The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1929, Page 2

Page Two PARTY By WM. J In the thir capitalism developed a Because of of WHITE, in this ing the the prole- s on the cap between i eanitalist struggle t and the nd the one different other. Rat ing capitalist turn is being ups on the s accelerat- ion and in acce paratiors for war caused by rapid accumulation. Capitalism is again bu trying to solve its problems by means of war of ist impe groups imperialism proletariat outpost, th Union, In this third veriod all of the nanifold contradictions of capital- ism culminate more and more clearly in the primary contradiction: in the antago! n of the inter of the nd Soviet revolutionary working class with those of the cap- italist class. Thus, the objective and subjective forces are rit which will put the only solution of the contradictions of capitalism upon the order of the day: the liquidation of the capital- ist order by revolutionary overthrow last y between center of t perialist w ated by the pre- of backy the s paration for war. made, ever used, in or tariat to the chariot of imperialist war. est di pecially so when they appear as. so- cial reformism, p name of the cause or, proletarian emancipation. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1929 PRE The Right Danger and Where to Look for It ed by Amer- alt of the draws it into the nt vortex of im- can imp world war, This puts before our American Party not only the tremendous task f mobilizing the politically still 1 working class as a class, ‘o.the “problem of fitting self for the accomplishment of this task by constant-self-correction and f by self. -clarification. In this period, an imperialism sings all of ren songs of its ideological pre- These tunes pr mise to find an echo from the cap- italist. and. democ ie illusions of the ma effort is aganda is s the prole- Amer ve form of p er to har: 1 e influences create the great- nger for the proletariat Es yagated in. the They paralyze the and the construction of socialism power of resistance of the working through the proletarian dictatorship. |‘class and threaten to make it a helpless instrument and vic of For the C. P. of the U.S. A. For t he Communist Party of the United States, this p elop- ment is of special significance. The sent CHINESE WHITE GUARDS ATTACK Search Leaders of the Trade Unions HARBIN (d of police comp: ed of Russian white: guardists and Chinese suyrounded | the headquarters of the Railway: men’s Union here and the quarters of two other union careful search lasting in all s hours was made. In the head- | quarters of the Railwaymen’s Union| ali the employees present as well! as all visitors who happened to be on the premises were subjected to a thorough search, A number of trade union officials were arrested, but very quickly released. Such police excesses have become very frequent lately on the territory | of the East China Railway. ‘There is! no doubt that they represent:a part of the general provocative policy of the Chinese authorities towards the East China Railway. NEW STEEL JOINT TECHNIQUE. TROY, N. Y., Mareh 8.—Joints } in eight and ten inch steel girders | made by a new system of inter- locking tongues and grooyes today were subjecte dto hydraulic pres- sure which crushed the beams be- | fore it broke the joints. The new technique in connecting girders may | have wide usefulness, engineers | said. It is the invention of a den-| tist, who never worked on steel un- | til he began his experiments. He! will be paid a nominal sum for his invention, and the profits will go to some steel company. Riveters will lose their jobs. j CLEVELAND WORKERS’ RELIEF | CLEVELAND, March 3.—A dis-/ trict conference of the Workers’ In-| ternational Relief was held here Sun- day at 226 W. Superior Ave., with delegates in attendancd from this and adjoining cities. Many miners | were among the delegates. | John Fromholz, Ohio district sec- | retary of the W. I. R. rendered aj report which was discussed by the assembled delegates. It was voted | to call another district conference, to be held in about two weeks. j The Ohio district is preparing to conduct a children’s camp this com- ing summer. Arrangements are now being made, and according to From- holz, full details will be announced. | POPE DEPORTS SUBJECTS. ROME, March 3.