The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 3

ee yy. INTERNATIONAL RIGHT WING 1S HOME OF LIARS Munchausen Lives Yet In Herr Brandler On October 19 and 20, a so-called “national conference” of the Brand- lerites (the opportunist group which was expelled from the Communist Party of Germany), was held at Weimar, Germany. Representatives of the expelled right wingers (whose policy is one that liquidates the Communist Party) from Czechoslo- vakia, America, Austria and Norway, were also present. Brandler, the leader of the inter- national right wing, ni his opening speech, declared that this opposi- tion had been caused by what he termed “the anti-workingclass” de-| gress of the Red International of | Labor Unions, which set the line for | Yangtze Valley Is Aflame; Nanking Slips (Continued from Page One) Fa-kwei, with thousands of casual, ties on each side and hospitals filled with wounded. A panic there also is admitted, and the reports say that men al- leged to be Communists were active throughout the city. While this may be due to the usual custom of Nan- | king in charging all opposition as being “Communist,” it set the fear- ful capitalist elements who have been butchering workers into pan- | icky flight toward Hongkong. In the city itself there were frequent explosions, said to be bombs set off here and there, possibly by agents of the militarist rebels to cause a weakening of the defense, Mutiny Feared in Nanking. At Nanking, a body of troops whose “loyalty” to Nanking was doubted, were disarmed. The troops which a week ago mutinied at Pu- kow across the river, were moving south and giving battle to Chiang Kai-sek troops who were on the de- fensive. Many wounded are stream- ing into Nanking, and the fall of Nanking may be expected at any time, especially if the attackers, led by rebel militarists, reach the river. -“The censorship veils what is oc- curing on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, but it is clear that the whole valley is in commotion. British and Japanese war vessels are steaming up river, with the usual excuse of “evacuating their nationals,” but always with the main purpose of assuring their im- perialist grip on the Chinese masses. The American flotilla from Manila is expected here tomorrow to add to the permanent fleet of war yssels guarding the interests of “Wall Street along the Yangtze. * * In New York and other cities the Communist Party is holding protest meetings at the armed intervention by imperialist powers, especially the United States dispatch of the fleet to threaten the Chinese masses. ‘A call for all workers who wish to fight U. 8. imperialism at home and abroad to join the Communist Party. “FORM MACAROSI BOSSES’ LEAGUE. : JERSEY CITY, N. J. (By Mail). —Macaroni manufacturers have formed ‘an association in their plan for general wage cuts and rational- ization. v | dismissal of the Soviet manager, a “MEEK AS A LAMB!” ER, AILY WORK NEW YORK, Communist Gains Wipe | | Workers Leaving All Opportunists, Even the Fake “Commu- nists,” in Swing to Communist Party for Revolution; Financial Crisis Is Political Crisis for “Socialists” in Power (Wireless by Inprecorr) Communists and all revolutionary |, BERLIN, Dec. 11. workers of independent leadership of struggles of the masses against the sabotage of struggle by the “so- cialist” trade union bureaucracy. Brandler piled lies upon slander and made the ridiculous charge that the influence of the Communist Par- ty had sunk to an unprecedented | level. He claimed that the right | wing has 5,000 expelled opportun- | ists. . The Brandlerite Hausen of Bres- | lau, in speaking, made the absurd statement that the fascists could go | so far in Germany only because the | Communist Party had a “wrong pol- | iey.” Hausen claimed the Party was | “reducing the fight” against fascism | to the organization of “gangs” of | its own, and Hausen claimed the slogan “Beat the fascists wherever you meet them!” was “helping” the | fascists. He went on and claimed | that work in the trade unions was “ruined” by the Party and had to} be started over again. | Brandler in reporting, claimed that | the starting ponit for “successful Communist work” in Western Eu-\| rope is the throwing off of what he termed “Russian domination” in the Communist International. Although | the Brandlerites know that there | can be no third position between the socialists and the Communist Party, | the state clearly that they are for compromises and alliances with, the socialists. Thalheimer expressed the “hope” of conquering the Communist Party for