The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1926, Page 6

a Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 0 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, lil. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER ~* Entered as second-class mai] September 21, 19 “ cago, Ill, under the act of N 1113 W. _— —— editors Business Manager at the post-office at Chi- h 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, No Time to Lose Phere to lose in the fight for the liv and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. This becomes very apparent as the judicial that have stretched over the last six and one-half years is no time proceedin now pear to be moving more rapidly. The usual “court’s delay has given way to new energy in pushing these two workers, in nt of the charges against them, into the electric chair and to h Phree plans of fighting the master class in its determination to commit this murder of workers have been approved as follows: First:—The sending of a mass delegation of trade unionists to visit Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, and demand his interven- tion against the perpetratjon of this frame-up. The holding of a National Sacco-Vanzetti Congress in York City some time in January. i Third: _Urging the demand for a congressional investigation of the activities of the department of justice in the Sacco-Vanzetti Second : New ASC. : All of these proposals are good. Workers everywhere should agitate in support of them. The necessity for haste, however, is shown especially in the; efforts to carry ‘out the demand for the congressional investiga-j tion. The Detroit convention of the @American Federation of Labor voted in favor of this proposal. That was as far as the convention would go in the fight for the prisoners. It must be made to go the limit, however, on this proposition. Congress meets next week for its short term, It will adjourn early for the holidays. It will reassemble in January and then rush thru its work in order to adjourn March 4, when its term ex- pires. There are only a few weeks, or > would seem days, during -which to get results. The American working class does not yet realize the importance and the significance of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Labor does not feel the threat to its interests jnvolved in this.frame-up. An ably presented statement of the case forced upon congress will help warn all labor of the danger. Even the kept press will be compelled to lift its embargo of silence. The congressional investigation is therefore important. It should be realized, the quicker the better. The time to get to work energetically on this phase of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is today. Imperialist Assassins in China British imperialism has taken Chinese students and turned them over to their own privately subsidized hangmen to be\murdered. This news should prove very interesting to United States Senator William E. Borah, who has counselled caution by the profit powers vin their dealings with the Chinese situation. Here is another development proving, contrary to Borah’s fond hopes, that the imperialist bandits have no intention of quitting | China, allowing the peoples of this great nation to work out their! own destiny, as they have shown themselves fully capable of doing, even in the face of every obstruction offered by the invaders. The vietories of the Cantonese only drive the imperialists to greater and bloodier excesses. Young students, members of the Kuomintang, are arrested in the British concession at Tientsin by British police. On instructions of the British embassy at Pekin, that acts on orders from London, these students are turned over to the Chinese militarists, who could not continue their counter-revolutionary activities for a day, were it not | for the money and arms furnished them, and the military assistance given them by the imperialist powers. These cold-blooded and deliberate murders must arouse the whole Chinese nation to even greater efforts to drive their enemies into th sea. It must reveal to the workers of Europe and Ameri nature of the capitalist class that oppresses labor at home, while it seeks to wield the whip of slavery over nations it would subject to its will. The death cries of the Cantonese students murdered by the imperialist assassins calls for the unity of all workers, thruout the world. Tested and Found Wanting fourteen hundred coal miners on strike in the anthracite field indicate that the conditions’ promised by President John-L. Lewis under the new agreement with the hard coal barons are not satis- factory to the workers. The test of a wage agreement, in its applica- tion to working conditions, comes in the day-to-day relations between thé workers and the bosses, The anthracite agreement has thus been tested and found wanting. Tau Darty Worker predicted this when Lewis imposed the agreement on the miners in the tri-district con- ference at Scranton, Its predictions made nearly one year ago have heen verified. now Every reader should not only carelessly glance over but care- fully study the cabled reports of the discussions at the very im- portant meeting of the enlarged executive committee of the Com- munist International now being held at Moscow. This is the most significant news event in the world today, The discussions at Moscow help explain the developments in Mexico, China and other centers of struggle against world imperialism. It is necessary that all work- ers understand them. . Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, former husband of the oil millionairess, Millicent Rogers, desires to become a citizen of the United States. The count, not having worked in the past, should have a bright future in front of him, since he eannot be aceused of wishing to overthrow 4 system’ that enables him to live without working, Out- side of working the matrimonial pitch. The Mexican Republie will be able to develop considerable engthin its own defense thru its ability to divide the profit. “oil Rimi jee States and Great Foe. PI Io 0 Phone Monroe 4712 | s of Nicola Sacco} >| broadening its a the real), EDITOR'S NOTH: — This is the second of the series of articles on the November meeting of the cen- tral committee, announced in The DAILY WORKER last Saturday. . N the first article on the discussions and resolution of the November meeting of the central committee the question whether there were opportun- ties for the development of the revo- utionary movement of the workers ind building the Workers (Commun- ist) Party in the period of great im- perialist development of American capitalism and capitalist prosperity, | was answered in tha affirmative by an analysis of the situation of the Amer- The conerete proof that S correct is.to be found in the achievements of the party in influence among the | workers during the past year, | The collapse of the. labor party | movement, thru its absorption and be- trayal by the LaFollette progressive movement, resulted in the temporary solation of the Workers (Communist) » which was the leader of the movement for independent pol- al action, The problem which the party faced was .the formulation of hose policies and tactics which would again enable the party to establish contact with the masses of workers ind draw them into common struggles with the Communists. The resolution of the central committee establishes the fact that the party has important achievements to its credit in achiey- ing this end. The resolution declares: “In spite of the period of capital- ist prosperity the Party is breaking its isolation and has succeeded in broadenin, influence and increas- ing its prestige among the masses of workers, Its position today in the organized labor movement and amofg the working masses general- ly, Is far in advance of what it was ** a year ago.” ett The Party Leadership in the Work- ers’ Struggles. In surveying the work of the party during the last year thru which it has Made. these advances, its leadership in the struggles of the workers for a higher standard of wages and im- proved working conditions must be siven first place. The oustanding fact of the labor movement during the last year is, that with one exception, every important, militant mass struggle of the workers during this period has been under Communist leadership. HE Passaic strike is the most strik- ing example of these struggles. Its importance consists not in the fact of a ten-month struggle Of these work- ers against all the forées which the capitalists could bring to bear against them. The Passaic strike is the first great uprising of unorganized, highly exploited workers in‘ the great ma- chine industry of this country in many yeays. Since the great industrial struggles of 1912, Lawrence, Patter- son, McKees Rock, and similar spon- taneous strikes of unorganized work- ers lead by the I. Wy \W., there has been no movement of importance among these workers: Passaic is the first new sign of life and readiness to enter into the struggle against the capitalists among these workers, and therefore its importance to the labor movement of this country. It is no secret that our party initia- ted the movement among the Passaic workers, The skeleton organization was formed under the leadership of the party. Our party furnished the organizational forces, the program for the struggle and was the dynamic force which supported and lead strike in all its phases, The Passaic strike has not remained a struggle of the 16,000 workers of Passaic alone. Thru the relief cam- paign developed thru the support of the party, broad masses of workers were brought to the support of the Passaic strikers, The strikers have fought the strike on the picket lines, (Continued from page 1.) in Saturday's DAILY WORKER—EA.), stressed the necessity for struggle against capitalist “rationalization” of industry because it consolidates the stabilization of capitalism and results in the bitterest exploitation of the workers, (Rationalization may be briefly