The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1929, Page 4

"Publishing Co., Publisted by ¢ Square, New Paddrers and Inc., daily, ‘except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Y. Telephone Stuyvesant | 1696-7-8. cks to the Daily Worker, 26- 28 Union+Square, New York, N. ¥,, ania caer ys Cable: “DAIWORK.” « Baihy’S Central Organ of the Commu unist Party of the U. 8, A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 a year: By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 @ year; $2.50 three months $4.50 six months: $2.00 three months $3.50 six months; Significance of the Events in| Palestine Letter of the West European Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Dear Comrades, We wish herewith to draw the attention of all parties to the very great importance of the Arabian struggle for national-revolution in- dependence against British imperialism, a struggle which has taken on the form of open revolts during the last four weeks. The fact that the majority of our parties have not yet organized any campaign - to | “enlighten the masses upon the imy of the events in P; | and to assist the Ar aSSeS r struggle against Bri perialism, shows clearly that th re still elements in our ra fail to understand the demands of the third period. 1. Our parties have not s in Pales fficiently understood that the struggle ine must be regarded from the standpoint of the general revo- | lutionary struggle against imperialism, that it is a continuation of the same anti-imperialist movement which was powerfully expressed in the Chinese revolution, and that it is the forerunner of the coming tevolu- | tion inIndia. The struggle in Palestine is no sporadic or isolated event, | it is an integral part of the power wave which is sweeping over the whole o first rate, impor- ‘| tance that our parties sho ign in connection with the to the campaign conducted 2. In a number of parties 1 tendency to regard such events as the special fieid of activity of this or the other individual party. The struggle in P: tine for instance | was regarded as the special purview of the British and French Com- | munist Parties owing to the special political situation of ‘Palestine, Syria and the other so-call an mandated territory. This is a very serious er First of all rrectionary movement in each country which is exploited by imperialism is a matter of extreme im- portance for each worker in every capitalist country, and the insurrec- tion in Palestine with its far-reaching consequences places responsibili- ties upon all parties. Secondly, British imperialism has cleverly ex- ploited the racial and religious feelings of the Jews all over the world with the issue of the well-known Balfour Declaration of 1917 which guarantees Palestine as “the national home of the Jewish e.” With the assistance of the Zionist capitalist and fascist organizations, which represent an imperialist garrison in Palestine, the native Arabs are being systematically exploited and their lands taken possession of by Zionist groups. The insurrection of the Arabian mas terrible exploitation by British imperialism and by the Zioni in Palestine is described by the agents of the latter as a “pogrom,” or as “religious excesses,” etc. In this way the whole of the Jewish popu- lation in Europe and the United States is being mobilized against the anti-imperialist movement in Palestine. As there exists no country without its Jewish population, it is the duty of all parties to devote special attention to the Jewish elements in their particular countries, and to conduct an intensive campaign in order to expose the real character of Zionism and to expose the swindle of “The National Home for the Jewish Race.” The real sig- nificance of the Arabian insurrection must be made clear to the Jewish working masses, ‘and in particular, they must be shown the funda- mental difference between the imperialist-Zionist colonization of Pales- tine and the scheme of Jewish colonization being carried out in the Soviet Uniqp. In this connection it must be pointed out to the Jewish masses that the only solution of the Jewish question lies in'the inter- national revolutionary working class movement. Thirdly, Palestine is an extremely important military and strategical basis for an imperial- ist attack upon the Soviet Union. A naval harbor is being built in Haifa, a railway line of strategical importance connects Haifa with Bagdad, the air service is being carefully organized between London, | Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, and India, roads are being built through the desert, pipe-lines are being laid to the oil field in Mossul; all these preparations are part of the great efforts being made in Iraq, on the northwest frontier of India and in Persia for the organization of war against the Soviet Union. The significance of Palestine as a basis for an attack upon the Soviet Union must therefore be ‘made clear to the masses of the workers in Europe and in the United States. 3. With regard to the “attacks” of the Arabians upon the Jews in Palestine, it must be pointed out that the Arabian insurrectionary movement can under no circumstances be described as a pogrom. It is absurd to accuse the Arabians of “anti-semitic pogroms.” This is the accusation being raised by the Zionist imperialist agents in the press which is financed by them all over the world. First of all the Arabians themselves are Semitic, and secondly the Arabians and the Jews lived for hundreds of years in concord, even under Turkish rule. The Machiavellian policy of British imperialism, however, makes the Jews into the expropriators of the Arabiahs and misuses them as the | advance guard of imperialist exploitation in Palestine. The fact that | during the general insurrection of the Arabs, attacks have been made | upon Jewish intruders and lackeys of imperialism, is not to be wondered at. It is clear also that in the general disturbances, innocent Jewish workers and peasants have suffered severely, but they are the Victims of the policy of oppression and exploitation conducted by British im- perialism and by the Zionist rich landowners and capitalists in Pales- tine, and the victims of their own illusions about “an independent Jewish state.”" The truth is that the insurrectionary Arabi have attacked the Jews in Palestine, not as Jews, but as agents of British imperialism. 