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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-07-17

1o 4 vadnsho, ktere $40 dzas-
ne ffa odbyt.
v sadech,. kde stojf dnes pa
stovnf bud'ovA, stalyr vylozeny
cele vybayysnabytku Dubove
"almary" postele tnocni sto-
lex byl neznam), "veskosny',
lskifne Sc zasuykami), /, umy-
vad]a zaviraci s bledemodryni
''lavory", ..servanty" (skleni-1
ky). vse lrasn6 lestene zlute
neb hned6. Novinkou byl tn a
tam nejaky ''gredenc".
4 Karozi ulice Prazske, Saske
a namesti byla celia pokryta O.
bray $ rarnci bez mich. BylyI
vesrnes "malovane" "cerne'
totlz rytlny tenkrat nesly ma
odbyt. Bylo videt troll drun
obrazd hyricfch baryami: sva-
te Up. Maria a p. Jszis, neb sv.
Anna), pax obrazy Z cisarske
rodiny (nekdy take celia rodi-
na) a posleze "pfircdni": al
pske krajiny l1ebo honba ma je-
lena. ,Semtam bylo videt take
ssdomatcf poz zehnanf."
AZ .yelikou pfitazlivost pro Id
sYeskereho start pohlavi, me-
.la uliee Dfevena (nytnf Man
sfeldnya). Byli tam pisnickafi
uboha to sekta, nyni zemrela.
Tam byla ia prava - ctenaTi,
odpust;z mi ten paradoxon =
jarmarecnf poesie. Hned z kra-
je visi ohromny plakat as 5
20 obrazy,. znazornujici del ne
jakeho velikeho .'mordu'. Ma
posledmim obrazu. houpaii Sc
zpravidla yrazi ma siA -nici.
Starsi .muz S d4ouhou tytkou
" ruce ukazuje, zena pax zpi-
va monotomnim, tahavym al
tenn. BoSonohy kll,k strka IL
dem do ruky pisnicku "a diva
krejcary. Uidi kolem mich, ze
sotya projdes ulici. " Y
Ia. mimi rada st4nku pisni-
ckafG bez demonstfaci, kteri
pouze predzp6vujf prvni slo-
ku pohnutlive pisne: 20 Fri
dolinu, hrabeti', ''U studanky
bleda dfvk@ stala," 20 ukrut-
mem sevci, ktery knejpem man
zelku zabil". a pod. Doleii, po-
del n1asnych. kramG, stall pla-
|netafi; Y klecich tulili Sc bills
mysky aneb mali, kvicici pa
p0uskove, kteri tahali planety,
''pravdive a jfste pfedpovedi
budoucnosti". Ia diva krejcary
s p0dobiznou "a deset - roz-
BALL 81 clovek vsecky zahady
Osudu.
-Ulici Divadelni (nyni Rie-
grovou) pfisli jsme do sada
Stepanovych, opetne ma misto
rdznych atrakcf. Vidfme stanS
ky rdznvmi specialitami. ma
jetnik do ochraptenf vyklada,
kfici, poucuje a nabfzi. Proda-
vaci fikd hfmi sonornim hla-
sem: "Zde jsou fiky jako il
kry, shadow, medovy, zadnej
nema takovy!" Cely venec da
vam nakonec "a deset krejca-
rd. Jiny nabizi zbozi galan-
terni. "Krasnou tobolku "a
diva dvacetnfky" Kdyz Sc nj
kdo nehIasi, da do tobolky re-
tfzek, prfdava prstynek, feIili-
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-07-17
cEsKOsLOVENSKE UMENf A CHINA

Meznarodni hudebni festival pofadany Pra1e upou-
tai pozornos vseho zahranicnho sku prispel nealo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
THE c. E. C. MAJORITY POLICY
s A COMMUNIST POLICY

and political conditions. We must
solve that problem in the immediate
future for the next year or SO and
not for the next 10 or 20 years. That
is to say, we prepare ourselves and
meet the situation as It develops. in
a feminist way and not in a scholasti-
cal and metaphysical way.
The G. Il. c. majority Of our party,
the Workers (Communist) Party. have
placed the question OF the farmer
labor party policy squarely before us
and in an unequivocal manner. They
say: We are not opposed to the farm
er-labor party on principle. However,
Judging from objective conditions, as
Marxists and Leninists do, we find
that today the great majority of the
working class masses that we're half.
way willing to support farmer-labor
party have simply aligned themselves
with the LaFollette movement. Ideo-
logically, the farmer-labor movement
of 1929 was LaFollette move.
ment. Those masses that showed a
sentiment for a farmer.labor party in
reality couldn't differentiate between
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
By c. KoTEFF.

