The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 2

rrr er EE OOS Stalin Upholds Views of Central Committee of the Soviet Union Communist Party Against the Opposition Bloc Summary of Speeches by Stalin, By JOHN (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 9.—The special conference of the Communist Party of the Sov- iet Union has been concluded with the Central Committee of the party unanimously endorsed | by the delegates in its position against the views of the opposition bloc led by Trotsky, Zino- | viev and Kamenev. Following are digests of the speeches made by Stalin, for the central committee, and Trots- ky, Kamenev and Zinoviev for the opposition bloc: Stalin’s Speech Reporting on the question of the opposition and the situation within the party, Stalin laid bare the history of the formation of the opposition bloe. The underlying ideas of that bloe were brought forth for the first time by Zinoviev at the 14th Party Congress and carried into effect in the July Plenum. The first attempts at preparatory un- derground work were blocked, whereupon the op- position started its activities at the end of Sep- tember and the beginning of October in the factory groups in Leningrad and Moscow. Having suffered a decisive defeat, the opposition then on the 16th of October presented.the Central Committee with the well-known statement admit- ting errors. The Central Committee agreed to ac- cept this statement altho it did not believe in the sincerity of the signers. The refusal of the opposi- ion to recognize the incorrectness of their views od the Central Committee. to call upon the q y to continue the ideological struggle against opposition. Lack of Principle. Stalin pointed out the utter lack of principles of the opposition bloc, whose participants, Zinoviev and Kamenev,+ only very recently looked upon Trotskyism as a variety of menshevism, while i y, on the other hand, looked upon his present allies as opportunist. Stalin emphasized that such lack of principles must inevitably lead to the de composition and the final break-up of the opposi- ti bloc The statement of Medvedey and Shliapnikov, wherein they recognize their mistakes, is evidence of further differences within the bloc and adds another factor for its eventual decomposition. The opposition is now merely awaiting a favor- able moment to again act against the party. The miain question of difference between the party and the opposition bloc is the question of the possibility of a victory of socialism in the U. 8. 8. R. Stalin quoted Lenin’s works proving that there existed for a long time a divergence of concepts between Lenin- ism and Trotskyism. Leninism vs. Trotskyism. Unlike Trotskyism, Leninism believes in the possibility of the victory of socialism in one coun- try. It is convineed that the proletariat in Russia having seized power, cannot only hold it, but can use it to organize socialist economy. On the ques- tion of the possibility of the victory of socialism in the U. 8. 8. R., Trotskyism is approaching the views of social-democracy. For this reason, Trotsky’s and the opposition blocs’ views are char- acterized in the theses of the Central Committee as a drift toward social democratic views. Leniniam also rejects the theory of Trotskyism which maintains that there exists an inevitability of conflict between the workers and the peasantry. Leninism, on the contrary, admits the possibility of socialist construction in alliance with the peas- antry, and under direction of the working class. Stalin emphasizes the possibility of a victory of socialist construction in the U. S. 8. R., but pointed to the dangers of military interference of the cap- italist countries with a view to liquidate by force the internal socialist progress of the country. Weakens Determination. Trotskyism weakens the revolutionary deter- mination of the proletariat. Wjthout confidence in the possibility of the construetion of socialism, the workers cannot consciously take part in this construction. Any slowing up of revolutionary con- struction in the U. 8. 8. R. by the loss of revolu- tionary confidence of the workers will also retard the development of international revolution, ¥ The opposition also denies the partial stabiliza- tion of capitalism, and puts forth the slogan that the Communists in the western countries must ig- hore or even quit the trade unions, They demand the dissolution of the Anglo-Russian committee. They also demand the industrialization of the U. 8. 8. R. within six months. From this originates the adventnrous policy of the opposition bloc. Forest Fires Rage in Southern California SAN DIEGO, Nov. 9,-— Fourteen brush and forest fires are raging un- controlled in widely separated sec- tions of Ban Diego county today and six other fires are reported in Lower California near the international bor- der, Burning so flercely that cities along the coast are dark with a pall of smoke and ashes, the fires have defied efforts of country and federal fire war- dens and more than 600 men to bring them under control, ISHPEMING, kee, whose body Bandits Get $6,700. Right after he had drawn $6,700 in @ash from 4 Chicago bank, Joseph Bantozi was robbed today by three “bandits who leaped from an automo- bile with drawn revolvers, knocked \ Bim down and escaped. k low the surface. 