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Kamenev Discusses Big Problems Before Russian Communists

ton the idea and the principles
which are contained in it. This came
about under the following influence:
opinions have frequently been ex-
pressed at meetings, to the effect
that the Central acted under pres
sure of the opposition within the
Party; that some definite document
exists in which all this voluntary ac-
ton is dictated; that the Central has,
however, taken no notice of this, etc.
Is there any foundation for all these
assertions?
In the first place I deem it neces-
sary to draw a dividing line between
this question and all the unfounded
rumors and gossip which have gath
cred around them.
At one district meeting, a written
declaration actually obliged me to
tell comrade straight out that such
declarations, coming from our own
midst, are nothing more nor less than
reflection of that kind of idle chat
ter amongst US which has already
become a political weapon against
our Party in the hands of our
enemies.
For there is not one amongst us
who can have the slightest doubt
and for us old Bolsheviki, who have
already passed thru a hard school, it
is a perfectly illuminating fact-but
that at the moment when the bour-
geoisie is robbed of the press and of
the possibility of open attack upon
us, at this moment such petty bour-
geoisie title tattles as has contrived
to percolate into our ranks will stop
at nothing, will disintegrate us more
and more, will undermine the author
ity Of our central institutions, and
form a political weapon against US,
At present there is danger that
those members of our Party who are
insufficiently schooled, insuficiently
firm in principle, may be deceived by
this gossip.
Let us, therefore, set it aside along
with all the idle rumors and asser-
tions which cannot be proved by
documents; it should form no part of
our discussion on actualities. Let us
occupy ourselves solely with that
WHICH ally OAAN "a 10 SoAA PANfCs
Dangers to Party.
What were the origins of this ques-
ton in the Central? The first and
fundamental event compelling the
Central to accord attention to the
unsound conditions obtaining within
our Party was something outside Of
the Party itself, in the working class.
In July and August, extremely
alarming phenomena showed them
selves among the working class,
which could not be passed over by
the central institutions. We under
went a period of strikes in Kharkov
and Sormovo. The direct causes of
these strikes, the actual reasons for
their outbreak, varied in the different
cases.
We, as the Party apparatus, as
the state apparatus, were partly to
blame. But this only applies To the
immediate cause. The general condi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

