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rect line, two false views Of the ma
ture of the Party itself.
On the one hand, those comrades
who are up to the eyes in admins
trative economic work look upon the
Party as an institution provided for
the purpose of aiding the successful
execution of administrative or eco
nomic work. The others go to the
opposite extreme and look upon the
Party as a sort of free debating So
ciety, a kind of parliament of
opinions"
Neither extreme is right. We must
reject both, and must look upon our
Party, as it is right for Bolsheviki
to do, as a political organism, con-
nected with the masses by thousands
of threads, and setting itself the gil
gantic task of leading the whole
state.
What is the present qualitative
standard of our Party? We have
statistical data up till Sept. 1, 1923.
Speaking generally, our statistics
are somewhat lame in this direction,
AS you know, the latest statistics
were compiled with special care and
accuracy, with the aid of the Central.
believe that they correspond very
fairly with the truth.
The figures are somewhat surpris-
ing. We had all assumed that we
have about half million, or even
100000 Party members. 1t appears,
however, that up to Sept. we had
in the whole federation only $4,000
communists Including the commune
lists in the Red Army, and $4,000
candidates for Party membership.
To this the c. Y. must further be
added. / am, however, dealing with
the members of the Party in the
strict sense of the word.
We have $4,000 Party members ac-
tually working in the shops and fac
tories mot including candidates. ;
this is but few.
ITO Be Continued Tuesday,
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SOVIET BANK TO
AID FARMERS
CO-OPERATIvES
'Chervonetz' Notes Are
Stabilizing Currency

MOSCOW, March "a Central
Agricultural Bank Of the Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics was au-
thorized by the Soviet Congress on
the recommendation of Acting Presi-
dent Tsurupa of the council of peo-
pies eommissars.
The government bank is to have
paid-up capital Of 40,000,0O0 "cher-
vonetz" rubles and is organized to
provide the peasants with cheap credit
and to develop the agricultural CO.
operative movement.
StabiIizing Currency.
Mr.. Vladimiroff, making report
for the Peoples Commissariat of FL
nance, stated that the monetary re-
form, consisting in the introduction,
along with "chervonetz," Of stable
treasury notes, would be completed by
the end of the month. The speaker
stressed the Importance Of this reform
to the peasants, who must have
stable currency.
With references to the state budget
of the Soviet Union, Mr.. Vladimiroff
pointed out that it was for the first
time that, in the working budget year,
not only was certain equilibrium be-
ing established between revenue and
expenditure, but there was actually
an accumulation and growth Of ma
tional capital of the Union.
Thus the State budget for 1928
had been balanced at 400, 100000
gold rubles, while the estimates for
the year 1924 were computed at
1850, 100000 gold rubles.
In the course Of the ensuing de-
bate, Mr.. Larin insisted on the in
crease Of the income tax. Mr.. Bog
danoff stressed the necessity of a
larger unifcation of the taxing sys-
tenn in the urban and country dis
tricts.
In a resolution, unanimously
adopted. the Congress approved the
reported financial reform.
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Zinovievs Speech to Leningrad Communists

