The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929. PARTY PRE-CONVENTION DISCUS Foster-Bittelman Oppos Statement of Central Executive Committee of Workers (Communist) Party The Central Executive Committee unhealthy factional situation.” It is “against the campaign of the ma- | correct to state that the Opposition’s | welcomes this admission by the Fos- ter-Bittelman Opposition of some of the serious errors it made in the| Matter. This very delay by the Op-| tion” is without foundation. The Op- | Cannon Trotskyist developments in| Position was a further factor in| position itself now admits some of | the Party. The Central Committee sharpening the factional situation.|the very errors which the Central | hopes that this admission will serve|The Party has a right to demand| Committee some months ago called | as a step towards the unification of from the Opposition why it persists]"“pon them to admit and correct. It | the Party. Nevertheless, the Patty caunot close its eyes to the short-| much to this “unhealthy factional | comings of this admission of errors on the part of the Opposition. The Opposition explains its select- | ing Cannon as a member a‘ pokes- man of its steering committe at the New York membership meeting of October 2nd, by their “failure to dvaw all the political implications from Cannon’s remarks.” This ex- planation is inadequate. Every Party | member could have easily drawn all | political implications from Cannon’s | demand on October 8rd that the Op- | position must fight the Communist International. The Party has a right| to know why the leaders of the Op-| position found it necessary to take three months time for drawing such hasie political implications—namely, | that no one demanding a fightj against the Communist Internation-| al can be permitted to be a spokes-| man of Communists. The claim made by the Opposition that it needed from October 3rd to the 16th for gathering more material efore disclosing the Cannon-Trot- ist developiwents to the Central) Committee is worthless. The inves- tigation conducted by the Political Committee shows that no evidence whatever was subsequently submit- ted to the Poleom not already in pos-. ession of the Opposition on October | 3. Comrade Bittelman’s declaration in the Pelcom session of October 27 clearly shows this to be the case. The Opposition also explains its delay in bringing the Cannon-Trot- sky development before the Political Committee because of “the existing PLATFORM OF THE TROTSKY OPPOSITION (Recently we printed an extract | from the platform of the Trotsky | passed by the Central Committee of | structions Opposition on the conditions of the|the C. P. S. U. on the rationaliz- | Commissari working class in the Soviet Union,| together with the reply of thé Polit-| ical Bureau of the Communist Party | of the Soviet Union. That section} dealt with wages, workers’ budget, | productivity, and intensity of labor. Today we continue with sections of the platform of the Trotsky Op- position and replies thereto dealing | with the effects of socialist rationali- cation, hours and protection of la- attitude was largely factional in thi: so strenuously in contributing so situation” by a closed national cau- cus which admits to and «xpels mem- bers from its ranks, which operates | on a program of struggle against! mittee by the Opposition is founded | the Central Committee as t he Right |only on the fact that the Central wing despite the unmistakable deci- sion of the Communist International declaring this accusation unfounded. This dangerously wrong policy the Opposition continues despite the fact that the Comintern has declared a) The immediate task of the Par- ty is the speedy liquidation of the factional situation; There is no serious difference in principle as a basis for a factional fight in the American Party; The charge against the Central Committee of being a Right wing Central Committee is un- founded; The absolute subordination of the Minority to the Majority is an indispensible prerequisite for unity. b) 9) d) The Party calls upon the Opposi- tion not only to recognize that these errors which it has made are due to the “unhealthy factional situation” but also to tell the membership what it proposes to do to end this unbear- able situation. When will the Op- position begin to liquidate its cau- cus? When will the Opposition be- igin to accept decisions of the Com-! munist International without reser- vation? When will the Opposition drop its common platform with Can- non, “The Right danger in the [American Party,” and unite with| tion contributes materially to weak-| off itself. |the C. E. C. on the common plat- 1, ition Admits Parts of Its E > jform of the Communist Interna- | tional ? | | The protest of the Opposition! minority comrades in the Polcom ai Bittelman, Hathaway, Wagenknech' 1. We consider it an error t committee at the membership mee ii ye 4 | This errs