The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 3

F Soviet state and the trade unions _tion used as its main weapon in the Opposition Member Begs Reinstatement in All- Union Communist Party PLAN TO EXTEND TRY 25 COMMUNISTS DOCKERS’ STRIKE BIG ROTHERMERE ’s0-Slav Workers Face Long Jail Terms FOLLOWS ARREST IATAKOV ADMITS TROTZKY ERRORS; PROMISES CHANGE Declares Others Would | Gladly Return (Continued on Page Four) should advocate the necessity of creating a legal or illegal Party to pursue the struggle for the dictator- ship of the proletariat and Commun- ism, No Thermidor. | “But as political premises do not exist for such a solution, the ques- tion of the creation of a second party is in my opinion harmful and crim- inal, In rejecting the idea of a sec- ond party I likewise reject any kind of intermediary solution, such as the organization of this or that form of political movement outside the Party limits, not under the Party control and leadership and running counter to the Party’s will. Such intermediary solutions must inevitably grow either into decisions to create another Party or decision to liquidate all special po- litical organizations and return to the All-Union Communist Party. “The second reply to the question, ‘What next?’ is no reply at all for a Bolshevik, but means an evasion of the question and refusal to par- ticipate in the political struggle of the working class. “Hence only the third answer is the right one, that is return to the ranks of the All-Union Communist Party to participate in the Commun- ist struggle and Party work. Three Indispensable Conditions. “Making suth an answer, I neces- sarily intend to observe the three in- dispensable conditions of joining the Party. (1). Not to resume the fac- tional struggle and to participate in the common work and struggle of the Party; (2). 1 do not question that the decision, of the supreme organs of the Party is binding and my political status corresponds to any member of the All-Union. Communist Party; (3). I do not question that the Comintern and its sections, particularly the All- Union Communist Party, are the only united political organization of Com- munists for carrying out Leninist policies, that the Soviet power in the U. S. S. R. is the organization of the dictatorship of the proletariat whose defense and consolidation is one of the most important duties of the Com- munists both in the U. S. S. R. and abroad, and that in the U. S. S. R. the under the guidance of the All-Union Communist Party are building so- cialism. This initial estimation de-| termines the fundamental line of con- duct. After such an estimation con- | troversies over this or that question which are inevitable in a living party cannot go beyond the limits of dis- cussions between Party members. Workers’ and Peasants’ Alliance. “Under the conerete conditions of the struggle of the dictatorship of the proletariat for existence and develop- ment in the U.S. S. R., it is necessary to recognize as the basic law of de- velopment in the given stage, the principle of alliance between: the workers and peasants which is also an indispensable condition of affiliation to the All-Union Communist Party. I entertain no doubts on this question. I had doubts lest the policy of alli- ance between the workers and peas- ants might become a policy of ignor- ing the class differences in the vil- lages which would undoubtedly pre- sent a serious danger to the dictator- ship of the proletariat. However, T am now clear that in this respect I was mistaken, “T do not now consider it right to defend the opposition platform of the third of September which the opposi- struggle against the Central Com- POWERS SMUGGLE THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928 A Makes Report on Page Three Peasant Problem PB. M. Roy, leader of the Indian Communist Party and former representative of the Communist ing the International Agrarian Institute. Japanese Communist leader, Sen International in China, address- In background is the Katayama. NO GRAIN BOUGHT ABROAD: PRAVDA MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 29.— Reports that the Soviet government | is purchasing grain outside the Sov- iet Union are branded as misrepre- | sentations by the press here. The rumors have been circulated abroad | in an effort to stimulate grain prices and to encourage the western Amer- ican farmers in view of the coming election in the United States, it. is alleged. Stories of a crucial bread-shortage! in Moscow are fabrications, the Pray- da asserts, adding that such stories; are to be attributed to the usual lie! factories in various European cen- ters. ARMS INTO CHINA | PEKING, Feb. 29. — More than 160.000,000 Chinese dollars, (approx- | imately $50,000,000 in United States money) were spent during the past year for arms, munitions and other military equipment for the armies in war-torn