acted upon the impending events in
Germany just as the revolutionary
Party of the proletarian should react,
and not as would have been expected
Of NEP party.
This test is very important. It is
the test in the light Of history.
The Party reacted in such a man
ner that, had the expected events
taken place in Germany, our Party
would have regarded itself as the
corner stone of the Communist In
ternational, and would have been pre-
pared to fulfill to the utmost the
duty Of the revolutionary party of
the proletariat.
The test thus undergone by the
Party must serve to prove to US that
it is essentially sound, quite apart
from the way in which events actual
ly developed.
Had there been any real decay in
the Party, had there been any degen-
Grafton Of the fundamental nucleus
of the Party organism, then our
Party would have reacted very diff
ferently with regard to the matur-
ing events in Germany; it would have
hidden its head in the sand. But it
did nothing Of the sort. On the con-
trary, if there is any reproach which
can be made to US, it is what we
over-estimated to a certain extent the
speed at which events We're develop
ing. and that we expected in October,
in November, and in.-December, 1923,
that which will perhaps happen in
Germany in May, 1924-but no one
can reproach us that we have sue
cumbed to the NEP, and that we
made any attempt to avoid following
up the world revolution.
Our Weak Points.
This does not by any means sig
Nifty that we possess no weaknesses
whatever within the Party. We have
many weak points. In connection
with the NEP we can observe, in my
opinion, two departures from the cor
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problems requiring solution, authoris
tative solution on the part Of the
Party.
For two years the Party has been
working under the conditions induced
by the New Economic Policy. At
the Twelfth Party Congress / en-
phasized the fact that we must make
a distinction between two things. In
the first place the New Economic
Policy is a historically necessary and
very earnest chapter in the history
of our struggle for the world revo-
luton. But when we speak of the
NEP we have often in mind the capt.
talist commercial view Of it, the
speculative moment. believe, COM
rades, that we must not forget this
difference for a moment.
To what degree this NEP infu-
enced our Party? Are those adver-
saries right who croaked their
prophecies that the NEP was bound
to transform our Party into a petty
bourgeois Party? Is it true that
the fundamental nucleus of cur
Party organism has degenerated Is
it true that we have ceased to be the
Party of the World Revolution, and
have become transformed into a
Party of democratic petty bour-
geoisie?
1t seems to me, comrades, that the
best answer to these questions is as
follows: The German revolution is
developing, but the period of its de-
velopment is proving longer than
the estimate made by us, in the
month of October on the basis of our
information. The German revolution
is postponed for some months, but
the fact that our Party took action,
and the manner of this action is and
remains, in view of the impending
events, a point of the utmost import
ance.
Severe Test Undergone.
The Party, from the top to the
bottom, down to the last man, re-
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bosses. Let us see whether they are
really so poverty-stricken that they
cannot afford the two shillings.
What Profits.
If we take the reports of the capt.
talists themselves, we see that the
profits of the ship owners, for one
year only, are S8 million pounds. The
Cunard Line made net profit Of
f12,S44,164 during the years from
1913 to 1922. Between 1914 and 1922
the White Star Line made e8,428, 900
clear profit. In the year 1922, the
Royal Mail Lines profits amounted
to e7OS,SOS.
And so on, taking company after
company, these fabulous profits were
piled up, after all expenses had been
met for wages, maintenance, expan-
sion, the cost of new ships, etc. And,
out of all this tremendous profit.
coined from the workers labor, they
cannot afford the two shillings daily
which their slaves are demanding.
And this increase would only mean
about four million pounds per year
~e " eASA pAOibo u 90 DlltllOnS!
Beginning of Offensive.
The great significance Of this strike
IL that it is not an answer to a new
attack of the employers upon the
standards of the longshoremen. In
this case, the workers are not upon
he defensive. They have launched
an attack upon the masters profits
IN their effort to gain for themselves
improved conditions.
And that is the vital Importance
OF this strike. It is the first often
sive move Of the British workers
since the long series of defeats which
started with Black Friday. It means
that, at long last, the workers of
Britain are recovering from their dis
enlargement, and are once more pre-
pairing for battle. They are at last
on the aggressive. This strike must
be won-and that will be the battle
cry to other sections of the British
proletariat to assume the offensive,
TO carry the fight on into the enemy's
territory.
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SPAIN'S DICTATOR
is NOT AFRAID OF
WOMEN'S VOTES
Dissolves Barcelona Re-
gional Commune
tBy DC Federatsd Prsssl

