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

ah THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928 Page Three Stress Sharpening of Class Struggle EMPHASIZE GROWTH OF THE © |22xé Ne SOVIET UNION, DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION in Draft Program of Communist International | Taxi News ToGALL COLOMBIA 7, Embhasized NEW ARENA OF suna'mmin o PETROLEUM WAR FASCIST TERROR Fascists Give GERMAN SAILOR INTENSIFIED ON £07 « Veda! ' \eTROUBLESOME BY MUSSOLINI. 7°”.°72""° 1 SHIP'S Boss Hoosac N ill Workers. Win Pittsfield Strike PITTSFIELD, Mass. July 8 | (FP).—Three weeks of strike won |a readjustment in piece rates for 46 unorganized weavers of the Hoosac | mills. The workers were transferred The DAILY WORKER will here- {from caring for one fine and one DETROIT, July 8 Ze-Sce after print news of the struggles coarse loom each to two looms on exploitation of worke and ar = 5 and problems of the taxi drivers | acca suffering a loss of $3) : ~ * ‘\wemitic propaganda’ received offici Sey cleus s é + qs_,|regularly. The DAILY WORKER|Pyiti Yr "i ramed Bombing Ex-| recognition here yesterday with the; His Crime is Teaching Program Points Out Sharpened Imperialist] iscsi ely a sewerepetne we® British Creep Closer to R Grraisawe tise vain Ph Bee |e ere ere yeeterday th Seamen ‘HaAnemics Offensive Against U. §. S. R. it is a fighting weapon which gocs| Panama Canal lbranchief, the Arlington mills’ at} MeCUse.or Lorture ha ere elon Seamen E ‘ into the fleeters garage to battle |Lawrence, shifted unfinished work| a upon Henry - «for you; it fights for better wages,| WASHINGTON, July 8—Will|by truck to Lawrence. Piece rates| The aie reign of terror in Italy| i. conferre (B Worker — sppan i italism, Wi i i shorter hours, against police |the government of the United|on the coarse goods looms have|has assumed even greater propor-| 0: )/0' 0 The captein of thes irpitz’ Capitali ? ith Aid of Social Democrats, crimination, for a trade union of|States go to war against the gov-|been boosted as the result of the | tions since the attempted assassina- radi ated f the Hamburg-American line does Adopts Weapon of Fascist Terrorism the taxi drivers. Jernment of Great Britain—thereby| strike, |tion of the King in Milen, accord- pia! pari ews ny owcan i |starting a world-wide holocaust—to| aga |ing to news received through under- | ! : : % ee BY ee te |determine whether Standard or }ground channels at Zurich. The ‘ are good,” said he To AllSections of the Communist International: |°"¥ @*ilv paper in the: English | Royal Dutch-Shell shall dominate| fascist police employ all forms of ie erie jtain ote i language which truly represents | the oi] supply of the globe? torture to extract “confessions” | OVicn refs aaah Sek Ties 0 The Programme Commission of the Executive Committee of the |and fights aie ppiarent cei thall +. dwell «Deng fabian newer |from political prisoners, and raid| %, ae Sere aie mankind ane ely Communist International is publishing a DRAFT PROGRAM. gener Ta our struggles if /P2Per man, has written a book to the homes of anyone who is consid-| 97d © friend of labo an on boat.” The Commission thinks it its duty to declare that while the text |and speak out your struggles—it| ot out to the two nations the| ered in anyway dissatisfied with the | jee ee eet. ios : What does this. “troublemaker of this draft is of course based on the same fundamental principles | you do your part by sending in regu- Al of this oan Sin ult atane | ¢ ‘ uture the policies d wor z I Pp 7 daily life,|Pevil of this competition for petro- | sean Laer toes 3 as those upon which the draft programme provisionally passed by |larly the news of your daily life.|jeym, His hook is entitled “We| aA R GREE ceaalah ise ee prova Sasa ae the Fifth Congress of the Communist International was based, never- |Become a taxi eorrespondent for] Right For Oil,” and is published by| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 8 |of monhont wens Pet | Ot Ha Rseanie rid crime” cot ce ie Waa robe ven a pik i e ‘i your paper, The DAILY WORKER. : vi opacity NE a » Ma Yy 8.lof prominent professors who have ctor in ‘economies: to a cla theless, it differs very considerably from that draft. The Program |Your paper, ; Alfred. A. Knopf, It is’ a. well-pro-|"" mi, New Bedford Board of Pub-|contributed ty heralese lbs sbi FE ¢ shove Sen. Commission felt that in view of the great changes that have taken Write in regularly. We will cor-| portioned history of the way in|—The Ne e Side Poe PCR cated HGR ieee hase A apeaegie ni Was oat Muel ‘ place in many important spheres of international life and particularly | rect your English and spelling. We|which the United States State De-| lic Welfare, _whose granting of peste tage A aed Ooh de a sel have ¢ je da giaabegat se n the revolutionary movement since the Fifth Congress, it could |will keep your name secret. partment has fought the British| charity to strikers was exposed as|™anding a living wage. The system ; 1D