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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
Forward to Party Unity and Mass Work

formed on the basis OF the unity re-
solution has as its purpose a strug-
gle against Comrade Foster and
against his influence in the party.
There are no facts to justify such
statement. The leadership of the
central executive committee which
consists of more than a threefourths
majority would welcome nothing more
than that Comrade Foster and those
who still stand with him should for
get their factional differences and join
with them to carry on their part in
the leadership of the party and help
to develop militant campaign Of
mass work by the party on the basis
of the resolutions Of the national con-
vention.
The unity resolution declares that
It is necessary thru argument and pur-
suasion to win those comrades who
are still persisting in taking posi-
ton Of opposition and continuing a
factional fight, for the unihcation of
the party and for the mass work of
the party. This has been and will
be the policy of the central executive
committee.
The reports of the membership
meetings and the district executive
committees where the unity resolu-
ton was discussed, show that the over
whelming majority Of the party sup
ports the line taken by the central
executive committee, and is ready to
cooperate with it in liquidating
factionalism and making the party
a living, fighting organization in
the class struggle. Every effort
must be made to win the twenty
per cent of the party which still per
sists, both in the c. e. c. and the
membership in maintaining a faction
al opposition, for this line, in the
practical carrying out of the work of
the c. E. c.
Favorable Conditions for Building
the Party.
The work of the central executive
committee for the unification of the
party and developing it's work among
the masses comes at time when the
economic and political conditions pre-.
sent a most favorable opportunity for
the success of our work.
There are many indications that the
working class is turning from its
meek submission to the attack of
the capitalist exploiters to vigorous
resistance and even towards aggres-
sive action. Evidence of this is to
be found in the struggle Of the anthra-
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Loreisn, in Action

Every passing day vndcates the action
ton of the Workers Commun Party excluding from its
that deestabe opporun right wingr and rever of the Com
munist Inernatona Ludwig Lore Now that he the party
his real position is clear to ALL
The convention of the Amagamaed Food Workers going
on IN New York City furnishes example of Loem action The
henchmen Of this dscredd renegade united with the right
elements in the union in
workers establishing labor party.
We said at the time he first opposed the labor party slogan
that the he afraid of such party because there
little difference between him the wingers
movement that he afraid he would completely lose his identity
But his identify themselves with the right wingers every
possible occasion outside labor party Being ectarans they
pose any broad
party They consider themselves alone the leaders labor
political field while they m with the right wing in the unions This
mechanical division of the characteristics opportunism
But not the right wing will long this dcredited
careerist The rank and file of the Amagamated
learn that Loresm abandonment of the struggle
against capitalism and mpotent negotiating in the swamp
sociaLdemocratic sectaranism
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refused to continue cutting cane, In
order to bring pressure upon them in
the interest of the Wall Street com
bines, President Machado took i'm
mediate action. Determined at all
cost to prevent the activities of labor
leaders on behalf of the "colonos," the
government resurrected the forgot
ten incident of the bomb explosions of
September II, suddenly revoking the
bail of all those accused of having
violated the law regarding explosives.
On November 81, Mella and twelve Ia
Dor leaders were imprisoned. I'm
doubleday a contributing cause of the
arrest of Mella was his activity
against American imperialism among
the students of the national university,
whose strong stand against American
interference in the affairs of Cuba had
embarrassed" the president in his re-
lations with Ambassador Crowder.
AS will be seen from the facts given
above, the indictment and the i'm
prisonments are the result of a long
period of preliminary maneuvers,
hedged around with imaginary and
fantastic plots, carried out with the
authorization of manifestly partial
judiciary. the arrests were preceded
by repeated threats of assassination
against Mella-threats which were not
to be taken lightly after the mys-
ferrous murders of the editor of Ell
Dia newspaper opposing the govern
menD, of the labor leader varona
(who organized the big 1924 strike in
the sugar centrals controlled by the
American companies) and of the
Catalonian, Couxart (who was murder
ed in the military fortress of La
Cabana, Havana).
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THE central executive committee Of
= the party has set as the most i'm
portant task before the party the uni
fcation of the party and the throw
ing of the strength Of our organiza-
ton into mass work.
Every party member who gives
thotful consideration to the party sit
uation will agree that the achieve
ment Of this goal is the greatest need
Of the party at the present time.
Starting in 1922 and developing
with an upward curve in the year
1928, and part Of 1924, the party car
ried on successful work among the
masses of the workers in this country.
The party was the center of the cam
paign which held the interest and had
the support of hundreds of thousands
of workers and exploited farmers. 1t
participated in the actual struggle of
the workers and greater part of the
energy and strength of the party was
thrown into these struggles.
