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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
BUKHARIN ON u. S. PARTY SITUATION


MOSCOW, Aug. 27.-From the detailed report
of International Press Correspondence can now
give clearer and objective picture of the
estimation of the American Workers (CommunisD
Party situation as given by the Sixth World Con-
gress of the Communist International than the short
and sometimes unclear and distorted wires
tanning speeches made at the congress
The closing remarks of Comrade Bukharin, the
official spokesman of the Executive Committee of
the Communist International, clarified all issues
related to the American Party situation.
Internal and External Contradictions.
Comrades of the American opposition, Foster
and Bittelman and Comrade Lominadze who devil
ates from the official line of the Russian Party,
criticized the theses of Comrade Bukharin from the
left" They made the criticism of the theses and
of the American Central Executive Committee, that
they underestimate internal contradictions and lay
too much emphasis on external contradictions of
Imperialism. Bukharin said this point the fol-
lowing:
"The basic thing today is the war danger. If
we separate external contradictions from internal
contradictions it, is equivalent to diminishing the
significance of this fact. From an objective point
of view such an underestimation of the danger
is not left position but quite the contrary, it is
the reflection of right wing dangers in the Com
munst International The principal danger that
threatens today is the underestimation of the {
War Danger"
Reserve Powers of U. S. Imperialism
The speakers of the opposition, Comrades Dunno,
Btteman and Foster, charged that the Central
Executive Committee overestimates the power and
growth of American imperialism and overlooks the
fact that "the powers of American i'm
perialism are diminishing.
Bukharin said on this question follows:
81 absolutely disagree with the argument ad-
vanced here by many comrades to the effect that
the internal possibilities of American Imperialism
have been exhausted. They have not been
hausted and in general am in principle opposed
to this point of view. 1t is wrong both in theory
and in principle. 1t is the Luxembourg theory.
New and Old Unions
The speakers of the opposition and Comrade
Losovsky accused the Central Executive Committee
of obsructng the execution of the Profintern reso-
luton because, laying the main emphasis on or
ganizng new unions the Central Executive Com
mittee stated the necessity of maintaining and
increasing our work in old unions, too
Bukharin took the following position on this
question:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
POLICE AT Mine
ELECTION MEET
Anthracite Miners Get
Taste of Democracy

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Aug. 27.
Using the ridiculous excuse that
a mass meeting was being held on
Sunday without permit, Chief of
Police Taylor yesterday broke up
the Endorsement Conference called
by the Workers (Communist) Party
at 206 South Main St. The confer
ence was called to endorse the Com
munist candidates, William z. Fos-
ter and Benjamin Gitlow and to
mobilize for the September l picnic
and rally at Sans Souci Park, where
Benjamin Gitlow will be the main
speaker.
About sixty delegates were pres
ent, representing labor organiza-
tions in Luzerne and Lackawanna
Counties, when Emil Gardos, sub
district organizer, opened the con-
ference. Pointing to the presence
of the police, he said: "This con-
ference is being stopped in spite of
the fact that we are in election
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dunno ATTACKS
!. R. 7. OFFICIALS
Greed for Profit Costs
Blood, Says Nominee