jler a work well. He is y ‘ a # s of fascist espionage and terror has n d boat. Instead not confine itself to making merely editorial changes in the oi All together for a united battle| government, in every oil-bearing | a ruse to cover its role as a scab | ie ok ie ceehiteee an ¢ c id at. csi draft. A change has taken place in the form of the general eri in behalf of the 60,000 New York|corner of the earth, to bring final) \vonc@ for the mill owners, but 1 nut its mac y Sie or wasting m ‘tala ; sonshi i dri iste y s i 2 agencf for the mil , placing at the head of the Italian re he Deeteeen The Mcarian capitalism; a change has taken place in the relationships between | taxi drivers. Read, distribute, talk |control over the oil markets of Bie retreat icicag’ scaseod thaveNslC pammed odie Ca eG Te : f ne prepar ser various growps of powers. Great events have taken place, like the | about your paper! world to American rather than to} V7¢ fi i ebay | , - | to workers’ cause. wolution % i i ai : ionifé British capital. It is closely packed | thusiastic endorsement of the Tex-| sided over the court of appeals that ey 1 wr ain tried to get rid Great revolution in China, which once again emphasized the signifi- ‘ ly p ie > oR ished ap that Matieotti tease . fount & Ga ME Mal pruriin nadeantscusstion. Cri, deeppbat had tie |with documentary quotations that} tile Council of the United Textile shed up the Matteotti case’) | VipNNA, July S_—Officials of | of all thadrnan foughb 2A made in building up socialism in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- [will surprise the ordinary citizen.| Workers, has finally come out in its| . The bombing RROuY the temabe Se in governm ly and he remained on publics. The struggle between the aggressive capitalist world and 5 jit tears the mask off diplomatic) te colors and announced publicly | \°4..q tie voc) or tee erran as ompe | warm reception to Ma the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is becoming acute. Fascism |moralizing, and shows the United] Rei i | States and the British government| that no aid will be given after Mon-| has served for further per: . y i i sabe |facing each other in relentless mu-| day to those strikers who refused | cf workers, and those who practiced i he | cr Bes ee the mill | propaganda Activity for the Italian imperialism. The lessons that have been learned by the Communist i Goa. Sttaemalnie tion to Wide heresy to. ga, back -to works when: the mill} . - ‘ yor a ; for oil, even if it comes to the| |Communfist Party, even before it International in the fiyht against opposition tendencies and finally loHolewales maasmerss that de eetied| | was declared illegal. seamen had many more rs” like Mueller they er off. of the “Tirpitz” be o all seamen. |ski, Polish fascist, whe here on his way to Ru is growing and becoming transformed into the terrorist dictatorship | “trouble-n would be Let the cr an example t Pilsudski made no ment on his resign mated that he will spend t we owners open the mills. Mere member- the growth of Communism, the fact that the movement has really become internationalized; the new tasks that confront the Communist International as a single organization—all this has inevitably made it necessary considerably to alter and enlarge the former draft. The general tendency of the changes that have been made is towards more concreteness and greater emphasis upon THE INTER- NATIONAL aspects both in the theoretical section as we} as in the sections dealing immediately with, the struggles of the Communist Parties. Acting on the decision of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, the Programme Commission, in publishing this draft program, calls upon all comrades to express their opinion and riticism of it in articles, remarks and concrete suggestions. The } ork done on the program has revealed how difficult it is to embrace nm @ single document all the problems of the present-day world-Com- munist movement. place at the Congress. The question o; central questions at the Sixth Congress. material be collected by the time the dis f the program will be one of the It is essential that sufficient cussion of the question takes coat r The Commission therefore invites all comrades to join in the fruitful discussion of the program. THE PROGRAMME COMMISSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL INTRODUCTION The epoch of Imperialism is the ‘poch of-nforibund Capitalism. The ‘risis of Capitalism, which arose on «the basis of Imperialism, signifies that the material pre-requisites for Socialism have already matured. But the development of Imperial- ‘sm not only creates the material pre-requisites for Socialism; it si- nultaneously creates the conditions lor the overthrow of Capitalism. Imperialism subjects large mass- s of the proletariat of all coun- ‘ries — from the centres of capital- st might to the most remote cor- 1ers of the colonial world — to the} lictatorship of finance capitalism. | With elemental” force Imperialism ‘xposes and accentuates all the con- wadictions of Capitalist society. It mtensifies class oppression to the atmost limits. It intensifies the contradiction between the growth xf the productive forces of world sconomy and national state barriers ‘o an exceptional degree. It inevit- uly gives rise to imperialist wars xf world-wide dimensions, which ihake the whole system of prevail- ng relationships and inexorably kad to the world proletarian re- rolution. Imperialism binds the whole vorld in the chains of finance cap- tal. With bonds of blood and iron f£ ties the proletarians of all coun- tries, nationalities and races, to the roke of financial and capitalist plu- wcracy. It intensifies the exploi- ‘ation, oppression and enslavement rf the proletariat to an immeasur- ible degree and thus directly con- 'ronts it with the task of capturing power. In this way Imperialism sreates the necessity for uniting the proletariat of all countries, irrespec- sive of nationality, race, sex or pro- lession, into a single international proletarian army that cuts across ul state barriers. Thus, while Im- yerialism creates material condi- ‘ions for Sqcialism, it at the same sime confronts the proletariat with the necessity for organizing in a nilitant international association of vorkers, which is essential for the yerthrow of Imperialism. On the other hand, Imperialism splits off the better placed section xf the working class from the main ind more oppressed section of the nasses. This is the upper stratum of the working class, bribed and sorrupted by Imperialism. They com- crise the leading elements of the Social Democratic Parties. They save an interest in the Imperialist plunder of the colonies. They are ‘oyal to their “own” bourgeoisie and sheir “own” Imperialist State and m the midst of decisive class bat- ‘les were found on the side of the slass enemy of the proletariat. The split which took place in the Social- ‘st movement on these grounds in 1914 and the subsequent treachery of the ,Social Democratic Parties, which became bourgeois labor par- ties, demonstrated and proved that the International proletariat can fulfil its historic mission—to throw xf the yoke of Imperialism and es- vablish. the proletarian dictatorship —only by ruthless struggle against Social Democracy. Thus, the organization of the forces of the international revolu- tion becomes possible only on the platform of Communism. The op- portunist Second International of Social Democracy, which has be- come the agency of Imperialism in the ranks of the working class, is inevitably confronted by the Com- munist International. The war of 1914-1918 gave rise to the first attempts to establish a new, revolutionary international, to counterbalance the Second, Social- Chauvinist International and to be used as a wéapon of resistance to bellicose Imperialism (Zimmerwald and Kienthal). The victorious pro- letarian revolution in Russia gave a powerful impetus to the forma- tion of Communist Parties in the centres of capitalism and in the colonies. In 1919, the Communist International was formed, and for the first time in history the most progressive strata of the European and American proletariat were real- ly united with the proletariat of China and India and with ‘the col- ored toilers of Africa and America on the basis of practical revolution- ary struggle. As a united and centralized in- ternational proletarian Party, the Communist Intemational is the only Party to continue the organization- al principles of the First Interna- tional and to apply them tg the revolutionary proletarian movement on a new mass basis. The experi- ence gathered from the first im- perialist war, from the subsequent period of revolutionary crisis of capitalism, from the series of re- volutions in Europe and the colon- ial countries; the experience gath- ered from the dictatorship of the proletariat and the building up of Socialism in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and from the work of all the Sections of the Commun- ist International, which has been recorded in the decisions of its Con- gresses, and finally, the fact that the struggle between the imperialist bourgeoisie and the proletariat is more and more assuming an inter- national character, makes it possi- ble, necessary and opportune to draw up the gram of the Com- monist International, which shall be the common program of all its Sec- tions. = The program of the Comrzunist International is the supreme gener- alization of the experience of the international revolutionary proleta- rian movement and is, therefore, the program of the struggle for world proletarian dictatorship, the pro- gram of the struggle for world Communism, As an organization uniting the revolutionary workers, who lead millions of the oppressed and ex- ploited against the bourgeoisie and their “socialist” agents, the Com- munist International regards itself NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 8. —The Reid Detective Agency of | Boston has been