The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 2

Satan epee etn 8 oe Circle, Syracuse, N. Y Page Two. By H. PURO our Party is going ahead with ks in the every day 1 is sharpeni the down tion lin stone ween Par becomes naitollawed. by. porters, clearer it is not only Day with the slo- tone in his midst atta world against | Soviet »vestone does not see the why Party should sharpen its slogans in order to give § for workers to et Union and ans fight war prepa- rations, understand that we are ne period when class s ggle is taking ever sharper and are showing growing desire for struggle and th Party correct in sharpening its slog: Loyestone’s ridiculing this slogan for Red Day also sk that he is underestimat- ing the danger of attack against the Soviet Union in the moment when this attack is already in pro- cess. And what is significant is that on Red Day, which has just been concluded, the Party was able to rally greater masses all over workers re] is very Party Me mbe YS 1 taeties during the last May to outdoor meetings and demonstrations than ever before, e: pecially in New York. This proves canclusively that the Party was ab- in raising the slo x for partial down tools. the count n the other important n of Gas- ising the to: Lovestone logan of -def , ealling that “Putchism,” just like he and Brand- lerites are accusing the German Party of resorting to “Pute Dd Berlin. When workers in Gastonia are defending their right to organ- brutal attacks of armed y is wrong in right to organize unions, and to defend their zation at the old sloge Frame up” is sufficient. This again shows that Lovestone does not see that we living in the Third Period, when y external conditions but also al conditions of class strug- are sharpening and workers re- sistance is growing and that in these conditions, apologetical “Frame-up” gan cient, Lovestone not that Gastonia is the proof of estimation of Sixth | World Congress, that Third Period as to the sharpening of cl stru- gie, is applicable in America, and| already here. What is significant, is | that also the ade Tro ite Cannon agrees fully in his “Mili- tant” with Lovestone, ridiculing our slogan of right to self-defense, re- garding Gastonia case. Against this conception of Lovestone and Cannon, Gastonia is living proof of correct- ne; of estimation of Communist International on internal conditions of American class struggle. Also in the third major campaign of our Party, the T. U, E. L. Con- ference, Lovestone disagrees with| is not s see rene} RESOLUTION OF U In the present situation, the Union, the tremendous opportunities and tasks facing our P. present situation of radicalization of the American workers, this unit considers that the unity of the Party In the very near future, every member of the Part ready for united action in defense leadership of mas: At such a time any attempt ‘to revi the authority of the Party and Comintern is th the working class. Lovestone, who has been correctly expelled bj opposition to the Comintern, still has his organ They are carrying out Loveston his platform, by propagandizing against his expulsion, contempt for the C. I. by spreading contemptable r within the Party. degenerating, etc. This unit is of member (particularly leading elements) has had ample time to make his choice between Lovestone and t tremendous impending cla: mies within its own rank: Every must now make his final choice—Lovestoné or the Party, Lovestone or the C. I. The Unit also gives its opinion to the Party leadership that the Party can no longer be tolerant of t stone and sowing disruption in the come for similar stronger measures former leading elements who are still supporting Lovestone and fight- ing the C, I. In view of these considerations, cussion in which Comrades Benjamin and Levitch, both members of this unit, have again attempted to mobili that we recommend to the district that these comrades are enemies of the Party and that they be expelled SIGNED, ROSE WEISS, Organizer. i the Party policy, He says that we are “narrowing down.” He wants to emphasize work in A. F. of L. Our Party “has not abandoned work in the old unions. But we know that | our major task is now to organize | unorganized millions in the basie in- dustries, and this is not narrowing down, but instead, broadening out. | We do not confine our work in this | struggles on a ses ruggles, can no longer harbor a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1§ NIT Fi, SECTION 2. | CLEVELAND DISTRICT BURO DEMANDS WOLFE impending attack upon the Soviet EXPULSTO y arty in the 1. We demand of the CEC that now more than two months after the adoption of t view of the imperr » CI Address by ible anti-Cor y than ever before. will have to be Union and for known to our Party. o struggle against is more nec pulsion of Lovestone and ar against the Party, Wolfe be immec The oth of the Soviet the 2 hitherto u ctional ve nd propagandists y ributing and by sowing that the C, I. this date, eve: the other comrac to opp e the Cl decision, they too ove de and enable it to e it to consolida n attack on the Sov: or: the opin:on that he C. I. The Party,-in face of the any ene- member still supporting Lovestone RESOLUTION COMM The Section Executive Commit the expulsion of Lovestone and is fight against the Right winge Lovestone. hose who are still supporting Love- Party. We urge that the time has against Gitlow, Welfe, and all other & t Right deviation and the Ri, A seheg : : ' 1 of the Right wingers ou this unit decides after tonight’s dis- 7 decides atten tonight's di have substantial results. 