explained by comparing it to the methods of Ford in this country. In Germany especially, the “Fordiza- tion” of large industry on a national seale is a big question before the workers—Ed.) During Friday evening's session, un- der the chairmanship of Thaelmann of Germany, Remelle (France), on ‘be- half of the credentials committee, re- ported that there were present 191 members of the enlarged executive of the Comintern, of which 100 had de- lcisive votes, the other 91 being con- sultative. These delegates represent about fifty different countries, Chinese Party on Right Path. Tan Pin Hsiang (China) pointed out that the national revolution in China indicates the unfirmness of capitalist stabilization. The growing conflict- ing interests of England and America show the wrongness of the idea that the Anglo-American bloc insures a jlong period of stabilization. | The Chinese Communist Party, said |Tan Tin Hsiang, worked under the |most difficult conditions. The anti-im- | perialist struggle of the revolutionary peasants caused the party to make cer- tain mistakes in this respect, but it is |now on the right path and is promoting the peasants’ movement, whose pros- pects in China are enormous. At the | same time, the Communist Party is | participating in the revolutionary na- | tional united front against the impe- rialists, The parties of the Communist In- ternational, he said, must help the Chinese Communist Party, handing to it their experience in the revolution- lary struggles of the peasants of other countries. Riese, representative of the Wedding opposition gropp in Germany, speak- ing of the internal situation of the German Communist Party, attempted tor defend the position of the ultra- lefts and prove what he called the un- satisfactory progress and drift to the right of the party. The speaker was |often interrupted with ironical re- marks from the German delegates, Ovation Greets Thalmann, Ernest Thaelmann (candidate of the party against Hindenburg in the last elections), speaking at Friday's ses- sion, had been greeted with loud ap- plause. He briefly reviewed the most important events in international politics since the last plenum, the Polish coup of Pilsudski, the British coal mine and general strike and the development of the revolution in China, He said the British strike proved the huge fighting forces latent in thé’ western proletariat, He declared that the growth of the Soviet Union wits the most important revolutionary factor, as the process of socialist con- jstruction going on in the U. 8. 8. Ry ig the strongest argument against cap- italist stabilization -and the social democrats’ who support this stabiliza- tion, | Turning to the sion in the Com- Ye \ munist Party of Germany, Thaelmann declared that the victory over the ultra-lefts in the party was the big- gest achievement of the past year be- cause the ultra-left seeks to destroy the party which is the sole force cap- able of preventing the utilization of Germany by the western European powers against the Soviet Union, Strong Leadership, in Germany. The German Communist Party, he said, actually has a strong leadership | whose policy corresponds to the views of the Comintern. an capitalism has grown stronger ‘since 1923 and has actually again embarked on an imperidlist policy. Under such conditions, the work of the Communist parties in the trade unions is the most important because | there they can best fight the stabiliza- tion of capitalism, the social-demo- eracy and the trade union bureaucracy. Must Win the Masses. The Communist Party must win the masses, Thaelmann said, thru careful every-day work within the trade unions at the same time Keeping in sight the final aim. The speaker then reviewed the weak points of the Ger- man party, pointing out that the party pursued the right line in the struggle against the consequences of capitalist ‘jrationalization, achieved big successes in the elections in the metal and other big trade unions and performed excel- lent work on the questions of unem- ployment, the compensation of the German princes, and the tollers’ con- gress. The party is actively working in the mass organizations of the workers, in the unions and paying strict attetition to the movements of the “Red Front Soldiers, ” women and relief. The Party of the Revolution. Concluding amid a stormy ovation, Thaelmann adhered ,to Bukharin’s words with which he opened the plenum: “We remain, the-party of the revolutionary, proletarian dictator- ship.” In this sense,-Thaelmann con- cluded, we are the party of the united proletarian front in the ‘mass work, every-day struggle against the bour- geoiste. Jacquemotte, of Belgium, partic- ipating in the debate on Bukharin’s report, dwelt on the question of cap- italist rationalization which is a desperate attempt to-adapt industry to post-war conditions of capitalism and to check the processes of disin- tegration at work on the system. Com- munists, he said, stand for rationaliza-|Slavia) used as an example tion in the interests of the