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Pittsburgh Co-Eds
 Make Student Loans

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 7- Dances and theatre parties pro- vide funds which women students of the University of Pittsburgh loan to worthy and needy students.
 The loan organization, which makes money available at two per cent interest year to self-sup- porting students. of both sexes, is operated by the students loan committee of the Women's Self Government association.
 Loans not exceeding $50 a se- mester are granted to students Good character and high scholas- tic standing are the chief requi- sites of a borrower.
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SNOW SLIDE SUNDAY

A large snow slide on Mi Ju- neau took place Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The staccato report, very. much like that of 9 pistol shot, was heard by a num- Der of people in Juneau and thege were several fortunate enough to witness the slide itself as it came crashing down on the Basin road and vicinity.
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BANANA ORIGIN UNKNOWN

NEW YORK.-All known varie- ties of bananas are seedless, says a report from the New York Bo- tanical Gardens. This is consid- cred surprising, for all were de- veloped by savage peoples ''in the dim past, during the infancy of the human race" No record was left of their origin or birth- place to explain how they evolved from the rule of fruits and flow CTS to reproduce from seeds.
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All Records of Heavier than Air Machines
 Have Been Broken
PLANE ENDED 144
 HOURS THIS A. M.
Motors Missed, Spark Plugs Fouled Saturday
 Night-All o. K. Now
BULLETIN - LOS ANGE- LES, Jan. 7.-The Question Mark was forced down on the airport field here at 2:12 o'clock this afternoon.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 7.- Man and machine are still pitted against gravity as the A r m y plane Question Mark entered the seventh day of the flight this morning.
 There are no more records left to break and it flew to the watchword of Sail on and on. |"
 Apparently in perfect cond,- ten, the plane ended IA hours of flight at 7;26 o'clock this morning.
 Motors at Best
 Observers reported the D n e consumed minimum -e'escli~ dur ing the nighl +he motors are po9
 best Reports a -.-,.1. of the five men -s.,ofrd the plane are that they are as fit as the plane They declared the longer they remained up the better they liked it. Over the weekend they eo2fandea-against r4issing .a>sswla plugs, cold. difficult refueling situations and lack of sleep but these seemed to have vanished today.
 Close to Home Port
 The plane continues to hover. close to the home port. In order to keep records it makes, the plane must land at the scene of the take-off in order to make them official.
 The plane passed all previous endurance records of a heavier than-air machine when yesterday it cut through the air longer than ever the longest dirigible tour
 The plane Sunday doubled the previous record for endurance set by airplanes.
 Trouble Saturday Night
 Perils of motor trouble and promise of defeat with the crew every minute waiting and ex- pecting to glide to forced land ing, stared the men through Sat urday night.
 The Question Marks log, drop ped Sunday by Major Spatz, com manding officer, revealed a fight was waged against sputtering motors, missing cylinders and fouling spark plugs in desper- ate move to renew the life of the motors. Shortly after mid night Capt. Walker. pulled the throttles wide open hurling the plane through the air at utmost speed with a flame shooting from the exhauts. The strategy won apparently the spark plugs burn ed free of fouling and the miss ing cylinders were noticed with rejoicing to be firing again and a call was sent fer more gas.
 During the night of battle only 100 gallons were loaded at a time to ease on the load of the straining motors but yester- day afternoon when the motors were banging prettily, again a fuel load of 400 gallons were taken on.
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CARD1NAI TOSI DEAD

MILAN, ItalT, Jan 7-Car- dinal Tcsi, Archbishop of Milan, died here today He was 65 years of age. Cardinal Tosi sue ceeded the present Pope as Arch .f,saop
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"TEx" GIVEN RICHARD IN
 I HIS CITY
Nickname Given Promoter During His Residence
 in Juneau