the line of Brandler, while Hausen, somewhat cautiously, ad-| vanced the idea of a new Party. The conference decided to issue | a manifesto, with demagoge demands | for “free discussion” for* “Lenin | principles” and “Party democracy,” behind which they hope to push for- ward their proposals for opportun- | k among the masses. But | e also showed a decom- position within the group as the German elections, both in factory councils and capitalist legislative bodies, show that the workers have | no use for renegades from Commu- | nism. ;group, is now in a hot debate how The elections |to go about it without losing more for the Diet (legislative body) in |working ¢ support to the Com- the state of Thuringia, give the | munist Party Communist Party six seats instead! The effort is being made to cut of two it previously had. taxes on big incomes about $233,- The so-called Brandlerist “Com- | 000,000, to cut taxes on capitalist in- munist Opposition,” a Right Wing dustry another $200,000,000, split away from the Communist |offsct this, to impose indir Party, lost all four seats the Brand- | p on beer, tobacco and nec: lerists formerly had and- gained ities of life used by workers, none from any constituency. | Since the Bavarian People’s Party | The fascists gained considerably. is interested in manufacture of bear, | The other parties kept fairly stable, |it opposs the tax on beer. Then except the Nationalists, who lost there is some conflict over how several seats. |much unemployment compensation ae ek can ‘be cut without causing the | BERLIN, Dee. 11.—It can be well | workers to turn, still further toward understood why the “socialist” | the Communist iParty. leader, Severing, introduced the re-| The “socialist” party, which | pressive “defense law” against the must play the hypocrite role before workers, in view of the move now | the workers, is the most anxious to being made to reduce the taxes on reach a compromise which it calls the capitalist class, add taxes ona “formula of concord.” Since the the workers, and reduce the com- Berlin election, where it saw the pensation, little as it now is, for |workers once supporting it turning the unemployed. The Brandler |to the Communists, it has been fear- group of renegades from the Com-!ful of too openly exposing its ser munist Party fought against the lice to capitalism against the wor! Party policy of sharp struggle ers. But now the head of the Reichs against the “socialists” as a party bank, Hjalmar Schacht, writes the of capitalism. | cabinet a “memorandum,” telling The cabinet, which is a coalition |them the Young plan must be put of all capitalist parties, including through. So the present cabinet the “socialist” party, as the largest | crisis. Chinese Workers |policy of equal treatmerft with the b5 es policy of colonial enslavement of all Against Imperialism. the other powers which up to the present day, insist upon preserving (Continued from Paye One) and strengthening the regime of un- equal treaties in China, claim spe-| It is not accidental that right . ‘ter | °° : rach oe the seizure of the railway and the cial economic and political privileges ‘for their citizens (capitalists and white Russian, and not a Chinese, their enterprises), and _maintain| was appointed to succeed him. The | @™™y units on Chinese territory and insane provocative manner, by, which | naval fleets in Chinese waters, any the railway was seized without | air-minded person can see that, by notice and without warning clearly | its own deeds, the Soviet Union em- betrayed the true purpose of the act. Phatically put up a challenge to all It is naive to regard the outrageous | ‘™Perialist powers to give up their manner of the Chinese militavists as | SP¢cial privileges in China. Thus the merely the re.ult of stupidity and| Position of the Soviet Union on the ignorance. Surrounded by a host of | Chinese Eastern Railway is the ae imperialist advisers, the Chinese | fect antithesis of imperialism! It is nuilitarists had a specific purpose in| °t, an imperialist position, but an view when they seized the Chinese | #ti-imperialist position. The un- | Roy Jones, president of § cisions of the Fourth World Con-| | |Fastern Railway, and, knowing that usually enthusiastic reception which the Soviet Union has always pur- | sued a steady peaceful foreign pol- icy and is difficult to provoke, they adopted the most provocative meth- od imaginable to achieve their aim. |'This is the only reasonable explana- | the Sino-Russian Agreement of 1924 !received from the Chinese masses throughout the country