AS a consequence the party mem
bership grew and with it the influence
and prestige of the party. One need
only look at the figures showing the
new members who came into our
party to find the proof that the party
] was on the road to becoming the liv-
ing, virile influence in the labor move
ment Of this country.
This situation had not existed for
at least a year before the national
convention Of the party. In place of
throwing its energies outward, the
strength of the party was directed to
the inner party struggle. The party
undoubtedly has come out of this In
ner struggle stronger in its Commun-
list understanding with a clearer con-
ception of its role in the class strug-
gle. The struggle was a necessary
phase in the process of the bolshe-
vization of the party, even tho during
the period of this struggle the party
lost influence and prestige among the
masses.
Now, however, we must again d.
rect our energies outward. We must
again throw the greater part Of the
strength and energy of the party in
to the struggles of the workers. The
party has reached the point where it
cannot stand continuation of an inner
struggle such as shook it to its very
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center during the last year. The fu-
ture Of the party depends now upon
the success of the leadership in heal
ing the wounds caused by the faction
al struggle directing its energies into
mass work.
1t was the consciousness OF this sit
uatiOn which was the compelling force
which brot the action OF the political
committee TO formulate q basis on
which the groupings In the party
could be wiped out and the whole
party go forward in increasing the
influence, prestige and membership
Of the party.
The Basis For UnifIeatIon.
THE basis for united work, united
4 leadership and a united party was
laid in the resolutions of the Parity
Commission which w9re unanimously
adopted by the national convention.
With a clear political line established,
the ground for factional groupings
disappear. No. Communist can approve
Of the existence of groups or factions
when there is agreement on policy
between the members of these groups
and factions. Our. party established
such an agreement in its fourth ma
tional convention thru adoption Of the
Parity Commission resolutions and
thus created the conditions for end
ing fractional groupings and struggle
within the party. Il is upon the basis
Of the convention RESOLUTION that the
central executive Committee urges all
comrades to unite, to turn the resolu-
ton into living influences in the class
struggle by work to carry them into
effect among the masses in the shops,
in the trade unions, among the Negro
workers, against Imperialism, work
among women, and so forth.
The fourth convention resolutions
included that for the reorganization
Of the party on the basis of shop
nuclei and street nuclei and the build
ing of language fractions in place of
the language sections which had ex-
listed in the party. The carrying in
to effect of reorganization, with which
the central executive committee is
proceeding energesically and which it
has already achieved in some cities,
requires the unificatfon of all Com
munist elements in our party.
The reorganization has developed
opposition in some quarters. Lore,
who while in the party did not dare
to raise his voice against reorganiza-
ton, now openly SCOTS at proposals
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to build the party on shop nuclei and
street nuclei basis and his views find
an echo in some, fortunately small,
groups in our party. Support of the
reorganization as phase of the boil
shevization of the party should be an
other force drawing together for the
struggle against the opposition to re-
organization, all the comrades in the
leadership Of the party and the mem
bership that is enthusiastically fight
ing to build our party on true Boil
shevik basis.
The Trade Union Question.
COME comrades in the party have
~ raised the question of the tactics
to be employed in our trade union
work as an issue to throw a monkey
wrench into the work OF unifcation
and mobilization for mass work.
There is no basis for such an atti-
tude.
The central executive committee
has not proposed any basic change Of
our policy in the trade union work
These are established in the conven.
ton resolution and in the letter OF
the Comintern and Profintern to our
party. The central executive com.
mittee proposes an energetic fight to
put these policies into practice.
The only question which has been
raised is question of tactics in car.
rying out the basic policies which
have been established for the party
In order to prevent the question of
tactics which must be employed in
building a broad left wing movement
in the unions from becoming a new
issue for factional groupings in the
party, the central executive commit.
tee has provided that the resolution
adopted by the c. e. G. shall be sub.
United to the Comintern and the Pro.
fiintern for approval before it will
be carried into effect. The party can
await the decision by the Comintern
and Profntern on this question with
calm assurance that the party will fol
low the right road. Efforts to create
division on this issue under these
circumstances are influenced by other
motives than the best interests oil
the party and should not be tolerated
by the party.
The Attitude Towards comrade Foster
TNHE view has been expressed in the
4 party that the unity resolution OF
the central executive committee is di
rected against Comrade Foster and
that the majority which has been
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OF the Communist Party, trade unions
and the Cuban section of the All
America Anti-Imperialist League. the
indictments were drawn up-heaping
together the activities of Communists
and anarchists, so assto give the ap-
pearance Of united front" against
the government. A number of work
ers were indicted with Mella.
Bail was refused the accused at first
but finally, after considerable pres
sure, they were liberated under a
provisional bail of $1,000 each.
