The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929 CHINESE WAR LORDS HAVE TO _ ADMIT NO RED ARMY ATTACK Barrage of Slander in Capitalist Press Follows . Diplomats Threat at U.S. S. R. (Continued from Page One) States carries in Sunday editions, under large headlines, an utterly fictitious story of an invasion of Manchuria by the Red Army, which is alleged to have started at Pogranichnaya, de- feated Chang Hsueh-liang’s troops in a battle in which heavy artillery was used and to be now advancing upon Harbin. The | story of the “invasion” was given with much detail, even to the - description of the terror among the Chinese. It was ail en- tirely false, as is proved by the flat denial of ‘Soviet officials, and belated United Press. dispatches, quoting also the denial of high officials in Chang’s government. MORE FALSE PROPAGANDA. On a par with this fiction, was the story, persistently cir- culated for two days, that the Red Army had invaded Man-_ churia at Blagovestchensk, and at Manchuli, both of which re- ports were admitted to be false by the Mukden government today, and had been previously officially denied by the Soviet | government, The diplomatic threat of intervention, couched in language intended to arouse suspicion of the U. S. S. R. among Western workers, and the fake news of “invasions” is undoubtedly meant .as a platform on which the imperialist governments can de- clare for an invasion of the U. S. S. R., and an attempt to smash | the first workers’ republic. eussrecn ak UNITED ATTACK. WASHINGTON, July 21.—Semi-official press dispatches issued here openly threaten intervention in the Manchurian af- fair against the Soviet Union by the United States, England, | France and Japan, with all economic and military power. The Stimson note to the Soviet Union and the Nanking government was issued, it was made known here today, after long and thorough conferences between Stimson, Hoover and the army and navy experts, with the French, British and Japanese ambassadors called in. The British government today formally associated itself with the United States in its threat to intervene against the U. S. S. R. through invocation of the Kellogg pacts. Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador, communicated to Secretary of State Stimson a message that his government was happy to associate itself with the views of the American goy- ernment “in this effort to preserve peace.” . 8 # NO INVASIONS. MUKDEN, Manchuria, July 21—The United Press and Japanese press correspondents here report: “Chinese officials denied absolutely that Manchuli, the border point of the Eastern Railway on the west, has been oc- cupied by Russians. They also denied occupation of any other Chinese cities which are in communication with Mukden regularly. “The authorities also denied that railroad tunnels or bridge on the border have been destroyed.” The United Press correspondent at Harbin reports today: “All reports said Russians have not entered Manchuli al- though Soviet cavalry patrols arrived near the city; apparently giving rise to unconfirmed reports last week that an attack had been started. “Eight hundred Chinese re-inforcements also have arrived at Pogranitchaya. Russians are evacuating the border city and the Ussuri railway office has been closed. “Many Japanese residents are evacuating northern Man-| churia, 241 departing for southern points this morning. “All Russian officials have evacuated Manchuli. “Chinese reinforcements are arriving at Manchuli, Three thousand Chinese troops arrived there yesterday with 90 field guns, raising the Chinese strength to 15,000 men.” eee oe (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R, July 21.—An enormous public meeting of the Moscow workers Friday called on the work- ers of the world to show solidarity against the imperialist war plot against the U. S. S. R. A resolution, passed unanimously, declares the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by the Nanking counter revolu- ape. government was at the inspiration of the imperial- ists. ; The resolution states that world imperialism dictates Nan- king’s rejection of the peaceful proposals of the Soviet Union and the concentration of white guard forces on the Soviet Union frontier. The meeting resolves to help the Soviet Union to resist the provocation by the Chinese war lords, to defend the Soviet. Union with arms if the Communist Party or the Soviet gov- ernment calls on the workers to do so, and to arouse the work- ers of the world to