Ited, i opinion, |is these errors of the Opposition By ene eee ey pa which hindered the speedy mobiliz- | ation of the Party against the Trot- | |sxyist Cannon forces. This baseless | accusation against the Central Com-| | advise and work with the Polcom. from the existing unhealthy factio | Executive Committee insisted upon} |pointing out the very errors now |partly admitted by the Opposition 3. In their handling of the C: guided solely by the thought to fi | The Central Executive Committee | |to shield Cannon, | | never questioned the sincerity of the | |Oppositicn’s disassociation from }Cannon's Trotskyism, But the Cén- tral Committee insists that the Op- position must recognize that its tac- | ties put obstacles in the path of the | Party's struggle against Trotsky- can successfully combat both the Ri opposition. 5. We are preparing a longer cation in the Party press. STATEMENT BY FOSTER, BITTELMAN AND OTHER COMRADES We wish to make the following statement in the name of the | elected Cannon a member and spokesman of the minority steering tical implications from Cannon’s remarks and statements at that time. 2. We also consider it an error that the comrades of the minority, in their-efforts to expose and bring before the Party the developing Cannon Trotskyist opposition between October 3rd and 16th, did not fluenced the comrades in their actions. tober 3rd and the Polcom meeting of the 16th the comrades were | |pose Cannon before the Polcom and the Party. In no’ sense did they hesitate on the Trotsky-Cannon question or in any way whatever try 4. We wish to protest once more against the campaign of the majority that the minority are objectively helping the Cannon opposi- tion. We again state that only the line formulated by the minority nd in the C.E.C. (Foster, Aronberg, | it, Costrell, Gomez, etc.): hat the comrades of the minority ting in New York on October 3rd. , from failure to draw all the poli- This error resulted, in our opinion, nal situation which in this case in, annon-Trotsky matter between Oc- nd the most effective means to ex- ight danger and the Cannon-Trotsky statement in this matter for publi- ism, By disregarding the Comintern © decisions, for instance through dub-| en Party discipline and consequent- bing the Central Committee the ly to weaken the xpsistance of the Right wing, the Opposition enables Party to the menace of the Right |the Trotskyites to hide within the danger and Trotskyism. By brand- Party on a platform of struggle ing the Central Contfittee as the against the Party. By persisting in| ight danger, the opposition inter- reservations to Comintern decisions, feres with a clear‘realization of the to the analysis of the theses of the| real character of the Right danger, Sixth World Congress, the Opposi-} of the pcisonous influence of social tion objectively weakens the strug- reformism and bourgeois ideology on gle of the Central Committee against | the American working class and the the Right danger and Trotskyism. | Party. |By ymaintaining an iron-bound cau-| mechanical admission of errors Soe? within the Party, the Opposition does not cure the ills of the Party. sharpens, the existing divsions. for Admission of errors must be fol- which there is seri sis i Res a Pee ue eeaous ane lowed up by definite steps to correct | principle today, and thus further. : 1 weakens the Party's fight against | these errors. Thus only can we help | the Party to complete its inner con- [fae au manger and Bee Oe ciation and unification. The uni- eee nen beceiste nO emE SID tlon(of fall Goiminiinikt fotees fp | of trying to undermine the authority | of the Party leadership, the Opposi- (Extract from the resolution ation of production.) This resolution quite distinctly points out that the increase in the intensivity of labor must be pre- ceded by “organizational and tech- nical improvements of production,” and only political speculators could giv: utterance to the cries of the Opposition concerning the alleged pressure exercised upon the work- ing class. | This can be seen in the frequent in-| apy: issued by the People’s ecy: iat for Labor, by the | People’s Commissariat for Workers’ ed. This ¢-ier pcohibits the ex cf work wf icng duration Ly | Central Control Committee. (Pe ot of ne People’s porn cee of the C. E. C. and Council of seriat for Labor of the U.S.S.R., le’: issari fi | Nos. 17-18, 1924, and No. 36, 1926; sce r Peers och late jalso the Order on the Regime of *~"* Economy passed by the Central Ex-| Consequently, the abuse of the ceutive Committee and the Counzii| system of employing casual labor |of People’s Commissaries of the automatically results in the partic- ja prerequisite for a successful fight against imperialist war and strug- gle against the Right danger and |the repeated discharge and re-en- |U. S. S. R. on 11-6-26). It can be ular worker ceasing to be regarded | . Trotskyism. The Central Committee recog- nizes that