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RSE Page Four 4 THE DALU¥Y¥WORKER.~ ANOTHER “591” or Trotsk JOINS FIGHTERS TQ SAVE DAILY Life and Death Struggle' of Workers Shown From Saginaw, Mich., city of “hell on earth” for lumber, coal and iron foundry workers, comes to The DAILY WORKER Thursday a letter explaining why the -Workers Party, English branch, can send no . more than $5.00 to help the Communist Press fight their battles against the bosses. That nothing more could humanly be asked of this branch than what its | secretary, John G. Zittel, has done, can be seen from his letter: “Excuse me for not having remitted sooner, but financial circumstances would not permit it. In our branch there are only four members with dues paid up, and one of these has had to go to Detroit to find work. This leaves only my wife and me, and one other member. “I think you will have to excuse him, for he is a wage slave at the Saginaw Plate Glass Co., getting only 46 cents an hour, five days a week, and he has seven children. This gives his family only $18.40 a week, with house rent to pay, besides. I don’t see how he can pull thru. “This city is controlled by lumber | kings, coal barons and the General} Motor company with their dirty mal-| lable iron foundries. With their gas hells, they keep several doctors and | nurses busy continually dressing wounds. The stretchers are unfold- ed day and night, for men that have been overcome by gas. In order to keep the blazes going, slaves have | things over,” and said immediately | tion.) to be exchanged every day, for the gases take the life out of the men in a short time, while the bosses pile | up profits. “They pay as low as 35 cents an hour and work the men from 10 to 15 hours a day. An army of. unem- ployed, both men and women, is al- ways being imported from out of town —men that are ignorant of the slave conditions they have to work under. All jast summer we had.as many as} thousand men out of work, for six and eight months. These are conditions which our ers have to meet, while capital- are taking all the Inxuries of But we ire fighting tg obtain e “full value of our production, vhich we are deprived of under the ne stage of black capitalism. “Tt don't want to miss a single copy the DAILY WORKER, so I en- eight or ten of close $3.50 for renewing my subscrip- | tion end $5.00 for an insurance policy; and $1.50 for the defense of our Mich- igan cases. The national office of, the Labor lefense Council has sent me some contribution lists, which I will make special, determined efforts to sell. Long live the Workers Party and our fighting DAILY WORKER.” Len “Spouts Patriotism. NEW YORK, Feb. 5.— Len Small, governor of Illinois, has joined the national council of the United States flag association, it is announced at their-offices here. The letter receiv- ed from Small, in which he spouted patriotic sentimentalities, said, “An appropriate appreciation of the flag as a symbol of patriotism, unity and justice should be inherent in every American. To instill in the minds of American youth the sacred sym- bolism of the flag is our patriotic duty.” PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Leninism (Conclusion of speech by I. Stalin.) 8. The Question of Bolshevism. The old Trotskyism made efforts to belittle Lenin more or less’ openly without fearing the consequences. The new Trotskyism proceeds more | cautiously. It makes efforts to carry on the part of the old Trotskyism in the form of praising Lenin, of prais- ing his greatness. I think it worth while to quote a few examples. The party knows Lenin as @ ruth- |less revolutionary, It aiso knows, | however, that Lent was cautious, dia | not love intriguing politicians, and nov | infrequently held back too sharp teér- rorists, including» Trotsky himself, with a firm hand. Comrade Trotsky treats this theme in his book “On | Lenin.” But from his charactertiza- tion it would seem that Lenin only pretended, as “he emphasized on -ev- ery suitable occasion the mevitability of terror.” (Page 104 of,tne Russian edition.) The impression resulting is, that Lenin was the most blood- thirsty of all the bloodthirsty Bolshe- viki. Why did Comrade Trotsky need this unnecessary and in no way Justt- fied laying on of color? The party knows Lenin as an ex- emplary comrade who did not care to 64-PAGE PAMPHLET ON LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM NOW IN PREPARATION This installment is part of a pam- phlet“Leninism or Trotzkyism” now in preparation. It includes articles by three outstanding figures in the Russian Communist Party: G. Zinoviev, |. Stalin and ©. Kamen- ev, to form a-most timely and im- portant tontribution to a discussion of world interest. The pamphlet will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 cents and will be ready at the con- clusion of this serial publication. tuent assembly by force.” “Bravo,” cried Lenin, full of joy, “what is right, must remain right. But will your peopie agree to it?” “Some of us are .vacillating, but I believe that in the long run they will agree,” answered Natanson. (See edition.) answer questions on his own respon- | sibility, impulsively, without the iéad- | ing committee, without curefuliy feel- | ing his way and after cautious ex- amination. Comrade Trotsky deals with this side of the question also in | hig book. But he gives us a picture |not of Lenin, but of some Chinese | mandarin, who decides at random the |most important questions in the si- {lence of his study, as tho he were fI-| luminated by the holy spirit. | You wish to know how our party} decided the question of the dissolution | of the constituent assembly? Hear} | will certain! Thus is history written. You want to know how the party Trotsky “On Lenin,” page 92, Russian|| decided the question of the supreme | war council. Listen to Comrade Trot- 8 “Without serious and experienced | military leaders, we shall not emerge from this chaos,” said I to Vladimir Ilyitsch, every time that I visited the | staff. “That is obviously true; but they | ism feniorrarmmencs in? Surely not eee ¢ these Arabian night | which compromise | to magnify the party leader. Lenin? We can hardly think so. The party knows Lenin as the | greatest Marxist of our time, the’ pro- |foundest theoretician and the most experienced revolutionary who was | not guilty of even a shade of Blan- |quism. Comrade Trotsky treats this | side of the question also in his book. His characterization however, ‘reveals no giant Lenin, but’some kind ‘of a Blanquist dwarf, who advises the par- | ty in the October days “to seize the power with their own thands indepen- | dently of the Soviet and behind its back.” I have already said that this | characterization doesnot contain a word of truth. \ Why did Comrade,Trotsky need this | glaring . . . inexactness? Is/it not | an attempt to slight Lenin “just. a | little”? i These are. the characteristic fea- tures of the new Trotskyism: Wherein lies the danger of the new Trotskyism? In that Trotskyism, ac- cording to iis whole inner, content, shows evéry sign of becoming a ceu- ter and meeting place of non-prole- an elements, which are striving to ken and disinteg#ate the dictator- ship of the proletariat. | When then? you Will ‘ask. What are | the iminediate duties! ef the party in connection with the new literary at- tacks of Comrade Trotsky ’ Trotskyism ‘now steps forward | with the object of dethroning Bolsie- vism and undermining its principles. The duty of the party is to bury, Trot- skyism as a line of thought. y betray us.” Reprisals egalnst the opposition “We will attach a commissar to| and the danger of a split are spoken each of them.” | of. This is nonsense, comrades. Our “Two would be __ better: stil x-| party is strong and powerful. It will | claimed Lenin, “but stalwart ones. It | admit of no sptits. As for reprisats, | | Comrade Trotsky: “The constituent assembly must of | course be dissolved,” said Lenin, “but | what then about the left social revolu- tionaries?” Old Natanson reassured | us, however. He came to us “to talk | after the first words: | “Well, if it comes to that, as far as I am concerned, dissolve the consti- The following is a written version of the speech given by me on Noy. 18. at the session held by the Moscow committee, enlarged by ‘the active |party functionaries, and repeated or Noy. 19, at the session of the Com munist fraction of the trade .unior council, and on Nov. 21,at the confer jence of military functionaries.