The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 6

rassmenatinis contin, Page Six Baily Sas Worker Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Telepho DAIWORK, 50 three months 0 three months Published by Sunday | | Revealing Weak Links In Our Parties. The consolidation of the Communist Parties under con- ditions of sharpening antagonism has revealed the weakest links in the various sections of the Comintern. The militant consolidation of our Parties on the general line of the Sixth World Congr meets with active re nce on the part of the right wingers who transmit demoralizing opportunist in- fluences into our ranks and enter upon the open path of secession. The struggle against the right wing disrupters is ham- pered by the fact that in some parties there is a conciliatory attitude to be observed in relation to the Right deviation and to the Right wing factionalists. This struggle against the Right deviation does not as- sume the same form in all parties. It is very necessary to analyze the struggle going on within all sections showing the general nature of that struggle and the concrete forms which it assumes. In Czecho-Slovakia, for instance, the struggle has within the last few weeks assumed the form of open revolt on the part of the opportunists. Our Czecho-Slovakian Party emerged out of a split within the social-democratic party of that country. The mass movement at the end of 1920 was the immediate pre-requisite for its formation. Since then, however, there have been no great class conflicts in Czecho- Slovakia that have tempered the ranks of our Communist Party in that country. Thus we see no sharp distinctions between the Communist Party and the Social-Democrats. Our Czecho-Slovakian Party has not quickly enough emancipated itself from its Social-Democratic ballast. The reformist elements that have been purged from the German, Italian and other parties, in the course of the strug- gle, have in Czecho-Slovakia remained in the ranks of the Party. These Right wingers had fulf control of the Red Trade Union apparatus up to the spring of 1925 by which means they had tremendous influence also on the entire Party ap- paratus. The efforts of the Communist International to Bolshevize the Czecho-Slovakian Party were only partially successful. The 1925 crisis caused by the fact that the most consistent Right wingers attempted to revise the general policy of the Comintern ended with the secession of a small group of opportunists. With the active assistance of the Com- intern certain changes were effected in the Party machinery and new cadres were put forward. However, no radical change had been effected. After 1925 the opportunists in the ranks of the Czecho- Slovakian Party and especially their major detachment, the leaders of the Red Unions, remained formally loyal to the line of the Comintern, hoping, however, that the partial stabili- zation of capitalism would eventually prove the correctness of their tactics. Simultaneously, the Bolshevization tactic con- solidated new elements in the Party who were less under the influence of Social-Democratic tradition. The accentuation of the class struggle which character- izes the third period, the period we are now in, could not but give rise to sharp antagonism between the tasks of the Party as the vanguard of the working class called upon to head the class war and the line of the Party which was in large measure determined by thé opportunist and conciliatory ele- ments who had charge of the Party. The Czecho-Slovakian problem was dealt with in great detail by a special commission at the Sixth World Congress. The general line of the Congress and the decisions of that Commission concerning the Czecho-Slovakian problem, among which v the slogan: “From opportunist passivity to Bolsh- evist activity,” became the center of subsequent discussion within the Party. The result of that discussion has convinc- ingly shown that the Party’s rank and file was quite ready to unite and rally to the line of the Comintern. It was a com- plete victory for the line of the Comintern. Neither the Right wingers (Heiss, Sikora and Co.), nor the conciliators headed by Ilek and Bolen, received a single vote at the recent Party congress. The congress signified the complete political and ideological bankruptcy not only of the Right wing leaders of the Red Unions, but also of the Ilek-Bolen conciliatory group which headed the Party up to the Congre: Having suffered ideological and political defeat the Right wingers chose the path of a factional split of the Red unions and the Party. Basing their hopes on the police and the bourgeois courts, they captured the apparatus, the property and treasury of the Red Unions. This open disruptive tactic has exposed Heiss and his followers as outright reformists who will stop at nothing in the struggle against the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions (Profintern) and the Comintern. The political slogans advanced by the disrupters in their dis- ruptive work