The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1929, Page 2

_ that wanted to have a look at me while I was producing. DAILY Ww ORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY iu, 1929 Al Statement of National Executive C cnt USA on Suspension ot Rubenstein and Silvis ‘rom NEC Buro ELECTRIC CHAIR SANDINO BFAD ‘Many ‘City Conferences Start Tag Days (Continued from Page One) accept the political responsibility for what the rty and League.” openly that we cannot Address will do in our F On May 20th these con bers of\ the NEC Bureau to ades voted unanimously with other mem- “condemn the opposition on the part of Comrades Lovestone and Gitlow to the Address and decisions of the Comintern and to call upon all League and Party members to fight against this position,” also endorsing the cable from the YCI which called for a merciless fight aginst Lovestone’s and Gitlow’s splitting policy. Today, in the face of categoric instructions from the Comintern that “all former adherents of Loyestone publicly disassociate them- selves from him,” these comrades write in their statement: “The ex- pulsion of Comrade Loyestone is not justified on either political or technical grounds,” adding that he “was the single outstanding leader of our Party until the eve of his expulsion. In their attempt to open up a new factional struggle in the League, these comrades have presented a new opposition thesis in the form of a statement to the } Bureau. By bringing in this document signed by four comrades—Rubenstein, Silvis, Lurye and Welsh—they show very clearly that they are presenting a new caucus document and that this new Loyestone caucus within the League has already been organized at the top. This new group which the comrades wish to organize is, however, very different from the old unprincipled: factional groupings of the past. It is a group definitely in opposition to the line of the Party and of the Comintern. What is the pl. ward in their th form of this anti-Comintern opposition as put for- 1—The comrades agreement with the membership. register their fundamental political dis- Address of the ECCI to the American Party state: On a number of important political questions (the character of American imperialism and its relations to world imperialism; the relation and mutual relations of inner and outer contradictions in the present period, etc., etc.) the line of the Address represents a inct revision of the line of the Sixth World Congress.” In this way these comrades follow the line of Lovestone and the International Right Wing by struggling against the line of the VI World Congress under the slogan that the Comintern is trying to revise its own line. In reality these comrades still cling to their theory of exceptionalism and refuse ta accept the criticism of the address which points out the failure of the American Party to correctly interpret the decisions of the VI Congress. 2. The comrades still continue to employ the methods of petty- bourgeois politiciandom so sharply criticized in the Address. This is evidenced not only in the methods of slander employed in their statement but in their whole attitude to the Address and to the Comintern which their statement and verbal speeches express. Such formulations as “The Address, far from helping us to unify our Party and League and to enable us to give leadership to the struggles of the workers, has resulted in the disintegration of the Party cadres and in the rapid demoralization of the Party ranks,” are comparable with the slanderous statement of May 14th in Moscow, which sets up the Comin- tern as some outside agent trying to destroy the Party. strain they state “The logic of the Address is to pass the leadership of the Party to the minority,” etc.—a slander reminiscent of the fac- tional period and proven so false by the Address and various actions of the Comintern which show it is out to smash all factions in the Ameri- can Party. 3. The comrades make factional capital out of the difficulties confronting the League and Party, painting a pessimistic picture for the United States in line with their theories of the degeneration of the Comintern, ete. They make factional issues of such serious problems as the bad financial situation inherited from the period of irresponsible faction- alism. They make an issue of the small income of the National Office since the Convention, lack of dues payments from the districts, etc. The sending of Secretariat members to the Southinto a struggle situa- tion becomes “haphazard” methods. These comrades even raise the ery of “failure to issue The Daily Worker, for the first time in its history, and the occurrence of this suspension on the second day of the Furriers’ Strike, the subsequent reduction of the paper to four “We want to make clear our disagreement with the | In the same | pages at a time when important struggles are taking place,” ete. These | comrades deal in the same destructive way with such serious problems as the situation of the Miners’ Union, the Gastonia Campaign, the Furriers’ Strike and the TUEL Convention. They show their lack of revolutionary faith in the proletarian mem- bers of our League and Party and in the class-conscious workers gen- erally when they speak of the “disintegration of whole sections of the League in many of the most important sections of the country,”-and when in verbal speeches they express opinions to the effect that the future is very dark for the League and Party. The theories in regard to the degeneration of the leadership of the Russian Party and the Comintern is very closely linked to their theories as to the break of the American Party. When comrades can state before a lower body of the League: “I have faith in the forces that made the Russian Revolu- tion. Ih faith in the forces that build the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And these forces which made the Revolution and built the CPSU will change the present internal regime in the Russian Party and in the, Comintern”’—the League members should take this as a warning where the anti-Comintern line of these comrades must lead if they do not correct their present position. Such a formulation has all the elements of the counter-revolutionary slogans of Trotsky and other renegades. 