The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1927, Page 3

{ RUSSIAN PARTY ASSAILS SPEECH OF 6, ZINOVIEV Talks Unity for Fac- ticnal Purposes MOSCOW, May 15—Gfegory Zin- non-party meeting in celebration of | Press Day and Fifteenth Anniversary | of the founding of “Pravda,” is now! in the hands of the Central Control Commission of the Party. The Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Communist Party severely denounced the disruptive speech of Zinoviev for | its attacks on the Central Committee as well as upon the editors of Pravda. The Central Committee considers Zinoviev’s speech as unprecedented in Bolshevist ranks and as absolutely inadmissable and disgraceful. The speech was in direct violation of all the Party decisions and of the agreement of the opposition, includ- ing Zinoviev, to cease all factional activity. Denounced By Membership. Leading committees and function- arfes of the Communist Party in both Moscow and Leningrad empha- size in adopting resolutions against latest factional outburst of Zinoviev that his speech is clearly of a dis- rupting anti-Party nature and that it was intended to sap confidence in Party Central Committee and Pravda editors. . Fake Unity Proposals. Zinoviev tried to conceal his .dis- ruptive speech under a fraudulent plea for unity. Instead of trying honestly to achieve unity im ranks of Party, instead of submitting to the Party decisions and fulfilling his promises to cease factional activity. he talks &bout unity, but in such a manner as practically to destroy such unity. His speech was a new sten toward develoning | struggle against Party in absolutely inad- missable form. | Furthermore, the fact that this} speech was glelivered before non-Party meeting is an attempt to mobize non- Party masses against Party, for the purpose of obtaining outside the Party support that the opposition bloc could not obtain within the Party. The Moscow and Leningrad resolu- tions declare his speech is a signal for split from Party and demand that he be called to strict account for his ac- tions, considering especially the fact that Zinoviev is not an ordinary member of the Party, but a member of its Central @ommittee. The Moscow garrison claims also that Central Committee and Central Control Commission should put an end to disorganizing tactics of the unprincipled and bankrupt leaders’ opposition. | Seelecte dee dechabae eect te Put Some THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M MAY 16, 1927 Page Three — Results of the Conference of the Trade Union Committees and Blackleg Tory | Consumers Cooperative Organizations on Price Reduction in USSR Bill to Shackle (Bulletin of the Centrosoyuz). { MOSCOW.—Our work during’ the | trading last -three-four years since the ter-|along parallel lines and through al mination of the civil war has restor-| maximum reduction of state retail} elimination of cooperative and state organizations which work ed our agriculture and industry to| trade in those places in which the co- state industry and the cooperatives are now confronted with the problem of reducing prices and thereby on the one hand increasing the buying capa- city of the toilers, and on the other, avoiding the opening up again of the “scissors” representing the difference in the price index between agricul- tural and industrial products. An agreement has been arrived at between the government, the state in- dustry and the cooperatives, which | resulted in the decision of the Council of Labor and Defense (a supreme gov- ernment organ of the U. S, S. R.) of July 2, 1926. This decision calls for a 10% reduction of retail prices from the indexes that prevailed on May 1, 1926, in certain industrial products, by the 1st of August of the same year. The price reduction campaign should not as yet be considered as ended. On the contrary, to the ex- tent that the task of reducing retail prices still remains, as before, one of the most-important tasks of the eeon- omic poliey of the Soviet government, we must draw the balance of the re- sults obtained from the price reduc- tion campaign, explain it, discover the factors which retarded the reduc- tion of prices, draw up a prospective plan for further reduction and point out the best methods of actually bringing about reduced priges. Task of the Conference. | All the enumerated tasks were) brought up before the conference of representatives from the internal trade committees and the consumers cooperatives convened by the trade commissariat and the centrosoyuz. | A number of factors which retard- | ed the process of reducing retail prices was revealed at this confer- ence, Some of the factors are such as the vise in. the wholesale prices of cer- tain manufactured goods and increas- ed expenditures on items which are oeyend the control of the trading or- ganizations (increased freight tariffs, higher rates of vent). It was also found at the conference that “one of the cavses preventing the reduction of retail prices in many towns is the system of surcharges put into prac- tice by the trade commissariat.” This system is not flexible. enough and often does not permit the ‘local’ trad- ing committees to fix a lower level of surcharges commensurate with the possibilitics of the market and’ the nature of the work of the local trad- ing organizations. The conference de- voted a good deal of attention to the circumstances that our trading ap- paraius is still imperfect and massive, it takes very long before commodities reach the consumer and that the overhead expenses cause the prices Power In That Kick! Pe J Don't waste your energy in idle protest. When reaction attacks The DAILY WORKER and you want to fight — strike your blows where they will be most ef- fective. Kick in With a Sub. _Every subscription is a iking answer to the emies of Labor—every sub is more strength to the blows that are dealt every day by The DAILY WORKER. Don't only kiek...,.. Kick in! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside of In New York wile, eee Per Yr. $8.00 Siz Mo. 3.50 SIX Mo. 4.50 3 Mo... 200 3 Mo... 2.50 The DAILY WORKER 83 First Street New York Enclosed $.....- mos, sub to: for... $FEEFEEEEEEEE 8 We to be very high. It was also pointed out that the working methods of the state trading apparatus and the co- operatives have not been sufficiently rationalized, and that this causes high overhead expenses, making the reduction of prices within a short period impossible. It was also pointed out that the too simple commerical methods . of ap- proach on the part of many coopera- tives and state trading organizations has also played not the least role in, bringing about the meagre results ob- | tained from the last price reduction campaign. The aspiration to replace the shortage of owned capital by an accelerated rate of accumulation, led to the absolutely impermissible utili- zation of the favorable market con- ditions for the extortion of extraor- dinary high profits. What The Conference Decided. In pointing out all factors which prevented the reduction of prices, and estimating them at their true valye, the conference acted on the prospects of further price reductions. The conference recorded that the divergeney between industrial and agricultural prices on the one hand and between wholesale and_ retail prices on the other, menaces the fur- ther preservation of healthy relations | between the town and the couptry- side. From here it follows that the reduction of retail prices still re- mains one of the principal. problems of our national economy, to the cor- reet ayd quick solution of which tne’) efforts apd energy of the trading and regulating organizations must be di- rected, Insofnr as a reduction of wholesale prices of manufactured goods is about to take place in the near future (such reductions are already being effected in some branches at the present time) it behoves the trading organizations to bring the full benefit of these re-| from the reductions which these or-| ganizations must make on their part, In dealing with the questions con- cerning the sources of further reduc- tion of retail prices, the conference directed its attention, in the first place, to the necessity of reducing the overhead expenses and the rate of profit of the trading apparatus. The conference pointed out that the fur- ther simplification and cheapening of jodity network ductions to the consumer quite apart phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. |the pre-war level. However, although | operatives have the financial and or- ‘our industry has been restored, the | ganizat | prices of manufactured goods still 'to the requirements of the consumers, | oviev’s speech of May: 9, before aj exceed by far the pre-war level, Our) preserving thereby the credits and) nal possibilities of attending commodity supply to the cooperatives organizations which were formerly supplied to the state trading organ- izations in the dis 5 By eliminating parallel organiza- tions in the trading system we will undoubtedly ‘be able to further reduce retail pr’ , as this would load the cooperative apparatus to its full capacity, and, consequently, would re- duce their overhead expenses. The conference also recognized the necessity of taking steps towards the reduction of the expenditures which are not under the control of the coop- erative organizations. These are; better accountancy in transactions with the industrial organizations, rent rate regulation through legisla- tion. The reduction of retail prices must be carried out in each individual ease in accordance with the special conditions of the various districts. Attention must be paid to the local conditions and particularly to the ex- isting level of retail prices. Those districts and organizations which have already considerably reduced the retail prices, should reduce less than those which have as yet done very little in his respect. In order that .the retail price re- duction campaign should be carried on systematically, the conference “re- cognizes the necessity of strengthen- ing the regulation and control with- |in the cooperatives and-raising the responsibility of the higher coopera- tive centres for the work done by the lower organizations. Personal responsibility must be laid upon the heads of the trading organizations for the timely and full realization of the decisions concérning the reduc- tion of prices.” This decision recognizes that prin- ciple of unity of the cooperative sys- tem which makes the entire sytsem responsible for the work of each of its parts and places upon it the task of instituting regulation and. control within the system. The above does not cover all that the conference decided concerning the retail price réduction campaign. The conference recognized that this eam- paign can bring the desired results only on condition