The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 3

— bi! Sd Dae Seatatiray THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927 rage shree Foreign New CHARGE BRATIANU REGIME INCITED STUDENTPOGROMS Murders Planned and) Paid for in Advance | BUCHAREST, Dec. 9.—-Charging | | that the reactionary Bratianu gov. ernment deliberately instigated the anti-Hungarian and anti-Jewish pog- roms which Rumanian students have | | perpetrated in several Transylvanian | towns, Prof. V. N. Madgearu of the| National Peasants Party declare yesterday in parliament that the present regime has paid 3,000,900 lei ($18,000) for such purposes. | Madgearu further asserted’ that} the government has incited the por | | When Communist Deputy _ Demands Alsace Freedom PARIS, I .—-The sitting of | the French Chamber of - Deputies was interrupted yesterday by an| uproar following the speech of} Charles _ Hueber, Communist | Deputy, who charged that the! Government was oppressing | workers in Alsace-Lorraine and} who declared that the inhabitants of the districts had had no voice} in the signing of the treaty which | tored them to Frange. | The veiled threat “of Premier| Poincare to jail four Communist! deputies at the close of the present | session has aroused a great deal of | protest. | Kelloggs Will Co > roms in order to justify the estab- | lishment of a new force of 10,000 | gendarmes. Fe cil He pointed out that the govern-| With Coolidge to ment had taken no precautions to| prevent the outrages altho M. Fil-! derraan, a Jewish deputy in parlia-| ment. had repeatedly warned ‘that the students were preparing their at- tacks. “The government deliberately fos- tered the demonstrations in the last few days,” Madgearu asserted. The government has refused to reply to the charges, claiming ignorance of tHe facts. The pogroms broke several days ezo in Orea Mare, formerly Nagy- varad, and Cluj, formerly Koloszar, ere Rumania students murdered five and wounded about forty, while the police refused to interfere with the outrgses. ieved that the National Peasant Party, which hopes to bring back Carol to Rumania, will make recent developments fight with the Bra- government. Arrest 17 Communists in Greek “Red Raids” ATHENS, Dec. 9.Seventeen Com- riunists have been arrested here in the drive against the Communist Tarty and other militant workers’ or- ganizations. The arrest of the Communists was based on the alleged decision of the Communists to agitate for the free- dom of Macedonia and Thrace. tianw Havana Congress WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Secretary of State Kellogg will accompany President Coolidge to Havana for the Pan-American Conference in January, it was announced yesterday. Kellogg will reinforce the American delegation, which headed by Unarius Evans Hughes, is certain w face an attack from a number of Latin- American states on the Nicaraguan question. Kellogg, however, will re- } turn with Coolidge after a short stay. * * * MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9.—President Calles is picking a strong delegatio: to represent Mexico at the Pan nerican Conference in Havan. ere President Coolidge will delive: n address. * * According to a report which ap- peared in the Excelsior several days }ago, the Mexican delegation to the Havana conference has already been selected and will be composed of Julio Garcia} Fernando Gonzales Roa, dele- gate to the Hague; Salvador Urbina, former under secretary of finance; Aquiles Elorduy and Genaro Fernan- dez MacGregor. AUSTRALIA SHIPPING NORMAL. MELBOURNE, Dec. 8.—Normal la- ber conditions were restored today following settlement of the dock strike and lockout. 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SN BING "(bin side Heo sisissae Uianie altace by G's se ois'y gre Valin caebowdrbees LENT shasvaalane’¥ Biv wcath-Wlaleiwia'a p olerwitiene Gikibiiie sara State the | | (Continued from Page One) |a reservation which made him closely | related to Kamenev and Zinov In June, 1917, Trot found it wise to republish in Leningrad old | pamphlet, zram of Peace.’ In this pamphlet he polemises against Lenin on the possibility of victory of victory of Socialism one country, |regarding Lenin’s view as wrong. reservations, making him closely re- power cannot amount to much with- out timely assistance from without; Lenin, on the contrary, was for in- surrection without reservations, maintaining that the proletarian power in our country must serve as a basis for helping the proletarians of other countries to emancipate | themselves from bourgeois oppression. j Deny Socialism in U. S. S. R. | “That is how the Opposition’s de- 4 : P ceptable and just in oppressed coun-/ “Trotsky was for insurrection with | |lated to Kamenev and Zinoviev who} |claimed that in itself the proletarian | ‘tries which are fighting against im-!uuns nothing wili come of it. We | perialism. : |uave experience of two dectaration: | “He allowed, at a certain phase/vne of Uctober 16, 1926, and one aug- and at a certain time, the possibility | ust 8, 19z/. \ynat has experienc lof a bloc and even an alliance with|sfown? Most uniavorabie results. the nationalist bourgeoisie of colonial ! Party twice deceived and |countries if it fights against imper-| discipline weaxened. What ialismy and if it does not interfere | 0855 tne Upposition now with Communsts educating theework- We tanxe their word after ers and poor peasants in the Commu- |; * nist spirit. The Opposition definite- ly breaks with this attitude, adopting the attitude of the Second Interna- tional, denying supporting Peo sonar bce 1 broxe varcy Rules. | ee nue tgioa tims dadentona| “Why were ‘’rousky and Zinoviev pees by the Opposition from the | “xPelied? Because they organized | Chinese revolution. {to break WVarty ruies, because they | _ Denies United Front. . | Wanted priviieged position in the it “Sixthly, the united front question | yarvy, ut will we Bolsheviks who jin the international labor movement. | uprooted the nobility, stand for the |The Opposition breaks with Leninist|/ same in our Par | tactics on the question of the gradual S. was }anand tna‘ “jt is said that they also will tak up the question of reimstatement of june expeiied members. 