The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1927, Page 6

Page Six Results of the Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International The speech by Comrade Ni preparation for revolutionary This speech and the decisions mighty strugg war con s of the imperial been made uy The policy Union i “attack selves, has con economic uplif quite another Our aXPLess OUT- | nly of our But this falls under tegory. The standpoint to be adopted in the question of defence of fatherland is even more altered by the latest events. We could not countenance a defence of fatherla mong the “great pow- ers” of the f erialist war since these powers were imperialist, but in the proletarian republics the situation is entirely reversed, and the defence of the fatherland is the first duty of the proletarian parties. Where in the capitalist countries the Communists have been right in adopting the de- featist standpoint in the Soviet Union our proletarian fatherland must find the fullest support from all sides.| There we must reject all “defense of fatherland,” here it must be our first thought. This train of thought is rightly applied to the proletarian re- publics. But it is equally right when applied to such a government, to such! a state organization, as that repre- sented by the national revolutionary state in China, fighting against im- perialism. * Lenin differed from many in dealing with perfect clearness with this ques- tion of the defence of fatherland.’ Whilst condemning with the utmost! severity the social patriotic defenders | of imperialist fatherlands, Lenin never dealt with the question in such a man- | ner as to assert that if a fatherland) is not a proletarian one, there is no reason to defend it, Lenin was very) far from such a simplification of the| question. He designated the formula of “defense of fatherland” as vulgar! and Philistine, as a justification of war, and considered that it had no other meaning whatever. When we hear of the British defence of the mother country, for instance, this is nothing more than the current expression used to justify a war car. ried on by the Bri imperialist gov- ernment. When we speak of the de fence of our fatherland, the question is the justification of a war carried on by us: Lenin did not state that every war is an evil solely because it| is a war. War is an evil, and it must be combatted when it is carried on by} imperialist states; but we can and must support a war, not only when the working class is in power and is defending its state; a war may be supported and justified when it is a national and progressive national emancipation war against imperialists, ‘even when the proletariat is not yet its leader. We Communists must therefore stand unconditionally for the support of such a war as that be- ing waged in China for the defence of the Chinese fatherland, for the) Chinese revolution, ! 4, Alliances with Bourgeois States. The Slogan of Fraternisation and of Joining Revolutionary Armies. The question of the possibility of forming alliances with bourgeois States must be discussed. This ques- tion has already been raised at one of the Comintern congresses, during the: debate on the program. Should such a combination really come to pass that some bourgeois state, under some unlooked for circumstances, and dur- ing mighty upheavals, should really take sides with the Soviet Union against. the imperialists, then it would be the duty of the Communist Par- ties to aid the anti-imperiglist war being waged by such a state. Should for instance one of the eastern states, not belonging to the imperialist coali- tion, be desirous of entering into an alliance with the Soviet Union during a great conflict between Great Bri- tain and the Soviet Union, a conflict! into which; the whole of Europe would! be involved, and the proletarian state had the right, from the Communist | standpoint, to enter into this alliance, | then the Communists would be bound to aid this alliance. Here we should not be dealing with an imperialist state, but with a state | chting against the imperialists and! on the side of the Soviet Union; this | would not simply be a bourgeois state 1s such, but a bourgeois state direct- ng its fire against the imperialist e. Such a state would not be a, tituent of the imperialist coalition, would inevitably, apart from its volition, as consequence of the e condition, play oe role of ‘ef end of an anti-imperial- thon aria by the proletarian One passage from Lenin’s g contains a direct ref to ment of which appears below, is a complete estimation of the war danger facing the world today, and at the same time im- portant for its restatement of the fundamental tactics of Bol- shevism in fighting to utilize the crisis produced by war for threat of war should become a part of the arsenal of every sin- cere revolutionist who wants to participate effectively in the les that we must face in the fight against the} ee snes L'ETAT! ‘ cE’ EST MO! kolai Bucharin, another install- struggles against imperialism. of the plenum regarding the t nations. alliance