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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15
BY EARL R. BRoWDER.

AT Marseilles, France, beginning
August "a, there gathered the sec
ond congress of the Labor and So
cialist International" RECONSTRUCTED
at Hamburg, 1929, otherwise known
as the Second international, or the
Union of Kings Ministers"
The Marseilles congress did not al
low the record of valiant service to
the bourgeoisie, established in the
past, to be dimmed appreciably. Nor
was the precedent of ambiguous and
double-meaning compromise resolu-
tions, for which the Second Interna'
tional is notorious, in any way SER
iously abandoned. It was regular
congress, in spite of the timid efforts
of some British delegates, who had an
eye cooked for the growing Minority
Movement back home.
Boasts of Treaehery.
MI. LEON BLUM, leader of the
44 French parliamentary socialist
group, struck one Of the keynotes Of
the conference, when he claimed fol-
the Second International a large share
Of the credit for the Dawes plan.
report of London Daily Herald, Aug
ust 25.)
Boastful mention was made Of the
number of ministers and ex-ministers
of bourgeois governments who took
part in the congress. Among the
ministers were: M. Vendervelde, min
lister of foreign affairs for the king
of Belgium, in a Catholic cabinet;
signer of the infamous Versailles
treaty, who declared to the congress
that he believed "the peace policy of
his government to be identical with
the policy of the socialists" M
Richard Sander, premier for the
king of Sweden; M. Gustav Moeller
minister of social administration for
the same royal highness; M. Albin
Hansen. minister of defense, who
bosses the armed forces of his most
royal higness of Sweden.
Mr.. Arthur Henderson, ex-minister
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ency. Their task would be all the
more difficult If agitation and propa-
ganda created the expectation of i'm
possible performance"
With the basis Of complete agree
ment that their function was to grab
as many portfolios as possible in the
royal cabinets, the delegates proceed
ed to come to complete disagreement
on all fundamental questions before
the working class, each delegation
standing squarely on the interests Of
ats own" bourgeoisie.
Security Pact and Indemnities.
TIME French and German delegates
l. were hot for complete and UNI
qualified endorsement Of the security
pact. The British, on the other hand,
said they wanted the Geneva protocol
endorsed, and expressed hostility to
the pact. The matter came to dead
lock.
Long conversations have been held
behind the scenes" writes the Daily
Herald reporter, between Messrs.
Blum and Renaudel, for France; Hill
ferding and Breitscheid, for Germany;
and Shaw, Allen and Buxton, for Eng
land. ! learn, however, that there is
small chance of the British delega-
ton abandoning its position of hostil-
itty to the pact. The situation is that
the French and German comrades,
naturally obsessed by the mutual adj
vantages of the pact to their coun-
tries, are blind to the more general
significance and danger of such a
treaty"
And how do the delegates of the
Second International reconcile or
solve such a difference, which repre-
sents the conflicting interests of two
groups of the bourgeoisie? They can
not solve it at all, because they are
the servants Of their respective ruling
classes. Therefore they only find a
formula by which, under the appear
ance of unity, each can serve his own
master. That is what the Marseilles
congress did on the question of proto-
col and pact. A resolution was unani-
mously adopted, which declared that
when the scope and meaning of the
pact should become known it should
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in the war cabinet Of Lloyd George
and participant in the Macdonald fl
asco, paid tribute to some of the dead
betrayers of the working class, such
as Herr Ebert, deceased president of
the German fascist republic" and
Branting, deceased premier for the
Swedish crown. "He rendered greet
ings," says the account in the Daily
Herald, Gin the name of the delegates
to those comrades present who bore
or had borne ministerial responsibility
in their own countries"
Training More "Kings' Ministers"
MIR. Henderson understood that he
ANAwas addressing a gathering of
servants Of royalty, each highly ambi-
tious to assume livery as soon as pos
sible. He was entirely in sympathy
and agreement with such ambitions.
"In the transitional stage" he said,
from capitalist to socialist govern
ment, the problem appeared to be one
of minority government or coalition"
He assured the delegates that it was
highly probable that many Of them
would soon become ministers in
coalitions with bourgeois parties.
But a word of warming, says Mr..
Henderson, with a reflective glance
back at the rising left wing that fol-
lowed the debacle of the Macdonald
government in Britain. Don't prom
Use the rank and file any more than
necessary to get their Yotes," was the
substance of his warning, because
performance is impossible, and the
bigger your promises the greater the
kick-back from the working class"
The exact wording of the correspond
ent's report on this point was;
Minority and coalition govern
ments which are the products Of cir
cumstances not wholly amenable to
their control, and impose upon them
compromises and collaborations which
they would not willingly accept, were
viewed with very great suspicion and
distrust by a considerable section Of
their movement. Many stalwarts
among them seemed to wish to raise
this question to the plane of princi-
pie. In his judgment this question
settled itself as a question of expedi-
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vent opponents of the BoIshevik re-
gime, it produced draft resolution Of
the type that might be expected. 1t
was long, involved, and bitter--a
strange hotch-potch, incorporating the
moderation Of Bauer, the anxieties of
the Poles and other border nations,
and the fanatical BolsheviBm of
the social-revolutionari the last
named influence preponderating."
To this resolution the British intro
duced a series of amendments, de-
signed to Introduce some degree Of
practical wisdom and restraint" But
the commission, in an atmosphere that
was "panicky, skeptical, almost hos
tile" referred the amendments back to
the drafting committee. After long
and bitter debate, the original resolu
ton plus the modifying British amend
ments were adopted-again unani-
mously.
British Leaders Bend Slightly to
Left Current.
THE. outstanding political develop
4 ment in this congress has been,
that the British delegates, represent
ing nearly half the membership of
the Second International and con-
tributing 40 per cent Of its finances,
are bending slightly, ever so slightly,
before the strong leftward current
now running in the British labor
movement. This has been expressed,
not in manner of fundamental dis
agreement, with the counter-revolu-
tionary crew of bourgeois lackeys, but
in proposals of "some degree Of prac-
tical wisdom and restraint" 1t may
well be that these same British lead
ers will prove more dangerous ene-
mics of the international proletariat
than are the crude and fantastic
clowns, the Dams and Tchernoffs, and
the Georgian, Polish, and Roumanian
mensheviks who write resolutions
against Soviet Russia.
oh, yes! We almost forgot! "Our
own" mensheviks were represented in
the persons Of Messrs. Hillquit, law
yer and capitalist; Panken, judge of a
court of law Of New York City; and
Victor Berger, miniature Hearst of
Milwaukee. They also spoke.
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(Continued from page u


