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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
Happenings in Hamburg Organization
Decision of the P,esidium of the E. c. CI
Moscow, 9Th October 1928.

Moscow, 9Th October 1928.
The Presidium of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter
national, in its session of October 6,
adopted the following resolutions:
The Presidium Of the Executive
Committee Of the Communist Inter-
national has very thoroughly ex-
amined the facts in connection with
the former Pol-Secretary of the
Hamburg Party organization Witt
dorf and declares as follows:
/. The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Germany was
correct in proceeding with all
severity against embezzlement of
Party funds by Wittdorf and in ex-
polling Wittdorf from the Party on
account of this crime.
2. Comrade Thaelman, who with
out reservation is in favor Of the
severe measures which the G. c. has
adopted in the case of embezzlement
in the Hamburg organization, COM
mitted a serious mistake by not at
once informing the C. c. when he
learned of the embezzlement by
Wittdorf. The Presidium, however,
declares that this omission on the
part Of Comrade Thaelmann did not
spring from a desire to protect
Wittdorf, but was solely the result
of his endeavor to select the time
and form Of Wittdorf's disciplinary
punishment in such a way that the
public settlement of the whole affair
should take place with as least dam
age as possible to the Party and
should not be made use of by the
bourgeois and the social democracy
in order to place obstacles in the
carrying out by the C. P. Of Ger
many and the Comintern of the ex-
tremely important campaign against
the class enemies Of the proletariat
8. At the same time the Presi-
dunn of the E. G. c. I. regrets to
state that the c. G. of the G. P. Of
Germany has published the resolu-
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Puppet Governments Strangle Workers Efforts
to Better Conditions

Therefore, it is mistake to be-
lieve that all the North American
working class is reactionary and
practices collaboration with the
wealthy bourgeoisie. 1t has a long
and glorious revolutionary history.
Yet fresh in our memory are the
recent great strikes of the miners,
textile and other workers, which
testify beyond all doubt that the ex-
plotted workers of the North are
not at all at peace with their
bosses.
Workers Common interests.
All the workers of the Americas,
North, Central and South, have
common interests, the fight against
Yankee imperialism and it's agents
of the Pan-American Federation of
Labor. And only with a unison of
forces, only with close and per-
manent connection with the Yankee
workers can our Latin American
movements, and their movements
also, have possibility of success.
The fact that it is desired to form
a trade union confederation specifi-
-cally Latin American signifies by no
means to give way to racial or ma
tional prejudices. Not at all! Quite
on the contrary; with the North
American proletariat, nothing sepa-
rates us, and everything unites us!
Our Latin Americanism is deter
mined by the fact that all the work
ers and peasants of Latin America
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ton with regard to the condemnation
OF Comrade Thaelmann in a stu
alton which is very difficult for the
Party, as the Party is in the midst
of a broad campaign against the
Armed Cruiser social democrats,
without having attempted to submit
this resolution previously to the E.
G. c. l. and the active Party func-
tionaries, and finally without taking
into account how the Party rflem-
bers would react to such a step on
the part of the G. C. The Presidium
of the e. C. G. I. is of the opinion
that the G.. C. of the C. P. of Ger
many has thereby committed very
serious mistake, which offered the
class enemies of the proletariat the
possibility to undermine the cam
paign of the C. P. of Germany
against the social democracy on the
occasion of the construction of the
armored cruiser by a campaign of
calumnies against Comrade Thael-
mann, against the c. P. of Germany
and against the Comintern and to
weaken the position of the proleta-,
riat in it's struggle against imperial
ism.
Such a big mistake was only pos
sible because the majority of the
members of the c. c., who were
not sufficiently informed, allowed
themselves without due reflection,
to be led astray by the political OPP
ponents within the C.. C. Instead of
focusing their attention, in the
spirit of the decisions of the vi
World Congress, upon the fight
against the Right danger and the
conciliatory tendencies towards these
Right dangers within the Party,
these comrades made use Of the
Wittdorf case in their fractional
group fight against Comrade Thael-
mann, one of the chief representa-
tives of the line of the vi World
Congress. At the same time they
endeavored to bring about change
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tionary movement among the work.
ers of the United States is not as
powerful as could be desired. Yet
it is also true that there exists al
ready a considerable nucleus of
class conscious workers who fight
heroically against their own bour-
geoisie and for the notification of
the world proletariat.
U. S. Workers Also Exploited.
The backwardness of the trade
union movement is due in great
part, and this may possibly be the
decisive factor, to the perfect and
brutal methods of fighting that the
most powerful bourgeoisie in the
world uses against its working class.
North America is known as the
country of the electric chair, as the
country where, with no exaggera-
ton on our part, strike movements
are suffocated with machine gun
fire and even with asphyxiating
gas!
Added to this is the division the
Yankee capitalists introduce among
the workers, creating category
more privileged than the others,
binding them in a certain degree, as
participants in the profits of the
undertakings. But it is clear that
these privileged elements are only
small minority. The others, max
ing up millions, are as exploited and
suffer as much as their brothers of
other lands.
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Pan-American Workers Common Interest

