The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 4

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It was precisely ation of 1 9 explained to Yurovsky that the ie et regime and the dicta- only. with the help of ti'social and poli- y prob- eas: the republi e advocates of foreig Y imony at r d ov is so osely connes tion and or- ganization of e 1d be, too, named he same s ) t me known © che connte:-4 itionary from Prench sources Hakev, tos ed 1930 as che Zor ke of the neans «0! character of she military : In a * icle e: ed “Wrecking and Oppor st the concrete - work i 2 cture of whieh was unr tigation. Joints our ' onpor- sunists fa arable ¢. ‘the ri ndustri garding neavy lies of th “It was prec vho provided the 1 less-like, practica wainst the tem rs and none else tunists h ‘busi- scientific ments ar o of In a vention plans embracing the ‘di of the inter- nemberment of Union ce the Soviet prominent pl Pol son of Pilsudski brought forward a program of “Federation of White Russia and Ukrainia with Poland Red Star, says Poland is given the most official organ of the Red Army, he material in the ‘industrial party’ case shows cle: that the aggressive circles of im- perialist France were intent on organizing an- other intervention, making use in the first in- stance of the armed forces of Poland, and of other vassal of French imperialism. “It would be well to. recall that it was Roman | Dmovsky, prominent Polish politician and lead- | er of the National Democratic Party, who re- cently pointed out in a series of articles the existence of plans for the utilization of Poland | in the interest of foreign capital for an anti- Soviet ¢ Fo ion,” aa econoraic publica- tion, shows w the attempts of the wreckers to retard Socialist construction utterly failed owing to the fact of the genera! line of the Party which was adhered to with the active participation of the workers. A number of Moscow papers, Izvestia, Za Industrialistsiu, Komsomolskaya Pravda, dedi- cate full commentaries to Poincare’s latest ar- ticle in “ elsior.". They point that the old imperiaist fox, while formally clinging to the tactic of pure denial, must adopt the tactic of using the issue His “alibi” regarding sup- porting Wrangel, based on imaginary differences between an unreserved support of Kolchak, Yudenitth and Denikin, and his support of Wrangel only with reservations, fully confirms the accusations regarding his past. His demand for a minute description of the room of ed the Commercial and Industrial Commitiee in Paris rests on the as- sumption that these bandits won't betray him in their own interests. His attempts to hide behind Briand and Painleve, and other less com- promised politicians, is the confirmation of his fear of being finally convicted of this crime. The fur trend of the legal investigation will compel Poincare to drop the tactic of meaningless denials which none believes either in France or in other countries. Statement by N. Bukharin TATEMENT By N Bukhariy w IN view of a series of resolutions concerning my attitude, toward fine of the Party, the decision Songress and also of the inner of the current day. I < state the following: 1. On the question of inner-Par teady before the eenth Part eeveral times fully id eonpleiely my errors of right deviational th: the ger the Sixteenth reeogn: racter and after the November ientin of the Central Com- Mittee, J. together «ith Comrades Tomsky and Rykov, presented a siateme to that effect; ty the Pravda ‘or December 1929, I published an article tied “The 3, Technical-Economic Revolution. lye Working ‘lass and the Engin- eers,” in which of the article errors recognized by im the same Pravda I gave an exact enumeration nd documents, tha‘ contained the inyself; later I published an urticle entitled “The Great Reco: ition” where I defended the line of the Ce ‘omunittee in a positive :orm. 2. Trecognize chat the Lest form of solidariza- tion with the sions uf the Congress would have beew the form Of sending, declaration to that effect ihe Congress ut to the Central Committee CPUSSR. (B),.which, erroneously, T did not so. tll. immediately before the Party Congress ! was sick ‘vith pneumonia and during the Congre was on a sick leave of absence. Immediately after tne Congress, wile still on a leave of abvseuce, 1 iwice ‘ook the floor at open Meetings wo defend ‘he decisions of the Sixteenth Congress. Unfortunately, our Central Press was not informed «bout that. 3. Af‘sr returning from my leave of absence on the 15ih of September, I, on the following day ‘Sepieinber i6th) declared in a Party or- tion (one of the nuclei of the Supreme » that I recognized the deci- sixteenth Congress as correct in substance und not only formally, i.e. not only preceediig irom considerations of Party discip- line. Taxing the floor at a meeting against the damagers. I d2fended the decisions of the Sixteenth Congress, and appealed for struggle against the deviations (a report about this was printed in the paper Za Industrializatziu). 