The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 2

@ ins ‘ 1 +4 (Continued fre Page Two THE DAILY WORKER,.NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1927 THE WORK OF THE FIFTH NATIONAL: /CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS PARTY One) y. The member- | be greatly in-| must be brought | 1 sympathy with the | Party. *The political level of the en- membership must be raised. The | organization, and particularly | units must be strengthened, lar in their function-~ in the charac- The DAILY| WORKER must not only be protected | face of the obvious determina- | the master class to destroy it, but it must be strengthened and made | into a + Workers of )) America ck Central Exe: take all ne factionalism as a site to Party v especial the prese that the tical mur ) Party that the incoming ve Committee shall eps to liquic bsolute prerequi- Factionalism id dangerous at n view of the fact into contact a is wide t to the y eign-born workers v inner consolic fication. the exist for the’ Party “The conve the organiza groups or Party o of any liter here sections of » Such as etc., must exploited n working ¢ the Negroes, Party and the Party must give every y sub-| aid to the more conscious elements | |in these sections of the working class, in the strengthening of their organi- | tion calls upon | zations and the defense’ of their inter- | Re me 0 assist the incoming | ests, | Central Committee in the} ty all these respects, in the mat- accomp! S f UP-| ter of analyzing the Party’s tasks, rooting he convention) the matter of strengthening its ac-| expects _and ad- | tivities in defense of the American | minister ty in a non-factional | working class, in the struggle for manner and calls upon the entire|the development of our class politi- Party to y to the support of our) cally and organizationally, the pro- Central Executive Committee.” |tecting and strengthening and build- ion must be supplemented by the conscious effort of every mem- ber toward fraternal cooperation and a reorientation of every detail of the ing of the trade unions, in the strug- gle against the war danger, against imperialism and on behalf of the Chinese revolution and defense of the receive increasing attention from the | Nab Two-Gun i ing to death of four men, declined into custody by police. jon convention arrangements approved | |by the C. E. C. secretariat. | 1. Reporters shall be convention | delegates. | | 2. The convention delegations, tu- | |gether with the district executive committee, shall divide up the vari Business Man (Feeble Verbiage Reply : Of Reformists | (Continued from Page One) perialism. Such has been the path }of the General Council during the| last two years. | Opposition Estimate Wrong. “Naturally,” continues Pravda, “the opposition in the All-Union Com- munist Party was absolutely wrong when it demanded that the Central Council of Russian trade unions break relations with the British general council. f course, the Anglo-Rus- sian committee could never be the means of “rendering harmless re- formism in Europe” to quote Zino- viev’s words in 1926. This was a ridiculous, harmful exaggeration. But then in the Anglo-Russian committee lwe did show to the whole world the readiness of Soviet labor to affect unity in the ranks of the ‘world trade union movement. | Does Not Represent Masses. | “The swing to the right of the re-; jformist leaders, their passing over’ completely to the position ef social- imperialism at this given stage not CHARLES W. BERNSTEIN (above) of Baltimore, two-gun business | man, whose rampage in a New York law office resulted in the shoot- © | to discuss the case when taken oe e Current Events | ORS te eee =F (Continued from Page One) | TRANCE appears to be manonvering | | the only does not reflect the movement af the masses, but is due precisely to the reformist fear of the constant leftward movement of the masses. In mor@ peaceful conditions it was pos- sible with left phrases to flirt with the masses which were moving left- wards, but at this historical moment this is dangerous because the masses want action and not words. For these same reasons the existence of Anglo-Russian committee has grown dangerous to the reformists, | because the Soviet unions, through | ___ |their delegates to the Anglo-Russian| cept the republican nomination for | Hella paneonl use 4 committee, exposes the betrayals of| re-election if \offered him, was the | '°’S Personal use. the social-imperialists. Labor Must Act Decisively. “In order to carry on a real strug- gle against capitalism, against its| onslaught against the working class, | against its military ventures and all! its other monstrous crimes against | England into playing the intran-|labor the British working class must | Slemp said, in commenting on the cm U.S. COURTS GWE MONEY OWING TO USS. TO WHITES | Kerensky “Attaché Gets ‘Damages’ From Lehigh The United States ‘Court of’ Ap- peals yesterday sustained the lower {courts decision to award Sergei Uge | het, financial attache of Bakhmetiey,! Russian ambassador to Washington| under the Kerensky regime damages for Russian munitions