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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
WOMAN SAYS PRICES
RUIN HER WINE TRADE

CHICAGO, April 3. F - Too
much competition is running the boot
Logging business in her neigbborhood,
Mrs. Rose Kromar sighed as fed
eral agents removed 10000 gallons Of
wine from her basement.
Ten cents a glass and cheap at
that" she said. THE bootlegging bus
mess is no place for a lady TO make
money"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
AMERICAN CLAIMS
BILL CONSIDERED

WASHINGTON, April 5.-P)-
The Treasury's bill to speed the set
Element of ASnericsn claims against
Germany and to return seized alien
property was taken under considera-
tion today by a House committee with
UnderSecretary Winston as the first
witness.
Mr. Winston said the measure ha !
the approval of the Treasury, State
and Justice Departments, and he de-
Tended It as a means of healing war
wounds without spreading out pay
ment Of claims over a period Of 81
years.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
SPAIN WELCOMES
FRANCO AND CREW

PALOS, Spain. April 5.-R-
Commander Ramon Franco and his
fellow filters, who bridged the Atlantic
from this port to Buenos Aires In
the Plus-Ultra, received a tumultous
welcome on their return today. They
came into the harbor on the battle.
ship Buenos Aires, which was placed
at their disposal by the Argentine
government as part of its tribute t.
the daring which marked their flight
from the start here on January %
to the arrival in the Argentine capital
on February 10.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
PILOTS UNINJURED
AS PLANE CRASHES

Unnoticed. a third passenger rode
Monday with First Lieutenant W. A,
Maxwell, instructor at Kelly Field ;
and Second Lieutenant Z. T. Noyesr
student, when the plane in which they
were practicing landings at a point
one and one-half miles north Of the
field crashed into a tree.
The third passenger was the little
god of luck. Both escaped virtually
without 2 scratch.
The plane was damaged.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
Wet LEADER DEMANDS
RUM AT SENATE HEARING
Continued From Page -

Goldman said his only retainer was
from the Constitutional Liberty
League Of Massachusetts. which was
only sufficient 10 pay his expenses
whe naway from Boston.
Before calling his first witness,
Goldman renewed the request that Il
committee summon certain witnesses.
Chairman Means directed him to put
his request in writing.
ANDREWS CALLED.
Assistant Secretary Andrews of the
treasury. who has charge of the vast
enforcement machinery Of the federal
government. then was called to the
stand. He was placed under oath.
Questioned about his reorganization
If the enforcement unit. Andrews said
he determined upon his course large
" because responsibility was not
definitely fixed in the field.
Cooperation in the field with state
forces and the field forces of the De.
partment Of Justice were other moving
forces in the determination for CEN
tralization.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
ASK
POSTAL RATE CUT

WASHINGTON. April 5.--lP)-
Pleas ~ newspapers and magazine
publishers for = reduction 10 the 1870
level 300 ,s,0ud class postal rates
ware renewed today before The ron
sr"-s."nM Joint postal subcommittee
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
INSURANCE BOARD
WILL GET S. A. MAP

Maps showing the proposed en-
largrmcnt in San AntoniO's fireprooi
and semi.proof districts will BE- sent
to the state fire insurance board at
Austin. Acting Mayor Phil Wright
annouusod Monday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
Vets Maintain Big Lead AS Hearst Stra,u Vote Comes En-
EGYPT FIRE KILLS 81;
1000 ARE HOMELESS

CAIRO, Egypt, April 5.-R-
Thirty-two persons are dead and 1000
homeless from a fire which ragged in
the Tanktah district from Saturday
noon until Sunday morning. The fire
destroyed 612 dwellings.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
GOLD DISCOVERED
lJ,N KANSAS FARM

GOODL IAN, Kan, April o.-~
Gold has. been found in Sand Greek,
% miles northeast of here in Chey-
enne county, it was announced today.
Two TURNER'S are credited with the
discovery
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
WHAT TO DO? HINDU
ALIENS ARE HOODO0

