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Cruising the Mediterranean

net ais death By fall from the sczf.
folding Over one q the lateral al
Izrs j. another Ugrillo. =. Francis o.
Assist receiving the St.gmstz. which
j. deserving q careful study
The Academia d. Bellzs Artes Is
locatsd o. al open square where chill
crsn q the better classes Wers play
ing Ehile thsir nurses sat close b.
Tie Spanish Children Tere cleaner
and brighter than The Portuguese The
better condition o. spain zas very sv.-
dent n TIE comparative lack o. beg
gIng. the cleanliness u the streets and
buildings and the pleasant. more in
telEgent-sseming people Among the
pictures il the galleries d. the Bellas
Aries were some from The brush OF
Zur5srsn. the teacher Of Murillo and
u interest from al archaeological point
q YisT Szs Z collection Of PhoeuIcisn
pottery and coins which had been dis
covered near Csdiz. 4 very Acceptable
luncheon AZ the Hotel Dc France com.
Dletzd The morning
The afternoon vas spent in wan.
and the fascinating little curved side
streets which beckOned u On like a
crooked forefinger This vas Carni
val Day. The streets we're decorated
with huge papier-mache clowns heads
suspended above the crowd b. wires
The principal avenues were iammed
sith people in holiday costume and
some were masked and young boys
dsrtsd among the merry-mskers play
ing prsnks One vide street with a
aide central strip Of parking was 20
be reviewing ground for the Spanish
beauties who would parade there in
the evening
A member Of our party being desir-
Gus Of mailing some post cards. We
gave point 70 our wanderings by
searching for stamps We tried d shop
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1926-10-07

Mrs W. c. Campbell had the paper
on the history OF the American The.
ater on Tuesday. for the Observers
Club program at the home of Mrs
Thomas Sharpe. Mrs. Charles T. Good.
sell was chairman for the day. arrang.
ing her program around the theater
topic, Mrs George Boomer had the
Drama League, and Mrs Robert Dob
son the Little Theater. Mrs. James
H. Robinson talked about the Commu-
nifty Play. and reviewed The Man
With a Load OF Mischief" by Ashley
Dukes
Mrs. X. J. Zell presided during the
business session. as the president,
Mrs. George Addleman. is in the East
Mrs Zell is vice president OF the club.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1926-10-07
CLUBS

Mrs Thomas Tulloch presided over
the regular meeting Of the North Hill
Parliamentary Law Club Tuesday eve
ming at the home Of Mrs. J. II. Robin
son. in the absence OF the president,
Mrs Della Castor. The club study
topic was Subsidiary Motions" and
several discussions we're assigned to
members. Among them were THE
Place Of the Chamber Of Commerce in
the City. Why Women DO Not Sup.
port Other Women in Politics, Gov.
ernOr Hartley's Educational Policy"
and Report Cards in Spokane
Schools.
Mrs. August Anderson will have the
club al her home on the fourth Mon.
dsy evening in October.
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which looked nearest like drug store
and b. use of gestures and what few
Spanish words the owner Of the post
cards could muster We found that we
were in the wrong place and should
20 to z shop across the square We
CONTINUED on Page 49,
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The Parent-Teacher Association of
the willard school is meeting this eve.
ming, greeting several new teachers
and lining up committees and new
members for the years work. Mrs
Harry {. Petit. as program chairman
has arranged an informal musical and
speaking program. Mrs. Victor A. Fin.
row. president will welcome the
teachers and her new officers. Prin-
cipal J 5. Warren will respond, and
Mrs Fred Slee, who is one of the vice
presidents Of the Parent-Teacher
Council. will bring greetings from that
organization. and also from North Cen.
trail high school where she is presi-
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Thursday. October :. 1926

dent Community singing and several
other musical numbers viii be enjoyed
before refreshments are served.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
The Russian Communist Party Congress

The Workers (communist) Party America greets the
decisions and the OF the Fourteenth Congress
the Russian Communist Party and the newly elected Central
Committee.
