The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927 Page Three Foreign News - WAGES SLASHED | LOWER; PRICES. SOAR IN ITALY Fascist Militia Used in | Textile Strikes GENEVA, Nov. 28. —With retail | | prices soaring and wage cuts decreed |in factories thruout Italy, unrest | | among Italian workers is becoming : more and more marked. Altho news about labor unrest. has | been completely deleted from Ttalian | newspapers, a number of large strikes | | against the wage cuts have already | taken place—-most of: them smashed | by wholesale arrests of leaders and | by threats to call in the Fascist | troops. | Textile Strikes. Textile strikes have taken place at | Milan, Bosto Arsizio, Castellano and a number of other industrial centers. Vintila Bratianu succeeds his broth- | There have been a number of dem- jonstrations by unemployed workers in Milan. | Even workers. affiliated with the fascist trade unions, which in many |respects resemble company unions in {the United States, are beginning to | protest the wage cuts. } ; Altho the fascist leaders of the fas- cist organizations have readily sub- | Rumanian Dictator : : : 4 ‘ : : er as virtual dictator of Rumania. His brother, Don Bratianu, who died last’! week, was buried Sunday. GANTON WAR LORD | mitted to the wage cut, they have |warned the governntent of growing unrest. “The wage euts will greatly TO AID BRITISH CANTON, Nov. shipworkers against Briti was called :” government set up here by Chang Fak-wei, who ordered the arrest and the imprisonment of large | numbers of str . Labor leaders} were put under military guard. : The strike took the form of an anti- | government demonstration when food supplies were cut off at the order of | the authorities. Li Chai-sum, former dictator of | Canton, ousted by Chang Fak-wei on November 17th, is attempting to re- gain control of the city and several | thousand of his troops are, moving to- | ward Canton from Samshi about forty | miles west. Discuss Unemployment And Coal Situations In CommonsWednesday LONDON, Nov. 28. — The unem- ployment situation will come up for debate in the House of Commons Wed- nesday after the completion of the committee stage of the Unemployment insurance bill Tuesday. The vote of censure on Baldwin’s handling of the coal situation will also come up on Wednesday. At the last debate of the coal situation Bald- win refused to speak leaving the de- fense of the Tory position to Sir Cun- leffe-Lister. peas ‘Jail Sixteen Indian | Seamen for Refusing To Sail to America LONDON, Nov. 28. —— Sixteen| East Indian sailors were sentenced | to a month in jail for refusing to] sail to America. The sailors did not learn that the British vessel | Saverie was sailing to the United States until after they had signed | papers. | When the foreman of the sailors | demanded that he be sent to jail | with the men, he was ejected from the court. The sailors declared that | they could not stand the climate | dd A strike of, employers | shed yesterday by the so- 7 a inconvenience the workers whose wages are at the minimum,” the Sec- retary of the’ Turin Trade Union Council said recently. To Introduce Newer Methods in Soviet Gold Development Soviet gold industry will show a considerable development in the near future, according to A. P. Serebrov- sky, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Economie Council of the U. S. S. R., and a representative of the Soviet Gold Trust, who has just ar- | rived from the Soviet Union for a stay of about three months. Ameri- can methods and machinery wil] be used for developing the Soviet gold industry. .At present the gold output of the Soviet Union amounts to about 42 per cent of the pre-war figure. This is Mr. Serebrovsky’s second visit to the United States. Two years ago he made large purchases of oil equipment in this country. “The known gold resources of the Soviet Union, estimated at nearly 3,000 metric tons, warrant a much larger production than Russia has at- tained,” stated Mr. Serebrovsky in the offices of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, 165 Broadway, the prin- cipal firm in Soviet American trade. Over Million Students Enrolled as Mexican School System Thrives WASHINGTO (FP) Noy. 28.— | Mexican public schools now haye an enrollment of 1,133,000 pupils, while | private schools have 11,464, according to the report of the Department of Education in Mexico. ig Of the total of 15,036 public and private schools, which have 18,678 | teachers, 12,788 are maintained by | public funds. An average of over 1,000 new schools has been estab- lished each year since the present ad- ministration came into power. Presi- dent Calles has assured the nation that this rate of growth will be main- tained until the entire country shall have sufficient schools for its popula- tion, distributed to serve even the most remote regions as well as the congested areas. : ae Lenin wee Said:- “Politics is a science and an art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired gratis. If the proletariat wishes to | ‘ate to such an extent over individual | the rank and | speeches and actions of the oppo: |numerable collective bodies: | tees, -- By Cable and Mail from Special Corr MOSCOW CELEBRATES THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY espondents French Imperialists to ‘AMERICAN