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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THUR: AY, OCT ‘OBER 20, 1927 The Cong Unitary By A, LOSOVSKY. HILE the French reactionary Paris as representatives of the “American people,” the congress of reyolutionary unions of France open- | ed at Bordeaux. hy “Shoot Them Down!’* Both the campaign against the U: 8. S. R. and the arrival of the Ame ican “guests” served the French’ bourgeoisie as an excuse to deal fresh blows at the revolutionary wing | of the labor movement, which has al- ways been the true and tried ally of the Soviet workers. The intensity of the hatred felt by the French bour- geoisie to its native Bolsheviks may| be seen from the following extracts | from the bulletin of “Agence Poli-| tique et Financiere” of the 15th Sep- tember (organ of financial circles): | “On this day/ (September 19th patriots will also carry revolvers which they will empty with pleas- | ure into those rascals who, unfold- | ing the red flag, are the symbols | of theft, sloth, mutiny, cowardice and treachery. Until we take ad- | vantage of some meeting of Com- | ,“‘pretentions of the C t atte’s organ, the defender of the op-| €. position of the Russian Party, appeals for a return to pre- war anarcho-syndicalism famous Charter of Amiens to which both Monatte former anarcho-syndicalist, cling. shoot them down unmercifully to | the merry music of. bullets, these scoundrels will poison our exis- tence.” The hatred of the French bour- geoisie so vividly expressed in this leaflet, finds its expression pressure on the working class such as is now being carried out by the} round Monaite’s “Proletarian lution” press was wrecking its malice| formed by Monatte and his support- against the U. S. S. R. and on the/¢?S- r very day (September 19th) on which|SPectacle of men trying to tu the gilded youth of the American the flood of the French labor move- bourgeoisie paraded the streets of; ment. i may be found aimed not only a t with a criticism of the cor | directing the fire of their critic | particular against that clause which| says that the Unitarian Confederation | of Labor stands for the principle of |the dictatorship of the pro! i The struggle against this clau: been going on for several {and the whole batte | anarcho-syndicalist wisdom has been turned on. Bees ey ae ro jing majority of members of uni Tnunists and. sowers .of discord to lade unions are still for the pr |vation of this clause in the co jtion the R, I, L. U. neverthe! the ground from under the feet o | in the| the demagogues and make it possible | for those workers who have not 3 outlived ‘Stare ‘of | Prejudices to attack the bourgeoisie) js ress of the French SZANTO DEFIES Labor Federation __ FASCIST COURT; ion TELLS TORTURE 63 Communists on Trial in White Hungary BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 19.— : The | Proudly admitting that he had worked ») of the Com-' resolution passed on this question by|for the overthrow of the fascist inst the Com-'the congress of the Unitary Confed- | Horthy regime, Zoltan Szanto, Hun- against the/eration of Labor is as follows: |garian Communist leader, and asso- mmunist Party The congress approving by 1,995 | ciate of Bela Kun, so enraged the re- 0 lead the labor movement.” Mon-| votes against 60 the report of the | actionary judge presiding at the trial ..C., and the correctness of the yesterday that the hearings were line pursued by the Executive Com- postponed until this afternoon. Court mittee of the Unitary Confedera- | attendants feared that he would have tion of Labor, reaffirms its un- |a stroke of apoplexy. changing loyalty to the principle of | Szanto is leader of the sixty-three the dictatorship of the proletariat, |Commnists who are up for trial included in the constitution of the | Declaring that many of the prisone R. I. L. U. Taking into considera- |had been brutally beaten in their tion, however, the fact that not a | prison cells, Szanto. declared: single argument should be allowed Charges Prison Torture. | to remain in the hands of the min- “I signed false statements invented * ority or counter-revolutionary ele- | by the police because I was threatened always ready to deceive the |that I would have to undergo the the congress, ever anxious |same tortures as my companions, who to disperse all possibilities of doubt concerning the nature of this for- mula and desirous of making it quite impossible for this clause in | the constitution to be used against the Unitary Confederation of La- |S2anto declared that he had worked bor and its position with regard to | t? liberate the country “from Horthy unity, resolves to exclude this |2nd Bethlen reign of terror and op- clause from the constitution.” pression in the country, in which tu-) It is extremely characteristic that|Wages are the lowest and working -|the opposition also voted for this| hours the longest in the world. resolution, although this naturally) _ Judge Threatens Szanto. to the question: why did) .W hen the judge th pened Senn