—The pope's first act as an independent sover- eign ruler was to deport about two- thirds of his subjects. All not of- capitalist aggression. The only against impex y ree 0 Making an Alliste? presenting a gold Amer to carry on the pr for rescuing the sailors of the that even f embarrassed 4 the paper: But U. Bureau, L d yarns about the dange ave conducting a comme CONVENTION DISCUSSION wor is its revolutionary vangu the Communist Part: But the influences of bourgeois, democratic and pacifist illusions sometimes even find a fayorable ground within the ranks of this very advance guard, resulting in the reformist tendencies either in dividuals or organized groups, manifestations of reformist or op- portunist -influences weaken the in- Party, thus also lessening the re- sistance of the whole working class against the bourgeois’ In present period such a development would be more disastrous for the proletariat than at any other time. Therefore the dangers of these in- fluences, of democratic illusions, of illusions, of social reform- e the greatest dangers of ism, ar the hou Fight Right Danger! This necessitates the most ser- and fundamental campaign against these influences and the most vigilant guard against right errors within and by the Party it: self. In this period our opposition | whether this record-bears out theiy|@ate with one spoken or written} The factual picture of this great war-c “The right wing Jeader- is a most formidable he opposition is fully imp tions contained sounded the represents a Thi n, of the 2 . Se Shipping to George. Fried, captain of the that Fried is a great hero a—in a alin It is said en he got ta New York and found reome in the rescue. cial wor with Britain, and need the publicity. Fried chut up and tool:.the medal, ‘Many Miners Killed as Accidents Show Increase WILKES-BARRE, March 3.—The killing ad injuring of miners de- rtived of adequate union protection in the coal since the U. M. W. A. sell-out to the bosses, and during the interim before the Na- tional Miners _ Union _ becomes sirongly enough organized here’ to check the rapacity of owners, con- tinues apace. During the iast days of the week Steven Carnak, aged 24, was crushed between. two mine cars and killed while. working. as a, runner, in. the Forty Fort Colliery of the Temple Coal Co Poisoned in Mine. Alexander Piecienski,: aged 35; was poisoned by gasses in’ No. “3 Mine of the Hudson Coal Co.; and died in the hospital. John Constentine, aged 55, was sirnck in the abdomen by a hoist- ing rope in No. 4 Colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., sustained internal injuries and is critically ill in the hospital. Frank Atsugas, aged 77, got sev- eval broken ribs, a fractured arm and a possible spinal fracture by being squeezed between cars in the Stanton Mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. He is in jthe hospital and may die. Marion Tarfnetski had his left |hand crushed by a fall of rock in the Alden Coal Company’s mine. All Due to Boss. All these accidents, gas, too rapid handling of cars, too fast running of hoisting ropes, bad timbering, ¢——_--————— LABOR SPORTS The first men’s indoor swimming meet of the Eastern District of the Labor Sports. Union, held -in . the Metropolitan Baths, in*Bklyny Sat- urday night, proyed to be a real suecess. Over 50 worker athletes took part, with six clubs being rep- resented. The records made by some of the swimmers compare fayorably with the records of the swimming meets held under the auspices of the A, A. U. i The*following is the list of the winners: ficers of the church or otherwii | causing fall of rcck, are due to forced to reside in the new papal jspeed-up ferced upon employes by state have been ordered to get out. |ihe greed of the coal company and Citizenship in the “State of the would be very infrequent if the men Vatican” is evidently reserved for felt secure in their jobs and could _ those who can pay for it, in money |make a living wage by. working or services. Respond immediately to ling yen the enclosed amount, §... CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? unds Vital it Our Press is to Live Worker for aid in its present crisis. The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker 1 am send- |slower. * the appeal of the Daily | 100-Yard Free-Style, Senor. Andy Haapaen, Vesa, A:G. 1; 121-5 Leo, Kainen, Vesa A.C. 1, 18,.1-5 50-Yard Free-Style. dt Nelson, Vesa A.C. 29; 8-10, W. Pietila, Kisatoverit A.C. 31, 2-5. 