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fast the first few days. Over Ice packs and
hard snow the trail led, until ON the evening
Of the third day they reached the village Of
Kooglooktook q collection Of i've igioos where
Lived 10 Eskimos with their dogs.
The travellers made igloos, assisted by the
entire male population Of the place. while the
women looked on after lighting the native oil
lamps. Inspector Wilcox found the village ex-
ceptionally prosperous. There was on hand
enough caribou and seal meat as wen Is sal-
mon. to last for many months. AL but one
person were IN the best Of health, and even
this woman was cured before the party went
on its way several days later. with new sup
ply Of 200 pounds Of seal oil from seals they
had = chance to hunt while at the village.
THERE are always dogs in an Eskimo village.
- They are the beasts Of burden. But even
Inspector wilcox, accustomed 40 he was to
dogs did not know there were 30 many tin
one night, just before midnight, he was awak-
ened by sounds Of q dog fight
Crawling out Of his igloo Is quickly as pos
sible he and the men In the party found that
their small supply house had been raided.
pack Of at least 300 dogs were fighting over
the spoils Of the small igloo where the supplies
Of the travellers had been kept.
All the luxuries Of the Arctic that the in.
spector had brought with him as trading stores
to the village were wiped out. Sugar. candy.
tobacco tea, coffee molasses and coal oil. it had
all been destroyed. These are articles which
have to come from civilization, therefore very
valuable in the North, not only to the white
man. but now also to the native who has become
accustomed to them.
Often on these trips the inspector is called
upon to act as q doctor. In the Arctic every
offcer must be ready to give all the medical
assistance he can. And Inspector Wilcox gets
considerable call on his services. In fact he
often humorously refers to himself as "a fine
doctor" to his friends and his prescription Is
usually "a cup Of tea, little laxative coupled
with lot Of faith"
It seems to work. for one day he was hur-
riedly summoned by q native who rushed into
the barracks at Pond Inlet with the message
that two tribes were sick
The inspector Immediately prepared With .
team of IA dogs he was soon on his way ar.
irving at the first encampment two days later.
They were natives who were on their way back
to their village at Igloolik, after trading at
Pond Inlet. There were IS sick In the en-
campment with some form Of influenza. The
inspector gives q vivid picture Of this in his
oficial report.
Conditions were pittful in the extreme.
Conffn1teA An (pUeNteenfb PSI
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Nth Nearly a Quarter Century Of Ser0ice in
.Canada's Crack Police Organization,
Inspector C.. E. Wilcox Has to His Credit q
Remarkable Record for Getting His Man
mOm-of-the-Way Cmueryof theDominiou.

His job in the far North was to keep in touch
with all the officers in the region. Eleven
policemen spread over this territory were under
his orders He was the supreme potentate of
the Eastern Arctic after the Canadian govern
ment steamship Arctic had dropped him at
Craig Harbor on Ellesmereland, his Winter
headquarters.
THERE are many things to do In the Arctic
now that the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police have charge Of It Not only must the
natives be visited and helped If hunting Is bad,
statistics made Of the number of ESkimos in
the district, exploratory patrols made but FORE
most comes the work Of justice and the en-
forcement Of the law, the work for which the
mounties are most famous.
In 1921, the year before Inspector Wilcox ar
river in the Eastern Artic. three murders had
taken place at the little Eskimo village of XVII
too at Home Bay, on the eastern short of Bafin
Island. Three years later Inspector Wilcox had
solved them all.
The Sabellum Trading Co., q company of fur
traders, have o store ut this village In 1921
and the Winter Of 1921-1922 their manager
was o native, Neakoteah. His was q position
of prominence in the little settlement Of 80
souls.
Neakoteah was the leading citizen, for he
was the white mans representative. He took
his position too seriously however, and read
the Eskimo Bible too much. The result was
that he claimed himself to be Almighty God.
His viii had to be obeyed. His fellow towns
men thought that he was slightly deranged.
