The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER; NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928 Two Leaders Leave Trotsky Opposition; Admit Party Policies Ai Are Correct PRAVDA REVEALS OPPOSITIONIST'S LETTER T0 STALIN Ovseenko, Krestinsky Admit Errors (Continued from Page One) sably harsh letter, accusing the ma- jority with attempting to split the Party, ete. “I must first of all tell you that I clearly see how correct was your attitude toward Trotsky and toward his Opposition and how wrong I was. You quite correctly understood that in raising talk about the degeneration of the old cadres and in opposing young members to old, Trotsky mani- fested his lack of faith in the his- torical Bolshevist Party and took the course of building up another Party, | thus breaking with the traditions of Bolshevism and departing from its ideology. Must Fight Trotsky. “Dijerjinsky was correct when he pointed out to me the necessity of fighting Trotsky to the end becaus in his struggle against the Pa Trotsky was objectively becoming the organizational center of ihe petty bourgeois forces of reaction. “Not an unimportant factor which determined my position in the inner Party struggle was the so-called “Lenin will.” But indeed the warn- ings in this document were directed along two lines and what is moss im- portant you, Comrade Stalin, re peatedly showed that you accepted Lenin’s indications about you and that the Par'y’s interests come above everything for you. Party is Leninist. “IT am convinced that Lenin would be entirely with the Central Commit- tee in its struggle against the Op- position, but would have dealt more quickly with the matter.” Antnov Ovseenko points out that he was incorrectly considered an old fol- lower of Trotsky’s, that already in 1915 when he had worked with the Trotsky paper, “Our Word” published in Paris, he had formed within the editorial staff a special group that entirely shared Lenin’s views and that when in 1917 he had come to Petrograd from abroad he had for- mally joined the Bolshevik Party, separating himself from Trotsky. Krestinsky Announces Break. “Krestinsky in the course of his let- ter writes: “My correspondence with Trotsky regarding the Opposition bears a unilateral character since only my letters have been announced. The only interest which my letters present is the reflection of my cricical attitude toward the Opposition tacties at diz- ferent moments of the inner Party struggle-—this at.itude having uti- mateiy resulted in my _ ideological break with the Opposition in spite of the fact that I was connected for a long time and main-ained close rela- {USSR Football Team Barred by French Tories MOSCOW, May ” 8.—The Soviet| Union football team, which was! scheduled to participate in the inter- national labor tournament at the Pershing Stadium today, did not ap-| vear as ihe result of the refusal of: the French government to visa the | passports of the Soviet athletes. The g@vernment gave no reason for its action. ‘ In addi.ion to participating in the tournament, the U. S. S. R. team was scheduled to play a number of ex hibition games in Lyons, Nantes anc other cities. NEED FREE SUBS TO HELP MINERS “Daily Worker” Will Aid Save-Union Drive (Continued from Page One) the slogan of every class-conscious | worker, and one of the greatest for- au WOKKEK agents. has been started to give every one of | the nearly lzJvu delegates a tree sub-| that “the development of the Czecho- | | scription to the paper. In, addition, Vhe vAf{LY WORKER must be spread to the hundreds ot thousands of rank and file miners, | bo.h organized and the unorganizea, | who will have to be welded together into a single mass that will stand lise an immovable wall against the at-| tempts of the coal barons and the other open-shoppers .o grind the American workers into the dust. All Workers in Danger. American workers, it is not merely the coal viimers who are being at- tacked. Every one of you is poien- tially on the firing line, with the miners as the vanguard of the ever- sharpening class war. Propaganda wins wars as well as bullets. The DAILY WORKi:R has helped the miners carry on their heroie struggle for more than a year under unbe- lievable conditions. In the new strug- gle which is being prepared, in which every American worker will directly be involved. The DAILY WORKER must reach thousands of miners