The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 4

?age Four THE DAILY WORKER lncaaiiation leetings |Workers (Communist) Party Dur World Party at Work A Summary of the Proceedings of the Enlarged Executive of the Communist International. WHE _ material of the sessions of the - enlarged executive committee of te Communist International, includ- g the resolutions and speeches, are Jw available in the English lan- wage. It is one of the foremost du- es of all active party members to udy these documents most attent-! the | ely and to draw from them sxesesary conclusions for the correct ‘lentation of our party. ‘HE material is so voluminous, and + the subjects dealt with amy’ and varied, that an irvey of the work of the plenum am not be given in a single article. he most that can be done is to give @ outline and to indicate the ain points. Such 2 of some value if it would stimulate irty comrades to an earnest study of | te resolutions and discussions en- te. Such is the purpose of this ar-| cle. The main points dealt with in the Xeument of the plenum are as fol- ws: The plenum confirmed the judge- ment pronounced a year ago in ‘ward to the partial and relative abilization of capitalism in Europe, hich brought with it a retardation the development of the proletarian svolution. The Comintern estimate ! the so-called stabilization of course as nothing in common with that of ze social democrats, who imagine, lat capitalism has been reconstituted ye another hundred years. On the mtrary, the Comintern maintains its cemise that the capitalist system has at recovered from the effects of the Terld War and the sharpening of its mer contradictions and will not re- over. International proletarian revo- ‘tion remains the perspective of the omintern. The tactics of the Comintern, " based upon the estimate of the yonomic and political situation, have teir center of gravity in the fight for inning other social democratic and m-party workers to the side of Com? unism thru the tactics of the united ‘ont. All attempts of certain left | | in non-party mass organizations of all | ements to reject or stultify the unit- i front tactics ‘have been completely ‘pudiated. It was clearly established ‘at the united front tactic is the in- sputable weapon of the Communist yrifes,in carrying out their historic sk of mobijizing the masses for the Tuggle against capitalism, and of ading them by degrees to the plat- wm of Communism. The main slogans of the plenum * were: “To the masses!” “Go seper into the unions.” “Establish mmections with workers every- here, in all fields of activity and Tuggle!” “Identify the Communist arty with all the life and activity of +6 working class!” “Guard against olation as well as against lack of| rinciple!” The necessity of establishing con- " nections and influence amongst te working masses, especially in this ariod of retarded revolutionary de- slopment, puts before the Commu- ist Parties as a life and death ques- on the necessity to struggle against ad completely annihilate the ultra ftist and sectarian tendencies which ould lead the party to isolation. The ain struggle of the plenum was con- seted against the ultra leftist tend- wies. This does not signify, by any eans, however, that the Comintern 8 going to the right,” as some peo- le have attempted to maintain. It BOSTON, MASS.! GRAND DEFENSE PICNIC are so| adequate | an outline would} was pointed out in all the discussions that this would be a completely false estimate of the policy of the Comin- tern. It is not a question of substi- tuting left digressions with right devi- ations, but of putting the fight against | deviations concretely in each case and jof maintaining the clear Leninist line, which does not recognize the legiti- macy of either right or left tendeticies in Communism. The right danger still exists and will be fought against by the Com- jintern, In the French party, for ex- ample, the right danger is the great- est danger now, altho the plenum was jObliged also to combat. “‘left” tenden- cies there, But for most of the parties under the present conditions (and this ap- | Plies also for America, where the con- nection with the workers is still weak) jthe greatest danger is sectarianism, which would deprive the party of the |possibility of gaining influence jamonest the masses, The thinly dis- guised attempt to form an interna- tional left fraction only emphasizes the danger. The main emphasis in most cases at present must be placed on the struggle against this ultra left tendency, but this can only be carried }on successfully if the parties at the same time repulse the right elements. The struggle for influence over * the masses, thru the tactics of the united front, naturally finds its most important field in the trade union movement, since the trade unions are the elementary and principal mass or- ganizations of the workers. The fight for world trade,union unity in which substantial successes have already been gained by the Comintern and Profintern, remains as before in the very foreground of the struggle. The necessity of increasing many fold the activities and the practical work of ther Communists in the trade unions was strongily emphasized. 