The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1929, Page 3

© T DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JAN (NOTE—Today the Daily Worker prints the third instalment of the theses of the 6th World Congress of the Communist Interna- tional on “The International Situation and the Tasks of the Com- munists.” This Congress was held in Moscow from July 17, until the first days of September, 1928. Publication of these theses will continue until completed, vious issues, the Daily Worker has published the 6th Congres: of the war danger and the tasks of the Communists a it—EDITOR.) In pre- * * * 18. Notwithstanding the grow: reformism in the European and American labor movément reveals symp- toms of virility and political tenacity. omic basis of this fact is the slow rate of development of the c of capitalism, in the course of which some of the principal parts com- prising the capitalist system are on the upgrade while others are un- dergoing a process of relatively slow decline. This is illustrated by the following * tion of the positions of the United Statc as the world exploiter, credi- tor and usurer (the “prosperity” of the United States); the consider- able colonial might of Great Britain, which is only gradually losing its Positions in the world market; the upward trend of German economy, etc. Connected with this primary process is the secondary process of the grafting together of the state apparatus and capitalist organ- izations with the upper stratum of the labor organizations, led by social democracy; the establishment of a new bureaucracy consisting of labor bureaucrats (state and municipal officials, officials of capi- talist organizations, functionaries serving “joint” labor and capitalist organizations, so-called “representatives of the proletariat” in the Post Office, on Railway Boards and in banking organizations, where they speak in the name of trade unions, co-operative societies, etc., etc.) SOCIALISTS OPENLY FOR CAPITALISM. 19. This process of bourgeoisizing the upper stratum of the labor bureaucracy is deliberately fostered and encouraged by social demo- | eracy. Social democracy has passed from shame-faced defense of capitalism to open support, to capitalist construction: from mouthing phrases about the class struggle to the advocacy of “industrial peace”; from the slogan “defend the fatherland” to preparations for military operations against the U. S. S. R. (Kautsky); from verbal defense of colonies to the policy of directly supporting colonial oppression; STATEMENT OF THE N. E. C. ‘eR Concluded 8. The National Executive Committee has supported in the past, and will continue to support, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party because: The CEC has had the generally correct line for the activity of the American Party, based on a correct estimation of American imperialism and the position of the working class; because the CEC has the support of the Comintern; because the CEC has shown willingness to correct errors and has consistently ac- cepted all criticism and advice of the Comintern without reservations; because the CEC is leading the Party in the fight against the enemy of the Party and of the Comintern—Trotskyism, and the Right danger; because the CEC is unifying the Party and has already succeeded in this to a great extent. 9. The NEC is in complete agreement with and hereby endorses unreservedly the decisions of the Comintern on the American question. Only on the basis of the Comintern decision can the correct relations between the League and Party be established. The acceptance of this decision by all members of the League is a necessary prerequisite for the unification of the League. 10. Contrary to its pledge made in Moscow, the Opposition in the League, led by several members of the NEC, but having practically acuteness of the class struggle, The general social and econ- | : the growing consolida- | from petty-bourgeois pacifism to the deification of the League of Na- | tions and from pseudo-Marxian revisionism to the liberalism of the | British Labor Party. {| 20. Wholly corresponding to this ideological position is the prac- | tical activity of the social democrats and reformist trade union leaders, | primarily, their campaign for the widespread introduction of “Amer- ican” methods of corrupting the working class: the activities of the International Labor Office; the conferences between representatives of the General Council of the T. U. C. and the Labor Party with em- ple ” organizations in England; the “National Economic Counci in France; the “Schlichtungswesen” (arbitration courts) in German: the compulsory arbitration acts in some of the Scandinavian countries, the establishment of a joint organ of the “Chamber of Commerce” and “Chamber of Labor” in Austria, ete. The treacherous role of the social democrats and of the reformist trade union leaders during strikes and political crises, during conflicts and rebellions in the colonies, their justification of the employment of terror against the workers (the strike in Great Britain, the Vienna uprising, the metal workers’ strike in Germany, shooting down of work- ers in Czechoslovakia and Poland, the rebellion in Indonesia, the revo- lution in China, the rebellions in Syria and Morocco, etc., etc.) is now supplemented by ferocious attacks upon the Communists and the revo- lutionary workers (the expulsion policy and the policy of splitting the unions, the co-operative societies and other mass organizations adopted in a number of countries), MUST EXPOSE SOCIAL IMPERIALISM. 