if the struggle is to be won, Free subscriptions are needed by the miners. Beset on all sides with so many enemies, The DAILY WORKER is a powerful weapon fighting relentlessly against capi- talist and labor-faker, giving the miners the necessary guidance and leadership in their desperate uphill battle. The DAILY WORKER is un- able to provide these free subscrip- tions at the present time because it | ces 1m the 8.ruggle to save che mmers’| mis The DeaiLY WOKKEK, Deie-| 1917” and for thi gates tu the Fittspurgh conference re-| peaiedly pointed this out to DAILY | f, Most of them do! not themselves receive The DAILY | Pravo,” WORKER regulariy, and a movement in a polemic ageinst the Czech Na- \ines and interference by deputies in EXPOSE TERROR IN PRISONS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA Working Class Leaders Tortured in Jail | By LANDOVA-STYCH. | PRAGUE, (Bl Mail).—Czechoslos | vakia is just such a hell for the pro-| letariat as any! other capitalist state. “Democracy , is discussion,” de-| clared President | Masaryk. Let us) see how it is in| Tyee Olbrac ht, very popular abt a] tarian writer and editor of the “Rudé Pravo,” last year published on the occasion of the an- niversary of the death of Lenin an article, not confis- cated, “Advice of a non - Participator ” out of che “collect- | ed works of Le nin “transgression” he | got one month’s imprisonment with fast days and a fine of 1,000 crowns. Josef ose editor of the “Rudé, got for the mere statement HAVANA CONFAB Latin American Leader Calls It a Parce PARIS, (By Mail).—The Pan-American conference is termed a farce by Manuel Ugarte, well-known Latin American publicist in an ar- ticle in L’Europe Nouvelle of Paris. “The first thing that surprises us at the conference,” Ugarte says, “is | the assurance with which certain dele- gates from Latin America took their | parts. However, they represented, 1 jin most cases, States completely sub- within the Union of Sovict Republics, jected to the United States, finan- | otherwise the old order would recur,” |cially or by political limitations, and, five months’ imprisonment with a Leroth the domestic point of view, day’s fast in each month. G. Masaryk, jails workers tional Socialists at a public meeting |slovakion nation is only pos joligarchies amounting to mere min- ‘orities in each collectivity. Comrades Paufossima, Skoschek and | “We may say that, with certain ex- Micha! for coremonially accepting. &| ceptions, they lacked authority to op- 5th Cavalry Regiment of the Red | pose imperialism and they did no? Army (the honorary command of | have the right to speak in the name which the Young Communist League|of the masses of their nationals. The of Czechoslovakia had accepted). each! assembly, receiving a false basis in| got_one year hard labor and a fine | sayance by these defects in the repre- of 2000 Czech crowns or a further | : month imprisonment. This. sentence, some lost all prestige, further, on, account of its doubtful justifica-|more, by the very fact that these | tion. provoked attention not only from | delegates, in the course of their polit- invidical circles but also among the | ical careers, had been for many years judges, as it was based upon a de- | the most zealous partisans of the claration from the ministery for na-|Monroe Doctrine, and of all the tional defense. according to which|mirages that must have resulted in sympathy for the proletarian army of | the present situation.” the Soviet Union, in respect of which | — - Czechoslovakia was at the time not/an hy evatrdny. oceurrence for prisoners in hostile relations, was declared to|to get boxes on the ears and blows be an “attack upon the republic.” lon the head, to be dragged about by Cases of suspension of parliamen- | the hair, throttled and kicked in the tary immunity are innumerable, and course of examination. The prisoner at least nine-tenths of these affect! under examination is beaten with a Communist members. In general they | truncheon about the hand, back. legs relate to statements made at meet- and breast until he sinks to the ground in a welter of blood. Comrade Sobol in Levoscha lay un- conscious for two days after such an examination. Comrade Blitz of Ka- schau suffered a collapse as a result of such maltreat- To Parliamentary Immunity. raids by the police and gendarmerie upon the werkers, and most of them yesult in the handing over of. the Communist deputies to the courts and prisons. recent | ma complete nervous | Form Liberal Party in| Japanese Parliament TOKIO, April 8.