4. The comrades put forward a petty-bourgeois conception of democracy for the League and Party. ‘Sugar Barons | The author, after many pe: to Santo Domingo. He arrives in the town of Monte-Cristo and in the market place makes the acquaintance of a young Haitian girl who is selling fruit and eggs. She puts him ap and feeds him for over a week, after which he leaves for the town of Santiago De Los Caballcros. ecutions and sufferings in Haiti, comes * * * By JACQUES DICHARSON For three nights in Santiago I slept in the back room of a Chinese. | restaurant. gain the confidence of the owner, an old man from Shanghai, gave me rice twice a day. Of course I had been to the American consul. He had told me that he felt sure he could not do anything for me. That I wasn’t a seaman any longer as I was not in a sea port. That I had been too long in Haiti anyway. That it was for the consul in Port au Prince to help me, not for him, as I wasn’t under his jurisdiction. I told him that I was living on the bounty of the old Chinaman, owner of the restaurant, that he could not continue feeding me and that he has quite a bunch of his own countrymen to help. He replied that this was not his busi- ness and ‘that it would teach me a good lesson not to jump ships any- more in the future. He called the policeman outside and told him that the interview was over. I left. 1 was planning # have my rights recognized. For why had La Follette passed the Seamen’s Act if it was to be flagrantly denied this way? I realize I was naive to expect any benefit for work- ers from capitalist laws. But what could I do? Lucky if they did-not pick me up and throw me in some foul dungeon. The few words of Chinese that I knew had helped me He * * * YY dumb luck I obtained a job Washing dishes in a second rate native restaurant. I was quite an attraction. The natives of Santiago had never seen an Americano wshing wishes before. I figured on ask- ing the boss for a raise in salary. The place was crowded with people But I never got the chance—I got fired! ... An old stool-pigeon used to come there daily to have his rice and beans. He started to tell me how great his country really was, and how good some of the Americanos really were. “They are giving a lot of for the exploiting of farms and colonies,” he said. He himeclf in a much better condition financially than he ever had been all his fe; he was growing fat, the old skunk, I answered that if Wall Strect giving out money to any individuals or concerns, it was because y felt. sure that one way or the other they would recuperate that a thousand fold, They never gave anything for nothing. That They reject the correct concept of League and Party democracy as proletarian democr: sed upon the interests of the class and bound up with firm prole' discipline. When comrades who not only fail to understand but actively fight the CI line are removed from leading posts they raise the cry of “terror” and “head-chopping,” and the re- fusal to reopen the discussion as to the correct line for the Party (i.e., to hear “both sides,” Lovestone and the Comintern) after the final decision has been rendered by the highest body, becomes “no inner Party democracy. And the Enlightenment Campaign suddenly becomes a “darkening can ign” because it is not made a pre-Convention dis- cussion. These comrades even quote the American Mercury in an at- tempt to compare the necessary Party discipline with the dogmatism of the capitalist church. ri Today, when the struggles of the workers arc growing on every hand (New Orleans, Gastonia, Elizabethton, Detroit, Oakland, etc.), and the preparations for imminent wars bear down more and more upon the workers, our League and Party are faced with tremendous tasks. The YCI*and our own 5th Convention already pointed out that the League, like the Party, is far from prepared to fulfill its obligations in the growing workers’ struggles. tional struggle has led to an irresponsible neglect of some of the most clementary tasks confronting the movement and to a serious weaken- ing of our apparatus. Already the proletarian members of the League are uniting their efforts to repair all those parts of our movement which have been damaged. They are doing this by means of relentless self-criticism. They are doing this by removing the greatest obstacle in the way of the League’s growth—factionalism. ‘With the help of the Comintern and the YCI, by concretely applying the directives of the Open Letter and the Address and our 5th National Convention, by a sharpened struggle against the new Right opposition, we will take big strides forward to transforming the Party from a small propaganda organization to a mass political Party of the American working class. The proletarian elements in the League and Party will see that this is accomplished and that the League and~ Party are strengthened to measure up to their growing tasks. The splitting tac- tics of Lovestone, the factional course of Rubenstein, Silvis and others, the open Right wing line of this anti-Comintern opposition in the Party and League, will not be allowed to delay the Party in its march along this new course. The pessimistic talk of these comrades about the collapse of the Party and League, their attempts to make factional capital of the prob- lems confronting the movement, and, finally, their attempts to obscure the line of the Party for the