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soldiery, and killed or wounded most of the passengers and crew.
 Then the bandits closed in, pour ed kerosene on the train; and fired it, cremating the dead and wounded together. Only handful of per- sons escaped. Because of the holo- caust it never was determined how many died, but the number was placed at more than 100, of whom upwards of 20 were women and children.
 The survivors alleged that Vega Pedroza and "El Catorce" were the leaders of the attackers and that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

a Right wing C. E. c." The po-
litical secretariat of E. C. C. I. an
swered, in accordance with the de-
cisions of the C. I. Congress, that
this charge is unfounded. The an
swer of the overwhelming majority
of the proletarian Party member
ship was the same. But the Oppo-
sition is still continuing its poison
Gus accusation. The Opposition is
going still farther and accuses the
c. E. c. of being "petty bourgeois
intellectual C. E. c." And this after
repeated decisions of the c. /. con-
corning our C. E. C. and also the
rejection of the Opposition by the
Party membership.
Is this the building of the con-
fidence and the authority of our
Party and the Comintern among The
working class? No one can answer
this in the affirmative.
The Opposition has been defeated
IN all respects, politically and or
ganizationally. The C. I. has reject
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assigned its own mistakes to C. E.
c., which is characteristic of every
Opposition. Out of these mistakes,
plus its reservations to all the de-
cisions of G. I. and plus it's still COM
mon platform with the renegade
Cannon, they built an unprincipled
platform. Upon this platform they
are carrying on a dangerous and
poisonous fight against the C. E. C.
This is quite contrary to the Lenin-
ist principle.
The Opposition "corrects" its mis-
takes only when it is pushed to the
wall by the Party. For instance, it
was clear to every Party member
that the Opposition made a very
serious mistake when it elected
renegade Cannon as its spokesman
at the New York membership meet
ing, knowing that he was Trotsky-
list. 1t took the Opposition almost
three long months to admit this OBJ
vious mistake.
1t is clear to every Party member
that the Opposition is making a very
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ness, and of its ability to fulfill its
duties towards it's class and to-
ward the laboring masses. Frank
admission of an error, discovery of
its causes, analysis of the situa-
ton in which it occurred, careful
study of the ways by which the
mistake can be remedied-these
are the signs whereby a serious
Party can be recognized. That *
fulfilment of duty. That is the
education of the class and of the
masses.". Lenin.
Does our Party follow this Lenin-
list principle? Unquestionably ii
does, as far as it's political and ideo-
logical level permits. Let us see if
it is so.
The general line of our Party in
the past few years was a correct
one. No one can challenge this state
nent. For if this was not the case
our Party would not have, as it actu-
ally has, in the words of the Sixth
World Congress of the Comintern
displayed more lively activity and
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ed it's charges; the Party member
ship has rejected it's charges. The
Opposition knows and feels this.
But still, being a chronic and per-
manent faction, the Opposition is
continuing its dangerous fight. 1t
is already building platform" on
which it intends to fight the C. E. C.
even after the convention.
Unity on Basis of c. /. Policy.
The international and national
situation demands a complete, sim
cere feminist unity of the Party.
The c. E. c. and the overwhelming
majority of the membership demands
unity on the correct political line of
the c. I. The Opposition, pushed to
the wall, wants to accept unity only
on its own correct political line" But
our Party must be united only on
the line of the G. I. There can be
no unity and must be no unity on
the common platform with renegade
Cannon. Our Party is an integral
part of the Communist International.
Its policy must determine policies
of our Party. This is the only basis
for unity and on this basis it must
be achieved. Every Party member
must demand and work for unity on
the line of the C. /.
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(Ford Worker) which is issued in
the district.
The other case is that of the Mas
cot (2), which is generally an ex-
cellent paper politically and in every
other way. 1t has several times
been cited both here and abroad as
being exceptionally good. But No.
5 for some reason or other was is
sued directly by the unit, without
editing by the district. The result
is appalling. In an article in favor
of the 44-hour week-"The Russian
workers have the 7-hour day all
over the country with six hours for
young workers and for workers in
dangerous industries. The only %
way to get better conditions is to
organize a strong militant union and
fight for them through the union
committee"
The election article, for instance,
devotes the first one-third of its
space to who the candidates are.
The Party platform gets secondary
place. And the conclusions show a
definitely Right orientation: "The
Workers Party does not expect to
elect its presidential nominees. The
Workers Party is calling on all ele-
ments of the working class to en-
press their dissatisfaction and pro
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dangerous mistake by standing on
the same platform on which rene
gade and Trotskyist Cannon is stand
ing and fighting the Party. Every
Party member is aware of this fact.
Did the Opposition admit this mis-
take? Not yet. It IS very chsrac-
teristic that our Opposition is fight
ing the C. E. C. on the same plat
form that Cannon stands on.
Opposition Undermines Authority
and Leadership of Party.
During the present epoch of
intense civil warfare, the Commu-
mist Party can accomplish it's task
only on condition that it is highly
centralized, that it is dominated by
an iron discipline, which is quasi
military in its severity, that it is
guided by a group of comrades at
the centre, enjoying the confidence
of the rank and file members, en-
dowed with authority and possess
ing wide executive power."-Lenin
Never before was this profound
feminist principle more important
then at present, when we are facing
an imminent imperialist war and
when we are on duty to defend the
Soviet Union. What is our OPPOSE
ton doing at this momentous hour
Is it building the confidence of the
rank and file members and the work
ing class generally in the Party lead
ership and the Party? Is il
Strengthening the authority of the
GEO. among the membership Is
it building the confidence and au-
thority of C. I. among the member
ship and our working class? Especi-
ally now in the face of the Right
danger and ter-revolutionary ac-
tivities of the Trotskyites?
At the c. 7. Congress the Oppo-
sition accused the C. E. C. of being
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Frequent Errors.
BY FRANK BORICH.