the unity Party so firmly established in
the spirit of Lenin after deliberations which there made
decisions of tremendous significance for the Russian working
and for the world proeaat under the leadership of the
3. The Workers (communst Party Of America is in full
accord with the estimate of comade Lenn that 1.-THE Soviet
everything necessary in order to build up complete socialist
society," We consequently endorse the determination of the
the Soviet Union build up heavy industries
nomcay independent of all capitalist countries and completely
secure in its powers
The Workers (communist) Party of America recognizes
that the strengthening of the Soviet Union thru the building
success of the international proletaran revolution
Particularly because America the strongest citadel
of Imperialism fully of the great the Soviet
Union in the international proetarian revolution, do
eseedy endorse the decision Congress
the Russian Communist Party adhere policy Of
alliance with the middle peasantry and thus separate these
peasant from the rich peasants the kuaks This
absolutely prerequisite the successful socialist up
building of the Soviet Union.
The American Section of the Communist international
realizes that under the leadership of the newly
Committee AI-Unon Communist Party will succeed in
securing the political isolation economic repression of
the kuaks and will hasten the building up Soviet Union
of socialist economy despite all difficulties of the capitalist
surroundings.
adopted by the Fourteenth Congress re-
gardng the OF the composition Of the Party nsures
the of the AUnon Communist i'm
portant role and in the vital tasks confronting Soviet
Union.
the Russian Communist Party strengthen between
the Soviet Union and the International poetaa Workers
power mobilize the workers and farmers for the
defense support of the Soviet against the
undermine the first Workers and Soviet Republic
Long live the AI-Unon Communist Party!
Long live the Communist International the leader of the
international proetarat and the oppressed peoples!
Central Executive Committee, Fl
Workers (Communist) Party of America 4
C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
ARTICLE v.
BY n. M. WICKS

MOT merely does the permanent
l court of international justice de-
eide cases affecting the member ma
lions of the league of nations, but it
has the audacity to issue ukases
against nations not holding member
ship in the league. 1t has an unbroken
record of imperialist decisions. Not
once in the eighteen cases before it
has 1t decided a case or its merits.
Never has it tried to ascertain the
facts in a case except to distort them
in the interest of the large imperialist
nations. 1t is more like an American
prosecuting attorney than like court.
Even tho every judge knows the pre-
Donderance of evidence submitted in
case is against the imperialist ma
tions it will contrive to emasculate
those facts so it can make out case
against the anti-imperialist forces.
One of the most notorious decisions
was the one affecting a dispute be-
tween Russia and Finland over the
question of Eastern Carelia. On De-
cember 81, 1920, ratificatiDhs of a
treaty between these two countries
were exchanged at Moscow. Shortly
thereafter the Finnish white guard
government conspired to violate the
treaty and sent in emissaries to start
a white guard instruction in Eastern
Carelia in order to bring part of the
population of the governments of
Archangel and Olonetz under domina-
ton of Finland under the pretext of
self-determination of these peoples.
Upholds Fake Claims.
TINE Finnish government claimed
4 that the representative of the
Soviet Union had entered into ''ver-
bal agreement" aside from the
terms of the treaty, favoring Fin.
lands claims that these popula-
tions be under Finnish control. The
ridiculous evasion was scorned by
the Bolshevik government of Russia.
Knowing the league of nations existed
for the specific purpose of aiding con-
spiracies against Russia, the white
guard Finn government appealed to
that organization. The league suggest
ed that the Esthonian government,
which was carrying on diplomatic re-
lations with Russia, should endeavor
to ascertain the intentions of the So
Wet government" The Soviet govern
ment insisted that the question was
of purely domestic character and
denied the authority of the league to
interfere with its affairs.
The Finnish government then sug-
gested to the league that the case be
referred to the world court for a deci-
sion, knowing full we'll that the court
would violate every precedent of in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

COKOLNIKOV has gone SO far In
~ this direction that he holds the
state bank and the whole Soviet
finance system to be state capitalist.
In this connection Stain quoted from
Lenin from the year 1917, in which
Lenin, altho he at that time represent
ed the standpoint of the control and
not the naturalization of production,
recognized a state bank in the hands
of proletarian state to be nine
tenthssa socialist institution.
