The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 3

i RUSSIAN STRIKE MALICIOUS LIES Part of General Cam- paign Against Soviets MOSCOW, Sept.,18.—The foreign | press has lately been spreading false | reports / regarding alleged labor | troubles in Minsk, Moghiliev and Len- | ingrad. The crude falsehoods of these reports are clearly revealed because | of the reasons put forth as causes of | the troubles. Thus, according. to in-} spired Warsaw inventions’ of a ‘no- toriously mendacious British news agency the alleged troubles are due to | the Soviet government’s refusal to grant the eight-hour day. That this assertion is absurd is clear in view of | the well-known fact that in the Union | of Socialist Soviet Republics the eight- | hour maximum working day is fixed | by law, which provides severe punish- | ment for violation. Leningrad Strike a Myth. | Likewise, the story of the strike of | workers at the electrical station at Leningrad is a pure fabrication from beginning to end and contains not one | word of truth. Most malicious was this report which claimed that work- | ers were fighting against soldiers in| the streets. The facts that explode | this myth are that at Leningrad the electrical works are being rapidly en- larged in order to complete the elec- trification of the city. There is no reason for dissatisfaction among the workers. Their conditions are far superior to those of pre-war days and | their wages constantly increase and are now far above pre-war level. This fiction regarding labor troubles is but part of the broad campaign of calumny which has lately increased as a result of the Anglo-Russian rupture and in connection with the vicious anti-Soviet campaign being carried on in France, { * {action in Mexican politics by killing | | Obregon on his train, in which he is | @ rs i Nicaragua Admits Only, Marines Keep Diaz In WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (FP). | | —Only the presence of United States marines keeps the Liberals | and allied forces from dislodging | the state department’s favorite in {the Nicaraguan presidency, Gen-| jeral McCoy admits in a cable to the department. In the province| | of Nueva Segovia heavy guards of marines and American-trained na- | tional guards are protecting the} Diaz regime against General San- | dino and his army of patriots, who | are referred to as “bandits.” The) marines now boast they have shot | and killed several Honduran “ban-}| dits” in addition to the Nicaraguan | variety. McCoy warns Kellogg that with- | drawal of the marines would pre-| cipitate open war on Diaz and ad- | vises that they be kept in full) force until the elections are held} | next year. | | Reactionaies Plot te Kill Obregon: General Arrested MEXICO CITY, Sept. 18.—Without | respect for Mexico’s national inde-| pendence day, Sept. 16, a plot was formed ‘against the life of General Alvaro Obregon, candidate for the} presidency in opposition to Wall Street’s entries, two reactionary gen- erals. While President Calles, outgoing in- | cumbent, was ringing the Mexican liberty bell, and opening the independ- ence day ceremonies by a review of ten thousand groops, General Garrido and Lieut.-Col. Jose Guadalupe Gran- ados were being carted off to jail for their part in a plan to re-establish re- NOTE: This is the seventh install- | ment of the report for the Political Committee made by Jay Lovestone, at the recent Fifth National Con- vention of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party held in New York City. This installment deals with “The | Party’s rtcomings, Mistakes and Problems. * * * The, Labor Party movement in Minnesota is a gtep toward a labor party nationally. The Labor Party) development in Buffalo is a step to-! ward a labor party nationally and to- ward a mass movement. Also when we speak of a labor party movement, we must speak of our party’s develop- | ing such issues as will rouse and} mobilize masses for action against the | bourgeoisie. election campaign have such issues as prohibition, world court, the pri maries, ete. But we who are striving to win the leadership of the working class cannot advance towards winning the leadership unless in the 1928 elec- tions we throw out slogans such as the right to strike, no injunctions, agricultural relief, social legislation, | the exposure of the strike-breaking role of the government and the im-| perialist war policies of the United) State: j If our Party is unable to develop| a big enough, genuine, mass labor} party movement because of the diffi- | cult objective conditions, if we are} unable to develop a mass united la-| bor ticket movement, then our Party should examine the situation and if it is possible then we should enter, as British Labor Leaders Make Their Choice— The Empire Before The Workingclass By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ] [ 24DERS & the British movement, especially ers like Hicks, Purcell, etc., shown great indignation when charged The capitalists in their | “American Connanier in The Party’s Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems STORIES MASS OF , the Communist Party, under our own name, in the election campaign of 1928. | 5 Before coming to the situation! * in the Party, I want to deal with |the role of our Party in the united front movements. The development lof successful united front movements is the road by which our Party can gain access to large masses, broad layers of non-Communist masses and draw them closer to us. In the uni- ted front