4 have drawn into the ranks of the ze the unit for Lovestone’s position, 4 e for Lovestone’s position, and other good proletarian element Down with Right wingers! Ou Long live the Communist Part munist International, from the Party. field in narrow A. of L. circles, | tion. but we are extending it in order to} And while ouPart reach great masses of American ing all its efforts ng added working class. For our Party T. U. impetus for its campaigns in the E. L. Unity Conference is major im- | struggle against imperi portance in our work in the trade |for defense of Soviet Union, for Gas- union field at the present time. Love; | tonia campaign, f stone does .not see anything in this ference ‘in but “narrowing down,” and Cannon | masses of worke agrees with him also on this ques-|order concentrat- for struggles, in to organize them and in order tion group who either do not accept the : leading comrades, ions are adopted the Presidium of the Comintern, in mmunist actions of the new opposi- ddress of the CI or oppose e carrying on destructive activities ately expelled from the Party. such as Gitlow and the signers of treachery to , be given 48 hours in which to state their position for or decision of the CI, and t in case of rejection of the see i be expelled the Par the Party for h expelled manne Bete ir eventu ion he used as open propaganda to warn have adopted this line, that if they continue will be expelled. as necessary measures to pro- onsolidate its forees to protect the its forces to face the acute danger iet Union, * * BY PONTIAC SECTION EXECUTIVE ITTEE. tee in Pontiac, Mich., fully approves wholeheartedly behind the CEC in rs and conciliators led by the rene- In our local we have carried and are carrying on a relentless fight ight wingers, Since the cleaning of r activities have redoubled and we We have now doubled our membership, we Party colored workers, women, ete., it with the renegade Lovestone. y of U. S. A, Section of the Com- to influence them ’» follow the lead- ership of our Party, Lovestone is g himself with his struggle against the Party and against the Communist International, Instead of eorrecting his line and past mis- and submitting for the deci- of Communist International, he is circulating his “Appeal,” cireulat- ling all kinds of factional documents ip Demands Action Against Right Wing . Associates of Jand false rumors ahout removals of ried ‘comrades,” attacking Party adership as “dégenerate” and ‘at- ng Communist International as “running sore.” He is living in the old factional atmosphere and is or- |ganizing his insignificantly small fraction for strug, Party, just when P: growing and sharpening cla gle. After criticisrn of Coraintern about | § our Party political line, Lovestone and his adherents are still arguing about “primacy of external condi- tions This follows from what Co- mintern has said in its Address to our Party: These errors found ex- pression in overestimating American imperialism and putting question of inner and outer contradictions in a wrong way, which led to the obscur- ing of inner contradictions of Amer- ican eapitalism. ” ... Party has cor- rected this errer and taken into its heart the ad of the Comintern in its Address to our Party, where it says: “In America too, the funda- |mental contradictions of capitalism |— the growth of the productive forces and the lagging behind of markets — is becoming more accentuated.” In the light of this criticism, Part that internal and external contradic- tions are inter-related and that you cannot speak about “primacy of ex- |ternal contradictions” as Lovestone and his small opposition group does, |This failure of seeing inner cont! | dictions clearly, leads in “underest: jmating American reformism which \led to weakening the struggle jagainst it; in underestimating the \right danger in the American Com- munist Party -", as Address of |Comintern criticizes our Party. And | Lovestone, who has refused to cor- rect his line with the rest of the| contradictions between the is s a Lovestone Party, is still continuing these mis- t shown at the beginning of this arti This refusal of his to correct his political line, leads him to take an opportunistic stand in the everyday campaigns of the Par