this belated admission of some of its errors by the Opry tion is due to the overwhelmin, pressure brought to bear on it by the membership in the recent dis- jcussion meetings thronghout the |country. The Central Committee is ; confident that the Party member- | ship, in the unit elections being held |throughout the country this week /and in the coming conventions of the various Party subdivisions, by sup- porting the Central Committee which follows the line of the Com- intern without feservations, will |bring to bear upon the Opposition the remaining necessary pressure which will help them correct all of their errors, and to join the Central Committee in a united effort for Bolshevik self-criticism, proletarian- ization of our Party ranks, and uni- fication of all Communist forces on |the basis of unreserved acceptance of the Comintern decisions, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. consideration. have an opportunity to decide whe-| ~ | ther they Accept such action as taken ' Resolution Adopted by Finnish Workers Asso- || ciation Condemns Renegade Sulkanen At a regular membership meet- | |ing of the Finnish Workers’ Asso- ciation of New York, held on Dec. 23, attended by over a hundred mem- bers, the matter of the Trotskyist jactivities of the ex-Party member Sulkanen among the Finnish work- ers was discussed. After a discus- sion lasting almost three hours, with 28 members participating from the floor, a resolution condemning Sul- kanen’s actions was adopted. The or- ganization is the New York section of the national organization of the Finnish Workers’ Clubs, where Sul- |kanen attempted to lay the organiz- ational base for his disruption of },, the Party’s Communist work among the class-conscious Finnish worker: The following is the resolution |which was adopted by a majority of those present: | Resolution. | “Taking into fact that a group of members of this association have taken such a stand in the past which might lead |to the result that the general activ- ity of our organization may be 'brought to anarchy and general chaos if this group is allowed to continue its disruptive actions, it is high time to present this question fore our membership for general Our members must by Elis Sulkanen and his group, who was guilty of organizing an open meeting against the best in- terests of our organization in this hall last Sunday, Dec. 14 “What was that meeting whose interests did it serve? Sul- kanen and other speakers, organized by him, in their three-hour speeche: and |slandered, in the most malignant! manner, the revolutionary labor movement of America, the Workers (Communist) Party, the Finnish | Workers’ Federation,, and above all, |the revolutionary and honorable |fighting organization of the prole- tariat of the world, the Communist | International. “For whom did Sulkanen and his |followers speak? For organized workers, you may ask? No! His ;mass-meeting was open for any one ; Who came in to hear how a man who has been a responsible Party worker for many years—ex-comrade | Sulkanen—slandered and attacked 80 Communist Part of the Workers (Communist) Party today issued the following state- ment on further resolutions received from over 80 Party units and sub- divisions endorsing its campaign against the Right danger and Trot- iskyism: | Statement. The Central Executive Committee | cleus 1B, Philadelphia; Camden, N. bor. The Trotsky question is not a Rus- sien question, but one thai affecis the international working class movement. However, it is highly It would be as well for the Op-/scen also in the last instructions. position to remember that in 1923, / adopted by the Council of People’s | led by Comrade Trotsky, it pro-| Commissariat of Labor. pesed the ultra-rationalization of in- dustry; it proposed to concentrate|, It is true that the law provides “Because of the pressure of the as a casual worker, he no longer| general Party activities and pre- comes under the casual labor reg-| Convention preparations, the Cen- : i |tral Committee is compelled to pub- ulation and i P P} euaeee paca ameee WEL andy tahalnted ecules of the important to know the platform of Trotskyism in Soviet Russia and the reasons why it has been overwhelm-| ingly rejected by the membership and leadership of the C. P. S. U., as| well as by the Communist Parties! thruout the world, The American aspects of Trotsky-| ism are being taken up in the gen- eral Party discussion now under way.—EDITOR) * * * The Opposition and Rationalization. “The rationalization of production now being carried out, inevitably worsens the conditions of the work- ing class, in so far as it is not ac- companied by an expansion of indus- try, transport, ete., that can absorb the discharged workers.”