The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 3

| Stalin Exposes H | APPEARING UNDER NAME AS FRAUDS Says Hearst Suppressed Previous Denial {Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Dec. 19.-—Forged ar- ticles alleged to have been signed by Stalin were circulated by the New York American, the Wide World News Agency in an effort “to undermine the effect obtained by the Soviet Union’s delegation to Geneva which proposed complete disarmament,” ac- cording to a statement by Joseph Sta- lin, Secretary of the All Union Com4 munist Party, in this morning’s press. The text of Stalin’s statement fol- lows in full: “It is hardly necessary to actually refute the forgers from the New York American, Wide World News Agency or Anglo-American News- paper Service, circulating all kinds of tales in the shape of unexisting ‘Stalin’s articles’ on ‘air forces’ of the U.S. S. R., on ‘reconciliation’ of the Soviet Power with ‘orthodox church,’ en ‘return’.to capitalists of ‘oil prop- | erties’ in the U.S. S. R., ete. Refute Themselves. “It is not necessary to refute these, as the gentlemen exposed themselves in the press as professional forgers living on the small forgeries. “It is sufficient to look through the ‘explanations’ these gentlemen re- cently gave the press in an effort to ‘justify’ their swindles, to realize that we have to deal not with respresenta- ives of the press, but with brigands of the pen.” However in response to the inquiry of press representatives, I am willing to declare: “I never in my life have seen any ‘Herman Gott- frey’ or any other representative of the foreign press alleged to have in- terviewed me. Within the last twelve months I have not given an interview to either these gentlemen or any other representative of the foreign press. I made no speech either at the ‘Presidiym of the Moscow Soviet’ or at the ‘Moscow Committee’ of the Party on ‘returning’ oil properties in the U. S. S. R. to ‘capitalists,’ nor on the ‘orthodox church,’ nor ‘on the ‘air forces’ of the U. §. S. R., I have given no ‘articles’ or ‘notes’ in this spirit to the press. Z Deceive Readers. “The gentlemen from the New York American, the Wide World News, the Anglo-American Newspaper” Service, deceived readers assuring them that fake ‘Stalin’s afticle’ were unrefuted by Moscow in due time. The forged *articles’ on ‘air forces’ of the U.S. S. R. and on ‘reconciliation’ with the ‘orthodox church’ became known in Moscow at the end of November, 1927. They were immediately dis- closed by the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs as a forgery and this was communicated to Mr. Res- wick, representative of the Associa- ted Press in Moscow. Denies Stories. : “Accordingly Reswick immediately sent the following cable on the 1st of December to the Associated Press: ‘Today it was stated to me in the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Af- fairs that the question is being seri- ously considered here of starting prosecution in New York against the newspaper ‘New York American’ and generally the Hearst press with the view to stopping the circulation of articles signed ‘Stalin.’ ities particularly objected to a note which appeared in the ‘New York American’ of the 6th of November, headlined ‘Converting the Church to Support Soviet,’ which allegedly is Stalin’s secret report to a meeting of the Moscow Presidium. Authorities here indicate that the article is tne purest fiction—Signed Reswick, 1st of December, 1927.” Suppress Denial. “Was this telegram published, and if not, why not? publication of Reswick’s cable would have undermined the sources of revenue of Mr. Kord on the American- Hungarian or Hungarian-American question? This is not the first time the New York American has been en- deavouring to make money by forg- ing unexisting ‘interviews’ and ‘ar- ticles’ of Stalin’s. For instance, I know that in June 1927 the New York American published a forged ‘Stalin’s interview’ with a Cecil Winchester about a ‘rupture with Britain,’ about abandoning ‘world revolution,’ about a raid on Arcos, ete. The Argus Clip- pings Bureau in ‘that reference sent me then a proposition that I should confirm the authenticity of the ‘inter- view’ and become the Bureau’s client. Cables DAILY WORKER. “Having no doubt that they had to do with the swindle, I then im- mediately forwarded to the New York DAILY WORKER the following denial: 3 “Dear Comrades, “The Argus Clippings Bureau sent me a clipping from the paper, the New York American, of the 12th of June, 1927, with an inter- view which I allegedly granted a certain Cecil Winchester. Hereby I declare that I never in my life have seen any Cecil Winchester, I have not given him nor anyone else an interview and have abso- -lutely nothing.to do with the New York American, Unless the. Argus |, NAILS ARTICLES \ The author- |" Was it not because |. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927 earst’s Swindles and Di The American Empire | 8 Map showing the Central America: republics and Cuba which Charles Lindbergh will visit in his little tour | conducted by Wall Street. Lindbergh , is expected to reach Cuba about the | the Senate is to return to the United | time of the Pan-American Conference {States as Philippine Commissioner | { at Havana. sae QUAKE IN BURMA. « LONDON, Dec, 19.