4. It follows therefrom that I fully and ir- revocably condemn all-and, every attempts against the unity of the Party, every fractional work, every alteimpt at a covert struggle against the Party leadership, every covert defense of another political line, different from the line of the Party, etc.. and that I recogn the neces- sity of fighting on two fronts aga tions from: this linc, against the right deviation as the main danger, against,a conciliatory at- tutude towards deviations. a 5. I condemn most decisively’ the right-left bloc of the comrades Syrtzov-Lominadze, the fractional work of their groups, and I am in agreement with the organizational measures ap- proved by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and by the Presidium of the Central Control Commission both in relation to the com- rades Syrizov-Lominadze and Shapkin and in relation to Nusinoy and Kavraisky. Just as de- cisively co I condemn the double-handed work of M Rutin and I am in agreement with the decisions of the Party concerning, him. 6. On the question of international politics I declare that, having withdrawn my erroneous assertions after the November plenum of the Centra) Cummittee, I fully stand-on the position of the leading organs of the Comintern and the CPUSSR. (B). I therefore decisively condemn the struggle against the Comintern, the splitting away from it, the factional groupings and every kind of non-submission to its decisions as dis- oiganizing the ranks of international Commu- ng in the hands of its mortal enemies, 1 de cy and the open bourgeois and t parties, Wate, orically con- denn doth the rigit and the “left” splitters Whether of an ideological-political or ol an or- Rdsiza!iona, waturée. I think that in the foreign section of the C.J. a consistent struggle against the deviations is necessary, in the first place against the right danger as well as against all c latory attempts to slur over or evade these | the activities of the Lovestone group in the U.S.A. which is conducting a struggle aaginst | the orientation of the C.I. and the Communist Party of the U.S.A.. which systematically op- poses itself to the Communist Party and con- ducts a struggle against it thus turning into an anti-Communist and an anti-proletarian group playing in the hands of the bourgeois enemies of the CI. 8. On the question of so-called “organized capitalism” I recognize the errors found by Lenin in the “Economies of the Transitional Period” (1920). In an article entitled “Theory of Or- ganized Economic Chaos” I attempted to pro- ceed from the thesis of Engels and Lénin con- tained in their programmatic works’ (“Critique of the Draft of the Erfurt Program,” “Notes to the Second Draft of Plekhanov’s Program,” “State and Revolution,” etc.). Inasmuch, how- ever, as I gave here formulations going beyond the frame-work of the just mentioned formu- lations of Engels and Lenin, formulated in a greater or lesser degree disagreeing with them, I here too, recognize my errors. These errors gave occasion to interpret my article in the spirit of the bourgeois theory of organized capitalism and they proved to be politically damaging, which was correctly condemned in the resolutions to that effect by the Plenum of the E.C.C.I. 9. Appraising the generat situation, the entire current moment as a whole, it is necessary to state a growing tension of the class struggle both within the U.S.S.R. (against the kulaks and damaging activities) and on a world scale against world imperialism). The uncovering of damaging and counter-revolutionary bands (Ramzin and Co., Kondratiev and Co.), which have to be dealt with most ruthlessly by the sword of the proletarian dictatorship, proves concretely the degree of the sharpening of the class struggle in the country and the degree of the threat of war on the part of the capitalists against the proletarian dictatorship. The coun- ter-revolutionary damaging bands have served in the role of agents of world capital which is obviously preparing a hangyan’s intervention by | means of economic blockade, military prepara- tions, disorganizing activities within the USSR. At such a time, the greatest devotion to the Par- ty and a maximum of discipline is particularly required of every member of the Party. Every kind of speculation on the difficulties and on the sharpening of the class struggle is a crime against the Party and against the working class. We have to throw in all ‘forces to repel the class enemy and to defend the dictatorship of the proletariat. Rallying around the Central Com- mittee of the