and the re- peated protest ‘by Chinese workers and peasants organizations against the provocative acts of the Nanking | \led by International President Lew: government, especially the forced seizure of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, are strong evidences which prove that the Chinese people truly | and unmistakably understand the | anti-imperialist content and revolu- tionary significance of the Sino- Russian Agreement of 1924, The imperialists also understand; the true significance of this agrec-| ment. Ever since the beginning of o-Soviet negotiations in 19: various imperialist powers lodyed protests against the independent set- tlement of the Chinese Eastern Rail- fact that the Chinese Eastern Rail-| way case without their interference. way is purely a commercial enter-' From the very day of the signing of prise. By the Sino-Soviet Agree-| the agreement, the imperialists have ment of 1924 the Soviet Union volun-| been intriguing against its smooth tarily and upon its own initiative operation. The notorious gave up all the special privileges® 1925 over the removal of w which the ezarist regime enjoyed in| dists on the railway is still fresh China and put the Chinese Eastern in the memory of any one who fol- Railway enterprise purely upon a lows the events connected with the | commercial basis, with the specific railway. However, the rising tide of provision that, “with the exception | the Chinese Revolution from 1925 to of matters pertaining to the business 1927 during which period the opinion operations which are under the direct of the mass of the Chinese people control of the Chinese Eastern Rail-| had greater influence in public af- way, all other matters affecting the fairs than any previous period in rights of the national and local gov-| Chinese history temporarily re- ernments of the Republic of China— strained the hands of the Chinese | such as judicial matters, matters re- militarists from any over provoca- lating to civil administration, mili- tive act against the Soviet Union. tary administration, police, munici- But with the temporary set-back of pal government, taxation, and land) the Chinese Revolution and the de- property (with the exception of land | feat of the masses in the last up- required by the said railway)—shall jheaval, the imperialists and the mili- be administered by the Chinese | tarists regained their courage. Or- authorities.” (Article IX, Sec. 1 of ganized under imperialist guidance, the Sino-Russian Agreement of May | the Nanking government served as 31, 1924.) The return of the rail-| a willing tool for fresh provocations way to China was also provided for against the Soviet Union. This more in Article IX, Sec. 2 of same agree- or less favorable situation for the tion of the astonishingly insane pro- cedure adopted by the Chinese mil tarists. Any attempt to cover thi }act with patriotic phrases is a deli- berate falsification of facts with the intention of deceiving the Chinese people and the world public by set- ting up a smoke screen behind which |the most sinister plots against the common interests of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union are! hatched. In considering the substance of the Sino-Soviet controversy, suffi- cient attention should be paid to the ment of the Unon of the Sovet So- |demption by the government of the Republie of China, with Chinese cap- ital, of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, as well as all appurtenant pro- perties, and to the transfer to China of all shares and bonds of the rail- way.” The fact that the Soviet Union as partial owner of the railway, takes part in the management of the railway, purely as a business part- ner, without special political or economic privileges, clearly indicates that the Chinese Eastern Railway cannot*be nut in the same category with such imperialist enterprises as (the South Manchurian Railway or the International Settlemer! at Shanghai. Contrasting the Soviet ment whch Says that “the govern-| ‘cialist Republics agrees to the re- imperialists in the Far East coin- cides with the astonishing success of socialist construction in the So- viet Union, the growing instebility of world capitalism and the conse- quent increasing intensity of the contradictions between the capitalist world and the Soviet Union. There- fore, it is not surprising the im- perialist powers should seize this opportunity to make the best use of the reactionary Nanking govern- ment vo provoke the Soviet Union \to the utmost limit of its patience, | with the specific intention of