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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-13
The Discussion on Party Tasks

MINORITY of the central executive
committee have placed their position
before the party and Comrade Lore
has not yet registered his vote on
these proposals.;
THEREFORE,: Be It resolved by
the central executive committee that
we call upon comrade Lore to de-
clare his position in the party con-
troversy Immediately.
THEREFORE,: We instruct Com.
rade Lore specifically to declare
whether:
Al. He votes for the thesis sub
mitted to central executive committee
by comrade Foster-the thesis of the
MAJORITY Of the central executive
committee.
"2. Whether he votes for or against
the thesis submitted to the central
executive committee by comrade
Ruthenberg-the thesis of the MINOR
ITY of the central executive COM
mittee.
"s. Whether he intends to submit
thesis Of his own expressing point
Of view different from those presented
in either the MAJORITY Of the CEN
trail executive committee or the
minority Of the central executive COM
mittee theses.
"a. Whether he has definitely made
up his mind not to vote for or against
either theses presented and has de-
cided not to present his own thesis.
THEREFORE,: We, the central ex-
ecutive committee, do hereby decide
to impress upon Comrade Lore that
the welfare of the party demands that
he as a central executive committee
member and the leader of an espe-
ciaIIy designated tendency by the
Communist International, stop delay
ing his decision on the vital party
problems and that he tell the MEM
bership without any further delay
exactly what position he takes in the
controversy"
Vote.
Bittelman-Amendm to request
Comrade Lore to register his vote on
the theses proposed or to submit his
own thesis within week. Carried by
Foster majority.
Recapitulation.
Total number of central executive
committee majority votes for, or
measures proposed in behalf of, Lore
(Two-and-a-Half international ten
dency) is 30.
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Views of Our Readers
a CORRECTION.

To the DAILY WORKER: We would
like to call your attention to the
EDITORS note" in your issue of Fri
day, Nov. 20, page 3, column Z, above
the "Anise story" where you state
that the Jewish Workers Relief Com
mittee is at present carrying on a
campaign for funds to assist COLOMBIA
ion work in Soviet Russia. We wish
to correct this statement in so far as
the campaign to which you refer is
being carried on by the Committee
for Jewish Colonization in Soviet
Russia, 46 Canal Street, New York,
which is an organization entirely
separate and distinct from the Jewish
Workers Relief Committee.
We will appreciate IL you will bring
this correction to the attention Of
your readers. Sincerely yours, Com
mittee for Jewish Colonization in
Soviet Russia, DR.. e. Wattenberg.
secretary.
To the DAILY WORKER: After
reading the article by Anise in the
DAILY WORKER on the Jewish land
question wish to make a brief state
ment regarding this matter. The
Soviet government was very liberal
in giving land to the Jews. On this
land group Of Jewish radicals have
organized colony under the name of
Commune Harold with our main Office
in New York. Last October we sent
a group Of members to Russia with
machinery and other necessities for
the building Of the Commune. We
expect to send another group soon.
The New York Office will be glad
TO send any information to those in
terested In Commune Harold. Com
municate with our secretary Comrade
r. Korn, c. o. Brodeck. 867 Hunts
Point Ave-, Bronx, New York.--Jean-
nette G. Freedman.
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(Continued from page s.

