The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927 Page Three \ re err eran nec anerennernee eae semen Ment ee tena Nae emt a reed ener st ee Met A er RNR EAST A eH) A TON oS arama atentma nantes enter ee A ¢. { PUBLISH TEXT OF ao oe ee BANKERS PLAN TO =" “°"y BRITISH TRADE | | | reece Ms ytd : % ‘ > . s 4 v Resolution of Congress | |Workers Fight Scheme Cook Raps Conference Given in Full \to Meet Morgan Debts To Boost Profits (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) | MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21—The po- | | LONDON, De The General MOSCOW, Dec. 21. -- The complete | sitive refusal of the Convention of | Council of the Trade Union Congress text of the Oppositior request for | Mexican National Railway Workers’ \has accepted the invitation of a group reinstatement and the consequent res- |delegates to consider the possibility of powerful British capitalists to olution adopted by the Fifteenth Con- of wage slashes as a feature of the meet in a joint “industrial peace” con- gress of the All Union Communist | retrenchment program for salvaging ference to discuss “how capital and Party barring the Opposition from | |the railroad lines, has brought al labor may cooperate to increase the reinstatement as. a group, is contained | |sharp counter proposal from the In- competitive power of British industry \ in today’s issue of the Pravda. | \ternational Committee of Bankers in the world’s markets.” The decision The Opposition’s statement, signed | |now considering the reformation of| -— ™ a was pushed thru in spite of the pro- by Zinoviev, Kamenev, Yevdokimov! |the railways in New York. | 2 * Lal of . mises minor AY ’ d others, follows in full: | ieee % - Wholesale firing and amalgamation itterly denouncing the decision 1 reWe raavast permission to bring to | A politician, a professional comedian and a “flying fool” form Wall Street’s three-ring “good-will” |of railway shops with the abolition of ascis riSoner the General Council, A. J. Cook, the knowledge of the Congress Has circus in Mexico. From left to right, Dwight Morrow, former partner in the House of Morgan and now (extra wages is the scheme now ad-| Secretary of the British Miners Fed- following application. The resolution ambassador to Mexico, Charles Lindbergh and Will Rogers. ivanced by the bankers. Further de-| . . eration, declared: aa of the Congress on the question c? the | Se pale oes s AEP ine SG tet ae sa |tails are expected when the complete | Re ects Holida . Capitalists. — Opposition puts before every member | By! . {< a ee ae % al | reorganization plan is laid before the | “It is the gravest decision ever of the former Opposition faction the Nicera tla Killed: | |Packed Nicaragua | Antroduce 1-Hour | Committee, | pe taken by He Bridal bi eet question of his further work for the | q 1 The Mexican government which is} Gpypy Aa ere | movement. will do more to creat proletarian revolution. | . | Delegation to Abet || ' {unable to meet the payments due on} gee seer ae meee ae ssension and disruption than any- “To serve the cause which we served 4 | U. Ss. Havana Plan } . ja loan from J. P. Morgan and Co., has}| oid a Ttaly, ‘4 Abdal nah Petstaeint vas | thing the trade union movement ever | for years, tens of years, under Lenin’s | res Cease i AES 1] oY ay HI | been considering the reorganization | GaPians i tebe the Cheese holiday | decided. I am sure nothing can come direction, is impossible either outside | || WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Three| | ;and sale of the roads to a combine of| ofrored by Mussolini to a number of |\Of this conference but disappointment the All-Union Communist Party or by ce Bie - ....| | Prominent Conservatives have been | ——-— Canadian financiers. The American | political prisoners. {for the workers and disillusionment way of organization of a second party.| MANAGUA, Dee, 21. — One Nic- | chosen by Adolfo Diaz, American-| | MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Adminis-|C@pitalists are reported to be con-|" poetragzini’s refusal to accept the Seaeiet Cook continued, Seam This cause can be served only by be-| araguan ibid ae sane ah nopnawn supported president of Nicaragua} (trative and trade union organizations | Siderably disturbed by the Canadian | holiday is generally regarded as al eae ue oe aes om erate” waht ing within the ranks of the All-Union | number oun ee ewes eis °F) | to defend the interests of U. working for the introduction of | Prodect. ie oe jprotest against the conditions under | pe reales mea an We the capitalists Communist Party. ee eee ee eee ee perialism at the Havana Con even hour day within the edt) ne anual profit Ce Fi ibe which Italian political prisoners are eee “J P “However, the Congress expelled } re as Le | The raguan delegation in-| | P? ions for the introduction of |“'’. Pant arene ical prisoners exiled in Mediterranean ae - rte us from the All-Union