Hindu.
VIVA, ru do
That the pUedlcamoui local immI.
grafton officers found them selves 70
MndaH
Two allen Hindus wprr "sUru -.d
aud n" "ua IAN speak their Iangua.r.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
ASKS DRY
MODIFICATION
As SOLUTION
Urges Changes Up to Point
of Constitutional
Limitation.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-R-
Modify the Volstead act up to the
point of constitutional limitation and
much of the existing spirit of chal
lenge and protest will be eliminated,
Senator Edge, Republican, New Jer-
sey, declared today before the Sen
ate Prohibition Investigating Commit
tee.
Appearing to urge his beer bills,
Senator Edge said no one defended
violation of the law, but that it avail
ed nothing to fall back on the contcn-
ton that the faw should and must be
enforced.
"The facts are this law is not en-
forced. and in my Judgment, never
can be satisfactorily enforced" he
said.
FLAYS DRY LAW.
"Any law that brings in its wake
such wide corruption in the public
service, increased alcoholic insanity.
and deaths, increased arrests for
drunkenness, home bar rooms and de
velOpment among young boys and
young women of the use of the flask.
never heard of before prohibition.
cannot be successfully defended.
Il unhesitatingly contend that those
who recognize existing evils and sin
cerely endeavOr TO correct them are
contributing more toward temperance
than those who stubbornly refuse to
admit the facts.
"The time has arrived for Con-
gress to cease trying to find excuses
to postpone modification or 10 refuse
to meet this situation. The time has
arrived for Congress to help find a
legal way to do so.
DEFENDS OWN BILL.
"The bill introduced by me and
referring to alcoholic contents amends
the Volstead act by substituting the
words notwithstanding in fact for
the present limitation Of under one
half of one per cent. In other words,
it copies and asserts, the very words
Of the Constitution itself and its con-
stitutionality, therefore cannot BE-
questioned.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
GOLDMAN TESTIFIES.

q am not challenging him" r"
torted Walsh. who pursued his line "f
questioning by asking him TO furnish
the roster of the organizations
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
NOTED FRENCHMAN DIES.

PAKIS, AUriI ;. = or = Gustqv
GeffrOy, president Of the Goncourt
Academy. died today. aged u.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05

NITlIT IV NE8NNN 7. INV.NTsN
chairman Means retorted that he
was seeking light only.
Il do not know Of any authority
for directing - referendum. said thu
chairman. Il speak Of it early. 50
proponents can offer testimony or au-
lhoriry.'
When Mr.. Goldman had concluded
his opening statement Senator Walsh
Democrat. Montana. dry leader ask
ed it he had anv credentials from The
organizations he said he represented.
81 have not. bat will he glad to
furnish them" Goldman said
81 see n" reason for challenging
a reputable LAWYER appearing here.
snapped Senator Reed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-05
REED TO RESCUE AGAIN

his view ~ To whether he shOnld be
allowed IN rnI hi drink lrpalIN. "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09

posed to discipline and centralism
When we founded the international
we reckoned with an immediate period
of civil war and for this reason we
raised the question Of firm discipline
and Capitalization Where, however
there is no period Of civil war we must
not overstrain the bow. In case Bor-
olga means that the theses which have
been adopted in this connection are
correct in theory but nevertheless
wrongly applied in the practice, 1 must
answer him that the formation of a
really international leadership de-
Ponds only upon the sections.
The sections must send their best
forces into the E. G. C. I. in order to
make such a leadership possible.
Two years ago already we spoke
about normality, we must give the
proletarian elements more room to
move without breaking discipline. In
the countries Of the white terror the
realization of the party democracy
is naturally difficult, but in those sec
tions which hake comparatively speak
ing much elbow room, we must under
all circumstances introduce the nor
mality. In every country the Com
munist workers must see to it that a
real party democracy is build up.
Bordiga did not speak like a soldier
Of the Comintern who sees mistakes
and wants to improve things. He
spoke like an observer from outside
and a not even particularly friendly
observer. Bordiga said that in the
trade union question he was in favor
of the old slogan Amsterdam or Mos
cow!" and believes that we want to
liquidate this formulation of the ques-
ton. That is not dialectical. The
question Moscow or Amsterdam"
remains also in the struggle for trade
union unity, it only has another form.
The struggle between Moscow and
Amsterdam, that is to say between
Communism and reformism will also
continue in the new international
which we are striving to set up. Bor-
olga has no confidence in the Comm
tern, he believes that the struggle>for
unity means the sinking of the Com
munist flag. Instead of learning from
the Comintern he is only anxious to
teach it. Comrade Bordiga, study the
history of the bolshevists and Of the
Comintern, and then you win no Ion
ger speak about the bolshevization as
you do.
Continued in tomorrow's issue.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
Winning the Advance Guard.

