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4 _ beholds in the rule of the Soviets an | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUL | STANDARDS AT THE GRAVE OF VOIKOV (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) i MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).—The address made by J. Louis Eng-| dahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, speaking for the Communist Inter-! national at the funeral of Comrade P. follows: * * 2 ODAY the Communist International lowers its standards over the fresh grave of another fallen soldier of the | world, revolution. For Comrade Voi- koff was a courageous fighter in the international struggle of the workers for victory over their oppr s.. In all lands, the many National Sec- tions of the Communist International, their crimson standards mourning- bordered, pay tribute to the memory of Comrade Voikoff, the first victim | of the new war. jaunched against the citadel of the social revolution—the Union of Soviet Republics. Hl For Comrade Voikoff belonged not} only to the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. He was a part of and beloiiged to the toiling masses of the whole world. The brutal murder} of Comrade Voikoff has not only} brought a heavy loss to the freed workers of the Soviet Union, His un- timely death is a cruel loss suffered | by all those workers still enslaved in the lands of capitalism. Comrade Voikoff, as the official representative of the First Workers’ Republic, the spokesman of the Soviet Power, stationed in Warsaw, the nest of the Polish reaction, was an able builder of the new social order, The bloody assassin’s deed that struck him down was instigated by the sup- porters of the capitalist regime that organizes in every land relentless on- slaughts against the aspirations of those who labor. Especially, it is very clear that behind the murderer at Warsaw, pulling at the trigger of the death-dealing revolver, was the British imperialist tyranny itself, that organizes and directs the new anti- Soviet war. But the British reaction, that in- vagled and plundered the offices of Arcos in London, does not stand alone, At its side we see also the grasping Dollar Imperialism of America that enemy of its bitter exploitation of the workers and farmers in its own home- land—a foe of its relentless exploi- tation of the peoples of subject and semi-subject nations. It was no accident that the Amer- ican ambassador, Myron T. Herrick, at Paris, just the other day launched @ vicious attack against the govern- ment of the Workers and Peasants, declaring it would never be recog- nized by the capitalist government of America. Herrick’s utterances were in perfect harmony with those of Win- ston Churchill, the British chancellor of the exchequer, who has just visited Mussolini in Rome, the home of the fascist tyranny, declaring his admi- ration for the labor-crushing Italian fascism that enters into an alliance with British imperialism for the new anti-Soviet attack, The gang of imperialist murderers who slaughtered the workers of Nan- king, in China, who have joined in) the raid on the Soviet embassy at Peking, who instigate and encourage the strangling and beheading of the best of the Chinese proletariat, who tighten the hangman’s noose about the necks of the people of Nicaragua and Mexico, of Egypt and India, these are the real murderers of our com- rade, Voikoff, who died that the cause of the workers might live and tri- umph. Before the open grave that will s00n receive the last remains of our martyred comrade, the proletarian jgiven by the MacDonalds, the Hen-| L, Voikoff in the Red Square was as! hosts of the world, enlisted under the | banners of the Communist Interna- tional, pledge themselves to new struggles. Especially the workers of the two g English-speaking na-| tions, the United States of America and Great Britain, the dominant im-/ perialisms of today, must wage might- | ier battles against these powerfully | entrenched foes of upward struggling | mankind. | Today. we also have in mind the} service rendered the imperialist foe | by the betr of labor, the support | dersons and the Thomases to the} Chamberlains, the Joynsen-Hickses, | the Churchills; by the Greens, the! Wolls and the Sigmans to the Cool-| izes, the Kelloggs and the Hoovers. In Great Britain the Labor Party | turns hack from an open attack on | the Baldwin tory government. It} This is the first picture of the three-power (Great Britain, Japan, United States) naval limitaticn merely asks for an investigation of the attack on Arcos and the breaking conference, called by President Coolidge, in session at Geneva, Switzerland, a country without a navy, off of relations with the Soviet Union. s Tn the United States, Vice-president | C a Or ress ll } O al } Matthew Woll, speaking for the re- action within the American Federa- tion of Labor, applauds the raids on Arcos, and calls for more vicious as-| WJARSAW, (By Mail).