The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, II. , Phone Monroe 4712 By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By mail (outside of CKicago): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months _—— Address, all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY’ WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, II, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL i} WILLIAM F, DUNNE: MORITZ J. LOEB... Editors .Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, <> 290 The Soviet Union Gets a Hearing — The old lady who tried to sweep back the sea with a broom scored a one hundred per cent success compared to the result of the efforts of the American Federation of Labor officialdom to keep the| question of the recognition of the Soviet Union becoming the sub- ject of debate on the convention floor. No more dramatic occurrence has disturbed the solemn serenity of the annual conclave of the conservative leaders of thg American trade union movement than the speech of Sherwood Eddy., The oc- currence symbolizes the onward march of the proletarian revolution in Russia and dwarfs the puny attempts of its foes to prevent its| achievement, the first workers’ and peasants’ government in the world, appearing in its glorious aspects before the American work- ing class. The A. F. of L. machine had everything arranged to take an- other rap at the Soviet Union and the Communists without any. op- A vicious resolution reaffirming the previous adverse decisions was to be introduced and passed and the position from the floor. issue smothered for another year. But times have changed.. There is a delegation of trade union officials, economists, editors and labor attorneys all packed up and ready to go to the Soviet Union, the delegation has received much publicity, the British fraternal delegates spoke in praise of the Soviet Union and advocated world trade union unity, the attack of the Detroit open shoppers, direct and unexpected by the Polly- anna leadership of the federation, drew in huge quantities upon its slender store of courage, the church and the Y. M. ©. A. joined in the attack and the carefully erected structure of reaction came tumbling down about the ears of an astounded bureaueracy, | Undoubtedly there will be the usual oud wails of “Communist propaganda” and we do not deny that we have done the best we could to put the issue of Soviet Union recognition before the Amer- ican labor movement. We are only too pleased that our efforts have not been in vain and it will be admitted by unbiased observers that we have done a fairly good job. Not that Sherwood Eddy is a Communist or under any Com- munist influence except that which all honest idealists respond to when they visit the only land in the world where workers and peas-| ants rule and are using their power to build a Communist society | while at the samé time aiding to the best of their ability the strug-| gles of workers in capitalist and colonial countries to, organize for | and wage victoriously the struggle for proletarian power. | We are grateful to Sherwood Eddy just as we are to all honest By N. BUCHARIN (Continued from the previous issue) F we are criticized-and told: “This | has not been done, and that has jmnot been done,” and if we are criti- \cized for the purpose of making capi- tal for the formation of a fraction, in- |stead of for the purpose of helping us |to remedy our faults,, if we are criti- cized in enormous exaggerations, if our party and the soviet power are |slandered, if individual errors, indi- vidual mistakes, and individual weak- nesses in our state and our party ap- paratus are multiplied a thousandfold, if a fraction platform is formed of these, and if the critics do not help jus to overcome the real inconsisten- |cles and difficulties, but take the op- portunity to fry their own fraction fish, then we take up arms against such a criticism, for this is no cap- jable help coming to ald us to over- come our deficiencies, but a system of \repeated attempts to shake the unity of the party, and to attain the legal- ization of other parties by means of fractions and-groups. This is a fall- ing away from the proletarian line, even if it 1s not acknowledged as such. BE. opposition, after making sev- eral accusations against the cen- tral committee of the party, main- tained that the party should learn the following lessons from the election campaign: 1, Real industrialization; 2, real organization of the poor peas- antry; 3. real alliance with the main mass of the middle peasantry under the leadership of the proletariat; 4. real fight against bureaucracy; 5. real inner party democracy. It would thus appear that our industrialization is not