—Widespread damage has been caused by an earth- quake in Burma, according to reports received here. The number of those killed is yet unknown. ——— —=<=—S Clippings Bureau is a bureau of swindlers, one may believe it was | misled .by swindlers and black- mailers connécted with the New: | York American. (Signed) “STALIN.” July 11, 1927 Continue Swindles, “Nevertheless, forgers from Mr. Kord’s organization continue their swindles. What is the sense of these tracks? What do Kord and his as- Sociates wish to obtain by their for- geries? Perhaps sensation? No, not only sensation. Their object is to undermine the effect attained by the delegation of the U.S. S. R. to Geneva by its declaration regarding full dis- armament. Will they obtain their ob- ject? Of course not. “The forgery will be exploded (it ania is exploded), while the facts will remain. And these facts are that the U.S.S.R. is the only country in the | world pursuing a really peaceful policy and the only country in the world having honestly put the ques- tion of real disarmament. The fact that agents of capital are compelled in their struggle against the peaceful policy of the U. S. S. R. to have re- course to help from all kinds of sus- pected persons and various brigands of the pen—this fact is the best evi- dence of the moral power and prin- ciple strength of the position taken by the delegation of the U.S. S. RL at Geneva on the question of disarma- ment. vVage Three NEW FILIPINO COMMISSIONER Bargain Makes Osmena 19.—The appoint- ent of Col. Henry Stimson as Gov- ernor-General of the Philippine Is- | lands is being followed by reports | that Manuel Quezon, the president of there. Sergio Osmena, who is, if anything, More conservative than Quezon, will ‘probably succeed him as president of the Senate. With Osmena the head of the Senate it is “believed that Roxas will be superceded as speaker jof the House in order that Osmena {may have a more conservative run- ing mate than Roxas. * * * WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The an- nouncement that Manuel Quezon may be the next Philippine Commissioner in the United States has not been re- | ceived with surprise here where it has long been known that this was a main object of his American tour. Conservative circles are greeting with pleasure the probable election of Sergio Osmena to the presidency of the Philippine Senate since he is regarded as a “safe” man. Number of Unemployed In Austria Increasing VIENNA, Dec. 19.—A rapid crease of unemployment here was in- dicated by figures for unemployment doles made public yesterday, While 140,000 workers received doles on November 15th, 160,000 work- ers claimed doles at the end of No- vember. Unemployment is expected to exceed the 200,000 mark within a few weeks. Introduce Seven-Hour Day on Tiflis Trams MOSCOW, Dee. 5. (By Mail) —The seven hour day has already been in- stituted in the street car workshops of Tiflis. A seven and a half hour day, has been established for conduc- tors and motormen. Reports from Vladmir ‘state that the seven hour day will be introduced in one of the largest textile mills in Central Russia within a few months. Daily Worker Indictment Upheld The decision handed down by the Federal Grand Jury upholds the sentence in the case of David Gordon, a contributor to The DAILY WORKER. This decision means 8 years in jail for Comrade Gordon unless The DAILY WORKER can arouse mass sentiment against this attack. WORKER is fined $500.00. * In addition to the jail sentence, The DAILY This is not an isolated in- cident but is in line with the policy of the Dollar Patri- ots to stifle every radical movement which might be in their way of involving the conflict. workers in another world Resist the attack on The DAILY WORKER. Thi Vag Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Fill out the following THE DAILY WORKER, Enclosed $..... every week, Name .. Street ..... City 33 First Street. Sustaining Fund. blank and mail it to New York, N. Y. I pledge I will send you $.......... in- '| The | PROPER SETTING FOR AN IMPERIALIST EXPEDITION | | | | | } | | | | | | Unless the weather is unfavorable the battleship 17 the Pan-American Congress, where a body of slick A mer American delegates (most of whom will represent dictatorships set up or maintained by the United States) that Wall Street has nothing but the welfare of “our sister republics” in her heart of gold. Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur and Secretary of State Kellogg will probably accompany Coolidge. s will carry President Coolidge to Havana for an diplomats will attempt to convince Latin 13 Big Trusts Are Formed in Europe International s in important | industrics like manufacture of raw} steel, rails and aluminum are among} the thirteen important international | eartels listed by the Chamber of Com- | merce. Six more trusts, including | the proposed chemical trust, ar- | rangements for which are being made | at Frankfort, are in the process of formation. | | In addition to these thirteen trusts | | there are numerous others which hay |involved, Most of the trusts. have | sprung up since the war in an ef-| fort to meet the competition of | American industry. | Among the largest cartels is the steel combine which includes _ the | stee] interests of Germany, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxemburg, Austria and Hungary. Other com- modities affected by international | cartels are: rails, tubes, aluminum, enamelware, glue, artificial silk, cop- per, electric bulbs, plate glass, glass |New York, Philadelphia, Boston and| Ukraine with electricity have been Great bottles, borax and wire. never been admitted by the parties | | ‘British Police Shoot | Tato Demonstration of Celebrate Tenth Birthday of GPU. MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—The tenth an- 4 | LONDON, Dec. 19.— Several h lgewish workers were wounded | |niversary of the GPU, state political | when police fired into a crowd police, was celebrated in the Red Square yesterday with a military pa- | }of unemployed demonstrators at cl . I ‘ }rade of picked troops in the morning | ;Petah Tik the largest Jewish : : Jeolony in 3 ordirtg: | and with a special meeting of the | reports received here by the Da Moscow Soviet in the evening. ; Express. The meeting was addressed by | Unemployed Jewish workers | |Bukharin, Kalen Voroshilov and | were demonstrating against the! | many representatives’of the Ukraini- |an, White Russian and other delega- | |tions of the GPU. Menzhinsky, head of the GPU, was | —® | greeted with a stormy ovation. A concert at the Trade Union House fol- lowed the meeting. employment | when! the Britis hem, Arabs at low wages n police fired into Tory Irish President. To Visit United States LONDON, Dec. 19.—President Cos- grave, accompanied by Minister of | War Desmond Fitzgerald, will visi the United States in: the middle of | January, it was officially announced yesterday. Cosgrave Plan Electric Stations For Ukrainian Peasants | MOSCOW, Dec. 4. (By Mail), | | Plans for*twelve new electric stations that will supply 600,000 people in the will visit Washington, | Chicago. worked out. } (Continued from Page One) | to Menshevism. Denial of the possib- Socialism in the U. S. S. R. and the consequent denial character of the path of rural develop- ment under the proletarian dictator- ship and the policy of the proletarian alliance with the basic peasant 'masses on the basis of Socialist con- | struction, and finally the actual denial jof the proletarian dictatorship in the U.S. S. R. | | “(‘Thermidor’) and the capitulation | |and defeatism connected with such | jan argument—this ideological position j converted the Trotskyist Opposition | into an instrumentfof the petty bour- | geois democracy within the U.S. S. R.| and made it an accessory to the inter- | | national social democracy abroad. | Enemies of Proletariat. | “Second, in the tactical sphere, the | Opposition, by intensifying and ac- centuating its anti-Party work, over- stepped the limits not only of the Party statutes but also of Soviet law (underground meetings, under ground print shops, violent seizure of premises, etc.). The undertaking of an open struggle against the regime of the proletarian dictator- ship by the organization of street demonstrations against the Party and Soviet government on November Th 1927, crowned this anti-Soviet tactic. anti-Soviet Opposition tactic which extended also abroad is con-| nected with the propagation of slan- | derous calumny against the U. S. S.| R. and has actually placed the Oppo- | sition in line with the avowed ene-| mies of the country and of the pro- | letarian dictatorship. “Third: In the sphere of organiza- tional questions, the Opposition based on revision of Lenin’s views, went! over from factionalism to creating | their own Trotskyist Party. The Cen- | tral Control Commission established | full evidence of the tactic of Opposi- | tion with regard to Central Commit- | tee, regional, provincial, town and district committees, its technical ap- paratus, membership dues, press, etc.; ete. The Trotskyist Party is connect- ed abroad not only with factional groups with anti-Leninist - leanings within the Communist Parties, but also includes organizations, - groups, and individuals who never belonged to the Communist International and also elements expelled from the Com- munist International as enemies and traitors to the Communist movement { Party Expels Leaders of ferences of a programmatic character, | varine, revising Lenin’s views and falling in-| ¢t¢.. ete.). | ility of the successful construction of | of the Socialist / (Maslow, Ruth Fisher, Korsch, Sou-, Despite the glaring disagreement Xosmer, Rolandholst, Liebers,| between the two Opposition groups, |the Congress nevertheless regards “This organizational Opposition; both Opposition statements as abso- practice resulted in the Oppo ition | tutely unsatisfactory. contact with non-Party bourgeois in- { see tellectuals. within the U. R.