Party which, in struggle against deviations, is carrying out the general line of the Party, securing the building up of socialism in our country; mobilizational readiness; unity of orientation, of will and of action in the ranks of the Party and the Comintern must serve for us as the obligatory pre-requisite for the victory of the proletariat under all conditions of tomor- row. The defense of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the entire grandiose socialist construction, the fruit of heroic efforts of the working masses and the Party, is for us the highest law of the proletarian revolution to which everything must be subordinated. November 19, 1930. (Signed) M. Bukharin, Decision of Central Committee of C.P.S.U., adopt- ed November 21, 1930. 1, To recognize in the main as satisfactory the statement of Comrade Bukharin which ap- peared in the November 20 issue of the Pravda. 2. To consider an absolutely incorrect and as reflecting anti-Party “leftist” moods, the ed- itorial which appeared in the November 21 issue of “For Industrialization The editorial, which ‘under the headline—“Double bookkeeping plus a policy of a long range perspective.” which charec! 's the deciaration of Comrade Buk- ehrin, recognizing his right wing mistakes, as an “act of double bookkeeping.” The same holds true for the article which appeared in the “Trud” on November 21, which in the main gives the same estimate of Comrade Bukharin’s statement. ‘The Central Committee also considers the article 7. I therefore decisively condemn in particular | aperialism in the per- | News item:—New York police and judges, now being “investigated,” are running a brisk trade framing innocent young working women on charges of prostitution and forcing them to pay Heavy graft in order to keep out of jail. Relief in Tammany’s Domain By GROVER J. SHOHOLM “You get one night a month,” said the clerk with bristling, black mustaches. “We take care of New Yorkers only.” The man was obviously. hungry and exhausted. First-timers who prove that they have lived in the city for a year or more are given lodg- ings for five nights a month. What they are to do the other twenty-six nights is not considered. As a matter of fact, they sleep in the mis- sions, doze in chairs in the speak-easies, ride the subway, or walk the streets. If they sleep on the floor or on the benches in missions, their clothing is soon over-run with vermin. ,Some are able to panhandle, but there 1» an impression that the situation is being cared for by the relief agencies or by the city. Only the practiced moocher, who least deserves it, can get by this way. East Side speak-eisies, scores of these places, are crowded during the night with men trying to get a few hours of sleep. The air is foul and blue with smoke. The unemployed are finding out what the city will do for them. First, the private breadlines are discouraged, and men who are forced to resort to the lines are herded over to East Twenty-fifth Street, out of sight. An old wharf has been renovated at consid- erable expense. A thousand or more double- deck cots have been set up, and the whole thing looks very neat and efficient to visitors and in the news reels. But there is only one warm place in the build- ing, and that is where the men take off their clothing. The section where the cots are is like a refrigerator. A steam pipe extends along the shed, and a system of blowers attempts to distribute the warm air downward, but in the freezing weather of the past week this arrangement has not been very effective. The pier extends out over the East River. On the sides the only protection from the cold winds is a wall of corrugated sheet iron. The floor is concrete, and ten feet below is the cold water, The cots are not furnished with mattresses. A blanket is spread over the spring, and a sheet thrown over that. It looks very neat when the room is all made up. Then there is a blanket to wrap around you. Here the men lie, cursing the place all night, frozen, trying to sleep. Some try folding the under blanket around them, If you are given a place near the outer bulk- head, you are just out of luck. “You might as well freeze to death in a back alley.’ Facilities for washing are very meager and not used. There is no soap in sight and the water is cold., A man leaving the place in the morning, tired-eyed, unwashed, if not with a cold, would have no chance for a job. On account of the system of hanging all clothing in one small section, the men have to stand in their night-shirts for more than a half an hour before they can dress. The idea is simply to make a showing, to sat- isfy the well-meaning people who think that these destitute men should be considerately. not to say humanely, cared for. Thousands of dollars have been expended in fitting up this place. There is modern kitchen equipment. Tables and benches are scrubbed white by the men who are “hooked” for work in the morning. But no one wants to spend another night there. This simplifies ythe problem. The food at the municipal lodging house is prison fare: stew, bread and coffee; and in the morning, oatmeal, bread and coffee. The whole regime is on a jail basis, the men being herded behind iron rails and gratings with a sharp, “Get in line, there!” They take it. The men are cowed by the necessity of getting a little food and shelter for the night. ‘3 But they are learning. Apart from aimless of the “Trud” as absolutely incorrect and re- flecting anti-Party “leftist” moods. 3. To severely censor the responsible editors of the above-mentioned two papers—Comrades Boguszevsky and Abolin for printing’ mentioned articles. the above | ers and emplcyees out of w:- White Terror in Mexico By C. P. A new wave of white terror, more furious than those before, is beating in these moments on the Communist Party of Mexico, the Unitary Trade Union Confederation, and the other revo- lutionary organizations. The methods of repres- sion introduced by ex-President Portes Gil are being perfected by President Ortiz Rubio, and | the pack of dogs that serve imperialism in the state governments, in the army, in the city “ad- ministration, the police, etc. In the cotton growing regions, such as Tor- reon and Matamores, the persecutions and tie attacks have acquired extreme violence. This is because thousands of agricultural workers have been thrown into starvation by the eco- nomic crisis, and above all, by rationalization. Matamoras is where dogs of the fascist gov- ernment and the white guards of the ranch owners murdered twenty workers and poor peas- ° ants — one woman among them — who led the demonstration against the terrible living con- ditions of more than twenty thousand starving workers of that region. The last outrage of the fascist dogs has been the arrest and torture of Comrades Guadalupe Saucedo, Aurelio Andrade, Dionisio Encinas and Frederico Reyes, the first two from the Commu- nist Party, and the others from the Young Com- munist Federation. These comrades were barbarously beaten m Torreon, submerged for long hours in icy water and threatened with death. One of them was hung up by the feet and another had his finger nails torn out, trying to force them to declare against the leaders of the Party and the Youth Federation, to reveal addresses and so on. i Afterward, they were taken to Mexico City and lodged in the penitentiary, where they ‘are held in isolation, without any legal proceedings whatsoever. Frequently they are taken to the military garrisoris and tortured by being lined up against the wall before a firing squad. Re- cent news states that these comrades are threat- ened with deportation to the Mario Islands. a penal establishment in the Pacific wheree they send murderers and other criminals. As a pro- test they have declared a hunger strike. The Communist Party and the Youth Federation, the Red Unions, and the Red Aid have begun! agitation for the release of these and all the other prisoners jailed throughout the country. The growing white terror in Mexico is ex- plained by the aggravation of the growing eco- nomic crisis, the increase of unemployment, the starvation, misery, and terrible living conditions of millions of workers, peasants, and poor em- ployees. The fascist government of Ortiz Rubio is throwing upon the backs of the working clas all the burden of the crisis. The “readjustment’ on the railroads has thrown 10,000 railway work- ‘kk. Thirty per cent of the mine workers are jobless. Thousands and thousands of agricultural ‘workers are unem- ployed. In the textile factories, shoe and metal shops, there are thousands of workers on part time. The government has authorized the tex- tile factories to reduce the working week to three and four days: x The country population lives in the same or worse conditions than the working class. Of the 590,000 poor peasants who have received land, many have had to abandon it for lack of means to cultivete it, and have returned to their condition of peons or, in most ceses, have gone to swell the jobless army. The new re- forms in the Agrarian Law proposed by Ortiz Rubio to congress will certainly be approved as a first legal step to deprive definitely the 2,000,- 000 agrarian workers and poor peasants of land. The petty bourgeoisie of the city and country, the small merchants and farmers stifling under the weight of taxes and the thousand ‘forms of robbery of which they are made victims by the government and the clique of great land owners, muttering and growling, the true lesson of it is here and there voiced. “Well. whet do yor" expect?” upent