The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1929, Page 3

* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 PARTY PRE-CON By M. H. CHILDS. The bulk of the contents con- ined in this discussion article is aterial quoted from an appeal to e CEC by the Minority of District It is more than three ace this appeal was submitted to e Central Committee—yet =C has failed to give an answer any of the vital problems and arges contained therein. For the st 15 months the Minority mem- rs of the Chicago DEC were com- Ned to fight the errors and con-| stent wrong policies of the Ma- rity under the leadership of Com- de Max Bedacht and now under} e leadership of Wm. F. Kruse. The appeal to the CEC was made ‘cessary when on Sept, 1, Bedacht troduced a “Resolution on Organ- ation.” Without adequate discus- on this resolution was adopted, tho it failed to analyze the dis- ict situation properly, nor did it ‘ovide effective remedies for the ‘oblems ainly it was a factional document vering up Right wing mistakes mmitted by the Majority. In ow atement of Sept. 29th we said: Vhat a Resolution on Organization Should Be.” “We maintain that a resolution on ganization should analyze the sisting conditions of the Party in is district in a true Bolshevik ririt of self criticism. It should Imit weaknesses. Furthermore, it iould propose practical remedies ry shortcomings. It should exam- e the functioning of the various iits and committees and their or- anizational connections. “The adopted resolution (Be- icht’s) is not a serious document; fails to analyze the situation ‘operly and fails to provide effec- ve remedies.” Before this appeal was submitted 1e Minority comrades, Childs and reen, proposed a series of amend- ents dealing with the building of 1op nucléi, politicalization of street aclei, strengthening and reorgan- ation of committees; of auxiliaries, c. These amendments, because they ere proposed. by the Minority, ere also rejected without serious scussion. In our appeal we fur- the | confronting District 8. | months ; ther stated: “In view of the deplorable situa- tion in the district it is obvious that the resolution on organization, sub- mitted by Bedacht, makes no at- tempt to solve the problems in this district. On the contrary the reso- lution tends to create a situation of !did absolutely nothing in the situa- tion, permitting the movement to be {led by politicians and kept in capi- \talist channels. Similar situations |exist in all sections, “Since the last Party convention, the selection of district function- aries was made not on the basis of Record of Chicago District VENTION and Right Wing Mistakes DIS !by Bedacht and his supporters as giving up the miners to Lewis. Be: dacht’s right wing proposals were adopted. | And even con:mittee had rejected this policy, Bedacht failed to recognize his mis- take but tried to excuse his wrong intensified factionalism and to dis-| capability, but on the basis of fac-| policy because of “lack of informa- tract the attention of the member- ship from the real problems facing \us. “The amendments made by Com- rades Childs and Green, if adopted and put into effect, would be a step in the right direction of recognizing the shortcomings in the district and adopting the necessary measures to strengthen the Party. These amend- ments were rejected by the Pol- bureau without serious consideration of the points brought forward. “Situation in District.” | “The Party in District 8 has not |grown in the last year in spite of \the favorable situation (miners, needle trades struggles, Kenosha). \Very few new members have been jadmitted. The Party membership is ‘apathetic. The number of shop nu- \clei has decreased; the existing shop nuclei. function very poorly, not taking up shop problems. The | street nuclei similarly function poor- ly, the main activity being selling of tickets; they do not take up |titude led to the adoption of a wrong | The | policy by the district in the recent} section executive committees do not|wage reduction