Yet so strong was his power over them that
they followed his every word
NEAKoTEAHS reign of terror was short
lived. II began with his fantastic inter-
pretations Of the Bible. He Influenced the VIII
layers to such an extent that they followed
him blindly. In fact they claimed not to be
able to remember the sequence of events when
Inspector wilcox made his investigations during
the two years he was up North.
They knew only that at Neakoteahs conn
mand two men had been killed. One, o blind
man whom Neakoteah had been unable to make
see again, and the other . native who had been
stabbed and left naked 10 freeze to death.
There was one man in the village who could
not be dominated By the religious fanatic He
was the strongest minded member Of the COM
munity He shot Neakoteah when one day he
caught him IN his igloo about to crash in the
head Of . woman With o hammer.
Two winters were spent IN solving this crime.
Two winters which meant long patrols and
questioning Of many natives throughout the
region. for news travels fast in the North and
other natives might have straighter facts about
the case than the villagers themselves.
Finally IN the Winter Of 1873 1924 Inspector
Wilcox deemed the affair fairly thrashed out
He advocated that due to the peculiar circum-
stances Ktdlappik, who had shot the mailman,
and the two policemen" employed by the
fanatic to carry out his killings should be &C
quilted. He warned the natives ct the same
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THEN came the war. and with IL . new job
for the mounted police, who were still the
police Of the western provinces. Aliens living
in Canada had to be sought out and registered.
Sedition was preached by some. others decided
10 be loyal to their adopted land
Sergt Maj. wilcox. then stationed at Leth-
bridge, Alberta, was put In charge OF the work
for the district. To him each registered alien
had to report once . month. To him fell the
task Of getting after deiinquents.
It was tedious, uninteresting work for the
man who had his eye on the new districts being
opened up. but the meuntie cannot choose.
But chance finally was afforded him. He
was given an opportunity to see the Arctic and
the sub-Arctic. He sailed Is . lieutenant In
the special division Of the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police which was sent to Siberia In
the latter days Of the Great War.
There he had his first touch with the cold
climate In which he was to spend six years
later on. He came back In 1919 and was pro-
NOTED to the rank Of inspector. One step
nearer to the Arctic. Montreal was his head
quarters for year. Then he set sail to take
command Of the newly formed Eastern Arctic
sub-district. stretching from the Hudson Straits
to the North Pole.
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BY JAMES. MONTACNES.

- BIG. broad-shouldered. wind-tough-
N ened Irishman sits in the Office of
~ the inspector Of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police at Swift Current,
=. - GaStatchamaa Loco than Inn .,ailac
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Confirmed on Seventeenth Pr--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19

while I was a member of the I. w.
w. and for the reason l have been
affected with Opposition tendencies.
When a resolution was presented,
which protested against statements
Of Foster that the Right danger is
the main danger and the Gee a
Right wing Geo, as an individual |
took the Opposition.
Then | met Khanaeff who came
from District IS, he showed me two
underground documents signed For
jack, which Khanaeff claimed was
the statement of the Minority as to
fake unity and suppressive measures
that the Majority was supposed to
be guilty of.
Khanaeff informed me that he
had the Caucasian comrades 80 per
cent for the Opposition. That all
outside units except Seattle in Dis
trict IL, was uncertain to be Oppo-
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made by comrades, they were only
Poll parroting Khanaeff.
I felt that if l had not taken the
initiative in the Opposition that it
would not have materialized in Seat
tie, | furthermore assume most of
the responsibility of giving objec-
tive support to Trotskyism as a
Minority oppositionist, I furthermore
repudiate any statements which l
was responsible for making through
underground channels, which might
be used against our executive. l &C
cept the decisions of the CT and the
Majority of the Gee without reser-
vations.
I furthermore claim that Foster,
Bittelman and Aronberg are giving
objective support to Trotskyism,
therefore, if l have done the Party
injury, l hold you responsible for
my actions.
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Kansas City Railroad Shop
Calls for GEO SubbOyt

In addition to this, there is the
weakness organizationally of the
Party. Hence many comrades capt.
tulate before these difficulties and
give up all hope and attempt for a
successful struggle.