Motion.
neutrality-suspicious. to have central
executive committee issue statement
in VoIkszeitung and DAILY WORKER
defending zinoviev and comintern
policies.
-Amendment-To have cen
trail executive committee instruct Lore
to write editorial correcting himself
because of certain erroneous state
ment that have appeared in the Volks-
zeitung relative to the Communist
international" Carried by Majority
Date.
No. 1o-March 10, 1924. Central
Executive Committee.
Motion.
Representation to censure Lore
and to have central executive commit
tee make public statement on the
Communist international and Zinc
view Misrepresentation by Lore.
Vote.
Foster-To refer to the next CEN
trail executive committee meeting.
Carried by majority
Date.
No. 11-Mareh 10, 1924. Central
Executive Committee.
Motion.
Representation to endorse the old
guard in the Russian Communist
Party controversy.
Vote.
Foster-Amendment view of
the fact that the controversy in the
Russian Communist Party has been
decided by a conference of the Rus
sian Communist Party the central ex-
ecutive committee is of the opinion
that it is not called upon to take
position on the merits of the contro-
versy. The central executive commit
tee will print in the party press all the
documents bearing on the debate and
encourage the membership to study
them and to discuss the question in
the columns of the party press. The
central executive committee will con-
denim any attempt to make fractional
issue in the American party" Gear
ried by the Majority
Date.
No. 12-March 10, 1924. Central
Executive Committee.
Motion.
Representation to reaffirm execu-
tive council decision regarding tel
epathy advertisement in VoIkszeitung.
Vote.
Cannon - Amendment - "That in
view of the explanation of Comrade
Lore that lecture was before open
forum as part of an effort to attract
non-party members and the subject
was psycho-therapy and hypnotism
the apprehensions of the executive
council were unfounded." Carried
by Majority
No. 13-March rs, 1924. PoIeom.
Motion.
Foster-Motion to remove Siminoff
as eastern district 7. U. {. L. organ
izer and replace him with thinner
man. (Loreite.)
Vote.
Carried by majority.
Date.
No. 14-ApriI IA, 1924. Council.
Motion.
Observation-Disclosures to call attention
of Lore and German district commit
tee No. 2 regarding central executive
committee action against their
branches holding meetings on spirit
uaIism and advertising the same In
volkszeitung.
Vote.
Voted down by majority.
Date.
No. 15-April IA, 1924. Council.
Motion.
Cannon - Motion that Poyntz
(Lorelte) be made educational direc-
tor Of New York school.
Vote.
Carried.
Date.
No. f6--ApriI IL, 1924. Council.
Motion.
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FACTS FOR COMMUNISTS

! nIsstatements regarding the Commun-
ist International.
Vote.
Voted down by majority and carry
Cannon motion: To issue special state
ment lin the name of the central ex-
ecutive committee on all questions
including fractional opposition in New
York"
No. 17-May 8, 1924. Central Ex-
ecutive Committee.
Motion.
Lovestone-Motion to read letter
from New York Workers School re-
garding Poyntz and controversy over
her educational work.
Vote.
Cannon-To refer motion to edu-
cationaI committee. Carried by
majority.)
No. 1s-June 2, 1924. Council.
Motion.
neutrality-suspicious. to reject appIi-
cation of cruss ((expeIled saIutsky
foIlower) to rejoin the party.
Vote.
Majority votes against Ruthenberg
proposal and decides to defer action
to next full central executive commit
tee meeting.
No. 19-August 10, 1924. PoIcom.
Motion.
Ruthenberg - Resolution acknowl-
edging receipt Of Lore's wire regard
ng voII<szeitung three-day advertise
nent of Admiral Horthy (Hungary)
imperial loan bonds and reaffirming
oIitical committees first action on
his; pointing out stain on comintern
thru such an ad appearing in an organ
of one of it's parties; reiterating
'ormer censure of VoIkszeitung and
decision to expeI any member respon-
sibIe for same.
Vote.
Foster majority members vote down
this resolution. Lost by tie vote.
Date.
NO. GO-Ftu9uSt TO- tSGf. TotCoWs
Motion.
Foster-Motion to take no further
action on VoIkszeitung-Horthy bond
advertisement till we hear Bittel-
mans report.
Vote.
Lost by tie vote.
Date.
No. 2f-August 10, 1924. Polcom.
Motion.
Lovestone-Motion to have central
executive committee report Horthy
bond matter to Communist Interna-
tionaI and assure 1t of our taking
proper action on same.
Vote.
Lost by tie vote. Cannon amend
ment to report when investigation is
completed also lost.
Date.
No. 22-Ausust rs, 1924. PoIeom.
Motion.
Ruthenberg - Motion to suspend
6Iohm from holding party office for
six months because of his role in
HoHatt'9 pOItiy auNCThoCHtSuts
Vote.
Lost.
Date.
No. 23-september 20, 1924. Council.
Motion.
INSTRUMENTATION to elect COM
mittee Of three to draft plan for own
ership Of voIkszeituna and plant.
Vote.
Bittelman amends to put matter on
agenda of next central executive COM
mittee meeting. (Thus deferring
action.)
Date.
No. 24-september 20, 1924. Council.
Motion.
neutrality-suspicious. to ask Lore
what he did towards carrying out
central executive committee decision
regarding voIkszeituns ownership
made In March, 1924.
Vote.
Majority defers action by referring
to full central executive committee
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meetings as in Sept. Fl issue.
b. That voIkszeituno discontinue
advertising movie annoupcements for
Coolidge, Davis and LaFoIIette.
c. That party member charged
with responsibility of going over
VoIkszeitung before it goes to press
shall be censured for permitting such
advertisements to appear.
d. That central executive commit
tee issue a statement laying down
Communist policy on advertising
based on experiences with voIkszei-
tung ads Of this character.
e. Condemnation of VoIkszeitung
reprinting article by Kautsky apologize
ing for traitorous role of German So
ciaI-democracy during imperiaIist
world war.
Vote.
Majority moves to defer action
until next full central executive COM
mittee meeting.
No. 26-september 20, 1924. Council.
CitIow-ResoIution outlining active
theological and organizational cam
paign against the Two-and-a-Half
International tendency and for the
central executive committee control
Of entire party press.
Vote.
Foster - Amendment - To refer
document to Polcom as basis for a
statement and report to central ex-
exuctive committee. Despite minor
ity's accepting this motion in good
faith, more than two months have
now elapsed and Comrade Bittelman,
the secretary of the Polcom, has not
yet taken this report up for action by
the Polcom.
Date.
No. 27-october IA, 1924. Council.
Motion.
Standardization that district ex-
ecutive committee No. 2 reorganize
New York educational committee on
the basis of the reorientation of the
central executive committee and the
Comintern and submit the names of
the new committee to the central ex-
ecutive committee for approval"
Vote.
Majority defeats Bedacht motion.
Date.
No. 28-october IA, 1924. Council.
Motion.
Lovestone-Motion that Bedacht
motion be considered "as a preIimin
airy to the complete reorganization of
the school," (Poyntz, a Loreite, di
reeting New York schooI.)
Vote.
Majority defeats Lovestone amend
ment.
No. 29-December z, 1924. PoIcom.
Motion.
Lovestone-ResoIutio pointing out
that New York volkszeitung of Nov
% carries interview with Grassman,
reaetionary German soeial-democrat
and fraternaI delegate to A. E. Of |.
convention, expressing appreciation
Of "the non-partisan help extended by
the voIkszeitung to German workers
families and members Of trade
unions"
b. "That central executive commit
tee calls upon comrade Lore, as re-
sponsibIe party editor, to explain
either what was the character of this
aid or II there was no such aid as
spoken Of by the anti-communist
Grossman, to explain how this item
got into the voIkszeituns.'
Vote.
Cannon-To lay the matter over until
Comrade Bittelman. representative to
the German convention, reports.
Date.
No. 3o-December 10, 1924. PoIcom.
Motion.
Lovestone-"WHEREAS: comrade
Lore has officially registered his ac-
ceptance Of the MAJORITY Of the
central executive committee election
statement and has voted against the
MINORITY Of the central executive
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Contributions for
Foster-Gitlow Fund
Must Be Popped Up