—The Polish saults by the Coolidge-Kellogg reac- | Labor Press having revolutionary tion against the Soviet Union. In| tendencies, is forced like all the rev every other land the social-democracy | olutionary groups in the Polish Labo: and the reactionary trade union} movement to engage in a prolonge: bureaucracy play the same Judas| and obstinate struggle with the bour- role. They all have their price that | geoisie, the “defensive” (Secret Po- capitalism is willing to pay. The/|lice), and reformism. Communist International carries on a relentless exposure of these traitors before the eyes of international la- bor, so that’ these lackeys of capital-| like almost all the Central Commit ism will be stripped of their power | tees of individual trade unions, is re- and become impotent in their efforts formist. to continue their treason. | organized in the Red fractions com- The workers of the world must| pose in almost all the trade unions The Polish Labor Movement is uni- ted since 1920. Its leading body, th Central Commission of Trade Unions. know that the traitor social democ-|a small but influential minority. The! racy and the servile trade union | revolutionary elements at the present bureaucracy, that were the instru-)moment have only been able to ments of the warring capitalist pow-| keep the administration in their own ers in 1914, and who now continue in} hands in a few unions—Commercial that role, are stained equally with the | Employers’, Chemical Workers’, Glass guilt of the murder of our comrade, | Workers’—where, however, they hold Voikoff. The social traitors of 1914 | their own despite policé and reform- now rally in support of the war of | ist repression. their imperialist masters against the | THE first central organ of the rev-| Soviet Union, which is also an attack | olutionary minorities was created on the cause of the workers in the | 55 1920 by the capitalist homelands. \*“Red? trade unions: Today the International, that | jeather workers, ‘chemical mourns its martyred dead by the hun- | and commercial employes. dreds of thousands, that has seen the | “Mysl Robotnicse” (Labor Thought), most militant and courageous in its|a fortnightly: In spite of persecu- ranks fall in every land with the | tion, arrests of editors and staff, ete the builders, work passing of the years, extends its con-| it continued to come out under dif-| solation to the bereaved family, the | ferent titles for almost two years. consolation that comes thru the|The Warsaw Trades Council. at that knowledge that Voikoff’s deeds will|time the center of the revolutionar bé inseribed on the most glorious page | Trade Labor Movement, publishes a of all in the history of the age-long fortnightly | “Prezeglad Zwiastoowy' struggle of the downtrodden; the page | (Trade Union Education) afterwards that records the last triumph against lealled “Wiasomisel Zwiaszkowe class rule; the final conquest of pow- | (Trade Union News). which was er and the complete liberation of the | however shut down in 1923 by the BO: oppressed. | aes After this the journal was once * ... + |again revived for a short time, but ROMA: Gi Wivertne tes A oHee ID.\ this time ag a monthly. In the end the fact that from the masses of the | ‘ revaluation! workers ‘and peasants of the Sovict | GE aoe Bie, eee xe thee reve ips Union there will spring hundreds and | —— ¢ thousands ready and eager to take | and died still stands, more challenging the place in its ranks made vacant | than ever. Mightier than ever the by the bullets of an imperialist as-| growing army of the International sassin that struck down our comrade, | proclaims: Voikoff. | Down with the oppressors of the As the earth closes over the cas- | workers! Down with the He ter- Ket that contains the last remains of |ror! Down with imperialism, our slain comrade, the Communist In-| Long live the Dictatorship of the ternational raises its stendards for| Proletariat! Long live the Soviet renewed struggles. Voikoff is dead.