are oppressed by the same imperial
ism and because, also, they have an
affinity of language.
The conference has been able to
demonstrate that the title, Latin
American Trade Union Confedera-
ton" is, for the present, more popu-
lar and comprehensive for the
workers than "Pan American Con-
federation" because it accents, from
the beginning, the exact anti-im-
perialist character of our aims.
T. U. E. L. Represented.
These objective conditions, con-
crete and historically imposed, makes
US believe that as a form of or
ganization for the present, in Latin
American Confederation, but which
will surely advance toward a Pan
American Confederation and more
(why not?) toward the supreme
ideal of the oppressed, a World
Trade Union Confederation.
In our conference were represen-
tatives of the North American
workers from the fighting Trade
Union Educational League of the
United States; our committee is in
permanent relations with it, and they
will come, we have no doubt, to our
great Trade Union Assembly of
Montevideo, from where will issue
the organization of the workers that
will carry on a fight to the death
against the magnates of Wall Street,
extending, at the same time, its fra
ternal hand to the exploited and op-
pressed workers of the United
States.
No pessimism, then! More con-
fidence in the North American
working class, effective solidarity,
joint action! These are the guaran-
tees of triumph.
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will be conducted by this section
every Sunday evening, beginning
this Sunday, Nov. IS, with M. ].
Olgin lecturing on problems Fa-
cling the American Labor Move
ment."
Within few weeks a "Funda-
mentals of Communism" course will
begin in Negro Harlem, especially
for the Negro workers living in
that neighborhood. In addition, the
Workers School has organized Eng
fish classes in cooperation with the
various Women's Councils, with va
rlous foreign-language- speaking
workers clubs, with trade union To-
calls, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
Importing Socialist" Scabs