Have you sent in your campaign
fund contributions? Get busy, there
is not much time left and money is
needed for the Foster-Gitlow cam
paign.
The following is a list of contribu-
lions collected by Frank Edick, of
Royalton, ILL.,, for the Workers Party
Campaign Fund. Send in yours.
VIM. Patach, 500; r. II. Edck, soc;
A Simon, soc; VIM. Trains, soc; M.
Matisky, soc; A. AndeJaitis, soc; J. Ber-
tulis, $780, J. AndeJaitis, soc; J. Jeku-
bosky, soc; Frank Rynikus, soc; l. VAL
las, soc; Frank Vaulis, Csc; ]. Moser,
SOC; M. Grishka, SOC; M. Dobel, Csc;
VIM. Monyk, SOC; J. Sauka, s1.oo; p.
Yesuk, soc; c. PIusinik, soc; F. Yesuk,
25c; j. Borosky, Csc; VIM. Gulisauskls,
5oci 4s 3. Workers Party, $500; A.
Winevsky, soc; J. Black, soc; J. Sirks-
ma, soc; r. kirsis, 25c M. Shilis. soc;
A. Skovron, soc; A. Mankels, 25c j.
Jensauskis, soc; p. Pearl, SOC; j. ST.
kovsky, soc; c. Brazinsl<y, SOC; J. Dvar-
zetsky, SOC; I. Mankelis, S1.oo; VIM.
Nuseviee, st.oo; X. kembel, s1.oo; A.
5razinsky, soc; S. Ruseika, $500; A.
Belle, SOC.
Total, S26.25.
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Subscribe for "Your Daily"
the DAILY WORKER.
ARRANGE BANQUET FOR
FOSTER IN new YORK
FOR SEPTEMBER 14TH