further consolidating the capitalist anti-So- viet front and providing excuses for both direct and indirect attacks Illinois Miners Strike | Spreads to} Springfield Out the Right Wing in| _ the Thuringia Elections (Continued from Page One) attacked and broke up a strong | picketing demonstration before the Capitol mine, within the city limits |of Springfield, which is the state capitol, and the seat of U. M. W. A. district President Fishwick’s rule. Two were arrested at the Capitol mine picketing: they are ingfield sub-district of the N. M. U., and | Organizer Clarence Babb. Thompson Kidnapped. Nothing more has been heard so far of Freeman Thompson, who was arrested and kidnapped by the state militia while leading the pickets in their march on the Kincaid mine, in held under military arrest, and charges of “inciting to riot” are to officers say. The arrest of Thompson and the menacing atiitude of the militia do not frighten the miner pickets. Whole families appear on the picket lines, men, women and children, and turn back all who try to enter. They defy the trops, and jeer and taunt them. So far the soldiery have not fired on the pickets, though men and women strikers dare them to do so. The memory of Herrin is green in Illinois. Herrin was the scene of a battle of the 1922 strike in which miners got out their rifles and captured a scab mine by force or arms after the mine guards had killed some strikers. Practically all) A Chicago district conference of the scabs and their gunmen at | Sunday at which 170 delegates rep-| the , : Auburn prison is the oldest peni- that mine perished. Voted State-Wide Strike. The miners of Mlinois are striking in answer to a call sent out by the tri-distriet convention called by the N.M.U. It met Dec. 1 in Zeigler, tll, and voted for a State-wide struggle to start Dec. 9, to win the demands adopted by the Belleville State Convention of the N.M.U. held Oct. 26. These demands are for: The six-hour day and five-day week; $35 a week minimum wage; recogni- tion of the National Miners Union; no more check-off; abolition of the bug-light and penalty system; equal wages for young miners; 15 minutes rest period during every hour of coal loading and cutting machines; one man on each job; no discrimin- ation against Negro miners. The Zeigler convention called on all miners to form a united front against the coal operators whose speed-up and use of machines has driven half the Illinois miners into unemployment, and against the United Mine Workers of America, which has, through selling out the miners during and after the 1927-28 strike become a company union. The U.M.W.A., is split into two factions and Illinois district President Ha: Fishwick, which sue each other in the courts for control of the union treasury and the monopoly of the sell-out privileges, but both these factions are agents of the employers, and both state openly they will try the Chinese militarists and the viet Union in the present er which the imperialists are doing | their best to prolong by direct and j| indirect interventions and intrigue affords ample time for the group- ling of forces on both sides. Nobody can fail to notice that fresh prepa- rations for a world conflict are go- ing on. The world is dividing more and more clearly into two camps. On the one side, in the camp of counter-revolution and oppression, stand the imperialists and their Mukden militarists (although insolv- perialist camp are constantly pre- ‘venting their unity, the fact that their common hatred for the revlu- tion and the Soviet Union is a ce- menting force among themselves in times of emergency should not be underestimated.) On the other side, in the camp of revolution and libe- ration, stand the Soviet Union, the world proletariat, and the oppressed peoples in colonies and semi-colonies, including the Chinese workers and peasants, . The Nanking government, being the organization of the semi-feudal landlords and native bourgeoisie of China and the puppet of the imperi- alists, does not represent the inter- ests of the mass of the Chinese peo- ple. The best interests of the mass of the Chinese people make it im- perative for them to stand in the camp of liberation and revolution in this world-wide conflict. The Chinese Students Alliance in the U. S. A. fully realizing the signi- ficance of this undisputable fact, declares itself to be on the side of revolution and liberation and pledges to do its best in the fight for eman- cipation of mankind in general an} Chinese people in particular, New York, December 1, 1929, against the only workers’ state in the world. The protracted deadlock between — Build Up the United Front of } the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! mis- | Christian County, yesterday. He is | agents, including the Nanking and) able contradictions within the im-| the liberation of the mass of the when he heard the presence of | conviction is great. | THURSDAY, WORKERS’ C DECEMBER 12,19) 29 .