4 RECOVER TWO MORE OF 51 BODIES OF MINERS AT ISHPEMING; 10 IN ALL Mich., Bodies of Thomas Kirby, Jr, and Jack J. Manna, recovered from the debris-clogged shaft of the Barnes- Hecker iron mine where 51 lives were lost in a monster cave-in, were awaiting burial today. The men were bi yesterday on a ladder 460 feet be- All were follow: Ing Ruthford Wills, sole survivor when they were kill les have been recovered, The beat way—eudsoribe today. DAILY WORKBR, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinovieo PEPPER Wage Ideological Struggle. Stalin drew a clear picture of the difference be- tween the socialist method of industrialization of the U. 8. 8. R., which is pursued by the party, and the methods proposed by the opposition, which are not socialist, but capitalist methods, because they procectl on the basis of opposition of indus- trial toward rural economy. The thesis of the Central Committee on the op- position’ do not aim at the exclusion of-the lead- ers of the opposition from the party as Trotsky declared in the last plenum of the Central Com- mittee and the Central Control Committee, but rather aim at an ideological struggle which is ab- solutely necessary in the interests of full party unity, 8 | Trotsky’s Speech Trotsky declared that the opposition considers the tempo of industrialization as insufficient. He maintained that a different tax policy from the one pursued by the party toward the peasantry is necessary, which is undergoing rapid differentia- tion. He insisted that the raising of wages must precede the raising of the productivity of labor. On the question of the stabilization of capital, the opposition disagrees with what it alleges to be an/ tnderestimation by the party, and therefore de- nands the dissolution of the Anglo-Russian com- nittee, not desiring to solidarize itself with Purcell | vecause stabilization hinges upon the Purcells and | not on the Raldwins and Thomases. Defended Old Theory. | Trotsky defended his old theory of the impos- sibility of vietory of socialism in one country and declared that he has neither a theoretical nor a political reason to believe that it would be easier I1LY WOR COLD WAVE HITS CENTRAL STATES, CHICAGG FREEZES Coal Barons Announce Price Increases Chicago's Indian. summer weather gave way to the grip of icy winter | Tuesday, when the central states were visited by snowstorms and biting gales. With the temperature taking & sudden drop, from 50 degrees above to freezing, Ohicago was in the midst of a howling snow storm. Prediction of a temperature of about 25 degrees above zero by nightfall is made by the weather bureau. Indiana ts Hit Hard, Indiana is directly in the path of the storm that is swooping down on the district from the Medivine Hat region in the far frozen northwest. The coldest weather in 47 years for this time of the year is predicted for thg state. Temperature around Indiana- polis was falling rapidly this morn- ing. Snow began falling about noon. St. Louls and Omaha were also in the wintry path. It was St. Louis’ first taste of winter, when the thermo- meter crashed down to 35 degrees. Raise Coal Prices. Reports ate already coming in that the coal barons are taking advantage of the cold snap and are preparing to announce am increase in the price of coal. It is reported that an in- crease of 50 cents a ton in the stand- ard district will be made. All Mlinois coal will go higher, it is predicted. The coal barons are taking advantage of two situations to gouge the public —the increased market caused by the British strike, and the cold wave. eee One Dead tn Omaha. OMAHA, Nov. 9.—One dead and several slightly injured is the toll here today from the season’s fifst touch of winter. Mrs. Leslie Arlington, 48, was killed when ghe slipped on the ice and fell off a porch at her home. “e ® WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—A disturb- ance of wide extent over central In- diana is movitg northeastward with increasing intefsity and will be at- tended by strong southeast and south winds, probably reaching gale force and shifting to west and northwest tonight or Wednesday morning, the weather bureau announced today. for the Russian proletariat together with the Rus- sian peasantry, to build up socialism, than it is for the rest\ of the European prdietariat to take power. ‘i Considering these fundamental points of differ- ence, Trotsky maintains that one cannot come to the conclusion of a drift towards social-democratic ideas. Trotsky declared that the adoption of the resolution maintaining that a drift towards social- democratic ideas is contained in the opposition program, will undo the work of the declaration of the opposition made on the 16th of October. The oppsition does not renounce its views, bit at the same time does not intend to aggravate the differences so that a recurrence of the factional strife may become possible. | : Kamenev’s Speech Kameney agreed with the possibility of victory of socialism in the U. 8S. 8. R. but declared that besides thru military intervention this victory can also be prevented or wrecked by an insufficiently rapid progress in industrialization and’ by the backwardness of the economic development of the U. 8. 