NEW YORK, Sept. ia BAN
quet is being arranged for William
z. Foster, the steel strike leader
and presidential candidate of the
Workers Party, by the Noodle
Trades Election Campaign Commit
tee. The banquet will be held in
Beethoven Hall, 21o East Fifth
Street on Sunday evening, Septem-
Der IA. This affair will be attend
ed solely by rank and file militant
workers. The bosses, lawyers and
nillionaires, who have been trying
to secure tickets for this unique
affair, will be referred to Coolidge,
Davis, and LaFoIlette. However, no
workers will be turned down as
long as there are seats to be had.
Tickets are now on sale at Room 8.
2os East 18th St., and at the Frei-
heit, 1853 East Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
NEGROES WISINC
UP ON CARvEYS
EXODUS SCHEME
"Flight from Egypt" No
Solution for Problem

Try campaigning with the Workers
Party in the South Side districts-the
Negro districts of Chicago! It's here
that all the difficulties with which the
laws surround Communist campaign
ers are increased hundredfold by the
curious difficulties of that most in
tricate of intricate problems-the
Negro in the revolution.
The South Side comrades are doing
well, of course. Already they have
gathered almost enough signatures to
put comrade Gordon Owens, a Negro
who has been through the mill of the
Industrial system, and who has thought
and written and lived revolution, on
the ballot for representative from the
first Congressional district. Already
they have created little whirlwind
of revolutionary ardor on the South
Side by distributing literature, by cir
culating pamphlets, by speaking to
gathering on street corners. They have
had the help, in this work, of enthu-
siastic comrades from other branches.
1t hasn't been easy. They have had
to meet and conquer the illusion of
Republicanism-the strange notion,
which the Republican party has ex-
plotted, that just because it was the
Republican party that happened to
take the measure-the economically
necessary war measure-of freeing the
Negro slaves-the descendants of these
slaves are bound forever to the politi-
cal chariot of that party.
They have had to meet and conquer
the fetish of Garveyism-that curious
philosophy that tries to teach the
Negroes not to fight for their rights in
their own country, but to leave the
fight and go to another country-where
they would be at the mercy of French
bullets and British warships, seeking
booty for their imperialist govern
ments.
But many Negroes of Chicago have
come to see, since this campaign got
into swing, that their only hope lies
in staying right here. and fighting side
by side with their white brothers the
battle against industrial greed and ex-
ploitation. Already the South Side
branch has increased it's membership.
Already hundreds of Negroes are think
ing about this organization called the
Workers Party.
Here's fight worth fightingl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
TIN lizzie KING
SHIPS FORDS0NS
TO SOvIETLA
Hughes Gets Fit as Ford
Does Business

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL. - King
Henry of the auto kingdom has rec
ognized Russia. At least he has ship
ped 900 Fordsons consigned to the
soviet government at Novorossisk.
This is the largest shipment Of
tractors event sent to Russia. All the
tractors will be used for agriculture.
According to a Detroit dispatch the
soviet government now uses Fordson
tractors almost exclusively.
U. S.-Russ Trade Grows
This shipment comes as a sidelight
on the department of commerce report
that the United States has shared in
the direct trade with Russia in the
period January-March 1924 to the ex-
tent of 1928 per cent of Russia's i'm
ports and S.S per cent of her exports.
This marks gain over the same
period last year in which the United
States got only 3.S per cent of Russia's
import business and 5 per cent of her
exports.
The extent to which the United
States is being outstripped in this
important world market is indicated
by figures of the department which
show the relative share of Germany,
England and the United States in
Russia trade in terms of the per cent
enjoyed by each:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
Russian Dramatists
to Present Famous
Revolutionary Play

Do you understand Russian? If you
do, attend the performance given by
the Society for Technical Aid to So
Wet Russia this Sunday, Sept. 14th, at
1880 p. m, at the Soviet School, 1902
w. Division ST.
The Russian Dramatic Players at
the head of which is the well-known
Russian actor, Anatoly Pokatilon, will
present "The Convert" a drama in
four acts, from the life Of the Mill
lists, by the famous Russian revolu-
tionary writer, Stepniak.Kravchinsky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12