The Union of Factory Workers was
declared illegal. At the same time a
wholesale deportation of foreigners
was carried out, including all those
who had expressed "anti-American
opinions"
Notwithstanding Indifference of the
public in the face of these police
outrages, the police felt it necessary
to justify their conduct, and on Sep
TENDER IL arranged the explosion of
few small bombs in various parts of
the city, with such ill effect that even
the bourgeoisie refused to become
panic-stricken and no one paid any
attention to the matter.
The student leader, Julio Antonio
Mella, out on bail, redoubled his ac-
tivities in the anti-imperialist league,
in the Communist Party and in the
trade union centers, as well as among
the students of the national university
The Hand of the Sugar Trust.
The economic crisis in Cuba was
now at its height, aggravated con-
siderably by the low price paid to the
"colonos" for their sugar which did
not cover the cost of production. The
"colonos," accordingly, organized and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
The Crimes of Wall Street Imperialism in Cuba

wages. The employers in their turn,
organized and declared a lockout, at
the same time entering a formal com
plant with the government, charging
the leaders of the union with injecting
poisonous matter into the products OF
their factories.
The government, determined to OBJ.
struct the development of the Con.
federation of Labor and disturb the
propaganda Of the Cuban section OF
the anti-imperialist league, began a
persecution of labor leaders and of the
speakers at the antiimperialist meet.
ing. The prosecutions began in the
last few days ofsAugast, giving as a
basis the alleged actssof sabotage re.
ferred to above.
The secretary of Fthe Communist
Party, who had spoken at the anti
imperialist meeting, was arrested and
many party documents were combs.
cated-minutes of various meetings
plan of organization, list of members
and a little map of the city of Havana
A Crude Frame-up.
With this scant material, the police
elaborated their frame-up. They added
to the charges of poisoning that OF
conspiring against the security of the
state, on the fiimsy pretext that on the
map of Havana found among Mella's
papers a red mark had been placed
over the building occupied by the
National Bank of Cuba. This red mark
like many similar ones on the map
had served merely to acquaint the
secretary, who was a stranger il
Havana, with the location of tn,
streets.
On the basis of this evidence" to
gether with the ordinary manifestol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
BY c. E. RUTHEN7ERe, Gen. secy.
Workers (communIst) Party.

| cite miners, the demands Of the rail-
road workers for increased pay, the
militant spirit and the growth of the
left wing In the needle trades, the
resistance of the textile workers to
wage cuts and the movement among
them for trade union organization.
Among the working farmers, new
wave of struggle against their exploit
ers is developing. The rejection OF
President Coolidge's proposal for the
farmers by great organizations Of far
mers, the new movement for the for
nation of farmer-labor parties in
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and North
Dakota, are indications that the ex-
plotted farmer is again in fighting
spirit.
The movement for the formation of
labor party has received new I'M
petus by the unanimous endorsement
of the Furriers and International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union con-
vention. With the state and congress
sional elections approaching in 1926,
conditions are favorable for actual
achievement in the organization by
the workers of a party in some states
which will fight for their class in
terests, which will have mass sup
port.
Our party must take advantage Of
this favorable situation for the de-
velopment of it's influence and estab-
fishing its leadership among the work
ing masses and the exploited farmers.
It can only do that If 1t mobilizes
all its strength in support of its cam
paigns among the masses. If the
party can again throw its energies
into these campaigns, it will be on
the high road of progress and we may
look forward to an increase In its
prestige, its influence, and the
strengthening of its membership. The
opportunity to achieve this lies be-
fore us. The question is whether we
have the strength and leadership to
achieve it. The condition for sue
cess in Selling this opportunity and
building our party is the unif1cation of
our forces for the work among the
masses.
1t is because the unifcation Of our
party is the condition for our sue
cess in building our party into pow
erful factor in the American labor
movement, that the whole party
should rally to the support of the
line laid down by the central execu-
tive committee in its unity resolu-
ton.
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Continued from page u

NNANSN AhOhA Pd6C ~
faces were serious as if they were
thinking about very important mat
ter. -.
"They were preparing themselves
to die. They looked to the sky for
the last time, but with such look
that we all started to SILVER. They
did not like thes sacks over their
heads. Rilyev said when they started
to pull on the sack What is this
for? When everything was ready
the nooses were sput on their necks
and the floor upon which they stood
started to sink. That is how it was
arranged. The middle three ropes
broke and the condemned fell thru
the traps onto the ground below. The
ones on the ends remained hanging,
Pyostel and Kakhovsky. The three
middle men had fallen from height
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THE circular printed below was re-
L ceived yesterday from Havana by
the United States section of the All
America Anti-lmperiaist League. AS
it is dated November %, one might
suppose that mail service between
Cuba and the United States is very,
very slow. It is, and particularly at
the present time. The brutal facts
set forth in the circular will perhaps
explain why it was held up some
where in transit. The mystery is that
it was allowed to arrive at all
What the circular establishes be-
yond the shadow Of doubt is that the
Imprisonment of Julio A. MeIia and
the twelve Cuban labor leaders at the
dictation of the American sugar in
terests is not an isolated incident but
is part of a whole reign of terror on
the island instituted by American i'm
periaIism with the aid of the servile
Machado govrnment, The savage grip
of American imperialism is tighten.
