The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 3

\ DIPLOMACY OF BRITISH HITS CHINESE SNAG English Follow Shaky Course in China - PEKING, Dec, 26—British diplo- macy in China is pursuing an uncer- tain and shaky path. The reason for this is the split in the British cabinet itself between those tories who desire to patch up difficulties with Canton to allow British business to ‘proceed and those who are holding out for a mili- tant attitude towards the new power represented by the Kuomintang. Tries to Straddle. The British minister in China ap- Pears to be doing his best to stfaddle these two viewpoints. A little more than a week ago the minister, Miles Lampson, was in Canton negotiating with Eugene Chen, Kuominchang for- eign minister. These negotiations were broken off because Britain would not demand de jure recognition to Canton, Now again the Peking diplomatic corps has been told by the British le- gation that changes of a “liberal and far-flung kind” will soon be announced with regard to the British policy. This is thought to involye a recognition of the fact that customs are being col- lected by the new Canton government and a more or less tentative sanction- ing of these collections is. given, United Front Fails. Britain is attempting to get some sort of united front with other powers in her predicament in China, but has so far met with no success. The extra import duties being collected by Can- ton in violation of-the treaties will probably, be winked at by Britain. The situation for the diplomats is compli- cated by the demands of British mer- chants here for a pacification of Can- ton to permit a better flow of business, Minister Criticizes Our Mexican Policy “ff any nation had interferred in our domestic affairs as we have done fm Mexico, we would have declared war long ago,” Dr. King D. James, pastor of St. James Methodist church told a up of clergymen. He pointed out that this country bad in four years spent three times @s much money as France on an army and navy, while denouncing that coun- ‘try for spending on military prepara- tions without paying her debt to us. | UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS AT CLOSE OF GOOD YEAR (Special to The. Dally Worker) MOSCOW—October sees the aver- age of production for the first time above the figures for 1923. Every and industry, ex- jows a gain over * the same period of last year. Collections of grain from peasants, up to Dec, 15, amount to 7,000,000 tons, as against 5,000,000 for the same period of 1925, While retail prices are somewhat higher than In 1925, wages also have advanced. In one city of the Soviet Union it is estimated that 147 rubles represents the average receipts of a worker's family, as against 80 a year ago. Great progress has been made in increasing the production of coal and oll. The Union of Soclalist Soviet Re- publies looks back on a year of great progress and with Increased hope to the future. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! (Continued from page 1) dustry. With this comes an intense mechanization, the introduction of two or three shifts where one is worked now (as machinery must be kept at work), the elimination of the older and more unproductive mines, ete. Face Starvation, “Once these c! es become effec- tive, hardly less than 200,000 of the members of our Federation. will have no more work in and around the mines. When a man has been mining for 20 years, he cannot turn to cleri- eal work or bricklaying or carpentry or other specialized industrial work, So what is there for him? Nothing but hunger and starvation in one of the richest countries in the world. “The fight just ending, the solidar- ity displayed shows how much our workers know their position, Our U. S. Miners Are Warned by British Leader (Continued from page 1) had nothing in common with Trot- sky’s, which try to jump over the peas- ant movement and the agrarian revo- lution. The opposition called atten- tion to several mistakes of individual | mentbers of the central committee, | Two Kins of Mistakes, “However, there are two kinds of mistakes; Some are quickly corrected and forgotten, and others remain be- cause the authors insist on them and consequently from such mistakes there grow factions, factional plat- forms, and struggles against the party. Both Trotsky and Kemeneff made numerous manifest, individual mis- takes, upon which they did not insist, so that the party forgot these mis- takes, For instance, in 1921 Trotsky asserted that the Soviet power had only a few months more to live. The central committee made a laughing Stalin Bucha"r stock of Trotsky, but did not press his mistake. “Again, in 1922 the central commit- tee rejected Trotsky’s proposal to al- low the Soviet trusts to pawn the state property, including their basis capital, to private, capitalism for the purpose. of .receiving. credits, “Another example; Kameneff and Zinovieff insisted on the acceptance of conditions of virtual bondage in the matter of ,the..Urquhart concession. This the central committee rejected. But the party must fight such mis- takes as grow out of a factional plat- form, such as, for example, Trotsky’s mistakes in the period of the Brest- Litovsk peace and the trade unions, Zinovieft’s: and Kametieff’s mistakes prior to the October insurrection and the present mistakes of the opposi- tion bloc.” A Trotsky’s Past. Stalin continued: “To the question of how Trotsky looked upon his Men- shevist past, Trotsky replied with a certain pose: “The very fact that I joined the Bolshevist party proved that I left on the threshold of the party everything separating me hith- erto from Bolshevist.’’ This looks as if Trotsky left behind his old Men- shevist heritage on the party’s thresh- old in order tg ‘keep it in store for new fights against the party. How otherwise can we explain the perma- nent divergencies of Trotsky from the party, divergencies, which started some time after his) joining the party and continued up to the present mo- ment, . “Trotsky,” Stalin maintained, “did not give a clear answer about his atti- tude toward his theory of permanent revolution. Zinovieff's Quotings. © “The typical feature of Zinovieft’s manner of quoting Marxian classics consists in mixing up all periods and all dates and throwing them into one kettle, in tearing separate theses and formulas of Marx and Engels from their live connection with the actual facts and changing them into outworn dogmas, thus violating the funda- mental postulate of Marx and Engels that Marxism is not a dogma but a manual of action, “Does it follow from Marx’ quota- tions,” Stalin asks, “that the victory of socialism in separate countries is working day and a national agree- ment have been the vital issues. We have not won, but we have done everything humanly possible, We are still powerful and still united, in spite of hunger, calumniation and the im- prisoning of hundreds of our stal- warts under the EB, P, A. (Emerge! Powers Act.) f “You in America are facing similar difficulties, when you will find out where your leadership les and what kind ‘of fighting material you have. The working class must use both its political and industrial arms, with the Political strictly under the dominatipn and control of the economic, A labor movement is in the making in Great Britain, with the miners as its center, that Has a much stricter moral code for its leaders and membership than ‘the older one. And» America needs such @ labor movement more than we do in Britain,” % yet Cook Is Tired, Today, atter.a 29 weeks’ struggle, Cook 1s nervous; ‘his face is flushed; his voice is hoar: he is very, very Hig face is stronger than siz years ago when I first met him in @ working class club in the east end of London, The sandy haired Welsh- men {s an unmistakable leader once he begins to talk. And because he ts 80 sure of his. ground, he.stands after the long industrial fight stronger and more popular, with his fighting mem- borahip than ever before ‘ Manuisiki ‘| capitalist THE DADLY WORKER Stalin Sums Up Discus Within Soviet Union Communist Party impossible under any condition of the development of capitalism? No, it does not follow. From Marx it fol- lows only that the victory of socialism in separate countries is impossible only if ‘bourgeois society is still moy- ing upwards in an ascending line.’ “Zinovieft forgets that Marx’ quo- tations refer to the period of pre- monopolistic capitalism, when capi- talism as a whole developed in an as- cending line. The analysis of the economic essence of imperialism as given by Lenin lays it down that in the period of imperialism bourgeois society as a whole ‘is on a descending line. Zinovieff quoted a passage from Lenin’s pamphlet on co-operatives saying that we inthe U. S, S. R. have everything necessary and adequate for the building up of a complete so- clalist society, but he made no ef- fort to put the question in whose favor this quotation was, whether it “08 it appear as if the question is not about Lenin’s theory of the possibility |of building socialism in our country | but about a certain ‘Italian theory’ un- | known to anybody. From Leninism to Trotskylsm. “In Lenin’s works it is said that the victory of socialism in separate coun- tries under the conditiéns of imperial- ism is possible and the victory of the ) proletarian dictatorship in solving the problems of such a dictatorship in the U. S. S. R. is certain. The party at- |firms that the theses of Trotsky and the opposition bloc about the im- possibility of building socialism in the |limits of our state is fundamentally | contradictory to the above theses. } “In our-party there are already de- | cisions upon the question of building | socialism in our country, decisions | adopted by the 14th party conference, | Kameneff,and Zinoviev are afraid to Thaeilmann C. Zetkin Roy Some of the Speakers at Important Gathering of the Plenum of the Executive of the Communist International Katayama Kuusinen