The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1928, Page 3

Steere ——— Ear: FRE D:! ATLY OEE: Mussolini's Press. Whips Up War Hatred Against the Rival French Imperialists: CHALLENGE OF POINCARE FINDS SHARP RETORTS Mask Own Aims for Colonial Power ROME, Dec, 4.—The fascist news- papers here have taken up the chal- lenge of French imperialism and the attack against Italian imperialism made by Premier Poincare before the French chamber in his refer- ence to Mussolin’s aspirations for a colonial empire, especially in Syria, at present under French mandate. The rivalry between the two rival powers on the Mediterranean has rarely been brought to such a sharp outbreak of attack and counter-at- tack, such an exchange of charges of imperialism and ultimate designs of conquest, most of them probably true. The unity of the fascist press in attacking France leads to the be- lieve that the action is official and received its sanction, if not its or- ders, from Mussolini. Attacks France. Stating that, Poincare had declared that France must retain the Syrian mandate if the Italian government were not to grasp it, the Milan Cour- ier can be taken as representing Mussolini’s view when it does not deny this declaration but evades the issue by protesting the use of Italy for partisan political purposes. The same newspaper launches into a furious assault upon Poincare as the foe of Italy and on France, which it calls a traitor, evidently an attempt to whip up and keep public opinion hostile to France. At the same time the inspired newspaper editorials declare that they do not want Syria and take the opportunity |__ to shift attention from the fascist imperialist maneuvers on the Medi- terranean, Despite the brutal practices of the fascists in their own colonial spheres of influence, the editorial hypocriti- cally states that Italy “fs unwilling to succeed France in the disagree- able task of oppressing the Syrian| ie ee Sea TIN EXCHANGE HITS ENGLAND U. S, British Capital Clash in New Body Another AG point of rivalry between the rival U. S. and British empires was discovered yesterday with the opening in New York of the National Metal Exchange, a trading place for tin, primarily. During the first four hours, three quarters of a million dollars worth of business was done, which would formerly have been conducted ‘in London. This definite challenge was im- mediately accepted in a speech by Charles S. Trench, president of the British Chamber of Commerce and president of the National Metal Clearing Association, who said: “The British Chamber of Com- merce is intensely interested in the opening of the National Metal Ex- change. The exchange is trading in an article of which the British Em- pire produces from 60 to 75 per} cent of the world’s output and the United States consumes more than 50 per cent. I have heard it said that this exchange is going to be a blow to British supremacy in making the price of tin. If that be the case, then I will say that the British Em- pire believes in competition, and may the best man win. NEW POWER PLANT INUSSR Will Exceed. Pre-War Industry by 1933 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Moscow’s new electric plant ‘“Electrozavod,” which is constructed on the site of the unfinished factory, “Provodnik,” was opened recently and by 1933 its production will be one and one half times more than the production of | the whole electric industry before the war. “Electrozavod” was constructed during the last three years and it has been already partially working, its production for ten months amounting to eleven million rubles. In 1928-29 the production of “Elecrozavod” will reach 22 millions, next year—forty million roubles. Toward the end of the next five years, in 1932-33, production of the factory will amount to 90 million rubles or one and a half times more | than production of the whole electric | industry before the war. At present 3,700 workmen are en- gaged in the factory and in 1932-33 their number will reach over 9,000. The general cost of the factory will amount to 45 million roubles. Up to the present time about 11 million rubles have already been spent on} the factory. i Workers (Commonisty Party “Lame ‘Ducks” to 0. K. Imperialist War, Schemes um The “lame duck” session of congress, which opened Monday, will perform its farewell service to the American capitalist class by putting its O. K. on the two major war projects of United States imperial- ism, the administration cruiser bill and the Kellogy “peace” pact. Photos above show President Coolidge Vice-President Dawes (center), who presides over the senate; and Secretary of State Kellogg, so-called author of the pact. Below