1 tnink, com- |rades, ums too will give no resuits.” the expediency of |'“” : z in|“ roionged appiause.) We expelled pudiate) within the Party limits. I} to de-| {tne Opposition, because they decided | nial of the possibility of victorious | winning of the working class masses | | construction of Socialism in our coun- | for Communism. The Opposition def- | |try developed. This denial means} jnitely repudiates this tactic. At one/ | the capitulation, obviously, to capital-| time, it welcomed agreement with the | irotsky and Zinoviev from the warty because our Party reguiations are the same for ail membe: iz the Oppo- it submit to the will of the arty, its I Unholy Trinity ist elements in our country and to the international bourgeoisie. “Secondly, the Opposition (never- theless) raises the question of the; proletarian dictatorship in every dec- laration. The Opposition says we| suffer from ‘Thermidorian’ degener- ation. This means we have no pro- letarian dictatorship. “Trotsky’s Clemenceau thesis is based on this: the Opposition has| come to Menshevism. Against Peasantry. “Thirdly, regarding the question of the alliance of the workers with the} middle peasants, the Opposition has) always concealed its negative atti-| tude toward the idea of such a bloc.| ts platform, its counter-theses, are remarkable not so much for what -hey say as for what they endeavor to conceal from the working class. But one man in the Opposition, Smir- nov, had the courage to say the truth! about the Opposition and expose it in broad daylight. What was the result? The result, according to him, is that we head towards ruin, and if we want to rescue ourselves we must break with the middle peasantry. Not very wise, but clear. The Menshevik nature to the Opposition revealed it- self as in a mirror. “Fourthly, the question of the char- acter of our Revolution. If the pos- sibility of the construction of Social- ism in our country is denied, if the existence of the proletarian dictator- ship is denied, if the necessity of al- liance between the working class and the peasantry is denied, what remains of our revolution? What remains of its Socialist character? Nothing. The proletariat seized power and, the peasantry has no interest now in revolution and hence the proletagiat other classes. Revising Lenin. “Fifthly, the question of Leninist orientation in guiding colonial revo- lutions. Lenin proceeded from dis- tinction between imperialist . coun- tries and oppressed countries, between Communist policy in imperialist coun- tries and Communist policy in col- onial countries. Based on this dis- tinction, he said that even in time of war that the idea of national de- fense is unacceptable and counter- revolutionary for Communism in im- perialist countries and perfectly ac- */in the Communist Party of ‘the Soviet {breaks with Leninist organizational completed the bourgeois revolution, | can withdraw, clearing the road for! General Council on the ground that | it constitutes “one of the most seri- ous guarantees for peace,” but being | sharply disappointed by results, it} denies the united front idea. | Move For New Party. { “Seventhly, the question of Lenin-| ist Party integrity and Leninist unity Union and the Communist Interna-| tional. The Opposition squarely principles, choosing the path of the} second Party, the path of a new in-| ternational. | “These are seven fundamental questions on which the Opposition} declined to Menshevism. “Can these Menshevik views be re- garded compatible with our Party| ideology, program, tactics and the tactics of the Comintern and organi- zational principles of Leninism? By} no means, not for a moment. “Whence could such Opposition come, what are its social roots? The social roots of the opposition lie in the dissolution of the petty bourgeois strata owing to our development, in their discontent with the proletarian dictatorship, in their aim at changing the regime, in “improving” it in the spirit of bourgeois democracy. I said above that as a result of our progress, as a result of the development of our industry, as a result of the grow- ing relative strength of Socialist eco- nomic forms, one section of the petty bourgeoisie, particularly the urban ‘bourgeoisie, becomes ruined and sinks {to the bottom. The Opposition re- \flects the grumbling and dissatisfac- ition of these strata with the regime {of the proletarian revolution. |_ “The results of joint work with | Trotsky were shown by Kamenev in ja special pamphlet published in 1911 entitled “Two Parties.” No doubt |the pamphlet was very useful to all} comrades who still cherished illusions | \eoncerning collaboration with ‘I'rot-| 'sky. The question arises: would not | | Kamenev try to write another pamph- | llet entitled “Two Parties” concerning his present collaboration