of without ¢ <istence of revolutionary and Per fore realise that s its place on que: lesser significance and shall turn to a slogan which appears at the first glance to require no al- terations conditioned by the devetop- | ment of present events, The elemen-| tary and specifically Bolshevist slo- | gan of f srnization This slogan was of aching significance for us for our fight against war dur he yea of the first great interna- tional massacre. Whilst the Executive Committee yas working, we asked ourselves whether it would be necessary to un-| dertake any alterations in this slo-| gan as result of the present situa-| tion. Can we proclaim this slogan un- | der all and every circumstance, as} we could in the years between 1915 and 1918? We came to the conclu- sion that the present situation de- mands certain corrections in this slo- WITH ; THE School at Winchendon, Mass. Progress of the YWL Training We have been very active in the last two weeks of our training course, in fact we have been so busy that we have had no time for mischief. Our training program consists of five four-hour days of school and five hours of study each weak. For text} books we are using the Elements of| Political Education and the ABC of Communism and in addition to these| Young Workers’ Leagues’ Educational Courses Winlock, Wash., July-August, 1927. On July 9, the opening program of the Young Workers Educational Courses was held at Winlock, Wash- ington. On July 10, the program was continued and a fairly good crowd came to attend the beginning of one of the greatest events of the workers’ children in the West. This is the first we have from twelve to fifteen books and pamphlets per student. Our libra- ry also has an interesting stock of books and reading matter. We have a half hour of current events each day which has proved to be very interesting and at the same time keeps us in touch with the events of the world. We have already studied about the Chinese revolution, the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the at- tack on Soviet Russia. Our evenings are all planned out for us. speaking and on Sunday nights we have entertainment consisting of sing- ing, story-telling, games, reading, etc. The country surrounding this school is very beautiful, having numerous woods, fields and lakes everywhere about us. We are far away from the noisy city life in which most of the poor workers’ children live such as in the big industrial cities of Chicago, New York and Boston. Therefore, be- |cause of our environment, we should gan. We applied the experience gain- ed in our own civil war. The slogan of “fraternization in the trenches” played a role of enormous importance | when the armies of the imperialist The French Revolution of rush agent he neraist oc” | 739 on View in Moscow al Marx--Engels Institute the Red Army was fighting against By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Yudenitsch, against Koltchak etc., did we then proclaim the slogan of fra- ternization? No, we did not proclaim it. This is a plain fact which we can all remember. How did it happen that the slogan A 4 of eoegizenisation” played so wenn piecemeal. They are very thorough. Thus, when a part during the imperialist war, but | the Marx-Engels Institute, in Moscow, decided to com- vanished as soon as the Red Army|™emorate the 130th anniversary of the death by execu- was formed, and this Red Army|tion of Francois Noel Babeuf with an exhibition befit- fought against our antagonists? Wejting the memory of this French revolutioni$t, a host came to the conclusion that the slo-|°! workers went at their task diligently and earnestly. gan of fraternization is a slogan im-| ort time they had assembled sufficient material plying the disorganization of both par- ties thus fraternizing, and when two| imperialist armies confront one an-| other, the slogan of fraternization so far as it is actually reali: shakes both sides. This being case, it is clearly comprehensible \ we did not proclaim this slogan aft: we had our own revolutio fighting against the er slogan is two edged those fraternizing on our be really firm in their convictions 1i the slogan of fraternization, and t process of fraternization itself, is not to shake our own revolutionary d cipline. | In this question we have adopted the standpoint that in the c of a conflict between two imperialist op- ponents on the one side, and, let us say, of a proletarian army and a na- tional revolutionary y on the other, our slogan must be slogan calling upon the soldiers of the hos- tile forces to come 0 to us, not a slogan of fraternization, but a slo-| iy, ©; gan calling upon the others to join| into oblivion, the same trail taken by Kerensky, before us. This does not exclude the process} ino rise of the Soviet power. of fraternization, but it must be very Fh differently organized. We must not induce the whole of our forces to creep into the trenches, but must have | f our special propagandists, who must |° be scattered about among the camps of the enemy, and undermine the counter-revolutionary discipline