The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 6

Page Six a Published by National Daily Worker Publishing Ase’n., Inc., Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8, Cable Address ‘‘Daiwork” ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE Editor Assistant Editor THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $2.50 three mos. $8 a year $4.50 six mos, By Mail (outside of New York): $6 a year $3.50 six mos, $2.00 three mos. Address and mail all checks to TAe Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. importing “Socialist” Scabs To those aware of the socialist party’s long record of perfidy, duplicity, gangsterism and every form of treachery against the work- ing class the exposure of the Italian socialist daily “Il Nuovo Mundo” as a scab-herding institution is no surprise. The arguments presented for its scabbery are unique. The management of the publication wanted to eut wages in the composing room. Devious methods were used to achieve its aim, but the workers refused to violate union rules or the Wage scale. Hence the “socialist’’ manage- ment deliberately violated the union agree- ment by discharging a man without observ- ance of the union precedure, which stipulates that workers in union composing rooms can be discharged only on certain well-defined grounds. The result was a strike or lock-out, depend- ing upon the interpretation of the dispute. Anyway the men are out on the street and the “socialist”. management is importing “so- cialist” scabs from Buffalo and other points who will work for less than the union scale. The “socialist” paper tried to conceal its fight against the union by claiming that the discharged worker was a fascist sympathizer and accusing the membership and officials of Typographical Union No. 261 of shielding fascists. In fact it would be difficult to distinguish the actions of the so-called socialists in charge of the paper from the familiar fascist attacks against the working class. The facts in the case are that the dis- charged man worked on the paper for more than three years and was one time suspected by his co-workers of fascist tendencies. An investigation exonerated him and he con- tinued working there until the management wanted to replace the union crew with a bunch of scabs that would work below the scale, work without extra pay for overtime and on Sundays and legal holidays. The work- ers, loyal to their union, refused to become scabs at the demand of the yellow socialist partyite management. _Not only does this Italian socialist sheet “import scabs, but it has the audacity to refer to such miserable rats as “heroes,” just as Mussolini in Italy refers to his fascist bandits as “heroes.” Mussolini claims fascism saved Italy; the “socialist” leaders claim scabbery will save “Tl Nuovo Mundo.” There is some truth in the parallel. The fascists saved Italy for capitalism. The “socialist” scabs try to save “Tl Nuovo Mundo” for capitalism. The fascists saved Italy from workers victory, from Bolshevism. The scabs try to save “Il Nuovo Mundo” from trade union conditions. While pretending to fight fascism, the Italian “socialist” publication in reality em- braces some of the most vicious features of fascism. Surely Rosa Luxemburg was right when she referred to such enemies of the labor movement as “stinking carrion.” Arkansas Bars the Dictionary Tn the state of Senator Robinson, late can- didate for vice-president on the democratic ticket with Al Smith, use of the dictionary in public schools is prohibited by law. The law is the recent anti-evolution act passed by the legislature and ratified by the vote of the sovereign “people.” The law not only for- bids the teaching that man descended from ape-like ancestors, from lower animal forms, but prohibits teachers from so much as de- fining the meaying of evolution. Here is the frightful manner in which Webster’s dictionary, for instance, mocks the jay-bird lawyers, the corner store grocers, the doctors, the well-to-do farmers, the preachers and middle-class yokelry that make up the legislature of that benighted state: “The theory (of evolution) which involves also the descent of man from the lower animals, is based on facts abundantly disclosed by every branch of biological study.” What do these defenders of the faith care about facts disclosed by biological study? Does not the holy bible say that man was made as the center of the universe in the image of god and that everything else, in- cluding the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets were of secondary consideration and solely for the benefit of a biped created in the image of god? It would, of course, be blasphemy to inquire as to which particular member of the state legislature is the replica of god. One thing is certain, the prohibition of the dictionary in Arkansas will not affect those engaged in publishing such books. The dic- tionary was never used there, anyway, if the utterances of Senator Robinson or the columns of Arkansas newspapers are any in- dication of the cultural poverty of that state. In Arkansas and many other southern states there are vast sections of the popula- tion that vegetate in the most frightful feudal conditions. For them the night of the dark ages, when superstition ruled supreme, has never been dispelled. Though their bodies are catapulted into the twentieth century their minds dwell in the thirteenth. This de- plorable condition is a reflex of class condi- tions existing in that part of the country. The masses of Negroes and poor whites are slaves chained to a miserable strip of land— veritable serfs. In only a few centers of population is there any indication of a break in the system that has prevailed for a half century or more. But in spite of the depravity of the ruling class, in spite of the legalized ignorance that pervades that country, there are a few people who challenge all attempts to keep a whole state in the densest ignorance. To be sure most of those who protest are incapable of effective leadership in a fight against such laws. Now that the Workers (Communist) Party has invaded and made its impress upon the ‘South, it is also essential that special atten- tion be paid to such places as Arkansas. Within a reasonably short time schools will be established in such states that will not merely teach organic evolution, but also so-.