with Trot- sky?” (General laughter. Applause). Suspects Pledges. “What will we do now with the Op- position? It is said that the Opposi- tion intends to make a declaration that it will submit to all Party de- cisions, dissolve its fraction, and de- fend its views (which it does not re- By BICLSKA The textileworkers’ general strike which lasted two weeks has only just | been liquidated by the government | with the assistance of the reformists. The strike by its dimensions alone (140,000 workers went on strike in all the centres of the textile industry from Beisk to Bialystok) threatenea the whole economic life of the coun- try with serious upheavals, The strike was officially led by the reformist leaders, but it was clear from the very beginning that the movement would expand and come out of the limits laid down by them. They were forced to put up with the strong influence of the left elements. Communist speakers, despite police repression, came forward at workers’ meetings and their resolutions were passed by enormous majorities. The reformists were forced to adapt them- selves to the spirit of the masses, and thus the movement was carried on not by the usual methods of the reformists. The campaign was immediately de- veloped on a national scale, covering kindred industries; employees and foremen in textile enterprises were also drawn into the struggle. The PSPers were unable to postpone the date of the declaration of the strike for more than one day: the confer- ence between the trade union and em- ployers’ representatives was held on Monday the 7th instead of Saturday the 5th of March. But immediately after the employers’ refusal to accept the workers’ terms the trade union decided to declare the strike which actually began from the morning of the Sth of March. A strike comiit- ise for the united leadarshin of the * ee ee |nuclei to us so that we may be able \the Party. sition wants to stay in the cat: tet rules, its instructions, without reser- vation and unequivocally. If it does not want that, out with it! We want and will make no new regulations for the Opposition.” Applause. Must Disarm. “The Opposition must entirely and fully disarm ideologicaliy and organ- izationally. It must repudiate its anti-Bolshevik views before the whole world. It must renounce its mistakes which became crimes against the warty, openly and honestly before the whole world. It must hand over its | Foreign Ministers Stresseman (of Germany), Briand (of France) and | Chamberlain of Great Britain who are running what the Moscow Pravda calls the “talking club at Geneva.” to dissolve them without leaving a trace. Hither this, or let them leave If they will not leave, we . . | oolidge in Favor will kick them out.” Voices, “Hear, H imi Hear.” Prolonged applause. | (} ml In conclusion: (1.) “We defended | peace with neighboring states despite BS aes Te the greatest difficulties, despite bour- geois provocations of the “Great Powers.” (2) “We strengthened -the alliance + * a of the working class of the U.S.S.R.| WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—After a long conference with President with the workers of imperialist and colonial countries, despite innumer- able obstacles, despite endless slander of the corrupt bourgeois press. Strengthened Movement. (3.) “We raised the authority of the proletariat dictatorship among millions of toilers throughout the world. (4.) “We, as a Party, helped the Communist International and its sec- tions to strengthen their influence in all countries. (5.) “We did the utmost that one country can do for the development and acceleration of world revolution- ary movement. (6.): “We raised Socialist industry, setting the record in rate of develop- ment, establishing our hegemony in national economy. (7.) “We established the alliance of Socialist industry with peasant economy. (8.) “We strengthened the alliance of the working class with the middle peasants, based on the poor peas- antry. Strengthen Dictatorship. (9.) “We strengthened the dictat- orship, despite hostile international environments, showing the world’s workers that the proletariat can not only destroy capitalism but also build socialism. “There is only one conclusion, namely, we are on the right path, our Coolidge, Representative M. J. Maas, Republican of Minnesota, announced yesterday that he would introduce a bill to restrict the power of the Filipino Senate. Mass declared that he was opposed to Filipino independ- ence and favored the retention of the islands by United States permanently. The visit of W. Cameron Forbes, former Governor General of the Island, to President Coolidge is also regarded as significant. Forbes has been mentioned as a4 possible successor to General Wood as governor of the islands. Maas, when he left the White House, declared that he favored the appointment of a “strong man” for the governor-generalship. policy is the correct policy. “It follows that advancing along this path, we will surely arrive at the victory of Socialism in our country, the victory of Socialism in all coun- tries.” “This does not mean that there will be no difficulties in our path. There jwill be. But we fear them not, be- cause we are Bolsheviks, forged in the fire of revolution. We will over- come the difficulties, as hitherto. “Forward to the victory of Com- munism in our country, the victory of Communism the world over!” (Stormy prolonged applause. Con- gress rises giving Stalin an ovation.) General Textile Workers Strike strike wr~ formed on