of the young work- ers in America and in our district in particular are getting worse every day. Wages rangé from $8 to $15 per week. Sanitary conditions, particu- larly of the young workers in the tex- tile mills (the leading industry in our district) is very bad. In one mill more than 300 accidents happened last year. This holds good not only for the textile industry but for the biscuit, shoe, candy and many others as well, Ly ur to our 'N. B. C. and our world 4leader, the Young Communist International, we are on the road to- wards becoming a mass organization in the United States. We are concen- trating on the large shops and facto- ries, not, however, overlooking the small places where young workers are employed. Altho we have only 120 members in the League, we already Pioneers League. “The struggle in which you have already won your victory must be finished here ,too. We will win un- der the*banner of the C. I. and Y. Ci Nat Kay, District Organizer. BEET FIELD-CHILD LABOR - NOT PROTECTED BY LAWS The Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor announces that “Child workers in the sugar beet fields of Wisconsin arg now protected by, state child labor laws.” The hours of children working in the beet fields are limited to 8 a day and 48 a week and the laws forbid their employment between the hours of 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. It further prohibits children under 14 who have not completed the eighth grade from working during school hours. No mention is made of legislation for children employed in other industries or of any efforts made to improve the wages of the child workers of the beet fields, in the bul- letin. It is only by the complete aboli- tion of child labor up to 14 years of age and the state maintenance of the children that a real measure will have been taken towards abolishing this chronic evil. Pinched Pioneer Head Causes Stir LOS ANGELES, Calif—The arrest of Anna Lyons, district Young Pioneer director of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, for assembling with 100 working-class children in Syca- more Grove on May Ist has caused quite a stir here. The red-baiting Los Angeles Times states that Park Super- intendent Hayes had. reported to As- sistant City Prosetueor Krowl “that a woman led the children in the cry, ‘Hurrah for Russia! To with the United States!’” Later, accord- the woman was Comrade Lyons. Of course, the reported cheers are pure buncombe. The cheers which were | very likely used were, “Hurrah for the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government of Russia!! Down with’ capitalism and the capitalist government in the U. 8.1” ‘omrade Lyons pleaded “not guilty” to the charge and the case will be fought. N. Y. Pioneer Camp ? Affair May 23 The Pioneers are going to hold the first concert and entertainment to open thescampaign for the Leninist Youth Club Camp. Where? At Webster hall, 11th street between 2nd and 3rd avnues, When? May 23rd, at 1 p. m, sharp. The program? Moissaye J. Olgin, Pioneers of Soviet Russia,” concert, Ukranian Children’s Orches- tra; dances, Pioneer dancing class plays, School Days, by Pion Chairman, a Pioneer, Will we be there? Supe. pM aD Bah A auh a day will hetp to drive capital away. ; With a Big % Our program will include the fol- Pioneer Dancing Class. j i lowing: 6, Pioneer in the Soviet Republic, CONCERT 4 1, Grand Pioneer March. by J, M, Olgin, Sunday, May 23, 1926, 1 P.M. in © dr WEBSTER. HALL, 119 E. 11th St., N.Y. C. \ ) 2. School Days (play, 2 acts). 3. International Workers’ Chil- en's Symphony Orchsetra, 4. Why? Play in 5 scene: 6. Classical and Folk dano Pr by the: Class, by W. W. Weinstone. AA QM Wi, Hi tw 7. Why, a Leninist Youth Camp? Pioneer Speaker, ' 8. The Pioneers and the Working 9% 8, Don Dist, Org. of Dist, No, 2. have 500 children in the Young: ing to the report, it was learned that” Hane AD ag Peoria Moves Nearer to Moscow x. A most startling example whieh’ speaks for itself apd needs very little comment, of how to build our organl- zation by building our press Is the one of Peoria, Ill. Only a short time ago nobody hardly heard of Peoria beyond the fact that the miners held their convention there two years ago and the DAILY WORKER got Farrington’s goat by being right there on the job. But we did not have an organization—we only had one comrade there, So when it came to appointing the quotas in the present DAILY WORKER campaign Peoria was only assigned 1,000 points, a@ modest amount given to small towns where there are few comrades. We did not quite expect Peoria to get even that many. But we over- looked something—we forgot all about Comrade Max Cohen. Which, how- ever, did not mean that Comrade Cohen forgot about the Communist press. And besides Comrade Cohen was always anxious to organize a League in Peoria. So all of a sudden subs started pouring in from Peoria. Comrade Cohen was determined—it was, as he said, “Moscow . . . or (a) Bust!” Well, Comrade Cohen has a Bust already (one of Lenin, a beaut!- ful thing given to every worker se- curing 500 points in the campaign) and he sure means to get to Moscow. Peoria is ahead of any city in the United States in filling their quota— it has 55 per cent filled and the cam-° paign is not half over yet. -Peoria is going to win the beautiful silk banner from the Communist Party of Mos- cow and Comrade Cohen has\a cork- ing chance of going to Moscow, as all the subs were secured by himself. But that is not all—the lest letter we got from Comrade Cohen anounces the formation of a Young Workers’ League in Peoria. Comrade Cohen writes: “. . . well the secret Is out! All we need is a place to meet. | had to get subs . . . and the formation of a League was one of the ways to do it!” By talking to young workers, from whom he secured Young Worker subs, Comrade Cohen was successful in getting them interested to the point where he had enough members to start a unit of the Y. W. L. Tt all the comrades ‘in the country felt about the sub campaign'the way Comrade Cohen felt, -this is what would happen: We would not only make the DAILY WORKER drive a huge success and get hundreds of new subs for the DAILY WORKER and YOUNG WORKER, but we would have a League in every town where we have none at the present time and we would build up our existing Leagues to be real strong functioning organi- zations. All we say to you, comrades (quot- ing the well-known old Bible) —GO THOU AND.DO LIKEWISE! BOSTON UNITED FRONT MEET TO FIGHT MILITARISM BOSTON, Mass.—A mass anti-mili- tarist conference is scheduled to take place here Sunday, May 30th, 7:30 p. m. at the Huntington Ave. Y. M. C, A. Besides the various student bodies, labor unions and other organi- zations, the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League will be represented. The League is one of the organizations represented on the initiative com- mitee. At this conference the question of the intense militarization of the youth, thru increased armaments, military appropriations, the Citizen's Military Training Camps, Réserve Officers’ Training Corps, etc., will be thoroly discussed. An immediate program for an honest and energetic struggle against militarism acceptable to all the youth organizations represented will be worked out. CORRECTION. The N, EB. C, of the Y. W. L, has decided to appoint a ma ment committee to take complete charge of the business management of the YOUNG WORKER and» YOUNG COMRADE. The previous statement printed in these columns stated that the N. BE. C. had decided to take over the business end of these publications —a thing which has always been im force, COME OVER TOMORROW! In order help the paper, the Chi- cago worker correspondents of the Novy Mir are giving a concert and une next Saturday, May 22, at the lorkers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Some of the best talents, actors and “musicians, will participate in the program. = ' All comrades and friends of the Communist press should attend this affair and help make it a success. inning at 8 p. m. Admission only 35 cents, Chairman: — Pioneer, Admission: Adults, 60c; 15¢. children, ~Auspices: Young Pioneers of Ameri ca, District No, 2 $i }