of the enemies of revolution. Thus the present situation, the existence of the proletarian Soviet | st state, of the national revolutionary | th organization in China, ete., forces us | clas Re So the Babeuf Exhibition became a part of the larger commemoration of the French revolution itself. olution, 1789, Be | * ange, however, that this memorial to the young rench revolutionist, born of a humble, . proletarian ily, who paid with his life at the age of 37, for his at an armed uprising against the Directory, should come to life in Moscow in 1927, in what ne time been the Palace of the Dolgoruki fam- e of the most ancient and noble families of Rus- puted among the founders of the city of Moscow. ¢ this is just another one of those strange develop- that has taken place as a result of the fact that the workers have seized power and established their ernment in what was once “the land of the czars.” * * One of the most noted of the Dolgorukis was Vasily Lukich Dolgoruki, whom Peter the Great sent to France be educated and to acquire a superficial elegance at 2 C t of Versailles. He did develop into a skilled and an experienced intriguer which got him the m1: of Peter IT. * * Babeuf was the lcader of the proletarian effort for power that was made toward the close of the period the 1789 revolution in France. Greater grew this \effort in the revolutions of 1848 and 1871. Babeuf was the first to herald the coming of Socialism. Of him Frederick Engels wrote, in his “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,” as follows: “And altho, upon the whole, the bourgeoisie, in their ruggle with the nobility, could claim to represent at ame time the interests. of the different working- es of that period (the French Revolution), yet in to undertake certain corrections of every great bourgeois movement there were independent even such an elementary slogan as cutbursts of that class which was the forerunner, more that of fraternization, a slogn ap- or less developed, of the modern proletariat. For ex- parently perfectly clear and unequi- | ample, at the time of the German Reformation and the vocal. | Peasants’ bit bad eevee, Ene Lene jones ‘4 A " inst | in the great Englis evolution, the Levellers; IN The Fight Against Wer and Agains!/ GREAT FRENCH REVOLUTION, BABBUF.” | * * ” In connection with the war ques-| tion I must deal with the “platform” sition with ct to this | of Cold hepa Aiea Se En me raeal stiraaea of | in the camp of Grenelle to the verge of mutiny, inspires the international situation laid before | this exhibition of the French Revolution at the Marx- the Plenum of the BE. C. C. I. by the Engels Institute in Moscow, 1927. Opposition concludes that at the * * present time we are weaker than we) ‘Phe exhibition was arranged in six large rooms. were before. The comrades of the search workers had gathered the material. Opposition have cited a number’ of| arranged it in perfect and attractive order. Thus Babeuf, whose song, “Dying of Hunger, Dying * Re- Here was defeats: the defeat in Bulgaria, in| g thoro education in the times of the French Revolution- | Esthonia, the defeat in Germany in ary Period awaiting the earnest student. 1928, the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek’s ‘ . * tt in China, etc. Th ‘ ‘ ‘ aps eine the Hail baleciee a The first room, by way of introduction, showed pic- i ion tures of many of those prominent in this period, with PON oe ea ea ee |rare editions of the histories of these times, in French, (To Be Continued). German and Russian, written more than 100 years ago. ea ar To give the names of them all would be to call the Gary Too Sick For His Dividend. | roll of those who rose and fell with the ebb and flow Although his condition was said to | of the revolutionary tide. r have improved, Elbert H. Gary, 80-|ette, Carnot, LaFayette, Bailly, Barnave, Malesherbes, year-old chairman of the U. S. Steel/and many more, but interest is turned to the original Corporation today remained confined |of a letter written by Charlotte Corday, to her father, to his home with a slight illness and|four days before she murdered Marat. There is also did not attend the quarterly dividend | the original of a book written by Albert Mathiez, pro- meeting of the corporation’s board of |fessor at the University of Paris, on “The High Cost directors. of Living and the Social dy can Under the Terror. 