— (Extract from the Oppositicn’s platform.) The Party’s Policy on Rationaliza- -tion. “The Socialist rationalization of production, ‘the improvement of the technique and organization of pro- duction’ carried owt by the prole- tarian State, differs radically from capitalist rationalization. The capi- talists place the whole burden of ra- tionalization upon the shoulders of the working class; wjth them it leads to the lengthening of the work- ing day, to an increase in unemploy- ment, a lowering of the standard of | living of the working class, and to) the impoverishment of large masses of the toilers. © . “Unlike capitalist rationalization, Socialist rationatization aims at in- creasing the working class numeri-| cally, at raising its material and cultural level, to satisfy the grow- ing requirements of the broad mass- es of the toilers, to strengthen the link between the proletariat and the peasantry and to lay down a materi- al foundation for the further de- velopment of the Socialist elements in our economic life. “In those enterprises where or- ganizational and technical improve- ments’ in production have been brought about, it is necessary to re- vise piece-rates in accordance with the results obtained by the improve- ments; but this revision should nat reduce the daily earnings of the workers as compared with earnings prior to the introduction of the ini- provements; on the contrary, they should render possible, with the in-} creased intensivity of labor, a fur- ther increase in the workers’ weges.” | — aa AAA AA production by closing down such) proletarian bases as the Red Putilov Works and the Briansk Works. The Opposition on the Eight-Hour Day and Overtime “To cut/at the root of every at- tempt to lengthen the eight-hour day. To prohibit overtime in those cases where it is absolutely neces- sary. To prohibit the abuse of em- ploying casual labor and. the regis- tering of permanent workers as ‘seasonal.’ To repeal ail orders to lengthen the working day in dan- gerous occupations, infringing pre- viously issued regulations.” (Extract from the Opposition Flatform.) The Facts. The returns of the Central St atistical Administration show the following: 1923 1924 1925 1926 Average duration of working day i n hours ....78 7.8 7.6 17.5 Of which overtime amounted to .. seececeeeces 0.28 0.19 0.18 0.17 Percentage of workers empoyed o n overtime ..22.8 18.8 17.8 15.2 Number of hours overtime worked p er worker ..26.6 22.2 21.5 17.2 It will be observed (1) that the average duration of the working day, including overtime, is less than eight hours, and that the working day is becoming shorter; (2) that there is a steady diminution in the average duration of overtime worked per worker; (3) that the percentage of workers working overtime is steadily declining from year to year; (4) that the average number of hours of overtime worked per worker em- r’oyed on overtime is steadily de- creasing; (5) that the number of hours overtime worked as compared to ordinary time is insignificant. For example, in 1923 it was 3.6 per cent; in 1924 2.4 per cent; in 1925 24 per cent; in 1926 2.8 per cent. This reveals a definite achievement in the efforts to combat overtime. A certain amount \of overtime, al- though an insignificant. percentage, is inevitable. Even the Opposition is gracious enough to permit over- time, “when it is absolutely neces. sary.” * ¥ Lad The Party, however, is not satis- fied with the present situation. This has been repeatedly fone med resolutions and decisions mztz by Party and leading Soviet for a simplified form of discharging | S¢neral conditions provided for in jeasual workers and for different the code of labor laws, [large number of resolutions which {have been adopted thruout the Par- | y Units Report Support of \C.E.C. Against Right Danger and Trotskyism and Peasants’ Inspection, and the $@gemcut of the same workers in| (See order to take advantage of the or-| Minn, uni' Mass, Mich. unit; N. Y. Mil Jronwood, Mich, uni Int'l Br. “Street Nucleus 28, Los Ange! Street Nuclei 1 and 4 San Fran co; Palo Alto-eRdwood City, Calif. unit; Syracuse unit; Mt. Vernon uni “New York City units: Unit Street Nucleus 1; Unit SS3C. “This record is by no means com- plete, as a number of such resolu- tions have been sent direct to the 2C- 2F, SIO consideration the} |rates of discharge payments. It is} | quite natural that a casual worker.) employed for only a few days, or| even for a few weeks, as an aux- | iliary worker, or as a substitute for a worker on sick leave, cannot ob-| |tain the two weeks’ discharge pay (or two weeks’ notice in lieu of it) as permanent workers do. Cases cf infringement of the law! may occur. but the law does -imit| the possibility of abuse in this 1at- ter. The order passed by the Cen- tral Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissaries of Jan. 1, 1927, contains a special point (point 22) which declares that the |law regarding the condition of cas- jual labor does not apply in cases | out of ten meets with an accident in The Opposition on the Protection of | Labor, “The appropriations made by