16 Following along the same general line of the united front tactic to win influence for the parties among the working masses, the plenum rais- ed- one of its most important: ques- tions, the question of Communist work kinds. This question occupied a spe- cial place on the agenda and much time and attention was devoted to dis- cussion of the ways of Working in this field. The narrow conception. of party work in the sense of only internal party work was isolated in this plenum like a complete stranger. It was made very clear that party work is also, and even principally, work outside of the party, amongst non-party masses. Great stress was laid upon the neces- sity of giving concrete organizational forms to the sympathetic sentiment towards Communism and towards the Russian revolution, which have been developed thru propagandistig..work. Of all the existing non-party mass or- ganizations, the International Red Aid was declared to be the one having first claim upon the members of the ; Communist Party. N connection with this question of non-party mass organizations it is worth while to quote the following paragraph from the resolution adopted by the plenum: “Party executives should not over- look the fact that a considerable number of our party members in all the capitalist countries have not yet fully understood the obligations as emphasized by the Third World Congress, under which every Com- munist is to do his share of work, GOOD TIME, COME! _ UNITY CAMP, SAUGUS, MASS. ae Monday, May 31, 1926 BRUNO’S UNION ORCHESTRA _ Dancing Floor Under Roof—Rainy Weather Will Not Interfere er DANCINGC——-SPORTS——REFRESHMENTS ; Grounds open 12 o’clock AUSPICES INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, , Ticket 50 Cents eee ONS: Take Elevated to Everett, Car to Malden Sq. from there Bus to Picnic Grounds, LOS ANGELES FIRST SUMMER OUTING Sunday, June 6, 1926 EAGLE ROCK PARK GOOD AMUSEME NTS AND GAMES Tickets, including round trip, 50c—Busses leave Brooklyn and Mott and 6th and L. A. Sts, 8:30 p. m. Don’t take your lunch with y ou. We will serve plate lunch and refreshments. Auspices Women’s Consumers Educational League, en = Car and ride to the end of the ee then wal DIRECTIONS TO THE PARK: ‘Take North Broadway td Pasadena Avenue and drive as far as Annandale Blvd, Follow Boulevard to Those who wish to go direct can take the “W” to the park, ee ee and also that they consider as party work only-woxk which is within the Communist Party organization. Therefore it is essential to impress on every member of a party nuc-- leus, of a Communist fraction, that his work among non-party social democnats, syndicalist workers (in factories, trades unions, co-operat- ives, workers’ sports organizations, working women’s organizations, sympathizing mass organizations, and also among the peasantry)—is also party work, and that for the | majority of party members it must | even be considered as the most im- | portant part of party work. They { should be careful not to lose their identity among the masses, but should deport themselves as revolu- tionary organizers of mass activ- ity.” Considerable attention was given *et-ttlis plenum to the question of internal policies and tasks of the Comintern and of the national sec- tions. The Comintern remains as be- fore the centralized world organiza- tion with international leadership. But on the initiative of the Russian delegation a resolution was adopted declaring for more Independence and self-activity of the national parties. The parties have to stand on their own feet more—select their own lead- ers, etc. The leadership of the Com- munist International must assume a more collective character thru the real and actual participation in the work of the E. C. C. I. to a much greater extent than before by the fore- most representative of the important national parties. BOVE all the central committees of the parties must master the task of maintaining their leadership by virtue of their own abilities and influence, and ‘must not rely too much on the support of the executive’ committee of the Comintern. Com- rade Zinovievy said: “Moscow has broad shoulders ... w is the time to say to all our parties: ‘More inde-| pendence.’ Nearly every party has had its own experience, its achieve- | ments, and errors. Now is the time for more indepéndence and not simply for waiting to hear from Moscow. | When I say this, my words have noth- ing in common with the anti-Moscow and right elements, for such an atti- tude is tantamount to a denial of pro- |letarian dictatorship. Such moods | among the ultra left and right are en- thusiastically welcomed by the bour- geoisie and social democracy, I real- ize that sometimes these moods have | their origin in a a strong nationalist | feeling, and Comrade Lenin has always warned us of this danger.” 