The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 6

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Entered as second-class mai] September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application, ‘Belated But Welcome ‘ The decision of the special conference of the British Trade Union | Congress to impose a voluntary levy of two cents a day on each member affiliated with the congress, in aid of the striking miners, is a welcome tho inadequate and belated move on the part of the reactionary leadership in response to pressure from the masses. Had even this action been taken from the beginning of the struggle the strike would in all probability be over now because the coal owners and their government would be convinced that the en-| tire trade union movement was with the miners in their struggle. Even at this late date the miners will win because they do not know how to surrender. The action of the T. U. ©. conferencé fell far short of the demands of the executive of the Miners’ Federation, which called for an embargo on imported coal as well as a levy. An embargo would tie up British industry as tight as a drum. It ‘would force the government to put the screws on the operators or risk disaster. In striking contrast to the failure of the right wing labor leaders of Britain to support the miners financially or otherwise is the splendid response of the workers of the Soviet Union, who have contributed over $4,000,000 already to feed the starving de- pendents of the heroic miners. | <> 290 < ‘ we Us ; Russian Revolution Endured the Fiery Test The Western Prophets Failed to Calculate on the Bolsheviks in 1917— Why Finland Failed—the Fiery Test of 1917—Critical Moment | Approaches in Europe—The Power and Will Are There, | October Will be There—Comrades,.are You There? Member of the, Secretariat of the Communist International, B ‘ORE the October revolution the | best prophets of the western coun- tries looked across to Russia and de- clared “Anarchy will soon triumph there.” This prophecy was not fulfilled. Or- | der was victorious; the power of or- ganized labor, And how often since then has Soviet Russia belied the best prophets of the western countries by the skill with which it has cut the Gordian knot, whether by the sharply whetted sword of theory or by the sword of Alexander the Great, The western prophets fall into the same error again and again. There is one factor which they invariably for- get: the Bolsheviki. The rest of their calculations have been very correct. It is true that General Ludendorff might have captured Petrograd 1918, that the first of General Kraznov's troops, or the Czecho-Slovakian le- | | gions, might have occupled Moscow—'| \if the Bolsheviki had not organized |the Red Army. And the masseé of the | peasantry might have followed the prophecy of Karl Kautsky, and. trans- formed the proletarian revolution into a’temporary and chaotic peasant in- surrection, a mere episode in bour- in | But the Bolsheviki concluded | |the peace of Brest Litovsk. It is true | By W. 0. KUUSINEN clei, hardened by conspirative party work of every descirption, schooled by jlong fractional struggles; trained in | the school of revolutionary class war |to the natural centralization of a fight- | ing organization, to stricteSi‘party dis- |cipline and readiness for duty; fired jand enlightened by the experience won jin the great mass action of 1905 and | later; and finally victorious, as leader |of the open party strugelés of 1917, jagainst the Menshivikf and>socia} rev- jolutionists, in the struggle for the | majority in the soldiers’ ait workers’ j COURS and for the confidence of the | working people and of the-army. | The Fiery Test. | VHP Bolsheviki havé formed an ef- | * ficient revolutionary workers’ party, jever prepared, competent, and tacti- | cally elastic. Their leaders have been true Marxists, never imagining them- selves to be infallible, and yet never paralyzed by an exaggerated fear of cominitting mistakes, "but rather learn- ing the lesson of past errors. This has been a party able to | emerge with honor from the flery test. The great change of function in the | historical “October Days,” the trans- | formation of a political-party into the \leader of an armed - revolutionary | struggle—this was the ordeal by fire | passed ‘thru by the Bolsheviki. It is The British miners-are not only fighting the battles of the eD- | geois evolution, had the Bolsheviki | true.that they did not find the charige tire British working class but of the workers of the world. Ameri- ean workers should continue their efforts to raise funds. It is to the lasting disgrace of the Amreican trade union movement that only | a little over $50,000 has been raised by the A. F. of L. for the British miners. Those capitalist lackeys at the head of the A. F. of L. are too busy laying the keels of battleships ‘and boosting the capitalist | military machine to bother with the starving wives and children of the British miners. \ All the hysterical anti-red