real—apparently we only assert that we are building new factories, whilst in reality they do not exist. It appears that it aflame is creating something “real,” while all that we have done and are doing is fundamentally “wrong.” , however, are straightforward enough to believe that those per- sons who contend in the crudest form against a current in our ‘party. one day, only to let themselves be borne on this current the next; who today proclaim the question of fraction to be a matter of death to tha party, and tomorrow a matter of life—we believe that these elements have found their way into “real” Leninism to a certain extent on false passports. MUST tell you a funny story. In opposition circles Comrade Zino- viev’s book on Leninism has been re- garded as a hundred per cent gospel. This will be known to you. A con- siderable part of this book was di- rected against Comrade Trotsky. But now Comrade Zinoviev, for the sake of the block with Comrade Trotsky, [for the sake of the realization of real Leninism, has let this book fall under the table, and is not having a further edition published. This is the way they treat th principles ‘of Leninism. Not merely a word which might have slipped out accidentally, but the “gos- pel” of Leniniem. Our Tasks. 'N conclusion, a few-words on the tasks now facing~us, In economic politics our main task is to steer an efficient course towards industrialism, to seek means for the acceleration of the speed of development for our in- dustry. Our next task, in view of the coming autumn, consists of inquiring into the possibility of a rise in real wages, especially in the wages of those categories of workers whose wages have not kept pace with the intellectuals who have the courage to tell the truth abont the Rus- sian revolution and other achievehents of our class. | But Sherwood Eddy alone could never have upset the cautious | plans of the skilled jugglers who manipulate the affairs of A. F. of L. conventions. The incident is significant in that it shows an inner | weakness in the hitherto apparently solid front of A. F. of L.| bureaucracy, and it is additionally significant that this weakness | discloses itself on a fundamental working class political issne such | as the recognition of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Uinon is. y The pressure from the rank and file is making itself felt at this | convention with greater force than in a decade. The auto industry | organization resolution, the Eddy speech and the favorable recep- | tion accorded it, the very obvious failure of the officialdom to give | this convention the usual quiet, restrained atmosphere of utter respectability, all point to the conclusion that the American labor | movement, in spite of the efforts of the leadership to hold it in leash, | is emerging from its post-war apathy and showing signs of recover- publican governor of Indians, Ed. ing from the subtle poison administered by the labor agents of im- |Jackson. | perialism. The High Cost of Getting Elected © Samuel Insull turned about $150,000 into Frank L. Smith’s treasure chest because the public utilities magnate had a grudge against Smith’s opponent and would do anything within reason to place another man in the sénatorial seat occupied by Mr. McKinley. Of course, Sam had no ulterior motive. Oh, no, no, no. Frankly, our,faith in this explanation of the phenomenal cam- paign contribution is somewhat shaken .by the perusal of an article in a Chicago newspaper purporting to be the experience of a cam- paign manager for a capitalist party in roping in votes for his can- didates. FR This particular installment tells how he lined up the foreign- born vote. The party’s pablicity man was in a dilemma. He called in the campaign manager for a solution of his problem. It was this: The foreign yote might save the party from defeat. So the pub- licity man wrote several articles proving why the various racial groups should support the ticket. There was one for the Poles, an- other for the Irish, one for the Italians and so on down the line. How to get the stuff out so that it would not prove a boomerang was the problem. If an Irish pamphlet got into the hands of a Swede there would be trouble because the reasons given why the Irish should support the ticket were'precisely the reasons why the Swedes should not. The campaign manager wrinkled his brow and by the time he got thru he could see a mdss movement of foreign-born voters mov- ing on the polls to vote for bis ticket. Money did the trick. Lining his pockets with one thousand dollar bills the manager journeyed to New York. The first foreign-born leader he met with, accepted twenty-five one thousand dollar bills on account, By the time he had