50-Yard Breast-Stroke. Andy Haapanen, Vesa, A.C. 39, 8-10. ‘A. Santon, Vagabond, A.C. 42, 3-5. Bill Luoma, Vesa, A.C. 0, 1-5. $ Fancy Diving. Andy Haapanen, Vesa A.C. 43 points Sacco, Kisatoverit A.C. 41 points, 75-Yard Relay, Junior, Vesa A.C., first team 1, Kisatoyerit—2. Royal Aces—3. 50-Yard Dash Free-Style, Junior. Haessel, Royal Aces; 30, 5-10. Paul Eskola, Vesa A, C. 31, 3-5, Rase, ‘Kisatoterit—35, 4-5. 25-Yard Dash, Jynior. pes Royal Aces 13, 5-10. alph Victor, Vesa A.C. 16, 1-5 Bjurmark, Kisatoverit 16, 2-5, New Anti-Strike Law for Kansas; Violation Ended First Measure TOPEKA, Kansas, March 8.—The infamous “Industrial Court Law” of Kansas which was fought by mili- tant labor and was finally declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States, is to be revamped, to make it air-tight and again introduced in the coming ses- sion of (he Kansas state legislature. The way the old bill was upset was by openly disobeying it and the new one which undoubtedly will have the same end in view of ham- stringing strikes, although its text is not yet known, will haye to be fought by the si tactics—simple defiance. jin it and selected it as an issue for inner-Party struggles just for these implications. If true, the campaign against the CEC must take the sharpest forms, with the final aim of ridding the Party of this danger. In our pre-convention discussion appearance of opportunist or and in the CEC Plenum we have |of the Central"Executive Committee considered quite thoroughly the Such political contents of these accusa-|in the past war promise great sac- tions rad the proofs. The Party has passed its judgment. In this article, therefore, I will raise a dif- ferent phase of this controversy. Who are the accusers? The aceusers want to defeat the Central Committee, to take over the leadership of the Party. No phrases in their mouths of a “new leader- (politically ship” can mislead any one about | that. If these comrades demand leadership, on the ground that the present period must find the Party equipped with the best Bolshevik quality within it at its helm, and if \thereby they imply that they rep- jresent this best Bolshevik quality, |they must permit the Party to in- vestigate their record and see contentions. In War Period. We are not only facing a war, but we also have a war behind us. ‘PROGRESSIVES’ TALK OF LABOR Must “Criticize” A,F.L. Crooks Gently (Continued from Page One) ;shelled glasses. Has a job on the |New Leader, and_ sells tips about | {the Reds to the capitalist papers.) |Next to him, the fellow with the |glassy stare, is McAlister Coleman. fighter. Was in France with the| |boys. Hates the Reds, too, Tries to! {imitate the Metropolitan press col-| jumnists in the New Leader, | | In the corner is G. August Gerber. | | Going to be a big lawyer, like Hill-| iquit. Managed Norman Thomas’| jeampaign. He and his old man are| {in the artificial flower business, and they give work to lots of young girls, ! wages $12-$16 a week. Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary is-speaking. August Claessans, socialist party! secretary, told the Yipsels the other | day, according to the. New York} Times that they ought to work among ‘theological students—“good i material,” he said. | “We must fight for Brookwood, | for Brookwood fights not only for} labor but for a more decent civiliza- tion,” says Ward. ‘ | Stolberg introduces Muste, - Says} jhe’s “intelligent,” honest and rather good politician.” MUSTE.. Former congregational | minister. Looks it. Tall; lanky, arid, academic. Says he’s a member of the A. F. of L. and vice-president | of one of the international union. “I'm not a Communist. If you want | jauthority for this statement,’ you can find me attacked in practically | every issue of the Daily Worker. “We must not sling mud. A. F. of L, officials are not corrupt,’ he| says. Just “reactionary.” Quotes) the bible, complains that A. FP. of L. used to be Jeffersonian, now Hamil- tonian. Ends with validictory per-| oration, Hillquit _ is -introduced, Labor movement has two functions, says the Iswyer. To raise wages and to push “labor legislation,” including government aid during sickness, old-age pensions and unemployment. “What would Europe be without the socisl-datcatie tt he usks— England, Austria, Germany (where workers are murdered in eld blood by the “socialist” governments). Says “progressives” must criti- cize the leaders of the A, F. of L., but not “bitterly.” “We don’t,want a rival organiza- tion to the A. F. of L.,” Hillquit says. “The only hope is greater enlight- ening, greater edupation,” American socialist party has few members, reports Hillquit, and then complains: “Why do we see the same handful at all our affairs?” Embarrassed ‘laughter from the audience at this curious confessional. “Labor movement is the greatest force for democracy. In Europe haye thousands of members, large Luildings.” Poor fellow wants to be |a prime minister, too. | To proye that social-semoeracy is “pgreatest force for democracy,” Hillquit says: “You just have to read your papers to see that persons in the upper class, the middle-ciass, the lower middle-class, all join the Brit- ish labor party.” Mentions name of Lord so-and-so, “I talk from personal experience, and not from reading books on the subject. Once union offici in- trench themselves in an organiza- tion, it is absolutely impossible to ug-nosed. Was for a long time illman’s manager in the Amalga- speaking) | | volved in the failure of the “Italia,” | Provides a penalty of “from one to ;MCTION TO IMPEACH WINSLOW | from litigants before him to be made | was tangible evidence of the intol- What was the record in the past/deviations from but deliberate| jwar o fthose who demand leader-|abandonment of the path of prole-| SECTION jtion declaring that the group of | delegates in this convention led by |Comrade Bedacht were not worthy | of the confidence of the Party, How ‘eould he get a majority for such a |motion even from the then Foster- Some Otters. {controlled CEC? Knowing the facts Or take another of the outstand-|@8 We know, we do no longer won- ship of the Party in the coming |tarian revolution. He has not only|ing leaders of our Oppostion, one| der. After the Fifth World Con- war? Where was the “leader” of not admitted these errors of his! who only recently had to inyert a|gress of the C. I, had condemned the opposition during this past war? With an air of revolutionary right- cousness he challenges the reliability he still persists. In his book on the steel strike, lin this period, Does his own record jvifices on his part #1 the coming |war? Does his record in the past |war assure reliability in the coming |war? It does not, Where then does he take the poli-|long ago loudly proclaimed for Gom- \tical right to pose as the accuser |pers; it dictated whole passages of of the Central Executive Committee |his pamphlet on dual unionism; and | as an enemy of the proletariat, as/it goes like a red thread through is done in the thesis of the Opposi- | his late book, “Misleaders of Labor,” \tion? The frequent and rapid changes jof the conceptions of this comrade, |which testify to the absence of the with syndicalist conceptions. false and anti-Leninist conception | ing the Party to propaganda fune- ogy of Marxism, are no guarantee i bepH | whatever for his steadtastness in |dominated by a trade union ideology, the pursuance of Bolshevik aims,)# most virulent form of the very Though very glib in his talks about Poison of right danger jwith the Party he has not to this fight. word confessed these certainly seri-|fighter against the right wing C. jous errors of his past, he has not|E. C. discloses his whole factional |at any time or place before thejcampaign as a simple “stop thief” |working class or the Party corrected |maneouver intended to mislead the ‘these errors of his past—not mere! chase. ‘Fascist Court PASS ANTIFREE | Hits Nobile to | | Shield Zappi ‘pie cola ROME, March 8 (UP).—The com-| . ‘a Syndicalism Law mittee investigating the disaster idl the Polar dirigible Italia, which | crashed to the ice north of Spitz-| DENVER, Colo. March 3.