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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01

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regions in which the response was
greatest.
The attitude of the various sec
lions of the Party towards CT
Congress and its decisions is in part
measurable by the vote on general
resolution introduced into all meet
ings summarizing the work of the
Sixth World Congress and express
ing approval of its decisions and
determination to carry them out with
energy. To prevent controversial
discussions on the inner Party ques-
ton during the election campaign,
all reference to the American ques-
ton was deliberately omitted from
the resolutions. Nevertheless, some
comrades in opposition to the Gen.
trail Committee and rejecting the
line of the Sixth World Congress on
the American question, were unwill-
ing to vote even for such a resolu-
ton because it endorsed in general
all of the decisions of the congress
and proposed to execute them faith
fully and energetically.
Few ReservatiOnists.
Therefore, a limited number of
comrades in most places made
amendments to the resolution or
statements of reservations when the
vote was taken. In general, these
amendments and statements of res
ervations declared that those adher-
ing to them supported the decisions
of the Sixth World Congress and in
tended to execute them, except that
they had reservations concerning de-
cisions on the American question.
These statements and amendments
ranged all the way from the crude
remark of the lone reservationist in
Detroit who declared, II endorse the
decisions of the Comintern for all
other countries, but not for the
United States" to the much more
elaborate statement by Gee mem
bets presented in the meeting of
the Polcom where the congress de-
cisions on America were read and
signed by Cannon, Aronberg and
Costrell, which declared:
"In line with the position taken
by the delegates representing the
opposition at the World Congress,
we wish to place on record our dis
agreement with that section of the
decision of the Political Secretariat
of the ECCI which says the charges
that the majority of the Gee fol-
lowed a right line are unfounded. 1t
is our opinion that the right line of
the majority in the period prior to
the departure of the delegation has
been confirmed in its course since
that time.
"The section of the motion of the
Political Secretariat of the ECCI,
dealing with the question of faction
alism, especially during the election
cHpdlRH, Is III lull dCCOIu WIFI Oul
views. We demand an immediate
cessation of the campaign of fac
tional discrimination, persecution and
suppression of the majority against
the opposition"
But the political content of all
these reservations were the same.
The mere statistics of these reser-
vations and votes are themselves an
index of the condition of various dis
tricts and attitude prevalent towards
the CT and it's decisions. In New
York there were 10 reservations and
20 abstentions, out of a general
meeting of about 1900. In Chicago
there were five reservations in a
meeting of about 400, with no alb
stentions. In Detroit there was c.: (,
reservation in a meeting Of about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
By BERTRAM D. WOLFE.

THE message of the Sixth World
Congress to its sections and the
working class of the world may be
summed up in the single sentence:
Get ready for war and gigantic
struggles" The whole work of the
congress conferred around the grow
ing war danger. The congress under
took to adept program for the
struggle for Proletarian Dictator
ship on world scale, to analyse the
present international situation, and
since its analysis led it to the con-
clusion that the present interna-
tional situation is one of gigantic
class struggles, growing colonial re-
volutionary movements, sharpening
conflicts between the imperialist
powers, compilations of preparation
for an attack upon the Soviet Union,
and the beginning of new period of
world war, the congress undertook
to prepare the Communist Interna
tional and its sections for the war
situation.
Owing to the absorption of all the
Party's energies in the electoral
campaign and mass struggles in the
mining, textile and other fields, the
Party was not Immediately able to
undertake sufficiently widespread
campaign for the popularization of
the decisions of the Sixth World
Congress. Nevertheless in the midst
of the election campaign, the Party
undertook to begin this work by
sending Gee reporters, who were
World Congress delegates, to all dis
trict headquarter cities and all in
dustrial centers where the Party has
well-established organization. The
reactions of the membership in these
headquarter cities to the report on
the World Congress, their discussion
of same, and the resolutions adopted,
give an interesting picture of some
of the Party's characteristics.
Developing Internationalism.
The first thing to be noted in con-
nection with these membership meet
ings is the big growth of interna-
tionalism and interest in the doings
of the World Congress as compared
with the reaction of the membership
to previous congresses (the last
World Congress was held four years
ago when the Party was ideologi-
cally and organizationally at a much
lower level than it is today.
In most cities these membership
meetings were the largest member
ship meetings ever held to hear Gee
reporters on any questions before
the Party. This was markedly true
in New York, Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit
and Seattle. The Denver meeting
was average size, the meeting in
Kansas City poorly attended, Min
neapolis, San Francisco and Los An
geles, ditto. To Superior, Cleveland
and Detroit, members came from
fairly distant cities, travelling as
much as sixty and seventy miles and
more in order to hear the World
Congress report. Comrades came to
the Cleveland meeting from such dis
tant cities as Ashtabula and Youngs-
town, to the Detroit meeting from
cities thruout Michigan, and to the
Superior meeting from the cities on
the Iron Range, in the copper coun-
try and the rural districts of North
ern Minnesota.
/ The degree of enthusiasm and re-
Spouse to the reports is in some re-
spects the barometer to measure the
level of development of the Party
In general it was definitely notice
able that those regions where the
Party is engaged in the biggest
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could not hope to repeat the performance
indefinitely. The time is rapidly approach
ing when they will join the ranks of those
frustrated little merchants who have to seek
jobs behind the counters of the trustified re-
tail stores. Then they will have TO console
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01