propaganda that may come in the | future from the mental cesspools of capitalist scribblers will not be strong enough to convince the British working class that the trade union movement of Soviet Russia, under Communist leadership, is their foe, while that of the United States under capitalist leadership is the end. | Action has spoken louder than propaganda. Sista In The United States Armed hoodlums, members of the Italian fascist organization in the United States, entered the premises of two anti-fascist papers in New York, shortly after news of the latest attempt on Mussolini’s life reached this country, and destroyed the printing machinery in both plants, after threatening those on the premises with immediate death if they moved to protect their property. Surely, this is a sample of violence that should snit the most | liberal interpreter of what comes within the meaning of whatever | New York law covers such conduct. Yet we have not heard that | New York police authorities have shown half as much activity in ap-| prehending the fascist gangsters as they once did in arresting al seven-year-old youth for having some Communist literature in his | ‘ion. | This outrage committed by the New York fascists should spur | the Anti-Fascist Alliance to renewed activity against the Fascist | menace in the United States, and to give whatever*aid possible to. the victims of the bloody black-shirt reign in Italy. The American | fascists are armed and boast of their intention to use the same_ methods in combatting opposition that Mussolini used in Italy. Yet “the government of city, state and nation so far have looked on fas- cistiactivities with a benevolent eye, an attitude which is in striking contrast to the persecution of even conservative workers who strug- gle against the employers for higher wages. | The struggle against fascism takes second place to none that | we can think of, among the duties that rest upon the shoulders of | the class conscious American workers. In the Anti-Fascisti Alliance of North America the workers have a fighting non-partisan organ- ization that has already given a good account of itself in this fight and is deserving of support. F The Ninth Victory Celebration On November 7 of every year since 1917 the class conscious work- | ers of all lands gather to celebrate the first victory in the history of | labor that established a workers’ and peasants’, government on the ruins of capitdlist rule. No worker in whose being burns the divine fire of rebellion against oppression can fail to be thrilled by the knowledge that the red flag of social revolution flies over one-sixth of the earth’s surface and that, despite the worst that international capitalism could do, | the Soviet Union is today so strong, so powerful, that even the most | optinistic of ghe Union’s enmies are giving way to despair. | In hundreds of halls thruout the United States American work- ers will join their voices to the international chorus in celebration of the ninth anniversary of proletarian victory. But mere clapping of hands and rejoicing is not sufficient. The American workers have | their work cut-out for them. They have yet to get rid of capitalist | government. Therefore it behooves them to take advantage of the poss ers to prepare for the American 7th of November. Tur Datty Workrr is the most effeetive weapon in the arsenal of the American working class in their daily struggles against the employing classes. Tux Darry Worker is in serious financial dif- ficulties. The proceeds of the November 7 celebrations will go to | help Te Darm.y Worxer. No better way of celebrating the birth of | the first workers’ republic in history could be devised than to turn the demonstrations into a great drive to smash the financial fetters that now embarrass Tu» Dairy Worker and to give it the necessary grnarantee that will enable it to continue the work of organizing the workers of this country for final victory. « Sea KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / ‘converted the possibility organized no proletarian class struggle in the country, Bolsheviks Upset Calculations. HE Bolsheviki, with: weapons or tools in their hands, the Bolsheviki with written and spoken word, with diplomatic notes and trade agree: | ments, the Bolsheviki with food taxa- tion and party purging—again and again have arrived on the scene and upset the calculations of the paid prophets of capitalism, from Kautsky to the last Menshevik, from Krasnov | to Petlyura and Pilsudski. This was practically the case in October, 1917. It has been said that the Bolsheviki had an easy victory at that time. This may be so, but the vicfory was not so easy that it could have been won with- out a struggle. Tt 1s true that at that time the ob- jective prerequisites for the proleta- rian revolution were mature and fa- vorable. No doubt it was easy to see that the Kerensky soap bubble was bound to burst speedily, that the bour- gevisie had mere talkers in their con- stitutional assembly, and no real power, and