—A |bergen last summer, placed blame criminal syndicalism bill similar to the one made infamous in California thru imprisonment for from one to for the accident upon the shoulders! fourteen years of members of labor of General Umberto Nobile, com- jorganizations for the sole crime of mander of the airship in a report made public today. The report blames Nobile for al-|™embership, has been passed by lowing himself to be rescued before | the house of representatives of the his other comrades and it said that | Colorado state legislature. Captains Adalberto Mariano and| The bill was introduced by Repre- | Filippo Zappi, (naval) were not to|Sentatives Steward, Sylvester, and | be condemned for theit conduct on| Holman, agents of the Rockefeller | their expedition with the wounded |Owned Colorado Fuel and Iron| Professor Finn Malmgren but were,| Company and various other’ mining | on the contrary, to be praised. Ma-| Companies here. | riano and Zappi were rescued by the| Against Strikers, Soviet Union ice-breaker, Krassin. | It passed by a vote of 40 to 17, jeg kg |after several hours of discussion in This decision is in line with ru-| Which were made many wordy at- mors that Nobile’is to.be made the| ‘#8 on militant labor and, the scapegoat for the fascist. debacle in-| 8ttikers in the coal fields here. It} partly in order to save fascism from! fourteen years” for advocating any | the confession of graver crimes | doctrine advocating, tonohing, aid- | namely the eating of the Swedish |i%& and abetting the crime of sabo- scientist Malmgren by Captain Zap- tage, or unlawful acts of force and pi, and the stealing of Mariano’s| Violence, or unlawful methods of clothing by Zappi, so that he died| terrorism as the means of ‘accom: of exposure and ‘starvation, | lishing a change in industrial own- | ership or control or effecting any political change.” | In other states, especially in Cali- | WASHINGTON, March 8.—A mo- | fornia, Kansas, Washington and! tion to formally impeach Federal! Oregon, this language is used to Judge Francis York, “for high erimes and misde- | of an organization, based on the | meanors” was made in the house of class struggle, and advocating a| representatives Saturday. Winslow | change in the social system. | is already under investigation for his Organization a Felony. connections with the defaulting! Representative Johnson ~ termed | Steinhardt for allowing presents|the bill unnecessary and claimed it! to his family, and on ten other |erance in our country. charges. “It will make a felony of the ‘spoken word,” he said. “It would | goddam Gommunists, either. Used|™ake mere membership in an or- to swing chairs at militant work-;Sanization a felony and weuld ers at meetings. Recently resigned | abridge the right of free speech, his job to go into business, it is understood, and was a silent part- ner in firms even while a union of- ficial, This gang didn’t even use left | ory of all hitherto ex- ciety is the history of eeles.—Karl Marg (Cou mifesto). Louis Gartner phrases. Felt perfectly at home.) Want reactionary labor leaders to * be a little careful so that they can |} 2365 BROADWAY, New, York City support them and the capitalist | ;(&ntrance.N. W. Cor. sith Street) — First Floor — NOW 1s the time to haye your Federal and State Income Tax Re- turns prepared and filed by experts , 4 fall supply of forms on hand. . system without too much indigna-| tion from such workers as have been deluded by their “radical” pretensions, TOURS FROM $385.00 The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your. disposal to see everything— own go everywhere — form 1 ‘ | inion of the gre: 1 i: | first hand. World Tou: Oo! | you a choice of tours which will ex- ‘ae ‘ actly fit your desires and goidin. ke dea of en 1 Bosse ¥ . 