1915 by the National Industrial
Conference board, an employers
organization. Comparing the
years 1919 to 1923 with the four
preceding years the board shows
not only more ton miles produced
per hour worked by freight service en-
ployes btu also more passenger miles
per man hour worked by passenger
service employees and more equated
traffic units per man hour worked by
the yard service employees and by the
train and engine service employees as
whole.
Increase Due to s-hour Day.
The average number of men in the
train and engine service of Glass
railroads in 1856 was 2S4,S24. In
1923 it was 343,382 an increase of 81
per cent. But this increase in numbers
was in part due to the establishment
of the S-hour day in 1917. From 1915
to 1928 the number of man hours Of
all train and service employees in
creased from S20,206,015 to 0,67S,-
56S or by somewhat over II per cent.
Over the same period the revenue ton
miles carried increased by more than
Fl per cent and the passenger miles
by 10 per cent.
The number of employees in road
freight service increased from 145,-
262 in the year 1856 to 163, 292 in
the year 1928, or by IL per cent but
the number of man hours worked in
this branch of the service only in
creased per cent. AS a result the
average man in the service was not
only producing more ton miles per
honr of work hrt actually more per
year in spite Of the reduction in hours.
The ton miles per man hour for each
year covered by the boards study are
shown in the following table together
with the index based on the year
1856 as 100 per cent.
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DAVIS CITY
DOESN'T GET
PROSPERITY
Unemployment Growing
in JOhnnie's Town !
BY ART SHIELDS

Federated Press sStaff correspondent.l
cLARKSBURC, w. Va, Sept.
1.-THE likeness of John W.
Davis stares bIandIy down from
all the banks and smarter places
of merchandise in CIarksburg.
The campaign picture is the
most displayed piece of window
dressing along Main and Pike
Streets. The gem establish
ment Of r. E. Gill, supplements
the photo with placard that
recalls those jewelers. to His
Majesty" one finds along the
business byways of London
Gill asks the public to buy his
stuff because he has for many
years been jeweler to the Davis
family.
Trade Is Wary. sss
But all the Davis pictures and All
the Davis men have not succeeded ini
bringing trade to Clarksburg this sum.
mer. The county seat Of Harrison
county is going thru the worst period
OF depression the town has eyep
known, old timers say. Loyal demo.
Gratis may fiatten their noses at tho
panes in front of the picture of their
fayorite son but their dollars are NOT
blinking in the tills behind the picture,
This much one can see by a walk
thru the town but the extremity "a
the depression and the suffering OF
the workers can only be learned bv
longer investigation. Clarksburg de.
ponds on mining and on its nine glass
factories. OF these five are completelv
shut down and the other four are run.
ming one, two, or three days a week
with reduced personnel OF the hun
dred coal mines in this territory two.
thirds are shut down and the rest are
working part-time. Less building is.
going on than in any other city i'm
northern West Virginia.
Unemployment Hits Hard. ~
The unemployment crisis has
Clarksburg by the throat. It is the
vital, pressing issue facing the folks
here. 1t is the issue John w. Davis
had nothing to say about in his home
coming speech here last month.
Thousands of folks in his aaoi--rrv,r
were out Of work and suffering but
Davis apparently didn't know any,
thing about it. OF course as Noah
linn. state chairman Farmer-Labor.
Party of West Virginia and a citizen
OF Clarksburg, said, "a lot of things.
happen in Clarksburg that one doesn't
hear about in Locust Valley, Long Is.
land. Davis doesn't visit his POLITICAL
residence often. And the folks he rubs7
shoulders with when he comes are
not the out-of-work carpenters, glass
workers and miners with their nests,
of little ones waiting to be fed"
Rabbits Boost Johnnie. y
The Rotary, Kiwanis and Lion
luncheon clubs of Clarksburg are all,
boosting Davis.
Not so the folks who have no lunch
and they are many.
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RAWTHER BEASTLY OF
THE DUKE, YOU KNOW!
PRINCE TROTS DUCHESS

LONDON, Sept. II. - Vacation
court today refused the request Of
the Duchess of Westminster for an
Injunction restraining her husband
from ejeetins her from his home,
Bourbon House, in Berkeley Square.
The domestic troubles Of the duke.
and duchess date back about year.
The Duchess Of Westminster ls
now visiting in New York. She has
recently attended social affairs on
Long Island where the Prince o.
Wales was guest and danced with
her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
Wobbly Freed in
Kansas Criminal
Syndicalism Case
(By Defense News servIce.)

GREAT BEND, Kan, Sept. IL
The district court of Rice county has
just reversed the conviction of George
B. Williams, l. w. w. organizer, SEN
fenced several months ago to serve
ten years in prison under the Kansas
criminal syndicalism law. Williams
was delegate for the Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union of the l. w.
w. during the 1928 drive of that union
for new members in the harvest
fields.
There was no evidence against him
except the simple fact that he was a
member of the |. w. w.
Attorney Charles L. Carroll Of
Great Bend handled the appeal in
Williams case.