The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1926, Page 4

era: Page Four aia THE DAIL Y_WORKER Pee Workers (Communist) Party WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY’S ENLARGED EXECUTIVE APPROVES POLITICAL Resolution on the Plenum of mittee of the Comintern, Unanimously Adopted by the Cen- tral Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, . * ? * 1. The Plenum of the Central Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, having heard the report of its delegates to the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist Interna- tional, endorses and states its agree- ment with the decision of the En- larged Executive Committee. 2. The estimate of the economic Situation of capitalism made by the Enlarged Executive Committee has al- ready been proven to be correct by the events since the sessions of the Enlarged Executive Committee. The view of the Enlarged Executive, that while the period of partial and tem- porary stabilization of capitalism con- tinues, there were signs of weakening of this stabilization, has been borne out by events in England, Germany and Poland since the sessions of the Plenum ended. 3. The new developments in the in. ternational labor movement, evidenced in the proposal of the Independent I bor Party for a unity between the Second and Communist Internationals, and in a more sympathetic attitude toward the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics developed by the workers in various countries, places upon the sec- tions of the Comintern the duty to in- tensify their work among the masses What The Daily Worker Is--- What It Must Become SECOND ARTICLE By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. T should be obvious that no crit- icism of The DAILY WORKER can be written that is not at the same time a criticism of our party. The DAILY WORKER is the ex- pression of our party before the Amer- ican working class. It speaks for our Party on all questions of policy and tactics and as a party we stand or fall by virtue of its success of failure to bring our party policies before the working class in a manner that will win their support. 'N what sort of an environment does our official organ appear? ‘N the most powerful imperialist na- tion in the world, having the most stable capitalism, in a country where the standard of living of the workers is the highest, the working class the most backward, with no revolutionary working class traditions, with a labor movement poorly organized, weak, full of craft union fallacies, a leader- ship thoroly reactionary, fighting even such preliminary steps as a labor party based on the trade unions—in a@ word, in a country where a Com- munist daily paper is an apparent anachronism. The test of a Communist mass paper is‘ its ability to adjust itself to the conditions of the class struggle, its ability to appear as a natural de- velopment of this struggle and not as something artificial, having no con- nection with the ordinary events of working class life. TWO SPEECHES BY KARL MARX Address to the Communist League, 1850 and The Inaugural , Address of the Workingmen’s Ass’n, 1864. These historical speeches, taken with the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ formulated only a few brief |, years before, constitute a key to Marx's outlook on fundamental | questions of working class po- licy. By all means, add this Pamphlet to your library. 5 Cents. Communist Manifesto....10 Cents | PHONE BELMONT 9181 JENSEN & BERGSTROM TAILORS SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER We Clean, Press, Repair and Remodel Ladies and Gents Garmenis We Furnish the Union Label 3218 North Avenue, Near Kedzie LINE OF COMINTERN the Enlarged Executive Com- and to draw the workers who are be- | ginning to move away from the ‘social | democracy into common struggle with | the Communist parties thru the appli- cation of the united front tactic. 4. The: Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party is in agreement with the estimate of the Plenum that the present period re- quires of its sections of the Comin- tern greater activity and more inten- ive work in the trade unions. The winning of the masses in the trade | union is the chief task of the sections of the Comintern, 5. The emphasis upon the role of the United States as the dominant im- perialist power which is endeavoring to bolster up world capitalism places upon the Workers (Communist) Party a great responsibility in carrying on the struggle against the mightiest cap- italist power, The Central Committee | f the Workers (Communist) Party agrees with the estimate of the Ple- num of the Comintern that as a result of the concessions made to the aris- tocracy of labor in the United States, the American labor movement has moved to the right. Tho this devel- opment makes more difficult the task of the Workers (Communist) Party, it can, thru skillful application of the