in-| dustry for the protection of labor| |are totally inadequate. According to|#" adequate digest of them. The the returns of the People’s Commis-| sariat for Labor of the R.S.F.S.R., the rate of accidents resulting in disablement in the large enterprises | is 97.6 per thousand. Every worker the course of a year.” (Extract form the Opposition plat- form.) The Facts The situation with regard to the p otection of labor continues to be extremely urisatisfactory. The num- Daily Worker; also many sections of the Party. have passed such reso- lutions but have failed to send cop- ies to the National Office.” bs ty endorsing the campaign against the Right danger and the Trotsky- ist outbreak in our Party. We are unfortunately unable to publish all of the resolutions or even to make comrades will welcome the splendid response from the mining and other industrial centers. “The tabulation below takes in such resolutions of endorsement which have been received since those already published in the Daily some time ago. “District 5 (Pittsburgh); Poleom; DEC YWL District 8 (Chicago); 2 District 15 (New Haven) DEC; St. Wards Trotskyism. The Louis Sub-Dec; Sub Dist 4 District) Cannon has not done this. In fact, 5, ‘Brownsville, Pa.; McKeesport, | he has suppressed some letters from Ey Canrion’s Trotskyist anti-Party organ, “The Militant,” has prom- | ised the publication of letters from | workers showing their attitude to- Workers Repudiate | Cannon’s Trotskyism renegade | where a casual worker is discharged |; of accidents in the factories has and then re-engaged within a period |. * rf increased, as the following table not exceeding. one week, shGee. On the 16th of April, 1927, the People’s Commissariat for Labor of the U.S.S.R., in conjunction with the Supreme Economic Council, the People’s Cox: missariat for Ways and Commun‘eaticns and the Cou sel of Trade Unions of the U.S.S.R. issued an ordet (No. .77) defin‘ng the limits in which the order of the In Leningrad | 1926 (causing disablement) . . 24,673 | 1927 (January to July) ......18,046 At the same time, however, the number of severe and fatal accidents has decliend. In a number of fac- tories a tendency is observed for |the number of accidents as a whole ey : 1 fey ; to diminish. The Labor Statistical a : eet es pa 22° Department of the Leningrad Coun- saries of the U.S.S.R. of Jan. SH oe neae Unions publishes the 1927, concerning “the conditions of 1° Neaibee nedoes shes euninc die upended 98 ns s dis- vp yam caayalavou bere songy: bs ablements per thousand workers 1926 (1st Half) 1927 (1st Half) Name of Factory Metal Workers The Karl Marx Works . oe AO.TT 32.97 Elektrosila Works ... +e DL88 28.03 Garment Workers The Volodarsky Clothing Factory........ 2.86 1.74 Leather Workers Skorodnok Factory .... + 6.25 6.07 The Radishev Factory . 87.60 29.00 Chemical Workers Krasny Khimik Works ................20.35 15.80 This shows that the number of accidents is declining. The funds appropriated by indus- 1924-25 15.6 million roubles 1925-26 -20.7 million roubles 1926-27 ....,.29.9 million roubles try for the protection of labor are| 1927-28 (esf.) 36.37 million roubles steadily increasing. “According to| These figures do not include the the returns of the People’s Commis-| sums spent in enterprises manufac- sariat for Labor of the R.S.F.S.R.,| turing military supplies and also in the sums indicated in the table be-| enterprises of a local character that low were spent as capital invest-| are not included in the plans of the ments for the ygienic improvement | Supreme Ecénomic Council, nor do and technical safety of labor condi-| they include minor sums spent on tions in all the State enterpries of|the protection of labor, nor sums a federal, republican and local char-| spent in new enterprises under con- acter s‘tuated in the territory of the! struction. SR : (To be continued) 'Pa. Sub-District and New Kensing-| ton, Pa. Sub-District. “Membership meetings in Boston, Gary, Worcester, Omaha, Grand| Rapids, Yorkville, Rockford, TIIl., Baltimore, Lima Ohio, and Youngs- town. “Esthonian Bureau, Polish Bu- reau, Greek Bureau, Lithuanian Bu- reau,.Chicago Lettish Fraction, and) three Jugoslav fractions of North- ern California, . “Sections 3, 4 and 6 of New York City; Rochester Executive Commit-) tee; Section 1, Chicago, and Section 1. Detroit. “Shop nucleus Subsection 2A New York; Simons hSop Nucleus Ken- osha Wise.; Central Alloy Shop Nu- cleus District 6; Shop Nucleus 303 Corregan McKenney Steel Co., Cleveland; Shop Nuclei 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 Detroit; Newcastle, Pa., Shop | Nucleus; Bessemer, Pa., Shop Nu-| cleus; Shop Nucleus 1 E. Pittsburg, Pa., Mine Shop Nucleus 2, Vesta-| burg, Pa.; Western Electric Shop| Nucleus 21 and International Har- vester 20 of Chicago; Creighton, Pa. Mine Nucleus; White Luggage Shop Nucleus New York; Shop Nu- cleus 4-3E, New York. Chicago Units—Street Nuclei 28, 80, 10, 9, 17, 34, Hegewisch, Ill. 2; So. Bend, Ind. “South Side Nucleus, Milwaukee, Wisc.; South Side Nucleus St. Louis, Mo. Ohio Units: E, Liverpool, War- 1en, Cincinnati, Nucleus 207 Cleve- land, and Nuclei 201 and 21, Cleve- land. “New Engiand units: Bridgepor Conn.; Fall River, Mass.; Ansonia, +Conn.; Hartford, Conn; Street Nu!