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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Two Letters on Comintern Address

ton Of the new leadership of the
Party, yet knowing that the COMM
tern always acts in the best inter
ests of all its sections. I pledge my
own most energetic efforts and the
full support of the District Execu-
tive Committee of District 6 to this
leadership in carrying out the de
cisions of the Communist Interna-
tional on the basis of "iron prolc-
tartan discipline, to which all or
CARNATIONS and each individual
member Internationally submits"
submission of the minority to the
majority" ''inner Party democracy
and proletarian self-criticism."
ISRAEL AMTER,
District Organizer, Cleveland, Ohio,
District.
From WOman's Department Head.
wish to add few remarks of
Qualification of my position to the
enclosed statement. I very sincerely
endorse the Address of the Comm
tern and will cooperate to the best
of my ability in carrying it into eff
feet. This address is a political
document of very great Importance
in the life of the American Party.
1t opens up perspective of new
unity in the Party, a strengthening
of discipline, and the elimination of
fractional organization. At the same
time it establishes a clear Commu-
mist line which brings the American
Party into its correct place in the
world struggle against imperialism.
At the same time wish to ex-
press my strong disagreement with
certains tendencies among leading
and active comrades of the Party
which have come to light with the
publication Of this Address, and be-
fore. Such are the tendency to
nsaintain fractional groupings md
factional policies and theology in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

face of the clear intention of the
Comintern to wipe out factionalism
in the Party. Particularly the ten
dency toward a double accounting
with the Comintern in this situation
must be condemned, the easy ac-
certance in words and the rejection
in deeds of the Comintern policy by
which some hope to be able to main
tain line in opposition to the
Party and the Comintern without
detection. All such tendencies must
be energetically combatted and
comrades urged to show their true
colors at this juncture.
Then there is the theory of the
degeneration of the Comintern,
which seems to be finding accept
ance in some quarters, which accom-
panies various right and left devia.
lions, and is nothing but Trotsky-
ism, although those concerned might
reject that term. The crystalliza-
ton Of right wing tendencies, of re-
sistance to the authority of the
Comintern and the discipline of the
Party, Of opportunism and petty
bourgeois tendencies toward resist
ance to proletarization of organiza-
ton of fractional defense actions
against organizational measures for
carrying through the line of the
Comintern, all these seem to be
tendencies arising as reaction
against the Address of the Comm
tern. All these tendencies are to be
condemned most emphatically and
actively combatted. Acceptance of
the Comintern Address in spirit and
deed, as we'll as in word and loyal
and united effort to carry through
it's line in the Party, such a course
will cleanse and strengthen the
Party and steel it for the struggles
it is now entering upon.
JULIET STUART POYNTZ,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
VIM. Green-Imperialist Recruiting Sergeant

WILLIAM Green president of the American Federation of
Labor instead of directing campaigns for the organiza
ton of the unorganed which would strengthen the power
labor is devong his time and to the job the Wall
Street bankers have given hrecuing sergeant for the
next This shown the stellar role he played in the
launching of the baeshp Pensacola and only this
the chief speaker the review of the 1900 cadets at Yankee
imperalsm's West Point military academy.
Green while drawing his huge salary from the per capita
taxes paid by workers affiliated to the A. F. of L.
spends his time navy yards officers training camps and
ncubators of future generals like West Point where mil
tarst strike breakers like BLACK jack Pershing and
Leonard Wood in the making Green while being paid by
the workers. not only associates with srkebreakers
of them doing his Bit for the building of the army
and navy that is being and will be used by the expoters
against the workers to fight their strike struggles
ganization drives.
is clearly shown again. therefore that Green will not
help organize the unorganized will he remain neutral
Instead he is aggressive imperas force against the
workingcass in all it's struggles.
Memorial Day. today should be utilized to the full when
the capitalist press is filled with marist propaganda to
bring to the attention of wide of workers the open al
lance of the official regime of the A F. of L. with dollar
Imperialism This will lead to better understanding by
wider sections of the working class of abors real objective
in the against the imperast war, in the building of
the class of the tong many for the sweeping away
of the capitalist social order along with its reformst rub
bish ypfed in the treason of the Green's the VOLS and
their apologists the Hlquits, Thomases and Cahans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
From Cleveland District Organizer.)