21. At the present time this class splitting policy, so widely prac- ticed by the reformist leaders who, at the dictates of the bourgeoisie, expel the best revolutionary elements from the proletarian mass or- ganizations, is an inseparable part of their policy of co-operating with the bourgeoisie for the purpose of disrupting from the outset the internal unity of the fighting ranks of the proletariat and in this way to weaken their resistance to capitalist attacks. This policy represents an essential link in the chain of social im- perialist policy (the armaments policy, their anti-Soviet policy and their predatory policy in the colonies). To counteract these attempts on the part of the reformists to disintegrate the proletarian class front from within, the Communists must, particularly at the present moment, commence and develop a strenuous counter-offensive; the reformist pol- icy of splitting the mass proletarian organizations (trade unions, co- OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE operative societies, cultural and by a mass struggle for class uni port leagues, etc.) must be countered A particularly shameful role in this reformist splitting campaign is played by the so-called “Left” social democratic leaders, who make verbal claims of being in favor of unity but who, in fact, unreservedly support the criminal splitting tactics of the Second International and of the Amsterdamers. 99 In the sphere of for social democrats and of the tr n pol the upper stratum of the ade uni in the imperialist countries stently express the interests of the bourgeois state. Support for armed forces, its police, its expansionist strivings, its fundamental hostility towards the U. S. S. R.; the support of preda- tory treaties and agreements, of colonial policy, of occupations, annexa- tions, protectorates and mandates; support of the League of Nations and the malicious campaign conducted by the imperialist powers against the U. S. S. R.; social democracy’s participation in the “pacifist” de- ception of the mas in preparation for war against the proletarian republics and the reformist deception of colonial workers (Purcell in India, the 2nd International's resolution on the colonial question)—such, in the main, is the actual line of conduct of social democracy in the sphere of foreign politi SOCIALISTS BOURGEOIS LABOR PARTY. 3. Throughout the whole of the past period, soci democracy has acted as the last reserve of the bourgeoisie, as a bourgeoisie “la- bor” Through the medium of social democracy the bourgeoisie ay for the stabilization o pitalism (the series of coali- tion cabine n Europe), The consolidation of capitalism rendered the functions of social democracy as overning party in a certain measure superfluous. The ejection.of social democrats from coalition govern- ments and the formation of so-called “purely bourgeois” governments took the place of the so-called era of “democratic pacifism.” By playing of agitator and dustrial peace,” or the role of opposition on the one hand, and the role ist of so-called “realistic pacifism” and in- hand, social democracy retained consid- erable strata of the working class under its influence, absorbed a tion of the workers who had abandoned the bourgeois parties, acqui influence among that section of the petty-bourgeoisie that was swing- ing to the Left (the elections in France and in Germany) and have again entered cabinets in Central Europe. no support among the membership, has refused to break its connec- | | tions with the Opposition in the Party, The League Opposition is an organic part of the Party Opposition and in some instances is the leading factor in the Party Opposition. Not only have the members of the League Opposition refused to en- dorse the decision of the Comintern, thus violating the instructions of the CYI as to the basis for the unification of the League, but mem- bers of it have publicly announced their reservations on the Comintern decision. Instead of expressing willingness to take measures for the unifica- tion of the League, the Opposition NEC members have come out openly against NEC decisions and have agitated and endeavored to organize the membership against these decisions, altho the discussion period has not yet opened. The members of the Opposition have refused to carry out important work assigned to them, and instead have endeay- ored to secure the removal of district organizers and national func- tionaries for the sole reasons that they support the NEC, and de- manded their replacement by supporters of the Opposition. The Opposition has also violated the basic rules regarding the re- | lationship between the CYI and the individual Leagues, and has en- deavored to establish separate connections with the CYI and to cir- | culate thru its own channels documents, the circulation of which had | not yet been author 1 by the NEC. The NEC declares that it cannot view these activities in any other light except as an effort to organize | a faction in the League contrary to the decision of the CYI and to | the declarations of the Opposition itself, and in violation of the ele- mentary