4, There is a certain tendency amongst some comrades to be misled by the plausible arguments of the so-called Communist section of the Poale Zion which declares that it is more revolutionary than any | other organization because it conducts a struggle both against the Arabian Muftis (religious leaders) and Affendis (rich landowners) on the one hand and against the Zionist capitalists on the other. It must be pointed out here that this “Poale Zion” declares itself in favor of Jewish emigration to Palestine on the ground that the Jewish workers | of Europe and the United States are more progressed, better organized | and more revolutionary than the Arabians, and that they therefore represent a strong revolutionary element in Palestine. This argu- ment is misleading. Jewish emigration to Palestine is only possible | under the conditions which British imperialism has created there. The conditions under which the Jewish workers now live in Palestine can only lead to antagonism between the Jewish and Arabian workers, and to the creation of a Jewish aristocracy of labor which will assist in crushing all revolutionary movement with the assistance of British imperialism. It is the duty of all our parties to fight against the ther an unfortunate and strong Jewish emigration to Palestine and to expose the imperialist character | of the activity of the Poale Zion. 5. When we make it clear that the Arabian struggle is a struggle against imperialism and against Zionism as the instrument of imper- ialism, we must also point out that there are economic and social forces | at the back of the general insurrectionary movement of the Arabians. There is a widespread discontent amongst the peasants of all the Arabian countries. The movement is developing into an agrarian revo- lution which will sweep away the imperialists, the Zionists and the Arabian rich landowners as well. The Arabian rich landowners are exploiting the general dissatisfaction of the masses in order to place themselves at the shead of the anti-imperialist moyement and to misuse it in their own class interest. The Arabian rich landowners are strug- gling against British imperialism and against the Zionist rich land- owners and capitalists for the right to exploit and oppress the Arabian masses. At the same time the Arabian rich landowners are the deadly enemies of the agrarian revolution of the Arabian masses. For this reason they directed the anger of the Arabian masses during the in- surrection against the Jews, giving this anger religious forms in order te prevent the insurrection developing into an agrarian revolution. The task of our Party in Palestine is to make it clear to the Arabian work ers and peasants that the Muftis and Effendis are reactionary leaders who will not and cannot conduct any serious struggle against British imperialism; that they are opposed to the agrarian revolution and that all they want is to exploit the mass movement for their own interests: that the struggle against British imperialism and against the Zionist intruders must be developed into an agrarian revolution; that this strug- gle must be organized by revolutionary peasant committees in the vil Jages, and that a united front must be formed between the Arabian an! Jewish workers and peasants in Palestine, against British imperialism, against the Zionist bourgeoisie and against the Arabian rich land- owners, in order to overthrow the system of exploitation hoth of the imperialists and Zionists on the one hand and of the Arabian rich land- owners on the other, and to establish in its place a free workers’ and peasants’ government as a first step towards a general Arabian Fed- eration of Workers’ and Peasants’ Republics, 6. In carrying out this campaign in support of the Arabian na- tional and agrarian revolutionary movement, special attention must | be paid to the merciless exposure of the imperialist role of the Mac- ; the Bri qr party, the British independent | Dae Caan Npen” SS Rpe ON ny OMEN ~ - confligting Capitalist: “That’s ‘Just the Man We nes for Mayor”. By Fred Ellis 12th Anniversary of October Revolution and Tasks of the Communist Party Within a short time comes the Twelfth Anniversary of the October ‘Revolution, The campaign for the Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution, which this year more than ever has a tremendous political significance, must be the political continuation and promotion of the previous international campaign against the imperialist | war danger carried on May First and August First. In the connection of both these previous campaigns, the Communist Party gained a political and organizational experience. The Party | must, however, realize that even August First marked only the be- | ginning of mass mobilization against imperialist war and for the de- | fense of the’ Soviet Union. Therefore, November 7 must show a great advance over these campaigns. It is therefore necessary to combat the téndency to look upon Aygust First merely as an episode in the struggle of the Communist Party and not as the day of a serious polit tical turn in the struggle against the imperialist war danger. From this standpoint the campaign for the Twelfth Anniversary must also be condficted along the lines of organizational strengthening