Charging that AL Smith, Jimmie
Walker, the republican legislature,
together with the 1. R. T., are re-
sponsible for the terrible subway
catastrophe which took place Friday
afternoon at 5 p. m. near Times
Square Station, resulting in Is
killed and over 100 injured, Will
liam F. Dunno, candidate for Gov
ernor of New York on the Workers
(Communist) Party ticket, issued
the following statement:
Service Undermanned.
"For years the traction companies
have followed practice of under
manning their trains without any
action by the administration. They
have consistently refused to install
and maintain mechanical safety
equipment, have not carried out the
order to purchase more cars. The
insufficient number of cars has re-
suited in the inhuman crowding in
trains to unheard of limits. Ex-
rerienced workers have been fired
rs punishment for organization ac-
tivities. In general, the I. R. T.. with
the connivance of Tammany Hall, has
been carrying out a policy that was
bound to endanger the life and
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ga dangerous tendency was also revealed in the
of the discussion, namely tendency to
deny the necessity for working in the reactiOnary
unions and attempts were even made to develop
theory for the purpose of fortfyng this attitude.
Sometimes this tendency is observed among the
rank and file and arises from difficulties which the
work in reactionary trade unions encounters. The
tendency to leave reactionary unions is fostered
also by the fact that large numbers of workers in
many countries still unorganized. This is the
in the United States of America and also in
France. 1t is absolutely clear that the task of or
ganizing the unorganized is one of our main tasks
at the present time, but this is reason why we
should abandon our work in the reactionary trade
unions even in countries where dual unions exist"
No Big Political Differences
Speakers of the opposition, especially Comrade
Bittelman accused the Central Executive Commit
tee that it is advertising American imperialism and
that it does not the possibilities for Communist
mass work in America. Bukharin's speech rejects
categOrically both charges:
Take the American Party. Quite lately-at
least so it seemed to all of us-the American Party
appeared to be overcoming the internal friction,
but now we find that the controversy is farng up
again. The internal Party struggle has revived
to such an extent that attempts are being made to
utilize the present conjuncture for the purpose of
continuing the struggle in the acutest form. Are
there really any big political differences in the
American Party? No. They are petty. Are the
differences important as to warrant the forma-
ton of fractions? / believe they are not. For
instance, take the question concerning the attitude
towards American capitalism. Some say American
imperialism has grown stronger. Their opponents
declare that they advertising American i'm
perialsm Such expression should not be used.
No good can come of it and it does not help clear
up the question must confess that do not enter
tain any hopes of revolutionary situation arising
in the United States in the future. l say this
quite frankly In TO country in the world is capi-
talism so strong as it is in the United States of
America, where it has reached its zenith. Is it a
terrible thing to say that there is little likelihood
of immediate revolutionary situation? It is if
this is used to back up the argument that there is
positively ground for activity among the Amer
lean masses. As far as l know, however, no one
has made such assertion. Unemployment is a
fact. Changes in American industry is also fact
and so also is the growing discomfort among the
unemployed workers Is there any ground for the
growth of the Communist Party? Yes, there is
Does this furnish any justification for acute
factionary struggle? OF course not All steps must
be taken to avoid such struggle"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
SCABS KNIFE 3
IN ASSAULT ON
STEEL STRIKERS
Men Turn Down Boss
Terms; Demand
Flat Rate
MassillOn Strike Looms

CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 27.-The
Central Alloy Steel Corporations
attempt to break by force the big
steel strike which their counterfeit
peace proposals have failed to
smash after two weeks of struggle,
resulted yesterday in a fight be-
tween strikers and scabs, in which
three of the former were arrested.
Scabs Stab.
The fight, which followed the arm
ing of strikebreakers in the Central
Alloy plant, began when mine scabs
attacked six strikers. The pickets
defended themselves and in the
course of the affray strikebreaker
stabbed three men not strikers, seri-
ously wounding them. Bleeding pro-
fusely the victims were carried by
the police not to hospital but to
the Jail. 1t is thought that the po-
lice believed the men were strikers.
The strikers were then fined $40
and given ten days in the work
house.
The governments interest in the
strike has been dramatically dis
closed in the terms which Commits
Continued on Page Three
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MEET ATTACKED

After three speakers had adj
dressed a crowd of 1000 at a meet
ing held at Wall and William Sts.,
yesterday noon on the fake Kellogg
peace" pact, police attacked and
broke up the gathering which was
arranged under the auspices of the
New York section of the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League.
Before the meeting was sched-
uled to begin, when the stand was
being put up by the anti-imperial-
ist workers, police tried to keep
them from proceeding, on the
ground that "the nolice sergeant
had heard nothing about it." This
was denied by the officials of the
New York section of the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League, who
said that the police commissioner
had been duly notified of the
Continued on Page Tloo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
WORLD CONGRESS-
HITS OPPOSITION
Score Trotskyists at
Communist Meet