Nicholas Longworth (left), speaker of the house, and on the right a view of the opening session of the congress with Clerk William Tyler Page calling the roll in the (left), house of representatives. Struggle Against Right ght Danger and Trotskyism that Cannon could not turn Trot-| The struggle against the ie danger inthe Workers (Communist) Party takes the form of widespread discussions in the units and sub- divisions of the Party. Intense self- | criticism leads to a clearer under- standing of this danger and to a clarification of the tasks of the| Party. It also leads to an under- standing of the magnitude of the danger which the Party faces as a result of the defections of renegades under the leadership of the expelled Cannon and on ihe program of Trotskyism. The Political Committee of the Party is being swamped with let- ters and resolutions, pledging un- qualified support in the fight against the right danger and Trot- skyism. The Central Executive Committee has received the follow- | ing clear-cut statement by Comrade | Radwansky, member of the Russian ‘Bureau of the Party: Russian Bureau Member Supports Central Executive Committee. “1, The document submitted to the Polbureau by Cannon, Abern and Schachtman, in view of existing decisions of the Communist Inter- national as to the Trotskyist group, has put them, in my opinion, auto- matically outside of the Party. I agree without any restrictions or reservations with the position of the Central Executive Committée as ex- pressed in its statement, and with the organizational measures adopted. “2. I was never connected di- rectly with the Cannon group. When connected with the opposition group I considered myself in the so-called Foster group. Factional Treatment Grave Error. “3. When the question of Can- non’s leanings toward Trotskyism, then denied by himself, was raised in the meetings of the opposition group I attended, I committed the grave mistake of considering the question, not from the point of view of the Party as a whole, but from a factional viewpoint. Thus, while stating my opinion as to the question, I confined myself to the statement that the raising of the issue of Trotskyism in the Party means sure death to the opposition. Considering the accusations of Trot- skyism, as then raised against Cane non, unproven, I qualified the put- ting this accusation up to the C. E. C. 2s suicide for the opposition, | “This statement, although correct jas far as it concerns the death of | the opposition because of the neces- sity to concentrate all forces of the Party on the task of stamping out Trotskyism, was totally wrong in- so-far as it manifested blindness to- ward the real danger of Trotsky- ism in cur Party. “4, The main cause of the blind- ness toward the danger of Trotsky- ism in our Party consists in the un- principledness of- the opposition, This blindness, in my opinion, was'| not confined to myself only, but af- flicts also some comrades of the opposition insofar as they try to minimize the danger of Trotskyism in spite of having themselves dis- closed it first. Because of this, the unmasking of Cannon and his asso- ciates was sprung on the rank and file comrades of the opposition first, and consecutively on the whole membership of the Party like a deus ex machina, the very origin and developments of Trotskyism in ‘The fights for the enactment of the 40- skyist by accident or suddenly. “Moreover, it seems to. me that |Cannon i is by no means q wrong in his claims on the opposition docu- ment about “the right danger, chich was presenied to the Com- munist International during its last | C. Congress. “Having had no part in drafting | the above document nor any discus- sion of it, I don’t think it proper to discuss it myself until the leading comrades of the former (I hope) opposition who are responsible for | it state their present position to- ward it in the coming Party pre- convention discussion. Organized Opposition Inadmissable. “5. I consider every organized opposition in the present Party sit- uation absolutely inadmissable as |tending objectively to help the Trot- skyist group, and I wish to state that if the existence of the opposi- tion as an organized body is con-| tinued in any form, I shall consider it my duty to fight it. “6. In order to avoid any mi understanding and to be quite sin- |eere, I have to mention that I do| not renounce my critical attitude toward the policies of the C. E. in quite a number of questions. will state explicitly my criticism during the pre-convention discus- nm and within the limits. I of organized opposition, the C. I. and a help to Trotskyism. Peing nothing else than counter- revolutionary Menshevism covered