—Six independent | a} members of the Diet have formed Liberal Party, a sander the leader ship of Yusuke! Tsurumi, the son- in-law of the for- mer home minis- ter, Viscount Goto. Altho the newly- formed _ par’ is small it exer- cise a good deal of influence because of the balanced par mentary situation. The Tsurumi thousand will be locked out on Tuesday unless | the 26.000 workers who have on strike for an eight hour day and a wage increase return to work, unstably | | metal industri Getting Ready for the Imperialist War in the Pacific Photo shows the giant trans- port St, Mihiel sailing with a large detach- reinforce the United States troops in Pana- ma. More troops are being sent to Panama and Porto Rico to “safeguard” the American em- pire in Latin * America ‘700,000 WORKERS FACING LOCKOUT German Metal Workers Fight for 8-Hour Day April 8.—Two hundred | metal workers in Saxony BERLIN, gone | the! lists have announced. lia-|The 26,000 workers went on strike several days ago. The struggle in the metal trades is Y. Tsurumi, group proposes to |o one of the huge labor struggles | “liberal” build up a third} which are now going on in Germany. | group, which will} With wage agreements expiring on| attempt “s veform” and a more | May Ist, negotiations for new agree- iiberal fereign policy, particularly as} ments are under way in many of the s_ Chine e a bid for the large popular vote didates. re cast for proletarian FLOOD CONTROL IS A FOOTBALL ithe church “from teaching and fol- |lowing the doctrine which holds that Politicians Interested in Job Control WASHINGTON, Ap. 8 (FP). President Coolidge’s opposition to the Jones-Reid flood control bill, which passed the senate by unanimous vote, has thrown the ‘house republican or ganization into confusion. Coolidge called Chair of the house appropriations commit- tee to convey his disapproval to the house leaders. Republican politicians from the Mississippi valley fear that the effect of th pledges m on Iilino feat in h 2,063 Injured ‘NE 7 ORLEANS, y cost the party its hold and make certain its de- ouri. April 8 (FP).— The group.aims to | basic industries. jin the metal trades and in the mining | and chemi repudiation of administration | Particularly serious struggle looms | 1 industries. THE BLIND ALLEY. The Italian Church of God, Brook- lyn, has obtained a temporary in- junction from Justice Cropsey in su-| preme court restraining a fraction in| | they may eat meat with blood in it commonly known as ‘false doctrine’.” | thetic with the ‘CANTON TROOPS "REFUSE TO FIRE | Weeds Peasant Armies Take More Towns | (Continued from Page One) jago stated that the Kuomintang | troops had suffered decis: defeats in | a number of pitched battl rtant city | The capture of the impo of Swatow by worker-pe nt troops is declared to be immine The au- | thorities at Swatow are making pre- parations for the defense of the city. Among the preparations has been the wholesale execution of trade union | leaders. | Canton Revolt Looms. | With victories for the worker-peas- ant troops reported in d icts north and south of Canton and with Hunan- ese Red Guai arching east from | Kweilin, in Kwangsi province, the Kuomintang militarists in Canton; fear the capture of the ci Fear {has been expressed that if ton is seriously menaced from the outside, the authorities will face a revolt of workers within the c A large num- ber of troops known to be sympa workers are certain ane: to join an ane | Railroads Would Junk Competing Barge Lines WASHINGTON, (FP) April 8— Complaining that government opera- tion of barge lines on the Mi \ sippi and Warrior rivers is not econ- | omically sound, Dr. C. S. Duncan, economist for the Association of Rail- way Executives, testified before the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The bill under discussion was the Denison measure to increase by $10,000,000 the capi- talization of the Inland Waterways Corporation, the government opera- ting concern, and to appropriate $10,- 900,000 for the corporation’s use. The AL VETOES JUROR PAY RAISE ALBANY, April 8.