tions causing the movement forced
us to direct our attention to the sit
uation within our Party itself. We
had to ask ourselves if 1t were pos
sible to imagine situation in which
the Party organization is unable to
foresee an approaching wave Of dis
satisfaction among the masses; that
such case could be possible as that
at ZindePs, where a movement arose
in August, where the representative
of the nucleus and the manager adj
mitted that the movement was en-
tirely unexpected for the nucleus,
and this comrade declared that: eve
had no idea Of the movement. The
Yatchayka (nucleus) lost its head
when it began; it lost it's direction"
Was this the fault Of this yatchayka
itself, or must it not rather be laid
to the account Of the unsound symp-
toms observable within our organi-
zation?
We should, indeed, be blind or
short-sighted should we maintain
that the happenings in Moscow, in
Kharkov, in Sormovo, and other
places, are but passing episodes not
requiring our attention, and having
no bearing on the inner development
and inner life of our Party.
At the same time, phenomena be-
came noticeable within our Party it
self, phenomena equally symptom
attic, and speedily demanding our
whole attention.
This was the rise Of the counter
revolutionary workers group"
which represented real danger, and
whose symptomatic and essential
character did not consist in its ex-
istence as a counter-revolution or
ganization, but in the circumstance
that one of these organizations-the
workers group-possessed connec-
tions among the working class, and
began to have effect, in combination
with the various attendant rumors,
upon a certain section of our Party,
if only upon weak and inferior
section.
Malady Must Be Cured.
These two fundamental phenom-
ena, which appeared quite independ-
emily of any events within the Cen
trail, of any differences of opinion
and resultant discussion among those
belonging to the Central, faced us
with a question quite outside of all
this: The Party is attacked by a dis
ease which has to be cured.
And further analysis and examina-
ton of this question showed us that
there are many phenomena in the
life of the working class to which
the Party has adapted itself too slow
ly, and to which the Party has de-
voted too little attention. In the
first place Comrade Lenin drew at
tention two years ago to the fact that
our proletariat was becoming de-
classed and decomposed.
We must, however, now grasp the
fact (already partially demonstrable
by statistical data) that this declass-
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later as cash bonuses or as stock
dividends.
Annual Profits of so Per Cent.
If you want to make easy money
on a small investment the game is
evidently to get on the inside in the
railroad equipment business. Profits
made by the Chicago Railway Equip
ment Co. during 1923 were so large
that the company was evidently
ashamed to show them in its report.
At least the Chicago Journal of Com
merce says: "While the report shows
an apparently studied avoidance of
actual earnings it declares that 1923.
earnings were the largest in the hisS
tory of the company" The directors
recommended raising the annual divi-
dends to a IL per cent rate and re-
marked that the handsome balance
in undivided profits was a guarantee
of the payment of dividends for 1924.
From another source, however,
come actual figures showing that net
profits for 1923 amounted to $1,097,-
321, equivalent after payment Of
preferred dividends to S14.S0 on each
share of common stock. But as the
par value on each share is only $25
this means an annual profit Of nearly
go per cent. Evidently this corpora
ton also got its snout into the
trough Of the railroad $1,000, 10000
rehabilitation campaign.
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wages during the year without
cutting profits to common
stockholders below a 6 per
cent level.
Actual profits remaining to
stockholders after paying bond
interest and making excessive
deductions for depreciation, depletion
and other reserves amounted to ap-
proximately $12 on each 500 invest
ed. Out of this the regular 8 per
cent dividends were paid and there
remained S1,134,O35 to be added to
the undivided surplus profits which
guarantee dividends during years
when miners are denied an oppor-
tunity to work full time.
The following table shows the COM
pany's income statement for the
year:
Revenues ............$2 7, O9S, 022
Expenses ............... 18,540,G0
Gross profits ....... S,557,332
Reserves, including deple-
Jlon .................. Z,zZJ,0z0
General expenses, taxes
and interest ..... 2,S54,20
Profit for common stock. 3,473,507
There were 4,206,961 tons of coal
mined from the company's property
during the year. The receipts of
the company, therefore, figure 1914
a ton while the expenses figured
only $4.61 a ton. This means that
the company was charging 1918
NOSE a ton than the actual cost of
the coal. After excessive
deductions for depreciation, deple-
ton and other reserves the profit
remaining amounted to $3.50 a ton.
During the four years since 1920
the average profit remaining for
stockholders after deductions for in
terest, taxes and reserves has
amounted to IS cents a ton produced,
which compares with 81 cents a ton
during the years 1912 TO 1914. The
company is now charging for depIe-
ton at the rate Of 9 cents ton altho
It admitted in 1912 that a charge Of
cents ton would pay for all It's
coal land in 20 years. Deductions
for other reserves are even more I'M
warranted, the total amounting in
1928 TO SO cents ton. Such depls-
ton and depreciation items are today
regularly used by corporations con-
trolling natural resources to hide
away excessive profits for division
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Threaten
to Murder Mother of
Toxic Officers Victim

TOXIC, Japan, Feb. 28.-FolIow-
ing the murder Of the socialist,
Osugi Sakae, his wife, Ito Noe, and
their nephew, Tachibana Soichi, who
were strangled to death by militar-
lists several days after the recent
earthquake, the grief-stricken moth
err of the murdered child has been
inundated with letters from the sup
porters Of the militarists, threaten
ing vicious acts of recrimination
should she institute civil proceedings.
Among other gently persuasive
missives was one which said that
should a civil action be commenced,
she and the remainder of her family
would be exterminated."
The announcement made that Cap
tain Amakasu, who confessd TO
strangling Osugi and his wife, had
been sentenced to three years in
jail, has been followed by another
announcement stating that Amakasu
has been pardoned and acquitted.
The first announcement was made
public TO throw dust in the eyes Of
the people-the second was made in
military circles only.
The military caste thus stands re-
vealed in all It's brutal and arrogant
autocracy. II there be any who still
retain the slightest hope Of justice
for the workers from such people, In
face Of their protection Of self-ac-
cused inurderers, theirs must indeed
be the faith sublime"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
POLITICALS ARE
GETTIN C The
DAILY WORKER
IL Goes Into Fifteen
Different Prisons


