The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1926, Page 4

Pagé Four — : ee nee THE DAILY*WORKER Books for Women THE WOMAN WORKER and the TRADE UNIONS by Theresa Wolfson of women r racial 1, the official in regard to The autho: organization chair A discussion of the pe as a wage-e: economic and nature of their Policy of the t them as union analyzes the e and their participation strikes, at v me men and oj nen¢ the and e unions bers Cloth $1.75 Work Among Women— Paper § .35 Women and by August Be Origin of the F. by Frederick alism— e Cloth $1.50 ‘amily— Engels Cloth $ 60 THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO? 1113 West Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use ft, Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s classes. How The Opposition Was Defeated | (Continued, from page 1.) | substance and that only a. miserable remnant remains. The party is not responsible for the fact that these comrades who were once bearers of the experience of the party together with others, have now become destroyers of. the glorious historical traditions of Bol- shevism. The party carefully ‘pre- serves every strength which can: be of use to it. The party showed unusual patience and care for it recognized rightly that the building up of @ leading cadre for the party is an extremely difficult and slow work and it hoped further that the leaders of the oppo- sition would make good. their errors. The party is not responsible for the shattering of its hopes. When simple proletarian Commu- nists repulse the attacks, of the op- position leaders who have, passed all bounds, then this is not. a sign of blame but of the maturity of the party. If the party is no longer, to be trou- bled by these oppositional leaders in the future, if the least hope is to re- main that these Waders will see their grave errors and come to their sens- then the whole “party must fol- low the example of the Communists df the “Red Putilov” works who have rathfully expressed the feelings of the party im an excellent resolution adopted after Zinoviev had spoken to them. They demand that the party make an end of the irritating activities of the oppositional leaders who are striy- ing in practice “té force another dfs- cussion.” They protest energetically against the un-Bolshevik attitude of Celebrate NTH ANNIVERSARY RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Three Large Meetings EXPRESS YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE RUSSIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS, DEMAND THE RECOG- NITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA BY THE UNITED STATES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, at 8 p. m. MILLERS GRAND ASSEMBLY Grand and Havenmeyer Sts. Brooklyn LITHUANIAN CHORUSES Speakers: AND OTHER MUSICAL NUMBERS Jay Lovestone, A. Tracht- enberg, Cosgrove, M, Epstein, also Lithuanian and Italian. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, at 2 p. m. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th St. & 3rd Ave. Freiheit Gesangs Verein Speakers: Lovestone, Olgin, Weinstone, S. Epstein, Stachel, Sorment, Don ADMISSION Auspices: WORKERS TICKETS ON SALE AT: Worke shop, 127 University Place; 46 Yen Eyck St. Brooklyn; Daily News, 17 E. 3rd Street; Finnish Hali, 15 W. 126th Street; also at all Party Headquarters, HUNTS POINT PALACE 163rd St. & S. Blvd. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Speakers: Lovestone, Gold, Olgin, Poyntz, Zimmerman, R. B. Moore. 50 CENTS (Ticket good for any of above meetings.) 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The Best Place to Buy Your | f LINOLEUM | FURNITURE | BARKUN'S 4 STORES | Seeley 7722 | Monroe 6264 Humboldt 4983 Humboldt 6941 Nevada 1258 Phone Phone Phone Phone Phone PHILADELPHIA CELEBRATES STH ANNIVE the leaders of the opposition, of Zin oviey, Trotsky and others who are striving to undermine the objective realization of the decisions of the Fourteenth Party Congress. They demand that the opposition subordinate itself completely and un- conditionally to the decisions of the Fourteenth Party Congress and of the Plenum of the C, C, and the C. ©, C. They demand the immediate ceas- ing of all fractional activity damag- ing to the unity of the party, a clear break with the liquidatory, counter- revolutionary standpoint of Ossovsky, Medvedyev and Shlapnikov and the condemnation of their standpoint. It is really impossible for the party of the workers to overcome. in peace the difficulties of the work of social- ist reconstruction and to perform its great international tasks unless the leaders of the opposition openly de- clare before the whole party and the Comintern that they recognize the danger of their fractional activity, un- less they cease this activity, liquidate their fraction and definitely and de- cisively draw a clear line between themselves and Ossovski, Korsch, Ruth Fischer, Medvedyey, Shlapnikov and their