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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
. BY ALFRED eoErz.


IN an article on the party contro-
| versy published by the DAILY
WORKER Dec. 3, Comrade Lovestone
accuses the majority Of the party Of
menshevist skepticism. In rather
lengthy statement in which he at
tempts to prove that the farmer-labor
movement has not been swallowed by
LaFollette and that it can be revived,
we find the following:
Skepticism-A Menshevlst Disease.
"Thus Lenin in his introduction to
Karl Marx, Letters to Kugelmann,
said, The Marxist doctrine has weld
ed the theory and practice Of the
class struggle into an TNDIVISIBLE
WHOLE leaps his). He is no Marx
list who, to justify existing conditions.
distorts the theory which soberly con-
firms the objective situation, who
goes so far as to adapt himself with
the greatest possible speed to any
temporary lull in the revolution %,
to throw quickly overheard his 'revo-
lutionary illusion and to set about
collecting the realistic shreds."
On which Comrade Lovestone COM
ments as follows: 1T is truth long
known to Bolsheviks, that only the
empiric does not look at developing
class conflicts and movements any
'urther than the horizon OF the then
given situation. Amongst menshe.
vIks," Comrade Lovestone continues.
"skeptlclsm and doubt rise in direct
proportion to the drawn out and la
borious character the development OF
class movements tend to assume"
To all Of which we agree and altho
we fail to see how this applies to the
majority position, It can readily be
seen how much more accurately 1t
describes the minority. It is true,
Comrade Lovestone, that the com
rades Of the majority have doubts and
are skeptical OF the possibility OF re-
establishing whatever sentiment OF the
farmer-labor movement has existed
and with good cause. Since when has
II become the function OF a Commun-
list Party to organize farmer.labor
parties? II is true that II would be
our duty to participate in mass
movement Of this kind or even in
widespread demand for one. should
one exist, but for US to try to organize
a non-Communist party which we
would ultimately have to combat, and
at that when we would have to or
ganize II out OF nothing but ourselves
and our close sympathizers. is clearly
ridiculous.
We would further like to ask the
minority, since when has Il become
a cardinal principle Of Communists
to view with anything but doubt and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
ON DEVIATIONS- SYNDICALIST
SECTARIAN, AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC

the capitalist system, or confined their
possible errors to executive commit
tee sessions out Of sight OF the party
as a whole and issued them as part,
instructions which all good Commu.
nists obey.
Naturally it was not to 20 on for
ever. Some situation had to arise to
shake the party into wakefulness, self
criticism and scrutiny of its ideoloei.
cal leadership. Such a situation is
the present party discussion over the
farmer-labor party slogan issue. It
is unavoidable, nay, it is even neces-
sary, that in such discussion the ide
illogical deviations (if any exist from
the line of feminist Communism in
the mental furniture of any of our
leading comrades, should be sharply
pointed out and the deviation correct
ed by the party so that the comrades
who have erred, may learn from their
error and. united with their critics.
give their best ability to carry on the
struggle for the overthrowal Of CAPT
talism.
Some comrades are considerable Of
human feelings. They say with anxi-
Gus mind and troubled heart, Don't
be personal" when the the political
line Of a leading party comrade is
designated and compared with known
deviations-be It left or right Com
munists are not thin-skinned about
political criticism. II we are not to
do this, our party may as well cease
trying to be a party which clears IT,
self by critical self-surveyal. and may
as well call In the Comintern to per-
form a service to Communism for
which we would be inherently united.
It would be excellent II there were no
deviations. But If such exist. It 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
LIQUIDATION-OF WHAT, AND BY WHOM7
BY MAX HEDAcHT.