hey take up a demagogie line before| With solitary confinement if he con- the congress and at the congress it |Hnned his speech, the Communist elf with regard to this point on the leader continued declaring that Hun- t dictatorship of the proletariat? This|S@tY, Was the only country in the Wut annthes world in which the constitution of a Reyo-» prejudices, and open the door to the League! unorganized.” The congr listened to the advice These latter furnish the curious|of the R. I. L. U. and withdrew this ack | ¢ e from the constitution but ed at.the same time a resolution fying anything but a_ political y for the Monatte group. and the Syndical: In Monatte’s organ a Communist and to the and Leon Jouhaux, Anarcho-Syndicalist Errors, The opposition came forward at he conference of the confederation land blue from strangulation, into my {cell by the police.” Admitting that he had worked for month of a pre-war Although the overwhelm- le ised the congress at Bordea ithdraw it and thus to cut aw their anarcho-syndic: whole machinery of the : : ; ; , pontirmarion sof Mel aC ev parce a tor Third Republic. The greater the)” ® United front with the Commun- fact that the Monatte group is form-| ja, a growth of the revolutionary move-|! jed of the most diverse elements whose | ONE ment, the more repressive measures} are showered upon the revolutionary} workers, who are arrested and sen-|this point to the congress of the Uni- 1 excuses,| tary Confederation of Labor in Bor- deaux: tenced.on the most trivi: Almost the entire leadership of the|¢ Communist Party and the Unitary} General Confederation of Labor is} imprisoned. “Freedom of Press.” | On the eve of the opering of the! Unitary Congress 7 French Commun-} ists were sentenced between them to 88 years of imprisonment for declara-| tions in the press: Comrade Bellage, | 10 years; Gay, 8 years; Michelet, 6! years; Monmousseau, 4 years; Klam-| amusse, 4 years; Coutela, 3 years; | and Josef, 3 years. Such is the free-| dom of the press in the French re-| public, in which any corrupt scoun- drel_ can write what he likes while an| honest wotkér* isks-ten years in| prison for expressing his views. | The General Atmosphere. | It must further be borne in mind| that the Congress proceeded in an) atmosphere of an_ ever-developing| economic attack by capital and the rationalization of industry at the ex- pense of the working class, and that the bourgeoisie, by means of lock- outs, discharges and black-lists, were squeezing the revolutionary workers) out of the factories, in which work| the reforr and trying to exploit | the rationalization of industry and the economic cr to get rid of “dis-| turbing elements.” | And, finally, it must be remem-| upon its labors after the congress of! bered that the congress embarked the reformist Confederation of La- bor had been held, which had come! forward in the most hostile manner against trade union unity in France| and at which Leon Jouhaux, the agent} of Briand and Poincare, renounced | the sins of his youth and swore that) for “mature persons” nothing but re-| formist tactics wee acceptable. Surrender of Reformists. After the congress of the Reform- ist Confederation of Labor was held,; the famous congress of the Amster- dam International in Paris, at which} the reformists of all countries have thrown down their masks, appeared | before the French and international} working class in their true light. | Here the struggle against the bour-' geoisie was abandoned in favor of a desperate fight for fat jobs. | The Contrast. | hus the congress of the Unitary) Coni‘ederation of Labor met at the) iru in which an extremely tense | situattpn had been created both at, home and abroad, demanding the ut-| most possible clarity in the settling | of questions if the toiling masses of | France Were to receive a proper lead. | ‘The agenda and discussion showed! that the Unitary trade unions are to) be distinguished from the reformist} unions in practice as well as in policy. | The agenda was as follows: | 1,.—Report of executive commis- | sion. | 2.—Trade Union Unity and the) United Front, | 5.--The struggle against imperial-| ism. | 4.—Capitalist rationalisation, | 5.—Program of action (wages, the) eight hour day, unemployment, so-| cial legislation, immigrant and colon- ial labor, woman labor, junior labor, working class sport, etc). 6,—The question of organization. 7.