in Illinois. At the! act as the political leaders in their | full D.E.C. meeting held September | |neighborhood political issues. territory. Neither they nor their | sub-committees give any direction to the units. tional allegiance. | Miners’ Campaign. “The record of the district, di- rected by Comrade Bedacht, in the Illinois miners’ situation, is charac- jterized by wavering and indecision |at the most decisive moments when decisive action was imperative, by wrong policy and failure to direct the work in this district. Comrade Bedacht from the very beginning of the miners campaign) had a pessimistic attitude on the possibilities of the miners’ situation. He took issues with the policy of the C.E.C. as is seen in his letter to the ‘C.E.C. on the question and did nothing to carry out the C. E. C. policy until he was compelled to do so by pressure from a Minority of the D.E.C. and from the C.E.C., and even then he distorted same.. The district failed to give leadership or to maintain contact with the devel- ‘opments in Indiana and Illinois. Comrade Bedacht’s pessimistic at- ji Comrade Bedacht proposed a de- featist policy of participating in the In most cases these elections inside of the UMWA, at) pon After the declaration by the Illinois UMWA fakers that the wage |reduetion referendum was carried (when it was actually defeated) and after thousands of miners went on strike against the new wage agreement, still the district voted | down a motion to send the industrial organizer into the mining field to spread the strike and to give leader- ship in a situation which offered {such favorable opportunities for the New Miners Union and the Party. Because the district failed to give adequate leadership most of the strikes were given up. The acting industrial organizer, Feingold, has completely failed to give any cooperation, leadership or participation in any way in this important situation. Bedacht has consistently refused to give financial support to the Illinois and Indiana campaign, despite decisions by the Polbureau. He has failed to mobilize |the Party for the campaigns con- | ducted by the Miners’ Relief. The D.E.C. has failed completely in ob- taining organizational advantages for the Party from the miners’ cam- paign, failing to enroll any miners into the Party in this exceedingly \favorable situation. Kenosha. sub-committees do not function at/a time when the new union was) all; for example, the agitprop com- mittee of Section 6 did not meet for nine months. Feeder Bus agitation in Section 6, | where the inhabitants of the North- | fs west Side were clamoring for feeder busses to the street car, and de- |nounced Mayor Thompson in mass meetings and statements for his veto of feeder busses and for his 10 cent \fare, | mobilizing delegates for the Septem- ‘ber 9 Pittsburgh convention. .This In the recent was in opposition to the C.E.C. pol-| of icy. Bedacht even moved that the \district ask the C.E.C. to take up j the question of participation in the | UMWA elections nationally. A coun- | ter motion to expose the election as ja fake, calling upon the miners to | mobilize and elect delegates to the Section 6 executive committee | Pittsburgh convention was attacked | mitted many errors The strike situation in Kenosha assumed great importance in view the strike wave in the textile mills of the East. Despite this, many months went by without the i district paying any attention what- soever to this situation until the Y. |W.L. sent a representative. This comrade was ‘active in the situation, but due to lack of leadership com- which were after the Pittsburgh | | ealled to the attention of the D.E.C. Many errors were participated in by Comrade Bedacht, who acted for the Party without consulting either the Polbreau or the Secretariat. Those errors were: 1, Underestimation of possibilities and failure of the Party to step into the situation, giving leading role to the Y.W.L. 2. No work done to develop a left wing or shop committees among the textile workers or automobile