our Party should fight f leadership, should fight for initiativ: But sometimes it is necessary for us to give up the outward leadership. ; Sometimes it is necessary for us to see to it that non-Communists should outwardly be the leaders in order to ure the success of united front movements, but we never deliberately give up the right of Communists Communists to function and partici- | pate in united front movemen We do not make a®principle to which we adhere rigidly of the idea of Commu- nists functioning openly as Commu- ‘nists in the united front under all conditions. Our problem what jform of Party participation will in- sure the participation of the largest masses in a move toward the left. If the Party’s going in under its own name will harm this move toward the left, we may make this sacrifice, tho always making a fight for the right to show our Communist Party’s face. We must show the face of the Pa: more than in the past. Our auxiliary organizations must function as auxiliaries to the Party and enable the Party to come into closer contact | is, to rally the British even working labor |class against such flagrant tyranny to break off relations with the Soviet “left” lead- | a8 the Trade Union Bill, unwilling to| Union by have | defend the Soviet Union as the work- | Soviet Ambas jers’ fatherland against the British }in the past. I League Council in | making a campaign tour. Row Over Hungarian | Keep Up the Sustaining Fund | -_——_—_—_—_. | | “Minnesota Star,” Now Estates: Adjourns ¥ee of Workers, Seeks GENEVA, Sept. 18.—The League of | Nations Council broke up in disorder Friday and sessions were postponed until over the week-end. The imme- diate occasion, whatever currents were moving underneath, was a spat be- tween the Hungarian representative Aponyi, survivor of sixty-four duels with the saber (in which the oppon- ent usually escaped unscathed also) and M, Titulesco, foreign minister of Roumania under the Bratiano broth- ers and bloody Queen Marie, who does all of his fighting with his mouth. | It’s a Money Matter. Titulesco seems to have France and England with him. Germany tenta- tively lines up with Hungary. The fight, stripped of high sounding verb- jiage about the right of peasants to own their Jand, etc., turns around the question of Roumania paying $80,- 000,000 to Hungary for the estates of Hungarian nobles confiscated in land | taken from Hungary by Roumania—- with the help of her victorious allies in the great war. | Titulesco became so vehement in his verbal assault upon Aponyi that President Villegas of the deputy from Chile, adjourned the meetings. A minor matter of interest, which may mean much or little, was the op- position of Canada, newly elected to the council, to England in the vote as to procedure in taking up the Hun-! garian lands question. Their Financial Aid MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 18. (FP).— The bankrupt Minnesota Daily Star, once the leading Farmer-Labor news- paper of the country, discontinued F publication in 1924 but is still seeking money from the workers that put up the cash to float it in 1920. The re- ceiver has sent notices to all stock- holders telling’ them to pay 25 per éent of the par value of their former | holdings to meet unpaid claims. The 25 per cent tax is in addition to the money already paid for, the stock which is a total loss. The receiver threatens to levysa larger sum unless every stockholder pays promptly. He has, the power to do so under the 200 per cent Minnesota corporation law under which the pape? was chartered. The present Minnesota Star, run by former Mayor Thomas VanLeat and his police chief, is in no sense a suc- cessor to the old farmer-labor daily, and is popularly believed to be under railroad control. It is a stealthy ene- my, of the farmer-labor movement. Over $60 From “The House of Joy. $60.50 ‘which was collected by Herbst in the summer resort, “House Pof Joy” was sent to the Defense | posite reasons—it is because they are Committee. During the summer the Defense has received donations from this resort. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? | e son |Tuling class, the oppressors of the {by Tomsky, head of the trade union | "un i |movement of the Soviet Union, with | British mashes snd oe zeae Ria jbeing tools of British imperialism. or eee bei A ie 6 aa Scene It is upon the sharp statements | 2nts government of the Soviet Union. |made by Tomsky in connection with | HE whole upper crust of the British | |their role during and since the gen-} labor movement has been whipped | eral strike, and particularly in rela-|into line by the British tor tion to their sabotage of the Anglo-| enlightening to note how refusal to} Russian Unity Committee, that these fight for the living standards and} leaders largely base their charges of | political liberties of the workers of | |interference with the internal affaits| 4 nation goes hand in hand with the} jof the British labor movement. | support of imperialist war upon the| 'ORMED to organize and stimulate ; Soviet Union. | into action an international move-|]#T can be said now that this is a’ {ment for world trade union unity and test for every labor leadership. If | {against imperialist war, the Anglo-|i¢ js hostile to the Soviet Union, if it | Russian Unity Committee appeared to| parrots the propagandists of the im-| |offer a genuine and effective method | perjalists, if it does not admit that! |of approach to the millions of work-|4 yew imperialist war is in