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— ~~ Page Four TREASURY TURNS COLD EYE UPON BORAH’S SCHEME “Cancel Reparations? Never!’’ Says U. S. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — Senator William EE. Borah’s suggestion to Georges Clemenceau, ex-premier of France, that a solution of the debt | Problem might be found in the can- celation of all reparations as well as the debts has fallen on deaf ears so | far as the United States treasury is concerned. Borah’s suggestion was contained in| his reply to the open letter which the tiger addressed to President Coo-| lidge in which he appealed for Amer- ican generosity to France in the way} of forgiving the $4,000,000,000 that France owes the treasury. Take It Seriously. Dispatches from abroad have indi- cated that Borah’s proposal is being | taken seriously and that Premier Poincare might have something to suggest officially along this line bc- fore congress meets in December. If he does the proposal will have a cool reception at the treasury. This was made clear today when a high treasury official furnished the following opinion: “Germany alone would any such proposal. “The United States gets virtually mo reparations from Germany now, 30 the effect of that cancellation would be negligible so far as we are com cerned. Twelve Billion Dollar Reason. “But it is patent that we woula lose all our debts, including those at- reddy funded, amounting to a good many billions of dollars. “We would merely lose all the money the treasury loaned abroac during the war, in return for Franca, England, Italy and Belgium sacrificing all their claims against Germany for the destruction wrought by the war. Who would gain besides Germany? No one. Obviously neither France nor England could gain anything much by sacrificing their claims. And we cer- tainly could gain nothing by abandon- ing some $12,000,000,000. Germany alone would benefit by any such ar. rangement. U. S. Trade Good—Why Worry? To the argument advanced by those in favor of the plan that it woal@ be an aid to world trade and a power- ful tonic to sick currencies and de- pressed economic conditions abroad, the treasury replied that America’s benefit ty of factional strife, every endeavor to The resolution of the plenary ses- sion of the central committee and the central control commission of the | Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the unity of the party was as fol- lows: ay a) INPRECOR TELEGRAPH AGENCY The preservation of the unity of our party has always been the ob- ject of attention of the entire party jand of its central organs, the central committee and the central control commission. Under the leadership iat Comrade Lenin the party has suc- | cessfully defeated every manifestation fight against the party on the part of factions and groups “with special platforms and the endeavor to coal- esce to a certain degree and to estab- lish a special group discipline” (from the resolution of the 10th party con- vention). The 10th party convention, which took place just in the period of the change in the life of the coun- try and of the party, adopted a reso- | lution drawn up and moved by Lenin jon the unity of the party. In this resolution: “The convention calls the atten- tion of all party members to the fact that at the present moment the unity and firmness of its ranks, the assurance of complete confi- dence amongst the members of the party and the assurance of a really close, comradely collaboration, which really embodies the will of the vanguard of the proletariat, is especially necessary, as a number of factors are reinforcing the vascil- lations within the petty-bourgeois population of the country.” ee Ae the party convention further pointed out that “it is necessary for all class-conscious workers to re- cognize the injuriousness and inad- missibility of any kind of factional strife, which in practice inevitably leads to the weakening of close col- laboration and removing of the at- tempts of the enemies of the party hanging on to the governing party to deepen the crevice and to exploit it for the aims of the counter-revolu- tion.” HE motion submitted by Lenin and adopted by the 10th party con- yention on the unity of the party was the guide for the party and for all its organs in the conservation of the stability of its ranks. Guided by this desire of the 10th party convention, the party settled all the manifesta- tions of factional acitvity until the 14th party convention. At the time of the 14th party convention the party again faced the factional activity of «—§oreign trade is now in a flourishing and prosperous condiiion. Speeding-Up Crowds Out R. R. Conductors Longer and faster trains are crowd- ing railroad conductors ‘out of their Tuns, says chief conductor Wm. Kirk- patrick of Div. 1, Order of Railway Conductors. “Quite a few of our men who would otherwise be stranded are taking jobs as yard conductors in charge of trains that are being made up in the switch yards,” Kilpatrick explains. “Some go back to breaking and in general there are relatively fewer promotions by the railroads to the conductor's rank. . The speeding- up in transportation affects the train service as well as the engine service staffs.” Officials of the engineer and fire- men brotherhoods are on record as saying that thousands of their mem- bers are unable to find regular runs on account of the changes in length the so-called “New Opposition.” The 14th party convention rejected the