wo: ers (Nash plant, etc.) 3. Wrong policy on organization | Leaflet issued call-| | of unorganized. ling on the Wisconsin Federation of Labor “to do its duty” and organize the unorganized, When this policy was challenged, Bedacht violently defended his position and only after a debate, lasting through two meet- ings did Bedacht change his stand. | 4, United front appeal by the Par- ty in Kenosha to the bourgeois com- mittee of 1,000. Without any discussion in the district as to the state of the strike, \2 leaflet was printed and sent out for distribution which told the work- ers that the strike was lost. Many D.E.C. members pointed out that the strikers were still carrying on the fight and it would be wrong for us to take any action which put us in a position of being accused of break- ing the strike. Bedacht tried to make a factional issue of such a basic |question; instead of admitting his mistake, he introduced the following motion: “Due to the fact that this \leaflet is in a fair way being turned {into a factional issue, I move that this leaflet be revised by a commit- tee of five.” This motion was re- jected by the Polbureau due to its \factional implications; and a motion by Green that we withdraw this leaf- let and issue another that does not emphasize the loss of the strike, was adopted by the Polbureau. 6. In the Kenosha textile and auto | situation, motions made that the dis- |trict take the necesary steps to de- CU velop a Left wing, build shop com-! mittees, etc., were rejected by the Polbureau, the district functionaries passing the buck to the national fac- tion leadership. Factional Protection of Wrong Policy and Incompetence in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee subdistrict is of great importance in the Party, since the socialist party has nominal con- trol of the administration. The M waukee Leader, Berger’s organ, is issued there and the La Follette il- subdistrict organizer. Comrade Sklar was elected to this position last Sep- tember after proving himself utterly | 4n) auties of the dis jaaitd da sesperially steong there: ener ees coat CApecinly SUPRE Yee of the partys cl This situation requires a very able) atically violated by the D: SSION SECTIO shortly after as the organizer for the company union in the Planking- ton Packing Company Plant in Mil- waukee. This resulted in conside able loss of prestige for the Party among the Negro worke: 4, The campaign mat ial (leaf- {lets) which Comrade Sklar issued in the name of the Party were a dis- grace to the Party. Democratic Centralization. Our Party constitution calls for ization as the basis is has been syste- ict, Executive Committee whose action flows from Bedacht’s conception of ict organizer, incompetent in the Gary subdistri ‘ petent in the Gary subdistrict, |. has stated on several occasions so much so that the Gary_comrades were unanimous in demanding removal. Since then, Sklar has pro- posed and pursued wrong policies on | D.E.C. did major questions: 1, He opposed: the decision of the D.E.C. that the Party enter the Mil- waukee election campaign under its own banner. *His opposition influ- enced the ukee Subdistric' Committee to re: the D.E.C. policy until the very day of the election. Sklar made no real effort to carry out the D.E.C. policy, even after condemnation by the D.E.C, result was that our campaign in the | Milwaukee municipal election was a complete failure. He issued leaflets | appealing to the socialist Victor Berger for a w the Milwaukee clection campaign,|not always in agreement with to the D.E.C. that “I am the Party.” 1. As a result of this attitude, the not meet regularly. months elapsed between meetings so that D.E.C. members knew very lit- tle of what was going on in the district and have had practically nothing to do with decisions made. | s' ¢, Regular meeting days for the D.E.C., Polbureau and Industrial Committee were set by motion of Simons, after the failure of the Organization Com- mittee to do so. Even these regular The | days are ignored without any reason \given. The Secretariat has not met for a period of six weeks, 2. Discussion in the Polbureau is party and curtailed on important fundamental nited front for | questions to silence those who are Be- which was an opportunist Right! dacht’s proposals. wing error. 