destroyed on_ the property of the Lehigh Valley, Railroad. The award was made in Chas. Evans Hughes, former secre- spite of protest from the Soviet tary of state, has announced that | Union, which requested that a cuss Coolidge didn’t mean what he said|todian be appointed to hold the funds when he retired from the presiden-| pending further action. The request tial race. jof the U.S, S. R. was refused, Saar aaa Despite the fact that other govern- . ments were compensated for damages Coolidge Secretary to their munitions in the 1916 ex- Also Thinks He Lies | The damages awarded to Ughet by ll 0 ll the U. S. Court of Appeals which plosion, the courts Sustained the Le- | high Valley in its refusal to pay the Soviet Union for the destruction of its munitions. Goes to Counter-Revolution. |amounts to between two and three | million dollars will go either to fo- ‘ment counter-revolution or for Ug- That President Coolidge will ae- belief expressed today by C. Bascom| The Lehigh Valley railroad refused Slemp, former secretary to the presi-| to pay Ughet because he did not rep- dent who arrived home from Europe | 'esent the present government, It is on the steamer George Washington, | "0 known how soon the Lehigh will “Tt would have been so easy for | be forced to pay Ughet the money. him to have said, ‘I won’t run,’” ‘The ee has refused the plea of apes | the Soviet Union for a custodian for ous cities and sections, giving each| Party’s life in terms of a unified| Soviet Union and in the question of aie ve . ..| Sigeant militarist role with which| Party. Group loyalty must be com-|internal consolidation and develop- | delezate mop na LABS (a | France was saddled by England after | pletely displaced by Party loyalty and|ment of complete Party unity, the | = ; bit | the end of the war. Objective con-| a Party attitude consciously striven|convention marks a tremendous] 3. In the case of large cities de- | ditions have forced the British em-| for on every question facing the | achievement. ;siring a general membership meet- | Dire to increase its military establish- | Party. | The incoming C. E. C. pledges it-| ing to hear the report, we recommend ment in order to defend the loot taken e eos Ss self to carry out all tasks imposed|two reporters who shall divide up| from defenceless peoples for centur- | Tasks Before the Party. HE convention has laid before the Party many important ta: chief of these are: an inten of the struggle inst the w ger and American imperialism powerful campaign for the def and recognition of the Soviet Union which shall draw in the widest pos sible sections of the American mez 35 | the development of the working class politically into a consciousness of its class inter and the need for alde ¢lass political organization in the form | of a Labor Party; the intensification of the trade union activities of the 4 Party particularly the building and} 4 strengthening of the left Wing; the >” earrying on of a continuous campaign to meet the offensive of the bureau- Scracy and to expose the role of that | bureaucracy and eliminate it from the | leadership of the American labor movement; the saving of the existing | Without pers tion. ception and without re; in this period of reaction. upon the member: energy, to inter the Pa class: ism and reaction. upon it by the Party membership |the report between them. is through the Fifth National Conven-|0t regard themselves as co-reporters | It will work in the spirit of|and shall make up a single unified|Jackeys, which include half a dozen that conventioh and calls upon the|report. Only one delegate shall sum} small nations represented at the| membership of the Party without ex- | up. ‘d to forruer | A. groupings and differences to vive it|of the declaration of the Cenral Ex-| comes support and cooperation in the/ ecutive Committee on the Fifth Na-| Britain. difficult tasks that it has to perform|tional Convention. It calls hip to redouble its ify its activities, C strive consciously to improve its un-| Shall be published in the form of a anding of the tasks before the Pamphlet of from 64 to 128 pages and Party and to carry them out in‘such/sell for from 25_ manner that during the coming year|Phlet shall contain: will prove more than ever| 4, valuable to the American working|and summary of the Political Com- and will deal successful and} mittee, heavy blows at capitalism, imperial-/| the The Fifth Convention was the first convention of the Party to meet and be compelled to carry on its labor: mal contribution of our | They shall) jes and in preparation for its coming |war on the Soviet Union, France's league, are put up to speak their shall follow the line} Pieces while so far only a lone Greek to the tribune for Great We shall await Briand’s |forthcoming speech with much in- terest. | PERSON with the rather appro- priate cognomen of Payne has written a letter to us which expresses somewhat illiterately his deep repug- nance to Communism and every other social theory that is in opposition to | | capitalism. It is rarely that one finds any spark of originality in the minds | the report and’ summary of | of this ultra-patriotic species. Payne | Trade Union Department, the re-| holds that United States marines are | {port and simmary of the Interna- in South America and China with the | tional Delegate and the report and) consent of the natives. He would de- summary of the representative of the| port every alien in this country for ;Communist International. threé years without having declared | Reporte Il. Publications. to The proceedings of the convention 25 to 50c, This pam- Verbatim copies of the report get ride of this crowd of wretched | President's phrase of not “choosing” | “diplomatists,” who, brought up in| to run. z My opinion is that he will the school of compromise, fear criti- | respond.” cism like the devil and are devoting | their talents to stifling the British | H labor movement. WASHINGTON, Sept. _ 9.—Cash! Move Toward Own Graves. subscriptions for the $250,000,000 is- | “By their rupture of the Anglo-| sue of 3 per cent treasury certificates | Russian committee the British social-| totaled $580,000,000, subscriptions for | imperialists have moved another step | the $250,000,000 issue of 3% per cent. | toward their own political graves. | Treasury notes were $1,090,000,000. | “We do not want to keep in this world} Secretary of Treasury Mellon said} those who tomorrow will be dead’ | that the privilege of exchanging the | and our close ties with all that lives| 4% per cent, second liberty bonds for | in the British trade unions with the| the treasury notes will be extended | whole mass of English workers never | until September 29. | were nor can be severed.” Sell More U. S. Securities. | WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? | Losovsky Nails Lies. MOSCOW, Sept. 9.—A. Losovsky, | the funds pending further action. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? NOTICE Jamboree Tickets must be turned in at once to the Joint Defense Committee, 41 Union Square. Do it now. "a \ of the Red International of Trade) = Unions, in’ an interview today, de-| clared that the rupture in the Anglo-| Russian Trade Union Committee is | the logical and political result of the | system of sabotage in which the gen- PREPARE YOUR BUNDLES NOW eral council has engaged in the last 18 months. “The general council of the British Trade Unions,” charged Losovsky, “wished to have such a committee as would sanction all its filthy ac- unions which are under attack both| dead leader, C. E! Ruthenberg. from without and from within and|ast words are a clarion call to the their strengthening and amalgama- membership of oe Party and on eT tion into powerful industrial unions; | Pression of the spirit which animated the organization of the unorganized we ifth National Convention. . 2. Insofar as space will permit, their intentions to become citizens | His| .orhatim reports of department | and winds up with: “militaristically | jheads and speeches of Polburo mem- | bers. tions against the working class and % Py its servility towards its bourgeoisie | yours.” This fellow is a candidate | onq ine . es : 8; sees | would, from time to time, | RS lousy, gue and 8 Tot infested | pass ‘left’ resolutions without pre- rae e next war. He 1s wel- | venting the general council from car- ” masses which make up the majority | of the American working class and the linking up of such organizations with the main stream of the American | labor movem The convention al aid upon the \ ‘ Party membership the task of strengthening the Party organization “Tell the comrades to ranks, to build the Party. American workers, under the hip of our Party and the Co’ | will win. Let us fight on.” vention. Carry on the Fight Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them. Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, who murdered Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain The Daily Worker to carry on the fight for which’ Sacco and Vanzetti died. Answer the capitalist sassins with your sup- port of The Daily Worker in its fight FOR Nicola Sacco The Defense of Class War Prisoners A Strong, Militant Labor Movement A Labor Party and a Labor Government The Protection of the Foreign Born The Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union Hands Off China The Abolition of All Imperialist Wars The Abolition of the Capitalist’ System wR oe wae Tas C. calls upon the Party in hi jer- srn,|there shall be articles written in the} treatment, accorded Reporting on the Fifth National Con- Instructions of the sub-committee |of the Party growing out of it. Sacco, Vanzetti Gave Their Lives ons of the convention. The | S aries f all other : . The | roa cay ee |come to gratify his taste. yeeches, . m4 . 