by y. NJ Eff .4.. . d.
VNIHENEVER the apologfsts OF a
wv certain party policy become hys-
terical in their. discussions, we can
state with certainty that the hysteria
is the result of lack of facts to cor
roborate their policy and consequent
ly that policy is hopeless one. That
precisely is the characteristic trait
Of the minority Of our party and es-
pecially OF Comrades Bedacht, Love-
stone and Amter in the present dts
cussions. Now tets not give vent to
hysteria; let's not shift the center
Of gravity OF the discussions from a
common sense Communist discussion
to a rather senseless emotional and
malignant wrangling.
Discussion Of our Party's Immediate
Tasks.
First Of all, let's not forget that this
is discussion Of our party's .imme.
date tasks and not Of our iinal aims.
We have before us concrete, spe-
ciic problem, 1. e.: the farmer-labor
party problem which must be solved
upon the basis OF existing economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
BY BERT MILLER.

THRUOUT all the discussion of the
party policy, it seems very strange
that we hear not one word from Lore.
Here is comrade who claims to un-
derstand most clearly the develop
ments in the American labor move
ment, who claims to be an authority
on current events, who claims to have
been the only one with the correct
attitude on LaFollette (Which the G..
|. emphatically denies), and who is at
the same time a member of the CEN
trail executive committee. This same
comrade, who very readily attacks
the Communist International and up
holds Levi and Trotsky, seems to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
BY J. LOUIS ENepAHL.

THERE is disease gripping our
/ party. Comrade Max Bedacht
rightly analyses 1t, in his indictment
of the majority position, as follows:
Programs" for Action; Words for
Deeds. That is fatal disease for
any Communist Party. 1t is disease
that must be eradicated from our
party if we are to develop as fight
ing, forward-moving section of the
Communist International. 1t is a dis
ease that the majority of our central
executive committee carefully fosters,
not only thru it's thesis and thru its
part of the present discussion, but
thru its day-to-day handling of party
affairs. 1t is a disease that the pres
ent minority of the central executive
committee strenuously opposes; that
it proposes to eradicate thru the pro-
gram laid down for the party mem
bership to adopt thru our party,s ma
tional convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
us~ G&:s.. hAt s.
A%&;x-
A STRANGE SILENCE 1852 ~
WHERE is COMRADE LORE?

very slow about making up his mind
about a major matter of American
party policy. Lore has neither signed
one of the theses presented, nor has
he proposed one Of his own. Shall we
hold up the course Of the revolution
in this country until the comrade
makes up his mind? Or has Lore
again lost the courage to oppose the
F. L. policy as he stated at a New
York membership meeting? Or doek
he desire to avoid staining the >15ure
white wings of the majority?
Perhaps an additional reason for
comrade Lore's not presenting a
thesis Of his own is that, today. as
last May he fears facing the Com
munist International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
No Easy Road to Power.

1t is easy for Comrade Foster to
act the role of undertaken and Gre
mator of our united front farmer-labor
action, thru magazine articles, speech
es, manifestoes and contributions to
this discussion. But just because it
is so easy, so mechanical in execu-
ton, that does not mean that it is
the solution of difficult party prob
lem. Quite the contrary.
1t is here that a paragraph from
THE Infantile Sickness" Lenin's re-
vealing pamphlet, rings clear as a bell
when it says:
"'our theory is not dogma, but
a manual Of action said Marx and
Engels, and the greatest mistake,
the greatest crime of patented
Marxlsts 10 that they have
not understood this, that they were
unable to apply II. Political
activity Is not the thorofare Of the
Nevsky Prospekt "a clean, wide,
level, straight main street Of Lenin-
grady"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
The Decrepit Remains.

There remain only the socialists"
who are at the end of their fake ia
Dor party" campaign started at their
Detroit convention, in 1921, and the
petit bourgeois camp followers who
snuggle about Oswald Garrison VIII
lards Nation" organ of a second
hand brand of "democratic-pacifism."
These little offshoots will be inferred
with what is left of the corpse of the
LaFollette movement at the proper
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
Fight to win Betrayed Masses.