MADRID, March 9.-Primo de Ri
vera, the Spanish dictator, has
granted votes for women. Thus he
initiates his great model, the Dicta-
tor Mussolini, who granted the ballot
to women in Italy. But while Mus
solini gave that cherished privilege
only to Fascist women thru DEGREES
limiting the vote to property holders,
wives Of war veterans, wives of Fas-
cists, ETC., Primo has gone him one
better and given it to all women.
1t is significant that woman suf-
frage, once ultra-radical doctrine, in
this day of Fascist versus proletar-
ian relationships, should prove a
fitting instrument in the hands Of
reaction. 1t is a fearful commentary
on the conservatism of the Spanish
women, that Primo de Rivera should
have granted the ballot to all of
them.
A CastilIian Patriot.
De Rivera is a Castillian patriot
and in the dominance of Castillo over
the other regions of Spain, he thinks
should be included an edict that ev-
eryone should talk Spanish with a
Castillian accent. He has forbidden
the teaching Of the Catalonian' dia-
lect, the Basque dialect and other
regional variations of the general
language family of the Spanish pen
insula.
This decree has strengthened the
already powerful movement toward
regional autonomy and even indie
pendence. He permitted the Basques
to sing religious songs in their own
language during the festas Of Santa
Agueda, but otherwise none of the
regional languages must be sung in
public or taught in schools.
Barcelona Boycott.
To greater enrage Catalonia, the
industrial center of Spain, he has dis.
solved its regional commune or gov
eminent and replaced it with hand
picked members, all Of them of the
National Monarchist union. The peo-
pie of Barcelona have responded by
boycotting the members, who, being
prominent patriots are also big bust
ness men. One of the boycotts is
against the biggest, department store
i'm Barcelona.
Hard-won parliamentary institu-
tons, such as exemption Of members
of parliament from arrest until they
have been impeached or expelled a
privilege slowly conquered thru the
middle ages in long fights with en-
perors and kings, has been abolished
by a decree of the directorate. II
has decided that 1t can try it's par,
liamentary critics for treason or any
other offense without asking permits.
sion from parliament.
How many Of your shop-mates road
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Youth VieWs
Young Investigator Finds Job
Hunting Hard Work.
By HARRY CANNES

n NE Of the big capitalist dailies
~ has employed a young fellow
to look for jobs. His stories make
interesting reading to rebel. They
show how heart-breaking it is for
the young fellow or girl, without any
outside help, like his family or
friends, to exist Jobs are almost
impossible to get, and where the
Young worker is offered an oppor-
tunity to work, he must do the thing
at lower wages than the older work
ers.
The Western Electric Company in
Chicago and other cities is a pretty
good guage of unemployment for the
youth. The Hawthorne plant, for
instance, employees 10000 workers,
$1,000 men and $4,000 women--near-
ly az of the women are under 30 and
most of them are under 81, while half
of the males are very young, great
deal of them only sixteen.
Five thousand men and boys make
application for jobs at the Chicago
Western Electric Company every
week. Out Of this veritable army OF
job seekers, only 800 are employed
and many of these are kicked out il
very short time. The wages are SC
slow that a good deal of the growing
crime at the present time can bt
charged to the inability of many Of
the young workers to live decently
on the money they get.
At the same time, we fad that this
Western Electric Company spends
hundred thousands of dollars in pro
paganda to keep the workers con
tented in mind if they are not
exactly so in their stomachs.
There are entire industries tina
are run on youth labor in the United
States. Every day so-called Sigh
factory work becomes more com
mon. The youth are used almost ex
clusively in the light factory institu
tions, which also pay Eight" wages
Unemployment is affecting all OF
the factories that hire the young mel
and women. Others which formerly
employed older workers for the ligh
factory work, let them go and tax,
younger people in their places at lest
wages This is a regular procedure
Tor the bosses when hard times ant
unemployment comes.
The problem Of remedying the eco
nomic conditions Of the young work
ers is extremely hard because there
is no organization whatever indus
trially among them. The YOUNG
Workers League is working hare
wherever it can to urge the union
to organize the youth, but result
are slow and hardly perceivable
Meanwhile the organization of shol
nuclei units Of the Young Worker
League on the job and in the fact
ories) is being pushed in the effor
to get the youth themselves to figh
against the miserable conditions i'm
posed on them
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ZINOYIEY sAYS.