1,” was said, in 1796, to have brought regiments | Artists had | There was Mirabeau, Char- | UR comrades in the Soviet Union never do things jbo cece (Oe tie) eenet seve on eer : | sopher, had a big place, with the materialists, Franci: n exhibition on the entire period of the French | bern) gsr) : i iti |be thankful to those who have sent us The second room gives a picture of “the old regime” | here. Lake Dennison is about 200 feet that was wrecked by the revolution. Here are the works |away from our school, and we have an of Jacques Necker, the Swiss banker, who tried to solve |pportunity to go swimming, fishing the financial problems of Louis XVI, There is a copy|and canoeing. About one-eighth of a of the order of arrest of Louis XVI, switched in be-|mile from here is the Lake Dennison tween large pictures of the royal family, Extremely|Park where dances are held every interesting is the display showing the state of industry | Wednesday and Saturday evenings. | at this time: mining, textile, building, pottery and coach | Those of us who are fond of dacing making, not to mention farming with special attention!go there on our free nights. Every to bee culture. Here is a copy of the American Declaration of Inde- pendence indicating its effect on the wording of “The | Rights of Man”. (Les Droits de l’Homme) the historic | 19 o'clock. On Saturday nights we Here are even| F e zene Or | usually go to Holmes Park in Gardner pictures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, |;, dance and give support to Finnish the latter representing the United States in Paris at the | .ompades, We usually come back from time of the revolution. |the dance in a special bus and, oh * * ; . \boy! don’t 3 i In “Room No. Three” there was displayed the writ- | oy dont we aye fun. We (snk, 5 : : i \yell, tell jokes and make a big racket ings of those who furnished the ideological basis for | )j the revolution. Here Jean Jacques Rousseau, the philo- jall the way back. The chauffeur at 10 o’clock. On Wednesday and Sat- : |that we’ Ishevi i Bacon, David Hume and John Locke; Diderot, the En-| of, ae ee ante cyclopedist; Voltaire and the Physiocrats, the Economists 7 4 ms : 2 25° | International, and those holding other social theories during this period. | Par Andane pee aoa | Next, “Room No. Four” showed the revolution in ac- | which is our favorite song. Much of tion. Here was pictured the Versailles on May 5, 1789. |our spare time it put into swimming, There were huge paintings of “The Conquest of the | fishing, hiking, dancing, baseball and | Bastille,” with the versions, not historically correct, by |all other kinds of sports. | of the times, especially the guns and cannon used. siderable trouble for trying to forge the will | The last of the family, insofar as Russia | is concerned, was Prince Hans Dolgoruki, member of | st Party, who followed Miliukov and his regime | | to die at the guillotine. The fall of the Girondists, May Russian and Dutch artists. There were also many | We are going to organize an or- original editions of books dealing with the fall of the |chestra of our own because there are Bastille. Foulon, the inevitable food speculator of that|quite a number of musicians among day, also received considerable attention, as did Bailly, |us. the first president of the Tiers ’Etat. We publish two wall papers weekly. “Room No. 5” had an interesting display of the news- |The names of them are the Red Rocket papers of the revolution. Here were the publications |@nd the Fighting Youth. Every com- of the Girondist, Brisset, of Des Moulins, as well as their |Tade who can write, writes an article left leaders, Marat and Robespierre. There were ori- |" Politics, sports, comics, poems, etc. ginal copies of the Journal Du Soir and the Journal du | Among the most interesting articles Matin, for August 26, 1794; of L’Ami du Roi (The |that appeared in this week’s publica- King’s Friend) for Oct. 1, 1791. This room also con-| tion SEEK. Under the Banner of Ru- tained pictures of the military leaders of the revolu- |thenberg, The Young Worker and tion, with illustrations displaying the military technique BG coureeles ba igen Seas orts Be Commercialized,” and “The “Room No. 6” was given over to an interpretation aegis at Peg yi of “The Struggle Between the Fractions,” or the dif-|_ nnese Wall papers are very inter- ferent tendencies during the revolution.’ Brisset was | ceting m4 a especially and to the shown as the leader of the right; Danton and Desmoulins, iS sora te oe pad to visit us. of the center, and Robespierre and Babeuf of the left. f n sports we have concentrated most This room contained a list of “The Citizens of the |°” U” attention on. baseball; We at Revolution” with their pictures, sympathizers in other | "adv pee 2 besten team, which is lands, including such foreigners as the German poet, am a Sone We eepeeu tg ent Schiller; the Americans, Washington, Madison, Paine; maa eee Me eo eee Next Sun- Wilberforce, of England, and Kociusko, of Poland. Here ad hubodh rsd 4 eying 200r first_game were decrees, in the original, of the national convention, which will be against the Young with original lists issued at the time of those condemned toe League team of Fitchburg at We are sure to learn about our po- sition in society and about the class struggle between capitalists and workers. Our instructors teach in a very systematic way, which makes it very easy for us to understand thor- |oughly what we are talking about. We ‘all expect to be able to organize either the Young Pioneers or the Young | Workers in our home towns after we |come back. We, the students of the Y. W. L. Training School, will be the leaders of the working children and working youth in the communities to which we'll return at the end of the school. —TAUNO HALIN. 