3. Bedacht submitted a resolution 2. He formed’ an unprincipled al-| to the Milwaukee subdistrict in the liance with the capitalist politicians name of the D.E.C. This|up the resolution in advance either during the election campaign. This politician made his headquar-| with the D.E.C., without taking Polbureau or Sec- ters in the Party headquarters; and retariat. Party members were distributing | his campaign materia’. 3. His wrong policy on the united | by the D.O. upport of a non- reporting to the D.E.C., Polbureau front led to his Party Negro candidate (Delroy) for municipal office, who was exposed | 4, Projects involving enormous financial expenditure are undertaken without consulting or or Secretariat. No financial statement was issued Yage TYuree [to the D.E.C. or to the membership |since Bedacht became D.O, until | September 22, 1928, Then a state- | ment was issued for the period of January to August, 1928 (inclusive). When the financial stateme: called for to see if there was any truth in Bedacht’s statement that the district could not contribute $25 a week to the Illinois miners’ work, Bedacht replied that his word should be enough and that the D.E.C. mem- bers should have “faith” in the D.O. 6. aS Extensive speakers’ tours are arranged in the district without con- sulting the D.E.C., Polbureau or Sec- retariat. 7. Initiative is taken away from section committees. The organization committee, without consulting the section committees, makes arbitrary additions and changes the composi- tion of these committees to suit fac- tional intex s. As an instance, Sec. 5, where Comrad h was re- moved as secretary, putting Eugene Bechtold in his place and even re- moved Gersh from his committee, re- placing him with a comrade only eight months in the Party. Comrade Gersh is ¢ of the most active com- in Chicago, an alternate to the .C. and member of the Needle Trades Executive Committee, and editor of the Chicago Needle Work- er. 8. Assignments to shop nuclei and street nuclei are made in the same arbitrary manner by the District Or- ganization Committee and in the same factional way. The situation in the Chicago di trict is no accident, it is part of the national line of the C.E.C. Majority. The opportunist mistakes committed in District 8 were never corrected or admitted by the Majority of the D.E.C. Comrade Bedacht, an out- ‘standing leader of the Majority gave leadership to most of these Right errors. Bolshevik constructive ¢ cism was outlawed by the Majority and comrades who proposed correct policy have been punished by sus- pension and expulsion, as in Mil- waukee. The kind of lead given to the Chicago district Majority will not build the P. A radical departure from such opportunist and factionalism if the Party is to grow. policy EMERGENCY FUND (Continued from Page One) $1; Demport, $1; R. Radzi, $1; Moskovitz, $1; Shatoff, $1; Spector, $2; Ravlon, $1; M. Empstein, $2; Stern, $1. Total nee action 4, Unit ue os Angeles Sub-District, Los Angeles, Calif. ... . D. No. 3, 2C, City—Talmi, $5; Vasco, $2; Bornstein, $1; Rodvansky, $1; Becker, $20; Ukelson, $1; De Leon, $1; Kalos, $1. © Total.... ollected in Washington, D. C.—J. Minkin, $5; Colodny, ; Plotnik, $2; Pearlman, $2; Abushkent, $2; Row- bitzky, $2; Stolar, $2; Leawe, $1; C. Syman, $1; Malakoff, $1; Nordstein, 2; G, Rinis, $2; Helen Col- 70.00 49.00 . 41.50 40.00 ddny; $4 Fas he os sees 28.00 ‘orkers Party, Portland, Ore 25.00 treet Nucleus No. 10, De- troit, Mich, ........ 25.00 innish Workers Club, City 25.00) ‘orkers Party Unit, Norfolk, Va. ses chance 25.00 rmenian Workers Club, 25.00 ollected by Mary Ostrow, Los Angeles, Calif—M. M. Biell, $1; D. Biell, $1; J. Saylin, $15; M. Ostrow, $5; A Friend $1. .. 