strengthening of the position of
world capitalism which found ex-
preston in the growth of the pro-
ductive forces in a number of great
capitalist countries on the basis Of
capitalist naturalization with III
creased exploitation of the working
class; and simultaneous strength
ening of the international forces hos
tile to capitalism, above all by the
strengthening of the proletarian die
tatorship in the Soviet Union and
the National revolutionary move
ment in colonial and semi-colonial
countries. This capitalist stabiliza-
ton of the third period of postwar
Imperialism was correctly estimated
by the congress as - lifting in the
enormous growth of contradiction
within the capitalist countries, the
increasing resistance of the working
class which finds expression in the
movement to the left of the work
ing masses, and in the consolidation
and the growth of the influence of
the Communists upon the working
class.
"The World Congress correctly es-
tinated the present world period as
a period of sharpening antagonisms
leading to new wars and revolution
airy crises. The congress rightly put
in the foreground of our immediate
task the most determined struggle
against imperialist war, against the
traitorous pacifism of the social de-
mocracy and above all the dangerous
activities of the so-called cleft" So
cial democrats. In view of the fact
that we are at present in a new pc
Rod of world war this congress cor
rectly insisted upon the necessity of
tightening the Bolshevist discipline
Of all Communist Parties, increasing
their international activities, increas-
ing internal democracy, removing
fractional struggles, sharpening the
fight against the right dangers, and
fostering consistent struggle for
Bolshevist line and Bolshevist '.~-
ity.
"The congress was noteworthy for
the attention paid to the colonial
question and the broad participation
of colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries in the work of the congress.
The membership meeting notes with
special satisfaction the active par
ticipation of an increased number of
Negro comrades and of growing
Communist Parties in Latin Amer
lea. The decisions of the congress
will give a powerful stimulus to the
intensification of our struggle to or
ganize the Negro masses and of our
struggle against American imperial
ism.
"The World Congress expressed
the determined will of the working
class of the world to defend the
USSR and unanimous approval and
support Of the brother parties for
the line and work of the heroic Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union.
1t unanimously upheld the CPSU in
its struggles to uproot and destroy
the social democratic line of the
Trotsky opposition.
"The membership meeting of the
d -trict of Detroit pledges itself to
make the decisions of the World
Congress known to the broad masses
and above all % carry the program
of the Communist International to
the workers.
Long Live the Communist Inter-
national! Long Live the World Pro-
letarian Revolution! Long Live the
Leadership of the Comintern"
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In Cleveland there were no reser-
vations. In Minneapolis there were
three. In Superior none; in Seattle
none; Kansas City none; Denver
none. In San Francisco there were
80 reservations and in Los Angeles
81. In San Francisco the vote was
"a for the resolution endorsing the
World Congress decisions without
reservations and 80 with reserva-
tions. In Los Angeles the vote was
"a for the CT without reservations,
and 81 with reservations and 7 abb
stentions.
1t is interesting to inquire why
California should present more res
crvations than the whole rest of the
country put together. The easiest
explanation would be to point out
that the District Organizer has been
a member of the Party opposition,
but this is not a correct explanation,
as proved by the votes in District TO-,
where the DC also has been a men,
Der of the Party opposition, or the
vote in Chicago, which not so many
years ago was an opposition strong
hold.
The results in California contrast
so sharply with the results in dis
tricts where the Party IS engaged
in big mass struggles and over
whelmingly proletarian in character,
that one is Immediately compelled to
examine the composition of the mem
bership and character of the activi-
ties of the Party in the district. So,
as soon as this touchstone is APP
piled, the solution is clear.
Non-Proletarian Composition.
According to the District Organ
izer's report, only 40 per. cent of
the membership of the district are
workers in industry in California.
In the entire state there is only one
shop nucleus and that is not func-
tioning. The reporters plea to pre-
pare the Party for war by digging
roots into the factories met with
open resistance land this was the
only district in the country where
such resistance was manifested)
The reporter was even heckled on
this elementary point in his report
by Interruptions to the effect: There
are no big factories in California. ="
This is of course nonsense in a state
which contains all the branch fac
tories for the west coast and Pacific
export trade of the biggest trusts
in the country. The Interruptions
proved that the Party in California
is still living in 1925 and not even
mentally" reorganized
The reporter had to point out to
the San Francisco membership under
repeated heckling that the largest
shipyards on the west coast Wal
lejo), largest sugar mills (Crockett),
the largest canneries (Fresno), the
biggest tractor company, canneries
and agricultural machinery factories
(Stockton), the Pullman shops
(Richmond), ETC., are all within easy
striking distance of San Francisco,
the district headquarters, and are
all part of the heavily industrial San
Francisco bay region. The fact that
local comrades did not even know
that they were in one of the big
industrial centers of America proves
that the Party has not even turned
it's attention to the factories there.
In Los Angeles, the Party compo-
sition is much worse than in San
Francisco, with surprisingly large
percentage of small business men,
shop keepers, ETC., and actually even
few petty employers of labor in the
Party. There is not one Mexican in
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themselves with the solemn thought that
their fate had been predetermined by the
capitalist god, or sink into libertarianism,
where they will be skeptica of everything
and consider everything as impotent as the
class from which they sprang.
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The Washington times., 1928-12-06
ARCHIVES PLANS
CHANGED