friends, and unless they re- tract their shameful calumny against the party and its leaders. Otherwise there is no guarantee that the attempts to shake the pany will not be repeated in the future stages of our difficult work. On its part the party must take all measures in its power to secure it- self against a repetition of such events in the future. This must be done in particular, as the resolution of the political bureau says, “By the imposition of the necessary party sanctions” which are determined in the party statutes, in the decisions of | party congresses and in particular in | the resolution of the tenth congress | drafted by Lenin concerning the unity | of the party. | The lessons of this attack of the | opposition must be made the sub- ject of mass study so that the ca- pacious arsenal of the Bolshevist Party be enriched with a further les- son from the struggle against the pet- ty bourgeois vacillations inside the party and against the petty bourgeois influence upon the proletariat. (Continued from page. 1) members. There are a number of and to-all our new comrades who have joined our Party we offer a hearty welcome to our ranks, Miners’ Resolution. Comrade Nat Watkins then moved a resolution on the miners’ struggle. “The greater part of the member- ship of the C./P. was derived from the coalfields, and that membership was responsible for stiffening up the miners in the their fight. “The Party has been the only political party,” he continued, “that has given a clear lead to the miners from the beginning. “The Party itself had not evpn refrained from criticising the idol of the miners when it found that Cook was wavering. It had been criticised from numerous sources for its courage in this respect. When- ever Cook indicated signs of weak- ness, the Party had called the atten- tion of the miners to it. (Hear, hear.) New Members From Mines, “The immense growth of the Party in the last period had been more or less a mining growth. “We will lead the miners again and again until victory has been achieved,” he declared+ amid loud cheers, Comrade Lowell, who moved the resolution on class war prisoners, conveyed the fraternal greetings of the’ international class war prisoners’ organization, He declared that,the Conference itself was an indication as to whether Joynsow Hicks’ policy had borne the fruit he desired, , The capitalist offensive, which com- menced 18 months ago, had mani- fested itself in the Communist trial in November 1925. Then had followed the prosecution of 200 anthracite miners, 59 of whom were sent to jail, 29 in chains. Then came the General Strike ip which the Communists again took a prominent part. Over 5,000 men, women ‘and youths had been .prose- cuted for their activities, no less than 1,200 of them being members of the Communist Patty, 400 C, P. members found their way to jail, and of these 400 not a single one had turned ‘on the’ workers. (Applause,) * Big Growth, Comrade P, Stewart presented a report outlining the political activi- ties of the Party since the last Con- gress and its growth in membership. “Capitalism would be very unwise indeed if it did not try-to prevent the growth of the Communist Party,” he sald, Capitalism was wise enough to know By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. ING COTTON, ,who has a reputa- tion for running a very conser- vative kingdom in the “Solid South,” seems to be determined to drive his subjects to the left by his recent ac- tions. The results of these actions will be, judging from present indica- tions, considerable pressure exerted by southern Bourbons for recognition of the Soviet Union and entrance by these Same southerners into an_alli- ance with strange political bedfellows in the shape’ of the progressive farm bloc, The reason of all these changes is the enormous drop in the price of cotton, This year's crop ls estimated by the government to be 16,647,000 bales to which must be added a re- serve of 5,000,000 bales left over from last year. This crop is so big that, owing to the peculiar contradictions presented by the capitalist system, many cotton farmers will be ruined. new faces ‘at this Congress, To you] Last year, the average price of.a rath- er poor crop wa3 22c a pound. At this writing, the.market price is 13c and there is danger of this going still lower. Representative Fou of North Carolina estimates that the cost of producing a pound of cotton is 20c, so that the loss of the cotton farmers will be from $20 to $25 for every bale they sell, not to mention the loss on the bales they don’t sell. Repre- sentative Pou has requested oColidge to grant a special session of congress to consider the problem of granting relief to the cotton farmer. But Cool- idge has refused, Now Senator Smith of South Carolina has had an inter- view with Mr. Coolidge and a remark- able scheme has been worked out for the salvation of the cotton crisis. This scheme consists of