The Party, therefore, in order to
maintain its position as a section of
the Communist International and as
sure revolutionary guidance and
leadership to the workers of Amer
lea, must rid itself of tendencies
that smack of opportunism (open)
and Trotskyism (hidden). 1t is
therefore urgent that all the Com
munist elements should unite behind
the Central Executive Committee of
our Party and struggle unitedly
against elements that tend to under
mine the class struggle. The exis-
tence of an Opposition to the Gee
within the Party makes very diff
cult and has already hindered the
struggle against the Right and
Trotsky dangers.
While the Geo and the whole
Party committed number of Right
errors, it is absolutely criminal for
the Opposition to utilize these err
rors as platform for struggle
against the Gee. First, because the
Geo, in spite of its errors, has shown
that it is capable of leading the
Party in active revolutionary strug-
giles, and secondly, the Opposition is
equally, and, in many instances to
a greater degree, responsible for the
commission of Right errors. We
call upon all Party members, and
particularly those who support the
Bittelman Opposition, to cease all
factionalism and unite behind the
Gee. At the same time we demand
that in the interests of the struggle
against the Right and Trotsky
dangers, that the demand of the
ECCI that the principle of proletari-
anizing the Party and the drawing
in of the proletarians from the basic
industries into the Party leadership
be carried out not only nationally
but locally as well.
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ton of the district political leaders
on the correct line and work of the
Party. The district bureau will have
a better chance for correct orienta-
ton by meeting at least once a
month. That will put the district
bureau automatically above the
DEC politically, carrying the line
down to the secretariat.
This secretariat, which in reality
must be the agents of the DEC and
the district bureau will have to as
sumo the political Leadership in be-
tween meetings of the district bur-
eau (every monthly and DEC meet
ings (every four months). Again
we find the third body of the district
almost at the top of the political
guidance of the district.
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was very close to the Gee and the
CT, if / remember correctly, the rea-
son of his confidence in me was,
that previously he aired out my
Opposition tendencies.
After Khanaeff went back to
California l received an invitation
through Minnie Granville, to attend
caucus at Comrade Burkes' ho1se.
We only discuc-od about the inves-
tigation of Comrade Burkes' house
by the Party Committee. 1 attended
two other caucus meetings at Com
rade FORESTS house.
At one meeting Comrade Price
and myself and Forrest, his wife
attended. We discussed the ques-
aion of getting contact with outside
units. At second meetings Caucus
Comrade Forrest, myself and Min.
ME Grenville attended. Forrest in
formed me that Fisherman had de-
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rights as leading bodies in their
territory, because it is the political
leader of the given territory, but we
do not see the direct link of the
section committee and the other
leading organs of the district. Up
to now the section organizer would
be a member of the Organization
Department and all other matters
were subject to communication. No
leading body will ever be political
leader if it is not part and parcel
of the political leadership. There
fore, the section organizer or the
secretary of the Section Executive
Committee must be a member of the
d. E. c. That will establish direct
and more correct Party leadership
within the various sections of the
district, particularly in the sections
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sition and that District II, Execu-
tive, were bankrupt and the DO was
receiving $4,000 a week, the. sub-dis.
org. $50 per month, YWL org. $4,000
per week, the YWL sub-dist. org.
$4,000 per month and two others
who worked in the office were re-
ceiving pay. TIL the CT represen-
tative stated that the Party was
dominated by a bunch of Jews. I
personally objected to his last two
assertions. Therefore he did not at
tempt to talk further on those ques-
tions. l was invited by Khanaeff
on three different occasions to at
tend caucus, / could not attend
as I was busy on committee work.
He, Khanaeff told me that there
was some opposition to me coming
to the caucus as I was not reliable.
I think Lipp, was mentioned.
Khanaeff informed me that he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
British Imperialism
Starting 5000 Miles
Plane Route to India

LONDON, (By Mail).-As part
of British imperialist plans to hold
India against revolt or attack dur
ing the coming world war, the I'M
perial Always has announced to-
day 5000 mile regularly weekly
air service between Croydon air sta
ton, England, and Karachi, India.
Planes leave England Saturday, and
their passengers arrive in India
Friday morning.
By Plane and Train.
