The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1925, Page 13

LL doors flew open one after the other, no push, no effort was re- quired. The cast iron gates of the enormous works beyond the Narvskaya Zastava (Narva Gate) in Leningrad. marked the initial stage of the magic which continued without end. Dividing them- selves into groups, the envoys of the German working class made a careful investigation of our entire country. The Urals and Crimea, Ukraine and the Volga, hundreds of nooks and cor- ners of the Soviet Union became known to them. The Germans wit- nessed the life and work of our state in all its majestic power and in all its unattractive simplicity. We did not seatter fine sand on the path which the German proletarians had to tread. And we can see that the German guests have appreciated this country which showed itself to them in its work-a-day clothes, in shirt sleeves without collar or tie and up to our eyes in work, and they appreciated it precisely because of this feverish activity in the work of reconstruc- tion. They Come Back Again. “The delegates, sunburnt, grown thinner, but with a new light in their eyes, are again in Moscow. Only one door has as yet remained closed to the delegation. The most disputed, the most mysterious, and the most re- mote door which, at the same time, is subconsciously so near and yet so attractive. « - But the door of the Comintern did not behave any wo7se than the other door. Most of the members of the delegation belong to a party with - which the Communists have long and bitter accounts to settle. But they are workers, and the door opened wide without any difficulty and with extreme hospitality. It is one thing to listen to an opera in the Mariensky Theater, to pat a Russian Young Pioneer on the head, ‘to receive information ffom the man- ager of a Soviet brewery. Caught in such ¢riminal acts, a social-democrat can murmur something in his defense. But to penetrate into the orange chamber! To get’ right into the lion’s mouth, to touch the tables on which the pernicious and agitating “Zinov- iev letters” are written. To sit at these tables! I say, is that behaving like obedient well-mannered social- democratic lambs? Is it possible for a subscriber to The Vorwaerts to ex- hibit such boundless temerity? They Meet Zinoviev. f tyrwds persisted. German and pro- letarian-like, they wanted to car- ry the matter to the end. They open- ed_the last door, they sat down at the same table with Zinoviev, and listened. And what is the main thing —having got over their nervousness, they themselves spoke warmly, pas- sionately and with all sincerity. The tanned Freiberger has become even more tanned during these weeks. But his hoarse bass of a non-commis- sioned officer sounds as resolute as ever. And striking the Zinoviev table with the broad palm of his right hand, he bawls out: . “Comrades, let us have a straight- forward talk with the Communists, Without any subterfuges, for we are not before an official table in Ger- many.” fz There was really no need for this invitation. The delegates under- stood themselves that diplomatic con- versations would be out of place in the orange chamber. There are other places and institutions for this kind of thing. The social-democrat, Tonn, of Ham- burg, might serve as a model for the portrait of 4 menshevik to a cantank- erous Soviet caricaturist. -est worker, | n some truth, some agreement and sad- ly longing ‘for. unity in the class : struggle. German Communists Bite. FTONN ‘complained of the German Communists. He said they are fr- reconcilable. They are too rough and aggressive. They are ready to re- move from their path any social-de- mocrat just because he is a social- democrat. They do not spare party ambition. Let there be differences of opinion with Communists about the path leading to socialism. The path of dictatorship or the path of de- mocracy—those are contentious mat- ters which could -be peacefully obviat- ed, especially in all currem trade union work. But why do they call us and our leaders approbious names? It is all very well for them to shout, “Ebert, Noske, Scheidemann,” adding to these names the most approbious episodes, But after all, they are the fathers of our party. And Ton add- ed excitedly: “We would be bad fellows indeed, if we agreed with this and fouled our own nest.” The sturdy fair-haired Pennevitz from Hemnetz, is also angry with the Communists. For instance, he said these Rote Fahne fellows have m0 idea how to behave. They published an open letter to the social-democratic leaders and gave them five days for a reply. But even before these five days had elapsed, the Rote Fahne in its impatience began to slam the addressees of the open letter. “And then -” said the Ger- man in confusion, “there is such a great deal of talk in our country that our Communists are under Moscow rule. Such is also written about you, Comrade Zinoviev.” The whole orange chamber, includ- ing its permanent occupier laughed jong and loud, and Pennevitz blush- ing up to the eyes, finds salvation only in Zinoviev’s reassuring ‘smile. HE serious and excited Meihert of Dortmund, also endeavors as a working man to find a common lan- guage with the Communists ‘and finds it very difficult. His accusation against the German Communist Party is that in the political struggle it does not differentiate between social- democratic leaders and the rank and file of that party. There is a vast difference between them. They must be approached differently. Meinhert also indulged in remini- scences of frustrated hopes and joys, he is a Saxon. What a pity it was that