The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1929, Page 3

+ a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929 Page Three = — CGTU, French Militant Labor Center Congress Puts Down Reformists; A pplauds CHIANG CENSORS DRIVE EVEN OWN PRESS TO WRATH Worker Press Entirely Illegal in China SHANGHAI, China (By Mail). — In Soochow, even the reactionary newspaper editors have had to re- volt against the arbitrary and tyrannical censorship of the Kuom- intank government. Of course the revolutionary and Communist press is entirely illegal. Officials from the military, police and Kuomintang party offices all came down on the newspapers and gave so many orders for prohibi- tions and alterations that the news- paper staffs despaired of turning out anything at all, and simply stopped work. Win the Strike. After a long argument it was agreed that no interference should take place in the future, and the editorial staffs of 11 papers agreed not to tolerate any more censorship “for the time being.” These journals are not in the least degree radical nor opponents of the Kuomintang regime. Nevertheless, in connection with the suppression of all criticism by the Kuomintang this is significant as the first signs of developing tendency among the more liberal-minded sections of the bourgeoisie to oppose the sweeping restrictions imposed on all publica- tions. This uprising in Sochow has not helped the situation in Shahghai, where the imperialist cooperation wtih the Nanking dictators in sup- pressing freedom of press among the Chinese is shown by the fact that while branches of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are not allowed in the International Settle- ment the Chinese Government cen- sor has an office right in the very heart of that Concession in the dist- rict where the Chinese dailies are published. In other parts of the country there is simjlar suppression. Papers owned even by Kuomintang members themselves are closed down. Thus on July the Tientsin “Yit Ming Pao” was barred from circulating in Chinese territory. Exposed Graft. Censorship is very thoro. Recent- ly Tsai Tiao-doo, editor of the Shanghai “Lung Pao,” was arrested in the French Concession Tsai, who is a well-known journalist, is ac- cused of having printed articles de- faming Chiang Kai-shih’s wife; T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, and Yang Hu, former Garrison Com- mander. In reference to the last- mentioned the British-owned “North China Daily News” some time ago printed a series of articles in which he was described at great length as the Tammany Hall gand leader of Shanghai. He was said to owe his power to secret societies com- posed of the criminal elements, to opium smugglers, ete. A proof- reader is said to have betrayed Tsai to the police. Shanghai Mayor Bans Strikes; Complaining Lebor Don’t Obey Him SHANGHAI, China (By Mail).— The Mayor of the Chinese cities adjoining the settlements has issued an order forbidding strikes of any kind. His order points out that un- der the Nationalist Government regulations “no strike or suspension of work is allowed to result from any labor dispute between employ- ers and employees. During the period when their disputes are under mediation by the authorities cessa- tion of work initiated either by em- ployees or employers is not toler- ated.” He quotes the same decree to the effect that “the employees are not allowed to behave in the foliowing manner: To close or hold the shops or factories in which they work, to destroy or take possession of ar- ticles from the shops or factories, or to instigate others to strike.” Workers Disobey. The Mayor complains that the workers have not been obeying ese instructions. They have even gesorted to the destrusion of fac- tory machinery, he declares. He concludes with the warning that “ander no circumstances shall labor strikes or suspensions of work by the employers be allowed.” ‘ The warning to the employers is, of course, to preserve the appear- ance of neutrality of the govern- ment in industrial disputes. This order, applying to the largest and most important industrial dist- rict in China, taken together with the fact that in the two settlements strikes have always been illegal has strike agitation, reveals to the world the real role of the Kuomin- tang and all its governmental organs as that of “running-dog” of the im- perialists and suppressor of the masses, be they industrial workers or the peasants, Taxi Drivers Union Joins the T. U. U L. The Taxi Chauffeurs Union at a meeting held at the Labor Temple, 84th St., near Third Ave., voted to affiliate with the Trade Union Unity League, it was announced vesterday, FIGHT AGAINST THE RIGHT DANGER On the Deviations and Mistakes of Comrade Bukhanin (From the “Pravda” of August 24, 1929.) The decisions of the E.C.C.I. and of the ©, C. of the C. P. of Ger- many published in the last number of “Pravda,” the opportunist