COMRADES At the present time
~ the Central of the Party is en-
gagged with the discussion Of those
same questions which are now being
dealt with publicly. The Central has
formed comprehensive commission,
participated in by some members of
the political bureau, for dealing with
this question. This commission will
begin work within the next few
days, and we are firmly convinced
that within the next few days the
Central will lay before the whole
Party definite and unanimously ac-
cepted resolution containing PROPOSE
tions towards the solution of the
whole of the burning questions which
have been recently debated in the
press.
Perhaps, comrades, / really acted
somewhat wrongly in giving the title
Of: "New Tasks Of Our Party to the
article which wrote as subject for
discussion. A number of opponents
have pointed out that these are
merely old questions which have
never been answered, and that the
title of my article does not, there
fore, quite correspond to its contents.
To be perfectly accurate, should
have indicated that | was writing on
the topical tasks now set our Party
whether they be old or new tasks
will be seen later.
NEP-Necessary Chapter.
At the present juncture, however.
we are faced with a number of
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WGgner's Misery Hit
Responsive Chord IN
Hearts of Hearers
ALFRED V. FRANKENsTEIN.

ALFRED v. TRANhA44No AA4N'
Selections from Richard Wagner's
love tragedy, Tristan and Isolde"
occupied half the program of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert
at Orchestra Hall on March and 8.
The music was an outgrowth Of Wag-
ner's own tragic experience, and
more than any of his operas gets
close to the souls and frustrated
hopes of his hearers. Three excerpts
were played, taking in the best music
of the drama. The prelude is a long,
sombre study in despair, the love
duet and death of Isolde reach the
highest degree of artistic expression
to which love inspiration can carry
genius.
Another Brahms work, the over
ture Academic Festival" opened
the concert. This consists of some
student songs of Germany, particu-
larly of Breslau university, woven
together in singularly brilliant or
chestral pattern.
A somewhat similar work is Rubin
Goldmark's NEGRO Rhapsody" play
ed also on this occasion. Goldmark
has taken a number Of Negro melo-
dies and made splendid, in the lit
eral sense, orchestra piece out of
them. The finest thing about the
work is that, in treating the themes
symphonically, Goldmark has not lost
their Negro character.
Next week, Wanda Landowska,
Polish pianist, will be the soloist
Miss Landowska is an enthusiast
over old music, and has had con-
structed a harpischord, the instru.
ment that was in use before the mod
ern piano was invented. On this she
will play a concerto by Handel and
three short solos. She will also play
a piano concert by Mozart. The or
ehestra will play a suite by Gretry,
the Brahms third symphony, and two
nocturnes Of Debussy.
Every new DAILY WORKER reader
means a new recruit in the ranks Of
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(NOTE.-Today THE DAILY
WORKER publishes the first in
stallment of Comrade Zinoviev's
speech on the situation within the
Russian Communist Party to
conference Of party members in the
Leningrad district. Zinoviev was
one of Lenin's closest associates
and is chairman of the Third In
ternational.)
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BRITISH DOCKERS
LEAD OFFENSIVE
! OF ISLAND LABOR
Ashleigh Tells About
Militant Dockers

NOTE.--This is the first of
series of descriptive articles on the
great British dock strike by the
DAILY WORKERS own CORES
pOndent-Charles AshIeigh. The
articles came by mail. AshA Ngh,
poet and journalist, served a trim
in Leavenworth penitentiary an a
class war prisoner and was after
wards depOrted to England. The
FIRST article follows:
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For information concerning the
Young Workers League Of Amer
lea, address Y. w. L., 1909 N.
State St., Chicago, III.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-01
FARMERS COMPLAINTS ARE JUSTIFIED

by those who know nothing
making Those
Every often
conditions and prices OF live
received Saturday and
the following:
$ less for his than
year of
buhel below this time last
tendency to increase though
sideraby 1928 Wheat
bushe sections farmers receiving
considerably years S125
compared with 80
The of AZ bushel is
SIT
$40 depending kind averaged
3 while
pound Buterfat
considerably month and than
than March with
$725 beef $500 per hundred pounds
sell quoted
s
prices
tell
his fertilizer high
labor
SELL conditions would
as j t 5 a
things really promised
would relieve
single thing
president
did he price Of that
xess then.
the Investigation being
bn has
poor
Ritt nd on no Other Hor
that the tariff myth" doesn't help
stuff one enough Congress
perform
hesitation
wildernesses
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-01