Hath, West netisa Gump, we could have our own man in Giiy He). ‘They are all New York residents. The clerk at the little window has seen to that. Their votes put Tammany into office; but they are learning. They know that it 1s not their gov- at d ‘ bankers and importing merchants, ‘allied with Yankee finance capital, and closely connected with the government. After the political crisis of October. which nearly culminated in armed struggle, and which eliminated from the government and from the “National Revolutionary Party” (the official party) the petty bourgeois demagogs of the “left” (Portes Gil, Luis Leon, Puig Casauranc), large capital has strengthened its positions in the government and is applying brutally a policy of extortion and oppression of the masses, of submission and absolute subjection of the econ- omy of the country to the interests of Yankee finance capital. ‘The opposition that appeared in the leadership of the National Revolutionary Party crushed. Ortiz Rubio has obtained from congress dictatorial rights with regard to finances. How these will be applied. one may have an idea from the budget for 1931. already approved. which includes a provision for the payment of 20,000,000 pesos on the interior debt (to capital- ists, merchants. and landowners of the country) and another 15,000,000 pesos for the first annual nayment on the foreien debt, as provided in the Lomont-Montes De Oca -agreement. 10.90.0900 of this Jatter annual payment. which must be in total 23.000,000. have already been sent. This nolicy of plunder and pillace. of exvloita- tion and brutal onpression. of the toiline masses, e.n only be carried forward by perseenting, jail- ine. deporting and murdering militants. behead- ing organizations. disoreanizing the revoluticnary movement by oppression and terror. This explains the horrors that are being com-_ mitted by the band of murderous wolves that around Ortiz Rubio, who have found them- stlves on the same plane as the hangmen of the proletariat in Jugoslavia, Rumania, and Polend, and the reactionary zenerals of the Kuo- mintond in China. The Communist Party and the Young Com- mpnist Losene, the Trade Union Unity Leacne, the International Labor Defense. and ell the revolutionery orzanizations of the United States, must mobilize their forces to struvele against the revime of terror that rules in Meyico. azainst the miserable lackey of Wall Street. Ortiz Rubio. who hrs put himself brazenly at the service of the Fish Commission.’ (The Fish Commission already has one of its agents in Mexico. Ulvssus Grant. “investigating” the activities of the Com- munis‘s and organizing the police of Mexico for the hunting down of the revolutionary work- ers) ? Workers of the United States! Poor farmers! The opvression of the revolutionary movement | by the fascist. government of Mexico is one asnect of the war preparations of imperialism against the Soviet Union. The Mexican government is already allied with Yankee imperialism for the anti-Soviet campaign anc for the e™roaching war. Mexico will be a strategic position and a source of supplies, raw materials, oil, and so on, f-~ the “y and ~~‘ of the United States. Fighting against fascist oppression in Mexico, we are fighting against imperialist war prepara- tion and defer~'¢ the Soviet Union. Comrades! Mobilize against the fascist terror in Mexico! Defend the Communist Party, and the revolu- tionary organizations of the Mexican working —— Todavin Workers’ History December 8, 1849—Johann Jacoby acquitted in trial for high treason growing out of Ger- man revolution, 1917—Kate Richards O'Hare, socialist speaker, convicted at Bismarck, N. D., of obstructing military conseription, 1919— Committee of Forty-Eitht harmed from St. Beg Motel where (hav * to form wey Uh crab party, 170?~. Sh: f thamkksd New York men’s clothing workers locked aut in at- tempt to force 48-hour week, waze cuts, and '923—A individual bargaining. 1! anese captain, sentenced to ten‘ years in prison for Sakaye Osugl, anarchist leader, eam _tacanemmuctterentntenmment | By JORGE The Louse Becomes Important—to the Louse A cat, so the saying goes, may look at a kin, Doubtless, therefore, it will. be contended that a louse. Heywood Broun for example, may write about Stalin. So long as the N. Y. Telegram pays him for it, we may expect to witness the rare sight of this miserable clown solemnly discussing with himself whether Stalin is “right” or Stalin is “wrong”— and “deciding,” in harmony with his pay check, that Stalin is wrong. And all, be it said, in bliss- fuil ignorance of the fact that nobody gives a whoop what he says anyhow—as witness the “effect” of his recent election campaign. But a louse who moves among the underwear of aristocracy must, perforce, assert itself. So, not