—L. K. | Comrades! The subject of my speech will be Comrade Trotsky’s latest publication |the article which appeared on the eve lof the seventh anniversary of the Oc- tober revolution, and entitled by it author, “The Lessons of October,” Trotsky presents the party with books fairly frequently. Hitherto we have not thought it necessary to pay |much attention to these books, altn jit is not difficult to find in many ot | them various deviations from Bolshe- |Vism, from the official ideology of our |}party. But this book must be accord |ed special attention, and subjected tc a thoro analysis, the more that Com rade Trotsky has selected the them« of the,Lessons of October for his las publication. As our whole party, the whole Com. munist International, the whole inter. national labor movement, and the whole working youth, are learning the lessons taught by the October revolu tion, and will continue to learn them it is not possible to consider the inter pretation of these lessons as the priv- jate affair of this or that writer. A: the Lessons of October appears witn the countenance of the party, and the political bureau of our party, whicn— and this no secret—is the leading party in the Comintern, then it is pe: fectly clear that we are threatened py the danger of having such proclama |tions, such “lessons,” accepted as tex’ book and not only our. youthful mem | bers, but also by thé whole Comintern |And the form assumed by Comrad: Trotsky’s work shows it to aim at be ing a textbook for the Comintern. All who have read the article arc bound to see that it appeals not only On the Way From England! The following shipment of the latest pam- sae will be in our ew days— hands within the next Rash in Your Orders Now! Work Among Women... Decline of Capitalism, by Varga... .35 cents a copy .35 cents a copy Between the Fourth and Fifth Congress (A report of the E. C. of the C. 1)........35 cents a copy Report of the Fifth Congr ommunist International of the .70 cents a copy The Communist International (No, 7) (Magazine, $2.50 a year, $1.25 six months) .25 cents a copy Here are the latest publications from Europe (we have received 4 limited number only) for which the sole agent in this country is THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois is surely impossible that we have nc | am di stalwart Communists.” Thus began the formation of the supreme’ military council. (Trotsky: “On Lenin,” That is how Comrace Trotsk writes history. Why did Comrade Trotsky need letariat as‘well, and to the Commur ist Parties of all.countries. And thu it is not a-matter of priv but a political conflict concerning th whole party, Should any comrade: maintain that the conflict aroused b: Comrade Trotsky’s book is merely a conflict’ between Trot are unable to grasp the real interests of the party. Comrades holding such an opinion can only do so because they would like to utilize the party gan: to do with us.” . No one has the right to stand asid« in this conflict. It concerns one of th« most far-reaching questions of our in ner life, and of the life of the Comin tern. The question is: Can the part recommend the proletariat to accer the lessons as: taught by Comrad Trotsky’s book, or should the part; exercise ‘the whole of its authority in warning the proletariat against th teaching of the “Lessons of October”? I am not desirous of here enteriny into a long controversy: with this ar ticle of Comrade Trotsky’s. Comrad Trotsky is an excellent writer, and hi gifted pen has done the party muct valuable service. But here it serve: interests hostile to the party, nere > | page 106, Russian edi-| | | | Speech by Comrade Kamenev |to our party, but the international pro |concrete question of TPotskyism ane ate opinion |merely as one of the@telearest anc , Bucharin,/Does any genefal lMnespreally exist? Zinoviey, Stalin and Kamenevy, a dif-| What do we understas ference of opinion between literates, term “Trotskyism”? Ig. these comrades would prove that they of Comrade Trotsky’s conflicts for the purpose of forming personality, with an individuality, o some third group based on the slo. with some generalizatiqg, some treni “The literates are quarreling called into being by thé’ general con among themselves, but it has nothing ditions of the evolution of the labo: inctly opposed to them. We | need no reprisals now, but a cevelop- ed battle of ideas against the résurrec- ‘ion of Trotskyism. Why We did not desire this fiterary dis- | sussion nor did we strive for, it. Trot: | m forces it upon uo. by. its antl- | ist attacks. Wellsthen, comrades, | (Loud,applause.) > en we are ready! | Bolshevism, and: in doing this I