membership, the officials decided to
put us on trial on a charge of having
invited speakers of the Workers Par
ty' who are enemies of the present
reactionary leadership, to speak at
our First of May celebration.
Before notifying us officially of the
charges against us, and of our suspen-
sion, our local Offices were seized in
the dead of night, with the aid of
gangsters, police and detectives.
Unfairness OF Frame Ups
Because they realized the flimsiness
of their charge, they tried us behind
closed doors, in spite of the opposi-
ton of our entire membership the
protest of the entire Jewish and Eng
lish press, which characterized this
trial as a new inquisition. The trial
was nothing but a farce, staged by
the joint board and general executive
board, without a shadow of evidence
we were found guilty and expelled
from the union.
Having carried thru these shameful
explosions, the officials that the pro-
gressive elements had been eliminat-
ed from the International and here
after they could carry on their des.
tructive work unhindered. But the
workers of our industry have taken
up the challenge of the joint board
and have started a bitter struggle
against this new reign Of terrorism.
The revolt Of the membership against
these misleaders has spread to every
nook and corner of our industry and
has drawn in thousands Of workers
who before this were merely passive
Workers Back Up Left Wing Leaders
The workers in the shops have re-
fused to recognize or deal with the
representatives of the joint board, or
to pay any dues. At mass meeting
held on July 9th, $4,000 workers
gathered at the call of the Joint Com
mittee OF Action and decided, unani-
mously, to continue this fight until
Sigman, Pearlstein and Feinberg, the
present pogrom In our union, we're
forced to resign from their Offices; un-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15
Left Wing of IL. CIV. Asks Add