23,00 tandard Commercial Body Corp., City—Samuel Levitt, $5; Rose Weissberg, $1; Fannie Brachfeld, Gertrude Steinholz, 50c; Myer Eisen- berg, 25¢; B. Brasch, $1; A, Amter, $1; F. Roseten, $5; J. Ginararcio, $1; A. Schipper, $1; D. Ohmando, $1; G. Stone, $1; M. Man- anse, $1; S. Lisie, $1; J. Nartole, 50; Frimmir, $1; Workman, $1; I. Brinor, collected by Axel Carlson, Chicago, Il.—H. Berg- strom, 35¢; H Swanson, $2; P. Frojd, $1; F. Nalm, 50c; E. Carlson, 50c; W. J. Winberg, $2; Axel Carl- son, $5; H, Anderson, $3; G. Carlson, $1; G. Johnson, $2; Carl Benson, 25c; Enik Jansen, $2; Swanson, $1; Ida Peterson, $1; Erick Peterson, $1. + 22.60 follected a a Party in Syra- cuse, N. Ye vse... + 21,50 . Fuchs, Chicago, Ill, ‘ollected by J. Blazinnas, Harrison, N. J.—American Lithuanian Wk’rs Literary Ass’n., Branch No, 136, Harrison, N. J., $10; J. Marcinkevicus, $1; A. Za- visas, $1.20; M. Skucas, $1.05; J. Blazinnas, $1; J. Pakstas, 50c; M, Zolynas, 50c; J. Bartaska, 25c; S. Gergelis, 25c; P. Marsonas, Jollected . L. Rubin, Chi- cago, Ill.—I. L. Rubin, $2; J. Holmquist, $2; F. Holm- quist, $2; R. Bonati, $2; J. Formosa, $2; A. Petroff, $1; L. Fallick, $2; K. Ka- kut, $1; Mrs. J, L. Beison, $2; Frank Alo, 50c; Pete Petroff, $1. Norkers Party Nucleus, Den- Section 4, Nucleus No. 17, 16.00 17.50 15.00 ve 15,00. 18C, 4F, City .....+.-- 12.00 Western Electric Shop Nuc- leus, Chicago, Ill. 12.50 Pocketbook Makers, City .. 12.00 Section 3, Nucleus 6, Chicago, } : Illinois. .....- + 12.00 Collected by Proles Buehne, City—G. Shilling, $4; G. Schmidt, $3; A. Jonson, 50c; E, Jansen, 50c; F. Stantesch, $3. ........-. 11.000 ‘Section 6, Membership Meet- ing, Chicago, Ill. ........ 11.34 T. H. Stone, Richmond, Va. 10.00 Collected at Liebknecht Mem- | orial Meeting by Milly Pfeil, City—Jack Roberts, 25c; E. Childs, 25¢; E. C. D, Lina, $1; Jack Cory, M. Ganter, 25c; B. L., Dave, $5; J. Brofner, Victor, 15¢; Edward iders, 25c; H. Denar, 25e; B. Mintz. 25c; I. Greenberg, 25c; F. Calther, 25c; I. Dishy, 50c; Milly Pfeil, $1; H. Emps, $1; Porlen, 8c; Korpatkin, 50c; Rosen, 15¢; S. Borodkin, 5c; R, Lifland, 25c; E. A. 25c; E. Wollen: Oe Anonymous H. Jensen, California 10.00 H. J. Canter, Boston, Mass... 10,00 S, Fargotstein, Galveston, $i; Be; hi 11,23 Los Angele | Texas Sage eas sis Collected by T. M. Machash- lan, Bismarck, N. D.—T. | | M. Machaslan, $2; Starr, $2; A, Knutson, yA. A J. H. Hanson, son $2. «+ 10.00 Finnish Wk’rs Club, Minn apolis, Minn, .....- 10.00 Ford Workers. Throng, H- Gray, Detroit, Mich. 10.00 V. G. Burton, Unit 3, Section 4, City ... 10.00 SF, 2A, City . 10,00 St. Nucleus, Illinois... oe ‘Mrs. Valentina Ulmar, Los | Angeles, Cal. Slovak Workers 1 cago, Ill, .... a ares |Sec, 6, Nucleus 24, Chic., TH. | Collected by D. elenia, Brook- lyn, N. Y. D, Selenia, $1.50; E. Tkach, 50¢; N. Koshe- vich, $2; Tbolinsky, $2; | Toncharko, $2. ... ea \Collected by Ushko, Brook- | lyn, N. Y.—M, Ushko, $2; M. Vasilieff, $1; D. Shal- | oest, $1; A. Radisheveski, | $1; U. Froxerkui, $1; G. | Carol, $1; J. Ureovich, 50; Molopegenko, 25¢. . ee Saas _F. and W, Dluhosch, Chicago, Illinois .... Pivee's Collected by H. Larkas, S. D. —F. Pi Muclla, $2; 0. F. Carlson, $2; H. Garson, $2. Cooperative Barber Shop, Chicago, Ill, ..........++ Collected by E. Overstrom, Portland, Oregon: Scandin- avian Workers Club, $3; E. Overstrom, 50c; J. Lukas, $1; A. Johnson, 50c; E. Bjorkman, 50c; F. Back- ‘Collected by Anna Burlak, | Bethlehem, Pa.: Anna Bur- 2, Wau egan, 10.00 10.00 10.00 9.00 6.00 Ylenics, $1; M. Krivy, $1; J. Horvath, $1; N. Loper- shanski, $1 . 10.00 lak, $1; K. Czapko, $1; J. 4 Collected by a comrade in Caspar, Calif.: H. Rutland, $1; G. Danbenck, $5 .. Collected by B. Kirlanoff, Toledo, Ohio: B. Kirlanoff, $2; G. Karoloff, $1; J. M. Howdren, $2; S. Nickoloff, $1 oe Coitected by Joseph Olive: Hamtranck, Mich.: Joseph Oliver, $5 Ed. Pushel, $1. Collected by J. Hirsch, Cleve-~ | land, Ohio: Steve Toth, $5; John Hirsch, $1 .... an John Sutton, Ypsilanti, Mich. | Collected at a Tea Party in the house of Comrade Kat- soff’s, City: Frieda Kat- | soff, $1; L. Goodman, $1; M. Jaffe, $1; Pasternack, 50c; 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 | Anna Magid, 50c; Morris | Siebnick, 50c; L. Leib, $1.. 