The corrections made by the Com
munist International in the lines of
both the Majority and the Minority
of the Central Committee give the
Party the correct line for it's work.
The errors of both the Majority and
the Minority could not be corrected
by the groups themselves or by tie
Party as whole in the light of the
sharp fractional situation in the top
layer of the Party. Obvious errors
were tolerated and overlooked:
Slight deviations were magnified.
Self-criticism was taboo except in
the districts.
The convention could not fulfill
its mission, owing to the facticnal
situation. Nevertheless the conven-
ton pledged that irrespective of the
nature of the final decision of the
Connintern it would be accepted un-
reservedly. This was the pledge Ct
The leaders this was the pledge #
the delegates speaking for the
membership.
The Comintern has rendered its
decision. its analysis of the polit-
ical situation and of the errors
made by both groups is correct. Its
condemnation of factionalism is JUS
titled and correct. The need of uni
fication of the Party-particularly
in the upper stratum-is impera-
tive.
Its denrnciation Of leaders who
nave broken their pledge to the
Communist International and to the
membership, its mention by name
of those who have committed gross
right wing mistakes developing al.
most into tendency, are correct.
The need of reorganization of the
secretariat has been pointed out by
the Comintern as . "basis of secur-
ing real collective, non-factional ac-
tivity." Not knowing the compost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Children Under Ia Slave in Mills By Thousands;
Undernourishment Throws Men On
Premature Scrap Heap

most any mill in the Common
wealth."
Average Wage $40.
The standard of living of the
workers of North Carolina is far be-
low the standard of living of the
northern worker. One reason for
the perpetuation of the 100 per cent
American stock in the textile region
is the fact that the foreign-born
worker is repulsed by the extremely
low standard of living. The aver
age wage in the North Carolina tex
tile mills, in my opinion. is not more
than $11 per week, and is probably
SO and $40 per week.
In the Washington delegation was
Robert Litolff, who has been in the
mill 81 years, and whose highest
pay envelope in that time has been
$3.50. Binnie Green, our 14-year-
old striker, during the first month
of her labor received only % cents
q week pay. Her highest wage is
S4.95 in a week.
"Red" Hendricks, a member of
the strike committee and one of the
Washington delegation, declared in
bis speech after returning to Cas-
tonia that, although only 80, his
health has been ruined for life in
the mill, and that he is working on
behalf of the younger generation.
The young men of 20 to % are al
ready middle aged, many of them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

with tuberculosis and pellagra, all
of them thin and undernourished. At
S5 worker is often prematurely
old and ready for the scrap heap.
These low wages and this general
broken down physical condition are
not unusual, but general. The 12-
hour day is practiced throughout the
region, the mills working two shifts,
day and night. The children go into
the mills by the hundreds and thou
sands, before reaching the age of
fourteen, their age being changed
to fit the convenience of the mill
owners and the necessities of starv-
ing families. The rule that no night
work shall be done by those under
16 years of age is openly violated
by all mills.
Let US take few of the strikers
in Gastonia and find out what their
wages are. Runey Sper, spicer, $40
per week, five years in the mill /;
Althea Metalf, weaver, SO per week,
six children, 20 years in mill; John
Myers, warper, So per week, 25
years in mill, four children; Lula
Gaines, spinner, $12 per week, 20
years in mills, two children; A.
Geatab, spooler, $14.45 per week, six
years in mill, two children; Lizzie
Grow, spinner, two years in mill, S.
per week; c. J. Cox, corder, IA
years in mill, 3 children, SIS per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Chapter vi
The Presidium
THE FIRST LINKS

