The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1927, Page 4

fi for the United Mine Workers but for the whole labor movement. Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER()n the Tenth Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES y By Mail (in New York.only): By Mail (outside of New eae 8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years _ $3.50 six months | Ed $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | 'HE Foreign Policy Association, that has the sympathy and support of Thomas W. Lamont, of the House of ——— | Morgan, has devoted an entire issue of its “Information to Service,” Sept. 28th, to “The Evolution of the Soviet ¥. Government,” 1917-1927. “Current History,” the monthly magazine, is planning Ais Coes hoa beeRe Se to give over the major part of its next issue to “The Bs Ten Years of the Soviet Power.” In last Sunday’s issue BERT MILLER -Business Manager The New York Herald-Tribune gave a whole page in its Watered as second-class mail at the p. of “at New York, N. ¥., under yotogravure section to pictures of life in the Soviet the act of March 3, 1879 Union. Over the nation nearly every issue of the cap- : italist daily press gives voice to the views of some one “returned from Moscow.” Much is favorable. A great deal is hostile. Some is poisonous in the extreme. It is the reaction of the cap- italist world from day to day to the fact that the work- ers and peasants in the Union of Soviet Republics have The question of state power can be neither evaded | now been in power for ten yearee 2 whole decade. * it i e ental ques- J ao ag ae te aiopeacd of| A ship has been chartered to carry 3,168,000 feet of tion a Aon in home and foreign politics. |lumber from Soviet White Sea ports to New York City. pay abd rere in fact that our revolution wasted| Prof. D. M. Mushketov, director of the Soviet. Geolog- half a year “fruitlessly” through irrésolution in ical Survey, arrives in New York to study the American the question of power, and that this irresolution Geological Survey. was due to the policy of the Social Revolutionaries Address and mail and make cut ch THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ WILLIAM F. DUNNE Editors LENIN SAID: Pas th licy of |Advancement of Colored People, announces his regret and the Mensheviki. And at bottom the po! fe m|at being unable to attend the Soviet Anniversary Cele- these parties was determined by the class position | ( 4 an p ‘si eoisie, by its economic inconsis- | bration, at Moscow, Nov. 7th. The Brazilian Federation of gpa esta hebween feantial and labor.—|0f Trade Unions gladly accepts the invitation with the tency m™ me is ne "Wokuee Path), Sept. 27, 1917. | exclamation, “Long Live Proletarian Solidarity!” Rabotschi bg S a | question of the American Federation of Labor sending (Ten Years Ago. a delegation to the Soviet Union may be raised at the Los Angeles Convention, starting Oct. 3. Miss Harriet i . 5 . Eddy, of the University of California, praises Soviet The Pittsburgh Terminal Injunction and the Bedford Cut libraries. Four Russian peasants arrive in New York age . City. Their mission is to direct the transport to the Stone Decision Jointly Outlaw All Important Strikes. Soviet Union of 2,700 high grade sheep recently pur- ° mR oe in Utah, Montana, Oregon and Ohio. Various The federal injunction granted the Pittsburgh Lprpes a organisations in the Soviet Union have invited 1,150 restraining the United Mine Workers from all interfer- | guests to attend the impending Tenth Anniversary Cele- exagaedy i sin Bee is hailed correctly by the big news | bration, | All this comes through in the news for two services as “the worst defeat of the present bituminous coal|‘msecutive days, = | | strike.” : On this Tenth Anniversary the capitalist world will The injunction completely prohibits picketing but the judge | mobilize its whole press battalions to belittle and scoff gardonically expreases the opinion that the miners who have been |st ve achievements of the Soviet Power, On the other evicted by the company still have the right to “any appeal now eee: yoiraag Pia aided eae ed ng Pk pending in the courts.” This is in reference to suits brought DY | capitalist land, will do their utmost during this Tenth evicted miners against the company in the state courts. | Anniversary Celebration, to bring to the minds of the The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company applied for the fed- | world 's Seurenied workers and farmers the achievements eral injunction on the ground that the strike against its proper-|°' "Se ten years, ties constituted “interference with interstate commerce” and Ae Den: welt 45a -ahort period “fbr :the saa iaaemnnbeetehe was upon this ground, according to dispatches, that