til the three suspended executive
boards were reinstated and until the
union was recognized on a basis of
proportional representation.
The officialdom refused to heed the
demands of the cloak and dressmak-
ers. Instead, they attempted to break
the revolt of the members by institu-
ting a campaign of terrorism in the
Jshops. With the aid of the bosses
Jand their associations, workers have
been sent down from their pobs. The
Joint Committee of Action has been
forced to declare strikes in order to
compel reinstatement. The shop dis
trict has been converted into a verit-
able battlefield where workers are
brutally beaten and wounded on the
picket line by the hired gangasters.
Hundreds Of workers are arrested
daily and heavily fined for the crime
of picketing the striking shops.
sigman conspires With Bosses
Not satisfied with the result of this
campaign of terrorism, the officials of
the international, in defiance of the
policies of even the most reactionary
labor officials, advised the bosses to
make out sweeping injunctions against
the strikers, prohibiting picketing at
all these shops. When the cloak and
dressmakers, at the call Of the Joint
Committee of Action, went down in
general two-hour stoppage on August
goth at o'clock in the afternoon, as
protest against the persecution and
terrorism carried on by the joint
board, the officials of the International
united with the bosses in an effort to
starve the workers into submission.
Many shops were stopped off from
work, by order Of the joint board.
Shop chairmen were attacked in a
most cowardly and brutal manner by
the hired gangsters of = the union
machine.
But In spite of all this terrorism,
the revolt of the membership is be-
coming every day more widespread,
and is taking on an increasingly bitter
form. The workers are determined to
carry on this struggle until their de.
mands are granted
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After the German Fascists' Trial i'm Moscow

representative of the embassy that it
was his wish than no one should inter-
fere on his behalf, even if he were
condemned to death.
Ditmar remained the same to the
end, he remained the same even in
his final word in which he gave ex-
preston to his WHOLE hatred for the
bourgeois society which was playing
with his young life; he remained the
same after the verdict, in that he re-
fused to appeal to the Central Execu-
tive Committee for a Feprieve. What
Ditmar told the court comedies in
almost every detail with the evidence
of another fascist, Bapmann, member
of the organization Consul" No, no
one will succeed in foiling and dis
proving those facts which the court
revealed with regard to the fascists.
w press furious with Ditmar? Dit
mar betrayed his class. The bourgeois
cannot forgive such a. betrayal. This
alone explains the ealumnies against
Ditmar. ser
When it became EVIDENT to Kinder
mann that he would not escape with
unsinged wings, that the legend of the
hypnosis would be of no service, he
began distinctly to turn in the direc-
tion of the German nationalists.
What servile tremor resounded in
Kindermann's voice whenever he re-
ferred to 'His Excellency Herr Mich
aelis." The democratic" organ Of
Germany, Borsen-Courier represents
Kindermann as an unfortunate wan
dering sheep who had tried every
thing from the organization Consul
to the Communists, from the detective
bureau to occultism." This sets very
narrow limits to the sphere of DR..
Kindermann's activities. 1t was not
without foundation that Ditmar said
of Kindermann that a corpus deficit of
the crimes of the social-democratic
party of Germany was hidden behind
his horn spectacles3a No one but a
complete fool would believe this liar
who played in turn the parts of the
bully of an old bigoted woman, polar
explorer, an informer and an upholder
Of culture. Even Kindermann and
those to whom it would be useful are
trying to avoid giving an answer.
LOW can Kindermann be a fascist
IL If Kindermann is Jew? Yes. in
deed, Kindermann IS a Jew, but this
Jew was given substantial recommen-
dations to the bishop of Bergen; he
himself shamelessiy reports how he
fooled the Moslem professor Khairi' by
the respect he protested for ISLAM
He called himself Lutheran and
German to the fascist Heinicke he
concealed his Jewish descent from the
fascists. When asked how it was that
the bigoted religious old woman had
intimately invited him to meals or
even to her house at all, and whether
she knew that he was a Jew, Kinder
mann brazenly replied that she had
every reason to know II well. =.
1t was sufficient to hear his pitiful
drivel which he called his defense"
and which even filed Wolscht who
was sitting next to him with disgust,
to feel what despicable elements fas-
cism recruits to its work. The fas-
cists must have known what kind Of
man they had before them, one who
would consent to any lie and would
be ready to change the color of his
coat as often as was desired. And the
accuser was right who spoke of gold
hypnosis. II the G. n. U. had wanted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