BEARDED messenger military grey
the Chairman of the Executive Committee the Soviet He gared
Gleb like wolf from under his heavy eyebrows His hairy hand
by habit the brass doorhande In this
guarded Chamans office day.
morning until five the evening without leaving his chair when
the Chairman went forth business Whether they busy
carrying brefases unknown petitioners dy stretching their
guard with woke gaze under heavy grey
and unaproacha And each me awaited his line unless
s s of his affair was V0"Asd for by the of the
In the queue people were standing uniform coats with or with
portfolios with without furious all
that impossible force their way past this old devil with the
Remingons clicking meaicaly inside the
and hOarse rapng crying Its shame and disgrace
should all be sent to hell! or be shot like rabbts!"
EB walked to the door, and he and the silently eyed
v each other.
"We, you mophaired devil your knob"
The people the long began to What this
Was Geb better than ee Why he trying to get
frst they patient enough to wait their turn why shouldn't
he do the same, according to the rules?
quiet the office The door close shut and
of stuck mo unless
previously announced Lower down another Chairman
still on urgent
business only through the Secretary of the Executive Committee
diabolca arrangement To make work properly has to be
broken
way secretarys stiffness
and and another long queue p was tapping buy and
samnng the drawers of the filing cabinet Girls installed old
black bread They were Indifferent to this customary sweay tumu
AS usual the china doll looking into her pocket
ta Pepoith his grey locks and youthful facewa smiling while
he gazed the faces around him? His epebe smile reveals
his white teeth trimmed with little bubbles of spitte
pEPLO knows everybody He calmly listens
rotary knows everything he sits there smoking
hurried All business the and it does need wings.
Then another
aed the uproar of the rowdy crowd
"You ought to be all kicked blasted drones
the workingme hell of harness! should
head steel
small! I'll teach the workingca
The cries died Secretary
smile broadly Doubtless they all these
The machine funconng full
of the citizens did no than help the wheels
Shuk, covered with with his
of his wrath.
Geb took him by the pulled the
of his head
Keep your pecker up, and wave
your about like windmill"
cHUK dvoured Geb with his swollen trembled
= raised his hand and stopped in his tracks.
"Hullo Gleb, dear friend! How saddens
workngclass treated But won't
living this miserable world I've really nothing
todayts mess! I've been the
Everywhere it's mess And So
see, I'm going around swearing like trooper"
"Shuk You're crazy, Comrade! One act-akng's no
good"
81. You want to. But, God it going to
them all. I'm going to stand them against
81 must give work Shuk you'll firing nothing
but blank cartridges all the time wasting yourself
get: I'm going to find job that will suit you"
mo, Brother Geb dear Comrad They'll find out about
I'm going to remind them of 1918. :"
He shook his clenched fists ceiling
with heavy step.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Song for Our Memorial DQy
By LEONARD SPIER

martyrs of the one great cause,
For you, we in remembrance pause.
O Russian braves, in the time of tsars
Lighting for all the brightest of stars
comrades Of Austria, strangled to death
Resenting the stencil of the fascist breath;
leaders halowing Cuban waters
For flinging down the slavers' halters;
Sacco-Vanzett!- these hearts still tell
What dripping fingers have failed to quellD;
wife of the worlds true proletar
mother and love who our heroines are;
You weavers warped in midas mills
Long lying quiet meath midas hills
You rebels of China slain by the knife
Whose bodiless heads still urge for strife;
You free men of Italy, bravest of all,
Mazzlnls descendants, resoundng his call;
You sons of the SOUTH black brothers and white
Whose symboling skeletons swing in the night;
And you strong Poles of Ukrain dead
Defying Pilsudskis murderous tread;
And you of the home of our prophets birth, e
Your staunch breasts heavng thru Rhinsh earth:
And you of all hills, towns, cities, and plains,
Who have Swallowed the soil with scarlet stains:
You martyrs Of the one great cause,
FOR you, we in remembrance pause -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