Communist Lieu tlaes His body has not aa) lelesice Dr. Carlos Guades Pazos, | | the seven-hour day within the next | 28tion charges on their indebtedness. | jjjands is extremely high. | The fight for the conference was s 3 | Party. Therefore, however severe be | ative Minister of Foreign | |two or three months At present the government is faced | | 8. | with a deficit of about $100,000. | A protest was recently made to the {led by J. H. Thomas, conservative : aa 3 | 3 ‘ Pt cab ; A 2 Railwaymen’s Unio: the demands put to us by the Con- Blow Up Mine. i | Dr. Joaquin Gomez, a|| It Leningrad, the huge Dzerzhin-| Bisecteniteane. Discredit | Italian Government against conditions bodes Gee ae Peesdene 3 gress, whatever be the force of the MANAGUA, Dee. 21. — The Jaboli| | and big business man from | | y textile mills, the Skorohod leather | The resignation of Berteam: Hollo-| in the Mediterranean islands. Rela- leads Union Congress 5 conviction with which we upheld out} a0:76 in the department:of Chontales | da, the Conservative strong-| |factory and the Uritsky tobacco fac-| yay the managing director of the | tives and friends are kept from com- |" “Mrore than $5,000,000,000 in capital e Yiews before the Congress, we must) yas dynamited yesterday apparently|| hold, and the ex-Minister of) |tory are among the large industrial! yexican lines, for reasons of alleged | municaané with politics!” prisoners, it’ be represented at the conference. submit our will and our views to the by miners who had been thrown out| | Foreign Affairs, Dr. Maximo H.| | enterprises that will introduce the| ji-health is regarded here as the re-|CXiles here also charge. The employers’ delegation will include i ung views of we haan a ue 18 | of work when the mine shut down. | Cepeda, : 2 | seven-hour day before April 1. |sult of his conviction that the present chap se | Sir Alfred Mond, chemical magnate, we ee ar =e aie pre age The blowing up of the mine is re-|| Many of the Latin gmerean| | The seven-hour day, it is €xpected,|investigation would discredit his . . Lord Aberconway, coal, iron, steel and abe aon Bt : acd Selaa hace. | warded as the latest incident in the} | Ministers and attaches at Wash-/ ‘will be in operation in the whole management of the roads. ‘Plan (0 Sim lif y erapicdidiae magnate; Sir Arthur fol to the victorious march of the rev. | "idespread unrest which is keeping] ey Senay al aURE to par-| | printing industry before October, | oo | |Norman, coal and steel industrialists olution. “The declaration of the 10th of De- cember regarding the surrender of the | propagation of our views in the Con- gress was found inadequate and un- pace with the success of the Liberal armies in northern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan plantation-owners and mine owners have been demanding | that detachments of matines be sent lo = Stimson, Philippines | Czar in Confab With to guard their properties against the | | 1928. Many large factories in Khar-! kov and Odessa have already taken| Lwenty Yugoslay Rail {steps to make the plans for the Road Workers Die of |shorter working day. In paper fac- . Cold in Record Snap | tories requiring uninterrupted work, Russian Grammar and a number of other leading capi- talists. | Reformist Picnic. In addition to Thomas and Turner,. the labor delegation will include . : A jthe six hour day will be introduced. | aa Moscow, Dee. 21—A plan for the | vi i ri ‘tory. t x } . * ‘ petite & Moscow, Vec. 41.—A p or the | Ernest Bevin, secretary of the Trans- tr cials eich tae neice cal Tone | Coolidge; Sails Soon) Sa ee | VIENNA, Dec. 21—Twenty rail-| further simplification of the Russian/ port Workers Union, A. Pugh, who the Congress regarding ideological See ae ‘Soviet Union Chemical way workers froze to death yesterday | language is being considered by the] headed the Trade Union Congress at and organizational disarmament. | Pledge Obedience. “We undertake to defend the views ‘and decisions of the Party, its Con- gresses, its conferences, and its Cen- tral Committee. We consider as wrong, and in accordance with the res- olutions of the Congress we condemn as being anti-Leninist, the views de- nying the possibility of victorious ni ary 4th, where he will take up his! ‘The Yugostal. branch of the Dnepe-| At Karnobat.a passenger train has | templated. The plan before the| MOSCOW, (By Mail).—A peasants __ construction in the U. S. S. R. of a| been presented, conditional upon. the | duties as successor to Governor Gen- | ;,. Said . 