resemble a good deal the “ideological” position advocated by Brandler and Thalheimer in Germany. The Neurath Trotskyist group, the leader of which has declared that he agrees with Bolen both on the trade union and the Party question, has taken the same path. The Trotskyist group of Czecho-Slovakia has thus once again shown that it is a genuine opportunist group which covers its opportunism by means of radical phraseology. Heiss’s banner of liquidation and disruption is becoming the banner of all decayed and opportunist elements in the Czecho-Slovakian Party. This manifestation is further evi- dence of the seriousness of the Right Danger, showing how close the Right wing opportunists are to the reformists and the conciliators to the opportunists. Developments in the Czecho-Slovakian Party have so shaped themselves that the liquidatory role of the reform- ists who have chosen the path of disruption of the revolu- tionary ranks of the labor movement has become very clear. The self-exposure of the Czecho-Slovakian Brandlerites be- comes even more evident than their self-exposure in Ger- many. Our American Party greets the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia and the Central Com- mittee elected by it, and the consistent and determined strug- gle waged in the Party for the complete liquidation of oppor- tunism and the overcoming of the conciliatory attitude to- wards opportunism, =) = = a em 4 wm | esl ei G2 cep) = = FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 By FEODOR GLADKON, | CEMEN Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. ¥. Gleb Chumalov, Communist and Red Army commander returns to find the village half in ruins. His wife, Dasha, who has become a self-reliant Party worker, greets him with reserve. The great cement factory has been looted of everything movable, and only the engine room, cared for by his old friend, Brynza, is shipshape and ready for work, At the factory committee room, time is spent in endless quarrel- ing resulting from the enforced idleness. Gleb speaks at a meeting of the committee, insisting, amid the derision of the workers, that the works can be started again. When he returns home at night, he finds the house deserted and dirty. Dasha returns after midnight, and he talks to her about the change in the house and in her. ee! 1GZ= sat up on the bed and in the eyes which had looked upon blood and death there flashed alarm. A devil of a woman! One had to treat her differently. “And Nurka? I suppose you’ve thrown her to the pigs too, with the flowers? That’s a pretty business!” “How stupid you are, Gleb!” She turned and moved away from the table as though she had be- | come unaware of him. Outside in the darkness an owl was crying in the valley—all alone | like a child. , . . And under the floor, hungry rats scampered amongst the earth and shavings. “Good. Nurka is in the Children’s Home. and bring her back here.” “All right,’ Gleb. I’ve nothing against it: you’re the father. But I’m up to my eyes in work. So you'll take care of the child, won’t you?” I shall go there tomorrow Rationalization in Eastern Ohio By BETTY GANNETT. (District Organizer, Y, W. ly are the miners i from dire nece: and te ut today these grow | jon of new saving machinery, and the in- tensification of speed-up methods, which will throw thousands of i out of the industry and swell ks of the unemployed. Conditions Deplarable. | Very few jobs are available i ern Ohio. Those coal operators who have opened up the min back only the most “trustworthy” miners; those who would not rebel at the extreme methods resorted to by the bosses to extract greater profits from the toil and sweat of the work- ers. The “lucky ones” slave away four or five days a week. Wages Slashed. A wage slashing campaign such as cannot be compared to any in the history of the mining industry is now taking place. The Jacksonville 2 ement whereby the miners re- ed $ a day does not exist anywhere. In most of the mines the day men do not average more than $4 or $4.50 a day. The loaders must v at a terrific speed to load suffi-} cient coal to average $5 a day. The trappers who always received a lower wage are today receiving three dollars a day and sometimes not even that. The miners working one and two days do not even make enough to ¢: the oil and gas for the rickety Ford which takes them |lowest paid _ Introduction of New Labor-Saving Devices, Speed-up, Throw Miners Out of Work. the streets unable to find employ-| ment. Those that succeed in getting has been introduced into all indus- | Union, a job in the mine are discriminated against and given in most cases the jobs and the most} dangerous. Young miners are em- ployed as trappers, snappers and mg machines which are already | drivers. The drivers must be in the barn at 6: The rationalization process which tries to a greater or less extent, is coming into the mines of Eastern Ohio. Gradually the coal operators are today inst: lling cutting and loaa- throwing out hundreds of miners ] millions of