refer to Comrade Trotsky’s Tatest utteranc most instructive examples-of the gen | eral line pursued by»Comrace Tro» sky. ie. | We must. first, of all agk ourselves: under th & question mality, 0 of general and by 20 sone phenomena pertaining ie ators of the labor movement im Russia dur ing the last twenty years? : Wha ! have we to deal with here? With mover.ent in a petty Béurgeois coun try? With an accidental phenomen» or with a phenomona»based upon - past which we cannot forget? If you turn to Comrade Lenin's, works jor : reply to this question,, you will finc |that up to thé time of the Fépruar: revolution, and again, with a brief 1m terruption, after the ye; ly a work appeared ‘Poa Comrace Lenin's pen in which Trotsky:sm wa not dealt with systematically. Why? Trotskyism and the Ratty Before tn: | | Revolution of 1917. | | Our party or’ginated in a petty bour- geois, capitalistically backward coun try. Our proletariat existed unde more backward conditions than any 1918, scarce | 799 | 1220 W. Monroe St. (basement). | does not serve bolshevism, but thc Other proletariat in Burope. It wa: cause of those seeking to disintegrat| Surrounded by more agrarian and pet and discredit Bolshevism—both the ty-bourgeois elements than any othe Bolshevism embodying the ideology of P@Oletariat. And the question: of hoy the proletarian revolution and the Bol- shevism organizing the fighting force: of the proletariat. And Comradc Trotsky does this by means of an ex ceedingly artistic, but essentially in jeorrect and) inaccurate description o the whole of the events between Feb ruary and October. I have no doubt |but that the party will call upon 2 number of its writers, among thos: | who participated in the events of thi: | period and took immediate part in thc }revolution, and that these will refut the various misrepresentations mad« by Comrade Trotsky with reference tc decisive moments in the history of ou party during this epoch. The April demonstration is misrep- resented, the April conference is mis. represented, the events in June and July are misrepresented, the events in connection with the prelim inary parliament are misrepresented and finally the course taken by event; in October itself are misrepresented Here I cannot dwell upon the detailr required for the restoration of histori eal truth, or on the confronting o Comrade Trotsky’s assertions by doc. umentary evidence. What I wanto tc deal with here is the general question of the social and political import o the attitude adopted by Comrade Trot sky, and the significance of this atti tude when considered in the light o the previous. positions taken up by Comrade Trotsky, and of the rol played by Comrade Trotsky. We have hitherto abstained from putting this question, for easily com. prehensible reasons, But now we car avoid it no longer for Comrade Trot sky, in thus raising the question of October, the question of the rol Played by our party and by Lenin in the creation of the ideology underly ing the October revolution, himsel! forces us to deal with the questior from all the standpoints which hav been adopted by Comrade Trotsky during the history of the Bolshevist Party. I am thus obliged to deal with thc ‘Ylot, the self-knowledge essential to the | struggle leading up to the October | this proletariat succeeded in the midst of czarist despotism, in creating ana welding together a party destined tc lead the whole international labo | movement, this is the main question party. This question of our‘origin and de velopment has frequetitly been raise’ in the party itself, and the party har made it cleat to itself why and in wha manner the proletariat of Russia (t | use the old word), in a backward agrar- |ian country, and undey the despotisr of the czar, has been enabled to creat that Leninism which today is th: guiding star of the whole tnternationa proletariat, of the proletariat of cour tries much further developed in car italism and much further advancec in economics than Russia, “One thing is certain: Under ‘these conditions the party of the revolutionary proie lariat, the party of the Bolsheviki, could only originate sin the form ot constant, systematicy.and unceasing struggle against the, petty bourgeois element striving to. Subordinate | tne |working class. Bolshevism in its tu jnermost essence signifies & struggle in the sense that it originated, grew and attained its firm foothold in: th: midst of an uninterrupted and con- stant struggle against every | exercised by the bourgeoisie on the proletariat. 