PLANES War on Moroccan Tribes MURDER MORE IN NICARAGUAN RAID Bombing Near Scene of Ocotal Massacre PARIS, Nov Using as a pretext the freeing of the Moroc- can plateaus from bandits, the French authorities are preparing a new offensive in the Atlas moun- tain region. Weather conditions at present | | make a military campaign in 2g ible but French airplanes he | | been sent to drop leaflets threaten- MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Noy. 28-— ing the Moors. The leaflets are aj | At least four Nicaraguans were killed part of the French golicy of de-| and an unknown number wounded | |moralizing the natives and wher- | when Americar ators working with | ever possible detaching them from their chiefs. United States marines and Diaz forces flew over a group of Nicaraguan lib- ~®|erals, dropping bombs and swept the | ' group with gun fire. The | 5 at O¢otal (Ocotal was the scene of the mur- |der of more n three hundred men, ildren by American avi- IMPRISON MANY who bombed the town several months ago.) SYRIAN LEADERS WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—General women and c ators, Jose Maria Moncada, former leader a ay el of the Nicaraguan Liberal armies, Daily Executions of Na-| who permitted the United States of- ficials to d of arm his troops after the American ultimatum, his trip from this York for a conversation lier-General Frank R. Mec- y has been appointed by Coolidge to supervise the coming elections in Nicaragua. receipt stopped tionalists Held an on has | (Special to DAILY WORKER). PARIS, Nov. 19, (by ma the by ‘Since suppr their ion of the Syris armed forces, the By ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAT. HE lower down the, Party ladder, | the nearer to the rank and file | members of the Party, the more defi- | {nite and pronounced is the negative | attitude to the opposition. This is a characteristic phenomen- | on. prevai! among the Party rank and file in regard to the opposition. To! explain this phenomenon by saying | that the apparatus “is keeping a| tight hold” on the rank and ‘file, that | its true voice is being stifled, as is said by the opposition, is utterly im- | possible because to mention just one reason—the resentment against the eppositicn is a mass character. Since this is so, one must go deeper | to find the roots which are the men- | | tality and the mood of the masse: In the Party asa whole. as well) as in every nucleus, this or that men- | tality prevails whenever a definite | situation has arisen. No matter how | strong the apparatus at the head of | © the Party or nucleus, if there be} disharmony between the policy and | the working of the apparatus and the | mood prevailing among the majority. this disharmony will show itself by the way the rank and fite reacts to} |). this prenomenon | The, bitterness, hostility and | re- sentment shown by the rank and file of the. Party in regard to the} tion are the outcome of a defin mental and spiritual- growth among | this rank and file,-a growth in the direction of consolidating collectivist | thinking. | Opposition Blocks Construction. HE SOVIET UNION, which is cele- | brating its tenth anniversary is at the same time going through the | honeymoon of its feverish construc- | tion. Workers and the more ad-! vanced peasantry are up to their eyes | in important every-day work; elabo- | ration of new forms of economy, hab- | its and customs. establishment of | new relations between the various | jparts of the state and the economic! jerganism. All ‘this work is centered in in-| Soviets, | trade unions, commissions, commit- | Nowhere in the world does the collectivi: em of work predomin- | initiative as here in the Soviet Union. Of course defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its that collective organs imped» indi- own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the | Vial init J , | question; import bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik Party of Russia without which the Russian Revelution would have beon impossible. | We must organize a strong party in this country that will be * 2° way of looking at life. able to organize and lead the masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in the fight for: A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. | The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars. | The organization of the unorganized. Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. The protection of the foreign born. Application for Membership in (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St. N.Y. City) | contributes to the se NGM: bcs ee yee ve set ese cules Address ....... N st. Occupation Se pus ae wipe 8 6 apes (Enclosed find one dollar for initiation fee and one month’s dues.) - Workers (Communist) Party City \ 1 No One Bizger than Collective Will. 5 is another the ‘fact that | all the collective beginnings are an education in themselves,’ they | teach the masses a new ideology and but nt i tive, “Un portant Persons Dee ‘The masses are getting accustomed to depend cn “leaders” but on/ puzzling out everything themselves ; by collective efforts, | One Pa has only to watch how even} | the least prepared organidations are | conducting their meetings. Even if | everyone present, taken individually | be “an unimportant person,” even if) he has no special me: in the past} and is not particularly brilliant, he} ion just what is | ike remark which something to the work which is | going on. Bits of thought, bits of proposals and the result — a solid mass of practical and well-thought out decisions and instructions. needed, a business Hostility and bitter resentment | | The Opposition and the Rank and File Marching Miners Return Home After Voting Trek To London Huge Success LONDON, Nov. 28.