4 eae Soe "| Scientifi riment university has been opened in Vologda Socialistic character, denying that our |CoNduet of applicants being in keep-| eral Wood. trovsk (Ukrainia) has assigned 796,-/been marooned in snow drifts for | Scientific Department proposes revolution is of a Socialistie charac- ter, that our state industry is on So- | cialist path, that the development of villages under conditions of proletar- ian dictatorship and the policy of al- liance of the proletariat with the main masses of the peasantry on the basis | of Socialist construction is possible or | denying the proletarian dictatorship of the U. S. S. R. (“Thermidor). | Admit Mistakes. a} “We consider our fundamental mis- take in that our struggle against the Central Committee of the Party took such a form that our actions brought about the real danger of a} : ch Ra % ia : ; te te England if she disarmed, he said, | 7 s | t D The miners in the Pech-Funfkirchen | workers participated in the strike. | placed on their former jobs, while | «, . ay | second party. We must recognize 88 | cember, we have received a collective} District put up demands for more | Arrest Workers. several others were to be put on wont ads rua Shigules: mistakes the action of the 7th of No-| statement of those expelled from the Feeling He aber |. hie trate | i vember, the seizure of the premises | to Moscow High Technical College, BLAST KILLS FIVE. GUATAMELA CITY, Dec. 21— Five workers were killed in the ex- plosion at the National Aceituno Ar senal on Friday. Rays of the sun are believed to have been responsible for the explosion. dividua) cases and adopt decisions re- garding such applications only six months after the applications. have ing with the obligations undertaken by the authors of the applications and these applications themselves and con- ditional upon the ex-members of the Opposition fully satisfying the de- mands of the 15th ongress (See Res- olution of the 15th Congress regard- ing the Opposition) and consequently being based on their surrender of “platform of 83,” “platform” of the third of September and the “plat- form of 15.” Before this resolution was put to a vote, Rykov made the following speech: Rykoy Reads Statement. “Comrades, today, the 19th of De- Party by a former decision, namely Kamenev, Yevdokimov, and others, WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Henry Stimson, recently appointed governor general of the Philippines, will not make any change in the present policy of the United States in the Islands, it was |ferred with President Coolidge yes- | terday. Stimson will sail for Manila Janu- stated after Stimson had con- | Workers GetWageRaise MOSCOW, (By mail). — According | the new agreement signed by | | chemical workers with the Embaneft | (State) Trust, the wages of workers) willshe raised from ten to twelve per j cent. | to 000 rubles for wage increases. HH, ungarian L (By Special Correspondent). In the spring of this year a spon- taneous movement broke out among Hungarian workers to get wages in- creased. However, it did not bring about desired results. / Since July last a wave of strikes, far stronger than previous strikes, has swept through Hungar: pay. among were running high and it cost the started. For a little period cf time they were able to get the workers to return to the factories, but the prom- ised negotiations did not take place; the administration instead put up ;counter-demands on lengthening the jw orking day to ten hours. This re- |sulted in a new strike. According to | reliable figures, almost 17,000 metal | union bureaucracy in- | stead of reinforcing the strikers, are | abor ‘Leaders’ in a cold wave which swept Yugo- slavia, according to reports received here. Seventeen soldiers died of cold | and exposure in the neighborhood of Ghevgheli, the reports state. SOFIA, Dec. 21.—Twenty militia- men were frozen to death at Demir- | kapia today as snow and freezing weather continued to sweep Bulgaria. more than twelve hours. Go Fascist ernment by signing an agreement which had already been mapped out in advance. Several petty-bourgeois newspapers even published the details of the agreement: it provided that several social-demo leaders who had previously worked in the insur- ance funds and thrown out of work during the white terror,’should be re- pensions As in Italy, where the tre ry of }soon after the Scientific Department of the Com- missariat of Education which is in session here. Reforms in the language were made November revolution when the cumbersome alphabet was reduced from thirty-six to thirty-one letters and the grammar considerably simplified. Further simplification is being con- changes along the line of English grammar, which it is stated is the easiest in the world. Baldwin Ponders on ‘Danger’ of Disarming LONDON, Dec. 21.—In reply to a petition signed by workers in which they declared that they would not participate in the next war, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin declared that the League of Nations would collapse if Great Britain were to disarm. 