The Workers (Communist) Party
Of America is faced with momentous
decisions, far more important than the
apparent issue would signify. For or
against labor party; that seems to
be the question. But in reality the la.
Dor party is only incidentally the OBJ
ject of the discussion. The real issue
lies deeper. And in justice to the party
and to the Communist International
we must insist that the fundamental
points be dealt with in the discus.
sion.
The majority, either not under
standing the fundamental points at is
sue, or DESTROYS to keep them out Of
the discussion, insists to stick to SUI
perficialities, to hair-splitting and
quibbling. Reading the long and shall
low epistles of our majority comrades
one becomes convinced that these
comrades have taken the advice Of
Mephisto serious:
ITO eagerly don't labor for ideas;
For if on ideas you're short,
You surely find a fitting word;
About words It's easy to dispute,
No trouble to believe in words,
And nothing you may rob of words. 4"
The party is entitled to know the
facts so it may judge by them. The
fireworks of words--and nothing but
words-of the majority shall not sue
coed in covering up their own shallow
ness and meaninglessness.
Comrade Foster, while in Moscow
last year, carried on campaign
against the minority with an accusa-
ton that it mad consistently sabotag-
ed the industrial work of the party
There was not an iota Of Justification
for this accusation; neither on the
basis of facts as contained in the min
utes Of the C. f. c., nor on the basis
of the activities Of the party But,
altho not intentionally. Comrade Eos.
ter had put his finger on the sore
when he raised that issue. The facts
of the matter are that the present
majority consistently sabotages the
political activities of the party. For
the present majority the industrial
work was not the most important
method to initiate, to aid in and to car
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
By HARRISON GEORGE.

MO one more than myself realizes
IN the fact that in the long and diff
ficult process of building up q Com
munist Party which will be real Len
inist-Bolshevist party of action, that
1t is necessary to work with the hui
man material inherited from the pre-
party period. The simplest surveyal
win show that we have not yet be-
come Bolshevist party, "monolithic,
hewn of one piece" altho we have
hopes of becoming such a party.
The digestion Of the various ele-
ments has now extended over a per-
iod Of five years. It is time we show
ed some effect Of the guidance of the
CQmintern. The party should be at
tuhed to the necessity OF testing the
RESPONSE OF tho material ingested to
the line Of Communist principles es-
pecially clarified and determined by the
Second Congress Of the Comintern.
No party clearance has ever been
attempted or suggested, even Of the
central organs. The party Il speak
Of the Workers (Communist) Party
and not the farmer-labor party has
drifted along with criminal lack Of
determination. The fact that our
rsrty program, which is filed with
the most ridiculous deviations and is
clearly written in hasty, trashy way
in both content and construction, has
stood for two years. is a testimony to
our theological laziness.
We have had, until this one, not
even the pretense OF q real party dis
cussion in which the theological lead
ers OF our party might be required to
expose their basic understanding. I'm.
III now they have passed muster with
general agitational expressions against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12

that they wouldn't vote for the Work
ers Party, are, queerly enough, In
neither the /. w. w. nor in "class
farmer labor party" OF their own.
They are simply lost in space! A po-
litical phenomenon Of Comrade Pep
per's "LaFollette revolution" and the
endomorphic theory of the creation OF
farmer-labor parties.
But Comrade Powell, and other ex-
ponents of parliamentary cretinism,
such as Comrades Reeve and Kaplan,
who think the part is a sort Of foot
ball ground to romp around in and
not an organ of revolutionary struggle
demanding a serious and receptive
apprenticeship as preliminary to
leadership, are all accountable in the
loose way the party has permitted it's
members to regard their class duties
Torturina the Capitalist Decline.
But it is an astonishing revelation
Of theological bankruptcy to hear
Comrade Ruthenberg, whom the Com
intern has associated with Comrade
Foster as the best element in our
party, aver that without 'class farm
er-labor party" there is no "class
political action" There Is little ex-
PLANTATION for his so twisting and tor
turing the political consequences of
the decline Of capitalism as to make
it squeak-'T want a farmer-labor
party!"-in view of his previous dis
tinction between the related political
conflict Of the class and the imme-
date and every day struggles as given
in the February Liberator, where he
says:
"The guiding principle Of Com
munist policy =. is to use the class
struggles growing out Of these con-
flIcting economic Interests to mobiI-
ize the forces which Will wrest
from the capitalists the state
power"
"SyndicaIist" Leanings--onee on
Time.
This does not mean only a cam
paign on the basic economic issue,
which sharply divides the interests
of the capitalists and the workers
privately owned industry, operated
for exploitive purposes versus social
lied industry operated for service.
The conflict between economic groups
in capitalist society manifests itself
in continuous struggles over imme-
date questions. The workers fight
for better wages and working condi-
TOMS. They engage in a struggle
against restrictive laws, against in.
functions, the use of armed power of
the government against them.
These daily struggles are the start.
ing point of the Communist struggle
for the overthrow of capitalism BY
entering into all Of these struggles,
which grow out of the every day life
of the exploited, becoming their
spokesman. winning their confidence.
the Communists establish their lead
ership of all those who suffer under
the whip of capitalism"
srhis is fairly good picture of the
scope Of political action" and while
not given with any marvellous clarity,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12