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 26.-
The forty-third session of the fifth
World Congress of the Communist
International opened here yesterday
with Bella Kun acting as chairman.
The discussion opened on the sub
ject of the speeches OF Varga on
the situation in the Soviet Union
and speech by Manuilski on the
problems of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union.
Thaelmann, of Germany, then
proposed that both speeches be pub
lished in a brochure as an answer
to the social democratic SANDERS,
and followed the proposal with a
reading of declaration in the name
of the Communist Parties of Ger
many, Chechoslovakia, Poland, Aus
tria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Den
mark, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia
and the Young Communist Interna-
tional, completely approving the po-
litical and organizational line of the
Continued ON Page Five
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TO LAUNCH new
Mill COMMITTEES

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 27.-At
a mass meeting of textile silk work
ers held here yesterday in Carpen-
ters' Hall by the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, Paterson silk workers
heard Albert Weisbord and Selig
Pitkowit, former organizer of the
Associated Silk Workers Union, an
nounce the imminent launching of a
new national union of textile work
ers at a convention in New York in
Sept. %.
After pointing out to the workers
that the new wage cut drive now be-
ing inaugurated by the silk manu-
facturers here and in neighboring
cities was not being combatted by
the Associated Silk Workers, Off
cials of that union were concerning
themselves with carrying thru an
amalgamation with the defunct
United Textile Workers Union of
the A. F. of J.. which is no better
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
z MORE WORKERS
IN |. R. 7. NET
Traction Barons Evade
Responsibility

Two more Interborough workers.
Joseph Carr and Harry King, a
towerman, may be dragged into the
net which the I. R. T. is weaving
in an effort to shake itself from
responsibility for the subway wreck
which took the lives of II and mu-
tilated over 100 others last Friday
evening,
This was stated by attorneys for
the I. R. T. yesterday simultaneous
ly with the announcement that the
hearing in connection with the
tragedy which was scheduled for
yesterday would be held today. Ten
witnesses were called.
William Baldwin, veteran en-
ploye of the /. r. T., who was the
first scapegoat of the company is
now free under $4,000 bail, charged
with homicide. Carr, who is to be
dragged into the case, was Bald
wins helper when the disaster oc-
Cured.
At the same time District Attor-
ney Banton announced that he
would not submit the case to the
Grand Jury until he had read ''re-
ports" from Mayor Walker and
John F. Gilchrist, chairman of the
Tammany transit commission.
The 17th victim of the wreck.
Miss Elizabeth Seibold, an employe
of the Union Carbide Co., 80 E. 42nd
ST., died yesterday. She had board
ed the train few minutes before
the wreck, enroute to the summer
home of her parents at Rockaway
Beach.
At the same. time the Inter-
borough is expected to capitalize
the impending damage suits in its
efforts to increase still further its
huge profits by foisting the seven
cent fare on the New York riding
public. Mayor Walker, who has
served the I. R. T. so well in its
campaign for the seven-cent fare,
and members of the Board of Trans
portation have already let it be
known that the suits would involve
S1,5O0,000 or $2,0O0,00O and that
this would create new financial
Continued on Page Fiue
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NEEDLE TRADES
TO ENDORSE RED
TICKET AT meet
Ben Gitlow to Speak
Tomorrow Eve.