mis- takes of Comrade Bukharin, who up to the April Plenum of the C. C. of the C.P.S.U. was the responsible editor of “Pravda” and one of the leaders of the Comintern, deserve the most serious attention. The role which Comrade Bukharin has played in the leading work of our Party and of the whole Comintern is sufficiently known. This fact alone compels us to deal in detail with the grave opportunist mis- takes which Comrade Bukharin has committed in the course of the last period, in order to make this perfectly clear to the broad masses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as well as of the whole Comintern. Already before the last July Plenum of the C, C. Comrade Bukharin perceptibly deviated from the line of the Fifteenth Party Congress. This was the case in fundamental questions of Party policy, such as the relation of the working class to the peasantry, as well as the tempo and the direction of work in the socialist reconstruction of agriculture. Already at that time we had to face the organized sabotage of the kulak portion of the village in the carrying out of the grain procuring, together with vacillations of various middle peasant sections towards the kulak. Whilst our Party made certain concessions to the middle peasantry (increase of grain prices) it considered it necessary, un- swervingly to continue the measures for the reconstruction of the village in the sense of the decisions of the Fifteenth Party Congress (collective undertakings and Soviet farms), on the basis of a determined attack upon the kulak and of the alliance of the poor and middle peasants with the Party. Comrade Bukharin at that time was inclined to re- nounce the offensive against the kulak, to relegate into the background the measures for the socialist reconstruction of the village, to reduce the state regulation of trade and to grant the kulak a whole number of fundamental concessions in the direction of a development of capi- talist relations in the village. The Party, on the other hand, sought a way out of the grain diffi- culties by means of cooperation and collectivization of agriculture (with a simultaneous consolidation of the alliance with the middle peas- ants). Comrade Bukharin sought this way out by means of a consolida- tion of the capitalist upper strata of the village, by means of promot- ing the production of their undertakings for the market. As a result, for more than a year there existed profound fundamental differences of opinion between the line of our Party and Comrade Bukharin’s line. And if these differences of opinion did not come to light already at that time, it was only due to the fact that Comrade Bukharin at that time did not venture to defend consistently and determinedly his mis- stakes which led to the break with the line of the Party. At the Sixth Congress of the Comintern also, Comrade Bukharin made a number of erroneous statements both in his report and in his concluding speech of the first item of the agenda of the Congress (“The International Situation and the Tasks of the Comintern”). When Com- rade Bukharin spoke of post-war capitalism entering the third period of the technical reconstruction of capitalism, as the period of the strengthening of the inner organization of capitalism, and in fact as a consolidation of capitalist stabilization. This standpoint was expressed by a whole number of delegates at the Congress (Ewert, Lovestone, Pepper), from which Comrade Bukharin did not consider it’ necessary to dissociate himself. Further, in analyzing the contradictions of capi- talist stabliziation Comrade Bukharin stated that the outer contradic- tions of the capitalist countries are beginning to play the decisive role and not the inner contradictions between capital and proletariat (within the individual countries and on an international scale), Only one con- clusion can be drawn from this: A revolutionary situation is only brought about by war and not by an accentuation of the class struggle within the capitalist system along with the growth of the war danger. Such an inference: lulled to sleep the revolutionary activity of the Communist Parties and provided the occasionefor a demagogic agitation of social democracy, which declared that the Comintern, which desires to win the broad masses of the working class, is taking everything upon the card of war. At the Sixth Congress of the Comintern it was clearly seen that Comrade Bukharin did not wish to conduct any fight against those comrades (especially of the German Party) who adopted a conciliatory attitude towards the Rights. On the other hand, Comrade Bukharin did not show at the Sixth Congress sufficient determination and con- sistency in defending to the last his erroneous statements and ten- dencies. The resolutions of the Sixth Congress (among them being the resolution on the report of Comrade Bukharin on the international situation and the tasks of the