the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment did not materialize in Sax- ony. On that occasion the Commun- ists co-operated, and yet it did not come off. And the guests went on talking. How extremely interesting was this talk between the hated president of the execrable Comintern and the vile compromisers. Can it be an augury of international working class solidar- ity? Orange Chamber Secrets Are Out! The mysterious Zinoviev disclosed .so simply and in such a matter of fact manner the great secrets of the orange chamber. What would the chroniclers of The Daily Mail not have given to penetrate this chamber and to listen. Only one such meeting was worth the long journey which the German delegates had made. HERE were secrets and such secrets. They were worth hearing altho the Comintern never made a secret of them. It was only a matter of taking out the cotton wool which had been plugged into their ears by the bourgeois press and of listening to the serious, bitter and joyous truth of the historical progress ot the pro- letariat. “You want to know if we recognize the mistakes of the German Com- munists? Of course we do, just as we recognize our own mistakes. The and mistakes past and German Communist ie oe Part In New Wars. reply there were lowered heads, A and mourful acquiescence. “Now, tell me quite openly, will the social-democrats repeat their July re ap are yp aeoapeaontigeaiiy That that war is not S- tant is fairly obvious.” < This very simple and quite OTAINATY Verona, Ny Je cecssssssssersrserreresensee 9,000 ER ee ee Be ta ee Mystery of the Orange Chamber SE ten 9 a0 ne OE ab question made all those present flare up. Some jumped to their feet. Others fidgeted on their chairs and others again were stung as if by a whip. There were cries: “Of course! On no account whatever! Without any. doubt! One cannot predict as yet!” The idylically calm and smiling face of the host brot calm into the excited crowd.of his guests. He said: “There is no reason to be excited. Augury and prophecies are not requir- ed, all that is needed is a Marxist method, a good memory and a capa- city to observe what is going on.” RE not the French socialists sup- porting just now a very real war which is carried on undér our very eyes, and in which almost half the French army participatés? They sup- port this ultra-colonial, predatory war in Morocco! “And what about the 1918 revolu- tion in Germauy? Another ‘tiny’ er- ror of the German mensheviks. Ger- many bore already the name of a socialist republic, was covered with a thick network of soldiers’ afid work- ers’ councils. It was the social-de- mocrats who liquidated these coun- cils, who throttled the already accom- plished revolution, who inflicted on it a defeat worse than the defeat of the Paris commune. Does such an his- toric affair bear comparison with the very coarse caricature of the social- democrats in the Rote Fahne? “And the famous collaboration in Saxony? It did not come to an end somehow, but because the social- democrats sent ‘just at the moment’ armed forces from Berlin to Dresden. “There are many, secrets in the Comintern and in life in general. The question is, what is to be considered a secret. Proud of Our Aim. OU would like to ascertain if Moscow exercises ‘influence on the German Party. Of course, it does, We acknowledge openly that thru the Comintern we are building up the world party of the working _ class. Have you never heard of it? In that case listen. We can maintain that up till now our cause has been a 25 By Michael Koltzeff per cent success. We are convinced that a 100 per cent success will be achieved. We do not try to conceal the establishment of a world Com- munist Party with one leading cen- ter. This is a thing we are proud of. It is our historic task. You would like to know the magnitude of Rus- sian influence on the Communist movement thruout the world. This influence is, of course, considerable. There are 33 members in the execu- tive committee of the Comintern, and only four of them are Russian. Not so long ago a foreigner expressed great surprise when he heard of such correlation. He was even annoyed and wanted to know why we keep:si- lent on this matter. ‘There is mo nec- essity for us to proclaim what. was published in all our papers in the ordinary way. No blame attaches to us. On the contrary, we deserve com- mendation and respect if the four Russians on the executive committee carry more weight than all the others. It is but natural that the Russian party has acquired this weight as it is the leader of the only victorious and actual revolution in the world.” “They Enjoy Listening. 5 meee were many more questions and everyone of them had to do with either a great or a little secret. The German social-democrats listened eagerly and Zinoviev disclosed with the greatest.ease and readiness all the “secrets” of the Comintern. But the surprising thing was that the new listeners from another camp were not disillusioned, but carried away by this calm turning over of the pages of the great book of Leninism. It was past midnight and the visit- ors were still in the orange chamber. Thru the open window floated from somewhere out of the rainy dark the fresh joyous singing of the Kremlin military students. The guests from a foreign country, from the enemy camp, did not feel inclined to go, they felt at home. - Will this feel- ing be fleeting or lasting? They made arrangements to meet again. will they meet only: once ~miore? © _ you ask them, they will be silent and | thotful. LLL LLL LL ttc, A CALL T0 ACTION! 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