It was at Juneau that Tex Rick ard acquired the nickname, 'sTex, that stuck to him throughout the remainder of his life. It was here that he got his first Alaska experience. It was here he met Oscar and Tom Ashby, who were his mentors during his Alaska years, developing friendship that was renewed with Oscar Ash by after the latter had transfer red his headquarters 10 New York City.
 George Riekard came to Juneau with a partner. an older man. and larger, a Texan born and bred, and with such distinguishing char acteristies in speech and manner that there was no mistaking whence he had come. Forthwith he became Tex" and George Rickard was Little Tex" AL though Rickard had lived long enough in Texas to acquire a mod flied southern accent, he was call- ed Little Tex" with emphasis on the Little" because he was the protege of the larger and older Texan.
 Spent Year Here
 Tex Rickard spent a year or so in Juneau before he went into the Yukon, before the Klondike rush, and at Circle City he worked for Oscar Ashby and. learned to deal faro and other games He went from there to Dawson with the rush and mined for a time with Oscar Ashby as the senior part ner The results of the mining were not satisfactory. however he accumulated a little money and engaged in the saloon business in Dawson. Losing all the money
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A firm of London brewers is seeking permission to have cine ma shows in four of the public houses under its control.
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A granite marker to the 20 .persons who died in a dance hall explosion at West Plains, Mo, will mark their graves,
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MOTHER NOTIFIED

SEATTLE, Jan. r.. Mrs. J. l.. Adams, aged s1, was dry-eyed when told of the death of her son, Tex Rickard. She regrets
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-07

The gilded life of a social put terfly is OUT so far as pretty Mary Anna Beckwith, Chicago deb of two years ago, is con cerned. She has given up her expensive foreign car to pound typewriter in an advertising office specializing in women'e furnishings.
 International Newsreei,
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. -----sa1- .sfe5 Hool7 tdHOV LU IITE fur farmers.
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mon iaw, ana nave Deen mouiiIeu hv mnra liharal statutes.
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mas no rignt l0 spenu nIs Nne ; |
 money.
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Spent Year Here

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
AN INSTRUCTIVE ROLL CALL.

the Party or been expelled from the
Party for Trotskyism, violation of
Party discipline or some other such
act against the Party.
Of this Central Committee, the
present Majority lost the leader of
the Party, Comrade Ruthenberg,
through death. This was the heavi-
est loss our Party has suffered to
date. The above mentioned closes"
by the Opposition, were, of course,
gains for the Party.
Of the Central Committee elected
at the 1927 Convention, the Oppose
ton had the following casualties: /.
Abern, expelled from the Party. 3
Cannon, expelled from the Party.
3.-Swabeck, expelled from the
Party. 4.-Reynolds, suspended from
the Party. 5.-Shachtman, ex-
PEELED from the Party. At the same
time every member of the Majority
Of the 1927 Central Committee has
continued at his post carrying out
the Party duties and responsibilities.
But today there is no consolidated
Right wing groups in our Party. It's
true the Opposition had given birth
to the whole galaxy of opportunists
herein enumerated. 1t was a pain
full birth indeed, but with the help
of the Central Committee and the
Comintern, the Opposition FORUM
ateIy got rid of these opportunist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
A CORRECT ESTIMATE OF THE OPPOSITION.
by JAY LOVESTONE
Continued

lie Opposition is the main, but
the only source of Right errors
'ur Party. 1t is the principal
ce of the Right danger in our
y. The Opposition has given
l to- the most notorious oppor-
SITS, to the worst incurable Right
5ers and opponents of the Com
IN line in America. Let us cite
e of the most outstanding oppor-
st, Right wing figures in the
Dry of our Party. They have all
sworn enemies of the present
trail Committee.
rst, comes the infamous Salut-
than whom there is no more
er and desperate opponent of
present leadership of our Party
of the Communist international.
was expelled from our Party
the initiative of the present
ership against the Opposition of
non and his associates.
scondly, we have the veteran
ut winger, ludwig Lore. Even
he old socialist party many of
have had numerous conflicts
/ him as an opponent of the
uine Left forces. He was once
integral part of the Opposition
ership.
hirdly, Eastman, the notorious
my of Marxism was brought into
Party by Cannon and was ex-
ed for his Trotskyist activities
7 after the present Majority took
leadership.
ourthly, the whole Cannon-Trot-
group is an offspring of the
position, particularly in it's pres
fight against the Central Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
CONVENTION DISCUSSION SECTION