political and organizational views of the opposition, which distorted the standpoint of Leninism, Nevertheless the party convention and the newily- elected central committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union con- sidered it practicable and necessary to take adherents of the opposition into all the leading institutions of the party, even into the central committee and the latter’s politbureau. The party hoped that the opposition would recognize and rectify its errors in the course of unprejudiced work. The opposition was thus given the fullest opportunity to defend its viewpoint in the cases in which differences of opinion arose upon one point or an- other in the normal party manner. Altho the opposition persisted in its errors condemned by the 14th party convention and bore elements of open factional irreconcilabity into the work of the Politbureau of the central com- mittee, this defense of its opinions by the opposition within the party and speed of trains. LOST Two T. U. E. L. account books at I. L. D. picnic, Pleasant Bay Park, Sunday, August 8. Finder please return to T. U. E. L., 108 East 14th St., New York City. NEW YORK, gave rise neither in the central com- mittee nor in the central control com- mission to serious fears for the unity of the party. But unfortunately the opposition did not confine its fight to the lim- its defined by the legal defense of its viewpoint within the party statutes and of late began direct breaches of the decisions of the 10th and 14th party conventions regarding the con- ATTENTION! MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE AND SYMPHONY CONCERT Proceeds go to buy MILK AND BREAD for the children of the Passaic textile strikers, Wagner-Tchaikowsky Program David Mendoza, of Capi Famous Scheherazade Directed by Alexis Kosloff tol Theatre, Conductor, by Rimsky-Korsakoff of the Metropolitan Opera. CHORUS OF 250 VOICES led by Jacob Schaefer. SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. 28, 8 P. M. a t CONEY ISLAND STADIUM Surf Ave. and W, 6th St. General Admission $1.00 Tickets for sale at the noo oi Office: and 799 Broadway, Room ya Reserved Seats $2.00 . CHE DAILY WORKER servation of unity inthe ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, undertaking in its fight against the party to create an illegal faction- al organization, which was directed against the party and the latter's unity. Recently the party faced a number of such factional measures on the part of the New Opposition, manifest- ed im the staging of illegal conspira- tive meetings, in the printing and dis- tribution in Moscow as well as in other cities of one-sidedly selected se- eret party documents with the inten- tion of discrediting the policy of the party (the secret documents of the Politbureau were distributed amongst the party members and were receiv- ed by the organizations in Briansk, Saratov, Vladivostok, Piatigorsk, Omsk, Homel, Odessa, etc.), in the sending of special emissaries to other party organizations for the purpose of establishing illegal factional groups (trip of Comrade G. Byelenki to Odes- sa to organize an illegal faction with the arranging of special codes, ren- dezvous, etc.) It must be pointed out that all the threads of this factional procedure of} the opposition lead to the apparatus) of the executive committee of the Communist International, at the head| of which Comrade Zinoviev, member) of the Politbureau, stands. { Attention must be especially drawn} to an illegal factional meeting in aj forest near Moscow, which was ar-| ranged by the E, C, C. I. functionary, | Comrade G. Byelenki, and which rep-| resents a step without precedent in} the history of our party. This meet-! ing arranged in accordance with all the rules of conspiracy (patrols, strict factional selection of those invited, ete.) was not only conducted by a collaborator of the BE. C. C. I, who was chairman, but, what also is with- out precedent in’ the history of our party, a candidate for the central com- mittee of the C. P. S. U., Comrade Lashevitch, made a speech and called upon those present to organize for the fight against the party, against the central committee elected by it. All these disorganizing steps of the opposition prove that the opposition had decided to go over from the legal defense of its views to the creation of am illegal organization in the en- tire Soviet Union which opposes the Party’ and in this manner prepares for a split in the latter’s ranks, 3 This activity of the New Oppo- sition caused a reactivation of the groupings condemnel by the party and ‘drove these miserable remnants of anti-party and deliberately split- ting groups to recommence their work against the party amd its unity, on the basis of the New Opposition. Thus it was established that Comrade Mikailoff, director of a Moscow fac- tory, who had formerly belonged to the so-called Miasnikoff ‘workers’ group” which had been condemned by the party as a counter-revolution- ary group as long as three years ago), had duplicated secret party docu- ments.with the aid of non-party typ- ists for distribution in wide circles and had also organized illegal meet- ings. It has been established that Com- rade Shugayeff, who formerly was a member of the “workers’ opposition,” which was condemned by the 14th party convention at.the instance of Comrade Lenin, went so far as to carry on anti-Soviet agitation amongst the specialists, advocating in conver- sations with them a direct struggle against the Soviet power thru ex- ploitation of the expected disinte- gration of our party as a result of the activity of the New Opposition. Final- ly Comrade Jatzek, who was once expelled for connection with a Men- shevist organization called'‘Labor's Truth,” participated in the distribu- tion amongst party members of secret documents of the New Opposition. 