1 it a res 99. or optic OX os ‘9 force ’em out.” Unconscious hu- “if ‘: wail cs nobody IPE & poles Hag orn Write immediately to | A m Beckerman is e toi vee " mine der discussion. Heavy-set, Lid Au WORLD TOURISTS, Inc, } 175-5th Avenue, New York, N.Y, \ Tel. ALGonquin 6636 | mated Clothing Workers’ Union, Tysh as hell. Isn't afraid of those iFVVFVTVITVEWY| past, but in some of these errors, |*/abor he propagates a negation of the jary respectability. As late as 1924 : role. of .a’ opclanenayy working |this staunch Bolshevik showed his | to Foster ina letter dated Dee. 20, class party by pure and simple A. immunity from the germ of bour-| 1924, to make a frontel attack on F. of L. unionism, thinly tinseled | geois illusions by singing the pra This of a capitalist politician, the dem-| 25, to Caunon Opposed sub same pure and simple trade union-|ocratie senator Wheeler from Mon-| declaring that “From knowledge of ism dictated his admiration not so|tana. And to crown it all, he sang national situation as well as New appearing ‘there in the guise of a/| fluences tomorrow. of “revolutionary unions,” relegat-|Jeaders, the leader, if you please. of the TUEL. His conceptions are| American Marxism. against |sected theses or programs an inyari- | ° | self-criticism, in his whole hisory {Which we must direct our sharpest ably an indictment against the authors. idealing with the problems of peace | wing” of the demorratic|Lore as a two-and a-half interna- party in order to give his political tionalist, Cannon manifested fac- metamorphosis a look of revolution-| tional fears of continuing the open aagaionne-« jalliance with Lore and he proposed Lore. F<ster in a celegram of Dec. fr a policy, these praises in the columns. of the| York his Fh Ae maggot aily Worker. ese victims of; 0 | spled non ac- bourgeois illusions of yesterday ad Egger After knowing this little previous guards against these in-| bit of internal history of our Oppo- | sition, we understand how Bittelmaa ‘could get away with giving the Ger- jman federation to he two-and-a- He {ig proclaimed by the Opposition | half internaticnelist, Lore, at the Or take still another of these «. |delegates as untrastworthy. Where, With SAPBINis | ay, ja the Bolsholik pripdvle of |this greatest of all present-day |Marxians? Where is the revolucion- ary steadfastness that justifies Lim to call persistent fighters against j1eformism Right wingers? But the living and pulsating essence! . But this has ever been the prac- of such programs or theses he never | tice of our Mnposition ~unprinciple: fathoms, ness—alyays putting into the fore- He, too passes as a guardian of ground not Party out factional con- revolutionary purity against the in- Lr glon Oe ae te s a fluences of bourgeois illusions and | @ oy et T tskyi i the of sogial veformism. But I have | Srugals Beeinst Hopsryism in fhe some articles of this manager aa Tat ObehERas ue’: Cori: " : e ig | : ihe Marxian vineyard in America, | nied” Opposition fought against These arti-| the CEC as “a leftist bunch.” And ang een an Wilsonian|° principles whateyer stood in their phrases and conceptions. This gelf-|#¥» When following the conjuncture, styled personified guarantee against |e ew ae Be ta Ola me the influence of social reformism| Cate @gainst the | een and bourgeois liberalism upon our ae bunch” to “right wing trai- Party in the coming war presents gFA Z ‘ : himself in these articles as a miser-| Lenin very wisely advised us not able victim of these influences! | 0 take words at their face value, Busstion at: Lore. but to look for confirmation in deeds, At re. eal logie this “Marxian” dips his upturned thumb into a mess of dis- fishes up enough abstract) phrases to formulate out of them unifying influences upon his ideol-|tions on a par with the functions\as the master of the vineyard of | S2me time condemning the pro-Party . “prin- ~ Winslow of New automatically convict any member | This Leninist principle applied to the This Bolshevik as a representative | Opposition will disclose the whole Opposition and each of its leading. members individually as unprin- cipled and not in the least qualified to appear as the judge of Bolshevik quality, of the Party, but rather representing that section of the Party which in this third period of post-war capitalism, in this houy of |the Right danger and war danger. must be watched closely so that it may be prevented from repeating the disastrous opportunist Right wing reformist and outright anti- revolutionary acts of their past. 2 aa Bi Weer: = of the Central Executive Committee to a federation convention was -in- strumental in keeping the leadership of the then German language federa- tion of our Party in the hands of Lore, thereby facilitating for Lore the destruction of the German langu- ege section of the Party. 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