the American Party? Thu Comm
tern has time and again criticized
our Party, corrected it's shortcom-
ings, cleared up certain political mis-
conceptions, set the Party correct
in the trade union field, brought pres
sure to bear for reorganization of
the Party along feminist lines, etc.
This is the duty of the Communist
international. The Communist In
ternational represents the collective,
centralized Communist will, based on
the experiences, capacities and COM
posite qualities of what is best in
all it's sections, in the various Par
Ties.
The Communist International is
the world Communist Party, with
every one Of its sections an orga tic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

mittee as Right wing. Not a single
one of the District "heroes" of the
Trotslsy group is supporter of the
Central Committee. Without excep-
ton we find as Trotskyists through
out the country, such elements as
DR.. Konikow in Boston, Maxim in
New York, Morgenstern in Phila-
delphia, Brahtin in Cleveland, Mass
and Reynolds in Detroit, Swabeck
and Giganti in Chicago, Vincent
Dune and Skoglund, ETC., in Min
neapolis, Buehler and Allard in Kan
sas, Carlson in Seattle, etc.,-all sup
porters of the Opposition, all OPP
ponents of the Central Committee.
Filthy, Askeli, Sulkanen and
company, who have been thrown out
by the Central Committee from the
leadership of the Finnish Fraction,
have been and continue to be
staunch supporters of the present
Opposition. These individuals are
plain social democrats and are now
working openly hand in glove with
the Finnish social democrats against
the Party.
Sixthly, and last but not least,
in order to have a clear estimate of
the dangerous opportunist inclina-
tons of our Opposition it must be
said that the one District which is
reeking with opportunism and which
has been guilty of more and worse
Right wing errors than any other
three Districts combined, is the Cali
fornia District, led exclusively by
Opposition supporters. The leader
ship of the California District, re-
pudiated by the last California Dis
trict Convention, which has rebelled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

Political stability and a sense of
Communist responsibility are essen
tial prerequisites for leadership in
a Communist Party. On this basis,
it is very instructive to examine
what has happened to the personnel
of the Central Committee members,
candidates and alternates as elected
in 1925 and 1927. Of the nineteen
Opposition Central Committee mem
bers and alternates in 1925, we find
the following casualties: 1.-Abern,
expelled from the Party. 2.-Can-
non, expelled from the Party. s.
Reynolds, suspended from the Party
and under consideration for expul-
sion as a Trotskyite. 4.-Schacht-
man, expelled from the Party. s.
Marley, left the Party before his
death. 6.-Swabeck, expelled from
the Party. sullivan, disappeared
from the Party and expelled, s.
O'Flaherty, expelled from the Party.
9.-Loeb, left the Party and joined
business organization and is now
affiliated with Jewish Business
Mems Association in Chicago.
Nearly the entire 1924 National
Executive Committee of the Young
Workers League, which was over
wheImingly supporting the OPPOSE
ton, is now outside the Party. With
the exception of Williamson and
Salzman, all the Opposition men,
)ers of this NEG have either left
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

jority persists in this policy of "U.
S. Exemption. 1t even defends
the Monroe Doctrine" for the
American Party.
Says Comrade Wolfe:
"The policies of the Comintern
at every stage are based upon an
analysis of the world situation
(Which tends to give a certain
correspondence in the tactics of
each Party and upon an analysis
of the concrete conditions of each
country (Which tends to give con-
crete differences in the tactics of
each Party)." The Communist,
December, 1928. (Our emphasis.)
According to Comrade Wolfe,
there is no such thing as a general
Comintern line to be applied by all
Parties, a general line which results
from an analysis of the world situa-
ton. The policies of the ComiR&ern
merely tend" to give "a certain
correspondence" to the tactics of
each Party. In short, there is no
general line, there is no general pol
icy, which is to be applied by each
section in accord with the concrete
conditions of each country. There
is only "a certain correspondence"
in the tactics of each Party. This
is Monroe Doctrine" not only for
the U. S. section, but for all sec
tions of the CT, and Comrades
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