—The little ‘army of Welsh miners, headed by A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners | Federation, which marched almost two hundred miles to London to call parliament’s attention to un- j}employment and misery in the coal! \ fields, disbanded and returned home today by train. | The march on London was voted | |a success at a mass mecting held} | |in Trafalgar Square yesterday. NCE a decisio: or nucleus in: is made, the Party that the de- jcision be not infringed. It has come to pass that collective | bodies demand that their will and de- must be taken into aecount is a healthy reaction of the or- zing principle which got the best ef the inevitable broad “self-activ- of small collective bodies and at self-activity times into anarchic degenerated individualism. matters into one’s own hands” some- times 1 the situation. Now we are in the epoch of construction and we want first of all unity not only in action, but in thinking. By a healthy instinct the masses understand this spontaneously. That is why they are so indignant and re- sentful against the opposition which disturbs the unity in Party ranks which it took so many efforts to es- tablis Meaning of Discipline. The opposition infringes the funda- mental demand of, the masses: ob- servance of discipline. It is precisely group work, collective work which produces an utterly new idea of the meaning of discipline—not as sub- missive to an “order” but as merging one’s own will with the will of the collective body. Discipline is the cement which welds together the hu- man bricks into one powerful edifice— the collective body. The main ca of the hostility of to'the v term s caused to a great ex- “oppos' it frequently happens tent by the instinctive feeling of the file of the P: that the opposition is! rank and f! acting “anarchically.” Masses Repudiaté the Opposition. k and file are angry. the opposition which is: in- fringing their will is claiming. to speak at the same time on..theié half, on behalf of the masses, One frequently hears amonig--wérk ers the remark Nice defenders“ our interests! Who has empowered them to speak for us? We do.not hold their views! If we are dissatis- fied with anything we will fight it out in the. Party itself.” This kind of mood and temper has nothing in common with “pressure of the ap Trotskyi beg cause s Not Credited by Workers. The rank and file do not believe the opposition, they meet all its statements with derision. Does the opposition really imagine that the masses have such a bad memory? Even if there be short- comings in the Party in regard to policy, are not prominent members “|for people not eryone, be they big or small.! ividuals in the epoch of civil war, | It was a diferent epoch then—“taking | be- | More than a million workers participated in the giant parade on November 7th in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Top picture (from left to right) shows Kameneff, Kalenin, president of the Executive Committee of the USSR; Voroshiloff, Commissar of War; Unschlict and Budenny, cavalry leader. Lower picture, shows the parade of the Red Army in the Red Square. ot the opposition responsible for them? of the Party and the construction of the Pa avratus have become worthless the day when the group of opposition members dis- agreed with the P; suspicious” say the work- attack @he apparatus and y of the Party but in reality queStion of who should in disgust. Opposition Lacks Principle. file not beiieving the Opposition is: hat the rank and file have always a profound disgust for lack of principle. t of all, the bloc of opponents of sterday, utterly incomprehensible ersed in polit Then a still less comprehen- |sible solemn promise in writing on the pa of the Opposition to submit to the will of the Party, a Commun- ist word of honor of a peculiar kind, | trigue. broken almost the very next day. The jesuit rule: the end justifies the means, cannot be a rule for mem- bers of one and the same, collective | bor One cannot build up a collec- tive body in the work no confidence members, if one {cannot rely on promises Trickery Not Liked f there of its is |quently than words: those who have broken ‘their word to the collective body of which they are members no longer with u jfile cannot forgive -The rank and this game which file who, by fi is gradually principles of pett \ualfsm will neve overcoming the -bourgeois individ- understand nor tol- ate ve those who infringe | the obli which they have taken upon themselves in regard to the col- ilective hody. The ri and file will have nothing to do with the disorganizing infringe- ment of discipline and unity on the party of the Opposition. The rank and file does not beli sition and will never forgive its jes- uitical intriguing with the Party. The rank and disassociat self indignantly from the crit’ and the statements of the