143,000 British | the time of the General Trade Laion Congress when the general strike took place, T. Richards, W. M. At- kins, and Will Thorn. USSR Opens Up More Schools for Peasants in the northern part of the Russian | Socialist Federated Soviet Republic | for peasant boys and girls who have |eompleted village schools. RUMOR GREEK LOAN. ROME, Dec. 21. — Finance Minis- | ter Micalacopoulos of Greece arrived this afternoon and later conferred with Premier Mussolini. It is under- | stood that the conference related to | BOOKS BY STALIN trade union bureaucrats no little ef-| speaking about public opinion, and the trade union. bureaucrats in the | m of the AS the organization of illegal printing | addressed to the, Pre: offices, ete. Anyone attempting to organize a separate party against the Communist Party inevitably puts him- self in opposition to the Communist International and the U. S. S. R. and is inevitably thrown into the enemy’s camp. This refers not only to the All- Union Communist Party, but also to all sections of the Communist Inter- national. We therefore recognize as a mistake the maintenance of connec- tions with the group of Maslow-Ruth Fisher, and sever them. As regards Korsch, Souvarine, Rossmer, Rolland, Holst, Liebers we had and have noth- ing in common with them. . “We beg the Congress to reinstate into the Party and give us the pos- ility to participate in the practical, eNery-day work of the Party. | (Signed) Kameney, Yevdokimoy, | Zindviev, Bakaiev, Kuklin, Lashevitch, \ Avd' ev, Solovyev, Hessen, Pekar- ‘OrleY, Federev, Lilina, Zalutsky, Har- itonov, Babakhan, Sharov, Ravich, Lukianov, Ielkovitch, Reingold, Bel- jais, Furtitchev, Minitchev. December 18, 1927.” Resolvtions of Congress. | Congress, with this postseript: ‘We |beg to bring the knowledge of the | Congress to this our following ap- plication” (Speaker reads the Oppo- sition’s statement.) }fort to prevent ihe men from declar- |ing a strike, The employers, however, did not even answer the memoran- dum that had been presented by the | trade union bureaucrats. This proved } j to be the last straw; a few thousand | This document I received today about noon from Kamenev and I de- 5 clined his reqnest.to be admitted to} | Bar Meetings. ‘ the hall for the mecting of the Con- The authorities prohibited the strik- gress, (Cries: quite right) to person-/| ers from holding their general nie ally read and defend this statement.jing. Instead of urging the men to | I pointed out to him that I could not} continue the struggle the trade union do it without a special decision of| bureaucracy on August 9 renewed | the Congress, as by yesterday’s de- | their negotiations with the authorities | cision of the 15th Congress, Kamenev | and persuaded the workers to go back and the others were expelled from] to work. the Party. (Cries: Quite right.) Strike Wave. Asks Approval. | The insolent conduct of the trade | “Before I make a proposition, I) union bureaucrats in regard to the | wish eithen to have the approval of | workers in the largest Budapest en- the Congress of my reply to Kamenev | terprises, is indeed very character- or (Speaker's words drowned in cries: | istic, Widespread dissatisfaction with We approve, quite right. Loud Ap-| regard to wages was observed among plause.) On behalf of the all Presid: | the workers early in the spring. The we eee ae ed draft of @ | workers were literally starving and re} 01 re] | wer Ive: just heard of Kamenev and the others | Bret? BUSRIe P1Or weenie sheinpelyes, OF fc : their families in food. (Reading of the draft interrupted by The workers at the Hans-Dunubius cries: Quite right, and stormy ‘ap- | enterprises were the first to come out miners came out on strike. sending representatives to Voss, thé assistant chairman of the Council of | ‘Ministers, with “instructions” to in- form him of the poverty-stricken po- tion of the workers. The police, of course, were not sen- timental about the matter and on the | next day they surrounded the metal | workers’ union premises and arrested | all the workers and employes who were there at the time. The police | made it plain that they were not jok- ing. However, “Nepszava” informed | its readers on August 13, that the | arrests were made apparently because | of the youthfulness, inexperience and | haste of the police officer who led! the squadron. i Aid Goy.’t Spy. { When the government had conceded | to the demands of the tiade union | traitors and appointed Andreiko, chief | of the secret service to act asa medi- | ator, “Nejszava” endeavored to popu- | larize this gendarme in front of the | workers by proclaiming that he was | a friend of the working class, and | that he would be able to force the! employers to consider the demands of | face of fascism enabled the Commun- ists to capture the trade union appar- atus, so in Hungary will this treach- \erous agreement smash the power of | | the bureaucrats. Communists in Hun- gary will reply to this piece of treach- ery by reinforcing their activities in the trade unions and in the enter- prises, and by welding up and uniting all the workers under the flag of re- volution. BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! | Great 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 