- cial evolution or social science, which can be nothing other than the science of social re- | volution, or Marxism-Leninism—in a word, Communism. The prerequisite for the abolition of such laws is the overthrow of the ruling class responsible for them. That can be achieved only through the workers of such places as Arkansas becoming a part of the general revolutionary labor movement—not by fu- tile individual protest and pleas based upon ' so-called freedom of thought. N. Y. Workers School Beoncics Out With the Central School now in Lurgh, Sonia Walday and full swing, the Workers Schoo! is|Daniels as the beginning to open branches in the|classes in elementary, intermediate English are iven gn Monday and on evenings, peaking with V. I. instructor will Sunday, Noy, 18, at 10:30 a. m., the course to be given on 12 consecutive | various sections of the city as well | and as in the New Jersey cities for those that: find it inconvenient to come to the Central School, located at 26-28 Union Square. One of the largest b the Workers School this y be the Brownsville Branch, Lat 154 Watkins St., Brooklyn. The fallterm of this branch wili begin Monday, Nov. 26. Among the eourses scheduled to be given are “Fundamentals of Communism,” Vietor Cibulsky, instructor, Mon- days from 8 to 9 p. m.; “History of the United States,” Jim Cork, in- advanced and as the Sunday mornings. will be with S. Milgrom as the instructor. | rious Later on classes in other subjects organized. All living in the United Workers Co- | operative houses or in the Bronx | Sylvia | will be conducted by this section instructors. Its|every Sunday evening, beginning this Sunday, Nov, 18, with M. J. Olgin lecturing on “Problems Fa- cing the American Labor Move- ment.” Within a few weeks a “Funda- mentals of Communism” course will begin in Negro Harlem, especially for the Negro workers living in that neighborhood. In addition, the In the following | Workers School has organized Eng- being Wednesday Tuesday and the course in Jerome begin. this | foreign-language’ speaking werkers clubs, with trade union lo- comrades | cals, etc. structor, Mondays from 9 to 10 p. m,: elementary English, Tuesday iid Thursday from 8 to 9 p. m.; in- ediate English, Tuesday and irsday from 9 to 10 p. m.; “Pub- ‘penking,” the night to be ar- ag with the students. In addi- an Open Forum will be held e Brownsville Branch of the k School every Sunday eve- + 8:30. Registration is now yn at 154 Watkins St., Brook- y evening from 7 to 10. inches Start Classes. he Co-operative Branch of the rs School has already started of its classes and will be- more within the next Five English classes ing on, with Sonya Gins- territory neighboring in that vicin- ity, who are interested in the study of the working class movement or in learning English, should register without delay at the office of the Co-operative branch of the Workers chool, located at 2700 Bronx Park East. Preparations are now being made to start a branch of the Workers School in the upper Bronx section, with headquarters at 1330 Wilkins Ave., Bronx, classes to begin the first week of December. There will be classes in elementary English, one in intermediate English, a class in history and a class in the Fun- damentals of Communism. Vera Bush will be the instructor in this last named course. An Open Forum Force Labor Fakers’ Hands in Organizing | the Timber Workers LA GRANDE, Ore., (By Mail).— ment have forced the state federa- |tion of misleaders to make a gesture at organizing the timbers workers. The misleaders have long been jcharged with conniving with the |lumber bosses in the organization of company unions, SHALE PRODUCTION GROWS TORONTO (By Mail).—Recent modifications in refining methods have increased the production of oil shale in the maritime provinces, Militants in the Oregon labor mpve-| “THEY CALLED US ‘NIGGERS’” ‘ By Fred Ellis | Pan-American Workers’ Common Interest | Translated by HARRISON GEORGE. | (From “The Latin-American Worker.”) 