and util- ization. of the results of the August First campaign. THE POLITICAL TASKS OF THE OCTOBER CAMPAIGN The main task of the October campaign is the mobilization of the working masses against imperialist war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union under the perspective of active struggle of the Communist Party for the establishment of proletarian dictatorship and Soviet power. Bound up with these fundamental taskseof the Communist Party, the following political tasks must at the present moment be brought up and placed in the foreground of the campaign: (1) As a basis of the struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union there must be widespread propaganda for the recent tremendous success of socialist construction in the first country of the proletarian dic- tatorship, making the broad masses familiar with the basis and the political significance of the Five-Year-Plan. In connection with this popularizing of the Five-Year-Plan, all recent successes must be brought out-which are making it possible to cut down the period for carrying out the Five-Year-Plan to four years. Above all the tremendous acti- vization of the working masses of the Soviet Union on the front of | socialist construction must be emphasized (socialist emulation, etc.). This propaganda must serve to counteract the slanders of the social- labor party, the Second (labor and socialist) International and the Amsterdam International (IFTU). * With regard to the role played by .the MacDonald government in order #0 maintain and extend the great system of British imperialist exploitation in the colonial countries, there exist a great number of proofs which can be presented.to the European workers. The treachery of the MacDonald government in 1924 with regard to China, ‘India, | Egypt, etc, must be recalled and presented to the workers together with a whole series of imperialist actions committed by the present labor government: In India, the great Meerut process, ‘tthe Lahore con- spiracy, the daily aryests of revolutionaries and the shooting down of strikers; in Egypt, the swindle agreement,ewhich is directed towards strengthening Great Britain’s control over the Suez Canal an@ over the national resources of Egypt and the Sudan; and in conclusion, the deliberate provocation of conflicts between the Arabs and the Zionists in which the latter were the aggressors and were armed by the British government.. The MacDonald government eagerly seized the oppor- tunity which had itslf created, of sending troops, warships, airplanes, armored cars, tanks etc. to Palestine. MacDonald will continue to utilise the opportunity in order to station a strong British garrison per- manently in Palestine with the pretext of “protecting Jewish life and property” against the Arabians. Henderson declared in Geneva that under the MacDonald government a change would take place in the mandate policy and that all possible steps would be taken in order. to maintain “law and order.” Leading members of the MacDonald cab- inet have received the fascist Zionist leaders who have uninterrupted entry to the MacDonald ministers. It must be pointed out that leading members of the British labor party MacDonald, Henderson, Snowdén and his. wife are foundation members of the Jewish Agency and that the British labor party supports the Zionist movement, knowing per- fectly well that it is an instrument of British imperialism. * The MacDonald government is doing everything possible in order to turn, Palestine from a “Mandate Territory” into an open colony of the British Empire, under the title of the “Seventh Dominion.” The chief supporters of this scheme in Great Britain are the members of the labor party, Colonel Josiah Wedgewgod, Commander Kenworthy and: vrummond Shields, the under secretary Wf state for India. The left wing social-democrats in the British independent labor party demand in their official organ, “The New Leader,” that the, Mac- Donald government should strengthen the police force in Palestine in order “to protect the Jews.” It must also not be forgotten that, despite the antagonism and its of British and French imperialisms, the two are aorking together in order to crush the Arabian national-revolutionary movement which is cctive in all Arabian countries, Palestine, Syria, vansjordania and Iizq. It is the duty of the international proletariat, ad in particular of ail sections of the Communist International to sup- jort the Arabian national-revolutionary movement with all penuiete means, aoe: With fraternal greetings, ~ ening of the Agitprop work of our factory nuclei. imperialists and their liquidatorial supporters against the Soviet Union. The success of socialist construction must be used as a lever for mobil- izing the masses against imperialist war and for active solidarity of the world proletariat with the Soviet Union. (2) While the Soviet Ufiion is carrying on a consistent proletarian policy, the activity of the Second International and particularly its governments, is characterized by the transition to social fascism and social imperialism, One of the main lines of the October campaign must therefore be directed to the participation in the government in England and Ger- many of the parties of the Second International, in accordance with the directives of the Tenth Plenum for the sharpening of the struggle vagainst social imperialism and social fascism. The anniversary of the October Revolution makes it possible to compare in the light of the concrete political experience of recent times the policy of. the Soviet + Union with the imperialist polfey of MacDonald. In contrast to the peace policy of the Soviet Union which has defended the interests of the proletarian.world revolution in the East, MacDonald’s clubbing of ‘the Arabian masses in Palestine with the