Sokolnikov can still go so far as
to declare the finance commissariat
and the other proletarian institutions
to be state capitalism. Sokolnikov
does not understand the dual charac-
ter of the new economic policy and
the dialectics of the development un-
der the proletarian dictatorship dur
ing the transitional period where the
methods and the weapons of the bour-
geoisie are used with success by the
socialist economic elements against
the capitalist elements for the aboli-
ton OF the latter and for the crea.
ton Of socialist fundament of econ
omy.
Continued tomorrow,
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the hands of the sproletarian state
and the struggle against capitalism by
the socialist elements, and a growing
role of the socialist elements at the
expense of the scapitalist, and finally
the victory of the socialist elements,
the abolition. of the classes and the
creation. of the fundament of socialist
economy"
Whoever fails to recognize the dual
transitional character of the NEP de-
viates from Lenfnism. If the NEP
were capitalism, Lenin would have
said: Capitalist Russia will become
socialist Russia. Lenin, however, coin
ed this famous sentence: NEP Rus
STA will become socialist Russia. The
opposition should answer clearly
whether it is in agreement with the
formulation of Krupskaya that the
NEP is capitalism.
TN the dispute upon state capitalism
the opposition makes a habit of
continually referring to the mistake of
Bucharin that he argued against Len
ms words that the theory of state
capitalism was reconcilable with the
proletarian dictatorship. Bucharin
recognized this mistake. Lenin did
not adopt the opinions of Bucharin,
but Bucharin adopted the opinions of
Lenin, and for this reason we stand
firmly behind Bucharinl (Applause).
Kamenev and Zinoviev treat the
question of state capitalism not dia-
lectically, but enthusiastically and with
out relation to the given historical
conditions. Stain called to mind that
in 1921 Lenin, in face of the unpar-
alleled slump of the industry and the
greatest possible lack of commodities
amongst the peasantry saw in the sit
uation at that time the best solution
in the drawing in of foreign capital
for reconstructing industry, that is in
the introduction of state capitalism
and with its help the strengthening Of
the alliance between the working
class and the peasantry.
With the decay Of economy at that
time there were no other possibilities.
Today, however. we have another sit
uation, in which the Soviet industry
approaches the pre-war level, in which
the transport system has been once
again built up and In which the Sow
let industry formed a connection with
the peasantry from It's own forces, In
which the socialist economic forms
dominate over the state capitalistic
in which the latter, that is to say the
shops which work under concessions
and the shops which are leased, en-
ploy only $4,000 workers OF a total
number of seven million proletarians.
To represent state capitalism today
as the dominant economic form
means TO misreprssent the socialir
nature Of our state Industry, to fail [
recognize the difference between tn
past and the present Mutation and q
treat the question of state capitalism
not dialectically, bat scholast cally
metaphysically. A....--....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Dawn of World Peace Postponed

Pacsts who howl with the imperast ca pack
and the entrance of the United the world
earth ponder the of Britain
that the terms of the Washington naval treaty be abolished
In plain words the British government notice the
United States that the coming it will
move to abolish the naval parity with this country Eliminating
the diplomatic cloak that conceas the motive of Britain the
ton that henceforh there be
between the great mperiaist powers world
only eliminate world struggle will
the blood of the working class.
The British signifies passing heavy battle
ships the dreadnaug and supePdreadnaUg the building
fock of cruisers desoyers and minor auxaries
and other light naval boats In these small
der the 10000 limitation Washington treaty. Britain
ddan parity with the United States insists that per-
mitted to build boats possible in order regain
supremacy Of the
The growing mperaist domination of the world by the United
States and the extension Of its mighty British
is be challenged and all the Locarnos
avert that catastrophe The only that prevent
deace the might of the working
the COMMUNISTS modified to take advantage Of the political
economic dsorganzaon in order smash the
of both American and British Imperialism.
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I sponsible for the passive foreign trade
balance, were a result ,of the mis-
takes of the so-called theoretical
school of Bucharin which is accused
of over-estimating the socialist ma
turity of our economy. All zeal for
discussion must have its limitations.