like in the struggle against the im- perialist in Gastonia question and in the T, U. L. Lovestone - and his followers fail to see that contradictions are ‘ stonia and other grow- sharpening struggles of the an working class are unable nee him, that we in America too, are living in the Third Period, not only as far as rnal contra- ns of capitalism concerned, s internal contradic- ig more sharpened. of us who have shared with the mistakes of Lovestone, have in the light of Comintern Address, by x ritieism, been able to correct our erroneous political line and also have beeh able to get rid of factional And it has not been so difficult to adopt a new path. But Lovestone takes the position that it ameful to submit to the line and the decisions of the Comintern, And that is why he has traveled further and further away from the Comint- ern within the course of a very short time. He is traveling “upon the path of an open litting struggle against the Party and the Commu- nist International, counterposing to the program and decisions of the Sixth World Congress his own op- portunist platform of the exceptional situation of America and his social- democ: conception of discipline, thus finally descending into the eamp of renegades of Communism (Brandler, Hais, ete.), as decisions of Tenth Plenum of Communist In- ternational s: lealing with his ap- peal of expulsion. SOCIALISTS BAN LL.D. TAG DAYS IN READING, PA To Be Held Despite Mayor’s Action PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.—True to, their role as betra. of the working cl: the socialist city ad- ministration of Reading has refused to-allow a street or house-to-house collection for the relief and defense of the frame-up strikers of Gas- tonia, conducted by the I. L. D. Applic.tion was made for permis- sion to conduct a collection cam- paign several weeks ago, but the right to help the Gastonia victims was flatly refused by the socialist Mayor of Reading, Henry Stump. When .asked as to his reasons for denying aid to the strikers within his city, Mayor Stump became very evasive and refused to commit him- self in the name of the socialist party. He made a statement in refer- ence to not wanting to “set a pre- cedent” in street collections. In a statement issued f---1 the local headquarters of the I. L. D. in Philadelphia, Jennie Cooper, secre- tary, stated that a collection and re- lief campaign will be carried on in Reading regardless of the ban placed on the I. L. D. by the socialist work- ing class betrayers of Reading. A large campaign has been ar- ranged to begin on Saturday, Aug. 10 for open air meetings and street collections, All members and friends of the I, L. D. are called upon to be present at the Philadel- phia headquarters, at 1124 Spring Street on Saturday morning at 7:30 o'clock sharp. Transportation will Labor Sports Union Meet to Tackle Many Problems By W. BURKE. The Third National Convention of the Labor Sports Uni-n will tackle many*important problems that con-| cern the labor sports movement and | the working class as a whole. The question of linking up the work of the Labor Sports Union with the new Trade Union Unity Center to be launched in Cleveland, Aug. 31 will be given serious attention. Plans are being made to send a dele- gation of five from the Third LSU Convention which will be held Aug, 21-22-23 to the Trade Union Unity Convention, which will take place | about a week later. 1 The convention will open in the] Progressive Hall, 15 W. 126th St. |The program for this evening will be the greeting of out of town dele- |gates and the showing of the re- |markable Spartakiade film. |Spartakiade film is a news real of \last year’s workers International | Athletic Meet held in Moscow. After ‘the showing of the picture there will be dancing. Expect Records to Fall. From the results shown at the many district athletic meets this year, many of the U. S. U. records are slated to be broken at the big | National Meet, August 24-25, Inj the short period of two years the} Labor Sports Union hag succeeded in | developing some good athletes. Al- jthough it is not to the interest of | be given to the collectors from Philadelphia to Reading. The cam- paign will be carried on under the joint auspices of the I. L. D, and W. LR John Meldon of Philadelphia will arrange for a city wide collection and speaking campaign for these | organizations. EMERGENCY FUND Unit 14, Sec. 2, N. Y. « $15.00 S. Singer, New York 2.00 Collection made during week- end by non-Party members, Camp Wocolona, Monroe, New York ..--, dey eisce » 6.25 Detroit Workmen's Coopera- tive, Hamtramek, Mich.... 198.56 Dici, Rockaway Park, L. L, New York . Ee | H, Beloff, A. Cessarine, and R. Mraz, Massillon, Ohio 12.00 J. Martin, New York . ws 00 8, Zollinger, Chicago, Ill. 3.00 J, P. Barrett, Yonkers, N.Y. 2,00 V.R. Kichline, Easton, Pa... 2,00 D, Rudy, Yonkers, N. Y,..., 5,00 J, Reichle, Madison Ht’s, Va. 1,00 Collected by Tom Rodgers, POVUREE, PG. cer ccevesrre 2.65 Binghamton Unit, Bingham- ton, N, Y, + 21,00 Unit 2, Sec. 4, Y, . 