N effective Communist press must first of all give to the workers a correct estimate of the possibilities of the struggle without sacrificing one iota of Yts Communist character, If our party press fails in either of these elementary requirements it is not carrying out its task, How does our DAILY WORKER measure up to the above standard? Not very well. It is true that there has been con- siderable improyement in the tone of The DAILY WORKER, in its method of approach to Working class strug- gles and events, since its first issue appeared, but this improvement has come very slowly and only under the Pressure of antunfavorable reception from the American workers—an un- favorable reception that is still the most marked phenomenon jn the rela- tions of The DAILY WORKER with the American-class struggle, | Sear nee the best way of arriving at the extent of the lack of ad- justment of our official organ to the American class struggle, is to visual- ize the picture of America that would be received by workers in other coun- tries who read no~other American paper. Can any comrade answer this ques- tion any other way than by saying that their impression would not be within one thousand miles of the actual situation? b Bapebaete len or 8 in the tone of The DAILY WORKER since its first publication has been mentioned. It consists largely in this: At the beginning The DAILY WORKER spoke to the American working class in the tone of a PARTY which was engaged in a struggle for power, Now it speaks in the tone of a Paper which sees the WORKING CLASS entering the period of the struggle for power, igoetheett tae display of news, / emphasis, language, all combine to make the paper strike a note so far above the highest note reached by the class struggle itself that The DAILY WORKER encounters instead of the hatred which we try to make ourselves believe we inspire in the capitalist class, only ridicule from its more intelligent sections. Among the workers we may have in- spired some curiosity, but certainly little confidence, 8 Se of the outstanding examples of what is meant by a wrong tone was the part pmyed by The DAILY WORKER in the New York City elec- tions, Reading The DAILY WORKER after Comrade Gitlow had been ruled off the ballot, one who had no other knowledge of the situation would be forced to conclude that a powerful section of the articulate working class was demanding that hig name go on the ballot, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS policies and tactics of the Comintern, extend its influence among the highly exploited groups of workers who are not sharing in the super-profits of Ame’ n imperialism. It pledges its utmost efforts to achieve this end. 6. The Plenum of the Central Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party is of the opinion that the En- larged Executive Committee of the Comintern followed a correct line in emphasizing the struggle against the ultra-left tendencies in some parties, particularly the German Party, while at the same time fighting the right de- viation which have manifested itself in the Comintern, particularly in the French Communist Party. 7, The Central Committee is in full agreement with the ‘program of the Enlarged Executive Committee in re- gard to the necessity of extending the mass work of the sections of the Com- intern thru non-party organizations, 8. The Central Committee endorses the effort of the Enlarged Executive Committee to develop the initiative and self-activity of the sections of the Comintern. It will lend its ‘fullest support to the decisions of the En- larged Executive Committee, which has for its aim to draw the national sections into greater participation in and responsibility for the work of the E. C. C, I. by requiring them to send their best and most representative leaders to the E. C, C. 1. 9, The Central Committee gives its complete support. and approval to the resolution adopted by the Plenum cor- recting the inner‘party line of the national sections and demanding the establishment of a real and genuine party democracy without reservation or delay. pumcediiiitinibee dearer) SANARIRNISCMKL com Chicago Meeting Postponed! MEMBERS TAKE NOTICE, Comrades Foster, Ruthen- berg and Dunne, now speak- ing at meetings thruout the country for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, will be unable to speak at the mem- bership meeting called for Friday, June 4, at Northwest Hall. Until-definite arrange- ments for this meeting can be made the meeting has been postponed. | We had a real crisis—in The DAILY WORKER, The result of this fireworks display was that we were compelled to admit after the election that our candidate had received something like 2,000 votes. The socialist press laughed at us. They had a perfect right to. We had made ourselves ridiculous without any effort on the part of the socialist party being needed. Another instance is of more recent date, It