China, it was estimated here today. These war supplies were shipped from foreign countries despite an in- ternational agreement to impose an embargo upon arms shipments into China, negotiated nine years ago. Official foreign estimates of the quantities of war materials which have poured into China since the arms | embargo of 1919 are as follows: Rifles, 1,000,000; rifle ammunition, 500,000,000 rounds; machine guns, 2,000; artillery, 500 pieces; artillery ammunition, 500,000 shells. mittee of the All-Union Communist Party. Rejects Trotskyist Credo, “It goes without saying that I re- ject the directions of the Trotskyist center which were published in the Pravda of January 15. “T quite agree with the criticism passed on them'by Zinoviev and Ka- menev in their letter to the Pravda of January 27. “In view of all these considerations, I consider it necessary and permis- sible to request the Central Control- ling Commission to restore to me my rights as a member of the All-Union Communist Party, believing that the comrades who participated with me in the opposition struggle and now share my viewpoint may likewise be restored to their rights as Party members.” Wages Are Low PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 29.—Nearly 40 per cent of the women in selling positions in stores in Pennsylvania SCIENTISTS FROM USSR SEEK POLE LENINGRAD, U.S. S. R., Feb, 29. —For the first time in history hu- man beings will drop out of the skies upon the North Pole when Gen. Um- berto Nobile, of Italy, makes his sec- ond Polar dash in a dirigible, it was stated here today. ‘ Three Russian scientists will make the trip with the Nobile expedition. According to information received by the Russian Academy of Sciences, | it is planned to bring the dirigible | to a stop over the Pole and cast out | anchors upon the ice from an altitude of approximately 200 feet Rope lad- ders will be lowered so that at least three of the scientists on board may | descend to take soundings of the sea beneath the ice floe and make other observations. The scientists will spend about five hours “upon the Pole” if possible. % Preparations for the flight are be- ing pushed here by scientists who ex- | LEAGUE MAY TALK OF ARMS SCANDAL GENEVA, Feb. 29.—That the League of Nations will verbally inter- fere in the case of the arms cargo shipped by an Italian firm to the Hungarian government is being in- timated here. In spite of the fact that Foreign Minister Valko of the Horthy govern- ment denies the League has any right | td intervene in this instance, the pow- ers are preparing to discuss the case, Plans are being made to silence both Germany and Italy as interested parties when the discussion arises. It is understood here, however, that the discussion will be purely formal gince England will not recede from her sup- port of the Italian fascists tho the “British are reported to fear that the violation of the war materials ship- ment clause of the Trianon treaty may be used as a precedent for covert armament by the Germans. Negro Girls Barred NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 29.—“So- cial reasons” was the excuse given by the state organization of the Girl Scouts of America for denying mem- bership to colored girls in this city and elsewhere in the state. No ocher reason was given nor was this one further explained. 2 FIREMEN INJURED SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb.’ 29, Two firemen were injured, and damage estimated at $50,000 was done early today when fire dest: yed a one story business block adjacent the plant of the Westinghouse Flec- tric Company. The structure housed three stores and a lunch room. PRESS COMBINE See Ceaseless War on| Labor in Move By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press). A new capitalist attack is seen by leaders in the political and economic wings of the British labor movement in the announcement that Lord Roth- ermere will extend his huge news- paper combine. He will establish a} chain of evening papers in 14 indus- trial centers outside London. ~ Rothermere, successor to North- cliffe who made and unmade govern- ments during the world war, is Eng- land’s leading newspaper capitalist. Through his Associated Newspapers, Ltd., he owns the powerful Daily | Mail, the Evening News and the| Weekly Dispatch, all of London. His} Sunday pictorial newspaper including the Daily Mirror also wield enormous influence. For the latest year for which fig- ures are available Rothermere’s As- sociated Newspapers reported a net profit after all charges amounting to $5,460,000. This combine pays regular 40% cash dividends on its common stock. His Sunday pictorial newspa- pers made a profit of $1,580,000 bringing the total profits of Rother- mere’s two enterprises to $7,040,000. The Sunday pictorial trust pays 25% dividends. $8505 For Ad. The Daily Mail leads all British papers