by psuedo-left, demogogical phrase- | ology, Trotskyism must be combat. ted by the totally unified Party in| order to be stamped out completely and in the shortest time.” “The following resolution was re- ceived from Arnold, Pa.: “The Arnold, Pa. unit of the Workers (Communist) Party, after a discussion on the expulsion of Cannon, from the Party, unanimously ap- proves the action of the C. E. C. and considers that the District Pol- com acted in a Communist manner by endorsing the action of the C. E. C.” Ohio Unites for C. E. C. From Toledo, Ohio, came the fol- lowing resolution, unanimously | adopted: “We emphatically condemn the) counter-revolutionary and anti- Communist position Abern and Schachtman and of any- | one accepting and following the line of Trotskyism; “We unreservedly approve the ac- tion of the C. E. C. in fighting Trot- skyism and in expelling from the Central Executive Committee and the Party the three leaders of the Trotsky group in America. We ap- prove the action of the C. E. C. and D. E. C, in fighting Trotskyism and all other manifestations of the right wing danger in our Party, and we stand united in support of the C, IL, Cc. E. C. and D. E. C. in this fight.” From Nuclei 32, 83 .and 34 in Cleveland, carried at a joint meet- ing: “We call upon the C. E. 'C. and D. E, C. to take severe measures against future manifestations of Trotskyism, which is nothing but do | renounce participation in any form | which I) consider in the existing situation to | be a crime against the Party and| Abern and Schachtman | counter-revolutionary, social-democ- | racy. our Party remaining till yet in |dark, although it is quite evident “We pledge ourselves to carry out all decisions of the C, E. C. and D. i ". C. and call upon all comrades to stand as an iron wall against all renegades who try to break the unity of the Party.” Mine Nucleus No. 1 cf Scranton, , pledged its full support to the E. C. in its fight against Trot- skyism and right danger: “We stand by the I. decision and call upon the C. C. to use the most determined measures to eliminate Trotskyism ‘om our |Party. Our nucleus believes that this is the opinion of all comrades in the field.” BUILD NEW SILK WORKERS’ LOCAL Big New Drive Continued from Page One jurday mass meeting will also be asked to re-register here and make their membership official. Silk 1 | Workers of all crafts are to be called to this meeting. 2.—The National Textile Workers’ ganizer to work among the large numbers of unorganized Italian workers in the silk industry. John Pippan is the organizer. Relief Committee. 3.—It was decided to elect a re- | lief committee from among the mem- [International Relief in gathering ally those strikers who will be of the Union. |—A manifesto is to be issued within the next few days and will be distributed among the silk work- ers in circular form, calling upon |all silk workers to join the National | Textile Workers’ Union. International Conference. 5.—An “International Conference” consisting of shop representatives of workers of all nationalities in the mills will be held Friday, Dec. 14, at Carpenter Hall, 56 Van Houten St. The meeting will be held under lthe auspices of the Trade Union | Educational League, Paterson local, Jand is for the purpose of getting of Cannon, |ll workers to work together in building up a union that wil control the industry and’ obtain union condi- tions in the shop. The conference will also take up for consideration the question of raising funds for the new union. New Headquarters Needed. The headquarters of the Paterson local of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union at 151 Broadway have proven too small to permit the grow- ing union to function properly. Since the broad silk workers broke away from the reactionary Associated, the union offices have become overpack- ed with workers who come in and ask to join up. While a special com- mittee is looking around for new headouarters, the local will be com- pelled to put un with overcrowding. The Young Workers (Communist) League announces a dance which it | has arranged especially for the bene- fit of striking silk workers. The dance will be held at the hall in 2 Governor St., this Saturday nigh! at 8 o’clock, | UNITED FRONT Organization Group in| Union has sent a new Italian or-} | bers of the Organization Committee, | which will work with the Workers’ | funds to aid strikers in need, especi- criminated against by the officials | Associated Silk Workers’ | | taken by either | cially in the creation of new locals (MILITANTS IN "MEXICO FORM | Peasants ‘in Solidarity Pacts With Workers MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4.