Talking about the Trotsky Oppo-
sition Comrade Bukharin once said:
st is natural to every Opposi-
tion that it pictures situation in
the blacklist color. Every OPP
position inside a Party, naturally.
always exploits our shortcomings
Opposition sets very bad
label upon our entire policies and
believes that it alone can do
good and everything that we have
done is absolutely erroneous"
This is very good characterize
ton of the Opposition in our Party.
From the beginning of the discus
sion, the Opposition sees only weak
sides and shortcomings of the
Party. In this respect it has made
an elephant out of mosquito. 1t
sees no achievement, no success and
no progress of the Party. By fol-
lowing this policy, of course, the
Opposition cannot help the Party to
develop and to maintain correct
political line in the class struggle.
Lenin on Mistakes.
'"The attitude of political Party
towards its own mistakes is one
of the. surest tests of it's serious
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class in all its struggles, ETC., with
out giving anything concrete from
the platform = Wright Propeller
District p, 1870; Southwest
Miner (19); The Milwaukee Harves-
ter Worker District 81 correctly
makes very sharp attack against
the socialist party in the municipal
elections, but fails to contrast the
Workers Party platform with the
socialist party. The Northwestern
Shop News (S), in an election re-
suits article of the 81 told you So
variety, in connection with pros
perity and subsequent lay-offs, gives
excellent propaganda for the Party
ever after the elections.
The aim of the Party in our cleo
ton campaign was sometimes stated
in a misleading manner. A few
quotations will illustrate: "Commu-
nists says that workers must have
their own party and fight to get con-
troll of the state, which is today in
the hands of the bosses" (Stanton
Miners Blast (3). Without a
further statement that this cannot
be done through an election, this
statement is misleading.
The Westinghouse Workers Bulle-
tin (5) I-6, says: "Is there a ques-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
By JOE sPEER.