To those aware of the socialist party's long
record of perfidy, duplicity gangsterism and
every form of treachery against the work
ing class the exposure of the Italian socialist
daily III Nuovo Mundo" as scab-herding
institution is no surprise. The arguments
presented for its scabbery are unique. The
management of the publication wanted to
cut wages in the composing room. Devious
methods were used to achieve its aim, but the
workers refused to violate union rules or the
wage scale. Hence the socialist" manage
ment deliberately violated the union agree
ment by discharging a man without observ-
ance of the union procedure, which stipu1ates
that workers in union composing rooms can
be discharged only on certain well-defined
grounds.
The result was a strike or lockout, depend
ing upon the Interpretation of the dispute.
Anyway the men are out on the street and
the socialist" management is importing so
cialist'' scabs from Buffalo and other points
who will work for less than the union scale.
The socialist paper tried to conceal it's
fight against the union by claiming that the
discharged worker was a fascist sympathizer
and accusing the membership and officials of
I Typographical Union No. 261 of shielding
fascists.
In fact it would be difficult to distinguish
the actions of the so-called socialists in
charge of the paper from the familiar fascist
attacks against the working class.
The facts in the case are that the dis
charged man worked on the paper for more
than three years and was one time suspected
by his co-workers of fascist tendencies. An
investigation exonerated him and he con-
tinued working there until the management
wanted to replace the union crew with
bunch of scabs that would work below the
scale, work without extra pay for overtime
and on Sundays and legal holidays. The work.
ers loyal to their union, refused to become
scabs at the demand of the yellow socialist
partyite management.
Not only does this Italian socialist sheet
import scabs, but it has the audacity to refer
to such miserable rats as heroes just as
Mussolini in Italy refers to his fascist bandits
as Heroes"
Mussolini claims fascism saved Italy; the
socialist leaders claim scabbery will save
III Nuovo Mundo." There is some truth in
the parallel. The fascsts saved Italy for
capitalism. The socialist" scabs try to save
I'll Nuovo Mundo" for capitalism The
fascists saved Italy from workers victory
from Bolshevism. The scabs try to save I'll
Nuovo Mundo" from trade union conditions.
While pretending to fight fascism, the
Italian socialist" publication in reality en-
braces some of the most vicious features of
fascism.
Surely Rosa Luxembourg was right when
she referred to such enemies of the labor
movement as Shrinking carbon"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
N. Y. Workers School Branches Out

With the Central School now in
full swing, the Workers School is
beginning to open branches in the
various sections of the city as we'll
as in the New Jersey cities for those
that find it inconvenient to come to
the Central School, located at 1928
Union Square.
One of the largest branches of
the Workers School this year will
be the Brownsville Branch, situated
at 1874 Watkins ST., Brooklyn. The
fall term of this branch will begin
Monday, Nov. &c. Among the
courses scheduled to be given are
fundamentals of Communism"
Victor Cibulsky, instructor, Mon
Gays from s to p. M; History of
the United States" Jim Cork, in
structor. Mondays from 9 to 10 p.
M: elementary English, Tuesday
arid Thursday from s to 8 p. M; in
tel mediate English, Tuesday and
tn p-sdny from 8 to 10 p. M; pub
lie Speaking," the night to be ar
rad red with the students. In addi-
81 y an Open Forum will be held
The Brownsville Branch of the
kcrs School every Sunday eve-
at $3.50. Registration is now
2 on at 15A Watkins St., Brook
every evening from 7 to 10.
Branches Start Glasses.
he Cooperative Branch of the
kers School has already started
raj Of it's classes and will be-
4 few more within the next
weeks. Five English classes
how going on, with Sonya Gins
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IN the Party leadership and in this
way to prevent the carrying through
IN the c. P. of Germany of the
political course adopted by the vi
World Congress of the c. I. CA Grass
example of fractional attitude was
offered by the action of Comrade
Hansen, the representative of the
Right, and partly by Comrade Ger
hard at the Plenary meeting of the
G. c. of September 26.)
Proceeding from this situation.
and in view of the fact that most
OF the members of the C. C. of the
G. P. of Germany already recognized
the full seriousness of the error
committed by the C. c., the Presi-
dunn of the E. c. C. l. considers it
necessary to propose to the C. C.
OF the c. P. of Germany the follow
ing: The meaning of this decision
OF the Presidium of the E. C. C. I.
is to be made clear to all the mem
bers of the Party, but without per-
uniting an aggravation of the inner
Party relations,
The Presidium of the E. C. C. 1.
therefore proposes to the C. C. of
the c. P. of Germany:
That it adopt measures in order
to liquidate all fractional groups in
the Party and to attract all the
best forces of the Party who adhere
to the decisions of the Comintern
and of the Essen Party Congress
to responsible Patchwork;
That it make certain changes in
the composition of the leading or
gans of the c. c. (Pol-Bureau, Sec
retariat, reduction of the "Rote
Fahne"); these changes, however, to
be made within the limits of neces-
sity in order to establish gr-- .antees
against the possibility Of the adop-
ton of such decisions as are harm
full to the Party.
The Presidium Of the E. C. G. I.
states that the C. c. Of the C. P.
of Germany, with Comrade Thael-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17