THE chief object of our sessions
L was the question, how, after hav-
ing won the advance guard of the
proletariat, to win the majority of the
working class. Lenin once wrote that
without winning the advance guard of
the proletariat we would not even
take the very first step towards vic
tory. But even the winning of the adj
vance guard does not mean the victory
itself. To lead the advance into the
struggle alone without the support or
at least the benevolent neutrality of
the broad masses, would be a crime.
Today we can say without any ex-
.aggeration that the first part of our
task, the winning of the advance
guard, is already partially fulfilled.
The task before us now is the organ
national winning of the advance guard
and the winning of the broad masses.
In the present period we are necessar-
lily the defenders of the unity of the
working class. This is impossible
with, to use Lenin's expression, the
childishness of the ultra-lefts. We
must discover such methods as do not
divide the Communist workers from
the social-democratic and non-party
workers but which unite them all as
members of the same class.
That of course by no means re-
presents an abandonment of the strug-
gle against the middle-class social
democratic leaders. We must lead the
toiling masses step by step upon the
basis of their own experiences with
out permitting the advance guard to
go forward too far and thus lose its
contact with the masses, but at the
same time 1t must not cease to be an
advance guard. We have already won
the half of the working class in some
countries, and in others and fewer, the
majority. But It is nevertheless cor
rect to say that in general we have
only won the advance guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09

TN Chicago there are between rs and
1 100 Negro youth organizations COM
posed mostly Of working-class youth.
The majority Of these organizations
assume a social character with no
concrete program or political outlook.
The presence of these organizations
affords an excellent opportunity for
work among the Negro youth and
must be taken advantage of by the
Y. w. L.
On this basis the district Y. w. L.
is at present preparing a program of
work among these organizations
which, if applied with success by the
district, will be instituted nationally.
This tentative program includes a
systematic campaign among the Ne
gro youth clubs, the sending into
these organizations picked members
of the Y. w. L., also speakers. But as
a prerequisite for the proper conduct
ing of this campaign we must estab-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
The Eastern Question.

TINE chapter upon the East was
i amplified. The alteration OF the
role of the Second international 10
wards the East was indicated. Ihe
section upon unemployment was made
more precise. The section dealing with
the question Of the unity proposal ad-
vanced by the independent labor party
was strengthened by stressing the
solidarity of the Comintern with the
actions of the Communist Party Oh
Great Britain.
We demand that If the Independent
labor party takes the question OF unity
seriously it should not only concern
itself with unity upon an information.
al scale, but consider the problem OF
unity with regard the the Communist
party Of Great Britain. The commits
sion added to the theses short chap
ters upon the new organizational
measures for winning the broad mas
eos upon the co-operatives, upon the
youth. etc. The speaker requested the
theses be adopted with the proposed
amendments as they had been uhah'
,mously adopted by the commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
The Importance of Negro Youth Column

fish headquarters in the Negro dis
trict to serve as a concentration point
for our activities. The logical form
that such center should take would
be that of Youth forum. This would
be better than any other form, for we
must not incite the suspicious of
these organizations by appearing as
competitors. This will also facilitate
the work Of league speakers, enabling
them when they go before these or
CARNATIONS to invite them to partici.
pate in our forum.
The development of this work Is at
present under way. The forum is to
be located at 3427 Indiana avenue.
and it will serve at the same time
as section headquarters of section
No. OF the Y. w. L. We intend To
make this place as attractive as DOS
sible, but in order to do this we must
have the support and cooperation Of
the league membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09