the air {ers who were and are dissatisfied with | ang take steps to prepare the work-| |the close connection of the leaders of ing class for resistance, if it de- | : 8 |the International Federation of | nounces and wars upon the Commu- | |Trades Unions (Amsterdam) with | nists and the left wing instead of con- pias tose sabe governments. {céntrating all forces against the} HAT it did offer such a method of| capitalist offensive, it will be found | approach is now proved by the | that this same leadership is prepared | ‘fact that the British trade union|to surrender gains the labor move-| |leaders, who have accepted the leader-| ment has fought for decades to obtain, ship of the Baldwin government in| in order to retain its standing with | | the task of saving British imperialism | the imperialists. |at the expense of the British working | So it is in Great Britain, so it is, jelass, have severed-their connection | in France, so it is in Germany, so it} |with it after prevertting it from ful-|is in Italy and so it is in the United| filling its function ever since its or-| States. \" Y their deeds ye shall know them” | 'T is not because the Anglo-Russian | and by the recent action in} Trade Union Unity Committee was | Edinburgh the leaders of the British mpotent that the British labor lead-|labor movement show that they are ers withdraw but for the exactly op-| treading the same path that the leaders of the Second International trod in 1914—support of their im- perialist governments, emasculation! of the labor movement and betrayal | of the interests of the entire working | It is| | ganization. |unwilling to arouse the masses of workers against imperialist aggres- sion and war, unwilling to fight their {own imperialism first as an earnest | class. of their sincerity in the struggle | 5 | against world imperialism, unwilling! The failure to rally the British! Jubilee Tour » Soviet Russia | |2":2%----~ “The Land oy Amazing Achievements” Eight Weeks, Oct. 14 to Dec. 15 An unusual opportunity to participate in the Exten- sive Pageants and GALA FESTIVALS that will mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, BEST ACCOMMODATIONS. WORLD TOURISTS, Inc., 69 Fifth Ave., New York. Algonquin 6900 APPLY IMMEDIATELY TO GREAT RECEPTION, -|labor movement for struggle on all! fronts against the Trade Union Bill, was explained by these teaders as a! necessary tactic—they intended to| {wage a relentless parliamentary | struggle, they said. | pur the severance of relations with! |“ the Anglo-Russian Trade Union | Unity Committee, following upon the} heels of the breaking of relations with | the Soviet Union by the Baldwin gov- | ernment, shows that the British labor leadership is following a conscious political policy— | Pue British trade unions are being put on a war basis—that is, they ‘are being deprived of the will and power to fight the war plans of the ruling class, { This could not be done without the cooperation and passivity of the . |trade union and Labor Party leaders. | That it is being done is sufficient proof of the servile role of imperialist |agents played by these leaders, Modern war cannot be waged with- out the mobilization of the workers in industry. The last war proved this. With the powerful Jabor movement of Great Britain militantly opposed, war is impossible. N lardcorisbiete the suppression of the unions, the enlistment of the la- bor leadership in the ranks of the im- perialist forces putting the empire befpre the Interests of the masses, are infailibla gigng of mobilization for wai—social mobilization, The action of tha Edinburgh Con- ress is worth more than a million ayonets to the jmperialist conspiracy against the Boyies Union, It is note- worthy that the given proof of the hostile attitude o: |They Admit It Is a Fire—Once They Would Have Called It a “Sacco Bomb” Fo, Fi Pod with non-Party masses, | This question of the Party’s partici- | pation as a Party in the united front movements is not a splitting point with us, but in any united front where; the Socialist Party is to be seated, I} say the Party must fight for its right} to be seated because if the Socialist | Party is part of this united front as a political Party, as a centre of leader- ship and our Party is not, a tremend- | ous advantage will have been gained | by the Socialist Party under the cir- | cumstances. | In the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign the | Party has done splendid work. The} auxiliary organizations of the Party | have done splendid work. Yet I think | in our next steps we must show the Communist face more than we have | t of all the new con- | ditions demand Secondly, only the | Party can insure the success of such | a campaign and this is cl in face! of the position of the Boston Com- mittee and other element: | In our inner Party work, we cannot consider the building of nuclei, the developing of the basic unit of the Party as secondary. The force of The DAILY WORKER We have paid insufficient attenti to The DAILY WORKER. Partic-} ularly in this period when it is very It to develop big mass move- must we strengthen our Party tion, must we improve our literature, raise the ideological level and make the paper a Communist paper in the true sense of the word, because if we do not do it, we will be unable to build a Communist Party. (To Be Continued) Fe FIRE BLOCKS phan SUBWAY. Traffic ond. Ro Tas way between E Street and Van Cortlandt Park was blocked for two hours during rush period last night, when fire