approval of the Second Inter- national must be clearly brought out. In contrast to the steady im- provement of the living conditions of the working masses in the Soviet Union, the active participation of the parties of the Second Interna- tional and their governments in measures for worsening the living con- ditions of the workers must be unmasked (conflict in Lancashire, ques- tion of unempleyment in Germany, ett.). (3) Side hy side with the conflict over the Eastern Chinese Rail- road the concreate measures of the capitalist governments for tighten- ing up the anti-Soviet front must be made clear (new military alliance of the States of the Little Entente, etc.). In particular it must be brought out that under the leadership of MacDonald and Muller, the League of Nations has increased its aggressiveness against the Soviet Union. A proof of this is the agreement debated at the present session of the Leaguee of Nations pledges itself in case of war to financial support of its “attacked” members. In this connection also the so-called Pan-European Plan of Briand as a plan actually directed against the Soviet Union. In spite of the fact that war preparations still being carried on, always to some extent under a pacifist cloak, it is character- istic that at this same session of the League of Nations MacDonald definitely dropped the Geneva Protocol. (4). The October campaign must be furthemore conducted on the basis of contrasting the extension of proletarian democracy in the Soviet Union (Party cleansing, proletarianizing of the Soviet apparatus, struggle against bureaucracy, etc.) with the development of the fascist system in all capitalist countries. The struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union must be most closely related with the struggle against fascism and fascization. Particularly the contrast between proletarian democracy in the Soviet Union and fascist trror in the capitalist coun- tries must be utilized to emphasize the necessity for proletarian dic- tatorship. The general struggle against fascism must be made con- crete by the' struggle for the release of political prisoners, the inter- national utilization of the Austrian events, the campaign against the terror in Yugoslavia, ete. (5) In view of the fact that the counter-revolutionary press’ and particularly the press of the social-democracy and the liquidators, is attempting to utilize the stand of the Right elements in the C.P.S.U. to discredit socialist construction, the political mistakes of the Bukharin group must be clearly explained in connection with the utilization of the success of socialist construction. (6) As a method of action in the struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union, general propaganda for the political mass strike must form one of the principal parts of the campaign, in accordance with the resolutions of the Tenth Plenum, and this propaganda must be linked up with the concrete event§ in this country. This is very important because of the tremendous role that the political mass strike played in the history of the Russian Revolution. ‘ ORGANIZATIONAL FORM OF THE CAMPAIGN The main organizational task of the campaign is the strengthening and building up of the position of the Communist Party in the factories on the basis of the application of the united front tactic from below, and from the standpoint of concentrating on the immediate strategic aim—on the conquest of the majority of the working class by the Com- munist Party. is means the linking up of the main political questions of the October campaign with mass mobilization in the factories. In erder to agcomplish this it is most important that the organizational prepa- rations should not be based on territorial forms but on the factories. Consequently, the Communist Party must direct its atention chiefly te the strengthening and building up as well as political activization of the factory nuclei, With the aid of activization of the factory nuclei and building up of nuclei particularly in strategic big factories (from a war standpoint), where we so far have no stronghold, the development of new forms of the proletarian united front from below must be car- ried out. One of the main facts of the October campaign mus tbe to strength- en the existing united front organs in the factories and to establish such bodies where they do not yet exist. The attention of the factory nuclei must Be concentrated on this task. At the same time the rise of bourgeois terror calls for a strength- The increasing per- secugion of our Party calls for the Sone ation of the distribution ap- paratus in the factories and the BY “as i ALEXANDER NEWEROFF THE CIT : OF BREAD Reprinted, by permission, from ‘The City of Bread” by Alexander sis published and copyrighted by Doubleday—Doran, New York. Sete aed TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN (Continued) Behind the station, campfires smouldered. There was a smell of boiling water, of enions and potatoes and burnnig dung, Women, naked to the waist, unkempt, unwashed, hunted for lice in the seams of their shirts. Mujiks, with trousers unfastened, bent their heads over the turned-back flaps, stopping to spit on their dirty, bloody fingernails. In full view of all a girl suddenly squatted down, suffering from dysentery, her face contorted with pain. There was nowhere to hide oneself. They drove you away from under the railroad cars. Before the station toilet with its two divisions tood a large queue, longer than the one before the kipiatok. The fields beyond the station, the holes, the ditches, were smeared nad befouled. And in the midst of this filth the people lay, stupefied with misery, tortured by vermin, surrendered to sodden despair. Trains came and went. The fortunate ones got away, on the buffers, on the roofs, The unfortunate