The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, U. S. Marines Never ‘ASKS AMERICAN SUPERVISION OF ALL ELECTIONS Statement Is Aimed at Great Britain WASHINGTON, D, C., April 7.— ‘Action to consolidate Nicaragua in- to a permanent satrap of the United States government was taken when it was announced that President Moncada will again “request” the United States to supervise all elec- | tions in that country. | This means | that the marines are never to leave Nicaragua. | The announcement was made by | no less a person that Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, former liberal candidate for Nicaraguan president, whose chances | were ended when Col. Stimson, now | secretary of state, bought peace from Moncada with the bait of the presidency. Sacasa himself has since been bought with the Nicara- guan ministry to Washington. Moncada has made this “request” before, but Secretary of State Kel- logg, with the onus of the Nicara- guan invasion lying on the Coolidge administration, did not care to com- mit himself. U. S. to Control May Elections. Now Stimson, the man who bought Moncada at Tipitapa, is secretary of state and it is believed the time has come to report the formality of asking for U. S. supervision. Of course, the American marines have no intention of withdrawing from Nicaragua in any case. The request, however, will cover the United Statea supervision’ of the forthcoming elections in May, when a number of senators and represen- tatives are to be “elected.” In this case “elected” means that, under the rifles and machine guns of | American marines, the part of the electorate which is permitted to vote will register the will of the American state department. Similar elections will be held again in the autumn, when the ma- rines will again “supervise.” Princeton Prof. as Chairman. Prof. Harold W. Dodds, of Prince- ton, author of the 1924 election law, who was associated with General Frank R. McCoy in “supervising” the last election, is mentioned as permanent chairman should the new formality be gone through with. Sacasa has also announced that President Moncada is taking the strictest economic measures “so as to be able to obtain an exact idea of the possibilities of the country” before he asks for another loan. We must Jet the buyers know what they are buying. fs * * Great Britain Beware. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 7. —European interference in Latin America can-be avoided and the Monroe Doctrine upheld” if the United States controls the Latin American republics, President Mon- cada, American agent in Nicaragua, announced today. Moncada stated that, of course, the marines individually suffer death and privation, but that “the United States must endure any- thing to vindicate the Monroe Doc-|and every shortcoming and failure. I| there has been a slight increase in| anq ersential p-oduct—Xarl Mars | trine.” ‘crease to Leave Nicaragua to Zam Outlines Many Important Tasks of the Young Workers Communist League QF BRITISH RR, OPPOSITION IN | Wages, Says TUEL; Urges (Editorial Note:—This is the fifth installment of the report of Herbert Zam, executive secretary of the Young W : uist League, at the Party Conyen- tion. . Comrades, I said before that we have not completely made the turn, we have not completely reorientated ae jthe League and its activities toward the new course. And to the degree that we were hindered in completing this turn, to that degree did we fail to overcome the shortcomings of the League which are important, which are basic, and which must be overcome, which will be overcome we are confident, if we follow this new road. \ Basic Shortcomings. The League is still a very small organization, in spite of the big in- in membership. Comrades this is big only in percentage; it isn’t so big in actual figures. Our League is still a small organization, still much isolated from the masses of the young workers, and does not respond sufficiently to their needs, and struggles. As a result, we have a bad social composition. I will give you the figures later. But our League has one of the worst social compositions of any League in the CYI. There may be historic reasons for that, but the fact remains that this poor social composition hinders the development of the League and reorientation forward and participa- tion in mass struggles, Poor Composition. Largely because of poor social composition, we have not succeeded in mobilizing the entire League in the struggles in which we have en- tered, as, for example, the miners’ struggle. There still exist pacifism and an under-estimation of the war danger thruout the ranks of the League. We have practically no shop nuclei, comrades, in a country hav- ing the largest factories in the world, factories with thousands of young workers. It is a sad fact to come here and admit that we have) practically no shop nuclei, and un- less we succeed in overcoming this, we shall actually not sink our rots into the masses of young workers in industry and participate in their struggles. Negro Work. In the field of Negro work, we have been very negligent. Tirst, we have not understood the question. We have underestimated the im- portance of the work. We did not levote the necessary attention to it, and