THE "2oth Century Limited, the exclusive New York
Chicago flyer of the New York Central Railroad was de-
ayed half an hour yesterday Poughkepse after had
crashed into gasoline Scooter operated by two workers
rushing to their jobs The workers killed outright and
the flyer might have continued on its way without delay
But the body of of the workers got tangled up the
ming of the locomotive Other employees at ratonaliza
ton speed called to it, and then the "2Oth
Century swept to New York if nothing had happened
The lives of workers count for little the railroads. in all
Industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

r RESENTMENT of the Indian joined with the pro-
test of the British working class at home against the
socaled Simon Commission for India and against British
mperiaist oppression generally finds avenue of ex
preston through the candidacy of S. Usman president of the
Indian Trades Union Congress- the Communist ticket
against the liberal Sir John Simon the Spen Valley York
shire district Usmani is in Jail in Meerut India and
local magistrate mouthpiece of the Badwn-LIoyd George
Macdonald coalition against Indian independence refuses him
liberty long enough to make the campaign which comes
to an end with the elections today Thus British oppres
sion IN India and its support from all three major parties
again is put startng in the foreground of the British
toral struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
CEMENT e By F1oRoE
Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. AshIeigh
All Rights Reserved-InternatonaL Publishers, N. Y.

Chumaov Army Commander who has returned his
the factory almost
fighting themselves He about turning
the of the factory and the single
track transport wood before the winter
in
the Committee and has ratified Engineer
of the factory from his seuon He
goes Executive Committee
Soviet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
The Elections in Great Britain Today.

HE role of the Labor Party and its treacherous offspring
the Independent Labor Party in the British elections
today reviewed in article published another page
Especial attention given to the election manifesto which
breathes the bourgeois character of the Labor Party
The complete betrayal by the Labor Party Henderson,
Thomas and Macdonald of all workngclas interests has
been in full evidence during the entire campaign No fight
has been made for the repeal of the infamous Trade Union
Act and the Miners Hours Act the dastardy legsa
ton imposed the workers by the conservative
in retaliation for their mtancy displayed the historic
general strike and the bitterly fought miners lockout
The Labor Pary's only interest in the huge colonial
empire of British imperialism grows out of the fact that they
offer the opportunity of developing greater markets over
seas 1t turns its back completely the aspirations the
colonial masses.
1t is urged that all readers of the Daily Worker care
fully study the article published today in order better
understand the election results. These results will only
register progress they show increasing drift of the
to the Communist Party the leader of the left wing
in the trade unions the fighter against British imperialism
and the standard bearer in the struggle overthrow
THE international Labor Office of the League of Nations
aments that the United States will not even have an
observer at its Twelfth Annual Conference starting Thurs
day at Geneva The choice assortment of socademocrats
who have received wepayng swivel chair jobs in this i'm
perat nest anxious Wall Streets views on the
lions of native labor the white collar slave and industrial
accidents To be the League Labor Office not anxi
to get the viewpoint of the workers these questions
And the great capitalists too busy punderng native labor
exploiting white collar workers to the limit success
fully using the reservoir of unemployed labor to feed
the places made vacant by industrial accidents bother
about what the Geneva office boys of world Imperialism think
OF these questions Anyway the League the property of
British imperialism and therefore Yankee imperialism steers
shy of it as habit.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
DRINKING AND THINKING