occurred last month in con- nection with our anti-imperialist cam- paign, The seven column streamer was: “Launch Attack on U. S. Tyranny.” Underneath this in a three column 48 point black Italic three line head is, “Rally Workers on Two Continents to Oppose the Oppression of Peru.” All very well but nothing happens in America. The American workers just now are not even rallying to op- pose their own oppressors and such trumpet calls from a paper with 13,000 circulation, it must be admitted, are not likely to rally any considerable section of the American proletariat. NOTHER instance is that of the treatment of the Pittsburgh con- vention of the steel workers. The headline on this memorable occasion when the left wing made no fight at all was: ’ “Left Wing Issue at Pittsburgh.” The “issue” consisted in President Tighe attacking the Communists and the left wing impartially without the left wing being well-organized enough to fight back. The members of the union knew there was no fight. Such stridency of tone defeats its own purpose, It is all very well to say that all these startling announce- ments deal with matters of funda- mental importance to our party and the working class. But the working class does not know this and it cannot be made to know it by yelling at it, (To Be Continued.) Amazon ‘ Valley May Be Source of Supply for U. S. Rubber Market WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—Ef- forts of the United States to find a source of rubber supply to offset the British monopoly that has caused Hoover to heave many a sigh has one result in the report of James R, Weir, agricultural pathologist for the gov- ernment, Weir reports that the government expedition through the valley of the Amazon in Brazil shows that the Ama- zon valley is capable of producing a rubber crop bountiful enough to sup- ply the entire world, that Weir's report may encourage It is expected American imperialists to increased ef- fort to gain control of Brazil. ' F NOVEL Gplon Sinclair (Continued from page 1.) letting his dreams run away with him. But Dad knew, and would smile to himself; funny kid, always imagining things, his mind jumping from one thing to another, always excited! Dad’s mind was not like that; it got on one subject and stayed there, and ideas came through it in slow, grave procession; his emotions were like a furnace that took a long time to heat up. Sometimes on these drives he would say nothing for a whole hour; the stream of his consciousness would be like a river that has sunk down through rocks and sands, clean out of sight; he would be just a pervading sense of well-being, wrapped in an opulent warm overcoat} an accessory, you might say, of a softly purring engine running‘in a bath of boiling oil, and traversing a road at fifty miles an hour. If you had taken this consciousness apart, you would have-found, not thoughts, but conditions of phy- sical organs, andof the weather, and of the car, and of bank-ac- counts, and of the boy at his side. Putting it into words makes it definite and séparags—8o yormust try to take it all at once blend- ed together: “TI, ia tam driving this car, and that used to be Jim Ross, the teamster, aid J. A. Ross and Co., general merchandise at Queen Centre, California, am now J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, and my breakfast is about digested, and I am a little too warm in my big new overcoat because the sun is coming out, and I have a new well flowing four thousand barrels at Lobos River, and six- teen on the pump at Antelope, and I’m on my way to sign a lease at Beach City, and we’ll make up our schedule in the next couple of hours, and ‘Bunny’ ‘is sitting beside me, and he is well and strong, and is going to own everything I am making, and follow in my footsteps, except'that he will never make the ugly blunders or have the painful memories that I have, ‘but will be wise and perfect and do everything I say.” Meaatime the mind of “Bunny” was not, behaving in the least like‘this, but on the contrary was leaping from theme to theme, asa grass-hopper in a field leaps from one stalk of grass to an- other. There was a jackrabbit, racing away like mad; he had long ears, like a mule, and why were they so transparent and pink? There was a butcher-bird, sitting on the fence; he stretched his wings all the time, like he was yawning—what did he mean by that? And there was a road-runner, a long Jean bird as fast as a race-horse, beautiful and glossy, black and brown and white, with a crest and a streaming tail. Where do you sup- pose he got water in‘these dry hills? There on the road was a mangled corpse—a ground squirrel had tried to cross, and a car had mashed it flat; other cars would roll over it, till it was ground to powder and blo away by the wind. There was no use say- ing to Dad about that——he would remark that squirrels carried plague, or at least they. had fleas which did; every now