workers; and which has | already begun its campaign of at-| tack on the standard of living of the | working class. They will soon learn | that this “heaven” is Satan’s own, Miners Must be Organized. Only thru organization can: the miners fight against these deplorable ; conditions. The National Miners this organization which was | born in struggle and is today de- | fending the interests of the miners | must be built into a mass organiza- | tion. Because the situation in the mining territory is getting worse from day to day, the miners must 30 in the morning to/from the industry and which will) pe prepared and mobilized for the harness the mules and start to the | eventually do away with thousands. | coming struggles in the mining in- mines at 7 a.m. Formerly, under union conditions}a driver did not be- | gin work until 8 a. m. and quit at' Machinery will replace half the! 4:30 after which he did not have] to clean the mules. Today, starting | Not only that. is dawning The mechanigal mine in Eastern Ohio. miners now laboring under the sur- face of the earth, The mechanical | dustry. | The tremendously large number of miners that are today apathetic to organization must be | won into the fighting union of the miners. The Party and the League at 7 a, m, inside the mine, quitting mine is no longer a dream—it is in| should become the initiators in this at 5 p. m., the driver is compelled to clean the mules when he gets} through. Knowing that the discon- fact an actuality. In the No. 9 mine of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Coal Company at Fair- tent of the drivers would grow un-| point, long steel conveyors have been der these conditions, the boss slips| introduced which transport the coal the young miners a cigar or two) to the surface 50 per cent faster and during the week—and keeps things' at 50 per cent less labor cost. In running smoothly. | addition to that, in six months from The snappers are employed at one; now the company reports, a $150,000 of the most dangerous jobs in the; mechanical tipple, equipped with a mines, The snappers must cut off| mechanical cleaner will be the first | drive. Every young miner, every | adult miner a member of the union. the slogan. Youth Sections Established. The importance of establishing youth sections in the Miners Union | stands out today as one of the major tasks. With the introduction of the in the mining industry as in all rationalization process we will find! the cars as the motor is running at| a good rate of speed. Innumerable accidents have oceured to snappers | as a result of this. Motors running, the snappers must be unusually care- | ful to avoid slipping under the run-| ning motor. Reign of Terror. attachment to a machine that will highly rationalized industries a dis- mine 1,500 tons of coal with the aid | Placement of adult workers by youth of 45 men, whereas it took 300 men| /@bor. And unless Youth Sections to do it previousty. This will elimin- | are established which will be able to ate thousands of miners from the’in- | Utilize methods attractive to the| dustry. Therefore, bad as the con-| Youth, the influx of young miners ditions of the miners are today in| i™ the industry will act as a means “Won’t you have an affectionate word for her?” “Now, Gleb, give me my share of the bed. I’ve nothing under my head.” | “All right. | turn to speak.” “What do you think you're talking about, Gleb? ment or speaking tonight., Shut. up!” | Gleb rose from the bed and walked to the door. Again he felt the room was too small for him: the walls were closing in upon him and the floor creaked and shook under his feet. He looked at Dasha. Skilfully and quickly she unmade the bed and piled the bedding on her arm. Without glancing at him, she prepared for herself a flat and uninviting sleeping place in the corner. And it seemed to Gleb that, as she flung off her petticoat, she smiled sneeringly in his direction. Well, the question must be answered: did she love him like a woman, | as before, or had her love died and had she followed it into the past? If that’s how it is, let’s start an argument. It’s my There’s no argu- | He could not understand what was uppermost in her: a woman’s guile or hostile caution? An enigma: was she tempting him as a man, or was she snapping the last threads that bound them together? She had abandoned the fireside, left the home; and the warm frag- |rance of her woman’s flesh seemed to have faded together with snugness and the household tasks. Whom had she warmed and caressed with her body these past three years? A healthy and vigorous woman, mingling day and night with men in her work, could not live like a sterile flower, She had not hoarded for him her loving womanly tenderness; she had | dissipated it in chance encounters. Was not this the reason of her cold- |ness and aloofness? So thought Gleb, and his tortured soul shone in his |eyes with a bestial fury. “Yes, citizeness, it was so... . We parted weeping; and now we meet | again, without a word to say. For three years I used to think: ‘My wife Dasha ... who is here ... is expecting me, and so on....’ At last I get | back ... to this cursed place. It’s as if I had been married only in a dream. There were men, all right . . . but not I. Isn’t that true?” Dasha turned towards him in amazement and cold drops again glit- tered in her eyes. “And you—didn’t you have any women without me? Confess, Gleb, | I don’t know yet whether you’ve come back healthy or rotten with disease. Confess, now!” She continued to smile. She spoke carelessly, as of a tedious subject, And at these words of Dasha, Gleb shook with fury, and then slumped weakly upon himself. This carefully kept secret of his nights—Dasha knew it! She knew him so much better than he knew her. And because, without any closer contact, she could see right through him and wring out his strength as one wrings out a rag, he, the warrior, weakened and wavered, humiliated. Then he recovered, hardening his heart; he even smiled and gulped. “Well, then, so be it; I confess: there were occasions. The peasant j at the front carries death with him .. « But the women are different. A wife has a different lot, different cares.” Dasha had undressed but had not yet laid down. She was leaning against the wall. She was unashamed. Under her shift, gently rose and fell her rounded breasts. She looked askance at Gleb, measuring him sharply, with a pained and understanding gaze. She answered him casu- | ally. “That’s a nice thing: a woman has other cares! It’s an evil lot— the Eastern Ohio valley they are to| hampering the organization of to work, and certainly not enough| , 5 cabal : to pay the exorbitant fares charged! The capitalist clique which to- by the railway and bus companies, | Sether with the reactionary Lewis| ? machine wrecked the miners union heated by Bosses. are today again uniting in a vicious suffer from even greater privations.| the miners. The young miners must The coal operators who were deter-| be organizetl, and can be organized. mined to smash the miners union are| The young miners have proven by now doubly determined to cruelly ex-| their militancy in the last strike to be a slave, without a will of one’s own, always playing the second part. What kind of an ABC of Communism have you studied, Comrade Gleb?” But hardly had she spoken these words, than the blood rushed to Gleb’s head: his suspicions had not been idle. She /.. Dasha... his Not o have the loaders wages been r d from 58 cents to 4! cents ton of coal but the bosses use all sorts of clever schemes to cheat the min It is not unusuai for a coal miner to load a three ton ear of coal and b= told that he has only two tons and get paid for two. One of the miners reported that dur- | ing one week he was cheated out of |60 tons of coal by the company. |Since no checkweighmen are em- ployed the miners have no means by which to check up on this wholesale robbery and must submit or else be fired. Mines, Death Traps. Not only do these miserable condi- | tions prevail, but the precarious con- | ditions of the mines constantly en- dangers the life of the miner. In recent months explosions have taken place which have killed and maimed many miners. But no attention is paid to making the mines safe for the workers. Safety provisions re- quire that the coal operators post up signs where the rock is danger- ous, but no signs are posted up. In |many of the mines there is not enough air in the places where the loaders work and insufficient ventila- tion has been provided to prevent the accumulation of gas resuiting in plosions. The bosses are there- ‘ore directly responsible for the numerous accidents since these ex- _plosions, and accidents are all pre- | ventable. ’ | The state mine inspectors unite with the bosses in this butchery. The state mine inspectors are bribed by the bosses to pass up sections of the mines in bad conditions. As | soon as the bosses find out that an | inspector will visit the mine the | motor road is cleaned up, signs are | placed where the rock seems danger- ous and a superficial effort is made | to prepare the mine for the inspec- |tion. The inspector is met with a smile and some of Uncle Sam’s gold ‘and instead of visiting each room | walks thru one or two rooms rather [hastily and Q, K.'s the condition of | the mine, attack against all militant miners. Those miners and young miners who aggressively resisted the onslaught of the coal operators and the be-| trayal of Lewis and his henchmen | are today completely blacklisted. No militant miner who was in the fore- | front of the struggle to save the) union from the Lewis gang or who| participated in the formation of the National Miners Union is employed. Almost every day progressive | miners are fired from the jobs. The company has the most efficient spy system that ever existed in the in- dustry. “Loyal” Lewis men act as | unofficial spies for the company. All sorts of frame-ups are concocted against progressive miners. By €. | In almost every small mining town large numbers of