working class not In the interests of the bour- but behind them have stood the half million workers who were mobilized in their support thru the relief cam- paign. Thru this broadening of the struggle Passaic has become a symbol of militant struggle thruout the labor movement of the whole country, The strike has not remained only an industrial struggle, but thru’ the party initiative it has been developed as a political issue, which has been raised even in congress, HE Furriers’ strike, under Com- munist leadership, is atiother ex- ample of the achievements of the party. The Furriers’ strike was won in the face of the efforts at sabotage and betrayal in which the American Pederation of Labor participated. It stands out as the first strike Jnvolving thousatids of workers. which has been won in recent years, The I. L. G. W. U, strike in New York City, which has just resulted in a partial settlement and partial victory for the workers be- longs to the same category. What other struggle of a major character, involving thousands of workers has been fought during the last year except these strikes under Communist leadership which have given new hope and courage to the workers because of the militant char- acter of the struggle? There has been only one such strug: gle, the anthracite strike, resulting in a debacle for the workers. The pafty played its part in the anthracite strike, but here it was not yet strong enough to wrest the leadership from the reactionary Lewis machine and secure thé adoption of its program for throwing the whole strength of the anthracite miners against the coal barons, Through its part in the struggles the prestige of the party among the workers has increased. There is a growing sentiment, springing out of the record of the party in these strug- gles, that the only living, virile force in the labor movement today, which dares challenge the great power of the The Achievements of the Party.- American capitalists, is the Workers (Communist) Party, ‘The Fight for Protection of the / Foreign Born. shy was our party which first took up the fight against the exceptioh laws thru which it is proposed to register, photograph, fingerprint and regulate the movements from place to Place of. the foreign born workers. Since these laws. were first proposed in 1923 the party has repeatedly tak- ing the initiative to mobilize the labor movement against them. It is the fact that a mass movement was organized against these laws which has thus far prevented their enactment into law, with the dire consequences resulting therefrom in. crippling the efforts of the foreign born workers for organiza- tion in unions and participation in struggles of labor against the capital- ists, The movement for the protection of the foreign born developed in a broad- er’ form during the last year than previously. The national conference held in Washington in May showed that workers’. organizations with a membership of four hundred thousand had been drawn into this struggle fighting with out party against these laws. The Campaign for a Labor Party HE party thru out the slogan of “A Jnited Labor Ticket in the 1926 Elections” early in the electiop cam- paign this year, making the election campaign part of the struggle to again bring to the fore independent political action by the workers thru the forma- tion of a labor party. While the move- ment for a labor party has not taken on the volume of 1923-24, the party has definite achievements to its credit in this field. j In Pennsylvania and Ohio local la- bor parties were formed in a number of places. In Massachusetts the party participated. in the labor party con- ference thru which a committee of trade unionists, representatives of the socialist party and the Workers (Com- Great Britain and United States trade of the United States is with the South American countries. Capitalist exploitation to the south of the U. S. is increasing and the dissatisfaction of the toilers constitutes a favorable ground for.a national revolutionary movement against foreign imperialism. Stern, of Czecho-Slovakia, pointed out that the problem of capitalist stabilization must be considered in a practical light with regard to each separate country. A substantial part jof rationalization, he declared, con- sisted in the capitalist onslaught upon the working class. Polish Party Influence Grows. Prukhniak, of Poland, dwelt on the political situation in that coantry stating that the short-lived period when the Pilsudski government was actually somewhat successful is near- ing its end and that the influence of the Polish Communist Party, growing rapidly, must be consolidated, The representative of the young Turkish Communist Party, reviewing the economic and political situation in the countries of Asia Minor, pointed out that stock must be taken of the experience of the Turkish nationalist movement by the other countries to the east, especially China. Given a great ovation, Clara Zetkin, veteran of the German revolutionary movement, also spoke on