A change in the original plans
az TO location and size of the pro-
posed Archives Building in the Fed
eral building program in The Mall
todav was viewed as a wise move
by those who seek a spacious struc-
ture for housing important histori-
cal and permanent Governmental
records.
The Treasury appropriation BILL
submitted in the House yesterday
by Chairman Will r. Wood, carries
$3.50, 900 for the Archives Building
and authorizes the Secretary of the
Treasury to acquire the site and
enter contracts for the entire esti-
mated cost. The sum carried in
the bill is $1,S5O.O0O more than orig
inally authorized.
The increased appropriation Is
necessitated by change in loca-
ton of the building and an increase
in size from 100000 cubic feet to
1872, 100 cubic feet.
The new site for the building is
directly west of Center Market in
the middle block between B street
and Pennsylvania Avenue. The site
will cost approximately $1,325, 900.
which is $625,OOO more than the
cost OF the first site proposed in
blocks 294 and 295.
The change in location was due
to, the fact that the building would
not fit into the original triangle
plan of development.
Chairman Wood does not look for
any opposition to the revised plans.
Among the most ardent supporters
of the Archives Building proposal
are patriotic and historical organiza-
tions which want war records of
American fighting men stored in a
safe and permanent building.
The Washington times., 1928-12-06
ADOCTOR'S ADVICE:
co LIGHT ON
LAXATIVESI

Everyone needs a laxative At
TIMES. But there's no need for
making it a HABIT. II you have
the habit, you can be rid OF it in
thirty days. Or less! And this is
how:
The next time you go to take any
strong cathartic--don't Instead.
take a little cascara. That's not a
vicious drug, but the bark of a
tree. The laxative made with cas-
cara couldn't harm child. 1t is,
in fact, the one cathartic many
physicians will approve for chill
dren. Gentle as it is. cascarizing is
just as thorough In cleansing the
colon as the more powerful puRges
that actually sap a persons
strength.
Proof that there's no habit from
eascara begins the very day after
The Washington times., 1928-12-06
BOY, s, DIES OF HURTS