- FROM THE SHOPS Write to the Daily: Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, About Conditions in Your Shop. Workers! This Is Your Paper! Soviet Union Glass Workers Tell of | Seviet glass worker who wants to hear from American workers. Write to him. Dear comrades, glass-makers of abroad. We want to tell you that since October 1, 1928, we have been carrying out the Five Year Plan for industrialization of our Soviet Union. The results we arrived at in the ste ‘0 The following letter is from a | Seventy per cent of the wages were | work. ven in products which the workers | workers point out the defects and e obliged to buy in the factory igh Those work- sre, where the pri 1 he boss would like. ed to buy the product s were turned out by the bos: ave new system plan’ ow Wwe with 370 regular workers and 180 s and shops were im- the Triumphs of the Five Year Plan At these conferences the suggest all kinds of improvements. The trade union controls the work and the cultural life of Fy It arbi between the workers and the ad: istration. We in the S. S. R. are promot- ing workers instead of bureaucrats and sabotagers. Our shop has pro- first year are the following: the re- | temporary workers. The nerease of | moted several comrades. | duction of manufacturing cost to the product 40%. Wages are paid We, workers of the glass mill |11.9% as compared with last year, in ry year we have two “Marietz” have told you all the The general increase of production, weeks va ion. Those working in| truth which is suppressed by your of 9%, ete. Six new workers’ ho compartments bad for the health get | bourgeoisie is slandering the U. S. were built and we bought a cine apparatus and a loud speaker | the club. Installation of the electric | station is being finished. These are i jour attainments during the first | year of the Five Year Plan. Before the revolution our wot shop belonked to rich merchants | Tabantzev and Ulianova. The pre- | war production of the.shop was less |be placed against him, the militia | than now, because there were old | eral account of the shop. Producin; system stoves and only 250 workers. | conferences help the director in his | |to furnish scabs to th | owners, * * | | Ontrains speeding to the coal fields of Southern Illinois, repre- [sentatives of the International La- |) bor Defense accompanies by their | Chicago attorney, Dz weer rushing to the aid, today, of the striking miners. Several miners ‘have already been arrested and the LL.D. is demanding their immediate|Baumes and simil | release. | pa Conference Pledges Support. | resenting 100 working class orga izations voted unanimously to aid the coal miners by every possible means—financial, legal, etc. J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- |tary of the LL.D., just returned from the first district conference ever held in the South, at Charlotte, |N. C., declared: “Every available jounce of strength the organization! possesses is being thrown into the | struggle of the coal min against | t |the harsh conditions prevalent of | unemployment, wage-cut, and speed- lup. We sternly condemn the pres- ence of armed guards who were sent jimmediately by the governor of Il- |linois, at the demand of the coal joperators. The National Min Union receives the heartiest greet- te In: an to cells, and contains more than 1,700 at n ings from the I.L.D. in its historic of employment, increased specd-up| here to undertake to bear the ex- struggle for better conditions. which throws the wo er broken in | pense.” | “The International Labor Defense health and body penniless on the The fact that Hoover's lawyer, hy sh prisoners in the sym Unrest is s the States. the prison: gienic s seven hours and before the revolu it was 11 hours. The factory promoted w sible h he present a ge ducing op. e Illinois mine) Revolt in Auburn; ize Warden S Se (Continued from Page One) @ prisoners. This i avid J. Bentall.! prison revolts all over the country. | dayl rts of the country The prisons are overcrowded, anc ing polit nm in jai ry in the state. Even the r nary National Soci formation dest d unhealthy plac house 1,200 prisoners in the pres The grow time. ng re of the the worl