burgh, Sonia Walday and Sylvia
Daniels as the instructors. It's
classes in elementary, intermediate
and advanced English are being
given On Monday and Wednesday
evenings and on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings, the course in
Public Speaking with V. |. Jerome
as the instructor will begin this
Sunday, Nov. IS, at 1920 a. M, the
course to be given on IL consecutive
Sunday mornings. In the following
week courses in the fundamentals
Of the Class Struggle" will start
with S. Milgrom as the instructor.
Later on classes in other subjects
will be organized. All comrades
living in the United Workers Co.
operative houses or in the Bronx
territory neighboring in that vicin-
ity, who are interested in the study
Of the working class movement or
in learning English, should register
without delay at the office of the
Cooperative branch of the Workers
School, located at 2700 Bronx Park
East.
Preparations are now being made
to start branch of the Workers
School in the upper Bronx section,
With headquarters at 1880 Wilkins
Ave-, Bronx, classes to begin the
first week of December. There will
be classes in elementary English,
one in intermediate English, class
in history and class in the Fun
damentals of Communism. Vera
Bush will be the instructor in this
last named course. An Open Forum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
Force Labor Fakers'
Hands in Organizing
the Timber Workers

LA GRANDE, Ore, (By Mall. -
Militants in the Oregon labor move
ment have forced the state fedora
ton of misleaders to make gesture
at organizing the timbers workers.
The misleaders have long been
charged with conniving with the
lumber bosses in the organization of
company unions.
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Decision of the Presidium Of the
E. c. c. on the Request of the
Vassilkov-T urjanski Group
for Readmittance.

Vassilkov-Turjanski Group
for Readmittance.
adopted September &c, 1929
The Presidium of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter
national, which on behalf of the
Executive Committee of the Comm
tern dealt with the request for re-
admittance, addressed to the vi
Congress of the Comintern, of the
Vassilkov-Turjanski Group, expelled
from the Comintern by the Ninth
Plenum of the E. C. C. l., which
group designates itself the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of Western Ukraine" states that
this request for readmittance has
been submitted by people who broke
with the Comintern seven months
ago, and who since then have con-
Quoted an anti-Soviet campaign I'M
der the fascist dictatorship of Pill
sudski, have allied themselves with
the international Trotskyist Oppose
ton and have attempted by all
means to undermine the confidence
of the Ukrainian toiling masses in
the Soviet Union and in the Soviet
Ukraine, in the Polish working class
and its leader the G. P. of Poland,
and thereby actually have played the
role of agents of fascism.
The Presidium of the E. C. C. I.
states that the declaration submitted
by the Vassilkov group, upon whom
the whole Party and the toiling
masses of Western Ukraine have
turned their back, does not contain
the least trace of an abandonment
of such a Party splitting and anti
Soviet activity, be it even in the
acknowledgement of the errors
committed. The Presidium of the
E. C. C. I. has no reason to consider
the request for readmittance of the
Vassilkov group other than as a
manoeuvre on the part of cunning
political intriguers, who in the past
year solemnly condemned four times
the nationalist deviations of the
small Schamski group of the c. P.
of Ukraine and afterwards adopted
these deviations as their political
slogans, who adopted dozens Of re-
solutions against Trotskyism and
after their expulsion from the Com
intern have allied themselves with
the Trotskyist Opposition.
The Presidium of the E. C. C. I.
can have no confidence in the asser-
tions of the Vassilkov group regard
ing their fundamental agreement
with the policy of the c. P. S. U.
and the C. P. of Ukraine. The E. G.
C. l. possesses letters Of Vassilkov
to Canadian comrades which prove
the contrary.
The Presidium of the E. C. C. /.
has no reason to trust the promises
of the Vassilkov group that they will
submit to all decisions of the c. l.,
as long as this group, in spite of
the decision of the Comintern re-
garding their expulsion, continues
to exist as an organization which
hides behind Communist flags and
fights against the C. P. of Poland
and the c. P. of Western Ukraine.
In view of all these circumstances
the Presidium Of the E. G.. C. l.
decides to reject the request for re-,
admittance of the Vassilkov group. I
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sHALE PRODUCTION GROWS