But the Communist struggle for a
farmer-labor united front does not go
into the grave with the LaFollette
progressive" movement, as Comrade
Foster would have us believe. In
spite of Comrade Foster. the farmer
labor united front and the farmer
labor slogan, refuse to die.
1t is recognized by all, at the pres
emit time, that it was foolish for the
Communist movement to boycott the
elections in 1920. In that year Debs,
while in prison for violating the wars
espionage act, received nearly mil
lion votes. Farley Christianson, as
the farmer-labor presidential candi-
date, received over a quarter million
more. Debs has turned his back on
those who believed in him. The whole
of the farmer-labor officialdom during
the last five years, from Fitzpatrick
to Mahoney, have been exposed as the
enemies of independent political ac-
ton. The question now is, as some
comrades put it, are we, too, going
to desert the farmer-labor united front
and make it unanimous?
The minority believes that it is a
criminal policy for our Workers (Com-
munist) Party to surrender the lead
ership, that we can win over these
betrayed and resentful masses thru an
aggressive Communist struggle, to the
next charlatan that seeks to raise his
traitor standards in their midst, be
it LaFollette, a Johnston or a Hill
quit.
1t is the worst form of inertia for
the present majority to dismiss the
whole problem with listless wave of
the hand, and an equally listless ques-
ton challenging the minority with
Where is your farmer-labor senti-
ment?"
The Position of the &C. l."
Let us quote the answer to the ma
jority from the unanimous declaration
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19

Of the central executive committee of
our party, issued after consultation
with the executive committee Of the
Communist International in the spring
Of the year, where it says:
"The first task of the Workers
Party is to become mass commun-
list Party of workers. It can fuIfiIl
this task only by most actively par
ticipating in the establishment Of a
labor party which will embrace all
elements of the working class will
ing to conduct policy independent
of the capitalist class and by estab-
fishing a bond with the farmers who
are at present In state Of strong
fermentation. These two indepen-
dent tasks-the task of building
around the Communist Party Of a
broad class party and of establish
ing bond between the labor party
and the poorest elements of the
farmers-have developed In the
United States, thanks to the peeuIi-
aritIes Of historical evolution. as
one problem, namely the building
of common party of workers and
exploited farmers"
The above paragraph has been
quoted before in this discussion. 1
repeat it, and hope others will do the
same. Comrade Foster says he wrote
it, in Moscow, while in consultation
with the executive of the Communist
International. So much the worse for
him in the present discussion. The
Communist international approved of
that position. 1t was unanimously en-
dorsed by the central executive COM
mittee of our American party.
Stand by the Minority.
The minority of the c. e. c. re-
mains loyal to this position. The ma
jority has deserted it; seeking to blind
the membership now with extravaganza
declarations to the effect that THE
LaFollette movement has swallowed
up the former-labor party movement;
that this united front issue is dead;
that the slogan is dead, and similar
nonsense.
The party membership must stand
by the present minority of the Central
Executive Committee, in upholding
the declarations Of our last national
party convention, and of the Elk
ecutive Committee of the Communist
international. and eradicatinr from
our party this insidious disease so
sedulously fostered by the present
majority, leading to sterility and isola.
ton. Fight on this paralysis!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
No Meeting or Other Affair
Complete Unless

meeting Of the Workers Party business dance
social study class bazaar POLICIES
find a place In the program Of the evening.
All committees Of the party affairs party must
remember this and attending party affairs must see
to II that INSURANCE POLICIES Of them
Only constantly insisting will we secure
the $4,000 with which INSURE FOR 1925
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19

campaign manager, Representative
John M. Nelson, nor Senators Ladd,
Frazier and Brookhart, supposed to
have been disciplined by the Coolidge
machine in the republican party. They
show no signs of revolt from Wall
Streets pet party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
Ne Must Keep Initiative.