The candidates and platform of
the Workers (Communist) Party
viii be endorsed at a rally of New
York needle trades workers, to be
held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza,
18th st. and Irving Place. Benja-
min Gjtlow, vice-presidential candi-
date of the Party, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the meeting, which
is arranged by the National Needle
Trades Committee of the Trade
Union Educational League.
Besides listening to Gitlow, the
progressive needle trades workers
will hear their own militant leaders,
who have led them successfully in
bitter struggles against the right
wing of the socialist party and A
F. of L. bureaucracy, and who are
most energetically working for the
support of the Workers (Commu.
Continued on Page TUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
EXPOSE new CAMPAIGN OF
KANSAS AUTHORITIES TO
DESTROY WORKERS PARTY
Communist Leaders Face Long Jail Terms on
Criminal Syndicalist Charges
New Attack Seen as Party Gets on Ballot in
the State
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Dailg Worker)
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 27.-The
cases of Oehler Yocum and Kassis,
Workers (Communist) Party mem
bers arrested here in connection
with Sacco and Vanzetti demon
stration, have been set over for
September 10. They are charged
with violating the Kansas criminal
syndicalist law. The charges against
them will be amended to include
their membership in the Workers
(Communist) Party as one of their
Scrimes."
The Kansas authorities will base
heir case against the seven others
arrested at the same time on the
alleged "illega1ity'' of the Party.
The prosecution will seek to obtain
convictions on the basis of the Party
platform and on Oehler's speech, it
is reported.
A rousing' call for fight against
the criminal syndicalism" law of
Kansas, and the recent attempts of
the Kansas authorities to crush and
drive out of existence the Workers
(Communist) Party with the arrest
of number of it's members, was
today issued by the national office
of International Labor Defense, 80
z. 18th Street.
The call follows upon the arrest
in Kansas City, Kansas, of Hugo
Oehler, district organizer of the
Workers Party, and Matthew Cush-
ing, a young packing house worker,
at an open air monday meeting
held in front of the Armour Packing
liant. They were held on charges
IF vagrancy, which were too thin,
and were later changed to charges
of violating the Kansas Criminal
Syndicalism Law.
Persecute Radicals.
The Kansas law is an extremely
vicious piece of anti-labor legisla-
tion and is cunningly framed to
make it an easy matter for the
prosecution to railroad to prison any
undesirable person" The charges
against Oehler read that he "by
word of mouth and by means and
use of public distribution, display,
circulation, gifts and sale of certain
printed and written circulars, leaf
let's, books and other printed matter
did unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly,
openly, publicly and feloniously sug-
gest, advocate, advise and affirma-
lively teach to various and numer-
Gus other persons there assem-
bled, the doctrine of criminal syndi-
calism, with the intent then and
there to spread the same, or the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
Great RESPONSE
IN "RED drive"
Tammany Threat Is a
Boomerang

The answer of thousands of class
conscious workers to the action of
Tammany's Department of Welfare
in banning the collections for the
campaign fund of the Workers
(Communist) Party will be an ex-
tension of the Red Week drive to
take in all this week, and an intensi-
fication of the drive, the district Of
flee of the Party announced last
night.
The Tammany-controlled Welfare
Boards action has proved a BOOM
Continued on Page Two
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bad weather that for time threat
ened to halt the meet, the worker
athletes succeeded in hanging up
several records that will be remem-
bered as marks to shoot at by par
ticipants in future meets.
The outstanding record of the day
was established when Arthur Kir-
ton, young Negro worker & New
York, running unattached, wing
footed his way to double victory
in the 100 and 200-metre dashes,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
MANY RECORDS FALL AT LABOR SPORTS MEET
Kvtu Negro Athletic STAR Double Victory Sprint Euets

long distance runners in the country.
P. Ahola won the javelin and dis
Gus throws, and H. Ahola led the
contestants in the hop-skip-and-
jump and the high jump events,
establishing marks coming close to
the best amateur performances in
the country.
Women and junior athletes, turn
ing out in unprecedented numbers,
contributed largely to the colorful
Continued on Page Two
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1T in the shorter sprint and 24.4
in the 200-metre dash.
Although the outstanding sprint
performer of the Labor Sports
Olympics, Kiiton by no means mon
opolized the double victories of the
day. E. Hakkila, running under the
colors of the Yritys Club of Nor
wood, Mass, succeeded in hanging
up victories in the 800, 1,500 and
5,000-metre runs, understanding
fields composed of the choice labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28

In spite of a slow track, soggy
with three-day downpour of rain,
$50 athletes, representing labor and
fraternal organizations throughout
the United States, met in a two-day
track and field meet at Wingate
Field, Brooklyn, Saturday and Sun
day, in the second annsl athletic
meet of the Labor Sports Union of
America.
Although hampered by the slow
ness Of the drehched field and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
STATE A. F. OF |.
oKAYS DUPONT AL