| | workers showing their sharp hos- | tility to the Trotskyites and their efforts to wreck the Party and the} Comintern. We herewith publish two of these letters from workers in different parts of the country, which were suppressed by the Trotskyites: “Oakland, California. Dee. 4, 1928. J. P. Cannon & Co.: Received your trash “The Militant.” All I want to say to you, that you are a traitor to the working class. You dare to use the comrades’ mailing list for your betray- ing work. Don’t send» me that bunk for it goes in the stove just as scon as it reaches me; where you be- ‘long is with the other trai- tors of the working class, that is. with Green and Lewis gang. Constance Mugianis.” + * « “Grand Rapids, Mich. Oct. 31, 1928, Dear Comrade Cannon: Receive your big letter today, read over and write you answer. I am against this your things— work. Now is elecon campaign. We fight against capitalism. You raise your questicn. Why you don’t leave after clection? You tnow “Red Cartear you cern all these pictures, You seea pic- Three N SECTION rrors on Cannon-Trotsky Issue the revolutionary labor movement. Such action is not right and must be sharply condemned. “Comrades, the members of this organization surely are not going tions against our organizations and the Communist labor, movement, | when comrades once hear openly jand realize for what interests this group (Sulkanen and Co.) have been secretly planning this outbreak for years. “Another question. Didn’t Sulkan- en and his group have a chance to express their opinions freely? They ere allowed to publish their pres entations (reports) in the Party |press; they have most one-sidedly held the speaking platforms in the Work Clubs in the Eastern |States; all our meetings have been open for them. But all this has not been sufficient democracy for that group. “After Sulkanen and his group Jonce came to disagreemént with the |leadership of the Communist Party, | iti |and not until the very end were |they placed under Party discipline, it is obvious that this group is en- deavoring to develop its actions so far as to disrupt our ranks, anc perhaps a split in this Wo ion. | “But ident that those elements in our ranks who are faith- |ful and sympathetic to the Work | (Communist) Party of Ame not silently listen to such sland Sulkanen expressed a week ago in is labor hall. Therefore, kanen x all the respon- trouble t is self-e for arise inside cf this organizati the at may “Those elements who are loyal to ically’ led and dom- is organization, as Sul- }kanen and his group cl But we understand this question in this vay, that Communist Party mem- bers must have equal rights, per- haps better rights, to look after the | general activity of this organization, to follow a correct line of proletari- an class struggle and help to edu- |eate the workers, than Sulkanen has by his secret meetings to plan and org:nize new attacks against the Workers Party and its Finnish Sec- jtion. Besides that, our very valuable educational instrument “Eteenpain” (Finnish Daily) has been threatened by the persons belonging to Sul- kanen’s. group. “Comrades! If we are not going to take strict measures at against such actions as these, after some time it may become a drastic reality, as threatened by the Sul- kaner. group that, ‘If their demands are not accepted there will be nothing left but 1uins.’ That kind of ‘information’ has been spread, a: we have learned, not only in this locality, but abroad as well. “In every other district and local- ity this opposition has been defeated with crushing blows. Now the op- position has concentrated power against our Workers ation in New York and threate: wreck it from within. In spite of the fact: that the Executive Commit- | tee of this club refused the use of once all its ture where workers fight between themself, capitalist win. You do same. I am against your Russian Op- position too. How many times your Trotsky raise up these ques- tions. Why capitalist class sup- port your Trotsky? Why Party expelled you? You have time to write letters to com- | rades. Make enemy between com- | rades. Where you get my ad- | dress? How many letters you send to Grand Rapids? I show this letter for all comrades. I can’t write English. I write Rus- sian. (The following paragraph | translated from Russian.) Why don’t you make one Party out of two instead of making two parties out of one? Why do you leave the Party time and again, but afterwards you submit your- self and recognize your errors? We do not believe in those who Yacillate back and forth. Why do the capitalist support the