Wolfe, Lovestone and Pepper are
the joint authors of this funny
theory.
Inevitably, from such a theory,
there flows a wrong tactical orien-
tation. 1t is due to this orientation
that the comrades of the Majority
remain blind to the general process
of rehabilitation uneven as this
rehabilitation isl which is taking
place among the American masses.
Here, again, the comrades of the
Majority run true to their wrong
conception. Rehabilitation, Left
ward drift-all this is true for
Europe, say the leaders of the Ma
jority, but in the United States
nothing doing. Indicative of this
attitude is the analysis of the re-
suits of the presidential elections
given by the Majority.
Says Comrade Pepper:
"Smith promised light wines
and beer to the masses of the
working class and was able to
swing the largest portion of the
working class votes, but substan-
tial sections of the labor aristo-
crazy went for Hoover, whom
they considered a better champion
of high tariff, prohibition of i'm
migration and prosperity" (Our
emphasis.) Daily Worker, No
vember 10, 1928.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

as Bittelman, tombstone, Foster,
lack, Browder and Dunno. The
Party Convention which will be
genuinely proletarian in character
and which will consist of the best
representatives of the Party and its
struggles will select the incoming
Central Executive Committee on the
basis of correct Communist policy,
Party responsibility and capacity.
The decision of the Convention will
be binding for every Party member.
Every Party member must unre-
servedly accept the decision of the
Sixth World Congress of the Com
intern to the effect that we must
have iron discipline in our ranks,
that the Minority must absolutely
subordinate itself to the Majority.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

In the open letter from the Exc
cutive Committee of the Communist
International to the Third National
Convention of our Party, the Com
intern declared, on December z,
1928:
"The excellent work that has
been done by the Communists in
the Left wing of the labor move
ment in the United States, demon
strates that if all the comrades
were members of the trade unions,
the work would increase mani
fold.
"The propaganda that the Work
ers Party has conducted during
the past year has been most eff
fective. AS a result, the ideas of
Communism and the Communist
movement are the center of dis
cussion both among the workers
and the capitalists.
"The vast sentiment for Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
AJORTTY'S WRONG ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN IMPER-
IALISM.

organizational force which keeps
the masses with the capitalist par
ties is the social-reformist and So
cial-imperialist bureaucracy of the
American Federation of Labor. 1t
is the whole theological system of
social-reformism, described in the
Minority thesis as: class collabora-
ton, the higher strategy of labor,
LaFolletism, petty bourgeois social
ism, pacifism, etc." that keeps the
masses in subsection to the capital
list parties. Therefore, Comrade
Lovestone fails to realize that in
order that we may win away the
masses from the republican and
democratic parties we must concen-
trate upon the struggle against So
cial-reformism Chiefly against the
AFL) and defeat social-reformism
among the masses.
1t is because of this grave Right
opportunist error of the Majority
leadership, that the Minority thesis
states that: "The Party must reject
the wrong view of the Majority of
the Central Committee that
because the S. P. is weak our task
is to win the masses away not from
reformism but from conscious sup
port of capitalism Lovestone), that
the general CT line of concentrating
and sharpening the struggle against
reformism and pacifism does not
apply 70 the U. S."
Despite the sharp warning and
criticism of the Minority, the Ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

forces and is now in a position to
work in greater political harmony
with the Majority of the Central
Committee and to become an organic
part of the Party's leadership.
The Party membership has spoken
and spoken more decisively than
ever. The Comintern has given
guidance to the Party, thru the de-
cisions of the Sixth World Congress
and the subsequent decisions of the
Political Secretariat and Presidium.
The Opposition must now drop its
ridiculous notions of superimposing
upon the Party as nucleus for
leadership, the six cylinder combina-
ton arranged by Browder and lack
themselves in the order of leadership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

part. Hence, the Communist Inter
national generally deals with basic
problems confronting the various
sections. 1t is very seldom that the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International deals with
smaller inner Party matters. The
Communist International deals with
the main line and guides carefully
these political lines Of the various
sections. An examination Of the at
titude of the Communist Interna-
tional towards the American Party
reveals that since 1928, the Comm
tern has consistently supported the
main political line of the present
leadership. Without going into de-
tails, the writer proposes to cite TIE
decisive sections of the various Com
intern decisions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
OPEN LETTER OF ECCI TO PARTY's THIRD CoNyEN-
TION 1923.
TON, 1928.