Rev. Walter Clark will preach at
the M. p. church here on Sunday,
May II, at 8 O'Clock p. m. The pub
lie is cordially invited.
Mrs Eva Fitch is visiting at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy
Smith, below McConnelsville
John Peck is quite i'll with gan
creme of one foot, at the home OF
his ughter-in-law Mrs. Ida Peck
at Woodgrove. He is well advanced
in years and recovery is very doubt
full.
Mrs. Woodie Rowland, who has
been i'll for quite while, does not
improve as rapidly as her many
friends might wish.
Paul McNabb brought in new
automobile the first of the week.
This with the other two bought in
the town this spring makes 16 autos
and one truck in Reinersville. What
other town OF. the size can beat it?
Bud McGrath ran nail in his
foot Monday, which causes him to
have quite sore foot.
The presidential primary was not
very largely attended here. The
people seem to think their man will
be nominated without any effort on
their part.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-01
place, but NAV be won to return

place, but may be won to return.
There are SO many trees and parks
at the assembly, that the place is
one grand picnic ground. Few peo-
pie wear hats, and sunshades are
more trouble than they are worth.
Each of the important meeting
places has not only the virgin forest,
but such a planting that the picture
is dream. Under the law of New
York the trustees have the right
and control of trimming or remov-
ing any tree. 1t is not unusual to
see veranda built around the trunk
of some fine old tree.
On the estate of Roger Babson, in
the east, is a stately oak more than
200 years old He has named this
after President Coolidge Below
the words Coolidge Oak" sign
attached to the ancient tree bears a
verse that hangs in the Northhamp-
ton home of the President:
"A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw, the less he spoke:
The less he spoke, the more he
heard,
Why can't we be like that wise old
bird?''
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-01
ropic culyert in York.

the Tropic culyert in York.
The clerk was instructed to adver-
tise for sale the widening of the con
crete bridge over Havener run, or
the -Eagleport road.
County surveyor was instructed tC
have repaired the retaining wall or
the Moore run bridge, by force ac-
count of labor
Commissioner BarKhurst was in
structed to have a new roof put OF
covered bridge east of Deavertown
He was also instructed to have paint
ed and repaired the Tysinger bridge
York township.
Action on assessments on l. G. II
no. 354, Sec HI, is postponed unit
June 8, 1924
The clerk was instructed to adver
tise for sale the cost Of abutmenf
and wing walls on the Lee Best
bridge in Union, according to plans
and specifications
Commissioner Pierpoint was in
structed 70 inspect the Grosskloss
culyert on Bald Eagle and have same
improved il possible.
Board adjourned to meet May 5.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-01
Reinersyille

\ medicine show will land here
Monday of next week to exhibit
during the week.
Dana McNabb of the Black &
Grant company of GAINESVILLE was a
week end visitor with Reinersyille
friends.
Mr. and Mrs Tom Alexander went
10 McConnelsville Saturday ana
bought a new car and brought it
home with them that evening.
Mrs W O. Ford and daughter
Marguerite will soon 80 to Youngs-
town where they expect to spend the
greater part Of the summer
John Asquith of Caldwell was an
over sunday visitor in Reinersyille.
Mrs Sarah Harper, who spent the
past winter with her children, came
to her property east Of the village
last week where she will spend the
summer.
Paul McNabb and wife, the for
mer who taught the Ava school the
past year and the latter the Rem
rock school, came to their home
here Sunday, where they will spend
the summer months.