that czarist reaction had no ‘more. powerful forces at its dis- posal than a few bandit chiefs of the type of Kornilov. : The Alternatives. HE victory of the proletarian revo- lution was therefore possible. And yet it might have failed to come about. Without the Bolsheviki it would undoubtedly have failed to come about. Matters might have turned out very differently: anarchy, or the dic- tatorship of the white generals, or fresh attempts at a Coalition with the bourgeois parliament, or the dismem- berment of the country into a multi- tude of conflieting republics and the dissolution of the proletarian class struggle into a chaos of confused sepa- rate struggles in town and country. Any one of these eventualities was histarically as possible aggthe victory of the proletarian revolution, | The Bolsheviki stepped in at the decisive moment and directed the course of history. The moment had not yet arrived when the struggle for power was inevitable. Yet.the Bol- heviki intervened. Their- struggle, vnd their leadership of the struggle, of victory into actuality. Y ps The Finnish Example. [AT this issue was by no means a matter of course may be seen from {the object lesson of events in Fin- land. The Russian October revolution was immediately followed by a revo- futionary situation in Finland. Gen- eral strike. Vague but great expecta- tions among the masses of the work- ing people. Parades and drills of the unarmed Red Guards. Long nights of discussion among the party and trade union leaders, Irresolute vacillation for mdny days and nights, And then the calling off of the general strike, In those days the victory of the workers’ revolution in Finland would have been possible, Mut the struggle was not absolutely unavoidable and was avoided. There were no Bol- sheviki. A few months later and the position in Finland was reversed, Now the struggle was inevitable, but victory no longer possible, What Were Bolsheviki in 19177 ‘HAT were the Bolsheviki in Octo- ber, 19177 ‘ ‘ An organization. Not such an r- wanization, it need scarcely be paid, they are today.» But even at that me they represented a powerful pro- ‘etarian organization, A party organization gathered round central Core of tried and tested revo- utionists, An organization with the xperience of many years of detailed evolutionary work in the factory nu- | of function in October, 1917, to be any | — itself against French efforts at cen- tralization. The greater the progress! made by the alliance of extremessabre- rattlers all over the continent of Europe, the more it calls forth various goalitions among the bourgeois democ- racy, especially among the oppressed |nations. In this way even the rapacity of French capital serves to increase the confusion of capitalist Burope. The devil cannot do otherwise. With the same necessity by which the earth turns on its axis is the fate of the capitalist countries of Europe hastening towards its next dnevitable historical turning point, Some day the moment will arrive. We shall be at the turning point. The old order totters, the old bonds of so- clety loosen. There will be a cry for the overthrow of the old power, an | appeal to the prepared and faithful | leaders of the proletarian revolution ‘ Be Vanquished or Victor. 'T may be that then the struggle will be unavoidable, that history will force the party of the proletariat into it. “Here you must fight, be van- quished or victor!” This position is the easiest to face. Eyen death may be easier to a slave | than to advance to the fight before | an irresistible pressure | urges him into it. | | Tt may be that when the time comes Visits of Comiiissions Real..Experiences By ANNA LOUISE STRONG. IVADIA, Crimea.—When Germans, English, Dutch, French and all But nobody ever, re- ports from the other side—from the folks who saw the delegation. To these algo-these Russian workers perience, bringing them into personal | touch with their fellow workers of the world. Visit: Sanitarium. Our sanitarium—to which the Ger- man working’ Women came, is No, 2 of the Central Social Insurance, lo- cated at Livadia in the grounds of the czar's summer palace in a forther hos- pital for army officers. To it. come |workers ‘frém all over the Soviet Union, but chiefly from the textile mills of Ivanoyof, the coal mines of the Donetz, the metal mines of the Urals, the metal works of Leningrad. in-the dust- of badly equipped mills and mines; chiefly from the industrial centers, therefore, tho now and then a railroad worker arrives from the fay north, where the six months’ night of winter has affected his health. Ours ig the sanitarium for the worst cases; more than half our patients have open, infectious tuberculosis. For we have an X-ray, and a laboratory, an elec- tric cabinet and a surgery; patients who do not need these things are sent to other less equipped sanatoria, LL the patients in the sanitarium knew that the delegation was com- ing. Dinner was half an hour eafly, so as to clear the tables for the thir- Destiny with outstretched finger