Comintern), after they had been dis- cussed in the Plenum and in the commissions of the Congress and also by the individual delegations, gave a decidedly Bolshevist answer to all the fundamental questions of the international Communist movement. But when it was a question of converting these resolutions into action, when immediately after the Congress the Right and conciliatory elements in the C. P. of Germany organized a genuine revolt against the C, C. and against the line of the Sixth Congress, we did not see Comrade Bukharin in the first ranks of the fighters for this line. Com- rade Bukharin preferred to stand diplomatically aside, without uttering or writing a single word in defense of the line of the Sixth World Con- gress which everybody expected of him in view of his position in the Comintern. Nay more. Comrade Bukharin did not by a single word protest against the speculation with his name; that the German con- ciliators claimed to have his solidarity, those conciliators who had formed a regular bloc with the Rights against the C. C. of the German C. P. and even against the Comintern. Not a single participant in the German inner-Party struggles could doubt after this that Comrade Bukharin is really at one with the German conciliators who are fighting against the line of the Comintern. Comrade Bukharin found time and opportunity in the Autumn of 1928 to come forward openly against the general line of the C. P. S. U. in his article: “Remarks of an Economist,” which has acquired un- enviable fame. Co:arade Bukharin’s attacks were chiefly directed against the tempo of our industrialization, as provided for in the Five-Year Plan according to the decisions of the Fifteenth Party Con- gress. Comrade Bukharin’s criticism, which is formally directed against the specialists of the State Planned Economic Commission, is in fact directed against the C. C, of our Party. Through the whole article there runs like a red thread the tendency of slowing down the tempo of our industrialization, of adaption to the “weak points.” The very ambiguous remarks in this article by Comrade Bukharin regard- ing the degradation of agriculture catsed the reader to assume that in our country there is really taking place a degradation of agriculture as a result of the erroneous policy of the Party, as the bourgeois pro- Sandino’s Wife Hurt in Automobile Crash TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 20.—Teresa Villatoro, wife of Au- gusto Sandino, leader of the Nicara- guan rebels against American im- perialism, and Sandino’s son were among seven persons seriously in- jured in an automobile accident near Perpire. ‘ TRY INDIA'S WAY TO HELP BLADDER COMPLETE TOUR FREE SOVIET VISAS rey, capsules—filled with taloil—discovered i fre petra tide India—often give prompt, lief. Doctors acclaim it a disinfectant, ‘eee ulant oil, soothing ti mucous membranes of bid: © ‘eg der and Genuine bea: tture of gate of Send Tourist res See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. REVOLUTION °29z. Group Sails: —S.S, AQUITANIA—October 23 The Oldest Travel Organization to to the U. 8. S. R. fessors have been maintaining for a long time. Here again Comrade Bukharin had not sufficient consistency to defend to the very end the standpoint which he had laid down in his article “Remarks of an’ Econ- omist.” Not quite a year has passed since the publication of this article. The tempo which at that time was provided for our industry by the State Planned Economic Commission has been far surpassed by the Five-Year Plan which has been adopted by the Sixteenth Party Con- ence and the Fifth Soviet Congress. A number of concrete correc- tions are already being made in this Five-Year Plan in the direction of a further increase of the tempo. Life has shattered the sinister pre- dictions of the author of “Remarks of an Economist,” which remarks were prompted by the disbelief in the forces of the working class and the overestimation of the difficulties of socialist construction, and noth- ing has remained of the whole capitulation theory of this article. Although the Party has from the beginning decidedly and unani- mously rejected such an attitude, although Comrade Bukharin was not yet determined in Autumn, 1928, to. defend this view to the last | consequences and it seemed that he would overcome his vacillations, Comrade Bukharin has nevertheless not abandoned his struggle against the general line of the Party. At the beginning of 1929, on the anniversary of Lenin’s death, Comrade Bukharin published in the “Pravda” an article in which he, in a disguised form, resumed his attack on the Central Committee. The article was full of sallies against our leadership, which, allegedly, did not come up to the requirements of the latest science and tech- nique. The reasons for these shortcomings Comrade Bukharin could only see in the “incorrect” policy; in the refusal to slow down the pace of