and then there would be cases of this disease and the newspapers would have to hush it up, bedause it was bad for real estate. But the boy was thinking about the poor little mite of life that had been so suddenly snuffed out. How cruel life was; and how strange that things should grow, and have the power to make themselves, out of nothing apparently—and Dad couldn’t explain it, and said t nobody could, you were just here. And then came a ranch ‘on in front of them, a one-sided old thing loaded with household goods; to Dad it was just an obstacle, but “Bunny” saw two lads/of his own age, riding in back of the load and staring at him ¥ dull, listless eyes. They were pale, and looked as if they hatin’t enough to eat; and that was another thing to wonder about, why people should be poor and nobody to help them. It was a world you had to help yourself in, was Dad’s explanation. % “Bunny,” the every-day name of this boy, had been started by his mother when he-was little—because he was soft and brown and warm,’ and she Wad dressed him in a soft, fuzzy sweater, brown in color with White trimmings. Now he was thirteen, and resented the name, biit the boys cut it to “Bunn”, which was to stay with him, and which was satisfactory. He was a pretty boy, still brown, with wavy brown hair, tumbled by the wind, ahd bright brown eyes, and a good color, because he lived outdoors. He did not go to school, but had a tutor at home, because he was to take father’s place.in the world, and “he went on these rides in order that he might learn his father’s business. Wonderful, endléssly wonderful, were these scenes; new faces, new kinds of life revealed. There came towns and villages —extraordinary towns and villages, full of people and houses and cars and~horses and signs. There were signs along the yoad; guide-posts as every crossing, giving you a geography lesson— a list of the places to which the roads led, and the distances; you could figure_your schedule, and that was a lesson in arithmetic! There were traffic signs, warning you of danger—curves, grades, slippery places, interesections, railroad crossings. There were big banners across the highway, or signs with letters made of electric lights: “Loma Vista: Welcome to Our City.” Then, a little farther on: “Loma Vista, City Limits: Good-bye: Come Again.” , at Also there were no end of advertising signs, especially con- trived to lend variety to travel. ‘Picture ahead; kodak as you g0,” was a frequent legend, and you looked for the picture, but never could be sure what it was. A tire manufacturer had set up big wooden figures Of a boy waving a fleg; Dad said this boy looked like Bunny, atid Bunny said he looked like a picture of Jack London he had seen in a magazine. Another tire manu-. facturer had a great ®pen book, made of wood, and set up ata turn of the road leadifig into each town; it was supposed to be a history book, and told you something about that place—facts at once novel and instructive: you learned that Citrus was the lo- cation of the first orange grove in California, and that Santa Rosita possessed the finest radium springs west of the Rocky !mountains, and that’on the outskirts of Crescent City Father Junipero Serra had converted two thousand Indiang to Christian- ity in the 1769, they had gone out on the highway with pots of vari-colored paint, and had decorated rocks and railway culverts with inscriptions: “Prepare to meet thy God.” Then would come a traffic sign: “Railroad crossing. Stop. Look. Listen.” The railroad com- pany wanted you to meet your God through some other agency, Dad explained, because there would be damage suits for taking religious faith too seriously. “Jesus waits,” a boulder would pro- claim; and then would come, “Chicken Dinner, $1.” There were always funny signs about things to eat—apparently all the world loved a meal, and became jolly at the thought. “Hot Dog Ken- nels,” was an eating-place, and “Ptomaine Tommy,” and “The Clam-Baker,” and the “Lobster-Pot.” There were endless puns on the-word inn—“Dew Drop Inn” and “Happen Inn,” “Welcome Inn” and “Hurry Inn.’ When you went into these places you would find the spirit of jollity rampaging on the walls: “In God We Trust, All Others Cash.” “Don’t complain about our coffee; some day you may berold and weak yourself.” “We have an ar- rangement with our bank; the bank does not sell soup, and we do not cash checks.” ve x (To be continued.) ee There were people still engaged in converting, you learned;. ! jSONOUCTED e By TH PORTO RICAN STUDENTS RE- FUSE TO HELP FIXED SCHOOL DEBATE Strong for Independence SAN JUAN, Porto Rico (By Mail).