Rum has never been recommended as
a means of making careful workmen,
but careful Workmen are not the sole
need Of our world. We need thinkers.
persons of imagination, rulers, and at
times fighters.
The United States was not dry, heaven
knows, in the nineteenth century, but in
material progress in that century it sur
passed any record of history. Editors
Easy Chair, Hnrper'S Monthly, Septen-
Der, 1929.
"Any record of precious history the
Easy Chair should have said to be quite
accurate in this effort to combat Henry
Ford's assertion that drinking and think
ing are incompatible. Considerable prog
reSs has been made since 1900 and no small
part Of it is due TO the thinking of such
abStainers as Thomas A. Edison, Henry
Ford and others who might be named.
But III that century of progress to which
the Easy Chair refers, over 5000 employers
were sufficiently opposed to alcoholic
LIQUORS to inquire very closely into the
drinking habits of their employees, men
whose brain action had an essential part
in the material progress of that period
Many OF the 5000 adopted the policy of
many of the railroads in giving prefer
ence to or demanding total abstinence of
their employees.
Moreover, the very century the Easy
Chair names as making such remarkable
material progress was the century of the
birth and growth of most remarkable
temperance movement, and Temperance"
during that time was translated total alb
stinence." Surely, if we are to adopt the
post hoe ergo propter hoe, therefore on
account of this" method of argument, we
have just as much right to say, "the
United States was not entirely dry in the
nineteenth century, but the dryness had
so extended that in material progress the
country in that century surpassed any
previous record of its history
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR POST
MORTEM PROHIBITION HONORS

Late one excessively hot June after
noon, back in 1917. huge bulk of
man arose from his chair on the floor
Of the United States Senate, numbered
his way over to a seat which was occu-
pied by a small, mild-mannered but
harmless looking individual, bent over
him and began to speak in low, growing
tones.
The small man in the seat was Morris
Sheppard, Senator from Democratic
Texas The other was Boise Penrose,
Senator from Republican Pennsylvania,
and Republican boss In that moment
of side talk between the two Senators
the Eighteenth Amendment was born
WILLIAM G. SHEPPARD in Golfers No
tionaJ Weekly. September 81, 1929.
SO it wasn't Carrie Nation but Boise
Penrose that we have to thank for prol1i-
b tion-on the principle that pins have
saved peoples lives by not swallowing
them All he did was to take his huge
form and influence out of the way Of the
avalanche he was trying to hold back The
condition he imposed was joke on him
self. another illustration of the inability of
self-nterests to WEIGH moral forces. He
agreed to let the resolution go through if
Senator Sheppard would make it contin-
gent on being ratified in sir years. Pen
rose Mr.. Shepherd explains, thought "six
years were too short for 30 different state
Senates and 80 state Legislatures" to
ratify Some one more cautious, or was it
incautious. afterwards made it seven.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
PLANES IN THE FOREIGN ANTI
PROHIBITION PLATFORM

The United States is one of the coun-
tries where propaganda work has most
need to be carried out with circumspec-
ton and skill From the article on wine
propaganda in the French trade jour
nall
There are just four steps or stages in
their plan. First, discredit prohibi-
ton by wet propaganda and violation of
the law, until majority of the people
feel that it is failure and impossible
of enforcement. Secondly, advocate
government sale and control of liquor as
much superior to prohibition, and Sc
cure its adoption. Thirdly, advocate, as
a further improvement, the sale of beer
by the glass, and secure the establish
ment of beer shops for this purpose.
Fourthly, and last, give to the beer shops
the right to sell hard liquor.
That this is the actual plan of cam
paign is proved by the fact that it has
been adopted and carried out in detail
: up to, and including, the third stage, in
every province of Canada which has
abandoned prohibition for government
sale of liquor. And now it is reported
that agitation is already begun to ac-
complish the fourth and final stage, by
the sale of hard liquor in the beer shops
of some of the western provinceS.-AL-
FRED E. COOKE, The Co7agregationalist,
September 10, 1929
The indications are that one of the
methods by which these stages are to be
reached is to destroy public confidence in
our dry leaders, The effect should be just
he opposite of that intended: loyalty,
gratitude, appreciation and
support. This, with an intelligent under
standing of the aims and methods of the
liquor defense, will bring their circum-
;pection and skill to naught.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-10-01
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