8. R. as against capitalist states. The funda- Seiberling Fights Reorganization of Goodyear Rubber Co. AKRON, Nov. 9—Frank A. Setber- ling, once president jof the Goodyear Rubber Company, which he developed from a $12,000 to a $100,000,000 con- eérn, is now fighting for the contro) of the concern. In 1921, the Goodyear Rubber com- pany was reorganized, 10,000 share» of stock in the hands of Dillon, Read Co., Wadl Street bankers, controling the company. It is alleged by Seiber- ling that the reorganization was {lle gal and that it must’ be invalidated. There are said to be two plans oi settling the litigation: (1) for the court to declare the reorganization {l legal, or (2) for Seiberling to accept the reorganization plan recently pro- posed, whereby $64,000,000 worth of 5% percent securities would be is- sued to take the place of the 8 per cent sectrities issued in the reor- ganization. Combined with this lat- ter proposal is the termination of the voting trusts controlling the common mental difference between the party and the op- position consists in the different estimation of the correlation of classés within the country. The op- position points out the rapid growth of private capitalistic accumulation in the towns and villages and demands the extraction of these sims thru a whole series of measures which would help to speed up the industrialization. Zinoviev stated that the declaration of the op- position on the 16th of October was called forth by the wishes and sentiments of the rank and file proletarian members of the party who demanded above all security of the party’s unity: Socialism in the U. 8. 8. R. can be built only with the help of the international proletariat and in alli- ance with the majority of the mass of soviet peas. antry. 1 Southern Pacific R. R. Shows Huge Profit, in September, $7,000,000 (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Profits for September of $7,785,063 were reported by the Southern Pacific Railroad in its repopt here. Tho railroad in Sep- tember made more profits than in any othe® previous month since federal control, It is an increase of $605,674 over September, 1925, Total profits made by the road for the first nine months of this year were $38,699,299, which is more than $7, Nov. 9—— ind Joe Man- was found late |. Ten bod- for last year, It is predicted that earnings on Southern Pacific ros this year & share in 1926.) 000,000 increase over the same period |, and preferred stock and the manage- ment stock, and return of control to common stockholders. This will be a big fight and will be fought out to the end. Government Refusés Insurance to Common Law Wife of Veteran Mrs. Corinne Hanna today iost her fight to recover $8,000 war risk in- surance from the government for the death of Major Mark Hanna overseas. A jury before Judge Cliffe in Chica- go federal court returned a verdict in favor of Major Hanna's father, Thomas M, Hanna of Ruthven, Ia, The verdict contained two findings of fact. 1, That Mrs, Hallie Schroeder of San Antonio, Tex., is Major Hanna's lawful widow and that Mrs, Corinne Hanna was therefore never legally hiv wife, 2. That the government's charges Unking the name of Mrs. Hanna with that of “Joe” Wagner, a reputed notor- ‘ious Kansas City gangster, are un- founded. Mrs, Hanna, who claimed to be the widow of the late officer, collected $2,000 of an $10,000 policy before the governméNnt stepped in and asserted she had no right to the’ money be- cause o fher personal right. Mr. Hanna is to receive $1,552 back insurance and $67.50 a month, Because Mrs. Schroeder later ob- tained a divorce, she is not entitled to the insurance money, which, the court found, should go to the elder Hanna as the next kin, Fare. ited approximate thé Chicago, Aurora Ral Fares will be ly 15 per cent on Tra would be $12.10 @ share, againgt $10.18 | & Migin clectrio ling effective Friday, it Was announced today, “4 iW KER | LECTION figures from Minne- sota, as well as other sections of the country, show that there was a heavy falling off of the total vote cast in working class districts, The Percentage of votes fast in non- labor territory, on ‘the other hand, held up well or showed aetual in- creases, ' The straddling labor officialdom, that plays in both the old parties, comes to the front attacking the workers for this lack of interest. They never point the finger of blame at’ themselves, as they should. In Ohio, the American Federation of La- bor called for the election of Pome- rene to the United States senate. The railroad brotherhoods demand- ed that Willis be elected. In the resultant confusion it was only natural that workers should become disgusted and remain at home. In Illinois the condition was some- what similar. Hordes of labor of- ficials flocked to the dollar stand- ards of Frank L. Smith and stuck close even after the disclosure of wholesale subsidies from the Insull public utility interests. But George Brennan, the democrat, also boasted “labor” support, and was likewise “able to display a host of “names” of “labor” officials endorsing his sen- ate candidacy, * * It was John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, who declared at the Detroit conven- tion of the A. F. of L. that, “We are going to continue to follow thé non- partisan policy of the American Fed- eration of Labor. We are going to give it a tryout.” That means that Walker is going to continué dividing, dissipating and discouraging the labor yote accord- ing to the bitter Ohio and Mlinois- experiences thru which thé workers in these two typical states have just passed, And Walker is mérely an example of the whole breed of “‘non- partisan” labor politicians to be found crawling about the republican and democratic political tents. eee It is this breed also that periodi- cally works itself into an hysteri- cal frenzy denouncing the Commun- ists as destroyers of the organized labor movement, Such are Walker, Olander, Fitzpatrick and Nockels, yes, and