was quoted in favor of the opposition bloc or in favor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “The fundamentat mistake of the opposition,” Stalin pointed out, “in the question of the possibility of vic- tory of socialism in separate countries in the period of imperialism, consists in that the opposition does not un- derstand the differénce between the pre-imperialist and imperialist cap- italism, confusing the different stages of capitalism. “The opposition mechanically ex- tends the} formulas and these arrived at on a basis of pre-imperialist cap- italism to.imperialist capitalism. The opposition confuses the question of the irregular development in the period of imperialism with the dif- ference in level of development of countries and therefore reaches the utterly wrong conclusion that formerly the irregularity of development was greated than in the period of imperialism. Imperialism’s Development Irregular. “The basic elements of the law of irregular development under imperial- ism consists in the fact that the world is already divided up and.that no free, unoccupied territories exist any longer and that to obtain new markets and sources of raw material such territory must be seized from others by force. The unprecedented development of technique has created the possibility of less powerful but rapidly develop- ing countries displacing more power- ful ones. “The former division of spheres of influence between various imperial- ist groups conflicts every time with a correlation of forces on the world market, Thence comes the strengthen- ing and sharpening of the irregularity of development in the period of im- perialism, the impossibility of solving the conflicts within the imperialist camps in a peaceful way, the incon- sistency of the Kautskian theory of ultra-imperialism that preaches the possibility of the peaceful solution of these conflicts. “In denying the fact of the strength- ening and the sharpening of the ir- regularity of development in the period of imperialism, the opposition slips down toward the position of ultra-imperialism, “He who denies the possibility of the victory of socialism must pass in silence over the importance of the law of irregular development under im- perialism and slur the difference be- tween the pre-imperialist and imperial- ist capitalism. From a practical view- point we have two lines before us: one is the line of our party, calling upon the proletarians of the various countries to prepare for the coming revolution and to be ready, if the con- ditions are favorable for a break in the front of capitalism, to seize power and to shake the basis of world cap- italism; the other line is the line of the opposition, sowing doubt as to the expediency of an independent breach | in the capitalist front, calling on the proletariat of the various countries to await the moment of ‘the general solu- tion.’ ° “The first line is the line of activiza- tion of the proletariat; the second line ig the line of weakening the prole- tariat’s will to revolution, the line of passive expectation, “The victory of socialism in various countries Lenin understands as the seizure of power by the proletariat, the expropriation of capital, the or- ganization of socialist production, all these tasks being not aims in them- selves but means to rise against the rest of the capitalist world and to as- sist the proletariat of all countries in its struggle against capitalism. “Trotsky declared that Stalin's big- gest mistake was the theory of the possibilityjofvhuilding socialism in one even touch slightly upon this resolu- tion because while in 1925 at the 14th conference ‘they were for this resolu- tion, afterwards they repudiated it and passed from Leninism to Trotskyism. Already "Conquered Politically, “In his speech,” Stalin continued, “Trotsky ‘affirms that when Stalin spoke of defeating the bourgeoisie of the U. S. 8S. R. he meant conquering it politically. This, of course, is in- correct. quering th® bourgeoisie of the U. 8. S. R, he meant conquering economi- cally, because politically the ‘bour- geoiusie is Conquered already. ‘ “To create the economic basis for socialism inthe U. S, 8. R. means to unite rural economy with the social- ist industry into one united whole, to put the rumal economy under the lead- ership of socialist industry and to ad- just the relations between town and country. This is my definition and it is exactly the definition of the econ- omic esselice of the basis of socialism that Lenin gave in his well-known |pamphlet on the food tax. Trotsky | has not even approached this question. |As for our being able to build and as |to the fact;that we are building the economic basis.of socialism, this is evident from the fact that our social- ized production is big united produc- tion whereas unnationalized produc- tion is small disconnected production. Sogialized production is already direct- ing and beginning to dominate small production. “Speaking of the dependence