The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 4

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BID a; $8.00 a year » The Next Stage of the War Preparations j Against the Soviet Union THE reply of the Chinese bandit lackeys of imperialism to the note of the Soviet government regarding the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, the imprisonment and de- portation of Soviet workers and officials, and the dispersal of the workers’ organizations, initiates the next stage of the tions against the workers’ and peasants’ govern- insolent and provocative seizure of the railway line declaration from the Soviet government, se imperialist bandits three days in which ply and to open negotiations toward a peaceful settlement of the matter. Meanwhile the mass fury of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union proved that the Bolshevik gov- nment has the population solidly behind it. The mass dem- rations in other countries, particularly the events in Berlin, emphasized again the fact that the workers of the world will defend the Socialist Fatherland. It was the mass response of the workers to the slogan to defend the Soviet Union that impelled the imperialists to instruct their agents at the head of the Chinese brigand government to comply with the demand for an answer within three days. The government of Chiang Kai-shek, that exists as the executioner of the Chinese people at the behest of foreign imperialist powers, continues to maintain its insolent attitude toward the Soviet Union. The note repeats the lie about the Soviet executives of the railroad carrying on Communist propaganda and demands the release by the Soviet govern- ment of alleged Chinese prisoners. It is quite evident that the Chinese note was designed only for the purpose of gaining time; to make possible a fur- ther concentration of troops on the Manchurian border preparatory to an attack against the Soviet Union. Let no one be so politically stupid as to believe that the question of the Chinese Eastern Railroad is really the issue. That is only the excuse for a well-planned imperialist drive against the Soviet power. The seizure of the railroad was determined upon by the imperialists as the most advantage- ous point from which to launch the long-prepared war against the Soviet Union. The military strategy involved in the Manchurian attack is obvious. The first attack was to be that of white guard exiles and Chinese mercenaries on the Manchurian border. The imperialist military strategists hoped that the outbreak of war at that Siberian outpost would withdraw such num- bers of the Red Army from other points in the Soviet Union that it would be possible for the fascist Poles, the white-guard Finns, the Baltic states and Roumania, to throw their armies over the western borders. It was an old military trick that has been in vogue since long before invention of gunpowder. But the decisive action of the masses in the Soviet Union and in the capitalist countries has forced the imperialists to beat time so they can strengthen their forces on all fronts. The tone of the note indicates one thing only—the determin- ation of the imperialist powers and their Kuomintang vassals to launch an armed offensive against the Soviet Union with- in the shortest possible time. Against this conspiracy must be mobilized the full force of the revolutionary working class of the world. Here in the United States it is the task of the workers to fight with all their might against the American imperialist power, which is playing a leading, if not the leading role in this latest drive against the Socialist Fatherland. Workers in New York will demonstrate on Friday even- ing at a large number of mass meetings and prepare for tremendous strikes and demonstrations on August First— International Red Day Against Imperialist War. Tn all other cities and many small towns the workers will demonstrate on August First in defense of the Soviet Union and against the conspiracies of the imperialist war-mongers. to re The Strikebreaking Government of Hoover I NY ORDER to run scab street cars in New Orleans and break the strike of the carmen the federal government has sent in a horde of deputy United States marshals to en- force the injunction of the judge of the district court. This was preceded by a series of acts of treachery on the part of the labor officials of New Orleans who, at the time the strikers and their sympathizers swarmed the streets of the city preventing the operation of cars and the importa- tion of scabs, proposed to call off the strike pending nego- tiations by a so-called government conciliator. Now these same officials of the New Orleans central labor body, rein- forced by William Green, president of the American -Federa- tion of Labor, are protesting against the employment of the United States marshals in New Orleans, not because they object to their strikebreaking, but only on the grounds that “their services are not necessary.” Such a policy of betrayal is in complete harmony with traditional practices of the labor fakers. Instead of expos- ing the role of the government as a strikebreaker and re- viving the strike movement, these officials simply argue that the situation is such that the direct intervention of the fed- eral government on behalf of the public utilities corporations is unnecessary. In other words, the reactionary officials as- sure the government that they themselves can break the strike without the aid of the federal marshals. At the same time the pressure of the rank and file of the