assist in this defense. _ The workers of the whole Soviet Union continue today their protest demonstrations against the raid on the railroad and the war plot. The workers of the Moscow dynamo works have written the Executive Committee of the Soviet Union asking that te third industrial Ican be issued for subscription. The letter states that the dynamo workers propose to the “Ossoaviachim” (the aviation and chernical warfare organiza- tion) that a collection start for the building of new airplanes, | tanks and warships. The dynamo factory states that this is the reply of the workers to the Chinese robbers and apveals | to all European and American workers to close ranks around | the Soviet Union on the First of August under the slogan of | “Protect the Soviet Union against imperialist attack.” | Pravda is organizing a fund for building tanks. Demonstrations in Leningrad, Tiflis, Pyatigorsk and Ros- tov are taking place in which the workers demand resistance against the Nanking militarists. The workers are contribut-; ing part of their wages for a defense fund. The whole provin- jal press organizes collections for the defense. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three |Montreal Toilers Plan. workers face electrocution or for World “Red” | prison terms! Rally all forces to | d ed Day save them. Defense and Relief | MONTREAL, Que. July 21.— Plans for International Red Day Against Imperialist War on August’ First will be formulated at a con- \ference of workers’ organizations to be held at 62 Rachel streét Tuesday Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. \{. L. D. in the Middle West reports MASS ARRESTS IN FINLAND. HELSINGFORS (By Mail).—The Pinnish police have carried out mass arrests all over the country. The number of persons arrested is not yet known. This police action rep- resents one of the periodical sweeps with which the police strive to jus- uify their existence. * night. Working class groups are urged | to send delegates and aid in the or- Los Angeles Subdisirict Units Endorse Lovestone Expulsion The following resolution was pre- | sented to the units in Los Angeles Subdistrict by a few leading com- rades of both former groups in the Party. The treason why the latter selected this course, which may be interpreted as going over the Sub- | district and construed as a breach of party discipline, is explained briefly in the few paragraphs preceding the resolution. | The units which met two weeks after the publication of the state- ment by the CEC on the Lovestone expulsion, did not have one single word from the Subdistrict dealing with this statement or any other phase of party work. Despite the insistent demands by me as the Subdistrict Organization Secretary and a few more members of SDEC, Comrade Al Schaap, the SDO, re- fused to call such a meeting on pre- tense that he must wait for more information, that he is not clear yet on many yoints, ete., indicating be- yond a shadow of @ doubt his un- willingness to apply the new Com-! intern line in the Los Angeles Sub- district. | The vote in the units on this reso- lution was as follows: For Against Abst’ed Unit 18 0 0 9 10 0 6 4 0 9 4 1 10 2 1 26 5 8 78 25 10 Resolution Presented and Signed By Several Leading Members of the Former Majority and Minority Groups for Adoption by the Los Angeles Sub-District Units. | July 11, 1929. Central Committee of C. P. S. A. in its statement pud- lished in The Daily Worker June 27th, has acquainted the entire membership with its decision to ex- pel Jay Lovestone from the Party | land the removal of Comrade Wolfe rom Poleom. These actions were decided upon as a result of Love- _stone’s open alignment with the |right wing elements in the Comin- | tern and his defiance of the CI au- | thority, as expressed by his arrival | \in the UsS. A. in flagrant<viola- | tion of the decision E. C. C. I, and} |the subsequent efforts to split the Party, Comrade Wolfe was suspend- ed from the Poleom because of his | conciliatory stand on Lovestone’s ac- | tivities and his failure to accept and | endorse the C. I. Address. Subsequent these actions on the | part of the C. E. C., there appeared | within the Party a tendency on the | part of certain comrades to place factional attachments above party interests. In the Los Angeles Sub-District it is found that some comrades, for- mer followers of Lovestone, are tak- ing a conciliatory attitude towards | his anti C. I. and party splitting! activities. | The of U. The undersigned have repeatedly | tions presented and thereby once for | demanded of Sub-D.O, Shaap that he call a special S. D. E. C. meeting rricr to the mee ings of the un ts for the purpose of preparing a reso- lution for the adoption by the nu- clei accepting and endorsing the ac- tion of the C. E. C. on Lovestone | and Wolfe. S. D. 0. Shaap, due to his conciliatory and wavering atti- ture towards this action, refused to | | comply with the requests, | In view of the above, we, the un- | dersigned, leading members of the SIGN NAME TO GASTON ROLL (Continued from Page One) | held Monday, July 22nd, for the |New England district, at 62 Cham- |bers Street, Boston. A conference of great importance ‘will be held in Philadelphia, Friday, night, July 26, at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1625 Arch St. A solidarity demonstration and festival of the I. L. D. and W. 1. R. of New York will be held at Pleas- ant Bay Park, Saturday, July 27. The South Slav section of the meetings and great activity for, Gastonia. Mass Activity. | These are but a few indications of the mass activity current in the United States working class today, protesting the, greatest frame-up of American labor history, fifteen Na- | tional Textile Workers’ Union mem- bers in the shadow of the electric chair, The I. L. D. and the W. I. R. re- iterates the important issues of the | case. | The right of workers,in the South | to form militant unions to fight for better conditions and wages. The right of workers to defend) | | ganization of anti-imperialist-war shop committees, themselves against the murderous) onslaught of boss-controlled police! and thugs. The fifteen strikers have been) framed because they fought for these two issues—that is a fact known to the entire working class. Los Angeles Sub-District, who for- erly belonged to different factional groupings, deem it our Communist duty to introduce the following reso- lutions for the adoption by the units. 1. We wholeheartedly and unre- servedly accept and endorse the ac- tion of the C. E. C. in expellin, Lovestone and removing Comrad Wolfe from the Pol Buro. 2. We pledge ourselves to fight vigorously against all open or con- cealed opposition to the C, I. and CLR. C. 3. We condemn likewise the split- ting tactics of Manus, Glickson, etc., and call upon their followers to dis. sociate themselves from them. 4. We repudiate the misinterpre- tation of the GC, I. Address as victory or defeat of any group, and consider it emphatically as a line given to the C. P. of the U.S. A. for a guidance in its work, 5. As a step towards real unity in this sub-district, the undersigned herewith withdraw all previously |made appeals and answers to same. 6. We demand that Sub-D.0. Schaap call immediately a special S. D. E. C, meeting at which the undersigned pledge themselves, as a further step towards unity, to do all in their power towards the reorgani- zation cf the Sub-District Executive Committee on the basis of collective, non-factional leadership, laying def- inite plans to draw into attive party work every capable comrade regard- less of his former groupings. 7. Following the functionaries meeting, there should be immediately ealled a general membership meet- ing for the purpose of a thorough discussion of the C, I. Address and C. E, C. decisions and concretizing on the local situation. We, the undersigned, who former- ly followed different groupings, are ot the <irm opinion that the present situation in the sub-district, where actual party work is almost at a complete .standstill, is a direct re- sult of the remnants of unprinci- pled factionalism. The tremendous tasks confronting the party: 1, The strike of the Southern tex- tile workers; 2. The defense of the frame-up victims; 3. The T. U. E. L. conference and Gastonia | the organization of the unorganized; 4. The fight against war danger; 5. The “Build the Party Drive”; 6. The “Save The Daily Worker Campaign” and numerous other im- portant tasks call imperatively for a real unification and mobilization of all the party forces. The undersigned believe that the above enumerated demands are the only effective methods to achieve real unity on the basis of the C, I. Address and to prepare the Los An- geles Sub-District to carry out its portion of the party tasks. We call upon every unit of the Los Angeles sub-district to endorse and accept unanimously the resolu- ll deal a death blow to factional- m, which eats into the vitals of the party. FIGHT DANGER! FIGHT AGAIN TO THE C. 1! LONG LIVE GENUINE PARTY UNITY! LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL! LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S, A.! (Signed) FRANK SPECTOR, AGAINST THE RIGHT? , OPPOSITION Agitprop Div. and Member of Los Angeles Section, LOUIS FEINSTEIN, Organization Secretary. FRED FIRESTONE, Secretary I. L. D., Los Angeles. R. ROSENSTEIN. . RASKIN, LEON MOBILLE, Secretary T. U. E. L. FRANK WALDRON, N, KASPILOFF. 