6.00 John Tundra, Chicago, Ill..... 5.00 {Collected by J. Lesanaki, City: Charlie Wexler, $1.50; P. Cohen, 50c; P. Lesansky, $1; S. Levenberg, 50c; Ida | Rachkind, 50c; Clare, 25c; a Friend 5.25 3, 1F, City 5.00 A, Kish, Astoria, L. 1, N.Y... 5.00 Marie Larson, Hasty, Minn... 5.00 | F. Garcia, Park City, Utah 5.00 | Collected by Jack Kolchmain- en, New York Mills, Minn.: John Kolehmainen, 50c; H. Erkkola, 50c; W. A. Nie- mela, 25¢; C, Puttlo, 50¢; Effer Pernue, 25¢; Pahti, 25e; J. Hemming, $1; Nick Latyala, $1; J. Soramen, | 50e; G, Johnson, 25c .....- 5.00 International Labor Defense, Lithuanian Branch 49, Bridgeport, Conn. + 5.00 | Unit 1, Mountain View, Cal if. 7.30 | Collected by E. Wagenknecht, | Cleveland, Ohio: E, Wagen- | Knecht, $2; Old Timer, $5.. 7.00 L. D. S. A. 23, Johnson City, Nox 2 ade sss secee 8.00) Finnish Workers Club, Keene, ca aes . 5.00 \J. P. Roe, Berk . 5.00 \J. W. Crowe, Oakland, Calif.. 5.00 | Cooperative Apartment, 68 | Lenox Ave., City .......-- 5.00 | Collected by Fingold at Frei- | heit Singing Society, City.. 5.00 - 5.00 | Sec. 8, Brooklyn . 5.00 Max Pavek, ‘Toledo, Collected by Nat Chernow, | City: Nat Chernow, $1.50; | M. Marticci, $1; Ben Cohn, | b00e; W. Cappacio, $1; Ww. | Kurrash, $1 ... A. L. Cremasoco, Monto Lake, Calif. .... ‘Collected by F. off, Brooklyn, N. Y.: F. Miakoff, $2.50; B. Mihalewicz, $1; N. Golubieff, $1 ... Eli Nissel, City ..... Abe Hyman, City . Collected by Armenian Frac- tion, City: S. Simrrian, $1; N. Gagosian, $1; L. Dana- bedian, $1; M. Leriars, $1.. B. N. Johnson & C. Ross, Jamestown, N. Swanson, Sec. 4, Unit B, City Collected by George Bruyell, Paterson, N. JiGeorge Bruynell, $2; Peter Dupont, Collected by P. Katashwich, Brooklyn, N. Y.: M. Majew- ski, 50c; J. Chisnuk, 50c; M. Bubnicovich, 50c; P. Kate- | shewich, $1.50, Toma- bruz, 50c .. ee ‘Collected by Adolf Korn, Miami, Fla.: H. Borsdorf, $1; Adolf Korn, 92 .. + 4,00 4,00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.00 | Collected by John Aubrey, Seattle, Wash.: Dave, $1; Fred Margot, $1; John Aubrey, $1 ....--eseeeere Joe Coles, City (Acknowledge- ment delayed) ........+++ . 3.00 Dan Dill, Plaster City, Calif.. 3.00 J. M. Sinclair, West Vancou- ver, B, C., Canada : Geo. Marticich, Miami, Ariz.. Mrs. Maurice Kapetansky, De- troit, Mich. | 8C, 38F, City Collected by M. Albert, Cit Walter Schmidt, $1; Union- ist, 25¢; M. Albert, $1; Still- 3.00 3.00 man, $1 gon) Ce | Se aeenee ay ate It is highty important to know shat on, 4 Trotskyism stands for in the Soviet Healer, $1; Sitwivoff, $1 ats Pied gs : i Union, and the reasons for its over- |_ Zeratsky, $1 ......s.0.++4 3.00% vhelming repudiation by the CPSU L. Callagaro, | Drumhellar, as | Alta, Canada .... 3.00 | H. J. Ahrens, Spokane, Wash. 2.50 |C. F. Wu, Madison, Wis. 3.00 2 |K. M. Su, Madison, Wis. | James Mo, Madison, Wis. ... W. Forgun, F3, Subsection 6C, 2.00 | Brooklyn, N. Y¥. .......+-. 3.00 'D. Hass, Fort Wayne, Ind. 2.00 | E. Gorencher, Cleveland, Ohio 2.00 |F. Della Chiase, | Mass. Mrs. E. M. Trare, San Fran- | cisco, Calif. | John Vilaino, Inglewood, R. Edrid, Ideal Farm, N S. Tymein, E. Hampstead, L. I. M. Boerum, Bronx, N. Y. |R. Shapiro, Providence, R. I. | Marion Kroll, Brooklyn .....+ Lawrence, 2.00 2.00 Sara Tractman, Chicago, Il, George A. Willner, Bronx 2.00 Joe Paur, Crosby, Wyo. ...... 2.00 M. Contento, Cleveland, Ohio 2.00 John Eden, and Bill Carr, |. Minneapolis, Minn, . sa 2:00 |E. J. Ryan, Cliton, A’ . Israel Gimbel, Brooklyn, N. Y. | N.‘Wayba, Buffalo, N. Y....- Alex Shelling, City ......... 2.00 Siegfrid, Los Angeles, Calif. . Alfred Tisla, Portland, Oregon Finnish Workers Society, Grand Rapids; Mich, ...... Collected by B. J. Meyers, Chi- cago, Ill.: Frank Leng, $1; | B.J. Meyers, $1 .......... 2.00 |John Zuparko, Hillside, N. J., 2.00 Felix Oliver, Detroit, Mich. B. F., City .......