| Union! Long live the World Revolu- But the banner under which he fought tion! oh si is 0 Where Will You Be On FUL YY Lath 6 Some of your fellow-workers will be setting out that day for A SIX WEEKS’ TOUR to SOVIET RUSSIA. to see all the sights of the new world there—the schools, factories, nurseries, clubs, museums, industrial developments of the first Workers’ Republic. Why not join the party? The Tour Costs $5 75 for all expenses—including your Russian visé. Party limited. Time short. Apply immediately to we . WORLD TOURISTS, Ine. 41 Union Square Phone Stuyvesant 7251. Room 803 New York City The revolutionary elements | supporters of the} This was! ary Trade Union Movement in Gali-]} eia, taking advantage of the fact that Austrian press laws allowed of lightly greater liberty than the Szarist laws, still in force in former Russian Poland, began to publish their “Sycie Kwiazkowe” Union Life), which was kept going until May, 1925, HE reformists for the same period (1918-1922) published their organ “Zwiazkowiee” (The Trade Union- ist), also a fortnightly, appearing somewhat irregularly, and in 1 coming to an end owing to lack of funds, tionary trade union minority arose in connection with the intensified oppo- sition in the begining of 1926. The treacherous policy of the PSPer joining the coalition Government at this time, evoked strong opposition in the ranks of the party, leading to a split and the formation of a new group “PSP Left,” a group consist- ling largely of trade unionists from Austrian Poland, chiefly | Teshin Silesia, imbued with a revolu- tionary spirit. This group put for- ward the slogans of the implacable jelass struggle, the united Labor |front, single mass trade unions. It regan to, publish a weekly trade union Opposition organ: “Glos Pracy” (Voice of Labor) a propor- in to the development and determ!- ation of the ideology of this group its organ became more significant and went deeper into trade union | movement questions in all their as- pects, becoming the central organ of the revolutionary minority. HE uplift in the Polish Labor Move- | ment, caused by Pilsudski’s coup d'etat and a favorable industrial boom {during the last half of 1926, was | vividly reflected in the columns of i“Gos Pracy.” While the reformist | press systematically ignored those facts and phenomena in the Labor | Movement “Gos Pracy” gave its read- | ers exact and full information, showed jall manifestations of working class | life from the point of view of the class struggle, thus assisting soli- darity and unity among the Polish | former |of slogans common to the whole | working class of the common revolu- _ | tionary struggle. | "THE reformists and the Government understand perfectly well the ‘role | of the revolutionary press in the La- bor Movement and are taking corre- sponding measures. The Central Commission of the trade unions pro- hibits the circulation and sale of “Gos Pracy” on trade union premises. The Public Prosecutor confiscates literally jevery number, so that each time it | has to be issued all over again, while |it is usually speckled with white spaces by favor of the censor. Despite all these repressions “Gos Pracy” was able to last out more than a year, and only a few weeks ago, during the last wave of fresh repres- | sions sweeping over the revolutionary section of the working class the “Gos Pracy” was also swept away. S well as the above-mentioned cen- tral organs some trade unions or Red Fractions of trade unions have published and are still, if but irreg- ularly, publishing their own organs, also, of course, just as zealously per- secuted by trade union bureaucracy and the authorities. Thus the chem- ical workers’ union publishes a monthly “Robotnik Chemiszny” (The Chemical Worker); the Commercial Employees’ Union published “Gos Pracownita” (The Voice of the Worker); the Red fraction of the Railwaymen’s Union published in 1919 and 1920 illegally “The Railway Com- | munist,” from 1926 “The Signal” has ‘been legally published, although its | civeulation among railwaymen is pro- hibited by decision of the Central Committee of Trade Unions. | As well as the Polish Press there jis a trade union press with revolu- tionary tendencies in the Ukrainian language. “Trade Union News” the organ of the Trade Union Minority is published in Eastern Galicia, the cen- tre, as is well known, of the oil in- dustry, and one of the centres of the lumber industry; the paper is very popular there among fhe Ukrainian oil and lumber workers. (Trade | Which The