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further; we must unite the majority
Of the workers in the struggle; and
this we shall do.
Thus you see that in Germany, and
perhaps also in other parties matters
have moved forward considerably. But
for 80 per cent of the Communist In
ternational the state of things is such
that parties should concern them
selves less with high politics." and
more with carrying out the following
simple measures: In the first place,
they must be able to build up Com
munist parties on a factory nuclei in
the factories.
Secondly, we must use correct tao
tics in our trade-union work. We
must learn to found Communist frac-
tons in the trade unions and capture
them from within.
Thirdly, we must adopt correct
policy on the national question. And
fourthly, to conduct correct policy
in regard to the peasant question.
It Is Necessary To Win over The
Peasantry.
He who cannot work among the
peasants, is not feminist. l have
already referred to the agrarian pow
erty in all countries. This alone
should be enough to induce. us to con-
duct internecine definite work among
the peasants, for large sections of the
peasantry are on the point Of despair.
Hitherto, even in agrarian countries,
Communist parties have displayed re-
markable inability in the matter Of
capturing the peasantry. Even our
Balkan parties and the Polish party
have not made genuine efforts to work
among the peasantry to the very last
moment. The same may be said Of
the German and other Communist
parties. You know the result of the
election in Carpathian-Russia. Many
Czech comrades, Tausig, Gait, and
others, particularly local comrades
worked heroically and exposed them
selves to great danger in the cam
paign. have the impression, how
ever, that the Czech party on the
whole does not appreciate the impor-
lance of the peasants question in
Czecho-Slovakia, and this proves the
Importance Of being able to work
among the peasants. Such thing as,
for instance, the inability of our Rou-
manian comrades to tell us the per-
centage Of peasantry in the popula-
ton of Roumania, and what agrarian
relations prevail, ETC., must not occur
again. What was the principle mis-
take of the Bulgarian party in June,
1928? The lack of revolutionary con-
tact with the peasantry and the alb
sence of a clear view of the role of
the peasantry: The Bulgarian party
has remedied this, and more progress
is being made.
Instead of concerning themselves
with high politics" most of our Com
munist parties must bedntent on carry
ing on Communist work among the
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this committee plan would educate
the new and inexperienced comrades,
they arranged for each member to
spend two weeks working with each
committee. So, a member would sit
in with the Organization Committee
and cooperate in its work. After two
weeks, he would proceed to the Liter
ature Committee, and learn how to
distribute. And so on.
Their next step was to face the
problem Of a meeting place where
they could feel free. They must have
what they could consider their own
home" They started drive and col
lected quite bit of money. They
organized a baseball team, and, for
brain sports" a checker team. Then,
most significant, they have organ
ICED a junior group-a group of work
ers' children, from workers neighbor
hoods. The Importance of this work
need not be stressed: it speaks for
itself.
They ruled that in order to do. they
must first know. They took in all
seriousness the slogan: CLARITY
AND ACTION. They ordered that
each of their members must join a
study class, in order to be in good
standing.
Study Class Popular.
When comrades are seriously de-
sirous Of learning. there is always an
older, trained and tried comrade to
help. They secured Comrade Max
Bedacht to conduct for them a class
in the groundwork of Communism.
One session has already taken place
at which the attendance was so large
that they had to put out the stand
ing Room Only" signl Hereafter the
class will be conducted in q larger
room: Room 8, 1922 Douglas Blvd.
These lectures will all be taken
down in shorthand for distribution to
those not attending the class, and for
reference.
They are now an active, live
branch of rs members. They have
set themselves the task OF increas.
ing their membership to fifty in three
months. And their slogan is: EVERY
MEMBER BRING A MEMBER.
They have youth, sincerity, energy
and system. What limits can there
be to their sndeavorsi :. --=..=-.
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members, but 1t seemed as II
they had reached their limit.
They had increased their men,
bership, it is true, but further
progress seemed impossible.
A meeting of the most active mem
bers was called. What could be
done? Why were they up against
this stone wall blocking their fur
Their activities? They examined their
form of organization and found that
the branch had come to depend upon
two or three comrades to do ALL
the work. If this could be remedied,
the work would progress success
fully, because then the branch would
be an integral, growing Communist
body. With each member active,
forming himself into nuclei to at
tract new members, there could be
no limit to their usefulness.
Lay Plan Of Action.
They decided to reorganize the
branch on departmental, or COM
mittee basis. Thus they could not
only draw all the comrades actively
into the work, but the committees
could serve as a training camp for
the inexperienced comrades. Their
committees were as follows:
The Organization Committee, which
besides being the organizational head
of the branch would take care of the
industrial work, publicity, and secre-
tarial work.
The Educational Committee, which
needs no explanation.
The Social Committee, which was
made to consider itself a sort of
membership Committee, since II
would always be on the alert for
new members, II would make the
comrades real comrades. not only in
the Communist activities. but in their
personal social relations.
The Literature Committee, which
would consider itself battalion, to
lombard the capitalist order with en-
lightenment for the youth.
The Sports Committeeman only to
draw in outside elements who could
be reached thru this medium alone,
but even to develop themselves.
Educate Newcomers.
Thus they could work efficiently.
Then. following out their theory that
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masses, forming Communist factory
nuclei and adopting correct attitude
towards national and peasant ques-
tions. This done, 80 per cent of our
problems have been solved.
Partial Demands
l should like to add few more
words on the question of partial de-
mands We Bolsheviks differed from
the Mensheviks not because we were
against partial demands, but because
we managed to combine these partial
demands with the fundamental ques-
lions of the revolution. For the menshe-
viks these meant substituting reform
list evolution for revolution; while for
us they were links IN the chain of pre-
paration for revolution. The campaign
conducted by our German comrades
for the eight-hour day and for political
amnesty is a campaign for partial de-
mands, which we must put forward
if we desire to be a party of the
masses. But are these demands an
ultimate aim? Certainly not, they are
merely partial demands. In princi-
pie, the demand for the 81 per cent
confiscation of capital put forward by
the German party, has not differed
from other partial demands. One must
be able to select the partial demand"
that will appeal to the masses at the
given moment and to connect this de-
mand with the preparation for the
revolution. think that the real left"
of the Communist international, which
is truly feminist, can on no account
object to the tactics of partial de-
mands on principle, but it must be
able to construct these tactics as a
policy of revolution and not of evo-
luton.
English Labor Government Drifting
Towards the Left.
To wind up this section-just few
words on the trades-union question. l
believe that this question will be one
of the most important questions be-
fore our congress. There have been
new and very important develop
ments, especially in the British trade
union movement. The British Labor
movement is a peculiar movement.
Recently, read report by Max Beer.
He is not a Communist and was for
merly a social democrat, but he left
the social democratic ranks. He is an
excellent authority on the British
Labor movement and a very conscien-
tious man. His opinion is very valu-
able. What has he to say on the
Labor movement in Great Britain?
He says that he knows three revolu-
tionary facts in England's history.
Firstly, the Chartist movement; Sec
ondly, the formation of the Labor
party and the beginning of the strug-
gle against old fashioned trade-union-
ism, and thirdly, the epoch making
fact of the beginning of the enamel
patton of the British Labor Movement
from reformism. This process, he
says, commenced in 1917 in connec-
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| ton with the Russian revolution. 1t
developed gradually and has now
reached the point when quantity is
transformed into quality. 1t sounds
plausible, comrades. He says further
that evidences are observable of d.
vergences between the best elements
of the trade-unions and the Labor
party, and it must be remembered
that the Labor party rests upon the
trade-unions.
Comrades, believe this to be true
on the whole. Just look at what is
going on in that country. Suddenly
a comrade so near to us as Cook
wins the leadership of great trade
union. Of course, these are merely
signs and symptoms, and they must
not be over-estimated, nor must they
be under-estimated. The attitude Of
the English delegates at the Vienna
Congress of the Amsterdam Unions
was also symptomatic To be sure,
these people are inconsistent, but they
are driven by the masses. What did
these people mean by demanding
from Sassenbach: Where is Rosa
Luxembourg; where is Karl Lieb-
knecht?" The English trade unions
have so far been the main support of
Amsterdam. They were to Amster-
dam what the Russian and German
parties are to the Communist Inter-
national. What would happen If the
Russian and the German Communist
parties were to deliver socialdemo-
cratic speeches against the Commu-
nists? At the Congress everyone
would say that this is real crisis and
not the crisis which Radek carries
daily in his waistcoat pocket, and in
spite of which we see our party grow
ing stronger from month to month.
This very real crisis, however, has
overtaken the Amsterdam people.
What does it mean when the English
delegates ask: Where are Luxem-
burg and Liebknecht?" 1t means
nothing else than the endorsement of
our assertion that the social demo
Gratis are the accomplices Of the muir
derers of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl
Liebknecht. OF course, these people
are inconsistent, they have no pro-
gramme, they were partly prompted
by the desire to demonstrate that they
are for rapprochement with the Rus
sian Trade Unions at the moment when
the Russian and British governments
are negotiating in London.
The main task of the Communist
International in all spheres lies now
in England. A Communist mass party
in England would mean half the vic
tory in Europe. The circumstances
are ripe for it. Therefore we should
not underestimate what is going on
in England. We know England so lit
tie; almost as little as America.
l believe, comrades, we shall have
to study the question thoroughly, and
to see what really can be done to
achieve real unity of the trade-union
movement on an international scale.
The more astute social democrats of
Germany, Belgium, and France will
have none of this unity. Already at
the Fourth Congress we declared that
the social democrats will do anything
to bring about split in the trade
unions, and that we must therefore do
our utmost to bring about the unity of
the trade unions on an international
scale.
omorrow--TactIos Of United Front.
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FARMERS URGED
TO FORM REAL
CO-OPE RATIvE
Bankers Elevator Mer-
ger a Trust