international Press Correspondence
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March s.
4N1 (By Mail) - The sixteenth ses-
sion of the enlarged executive meeting
Of the Communist International was
opened under the craftsmanship of
Comrade Semard with report by
Comrade Pepper in the name of the
political commission. He declared:
"The commission death in detail
theses of Zinoviev''
He stressed that no general draft
had been suggested as opposed to the
theses. Deviating analyses were only
proposed by Bordiga who would divide
the whole world into two parts, the
Soviet Union and its capitalist envi-
ronment, Rosenberg to whom only one
tendency exists, that Of the general
unifcation of the capitalists against
the workers, and finally the French
rights who do not want to see the
French crisis.
The commission did not accept the
proposal Of the French delegation &C
cording to which the French govern
ment is a government of the big bour-
geoisie, but retained the original anal
ysis OF the draft theses which charac-
terises the French government as a
petty bourgeois government which in
many respects carries out the policy
Of the big bourgeoisie.
The commission records the fact
that the theses of Zinoviev correctly
analyses the world situation with all
its complications and contradictions,
and lays bare the insoluble contradic-
lions Of Imperialism. The commission
rejected the attempt to stress unfavor-
able factors in the development OF
American capitalism and points to an
imperialist forward move in America.
It rejected on the other hand the
tendencies to overestimate the favor
able factors for British capitalism, as
these could smudge the basis OF the
eclipse of British Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09

per cent bolshevized. What is bolshevi
cation? The lessons of the three revo.
lutions and the experiences of all
parties correctly applied. Despite the
existing difficulties, the parties are
making progress in the direction of
bolshevization. The Communist Party
of Czecho-Slovakia has been consider
ably consolidated and strengthened.
The present Communist Party Of
France cannot be compared with the
times when Frossard and the social
democrats or Souvarine led it. Des-
pite the crisis in it's leadership the
Communist Party of France has be-
come a healthy proletarian party, it
got rid of the lawyers, Freemasons
and pasciflsts from the party leader
ship. The Communist Party of France
mas become a healthy workers party
using the tactics of Lenin. The Com
munist Party of Sweden has overcome
the Hoeglund crisis. 1t rallied the
masses around the Goetheborg plat
form and it is growing.
DESPITE the difficult situation the
- Italian party has become mass
party. 1t is stronger than the maxi
malists or the unitarians. 1t has be-
come so strong that the fascists can,
it is true, kill Communists but not the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
Foreign Comment.

NTE have done such thoro work here
w that number Of parliaments are
already discussing our sessions here.
A number Of German papers contend
that our sessions were hostile to Eng
land. Perhaps they believe that we
are very friendly to Germany, in the
sense of Hindenburg Germany? Still
other newspapers say that the new
slogan of the enlarged executive com
mittee of the Communist International
is Down with America" We natural
ly say nothing of the kind, what. we
say is Down with American Imperial
ism!" Despite the difficulties of Com
munist development we have also
friends in America. And before very
long we shall have big forces there.
America is opposed to the recogni-
ton Of the Soviet Union, but as far as
| know the members of the Soviet gov
eminent are waiting calmly for the re-
cognition that must and will come
The fact that our sessions paid more
attention than previously to England
and America, proves that we are grad
ually growing into a world interna
tional. Our struggle is however not
directed against individual countries
but against the whole system of world
capitalism. Chamberlain has also sta
ted that the sessions of our enlarged
E. c. c. l. not only were directed
against England, but against all the
other imperialist countries also. When
he said this he wished to console the
parliament (Amusement). We must
still wait for the opinions of the Sec
ond international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
Right and Left Deviations.

WE shall still have to fight long
W time against right and left devia-
tions. Lenin said that anarchism is
very often the punishment for oppor-
tunism. And the logical ultra-left de-
Walton is anarchism. The logical right
deviation is opportunism. The ultra
left and the right are two sides of the
same thing, they complement each
other and call each other into the
field.
The struggle against the ultra-left is,
however, very often a cover for right
deviations. For this. reason only the
person who also struggles against the
right IS able to fight the left.
The expelled Schoenlank who it
is said is personally a very decent
fellow, declared that the E. c. c. /. did
not fight enough against the ultra-left
He ended however with the social-de,
mocrats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
The Locarno Pact.