programs" instead Of action leaves
the initiative to some other agency.
In the case of the Communist strug
gle for power, where we surrender the
initiative, it is taken up by the enemy
class.
The majority uphoIds it's negative
position, that there is no farmer-labor
sentiment in the United States, on
the two suppositions that: ~ LaFol-
lette has swallowed the farmer-labor
movement; and that (2) the so-called
progressive" movement will organize
the third party, which will be farm
er-labor party. In fact, we are told
that the LaFollette movement is the
farmer-labor movement; that all ex-
plotted workers and poor farmers
without the confines of our party have
all gone irretrievably bourgeois. So
why bother about them?
How easy! How self-satisfying!
With a single forensic gesture, it is
declared that this disturbing sector
of our united front is engulfed. The
majority tells US it has disappeared.
We are urged by the majority not
only to quit fighting for Independent
political action, in the revolutionary
struggle to win the workers and poor
farmers for the dictatorship of the
proletariat, but we are supposed to
hypnotic ourselves into believing that
LaFollette has lifted this burden of
our struggle off our shoulders by
monopolizing the field.
Comrade Foster is himself guilty
of this most mechanical and most I'M
real gesture, in the whole history of
our young American Communist move
ment, when he proclaims in the De-
cember issue of the Workers
Monthly" that:
when the LaFollette movement
swallowed up the farmer-labor party
movement in the months preceding
the election, it left us with two dead
things on our hands. One of these was
dead organization, the national
farmer-labor party, and the other was
a dead slogan, For mass farmer
labor party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
The Contents Of the MuIIiean.

What was the organized LaFollette
movement? At bottom it had the per-
sonality of the Wisconsin senator. He
was the dominant political power in
his own state. The railroad brother
hoods, with their rich treasures, pre-
ferred McAdoo on the democratic
ticket, but he was rejected by the
Madison Square Garden convention.
So they turned to LaFollette. AL
Smith, governor of New York, the idol
of Tammany Hall, also of the Com
pers' regime in the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, suffered rejection at
the same time. The result was that
the executive council of the A. F. of
L., by bare majority vote, endors-
ed LaFollette, which was also a sum
mons to the Gompers' henchmen in
all the land to back up the Wisconsin
senator. Thus he won the support of
the Tammany Hall laborites in New
York city and state. The agrarian
unrest helped gain support for La
Toilette. The stone-faced reaction of
both the old parties, in refusing to
lend an ear to even the palest pro-
gressive ideas also drove some of the
shocked bourgeoisie into the LaFol-
lette camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
No LaFoIIette Third Party.

LaFollette will not organize third
party, no matter how much the so
cialists" and the forty-eighters desire
he should do SO; no matter how much
our own majority may insist that he
will Even if LaFollette had plans
to organize a third party, as Comrade
Foster believes, we should fight all
the harder. thru the farmer-labor unit
ed front, and by every other means at
our disposal, thru our industrial and
political work. But the certain break
up of the LaFollette movement makes
our task easier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19

know, disagrees with the policy of the
G. Il. c. And what is most striking
in his article of Dec. Is. in the DAILY
WORKER is his hysterical attitude
against everything that the G. e. G..
has done and is raising an unfounded
alarm with charges" There is moth
ing wrong with Comrade Amter ex-
cept that he either didn't understand
the leaders OF the Comintern, or else
he is too hasty in HIS criticism Of the
@. II. G. and has not had a fair chance
10 study the conditions over here.
The policy of the c. T.. c. majority
Is a Communist policy and the Com
munist International most certainly
will endorse II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
Words for Deeds.

But Comrade Fosters group claims
to have discovered the straight, wide,
level highway. There is plenty of
comfortable going upon it. There is
no crowding. The workers and poor
farmers may join us if they wish.
But Wen not wander of this com
Portable road in the hunt for them.
LaFollette has taken our whole farm
er-labor united front sector, says the
majority. The war is declared at an
end. The masses of the workers and
poor farmers have surrendered to the
enemy. Let the enemy class have
them, says Foster. If they break their
own prison bars and come back to
us. some day, well and good. But we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
FIGHT OFF THIS PARALYSIS!

will not help them break with the
petit bourgeois influences that lured
them away from us. Well fight for
them no longer, says Foster. Well
Just go ahead mimeographing and
publishing programs instead Of car
rying out actions; we'll confound the
enemy with our words, instead of con-
quering and annihilating the enemy
thru Communist deeds.
LaFol!ette Movement DIsintegrates.
Even political novice should be
able to see the weaknesses and disin-
tegrating influences within the So
called LaFollette progressive" move
ment, that Comrade Foster endows
with such heroic qualities that it is
able to feed on whole strata Of our
working class population.
The LaFollette movement, that won
the temporary support of four millions
of voters on last Nov. 4, began a
process of disintegration even before
the elections took place, and this has
been rapidly proceeding ever since. 1t
has now developed the qualities of
the proverbial rope of sand.
It is rather unfortunate that the
dwindling LaFollette cohorts, now re-
duced to few socialist political or
phans and the homeless petit bour-
geois of the Committee of 4S" have
decided to put their promised national
gathering off until Feb. 81, next year
Otherwise we would have living de-
monstration, even before our own ma
tional convention, of the falIacy of
Comrade Fosters claims for the La
Toilette progressive" movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
The Breakup Reuins.