present period, will not hinder our march forward but only add temporarily to our difficulties exposing at the same time the anti-Party character of this new opposition. The best guarantee for quickly liquidating this difficulty presented to us in the form of the new anti-Comintern opposition is a sharpened | struggle against the Right danger. This struggle must be combined with an energetic fight against all conciliatory tendencies which cloak and in every way aid the open Right opposition. This struggle must be conducted sharply and decisively so that this group will be rapidly exposed politically before it has any chance to hold us back from play- ing our full role in ‘he growing class struggles of this period. The League which made its line that of the CI at its 5th National Convention is already playing a leading role in the struggle for the Comintern line and is showing the solid basis of its unity by its unanim- cus condemnation of Lovestone and his few followers in the League. The League will follow the directives of the YCI and its own 5th Na- tional Convention by proving itself ‘tone of the best interpreters of the policy of the Comintern on the American question.” We will mobilize the entire League to prove our acceptance and understanding of the CI Address in the field of everyday activity. We must immediately activize and stabilize each unit, improve the social composition ef the League, further proletarianize the League’s leader- ship from top to bottom and finally stamp out all remnants of faction- alism that we will be in a position to better carry out our mass tasks. The League must react more quickly to the growing struggles of the workers and be the leader of the working youth in the ever-more numerous strikes. In our struggle against the war danger we must carry on more systematic anti-militarist work, especially in the regular forces, and connect up cur struggle against the war danger more con- cretely with the struggle against the effect of capitalist rationalization on the young workers. We must struggle more energetically against pacifist illusions in the League and among the young workers, especially against the under-estimation of the war danger by our League mem- bers. We must broaden and concretize our anti-imperialist activities. We must finally make a beginning in work among the masses of Negro youth and carry on a bitter struggle against white chauvinism in the League. We must sharpen our struggle against the influence of re- formist ideology and organizations upon the young workers by means of a sharpened struggle against the A. F. of L. misleaders, the Socialist Party and the so-called progressives of the Muste group who do their best to stifle the militancy and prevent the organization of the young workers. The League must immediately take up the major campaigns con- fronting it which have already been outlined in 3 months plan of work. Every League member must be on,the job in the defense of the framed- up Gastonia strikers; every League member must be an organizer of the young workers for the TUEL Convention; every League member must mobilize the working youth for a tremendous demonstration against the war danger and capitalist rationalization on Red Day, August Ist; every League member must help prepare a broad LSU Convention and Meet August 21st. Sharpen the struggle against capitalist rationalization and war! FORWARD TO A MASS YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE IN THE UNITED TES! | NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. | if some i juals were living better now than before it was because they were living at the expense of the poor workers. They were against the masses. Vampires. ... * * * UT, amigo,” he said. “You're an Americano, aren’t you? Surely you understand. I am an educated person and cannot place myself | on the same plane with the bare-footed masses.” | “You can’t? Why can’t you? Look at me. I come from a French bourgeois family, had a fair education. But the ideas and thoughts that were inculeated in me when I was too young to protect myself are obliterated from my mind. See what I am doing at present. I am wash- ‘ng the very dishes that those bare-footed people eat out of.” “$i, Si. But maybe you are doing this because you are hungry and have nothing else to do. Let us suppose for instance that tomorrow you were to receive thru some means or the other a large sum of money, let us say, fifty thousands of your beautiful American dollars. What would you do then, I ask you? “Altho from your point of view I might seem fanatical, I would continue fighting for the under-dogs the same as before. Of course I would buy the necessary clothing that I am sadly in need of, but I would be just as militant as ever, “So you are a Bolshevik, hey? You believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat? Well... Well... Joven amigo, you are a fool. BAt do not try to speak Bolshevism to the people here as you're liable to never see your Red friends again, if you do.” He finished, brushing an imaginary speck of dust from his spotless white coat. + 6 6 A LITTLE while after he called the proprietor and took him in one of the corners. When he left I was without a job, As I had been working for forty cents per day I did not have much left over after I had paid the flop-house that had procured me with shelter. After I paid the ticket on the bus to the capitol I had a dollar left. That night we entered the city after eleven o’clock, . I walked around looking for a cheap hotel. There was quite a con- trast between the Capitol and Port au Prince. Here at last the majority of the people were wearing shoes, though some of them seemed perhaps a trifle too hungry. In most of the cafes you could hear guitars and see the wealthier Dominicans dance Bonje with the apparently