will | IT IS THE DIRECTION THAT COUNTS super-human task. The situation did | not demand from them the enormous exertions which have doubtless to be faced by our comrades in the west European countries, The preparations for revolutionary war made by. the Bolsheviki in October were by no means so perfect as those of our comrades of western Europe will cer- tainly need to be in order to insure victory. It is possible that the degree of revolutionary fight readiness possessed by the Bolgheviki some years ago will never suffice: in any capitalist country. But at that time in Russia it suf- ficed. The Bolshevikijwere the his- torically adequate in’ ents of the October Revolution. were com- petent to cope with » task. The proof of this is still in ir hands. Europe Is HE same critical possible. menting and maturing. the rate of advance But in actual fact the husk of capitalist The social traitors of the capitalist rulers: is not an absolutely bearer to his new master, any more than to his old one, The mere existence of Soviet.Rus- sia renders the situation more hope less shat ever in capitalist continental Burope. Deprived the foodstuffs and raw materials which they once obtained Som Russia, and of the Rus- sian markets for their goods, the Euro- pean capitalists are hard put to ob- tain their profits. But the revolution- ary labor movement is all the more roused to enthusiasm by the flag of Soviet Russia. ees Conflicts in Capitatist Camp. of ae decentralizing #ationalism in Europe, supported by Brit- {sh imperialism, te | te dofond same: ‘ A say: “Here you can gain the victory. Evertyhing is ready. If only you are ready.” This would be more difficult to face. Are our comrades prepared? Among the masses of the proletariat all over the world there are hearts beating for the revolution, for the so- elal world revoluiton set rolling by the Russian proletariat, The will is there. The power is there. October will be there, But are the Bolsheviki there? Comrades in Germany, in France, in England, in Poland, in Austria, in Italy, and in other countries Com- rades, are you there? Leonid Krassin til, LONDON, Nov. 3.—Leonid Krassin, Soviet envoy to Great Britain, is ser- iously ill at his Chesham house. Blood transfusions may be undertaken to save his life. | - Dinner Pail Epic By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press, You folks may think that I'm no guy to write a word of fond good-bye to dear old lovin, fightin 'Gene, who in our ranks no*more is seen, But I'll appeal to ‘Gene's own love, to say if he’s too far above the poorest trick that I can turn to lay a tribute at his urn, to add one leaf to his oak crown, and setythis song of sorrow down, ‘Gene Debs is gone; a man has passed, whose flery words and deeds will last (long after Woodrow’'s piffle slumps under the fires of hell's worst dumps), whose zeal shall light the way to man to rise to man’s own height again, whose n of a better day shall rise above his mound of clay, ‘Gene gavo his love, heart, mind and soul to help us workers win our goal. Lay down the wreaths and shoulder armal Atar I hear class war's alarms, preters and escorts. But the ducks The IIving standard. of the workers of all Capitalist countries goes downward. In the ‘Soviet Union it goes upward. | Two Bakers’ Unions Combine for Fight on Baking Monopoly (Special to The Dally Worker) . NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—Agreeing to refer amalgamation of the two unions to another confernece and committee, representatives of locals from the International Bakerq and Confection ery, Workers’ Union and from the Amalgamated Food Workers met in a joint conference and chose a joint committee of five from each side to plan an intensive organization drive and campaign against the bread trust. The committee chosen is draft- ing suitable lterature, leaflets, etc., and may-call a mass meeting to in- augurate a real fight on the growing, powerful bread trust begun by Ward baking interests. ‘The independent Amalgamated locals have ® somewhat different con- ception of organization work, tactics, shop control, contracts, jurisdiction, said one of their representatives and would prefer to refer the afmalgama- tion issue raised by the American Federation of Labor union to another conference, This was agreed upon. ° Debt Settlements Settle Nothing. WASHINGTON.