- 2.00 Collected by George F. Par- tridge, Rochester, Minn.: Wm. Friedell, $1; G. F. Partridge, $1; S. C. Fran- Cis, BOC 8. 08d... 4 Nee’ E. W. Klatt, Lansing, Mich. 2.00 C. N. Prager, City . + 1.00 Theo. Aspe, San Pedr 1.00 S. Garber, Fordson, Mich 1.00 'M. Weinberg, Chicago, I! 1.00 | Jennie Korchbaum, Cincinnati, | OhIO .eceeeeercensersecs 1.00 | Leon Calvert, Maywood, Ill... 1.00 \John Swanson, Sidnow, Mich. 1.00 |M. Oken, Bronx, N. Y....... 1.00 iJ, LeClair, Acushmet, Mass... 1.00 Robert Cohen, Bronx, N. Y... 1.00 |L. Berger, Baltimore, Md, .. 1.00 F. Peterson, Stratford, Conn, 1.00 M. Alberto, City ........... 50 I. L. P., Flushing, L. I. N.Y. 1.00 R. S. Green, City «+++ 1.00 Berta Blum, City . 1.00 M. L., City ..... 1.00 | Section 6, 2F, City 1.50 |M. Schenk, Seattle, Wash. 1.00 | Wm. F. Miller, Chicago, Tl 1.00 | Oskar Sjolin, City .. . 1,00 |'T. Llewellyn, Detroit, Mich... 1.00 Mrs. M. Apathy, Hammond, Ind. oo. ese ee sees NAGS aaa 40 Clarence Eyles, Wildwood, Pa. 1.00 Czecho-Slovak, A. K. Berwyn, 9 THE OPPOSITION ON THE CON. The Daily Worker today reprints another instalment of the Trot Opposition platform in the Com- 3.00|munist Party of the Soviet Union, land the answer. of the Party to it. |While the figures given are not up to the minute, they deal with the 3.00 situation at the time the Trotskyista made their proposals, Trotskyism is not only a Soviet matter, but one which affects the in- ternational working class movement. and the leading Parties throughout ihe world.—EDITOR, FERENCES FOR THE IMPROVE- MENT OF PRODUCTION. “Conferences for the improvement of production are gradually being jreduced to nought. The majority of the practical proposals adopted by the workers at these conferences are not carried out. The hostility that a section of the workers enter- tain for these conferences arises from the fact that the improve- ments in production which are brought about through their agency frequently result in cutting down | staffs, As a consequence, the con- ferences are badly attended.” (Extract from the Opposition platform.) THE FACTS. | In this question as in all others the very contrary is the case. Re- cently particularly keen interest has been evinced by the workers in these conferences. For example, accord. provincial Trade Union Council, cov- ering nine industrial unions, on 1-6- 27, the system of conferences had been introduced in 260 enterprises | employing 229,000 workers. Shop conferences were held in 131 of the largest enterprises employing 202,- 000 workers. The general attendance at shop conferences alone in 1926- 27 was 110,000. During this period on the average 2.8 meetings were held in each shop. Even if it is calculated that the same people at-) tended these meetings every time, and that the staffs in these shops remained totally unchanged, we can calculate that out of 202,000 work- ers, 40,000 regularly attended these meetings at every shop conference called. Such regularity, however, is not observed, and for that reason it may be said with certainty that |during the half year no fewer than | 70,000 to 75,000 workers attended these meetings. 170,000 out of 200,- (000 is a large percentage. Such a large attendance can be explained only by the fact that the workers are keenly interested in these gath- erings. Attendances at shop conferences during the past year increased from |18.4 per cent to 24.5 per cent. It jis true that the attendances at con- |ferences of the whole factory are |not so good as the shop conferences, and they are not convened so fre-| quently. It is becoming clear that} the general factory conference is} passing away, and a new form is| taking its place; factory delegate conferences comprising delegates | from each shop, _ Platform of Trotskyist Opposition in | The number of suggestions for) improvements in methods of produc- tion are increasing. During the sec- ond half of the present economic Standard Oil Jeers \ at Congress Probe | CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—With mali- cious affrontery, the Standard Oil of Indiana has answered Congress- man Sproul’s agitation for an in- vestigation of a Standard Oil pro- |duct called “tanolax,” which, Sproul says, has only to be boiled with de- natured alcohol to remove part of the government poisons and make the result potable, even if not healthy. HicagZOTW ccs i vee isk 1.00 John A. Antonson, Brooklyn, ING Ngan + 1.00 Canemian, City 1.00 Chakahn, City . 