Long, Brave Battle Against Terrorism
Friends, for thirteen long weeks we
have been engaged in bitter strug-
gle against all the dark forces Of the
Jewinsh Labor Movement For thir-
teen long weeks, our workers have
been beaten up, arrested and fined.
For thirteen weeks, the cloak and
dressmakers have exerted themselves
to the utmost, contributing their last
pennies to pay for bail, for fines, and
to assist the striking and injured
workers.
For thirteen weeks we have been
carrying on this struggle with out own
resources, in spite of the long period
of unemployment and the poor season
in our industry Now, when this strug-
gle is becoming more intense, more
bitter from day to day when arrests
are bacoming more frequent, and fines
imposed are becoming larger; now
when the striking and injured work
ers are in greater need than ever be-
fore, we turn to you for assistance.
An appeal FOR Aid
We call on you who sympathize
with our struggle for a clean union
without corruption and graft to {as-
sist us at this critical moment. we
call on you to help the New York
Cloak and Dressmakers to win this
struggle for a union led by the, work
ers and not by small group Of para.
sites.
The victory Of the cloak and dress.
makers in the present struggle will
not affect the workers of our industry
along, but it will be the victory az
every right-thinking worker in A.
lea. In this struggle we are
gagged in, all the dark fore
movement have been array
spiracy to defeat the will
bership. 1t is the sole
every progressive and
person to help raise the
will enable us to carry I
successful conclusion.
With .fraternal greetir
JOINT COMMITTED
Loals 2,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15
Financial Crisis in Poland

According Associated Press dispatch from Moscow
serious financial crisis in Poland Violence has broken
connection the banks panic
among the deposors
banks have The and
Industrial Bank have stopped payments deposors
obliged safety deposors
physical punishment them
Despite the shay condition of Poands financial edfce
recently spent millions dollars military
aimed Soviet Russia These attended by official
Britain
from the United States Perhaps Poland may realize that
policy hostility to Soviet Russia will bring her nothing
disaster
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15
BY Y. YARosLAvskY Moscow