1: Goh in hand with the policy of greater independence for the na- tional sections goes the policy of greater responsibility by them for the leadership of the Comintern asa whole. (The resolution of the plenu: on this question makes it incumben' upon the larger sections of the Com munist International, the German, French, Czech and Italian sections to appoint two representatives each, and of other larger parties (including the Oriental and American parties) one representative each, who will partici- pate in the work of the executive counneil of the Communist Interna- tional for a period of at least six months after the enlarged executives. After the lessons drawn by the * plenum from the experiences of the vraious parties in dealing with in- ternal party questions, there cannot Dinner Pail Epics By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press, I see most textile workers suffer frum working for a rich old duffer. Bum hearts, nephritis and T. B., bad burns, ripped backs and crippled knee, The labotatory xrays shows most every kink the doctor knows an ambl- ing clinic with a list-of few disease he in’t missed. ‘ The reason sure ain’t hard to find, 1t comes from workers’ dafly-grind,— Poor wage, long hours and awful pay bum food, poor homes at end of day. Too little milk and eggs and meat. The cheapest stuff to eat. And too much dust instead of air, and not enuf of doctor's care, Health ain't essential to industry, as any profiteer can see, ‘So long as workers has a breath, the surplus fund don’t fear no death, If he has strength enuf to breed, the plutocrats don’t Nave no need of locking their un- healthy shops because they’s short a worker crop. Enuf tough babies do get milk to grow sum hands for weav- ing silk. So everything is surely jake for grabbing profits with a rake. O, worker's death, where is thy stjn, Big dividends is sure the thing. 0, grave where is thy victory! Work kills us only by degree, Room For Rent Large, steam heated, in a new bulld- ing. Good transportation, Sultable for one or two. 3458 W, Monroe Phone, Nevada 10347, ffairs tions Social, / Reso! By James P. Cannon be any doubt that in all the parties (and especially in America wheré the party is as yet comparatively small and weak) a real genuine party democracy must ,be established un- conditionally and without delay. The JURY MAY ASK COLVIN TO HAND IN RESIGNATION Parole Head Is’ Linked Up With Pardon Mill JOLIET, Ml, May 25.—Will Colvin, head of the state board of paroles and pardons, will be called on by the Will county special grand jury to resign, practice of controlling parties by me- Mxecording to a report emanating from chanical means, of setting up military factional regimes, of excluding quall- fied comrades from participation in party work and leadership—all these practices have ended in complete bankruptcy everywhere and have brought a number of parties to the danger of disintegration and smash- up. The classic illustration of this was in the German party. But in the French party, and in a number of others, the same mechanical methods brought the same evil results. These practices have everywhere, led to- wards isolation of the leadership from the party membership, and conse- quently to the isolation of the party from the masses. Control of the party apparatus alone is not leadership. Only those who are able to lead the parties politically and ideologically and morally have any legitimate claim to leadership in the future. 9 A striking feature of the plenum * was the prominence of the oriental questions and of much greater partic- ipation than ever before of repre- sentatives of oriental parties and revo- lutionary movements. In contra-dis- tinction to the Second International which bases itself upon the upper strata of the working class in “civilized” countries, the Communist International had representatives at its sessions, of all the oppressed and exploited people from all parts of the world. The presence at the session | of the delegates from the so-called | backward countries and the exploited colonies of the world imperialists, | working hand in hand with the rep- resentatives of the revolutionary! workers in the highly developed cap-| italist countries, was a |l ving and most convincing proof that ,the Com- munist International is in ,reality a world party of all the oppressed ,and | exploited people of the earth, fi | as an international army for ternational proletarian revol Picnic Tickets for at Many Stations. City the courthouse. Colvin's name has been linked with the alleged “pardon mill” in Chicago since the reputed scandal first was made public immediately following the escape of seven convicts