25 L, Ruzzier, City . 1.25 L. Rabinovitch, City 50 Zaietz, City ..... 50 Delinand, City . I. Mendelson, City . 1.00 M, Lontonio, City . 1.00 L. Shenkov, City . L. Rosenberg, City . 50 | Anna Halpern, City .. 1.00 ; Mary Laplas, City ee |B. Brady, City ... . 1,00 W. Slatzer, City .. | * * | The total of today's contributions 15 * first page, in an effort to avoid duplication, Seven Year Old Sends ing to the returns of the Leningrad | year, 11,868 proposals were made at, | Dollar to the ‘Daily’ | | The following letter has been received from a Daily Worker | supporter: | “Dear Daily Worker: Tam | only seven and a half and my | little brother, Irving, will soon | be five years old. So we bor- | rowed from our father two dol- | lars, and send this to help the | Daily Worker. | Every worker's child | help the Daily, because it pro- tects the interests of the work- | ers from the bosses’ oppression, | and teaches the workers how to - win freedom and to establish a | Soviet Republic in the United | States. “Yours for the proletarian | revolution. | | “Miriam and Irving.” .50| ENGLISH PLASTERERS STRIKE. | LIVERPOOL, (By Mail).—Plas- |terers in the Merseyside area are 1.00 | striking against Pollack and Sons, | Ltd. They are fighting the open shop. ‘BOSSES FIGHT COMPENSATIO ST. LOUIS, (By Mail).—A pill | has been introduced in the Missouri J A | state legislature to repeal the com- | will be found in the appeal on the pensation law. The bill is sponsored | by lawyers in the legislature, and) by large insurance firms, should | | | these conferences, which were sub- mitted to the factory managements. Of these, 8,692 proposals were made at shop conferences and committees and 2,901 by general factory con- ferences. On the average, 1,978 proposals per month were made as against 1,752 per month in the cor- responding period of the preceding economic year, showing an increase of 13 per cent. The following table shows that the situation with re- gard to the adoption of the pro- posals made is favorable. Proposals adopted by the managements and carried out .....+.. Proposals under con- sideration Proposals rejected “ No replies received ... 8,955 1,559 795 559 4.7% Total 11,868 An equally lively interest is dis- played by the Workers in the econ- omic conferences, In the period between October and March, 1926-7, the promotions to medium and minor administra- tive and technical posts were as fol- lows: Workers promoted to position of foremen, 239. Workers promoted to position of ganger, 142. Workers: promoted to position of business management posts, 146. During the preceding nine months —January to September, 1926—61 Soviet Union. persons per month were promoted, and during the period @ctober to March, 1926-27, 88 per month. These facts clearly demonstrate that on this point also the Opposition dis- torts the actual facts in order to further its factional interests. Facts and figures completely ex- pose the falsehoods of the Opposi- tion in regard to the conditions of the working class. The working class is growing and is becoming stronger; the material and cultural level of the masses of workers in the town is being raised from year to year; the position of the proletariat as compared with that of other strata of the popula- tion is improving; the wo guided by our Party, with up socialism. (To be continued) ¢ (Authorized Steamship Wicket Age Che surance and enthusiasm, is building 1133 BROADWAY YORK cerry Telephone: en 3 NEW STRAMSHIP TICKETS ON ALT LINES. ALL CLASSES. AND BOOKING PARTS OF D. 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