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. | Statement on Lovestone and the Splitters By FRANK SEPICH. As a proletarian member of the Central Committee and a former supporter of the Majority Group and the leadership of Lovestone, I | want to make the following statement: “In the struggle against the fakers in the United Mine Workers of America, and their bosses the coal operators, we found the ship of the Party weakened by the bitter factional fight. tunities for mass work were lost, capable direction was absent when badly needed due to the factional fight. Coupled with this was the lack of comradely cooperation in the carrying out of difficult tasks. These are a few of the evils of the unprincipled factional fight. leader- “When the Comintern, after long deliberation, gave its decision on the American question, a decision which meant the ending of the factional fight, there was only one place for a Communist to stand and that is squarely behind the Comintern, loyally carrying out its d cision and fighting its enemies. Jay Lovestone has decided other- wise. By this decision he broke every tie that bound him to the Com- munist Party and its loyal membe He ranged himself beside the renegade Cannon as an enemy of the workers, This is so clear that I did not think it necessary for me to state it. However, when I see Wolfe, Gitlow, Kruse and others supporting Lovestone or holding a conciliatory attitude towards his anti-Comintern policy I consider time for all Communists to speak out. it “I strongly support the Polcom in its expulsion of Lovestone. In common with all other members here I urge stern and immediate action against any members supporting the Lovestone Splitting Anti-Com- munist position. “We are engaged in mighty battles everywhere, the integrity of the Party must be maintained.”. RANK SEPICH. aisles Pledge Struggle Against Opponents of Address After hearing the report of Robert Minor and William W. Wein- stone, representing the Party Secretariat, on the meaning of the Com- intern Address to the American Party membership, neariy 100 func- tionaries and active members of the Philadelphia (District Three) section of the Party, unanimously adopted a resolution in w they pledged “an unremitting struggle against all who may und oppose either openly or covertly the decisions of the Comintern. “Irrespective of the past services of any such comrades,” resolution declares, “we would not follow them now that they have entered upon a course which is in opposition to the Cominte and which would prevent mobilization of the Party for effective struggle on the basis of the correct line of the Comintern.” pr Proletarians Support Comintern De: “We are firm in our opinion that the best prolet ns in the Party are for the acceptance and immediate carrying out of the Comintern Address,” declares a resolution adopted at a general membership meet- ing of the Portland, Ore., Party units. “We strongly condemn the actions of Lovestone and Gitlow in re- fusing to carry out the Address of the Coniintern,” the resolution adds. “We will use all means in fighting any opposition to the decisions of the Communist International wherever it raises its head.” . - Intensify Struggle Against Concealed Opposition Functionaries of Section 1, New York District Two, in a resolution pledging “unflinching support to the higher Party organs in fighting for the line of the Sixth World Congress of the Comintern,” calls for an intensified struggle against those who oppos¢ the line of the Ad- dress. “The meeting pledges itself to fight against the open opposition to the decisions of the Comintern, of Lovestone, Gitlow or Wolfe, or any other opposition that may conceal itself under the cover of a formal acceptance of discipline, but in reality laying the basis for opposition to the decisions of the Comintern and its leadership. Such an opposition is even more dangerous because it only pays lip service to the decision, while at the same time it is actively engaged in organizing a faction against the Comintern,” the resolution states. ene ters the sions Defend Comintern