industrialization—contrary to all the scientific interpretations of Comrade Bukharin—; that we were not inclined to make concessions to the kulak; that we were not inclined to stake our card on the capi- talist development of the village. Bourgeois “culture,” science, in the person of Kondratjevs and his like, long ago pointed out to our coun- try and to the Soviet Power this means of overcoming the difficulties. Comrade Bukharin adopted a still more direct and clear position in his speech at the Moscow Plenum of the Party and Soviet organiza- tions under the heading: “The Political Legacy of Lenin.” His poli- tical line (which is now sufficiently clear) of capitulation and conces- sions to the kulak elements of the country, Comrade Bukharin recom- mended to the Party as “Lenin’s legacy.” When on this occasion some comrades referred to Eduard Bernstein, who subjected Marx to a re- vision under the flag of Marxism, this was not at all a polemical exag- geration. Comrade Bukharin has deserved this comparison. How could one react differently to the attempt of cloaking opportunism and capitulatory tendencies with the banner of Lenin! If one were to judge according to Comrade Bukharin’s report, then it would appear that Lenin never taught anything else but “caution” towards the peas- antry; that he never mentioned anything of the kulak in his last ar- ticle (why, therefore, does the Party again and again undertake its attacks on the kulak); that Lenin considered the building up of Com- munism in the village (Soviet farms and collective undertakings) as . an untimely idea and was in favor of carrying out industrialization by means of thriftiness and the simplification of the state apparatus, but by no means by an “overburdening” of the peasantry. Thus Comrade Bukharin gradually developed a whole system of opportunist views and a whole tactical line fundamentally different from that of the Party. In international questions Comrade Bukharin actually defends the thesis of the increasing strength of capitalist stabilization. There inevitably follows from it the rejection of the whole conception of the Sixth Congress regarding the new revolu- tionary upsurge; there follows the glossing over of the growing con- tradictions between the working class and capitalism; there follows the support (for the time being only diplomatically) of the Right and conciliatory tendencies in the Comintern. With regard to the inner-Russian questions: the slowing down of the pace of industrialization, using as a pretext the weak spots; aban- donment of the line of the Fifteenth Party Congress, of the policy of the broad and intensive socialist reconstruction of agriculture; the idea of raising the level of the whole, village (on the basis of the individual peasant undertakings) that is to say, the unchaining of the capitalist elements in the village; the theory of peaceful co-existence with the kulak; the peaceful growing of the kulak into socialism; the aban- donment of the consistent and. determined struggle against bureau- | eratism in the state apparatus by means of self-criticism, which in practice would mean a conciliatory attitude towards the distortion of the class line in the work of this apparatus and open conciliatory ten- dencies towards that portion of the bourgeois specialists in the town who are not prepared to settle down to the idea of the Soviet Power. All this together represents capitulation in face of the capitalist ele- ments on all fronts of our socialist construction. The Right opposition which has arisen in our Party thus found in Comrade Bukharin its theoretician and leader. This opposition has become the center and point of attraction for all Right, conciliatory elements who have separated from Communism or are about to sepa- rate from it in the international Communist movement. After the April Plenum and the Sixteenth Party Conference, which criticized in detail the views of Comrade Bukharin and of his followers in all the fundamental questions of Party policy one could expect that the representatives of the Right Opposition in our Party, although they may perhaps not openly recognize their mistakes, would at least refrain from a further struggle against the Party line, which has been splen- didly confirmed by all the experiences of our socialist construction in the course of the last months since the conference, But this was not the case. This was not the case, before all with regard to Comrade Bukharin. Comrade Bukharin published before the Tenth Plenum of the E. C. C. I. an article on “Organized Mismanagement” in which he repeated, de- veloped and deepened his mistakes which were ascertained at the Sixth Plenum and which already at that time brought him very near to the Rights and conciliators. Comrade Bukharin now speaks still more openly than at the Sixth Congress of the growth of the capitalist ele- ments, of the organized state of the capitalist system, of