roamed the station for weeks at a time, long de- spairing days, fever-shaken nights. Mothers wailed over their starving / babies; starving babies bit at their. mothers’ withered, milkless breasts. / Mishka and Serioshka stood beside a campfire. Mishka began to poke around in the ashes with a long stick. A disheveled woman screamed piercingly: z “Go to the devil! One thief after another! .. .” A mujik in a sheepskin buttoned to the throat glowered at Mishka, “What do you want here?” “I don’t want anythnig ... I’m looking for my people,” “Better not come too near * then!” In a corner of the waiting room beneath a bench lay a Tartar boy with a scabby hairless head. stony dank silence: “Qi, Allah! Oi, Allah!” In another corner lay a mujik, his arms outflung, his face what’ was fremed in ragged red beard, turned, up. Over the filthy hairs of the beard big gray lice crawled, like ants over an anthill. The mujik’s eyes opened, closed, opened, closed again.. One leg ni its trailing leg- wrap kept twitching. The other was stuck out motionless. On his mustache near his damp nostrils sat an immense green fly, with an iridescent blue-green head. Serioshka asked: “Why is he lying there like “that?” Mishka did not answer. A small piece of dirty bread that lay near the mujik drew him with irresistible force. Mishka understood that the mujik was dying, and thought: “It would be a god thing te get that bread. There is no one around, no one would see. The Tartar boy is lying face downward. Even if he'did sée, he wouldn’t chase me. A bigger piece for me, and a smaller piece for Serioshka, because he is smaller himself...” ’ eo Se sees paced up and down, from one wall to the other, glancing out of the window as he went by. His legs suddenly grew weak from the queer, sweetish sensation of first theft, his face and his ears burned. He caught hold of Serioshka and whispered to him hastily, with absent eyes: “Look over there!” “Where? “There, behind the door.” One, two—done! “Mishka, what is there to look at?” “Don’t look any more, it isn’t necessary .. .” Outside, no the platform, the mujiks were crowding around the station master, pleading with him, in the name of Christ, to let them travel farther. “Comrade station: master, please have the goodness to do this for us.” “Comrades, comrades, have patience, it’s impossible now!” Mishka ran along with the mujiks. When the mujiks halted, Mishka halted too, holding Serioshka, dazed and uncomprehending, by the hand. When the mujiks took off their caps, Mishka took off his old, torn cap nad nudged Serioshka. “Take yours off!” Nothing came of it, however, and the mujiks began to curse. Mishka said, too, like a grown-up man: e “Looking for a bribe, . . .” (To be Continued) Over and over again he cried in “| ( and of illegal literature. Special numbers of the factory papers must be issued on November 7. These tasks must be bound up with the strengthening and building up of the illegal apparatus of the Commu- nist Party. As for the non-Party mass organizations care must be taken to have our trade wnion organizations in particular (Red trade unions and fraction in the reformist trade unions) drawn more closely into the carrying out of the campaign. This means that the systematic building up of Communist fractions in these mass organizations must be continued and that our fractions must be in closer contact with the masses. The success of the collectivization of agriculture in the Sovi Union, which is linked up with the sharpened attack on the kulaks o1 the one hand, and with the raising of the standard of living of thi peasant masses on the other hand, forms the basis for the broad mass mobilization of the leading sections of the rural working population, which are constantly growing more radical. With the aid of such organizations as “The Friends of the Soviet Union,” which must be more firmly anchored among the working masses the sending of delegation to Russia must be organized and they must be utilized for propaganda for the Twelfth Anniversary. Finally the Communist Party in the October campaign must lay great stress on the work amongst the soldiers, marines, etc. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN * In carrying out the October campaign on this political basis, there can be no doubt that the preparations for November 7 will result in @ new wave of terroristic oppression of the revolutionary labor move- ment by the capitalist government. Therefore, it is the task of the Communist Party to deal the main blow against police terror and its social-fascist agents. The sharpened persecutions must be answered by the mobilization of the workers in the factories hy psopaganda for the political mass strike, by propaganda and effective measures for buildin, gup proletarian self-defense (workers’ defense committees) and by active struggle for the release of pdlitical prisoners (strengthening of the W.LR. and application of such organization measures as the patronage of certain prisoners by individual factories). Linked up with this is the task of sharpening thé struggle for the streets &’nd of breaking through the demonstration prohibitions of the bourgeois gov- ernment and the social-fascist agents which must culminate in the ar- rangement of mighty demonstrations on November 7. For the pre- paration and carrying on of. theese demonstrations committees of action made up of factory delegates in the different strategic industrial centers, must be established in order to give the demonstrations the character of wide-spread united front action. In following out the political and organizational directives, the Communist Party must work to have the October campaign signify a new ide in carrying out tlte tasks set by the Tenth Plenum, particularly the mai pe _Strateric. task of conquering the majority of the 4 oo anasiial