In The Daily Worker IF Feb.
Comrade Bittelman gives us som,
excellent examples of the attempt O.
the Opposition to muddle and con
fuse the membership.
Gem 1.-Comrade Bittelman quotes
the following from Comrade Wolfe;
'The policies of the Comintern at
every stage are based upon an
analysis of the world situation
(Which tends to give certain cor
respondence in the tactics of each
party and upon an analysis of the
concrete conditions of each country
(Which tends to give concrete diff
ferences in the tactics of each par
ty)." (Bittelman's emphasis.)
From this statement, Comrade
Bittelman, a remarkable logician,
draws the conclusion that Comrade
Wolfe sees mo such thing as a gen.
eral Comintern line" and that Com
rade Wolfe is proposing Monroe
Doctrine" for all sections of the CT.
Nonsense, Comrade Bittelman and
you we'll know it. You are simply
looking for mud to sling. Does not
the statement (which tends to give
certain correspondence in the tao
tics of each party" mean that there
exists a general line? How can you
have "a certain correspondence" I'M
less you do have general line?
Gem 2.-Comrade Bittelman quotes
an editorial published in the Daily
Worker of Nov. 8, 1928. The sub
stance of the editorial contained the
following elementary MARKHAM tru-
ism:
/. "The enormous vote for Hoover
falls in with the MARKHAM observa-
ton that the prevailing ideas of any
given period are the ideas of the
ruling class"
2. That when the ruling class is
in a state of confusion, when the
old ruling class is no longer able
to rule" and the subject class i'm
PEELED to revolutionary action-"it
is only then that the ideas of the
masses no longer correspond to the
interests of the ruling class"
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test against present conditions By
casting Vote for the Communist
ticket. In this way the ruling class
can be made to realize the strength
of this protest and may be forced
to grant certain concessions" Other
papers in the country went so far
as the protest vote, but this is the
only one that hoped for concessions.
Much Improvement.
On the whole there is improve
ment compared with the work up to
the last convention, but we have
much to go to make our shop papers
real Communist organs. There is
need for more strict supervision and
assistance on the part of the proper
party bodies. Suggestions should
go out from time to time from the
center. If the papers that come in
to the center We're gone over and
criticized from month to month,
many of the errors which creep in,
and which in some cases are re-
peated month after month, could be
eliminated. Perhaps when the shop
paper work is reviewed at the next
convention, the increased attention
which it is sure to receive from the
Party in the coming period will help
to raise the political level of the
work.
The ne1t article 1oilL deal 1Vith
shop issues, hoaV they are treated By
the shop paper, the relation of econ
1,omic issues IN the shop to trade
u1tion 10ork, etc.
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sources from which they sprang,
and, what is most important, i'm
mediately corrected them and is still
continuing to do so. 1t can be safely
said that much fewer mistakes
would have been made and that
many more of them could have been
corrected already, if it wasn't for
the dangerous and unprincipled fac
tional fight of the Opposition.
Therefore, the C. E. C. acted and
is acting in accordance with the
above principle worked out by Lenin.
Can this be said about the Oppo-
sition? Did the Opposition act, or is
it acting now, in accordance with
this feminist principle? By no
means. Instead of helping the Party
to correct all of its mistakes and to
maintain its correct political line,
the Opposition collected, as far as
it could, all the mistakes of every
and each Party member, primarily
the mistakes of the C. E. C. and it's
followers, leaving its own mistakes
untouched, and in many instances
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

take advantage of the symptoms of
crisis in American industry and the
growth of unemployment" and, "a
number of stubborn and fierce class
battles" would not have, as they
actually have, found in the Com
munist Party stalwart leader"
While the Party has made prog
ress and success in almost every
respect-and no one can deny this
it simultaneously made many serious
mistakes, among them Right mis-
takes, in the application of its poll
cies to the concrete situation. But,
according to the Congress of the
Comintern, "these mistakes, however,
cannot be ascribed exclusively to
the Majority leadership"
The C. E. c., as early as in May,
l928-and it was elected in Septem-
nleber, admitted and corrected
its mistakes. Later again on num-
erous occasions and in numerous
statements the C. E. C. analyzed
all of its mistakes, pointed them
out very clearly, Investigated the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
BITTELMAN GEMS

From this editorial, Comrade Bit
lehman, this time most remark
able logician, draws the conclusion
that the Daily Worker sees enc
political mass struggles are possible
until revolutionary crisis devel-
ops" This is indeed a remarkable
conclusion and the one who could
explain how Comrade Bittelman ar
rived at it, would do both the Party
and Comrade Bittelman a great
favor.
The trouble with Comrade Bit
lehman is that he quotes one thing
and then looks into his Minority
Thesis for the deductions. Pay a
little more attention to what you
read, Comrade Bittelman, and then
you will not draw such absurd con-
illusions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Ia Injured in Reading
Railroad Wreck: Fog
and No Signal, Causes

COATESVILLE, Pa, Feb. 81 fUP)
Fourteen persons were injured
today when south-bound Reading
railroad passenger train crashed into
a wrecking train at Laurel, six
miles south Of here.
Some of the injured were men,
bers of the wrecking train crew
which was removing a wrecked en-
CINE. The electrically-operated en-
CINE of the passenger train crashed
into the wrecking train. The in
jured were taken to the Gainesville
hospital for treatment after first
aid at the scene of the wreck.
The engine of the passenger train
turned over and carried passenger
coach over with it as it hit the work
train.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
WOMEN LIMOGES
TO AID WAR WORK
New Plan to Draw
Them Into Duty