The DAILY WORKER is being
sent TO fifteen different prisons in
this country and to more than
twenty different political prisoners
thru the generosity of the readers Of
the DAILY WORKER.
This means that scores Of political
prisoners are being informed of
what the working class movement all
over the world is doing. The politi-
cal prisoners are appreciative of
the kindness of the readers of the
DAILY WORKER who are having
the paper sent to them. Every pris-
oner to whom the paper has been
sent has written in thanking us and
the people who enabled him to get
the paper.
The letters, which cannot be quot
ed because Of prison rules, tell in
the simple language of sincere men
what it means to be remembered by
the people on the outside. One pris-
oner who has given contribution to
DAILY WORKER sends in SO for a
subscription for another prisoner who
Is serving a life term.
The arrangement by which readers
of the DAILY WORKER send their
paper to the political prisoners is
this: The reader send So to the bust
ness Office and asks that the DAILY
WORKER be sent to political pris-
oner for q year. We see to it that
the political prisoner gets the paper.
The person sending the sub can either
specify that the paper be sent to a
particular prisoner or let us use our
judgment about entering the sub. If
you do not name a particular pris-
oner we will send the paper to a
political who is in a prison where the
DAILY" is not now going. In that
way more prisoners are reached by
the DAILY WORKER because sew
eral persons can read the same paper.
Send us So and we viii do the rest.
Don't forget the political prisoners.
Act at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
H !!!!!!. Tue Yg6||t uopkER5
CONDUCTED ~ T4EaW YOUNG SooEscs ,sseus

all right, so far as they are con-
cerned, to make profits out of the
hides of the kids over IA.
What are the facts? The ex-
ploitation Of the youth IA and over
(up to the age of 49, is more bru-
tai than the sweating of the adult
workers. Boys or girls Is, 16, II
and sometimes IS, are not physically
developed; they are undergoing a
critical period of growth; and it is
just about this type of young work
er that the bosses are able to use
to great advantage in the modern
industrial machine. Follows wage
slavery Of the worst kind. Speed
up, long hours, bad sanitary con-
ditions, and on top of it all less
wages than the older worker gets.
which in time cuts down the stand
ard Of living of the entire working
class. The more young fellows TAX
en- from school at IA or IS, the
less jobs for the already growing
mass of unemployed.
1t is vicious circle. Unemploy-
ment forces the father to take his
young children from school and to
put them to work; more children
on the labor market, makes it hard
er for the older workers to get jobs.
Then there is the problem Of APP
prentices. The bosses are taking
into their own hands the matter of
educating the future skilled workers
at death-price to the trade unions
and the unions still cling to the
policy Of excluding the youth from
the unions, thereby encouraging the
youth to look to the bosses for
training.
The youth of ID or over should
do some form Of educative work, but
all work for an employer under cap
italism is exploitation and has
no other object. No young fellow
between ID and 16 should work
more than four hours a day, and
between 16 and 81 more than six
hours a day. The entire system Of
If the best good is to
result to the workers, must be re-
organized on the work school basis.
But that cannot be completely re-
allied under capitalism.
The aim should be to strengthen
the economic organizations Of the
workers by taking in the youth,
cutting down youth labor, eradicat-
ing child labor, and control of APP
prentice education by the trade
unions without any restrictions or
barriers to the young who now
want to join the unions.
This would be the beginning Of
The solution Of the child and youth
abor problem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

EUREKA, Calf, Feb. 28.--Aftm
66 hours the jury trying nine I. W
W. members here for criminal syn.
dicalism failed to agree and was dis
missed. The men havo been IN Jail
ever since last October. The tri.l
was characterized by huge mass
meeting in Eureka which demanded
the repeal Of the criminal syndicalism
law. It is doubtful If the men will
be brought to trial again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Aliens Coming in
Thru Loop Holes
In immigration LGIU