in circulation, its daily aver- age in 1926 being 1,756,000. For a full front page financial advertise- ment it gets $8505 and $6604 for a full page general ad. This is 3 to 4 times the cost of a full page in the New York Times. The Daily Mail’s column rate is $972, also about 4 times the rate for similar advertising in the New York Times or Chicago Tribune. These enormously profitable news enterprises will get behind the new chain of evening papers which Roth- ermere plans to capitalize at about $35,000,000. The first papers will be established in Glasgow, radical indus- | trial center; Newcastle, center of the Northumberland and Durham coal fields; Manchester, center of the great Lancashire textile and manu- facturing area where radical discon- tent has always been rife; Birming- ham, center of the iron and _ stee! country; and Bristol. Later the multiple evening newspaper system will probably include Edinburgh. Aberdeen, Liverpool, Sheffield, Hull Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Leice: ter and Cardiff. Rothermere influence to the detri- ment of trade unionism and the La- bor Party. Rothermere is not firmly tied to either the liberal or the tory talist interests, swinging public opin- ion to either as it suits the purposes of big business. ‘ Fights Working Class. All the weight of Rothermere’s journals is certain to be cast in the scale against labor. That weight, when the new scheme materializes. of the newspaper public which is pre- ponderantly working class. A great unionists and supporters of the Labor Party. Lord Rothermere’s intention is to get them to read his papers and 'to absorb his ideas. are being paid Subsidiary of the United Workers Cooperative Association Guaranteed dividends Labor circles regard the move as| an attempt to extend’ the sphere of | parties but represents the pure capi-| will be brought to bear on a section | number of these readers are trade | | Vujo Stefanovic and many other prominent leaders of the Jugo-Slav youth move- ment, are charged with creating i | legal youth organizations and the dis- tribution of illegal propaganda. | tence several of and the remainder to jail terms of twenty years each. It is the govern- ment’s plan to rush the trial thru /s so that only a short space of time VIENNA, Feb. 29.—The trial of Slavian Communists is in Belgrade. The among whom are Radomir Ottakar Kersovani, Lazar ed interids to sen- the men to death The government lof } BUSINESS MEN SENATE APPROVES ASK CHINA WAR ment to sue in an American court} while it is unrecognized by the Amer- ican government. underwritten surance policies into Nationalist hands, proves that cove They also fear the outburst of public | fury which has attended the disclos- ure of the sufferings of the condemn- | Several of the prisoners were kept | thru the bitter cold weather in under- | and were refused food on several oc-| sions to s ion. The victuals they received were SHANGHAI, Feb. 29.—That the} WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. — United States government still recog- | new o-/ r nizes the Northern warlords as the su- | treaty containing several “anti-war”! fom Venezuela report t preme government in China was evi- provisions, was unanimously approved | hundred of the denced yesterday in a decision handed , today by the senate foreign ri j down by Judge Milton Purdy, of the | committee on a condition that it would | United States Court in China, deny-|not affect the old Bryan conciliation |— ing the right of the Nanking govern- | treaty. Seeretary of State Kellogg told the | | Committee the new treaty would not | |modify the old one and declared the | The decision which concerns fire in-' American will be given the accused for the es-| tablishment of a defense and the dis-| of fresh proofs of innocence. | men in the Jugo-Slav jails. | arve them into submis- | studen OF 400 STUDENTS Venezuelan Dictator Jails Many PORT OF SPAIN, Tri ground cells, partly filled with water i d, Feb. and seepa They had only newspa-|29.—A_ general walk-out of harbor pers to shelter them from the cold} Workers in the port of La Guayra has followed the t of four hundred who agen’ e thrown into jail the Gomez dicta- ere | orshiy despatches fi paracas the foulest sort. ton D patche rom Caracas The arrest of the udents resulted from a the youth s on held by demon. 1 tator, Gomez, Poli and id to have | broken u monstration and |hustled the four hundred manifestors |to pri gee } In spite of the rigid ec The! which the Gomez dictator Franco-American arbitration ations government would ex- ¢ by change notes with France to this ef- | American companies on government fect, before the new treaty is ratified | property which subsequently passed by the senate. | the Washington officials still recog- nize the legality only of the Peking administration. 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