'N almost all the countries of Latin America, the workers most diffi- cult to organize in trade unions are, without doubt, those who work in the enterprises belonging to the im- perialist powers, especially the Yan- ‘kee and English imperialists. The North American capitalists have brought to Latin America, in jaddition to their factories, a long |experience and great practice in the |matter of fighting and destroying the labor movement. The Yankee enterprises in Cen- |tral and South America are real in- |dependent governments, with their | own police, and an enormous and |perfect system of espionage. No person outside of the personnel, | neither the local authorities, nor |with greater reason the representa- |tives of labor organizations, is able |to enter these feudal holdings. Workers Efforts Strangled. | THe workers are treated like ani- is ferociously strangled by the com- | ties. |aristoeracy and the exploited mass. In a word, they have introduced all |the refinements that the sharks of | Wall Street use against their work- jers in the United States. But the workers and peasants of Latin America are not only victims of direct exploitation by the United | States capitalists. | Puppet Governments. | Yankee imperialism, with its pol- licy of peaceful and violent penetra- |tion, with its factories and armies, methodically and day by day, cuts into the liberty of the peoples of the Caribbean and of South Amer- |ica. Almost all the oppressed and {exploited masses of our countries jfind themselves in the clutches of the governments imposed upon them 'by the North American capitalists and which, as a consequence, work in complete accord with those capi- talists. ~ I€ follows, then, that our work- ing and peasant classes suffer the |double and terrible blows of im- | perialist reaction and that of tyran- nical and feudal governments. |~ Are we alone in this fight? Are \the proletarians of Latin America the only ones who struggle against the imperialist monster? have within their reach a great and loyal ally in the shape of the revo- llutionary proletariat of the United | States itself. | The struggle begun, and certainly |unequal, between the Colossus of | Wall Street and the oppressed peo- week courses in the “Fundamentals | lish classes in co-operation with the ples of Latin America, there ap- of the Class Struggle” will start | various Women’s Councils, with va- | pears at times among the working class elements less advanced in un- derstanding, a certain desperation, a state of mind that leads to mis- |taken conclusions and prejudices \that by right belong to our petty \bourgeois, concerning the role | played by the North American |proletariat in our anti-imperialist |erusade. U. 8S. Workers Not Foes. We refer to the false conception |of grouping in one and indivisible |whole the Yankee bourgeoisie and the workers of that country as com- mon’ enemies of the workers of Latin America. For our liberal intellectuals and the petty bourgeoisie there exists no difference; they do not see, or jdo not want tp see, that in the United States there exists a class differentiation as profoundly mark- ed and with interests so antagonis- tic as in the rest of the world. It is quite true that the revolu- No! They | |are oppressed by the same imperial- ism and because, also, they have an Puppet Governments Strangle Workers Efforts acne of language. to Better Conditions + ‘tionary movement among the work- ers of the United States is not as powerful as could be desired. Yet) working class is reactionary and! it is also true that there exists al- ready a considerable’ nucleus of class conscious workers who fight heroically against their own bour-|Yet fresh in our memory are the | geoisie and for the unification of the world proletariat. U. S. Workers Also Exploited. The backwardness of the trade union movement is due in great part, and this may possibly be the decisive factor, to the perfect and | bfutal methods of fighting that the most powerful bourgeoisie in the | world uses against its working class. |North America is known as the country of the electric chair, as the |country where, with no exaggera- tion on our part, strike movements |gas! | Yankee capitalists introduce among jundertakings. But it is clear that |these privileged elements are only ja small minority. The others, mak- ing up millions, are as exploited and suffer as much as their brothers of other lands. | Therefore, it is a mistake to be- \lieve that all the North American practices collaboration with the |wealthy bourgeoisie. It has a long |and glorious revolutionary history. jrecent great strikes of the miners, |textile and other workers, which | testify beyond all doubt that the ex- |ploited workers of the North are {not at all at peace with their | bosses. | Workers’ Common Interests. |All the workers of the Americas, |North, Central and South, have| |common interests, the fight against | Yankee imperialism and its agents | of the Pan-American Federation of bor. And only with a unison of |forces, only with a close and per- jmals, and the slightest attempt on|are suffocated with machine gun|™anent connection with the Yankee the part of the workers to organize,|fire and even with asphyxiating| Workers can our Latin American |movements, and their movements pany with the aid of our authori-} Added to this is the division the | also, have possibility of success. | The fact that it is desired to form They have also introduced, with the workers, creating a category |a trade union confederation specifi- great cleverness, a division among|more privileged than the others, }cally Latin American signifies by no the workers, by means of greater /binding them in a certain degree, as|means to give way to racial or na- or less privileges, dividing the labor | participants in the profits of the tional prejudices. Not at all! Quite jon the contrary; with the North | American proletariat, nothing sepa- eee us, and everything unites us! | Our Latin Americanism is deter- mined by the fact that all the work- ers and peasants of Latin America ie conference has been able to |demonstrate that the title, “Latin |American Trade Union Confedera- tion” is, for the present, more popu- lar and comprehensible for the workers than “Pan American Con- federation,” because it accents, from | the beginning, the exact anti-im- |perialist character of our aims. T. U. E. L. Represented. These