4 ‘ The most concentrated expregsion of the policy of bourgeois influende on the proletariat is afforded by menshe vism. The thirty years of the histor, of Bolshevism is the history of thinty years of struggle ag; it Leninism is the te: of the strug gle of the proletaria inst the bour. geoisie, Precisely this reason Leninism is | theref at the stim time the teaching! of the i against’ menshevism? | * 4 ais g \ HUSTLING TO MAKE OUR TORTOISE? 501 BRANCHES rf os a> ‘BED REVEL’ A SUCCESS TELL DAILY WORKER, “NO! TI i te torch inte Red Revel ROSS-WORD puzzles are only a recent recreation; but the ancient ickets for je coming Rei eve have ‘been sent to all the party ‘ Greeks had a pastime that was very similar, It consisted of the * branches. lazy. art of complicating the simple, or, in other words, of inventing The members of the branch and “bunk.” the branch executive should see to One such problem was that of Achilles and the tortoise, over which betel siscne ine ere Pi a debate raged for several hundred years, until the Romans, conquered the members set out to sell them to Greece, in fact. “It rages:even yet in the rest-rooms of our Goose-step their friends and to sympathizers of universities. . . 4 our movement. r This is the puzzié: Imagine a race-track on which are placed a The branch should then elect a | tortoise, alwaysiconsidered the slowest of all animals, and Achilles, the comrade to serve on the Red Revel fleétest runner in)legend. If the tortoise is given a head-start, can enlarged committee.» His name and Achilles ever overtake him? address should be sent to the city One school of philosophers answered, “No,” (and still does.) They office so that we can notify him of declared that, in order for Achilles to overtake the tortoise, it would be the meetings of this committee. necessary for him to pass thru the same space as that which the tortoise The branch should. then. arrange had traversed. While Achilles was going thru this space, no matter how to form a masked group as prizes little it is—the tortoise would be moving on,—no matter how slowly: will be given:out to the best group hence, Achilles would always be so much behind. possible and we want to make this The real answer to’this problem, of course, is in terms of practice, affair.a real.gala affair of the party. | not of theory. Achilles DOES overtake the tortoise,—that’s all there is If, more tickets are needed, write to it. Argue as you'will, you can’t get away from facts. ohaekis Mean we, will, supply. you But, strange to say, in the 1925 drive to insure the DAILY WORKER, with, them, : we have an example that agrees with the contention that Achilles must Tickets can be obtained at Room always remain: behind. . i 308, 166 W. Washington St. We have 487 branches of the Workers party who are Achilles,—they PANS PEs are militant,—they race to fulfill the $50,000 quota. Big Attractions at Bazaar. | i On the other hand, there’are 501 branches who are Tortoises. They NEW’ YORK—Freiheit Singing So-| have crawled along the track. The year 1925 has not existed for them. ciety, which contribtited so much| The appeal from the DAILY WORKER has not got under their shells! pleasure to the Lenin memorial meet- No matter ‘how fast the Achilles branches run, can they ever overcome ing, will ‘entertain at. the four days’|. .the handicap given them while the Tortoise branches are NOT running? joint-bazaar, Feb. 11-14, of the Labor! Tho 487 quotas are filled, does this mean that the other 501 quotas can Defense Council and _ International be overtaken? Workers’ Aid. The Finninsh Gym- We laugh at Greek philosophers as being men of cob-webbed minds. nastic and Choral Societies will also But we are forced to agree with them in this: in hts scralaylenidSthend give part of the program. The Hun- DAILY WORKER, it is the tortoise that holds cog les bac! a hye garian Orchestral and Singing Socie- quota can be raised only when the 501 branches become milita ties will give many fine selections. of motionless. ; 1 x e age 1 FINNISH BRANCH IN Party Activities OF | | | TONIGHT! LECTURE . MINNEAPOLIS LEADS Local Chicago IN MILWAUKEE BY DISTRICT NO. 9 DRIVE COMRADE LERNER : MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 pice " ; ‘king