Oppos }—they are not in harmony with the moods predominating in the rank and nd fo atio | | Misjudging Temper of Mas {. If the Opposition has no ear for i . the moods and temper of the rank and file (it was L vs strong point that he always could feel what the masses are aiding and aiming at) how “yean it be victorious? }. One cannot, with impunity endeavor ) on ‘group will” against the vill of the collective body. Those who “endeavor to do this, cease to be “one” jwith the m d file think that the The live spirit of “colleetivist democracy” which clash with the petty-bou geois interpretation of democracy, will not be until it in the Opposition willing to understand that the decision of the Plenum of the Cent Committee is the reflection of the will of the rank and file of the Party. When the Opposition will have understood this, it will cease to sabo- tage the unity of the Party and to go against the mood and will of the million strong Party membership. It would seem that the policy | And the masses turn away | NOTHER reason for the rank andj ical in- | Such acts tell the masses more elo- | jis being played with the collective |body, they cannot forgive the: “round-about” ways. The rank and uch labor and such ef- | ve in the Oppo- | have been pitilessly execut- suspected of revolution- Without exception all revolutionists who have fallen into hands of the French have been demned to death or*to long years imprisonment. Five 6r six death sentences in a single day are not un- usual. ‘The condemned are executed public- ly at the town gates, at Damase of Homs, Aleppo and even at Beirout, | “the cro the Ea: mn of French civilization in Slow Torture. Those condemned to prison meet death by slow torture. The “pacifica- tion” of Syria has long been an- nounced as an accomplished fact, but months after the revolt has been sup- pressed, hundreds of workers and nationalists are suffering in the jails, in exile and from depor- | tation. The imperialists are not content with the victims which they have put behind the bars. By continual de- nunciations and arbitrary actions, they are gaining new victims. Recently, they arrested 73 peasants in the little Druse village of Racheja because a neighbor had accused them of sympa- ng with the Druses during their Punitive expeditions traverse the country. They have orders to stamp out every suspicion of revolt, to dis- arm the population, and to collect the taxes which are crushing the people. They raise special contributions, lev: \ied since the late revolt, and watch that all of them go without delay into the coffers of the French commissioners. And hard on the heels of the bloody generals, French capital is penetrat- the country. Thé impoverished santry affords cotton plantations lowest priced slaves to the cotton ntations of the French concession- aires. The Syri s are being orced to buy the products of French industry while the country is sur- rounded with a wall of prohibitive customs tariffs, Ponsot, the French commissioner, who is directing the political oppression, with a satisfac- tory and genial air, will remain at his ing revolutionary | against the towns and villages! x-gen Moncada, who is @ pre al candidate, is reported ta have emphasized to McCoy the im- portance of having a United States marine control during the elections. Before leaving the United States, | Moneada will have conferences witt a group of American bankers and with | Col. Henry L. Stimson, Coolidge’s per- onal representative, who negotiated he Titieapa disarmament. with the |formerly active general. ‘Rumanian Communist’s ‘Trial Postponed for 17th Time Since 1924 | BUCHAREST, Nov. 28.—The trial jof Boris Stefanow, the Communist jrepresentative in the Rumanian par |liament of the workers and peasants _ {of the Dobrudja, has been postponed jagain, for the seventeenth time, due |to the non-appearance of the princi- |pal witnesses for the state, certain | Rumanian politicians. The road over which Stefanew was ried in an armored® ~ to the mili- |tary tribunal was lined with soldiers: | with fixed bayonets and gave the ap- | pearance of an army awaiting an at- |tack rather than a cordon around a | political prisoner whose hands and feet were manacled with heavy steel | chain Stefanow has been in the | Rumanian jails since 1924, The Sky’s the Limit! |post until the French economic pro- | |gram is completely realized. drive the population to despair. They believe that due to the wave of r tion thruout the world, and to the moralization which their agents are attempting to spread among the ranks of the Syrian nationalists, that they | will be uninterrupted in realizing their ‘designs. German Film Ruling Is Hit at U. S. Immigrant Quota; Cuts Imports BERLIN, Nov. 28.—Only 260 Amer- , ican motion picture films are to be al- lowed to enter Germany during the ined 18 months, according to a ruling of the Reich’s commissioner of ex- ports. The ruling replaces an older one by which one American film was permitted to enter for every one pro- ‘duced in Germany. It is being widel rumored that the ruling is a direct reprisal against the ; American immigration quota which |does not permit Germans to immi- {grate where jobs are more plentiful. |The intention to build up home motion picture production. 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