that the population, the sovia! organizations and the press will take part in it. “Insofar as the reduction of prices can be accom- plished only with the active partici- pation of the people and the social organizations, we must secure the participation of the trade unions, the auditing and shop commissions and the press in the campaign.” Such, in brief, are the results of the conference . * IN THE CENTROSOYUZ Results of, the Centrosoyuz conference on the grain purchasing campaign. The figures on the progress of the | campaign during the first half of the economie year give us reason to be- by the state for the purchase of 725 million poods will be fully realized as by January Ist, 1927, 450 million poods, i. e, 62% of the entire plan, had already been purchased. The further activities of the con- | sumers’ cooperative system must be |carried on along the lines of the re- | duction of the overhead expenses and prices, The method of the ge agreements, which has already ju fied itself, methad of contact between the Cen- trosoyuz and its! periphery. | Simultaneously with the establish- ment of the right of the consumers’ cooperatives, and the recognition of these rights by the state institutions, to partly participate im the purchas- ing of grain, the question arises of securing mills and grain elevators. The consumers’ cooperators are of the opinion that they must extend their own system of mills and produc- , 84% of its grain in its in 1925-26 it ground 72%, 68%; the respective’ fig- in 1926-27, ures on the grinding in other mills ¢ were 15%, 27%, 35%, i. e., the more it purchases the les# can it have ground in its own mills. From here the necessity arises of extending its own flour production, as only by doing so would it be possible to re- duce the cost and improve the qual- lity of the flour and to consolidate thereby the position of the consum- ers’ cooperatives on the home mar- ket. The question of elevators and store houses is also not less important. The question of elevators is: becoming specially important in connection with the development of exports. The consumers’ cooperative system has | certain obligations to the state in the sphere of exports. The conference therefore considered it necessary to | settle also the question of extending the utilization of the existing ele- {vators and the construction of new | ones. | In thé report of financing the | grain purchases it was observed that \the extent of financing this year is not sufficient. | On October Ist, 1925 the bank capi- |tal amounted to 1r. 21 kopecks per }pood in the purchases of grain; on | October 1926, it amounted to Ir. 6 1925, it amounted to Ir. 13 kopecks, and on December Ist, 1926, 92 ko- pecks. On January Ist, 1926, Ir. 11 kopecks, and January Ist,’19@7, 95 kopecks. The financing of the grain purchases has thus been reduced 16- 17 kopecks per pood. And only be- ‘cause the consumers’ cooperative fi- |nances have become strengthened and | ' | stabilized could they invest their own ‘capital in grain and carry on the cam- paign successfully. However, in the second half of this year, the financ- ing of the consumers’ cooperatives must be improved and the qhestion of loans and cheaper credit settled to facilitate the grain purchasing ac- | tivities, (To Be Continued). “White House Worried Over Oil. “Britich Haceiati Are WASHINGTON, (FP).—President Coolidge is worried because the new Seminole vil field in Oklahoma has added 14 per cent to the supply ‘of oil on the American market, thereby forcing a sharp cut in prices. Of i i | veal itself in a weakened and impotent | Arming Against the yi eae Next General Strike LONDON, (By Mail) —The fascists | course he is opposed to federal inter-|@re arming for the next general ference with prices, but he is ve much concerned over conservation, the White House says. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its fcremost leader’ and the American working class staunchest fighter, This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built,|in various parts of the country, Not|#nd deeper struggle and demand the Fill out the application below andjonly small arms, but machine-guns | ¢al Become a member of the|and artillery have been obtained from to enforce more militant methods.” mail it. Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Address Occupation Union Affiliation............ Mail this application to the Work-' ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to! Workers Party, 1113 W, Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill, Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- Every Party Nucleus must collect 50 cents from every member and will} receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distrjbute. Nuclei in the New York District ry | Strike! | i direct action. They believe that there | organization to the government. This Ruthen- | / senseless Thére can be no doubt that the various factions who déScribe them- selves as “fascisti” have recently re- ceived large supplies of arms and) cieved large supplies of arms and} money from certain groups in Britain. | My imformant, writes our special | correspondent, is a socialist who has | regarded British fascism as a menace | rom its inception. He is now in a position to secure valuable informa- itg| tion regarding the facist movement. | will hope that as the campaign is) Huge quantities of arms and am- munition, he