the injunc- “old regime” of the czarist landlords, bankers and in- tion was granted. j dustrialists, with Communism. The burden of centuries : . ee; at a precedent |is not completely sloughed off in one short decade, This being the case, it is apparent - ea 7 . aera | Especially in a country like Russia, backward in every has been established which can form the basis for inj *S/ economic and cultural respect, in which nine-tenths of against workers on strike against any concern whose product is | the population consists of peasants cultivating their land shipped out of the state in which its plant is located. | with priate pert is the path toward the goal Bh x istrict judge would render | Sought difficult and winding. It is inconceivable that a federal orn ai resent one The social-democrats, traitors to the revolution, joined such a decision, in as important a case as that o: ep *\the capitalists in declaring it couldn’t be done, Ten without consulting the attorney-general and being fairly certain | years of progress, however, has forced that sneer from of the attitude of the federal legal department. |their faces. The sneer is replaced by a look of fear. tf maker is followin, the | For, € the Russian worker and peasant masses can li ee ee ponoea e |achieve victory against the tremendous obstacles that policy of the ‘ Taken in connection with the Bedford Cut Stone Company de- |must be that the replacement of capitalism by Commu- cision, which prohibits union men from refusing to use material nism must be much easier and simpler in countries like produced by unfair concerns and shipped FROM another state, | the United States and Germany, or Great Britain, pos- the Soviet Union William Pickens, of the National Association for the | The | » | have confronted them, as they are doing, the conclusion | system of transportation has been highly developed, | Anniversary of BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL —— ress of the Soviet Revolution in Russia in this way that) one gets a proper perspective on this Tenth Anniversary. * = * The Foreign Policy Association gets no comfort out of tremendous growth of Soviet industry and agricul- ture. It boldly states its hope, however, for the disin- tegration of the Soviet Power in words as follows: “The future economic development of Russia is closely allied to the solution of the complications arising out of Soviet foreign relations and the present Party. contro- versy. An unknown factor of great importance in the Russian situation is the effect upon Soviet policy of the | Anglo-Russian break, the continued friction with France | and the failure to open relations with the United States. | The continued isolation of Russia and the fear of for- eign invasion professed by Soviet leaders exercises a constant unfavorable influence upon the normal develop- | ment of her internal life.” | The propaganda writers of “The Association,” point- | ing out that the Communist Party is the ruling power | in the Soviet Union, herald the differences between the | party and the opposition as clear that “unless a com- promise is found between the policies advocated by the two groups the Communist Party will cease to be a | unit,” with the inference that the Proletarian Dictator- | ship will then crumble and Russia be restored to the | world of capitalist nations. | | ' | | | | | | | | | That is the dream nursed by the world reaction on the | Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik victory. It is thin stuff. To be sure the raid on Arcos in London, at the com- | mand of the Baldwin tory government, and the breaking of diplomatic relations with the Soviet’ Union, again emphasized the continuously threatening war danger. The growing imperialist attack is not averted, except temporarily, by the fact that France now refuses to sever its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, again emphasizing the continuously threatening war dan- ger. The growing imperialist attack is not averted, ex- cept temporarily, by the fact that France now refuses to sever its diplomatic relations with the Workers’ Repub- lic, and by the failure of other continental nations to | join Britain’s anti-Soviet bloc at this time. But the war danger only solidifies the worker and peasant masses in support of their government. Thus we find | popular subseriptions mounting for the “Answer to Chamberlain Fund” to purchase plahes for the Soviet air fleet, the development of rifle clubs on a far-reach- ing scale, while the military maneuvers this year have been more successful than ever. * * * The differences within the Communist Party have been reduced to a minimum. It may be said that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is stronger today than at any time