The beginning will be by triple
screw Armstrong Siddelet air liners,
from Croydon to Basic, Switzerland.
From this point the service will be
by express to Genoa, Italy, from
where Short-Jupiter flying boats
will operate to Egypt. The last
stage of the journey, from Cairo to
India, will be by. triple-screw De
Haviland-Jupiter air liners, which
have been operated on the Cairo
Basra route for the past two years.
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At present we have a situation
where leading bodies in the district
meet once in many months, and we
must not make this a regular prac-
tice. The Communist activity of the
rank and file is much dependent upon
the political leadership and guidance
of the DEC.
No Bureaucracy.
Let US be frank. / base my ar
gument on the provision of the
Draft Thesis which says mo less
than three times during the year"
or ''at least once a month" because
leading functionaries and organizers
have made a practice of such pro-
visions and will furnish the root
for the future unless we radically
change it into live movement.
On Section II, Democratic Cen
tarlism and Party Discipline.
Article A must not have bureau
cracy injected into it. Superior
ity" is not a Bolshevik spirit. A
Bolshevik must know the correctness
of the activities of his own commit
tees and the committees the other
comrades are engaged in. But, by
no means should we establish SUI
perior committees with superior of
ficers as the heads of the commit
tees, to be so understood and even
tually so regarded.
If a committee is classified a
. superior, then the head of the com
r mittee is a superior one. On thi
:, basis there is a danger that tn
= work of the comrades will be guide
e by the fear of the superior office
:, rather than by his own conscious
Y ness as a Communist.
For instance, in my District, NJ
: 3, the calls for activity for the las
0 period are supplemented by the L
S o. with threats of discipline. No dis
t cipline as an everyday measur
must be introduced within our Part
n and no superiority should be give
e to any one to enable them to exel
t else superiority. Instead, our con
i rades should be educated to the dr
d ties of their own Party. The Bo
shevization of our comrades shoul
Y activize the elements of our Part,
! Many, and very many, of our con
II rades have a weak conception {
Bolshevik theology and Bolshevi
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clared himself for the Minority. We
discussed ways and means to OBJ
tain contact and other matters per-
tanning to District II and then
dump Fisherman overheard by call
ing a caucus the next night without
him. By this time was becoming
rather uneasy about where we of
the Opposition would end up ct.
The third caucus we held was
composed of Fisherman, myself,
Price, Forrest, Burke and Minnie
Grenville. It was decided that Burke
and myself would attend the Party
discussion meeting the next day,
while Price, Forrest, Fisherman
would draw up contact with other
units, and prepare a resolution
After that I did not attend any
other caucus as l was getting dis
gusted. On one other occasion,
met Fisherman, on the skid road
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19

The railroad shop nucleus of
Kansas City, after thorough dis
cussion of the tasks and problems
confronting the Party, adopted at
its meeting of January 10th, the fol-
lowing resolution:
In the present existing world con-
ditions, the Communist Party in
America has great duty to per-
form: The need of organizing the
workers against the ruthless exploit
tation of the broad masses of the
American workers. The Party must
become the leader in organizing the
workers against the economic ex-
ploitation which appears in the form
of naturalization of industry, wage
cuts, speed-up, etc. The organiza-
ton of and the struggle for the
Negro masses must become the most
important task of the Party.
While the Party nationally has
passed the stage of being propa-
ganda society and has entered into
active leadership of the American
workers, yet in District 10 the
Party is still in its embryonic stages
The coming district and national
conventions must result in laying
the basis for the development OF
the Party as leader of the class
struggle in District 10.
The objective conditions in this
district are favorable for such g
development. The industrializatior
going on in the territory of the dis
trict, the crisis in the coal and iror
mines, the growing exploitation ii
the packing, railroad, and other in
dustries, ETC., are all conditions that
must be utilized for the building Of
the Party and the development Of
the class struggle.
The Right and Trotsky dangers
are serious menaces to the Party a:
WHOLE, and most seri is in Dis
trict 10. The objective conditions
are such as to give rise to pessimisn
within the ranks of the Party. Will
industrialization draws in new force
into the cycle Of capitalist exploita
ton, at the same time it develop
reformist illusions and pessimisn
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outside of the city in which the Dis
trict Office is located.