—(FP)—War debt settlements have settled nothing final- ly, is the conclision reached by Dr. Hai G, Movlton and Leo Pasyolsky in a néw book, “World War Debt Set- tlements,” Just published by the Insti- tute of Economics in Washington, “With the exception of the Russian debt,” say the authors, “practically all of the internatibnal, obligations be- queathed by the war have been funded and thus fo: settled, but the pri- pea ‘issues which have n involved beginning hav. Peasants, Anna. Strong Tells the other labor delegations visit the | | Soviet Union’ (there has been a con- | tinuous flood of them this summer), | \they go home and report on what | they have seen. and peasants-~it is a much-prized ex- | Workers who have injured their lungs | teen German women and their inter- | from Other Lands Are for Workers ‘and | Were drying and the ice cream melting in the kitchen and-bell had long since rung for the “dead hour” after dinner when all good patients go to bed, Yet still the women did not “come. We knew that they were lingering in. | the Peasants’ Sanitarium, ten minutes’ | walk away, in the famous summer | Palace of the czar, with its gorgeous | Park and gardens. One Eager to See Them, I sat on the driveway among beds of |red and golden flowers looking down | thru vineyards to the Black Sea. One |of the women physicians sat beside |me, her eyes wandering alternately }down the driveway towards the gate |and then back to the balconies of the sleeping rooms... Thru the railings peered multitudinous insuhordinate faces, which should have been in bed. |“They are like children,” said the | doctor, smiling. ‘You wouldn’t think they were grown-up workers. . Yet 1 can't-blame them. This is the first | group of foreign women we have seen | since the revolution.” UDDENLY .a giggle rang out from i the women’s wing of the building, |followed by another and another, It was plain that at least four rooms were full of laughter. Swiftly the doc- |tor went into the sanitarium, return- ing in a moment with a hardly sup- pressed smile: “The representative jot the ‘young patients’ is practicing her speech. She is seared stiff. She has never met a delegation before.” Patients Organized, | You see,*we were all organizing to welcome our guests. For a sanita- |tlum in Russia is not, just a discon- |nected group of individuals, as it is jin America. In America the patients |have nothing to do with the manage- ment. They merely submit; if they |don’t like the treatment or the food | they go away to another place—if they are rich, or grin and bear it if they | are charity But here the work- | ers go to sanitariums thru the Social {Inswance’ of their unions, and the isanitariums belong to them collect- ively. No sooner have they arrived and got acquainted than they organ- ize, true to Soviet tradition, their com: mittees and “sections. Thereafter, If you don't like the food or the doctors, you raise an organized fight about it. And if German women’s delegations visit you they are received, not only by the management, but, above all, by the general assembly of the pa- tients, a he is worth noting, however, that no \* one “dressed up” for the delegation. | There were not even clean kerchiefs |doled out to the women; the white |Shapeless senitarium clothing, some- Padsore mussed by wear, and the black | woolen cloaks remained in their every: . day condition. But the men’s section and the women’s section and the young people’s section each chose ‘their representatives to make speeches—and these workers, who - nine years ago were suppressed, si- jlent, Uliterate even, were thinking lover the words of welcome for their { |distinguished foreign guests. One prepares for labor delegations dn’ the Soviet Union, not with clothes, but with speeches. They Come—At Last. At last arrived the two large auto coaches, and the delegation proceeded {to the chief doctor’s room to wash up \for dinner. The doors of a dozen |rooms opened as they passed and the | patients poured into the corridors, Mn- {ing them with curiosity. Between (cheering’ and clapping files there | passes into the dining-room a thin line jof tired, pleasant, rather dowdy-look- ing German working women, smiling back ‘at their hosts. Then the doors were closéd and the voices of nurses sound in the hall: “Get back to bed, |for heaven’s sake. You can get a whole hour of rest before they Will finish dinner.” b fav} dining room I sit next to the president of the delegation, a kindly German working woman, for _ many years a member of the social democratic party of Germany. The worn, elderly woman beyond her has belonged to a union for 34 years and to the soelal democratic party tor 87 years.. One remembers from this how old the workers’ movement fs in Ger- many, how much it has seen and en- * dured. Yet now these veteran mem- bers are threatened with from their party for daring to on this excursion to Soviet Russia, They form one-third of the delega- tion; another third consists of non- partisans and slightly less than @ third Communists. Peasants Are Magnet. “We couldn't drag ourselves away biel Peasants’ Sanitarium,” says the president of the delegation, explain- ing their lateness. “This was our first chance to talk to peasants from all over the Soviet Union, and they were also anxious to talk to us. They wanted us to see what a gorgeous place the czar used to live in, and asked us what we had done with the palaces of our princes. When we told them that we were giving billions of marks to our princes they couldn’t un derstand it. ‘They laughed and hooted joyously. “But what did i you have revolution for, if you gave. ia ack c 4 As for us, we Ourdelves: 8 ‘house of Nicholas. (To, be continu ——) eae | ° th