retained by former | Senator Butler, a heavy mill own- er, to spy on union leaders, to dis- rupt unions and_ to influence | preachers to advocate surrender by the workers. Textile council lead- ers are aware of the private de- tectives’ work in the unions. Ef- forts to bribe preachers failed sig- nally wher mafy appealed publicly to the workers not to return to the mills until the wage cut had been taken back. Cotton mill workers on strike since April 16 spent Independence Day preparing to demonstrate once more their revolt against the 10 per cent wage cut ordered by Will- iam M. Butler’s Manufacturers’ Assn. as the historical succsesor to the “Communist League” and the First. International founded by Marx and as the inheritor of the best tradi- tions of the Second International. The First International laid the ideological foundations for the in- ternational proletarian struggle for Socialism. The Second Internation- al, in the best period of its exist- ence, prepared the ground for ex- panding the labour movement and spreading it widely among the mass- es. The Third, Communist Inter- national, continuing the work of the First International and accepting the fruits of the work of the Sec-| ond International, resolutely lopped } off the latter’s opportunism, its so- cial chauvinism and its bourgeois distortion of Socialism and set out| to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Im this way the Com-| munist International preserves the continuity of all the glorious and} heroic traditions of the internation- | al labor movement: the British | Chartists and the French insurrec- | tionists of 1831; the French and) German working class revolution- aries of 1848; the immortal war- riors and martyrs of the Paris Com. mune; the brave soldiers of the Ger- man, Hungarian and Finnish re- volutions; the workers of former Czarist Russia—the victorious bear- ers of the proletarian dictatorship; the Chinese proletarians—the her- oes of Canton and Shanghai. In its theoretical and practical work, the Commumist International bases itself on the historical expe- rience of the revolutionary labor movement in all continents and among all peoples, and entirely and unreservedly adopts the point of view of revolutionary Marxism, which found its completion in Len- inism. Leninism is nothing more nor less than Marxism of the epoch of Imperialism and proletarian re- volutions. The Communist International ad- vocates, propagates and applies the | revolutionary method of dialectical | materialism of Marx and Engels | end actively combats all forms of bourgeois philosophy and all forms of theoretical and practical oppor- tunism. It takes its stand on the basis of consistent proletarian class struggle and subordinating the tem- porary, partial, group and national interests of the proletariat to the latter’s lasting, common and inter- national interests; it ruthlessly ex- poses every form of the doctrine of “class peace” — which the reform- ists have accepted from the bour- geoisie — (“civil peace,” defense of imperialist “fatherland” i tim: of war, the gospel of bourgeois paci- fism, “peace in industry,” etc. etc.). The Communist International ex- presses the historical need for‘a revolutionary organization of re- volutionary proletarians—the grave diggers of the capitalist system— and is therefore the only interna- tional organization which has the dictatorship of the proletariat and Communism for its program and which openly comes out as the or- ganizer of the international pro- letarian revolution. . OO ° (The Daily Worker will publish tomorrow Section One of the Draft Program, which covers the subject: “2¥e World System of Capitalism, Its Development and Inevitable Destruction.”) war for national self-defense. Persian Oil Company, which is one of the most aggressive of the big competitors who axe getting control of vast tracts of oil lands in the Near and Middle East, in Central and South America and elsewhere. Under complete governmental direction also, Denny shows, is Brit- ish controlled oilfields, which has concessions that surround two-thirds of the Caribbean Sea. Both of these agencies of the British gov- ernment have maneuvered in the direction of the Panama Canal, thereby stirring the state depart- ment to some of its strongest anti- British protests. The story of Latin-American _ relations with Washington, as Denny recites it by means of quotations from the utter- ances of the department, is soaked in oil. And so, too, is the story of American policy toward the Soviet Union, Turkey, Armenia, Persia and Rumania. Sir Henri Deterding, the “Napo- leon” of the petroleum industry since he became the dominating fig- ure in Royal Dutch-Shell and began his march toward control of the world supply of oil, is traced through this maze of intrigues, international conferences, double-crossings, bluff- ings, _ reconciliations—always the strong man against whom the in- telligence of Standard and the power of the state department are pitted. By turns