The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1926, Page 6

Se 4 | i : : THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml, Te lseiaaaneh daaaetante By maii (in Chicago onty): | $8.00 per year $2.50 three months SUBSCRIPTION RATES $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year i Address all matl and make out checks to Phone Monroe 4712 By mail (outside of Chicago): $3.50 six months $2.00 three months os THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIliInole J, LOUIS WILLL MORITZ J M F, .Business Manager Entered ag second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. 1 or to be more lished a fake spee of ‘the ( exact, communist A Cable to Stalin Abe Party of the Soviet Union. \Vew Leader, official organ of the Jewish Daily Forward, Cahan’s English expression, recently pub-| attributed to Joseph Stalin, general secretary Stalin was alleged to haye commented caustically on Comrade Zinoviev’s general use- fulness to the revolutionary movement, in a matter that brought joy to the hearts of those ill-informed. persons. who. consider, Zinoviev and the Communist International synonymous terms. It is no secret that a minority of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union disagreed sharply with the prevailing opinion of the Central Committee on questions of policy. As usual in Communist parties, the issues were fought out openly and considerable frank- ness was indulged in before the final decision was reached. Zinoviev’s point of view was defeated by such an overwhelming majority that expectations entertained by Soviet foes of a possible rupture in the party were consigned to the burial ground of Washed hopes. The ‘unity of the party was maintained. The iron battalions of the revo lution emerged from the discussion with unbroken ranks. It was not surprising that the capitalist papers should assume | that a civil war would follow a disagreement in the party over a| “They'll do it gn you every time,” to parody a col-| Stalin’s troops, in good old 1920 style, were chasing political issue. loquallism. Zinoviev’s troops around the steppes and the day that did not chronicle an assassination or two was a day ill conceived. the liars got tired and decided to tell the truth for a change. But | Problem of economte policy In its re- Finally | like the lad who was in the habit of shouting “Wolf! Wolf!” when there was no wolf and ran into a wall of skeptism when the four-| problem, one of most decisive im- legged brute actually appeared, the capitalist liars had no audience | portance; to the problem of the peas- when they began to turn out reliable news. Among the publications that rehashed. the fake Stalin speech | th!s problem. was The New Leader. The editor of that paper is nobody’s sap. He | ig about as precocious a Jad as ever came from Indiana. But he does| stanas forth By N. BUCHARIN. (Continued from previous issue) HBP fourth thesis, finally, advanced by the comrades of the opposition, jis the assertion that our state organs are almost completely degenerated, that they have become entirely de- tached from the masses, and that the state, economic, trade union, and co-operative organs, as also the party organs and above all the state eco- nomic organs, are joining forces with |the N. B, P. men, the kulaks (rich peasantry), etc, To this I must ob- serve: It is true that thru the fault of our bureaucracy ‘there is a tendency to such degeneration among us; cannot be contested. But we, must | {contest with the utmost decision and | energy the suggestion that our state | |industry. is already degenerated, that of the ‘working class. This is an tional comrades ‘are steering, and they | have very nearly ventured to express jit outright. Qu Industry Is the state soclal- list. industry of the working class, but It has fallen a victim to the bureaucratic spirit. This ts our definition. The fight against bureaucracy must therefore form one of our leading tasks, and here | we must unfold ever Increasing en- | ergy. But still we are very far from a position which would justify the comrades of the opposition In advancing such a thesis. The Peasantry Question. HIS is how matters stand with re- | gard to the first problem—the lation to the industrialization of our country. .I now pass to the second jantry, and to the economic aspect of When we attack this question first |from its theoretical side, one point conspicuously, and I not entertain friendly sentiments towards Communists. Which ac: | draw your attention to it because it counts for his blunder in stealjag a fake story from the Hearst press | represents, so to speak, the spring- and running it in the New Leader as if it came from Moscow. Nobody in his senses would believe the yarn. Official refutation | of the fable was not.really necessary to convince the average Amer- ican worker that the story originated in the brain of some cognac- erazed white Rus: But the an in Riga or Berlin. Workers (Com- munist) Party, which is responsible for Tue Dairy Worxsr, got in touch with Moscow (the terrible secret is out) and the response was a cable to the effect that Stalin did not say the things ascribed to him. The general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party con- veyed the information to the editor of the New Leader with a sug- gestion that he be decent enough to publish the refutation. The reply was published in a recent issue of this paper and it did not contribute much to the general fund of knowledge. This is putting it mildly. Now comes the aftermath. The New Leader's