1t is interesting to analyze what has
happened to these discordant ele-
ments. The first break came in the
week before election day, when the
Gompers' machine, in New York city
and state, over the protests of the
LaFolletteites and the socialists"
broke away and threw their support
to Davis, the democrat.
This incident clearly foretold what
would happen at the Ell Paso conven-
ton of the A. F. of L., where any SEM
blance of a third party mask was
thrown aside, and the old non partisan
political policy endorsed. LaFollette
was not invited to the A. F. of L. con-
vention. Instead the special guest of
the gathering was James A. Drain,
head of the American (Fascist) Le-
gion. Gompers' ghost, in the form of
some other labor Lieutenant of CAPT.
talism. will knock at the doors of the
Wall Street old party convention in
1928. Gompers did not organize the
labor party" as Comrade Foster had
prophesied, nor will those who come
after him; neither will LaFollette, as
Comrade Foster now foretells.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-19
The Backbone Drops Out.

The latest staggering blow to the
LaFollette movement has just been
dealt by the railroad brotherhoods at
the meeting of the national commit
tee OF the conference for progressive
political action, just held in Washing
ton. Thru their hired man, the form
er democratic congressman, Ed Keat-
ing, editor of Labor" their official
organ, they urged the indefinite post
ponement of the national gathering
planned for January. 1t was clear that
they wished to drop all pretense to
the organization OF third party.
They are planning to return to Will
lam G. McAdoo. in support OF his as
pirations for the democratic nomina-
ton In 1928. Thus the backbone, ply
steal and financial. is withdrawn from
the LaFollette political structure.
Neither LaFollette nor Wheeler at
tended the Washington C. p. p. A.
meeting. Nsither did LaFollette's
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-15

LAY PLANS TOCARRY
. TRUTH TO THE EAST
DAIRYING BODY
IN MONTANAIS
AIDING STATE

Minot, N. D., May 15.-Evidcnces
of fine prosperity in Montana
which have followed the organiza-
ton of the Montana Mutual Dairy
Loan association, constructive
movement to promote dairying on a
practical and efficient plan,' were
seen on Il journey through the Flat
head, BitterroOt and Blackfoot val
leys by Charles +. Collision, of the
Minneapolis Tribune staff. Mr.. Col
lison will be in Minot Friday even
ing at the first annual dairy dinner
to tell the business men of north
west North Dakota of what ne found
on his trip of inspection.
At the dinner, which will be held
at the Leland and be attended by
business men and far,l.V of the Mi
not territory as well as twin city
men who are interested in this sec
tion of the state, the new Northwest
Dakota Mutual Dairy Loan associa-
tion will be officially organized. AT
the meeting. c. r. Jaffray, president
of the 500 line and chairman of the
executive committee of the recently
formed $4,000, 900 Agricultural Cred
it Corporation, will be present with
assurances of the support of that
farm relief organization.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-15
NORTH DAKOTA
GIRL IS FOUND
DEAD IN ROOM
Chicago Police Investigating
Circumstances of Death
of Musician
SUICIDE IS DOUBTED
I.andlady Asserts That She
Never Talked About
Death to Her
SUICIDE IS DOUBTED

Chicago, May 15.-Explanation Of
the circumstances surrounding the
death of Blanche Moore, beautiful
25-year-old musician, whose lifelcss
body, clad only in negligee, was
found in her room last night, was
sought by police here today. Her
parents reside at B0ttineau, North
Dakota.
An empty milk bottle, glass from
which she drank just prior to her
death and trunk filled with musi-
cial compositions, notes in Spanish
and clippings about the Prince of
Wales, are the scraps from which
the police hope to piece together the
evidence. E,
When she failed to respond t.
knockings on the door of her room,
the landlady, Mrs. Charlotte Fenske,
notified police, swho broke in. Aside
from q broken nose which she suf-
tered when she collapsed beside her
bed, there were no marks of violence
on her body and her family could
ascribe no motive for suicide.
although she brooded over an
automobile Joy ride in which she had
been injured five years ago in Mimi
eapolis and which seems to have
estranged her from her husband, she
never talked of DEATH" said Mrs,
Fenske, land | don't believe she kill
ed herself over any love affair. She
had no sweetheart. Music was her
recreation. She played divinely.'