— Recently the University of Porto Rico, one of the supports of U. S. imperial- ism in Porto Rico, prepared a debate between a group of Porto Rican stu- dents and one coming from the Uni- versity of Arizona. The topic selected for debate was: Resolved, that the entrance of the U. S. into the league of nations will better Pan-American relations. The instructors who coached the Porto Rican student debaters foisted upon the latter false sentiments so that the true nationalistic, anti-Yan- kee feelings of the students would be hampered and misrepresented. It was the aim of the imperialist flunkeys to initiate with this debate a campaign of praise of the “democracy” of North American imperialism. However, the great mass of stu- dents, conscious of the shameful com ditions of suffering and slavery im- posed upon the people of Porto Rico by the Yankee “democrats,” refused to support the debate, Instead they expressed their protest in a leaflet which they published, It reads as fol- lows: THE DEBATE WITH ARIZONA. The prestige of Porto Rico has been enwrapped in a flag; that of the University of Porto Rico. That flag'is to be unfurled the 30th and 31st of this month (March) in face of the debaters from Arizona. In order to hold our banner aloof a strong mast was needed. But instead the univer- sity directors chose a weak and flex- ible one. They did so consciously and with premeditation to prevent our banner to wave the truth in triumph. The truth, the bitter truth against the Yankees, had to be silenced, and so preliminary debates were ‘held and the statements proposed by the students were carefully censored. In this way the arguments that were of no Benefit to the U. S. were eliminated, tho those arguments presented sound facts. Hence were eliminated bitter truths about the real character of Yankee imperialism and correct inter- pretations of the so-called Monroe doc- trine. Our student debaters, tho capable ind fit to represent our university in debate; demonstrate their patriotic ‘eeling by refusing to participate in such a farcical staging. We applaud them, and with them we shall regret our inability to appear before our.op- ponents, the responsibility of which we lay upon the shoulders of “thé directors of the university. ae The dirty dogs* of the Yankee @m- pire desire to foist upon us this new shame. The right of might helps them. And upon that authority the directors of the university are ready to fly the flag of our alma mater so that they may afterwards laugh when its mast, which has been BUILT BY THEMSELVES, breaks in two and with it the dighity and prestige of Porto Rico. (Signed) , Student of the University of Porto Rico. *Sahnesos also means bitches of hounds or bloodhounds. Send in another sub right now and make him pluck a couple more hairs right off his hat-rack! With Each 100 Points a book of Red Cartoons , DAILY WORKER (Year's Sub, $6.00—100 Points) WORKERS MONTHLY | (Year's Sub, $2.00—30 Points) Send them to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. “and let the old boy, who makes WING WORKERS LEAGUE ~ “Laughter Wins,” and “Why?” By, Pioneers BOSTON.—The Pioneers of Boston are holding their annual concert on Saturday, June 5, at 7 p. m. at Inter- national Hall, 42 Wenonah street, Roxbury. This year in addition to the concert the Pioneers are putting on two plays, “Laughter Wins” and “why?” In addition to the musical and danc- ing numbers a boxing skit symbolizing the class struggle will be presented by one of the groups. The first ap pearance of the Pioneer orchestra will take place at this concert. A Pioneer chairman will preside. Leave the date open. ¢ Passaic Children’s Demonstration ‘Affair BOSTON, Mass.—A big concert end play of the Passaic Children’s Demon- stration will be given Friday, June 4, at the New International Hall, 42 Wenona etreet,-Roxbury, Mass. This is being given by the Young Workers’ League of Roxbury, Tickets are 35 cents, New York League ‘Activ- Monday, June 7th, at 6 p.m. @ meet-- ing of all section executive committees to take up sport and agitprop activi- ties. Friday, June 11th—General member- ship meeting at 6:30 p. m. at 188 Bec- ond avenue. A report of the League Plenum will be given. Sunday, June 13th—Grand League hike. “Well, | like that! A trip | to Chicago for mere ‘kids.’ These bolsheviki are sure going the limit!” . (He's referring to the first priz the $5,000 Pioneer Drive, which trip to Chicago for three Pion from the districts collecting the hi est amount over $300, or, in case 0 New York, and These three Pioneers are to form an }editorial board which will edit the | Sept. issue of the Young Comrade.) Contribute to the $5,000 Drive of the Young Pioneers! Send your contributions to YOUNG PIONEER CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., _ Chicago, Ill. Just let your boss tear the hair right off his bean, if he feels like it! You just go ahead and get those subs from workers in your shop his money from your labor, rave on, The more workers that read our press the more the old boy will rave. Let 'im rave! With Each 500 Points A Bust of Lenin YOUNG WORKER (Year's Sub, $1.00—30 Points) YOUNG COMRADE (Year's Sub, 60 Cts—10 Points) Chicago, Illinois ‘icago, over $500.