TORONTO (By MaiD Recent
notifications in refining methods
have increased the production of oil
shale in the maritime provinces.
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Arkansas Bars the Dictionary

In the state of Senator Robinson, late can
didate for vice-president on the democratic
ticket with Al Smith, use of the dictionary
in public schools is prohibited by law. The
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New Britain herald., 1928-12-14
WORK AND SPEND
 SAYS HENRY FORD
On Way to White House Dinner
 Gives Youth Advice

Washington, Dec. 14 R Henry Ford's advice to youth is to work and spend.
 On his way to a White House dinner last night, he stopped long enough to give this bit of counsel. In so doing he ran somewhat coun- ter to an old maxim, and one gen orally regarded by most as the laws of the Modes and Persians: Work and save.
 You often hear advice given to young boys that to succeed they must work and save their money.' Mr. Ford said. This is partly wrong. No successful boy ever saved any money. They spent it as fast as they could for things to i'm prove themselves.
 As case in point, he mentioned Thomas Edison as never having had any money until he got so much he couldn't spend it"
 Whatever his attitude toward say ing, Mr. Ford believes in work.
 Must Work
 'Instill in the minds of the young men that they will never get any where without work" he said. T never knew a young man that was worth five cents that wouldn't work and even occasionally get into trou- be in his efforts to learn.
 When l was a young fellow" he continued, '1 got kicked out of about as many shops as ] was welcomed to-" He explained that in his effort to learn about machinery he would slip into machine shops whenever possible and watch their operations.
 Another requisite to advancing in the world is becoming a teacher. MT Ford believes. He recalled that both ! he and Edison in working out their plans, had to teach others to mako almost every piece of machinery l they needed.
 Mir Ford said the museum he is | building near the Ford airport at Dearborn. Michigan, was in reality a school with the purpose of making young men efficient in some particu- | lar art. and told of one of his latest acquisitions, an early printing press
New Britain herald., 1928-12-14

she remained overnight. The fol- lowing day she returned to Lorain
 Repeats Story
 Mrs. Heldman. the pretty dark haired ribbon clerk who had been out of high school just a title more than two years, repeated the story over and over again while her hus- band hurried on to Canton to sur render her to Sheriff Gibson.
 Then as they neared the northern limits of the city she acted with the same suddenness that characterized the shooting of Fearn. Apparently from the same black bag that she carried to the Fearn home she drew an automatic and fired one shot into her body. It was the same gun that had taken the life of the coal operator.
 Heldman raced for the sheriffs office and found Gibson in. The wounded girl was taken immediate ly to Mercy hospital but she was found to be dead on arriving there. ittdi iiOu to tHe SItIlIl ; office and he made complete state ment of all his wife had told him.
 Averts Arrest
 Mrs. Heldman's death probably averted an impending arrest for Sheriff Gibson later revealed that he had learned of her relations with Fearn and had planned to go to Lorain to question Ter. Mrs. Held man was graduated from high school at Dubois, Pa, in 1928 and the following year she came to Canton. She was working at a rib bon counter in a department store here when her husband met her.
 Their married life was serene un- til March of this year when they had their first serious quarrel Heldman said. They separated at that time but were reconciled few weeks later. In July son Was born to them. When they again the child was awarded to the children's bureau here and is still in the custody of that agency.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-14

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