rules of procedure in League and Party, 11. Because the Opposition is carrying on this pernicious activity | under the banner of the “struggle against the Right danger,” the NEC | finds it necessary to emphasize once more the condemnation by the CYI | of such activity, specifically on the American question. In its letter, | quoting from the decisions of the 5th Congress, the CYI declares: “For | the struggle against the Right danger, the CYI must mobilize the League as a whole. It must not allow the formation of unprincipled | groupings in the struggle for leadership, on such grounds or under this cloak, From this viewpoint one must condemn the revival of group | struggle in the American Young Communist League.” Because the | Opposition failed to heed this warning, it now finds itself violating | the decisions of the CI and the CYI in its unprincipled struggle against | the CEC of the Party and the NEC of the League, thereby making | 1 much more difficult a genuine struggle against the serious Right dan- ger which exists. It must be borne in mind, howe t these new coalition gov- ernments, in which social democra ly participating, cannot and will not be a mere repetition of previous combinations, This par- ticularly applies to foreign politics generally and to war politics in particular. Social i lership will play an immeasurably more treacherous rol » present period than it did in all previous stages of development. REACTIONARY AUSTRO-MARXISM. It is necessary al particularl view of the coalition policy p: evolution of its official upper stratum—t growth in the so-called “Left-wing” of social democracy ustro-Ma ideology of the British Independent Labor Par ch deceives the workers by methods more more dangerous to the cause of the proletarian r ience in critical periods (thi tish strike, the Vienna upr ig), ar " 1 democrats towards imperialist war preparations against the U. R., have glaringly revealed that the Left-wing social demo 'S are the mos the dictatorship of the pro This was most stri of Austrian social democracy, this the Second International, at the tim of the Vienna proletariat Co., strikingly reveals th: more and more a r mn of the Vienn ism in Italy) nd is therefore atic also the attitude dangerous enemies of Communism and-of iat. y the shameful conduét ” the “Left” wing of of the sanguinary July t bankru of Bauei m,” whi 'y—particular practice constant] shameful mann dangerous instrument in the hands of the refor revolutionary masses, Therefore, le tak among the workers in the ranks of social democ to exercise increasing influence upon them, the Commun lutely expose the “Left-wing” social democratic leader dangerous channels through which bourgeois poli into the working class, and to win over to their own of the workers who must inevitably abandon these Lef democrats. eloping he sup- the most sts for deceiving the g into account the (To be continued) ON COMMUNIST YOUTH INTERNATIONAL LETTER 12, Even the necessity of unifying the Party and the League in the struggle against Trotskyism, a new outbreak of which we have just witnessed in the Party and League, did not deter the Opposition, which continues to maintain that the CEC, and by inference the NEC, is a greater danger to our movement than the counter-revolutionai A anti-Soviet activities of the renegades who have gone over to Trotsky- ism and are now endeavoring to destroy our Party. The NEC will carry on a vigorous struggle for the Comintern, for the Party, for the League, against Trotskyism, and it will spare no measure to eradicate Trotskyism from our movement, and make it a better fighter for the working class, for the Soviet Union. 13. As soon as the pre-convention discussion period is opened, the NEC will issue to the membership of the League a complete analy- sis of the conditions of the young workers and the workers of the American League, including its proposals for the solution of the dif- ficulties and shortcomings pointed out in the letter of the CYI. The NEC will endeavor to organize the discussion in such a way as to se- cure the maximum expression from the membership, as to bri every possible shortcoming and error; the NEC will invite erii and discussion for the raising of the political level of the membe for the consolidgtion of the ranks of the League, and for the conver. sion of the League into a mass Communist youth organization. Miners of Wilkesbarre Protest Pilgrim Letter KILLING RAKOS! Editor, Daily Worker: Stanton Mine nucleus of the Workers (Communist) Party, Wilkes- Barre, Pa, at its meeting held Jan. 17, discussed the letter of com- rade C. W. Pilgrim of California, printed in the pre-convention dis- cussion column of yesterday’s Daily Worker. Even if we may be ac- cused of being against the freedom of discussion, we are simply against such material appearing in our official organ. This comrade, after using the dirtiest language, after slander- ing our Party and its leaders, finds it necessary to put to the end of his article, that he is a worker from the shop (and not a “college- goof”). We are all workers, but we can hardly believe that it comes from a sincere proletarian Party-meraber. And the real workers from California, who are against unprincipled factionalism and who want to work, must believe the same thing. If this comrade Pilgrim is a leading member of the District Exec- utive Committee, his letter gives a good idea why the California dis- trict was so much criticized for the many Right wing deviations, When this comrade Pilgrim is so freely using the words “fish, dumb, drunken bum” against others, we must say that these names befit the comrade who has the face to sign such an article. Being that we have free discussion, our nucleus asks you to print this protest which will be surely endorsed by every comrade who is tired with factionalism and who has faith in our Party and in its leadership. Fraternally yours, NICK BORICH, Secretary Mine Nucleus No. 1, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 400 Dead, 1,000 Hurt in Venezuela Quake; Gomez Sends Troops CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 18.