3,00 St. Nucleus 1, Superior, 78.00 Nucleus 12, Sec, 1, Cleve, 0. 2.00 Nucleus 31, Sec. 3, Cleve. O. 3,00 Br; 4, Sec. 5, City ......,+ +» 4,00 Unit 4, Sec, 4, New York..-- 18,00 Milwaukee Unit, Milwaukee, Unit 6,8 Unit 5, Sec. 3, New York..., _ Unit 7F, Sec, 3, N, Y...... 10.00 CORRECTION—Nucleus No. “$02, Chicago, Ill. .#53,00 Robert Anderson, Moline, Il. 2.00 Bethlehem Shop Ntecleus, “Baltimore, Md. .../...... 5.00 _ Brighton Beach Workers “Qlub, Brighton Beach, N.Y, 3,00 _ G, Gotonas, Cleve, O....... 5.00 Unit 12, Sec, 3, N. Y. 8.50 Shop Nucleus 78, N. Y, ... 10.00 AM. Deutsch, N. Y. .....» 2,00 ‘Brnest Bersin, New York .. 1.00 Branch No. 661, Workmen’s + ee $618,246 A. Rasumow, Santa Barbara, Galif.. se .0ee, . . Collected by C. Werner, | Brownsville, Wisc. | Passaic Worker, Passaic, N.J. Collected by Frank N. Ramos, | New Bedford, Mass. ..... . 6.50 \E. J. Rakkesch, New York,. 5,00 F. Baumholtz, Midvale, O.,. 3.00 5.00 4.00 1,00 Total seen ee 502.80 | Previously collected ..13,092.17 | Total todate .. - $18,594.47 Wocolona COOPERATIVE | ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. the L. S. U. to develop stars, never-|of the purse. theless, it is interested in fine per- formances as is a gage of the de- velopment of the organization. | One of the outstanding athletes in| the L, S, U. at the present time is| Paul Ahola, a young worker of 19, member of the Toverit A. C., Jamai- | ea, L, I. He has _broad-jumped | within a foot and a half of the/ world’s record, and with several} years more training, he should equal | it. He has also turned in some good | performances in the high jump, clearing the bar at a height of close | to six feet. | Outstanding Athletes. I. Prim, of the same club, is one, of the best distance runners in the| |L. $, U. Up till this year he was| ja member of a bourgeois sport or- |ganization, the Finnish Ameriean The|A, C. He got tired of watching all |the graft and corruption going on; | within the bosses’ organization and | jrealizing the role they play in de-| \luding the workers, he decided to} |join a class conscious sport body, the | |L. 8. U. He holds the L. 8. U,| record for the 10,000 meter run, | covering the distance in 33 minutes} and 57 seconds. Lauri Palonen and) Eino Heikkila, of Norwood, Mass. and well as Tony Cabarello of New York are also outstanding athletes in the long distance runs. Matti Sundell of Alston, Mass., is about the best pole vaulter that, we have in the U. S. U, at the present time. | The one, three and five mile levents promise to provide many thrills for the spectators. The! \trophies offered to the winners are worth competing for. The National | |Miners Union has donated a fine trophy, representing a miner with a |pick over his shoulder. ‘This prize | will go to the winner of the mile run. The National Textile Workers Union has offered a trophy for the three mile run, and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union ‘has promised a trophy for the five mile event. The Daily Worker is also in the race. So far it has suc- | ceeded in outdistancing the three in- dustrial unions by the offer of a \fine Daily Worker trophy to the club scoring the most number of points at the meet. If any other working class organi- | zations wish to offer trophies for |this meet they should communicate |with Walter Burke, National Secre- tary of the Labor Sports Union, at 164 40th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. * 8 * Now that Tommy Loughran has renounced his claim to» the light- Camp WORKERS Fifty Miles from New York City MODERN BUNGALOWS, ELEC- | TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS $23 for Tents—$ N. LECTURES AND DISCUSSION Under the Direction of Ray Ragozyn 27 for Bungalows Bs fis Special LOW RATES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Offiee $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office Y. Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 . | CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 weight title, the boys in this class|ten dolla are getting busy scrambling more|The total income of the affair was ears in the hope of one of them be-/$136,191. Out of this 47,300 went ing recognized by the State Boxing |to Mandell and $23,180 to Canzoneri Commission, the executive commit-| and the balance of $65,711 went into tee of the boxing business, as the|the pockets of Harmon. Profes- logical one to receive the big end sional boxing or any other bourgeois sport is only another industry which Joe Sekyra, an old trial horse,|is used for a double purpose—to will exchange biffs with George La dope the minds of the worke and |to extract what few cents the wo! ers may have left from their miser- jable wages. | Rocco, for a distance of ten rounds this Monday. This match is one