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Dec. g.
Grant Winch, 6. died in st. Luke's
Hospital of a fractured skull, sus-
tanned when he was struck by an
automobile driven by George A.
Hottie. The driver was held under
s.. 900 bail.
The Washington times., 1928-12-06

taking. Instead Of being clogged
worse than ever, the bowels are
more inclined to move OF THEIR
OWN ACCORD. You may have to
take cascara several times to estab-
lish regularity. But the times you
need this gentle stimulus grow fur
ther apart. And you NEVER find
ycu must increase the amount.
Cascara's ideal form is the candy
Cascaret that pleases any palate,
and you'll find them at the first
drug store you ask.
The Washington times., 1928-12-06
RUNAWAY GIRLS FOUND

CHESTER, Pa. Dec. 6.--Editf
Louise Evans, Is years old, and
Katherine Cleper, 16, missing from
their homes since last Thursday
night, were picked Up by an official
% the Travellers Aid Society in a
railroad station in New York.
The Washington times., 1928-12-06

"A sensible Christmas gift. They
are in all the bright colors, each
finished with pocket and ruffles
tea apron style, at. at..............
Kann's-Street Floor
The Washington times., 1928-11-15
BUsMEN PLAN DINNER

An oyster supper and dance, to
be given by the A. B. & w.
busmen, will be held tomorrow at
5 o'clock in the Old Columbia,
School, Columbia Pike. Arlington,
Va II
The Washington times., 1928-11-15
Mrs. LOcher Is Elected
SorOptimist Club Head

Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher. d.
rector of Public Service and Educa-
ton for the Stanley Company of
America, was elected president of the
Soroptimist Club at the Lafayette
Hotel Yesterday.
Other officers elected are Mrs.
Daisy Reed. first vice president; Miss
Margaret Withers, second vice presi'
dent; Miss Emma Beuchele. CORE.
spending secretary; Miss Ella Wer-
ner, recording secretary; Mrs. Anna
Kinslow, treasurer; Mrs. Sadie Trap,
Miss Margaret e, Conley, Mrs, Jen.
ME M. Ryan, Miss Sale billiard and
Mrs. Catherine Lewis, directors.
The Washington times., 1928-11-15
CITIZENS FIGHT
SCHOOL SITE

Selection of a site for the pro-
posed eight-room addition to the
Park View school still was hang
ing fire today.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, Superin-
tendent of Schools, in addressing
the Park View Citizens Association
last night was unable to predict the
outcome of the situation. He
pointed out that the District Com
missioners yesterday refused to per-
NIT the suggested closing of Otls
Street in order to place the building
on a site just north of the present
structure.
The only alternative yet advanced
is that the city purchase and rae
a row of buildings just west of the
school There is opposition to this
plan in the community because of
the money necessary to carry 1t out.
The superintendent announced
that the Board of Education has
no idea at present of disseminating
the platoon system of teaching in
the institution. This practice is
favored by most OF those concerned.
The organization will choose be-
tween Fred S. Walker and John f..
Ham1ll for president next month.
Other officers nominated were: for
vice president, Lyman Goldstein
and J. w. Sambert; treasurer, w. i.
Kenner: secretary, John s. Cole;
delegates to the Federation of Cit
liens Associations, Walter d. BelIer,
George III. Russell and Milton r.
Vollmer; delegates to the Public
School Association, Sambert, Hamill
and Cole, members of the executive
committee, Russell. Salvador Scalco,
r. M. Fletcher, Miss Emily Scriv.
ener. III. II. Moore and Arthur
Anderton.
Improved street car service in
the rush hours was asked by the
Michigan Park Association at a
meeting in the Bunker Hill School.
The Washington times., 1928-11-15
COL. KREGER PROMOTED

Col. Edward A. Kreger yesterday
was appointed Judge Advocate Gen.
eral of the Army, with rank of
major general. He succeeds Major
Gen. John A. Hull, whose term ex.
pIres November 16.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
HOME SHOW To
OPEN TONIGHT
FOR WEEK