covered Boston and Chicago and returned to Washing- ton his roll was slim and the publicity director almost fainted when the amount expended was tallied, But inside of a week the money began to talk, Mass meetings were held at which orators of every known racial group on the American voting lists expounded the virtues of the party with the boodie. And when the votes were ‘counted, the party with the boodle got the lion’s share of the votes, others. Altho we were unable to ful- fill this task a few months ago, it is certain that if we now succeed in ma- neuvering our exports skilfully, in | bringing in our grain properly and OLD LINE PARTIES DISCREDITED IN that we are not organizing the poor peasantry, that only the opposition proposes a real alliance, etc., etc. The opposition gtves a false testimony against our whole policy, and believes The Local Lake County, Indiana, Workers (Communist) “Party, has issued a statement asking all of the workers of Indiana to stand together'and form a Labor Party in order to purge the state of the corruption and graft which has been exposed in connection with the ku klux klan activities. + er politices—H@gw many-more times do you need to be fooled before you learn your lesson? * Out of the Ku Klux Klan—this hot- HE state of Indiana is in political turmoil...Stephenson, the ex-ruler of the K. K. K. and of the republican | party, is now in jail in Michigan City, | Indiana, for causing the death of al school girl, and makes a confession. |bed of hatred—religious and racia!— leultivated by the exploiters of labor in order to keep the workers fighting each other, divided and weak! Out of the rotten K. K. K-republi- can contraption! Let it fall,to pieces, like a house of cards! For the republican party cannot be expected to serve your interests, even if it disassociates itself from the K. EE For the republ nothing else but wha of big business—the? Street, of the Mo: fellers and the Garya, He claims to have documents to prove: That he spent $275,000 to elect a certain prominent republican official of the state of Indiana to office. | That he received from the repub- lean official notes to the amount of | $825,000 in payment for his election | into office. \ That republican mayors of three | large cities in Indiana entered into a| written agreément with him to repay him on a ration three-for-one for all the monéy »he advances ‘in the cam- paign for their election. HB proof of this, (if proof 1s need- That he made fwether agreements ae is in the bis with these“republican mayors where- | isvens Heatthing in by some individuals received full con-|nois/ The money trol over appointments to public jobs. tons, the biggest s' That he made similar agreements +n, candidates from — with_30 or 40 less important public ‘the United States do officials. _ | clerk. 4 ‘That he dictated the appointment of | the republican senator, Jim Robinson, to his senatorial position by the re- holding South which tow “party can be dt is—the party y of Wall id the Rocke- attempts to jparade as the friend of the working people? No! Because it is under just That he forced this appointment by |, qrm control of the bankers and | threatening the republican governor! nanufacturers as the republican that, if the appointment ts not made | as requested, he would begin “to talk” and that his story would not gain any. public favor for the republican: gov- | ernor, ‘ | When crooks begin to squeal—they lexpose other crooks. NUMBER of.the ex-grand drag- on’s former republican friends, in- clifding the republican governor and }some of the republican senators, ought to-be serving time with Steph- enson, if the story he tells is true. And from the action of the republican governor, Ed Jackson, who would not |permit newspaper men to see Steph- enson, one would conclude that the clique of the K. K, K.republican poli- \ticlans, in control of the state ma- |chine, are afraid of his revelations, | What Is the meaning of this big tur- | moll In the politics of Indiana? Le shows up the total rottenness and antilabor character of the K. K. |K-republican combination that rules the state. . i | They all parade as 100 per | cent | Americans—these 100 per cent scoun- \drels! They all preach law and or- |der—these thieves and rufflans! | Against the workers oa a peacefil jstrike they would use machine guns ‘(as at the time of the Great Steel Strike.) | But for themselves they claim im- |munity from punishment for all the |hideous crimes they commit, | But who put these men in power? |Workers and poor farmers of the {state of Indiana. | Behold now these champions “white protestant superiority”! Do you still admire them? Do you still insist that®man’s superiority de- | pends upon his color