worker readers protested. The exposure of its jourflalistic venality hit somebody. The current number of the New Leader has an article apologizing for the blunder by denouncing the Communists. And to prove how serious it takes things it sends a cable.to Stalin, asking for confirmation or refutation of the alleged speech. The circulation manager of the New Leader is advertising a few “scoops” as a reason why people should dig up a few dollars for a sub- seription. One of the “scoops” is a fake story of a fake split in the Anti-Fascisti Alliance of North America. The circulation man- ager was remiss in his duty. But then that was not a “scoop.” The Free Press A better fake would be the Stalin story. It was only a borrowed fable. Control of the daily press in the big eities by direct ownership vested #n capitalist hands is easily discernible to intelligent workers, but the method of control of the suburban and rural press is less obvious. One of the methods by which it is kept in line with power- ful capitalist interests has just come to our attention. The Illinois Press Association is to hold its annual meeting at the University of Illinois beginning September 30. The enterprising secretary sends out the following information to all editors and publishers in the state: Those who would like to do 80 can write to the railroads for transportation the same as they done in the past. In other words, you go to the ticket agent and. buy your ticket, take a receipt for the money paid for this ticket, send the receipt to the railroad company passing thru your city and THEY WILL GIVE AMOUNT OF THE SELF, TICKET. YOU ENOUGH ADVERTISING TO PAY FOR THE THIS APPLIES TO YOUR- ALL MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY AND ANY MEM- BERS OF YOUR NEWSPAPER STAFF. THE NUMBER IS NOT LIMITED. If you want to take advantage of thie plan of attending the meeting, I suggest you write @ letter to the rail- road company immediately so they can be preparing the adver- tising. The emphasis is ours. Here is plain and open bribery of the press arranged so as to evade the laws which prohibit the issuance of passes by railroads to others than their employes. When the railroads have some particularly brazen demands they wish to put across they can be sure of sympathetic comment by the editors and publishers who have accepted their hospitality. Advertising pays. Hurrah for the free and tintrammeled American press! “We are slowly reaching the bottom of the pit that was dug for humanity in that crude and cruel act, the deflation of 1920” declared Jobn H. Walker, président of the Illinois Federation of Labor in a Labor Day message. Walker hit the bottom long ago, but he burst thru the floor when he supported Frank L. Smith in the last primary | contest. | board from which the “New Opposi- | tion” takes its leap. when solving this jor that question in connection with the peasantry. This. is the manner jin which private capital and peasantry are identified with one another, and agricultural economics confused with capitalist economics. Private econo- mics are regarded as Sgpntical with this |a it no longer represents the industry | assertion towards which the opposi-| The C. P. S: U. and the Opposition Block THE present controversy within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is neither a sign—nor will it be’the cause —of a retreat of the revolution. clear indication of its victorious onward march. To give a clear understanding as well of the present prob- lems of the Russian Revolution as also of the controversy over the solution of these problems, we are publishing here- with a report,made by Comrade Bucharin at the function- aries’ meeting of the Leningrad organization of the Commu- The report speaks for itself and needs no further tus clear and convincing and answers the lies | of the Russian Revolution, nist Party. elucidation. about the retr private capitalist ecabimiics, and there is a lack of comptehension of the |fact that there cam be such a thing as non-capitalist private undertakings, The discussion at the XIV. Party Con- |8ress dealt with all this, but it has |not been so completely formulated un | til now, |7 MUST first of all draw your atten- tion .to g theoretical compilation of all oppositional proposals, ideas assertions, theses, ‘ete., to Comrade | Preobrashensy’s book, “On the New Economy.” Here .the économics: of }our country are regarded as follows: | On one side we have state economics, on the other private. economics, and {nothing besides. Private capitalist economics, the economics of the small | peasantry, and every kind of private jeconomic undertaking—among the poor peasantry, the middle peasantry, jete—are all thrown together. 'T need scarcely be.emphasized that this standpoint is entirely wrong When Lenin asked, “Who is going to defeat whom?” we the capitalists or the capitalists us, he put the question from the viewpoint of: Who is go- ing to win over the peasantry? Shall we win over the nmin mass of the peasantry, or will the-capitalists do it? In Lenin's conceptions the péasantry played chiefly the role.of an object subject to the influence of the oppos- ing class forces, Amd when we put the question of “Who is going to de- feat whom?” the answer will be es- sentially decided by the question of who succeeds’ in drawing over the peasantry to his side, for the etrug- gle between the working class and the capitalist is a struggle for the peasantry. It is thus entirely absurd, and flatly contradicts. Lenin’s stand- point, when private capitalist econo- mics