during the last ten years. It is greater in numbers. But more important, its members have had the benefit of the experiences of the past ten years. They have conducted and developed industry and agri- culture under the most trying circumstances. They have built the Red Army. They have been schooled in all the activities of government. | This has not been an easy accomplishment by any | means. Thorough training is the order of the day for j all officials of the government. Many are brought to | Moscow, even from distant sections of the Soviet Union, and schooled in their duties at the Communist Academy. The work of education among the masses proceeds on »an extensive scale through a powerful daily, weekly and | monthly press, through the publication of books, pam- phlets and special literature in quantities hitherto un- known in Russia, through the development of every cul- tural activity. All this serves to knit more firmly all | Russian labor in support of the Soviet Power. | * * * ers and peasants sees the sun of world working cla: | victory mounting higher than ever. f under penalty of imprisonment, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal | §°ssing @ rich technical basis of production; where the product is shipped INTO other states, constitutes a method by |age of the population. It is only when viewing the prog- which strikes of any importance can be outlawed from the start. . Trade Union Act by which any effective strikes can be outlawed | Inventors Busy and by which the British labor movement has been crippled. without a single law being passed, by the issuance of injunctions. | TIONS BY WORKING CLASS ELEMENTS. Just as in Great Britain, the official labor leadership makes} The “Andre Marty” ship-building yard in Nikolaev Company decision, which outlaws strikes against concerns whose | where the industrial workers make up a large percent. Reference has been made in these columns to the British} The same objects are being attained in the United States | PRODUCTION CONFERENCES PROMOTE INVEN- no effective fight against this drive on the labor movement. employs 8,437 manual and office workers. A consider- But different from the situation in Great Britain is the fact,|#>l¢ number of all sorts of proposals concerning every | ae si 5 % | branch of factory life are sent in by the workers through that here labor officialdom, far from urging the organization Of | the production conferences and also direct to the man- a labor party to take up the cudgels for the working class in| agement of the ship-yard. During the first half of the every city, state and national election and unite all forces ea esas year 139 proposals were examined, 34% of = oe « ica: italism, continues to | hie found practical application, whereas 3% were de- labor against the partie of Feel . pre t ts of. bor’s | lared to be technically correct although not applicable support the political parties which are the instruments of la by the means at the disposal of the works. Only 15% enemies, and to fight the supporters of a labor party harder than | were entirely rejected. it fights the bosses. ¥ A F F Such production conferences are held in all the de- The Pittsburgh injunction is another danger sign, not only partments of the works and are convened once a month. Questions connected with the utilization of plant and The immediate step is mass violation of this injunction. Force | labor forces are discussed at the conferences. the arrest of hundreds of union members and officials and around | the nationwide campaign that can be organized for their release, it would be possible to crystallize a labor party movement which could get its baptism of'fire in the 1928 elections. The Pope Puts One Over on the Faithful It is not often that the slippery diplomats of the vatican get pinched in the shifting machinery of European diplomacy but in his statement to the visiting members of the American Legion, the pope made a bad blunder. He referred to the “contribution by young America in that decisive moment for the future of Old Europe and the whole world,” obviously meaning America’s part in the war in behalf of the allies. Every schoolboy knows that the vatican backed the central powers in the world war, that Austro-Hungary was a catholic em- pire and that large sections of Germany, notably Bavaria, are overwhelmingly catholic, that vatican influence aided in keeping Italy out of the war for a long period and that the activities of the vatican demoralized the Italian forces and almost gave victory to the Austro-Hungarian forces. But the balance of power has changed in Europe, the! Eucharist congress in Chicago last year was a pro-vatican demon- stration, the vatican has an agreement with Mussolini, Great Britain is on friendly