— Reports from Cumana, which was shattered by violent earthquakes Thursday, indicate that at least 400 perished and that there is no im- mediate sign of relief for the in- jured and the homeless. All the houses have been destroyed and as many as 200 bodies have a-] “ready been taken from the ruins. Over 1,000 persons have been in- jured and many of them are in need of immediate treatment. The 400- year-old city—dirty, filthy and poor —where the population is kept in abject misery by the dictatorship ‘of Gomez, is located in the midst of the agricultural area. Gomez, who fears the revolution, has so encumbered all means of transpor- tation and relief with troops, that it is believed that many of the in- jured will die. “The principal instrument in the imperialist disarmament farce is social democracy, which sows among the masses fllusions about the possibility of disarmament and abolishing war without overthrow- ing imperialism, Among the so- cial democrats, there are two ten- dencies on the question of disarm ament, both of which, however, ai tendencies of bourgeois pacifism. From theses of Sixth Congress of Communist International. Lenin memorial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, | Reading Reading and studying if your eyes are in good con- dition fs a pleasure. If, however, they are defective or strained, It is drudgery. A pair of rest glasses will relieve the strain and keep good eyes well. “The enefrcle fron. enemies of Soviet Ru with a tight ring r-flung .ensign of the Th Russian Socialist Revolution af- — fords the i tional imperial- ve launched a war on the Soviet wer, the power of the workers peasants.” From speech by at Moscow in 1918. Lenin jal meeting, Janunry 19, in | OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TOoOR MM, [9.9.Goldin sn. Formerly Polen Miller Optical Co. OPTOMETRISTS — OPTICIANS. 1690 Lexington Ave. Corner 106th St, N. ¥. C. I Theatre of Dance Gives| Saturday Eve Program| HORTHY WARDENS MORE FOR COMMERCE BOARD. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 17 U.P).—| “The Soviets, in delivering n seri- ous blow to bourgeois and Innd- holding property, in aiding their |for the hangman. |prisoned for being Communists, have Terrible Tortures for Communist in Prison (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BUDAPEST, Jan, 18,—Workers everywhere must immediately rally | to the support of C. Rakosi, confined in a prison as a Communist here, and facing a new trial which may mean his death penalty at the hands of a Horthy executioner. The prison authorities are trying to murder | him by slow torture, without waiting | Since the Tenth of January, Ra- kosi and two of his comrades, im-| been on a hunger strike. A letter written by Rakosi, and | confiscated by the prison authorities | describes the barbarous prison | regime. Rakosi, for writing this let- ter was condemned to six days in| the underground cells, before Jan. 25, and afterwards ordered confined to “punishment cells” without bed or covering. Increase in its share of the state’s ) The Theatre of the Dance, under | &@S0line tax was sought today by | the direction of Dorsha, announces |the Board of Commerce and Navi-| that a program of dances will be S@tion in a special report to the final overthrow, in sweeping away all the remnants of the bourgeois society, have started us on a road which has brought the people to the building of a new life.” Speech \ which |during this whole year, Rakosi is presented every Saturday evening) at the theatre, 116 W. 65th St.,| Studio 220. The performances will} begin at 8:30 p. m, The new program for the fifth | year includes “Abelard and Heloise,” | “Two Tangoes,” and “Disguises of | Love,” composed to Scriabine’s | “Poem of Ecstacy.” i mined to kill their worker victim | the prison authorities decree that | after the three months is ended, Rakosi must be deprived of one-third of his daily prison ration of food, is already insufficient to adequately support human life, And to be held in solitary confinement, and not even allowed to see his at-| torney, despite the fact that a new trial on still further charges is be- ing prepared against him, for his alleged actions as a Peoples Com- missar in 1919, Unwilling to endure these repeated insults and torments, Rakosi and his comrades have gone on hunger But this was not all. As if deter- strike, and their situation is serious. Imperialism in The papers are full time the books listed value to the militant ing class, who need perialism. by Bertram Wolfe Melvin M. 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