Further light was thrown on the
capitalistic nature of the $26,OOO,00O
grain corporation formed in Chicago
recently, by well-informed Chicago
farm cooperative advocate.
1.-THE combine will have to evade
several laws, according to lawyers l
have consulted" this man told the
DAILY WORKER. There are laws
governing the formation of farm CO.
operatives which may have been vio-
lated by the merger. There are also
laws restricting the issuance of stock
to individuals and the issue of stock
that the grain combine proposes to
the farmers probably violates the
blue sky laws.
Dodgng Antitrust Laws.
"The Rosenbaum Grain Corporation,
the Bartlett-Frazier Company, Rosen.
baum Brothers and Schaffer & Com.
pany, who combined as directors Of
the cooperative grain enterprise,
have long been practically combined
into a loose monopoly. To dodge the
antitrust laws and to get the North.
western Grain Elevator people into a
monopoly, the above concerns joined
together under the cloak of selling
out to the farmers.
There have been elements in the
Farm Bureau Federation which not
only have no interest in the farmers,
but which are closely allied to the
Wall Street bankers. Although the
Farm Bureau is the largest farm or
ganization of its kind in the United
States, it is not cooperative farm
ers' enterprise that aids in their mar
keting and producing problems.
1.-THE combine was formed partly
for the purpose of grabbing up every
grain elevator and every terminal
grain warehouse needed by the farm
ers in order to force the farmers to
do business with the combine.
Advise Real Farmers Coop.
my advice to the farmers is to
enter into a real cooperative move
ment at the point where it will do
some good; that is, the point of pro-
duction. There is no real farmers
cooperative movement that amounts
to anything nationally. The Farm
Bureau is contaminated by the wheat
pool interests and inclines not toward
the country's struggling wheat farm
ers, but toward the capitalistic wheat
SPECTATORS.
1.-THE Farm Bureau might take the
attitude that it is necessary for the
farmers to have capital in order to run
a cooperative. Their claim is that
the new merger, which allows the
capitalists to retain direction of all
the grain distributing facilities of the
country, places at the disposal of the
farmers four million dollars. But cap
ital is not invested by such shrewd
bankers as Barney Baruch unless
big interest is returned on the invest.
ment
THE Farm Bureau demonstrates its
capitalistic tendencies and proves that
the farmer can never win salvation as
long as he enters business side by
side with the opposing capitalist
class"
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PARTY MEMBERS
IN CONNECTICUT
CHEER CAMP AIGN
w orker Enthusiastic
Over Party Program
Especial to The DAILY woRKER)