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-The pres
emit immigration law which has in
fiicted so much unnecessary hardshi
on innocent persons does not, despit
the rigid literal Interpretation give
it by the officials who enforce i
really restrict.
immigration Commissioner Curra
says it has been shot thru with "lool
a-4.-holesn INV federal court decisions, an
that steamship companies are urging
aliens to take advantage of various
presidents recently set up and come
to America.
Curran cites the case of Rabbi
Gottlieb. The rabbi when barred be-
cause he was in excess of quota pro-
tested that he was exempt from the
working Of the law because 1t spe-
officially exempted ministers. He
claimed exemption also for his wife,
arguing that the quota law supple
ments only and does not supplant the
previous immigration law which per-
mitted the entry Of the wives of
ministers, etc. He won his case.
An Armenian, who had been ad-
nitted, went back to Europe after a
brief stay here and brought back his
wife. She was in excess of quota,
but the Armenian pointed to the pre-
cedent Of the rabbits wife, and won
his case, too.
These presidents were welcomed
particularly in Italy, and Curran de-
clares that many Italians come here
and are admitted, then return to
Italy and return with their wives
and children and demand that they
be admitted altho they are in excess
of quota. And then, recently eight
nuns barred because in excess Of
quota, were admitted as teachers.
The Italian quota was exhausted
long since but in the last two weeks
steamers have brought more than
1000 Italian immigrants and most
of these, Curran says, successfully
claimed exemption from the work.
ings of the quota law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Massachusetts, Labor
Against Legislation
Hitting Foreign Born

MAYNARD, Mass, Feb. 28.-The
workers of Maynard have gone on
record as being against laws which
discriminate against foreign-born
workers.
At recent mass meeting they
adopted a resolution condemning all
such laws now being considered and
pointed out that the foreign-bo1n
workers are the poorest paid, worst
treatad end most neglected groun in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Thirty Per Cent of the Price
of Coal Goes into the Pockets
of Coal Dealers in Profits
By LELAND OLDS

Federad Industrial EdlorD
Profits absorbed about onehrd of the price charged by
the Lehg Coal and Navigation company for anthracite coal
produced during 1929 according to the annual report OF the
company The report shows total OF S27O98O22
while expenses amounted to only $18,54O,69O.
President S. D. Warmer of the company, who pokes
the operators the negotiations, could have
allowed his 84O7 employees at least $500 apiece in additional
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

NOTE:-Today the DAILY
WORKER begins the publication
of the speech by Chairman Ka-
menev, of the Moscow Soviet, on
the problems confronting the
Russian Communist Party. This
discussion has been referred to as
the third greatest discussion within
the Russian Communist Party
since the Bolshevik Revolution, in
November, 1917. The speech of
Kamenev will be followed by the
views of other prominent Russian
Communists. Kamenev spoke to
the Moscow Communists as fol-
lows:
KAMENEV SPEAKS.
n OMRADES! shall deal with
~ the most important points only,
and with the results of the discussion
which is going on at the present time
in sll the districts.
If we examine into all the objec-
tions, doubts, and indications, which
we have all heard raised at the
districts meetings, we must candidly
admit that the cardinal question
yielded as the result and summing
up of all these discussions is as fol-
lows: yes, it is true that the Work.
ers' Democracy has been proclaimed
by the central; it is true that the
fundamental guarantees for the car
rying out of the workers democracy
are contained in the resolution passed
by the Central; burt is the present
Central worthy of confidence?
Can we really believe that the pol
icy indicated by the resolution has
actually been firmly determined upon
by the Central, and that the present
Central will carry out this policy?
/ have formulated, in these words,
the whole of the doubts and objec-
tions which we have been hearing
from those who appear as opponents
against the Central.
This is the form in which l put the
question to myself, and l think that
it will have to be put to the whole
Moscow organization in this form.
We are faced by one of two things:
Either these resolutions may be
safely entrusted to the Central for
their execution; or: we are in pos
session of a piece of paper, repre-
senting a policy which it is for the
Party to see carried out, for it is
not issued by the Central on its own
initiative, only but under pressure;
we are in possession of a piece Of
paper, but not Of conviction that
the Central will actually realize its
contents.
Mutual Confidence Necessary.
This is the cardinal question con-
fronting your meeting, and demand
ing a clear and unequivocal answer.
The change of policy which we in
tend carrying out with you cannot be
performed unless there is mutual
between us.
Therefore, l regard it as incum-
bent on me to explain how the Cen
trail came to formulate in its resolu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29
Your Union Meeting
Fifth Friday. Feb. %. 1924.