of our national economy on world capitalism Trotsky ufged that from our isolated condition under war Communism we are getting ever nearer towards merg- ing with world economy. This is un- true. This is Trotsky’s factional exag- geration. Nobody denies the existence of a dependence of our national econ- omy upon the world capitalist econ- omy. But this {nterdependence is mu- tual. Not only does our economy de- pend upon the capitalist countries, but the capitalist countries depend upon our economy, upon our oil and grain d timber, upon our vast market, Socialist Economy Has Big Advantage, “However, Trotsky transforms such interdependence into a merging of our economy into a capitalist world economy; he contends that our econ- omy is accessory to world capitalism. If that were true we would already be on the way,towards a degeneration of our socialist industry into ordinary capitalist industry. If that were true we would have no prospect of success in the strpggle of the socialist ele- ments of ov economy against the cap- ftalist elements. Trotsky’s assertion about fifty‘@r a hundred years being necessary for the building of a sgcial- ist economig system and for the de- monstratioh of its superiority over capitalism from the point of view of the development of the productive forces is incorrect. Does not the fact SOVIET INSTITUTE HAS SOLVED GREAT PROBLEM OF PREGIPITATING RAIN (Special te The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD — The making of rain artificially, which has intrigued scientists and amateurs for genera- tions, is Solved, according to claims of the Leningrad Meliorative Insti- tute. Experiments have been carried on in Trans-Caucasia, and the ex- pedition reports such a brilliant suc- cess that a factory. Is being started for the manufactyre of rain-making machinery: Further tests are being carried out'in the Mugan Steppe and Central Asia. The seqnets of the process and the character of the machinery are country, our country, Thus he made | ( é 4 being carefully guarded at (scm Page Thr eames nearness vm aca m te sion of Situation that socialist economy is the most united economy, that the socialist economy is carried on according to Plan, warrant us in believing that the socialist economy will be able to de- monstrate its superiority in a com- paratively short term over the capital- ist system which is torn by internal contradictions and by crises, “In his objections on the question of the construction of socialism in our country, Trotsky has retreated from the former basis of his polemics to a new basis. “Whereas, formerly Trotsky consid- ered that in our country the contradic- peasantry were the stumbling block, today he retreats to another basis of criticizing the party line, asserting that. the stumbling block consists in omic system and the system of world capitalism, : “The opposition is prone to doubt that we are building socialism in_alli- ance with the world proletariat. Only & madman can deny the greatest im- portance in the alliance of proletariat of our country with the proletariat of other countries in the cause of so- cialist construction or accuse our par- ty with underestimating the union of the proletariat of all countries. “The trouble with the opposition is that the opposition recognizes only one form of the alliance, namely, When Stalin spoke of con-, ‘direct state support’ of the U.S. S. R. on the part of the workers of the western world—unfortunately a form which at the present moment cannot find application, The opposition makes the fate of socialist construction of the U. S. S. R. dependent upon that sup- port in the future. “Kameneff wished to know whether the U. S. S. R. proletariat is interna- tionalist. Ask the British and Turkish workers, Ask the Turkish and Chinese workers and they will tell you about the internationalism ofthe U. S. S.R. proletariat. The negation of the pos- sibility of building socialism results in the outlook about the degeneration of the party while this outlook in its turn leads to the surrender of power, to the question of the creation of a new party. From the viewpoint of the opposition only two issues are left: Hits Social-Democratic Drift, “To surrender power lest it degen- erate and to create a new party parallel with the official party is what the opposition practically strove for and what essentially it is still striving for. “The platform of the opposition bloc is a social-democratic drift, it is a ral- lying of all opportunist tendencies for the organization of a struggle against the party, against the party unity and against the party authority, “From the viewpoint of the party unity the opposition bloc is the em- bryo of a new party within our party. Is it not a fact that the opposition had its own central committee, its own parallel local committees. Its state- ment of Oct. 16 assured the party that it abandoned factional strife. What guarantee have we that the opposition has not already reconstituted its cen- tral