in food) MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 5. — imes, ident, we treat, All party members wor . is, Feb. 5. oar hast feeds in — that even | industry will meet in Room 307, 166 | Comrade Max Lerner, educational our enemies wouldn't deserve. W. Washington St., 8 P. M. director of the Workers Party of This -is what happened | in the Northwest Jewish Branch, 2642 Le | Chicago, will come here to deliver a: Moyne Ave. lecture on “Leninism and the Amer- h, Work- : ora: oie dikeattaue ce paieste Lithuanian No. 3, Wicker Park Hall, | ican Movement.” The lecture takes to remittances credited tor the eale,| 2040, W. North Ave. . place on Friday at 8 p. m., at Mil- - fu]! Lithuanian No. 77, Meldazis Hall,| jew, pall, 802 State St. Comrade’ of insurance. policies for the DAILY 2 W. 23rd Place. WORKER. Tho this’ branch has, | 7242 W: 28r : No. Sedg-| Lerner is an excellent lecturer and Id-more than-twice as many poli-,),.2iuagarian Branch, 1500 No. Se08-| especially capable of handling this pope chap Marirtomnlitebbe LNL. | tic | Sublect. No worker in Milwaukee tree big peta was by error omit, bakers a Dramatic | should miss this opportunity to hear “A ela! | ib, 1665 Bisse! ¥ i ted from the district roll-call in the Seta Cicero, 1402 S. 50th Court, bie. DAILY WORKER last week. clestet tin 3882 s+ at ae ae Ee yy Y. “League” Gets Another America. \. To date, these Finnish comrades. 19th Ward Italian, 921 8. Loomis St.| “ GiNmyA—Brehon Somerwell, of have sent $148.00 thru their secre. tary, H. Seklund. “And we are still selling polic- ies strong,” says Seklund in a let- ter to the DAILY WORKER Friday. CHICAGO YOUNG WORKERS ~ LEAGUE MEETINGS. x Tonight, Friday, Feb. 6. Area Branch “No. 1—Meeis at 8 p. m., 6th floor, 166 W. Washington St. Area Branch No. 2—Meets at 8 p m. Blue Island Ave. Area Branch No. 3—Meets at 8 p. m., 3116 S. Halsted St. Ared Branch No. 4—Meets at 8 p. m.,| 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Area Branch No. 5—Meets at 8 p. m., Area Branch No. 6—Meets at 8 p. m.,) 2613 Hirsch Blvd. (basement). This being the first Friday of the month, all Y. W. L. branches are having a business meeting at which reports of the city convention will be given and regular branch business taken up.’ There will also be shop talks and discussion. Party members and outsiders are welcome to attend. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Irvifig Park English, 4021 Drake Av. Notthwest English, 2733 Hirsch Blv. Rumanian Branch, 2250 Clybour Ave. c i Ukrainian No. 1, 1532 W. Chicago j Ave. i WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Enlarged Red Revel Committee. Delegates from all branches must be | present. Meeting will be held in Room 307, 166 W, Washington St., at 8 P. M. Douglas Park Jewish, 3118 W. Roo- sevelt Road. Englewood English, 638 Groveland New York, was today appointed as- sistant to the league of nations in- jland terways commission. DiS?ZIMMERMAN boys MY NEW LOCATION ' Park. : ‘ Czecho-Slovak No. 1, Spravedinost ey X-Ray Hall, 1825 S. Loomis St. 46 oe RY 12 : THURSDAY, FEBRUA Workers Given: Czecho-Slovak North Berwyn, So- kols Oak Park, Roosevelt and Scoville. Ci pleats ie Lithuanian No. 2, 1900 S. Union ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. «_ My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Ave., Savicke’s Hail. Mid-City English, 722 Blue Island Ave. 1ith Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oakley Boulevard, Scandinavian Lake View, 3206 N. Wilton St. Scandinavian West. Side, Zeich’s Hall, Cicero and Superior. Scandinavian Karl Marx, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. “FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Scandinavian So. Chicago, 641 BE. 61st St. = - @ Neen — THE REAL STO (To be Costinued) Red Revel Masquerade Ball; 37 South Ashland "Avenue | Corner of Monroe and Ashland Bivd., 3 ala | ¥ mo PAT gets s The DAILY WORKER is sending a correspondent to Williamson county to get the real story of Herrin—inter- views, sketches, investigations of the forces at: work in and the background story of the struggle that» has given the name of “Bloody Williamson” to the coal district round about Herrin, Illinois. shortly in subsequent issues. THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER Lettish Branch, 4359 Thomas St. RY OF HERRIN The ‘stories’. will “appear » & 350-6 montis §200 9 months :