overcoming the anarchist tendency in production and trade, of the mitigation of the inner contradictions. Comrade Bukharin has thereby made a de- cided step from the Marxist-Leninist estimation of the system of monopolist capitalism to the views of the social democratic decadents of Marxism from the Hilferding school. Needless to say this step encountered unanimous and determined resistance on the part of the representatives of all the sections at the Tenth Plenum. And precisely as an answer to this conception the Tenth Plenum has relieved Com- rade Bukharin of his function as member of the Presidium of the E. C. NEW YORK LONDON LENINGRAD MOSCOW WORLD TOURISTS 175 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK Flatiron Building Telephone: Algonquin 6656 — 8797 | C. I, and adopted that recently published political resolution on the | mistakes of Comrade Bukharin. The Party is fully conscious of the great merits of Comrade Buk- | harin who for many years has fought in our ranks side by side with Lenin. The Party highly appreciates the great work which Comrade years in the leadership of our Party, m. But Bukharin performed in the last already after Lenin’s death, in the struggle against Trotskyis jt is impossible for the Party to consider Comrade Bukharin as the in- fallible guardian of “Lenin’s legacy.” The Party has not forgotten the great mistakes which Comrade Bukharin committed in the past, his long struggle against Lenin. Comrade Bukharin still conducted this | struggle in the years of the imperialist world war, when he vacillated between the semi-anarchist views on the state and the program of the | Party on the one hand, and the conciliatory tendencies towards the open centrist elements of the kind of Trotsky and their opportunist | conceptions. | For a number of years, during and after the war, Comrade Buk- | harin defended anti-Leninist Luxemburg opinions regarding the na- tional question, which is of enormous importance in the epoch of im- | perialism. In the year 1918 Comrade Bukharin stood at the head of the fraction of the Left Communists, who almost brought about a split, and who whilst they themselves were sitting to their ears in the petty bourgeois bog, accused the Party and Lenin of degeneration. In the year 1919, at the Highth Party Congress, Comrade Bukharin was the first to criticize the Leninist draft of the Party Program. In the year 1920 he wrote the brochure, “The Economy of the Transition Period,” which called forth a number of very energetic criticisms from Lenin (this brochure contained various germs of Bukharin’s present ideas regarding “organized capitalism.”) In the year 1921 Comrade Bukharin entered the ranks of the Trotskyist Opposition to the Leninist C. ©. and made a number of quite impermissible concessions to the semi-anarchist-syndicalist ideology of the labor opposition. Finally, at the time of the Third Congress of the Comintern, also in the year | 1921, Comrade Bukharin fought against Lenin in the fundamental ques- | tions of the tactics of the Comintern, After Lenin’s withdrawal from work, Comrade Bukharin came for- ward, after the Twelfth Party Congress, in defense of the deviation of the Georgian comrades, who later went over to Trotsky, and in their overwhelming majority have been expelled from the Party together with the whole Trotskyist Opposition. In the year 1925, at the begin- ning of the struggle against the so-called new Opposition, Comrade Bukharin, who joined the Party in this struggle, committed a number of great opportunist mistakes (the slogan “Enrich yourselves”; the declaration regarding the kulak cooperatives, which, allegedly, along with the concession undertakings, are growing into our socialist s, tem; the observations that it is possible for us to advance to socie at a “snail’s pace”) although at that time he admitted some of these mistakes. However great the services of Comrade Bukharin in the past may be he has not therefore the right to come before the Party in the role of the infallible and only authentic interpreter of Lenin’s legacy and as the only guardian of this legacy. That Comrade Bukharin has become, in the twelfth r of the Soviet Power, the leader of the Right Opposition in our Pa that his present mistakes surpass all the limits of his former mistakes, proves the extent of the danger which threatens our Party from the Right deviation, without the exposure and overcoming of which the succe: ful socialist construction in our country and the further consolidation of the Party is unthinkable. The experience with the former oppo tions shows us where the struggle against the Party leads. This ex- perience must serve as a serious warning for Comrade Bukharin. Whatever position Comrade Bukharin may adopt at present— whether he will have sufficient courage to admit his mistakes, or whetber he will develop and deepen them further—our Party possesses sufficient proletarian firmness and determination in order to continue the struggle against the Right deviation, which is disintegrating its ranks and to conduct this struggle to the final victory. \‘Socialists’ of Germany Fascist Valdemaras [Refuse Visas to USSR Cabinet Out; Another Worker - Esperantists Just As Bad In Place he LEIPSIG, Germany (By Mail).