actions of your Trotsky? I am in favor of publishing the documents of the Opposition, but why don’t you submit to the majority? I am for printed up Opposition documents, Opposition want. Frank Melder.” Cannon and Company did not al- | low these letters to appear in “The Militant” though they were written |to the address of this anti-Party | sheet. is CAPTURE STOWAWAYS. HULL, England, Jan. 6,—Three | Stowaways were caught in a boat coming from Adelaide, Australia. where they had gone from England |and Scotland, looking for work in | the boasted “new land.” to support Sulkanen’s disruptive ac- | < $ our I want know what | this hall by Sulkanen’s group for such a purpose, this decision did not seem to mean anything to Sulkanen. “Yet, he did not bring his pro- posal before our membership meet- ing, altho he had a chance to do so, But he maneuvered further and de- manded that the Building Society rust interfere in this question. One after the membership meeting, ‘anen forced his demand thru the board of directors of the Building Society, to’ secure this hall for his mass meeting. Sulkanen did not want to wait until today’s meeting, when our members would have a charve to express their opinion in tis matter, There never has been} such violent action as taken by Sul-} kanen since the time when the Nos keites ousted our membership from} the building which was built by the proletarian masses for their gath- ering place. “Therefore, we must strongly con- demn Sulkanen’s action and demand that these premises must not be giv- en for such slanderous meetings as Sulkanen’s meeting was. The board of directors of the Building Soci- ety must realize the fact that it is not its duty to interfere in these pol- atters, which are not within ions, consider the present situation to be as follow hat we have suf- ficiently debated and d sed all ing the associ- and decisions of this . Therefore, we mus mn all destructive atempts d place the interests and unity of organization and of the whole merciless- ve conde labor movement above all individu- als and personal pursuits. “Therefore be it resolved: % “1, That the Finnish Workers. As- ociation of New York strictly con- demns such action as that of a group of cur members, led by Elis Sul- / kanen, who organized a violent mass n g on the premises of this Club, against a definite mn of the Executive Commit- tee, for the purpose of slandering and attacking the Finnish Workers’ Federation, the American and In- ternational revolutiona: ment, y labor move- “2. That in the future such things must not. be allowed, everp one of our members is called upon to obey the rules and decisions of the or- ganizati We not allow any one to slander the Workers (Com- munist) Party of: America and the Communist International, whose principles have been accepted wuntik~ now and will be continued to be fol- lowed by our association. . That if any one tries to break of the rules and decisions, dis- inar aASUT must be applied tors with all severity. . That the itprop committee; ize education- al meetings, where speeches and lec- tures can be delivered and by such means to refute all destructive plans made by these disrupters.” AVY SAILS TO THREATEN CUBA Today two of the navy’s big ships left Brooklyn Navy Yard for do “winter maneuvers” in Southern waters. This is a regular yearly exercise intended to remind Latim Americans of U. S. power. The Wyoming and the Arkansas left this morning, and the cruisers Cincinnati and Richmond were to leave later today with the new sub- | marine V-5, the biggest and fastest submarine in the navy. The ships will join the rest of the fleet near Cuba, where the maneuvers will be | held. | The battleship Texas, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, will sail on Janu- ary 7, with Admiral H. A. Wiley aboard. Recently the cruise in tropical waters was called off for the Pa- cific fleet, on the stated grounds that it was not necessary to send |the fleet to South America because |of Hoover’s-trip. Officers said that | Hoover's direct threat to the officers of Latin-American governments (would “hold them for a while.” SAY WILSON T00 * DESIRED BRIBES. BOSTON, Jan. 4.—Facts damag- \ing to’the case of thirteen city ‘councilmen accused of soliciting a | $65,000 bribe from the Boston Braves to vote 2 Sunday baseball. bill, continue to develop. | | after yesterday implicating Council-” man William G. Lynch as the man | who offered the bribe proposition |to him, today tzied to save the sit- | uation by testifying before the Bos- (ton Finance Commission that he | “did not take the offer seriously.” | Implicate Wilson. A telephone voice, which warned — him that the Sunday sports order _would remain on the table until thirteen City Councilmen were paic | $5,000 each, closely resembled that ‘of Councilman Robert G. Wi Ji, according to Vice-Presi Charles F, Adams, of the | Braves. , ae i President Fuchs of the Braves, — \ ,