31, 1798, is shown, as is the execution of the king and the queen, the struggle between Robespierre and Dan- ton, and even the fact that Jean Paul Marat had a scientific bend of mind, being. interested in electricity. There were original manuscripts of letters written by Babeuf, to his four-year-old son; also code letters by Babeuf, from jail, to his friends, who were trying to bring about his release. * * * There was also a special section devoted to British newspapers and illustrated magazines of the times, re- vealing the contempt that aristocratic and royal England had for revolutionary France, ragged and hungry. Many of these reproduce in spirit the attitude that the capi- talist world has held toward the Russian revolution achieved by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union in our own time. Dempsey Gets the Crowd. + LOS ANGELES, July 27.—.Jack There is much that the Russian workers have learned | Pe A and intend to learn about the French Revolution. The | * thee koi e ealeaalaiapied ate Marx-Engels Institute intends to help in the teaching, | ‘2 ‘e Seclusion of his home here to- od Pin the teaching. | day after being mobbed by'10,000 ad- | mirers upon his arrival from the East, SACLO AWD VANZETT) we Seteres Se Sec: Boor MIT NOT Diet! Every Monday we have public | |night except on Wednesday and Sat- | \urday nights we must be in our rooms | urday nights we can stay out until | | doesn’t have to be a politician to know} | School of this kind to be held in the | West and great interest has been |taken in it. The students are com- posed of members of Young Workers Leagues and many that do not belong to any kind of labor movement. The majority are Finnish but we have sev- eral other languages attending the courses. There are in all forty-one students who come from all parts of the states of Oregon and Washington and one student from Rock Springs, Wyoming. The course includes classes {n se- |ciology, American labor and social his- |tory, Marxian economics, class strug- |gle theory, current events, public speaking, research, debate, and ath- letics. Instructors in these lines are Comrade Oliver Carlson of Chicago, director and instructor at the Waino Educational Courses last year and Comrade Vivian Miller of the Wash- ington State University. Comrade W. A. Harju is technical manager of the courses, Every Wednesday evening the stu- dent body has a meeting in which they plan their entertainments and draw up the rules of the school. On these nights we also have a free entertain- ment mainly for the students but also |for outsiders, The student body has several committees which plan the work of the school: Discipline, wall- newspaper, press, publicity committee, athletic; library; entertainment, and music. The student body has also |been divided into a model Young Workers League on the nuclei basis. | There are the following nuclei: Farm | Workers’ Nucleus, General Workers’ | Nucleus, under which there are adver- | tisement solicitors, lumberjacks, hotel workers, cooks, factory worker, musi- cians, and clerks; Public School Nu- cleus, Junior High School Nucleus, |and Senior High School Nucleus. The wallnewspaper committee has put out two issues of the wallpaper, which we named the Red Star after many petitions, questions, debates and arguments. As yet it is hard to tell what the | Success of the school will be but it is | certain to be a success for everyone is | working hard and is interested in | everything that we do. To the benefit of some comrades from this district we want to say that we are going to present a play and | entertainment at Woodland on the | 80th of July and one at Winlock on ag of August. Be sure and at- tend. | Will send some more news later | during the course of the school, | Comradely, |. Aune Palola, D. W. Correspondent | Box 48, Winlock, Washington. | | Levine Prepares Return Flight. PARIS, July 27. — Charles A. Levine, who flew from New York to Eisleben, Germany, with Clarence D. Chamberlin in the Bellanca-Wright monoplane, Columbia, stated today that the plane has been reconditioned completely and will be ready for a trans-Atlantic flight back to New York after a few tests are made Despite the strain upon the Wright whirlwind motors during the 3,600 mile flight to Germany, they are in fine working order and experts be- lieve they are well able to stand the return trip Marks the spot where the sub blank will be found. Just put your name on it, clip it out, add a dollar (it doesn't matter how old it ist) and send it, to get a year’s sub. scription to the Young Work- er. Here's the address—The Young Worker Ed. Committee, 33 First St., New York, N. Y. | X ;—-HERP'S THE SPOT—— Enclosed $1 for a year's sub tq the Young Worker. Name Street .. City .. | State . coming: celebrations of his career. aos SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters ANG from its readers stating their views on the issues con- | ¢ RAN pe fronting the labor movement. 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