from the new prison at Stateville, near here, German Monarchist | Paper Fakes Story to Hide Own Plots BERLIN, May 24—Another hiding place for arms of German monarchist organizations, ,has been found in Schleswig-Holstein. It held eighty ma- chine guns and 400 rifles and demon- strates the fact that the Communist warning against a return of the mon- archy is not without foundation, The monarchist paper “Der Tag’ has moved to laughter by its effort to turn the accusation against the Commpu- nists by a head-lined story of “Russian Rifles Found in Berlin.” It was found that eleven young workers had hired as many rusty flintlocks from a cos- tumer’s shop to use in a drama, Street Nucleus No. 8 Holds Street Meetings on Saturday Nights Street Nucleus No. 8 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, Chicago, has decided to hold street meetings at 63rd and Halsted streets every Satur- day night. Comrades living!in this |territory should attend these meetings and bring other workers along with them. There will be speakers in Eng- lish and Lithuanian at this corner, Japan Denies Reports from Geneva of Arms Parley in Far East TOKIO, May 24.—The foreign office here denied Geneva reports that Jap- an,had proposed an Anglo-American Japanese arms conference, Tickets for the | pions im "Bathe! Russian, Polish and Ukram\ a Wodrk- ers’ Clubs on Sunday, Juneg, at Mar- vell Inn Grove are now forg le at the following stations: Workers’ House, 1902 Division St.; Russian Co-operative taurant, 1734 W. Division St.; in the offiee of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Wash- ington Blvd., and by all riiémbers of the Russian, Polish ang _ Ukranian Workers’ Clubs. Tickets bought in asvinle are 40 cents, At the gates 50 cents. Get your tickets now! MUSSOLINI SAYS THE GLASS STRUGGLE IS ABOLISHED IN ITALY (Special to The Daily Worker) GENOA, May 25.—Benito Musso- lini, fascist premier of Italy, in speaking to an audience here on the eleventh anniversary of Italy's en- trance into the war, urged Italians to become masters of the air, imply- ing a preparation for war. In addi- tion he said: “The democratic-liberal state is dead and we can afford to ignore the wretched ghosts that hover around Italian policy. There is no longer a struggle between the classes. Every class in Italy hi life of the people.” Improve Ode: Harbor. MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (Tass), May 24.—Considerable improvements have now been effected in the port of Odessa, which result in the quicker handling of vessels and a great saving in time and fuel. Hitherto foreign vessels were detained in the outer roads, where they had to wait, under steam, harbor. From now on vessels will be permitted to steam direct into the harbor, where the necessary formali- ties will be gone thru. Forest Fires in Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25.—Forest fires sprang up again in northern Min- nesota today. Several hundred men are fighting the flames along a front many miles long near Brainerd, Staples, Cloquet, Warroad and Baudette, according to advices received at the state forest- er’s office here. Arrest Bogus “Lord.” PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 25.—Rob- ert Whittman, the bogus “Lord Beav- erbrook,” who is said to be wanted by the police of New York and Washfhg- ton in @onnection with the disappear- ance of $275,000 in jewelry and cash, was captured here today. The arrest was made by Detective Curtain, of New York, who broke into Whittman’s room in a hotel. SEND IN A SUB! CONDUCTED = BY TH N.Y. WORKING YOUTH CONFERENCE WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR THE ENTIRE U.S, LABOR MOVEMENT All erate ine for PR of the Youth Must Be Removed By T. EISIKS, NEW YORK CITY.—The problem of the young workers in the United States has not yet been realized by the American working class. Its important role in the industries of this country has not yet drawn the attention of the officialdom of the labor movement. And it is about time the American work- ers, young and adult, pay more attention to this serious problem. e With the development of the industries, skilled workmanship is losing its importance, and more and more unskilled labor is being used in place of previously employed skilled mechan-4——______"_. for permission to enter the }- ies. And of this great mass of un- skilled labor, which consists of a vast majority of the American working class, there is undoubtedly a large per- centage of young workers. These young workets, not only are paid less than the skilJed, but also less than the unskilled worker employed in the same trade. Such a transition, which largely af- fects the working conditions of the adult workers, organized and unorgan- ized, should receive the closest atten- tion of leaders of the labor movement. What do we see? Instead of trying to solve. this vital problem in a con- structive