WASHINGTON, Feb. pa sys-
lem of Coordination between the
war department and various wom-
ems organizations, in order that
women may be drawn effectively in
to war for American imperialism,
was announced yesterday by Secre-
tary of War Dwight F. Davis.
The announcement followed a
meeting of representatives of vari-
Gus capitalistic women's organiza-
tons with Davis, who said that the
women demanded to have some
part in the civilian work" of war
fare. Accordingly, he has arranged
for the appointment of woman as
chief Contact officer" between the
war department and "the women of
the country" She will be aided
by representatives in the nine corps
area of the United States and in
the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Panama Canal Zone.
Davis said that the women had
spoken Of the need for fighting
"pacifist" women's organizations.
Organizations OF women represented
in the conference were the League
Of American Pen Women, American
War Mothers, National Civic Fedora
ton, American League of Univer-
sity Women, Business and Profess
sional Women, Daughters of the
American Revolution, League of
Women Voters, Women's Overseas
Service League, Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, Daughters of 1912;
American Red Cross, American
Legion Auxiliary.
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form Labor Party, so that we can
elect workers to the city council who
will protect our interests and not
the interests of the BOSSES" This
was written, however, before the C.
l. criticism of errors on the labor
party was made.
On the other hand, many papers
took advantage of happenings in
the shop to develop the idea Of the
need of labor party, pointing out
at the same time it's limitations in
getting the working class anything
permanent or fundamental.
Anti-War Campaign.
The anti-war campaign comes in
for it's share of neutrality-suspicious.:
The Headlight (1S), mentions only
the expenditure of million for mill
tarism as a cause of war. Not
enough was explained on how to
combat the war in the Ford Worker
(7), April 1928: $50 it's up to us
workers that will be called upon to
fight the next war to be on the look
out and get ourselves organized so
we will have some way to protest
ourselves when the next war does
come"
The Westinghouse Workers Bulle-
tin 60 I-6; "The war clouds are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
The Political Contents OF Our SHOP PAPERS

ton who they (Foster and Gitlow)
would favor? The Westinghouse
workers should register their pro-
test against the speed-up, wage
cutting policy of the company by
voting for the candidates of the only
working class party-the Workers
(Communist) Party" Emphasis
mine-G. H.)
Role of Labor Party.
To the role of the labor party and
what it can accomplish is ascribed
an entirely unrevolutionary magic:
Speaking of capitalist justice during
the shipments strike in 1922, The
Northwestern Shop News (8), I-3,
says: would this have happened if
the American workers had a power
full labor party?" Then telling Of
the terrorism and class justice in
the miners strike in 1928-1928:
"Would this be the case if the work
e rs were solidly united in fight
ing labor party"
The Steel Worker (6), No. 5 sees
the labor party this way: eff we
workers want to get a square deal
from the government, we have to
change the government from a
bosses government to a Workers
Government. The first step is to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Slave Driver Gilmore
Doomed for Filipino
GOvernOrG eneralship

MANILA, Feb. 27.-Acting Gov
ernor General Eugene A. Gilmore,
for seven years vice-governor of the
Philippine Islands, is being doomed
here by all interested in the ex-
ploitation of Filipino labor and by
the tame politicians of the Quezon
type, as next governor general.
The imperialist papers are full of
laudatory remarks about him for
his continuous care for the profits
Of those who enslave the native
workers in tobacco factories and rub
Der plantations. For their benefit
he coined the phrase, economic
mindedness" in description of his
policy of suppression.
Governor General Stimson arrived
yesterday in Hongkong on his way
to y. s. to become Hoover's secre-
tary of state.
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getting thicker and thicker and un-
less the qOorkers wake up this coun-
try will be plunged in war much
bloodier and costly than the last
world war;" In fighting against
the coming war, as Lenin says, we
must always be careful to speak
specifically on how to fight war
and what workers must do-the
overthrow of capitalism-civil war
against imperialist war.
Other Errors.
The following errors cannot be
classified, except as they all illus
trate the prevalence of Right errors
throughout the Party. A worker
writes to the Packard Worker a.,
Ill, criticizing The policy of the
paper and the methods advocated:
"Powder and ball methods do not
appeal to the majority for the rea-
son that present conditions are not
so hard as to warrant such strong
feeling. They also have a lesson in
unproductive Russia" The reply of
the paper: "You speak of powder
and ball methods. Have any such
methods been used in Detroit or any
other place by the workers." And
the slur on Russia wasn't even re-
ferred to.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
MORE GRAFT.

CAMDEN, N. j., Feb. 81 (UP).-
Alfred 0. Armstrong, tax collector,
was held in $1,000 bail today on
charges Of embezzlement. Stacker
is alleged to have Incorporated
more than $4,000 but only 1923 was
listed in the complaint.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

This is the continuation of the
second article of series ON the
since the last convention in Sept.
1927. The first part of the ar
ticle aoas published in yesterdays
issue.
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EMERGENCY FUND

vich, soc; Joe Bohinc, SOC;
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