and local parallel oppositional or- ganizations? “Is it not a fact that the opposition has collected special membership fees for its own funds? What guarantee have we that the opposition has not again stepped on that factional way? The dictatorship of the proletariat cannof last one minute with imperial- ism supreme in other countries and only one country breaks the front of capital unless there exists complete unity in our party armed with an fron discipline. “The attempts to undermine party unity and to create a new party must be suppressed if we wish to maintain the dictatorship of the proletariat and build socialism. We have two forces before us. One side: our party con- fidently leading forward the proletariat of the U. S. S, R. towards the build- ing up of socialism and calling upon the proletariat of all countries to the struggle. On the other sidé: the op- position dragging behind our party like a weak old man suffering from rheumatism, his legs aching, spread- ing pessimism, poisoning the at- mosphere with, the idle talk that no good will result from ovr socialism in the U. S, 8S. R., that-everything is bad on the proletarian side and every- thing is alright on the bourgeois side. “In its factional blindness the op- position considers our revolution as something lacking any inner ‘force, something like a free supplement to future revolutions in the west. Lenin did not look upon our revolution and upon the Soviet power in this way. Lenin considered the Soviet Republics as a torch Nghting the way for the workers of all countries, “The task consists in supporting that torch, confirming and consolidat- Ing Its existence in the name of the world revolution. We have no doubt that you will take all measures that such torches be lighted in all parts of the world for the joy of the proletariat of all countries.” The applause was long and loud. The delegates arose and sang the In- ternational and gave three cheers. Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom we can send a@ sample copy of The DAILY WORKDK, tions between the proletariat and the | the contradictions between our econ-| ALIEN PROPERTY BILL AIDS BIG Rushed Thru House At High Speed WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Amid charges that the administration plan for the return of alien property taken during the war with Germany is pri- marily designed to aid insurance com- panies whose claims are given prefer- ence, the house sent to the senate the bill proposed by the administration. “Confiscation.” In addition to charges that insur- ance companies will benefit to the ex- tent of many millions of dollars, and | that other interests, such as the Stand- lard Oil company, the International Harvester company, the Singer Sew- jing Machine company, will be the | was charged as the Dill shoved: thru at a pace that astounded most members that its provisions legalize confiscation on a wholesale scale. The principal. provision ob- jected to was the one withholding 20 per cent of the money due German and Austrian citizens as security for the payment of money due Americans from the German and Austrian gov- ernments, “This disgraceful act of ours will come home to plague us for gene tions,” Representative Fish of York declared. We are the gr investors in all the world, hav was being | atest $10, in foreign nations*and a billion more going into private securities in foreign bonds every year. It is confiscation.” Many Object. Objections to the bill because of the ‘preference it gives insurance compa- nies and corporations were made by a number of members, including Rep- resentative Wefald, of Minnesota, and | Representative La Guardia, of New | York, Real Estate Shark Arrested. BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Dec. 26.—Jo- seph Devore of Chicago was returned here today on a warrant alleging ille- gal real estate operating in Central | American oi] land. 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Food and clothing a still needed by these workers. Workers urged to send surpl clothing and money donations to t) rclief conference at the office of tl Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 3 Third street, where headquarters ha‘ been established. Checks and mon ould be made payable to ? secretary-treasurre, ‘Tw shipments of clothing have ¢ ready been sént from Milwaukee, bi more is needed. Demonstration of U. S. Navy on Atlantic Will Be Held Despite Arm: WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Th army has been forced to cease pla: ning to take part in the militar maneuvers off the Atlantic com next spring, it is announced, becaus of lack of funds, but the navy plan will proceed. is A program of maneuvers extendin from March 1 to May 15 is bein planned, both as a propaganda stun 1 to demonstrate the nation’ ability:to defend itself against “for eign invagion.” ORDER YOUR RED CALENDARS NOW! 15 Siri oc me nage more, « Gents for chs sssueesaaeseanbedenoenteepandl ers BEALE sasssssneeneerinn