membership of the unions is so great that the central council is still making gestures about calling a general strike of all organized workers in the city, while at the same time talking about carrying their case to Hoover, head of the strikebreaking government. The only reply to the government injunction and the labor leaders is open defiance and a strike over the heads « of suth officials. E air fleets of the great powers were increased by more than one-half (70%) during the past five years; this rate of growth will be kept up for the next two or three years. In comparison with 1918, the quality of the war air- raft was improved as follows: speed 50 to 60°, ; action range of scouting aeroplanes and destroyers 30 to 70%, of bombing geroplanes 250 to 300%; the rate at which bombs can be dropped has tripled or quadrupled, the rate of fire of ma- | guns has increased six or sevenfold.—Soldat on “The HE Polbureau is desirous of securing the broadest pos- sible Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Ad- dress and the immediate Party tasks outlined therein. All Party members and particularly the comrades active in the workshops in the basic industries are invited to write their Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Address to the Communist Party | By. Fred Ellis opinions for the Party Press. Resolutions of Factory Nuclei also will be printed in this section. Send all material deal- ing with this campaign to Comrade Jack Stachel, care Na- tional office, Communist Party, 43 E. 125th St., New York City. : Communist Party Membership Will Defeat All Attempts io Split Party Away trom Line of Communist International! * HAT all attempts to defeat the application of the line of the Com munist International in the work of the American Party will meet by meetings of members and functionaries of the Communist Party, endorsing disciplinary action taken by the Central Committee of the Party against the splitting tactics of Jay Lovestone. Whether resistance to the Bolshevik line of the Party is expressed openly, or, in the manner of the concealed opposition diplomatically, this resistance will fall before the iron pressure of the overwhelming majority of the Party membership. Because Party solidarity in the present tense international situation is the absolute prerequisite of the task of carrying on Bolshevik activities among the American working | class, Party members pledge merciless war on those who stand in the way of this vitally necessary Bolshevik unity. * * * | PHILADELPHIA ENDORSES EXPULSION OF LOVESTONE | carrying out the decisions of the Sixth World Congress is pledged by Unit 3B of the Party membership in Philadelphia in a resolution passed after discussion on the Address of the Comintern lead by Distriet Or- ganizer Herbert Benjamin. “We endorse the action of the Polcom of the Party in expelling Comintern and the Party,” the resolution declares. * * * PITTSBURGH WILL JOIN WAR ON RENEGADES In a resolution, endorsing the expulsion of Jay Lovestone, adopted unanimously by Street Nucleus 1 of Pittsburgh, Lovestone’s actions are | characterized as following “along the same line as the actions of the right wing renegades in other sections of the (omintern. “We pledge our whole-hearted support to the Central Committee in its struggle against the right opposition, hoth open and concealed,” the resolution concludes. ue . . f SEATTLE NUCLEUS CONDEMNS SPLITTERS “We accept and endorse the line and organizational measures of the Communist International as a necessary step toward the elimina- ; tion of unprincipled factionalism and the creation of a basis for unity,” a resolution, endorsing the expulsion of Jay Lovestone and the removal | of Bertram D. Wolfe from the Polcom, adupted by Street Nucleus 3, Seattle, District 12, declates. * * * CONVENTION DELEGATE SUPPORTS CENTRAL COMMITTEE “Intrigue and disruptive tactics which lead to an organized strug- gle against the Communist International,” are condemned ‘in a statement | Full support to the Central Committee of the Party in its task of | Lovestone from the Party for his breach of discipline of the Comintern | and for trying to organize a right wing group in order to fight the H “with crushing political defeat is again indicated in resolutions passed | | our District.” by J. Laurie, a delegate from District 12 to the Sixth National Conven- | tion, “I hereby declare my fullest agreement with the action of the | | Central Committee in expelling Lovestone and removing Comrades _ Wolfe and Miller,” Laurie states. | . . * N. Y. UNIT 2 WILL FIGHT ALL OPPOSITION | | | “We reject and condemn all opposition whatsoever to the Com- | intern and yledge ourselves to fight relentlessly against any attempts to split the Party no matter from what quarter,” states a resolution on the Comintern Address passed by members of Unit 2, Section 4, New York District 2. * * * DENVER MEMBERS LAUD COMINTERN ADDRE! “We pledge ourselves to carry out in deeds the instructions of ihe Comintern,” the resolution passed unanimously at a membership meet- ing of the Denver Party organization declares. The resolution calls for a strong fight against right wing terdencics and for proletarianizas tiom of the Bort. ¥ PITTSBURGH STREET NUCLEUS WILL CARRY OUT C. I. LINE “We pledge ourselves to fight opportunism, factionalism and the right danger in our Party,” states a resolution passed unanimously by Street Nucleus 4, District 5, Pittsburgh. . * * N. Y. UNIT DENOUNCES SPLITTING POLICIES Unit 7F, Section 2, New York, passed unanimously a resolution on the