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 27.-
Tammany AL Smith, who has re-
ceived the support of Raskob. Du
Pont and other representatives of
Wall Street, will in all probability
receive the unqualified endorsement
of the State Federation of Labor,
whose convention opens here tomor-
row.
The convention will be addressed
by Senator Robert F. Wagner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
Italian Communist
Tortured in Jail.
Is Reported sIll"

Special Gable to The Daily Worker
BERLIN, Aug. 27.-Terracini,
Italian Communist leader, who
was sentenced to twenty-five
years imprisonment at the recent
trial of the members of the Cen
tral Executive Committee of the
Italian Party, has been taken sus-
piciously i'll in the Santo Steph-
ano prison. His life is endan-
gered.
According to reports which have
come over the border, Terracini
vas brutally tortured in jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
7. M. C. DEMANDS
PARADE PERMIT

Especial to the Daily Worker
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 27.
"A committee chosen by the New
Bedford Textile Workers Union of
the Textile Mill Committees will
visit Mayor Ashley tomorrow to ask
Continued on Page Three
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FOUR RUM RUNNERS DROWN

KEY WEST, Fla, Aug. 27 (UP).
-Four men-part of the crew of a
rum runner captured near here to-
day--were believed to have been
drowned when they jumped over
board as Coast Guard Cutter No.
225 towed the craft into port. No
trace of the men has been found.
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Postpone World Meet
of Young Communists

Special Gable to The Daily Worker
MOSCOW. Aug. 27.-The fifth
world congress of the Young Com
munist International has been
postponed until the adjournment
of the sixth world congress of the
Communist International which is
now in session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
SOVIET UNION is
INVITED" AFTER
TERMS ARE FIXED
43 Communist is are
jailed by Paris
Police
Humanite Scores Pact
(Bu United Press J


MOSCOW, Aug. q (UP)-The
Soviet Union has been invited to
participate in the BRAND Kellogg
treaty to outlaw war, which was
signed in Paris today by repre-
sentatives of Is powers.
French Ambassador Herbette
late today transmitted an invita-
ton from France to the Soviet
Union to join the pact. Ambassa-
dor Herbette said Russia would
participate under the same cOndi-
tions and privileges of the original
signatories.
EDITORS NOTE: Dispatches
to the effect that the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics is in
Vited to participate" in the Bri-
and-KeIlogg treaty to outlat0
1Odr "under the same conditions
and privileges of the original sig
natories" are entirely deceptive.
The pact had been subject to ne
gotiations since December last,
and the Note of the United States
department of state of June %
Was taken as Vdlidating reserud-
tions made By both France and
Great Britain, the reservations
haUing the effect of strengthens
ing the imperialist character of
the pact. The statement to the
press of Com1missar of Foreign
Affairs of the Soviet Union, Chi
cherin prior to the signing of the
pact, 1Ods not that the Soviet
Union 1ooa,ld sign the poet IN its'
condition as signed yesterday, but
that: ~ cdp declare that our gou-
ernment is prepared to take part
T. these negotiations. The issue
aOiu depend upon the content of
these negotiations. Bat the Sopi-
ct government is of the opinion
that the possibility of it, too,
signing the Kellogg pact is not
excluded. Only if ace are
served Nth the official Notes can
aoe take part in these negotia-
tions, and IN the event of favorable
conditions, also sign the pact.
Our Government requrds
the intended prohibition of these
1Odrs as insufficient in
the event of our participation in
these negotiations zoe lOould also
propose alterations in this pact
which are necessary from oar
point of ute1O. The
imperialist po10ers delayed the IN
Uitation to the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics until after nego-
tiattons of their otOn had moulded
the character Of the pact, enclud-
ing the Soviet government from
any chance to propose changes.
Only after the imperialist powers
had signed the pact in a form to
their oUn liking, the limitation is
sent to the Union of Socialist
Soviet RepubIics.)
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Tammany politician, and Attorney
General Ottinger, who will very
likely head the republican state
ticket. The action of the convention
will probably serve as precedent
for the declarations in other states.