of about 50 elimination contests that are being organized in all parts of the country. It is strange that when these elimination contests start no one knows when they end. This suits the promoters, since by playin; | up these socalled elimination con- Camp Wocolona has made a com- tests, more shekels can be gotten in| plete change in its management, the thru the turnstiles. management committee made known | |in a statement issued to the Daily Worker today. “We aimed to give the best ac- commodations, food and seryice,” the statement s; in part, “but because our manager was not. in sympathy with our cooperative principles, we. did not measure up to our goal.” | “However, since the Camp is now ‘under a new management, we feel that every effort has been made to improve all phases of activity.” Wocolona Changes’ Unisympathetic M’g’r Dancing Contest. The contest (we say contest, not fight) held between the “Rockford | Shiek,” Sammy Mandel, and Toney Canzoneri last Friday proved to be anything but a fight, Sammy as usual danced around the slower mov- ing Tony tkru ten full rounds to a decision. Last week the writer predicted that Sammy would win, but a corree- tion to that statemient is now neces- sary. We wish to add that Tony as : ieee a well as Patty Harmon, the Whee of COSTUME BALL THE the Chicago Stadium, also won. The, HUDSON FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH. poor suckers that paid from two to! MOONLITE CRUISE L ABORITES” BAN LABOR DEFENDER The Labor Defender, monthly pub- lication of the International Labor Defense, telling the story of class- war prisoners and victims, has been banned by His Majesty’s Labor Government of Great Britain. The International Labor Defense, with national offices at 80 East llth St., New York, today received | notice from Melbourne, Australia, that the Labor Defender is a “pro- hibited import.” Pictures of strikers, of workers, stories of their struggles and ac- counts of their aims are not per- mitted in a Labor-governed land. B. Barker, of Melbourne, to whom the copies were sent has received |the following letter from King George’s officials: “Take notice that a number of copies of a publication entitled ‘La- hor Defender’ has this day been seized as forfeited to His Majesty |on account of a contravention of the Customs Act, 1901-25 namely, that ‘the said publication is a prohibited import within the meaning of sec- tion 52 (g) of the said act.” The Labor government, serving jthe British imperialists during the, | Present period of intensive radicali- | | workers learn the truth about the |bosses. The Labor Defender has | therefore*been banned from the La- bor-controlled territory of Aus- tralia, | Veblen Dies; Death Concealed Two Days ® PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 7.—Thor- stein Veblen, a college economist | who startled his middle class audi- | Jences by presenting them with in- | teresting theories, written in a weird style, mest of them distorti of Marxian economics, though at the same time he attecked Marx, died Saturday at the age’ of 7% in his Menlo Park home. Tis death was kept secret until today. Veblen’s best known works are | “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” “The Theory of Business Enter- prise,” “The Instinct of Workman- ship,” “Imperial Germany ard the | Industrial Revolution,” “An Inquiry |Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation,” “The Higher Learning in America,” “The Vested Interests,” “The Engineers |and the Price System,” “Absentee | Ownership and Business Enterprise | | in Recent Times.” | | zation of the masses, fears lest the | ARREST ROY STEPHENS IN SIOUX CITY SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 7—Roy Stephens, distriet organizer of Dis- trict 10, Communist Pasty, v-3 sr- rested here, Sunday night, Aug. 4, cn a charge of speaking on the street without a permit. Stephens had spoken on the same street cor- ner Saturday night on the danger of imperialist war. He had jugt fin- ished speaking when Guy Andrews, the Police Commissioner, drove up, and ordered Stephens to cease speak- ing. Stephens told his audience of: workers, who had listened to his speech enthusiastically, to return to the same corner tomorrow for a second open air meeting. A large gathering of workers again attended the meeting the fol- lowing night. When the audience began to rapidly increase, the police arrested Stephens. The audience of workers jeered the police. Stephens is still being held. in jail, with no one allowed to see him. 4 | ah — (OPSTUME ee SS. PETER STUYVESANT FRIDAY EVE. AUG ae, Veo DAS Ce row 7 MERNON ANDRADES FAMOUS NEGRO * XRENAISSANCE ORCHETTRAT BAL ~ reas Dea, ‘AUSPICES;—DAILY WORKER . 4. Colony, 2800 Bronx Par! Tomorrow Night!) L HUDSON QAY LINE BOAT th & sy oF o oO ‘ad Ess o 4%" BOAT DOCKS 7 P. M.—LEAVES 8 P. M. SHARP--RETURNS 1 A. 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