objective conditions, con- crete and historically imposed, makes us believe that as a form of or- ganization for the present, in a Latin | American Confederation, but which | will surely advance toward a Pan- | American Confederation and more (why not?) toward the supreme ideal of the oppressed, a World Trade Union Confederation. | In our conference were represen- of the North American workers from the fighting Trade | Union Educational League of the United States; our committee is in permanent relations with it, and they will come, we have no doubt, to our great Trade Union Assembly of Montevideo, from where will issue the organization of the workers that will carry on a fight to the death against the magnates of Wall Street, extending, at the same time, its fra- ternal hand to the exploited and op- pressed ‘workers of the United States. | No pessimism, then! More’ con- fidence in the North American working class, effective solidarity, joint action! These are the guaran- tees of triumph! | tatives Moscow, 8th October 1928. The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national, in its session of October 6, adopted the following resolutions: |. The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national has very thoroughly ex- amined the facts in connection with the former Pol-Secretary of the Hamburg Party organization Witt- dorf and declares as follows: 1. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany was |correct in proceedii with all |severity against emBezzlement of | Party funds by Wittdorf and in ex- pelling Wittdorf from the Party on account of this crime. 2. Comrade Thaelman, who with- out reservation is in favor of the severe measures which the C. C. has adopted in the case of gmbezzlement in the Hamburg organization, com- mitted a serious mistake by not at once informing the C. C. when he learned of* the embezzlement by Wittdorf. The Presidium,’ however, declares that this omission on’ the part of Comrade Thaelmann did not spring from a desire to protect Wittdorf, but was solely the result of his endeavor to select the time and form of Wittdorf’s disciplinary punishment in such a way that the public settlement of the whole affair should take place with as least dam- age as possible to the Party and should not be made use of by the bourgeois and the social democracy in order to place obstacles in the carrying out by the C. P. of Ger- many and the Comintern of the ex- tremely impéftant campaign against the class enemies of the proletariat. 3. At the same time the Presi- dium of the E. C. C. I. regrets to state that the C. C. of the ©. P. of Germany has published the resolu- |tion with regard to the condemnation of Comrade Thaelmann in a situ- ation which is very difficult for the Party, as the Party is in the midst of a broad campaign against the Armed-Cruiser social democrats, without having attempted to submit this resolution previously to the E. G. C. I, and the active Party fune- tionaries, and finally without taking into account how the Party rhem- bers would react to such a step on the part of the C. C. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. is of the opinion that the C. C. of the C. P. of Ger- many has thereby committed a very serious mistake, which offered the class enemies of the proletariat the possibility to undermine the cam- paign of the C. P. of Germany against the social democracy on the cecasion of the construction of the armored cruiser by a campaign of calumnies against Comrade Thael- mann, against the C. P. of Germany and against the Comintern and to weaken the position of the proleta. riat in its struggle against imperial- ism. Such a big mistake was only pos- sible because the majority ‘of the members of the C. C., who were not sufficiently informed, allowed themselves without due reflection, to be led astray by the political op- ponents within the C. C, Instead of focussing their attention, in the spirit of the decisions of the VI World Congress, upon the fight against the Right ‘danger and the conciliatory tendencies towards these Right dangers within the Party, these comrades made use of the Wittdorf case in their fractional group fight against Comrade Thael- mann, one of the chief representa- tives of the line of the VI World Congress. At the same time they endeavored ta bring about a change Happenings in Hamburg Organization | Decision of the Presidium of the E. C. C. I. in the Party leadership and in this way to prevent the carrying through in the C. P. of Germany of the political course adopted by the VI World Congress of the C. I. (A crass example of a fractional attitude was offered by the action of Comrade Hausen, the representative of the Right, and partly by Comrade Ger- hard at the Plenary meeting of the C. C. of September 26.) Proceeding from this situation, and in view of the fact that most of the members of the C. C. of the C. P. of Germany already recognized the full seriousness of the error committed by the C. C., the Presi- dium of the-E. C. C. I. considers it necessary to propose to the C. C. of the C. P. of Germany the follow- ing: The meaning of this decision of the Presidium of the E. C. C. I. is to be made clear to all the mem- bers of the Party, but without per- mitting an aggravation of the inner Party relations; The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. therefore proposes to the C. ©. of the C. P. of Germany: That it adopt measures in order to liquidate all fractional groups in the Party and to attract all the best forces of the Party who adhere to the decisions of the Comintern and