4. Resolutions and ee cieaial | impression that the police re- he ; decisions of |* serve their clubs for the heads of | In addition to the above pamphlet} yadical strikes is not borne out by the | e 3 to the truck | |press by leading members of the Cons} drivers who quit work when their de-| |tral Executive Committee on tag! mands for a wage increase was re- | work of the convention and the task8| fused by the employers. The police are out in force with nervous fingers | on triggers and clubs poised for ac-| tion. The strikers are not ideolog- ically radical. But they are insisting on higher wages and insisting in a| militant manner. It-makes little dif- | ference to the employer for the mo-| ; ment whether the slave who is mak- | ing a raid on his profits is a radical! | or a conservative. This lesson should | for which | Ses will not be good to him if he fol-| lowg radical leadership. { ‘A CHICAGO comrade who happens | | to be one of those rare human |gems that distributes revolutionary | | literature for the pure joy gained from | ‘this kind of activity writes that the! | police of that city are making it very | difficult for him to engage in this | voluntary and very useful work. He suggests that little stickers with simple messages to the workers prin- ted on them should be gotten out. He thinks those stickers pasted in public places would attract attention and would do much good. Many of! our readers, like this comrade have ‘excellent suggestions to make and | they should mot be timid in making | them. ‘Pittsburgh Workers to ‘Hear Browder Tell of ‘Chinese Revolution | Bartolomeo Vanzetti PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 9.—Earl Browder, Editor of Labot Unity, has just returned from a six inonths’ trip through Nationalist China, during the | period of ‘most acute civil war. He ‘was in close contact with such leaders ‘as Son Chen Ging, Eugene Chen, ———————————— Here Is My Tribute to The Memory of Sacco, Vanzetti. DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N, Y. Inclosed you will find .. i doliave saa’ Diy -teabitee:- ens tine Mme. Sun Yat Sen, and Michael memory of Saeco and Vanzetti, Borodin. The revolutionary develop- and as my _contr.bution to help the Daily Worker carry on the fight, for which they have given their lives. ments in China are of outstanding importance to the working class of the entire world. All workers are in- vited to avail themselves of this op- portunity of hearing first hand in- | formation, from a working class view- point. Do not miss this meeting Friday, September 16th 8 p. m., Labor Ly- | congress were provided for in detail. | of the Anglo-Russian committee, does | |a sufficient guarantee that the gen- | rying on its police. Demand Criticism Stop. | “From the Soviet trade unions it} demanded the surrender of the mght of criticism and instead of going into | the substance of pressing questions, | indulged in the most contempsidle juridical trickery. “It is noteworthy that the general council’s attitude towards the Cen- tral Council of Labor Unions of the U. S. S. R. inereased in proportion to the aggressiveness of the British capitalist government against the Soviet Union. The ‘connection here is more than clear. Provocation by Council. | “Everything was carefully pre-| pared beforehand ind the actions of | The general council intentionally sent to us a provocatory letter, fully real- izing that our Central Council would have to reply and, as the question of a rupture was a foregone conclusion and surely agreed upon before hand with the governmént, the final action | was affected in accordance with all rules, | “The correlation of the forces of | the laboring masses on the question | not correspond with the correlation of forces of the congress. The fact that millions of English workers are at one with the Soviet proletariat is and at eral council’s blow will not break the growing ties between the working class of the U. S. S, R. and Britain. Assails General Councillors. “Regarding the general councillors we can say in reply to their petty attacks: ‘Love was without joy, sep- aration will be without sorrow.’ In all the recent acts of the general council they have shown that their policy paralleled that of the British | tories and this is the first oppor- tunity they have had to follow their own policy to its logical conclusion and identify themselves completely with the government in its break with the U. S. S. R.” \ LECT ARTICLES Would Stop Dangecous Show. OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 9. — The Canadian government is besieged Names received for the Honor Roll at $1 per name. oo ms | for the First National Bazaar ‘4 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DAILY WORKER the FREIHEIT Madison Square Garden, on October 6, 7,8 and 9 ALL WORKERS PARTY UNITS, AND WORKING CLASS ORGANIZATIONS ARE URGED TO COL- IMMEDIATELY Delegations are coming to this gigantic affair from the entire country. the largest cities will have a booth of it own. » Prizes will be given for the finest booth. Each of Advertixements solicited for the Souvenir Program, with messages today, from one end of Canada to the other asking for action that will prevent future trans- Atlantie flights from this Dominion unless the machines have been in- spected by govern:nent air board of- ficials and have had hours of trial For further 30 Union Square, THE BIGGEST AFF ceum, 35 Miller Street. Admission is 25 cents. flights meeting conditions similar to those encountered over the Atlantic. pts laos ‘ommittee, New York, N. Y. ‘AIR OF THE YEAR a PRE ike i