is sufficient to show that Comrade
Ruthenberg has, or once had. a
pigeon-hole in his mind labeled Com
munist principles" But, alas and
alackl In continuing the article, on
the very next page, out popped the
opportunist devil with "a mass farm
er-labor party, which will fight the
political battles of the industrial
workers and exploited farmers"
Naturally, anybody who says that
has little use for the Workers Party
and can't see any political battles"
being fought without mass farmer
labor party" (now revised to a "class
farmer-labor party') does the fighting
which Communists have always de.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12

cIared it wouldn't do.
The final retort Of the comrades Of
the minority is that we Of the ma
jority, who wish to deal In no more
fantastic and opportunist farmer-labor
parties until we see more masses than
they can show, and better reasons
than they advance, is that the ma
jority are "sectarians." am not
very frightened at the term. And
am sure the party. our Workers Com
munist Party, will correct our erring
comrades Of the minority by saying,
as the Comintern is sure to say, 1T
is not necessary to be social-demo-
crat in order to avoid being sec.
tarian-or syndicalist.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
No Disagreement
Here!

We discuss the future tasks
Of the party preliminary to a
decision. After a decision Is
rendered we march forward
unItedly to carry II into effect.
In all this the DAILY WORK
Err lends BIG hand. Today It
constitutes our forum for dis
cussion. Tomorrow it will help
to carry the decision made into
life.
We can not get along with
out our daily. And it you are
sincere in your desire to keep
It, you'll HELP INSURE 1T
FOR 1925. INSURANCE POLL
cIES ARE ISSUED. Denomina-
ton: $1o, SIS and 81. Make It
your policy to BUY A POLICY.
THE WORKERS PARTY:
William z. Foster,
Chairman
c. &. Ruthenbero,
Executive Secretary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12

Then comes Cosnrade Bedacht, who
ought to know better, and after lead
ing us right up to the lunch counter
where he promises us something sub
stantial, gives us--a slogan! He
The Washington times., 1924-08-27


and just can't give him up!'
great many good people going to applaud Helen for
that They going to call her pure, noble wife
and hold her life up example to generation which
fuses take marriage seriously But back to original
assertion that Helen is addict and that she's catering to
vice surely though she took dope.
Helen helping her husband by supporting him7 No. for
under that help he is degeneratng into peevish parasite
and she knows it. !.
Is she helping her children by cngng to such Fathers
No. for areadey the two older show their contempt
for him.
Is she helping society by going with such unonH No.
for she pepetuang that wicked old tradition Of masculine
selfishness and feminine submission.
She's helping She's simply ndulging herself in
pernicious habit She likes to have husband around She
likes feel that he depends upon her. though she pays
heavy price for such dependence She still likes to be
atterd adored kissed These things soothe and thrill her.
just morphine would soothe and thrill her. Every day she
INDUCES II them becomes impossible for her to give
them up, just daily becomes impossible for the
morphine addict to break himself of the habit And just
she would oathe the drug that bound her she alternately
loathes and desires the that binds her and her children
to despair.
Marriage like that is hideous. a
tcspyrisAt 1874 By King TsatuzOs sypdkatA Inel n
The Washington times., 1924-08-27