| BEDE ORD EG: (Scherbakov and company), who, in|} Based on the foregoing state turn, were ted with avowed | ments, and taking into consideration | eotmbaran s, and were be-| the two-fold violation by the Opposi- yond the U. S. S. R. borders exten-| tion of their solemn pledges to dis- sively supported by the bourgeoisie | band factionalism, the Congress re- of all countries. solved: : “Based on this, the 15th Congress} 1st. To expel from the Party the ; considers correct the Central Com-| following active ringleaders of the mittee’s and Central Control Com-| Trotskyist Opposition: mission’s expulsion\of Trotsky and| Avdeiev, Alexandrov, Oussem, Zinoviey on November 14, 1927, from| Batashev, Baranov, Bakaiev, Budjin- the Communist Party of the Soviet | Skaya, Boguslavsky, Waganyan, Var- Union, and the other Opposition mem- | din, Vrachev, Gessen, Gordon, Gertik, bers of the Central Committee and|Guralsky, Drobbins, Dmitriev, Yev- Central Control Commission from! dokimoy, Zorin, Zalutsky, yin, Kam- , membership of those bodies and its{enev, Kaftaradze, Kaspersky, Kras- bringing up the Opposition question|ovskaya, Kovalevsky, Kukin, Kas- as a whole for the consideration of |parova, Kommandir, Kagalin, Kostrit- the Congre: In the resoltuion on|sky, Konkova, Katalinov, Lanhevitch, the Central Committee report, the | Levin, Lubin, Lelozol, Lisdin, Loban- Congress declared membership in the}ov, Muralov, Minichey, Nikoleiev, Trotskyist Opposition and propaga-|Natanson, Piatakov, Pongmarev, Pit- ion of i incompatible with |ashko, Peterson, Paulsof, Reingold, nembership in the Communist Party | Ravitch, Radek, Rakovsky, Rotsun, of the Soviet Union. | Rafael, Rumyanssev, Safarov, Smilga, Opposition Must Disarm. |Sokolov, Solovioy, Sosnofsky, Smir- In this ‘connection, the Congress |0vV, Senkov, Tuthikov, Tarkhanov, holds that the Opposition must dis- | Tarasov, Tartakofskaya, Ukonyen, arm ideologically and organizational- | Fedorov, Fortig, Filipov, Kharitnov, ly, emphatically condemning its |Chernov, Shepshelova, Ezhba, Lilina. above-expressed views as anti-Lenin-| 2nd.—To expel from the Party the ist, as Menshevik, and taking a pledge |Sapronov group as avowedly anti- | to defend the views and decisions of tévoiutionary; Zavaryan, Yemilyanov, the Party, its congresses, its confer- ;Minno, Minkov, Smirnov, Pilipenko, ences, its Central Committee. The | Dunna, Slidovker, Tikhonov, Strogan- | Opposition, however, rejected this |0V, Penko, Chereanov, Putilin, Party demand. In an Opposition docu-| 8td—To authorize the Central | ment of December 3, 1927, signed by | Committee and Central Control Com- 3 |121 active Opposition ringleaders, the | Mission to take every measure for Opposition not only does not renounce, ; ideologically influencing the rank and but on the contrary, in on the | file members of the Trotskyist Op- propagation of its Menshevik views, | Position with the object of convincing | After Congress had adopted the |and simultaneously purging the Par- resolution on the Central Committee's |ty from all avowedly incorrigible report, the Commission received two | Trotsky Opposition elements. new Opposition documents on De-! Smilga Makes Statement. cember 10, 1927, one of which (signed| After Ordjonikidze’s report, Smilga Rakovsky, Muralov, and Radek) in- | declared on behalf of Muralov, Rakov- | sists on the necessity not only of the |sky, Radek and himself that they “will preservation of these -Menshevik fight for Party unity” as hitherto. views but also the necessity for their | Smilga concluded his statement, by propagation, and the other (signed! moving the rejection of the resolu- | Kamenev, Bakaiev, Yeudokianoy and|tion proposed by the Commission. Avdeiev) insists on preservation of | Kalinin and Ugarov, delegates from the Opposition Menshevist views | Leningrad, , replying to Smilga, while refraining from propagation of | showed the correctness of the resolu- | same, which contradicts the demand | tion and the necessity of its adoption. | of ideological disarmament and is{ After the unanimous adoption of the | tantamount to a refusal to defend the | resolution, the delegates rose, singing | Party decisions, the International | stortions to Discredit Soviet Union Assortment o° All Makes of Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. International Typewriter Co. 1643 2nd Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. NEW YORK CITY. GIVE BOOKS If You Are Mak-" ing Gifts We will ship any of these’ books ae postpaid to any address in the country for you. All these books are clothbound— in attractive edi- tions ta make splendid gifts to other workers you know. 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Huge protest meetings at Town Hall and Cooper Union have demand- ed that Secretary of State Kellogg take action against the perpetrators of the recent Rumanian student atroc- ities. Jobless Workers Show Increase in France as Industry Slackens Up PARIS, Dec. 19.—French industry has slackened considerably with the result that unemployment figures have increased. Work who have registered as unempleyed number 10,876 in com- arison with the 10,687 for the week before, 9611 for the middle of No- vember and 8662 for October. These figures include only workers who have registered and do not include workers who are employed part time.