expl of conditions. tomatic of ed ing penitentia the » United While in ever larger number of work ve being thrown into jail because The working day s ruled by a director. shopthethehh etaoi one of a long series of matters are not suppos in control goad friend of Hoove ety for Penal ed it as “a damp t is built tiny thing throughout all at number of celebrated the of the exis- S. R.. We freely Twelfth Anniver tence of our union. We hope that in the near future, in close union of the wor and farmers under the ership of the Communist Party, you will overthrow capitalism. Only then will you fulfill your wishes. With comradely greetings Our address: USSR Tatrespublica. z\p/o Mamsi. Marictz. Perevostchikovu. ‘Hoover Aids Cuban Sugar Barons | | (Continued from Page One) friends, the big trusts, but these d to reach t Thousands of workers are being; The sugar interests were given railroaded to jail on indeterminate | reports of conversations between sentences and under the vicious | Hoover and Chairman Smoot of the laws in all | Senate ‘inance Committee thru friend, Shattuck. cnoch H. Crowder, another was also discover- roll of the sugar Hoove A Gen. ed to be on the pa; robbers. | A letter written by Crowder, re- veals the fact that Hoover’s help o: behalf of the Cuban sugar barons could easily be obtained. Crowder wrete: “I am already making some prog- toward further efforts in Wash- 4 By good fortune, I find that Shattu who wrote the brief i with me, is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal at- torney for Hoover and all his family, I think that I have persuaded him to undert a confidential mission first to con ly to work on the committees and members of Congress on behalf of Cuba, and I believe that I can in- duce several of the larger producers points out that at the same time streets at an early age. Shattuck, was employed because of the Coal and Iron Police and the! The capitalists courts |his influence with the imperialist State Police of Pennsylvania, agents evolved vicious laws with chief, is shown by a letter written of the coal operator: ve framed creasing sentences Conditio by Lakin of the Cuba Co., to F. B. Salvatore Accorsi and are trying to the jails are rotten. Overcrowding |} Adams of the Cdban-Dominican send him to the electric chair, the has reached the limit. The prison-|Sugar Co. National Guardsmen, armed with|ecrs, rather than live under these| The letter reads: machine guns, cavalry and infantry conditions, put up a s of| “We have decided to employ Shat- units in the strike area at South- brilliant against overwhelm- | tuck to bear the laboring oar, partly ern Illinois. Evy where the wo: odds, declaring that they would | because he will be paid for his work er finds all the forces of the State court, militia, police, etc. arrayed against him whenever he wishes to \struggle for better conditions. A in the Gastonia case the I.L.D. is putting forth: every effort for the workers at the very beginning of ‘the struggle.” dor ci to tay the | Witness Smash State iLiars in Accorsi Case | (Continued from Page One) county detectives and state troopers. | The latter were forced to admit, un- der cross-examination, the incredible , | brutality they used at the Cheswick meeting. The witnesses’ “evidence” | las to the supposed “disorderly” |character of the meeting was lim-| | ited to the statement that there were cheers for Sacco and Vanzetti and “booing” and jeers for the troopers. The troopers admitted throwing | “nine or ten tear-gas bombs,” and to beating men and women with | clubs. | | Obviously Lying. The county sheriff admitted that | previous meetings were orderly, It) is clear there was a deliberate plot \of county authorities and state troopers to drown the meeting in \blood. The troopers tried to paint | i picture of their “politeness and | idelicacy” in “requesting” the meet- | ing be dispersed before resorting to | | violence, Both Witnesses Brown and | /Coplan charge that the slayer fired | five shots in a period of about a minute, but deseribe minutely the color of his suit, hat, shoes, shirt, mustache, ete. All prosecution witnesses parroted the remark that they said they heard | from a man in the crowd “Kill the son of a bitch!” This compares with | the testimony fixed up against Beal in Gastonia, Contradictory. | | Coplan, a star witness, told an in? | credible tale of seeing shooting | from a store wifdow, at a distance of about 25 feet. He said he re-| mained in the store from 10 in the | ‘morning till 8 in the, afternoon, | it the troopers at the meeting. | The prosecution