4 The growing factional activity * of the New Opposition led it to play with the idea of two parties and intensified the anti-Leninist deviations of the opposition to the utmost; dis- belief in the forces of the proletariat and pessimism towards the work of socialist development in general and towards the development of socialist industry in particular; a tendency to- wards the destruction of the alliance of the proletariat with the peasantry (middle peasants), i. e., rejection of the principles, which according to Lenin is the “supreme principle of the proletarian dictatorship’; a tend- ency towards the support and back- ing of ultra-right deviations bordering on Mensheyism in our panty ,(for in- stance, the group of Comrade Sergei Medvedyeff, the former leader of the so-called ‘workers’ opposition,” which went so far as to want t turn our socialist state industry over to for- eign capital, went so far as to speak of the liquidation of the Comintern and of ‘the R. I. L. U,, ete., that is, the liquidation of all the rfevolution- ary goals of our party); a tendency towards a bloc on an international scale with the ultra-lefts such as Korsch, as well as with the ultra- rights such as Souvarine, who, after expulsion from the Communist Inter- national, are carrying on a furious at- tack upon the dictatorship of the pro- letariat in the Soviet Union tinder the pretext of an alleged kulak degenera- tion.of our party. The new opposition brings no new concrete proposals, op- erates with left phraseology, which masks a right opportunist content, and is going over to more and more inad- missible methods, which lead to a split, 5. The factional activity of the op- * position was not confined to our party, but endeavored to draw-the ap- paratus of the E. C. C. I. into the strug- gle and thru it to propagate the views of the opposition, which had been con- demned by our party, in other sister parties, and thus to prepare the ground for stirring up of foreign Communist Parties against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. We. must re- mark that the first endeayor of the new opposition to turn from the right- ful defense of its views to the path of conspirative factional struggle was manifested in acts of collaborators of the BE. C. C. L., who were directly con- nected with Comrade Zinoyiev and who attempted to create , factional groups in various parties of the Comin- tern (the case of Comrades Guralski and Vuyovitch). However, altho this case was condemned by the @gJegation of the C, P. S. U. in the EC. C. 1 and by the Politbureau of the central committee, the utilization ofthe E. C. C. I. apparatus for factional ends is being continued (above-mentioned trip of Comrade G. Byelenki, collaborator of the E. C, C, L, to Odessa to.organize a faction as well as the arzangement of illegal factional meeting in a Mos- cow district). 6 The new opposition did not want * to make use of the whdeniable right of every party member to de- fend his own point of view, insofar as they do not run counter to the de- cisions of the party, but preferred to arrange meetings which were kept se- cret from the party and its members and to form an illegal faction, instead of an open and frank expression of its own views within the party organ- ization on the basis of the party stat- utes. The 14th party convention, which had.afforded the adherents of the op- position, thru their election to the cen- tral committee and the central control Communist Party. Party Needle Trades Fraction Meets Sat. A needle trade party fraction meet- ing will be held on Saturday, August 21, at 8209 W. Roosevelt road at 3 Pp. m, The fourth national convention of the needle trades, to be held in New York September 10, 1926, will be the main point on the agenda. Section 4 Industrial Organizers Meet Friday A meeting of all industrial organ- izers of Section No, 4 will be held on Friday, August 20, at 1239 S. Sawyer street at 8 p, m. It is important that every nucleus be represented, Plan Huge Labor Day in Milwaukee (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Aug. 18.—The 40th annual Labor day celebration by Mil- waukee unions Sept. 6 will be the largest in local history, officials pre- dict. The affair is held in a public park: with refreshments and meals served by the labor committee at cost, Many unions have entered baseball and other teams to compete for the prizes. Children are especially ca- tered for. Open air movies, concerts and dancing are program features, Horse Kills Farmer. SPRINGFIELD, UL, Aug. 18.