we did not assign the necessary forces to this work. And finally, comrades, one of our hortcomings has been that we have iad no contact with and have given 1o assistance to the revolutionary youth movements in the colonics, in Latin America, in the Philippines, where those youth movements play lgeneral picture of the situation and I believe that the examples chosen have given you such a picture. What can we say about the general situa- tion? That the general line has |been for improvement in the p of the League and in its activities. We have corrected serious shortcom- ings in our work. We have made general progress as an organization. But most of the basic shortcomings with which our League was born, which it has carried thruout its life, still hinder it at the present time and prevent its development. And we must set our face sternly and un- compromisingly in the direction of | the liquidation of these shortcomings in order that the League may really develop as a mass Communist Youth League, as a real leader of the young workers in all their strug- gles. | Some Figures on League. Comrades, just a few facts deal- ing with the actual status of the League, which I believe the Party comrades should have, because it is seldom that Party comrades know precisely what is what in the League. At the beginning of Decem-|*” |ber a registration of the member- ship showed a little over 3,400 mem- bers. This was an incre: since the last 1927, when we had 1,900 members, jot 80 per cent. In March 1926, | we had a little more than a thousand members. Consequently we find that in the period from March 1926 to December 1928 about two and a half years, the League has increased its membership by about 25 per nt. Comrades, not all of our mem- bers are in good standing. But the good standing membership for the entire year of 1928 averages about 2000, as against 700 in 1927, and 500 in 1926, Therefore, comrades, we say that there has been an ac- tual increase in the membership of the League, not only in the member- ship on the books, but in the number attending meetings, in the number paying dues, and in the number actu- ally drawn into the work of our or- | ganization. Social Composition. | Insofar as the social composition is concerned, the figures today, in | December 1928, are as follows: in- dustrial worke working in fac- tories, mines, mills and railways, 44 per cent; clerical workers 10 per cent; students 37 per cent; farmers |8 per cent, and domestic service 5 | per cent. | You see, therefore, a large per- centage of students in the League. | While some of these students belong in a special categor for example the students in district 9, superior district, which the delegation from that district understands; neverthe- less this indicates a very serious) {situation for the League, witha very large kernel of non-proletarian elements, or at least, elements not ion | Convention in November, | | The general process has been what? Up to the beginning of 1928 we had a de-proletarianization pro- cess in the League. We did not see it. We did not take any measures to prevent it. At the February plen- jum 1928 we first observed the seri- ousness of this phenomena and took measures against it. say now, the de-proletarianization process has stopped.. The percent- |age of students in the League has dropped, but the increase in the per- centage of industrial workers has not been appreciable, that has been about at a standstill. | Proletarianization. Consequently the task of the pro- letarianization of our League still remains as the basic problem inso- far as the social composition of the League is concerned. However, com- rades, one factor is noticeable, and that is, that the absolute number of workers has grown from 1048 in February 1928 to 1475 in December. And, still more important, the pro- portion of our membership, of those workers working in large factories d in basic industries, has increased, The only figures we have are for June and December. In June, 41 per cent of our industrial member- ship worked in large factories (over 500 workers). In December, 43 per cent. In June, 7 per cent worked in medium factories, that is factories with between two to five hundred workers, while in December, 18 per cent of our membership worked in medium sized factories. In June, |51 per cent worked in small fac- | tories, 200 workers, in December this had fallen to 39 per cent. “Therefore, there has been an im- provement, insofar as the propor- tion of our members in basic indus- tries has increased due largely to the influx of members into the League in connection with the min- ing campaign and with the textile work. Comrades, we must note, how- ever, and it is regrettable that a good many of the workers we got into the League. during these cam- paigns are no longer in the League at the present time, a large factor being the factional situation in the League which resulted in driving out some of the best proletarian | elements. | (To Be Continued.) ‘Body of Militarist | Envoy, Herrick, at Sea | BREST, France, April 7—Almost 12 years since the entry of the | United States into the world war, the body of Myron T. Herrick, im- perialist and United States ambas- sador to France, was taken back to America