says, haye been secreted certain mysterious sources. f Seeret Gang. Standing above the open fascist or- | ganizations is a secret “grand coun-| cil,” composed of highly-placed army, | navy, and air force “officers, and a) group of wealthy civilians, { Thq existence of this council is known only to a trusted few, and only half a dozen persons know the naines | of its members, The council believes that labor will meet ,the Anti-Trade Union Bil] with must, sooner or ijater, be a real gen- eral strike, and see in this an oppor- tunity for proving the value of fascist The open fascist organizations are composed of irresponsible middle-class youths who are taught to regard the slogan, “god, king, and country,” as a political program. these youths are training, and will capacity to thi receiving milita’ |prove a formidable fighting force. | Whether British labor likes it or will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—108 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New Yo ER publishing Co, 33, East First Street, New York City, or to thei SACCO and VANZETTI National Office, Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington Blvd, Chieago, ML rk | found, that fascism will have to be District write to The DAILY WORK. | fought. ‘ not, it will find, as Italy, Germany, Belgium, and other countries have lieve that the general plan drawn up, considered as the best | tion of flour. The Centrosoyuz ground, | | kopecks per pood, On December Ist, } But although they apparently lack | Ky, Unions Says Cook LONDON, (By Mail).—‘The attack jon the trade unions begins in the house, |of commons on Monday, when the em- | ployers’ government will move the! |second reading of their Trade Union ' bill,” said A: J, WORKER. “The government and the employ- ers have been preparing their forces for this struggle for many months, They are d@termined to break the in- dustrial power of the workers, and | nothing has happened, so far, in the labor movement to show the govern- | ment that a real fight is going to be | waged against them. | “At the special conference of Trade | Union Executives,” continued Cook, “a free hand, instead of definite in- structions, was given to the Labor| Party. At this conference, called to discuss ways and means, to fight the government and its bill, the only straight and definite policy put for- ward was that outlined by our cour- a“geous comrade, Alex Gossip, who, on behalf,of the Furnishing Trades submitted the need for definitely in- | structing the Labor Party to obstruct | all business in parliament until the | bill was withdrawn, and for the Gen- eral Council to make all preparations for a General Strike, if necessary. This was swept aside. | “No wonder Gossip smiled when Bevin spoke on the need for organiz- | ing a united front to resist the gov-| ernment. There were miners at the | conference who had heard similar | brave speechs last year, and who had; seen the same talkers run away when | it became necessary to act in a cour-| ageous fashion. | Baldwin Doesn't Fear Talk. “The Baldwin government—which | was described by some at the confer- | ence of E. C.’s as the most brutal and | cynical one in modern times—cannot | be overcome by speeches. “Tt will pay attention to nothing less than carefully-planned organ- ized action. Anything less will en- | courage the employers and the government to go even further than their present plans indicate. “Some of the delegates, partieu- larly those representing the Civil Ser- vants and Postmen, knew how serious was the menace facing the workers. | But the majority are depending upon } the labor parliamentarians, and the} government does and will not fear op- | position from the labor members in| partiament. The party intend to fight by means of amendments. The Trade | Union bill cannot be amended, it must ‘be rejected. The government by its | mechanical majority will beat down | the Labor Party opposition, and here | we see why it is necessary that a strong line must be taken on the in- dustrial field. “During the conference of Execu- jtives I had an’ uneasy feeling that many delegates pinned too much faith on what could be done after the bill was passed. To Smash Unions. “Let there be no mistake about it; | when the bill becomes law the govern- ment will enforce its legal right -to | | smash up the trade unions. | | “In a very short time this will re- | Cook to The DAILY “The Labor Party is only as strong as the trade unions; when they are destroyed the foundation of the parliamentary organization disappears. Thus, the blow aimed at the unions is also one that will prevent the rise of a Labor govern- ment, “Faced With Opposition. “There is no eseape, th from the fact that if we int fight—we must fight now, “J, and my left wing eolleagues, will go every inch of the way in help- ing the General Council to carry out its campaign against the bill. We ore, id to carried to the masses in the districts they will realize the need for a wider ling of a rank and file conference Class War Going Strong in India Says Revolutionary Leader LONDON, (By Mail),—“When ra went to India I was accused of intro- ducing the class war into the coun- try,” said S. Saklatvala, M. P., when interviewed by a DAILY WORKER representative on his recent visit. “It is not a question of bringing the class-war into’ India, It is there already, and nobody can stop it,’”*said Saklatvala, | “On the one