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER)
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 2S.-The
Workers Party locals of District Is
went over the top IN support of the
New Political Policy, which was new
and yet not new. AT the member
ship meeting held in Labor Lyceum
Hall, SO Howe St., New Haven, Tues
day, July %, they applauded wildly
when Foster, sitting back modestly
after finishing his act, was referred
to by Comrade Ruthenberg as the
Communist candidate for president.
Comrades came from all points in
the district to hear Foster and Ruth
enberg explain the Party Program of
Action. From Stamford, Bridgeport,
Waterbury, and Hartford, and even
from Springfield, Mass. Putting up
our own Communist ticket aroused
unbounded enthusiasm. The Workers
Party had become a factor to be
reckoned with politically, while other
proud parties claiming to represent
the interests of the working class had
given up their birthright for a mess
Of pottage, were supporting for the
presidency a representative of the
petty bourgeoisie. The Connecticut
comrades present contributed $s4.11,
in proportion a better average than
similar meetings held previously in
other cities.
Balanced Party.
But the keynote Of the meeting was
a balanced party, carrying on stimuli
taneously all the campaigns, giving
more weight to the more important
phases of the work, but neglecting
none. Comrade Foster stressed this
point. 1t was particularly appealing
to have Foster urge that the indus
trial phase must not be pushed to the
point where the others were neglect
ed, since he is the most experienced
party member in industrial work.
However at present, there is great
need for more activity in industrial
work, of getting closer to the de-
mands and needs Of shop and factory
workers. The shop nucleus system
Of organization was proved to be the
best structural form to accomplish
this end. The party was going to or.
ganize several nuclei in each district,
aud develop them on the basis of their
experience. The unemployment ques-
ton was dwelt on, and our slogans
for the unemployment campaign.
DAILY WORKER Campaign.
Comrade Ruthenberg explained the
combined membership and DAILY
WORKER campaign. and went at
length into the political policy out
lined by the Central Executive Com
mittee. His splendid presentation
reused the enthusiasm of the COM
rades to a high pitch. This, coupled
with Fosters ability to picture the
most difficult problems in a simple
and graphic manner, accounts for a
meeting that will long be remembered
by the membership Of this district.
Many there were on the outside who
regretted their inability to attend, be-
cause they were not members Of the
Communist Workers Party.
Comrade Simons, District Organizer,
spoke briefly on the local work. The
meeting was a memorable one, and
put the members in great shape to
carry out the plans Of the Central
Executive Committee.
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Died for Boss sonl

DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 2s.-J. w.
Sheldon is dead today. He gave his
life to protect Glenn Lehman, IT.
year-old son of his employer, from
possible injury when a heavy con-
crete mixer slipped off motor truck.
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RYKOV BRANCH OF YOUNG WORKERS
LEAGUE SHOWS WHAT CAN BE DONE
WITH ENTHUSIASTIC MEMBERSHIP
BY HYMAN SIEGEL.

the month of March, the revolutionary month, that
the group the S. L. tired of their amess endeavors
their goaess struggles They decided that in order to do real
work the working youth they would have to become
of real fighting youth organization.
So they decided affiliate with the Young Workers League
Six of them formed the Rykov branch.
That was in March later had sixteen
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Editors Note.-Here is another
installment from the report of
Gregory Zinoviev, chairman Of the
Communist International, to the
Fifth World Congress just adj
journed in Moscow. In this Install
ment Zinoviev takes up the subject
of Communist tactics in different
countries, as follows:
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The Bismarck tribune., 1924-10-18
ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

SO. st. Paul, Oct. 1S.-(U. S.
Dept. Agr.) Cattle receipts 2,300.
Generally steady, run all Montana
grassers, plain quality. killing
steers upwards to $500. Fat cows
and heifers $500 to $500 Few
feeders considered saleable upwards
to $3.50. Nothing done on these
beeves early. Compared with week
ago fed offerings nominally steady.
Grass steers, fat she-stock, Gamers
and cutters % cents lower. Stockers
and feeders steady to 25 cents high
cr. Weeks bulk prices grass fat
steers $500 to 5000. Top rangers
1928. Fat she-stock $500 to $4.75.
Gamers and cutters $500 to $3.50.
Bologna bulls $2.75 to $3.4O. Stockers
and feeders $4.O0 to $3.50. Calves
receipts 200. Compared with week
ago 20 to SO cents lower Best lights
at close $500.
Hog receipts l,500. Mostly staedy
with Friday. Good and choice $50
to 250-pound averages largely $l0.l0.
Bulg packing sows $3.50. Good
smooth sows up to S9.75.
Sheep receipts 1900. Steady. Fat
native lambs $11.5O to $3.50. Best
light ewes around 5000. Compared
with week ago fat lambs 7G cents
lower. Steady and feeders steady.
Weak prices. Top lambs $1,000.
Bulk $ll.5O to $3.50. Culls $500
to $3.50. Fat ewes to packers $3.50
to 5000. $G.40. Top feeders $3.50.
Best fed yearling wethers $lO.50.
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NOTICE OF SALE

I Notice is hereby given, That by
virtue OF Il judgment and decree in
foreclosure, rendered and given by
the District Court of the Fourth
Judicial District, in and for the
County of Burleigh and State of
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etcd in the office of the Clerk of
said Court in and for said County,
on the 10th day of August, 1924, in
an action wherein The Sterling Ma
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Paulson, and Carl A. Paulson, and
c. NJ. Hjerleid, and The Federal Land
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amount Of said judgment, with in
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at the front door of the Court House
in. the City of Bismarck in the Coun
ty of Burleigh and State of North
Dakota, on the 4th day of November,
A. d. 1924, at 300 o'clock p. NJ, of
that day, to satisfy said Judgment
with interest and costs thereon and
expenses of such sale, or so much
thereof as the proceeds of such sale
applicable thereto will satisfy. The
premises to be sold as>aforesaid pur-
suant to said judgment and decree,
and to said writ, and to this notice
and described in said judgment, de-
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MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN

minneapolis, Oct. 1S.-Wheat re-
ceipts 407 cars compared with PSI
ears a year ago. Cash No. l north
ern $l.46is to S1.4S7s; No. l dark
northern spring choice to fancy
81 577s to $1.677s; good to choice
$l.5l7s to $l.567s; ordinary to good
%i.4rs to Si.5l IS; No. hard spring
l.417s to 1916. No. l dark hard
Montana on track and to arrive
$l.537s to 1915; December $l.467s;
old May Sl.5l; new May 1875.
Corn No. ) yellow $1.0i to $l.O5;
oats No. 3 white 4G7s; barley Is 20
SS; rye No. ,. Sl.23A to $l.24; flax
No. !, $2.A4'. to $2.4Gh.