The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1927, Page 7

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927 ¥ \A_Monument_ to Death and Destruction Cy By BORIS GIGANTIC, war-memorial was inaugurated a few days ago.at Douanmont (France). “Within, its walis and below its shadow,” reads the cable from Verdun “will rest the bones of four hund- red thousand Frenchmen who, during 1916 and 1917 died to.defend: Verdun, the gate to France.” On..the, very, summit ‘of this mammoth monument whielr is built in the form of a tower 1500 feet high, will. constantly. burn .a flame of “perpetual remem- brance.’- This flame was lighted at the imagination of the memorial by Marshal Petain. “To their will, we opposed a stronger will, We met their scorn for losses with a willingness for sac- yifice; even. more complete. This mausoleum . . - may.. well. be, called the mausoleum of the heart of France... We who knew them know how natural was, their hergism, ..- Eighteen months of war had made-them. soldiers in the completest sense... Long. practice in.fighting had taught them tenacity. comradeship, pride in themselves, in their reputation. in.their regiments and in their country .. - They made of this ossuary not only a tomb for the dead. but,.a sanctuary of the national conscience. Petain while lighting the tia: of perpetual reraerabrarce” on the summit of this “canetuary of the national ¢ nscience,” this “mauso- leum: of the heart of France.” While: mentioning the “episode of the bayonet trénch? in which an unknown number of soldiers wete-buried- alive, Petain explained that, this episode was! “only one of many such dramas which were repéated..the. whole. length of the line.” These sol- dievs; according to Marshal Petain, all the time “yemained firmly attached to their human senti- ments of family affection and love for their homes, the-soilof..their farms, their work, continual ac- quaintance with death and misery had made them resigned to the. point of fatalism.” They—he said further-“without, enthusiasm ... faced and met death “ i Here itis,.the other side of the medal. It’s all zovered with blood, with the bones of hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers. This is no more a glori- pus’ defense» of Verdun, but an eighteen months ruthless butchery and not of “soldiers in the com- pletestesense with a willingness for sacrifice,” but of young’ Workers and peasants possibly taken away from the'factory benches and the soil; young people who weré’ firmly attached to their families, their homes, their work, who died without enthusiasm, who were tompletely resigned-to their fate, to the ovet-prdserit mortal danger, “to misery, for they had no other choice, Tor Marshal ‘Petain, during the ad- varie of the German army on Verdun, has flung at the-German Crown Prince a defiant—“They shall aot: pass.” (With apology to Marshal Petain we aasten to make a correction: Petain gave his soldiers a choice, for he placed behind their backs machine guns and told them they could choose between Ger- marand’Prench” bullets.) Avd“yet “Verdun is only one of the “episodes” of The. Art of Rebellion ASeee REBELLION-IS A SPECIAL FORM OF ‘S POLITICAL STRUGGLE subject to special laws which have tobe -carefully-studied. This truth was remarkably well expressed by Karl Marx who said thatzarmed “REBELLION, JUST AS WAR, IS AN ART,” ‘ A@dording to Marx, the main rules of this art are: 1.4-Never TO PLAY at rebellion, but having once ee it, to realize that one must GO TO THE END; F 4 2.—Té is essential to collect SUPERIOR FORCES at the right place and at the decisive moment, for otherwise the enemy having the better organization and sbeing better prepared will destroy the rebels. 3<Once rebellion has started one should act WIGH THE UTMOST DECISION and one should sertainlx take up THE OFFENSIVE. “Defense spel éath for armed rebellion.” {forts should be made to take the enemy ondwares, to catch the mcment when his forces are scattered. =One must endeavor to achieve even small suc- fe ess@s every day (even every hour, if it is a question of only one town), keeping up at all costs “MORAL SUPERIORITY.” Marx summed up the lessons of all revolutions in rogagd te armed rising with the words of the great- est wevolutionary tactician in bi Danton: “Au- daci&, again audacity and al» ecity.”” Afiplied to Russia and to ; ober Revolution of 4247 this means: Simultyne: vs and as rapid and sudreh as possible march on Petersburg, certainly frontiall parts—from working class quarters and fron. Jand, Reval and Kronstadt, attack by the WH@LE fleet, accumulation of gigantic superiority oversthe 15-20 thousand (and maybe more) of our “bourgeois guards” (Junkers), our “Vendée forces” (a sGction of the Cossacks), etc. Manipulation of our three main forces: the fleet, the avorkers and army divisions in a manner to ensuye (at any cost) the occupation of (a) the tele- phone, €b) the telegraph, (c) railway stations (d) bridges (above all). ~ ermation OF THE MOST ENERGETIC ELE- So spoke Mars! TE.as well as the best sailors, into small de- ents for the occupation of all the most im- t positions and FOR THEIR PARTICIPA- ; ‘ound and cut off Petersburg, to take it by _ copi¥ined attack of the fleet, the workers and tyoofid-ysueh is the task which demands HIGH ART AND TRIPLE AUDACITY. To fom detachments of the best workers arming jhera with rifles and bombs in order to attack and surround the “centres” of