—} Kovno, Lithuania, Sept. 20. \'The social-democratic government | cabinet of Premier Augustinas jof Germany, thru its ambassador to comieres eee ° i | Finance Minister Tubelis was named the U. S. S. R., refused visas t/t) form a new government. Reasons jall but two of the Soviet delegates | for the cabinet resignation were not |to the World Congress of the S. | disclosed. jA. T. (Class-Conscious Worker-Es-| The Valdemaras cabinet is a pure gaiasntii 225 “ ‘ascist government, seizing control |perantists), which was held here | fascist t, sei 1 : van | by arms, but the change of ministry from Aug. 4 to 10, with nearly 700 tds’ Hoe Hen sAprerraatitd |delegates from 28 countries partici-| removal of the fascists from power. |pating. The two workers’ republic | Inefficiency and graft scandals are representatives were to| believed to be at the back of the attend the congress on the express | !¢signation. condition that they “were not to |mix in German politics.” | “allowed” | Our own age, the bourgeols age, | Is distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisms. The working c¢lnas cannot simply) More and more, society is splitting Id of the rendy-made state; up into two great hostile camps, rie weleld fe for ite ot | Into two great and directly contra- 2 | posed classes: bourgeoiste and pro- letarint—Marx. and by getting behind the Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Thursday, October 3rd........ 50 | Friday, October 4th. «. 50 | Saturday, October 5th........$1.00 Sunday, October 6th.......... .50 Total... «$2.50 ; 7 ¢ car igned today and former OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Leave all your buying for those days because Madison Square Garden will be turned into A FOUR-DAY DEPARTMENT STORE RILU MAJORITY FOR REVOLUTIONARY AFFILIATIONS Minority Movement of Germany Welcomed PARIS, France, Sept. 20.—The seventh session of the Fifth Con- gress of C. G. T. (the militant French trade union center) was held yesterday, The delegate of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions appeared and was welcomed with tremendous en- thusiasm. He br t the fraternal greetings of the R. I..L. U. to the id made a great speech the C. G. T. U. in ng the revolutionary masses. represe ve of the German Union Mine y Movement and greeted with great congress, on the tasks of winn was | Reformist Minority. the R. I. L, U. delegate’s discussion continued, in which the right wing minority in ithe C. G. T. U. were given full op- portunity to express their defeatest ideas. The minority declared capitalism |was rapidly stabilizing itself and denied any immediate war danger. rity delegates, answer- ed the present struggle . T. U. svas a recrudesence |of the -'4 fight between revolution- ists and reformist=. i} | | he Fifth Congress of the C. G. | | T. U. is attended by 589 delegates. AUSTRO FASCISTI DICKERFORPOWER \Fix Up Plans to Take Joint Control VIE A (By Mail).—Through an indiscretion of the fascist press \it has become known that the social |democrats are negotiating through {Dannenberg and the Vienna finance expert Breitner with the Vienna police presidium in order to regulate | Vienna police questions. | The negotiations, which haye been | proceeding for several days, have |already progressed so far that it is ble to speak of a general reg- | ulation of the outstanding questions. | As a result of these negotiations the | Vienna police will remain finally junder the command of Schober, the |police president. These negotiations are in general regarded as a favor- |able commencement of the general | constitutional reform. The actual meaning of these nego- tiations is that the social democratic |party is at one with the bourgeois |parties, and thus with fascism, in |carrying out the fascists constitu- | tional reforms and thus preparing |the way for the fascist dictatorship. With regard to the constitutional reform itself, the left wing democra- tic press which is closely connected with the social-democracy, and the social democratic evening newspaper, declare that the social democracy has no intention of using its parlia- ment strength in order to ob- struct parliamentary business, | In this direction also therefore |the social democracy will assist the |bourgeoisie in carrying out its dic- tatorship plans. Today a party con- ference of the S.D.P. took place to deal with a number of political ques- tions, including the question of con- stitutional reform. Up to the mo- ment there is no report concerning ithe result of this conference. 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