terms with the pope and above all the vati- can does not want to do anything to strain relations with the pious vociferous legionnaires who get along so well with the mil- itia of Christ and catholic labor leaders. Germany and Austria have protested, the suave Cardinal Gasparri has “explained,” and all that is left for the outraged supporters of the vatican in Austria and Germany to do is to lick their wounds and ponder on the mysterious ways in which. the vicat-of Christ on earth works in order his wonders to perform, But in spite of the doctrinal infallibility of the keeper of Peter’s keys, his recent remarks will not help the vatican in Aus- On May 138, 1926, a commission was appointed for the promotion of the inventiveness of the workers. In the course of last year the commission received 22 notices of inventions and improvements. Eleven of them have been put into practice and 8 were given a premium, Altogether 4 improvement proposals were rejected. Up to July of the current year 59 proposals have been received: 16 from manual workers, one from office work- ers, 9 from foremen, 28 from technicians and 5 from other categories of workers. Five of the proposals are new inventions. PLENUM OF THE PAPER WORKERS’ CENTRAL COMMITTEE. It has been decided at the plenum of the paper work- ers’ central committee, which is now proceeding, to take measures for the creation of skilled labor power. This is all the more necessary just now in view of the rapid development of the paper industry. Production is expected to increase more than 10% per annum. According to a business estimate 30,000 workers will be employed in this industry in 1926-27, 38,000 in 1931- 32, 48,000 in 1936-37 and 57,000 in 1941-42. However, in the more up-to-date enterprises the growth of pro- duction will exceed the growth of labor forces, GROWTH OF ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION IN 1926-27. The year 1926-27 is the first year in the history of Socialist construction in the U, S. S, R: when all the planned work has been carried out completely, can be considered as a victory of planning and also of the Socialist method of accelerating the development of the productive forces of the country, In the course of eight months there was a 21% in- crease of production in industry; this is slightly in ex- cess of planned expectations, Concentration on indus- trialization has had the result that production of moans of production has outstripped production’ of articles of general consumption, The quality of the articles pro- duced has greatly improved, The number of workers employed has increased 5.4%, Production per head has increased 9.8%, This in the U.S. S.R * | Agriculture. There has been a 15-20% increase in the production of cereals for technical purposes in 1926-27. The number of cattle has increased 8%. The purchasing capacity of the peasantry has increased 8-9%. | The development of transport did not keep pace with the development of other branches of economy. How- ‘ever, there has been in the course of 8 months 15% in- crease in the goods traffic which is a testimony not only of the development of transport, but of the entire na- tional economy. During the 8 months foreign trade showed an active balance of 105 million roubles, export having increased 22%. FOREIGN SPORTSMEN’S PROTEST AGAINST THE EXECUTION OF SACCO AND VANZETTI. The Foreign sportsmen who have come to the All- Union Physical Culture Festival organized, at the ini- tiative of the German sportsmen, a protest meeting against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This meet- ing was attended by 108 representatives of 5 countries: Germany, Finland, Czecho-Slovakia and Norway. The brutality of the American bourgeoisie is severely con- demned in a resolution which was adopted unanimously. The workers of all countries are urged to unite for struggle against the capitalist offensive. ARRIVAL OF THE NORWEGIAN LABOR DELEGATION, The Norwegian workers’ delegation composed of 86 people, including four women, arrived in Leningrad on August 30th, Two-thirds of the delegation are mem- bers of the Labor Party. Among the members of the delegation are builders, metal and paper workers, print- ers, textile and chemical workers, tanners, railwaymen, wood workers and-fishermen. The head of the delega- tion is Albert D#tirichsen, a member of the Labor Party. The secretary of the delegation is a Communist, the metal worker, Voss. . The chairman of the delegation, Diedrichsen, told a collaborator of the “Izvestia” that the visit of this delegation which consists entirely of workers at the bench is the result of the strong desire of Norwegian workers to establish relations with the Russian prole- tariat. The secretary of the delegation, comrade Voss, spoke of