plentiful harlots. At Last I found a place that charged me twenty cents for a bed in a room occupied by a dozen apparently unemployed workers. It was a drab and dirty place. A pig-sty. As I left the next morning I met a fellow American. He had been all over the tropics, He was an old timer living on his wits. He told me that if I wanted to get a joh the best thing I could do was to go over to San Pedro de Macoris, The principal offices of practically all the sugar refineries in Santo Domingo were located there, he said. I took his advice and went to barter with a chauffeur who wanted | seventy-five cents, I paid him all I had—Fifty-five, etre (To Be Continued) Ry Six long years of destructive fac- “ STOP MARCH TO BY DEFENSE WEEK Workers Prepare for Gastonia Meetings (Continued from Page One) the workers from the chair,” he said. Mass demonstrations, house to house collections, tag days, appeals to the shops, appeals to all sections | of the working class, and not onl collections but memberships must be emphasized during that week. “The young workers must come to our resuce . .. the mill barons are now trying to frame some of us to the electric chair as they have done to Sacco and Vanzetti.” These were two statements in a letter received today by the’l L. D. at 80 E. 11th St, from ninc mem bers of the Youth Section of the | National Textile Workers Union at Gastonia who face the electric chair or long terms of prison. They are Russell Knight, Joseph | | Harrison, Louis McLaughlin, K. 0. | Byers, Walter Lloyd, Sophie Mel- |vin, Clarence Townsend and George Carter. Demonstrations in France. | While this telegram s_ being yead in the national office of the | I. L. D., word was received from the International Labor Defense of France that mass demonstrations were planned in Paris and the prov- inces. | Such demonstrations, similar to | the powerful ones during the Sacco- | Vanzetti days, have already beer | held in Cologne and in Switzerland. |“We are impressed by the gravity of the situation at Gastonia. We will continue our agitation to help |them,” the well-known French law- yer, Robert Foissen, of Paris, wrote. A number of mass demonstrations have been held in Europe already, and the American workers are be- ginning to follow suit. workers protested through the {streets in a mass demonstration that impressed thousands of resi- dents. ce Vacationing Workers Help. | KERHONKSON, N. Y., July 10.— A group of workers on vacation at | Harris and Lifshitz Farm Hotel here | | have sent in $26 to the national of- fice of the Workers International | Relief, 1 Union Square, New York City. for the relief of the Gastonia textile strikers. |Colony, held at Mohegen, N. Y., |$405 was contributed to the relief \of the Gastonia strikers after they | | were addressed by Bertha Craw- | ford, chairman of the W. I. R. com- Wtias of Gastonia, and Jeannette |D. Pearl, field organizer of the W. i R. They are arranging a camp- ¢ festival which will be held July fir 21-to raise more funds. Baltimore | At a meeting of the Mohegen | MESSAGE OF AT BANQUET 4 U,.8. Delegates Off for World Congress The United States delegation to | the Second World Congress Against | Imperialism, which is to be held in Frankfort shortly, was given aj} stirring send-off by New York anti- | imperialists at a banquet in the ‘Tuesday night. | The high spot of the evening was the reading of a message sent spe- {cially by Augusto Sandino, heroic jleader of the Nicaraguan Army of Independence, to the attendants of |the farewell celebration. In his cable, Sandino said: | | “Arrived in Vera Cruz, received invitation from _ International League to World Congress. The Army of Independence of Nicara- gua will send its representative to Congress. We continue our strug- gle-and urge United States anti- imperialists to help us in strug- | gle for independence of oppressed people of Latin-America.” Among the speakers who took the | | floor between courses of exotic Chi- |nese dishes were H. T. Lee. repre- Support of the Workers and Pea- sants Revolution and one of the four delegates to the world meet, Albert Moreau, Louis Gibarti ana Richard B. Moore. Gibarti pointed out the close con- nection of the recent reparations |conference and the drive for [farther enslavement of Latin-Amer- | |ican countries and the preparations | | for war on the Soviet Union. |speakers showed how the | against the imperialist war is inex- erably linked up with the libera- tion movement of the colonial coun- tries. Other liance presented an excerpt from a Chinese opera, while further mu- sical entertainment was supplied by a Negro chorus and a dance or- j chestra. The members of the United States | delegation to the congress, in addi- \tion to Lee, are Mary Adams. Henry Rosemond, vice-president of |the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union and official of the Hai- |tian Patriotic Union, and Jack Bal- lam of the Trade Union Educational | League. / | Imperialism is, nt tne «ame time the most prostitute and the ultim- ate form of the State power which nascent middle-class society bad | commenced to elaborate as a means | of {ts own emancipation from teud- alism, and which full-grown bour- geois society had finally trans- formed into a means for the en- slavement of labor by capital. — Marx. Mandarin Restaurant in the Bowery | sentative of the Alliance for the | the | fight | Three members of the Chinese Al- | [DEFENSE, RELIEF WEEK All workers dnd organizations |must immediately organize to ar-| range joint affairs, picnics, mass meetings, to prepare for National Defense and Relief Week, July 27 until August 3, and strengthen in} every way possible the defense of| the 15 framed-up Gastonia strikers whose trial begins July 29, the I. L. D. urges in a statement issued yes- | terday. | | The International Labor