manner the officialdom of the American labor movement placed a barrier around the organized work- ers in order to protect the privileged minority organized in its craft organ- izations, The high initiation is some cases, and the restrictions of entering ‘the unions under a certain age is only a method of keeping the young work- ers out of the union. That this does not solve the problem is so clear that it need not be dealt with in detail. Tt will suffice to say that these young workers, whether admitted into the unions or not do remain in the indus- try and are affecting the conditions of those who are organized, The youth conference, initiated by the Young Workers League, which will be held in New York in the middle of June, is a medium of putting the problem before the workfhg class and drawing their attention to the need of organizing the young workers so that they are not used as tools in low- ering conditions and at the same time raise the conditions of the young | workers. ‘\ The following are the slogans of thé youth conference: Open doors in the unions for young workers; lower ini- tiation fee; abolition of child labor; 6 hours a day and 5 days a week for all young workers under the age of 16 years; equal pay for equal work. The realization of the above slogans is necessary in order to better” the conditions of the young workers em- ployed in the industries in the United States. Besides this a concrete set of demands will be worked out for each industry. It is the duty of the American work- ers, young and adult, organized as well as unorganized, to rally behind these slogans and fight for them. For this is the only way this problem can be solved. A STUDENT UNIVERSITY FOR THE “OVERWHELMING MINORITY” In the old tobacco barn at the farm of George Pratt, Jr., in Bridgewater, Conn., a Student University will ex- plore the possibilities of informal edu- cation this summer. The barn natural- ly has been remodelled for the pur- pose. Repudiating the popular ideal of /mass education which has brought about factory standardization in our colleges and encouraged textbook teaching, the Student University will serve only the “overwhelming minor- ity” of students who think, and who enjoy the frontiers of knowledge more than the worn paths of the text and lecture hall. Full information may be had from the National Student Forum. CHICAGO MEMBERS NOTE. Due to the’ fact that the Sacco- Vanzetti protest meeting is to be held Friday, May 28th, the league member- ship meeting that was called for that date will be called off ‘till further Notice. Watch this column for date “| of coming Chicago membership meet- ing. Don’t waste your breath, put It on paper. Say Gomotc Cartoons Like This--- PROSPERITY NOT NOTICEABLE IN MASSACHUSETTS AS EMPLOYMENT DECREASES AND WAGES GO DOWN By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Cooligge prosperity is fading in Massachusetts, to judge by the April re- port of the state department of labor which shows a decrease of 2%% in factory employment and early 5% in total factory wages. In a single month the gains of the first 3 months of 1§26 have been wiped out. The level of employment now approximates April, 1925. The fact is there never was much Coolidge prosperity in Cal’s home state. Factory employment today is 18 per cent under the average of 192% and 20 per cent under 1920. tinues the sorest spot in the state. Between March and April the number of workers in this industry declined 7.6 per cent and for those employed’ in April, less than a third were on full- time, The number of boot and sh Over seventy of them by seventeen leading proletarian ; ‘ artists in this country— Size 9x 12—Bound In Brown Art-Board Covers MICHAEL GOLD ee This is a ‘ ‘ book tobe ~~ proud of! You'll throw your chest out when you own one of these books! And it’s so easy to get—it's a premium ! With an introduction ; by. . Part Time Operation Increases. The April report shows a consider- able extension of part-time operation. In March 71.8 per cent of the workers were employed in plants working full- time, while in April only 60,2 per cent were on full-time chedules, The situation remains somewhat better than in April, 1925, when only 66 per cent of the workers were employed in plants operating full-time, Wages in Massachusetts factories in April averaged $24.20 a week, In March the average was $24.81, In April, 1925, it was $23.44 and in ril, 1923, $23.58, Shoe and Textile, The boot aad shoe || workers employed in the state is now Stneuame ter less than 40 per cent of the average number working in the 5 years, 1919 to 1923, The textile industries also remain depressed in spite of the republican protective tariff. The cotton mills ported 16 per cent of thefr workers on part-time while in woolen mills over 60 per cent lack,a fulltime op- portunity to earn a living. 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