comrade YarosIavsky was chair
man of the tribunal before which
the German faseists were brought.
Ed.
THE trial of the German fascists,
4 which lasted eight days is over.
Eight days of conflict with the men,
dacious presentations of Karl Kinder
mann and his insolent fantastic inven-
tions, his high-class swindling which
called forth>disgust and contemptuous
response even from those who sat on
the benches reserved for the repre-
sentatives of the diplomatic corps!
Eight days of incredibly shameless
statements by DR.. Karl Kindermann
which were calculated to deceive the
public opinion of the whole world!
Eight days of fencing with the eau
tious, carefully considered chess
moves of the other accused, Wolscht,
who weighed everyone of his words,
and was laconic, the more so as, dur
ing his Imprisonment he had become
convinced that speech is silver, sill
ence is golden! He knows that if he
gets off with his life, he will be paid
in silver for every word, and he knows
still better that if he maintains silence
with regard to this matter before the
court, he will be paid in gold.
For eight days the court and the
nub1ic nrOcacufori tore 70 ,iacas tba
spiders web which had been spun
from the beginning in Berlin, by Kin
dermann, Wolscht and Ditmar with
the assistance of Erhardt, Fink, Rose
and number of other fascists or per-
sons closely connected with the fas-
cists. In the end everything became
clear. Step by step the judicial exam
ination found out the facts, and the
court did not hesitate for a moment,
just because everything became clear
down to the depths and no doubt re-
NAMED that it was group of fascists
who were before the court as accused.
ME know the version which has
w been published broadcast and fur
Their adorned with beautiful colors by
the whole bourgeois and social-demo-
crat press, that the accused are limo
cent, erring students and that the
whole affair from beginning to end has
been the work of the G.. P. U. The
social-democratic Vorwarts and other
papers are now supporting in an in.
creased degree the legend that Maxim
Won Ditmar was the evil spirit of
these three and that he acted under
instructions from the cheka in order
to- provide subjects who might be ex-
changed for Skoblevski.
DITMAR was sentenced to death. He
~ concealed nothing from the court
but he only gave his evidence after he
had seen and read Kindermann's evi.
dence; and anyone who heard Ditmar
cannot doubt that what he said was
true. Il is worth while to follow Dit
mars whole behavior before the court
and the remarks which were made
about him in order at once to under
stand the whole mendacity and sense
lessness of such explanations Of the
affair. Even the accused described
Ditmar as a disinterested person who
with great sensitiveness refused to &C
cept any present. He suffered great
distress in Germany, but, AK Wolscht
reports, shrunk more than the others
from appealing to anyone for any
kind of material help. Ditmar refused
the help Of the Esthonian embassy, he
openly declared at a meeting with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

Socialism from American universities is the principal
with China declares American Bolshvsm
Moscow the trouble say European socialists Imperialism
the trouble say the Chinese Who's right? This is
exercise than a word puzzle Get to work on it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

B. c. Forbes of Hearss pet scribbas tells that
blessed with autos telephones radios
The American workers don't think this They
they asking is Who has the the
produce?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

Ramsay MacDonalds heart must have bed king
that awful the resolution denouncng British i'm.
peram at the Union Congress Snowden's
will weep her queen when the sad her
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

International Day Sept o. calls the cooperation of
all the readers Of the DAILY WORKER
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-08-20
CwHAUTAUQUA WORKERS
ORGANIZE FOR SEASON

Local Chautauqua workers held
a meeting in the Palm Room of the
Sherman hotel Friday evening to
hear Carl Miller, noted traveller and
lecturer outline the plan and organi-
cation of the ~Chautauqua circuit,
and to complete plans for organiza-
ton of the local committee. Mr..
Miller enlivened the business talk
with several pleasing anecdotes of
his life with the circuit and of cele-
braties he has met.
The officers of the committee in
charge in Wolf Point are Rev. A.
o. Johnson, president; H. T. Smith,
vice president; l. L. Jensen, treasur-
er; Rev. Sidney A. Walker, secre-
tary; o. C. Johnson, chairman of
advertising comittee and w. B. De-
Witt and Ole Erickson in charge of
the Grounds committee.
The workers who are selling tick
cts are Charles and Fred Martin on
the Northside, Mrs. J.. S. Bruner
and Mrs. Margaret Inglehart for
Poplar; Mrs. j. A. Peters, Miss NJ.
I. Montgomery, Miss Beryl Clayton
and Miss Virginia Nesbit.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-08-20
BLISS TRIUMPH SEED in
BIG DEMAND, SOUTH

Last week F. M. Harrington and
H. E. Morris of the Horticultural
department of the State College met
with the farmers of the Poplar com-
munity interested in getting a start
in certified Bliss Triumph seed po-
tatoes and went over their fields
with them and instructed them in
the proper kind of r%ogueing, care
and selection in order to build up
the highest quality seed. MI. Har-
rington advised the Poplar growers
that several strains of the Bliss
Triumph in Montana had been tested
out in the South where the seed de-
mand is very dependent upon the
northern seed had proven to be the
hardest and most prolific yielders
as compared with Minnesota, Maine
and other northern strains of seed
and that he believed there was a
great opportunity to develop a good
market by building up a quality of
seed that would demand attention.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-08-20

Dinner guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas R. Forbes