and his creed? Bs cp workers and poor farmers, who jothed the K. K. K, because you thought tt will bring about clean- A of party. The slush fund exposures showed that the bankers and manu- facturers are contributing to the dem- ocratic party as they. do to the repub- ican party. When. the republican party is discredited In the eyes of the workers and poor farmers—then the democratic party is used by the ex- ploiters to fool the working people. OWN with the po parties of the exploiters of Tabor! Let all the workers’ organizations—trade un- —unlte to form own—a La- lons, fraternal, politi a powerful party of ‘bor Party. J " Let our watchword be: A- Powerful Labor Party of Indiana for the presi- dential elections of 1928. Let us use the rei for the building of a party. At the same time let : @ full and open investigation of all charges of thievery, political.corruption, and graft in the capitalist politics of Indi- ana. ; two years. Let organized labor d that its representatives in tho in- vestigation. d el Jail with the o shoppers who keep the wages who resist the organization of but spend millions of dollars out of workers to enrich themselves and keep themselves in power, © DOWN WITH CAPITALIST POLI- TICS! “ LONG LIVE WORKING CLASS TION! oo. LONG LIVE THE SOLIDARITY OF INDHPENDENT ICAL AC- The C. P. S. U. and the IND.; URGE FORMING LABOR tothe petty ler] ie Th | And the democratic party—can we ‘seek refuge in this Telie- of the slave 2 and ad-| DAILY WORKER to your frie selling it well, etc, we shall be in a position by the autumn to raise the real value of wages. This must be carefully considered and calculated a hundred times, but we must make preparations for it. HE next measure to be taken in our labor policy must be to com- bat the excrescences which have grown up about the saying regime.’ In some places the necessity of sav- ing has been so interpreted that, the workers have been deprived of water to make tea with, with the result that there have been small revolts here and there in the provinces. This is not a regime of saving, but a carica- ture, a perfectly criminal caricature of a regime of saving. Our central committee or its secretariat must send an emplanatory letter to the organi- zations on this subject. One of our main tasks all over the country Mnust be the combat against the bureaucrat- ism which is throttling us. I may re- mind you that one of the main thoughts in Comrade Dzershinsky’s last apeech, held just before his death and directed against the opposition, was a declaration of determined war against the immobility, the unwieldli- ness, and the bureaucratism of our apparatus, against conditions which oblige an urgent matter to pass thru the hands of ten to twenty authorities before it can be decided upon and exe- cuted. Here we have still a great deal to do, and here the collective en- deavors of many workers’ hands and heads is truly necessary. ND finally, I am of the opinion that in the sphere of inner party poli- tics-we must not only, carry on this direct struggle against ‘fractions and groups, but at the same time we must strive more energetically for inner party democracy. We must enlighten the mass of the party at any price, strengthen and steel its ideology, and do this in the firm conviction that the line pursued by the majority of the W. P, ELECTION H. M. Wicks. H. M. Wicks, labor speaker and wan- didate for governor of Pennsylvania on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, is now engaged in an election campaign tour covering a large num- ber of cities in Pennsylvania. His sub- ject is: “What Do the Elections Mean to the Workers?” The rest of his tour follows: PITTSBURGH, Pa., Tuesday, Oct, 12, 8p. m, N. 8. Carnegie Music Hall. COVERDALE, a., Wednesday,” Oct. 13, 7:30 p. m., Coverdale Hall. AMBRIDGE, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p. m. Croatian Hall. »% Saturaay, EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., ‘Oct. 16. 4 Pp. AVELLA, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 17, 2% m, Branton Granish Hall. -_ MONONGAHELA CITY, Pa., Tuesday, Oct 19, 8 p. m., Markel Hall. CHARLEROI, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 20. BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p. m., Union Hall, UNIONTOWN, PA., Friday, Oct. 22. REPUBLIC, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 23. DAISYTOWN, Brownsville, Pa., Sun- day, Oct. 24. NEW BRIGHTON, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 25. HARMERVILLE, Pa., Friday, Oct. 28, 7:30, Union Hall. NEWCASTLE, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 30. Sunday, NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 31, 2:30. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 31, 8p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Ben Gitlow Ben Gitlow, who is well-known to the workers of this country as a mili- tant fighter in the ranks of labor, be- gins his big election campaign tour under the banner of the Workers Communist Party with a meeting in New Haven on September 29. Work- ers in cities all over the country— Comrade Gitlow’s tour will take him all the way from New Haven to Mil- waukee—will have the opportunity of hearing the 1924 vice-presidential can- didate of the Workers. Party and its present gubernatorial candidate in New York on: “WHAT CAN THE ELECTIONS DO FOR THE WORK- ERS?” The/complete tour follows: MILWAUKER, Wis.—Oct. 10. TOLEDO, Ohio—Oct. 11. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Oct, 12, N. 8. arnegie Music Hall, BALTIMORE, Md.—-Oct. 13. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Oct. 14 Rebecca Grecht. Rebecca Grecht, who has just com- pleted a tour in Ohio, will cover a number of cities in Minnesota and Michigan this October in connection with the election campaign of “the Workers (Communist) Party. Com- rade Grecht will speak on: “What Do the Elections Mean to the Workers?” Her tour follows ROCKFORD, ML, Oct. 16, ° KENOSHA. ‘Wine, Oct, 17 ROCHESTER, Minn ST. PAUL, Minn,, Oct, MINNEAPOLIS, Oct, 20, CHISHOLM, Minn., Oct VIRGINIA, Minn., Oct (SUPERIOR, Wise GRAN) MUSKEGON, Mich. RAPIDE Mich, Oct. 90, ch., Oct, 81. We will send sample coples of The send us name and address, Opposition Bloc CAMPAIGN TOURS| » & (14th street. Admission is 60 cents. | party is right, greatest tasks” xs Communist Party is the main- spring of the state’ administration of our great country. We are enter- ing the autumn season faced by ex- tremédly’ complicated tasks. We must maneuver with our grain prices, and maneuver in such a manner that we bring in’the largest possible quantity of grain. We must export and sell this grain on advantageous terms, and upon this basis we have to arrange ou program of production, ‘and find our way to a certain improvement in the housing question, the wages ques- tion, etc. We begin with these opera- tions every year almost simulta- neously with. the realization of the harvest. A very great deal depends upon how these operations are begun. They are almost determinative for the results of a whole economic year. And tho we have our hands full with this great practical task, still we must, in- crease our activity in the work. of strengthening the ideology’ of the whole of the party on the basis’ of,a definite political standpoint. “May every member of the party know and realize that the majority of the, cen- tral committee has a clearly defined This is one of the standpoint,.oné for which it stands, which it continues, and which serves as arule for its guidance of the party. VE are not adherents of party metii- *"" ods which maintain one thing to- day, and something diametrically op-' posite tomorrow; which declare a cru- sade against deviations today, and | submit to the lead of these deviations tomorrpw. We have our line of policy, | and, we follow it consistently. We shall continue to stand for this line, | to fight for it, to lead the party un- waveringly by it, and we are firmly convinced that the whole party—with | the Leningrad organization, which“tas always been and always will be a pillar of the central committee, in the front rank-—will pursue this line in every respect, The most important ‘point is: the.struggle for the right po- litleal line; everything else depends upon this, everything else is deter- mined by the struggle for the right political line. Our line is actually a Leninist political line,.from which we never deviate, for which we fight with- out ceasing, and which will be the means of leading us to victory: (Pro- longed applause). (€onclusion.) How Philadelphia Does Its Bit We have just received the following inspiring report from the Phila- delphia district of the’ Workers Party. « The workers in the Philadelphia district ‘are surely responding to our call to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. “Norfolk, W, Vay Oct: 4, 1926 ; “Enclosed find check for $100.00, the contribution of the Norfolk and Portsmouth comrades to SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. “Are now on the way Back. all agreed. In Richmond we will get’ $100.00. In Washington they will have a check for $300.00 waiting it's for us. In Baltimore they will-have another $150.00 ready. When we get to Philly we will have another couple of hundred to send. “We will also cover next- week—Trenton, Chester and Wilmington. \ “Fraternally yours, Alex Bail.” N. Y. Italian Workers Will Stage Affair e Italian workers in New York are busy arranging an affair in behalf