ordering the already bankrupt farmers to re- duce the ampunt of acreage under plantation during the present year! This sounds like a very brilliant solu- tion,, Reduce the amount of the cot- ton crop and you decrease the supply relative to the demand. This increas es the price and everybody is happy. Such is Coolidge economics. In prac> tice, however, the only salvation for the small cotton farmer is to increase his acreage each year. If he decreas- es it, he cannot meet the interest on The South Moves to the Left his mortgage or his rental payments or the interest on loans and he loses his farm altogether. Even for the big cotton farmers this is a danger- our experiment against a bumper crop in the rest of the world which will keep the price down and leave the American cotton farmfer with a low} market price and a small harvest to market. > There is a law on our statute books, the famous Sherman Anti-Trust act, which forbids, combination*»and con- spiracy in restraint of trade. But the Coolidge plan for solving the cotton problem as announced, by Senator Smith provides that the federal re- serve banks, in making their loans, are to force the farmers to enter into contracts to plant less cotton and thus reduce the production of that important commodity. Law or no_law, this-is one more example of the fact that capitalism only “solves” its problems by fettering* thei possible productivity of our economic system. This remarkable Coolidge program for solying the situation, while it will get. the support of such senators as Smith and Underwood, will undoubt- edly throw various southern senators and representatives into the anti Coolidge farm relief progressive group in the senate and_ greatly strengthen the hands of. that group, disturbing the present alliance ‘be- tween big business republicans and big business democrats which have been passing all Coolidge-Mellon mea- sures, The only_hope of immediate re- lief for these cotton farmers is an in- crease of purghase of southern cotton by the Soviet Union. Already the av- erage yearly purchase of American cotton by the Soviet Union totals $45,- 000,000 and the demand for American cotton on the part of Russian indus- try is increasing. This will no doubt cause our southern congressmen to look with much less horror upon “the nationalization of women” and other atrocity stories published in the south- ern capitalist press and considerable sentiment is now developing in favor of recognition of Russia. The cotton crisis is only part of @ general farm crisis which promises to extend rather than the contrary. The department of agriculture admits British Communist Party Makes History - its enemies, while a great body of the working class made friends with their enemies, Thomas, MacDonald, and Co., he added, were honored «by capitalism, not because they were enemies but friends of capitalism, 3 Labor Party Harry Pollitt gave a report of the Labour Party Conference at Margate, There was only one real issue, he said, and that was the mining crisis, ‘4 Bob Williams’ opening speech made it perfectly clear that the whole policy of the Labour leaders is one of attack on the miners, He expressed the full official policy of the right wing leader- ship. It was noteworthy that both on Williams’ speech and the Exe- cutive resolution, it was the Commu- nist fraction that got in first blow against the treachery. What Sort of Victory, The policy of the Labour leaders in the mining lock-out was perfectly logical, They had tried #0 make the miners accept the Samuel Memoran- dum, and the only justification they could get for using that Memoran- dum as an excuse for calling off the General Strike was to use the whole of their machinery to beat the miners to the lowest possible level now, Thomas and Tillett had terrible stories to tell of victimisation in their unlons—yet these leaders were the ones who spoke of the General Strike as a great victory. The misery among -these victimised work- rs was not the result ofthe Gen- eral Strike but of the general treach- ery. General Strike, Comrade Campbell opened the dis- cussion of the General Strike. He said the strike was the greatest event in the history of the British workers; it was the turning point in the de- velopment of the British Labour Movement, : “The General Strike was not an accident due to the personal mis- judgement of any leader or any ‘red’ conspiracy, The General Strike was an outcome of the developments which had taken place in Great Britain over many years, and their effects on the working class of this country,” Comrade Campbell pointed out that the gradual and intensifying decline in industry since the war had broken down the old aristocracy of labour, with its craft organization, and at the same time had brought about a change in the outlook of the workers, This change was not only due to the pressure of conditions, but also to the work of the ©.P. and the M.M, and other