Defense} and the Workers International Re- llief have arranged jointly for de- fense and relief week and expect all workers to give immediate aid and make preparation for its overwhelm- ing success. | In this joint campaign, the two is- sues involved in the case must be emphasized: the right of workers to organize into a union and strike for better conditions and the right of workers to defend their lives against the murderous raids of the mill- owners, gangsters, or city authori- ties acting under the orders of the mill-owners. Joint conferences are to be held of the broadest character possible, enlisting all shop committees, fra- ternal crganizations, trade unions, etc., to come to the framed-up strik- ers’ aid, In defense and relief week, tag days are to be arranged for the whole week, shop collections, house- to-house collections, mass meetings, picnics, ete. FOOD WORKERS BACK CHILDRENS" TRIP TOU. SS. R, \about the Red Falcons, the “social- ist” children’s organizations, which is just the same as the Boy Scouts. “We herewith enclose $25, and we urge all unions to help this delega- tion with moral and financial sup- port. “Yours for the success of the children’s delegation to the U.S.S.R. “Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | Workers Union, A. F. W., ‘Cafeteria Union, Dairy Clerks in Statements | The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- | teria Workers Union of the A.F.W. [has issued a statement endorsing the workers’ childrén’s delegation to} the Soviet Union, and contributing! $25 for the fund that the Young Pioneers are raising for the dele-| gation. The statement, signed by Sam | Kramberg, secretary of the union,| follows: | “To the Young Pioneers of Amer-| ica, Greetings: “The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- | teria Workers Union of the A.F.W. | heartily"€ndorses the drive that you are conducting for the first work- ers’ children’s delegation to the So- viet Union. “Our union has recently engaged in a great struggle with the cafe-| teria bosses, and the workers child- ren in the Young Pioneers have often aided us in our fight to better the conditions of the food workers, “These children were tot even daunted by arrests, and threats of beatings. They continued their work on the picket lines despite the! actions of the truant officers. This shows that the workers’ children) ‘are true fighters for the working | | class. “We hope that this delegation that | |you are sending will expose the| lies of the bosses against the only workers and farmers government | in the Soviet Union. It will show up the Boy Scout international meet as: part of the preparations for a war with the Soviet Union and will tell the workers children the truth) | funds, ;on your support. | answering these preparations SAM KRAMBERG, Sec’y.” . aga o The Retail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union has issued an endorsement of the delegation which calls upon all workers organizations to endorse the campaign for the delegation that the Young Pioneers are conducting. The statement is signed by I. Wasserman, secretary of the union. The clerks union has already donated $13 for the fund for the delegation, and they promise to contribute further. The Young Pioneers District Com- | mittee, New York, has issued a spe- cial call for funds, pointing out that there are still many working class organizations who have failed to respond to the original call for It calls on all workers or- ganizations, unions, clu ete., send statements of endorsement to the office of the Young Pioneers, District Two, 28 Union Sq. N. Y. “Workers! Only ten days remain before the delegation sails, The funds that are coming in have not been up to our expectations. The success of the delegation depends Are you going to allow the bosses to prepare for an attack on the U.S.S.R. without by sending the delégation? It is the duty of every worker to support this delegation, not only morally, but also with cold cash. Rush all funds to the National Office of the Young | Pioneers, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. C.” Dance, Swim and See A MOVIE SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 20 AT WASHINGTON BATHS Coney Isiand and help smash Gastonia frame-up Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Detend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! struggle Rally» Once. Rush 15 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS The fight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from the electric zhair is not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a for the right of the workers of the entire South to organize and strug- gle for better conditions. to the Support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union. | The 14 Southern Textile Workers | Must Not Die. The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at This new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government on the entire working class. hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours and for low It goes All Funds the International Labor Defense a. 80 East 11th Street New York, N. Y. Room 402 pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new bloody imperialist world war. ing Class. rested, beaten, slugged and dared to fight for better eration of Labor. Thousands of Dollars are ‘ 5 ' 1 1 ' ' ; ADDRESS . CITY AND STATE., ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Tex- tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- The members of the National Textile Workers Union ‘have been bayoneted, ar- evicted from their homes because they against mill owners, the government authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. T hereby enclose $......s+eeeseee+0++-for the Gastonia Defense. shot and conditions Needed to 4 4 i D T ara lace ieee: L ¢