being energetic enough to crawl as far as Moscow—much to Moscow's benefit—the louse must deal in second-hand genius. Hence we found, in last Tuesday's Telegram, the dissertations of the louse upon what some- body else thought about Stalin. And, being a louse, we are not surprised-to find it making a disagreement with Stalin out of somebody else's description of Stalin. Thus, the louse takes the words of Eugene Lyons describing Stalin's actions, and translates them into “Napoleonic” in louse language—and thereupon proceeds to rail against “Napoleon” Stalin. It is an old trick, and a lousy one. Not content with crawling on the back of one correspondent, he goes to another ,and tries the same trick, taking Walter Duranty’s outgivings as to what Stalin said about “ppropaganda” and with such solemnity as-is given to a louse, dis- agreeing with what Duranty said that Stalin said. More, the louse holds up a finger of warning to Stalin and bids him have a care lest the wrath of the god of all lice be his bitter portion. True, the louse is not without mercy. He not only threatens, but entreats. “The new world which Russia contemplates” is given a louse’s blessing, modified with an “if.” And the “if” is important. It is important to the louse, take note, but this louse was not hatched out yesterday. He tries to make it seem important to Stalin. And what is this “if?” It is this: “If,” says the louse, “it is a new world Russia contemplates,” would Stalin please call a halt to his followers in America, who are so uncivil and impudent that they show a louse no consideration what- soever. “What,” protests the louse, “is the use in con- templating a new world, if, in that new world, there is no place for lice?” A question of dread- ful importance, without doubt, but only to a louse. * * . Another “Vice Ring” We don’t wany any girls, whether innocent or “guilty,” sent to jail, but~there’s one form of prostitution that flaunts itself brazenly, that we want suppressed. In he N. Y. Times the other day, the follow- ing advertisement of organized prostitution ap- peared, 300 prostitutes “incorporated,” mind you! And advertising in bold face type in the N. Y. Times: “A staff of 300,” it says at the top. Then below: “We plan and produce-EMPLOYEE MAGA- ZINES—That Enhance Loyalty.” «nd if interested in knowing the address ot this house of ill-fame, we'll tell you. It is called: “The Writers’ Bureau, Incorporated. Charles Nordlie, Pres., 44 East 23rd St., New York. Teie- phone Gramercy 0362.” Compared to these animals, a sexual prostitute is a regular angel of light. oe te Fish Commits Treason What's that? Yes, siree, bob! Fish, J. Hamil- ton, Jr., head of the Fish Congressional Commit- tee and Jackass Extraordinary, has come out against the U. S. army! A reader writes us about it, unhappily forgetting to send us just where he got the information, but stating clear- ly and unequivocally that: “I ran across an article saying that Hamilton Fish is demanding that Harvard break football relations with the Army.” Murder will out! Treason will be exposed! Truth is mighty and will prevail! And, some day, this Fish will be fried. * ee Travelling Expenses At the hearings on police graft in the vice racket, it was brought out’ that each dick was charging up the city with something like an average of $60 a month for money paid to stool pigeons. . And Police Licutenant Pfeiffer testified, says the Dec. ‘4, N. Y. Times, “That after the inspector in charge signs the expense bill, it is sent to Police Headquarters where, after two or three months it is paid out of the contingent fund provided by the Board of Estimate for detectives’ travelling expenses.” It is ettable that Jimmy Walker “forgot” about this when he ordered the dicks to beat up the Unemployed Delegation on October 16 in the “public heaving” of the Board of Estimate. oe he What’s Good for Peru When imperialist benkers get together in their shirt-sleeves and speak their minds, we find out that the illusion which some people in far=dis- tant lands have, that they are running their own country is just thet—an illusion. The Wall Street bankers decide what's good for ‘em and what's not. me A case in point is the editorial in the N. ¥. Journal of Commerce of Dec. 4, entitled “Peru's Difficulties,” wherein it is decided. “There will have to be a substantial lower- ing of the standard of living of the country.” The bankers’ intentions are, no doubt, of the “purest.” And they will do everything possible to sea thet their decision. is carried out. But wea msont foot the Peruvian workers will have syne ing unpleasant to say to the Wall Street bankeis. PRS ine If the comrade who sent the letter signed “Jo- sefa,” will send an address, we to offer some advice to help work. —, f — 2 he See ee -s 8 qd t