1t to plant himself In large, roomy armchair and stay
there He has been staying there for the major portion of
the last six and at frequent intervals during the whole
period of his married fesayng there waiting for
something to turn up while Helen hustled for the kae
Jim is of those brilliant citizens who never seem to
find exactly the right job Everyone thought he had the
world by the tail when he left college, but his grip slipped
somehow He has tried everything from fgfarming to in
venting automobiles, but somehow nothing seemed to do
justice to his particular genius After about weeks Jim
would realize that he wasting his time on Job like
that So he'd quit and sit around and read the ads-whe
Helen did little something to tide things over" Often
in spite Of her best efforts things didn't tide Then her
father Jms brother would have to dig and pay the
deficit.
At first everyone sorry for jim He seemed to work
hard and to suffer keeny job after another
failed him Often he threatened to shoot himself and his
mother and Helen would worry themselves sick about him.
Then he would make wild to do the impossible
things rather than his wife work work in the ditch
ship an oiler take job down the foundry And
everyone would cry-Im Imagine brilliant fellow like Jim
taking job like that
No one ever had to imagine it, for Jim took Job
like that Helen always managed to persuade him. Lately
however she hash tried to persuade him take such
jobs has been many sncs hs needed any
The Washington times., 1924-08-27
WORDS OF WISE MEN

NVRIFLEs make perfection and perfection is trife
- Those who apply themselves too much to little
things usually become incapable of great things
The greater part of your trouble lies imagination
and so YOU may free yourself from it when you please
Lies may be acted as well as spoken
Few are qualified shine in company but it is in most
mems power to be agreeable.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries
distinctions of race.
Life like dome of many colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity-Shelley.
If strict justice be the rudder of all other vir
tues the faster sail the farther shall find ourselves
from that "haven where should be-.
Sirs adulation is a fatal thing
Rank poison for subject king.-Wolcot.
When anything brings trouble, remember this maxim:
This accident is disaster but bearing it well may uyp
it into advantage.
That best portion of good mans life,
His little, nameess, aforementioned acts
OF kindness and of love Wordsworth
good name endures forever
The Washington times., 1924-08-27
LISTEN, WORLD! %s"ss s By ELSIE ROBINSON
copyFieht, 1924. By Star Company.

He still reads the ads and threatens periodi-
cally to commit suicide, but you can see his
heart ism t in it. And now the people who
love Helen most are saying to her:
"Why dc you stay by that worthless loaferi
Don't you see that you're wrecking both
your lives and giving your children an ex-
ample which is apt to wreck theirsf If you
refused to support him he might get out and
hustle and be man again. And it wouldn't
be bit harder on him than it is on you to
sit over that everlasting machine. But as
long as you pay the bills or borrow from
your folks he's going to sit around and do
nothing"
Then Helen cries and agrees with every
thing they say. But she always winds up:
The Washington times., 1924-08-27
RKRS. JIM SWIFT would squeal with
I'VE horror if someone were to tell her


I'VE horror if someone were to tell her
A'A that she is dope addict. Never
theless she has "habit" that is wrecking
her life and hurting her family as surely
as any pill that was ever rolled The
name of that habit is-Jim Swift. Here's how.
Helen Swift is thirty-three years of age.
She has beer married to Jim for fourteen
years. They have three children, the oldest
twelve years of age, the youngest eight.
And for the last six years Helen has sup
ported the whole bunch by dressmaking. She
has always contributed to their support since
they were first married Is Jim cripple9
Far from it. Jim is husky, two-fisted Amer
lean, aged thirty-nine. Aged in the wood
mostly, for if there's anything that bird likes
New Britain herald., 1924-11-26
MUCH MONEY INVOLVED
More Than Half q Million Dollars Is Reported As Figuring In Deals Made By Sands.