munism that the Workers Party
has aroused, must be organized.
Your Central Executive Committee
acted right in inaugurating a cam
paign for membership.
1.-THE Workers Party has applied
Communist tactics correctly in
seeking united front of all forces
to fight the capitalist system in
the United States. 1t has sought
a united front not only on the
economic but particularly on the
political field.
This was an estimate of the Par
Grated Farmer Labor Party was an
achievement of primary import
ance."
This was en- estimate of the Par
tvs work prior to the Third Ma
tional Convention, when the kernel
of the present leadership was the
basis of the then Party leadership.
To Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
E. THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND ITS AMER
ICAN SECTION.

In no other Party discussion that
we have had to date, has the role
of the Communist International, has
the relationship of the Communist
international to it's American sec
ton, received so much attention as
in the present one. This is due to
multitude of reasons. One of the
main causes is the fact that in this
discussion, considerable time was
spent on the examination of funda-
mental problems.
In no previous discussion was the
questions of the general trend of
Imperialism, whether it is
still ascending or descending, put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
MAJORITY STICKS TO RIGHT OPPORTUNIST
ORIENTATION.

ism has become more than ever part
and parcel of world capitalism.
Therefore American capitalism is
becoming even more subjected to the
general crisis of world imperialism,
to all its sharpened difficulties that
are characteristic of the present
third period.
Consequently, the Majority does
not accept the general tactical line
of the Comintern, which is based
upon the general Leftward drift of
the masses and which calls for a
concentrated struggle against re-
formism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
BORDER POLICEMAN TRIED

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 7 (UP).-
Joseph Soblosky, border patrolman
of the u. S. immigration depart
ment, goes on trial today on a
charge Of second degree murder in
connection with the fatal shooting
Of Richard Pelkey last September.
Pelkey was killed when he disre-
garded command to halt as he was
driving about 20 miles south Of the
Canadian border.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
Lessons OF the Party Discussion

that Smith will bring them eight
wines and beer? Or were they de-
ceived into supporting Smith by the
A. F. of L. bureaucracy who played
on the reformist illusions of the
masses? To these questions, Com
rade Pepper gives the answer: the
labor aristocracy voted for pros
perity" (Hoover), the largest por-
ton of the rest Of the voting work
ers have voted for eight wines and
beer" (Smith).
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The Daily Worker has even sug-
gested a MARKHAM" foundation for
this analysis. 1t reads:
"The enormous vote for Hoover
falls in with the MARKHAM obser-
walton that the prevailing ideas of
any given period are the ideas of
the ruling class. This holds true
of all times and places. 1t is only
when economic conditions are such
that the ruling class is in state
of political confusion, when the
irreconcilable contradictions of a
slave system become sharpest, in
short when the old ruling class is
no longer able to rule and the SUBJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08

so sharply. The same applies to the
question of the estimate by the Com
munist International of the Central
Committee. 1t is in this sense that
the maintenance of reservations to
Comintern decisions played so prom
inent a part in the Party discussion.
That is why the emphatic reserva-
tons to the decisions of the Sixth
World Congress on the United
States, as made by Comrade john
stone in his declaration in behalf of
the Opposition, assumes so much i'm
portance.
What has been the line of the
Communist International towards
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
BY ALEX BITTELMAN.
Note: This is the second of a

he Party discussion has shown
t the Majority leadership stub
My persists in its Right oppor-
list orientation. This remains
e, despite the maneuver to rele-
e Comrade Lovestone and his
sis to the background and to
ng to the foreground Comrade
)per and his thesis.
he fatal error of the Majority
, proven to be the following: The
jority does not see that just be-
Sc American capitalism has be-
ne the center Of world capital
1, that thereby American capital