left wing organiza- tions; but in spite of this the workers have not yet come to realize the full SARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. _ELABORATE PROGRAM. Speakers: Ben Gitlow, J. O. Bentall, H. W. Wicks, Pat Toohey, Alexander Trachtenberg. , LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Célebration of the Ninth Anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7, at 2:30 p. m. Splendid Musical program and prominent speakers MUSIC-ART HALL 233 So. Broadway _ ADMISSION FREE ~ So OUR MOTTO 3 Q's Quality - Quantity - Quickness U-EAT Restaurant and Lunch Room 1232.W. MADISON ST. GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant in its recent report that the prices for cotton, fruits and wheat are so low that they have brought the gen- eral index of the purchasing power of farm, products down from 93 last August to 82 this August. This is the lowest index in twenty-six months and shows a gradual renewal of the | tendency toward crisis in those agri- cultural industries that depend, ito any considerable extent, on the ex- ; Port market. This does not show the real extent of the farm crisis because the department of agriculture fig- ures as to the purchasing power of the farmers’ product ar@ calculated as against alf commodities which in- clude the farmers’ own product and not as against industrial commodities only, The actual purchasing power of the farmer in ‘terms of industrial commodities is very much lower and dropping more rapidly, If the same tendency continues for the next year or so, the farmer end of a farmer- labor alliance for the 1928 elections should be quite healthy and the pos: farmer-labor party greatly increased. | Quick Trial For Bandits INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2.—Seventeen days after they robbed the west Indian apolis branch of the union trust com- pany here of $35,000, three of the six bank bandits, today received penalty of the law for their crime. Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER, LOS ANGELES, CAL. jAAAtAAAnAAsAAssatenennnneheheaeRahsasisssasnannannny SATURDAY. ~ implications of #he nature of the social struggle. ~ The workers were not-aware of all that a general strike against capi- talism involved, although: the, will to fight was there, Two Weapons, “The capitalist class had two weapons against the working class The first was the Royal Commission, whose report aimed at splitting the T.U, movement and so isolating. the miners. The second weapon con- sisted of the O.M.S, and the special emergency road transport service, which had been in ‘existence since 1919, which was in existence during the period of the Labour Govern- ment and of the existence of which Ramsay MacDonald was well aware,” Principle Achievements, ‘ The principal achievements of the congress were described as follows: FIRST.—It was a complete reply to the sabotage of the miners’ heroic fight carried’ on by the reformist labour leaders at Bournemouth and Margate. From beginning to end the Congress breathed enthusiastic support of the miners. Instead of the miners’ struggle being carefully banished, as at the T.U.C. and th? Labour Party Conference, it domi- nated the debates. SECOND.—It told the workers the ruth about the General Strike, which the reformist Labour leaders did their best to suppress at Bourne- mouth and Margate, Warn Capitalists THIRD.—Our Congress gave a clear warning to the capitalists that neither frenzied press campaign nor the sabotage of their agents in the labour movement will prevent the workers from learning the full truth about iniperialism, and in -particular about their identity of interests with the glorious uprising of ‘the Chinese people, FOURTH.—Our Congress, in its re- cording of past achievements and its plan of work for the future, flung back into Sir Joynson*Hick’s face the challenge to our Party's existence which he issued @ year ago. Unity of Party. FINALLY.—While ‘thistakes were frankly admitted and@ defects, criti- cised, this Congress; of orkers straight from the class front revealed |: the’ unity. of the Party on funda- mental issues, and by its whole- hearted support of the Central Com- mittee knocked| the bottom, for good and all, out of the legend that our Party had acted “as a brake on the revolution,” Fraternal greetings were received from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International and many brother parties on, the con. tinent, ov 6 A Special Russian Revolution Anniversary Number of 12 Pages On Saturday the regular news section will consist of six full pages. It will be full of not only the livest news of the day, but also with special news of the first workers’ republic. The MAGAZINE. supplement will be enlarged to 12 pages. The issue will be sold at a spe- cial price of M. J. OLGIN writes an unusual story called TWO LETTERS Other articles and features by M. 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