the ques- tion of capitalist stabilization, stress- ing its temporary, unstable nature: capitalism is suffering a fatal disease, modern bourgeois civilization is rotten to the core—only the proletarian revo- lution can save world culture, Debating the internal situation of the German party, Weischey (Ger- many), refuted Riese’s (of the Wed- ding opposition referred to above) as- sertion about the weakness of the par- ty and declared that its influence was growing because of the correct leader- ship of the present central committee. Stabilization Reveals Contradictions. Chilbum, of Sweden, remarked that in the Scandinavian, countries, the so- cial-democracy was the most reaction- ary and dangerous enemy, having a strong influence on thelabor masses. Stabilization, partly successful, is be- ginning to show class contradictions. The Scandinavian bourgeoisie is pre- paring for struggle. The Communist parties must ‘counteract this by more intense work among the masses. Pointing out that capitalist stabiliza- tion in the Balkans varied with dif- ferent countries, Nikolayevitch (Yugo- the growth of the influence of the im- perialist powers in Bulgaria, which is geoisie, namely, the nationalization of |Coming more and more under their industry, workers’ control of produc- tion and higher wages, Bittell, of Germany, spoke of the crisis due to the disproportion between industrial production and the possibili- ties of finding markets, wherefor the bitter struggle now proceeding. The Communist parties must fight the so- cial-democrats who support the full stabilization of capitalism and must find practical measures of struggle, especially within the trade unions, Latin-America Heard From, Codavilla, of Latin-America, called the plenum's attentign to the great importance of South, America as a market. Forty per cont of the capital Invested belongs to control, Yugo-Slavia is becoming slowly industrialized, The Balkan par- tles must take stock of these peculiari- ties of the separate Balkan countries and must carry on their work on this basis. Capitalist stabilization was also dis- cussed by Brandt of Poland who point- ed out the importance of the technical dmprovements being made in big in- dustry, especially in Germany and France, , Youth Movement Has. Grown, Schueller, of the Communist Youth international, stressing the necessity to give a clear definition to the slogans against rationalizdtion declared that nited States. |the Communists are not against ra- Twenty-six per cei the foreign Honalisation as a 4 ‘ By C. E. Ruthenberg General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. munist) Party was set up to carry for- ward the work of forming a labor party in that state. In Minnesota the party influence in the farmer-labor party is‘again increasing, bedause it came to front as the exponent and de- fender of independent political action by the workers and farmers against the efforts of the petty bourgeoisie leader within the fatmer-labor party to betray the farmer-labor party thru a movement back to the democratic |party, #7 Persistent Work Will Bring Results. HESE achievements of the party are not spectacular. The influence fand leadership of a Communist Party is not build thru spectacular methods, ‘but by steady, persistent work in the: labor movement. The gains the party has made show that‘its policies and tactics are those which are gradually broadening its influence and winning the support of new groups of workers. They show that hard: work in support of a correct Communist program will bring results for the party even in a labor movement, which in ‘a period of imperialist development and under its influence is generally moving to the right, ‘They show, that while the Official labor movement is developing in the direction of class collaboration, there is at the same time a left de- velopment among those workers who are not sharing in the privileges of the aristocracy of labor, The party achievements in broaden- ing its influence can be made greater by mobilizing more of the strength of the party in support of its campaigns. The central committee resolution cor- rectly declares: “The party must mobilize for full- er use of its strength in applying the policies and tactics thru which it has. made these gains, and in taking up of its immediate program to build the party and extend its in- fluence among the masses. Such a mobilization wili bring even greater gains than are to be recorded for the past year, t | Fight for Supremacy improvement of industrial organiza- italism are not surpassing the pre-war tion, but against capitalist rationaliza-/levels of production was stressed by tion whose consequence, especially on | Lominadze (Communist Youth, Interna- the young workers, is nefarious. He tional) in touching on the question of stated that the Communist youth in- | stabilization. ternational has’ grown both politically | J. T. Murphy of the British Com- and. orgenisationally, |munist Party, analyzing the internal Herta Sturm (International Women’s | situation in England portrayed the Segretariat of the Comintern) pointed |rapid pace in the differentiation of to the considerable progress being | capital and labor into two opposing made in the work of organization and |camps as illustrated by the decom- munist parties among’ the women! |masses, In England, for example, the party mobilized women for active strike help, while in Germany the Union of Red Women, and Red Young | Women increased in membership from | a few hundred to 20,000 during one} year, More Attention Needed. The main defects in the leaderships | of the various parties of the Comin-| tern is that they fail to realize the great importance of and pay too in- the growth of influence of the Com- | position of the liberal party aé a oe litical factor, Podvoisky (Workers’ Sport Interna- tional), speaking on the question of the international workers’ sport move- ment, stated that more attention must be paid to the development of pro- letarian sports organizations and ree- ‘ommend that the plenum select a spe- cial commission to look into this prob- lem. Greet Army Representative. The speech of the representative of the Red Army School “Uystel” and the Ss adequate attention to the women’s |training battalion of the Central Exe- movement, said Comrade Sturm. The cutive Committee of the Russian So- removal of this defect would make the cialist Federated Soviet Republic, was prospects for organization among the greeted by the plenum amidst tre- women on a large scale, decidedly favorable, she concluded. Hilt (Norway) speaking of the Nor- wegian party, said that some com- rades at one time inclined towards | “right” tendencies in questions per- taining to a united front with the so- cial-democrats.. Such drifts to the right haye actually been outlived by the party, he declared, and the party has since been fairly successful in its work in the trade unions. ‘That the productive forces of cap- | mendous applause. Replying on be- ‘half of the plenum, Thaelmann greeted the representative of the workers’ army. Witof (Germany) spoke sharply against the opposition declarations of Reise and declared it was the policy of the ultra-lefts which estranged the social-democratic and non-partisam workers. A united front and success- ful tactics are possible only if an ‘energetic struggle is carried om against all deviations, he concluded. Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY TELLS YOUTH HOW TO WORK IN WALL STREET AND STILL ESCAPE LAKE OF BRIMSTONE NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The tong | tions which assajl and the opportuni- ties that confront the 30,000 boys tn their ‘teens who. work in this city’s financial district are told by Edward D, Gray, executive secretary of the Wall Street boys’ branch of the Y, M. Cc, A.—that organization with the plaster-of-Paris smile which aims to mold American youth into the trian- gular composite of St, Anthony, Apollo, and Andrew Carnegie, all dead ones, by the way. F ‘This small arty of youth, accord- ing to Gray, make up the force of messengers, clerks, office boys, eleva- tor operators, porters, pages, news- boys, collectors, etc. That the secretary is not insensible to the temptations which surround these boys is shown by his reference to “the urge to win success by not- able achievement,” their contact with “end vaults stuffed full of ‘filthy their observation of “others ‘e fast accumulating vast for- their “hearing of mon spoken of in large denominations, their listening to talk of “a million dollars as commonly as tho such amounts grew on tr And then, as tho to appease the men who donate sul latge sums to the work of making Atherican yonth Into the Anthony-Apollo-Carnegie triangle, ‘the secretary jously explains thar these 30,000 young fellows do not get technical any too deflate ts idea of “the economic ; eee 4 truths that underlie financial transac- tions and the business of the Wal) Street district. They do not appre- ciate the great part in industrial ad- vancement and the welfare of human society banks and {nvestarent: houses accomplish.” The epitome of the secretary's state- ment is that when these boys dream of easy ways to loot their employers, ‘when they imagine the big business men as eating expeosive meals in lux- urious clubs, when they have an urge to play the market themselves, they are skirting close to the gates of hell; but, if they realize the sanctity of Wall Street's position in this scheme of things, they will take advantage of the Y's program, “which will help them in their fight for an all-round developgd young manhood.” Here's a slogan for Wall Street's army of 30,000 young employes: “Our bosses fight for well-rounded purses; we fight for a well-rounded young manhood.” Start the ticker. Let us pray ana prey! SYDNSY — (PP)-~—The Australian federal government has placed a cen- sorship on all working class Htera- ture coming in from overseas. Even literature printed in Britain is bethe seived. Anything in the nature of Communist. literature or information