—Gov. Smith ha: vetoed the bill which would have in- creased from $4 to $8 per day the pay of trial jurors in Greater New York. Denison bill contains a joker permit- ting the administration to lease or 3ell the barge lines at any time. The vailroads running parallel to the rivers are waiting their chance to buy and discard the barge service. an Madden ee SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning Nov. 7, 1928, up to 21, 1928. Harry Blake, clo. — For information write to First Street, New York City. and including Nov. 99 oO Daily Worker, ment, and he is still suffering in con- sequence. Of the many who could hear witness to these acts of bestial- | is engaged in its own life-and-death| The punishments for Communists struggle against enemies which are |? Slight in appearance only, for ac- ultimately the same as those secking| tive ¢omrades and female comrades to erush the miners’ union. “| are so often prosecuted and sentenced These free subscriptions .can only | that the aggregate of their sentences A ‘ s to several years of imprison- be supplied by other workers cmuee ; eocipathiaas with the miners’ eee ment with shorter or longer periods Attached is a bserivti 77] Of “leave.” i this “ot 3 wes des vet The humanitarian phrases used by Masaryk give the impressior abroad tions with the Opposition leaders. I vefer to an ideological break since I never had any orga: tional connec- tion with the Opposition.” A | According to Mrs. Edward Pillsbury, | + state ener ory inspector, approximately | ity Comrade Petenyi in Kaschau may |‘ hat | be mentioned. His case was made a| 4 iH Roce wo subject of a question in parliament jthousand eighty men, ~~ women, 5 by the Communist Deputies’ Club, to | |boys and 29 girls were injured. M which Minister of Justice Mayr-Hart- | Pillsbury points out that the 10-hour | ing resolved to reply briefly and super- |day is being maintained by many fac- ficially only after I had read Pe- fiariss and that the employers have 2 Amalgamated Heads, Bosses Resume Confabs| OnRochester Agreement WORKERS of the WORLD proper sum, Help save ‘he mine ens é ni +5, ij is li t 1 the | tendency to employ older men and ( INI] ] ] : = jan a Pa wet ART that conaitions in Czechoslovakiat tenyi’s protocol In. pariiament and the | ‘ awe nrovides 4 shil. ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 8.—The teas atts ike Ak vr DAILY prisons are not at all bad. The re- Red Aid kad called public attention pps oe ree Joy provides eet ee conferences between the employers’ | WORKER! . formists in particular are very much tc the ipetiben lai by the eet day. : : 2 i 334 ; * * * interested in the good reputation and tion of a brochure. Comrades Bé . é eae TEpregentetives and Sidney Hillman, gems i : the humane character of the Czecho- Lowy, Stanislay Smesak, Susanne An- “gp AnD FIREMEN RESENTFUT.. ann May Day Edition president of the Amalgamated Cloth- | S‘r‘tine Miner’s Free Subscription. slovakian constitution. and they have drasik, Adolf Klein, Istvan Gevhes, ® Daily Worker, Members of the police and fire de- ing Workers Union, adjourned last Day constantly proclaimed — especially Stefan Ondrajkovie and Janos Gvot | partments are resen ful over the | Friday night are to be resumed to- 47 Firet ae ldnring the time they participated in can also bear witness on this score. sy h pin Inetnlet pass day, ft was learned They are to NOW York Gity. |the government--that . humaneness | The -bestial practice of tormenting the salary referendum bill. Altho both | tontinue Hil aie ie ‘I T am enclosing herewith $ . hae found sanctuary in Czechoslo- and torturing the joners takes yepublican and democratic leaders had ; aah Se Berermnant 18 reached, ter a free subscription to a striking | sania. place today not only in Slovakia and | which it is said will ke some time miner. | Brutal Treatmert. ir Carvatho-Russia, but also in the withdrew their support | next Friday. usen mune A brief survey of events since the een histori Feels of ..Bo- or became lukewarm at the | The officialdom of the. Amalga- 3. months year 1920 shows that conditions today hemia, Moravia and Silesia. | " - tae ee Le oe a a re a a || 32 Pages; 300,000 Copies 4 5 months ji during the partici- | ing to prepare the w e s ment which began 4 g the pa oF een t re eFkers for. /en 1.00 month | ation of the socialist parties in the | + * Z ‘ ae ciel ae oe: to a government. As early as the years Organizations, Workers, ack up their demands a e confer- Name ...... 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