Sokolnikov declared further that he
was hindered in his work as finance
commissar in lending the agricultural
taxes the character of income taxes
in order in this way to protect the in
terests of the poor peasants. The ag-
ricultural tax is already now an in
come tax and the formal alterations
in this respect are already in pre-
paration. But the sworn defender of
the interests of the poor peasants,
Sokolnikov, often forgets these inter-
ests in the practical work.
For instance. not long ago he pro.
tested against the decision of the fin
ance commissar of the Russian So
cialist Federated Soviet Republic
Milyutin, upon the abolition of all tax
alton of the peasants under a rouble
which only affected a total of 100000
roubles and which freed the poor
peasantry from such taxation and the
state offices from the bookkeeping
costs. The interference of the cen
trail committee was necessary in order
to move Sokolnikov to permit this cor
rect measure.
FINALLY Stain replied to a declar-
4 alton on the part of the opposi-
lion and one of its printed organs up
on the questions under discussion that
he, Stain, has expressed himself to
delegation of peasant correspond
ents in favor of the idea of restoring
private property in land. This was to
be understood from the impressions
of peasant correspondent from this
delegation published in the peasant
newspaper Bednota.
The same rumors about such de-
claration were spread by bourgeois
press agency in Riga thruout the
world.
Despite the obvious absurdity of
such a belief. he, Stain, published a
letter in the Bednota, in which he de-
clared that their fantastic authors
were responsible for all such inven-
tons. Despite this contradiction and
despite the obviously invented charac-
ter Of such contention, the opposi
ton uses today the methods OF bour-
geois lie agency and digs up this lie.
CTALIN pointed to the basic incor-
~ RICHNESS of the formulation OF
krupskaya that the NEP was capital
ism permitted by the proletarian
state. and presented the following cor
rect formulation Of the NEP:
"The NBP is the special policy Of
the proletarian state for the permis-
sion OF capitalism but at the same
time the retention OF economic points
OF vantage like the largescale 'indus.
try, the transport SYSTEM, the mon
opoly OF foreign CONNIE se,- etcs in
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abandon the work of socialist recon
struction.
THE second answer concerns the
L contention of Kamenev that the
decisions of the 14th party confer
ence in the precise formation of the
law upon leasehlod and upon agricul-
tural wage labor, was a concession not
to the peasantry, but to the Kulaks,
to the capitalist elements.
Stain asked the opposition why it
had voted for these decisions if it
considered them to Be new extern
sion of the NEP. We are against the
extension of the NEP, but Kamenev
forgets that the NEP includes free
commerce, capitalism and wage la
Dor and that the decisions of the 14th
this new economic policy introduced
in Lenin's time.
Lenin always recognized that the
NEP in the first period would be
utilized above all by the capitalists,
the Kulaks and the swindlers, but he
never said that the introduction Of
the NEP was concession to the CAPT
talist elements and not to the peas
antry, on the contrary, he always
pointed out that the permission of
free commerce and the introduction
of the NEP was a concession to the
peasantry for the maintenance and
the consolidation of the alliance with
the peasantry.
STALIN quoted from Lenin upon the
~ decisive significance Of the. middle
peasantry in the present Russian viii
lage. During the seizure of the land
in the course of the revolution, the
whole peasantry attacked the large
landowners, but the Kulaks derived
the most advantage from this and the
village poor the least.
In the further course of the revolu-
ton the village poor organized them
selves with the support OF the Soviet
power and forced very much from
the Kulaks, the relations of forces in
the village has become more equal
and the middle peasant has become
the decisive figure in the village.
ME must adapt our state economy,
w wrote Lenin, TO the middle peas
ant economy. Stain stressed the fact
that the NEP and commerce was util-
lied not only by capitalists and Ku-
laks, but also by the state and CO.
operative organs, which forced private
commerce ever more into the back
ground and connect the state indus
try with the peasant economy. Our
concessions are made for the strength
ening of the alliance between the
working class and the peasantry, who.
ever does not understand this is no
feminist, but liberal.
CoKoLNIKov declared that the
- present economic complications
were caused by an oter-estimation Of
our forces and our socialist maturity.