—In spite of the attitude of the officials of |the CROM (Regional Confederation |of Labor of Mexico) in disregard- |ing the demands of the autonomous and “Red” unions for united front | tactics, many of the local CROM or- |ganizations have made solidarity |and united front pacts with inde- | pendent labor elements during the past two months. The most important of these has} | been the solidarity pact just signed between the Syndicalist Confedera-! tion of the State of Vera Cruz (the most powerful CROM state organ- ization outside of the Federal Dis- trict) and the League of Agrarian NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1928 | Byrd Leaves for Antarctic Exploring Trip Communities, affiliated with the | National Peasants’ League, which| is affiliated with the Peasants’ In- ternational. | The pact provides for internal autonomy and independence of ide- ology. All conflicts between the two groups will be settled by com- missions appointed by the e tive committees of the two organ- izations, and the decisions will then be rejected or accepted by the re- | spective organizations in their regu- lar conventions, | The local organizations of both/ groups are allowed to make further pacts, subject to execu- ification. No action shall be organization which hall tend to injure the other, espe- the creation of new agrarian communal communities. No public | charges shall be made by one or- gar ion against the other, until an attempt has been made to reach a proper agreement. Without giving the conditions of op pact, the CROM publications | have announced that the Vera Cruz Peasant League has affiliated with the CROM. The League has denied | this report. Pa,, at its meeting held November U. S. Banker Ready to| Exploit Latin America Extensive roe) (construction car- vied on by Latin American govern- ments will greatly States capitalists, who will have an increasing opportunity for filling \orders for materials and machinery and ‘transporting their merchandise, according to R. Whittlesey, in charge of the foreign department jof the Central Union Trust Com- |pany of New York. Mr. Whittlesey is especially ex- uberant over the fact that after the s ave completed the export of United States automobiles to South America will increase, and even lead to the construction of automo- bile factories in these countries and lend to the growth of American im- perialism and exploitation. YONKERS MEMBER MEETING. The Yonkers unit of the Party will hold a special membership meet- headquarters, Comrade A. Markoff will be present to lead a discussion on the present problems facing the Party and the unit. All members are urged to be |present, ON TIME. benefit United | ing next Thursday evening at the| 252 Warburton Ave.) Frage Thte@ > ‘ynres INDIA PRESS NOT? TO PRINT FAKE’ ~ SIMON FINDINGS Masses Oppose British | Imperialists “a ALLAHABAD, India, Dec. 4.44 |As a protest against the brutality lof the police and the government against the demonstrations in La- know directed against nmission, representa- h imperialism, Pandit leader, appealed hore and the Simon tive of Br Nehru, a Swara. to the national imon Commi: boycott the ceeding 7m n Commission, presuma- aged in investigating the pi of more independence for India, but in reality attempting to reach a compromise with the na- rinces and the meaker opposi- been ely guarded e entangle- ti ti s by police d barbed wi ments during the course of its trip. Despite the order that no mass demonstrations be allo ved in the of the commission, the com- ers were met with mass pro- ually every one of their and with such signs g place: Jown with Imperialism,” and n Go Home.” Slashes be- demonstrators and police en place, the most violent Commander Richard E. Byrd, one of the darlings of the American g at Lahore and Lucknow ingoes, has left Dunedin, New Zealand, with his party for an explo- |where the police charged the ration trip into the Antarctic regions. The party will be gone two is, swinging their clubs freely. years. Photo shows Byrd at the wheel and his barque, the City of | believed that the Swarajist New York. fl | newspapers, which have attacked ie aS e commission, will follow Nehru’s SPEED-UP BRINGS ACCIDENTS.’ advice and refuse to publish the COMMUNIST “a WASHINGTON, Dec: 4.—Acci- proceedings of the commission. dents to workers in building opera- . tions increased over 65 per cent over WINNIPEG VICTOR : Is Reelected / Alderman | on Militant Platform WINNIPEG, Manitoba (By Mail). Communist candidate in the third ward, was reelected in the municipal election. While the ‘ote! vote was smaller this year, the C: munist) Party increased its vote. 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