the precarious position of the working class in Nor- way. A series of conflicts have taken place lately in Norway. As a result of a big lockout, legislation pro- viding for compulsory arbitration has been introduced. At present there is a big conflict in the chemical in- dustry in which 12,000 people are involved, The econ- omic position of the Norwegian workers is twice as bad as prior to the war, Members of the Norwogian delegation speak of big demonstrations 1n Norway in connection with the execu- tlon of Sacco and Vanzett!, The provest did not limit itself to meetings which were held throughout the coun-| try, In towns where workers take the lead in the muni- al councils a boycott of American firms wi | | py the Am th ericans retaliated by ceasing to advertise in the labor press, His Report for the NOPE: Following his report to the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party for the political committee, there was a lengthy discussion among the delegates. Jay Lovestone, the re- porter for the committee, then summarized the discussion as fol- lows: * * * (Continued from last issue.) Unity in “Deeds Not Words.” “Unity is a maneuver’—you say it is @ maneuver. What are we maneuvering for when we speak of unity? Are we trying to jam any- thing down your throats? We have the majority. The mem- bership is convinced of this. The C. I. is convinced of this. We are not fighting for a majority. We are not are a majority. Those questions are settled. What was the maneuver? Are we trying to make an alliance with some comrades against others? I say no, but we will deal with that question in a minute. Some comrades say “we want deeds, not words,” We extent to you the hand of unity, and we will keep it extended no matter how often you refuse it, until you clasp it and realize that all your Suspicions are unfounded. Comrade |Ballam has come for- ward with the claim for a niche in the Party museum..Comrade Bedacht, he is a little factional — he says in the Party mausoleum! I don’t say this. We have one difference with each other, Comrade Bedacht.. Com- rade Ballam is alive and will help the Party much more than in the past. What does Comrade Ballam claim? He claims: “I, as a member of the | group which threw out the slogan of collective leadership”. I think he threw it away when he misapplied it. Comrade Cannon is farsighted, is a little more advanced in Party strat- egy. When he said that same thing about unity, he passed a note up | to the chair at least to have the rec- ord clear that he did not mean what he said. Comrade Ballam forgot to pass a note. Comrade Ballam: the collective leadership which you proposed was a collective leadership of one-third here, one third there, and one-third nowhere else, and that form of col- lective leadership which you put up in your famous nine points is ancient history. This thing even I put in the Party mausoleum, Comrades of the convention will pardon me if I take a minute to re- veal a secret of a dead group. When the question of collective leadership was raised in the former Ruthenberg group, Comrade Ballam was the fel- low who fought Weinstone more bit- terly than anybody else did in the group. That revelation I give you with your indulgence. This is not a lace for indulgences. “The Tenth Year” of the victory of the Russian work. Collective Leadership. ' About this collective leadership. I can see how you could have one-third of a delegate. I can see how you can have even one-seventy-fifth of a delegate, but I cannot see how you can have one-third of a Polbureau member or CEC member. The C. I., together with us, has worked out an agreement for collective leadership and that agreement lays the basis for the establishment of a definite majority in the incoming CEC... This agreement recognizes that the trouble and one of the basic reasons for not having a collective leadership in the ast was because we have parity, a trying to convince anybody that we. Lovestone Summarizes Discussion of Political Committee | paralysis CEC. The basis, one of the . | most important bases for security for | the development of collective leader- |ship in the Party, is that the agree- , ment signed by all our comrades, with the Comintern, inclusive of all the comrades here from the various groupings, is that the incoming CEC will have the basis for a real collect- live leadership, and-not leadership di- {vided into groups to) form alliances for manipulations. / Every one of tHe groups in the past, inclusive"of the group which formerly was known as the Ruthen- berg group, was guilty of that. The question of apportionment of guilt, we will not discuss. But that situation is past. There are no more manipulations. There will be no more alliances, this year with one group, and