No. Name Of Local and Place Of Meeting.
237 Bakers and Confectionery, 342O w.
Roosevelt Road.
Building Trades Council, $50 W. Wash.
Carpsntsrs' District Council. sos So.
State 81.
1900 Carpenters. ASS 8. Halsted 81.
10 Conductors sleeping Carr, s12 Capitol
Bldg, 10 q. m.
Electricians, 1901 w. Monroe 81.
. Eleetrotypers. IT'S w. Washington ~.
"a Glass Workers. Emily and Marshheld.
IS Granite Cutters. ise w. Washington.
Ladies' Garment Workers, Joint 3D..
37s W. Van Buren, st.
iis Maehinists. iiJ s. Ashland Blvd.
s57 Painters. School and Shsfisld Ave.
Plano and OrEsn Workers, $40 w.
Harrison 81.
sl1 Plumbers. 1881 3. Chicsro Ave.
ees Railway Carmen, iitOs Michigan Ave.
SOC Railway Clerks. Atlantic Hotel.
(Note-Unlcss otherwise stated all meetings
are a. .. NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-29

For information concerning the
Young Workers League Of Amer
lea, address Y. w. L., 1909 N.
State St., Chicago, III.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
DARDEN IS KILLED
BY FAST TRAIN
Struck BY Engine, Body Thrown
40 Feet-Dead When
Picked Up

BROWNSVILLE, Nov. 29.-E. ).
Darden, 63, superintendent of Trim
lie Brick company here, was in
stantly killed when struck by Nnun,-
Ter SO, fast train of the Atlanta
and West Point railroad, running
north from New Orleans to At
lanta, Friday at crossing at the
trick plant three miles north Of
Hogansville. He was struck by the
engine and thrown 80 CT 40 feet.
and was dead when members of the
train crew and others reached him.
The accident was witnessed by
several persons but none was close
enough to warn Mr.. Darden of the
approaching train. The crossing is
not INSTRUCTED.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
HHEAtIRE9
EAl-..---
MAY SECURE SEATS
FOR "THE FOOL"

Seats for 1.-THE Foil" Chauuing
Pollock's great drama, will go on
sale Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock at the Rylander Theatre box
office.
Americas will have the opportuni-
ty of glimpsing great cast in a
great play, last seasons triumph
ant hit. The company which opens
at the Rylander Theatre Friday
night, Dec. 5th.
"The FooP' is a story Of nan
whose ideal is to live as Christ did
and who applies his theories to the
bringing about of better conditions
among workmen and the creation
of a fairer understanding between
capital and labor.
Actors who will be involved II
the Plot include: Mitchell Harris
Zyllah Inez Shannon, Agnes Acher
ton Jean Clarendon, Charles Sut
ton, Elizabeth Shurley Charlotte
Manning, John Kline, John NJ
Washburn, Joseph Monaaan. Eliza
beth Holman, Vivian Gill, William
Evans, Charles Lum, Inez Shannon
Louis Sorin. Martin Mallory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
AIRPLANE DESCRIBED
AS FUTURE AMBULANCE

NEW. YORK, Nov. 29.--The air
plane was described as the ambu-
lance of the future today by Col
onel Robert Picqua of the army
health department in France.
Since the Inauguration IN France
$500 patients have been conveyed
by airplane, Colonel Picque said.
At least $50 thoroughly equipped
airplanes now are engaged in am
bulance work in France, he added.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
EsTRAY NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned did on. the 28th day
of November, 1924, take up as es-
tray, two black mare mules, which
said mules were running at large
upon the lands of the undersigned,
about two miles east of Americas.
The owner can get said mules by
describing the same, paying for
this ad and damages done by said
mules. This Nov. goth, 1924.
w. T. MAYNARD.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
SON SHOT BY FATHER
MAY LOSE ONE EYE

GRIFFIN, Ga, Nov. 29-Carter
Williams, Ia, was accidentally shot
and painfully wounded by his ia
ther. c. C. Williams. while hunting
near their home at Luella.
The boy was rushed to the Crit
fin hospital and examination show
ed that shots penetrated the right
eye and grazed his temple, breast
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-29
NEGRO ELECTROCUTED
AFTER COMPRISING

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 20
Vance Morgan, a negro, alias,
Vanve Clayburn, was electrocuted
at the state prison here Friday.
A few minutes before the cleo
trocution he confessed to his spir-
itual adviser that he killed Butler
Funderburk, of whose murder he
was convicted last July in the SUI
perior court of Union county.