of the Essen Party Congress to responsible Party*work; That it make certain changes in the composition of the leading or- gans of the C. C, (Pol-Bureau, Sec- vetariat, reduction of the “Rote Fahne”); these changes, however, to be made within the limits of neces- sity in order to establish g’>-antees against the possibility of the adop- tion of such decisions as are harm- ful to the Party. é states that the C. C. of the C. P, of Germany, with Comrade The Presidium of the E. C. C. 1. The Decision of E.C.C. IL on the Hamburg Case mann at the head, both before and after the Essen Party Congress, con- ducted a correct political and organ- izational line, as has been proved by the May elections. This line en- | ables the C. P. of Germany to extend | and deepen its influence in the mass organizations of the proletariat and |among the working class of the greatest industrial centers of Ger- many. The Presidium is convinced that the C. C. of the C. P. of Ger- many will continue also in the future to carry through this correct Lenin- ist line. The Presidium expresses its full political confidence in Comrade Thaelmann and resolves that he is obliged also in the future to fulfil all the functions in the Party and in the E. C. C. I. entrusted to him by the Essen Party Congress of the C. P. of Germany and by the VI World Congress of the Comintern. The campaign for preparing the approaching Party Congress of the C. P. of Germany must be accom- panied in all districts by an uninter- rupted ideological fight against the Right tendencies within the C. P. of Germany and against the concilia- tory tendencies towards the Right danger in order to guarantee the best execution of the line of the VI World Congress at the Party Con- gress and by the new C. C. It is a matter of course that the C. C will conduct on the basis of inner- Party democracy a free discussion of all the questions on the agenda of the next Party Congress and of the decisions of the VI World Con- gress of the C. I. in all organizations of the Party. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. considers it of the utmost impor- tance that’ the C. P. of Germany at | the present moment concentrate all |its forees upon successful carrying through of the campaign against the construction of the armored cruiser and for the exposure of the armored jeruiser socialists in the eyes of the working class. The Presidium of the E. C. C, I., therefore, appeals tov all members of the C. P. of Ger- many to close their ranks, to work with redoubled energy at the suc- cessful carrying through of the ar- mored cruiser campaign and to in- crease and extend the preparedness of the Party to mobilize the working masses for the defensive struggle for their vital interests against the offensive of capital. * * * Decision of the Presidium of the E. C. C. I on the Request of the Vassilkov-Turjanski Group for Readmittance. (Adopted September 26, 1928.) The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national, which on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Comin- tern dealt with the request for re- admittance, adddressed to the VI Congress of the Comintern, of the Vassilkov-Turjanski Group, expelled from the Comintern by the Ninth Plenum of the E. C. C. I, which group designates itself the “Central Committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine,” states that this request for readmittance has been submitted by people who broke with the Comintern seven months ago, and who since then have con- ducted an anti-Soviet campaign un- der the fascist dictatorship of Pil- sudski, have allied themselves with the international Trotskyist Opposi- tion and have attempted by all means to undermine the confidence of the Ukrainian toiling masses in « the Soviet Union and in the Soviet Ukraine, in the Polish working class and its leader the C. P. of Poland, and thereby actually have played the role of agents of fascism. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. states that the declaration submitted by the Vassilkov group, upon whom the whole Party and the toiling masses of Western Ukraine have turned their back, does not contain the least trace of an abandonment of such a Party splitting and anti- Soviet activity, be it even in the acknowledgement of the errors jcommitted. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. has no reason to consider the bequest for readmittance of the Vassilkov group other than asa manoeuvre on the part of cunning political intriguers, who in the past year solemnly condemned four times the nationalist deviations of the small Schamski group of the C. P. of Ukraine and afterwards adopted these deviations as their political slogans, who adopted dozens of re- solutions against Trotskyism and after their expulsion from the Com- intern have allied themselves with the Trotskyist Opposition. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I. can have no confidence in the asser- tions of the Vassilkov group regard- ing their fundamental agreement with the policy of the C. P. S. U. and the C. P. of Ukraine. The E. C. C. I. possesses letters of Vassilkov to Canadian comrades which prove the contrary. The Presidium of the E. C. C. I._ has no reason to trust the promises of the Vassilkov group that they will submit to all decisions of the C. I, as long as this group, in spite of the decision of the Comintern re- garding their expulsion, continues to exist as an organization wi hides behind Communist flags and fights against the C. P. of Poland and the C. P. of Western Ukraine, . In view of all these circu Pre: the