the initiative of the Communists. | H * * * | The example of the strikers turned ‘whole, and especially among the un-| strike till the in Poland lows. The reformists summoned the Lodz workers to a general strike on the 18th of March, then put off the 19th, at the same time on the workers’ economic demands was declared in chemical works. Among the working masses as a ‘ employed, the widest dissati fant out to be infectious. ployed, the widest dissatisfaction carrying on negotiations with the In Lodz, the centre of the textile industry where 90,000 textile workers were out, the metal workers and bakers immedi- ately downed tools; conflicts among the municipal and leather workers also came to a head. The general. strike in Lodz was fixed by the trade unions as early as the 18th of March. Conflicts came to a head in the vari- ous branches of industry all over the country. The Warsaw metal workers demanded a 80 per cent rise in wages and the reformist trades council in is to be observed; leaving the border provinces out, conflicts with the po- lice have occurred in Central Poland | : itself,—-Czestochowa, in Pruszkow of the Government. Labor Commis- (near Warsaw), in Zywin and many pil carried on, without any auth- other places. The workers in Stryj | ority from the textile strikers, nego- (West Ukraine) made a half-day | tiations with the government, insist- {tences on ie participaters in last 2°™ ‘pape pare atta lay movement. interference. The Minister for Labor All these strikes are, of course, ex- |Z471eWiez (a symp: hiser of the re- | A i formists), a i in- tremely distasteful to the Polish gov-|ister Bariel, naturally made immedi jermment, especially from the point of] 22 use of this appeal and officiall jview of Poland’s foreign policy. The iy whet Reape! peed government behind the scenes. The reformist Belemiescki, chairman Warsaw was forced to pass a resolu- ‘ Ei Bie tion of active support He the metal | Soonest Possible liquidation of the wovkers hy athet-teaiia unions... The conflict in the textile industry was a proposal of the Red fraction of cd React ea oe lous ep th ale bat trades council for joint strike action) oe L Aegean rare government of the whole working class in War- | Papers Glos Prowdy"’ (The: Voice of saw was turned down by a reformist | 2Tuth) ane Lelong fonfority, 7 jshow themselves as sympathis Maeve the tient cia Wasaast |with the exploited textile worke strike. |, The i A big meeting of wailway workers | his to act as mediator bi was called by a reformist on the| tween the w and the emplo} r for Labor expiess 6th of March in Warsaw under pres- |S; if one of the partie would apply | sure from the masses of the workers. | to him. The Chief Labor Ins vector | About 3,000 persons met; the spirit ;ttavelled twice to Lodz, endeavorit.g at the meeting was openly in favor {t© bring both parties to negotiation. | of a strike being declared. The Lodz District Labor Inspector | ‘tried to persuade the trade union rep- | resentatives to withdraw their de- A strike has been going on in the! mands and agree to government me- glass industry for more than two diatfo. Szezerkowski, the chairman weeks, embracing 39 out of the exist- of the reformist textile workers’ ing 43 factories. A conflict sprang’ union declared his readiness, from up in the coal industry. The mine, the very beginning of the strike, to owners demand a lowering of wages,| accept government mediation on the lengthened working hours, abolition} sole condition that liquidation of the | of leave, prohibition of institute of strike by arbitration should not be Workers’ delegates. , agreed to, A one-day strike in protest against 1 Ae Oa the emniovers’ refusal to negotiate Further events developed as fol- ‘ . * * * summoned the trade union and indu: trialists’ representatives to a confe: ence in Warsaw. tween the government and formists was in War was resolved despite the The bargain be- the re- definite and determined the tr: ations, to an Arbi- Commi and call the rack on the 21st of March. | } worke --- By Cable and Mail from Special Correspondents hijoun Franch Gunter || STALIN SCORES TROTSKY OPPOSITION | LEAGUE 70 TAKE UP LITHUANIAN QUESTION TODAY Pilsudski Arrives in Geneva; Meets Briand GENEVA, Dec. 9.—Marshal Pil- sudski of Poland arrived here today for the League of Nations Council discussion of the Polish-Lithuanian contro sy which is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning. Pilsudski who arrived at 12:45, im- mediately went to luncheon with For= eign Minister Briand of France. Later he was scheduled to hold a conference with Sir Austen Cham-; berlain. Little is expected to come of the Council session tomorrow since the| council is known to favor the Polish retention of Vilna, which Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania declared his government will never recognize. | * * * LONDON, Dec. 9.—The end of the | technical state of war which exists, between Lithuania and Poland will be suggested at the meeting of the. Council of the League of Nations to- morrow, according to a Geneva de- spatch in the Daily Telegraph. The appointment of a commission to in- vestigate the reported mobilization of Polish troops along the Lithuanian frontier will also be suggested at the session, the Telegraph states. Since the Council will not discuss the Vilna question until March, little hope is seen here for the immediate settlement of the controversy be- |tween Poland and Lithuania. 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