TIME most important discussion is
i conducted by the Comiftern upon
the Locarno pact. The draft theses
declare that Locarno came into being
from the general interests of capital
ism but that nevertheless it repres-
ents the first weak attempts at block
building on the part of the European
debtor states against America.
Secondly, the draft theses declare
that in Locarno the superior forces OF
British Imperialism were arrayed
against France and thirdly that Lo-
caruo was an attempt of British i'm
perialism to form a block against the
Soviet Union. The commission reject
ed those amendments which had their
rise in local considerations, but II
stressed somewhat stronger than did
the original draft the block building OF
the debtor nations against America
II stressed also rather more the col
lapse of the French attempts to estaD'
hsh a French military hegemony over
Europe. The commission declares that
the theses correctly characteristics the
relations Of the dominions and the
colonies to the British motherland' as
the basic tendency of these relations
is a centrifugal disruption.
The commission complemented the
theses by a detailed analysis Of fascist
Italv and it also stressed the contra
diction between the tendency OF GER
tain German economic forces towards
an imperialist development and the
impossibility of any imperialist De
veiopment of Germany owing TO tne
lack of the necessary means OF force
A new chapter was added upon the
balkans and upon the white terror
which now extends over country Win
$50 million inhabitants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-09
The Ultra-Lefts.

lTNHE ultra-lefts have been represent
l. ed here in all the colors of the
rainbow. In Germany there are three
shades of ultra-leftism. In Poland and
in Norway we also have ultra-lefts, but
unfortunately they are not willing to
take up a clear attitude. 1t would be
good if they were to recognize their
mistakes, but simply to say, we are
not ultra-lefts, that is too simple.
Right dangers are present in France,
Germany, Norway, Czecho-Sloval1ia,
Spain and Holland. We must learn to
distinguish which particular danger
is the most dangerous in each partic-
ular country, and then direct our chief
forces against it.
The speaker then argued against
Bordiga at length. Bordiga said that
his followers are weak in Italy but
strong in other places, but he forgot to
say where these other places are. Bor-
olga made mistakes in seven chief
questions:
I'm the question of revolutionary
parliamentarism Bordiga was opposed
to it, altho it is perfectly csear that
without the utilization of parliament
airy work it is out of the question to
form a Communist mass party.
I 2-We were for the mass party, Dor.
Olga on the other hand wanted what
may be termed a small and pure party.
3-Bordiga was opposed to the Boil
shevik policy in the peasant question.
| 1.-The Rome theses of Bordiga
proved themselves to be incorrect.
5-Bordiga rejected the united front.
6-Bordiga rejected the transforms
ton Of the party to the shop nuclei
basis. He wants to discuss the politi-
cal questions outside the shop nuclei.
7-Bordiga declared that the policy
of the Comintern towards the Italian
maximalists and the third internation-
alists was incorrect.
In all these questions history has
supported the Comdntegn. Bordiga was
compelled to recognize his errors and
to recognize that the Comintern was
right both in the international and in
| NhI AAoAAan Hu0oAlOhos GPOh lnJ nCid
Of theory, Bordiga was opposed to the
term Leninism because he declared
that Lenin was a Marxist and for that
reason the term Leninism was unne.
cessary. Bordiga very often brings
the most important, the tactical part
of Leninism into doubt by declaring
that Leninism is inappplicable to
western Europe.
Bordiga defines the party as a
league Of similar thinking people in
an academic sense. He forgets the
mutual relations between the party
and the masses and between the party
and the class, he overlooks the living
dialectical.
Bordiga says that in year the boil
shevization had shown no results. This
statement is absolutely incorrect. In
one year II is clear that the parties
cannot be 100 per cent bolshevized
for this years are necessary. Even
the Communist Party OF the Soviet
Union does not contend that It is 100