—Working class cooperation, ete. Further we shall analyse in greater detail the questions touched upon by the congress, but we. will confine this article to one point evoking stormy discussion at the congress caused by the stand taken by the opposition. The opposition within the Unitary | their The R. I. L. U. Letter. The R. I. L. U. wrote as follows on “honor rooted in dishonor stands.” | ay. Ui ane en thing but the lack of any sort), MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Oct. neiple would explain the cam-|COmmenting on the trial of Szar aign of former members of the Com-| V@8i and. pt other Commune munist Party against the leadership | Charged ie pene conary # jof the trade unions by a political par- ee bie? ane eae in Bu C, lty, their resuscitation of the theory | reve, a iss oad a the ne | of neutralism, independence, etc. munist Party of the U.S. S. R., points ‘ ar ates {out its unusual importance from the pexeuancing | _ Desire For Solidarity. point of view of present political con- cussions in France, There are still | This resolution passed by the con-| ditions in Hungary. many hanest workers both within | gress ll be least of all in favor o: -, ee 5 and without the unitary trade | Monatte’ group, for even the most| Fear Strike Movement. unions who haye not yet got rid of | backward workers will understand anarcho-syndicalist preju- | perfectly well that the U. G. C. L. dices. They are gradually outliving | congress conceded on this point out them. Rather than cause confusion | of its solicitude for unity and the soli-| among such workers it would be |darity of the ranks of the Unitary better to withdraw the formula from | Confederation the constitution. Such a concession | All this has nothing in common will strengthen the unitary trade | with the point of view of ex-Commun- unions showing that we are ready | ists in their anarcho-reformist sec- for anything that may raise the |ond childhood who have already fighting capacities of our organiza- | descended to the denial of the lead- tion. It will strengthen the ties be- | ing role of a party in the labor move- tween the organizations and those | ment, to countering economic ques- honest and not very numerous |tions with political vaporings and to workers who have not as yet out- |the denial of the principle of the dic- lived pre-war anarcho-syndicalist |tatorship of the proletariat, “We are far from objecting to this clause in itself, but it seems to us that it might cause certain mi understandings and internal says, “which has been proceeding dur- ing the past few months shows that the counter-revolutionary terror and reformist traitors failed to crush the | activity of the Hungarian proletariat. |ment reinforces its repressive meas- tries to use this trial for the destruc- |tion of the underground Communist |Party and Socialist Labor Party.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSST:! 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ORDER YOUR_COPIES OF TH EDITION NOW. | were dragged half dead and bleeding, : |the overthrow of the Horthy regime, |° “The strong strike movement,” it | That is why the Hungarian govern- ures against the Communist Party and | the pe oats left wine ral Be ant | tually happened to the Tonkinese. "usta Gas Workers (104000 WORKERS TO VISIT SOVIET Fight for 38-Hour Week And for Wage Increase negotia- nurst Municipal so being made NA “AND SELL IN "CHINA PEASANTS Throw Sick Victims Off! Slave Ships Into Sea EIGER P By WAN( After Fr h imper ion of the Ne population of ext 1 took pos- the na- venereal ¢ the scourg: f the car! the cole countri | ficiall ep the co The wiped how liame reporte upon fertile. to the French they cannot thems: 3 plantatio they need slaves for doing this, and} they are now obtaining these slaves |from Indo-China. Kept Like On board the fare stowed awa d They Animals, like anin food and d ‘ mply thrown 2 who fall i verboard “to p: their infecting | the others.” are constantly | guarded | After arrival Jon the i are interned in |a camp. s a sort of slave} market. | The planters go there to inspect the victims, to select and buy them. In orde: e them to get th |wives to join them, these latter are |graciously permitted to bring their | children with them; when, however, |the women have gone on board with \their children, it frequently happens| that the children are simply thrown {overboard “in order to get rid of su- jperfluous mouths.” This is what ac-| Guarded by Machine Guns. | In July of the current year a ship }entered t port of Townsville. There | |were 400 Indo-Chinese on board who | {had been locked up in cells in the} | dark hold of the ship. The Chinese of | Townsville, who had found out what} hee the ship was carrying, tried to| come to the rescue of the victims, they were prevented from helping; them by the armed guards | ship. | In an appeal which got into the jhands of the Chinese and was jlished in the “Daily Standar junhappy Indo-Chinese reported that {they had been drugged with poisoned | ; | cigarett In an unconscious condi-! , they were carried off to the | French concession of Kwangchouwan |and placed on board s cells they suffered terribly from} | hunger and thirst. They were cruelly | ill-treated by their guards. Sick per. sons were simply thrown overboard. The barr of machine guns were} s constantly directed on them. Protest Meeting. The workers and Chinese of Town: {ville organized a meeting in order to| protest against these new and infa- mous crimes of the French colonists, in order to show the victims their solidarity and-to demand that’ the jAustralian Government should take trade between the Australian port | and the New Hebrides, Lamont Sails for U, S.