witnesses were! unimpressive, confused and contra- \dictive. They caused derisive laugh- | ‘ter even among the hard-boiled capi- | ‘talist reporters, but the danger of A United Mine Worker official of | “ v sentences for mild ecr:1 the Harnerville local took the sta During him, ather die in their attempt for free- dom than continue to live under the mination of the grafting politi- ns and hopelessly long prison hely the electrocution of this mi nt miner, Accorsi. He denounced » Cheswick meeting. stimony argolis for the h the jury al t on the defense not Accorsi. Judge McLaughery denied the mo- tion, on the ground that police have more rights than ordinary citizens! court this afternoon, the chief of Allegheny county Max Salzman, district organizer of a recess in detectiv Murren, > LL.D., in the courtroom, dra ged him over and roughly searched After being compelled to re- i abor Defense, argued seized but chiefly because of his relation with Hoover seen Hoover within the last 10 da and has also been in Cuba within that time.” Hoover has not explained his con- and Smoot. He has Bank whi and the sugar not unlike collaboration Fall oil robbers. monopolists, the Harding with the Sin- ease Salzman, the detective said he »|had been “tipped off” this his vic- tion that Accersi be freed. He}tim had a gun on him. The whole pointed out that whoever killed | maneuver was a scheme to frame up Downey did so in self defense, altho|Salzman, and distract attention from the fact that the prosecution’s frame up against Accorsi is split wide open by the contradictions be- tween prosecution witnesses and the clear refutation of their by the defense witness The I.L.D. is issuing statement criticizing this attack on -| Salzman. The case is expected to go to the jury tomorrow. Se WE MUST HAVE a Mass Distribution of this pamphlet as an organic part of the Pariy Recruiting and Daily Worker Buildizg Drive, @ WH 32 conscious worker, and in the language shops, mills and fac! pages of mental dynamite for every class- EVERY WORKER SHOULD JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY Presented in simple style of the workers of the tories, Five Cents Per Copy Unusual discounts for orders in quantity lots. Rush Your Order with CASH to WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY ince Hoover and second- | i nections with the National CityIn dozens of te a sharp | ‘Farm Fakers Prove | Allies of Capitalism; Praise Exoloiters (By a Farmer Correspondent.) BISMARCK, N. D. (By Mail).— W. M. Thatcher, perhaps the princi- pal leader of the Northwest division of the Farmers’ Union, assured the farmers present at the fakers’ state convention that he was going to use \his efforts to serve them while ap- pearing before the Farm Board. He quoted Legge, of the International Harvester Co., as saying: “We are not going to scrap the co-operatives but to preserve them.” He forgot to add “as long as these ¢co-opera- \tives follow the orders of finance | capital,” because this is what Legge has in mind. Thatcher is anxious that his cap- italist friends get what is “coming | to them” from the farmers, for he : “We must see to it that the farmer gets a profit, otherwise how can he ever hope to pay his bills. |We must get the best men that money can buy to run the farmers’ | affairs dently he has in mind his own salary of $800 per month. Thatcher was sure now that the organized grain trade does not dare |choke the Farmers’ Union off any llonger. It must be clear to all of us farmers, however, that there is no danger of the Farmers’ Union being choked off by the capitalists \in any way because the union will- jingly meets the demands of finance ‘ capitalism. The Grange, the Fa the various pools are on the same level with Farm Union, All these organizations have ceased al- together to fight for the farmer, they no longer represent the grow- ing consciousness of the masses on the farms. Ricker made a glowing tribute to the biggest capitalist paper in the ate of North Dakota, when he said: “The Fargo Forum used to |fight us but the paper is now con- | vinced the union is O. K. and the Forum is really entitled to be sold at this convention.” Riker and his |crowd did not state that the Forum | was now for the union because the |latter had completely capitulated to the former and the finance cap- | italists. The answer of the poor farmers and the farm workers to the Farm- |ers’ Union is the organization of a national conference for the launching |of a real left-wing farm movement in America. 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