new central organ of the athe) | working masses, the putting forward! tionary tendencies of course ‘subjected to still greater persecution than the trade union. The political labor organs during the short time ch they are allowed to ex naturally give as much space as pos- sible to questions of the trade union movement. The journal outlasting jall the others, to be exact, from 1920 | to 1924, was the revolutionary, ed j tional organ known as “Culture.” | A considerable section of the politi- 1 revolutionary press is of course published and circulated illegally. |THE monthly journal “ Robotniezy Presglad Gospes: (Labor onomic Review), published in 1923 the central organ of the reformist ventral Commission of Trade Unions j journal of an informative | character. Besides color 1% a general nature and of. muniques from the Centra | mission it prints industry, the po cla etc., Gov Com- data on the state of | tion of the working from drawn exclr ely rnment and bourgeois sour OST of the trade unions—miners, metal workers, lumber workers, agricultural, municipal, railway work- 's, ete.—publish monthly organs fhe Railway Trade Unionist,” the big and prosperous weekly of the | vailwaymen’s union, comes out very {regularly. Most of these organs are {conducted in reformist it* in ac |cordance with the make-up of the principal union administrations. “Robotnik” (The Worker), organ of the PSP, “Naprzod” (Forward), Gracow organ of PSP, “Gazeta | Robotnicza’ (Labor News), Upper | Silesian PSP organ, and other politi- j cal reformist organs, of course de- vote some of their columns to ques- tions of working class life and the Labor Movement, while as we have already shown, the reformist tenden- ise show themselves much more |clearly in the formation given and |the light thrown on it, than in the | flowery insincere editorials.—S. Bels | kaya. ‘Mexican Workers Rap U.S. Imperial Policy in ‘South America at Meet MEXICO CITY, July Anti-Imperialist League carrying on intensive propaganda di- |rected against Wall Street and the |American Department of State staged a Fourth of July mass meet- ing here yesterday at which speakers drew sharp comparisons between the | America of 1776 and the America of | toda i) Prior to the mass demonstration the city was flooded with League’s posters which head as fol- lows: 5.—The “1776 — Washington, Frafik- lin; liberty, independence. “1927 — Coolidge, Sinclair, Morgan; petroleum, Wall Street. “Texas in 1847; Panama in 1908; Nicaragua, Santo Domin- go, Sacco-Vanzetti, Imperialism, Kellogg, robbery.” Chile Deportations Go On Under Ibanez MENDOZA, Argentina, July 5.— The wholesale deportation of political leaders suspected of opposing the Ibanez dictatorship continues at full blast. Among those forced from the coun- try recently are Enrique Matte- Figueroa, nephew of the former president, and Eliodoro Yanez, who sponsored the coming international press conference at Geneva. The Ibanez dictatorship which over- threw constitutional government is believed to have been engineered by the Guggenheim interests, which have invested heavily in Chilean cop- per and nitrate. Ship Comes In Ablaze. Fire was discovered today in the hold of the Pacifie Steam Navigation liner Ebro shortly after she docked at the foot of Morton Street, North River, with eighty-nine passengers from South American ports. ) T= political press having revolu-| which is}. the | ‘| 10,000 Chinese Wounded '| In Nationalist Capital; |} CHICAGO, July 5.—A telegram || just received by the International Workers’ Aid ates that 10,000 Workers and Peasants lie wounded t at Wuchang, while continues march to- {| gers h y. Governments are supporting counter-revolutionary |} forces with finance ammunition, but gi no support or re Revolutionary a menace to the workers of other countries, be » of cheap coolie labor that 1 on rice and hard 1) tack, following telegram should receive the whole hearted support of every liberty-loving man or woman; they need medicine, ban- dages and food. International Workers’ Aid, || Chicago, Ill. | Ten thousand wounded in the Wichang-Lazarett—we need im- mediate help. Non-Chinese doc- |] tors and nurses from all parts of || China are aiding the wounded. || Money is urgently needed to carry |} on the relief work, We anxiou || await your assistance. (Signed)— Madam Sun Yat Sen. Forward your donation today to the International Workers’ Aid. National headquarters, 3 WW. | Madison Streeet, Chicago, Il. New England Pledges Aid to Daily Worker (Continued from Page One) Clubs, this will result in helping spread this struggle for a free press over the other states in New Eng-| land, as well as Massachusetts. The last time that Engdahl at- tempted to speak on Boston Common, jduring the congressional election |campaign last fall, he was stopped y the police. Nevertheless a meet- jing was held at that time at Scully | | Square in another section of the city. | | Engdahl was given a big ovation Sunday, however, when he appeared | and when it was announced by Chair- man Harry Cantor that he would give the news of the latest developments in the Union of Soviet Republics as well as expose the v us attack by | the government against The DAILY WORKER. “This is not the first time that the editors and business managers of Ja- bor publications have been sent to) | prison,” said Engdahl, “and it will | certainly not be the last. But it is absolutely necessary that all workers j acquaint themse th the vital jsues involved in this fight. This i {not only an attack on The DAILY | | WORKER. It is a blow being struck | against the whole workingcla: | | Engdahl told of the necessity of | strengthening the workers’ i this country to voice labor's v | point during the present world crisis | that grows out of the Chinese revolu- |tion and the new war being launched | against the Soviet Union. | | iet t to “Amo,” the big automobile plant in Moscow. “T spoke at the May Day demon- stration in the textile center of} | Ozery, 125 miles south of Moscow,” jsaid Engdahl. “They asked me to| jearry a message to you, the textil | workers of the United States. Thes ,| textile workers in the Soviet Union} ‘have a 100 per cent union. In greet-|} | ing the workers in the textile indus-| |try in this country, they give voice | | to their hopes that you will also de-| | velop your 100 per cent Textile Work- | jers’ Union. They hope that the time | will come when the textile workers | |in all countries will become united in} a really International Textile Work- | ers’ Union.” I take this opportunity | to carry out my pledge to the Rus. sian textile workers to extend this greeting to you.” | The large audience received this greeting with considerable enthus- | iasm. The response grew as Engdahl | pointed out the growing war danger | contained in the new imperialist | threats against the Soviet Union. | Against the New Capitalist War. | “Do not allow one penny of your money to be spent, nor one drop of workers’ blood to be shed in the new war being planned against the Sov-| fiet Union,” urged Engdahl. “Refuse | to support this new capitalist war.” And the audience thundered its ap- proval. | Numerous questions were asked to- | wards the close of the meeting, dur-| ing which an appeal was made for} members for the Party. The gathering at Worcester was one of the largest of the kind ever | held in New England. The three-| day conference included a delegation that had come from New York City | in a huge auto-bus hired for the oc-! casion. Among the other speakers, in | addition to Engdahl, was J. O. Ben-| tall, ‘who told of the most recent de- | velopments in the Sacco-Vanzetti| case. Resolutions were adopted pro- | testing against the death sentence | imposed against these two workers. | These resolutions will be forwarded | immediately to Governor Fuller. | Bert Wolfe addressed gatherings | held by Finnish workers at Nei ieiaey| Mass., and by the Workers (Com- munist) Party at West Roxbury. “One propagandist is worth 20 armed soldiers,” says Li Ho-lin, director of the Central Propaganda Bureau of the Chinese Nationalist Army. “Our enemies could have well withstood our steel bullets.” Before the 150,000,000 paper bullets they are powerless. Benefiting from the experience of the Chinese Revolution and the Russian Revolution The DAILY WORKER Army will wage a relentless campaign against the enemy using the most destructive weapon known—the paper bullet. In this attack, the bullets employed will be particularly dangerous, in view of the fact that they have been carefully manufactured to conform with the conditions peculiar to this country. The DAILY WORKER has been rated by military experts as the most destructive weapon yet produced in the class war in America. “Open fire” is the order of the day from every proletarian fortress, from every shop, mine, mill and farm. Every new subscriber, every new reader secured for The DAILY WORKER, is a casualty for the army of capitalism. “Open fire with your paper bullets.” cet