Sokolnilsov even goes so far as TO
declare that the misfakes of our lead
ing economic organ which were re-
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| thus far the league has been unable
to invoke sufficient power to enforce
the decisions of its fraudulent legal
adjunct, the permanent court of in
ternational justice. E
The KieI Canal Case.
| EQUALLY infamous was another
- case affecting the Soviet Union
and, incidentally, Germany. During
the French and British inspired war
against Russia on the part of the
white guard government of Poland
British steamship, chartered by
French armament concern, loaded
with war material for Poland, sought
to go thru the Kiel canal. Germany
refused permission for the boat to 60
thru onsthe ground that it violated
German neutrality in the war be-
tween Poland and Russia. France and
Britain insisted that under article
$50 of the Versailles treaty the vessel
was entitled to passage thru the
canal. M zis
Thetcase was referred to the world
court and Germany commended that
while the article referred to held that
the canal and its approaches shall
be maintained free and open to the
vessels of commerce and of war Of all
nations at peace with Germany on
terms Of absolute equality" it did not
apply to ammunition laden or battle
ships in case of war between nations.
To permit the passage of the boat
would have been a clear violation of
the article and a violation Of the neu-
trality of Germany.
That plain fact did not influence
the court for it handed down another
unprecedented decision, which was
against Germany and, in effect, an i'm,
perialist demand on the part of
France and England that Germany
violate her neutrality to aid the enc
mics of Russia.
Il Nothing better illustrates the char
acter Of the world court into which
the House of Morgan has plunged the
United States. These two decisions
on Russia prove conclusively that It
it not even a court, but an instrument
of the most open and shameful inn
perialist aggression, unhesitatingly
doing the bidding of the imperialist
powers that control it. It has no code
except the code of conquest. 1t re-
cognizes no precedents, ignores facts,
and is an agency furnishing a cloak
Iof legality for the imperialist butchers
whose creature it is. 1t is this in
strument that Wall Street hopes to
dominate in order that it may serve
its interests in Europe and the rest of
the world the same aseit has in the
past served the interests Of France
and Britain.
Next Article-The World Court as a
Weapon Against the Colonies
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MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 23.-(By
Mail.)-. Stain, secretary of the
Russian Communist Party, made the
closing speech in the discussion upon
the political and organizational re
port of the central committee.
Stain who was greeted with storms
of applause declared in the beginning
of his speech that he would not an
swer the attacks of a personal ma
ture which had been made upon him
as the party congress possessed sui
ficient material to recognize the truth
and to see the real motives for these
attacks.
Stain replied first of all to the
declaration of Sokolnikov that he
Stain, had sketched the two general
lines of the economic development OF
the Soviet Union wrongly, he should
not have spoken of the import of in
dustrial machinery, but of the import
of finished goods.
effectively, Sokolnikov becomes
the Soviet Union. Everyone knows
that we are forced at the moment to
import machinery, but Sokolnikoy
turns this compulsion into principle
into theory, into a perspective for
future development, and in this lies
his mistake. fs
THE two general lines of the eco.
nomic reconstruction were sketch.
ed for the purpose of clearing up the
question Of the possibilities of secur-
ing an Independent economic devel.
opment for the Soviet Union in CAPT
talist environment. Our general line
consists in a development of the Sow
let Union from an agricultural coun-
try into an industrial one.
If we remain hitched at that per-
iod of development where we have
TO import machinery and not produce
It, then we can have no guarantee
against a transformation OF our coun-
try into a pendant OF the capitalist
system. For this reason we must
place the production Of the means OF
production as our aim. The Dawes
plan wants TO guarantee German rep
arations payments thru German ex.
ploitation OF foreign markets, that is
TO say the markets of the Soviet I'm.
ion, that is TO say II desires the main
tenance Of a situation IN which we i'm.
port machinery and export agricultur.
al products and permit our industry
to be dragged along at the tail OF
Europe.
From this point Of view ! declared
that the Dawes plan as far as II
concerned the Soviet Union, stood up.
on feet of clay and that we would not
remain an agricultural country to
please anyone, but that on the con-
trary we would become an industrial
country. All our economists must
make this idea their own, for here
alone Is the guarantee for our eco
nomic Independence. To deviate from
this line as Sokolnlkov does. means %