Line Before Membership The resolution adopted by the Kans Tarty on the Comintern Address declares defend this Address before the membership other opposition. We condemn the actions Wolfe and others as a direct attempt to split the Party and we shall do all possible to defeat any such attempt.” Cee ie s City membership of the “We pledge ourselves to Detroit Gives Unreserved Support The importance of the Comintern Address and the disciplinary measures taken by the Central Committee in line with it, in the present period of sharpening class and international imp alist struggles is stressed by members of the Detroit Shop Nucleus vo in a resolution endorsing the line of the Address for the American Party. “Realizing that the present period is a period of acute struggles. a period in which large masses are beginning to awaken and move | an attack against capitalism, we call upon our comrades to rally to | the support of the Party,” the resolution states. “We denounce Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe for their breach of discipline and loyalty to the Communist movement,” the resolution con- cludes. | Young Communist Hails Address Condemning “in the strongest terms the splitting policy of Love- stone and Gitlow,” Stephen Graham, member of the Portsmouth, Va., branch of the Communist Youth League, declares that the Comintern Address “gives us a true Marxist-Leninist leadership.” * eae Endorses Lovestone Expulsion In a resolution endorsing the expulsion of Jay Lovestone and the removal of Bertram D. Wolfe from the Polecom by the Central Com- mittee, Branch 1, Section 5 of the New York District Two, declares that “especially at this time must we unify our foréés and mobilize our throw capitalism.” 175 Ne =SPEND YO CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone Beacon 731 UR VACATION IN w Bungalows - - Electric Light Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL , Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Address to the Communist Party’ HE Polbureau is desirous of securing the broadest pos- sible Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Ad- dress and the immegiiate Party tasks outlined therein. All Party members and particularly the comrades active in the workshops in the basic industries are invited to write their Oppor-g ranks for a mass Bolshevik Party which will lead the workers to over- | Prisoners in | | Greetings to | | Bessemer Men'| “PROSECUTION Ik ~ WHITEWASH TR} |Threaten Those Whe Saw Thugs Drunk (Continued from Page One) tonia jail and the 8 out on bond: an appearance of legality. The changing of the Ga exploited men, women and child| | case trial judge is for the slaves. . | purpose. The bosses are furious because | | the National Textile Workers | Union, YOUR UNION, has shown| the textile workers that a real| |honest Union can be formed in| | the south as well as the north| and that the leadership cannot be |TO THE BESSEMER CITY} | -RIKE COMMITTEE, | Care Charles Shope. | | Dear Fellow-workers: | Greetings from the 15 prison- now held in the Gaston County ail under the framed-up charge | of murder by the mill bosses who | are in stark terror of losing the big profits they have been | wringing from the thousands of stoni: samt — 20 Bosses’ Witnesses The Gastonia municipal judge, A G. Jones, attorney for Roach ar Gilbert, had 20 Manville-Jenekc hirelings as witnesses for them, an: nted to rush the case througl gee nes | | without material witnesses agains bought with the filthy bled) |them, but Judge Shaw ruled tha momey OF the passes. OUR Ihe would not try the case withou material witnesses. Judge Shi has a reputation for being a stick ler for legal processes, and., thi: is considered here the reason. wh he was replaced as trial judge fo: the trial of the Gastonia textile workers, by Judge Hoyle Widespread protest against Sink | who is a mill cwner and a rvaction: lary, took place among the worl: |ers, who want the Gastonia textile | workers and organizers freed “un conditionally, and by the liberals |who are demanding “a fair trial.” Also the rapid growth of the union is giving organizational form to the discontent of the mill work ers throughout the state and the |South. This is worrying Goxernor |Gardner and the mill owners, and led late last week to the appoint: [DOWN WITH THE BOSSES PA.