The schedule for meetings of the
leading organs leaves the old fea-
lures of frequency of the meeting de-
pendent largely on the local condi-
tons. This is one particular fea-
ture we have to do away with, be-
cause there are always local condi-
tons for leading bodies within a
district. Another one: the more i'm
portant the leading body (1-DEC;
2-District Bureau; 3-Secretariat)
the less they meet, especially in this
given period when we have to raise
the political and Party level of our
rank and file Including also some
functionaries). By reducing the
number of meetings of the DEC, we
reduce the possibilities of orienta.
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Discussion OF Draft Thesis on Organization

A. DEC to meet right after Gee
Plenum meetings.
5. DEC Plenum to have Gee rep
resentative.
6. District bureau to meet once
in two weeks.
7. Secretariat to meet once
week.
''Too Many Meetings"
Within my own district I person
ally happened to meet with resist
ance to ''too many meetings" This
resistance to too many meetings"
was upheld by the leading bodies and
district organizer. At the time of
the election campaign, l proposed,
as section organizer, that units meet
during the two months of the cam
paign every week instead of every
two weeks, the same to apply to
committees. This was not carried
out. The result was poor organiza-
tional contact with the membership,
less opportunity to discuss our cleo
ton program, insufficient orienta-
ton on the political significance OF
conducting the election campaign.
This is one of the many instances
of the too many meetings policy.
The too many meetings feature
has become a bad thing in our Party
Comrades really do have too many
meetings-in the clubs, benevolen
associations, singing societies, edu
cational organizations, but not TO
the Party unit meetings and activity
: Many comrades have made up thei
minds that as members of the Party
!, they are already politically, organi
nationally, etc., graduates for tn
field work of the Party. Naturally
, why waste time in the unit? The
faithfully attend the union, club, eli
Gle meetings, ETC., and lead the poll
cies and activities upside down. n
i activity within the organization
of any use without our COmmunis
orieRtatiOn.
Our Party will never benefit fro1
: these too many meetings unless tn
comrades begin to realize the
o Party meetings are the first cond
! ton for Communist orientation an
Bolshevik activity.
Very dangerous for the Part
e would be the application of resis
t ance to too many meetings to OF
r leading bodies.
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organization, and the introduction
of superiority may determine and
limit their status of usefulness for
the work of our cause.
There is another danger. Many
comrades entrusted with leading po-
sitions in the various committees do
not always have the leading quail
ties as superiors and this may bring
a good deal of misunderstanding
and difficulties in the Bolshevization
of our Party, because they will not
know how to exercise it and the
rank and file are not yet Bolshe-
vized.
Turnover.
On the problem of "Why does
not the Party hold the member
ship?" (only about one-third of the
applicants remain in our Party. !
think this problem should not be
hard to solve. We will have to es-
tablish revolutionary training
schools for candidates" before they
are accepted within the Party.
Under our present system, one
who is radically inclined or has sup
ported our movement, signing an APP
plication card, becomes full-fledged
member of our Party. Many of
these elements have never been pre-
pared for a Bolshevik Party. The
biggest part of that raw material
falls down thru lack of understand
ing of the duties and demands of
the Party. They drop out. The big
gest part of those remaining have
: to go thru a self education school.
In many cases the Education is
5 not complete and thoro. That leaves
us undeveloped elements among
5 good and willing comrades.
Great improvement must be made
/ in this matter. We must establish
probationary period and training
school for candidates in every dis
trict or section. For instance, pc
}. Rod of six months. During that
t period, they should get Commu-
}. mist education politically and in
: Bolshevik organization. For this pc
e riod they should be given work in
Y the field of activity of our Party
n and the Left movement under the
: supervision and guidance of Party
! instructors. The candidates must bt
/ taught and trained in this period il
l. the duties and obligations of a Com
d munist to his Party. A period o
7. Party education for candidates viii
l. undoubtedly bring good results t.
# the end of making our Party
k mass Party.