Farrington, in Illinois, some of these having actively participated in the local, state and national lead- ership of the farmer-labor move- ment, The elections thra which the nation has just passed, however, re- veal the labor officialdom, clinging to the political organizations of the master class, as the real destroyers of the unity of the labor, and the actual opponents of its development, They cry “wolf!” to drive the blame from their own doors, This situation presents itself in another form even in those states where we have the farmer-labor party. Thus the Minnesota Union Advocate, in its issue of Nov. 4, giving some of the results of the recent election in that state, de- clares: “There aré more than 108,000 voters regist In St. Paul, Less than half this many voted Tuesday. About 5,000 less votes were cast than in the city election, “An analysis of the vote shows that th® : in the so-called labor wards, while in the non-labor wards there was an increase.” This is regrettable condition, It must be remedied. But how? This can onl? be done by developing the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, and all other labor party movements in- to unified, aggressive, fighting class organizations of the workers, This can only be accomplished by accept- ing the Workers (Communist) Party , as an active, integral part of the movement, and recognizing that the Communi vital factor in -building the s power of labor. a Those officials who denounce the rank and file the severest for their so-called lack of interest, the same officals who have been #0 loud in the past, in Minnesota, in denouncing the Communists both as obstructionists and destruc- tionists, Yet this same anti-Com- munist element is the same crowd Anti-Communists Are Real Destroyers of the | Fighting Spirit of Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. would-be destroyers of the Farmer- Labor movement,’ Take a look at Van Lear, Townley, Gilbert) Quigley and others of their ilk. They have have completely deserted the farm- er-labor cause and sold out, body and soul; to.the enemy. When they were attacking the Communists. they were doing loyal service to the capitalist oppressors of the city and land workers. The same holds for the whole strata of the petty trade union officialdom in Minnesota, that jumped to obey the orders of the late Sam Gompers to drive the Com- munists out of the trade unions in that state. eee It was inevitable in Minnesota, as elsewhere, that the war waged against the Communists should have @ paralyzing influence upon the Farmer-Labor Party as well as the trade union movement. When. the so-called “leaders” spend more time fighting the Communists, the milit- ant vanguard of the labor move- ment, than they do in organizing and developing the struggle againgt the exploiters’ interests, then it is inevitable that the aggressive spirit ‘of the rank and file workers should be seriously dulled, This is exactly what has happened. The workers and farmers must be won for a spirited forward march against their class foes. This will not be brought about thru a con- tinued attack on the Communists and a winking at the continued sur- Tender of those launching these at- tacks, to the ranks of the capitalist parties, Hendrik Shipsted, the farmer- labor senator, exposed himself as an enemy of labor's cause when he did not enter actively into the recent farmer‘labor campaign on behalf of the whole farmer-labor ticket, In- stead he sulked. Reports say he addressed but one campaign meet- ing. He became a burden and an ob- stacle to the movement when he re- fused to make it knoWn clearly and decisively that he would continue to fight as a farmer-laborite in 1928, when his: present term expires, in- stead of desert to the republican camp, as is rumored. Even now Shipsted does not deny that he will. give his support to the republican hossés in congress during the two remaining years of his senate term. ‘Thus Shipsted acts in the fole of destructionists like Van Leat, Town- ley, Gilbert, Quigley and the others who have gone before him. eee The greatest safeguard insuring the growth of the Minnesota Farm, erLabor Party, and of the labor party movement generally, is the admission of Communists to full rights in the Farmer-Labor Party, and the affiliation of the Workers (Communist) Party as an integral part of the Farmer-Labor Party. It is the duty of the rank and file of labor in Minnesota to secure this action as part of the struggle to build the national labor party move- ment thruout the land, uniting all la- bor for an aggressive fight against capitalism and its lapdogs, the re- publican and democratic parties. Judge English Quits; Won’t Offer Defense (Continued from page 1) as being a blow at the foundations of government. Formed Graft Ring. Other charges against English were that he conducted a bankruptcy receivership ring in this court, and receivership ring in his court, and that he manipulated the deposit of funds held by his court in order to se- cure employment in a bank for his son. The last previous impeachment ot & federal judge was that of Judgo Archibald in Bastern Pennsylvania, in 1922. He was convicted of having accepted bribes from coal companies that had litigation in” his court. Shortly before that, a federal judge at Seattle was forced to resign to es- cape impeachment in connection with the Alaska coal land scandals of the Taft administration. Why don’t you write it up? 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