| | ment of Judge Barnhill, to replace | PERS. SUCH AS) THE GASTo-| | Sime Bacnhileeopsectone a NIA GAZETTE, SUPPORT THy| | the mill owners is not so obvious DAILY WORKER—THE WORK- ERS’ PAPE fight against all the agents of the bosses as well as the bosses themselves, You must be con- stantly on your guard against | these agents and fakers. I refer | principally to the leaders of the | United Textile Workers Union. Fellow-workers, our’ spirit is high. Our Union aj d the Inter- national Labor’ Defi 1se are do- ing everything in t_\ r power for us. The bosses having failed once in murdering us illegally be- cause of lack of forees willing to do the deed, they are now making | every effort to do it legally. We | |have faith in our class—the work- | ing-class—that they will not let || them murder BUILD THE || UNION! BUILD THE INTER- | | NATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE! | | Mask of “Fairness” The prosecution now realizes that it must attempt to give the tria | the appearance of legality and fair- ness but is still doing its utmost to railroad the 15 workers in Gasto- nia jail to the electric chair or to the penitentiary by “due process of law.” Of course the tactics of the state ill be to lull the workers into pas- y and create the illusion of fairness, since they fear exposure because the International Labor De- fense has made the details and is- sues in the case known throughout the nation. Only nation-wide pressure by the workers can save the prisoners. The authorities and their reac- tionary organs of the press, étc., are now directing their energies to cover up the class character and revolutionary significance of the case and make it appear as an or- dinary ‘murder trial. Stat Concentrate Fire. In the same category falls the probability that the grand jury may dismiss the murder charge against some of the 15 charged with murder and conspiracy to murder, in the attempt to deprive the case of its mass character and appeal and con- | centrate all the fire against Beal, McLaughlin, Bush, McGinnis, SchectY¥er, Hampton, Knight, Car- |ter, Harrison and others whom they |may select for their hatred. The prosecution may reduce to “assault” or even drop the charges against some of the worker defendants, in order to better build up a case | FRED ERWIN BEAL | FOR THE 15 PRISONERS. ORLEANS LABOR FOR BIG. STRIKE Misleader Is Booed Off Platform (Continued from Page Onc) Federal Government has taken over complete charge of breaking the strike. Government Strikebreaking. ned guards are still surround- ing the car barns, . In an’ attempt to induce patronage for ‘the cars, which are virtually empty because lator is boycotting them, decoys are placed in each scab-manned The Public Service Corporation i running half-page advertisements in he local papers, entitled “Notices to Former Employees”, in which the company appeals to the strikers to return to work, Seare Bomb Story. The press here has rushed to the aid of the bosses with a story which jit plays up prominently about a “bomb powerful enough to blow up a whole city block, which was found under a gas main in Jefferson | | Parish.” wainst those who have been mos‘ That the local dabor misleaders| active, and therefore, most ‘“ob- are trying to put off the general! noxious” of the organizers and Na- strike indefinitely, although most) tional Textile Workers Union mem- workers are demanding it, is indica-| bers. ted by the labor fakers making an-| Dewey Martin, organizer for: the other appeal to the City Council to| N. T. W. U., went to Dallas, N. intercede, After a meeting last|(., in response to a call for an or- night, Chairman Foster announced | ganizer, expecting to have a secret the strike committee would meet| conference with seven workers. On again Tuesday when the question|his arrival he found 300 were eag- erly waiting to consult with him. will again be “considered.” JUST OFF THE PRESS July Issue The Communist A Magazine of the Theory and Practise of Marxism-Leninism ° THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST IM- PERIALIST WAR H, M. WICKS THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION—AN AMERICA REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION A A, LANDY RIGHT TENDENCIES AT THE TRADE UNION UNITY CONGRESS ia WM. Z, FOSTER : GASTONIA—THE CENTER OF THE CLASS STRUG- GLE IN THE “NEW SOUTH” WM, F, DUNNE THE YOUNG PLAN The Reparations Conference and the War Dangex” A, FRIED The New Reparations Plan, by G. P. FURTHER NOTES ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKES CYRIL BRIGGS CAPITALISM AND AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA (Continued) V..1. 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