Albion, \. Y. Nov. 26.--- District Attorney William A. Munson has telegraphed the authorities at Tam. pa, Fh.. where Lewis Elm Sands, Bean King of the World" was ar. rested Monday night on grand lar ceny warrant, requesting that Sands be taken to Atlanta, Ga, where he will be met by Sheriff Horace Kel- sey and returned to Albion to ex. plain before the grand jury the business transactions of the Lewis F, Sands Company, Inc, and sub. siciary companies. which failed for an estimated s1,O0o,000 on Septem- her l2.
 At present there Is only one charge against the bean king, that of conversion 10 the use of his com. pany of a carload of beans stored in one of the company warehouses, and obtaining of s2,10o from a Boston bank on the bill of laden as security, Statements made to District Attor- ney Munson in Buffalo Monday by Mrs. Grace K Clerks, manager of the companies who was arrested in Huntington, Ind, were to the effect that more than half million dol lars were involved in similar tran sections. The cases of Sands and Mrs, Clerks may he presented to the grand jury here Monday.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-26
ACCUSED JUDGE
 TO HAVE HIS SAY
". Va. Justice Charged With
 Taking Confscated Liquor

Parkersburg. W. Va. Nov. ?s.--A congressional subcommittee investi- gating charges of misconduct against Federal Judge William E. Baker, on the northern district of West Fir- ginia, turned It's attention today to hearing the judges side of the case. At three sessions yesterday the com mittee heard testimony against Judge Baker during which witnesses testified that he had appeared on the bench with the odor of liquor on his breath. The also testified of the dis appearance of confseated liquor and other matters charged against Judge Baker.
 By agreement before the hearing began upon charges which United States District Attorney T. A. Brown, of the same Jurisdiction, seeks to have the house of representative initiate impeachment proceedings against Judge Baker, only portion of the evidence is to be heard at present by the subcommittee. Un- der that agreement three principal subjects were taken up In the testi- mony of Mir. Brown and others. One concerned in alleged change in an information after the defend- ant named in 1t had been sentenced. Another related to the disposal of eight hundred quarts of bonded H. quor in the hands Of prohibition of- fcers and the third touched upon allegations as to Judge Bakers use of liquor.
 Mrs Marion.C. Greer clerk of Dis trict Attorney Brown, the district attorney himself and four of bis as- sistants testified of having detected odors of liquor On Judge Bakers breath at the time of various court sessions and Mrs. Greer expressed the opinion that he was intoxicated. In the same connection W. W. Wheeler, a former prohibition agent, testified that at Judge Bakers re- quest he took to the Judges cham bers jug Of liquor and that later when 1t was wanted as evidence mo- body could tell where 1t was.
 Judge Baker took the stand as soon as the session opened today and denied as positively false" the testimony of yesterday that he or dered an amendment to the infor- nation against Mike sawa after the latter had pleaded guilty to it in its original form and had been sen- tenced under it
 Instead of being made on May %, 1922, after the case had been fn- ished. Judge Baker testified that 1t was made on May IT, the day Sawa was arrested, and the day before he was arraigned, entered his plea and was sentenced.
 and questioning him led the judge to believe the father was guilty of the charges of possessing liquor and two stills, and soma mash, the judge said today. Consequently he or dered Identical informations filed against the father and issued a ca- pias on which the father was ar rested in the court room
 Questioning him. through his son as an interpreter Judge Baker said, he learned that the father admitted manufacturing the liquor and there upon instructed Assistant United States Attorney Charles J. schuck to
New Britain herald., 1924-11-26

deal of our oil, and in fifteen years the entire supply of oil will be used, IL Is serious situation. oil is jumping in price very rapidly. Just a year ago the United States Navy bought barrel of oil in California for 90 cents and today you cannot get barrel of oil in California for less than s1.SO. On the Atlantic coast oil is about sl.9O a barrel"
New Britain herald., 1924-11-26

prepare a new information including the manufacturing charge. When Mir. schnck returned with the charge interlined, with pen, in the other in- formation, Judge Baker said he told him;
 Charley. that isn't what re- quested you to do, but as long as it is possible to amend an information at any time while the case is pend ing. it will be all right"
 The amended information. Judge Baker said. was given to two attor- 'neys he appointed for sawa before they declared their client would en- ter a plea of guilty.