started in latter station and spread several blocks down the tra Current Events | (Continued from Page One) \located Leon Daudet, the royalist | who escaped by a ruse from prison. | We do not believe they are }very hard. The French poli it that the Communist who | mitted to leave |made his getaway, returned spee to his place of confinement and i |now serving his sentence. There |reason as the grape nuts adve ~ |ment said. Daudet against the re- | publican form of government but he trying the British labor leadership, prepares is for the capitalist s) And ie for the ‘fecal °6e here is where he can make a united z ARE RS front with the present regime in ador Rakovsky. Raanee. | UT the reactionary role of the * * * British labor leadership will not ig is reported that there is a differ- escape the attention of the working ence of opinion in the French class. This role is connected so in- timately now with the falling standard of living, the increasing burdens of militarism and the constant weaken- ing of the unions that the Communist cabinet over the advisability of hand- ing Soviet ambassador Rakovsky his passports. Briand who.forgthe mo- ment favors a moderate poli is Every month you will find the best Poincare is ‘Chicago Sign Painters. Party and the National Minority) movement will be able to make clear its lessons to huge sections of the| labor movement. HE acute crisis of British imperial- ism forces the rulers to expose} their ‘henchmen in the labor move- ment before the war drums actually begin to throb and this makes it pos- sible to point them out to the masses | and warn the working class against them before their job of recruiting agents for imperialism has been com-! pleted. N the United States, where the in-| ternational iaracter of the labor movement is concealed deliberately by | the reactionary labor leadership, it is! essential that the international basis of reaction—support of imperialist | governments’ foreign and domestic policy—be pointed out and continually called to the attention of the working | class in connection with the daily struggles. Attention, Cleveland Members | Report of National Convention of the Party. CLEVELAND, Sept. 18—A report | of the National Convention of the| Party will be given at a membership mecting on Sunday, September 25 at 2 p. m. at the National Institute, | 13409 Kinsman Road. There will be two reporters who will divide up the report, so that the membership will get a comprehensive survey of the| work of the National Convention. This ¢onvention was a true unity) convention and the membership meet- | ing will be an occasion to’ solidify | the ranks in Cleveland and push the work of the Party forward. | The meeting will be followed by a} banquet at the same place. There! will be fun and amusement. All Party members should attend the meeting and banquet, and all) sympathizers who may be vouched! for by members of the Party are also | invited to attend. | Reports to locals outside of Cleve- | land will be made during the follow- | ling week. | Hit by Unemployment CHICAGO, Sept. 18. (FP).—Mem- bers of the Chicago sign and pictorial painters’ union, Local 830 of the painters’ brotherhood, are reporting considerable unemployment this month, though normally September is! the rush period in the outdoor adver- tising division, Chieago is headquar- ters for outdoor display companies that send crews all over th emiddle west painting the huge pboardings along the railroad and motor High-| ways in the country and on the walls | of bulldings in the cities, The work! is woll unionized, Advertisers are anticipating a de- pression by abandoning the expensive painted signs in favor of the paper and paste billboards, Though paint- ed algna last @ months or more and paper adi avo changed every few weeks the saving remain’ considers. ble, according te the unionists, % against such action. said to favor a diplomatic break with the Soviet government. According to Paris dispatches to the American press oil is bubbling in the Frénch political cauldron. There are rumors that Royal Dutch Shell has subsidized several of the Paris dailies and that this nourishment is responsible for their frenzied demands for the recall of Rakovsky. * * * HE Soviet Union and France are negotiating with a view to a | settlement of the mooted debt ques- tion and other matters affecting the wellfare of both countries. England has a jaundiced look fixed on the pourparlers. A recent agreement ratified in Berlin between representa- tive of Germany, France and Italy and envoys of the Soviet Union would ‘en- able those countries to distribute Rus- sian oil within their own borders at a lower rate than could be secured frcm either Royal Dutch Shell or Standard Oil. The loud howls against the action of Rakovsky in signing the statement issued by the opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, are really due to the chagriy of the great oil monopoly of Great Britain in seeing so much Russian oil | slipping thru their fingers. * * * F course wars have been fought in the past over less valuable con- siderations than oil. The capitalist powers would sacrifice millions of their citizens to haul down the red flag in the oil Klondyke of Baku, It is because of their desire to get their hands on this “gold mine” that the oil barons of England have fostered a fake Georgian government in Paris for several years. The mistake the oil kings made is failing to hive our own A. 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