Every new teaturs cf nl0aern
home builders and furnishers win
be on display IT the Washington
Auditorium tonight with the open
ing of an ideal houna exposition. The
affair ii sponsored by the wash
ington Real Estate Beard. II viii
last all week.
John al. petty. executive secretary
81 the board, announced today that
competitive labor demonstration
In the brick uaasoury class would
Be an added attraction tonight
starting Ut $40 o'clock. II viii be
directed BY Thomas p. Bones, vice
chairman Of the exposition COM.
mittee.
Trophy and Cash Prizes
The competitors win Be Paul
Simpson. OF Waverly Taylor, IN.
corpcrated: Randall j. Haislip. Of
nv. G. Il Al. M. Miller: Georga
RingcId. Of Wardnlan Construction
Company: n. o. CoWsill. Of u. w
DUNCAN, incorporated, and III ~.
Mooney. Of M. a =. ~ Warren.
A silver trophy ana a cash pri5e.
win Be awarded the byIcklayer dis
playing the greatest speed and best
workmanship. The judges will BE-
Albert Il. Harris. municipal archi.
tect; wv. w. Everett. president Of
the Board Of Trale. and Col. John
w. Oehmann, District building in
spector.
"A lathing and plastering contest
will be held tomorrow evening. The
carpenters will demonstrate the
tricks 81 their trade Wednesday
night. and the painters viii compete
Thursday night.
The object Of the exposition II ~
Illustrate the desirability 81 home.
Ownership. Dealers viii be on hand
to explain how To finance the pur.
chase Of home. The exhibition
Will By divided into two groups. one
containing the physical displays and
the other thu intangible phases.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
DIES IN TRYING
CIRCUS STUNT

John white, 80. Of Bethesda. Nd,
was dead today because he had tried
to emulate the thick -muscled strong
man of circus fame.
Al fracture Of the skull suffered
when he fell backwards onto d big
rock while attempting to raise a
heavy metal weight over his head
resulted in Whites death yesterday
in Georgetown University Hospital.
The accident occurred in an aban.
doned gold mine near Great Falls,
Nd.
White had been wandering about
the workings with three friends
when they stumbled over the weight
and someone suggested a contest
to see who could lift 1t with the
greatest ease. Police released
whites three companions after
questioning them They are Louis
Stewart, of Great Falls; James I.
Ricketts,, of Cabin John, Md, and
Clarence u. jenkins, Of the 1000
block Of e st. III. w.
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
.SLUR ON SCHOOL
IS REBUKED
BY HICKEY

Andrew I. Hickey, representative
Of st. Roses Technical SCHOOL. tax.
ing exception to remarks that the
House OF Detention should be ne
more Objectionable TO Southwest
citizens than the school Is to people
living in its vicinity at Twsnty-third
and California Streets, Northwest,
declared that the persons who are
making the remarks should visit
the school. so that they might
know and appreciate the great
work that Is being carried on n
their midst. e
The remarks are said to have
been made at the last meeting
Of the Kalorana Citizens Associa.
ton.
In letter sent Spencer Gordon,
president OF the association, Hickey
declared that statements alleged To
have been made that. two former
inmates Of. the House Of Detention
were confined in the school" were
false, and pointed out that the
two institutions are in no way
comparable.
Hickey declared, "St Roses ii
not q reformatory, 1t IS not q
house of correction: II Is not i
place nor an institution where
Inmates are confined, but Is 4
school for high class technical
training
The Washington times., 1928-10-29
PULPIT POLITICS
HIT BY S|ZO0
Photo BY International

mo preacher has the right to
get UP in his pulpit and attempt
to tell his congregation how to
vote. :"
This was the declaration of the
Rev. DR.. Joseph r. sizoo, pastor Of
the New York Avenue Plesby terrain
Church. in an interview last night.
ITO preach on politics is not the
right or business of the clergyman, =
DR.. Sizoo said I'm pew of my
church. DR.. Work, chairman Of the
Republican campaign committee,
and one of the chief lieutenants of
Al Smith sat side by side. To-
gether they worship God. Why
should / attempt to impugn the
motives of either"
Prohibition Is not great moral
issue. as was slavery" added the
preacher. who was seated in. the
study of the church that had mum.
bered among its worshippers the
backwoods boy who became presi-
dent: Abraham Lincoln.
am not afraid OF offending
my congregation. 1t is not through
cowardice that refuse to inject
politics into my sermons" Dr.
Sizoo declared.
He then added that while he
could understand why certain
preachers considered prohibition a
moral issue, he did not consider
1t the province of the church to
discuss political problems"