today. The body of the ambassador, who Therefore we} in factories with less than)‘: APRIL 654 UNION MILITANT Purkis Beats Fakers in Ballot | LONDON, England, April 7——A special meeting of the Clearing House Branch, No. 1, was convened by the executive of th Railway Clerks’ Association to ex plain expelling Stewart Purkis, a Communist, from |the union on account of his activ- ities in connection with the Com- munist paper for clearing house clerks, “The Jogger”. tion expulsion Purkis was defeated 92 to 73. | Purkis has been a member of his | branch committee for many years and has also been secretary of the [eocmiaa council, delegate to the | divisional council, and a member of jevery staff deputation from h branch to the local authorities. He has been chosen to represent his branch at the annual conference of the Railway Clerks’ Association in May. | I. H. Gill, president of the associ- ation, and A. G. Walkden, secretary end a member of the general ccun- jee of the Trade Union Congress stated the case for the executive. Gill opened the proceedings by an- |nouncing that the Railway Clerks’ Association was not a revolutionary anization. Purkis and those as- ciated with him were attempting |to dictate a revolutionary theory to |the members—the issue was revolu- |tion or constitutionalism. Walkden said he had no personal quarrel with Purkis and proceeded to quote various comments upon him- Railway their action in endorsing the of self which had appeared in the | “Jogger | This paper has constantly at- |tacked his acceptance of a 250 pound raise, bringing his salary up to 1,- 500 peunds a year ($10,500). Purkis and his friends were at- |tempting; to expel those who had |done most to build up the union (loud laughter)—he was an avowed Com- munist who took his orders from Mosccw (more laughter). | Purkis said that while as a Com- |munist, he objected to the size of ‘the general secretary’s salary, his main objection was to the fact that Walkéen had accepted this raise at |a time when members of the union | were being victimized or inadequate- ly compensated because of their | participation in the General Strike. He had attacked the present lead- Jership of the union because it was |destroying unity and the belief of the workers in the strike as a | weapon, 929 SESS HALT EXPULSION DAWES ‘BUYING’ |-paity The resolu- |" an important role, a more important role than in the advanced capitslist countries like the United States. | And one of our big tasks will be to|the League has dropped. promote and to strengthen the youth /ary 1928 it was 37 per cent. There- movements in the American colonies | fore we have had an absolute drop and semi-colonies. |of 5 per cent. The percentage of} Comrades, I shall not go into de-| workers in the League in February | tail to enumerate every achievement |1928 was 43 per cent. Therefore, | actually engaged in industry. How- ever, the percentage of students in In Febru- want to give you more or less of a!the percentage of industrial workers. ! |Tourville to sea, died last Sunday, was placed aboard| ‘Toward the end of the meeting it the crack French destroyer Tour-|was suggested by the branch chair- wile, | , man who was supported by the A drizzling rain was falling. | president, that if Purkis would give Three destroyers accompanied the | yp contributing to such papers as the “Jogger,” Workers Life, The eeclatenel PELEp Asan Worker, The Communist Review and | e other classes decay and finally | disappear in the face of modern in- eS HE Shun Aus AS te Ess would be reconsidered. dustry; the proletariat fs its special 3 ° | Purkis replied that the suggestion (Communist Manifesto). | was unthinkable for a vital struggle THE Trouble is brewing in the N— regiment and Andronnikov, a | member of the Party Committee, is summoned to speak to the sol- diers as a representative of the Party. His. friend, Bertenyev, a member of the Cheka, goes along with him, When they enter the meeting room, Reznikov, the | Commissar of the regiment, is seeking ineffectually to pacify the soldiers with rhetorical phrases. The soldiers interrupt him with demands for food and clothing. Andronnikov is then given the flcor. He speaks in: a straight- forward manner, admitting that there are no supplies, but point- ing out the folly of their discon- | tent. He himself has eaten noth- ing for two days. “ *# 8 | (Conclusion. | Rae and Reznikov sat at the back of the stage. Bert-’ enyev’s weakness for observing hu- \, man stupidity amounted to a sadist “delight, especially when he beheld stupidity prominent and uncovered 7 —not merely stupidity, but sheer , imbecility. He, therefore, watched Reznikov greedily, awaiting an op-| portunity to jump at his stupidity | with some remark or question. “What do you think?” he at last asked of Reznikov, “what will be _ the outcome of this affair?” And ' he pointed to the knobbed field of | soldiers’ heads. “The devil knows. { “we must watch out.” “And I think all this is. piffle.” “Most likely. The devil knows. Maybe it is piffle.” | Bertenyev bit his lip slightly, and | dimples of laughter trembled on his | left cheek. Meanwhile, Andronnikov was de- picting before the now completely quiet audience the condition of eco- nomic hopelessness that would con-| At all events, A STORY of CIVIL WARS in the USSR. SOLDIERS tinue until the attacks upon Soviet! thin, yellow cigarettes. Russia ceased, and until the Red} “Oh, yes, you're right.” Soldiers, instead of clamoring,| Reznikov produced his note-book would give unanimous, unqualified | and began: support. “Taking into consideration. .. .’ “We, the Bolsheviks, are Commun-| And he fell to thinking. ists, and we always rely upon the] “Not like this,—that’s hackneyed,” masses. Let the masses decide what’s | whispered Bertenyev, his face glow- to be done. If a different govern-;ing with a fiendish smile. And a ment is required, come forward and| dimple appeared on his left cheek. speak openly: ‘Down with Soviet | “Write differently: ‘Having listened rulel’” to the report of the Military Com- And he halted. The soldiers’ heads | missar, Comrade Reznikov,’ this is swayed as if in a gust of wind, and absolutely necessary; that’s how the bearded faces became darker | you'll at least see your name on the | than clouds... + last page of Pravda, tomorrow.” “We're not talking about govern-| “Very well; but then we'll say:| ment, but about boots,” .. . rumbled | ‘Having listened to the report of the the soldiers. | Military Commissar Comrade Rezin- | “We're not against the Soviet|kov, and the suppl+mentary report rule.” | of Comrade Andronnikov, we...” Sure,—we want the Soviet power.) “Your handwriting is bad,” re- . ++ What do we want the bourzhuis | marked Bertenycv. for? We've had enough... .” and you just dictate to me.” “And if you want the Soviet rule,’ And in his classically calm, beau- Andronnikov caught them up, “then | tiful handwriting, Bertenyev began you must support it, you must lay|io string letter after letter, li | down your lives for it, and not) bead upon bead in an old-Russian clamor against it... .” necklace. And again he continued to heap reproackes upon them. | * * | |NO SOONER had Bertenyev and) ee, Sn | than Andronnikov ended in his ring- NDRONNIKOV fitted into thé!ing voice, inspiring energy and as- frame of his simple words all the | surance in the soldiers’ hearts: discontent of the soldier-masses,| “Long live the Soviet rule! Death took this discontent, raised it be-|to Kolchak, and the Social-Revolu-| fore their eyes, showed it to all,|tionists, and to .all traitors and united them all, and having united Nd t , I speculators! them, like a skillful pilot he turned) A tall, swarthy, unkempt soldier, this discontent in the other direc- with long arms swinging like two tion, against the enemies of the} hairy paws, jumped out on the stage Revolution. He proved that the so-! and yelled like a trumpet of Jericho: | lution of all the hard questions lay) “Down with the counter-revolu- | in the victorious end of the civil! tion and the generals!” war, “Down with them! Hurrah!” bel- Reznikov had argued, while And- lowed the Red soldiers, and the ronnikov directed. sound was like the breaking of | “Hurry up; write a resolution,”| stones in the mountains, | Bertenyey nudged Reznikov in the} ‘“Comrades’—the chairman with | ribs, at the same time opening be-| the effeminate face and the hairy | fore him a cigarette-case containing | mole on his chin began to speak— By A. AROSEV “Let me write, |. Reznikov finished the resolution, |) |lay ahead, and these papers were the life blood of the working class. | International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 Waiting “Comrades, the Military Commissar, Comrade Reznikov, will now read} the resolution in the name of the | meeting:” Reznikov read it. “Who is for it?” raised hands. “Who is agaiast?”—No one. “Are there any who have re- frained from voting?” Someone in the rear rows raised his hand, but A forest of seeing that he was alone, quickly | for the drew it back into the thick of the|f] ‘BUILD THE UNION’ bata BAZAAR “Accepted unanimously,” conclud- | ed the chairman. | NN THAT day Andronnikov arrived | late for the conference at the White Hall. Where he will clothe himself from head to feot at half price and at the same time help build the Union — — —~— — STAR CASINO April 18, 19, 20 & 21 | | * The gereral headquarters of the Cheka. NOW PLAYING! PHILADELPHIA THEATRES || ACTUAL! The Most Astounding Artic Picture Ever Filmed! 66 The Sensational Polar Drama Which Shook the World! 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It is probable that he will take a lead- ing part in following out in- structions of the American imper- ialists when the commissioners them- | elves have left the island. | The opposition press has been taught its line and the tacks on the commission, which ap peared the day preceding its ar {rival, have been completely dropped | and, in some cases, declared ground- | less. Dawes had a talk with news- | papermen here recently and told | them what they were to say. Meanwhile all the government | financial records, books and tax lists | have been turned over to the Amer- | ican commissioners, so that after | being on shore three days the en-} tire financial system of the coun-| try is virtually in their hands. | Several of the commissioners are| traveling through the island, look- ing over the various local councils | and their finances. 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