are identified with agricultural economics in all theirjvarious strata. HIS brings us to the second ques- tion of this series of peasantry problems: the questiog “ot “pumping Resolution on the’ Right of Asylum in the United States. HE seizure by government officials of a number of Italian workers who fled from terror and persecution in fascist Italy to the United: States in the hope of finding the asylum for political refugees which has been tra. ditional. im this country for nffny de- eades, and the threat made by the government of this country, as well as the action already taken in a few must be immediately challenged by American labor. These-refugees have fied Italy be- cause of the incredible reign of terror that exists against any genuine labor movement or labor activities in that country, The elementary right of or- Sanization into labor unions or other | metes of tho hurricane, like {te formor order, cases, to deport these Italian workers, | The shattered a! working-class economic or political or- ganizations is today .suppressed in Italy. Those courageous workers who dare to lead in the work of re-building the labor movement .so savagely crushed by the Mussolini dictatorship are the special objects,of fascist ven- |geance, torture and imprisonment. In many cases this persecution becomes |80 intolerable that workers are forced to leave the country im order to save | themselves from death.or life impris- onment. ts beccenters has for a Jong time been considered a safe-haven for those |who have sought to escape she fero- cious regimes of Huropean capitalism. Of late the international solidarity of the American capitalists has been ex- pressed in a policy of deporting all those radical workers who come to this country under the impression that they would find here more tolerable Survivors Search for Relatives in Tumbled Miami on of a yacht Ih Quite the contrary. It is over” means from agricultural sourc- | es, and from private economic under- | takings, into industry and into state | economics. This is no simple ques- tion. It is perfectly clear’ that our| state ‘industry cannot obtain the} means for its expansion solely from the work done by the working class within this state industry itself, and that it must necessarily draw on the | non-industrial reservoir for the means to support and expand industry. One of the resources upon which we must draw, is the peasantry. The peasant- ry must take its share in’ helping the state to build up a soctalist state of industry, and thus the tax revenues, the industrial profits on the goods which we sell to the peasantry, and other various revenues, are drawn to a certain, extent from the peasantry. | WOULD be entirely wrong to say industry should develop solely up: | on ‘what is produced within this in- | dustry itself. On the contrary, the | whole question is; How much can) we take away from the peasantry, to| what extent and by what method can we accomplish the pumping over proc- ess'what are the limits of the pump- ing over, and how shail we calculate in order to arrive at favorable results? This is the question. Here lies the difference between us and the opposi- tion, a difference which may be de-} fined by saying that the comrades of | the opposition are in favor of an im- moderate amount of pumping over, and are desirous of putting so severe a pressure upon the peasantry that in our opinion the result would be economically irrational and politically unallowable. We do not in the least hold’ the standpoint that we are against this pumping over, but our calculations are more sober, we con- fine ourselves to measures ecoromic- ally and politically adapted to their purpose. (To be continued.) Resolutions Adopted by 1. L D. Conference conditions. The great majority of these foreign-born workers have been in the forefront of the work of build- ing up a strong, solidified labor move- ment in this country. HE second annual conference of International Labor Defense there- fore protests vigorously against the policy of the United States govern- ment in deporting these Italian work- ers to Italy, which amounts to deliv- ering them bound and shackled to the hangman of Mussolini, and demands that these workers shall not be de- ported but promptly released and per- mitted to continue their work in the labor movement of this country. We express our energetic opposition to the policy of the American govern- ment in doing lackey work for Mus- solini, whose bloody rule has been re- nounced by labor in all parts of the world. Survivors of the Miam! atorm®ure seen searching along the waterfront for friends and relatives lost in the on the breakwater, tor 6 of utmost desolation are found thruout Miami and its suburbs as the community seeke to re-establish There Are 11,000 Millionaires “In the United States! — ‘LEVEN thousand people hold the wealth of a mil- lion dollars or more and every penny has been coined from the toil of labor. In the present financtal need of The DAILY WORKER they will not help. They own the thousands of newspapers that HELP THEM. In every strike and in every movement of militant labor they fight. They poison the minds of the working class. They oppose the progress of labor only to add to the wealth of eleven thousand millionaires. \ Against the thousands of newspapers fighting the workers The DAILY WORKER is the only American English daily fighting for them. For three years it has given its invaluable service to the working class. Now it needs financial help. 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