—-Os- car A, Hale, 77, was fatally injured when he was kic! in the chest by . horse which he was nessing on ‘no tarm of his nephew; He died medical aT responding organizational ON TO A HALF MILLION! commission, the fullest opportunity of defending their views within the cen- tral committee, had at the same time issued the following instructiona: “A determined fight is to be carried on against any endeavor to undermine the unity of the party, no matter from which side it may come, and no matter who may be at the head of it.” This decision is only a reaffirmation of the decision of the 1Uth party convention, which was adopted at the instance of Comrade Lenin in a moment of espe- cially bitter factional strife. The 10th party convention instructed “the cen- tral committee to carry out the total extermination of all sorts of factional activity,” and prescribed that “all groups formed on this platform or on any other platform be immediately dis- solved without exception” and in- structed “all organizations to see to it most painstakingly that no sort of factional activity whatever be per- mitted. The non-fulfilment of this de- | cision of the party convention must lead to the unconditional and imme- diate expulsion from the party.” ve The party holds all party mem- * bers responsible for the factional struggle who participate in it, but must consider the leader of the oppo- sition at the 14th party convention, Comrade Zinoviev, member of the Po- litbureau of the central committee of Cc, S. P. U., whose collesgues take most active part*in the factional work and utilize the apparatus of the E. C. C. L, which is directed by Comrade Zinoviev, politically responsible for this fight tending to split the party. This all the more as Comrade Zino- viev did not make the slightest at- tempt to condemn these colleagues of his or to draw a line between them and himself, N view of the foregoing the plenary session of the central committee and the central control commission de- cides that: (a) Since such a situation, in which the actual leadership of the factional struggle of the opposition is in the hands of a member of the Politbureau of the central committee, cannot be suffered, Comrade Zinoviev is exclud- ed from the Politbureau, and all mem- bers of the opposition are warned that, independent of their position in the party, if they should continue their work for the formation of a faction opposed to the party, the central com- mittee and the central control com- mission will be compelled to take cor- measures against them as well, (b) The candidate for the central committee, Comrade Lashevitch, by taking active part in the establish- ment of a factional organization, has violated the confidence of the party and disappointed, for which he de- serves to be expelled from the ranks of the C, P. S. U.; however, in view of Comrade Lashevitch’s former party work he is given a severe reprimand and warned that any attempt on his part to continue his factional work will mean that he has left the ranks of the C. P. S. U. In accordance with the special resolution moved by Lenin and adopted by the 10th party conven- tion of the C. P. 8. U., Comrade Lashe- vitch {s excluded from the central committee of the C. P, S. U. and re- called from the post of vice-president of the Revolutionary War Council, and forbidden to occupy a responsible party post within the next two years. (c) The decision of the presidium of the central control commission of June 12, 1926, concerning Comrades G. A. Byelenki, I. S. Tchernysheff, B. G. Shapiro, N. M. Wlassow, M. W. Vas- silieva and K A. Volgina is confirmed. 8 The workers’ opposition aimed '* at the unity of the party has up to now found support in not a single or- ganization of our party, but the fur- ther development of factional activity of the opposition may bring the party Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. SEVEN YEARS OF LIFE AND STRUGGLE! September First 1926 The Seventh Anikiersary of the Organization of Our Party! SHOW THE WORKERS WHAT OUR PARTY MEANS TO THEM! ey » DISTRIBUTE HALF A MILLION COPIES OF THE PAMPHLET BY C. E. RUTHENBERG The Workers (Communist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join For the Unity of the All-Union Communist Party in danger of a split. The Leninist Party will in the future, as in the past, not permit a split in its ranks and will offer determined resistance to every attempted factional strife. All the organizations of the party must strictly follow the instructions of the resolution of the 10th party con- vention moved by Comrade Lenin in their practical work for the consolida- tion of the ranks of the party, without permitting a factional. The resolution states: ; “In commissioning the central com- mittee to exterminate thoroly all sorts of factional activity, the party con- vention at the same time states that in the questions occupying the special attention of the party members, namely, the purging of the party of non-proletarian and unreliable ele- ments, the fight against bureaucracy, the development of democracy and the initiative of the workers, etc., all ma- terial proposals must be investigated with the greatest attention and must be tried in practice. All the members of the party must know that the party does not put thru all the necessary measures in these matters because it meets with a number of various hin- drances, and that the party in deter- minedyl repudiating prejudiced and fac- tional criticism at the same time will untiringly continue with all the means at its disposal—even with new meth- ods—to fight against bureaucracy, for the extension of democracy and initia- tive, and for the exposure, unmasking and expulsion of the foreign elements which have attached themselves to the party... .” The party demands thru the central committee and the central control commissions of the party organiza- tions the decisive remedying of’ de» ficiencies in the work of the organiza- tions in order to increase the activity of the party members in all organiza- tions by a thoro discussion of all the main problems of the party’s work and to train them in the spirit of \Lenin’s principles by combatting the petty- bourgeois tendencies, which often pen- etrate under the flag of left phrases. 