CIry. Defeat the Imperialist War Against Nicaragua LENINISM TEACHES US: “The victory of the working clas: s in the advanced countries and the liberation of the peoples oppressed by Imperialism are impossible without the formation and consolidation of a common revolutiona: ry front. rc “The formation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the | QUESTIONS AND AN- | SWERS TO AMERICAN TRADE UNIONISTS Stalin’s Interview With the First American Trade Une ion Delegation to Soviet Russia 25 Cents 5 Copies for One Dollar. Other Books by Stalin BOLSHEVISM—Some Questions Answered—-Answers to the ques- tions submitted by the students * | proletariat of the oppressing countries su; t y f Sverdlov rsity, beari ‘ This statement was handed to the plause.) : ition is submitted by (0? Sttike, and later they were fol- tee workers. _ | Movement for national indepmadeney of tha obi Cikeoaes ma egies ae directly on the question afi tie Congress on the 19th of December, ‘This: proposition ia sebunitted by’. eq by the workers in other enter-} The tactics of the trade union Jmperialism of the mother country for a pe ag hich presses others can | igre! policies of Suy/ae Raia “after the Congress had passed the|the Praesidium of the Congress. In es. When the workers turned their | bureaucrats during the strike, lumin- | never be free.” Beapre watch oppredsen others ean. co hw arrears resolution of December 18th on ex- boar of the re that pay jenrire | written collective statement over to; ©usly demonstrated the existence of | The Workers (Communist) Party ask. ae | the Russian Communist Party, pulsion of the Opposition from the smi wey is a tees an alee the administration, they organized a|a single general reactionary plan of | . the-ticht t ' rty asks you to join aud help ad party. 4 ai rehd conn tHted tees the 16th, | fifteen-minute strike. “Nepszava,” | joint activities between the govern, | 1 e fight for: LENINISM YS. TROTSKYISM— The full text of the resolution unan- however, was stubbornly silent on this | ment, the police and the trade union (in Haboration with Zinoview ; in view | The Defeat of Imperialist Wars. and Kamenev) titeke imously adopted by the Congress om eee oR eg oe Fantens OF l point. The administration immediate- | bureaucrats. j i * penialine ‘als coming is view it ates the 19th of December with reference | the differences which have arisen, the | | lied. by. locki t the 4,500 | Berean’ tov debs Smashing Government by Injunction. cussion in the Bt. ©. he bale to the statement of the 23 members; “cisions of the Congress must be Y iP lce Oy otking ou et week tte a ae | ance being sof! out (until Jam of the opposition reads: “Ist, Not to consider"the applica- tion of Kamenev, Zinoviev and others expelled from the Party which was handed in December 19, 1927, seeing . May Apply to Party. adopted in full earnestness by each | Workers employed. } of them. | Treachery of Bureaucrats, “It is necessary to consider such) At the same time, howeve rk | decisions as absolutely firm decisions, | ¢ts in the “Weis-Manfred” Arms fac- | (Cries: Quite right.) and expressing tory demanded a 20 per cent wage | to pass with impunity. It is neces-| The trade union bureaucracy was “2nd, To instruct the Central Com-|sary that nobody should put it into| however unable to persuade these mittee and Central Control Commis-|his head to repeat the Opposition’s| workers to return to the plants. As sion to accept the applications of ac-| experiment.” tive leaders of the former Opposition expelled from the Party only as in- | Jiause.) always, the administration demanded Stormy ap-|that only when the workers had re- turned ta work could negotiations be (Cries: Quite right. During the parliamentary elections and after their conclusion, Bethlen | and other members of the government | declared that the working class must be educated: in the “national spirit” against the, parliamentary social-| democratic fraction, which at one! time carried on a fruitless wrangle | with the government, nothing more was heard from the fraction. Fur- thermore, it capitulated to the gov- Organization of the Unorganized. A Labor Party. The Defense of the Soviet Un A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Address Occupation (Enclosed ion and Against Capitalist Wars. Ist) at 5 CE On All Orders Under $1.00 én the will of the entire party, of the | increase. This was bluntly rejected | and that the trade union$ would have % } i that the 15th Congress has already whole working class. Moreover, the #2d 7,000 workers were thrown on /to do this or the government would | Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party | exhaustively dealt with the question | y54}, Congress cannot, despite any the strects. Several small strikes fol-|establish independent trade unions | (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. 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