ing everywherel Deportations Of
"antl-American elements from Cuba
Panama and, Costa RIGA; the strike
breaking military occupation of the
City of Panama by American troops;
Military Governor Russell's abroga-
ton of presidential elections in Haiti;
General Woods latest arbitrary acts
against the independence movement
in the Philippines; the maneuvers of
PershIng in the Taena-Arica district
of South America-these are only a
few of the things that characterize
the development of American impe-
rialist policy in the last two months.
In making public this circular of
its Cuban section, the AII-America
Anti-lmperiaIist League calls upon all
workers to attend the anti-imperlalist
protest meeting to be held at North
G. Western AYES, Chicago, tomorrow
evening at 1880 o'clock.
Circular of the Cuban Section Of the
| All-America Anti-ImperiaIist League
Regarding the Origin and Mag
nitude of the Grimes Now Be-
| ing Nommitted Against the
Cuban Proletariat.
TN this circular the Cuban section OF
the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League proposes to inform all the
peoples of the Americas regarding the
outrages now being committed in
Cuba-and Of the causes which led
to the Imprisonment of our general
secretary. Julio Antonio Mella, and
numerous labor leaders-of the threat
of a shutdown against the national
university and of the dissolution of
labor organizations
Early in August, there assembled in
the city Of Camaguey a convention OF
the Confederation Of Labor, represent
ing 100000 organized workers. On
the 22nd day Of the same month the
Cuban section of the All-America Anti
Imperialist League staged great de-
monstration at Mars Field, Havana.
In the labor convention 1t was decid.
ed. among other things, 10 start a
campaign to organize the r yants; in
the demonstration the Slogans issued
dealt with the approaching economic
crisis, laying full blame at the door
Of American imperialism. About the
same time. the Union of Factory
Workers declared strike for higher
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Meanwhile the government inter-
cepts all news from the provinces,
preventing knowledge of the con-
sequences (probably bloody of the
active protest of the peasants in the
sugar fields. II is known, however,
that military supervisors" have been
named for the sugar centrals, with
instructions to do their duty without
too much recourse to persuasion. 1t
is known also that the peasants have
not given up the fight; they refuse
to carry out orders that do not come
from the "colonos," who guarantee
their wages and who are the ones who
at the present moment are refusing to
cut cane because of the miserable
prices paid by the American COM
panies.
ImperiaIist claw and Order"
THE outrages we are describing in
this circular may be explained by
the public declarations of General
Machado in the United States, which
he visited a month before taking Of
fee as president of the republic. At
that time he stated that his govern
ment would be better PLAT amend
ment" than the amendment itself. He
promised the American interests that
law and order" would reign thruout
the republic and no strike would last
As hours without being repressed by
force.
For Machado, disorder consists in
the righteous claims of the working
class, in the campaigns against Amer
lean Imperialism among all sections
of the population and in the activities
of the students of the national univer-
sity in behalf of the liberation of their
country.
Law and order" for Machado, just
as for President CHAR of Panama,
signifies security and development of
American interests at the sacrifice of
native victims, at the sacrifice of the
economic independence of the state.
If in Panama simple rent strike
of worker tenants could bring about
the intervention of Yankee soldiers,
we can expect that in the present
situation in Cuba the bloodlust OF
Wall Street will not be satisfied with
the indictments and arrests so far un-
dertaken by the Cuban government,
but will insist upon still greater out
RACES.
In spite of the reprisals, the Cuban
section ofs-the All-America Anti-Im-
peraillst League will continue its
activity in the national university Gas
long as the university is allowed to
remain OPEN, in the labor organiza-
tions, etc. 1t will give full voice to it's
program: Abolition of-the Plat amend
ment which makes Cuba a mere pro-
tectorate Of the United States, aboli-
ton OF the American naval base at
Guantanamo, campaign, against the
forced loans from Wall Street-partic-
ularly the $100.000.000 loan now in
project. We denounce before all the
peoples Of the Americas the outrages
now being committed on Cuban soil.
Mella and the labor leaders are in
jail by order of American imperial
ism. The students. workers and vital
forces OF the entire continent must
demand their liberty Havana, Nov.
2S, 1926. t~
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After which the peace the world
had the stormng of Damascus the Angourksh fight
oil the Bugar affair In spite of this Spain
wants the blessings Of Loarno extended other nations