young miners walk ploit the miners. Tremendous Migration. As a result of these conditions thousands of miners are migrating to industrial cities to seek employ. ment in factories. Almost daily large numbers of miners are leaving the valley for Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo and other industrial citie But they do not know that these industries which have as yet not gone thru a serious depression and therefore can still pay the workers relatively better wages have intro- duced the rationalization process which is sapping up the vitality, the life of the workers; making young men old and old men permanently disemployed; which throws out The Towers of Wall Street . E. They talk a hundred lingoes Down here where the workers’ houses Huddle together, stoop shoulders, Like a thousand men in the bread-line, Crouching together for solace, > Nearby the monolithic skyscraper Points a warning, despotic finger to the sky. “Keep in line there,” it says, “and don’t shove.” They talk a hundred lingoes, But they are catching on to one another, Getting on to what each one means, “The hell with the skyscraper,” they are saying. “The hell with the skyscraper.” | they can be the driving force in the | oganization of the mines. This huge task of organization falls largely upon the shoulders of the | Young Workers Communist League nits that have been established in | the mining section during the period | of the strike. They must concentrate | ‘on the formation of the youth sec- tions and winning over the young | miners for organization. Migrators Must Be Organized. Every effort must be made to get connection with those miners today | working in the industrial centers. | These militant miners who have gone thru a fierce struggle and have been educated in this struggle to know the role of the bosses, the govern- ment and its entire state apparatus, can become the backbone of the for- mation of Shop Committees in the large industrial plants in the cities. And not only for the formation of these economic organizations, shop committees which are the first step towards the establishment of unions, but these miners must be drawn directly into the ranks of our Party and League, Party and League Must Grow. The union will not grow, the youth sections will not be established, un- less the most militant, the most con- scious, the most devoted fighters in the cause of the miners are won into the Party and the League. Only thru strengthening every section of the revolutionary movement which leads the struggles of the working class, can we establish a strong economic organization of the miners. Any vestiges of the tendency to first build the union and then build our Party that may still exist among our comrades must be seriously com- batted and completely eradicted so that these obstructions to the estab- lishment of a mass Party and League in the mining section will he removed, The possibilities of build- ing our Party and League are great, and every means should be utilized to win into our organization those miners who under the leadership of the Party fought one of the most hitorsic battles in’ the labor move- ment, ron wife. . . : Somebody’s nights had been intoxicated with her; and her own blood had become drunken through the intoxicated blood of another. With a heavy determined step he approached her. With a dark look, with the look of a beast, he looked into her face, which was smiling broadly and mockingly. “Well, then, it means—words or no words—that it’s the truth? Eh?” A hot shudder burst from his heart, tearing at all the muscles of his body. She—his wife—Dasha. ... Outside there was an oppressive silence, stars, crickets, and night bells. Over there, beyond the factory, lay the sea in a phosphorescent shimmer, The sea sang in an electric undertone, and it seemed as though this deep reverberation did not come from the sea, but from the air, the mountains*and the smoke-stacks of the works. “Well, then, tell me, with whom were youwecarrying on? it you squeezed in your arms at night?” “I’m not asking you about your women when you were at the front, Gleb. Why are you concerned about my lovers? Come to your senses.” “Now, remember, Dasha. I’m going to find out about this. I'll find out your secrets. Bear that in mind.” She stepped forward, the whites of her eyes were shining. “Don’t stare at me, Gleb, I can frown just as hard as you can Stay where you are, and don’t show off your strength.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Who was ” Dirge to “Socialists By SAMUEL A. PERZNER. Railing and raving may Satiate “parlor pinks” in Their “noble” efforts to Save the world from the Ogres of Accumulation, But it is the tough-handed Scythe which cuts away At the noxious rottenness Of the roots of capitalism. Men who don the hat of Intellectuality and doff the Sweat-banded cap of labor Surround themselves with weak Justification for breathing; For nothing can negate The grandness of solidarity; Nothing can replace the Nobility of uncompromise and