Deterding woos the Soviet government and de- nounces it in tones of horror—ac- cording to the moment’s success or failure in his long game of getting the Russian oil supplies. When Standard defeats him there his rage is loosed and Charles Evans Hughes is brought forward as moral en- dorser of the arrangement Standard has made with Moscow. Denny amuses himself and his readers by quoting the editorials from reactionary American papers last fall sympathizing with Stan- ard’s action in buying Soviet oil although Deterding shouted that this was “stolen” by the Soviet gov- ernment from its former owners. And the author mischievously brings in the fact that the United States Shipping Board last winter pur- chased from Standard 24,000 tons of this same “stolen” oil, delivered to it in Near East ports. But an American oil shortage is ™ | | . The decision of the City Council The British government owns a| to open the Welfare funds for the|as a pretext for the most horrible | majority of the stock in the Anglo-| zelief of the strikers was hailed by | “information-extracting” | k maining oil. Binns and Batty as a wonderful ges- | ture of the friendliness of the mill- controlled city politicians. This | despite statements by the Textile | Mills Committee that workers had/| Yiddish art theatre, now playing in been offered a “chance” to go scab- | bing when they applied for relief. To the strikers here this is not any more surprising than the action of Mayor Ashley in calling troops to aid the mill bosses in trying to crush the strike, but, they declare, it merely adds more proof to the contention that the Textile Council | officials sre themselves important | enemies of the strikers. In an attempt to stem the im- mense tide of popularity among the strikers enjoyed by the Textile Mills Committee, the Textile Coun- cil leaders are trying to obtain fol- lowers among the workers by im- porting “special Polish” and “spe- cial women” organizers. The great majority of the Polish | workers here are adherents of the} Mills Committee. Nearly all the women strikers are also enthusias- tic allies lined up with them. More | than that, the Mills Committee strike committee as well as posts | as organizers, are occupied by many | women strikers. The Council has hired a research worker of the Bri- tish Independent Labar Party as a| women’s organizer, in addition to} one from the Women’s Trade Union | League. So far their progress can be recorded as nil. near, and oil prices are likely to go! up unless rapid improvement in con- | serving the supply, both in the| amount used and the way it is used shall be secured. Private competi- tion in developing wells in America is wasting a great deal of the narrowing supply. A crisis is ahead when greed will rule every move of the two giants. Britain’s companies will have cornered most of the re- Denny predicts that the anti-British propaganda which can be evoked by a Mayor Thompson will be called forth by oil interests, and war will come—unless the British make a compromise. And the Kellogg war-abolition| treaty? Familiar with every detail of its discussion, Denny ignores ,it as a peace factor. Free Visés (Extensions Arranged for to Visit Any Via: Return: WARSAW 69 FIFTH AVENUE \ MOSCOW—LENINGRAD SAILINGS: S. S. “ROTTERDAM” — Aug. 4 S. S. “PARIS” — — — — Aug. 10 LONDON — COPENHAGEN — HELSINGFORS { World Tourists, Inc. i Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6900, BERLIN PARIS NEW YORK CITY |ship in the Communist Party serves tortures, and long terms of imprisonment in unenbearable jails. MOSCOW SUES FOR DEBT MOSCOW, July 8—The’ Moscow Berlin, which owes the Moscow Se- cial Insurance Fund 45,000 roubles, will shortly be sued for the said amount by Ambassador to Germany Krestinsky upon instruction from the Soviet Government. mer in Rumania, After paying his resp: Austrian government, Pi go south tomorrow. | | | FAKE MINIMUM W/ MONTEVIDEO, July 8. the minimum wage law pa: recently by the Uruguayan parlia-! ment includes the workers in private capitalist industries is doubtful. The wage law provides that government employees receive a minimum monthly wage of 50 pesos (about $51) and a daily wage of 24 pesos. | A. B.S. the eastward Atlantic, took off second leg h he was 350 miles out he met ap im- nenctrable fog bank and was forcec been held here, after Lisbon, by the meces- on his radio. a fligh ity of repair Most Amazing Invention of the Twentieth Century Professor Theremin Produces Music From the Air (Without Aid of Any Instruments) Symphony Orchestra of 50 ARNOLD WOLPE, Conductor ROXY SAT. EVE BALLET Coney Island Stadium Surf Avenue and West 6th Street . JULY 14, 1928 Tickets: 75c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. ON SALE AT: 26-28 Union Sq.; 30 Union Sq.; 2700 Brenx Prak East; 1310 So. Boulevard (Book Store); 15 West 126th St.; 1600 Madison Ave. (Restaurant) ; 202 E. Broadway (Book Store); 17 E. 3rd St.; 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn. Russian and Oriental Dances at |