The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-07

/ IN our F1nnlsh DAILY IN Astoria
Ore, "Toveri" there appeared in it!
issue of August 26 on page a re
port about picnic of a fraternal or
| ganization at Tongue Point, As
toria, Ore. This local correspond
ence is in sharpest contradiction tt
the principles of the revolutionary
class-struggle. The statements re,
ported show pure and simple bour.
geois standpoint on the part of the
first speaker, Brother" Thompson
and liberal pure and simple trade
union standpoint mixed with hall
syndicalist phrases, on the part Of
the second speaker, K. X. Hakola
member of our Party and member
of the Board of Directors of the
"Toveri." Not a single word Of
comment did the editors make or
the standpoint expressed by either
of the two speakers. Comrade
Hakola in his speech did not, as il
was his Communist duty, attack OF
criticize the first bourgeois speak,
, er, Brother" Thompson. He only
mentioned the working class char.
acter of the fraternal organization;
but in the same breath he denied
its class-interests on the politiea
field. This impermissible action by
a Party-member should Immediately
have been refuted by the "Toveri.
The complete failure to do this
shows a very serious shortcoming OF
the editorial board of the paper.
A few quotations from the speech
delivered by brother" Thompson
shows its character:
These festivals are Fall-festi-
walls without any other fundamen-
tai principle than brotherhood and
love. If the brotherhood takes
upon itself to carry out principles
of some political group, our days
of greatness will be counted"
Here we have the hypocritical
bourgeois neutrality" proclaimed
the negation of the class-struggle,
the principle of collaboration re-
Elected in the phrase: brotherhood
and love" covering the fact of CAPT.
talist exploitation and bourgeois
political maneuvers. Mr.. Thomp-
son states that the brotherhood
must not "carry cat principles of
some political group" but already in
the next moment he declares:
g. as American Firms we are
duty-bound to act in support of
the government of this country"
This is nothing else than the main
principle of the political group
called the capitalist class. His politi-
teal neutrality" is nothing else
than capitalist political propaganda.
This whole talk against "some politi-
cal group" is directed against the
Communist Party, the Glass Party
of the workers.
The brotherhood and love- of
brother" Thompson leads him to
state that "both reds and whites
are welcome into this organization. u
This can have no other meaning
than permission for the "reds" to
be in the same organizations with
the whites" as long as they do not
combat or challenge the political
hegemony of the whites" These
henchmen of the American capitalist
government maintain this hegemony
in the name of political neutrality
This neutrality" sanctions "red
raids" against the revolutionary
workers all over the country, a
strike breaking government, ar
enemy of the working class, gov
eminent responsible for the murder
Of Sacco and Vanzetti and a govern
ment at present trying to railroad
16 workers in Gastonia to the cleo
trio chair. The red workers are well
come to all organizations led by the
bourgeois, but in the name of politi-
cal neutrality" they are duty-bound
to act in support of the government
of this country" lie. against the in
terests of the working class.
This sort of propaganda is also
colored with the poison of ma
tionalism, Finnish and American
and our Communist daily "Toveri'
has not a word to say; neither has
the Party member anything to say
who followed his brother" Thomp-
son as speaker.
Comrade Hakola just mentioned
the class character of this sick-and
dead benefit society; but he failet
to show how such organizations art
always used as political instru
ments for lie bourgeois, how the!
are used to mobilize the exploited
workers against their own class
politically, and how these organi
cations add burden upon the shout
ders of the workers by providing as
sistance to workers who have beer
wrecked by the system of capitals
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