alliances in an- other month with another group. That is why we have a basis for collective leadership. Comrade Ballam, I don’t think you will get a medal for throw- ing out the slogan in the wrong way! Some comrades also speak of cre- dentials. The Credentials Committee report is a very weak faction plat- form. I say that he who prepares to go out after this convention and make the Credentials Committee re- port a platform of opposition to the decisions. of this convention, whether it be referring to policy or the choice of a CEC, that comrade or those comrades, no matter how many times they say they are for unity, no matter how many ‘times they say they are suspicious of us, those com- rades will not help but will be con- tinuing to perpetuate the faction fight. (To Be Continued). Reiss Addresses Big Daily Worker Builder Meeting in Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 30. — Monday night, Sept. 26th, the Daily Worker and Literature agents and the mem- bers of the Daily Worker Builders met at 19 So. Lincoln street. Twelve out of the 28 Chicago nu- clei were represented by either a Daily Worker or Literature agent (all of whom are members of the Builders Club) and 15 Builders Club members holding no official position as Literature or D. W. agent. Comrade Paul Reiss gave an inter- esting and instructive talk on what to do and how to work to build up The DAILY WORKER, After his talk many questions were asked and considerable discussion took place. Comrade Hammersmark reported on the Builders Club and present con- dition of the DAILY WORKER drive, The Builders Club now has a mem- bership of 54 out of which 29 are paid up for a full year. A motion was made that all com- missions formerly paid to nuclei ba kept by the district DAILY WORK- ER agent from now on. Comrade Reiss suggested that in addition te this commission $10.00 a week will be allowed by The DAILY WORKER making it possible to make about $20 a week with commissions and allow- ance. : : An entertainmer jcommittee wag appointed to get up an affair in the near future for The DAILY WORK. ER Builders Club. The committee in- cludes Liebermann, Prokopec, Catila, Polko and Vallentin. Walter Abel, Curtic Cooksey in the cast. by Walter Hampden Monday cast includes Mr. Hampden, Moore and Marie Adels. Knickerbocker Theatre. Ray ton, Smith and Dale, Richard cast. “YES, YES, YVETTE,” a musical Dunean, music and lyrics by ninger, Jeanette MacDonald players. at the Little Theatre Monday sented by David Belasco. Alfred Frith. are the chief players. “MY PRINCESS,” a new operetta at the Shubert Theatre. Stark. - é “AN ENEMY .OF THE PEOPLE,” by Hendrik Ibsen will be revived “SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK,” a musical comedy with book by Eddie Dowling, music by James Hanley, opens Monday at the Truth,” with book by James Montgomery and William Care: due at the Sam H: Harris Theatre Monday night. “ROMANCING ’ROUND,” by Conrad Westervelt, will be presented cast includes Ralph Morgan, Helen MacKellar, Beatrice Blin, Fleming Ward, Mott Hawley and Charles Ritchie. e “HIDDEN,” a new play by William J. Hurlbut, with Philip Merivale, Beth Merrill, Joan Blair, Mary Morris and Mary Hall in the cast will come to the Hudson Lyceum Theatre Tuesday night, pre- “LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH,” by Mario Fausto Marini, will open Angelo Musco’s Italian repertory season at the Manhattan Op- era House, beginning Tuesday evening. “DRACULA,” a thriller, by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, based on Bram Stoker’s novel, will be presented by Horace Live- | right, Wednesday night at the Fulton Theatre. The cast includes Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Peterson, Edward Van Sloan, Bernard Jukes, Herbert Bunston, Nedda Harrigan, Terrence Neill and “JACOB SLOVAK,” by Mercedes De Acosta, will open Wednesday at the Greenwich Village Theatre. Jose Ruben and Miriam Doyle | Romberg, will be presented by Alfred E. Aarons, Thursday night The company includes Hope Hampton, Robert Woolsey, Herbert Corthell, Leonard Ceeley, Audrey Ma- ple, Marie Stoddard, Evelyn Darville, Miriam Wootton and Leo > i _ The New Plays | “THE HOUSE OF WOMEN,” Louis Bromfield’s dramatization of \his own novel, “The Green Bay Tree,” will be presented by Ar- thur Hopkins Monday night at the Maxine Elliott Theatre with Elsie Ferguson and Nance O’Neil, co-starred. Helen Freeman, } and Roberta Bellinger are others night at Hampden’s Theatre. The Ernest Rowan, Cecil Yapp, Mabel Dooley, Fiske O’Hara, Sam Mor- A f Keene and Ruby Keeler head the f comedy, based on “Nothing But thé Irving Caesar and Phil Charig, jis Charles ise ies, f and Jack Whiting are the cl night by L. Lawrence Weber. The by Dorothy Donnelly and Sigmund — —