| |After “Visit” to Japan. TOKIO, Oct. Thomas W. La- mont, partner in the Ho of Mor- ‘gan, will sail for San Francisco to-| day after his visit, which, it believed | |was made for the purpose of negoti- jating a loan to tottering financial | Japan. | J.P. Morgan was recently given the | highest honors for loans granted re- jcently. ‘France Less Optimistic Over Tariff Situation 19.—French industri- | h less optimistic about the tariff on following a report from on that t United | States is unwilling to make conces- | sions pending negotiations for a new | treaty. the Cure —King Boris of} going a course of| treatment for a grave constitutional | disease at the Breslau hospital her In the old days it was called “King’s jevil” before the modern medical term j was in general usage. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YQ GETTING THEM? —_— ‘ t mitted of- |” t by] ee co-operation has invited as 20 members of European co-opera-!| In their | 2 jsuitable measures to stop the slaye |! UNION FOR 10TH Af |Leaders of Liberation Movements in Nicaragua, a Have Arrived Egypt, Chi MOSCOW, Oct world ex sending tives, includin the Arabi be ) and the first dent of China, are alre widow of vage Three represent the left Kuomintang party, ts Lae pied ppg’ of South China, yar: se = Many Scientists and Artists. f will In addition to the labor and political || atives, 60 artists a m a score of dif e here to partic and in the ences t foll n union of agr culture its gue tive societies, Exhibits of Soviet progress in in- ry, art, hygiene and the drama 1 be displayed in New York, Ber- lin, Paris and Angora by the society of cultural relations with foreign countries. Australian Troops Land! At Solomon Islands as Natives Protest Taxes Oct. iki ia, Harbor to crush a revolt of i exploitation and exce: learned from a wirel patch received from the Adelaide. Workers thruout Australia are protesting against the dispatch of the Adelaide and have compelled Prime Minister) Bruce to issue a statement “that no punitive against the islanders.” Two British officials were killed in the native uprising. } Soviet Trade With Persia | lncreasing MOSCOW, Oct. 5. (By Mail).—In| but] yeference to the signing of the So-|had been viet-Persian trade agreement the Peo- | on the | ple’s Commissariat of Trade of U. S.| assassinating of Ss R. published the following data | cterizing Soviet commerce with! c Commerce between the U. S. S. R.! and Persia began in 1920, the total ercial turnover for that, year | mounting to 220,000 roubles. How- | r, already in 1922 the Soviet gn trade with Persia reached | 56,000 roubles as calculated in pre- * values. In the economic year | 923-24, commerce with Persia| totalled 29,821,000 rouble, reaching 5 per cent of the general foreign | trade of the U. S. S. R. that year. | {In 1925-26 trade with Persia amounted to 79,072,000 roubles, of {which the export to Persia accounted for 35,129,000 roubles and the im-j port from Persia—43,943,000 roubles. : the first nine months of the econ-} omic year 1 7 the commerce be- | tween U S. R. and Persia totalled | 2,000 roubles, namely the ex- | 23,000 roubles, and the im- | 149,000 rouble | a | ‘Spanish Miners Strike | For Wage Raise Despite | Ukase of Rivera Regime OVIEOD, Oct. 19.—Violating the ukase against strikes issued by | Primo de Rivera, Asturian coal miners have gone out on strike for | a reduction of hours and a wage in- crease, Primo smash Rivera de is fighting to the No strike has ! ken place in Spain since 1928, when | ‘a seized power. | ainst the Solomon island | 7 measures would be taken | trj rv- an- re ra Kollon- n forced to nounc take hs in Gerr she Selwartzbard Proud Of Killing Petlura, White Guard Bandit PARIS, Oct. 19.—It today as a f Samuel It of the en in his reral Simon f, responsible work- e. graphic sination of Imitted shooting the soldier to death with vard St. Michel on was one of ard said he » for Russian h thousands of Jews vengeance, Sch held Petlura r pogroms in w led. ard 1 of the white guard he had trailed Pet- s identifying him from Schwar v bandit. He sa lura for wee a photog 8,000 Troops Withdrawn From Ruhr October 25th BER Oct. 19.—Official an- nouncem s made today that France and England will fulfill their promis to hdraw 8,000 occupa- tional troops from the Rhineland on October 25 > term of enlistment replaced until the is reduced t¢ Soldiers expires will r occupational 10,000. force Norway Labor Party Gains OSLO, N .—The Lay bor Party sping victory in Mond. $2.50 CLOTH BOUND The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK, N. ¥ The Ruthenberg Daily Worker Sustaining Fund should be a part of every meeting of your Workers Party unit and DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club meet- ing. labor union, fraternal society, ter on its order of business. books, membership cards and full information may be obtained through Every real left wing working class organization, etc., should place this mat- Sustaining Fund stamp THE DAILY WORKER 33 FIRST STREET NEW YORK, N. Y.