hand you have the | comfortable Indian gentleman leading | life of traditional Oriental luxury; son the other, conditions of destitution \more intense than anything imagin- able in Great Britain. “In many. industrial districts the | death-rate for infants under 12 months | ‘of age (excluding plague and other \infectious diseases) stands at the ap-! palling figure of 600 out of every} 1,000—in Bombay it is 880 per 1,000. That this enormous percentage of deaths is due entirely to the half- jstarved condition of the infants’ par- ents and to the insanitary environ- ment into which these babies are born is shown by the infantile mortality SHALL NOT DIE! am the richer classes, which is Ay per 1,000, | Current Events (Continued from Page One) of-work detectives, who served thei apprenticeship in the art of finking| of William J. A. Mit- under lynn, the tutelage William Burns and chell Palmer, is provided by the in-| terest excited by the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Tales of dynamite being sent thru the mails to governor Fuller of Massachusetts are now daily features of the capitalist press. Those of us who remember the hectic days from 1919 until the Michigan Communist! id in 1922 will not even hav give a thot to the possibility th some insane friends of the ¢ demned men might be guilty of such crazy deeds. * * * LL the explosions, planting of in- eendiary literature, threats, ete. were the wotk of agents provoca- teurs, or stoolpigeons, who make a living committing crimes which they fasten on others. According to testi- mony given from the witness stand yy detectives who turned on their erstwhile employers, men like Burns actually plotted the assassination of ndividuals in high’ station in order country in the proper frame of mind for a financial appeal. It was re- ported that William J. Burns thru one of his agents offered $10,000 to a man for the assassination of Lenin and Trotsky. We already warned our, readers that between now and the date set for the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti there will be plenty of | “plots” against the lives of governor Fuller and judge Thayer reported in the capitalist press. But those plots will be of the same character as the plot that brought about the con- viction of Saceo and Vanzetti. © put the moneyed classes of this} Read The Daily Worker Every Day | ‘Mussolini Likes R.O.T. 6. Idea and May Adopt Scheme Jideas to bolster up his blackshirt dic- al William Verbeck back from Italy {with him erday when he landed |from the liner George Washington. Mussolini has ordered a comprehen- [sive study of the organization and methods of the A an Army Re- serve Of: i Corps in his for new ideas t rule, the declared. The American general was decora- ted as “commander of the Crown of Italy and went. to Yome to z > his gratitude. ' A fa -ympathies, Verbeck was greatly impressed with Mussolini and “extremely enthusias- tic’ over his k. The supreme blackshirt gave rumble American general 18 minutes for an interview. Likes R. O. T. C. “4 substantial part of those valu- ghteen minut General Ver- said, “was devoted to a diseus- sion of the training corps school idea and the possibility of its introduction in Italy. I ed deeply interested in the idea, and asked me to send him full data on the organization and main- tinence of the training camp school. He seemed fully in accord with the ide 1 most anxious to introduce it or its counterpart in Italy.” Cotton Man Strings Himself. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 15.— Knowles, broker of cotton mill stuffs, committed suicide by hanging himself to a pipe in his home yesterday. His wife found him and called in a doctor to ascertain the cause of his death. Knowles was formerly a treasurer lina B 1 mill. Lately he has been rather nervous. E Violin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teacher. For reasonable rates, write to JOHN WEINROTH €156 LARCHWOOD AVENUE, *hone Granite 7252, Philadelphia, Pa. Haled to Court 1008 8 Ox If not delivered return to Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Biilding for Criminal Courts, Centre Street, between Franklin and White Streets, - Borough of Manhattan. ‘The People of the State of New York ve. The Daily worker Pub. Co Pa 4 2 | | ; | i The Defendant will be called for Pleading Trial Sentence at the Court of Special Sessions, New York County, on . at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of the same day. MAY 1 e 1927 ‘ ‘This notice is sent you in order that your undertaking may not be forfeited, JOSEPH F. MOSS, Jr., | Clerk of Court. } Now the real fun begins. On Friday, the 13th of May, we were haled to the Court of Special Sessions to plead against the in- famous frame-up which is being eooked up against us, We were remanded for trial on May 27th. Needless to say, neither Darte of the Military Order of the World War nor Seitz of the Keymen of America were called upon to plead. But Darte and Seitz and the capitalist system for which they stand will never be brought to justice in a capitalist court, But the workers can and will try them before a court of proletarian justice, in which thou- | sands of workers throughout the country, will act as the judges. Every dollar you send for the defense of The DAILY WORKER against the attacks of | DAILY WORKER i 33 First Street, | New York, N. 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