Comintern Address. Its members pledge themselves to do their utmost “to defeat the splitting policy, the policy of unprincipled oppo- sition to the line of the Comintern, of Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe.” * * . CHESTER UNITS APPLAUD COMINTERN LETTER Because the American working class is now “confronted with in- creasing attacks by the capitalist class on the Party and the working class, the C. I. Address is of immeasurable importance,” the resolution passed by Chester Party Units hold. CEMENT 2.7823! GLADKOV Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y Gleb Chumalov, Red Army Commissar, returns to his town on the Black Sea after the Civil Wars to find the great cement works, where he had formerly worked, in ruins and the life of the town disorganized. He discovers a great change in his wife, Dasha, whom he has not seen for three years. She is no longer the conventional wife, dependent on him, but has become a woman with a life of her own, a leader among the women of the town together with Polia Mekhova, secretary of the Women’s Section of the Commz nist Party. The town is attacked by a band of counter-revolutionaries ano Gleb is in command of one of the defense detachments and the attuck is vepulsed.’ The town resumes its routine. Gleb works hard, planning the reconstruction of the cement works. . . . |AUBHADY the quays were far away. The mountains glimmered with a copper tint in their clefts; they rocked and swam in the sea, covered with a violet mist. The boat played in the swell, and the ship rose and fell, blocking out half the horizon, piled up like a sky-scraper. Shibis, Shidky and Polia all seemed tiny and clear-cut as in a convex mirror. Gleb felt small also, but his heart was big, bigger than himself. Serge could not take his eyes off the steamer; he was still biting the nail of his little finger. In the womb of the ship, iron chains clashed and rattled; a thun- derous reverberation was in the air. “To the gangway!” Above, the deck was lined with a garland of dusty faces. They gazed down with bleared, unblinking eyes. Thousands of hands flut- tered out frantically, There was a stormy bellowing uproar. High up above the rigging a blue smoke was whirling. Down below in the oily swell, splashing and rattling like a machine-gun, was a little motor-boat with a piece of red cloth at the stern, A little, menacing, fiery atom of dust of the R.S.F.S.R. An Englishman in a gold-laced uniform—doubtless the captain— motionless at the rail of the bridge, impassively gazed down at the motor-boat below. On the distant docks a field of poppies bloomed and undulated; and in the bosom of the ship iron rumbled and clashed with a dull shaking thunder. 2. TOOTHLESS WOLVES, : ewe) it happened that the Bolsheviks clattered with their heavy boots upon the deck. It was all the same to them: whether they were at the Party Committee’s rooms or on the deck of an English ship. But these people were not like those who, in the past, shad. trod that deck. They were of the past and were forgotten: but these it would not be possible to forget. Never could one forget these dreadful people out of a dreadful land, A great crowd was jammed together, stinking and ‘sweating. Corpses risen from the tomb. Mildewed typhoids. Blue, swollen faces and mad eyes. Ragged spawn of the barracks. It was impossible to distinguish who were officers and who were soldiers, in this grey herd. Heavy and silent stood this crowd of condemned beings. Shidky, who looked like an Englishman himself, was speaking to the gold-laced Englishman. Shibis, in fawn leather, looking like a bronze figure, was speaking clearly and impassively: “Officers to the front! Let the others stand back!” The crowd shuffled noisily, clearing a space on the deck. It looked like the scene of an execution. Resolutions Declare Unity Vitally Necessary to Enable Party to Carry on Bolshevik Activities | Among American Workers; Endorse Expulsion of Lovestone and Wolfe Removal from Polcom | | the thousand, the workmen and the peasants. RAccep creatures, still preserving a martial bearing, pushed their way through the crowd. Their once well-cared-for faces were now swollen with hunger and ingrained with dirt. It was impossible to tell with what frenzy they were possessed—were they drunk with despair or with the joy, or in the fury of self-immolation before theit fate? Polia smiled insolently. And whilst Shibis was speaking she talked to Gleb. “Look, Gleb! These people look as though they had already been hanged. They used to kiss the hands of the ladies. . . . Now they’re like dung-beetles.” 4 Shibis’ voice was even and gloomy, like the mask of his face. “You are our foes! You hate us! You have destroyed us by You have come here hoping to find not death but life. Why have you come to Soviet ussia?”’ . An old man with a silver-grey beard stepped forward. But per- | haps he wasn’t an old man; perhaps his face was just mouldy? “We are not afraid to answer you. Oh, no... . We are only people who are deadly tired, A defeated enemy is no longer an enemy. Have we suffered less than you? We have only our homeland; and nothing outside of it. We cannot exist outside of it. We are ac- cursed, but in this accursedness is our expiation. Let our country even demand torture and death from us. We are ready; we submit. You will not refuse us this joy?” ~ While speaking he had not looked at Shibis but proudly raised | his head to the sun. “We pledge ourselves to loyally carry out all decisions of the Com- | intern, We repudiate and condemn any split tactics or opposition to the decisions of the Comintern,” the resolution ‘adds. . e. * BUFFALO MEMBERSHIP BEHIND COMINTERN LEADERSHIP Members of the Buffalo section of the Party welcome the Comintern Address because “it will release our paralyzed hands and free us from the destructive germs of factionalism to plunge into mass activity in . * * * CLEVELAND LEAGUE CONDEMNS LOVESTONE, GITLOW Condemning the opposition to the Comintern by. Jay Lovestone and Benjamin Gitlow, members of the Cleveland Communist Youth League | declared in a resolution endorsing the line of the Comintern Address that “we warn the comrades against any verbal acceptance of the Comintern Address and at the same time conducting a struggle against carrying out its directions.” . DETROIT LEAGUE MOBILIZES AGAINST SPLITTERS A resolution adopted unanimously at a membership meeting of the Detroit Communist Youth League “calls upon the entire Party and League membership to close the ranks more solidly and unitedly than ever before ox. the basis of Joysity to Communism and the Comintern, | | and to deal a crushing political defeat to any attempts on the part of ; Lovestone and Gitlow to split the Party.” * * . NIGHT WORKERS WILL FIGHT CONCEALED OPPOSITION “We are determined to fight any open or concealed opposition to the Comintern and pledge our full’ support to the Central Committee in the measures it is taking to carry out the line of the Comintern in the American Party,” states a resolution passed by the Night Workers Rranch of Section 1 of the New York District. * * * “BUFFALO FUNCTIONARIES DENOUNCE LOVESTONE A resolution adopted unanimously by functionaries of Section 1 of the Buffalo District, states, in connection with the disciplinary meas- ures taken by the Central Committee against Lovestone and Gitlow, that “we condemn these former leaders of our Party as consciously working to bring about a split in the Party.” WORCESTER FUNCTIONARIES PLEDGE STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPOSITION. At a meeting of functionaries of the Worcésier Party Section a resolution was unanimously adopted pledging a “struggle for the unity of the Party, and to fight to the limit any and all concealed opposition to the Comintern Address.” c . | \ Shibis watched him silently and attentively through the net of his eyelashes. They were all silent. The silence exhaled a unanimous sich. Everyone was waiting for the moment when the tension would give way, and then there would be an outburst of cries. A very young little officer suddenly began to shout hysterically: “I’ve been deceived! I was blind! Yes, I am a murderer. Let me justify my life. Even if I die let me vindicate myself.” A sigh of repressed agitation passed over the crowd. Shibis care- lessly waved down the cries of the little officer. “Very good. But how will you prove to us your s will you prove that you are speaking the truth?” . . . rity? How Tez little officer ran up to Shibis, tearing open the breast of his tunic. - “Shoot me now! Shoot!” Shibis calmly waved him back. “Return to your place, If you wish, you need not come on shore but may return to where you came from. Are you certain that we are not going to shoot you?” The officer raised his hands. His sleeves fell down his skinny arms almost to the shoulder. The red fists at ihe extremity of those dead white arms did not seem to belong to him. They took him by the arms-and walked him away. screaming: “To live! To live!” iy Polia’ frowned and smiled; her eyes were big and round with ‘joy. “What weak nerves these slugs have! Why. the devil did they surrender to us, Gleb? Ask them, Serge. They won't understand me.” Serge pressed hapd on Shibis’ shoulder. His voice’ was broken with excitement. A “Comrade Shibis, have the courage to speak to them in other words, more worthy of us. It’s always easy to jeer at people. You should assume a more difficult role: speak to foes as to human beings.” Shibis looked at him distractedly, like a blind man; and ‘said through clenched teeth: *I shall send you ashore at once, Comrade Ivagin. matter?” He went on What's the * 8 8 ‘HE crowd was stamping and shifting, and coldly and silently gath- ered round them. Dirty scare-crows were climbing upon the ven- tilator shafts and upon each other’s shoulders, crawling up the rigging like snails; they were looking in stupid bewilderment at these people and trying to guess whether they were cruel and di rous or only~ ironically. jesting. They were all expecting somethitig terrible, that the taut gloom would suddenly explode like ‘a distended bladder; some sudden, crushing catastrophe would arise with uproar, and then every- thing would sink to ashes, But then everything would at least be- come simple and clear and their doubt would be gone. Gleb was gazing at the stinking human mass, at the moist fa he did not pity anyone—it was just curious and laughable. Lae ane OLVES. . . . Yes, there they were, the wolves - . . with blood- shot eyes they had been over-running the vast spaces of the Re- public. Three flaming years of suffering. In the fight against them, Gleb had learned to hate them, because death had always been over him, in gale and tempest; the nights had been red with fire, and the days poisoned with blood and smoke. And now there they were, these wolves, Their eyes had dimmed and their jaws were toothless, _ Gleb listened to Shibis, smilingly. Well-spoken—butnot enough. It should be more: vigorous. He was grinding his teeth,. He felt an intense desire to burst out laughing and cursing, : (To Be Continued)... _ lt nt ri §