of their paper, Il Lavoratore, to be held at the Harlem Casino on the 28rd of this month, i Now think: One evening among the Italians—girls and fellows, and all broadminded radicals—one evening full of events. Oh, no, you can’t af- ford to deprive yourself of all this. The New York comrades have un- dertaken the responsibility of cover- ing the expense of the November 7 issue of Il Lavoratore with this affair. Won’t you help them do it by bring- ing all your friends and by not for-’ getting this important date? WORKERS’ SCHOOL GISTRATION IS ELD OPEN HERE Comrades who have not yet regis: tered for the Chicago Workers’ Schoo] can do so up to Sunday, October to. Classes are being held this week and a number of comrades have al- ready started to,work. For ®* those who have not yet had the opportunity 'to register,‘ the books are being kept open another week. ” ee Communism Class Friday. Comrade Bittelman’s-class in “Ele- ments of Communism” will have its first session on Friday, October 15. This class, will use as its textbook the new book just translated from: the Russian, “Elements of Political Education.” This book is being used as a textbook thruout the: Russian | party schools and workers” upiverst- ties, It is very complete and. up-to- date, ¢. ne Other classes are: Kaplan's, “ABC of the Class Struggle,” which is being held on the South Side at 3201 South Wabash Avenue, and meets on. Mon- day nights; Swabeck's class, Mot days, “Trade Union Tactics and, Stra tegy”; Abern’s class, Tuesdays, “ class, Wednesdays, “ABC of the C Struggle”; Shachtman’s. class, “Theo: | the Three Work: 4 ry and Practice of ers’ Internationals,” Thursdays; Fri- days, Bittelman’s class, “Elements. ot Raizel Starkman at Daily Worker Concert NEW YORK, Oct. 8—The DAILY WORKER has been fortunate in se- curing Raizel Starkman, wonderful contralto, for the campaign concert to be given at Central Opera House this Sunday afternoon, October 10, Her selections will be “O’ Del Mio Dolce Ardor’ by Christoph Glueck, and “Ho- pak,” by Moussgoursky, She will be accompanied on the plano by Sophie Meltzer. ‘Two thousand five hundred tickets have already been sold for this con- cert, All planning to attend this mo enjoyable event are advised to secure 108, for Il Lavoratore |: Workers (Communist) Party FREIHEIT RALLY AND BANQUET 70 ATTRACT MASSES Chicago Issue Comes Off Press Saturday The first edition of the Chicago is- sue of the Jewish Daily Freiheit will be. distributed at the grand rally at the Carmen’s Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Streets, ‘ Saturday. evening. William Abrams, who has been ap- pointed editor by ¢he Jewish Bureau sin conference with leading workers in tthe Jewish organizations of Chicago. Big Program. A magnificent program is’ arranged fox the meeting: C. E, Ruthenberg, Pgeneral Secretary of the Workers -(Communist) Party, will speak in English; Ben Gold of the Furriers’ Union of New York will speak in both English and Jewish, and Melech Ep- stéin,; chief Freiheit editor, will speak in. Jewish. Besides, there will be a concert’ by the Freiheit Singing Society, the Frei- heft Mandolin Orchestra, a children’s chert of 70 voices, a play with 200 actors of the Dramatic Studio staging the “Volga Boatmen,” and Rusgian dances by.~ Marsha Poltalchinsky, fteacher of the Chicago College of Music. No worker can afford to miss this program.” a Banquet Sunday. ‘OnBunday at 6 p. m. at the Dougies Park* Auditorium there will be a banquet in honor of the Fretheit gueats: Ben Gold, leader the Furriers’ Union, Melech Epstein of the Fretheit of. New York and William Abrams, | the editor of the new Freihett in Chi- cago, whose appearance will be céle- brated at the banquet by songs, talks and a general joyous time. All who wish to attend! the banquet should ‘TTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 8—The third of the series of campaign mass ‘meetings arranged for Pittsburgh will be held at the Carnegie Music Hall, cornér Federal and Ohio streets, North Side, Pittsburgh, on Tuesday October 12 at 8 p, m. The speakers are Ben Gitlow, Work- ers’ Party. candidate for vice-president -in the 1924 election and well known as aAmilitant labor fighter, and H, M, Wicks, Workers” Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania and well known. ag.a writer and speaker in the working ¢lass movement thruout the entire country. ; In entering this campaign the Work- ers’ Party does so as a challenge to the old parties, and- issues a to all other parties, whet fs already at his desk and hag been _ ave their nathe and address with the . ‘hall committee at the rally Saturday ‘at Carmen's Auditorium. and Funttion of the Party”; Simon's right of a further existence of,