9 The plenary session of the cen- * tral committee and the central control commission calls upon all the members of the party for unity, staunchness and Bolshevist discipline, as “the chief prerequisite for all the successes of the Bolshevist party has been steel unity and iron discipline, the unity .of opinions upon the plat- form of Leninism.” (Resolution of the plenary session of the central commit- tee and central control commission of January 17, 1926.) During |'the present period of the practical development of socialism un- der the conditions of the N. E, P. and the resulting menace of the bourgeois elements within the country as well as the continued encircling from with- out the invincible unity of the party is more necessary than ever. The party has achieved considerable success in the field of economic development and the raising of the material well-being of the masses of workers and peas- ants, that these successes are only the first and perhaps easiest steps on the road to socialism. Colossal and difficult work forthe further practical devel- opment of socialism and for the rais- ing of the material standard of living of the workers and poorer peasants to a higher level still stands before us. To accomplish this even greater dis- cipline and inflexibility of our prole- tarian ranks are necessary. To this end it is necessary to preserve and further consolidate the unity of the proletarian vanguard, the unity of our party. Without firm party discipline, with- out the submission of the minority to the majority, the party would prove in- capable of solving the historic prob- lems set by the November (1917) rev- olution, of conserving and consolidat- ing the power of the dictatorship of the proletariat and thus assuring the victory of socialism. The central com- mittee and the central control com- mission express their steadfast convic- tion that our party will find enough strength to repel all endeavors to de- stroy the unity of the party and all attempts to split and dismember the party, Against factions and against fac- tional struggle, which hinder the party in directing the great work of building up socialism! For the unity and resolute! the Leninist party! Seventh Annual ore Picnic Will be given under the auspices of the I. W, W. members in Greater New York, for the benefit.of IL PROLETARIO and SOLIDARIDAD, Italian and Spanish organs of the Industrial Workers of the World. At the Harmony Park GRASMERE, STATEN ISLAND, New York, N, Y. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th (Labor Day Eve) This will be one of the best affairs of the kind ever held by any group of radicals or I, W. W. un- ions in the states of New York and New Jersey. Admission Tickets, 50. s of But the party soberly recognizes | SECRECY VEILS WAGE HEARINGS OF RAIL BOARD Board Chalenisn Won’t Talk of Its Work (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 18.—The hearings of the demands of railroad union representatives, jointly with the representatives of fifty railway com- panies, who are contesting the de- mand for a $1 wage raise before the Coolidge appointed federal board of mediation sitting at the Waldorf Ho- tel, were suspended temporarily, on the grounds that the board wished to consider other matters. Colonel Sam- uel E. Winslow, of the open shop skate manufacturing concern in Mass- achusetts is chairman of the board. The unions presented their case on Monday. John G. Walber, vice-presi- dent of the New York Central and chairman of the conference commit- tee of fifty eastern railway lines, made his second appearance prior to the adjournment. Winslow refused to comment on the work of the medi- ation ‘board. “We are carrying on,” he said. “That's all I can tell you. We can- not make any announcement to the press about our work.” Underworld Kings Grilled in Murder of Canica Editor CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 18, “Sensational disclosures that will rock the state of Ohio,” were promised by U. 8S, Attorney A. E. Berstewn when he questions Louis Mazzer, Canton un- derworld lord, about the killing of Don R. Mellett, publisher of the Canton News, Mazzer is accused of the crime. “When we get thru with Louis Mazzer we will have the goods on every member of the cowardly clique that planned the assassination,” Ber- stewn declared. It is expected that Carl Studer, an- other Canton “jungle” King, who is in the county jail on a liquor con- spiracy charge, will be cross-examined, Detective Gives Damaging Evidence in Hall-Mills Trial SOMERVILLE, N. J., Aug. 18, Testimony that a coat and scarf which were sent to Philadelphia to be dyed by Mrs. Frances 8S; Hall, widow of the slain clergyman, might have contained blood stains which could not be not- iced because of the nature of the fabric, was given at the Hall-Mills murder. investigation hearing by Charles Collins, detective, who worked on the original probe, MONTHS Subscription’ to The Workers Monthly A Conmmaiide Aagagine If you subscribe before SEPTEMBER 1 Don’t miss unusual oppor- tunity offered once a year only. THE OFFER IS GOOD FOR BOTH RENEWAL AND NEW SUB- SCRIPTIONS. CLIP THIS BLANK! ro { =H) THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, CHICAGO, ILL. 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