the enemy, (Junkers schodls, the telegraph and telephone, ete.) under the slogan “DEATH TO ALL IS PREFERABLE TO LETTING THE ENEMY ESCAPE.” Let us hope that in the event of an. offensive being decided upon leaders will successfully apply the-great doctrines of Danton and Marx. The: success of the Russian and World Revolu- tions depends on two. or three days of struggle. DREAMS By EDWARD W. CONNAWAY. "| “IT want to write of a snow-white ship That floats on a green-blie sea, |< But the daily grind in the mill or mine Is the picture that I see. Thad rather write of pleasant things, Of mesic, a laugh, or a song, But I close my eyes and only see Ay dystem.Lknow 5 is wrongs y 1 ater bi Ass - X SELTSOFF the World War, of butchery ever recorded in the At Verdun “only” 400,000 r years of the “I war, the ‘ for democracy” had devoured t lives and also crippled and -tur valids about twenty million others. and most terrible tory of mankind. 1, and the four war against war and 2 millions of young 1 into useless i he greatest But-what does it all matter so far as Marshal Petain and other official patriots are conc Isn’t it enough that they shed crocodile tea the “fallen heroes” and eulogize them on its oecasion of the inauguration of the Verdun memorial, this, the greatest human history monument to death and destruction? True, that ve mothers and wiv thinking of their d them 3 ing th there g£rowi iniquitie system. They k gators of the V in one country rise and ov v on the soil, so thoroug millions of de new and still s out the mighty and e s who clearly si ntten by the capit: e causes, the real in: The time will come v the working cla tem despite the fact that ith blood and has taken s spread through- “Come on you workers, grab one of these beasts and lead him up to the White House.” On Expulsion of Trotsky, Vuyovitch from HE VIII Plenum of the ECCI which’ met in May is year, on the question of the action of the position passed a resolution which “categorically prohibits comrades Trotsky and Vuyoyiteh from con- uing their factional struggle” and which “in- ucts the Presidium of the ECCI in conjunction with the International Control] Commission formaliy to expel Comrades Trotsky and Vuyovitch from the ECCI if this struggle will nof’céasé’ ‘The facts which have occurred since the Plenum held in May have shown that the warnings given to Comrades and Vuyovitch were unheeded and that the sition retaliated to the categorical prohibition of the factional struggle by intensifying it to an unparalleled degree, by a broad attack upon the CPSU and the Comintern, by fresh attempts to dis- rupt the unity of the Leninist ranks, both in the U. S. S. R. and throughout the world. Called to account at the August Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Committee of the CPSU (b), the opposition once again, as in its declaration of the 16th of October, 1926, solemnly undertook to cease factional, underground work against the Party. This undertaking was given under the direct threat of the expulsion of the leaders of the opposition, Comrades Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). But, only a very few days later, the August undertaking met with the same fate as the declaration of the 16th of October. The opposition in the m: ontemptuous manner violated the promise it gave to the whole and the whole of the International, and by this made the continuation of Trotsky and Zinoviey . ANIMALS BELONG TO BIG BUS MANIAS OF NEW YORK .- 2» SOL FisHMAN RISCOLL and Red and I are enjoying the cool dusk of a ninety degree day, sitting on the library steps with our jack on our knees, watching the busses like fat yellow bulldogs*waddle up and down Fifth Avenue. Driscoll looks strange not smoking his pipe. He has no tobacco ieft and his pockets are—just pockets. Red is nibbling at his neve ending piece of candy and looking glum as he thinks of the pimples that will break out on his face the next day. IT am smoking a cigaret and saying to myself, “After I finish this pack, no more butts for me.” We may spend the entire evening just Sitting if Driscoll doesn’t get tired of having no smoke come out of his mouth. He does get tired. But he has no tobacco. So he lets words out. Driscoll is our philosepher. Fifty years old, lean of body and unvanquishable in debate or discussion. We had been a member of the I. W. W. when that was a fighting organization. He had been in the Farmer Labor Party when that had been militant. He had fought through the hectic years of the so- cialist party history, and told us, “When that god- dam bunch went yellow, I did the only thing I could—joined the Workers Party.” He is talking now. “What the world needs,” he begins, “is a couple of more Lenins. -” And just at that moment a little Jewish I-know-it-all comes along and joins in the discussion. “OQ yes,” he says, “I was just as radical as you ten vears ago. Now J ain’t. But look at me. D’you think I enjoy life legs now that I ain’t in the move- ment? Absclutely not. Radicalism is for young folks. . (He points at me). When you get older you * begin to see how lousy the world is. Just wait. It will happen to you too when you get older.” “The reason for your disillusionment,” Driscoll answers, “is that, like most people of your type, you are a halfbaked clam, with definite predilections toward bourgeois intellectualism and aestheticism. You have never been class-conscious. You joined the socialist party when it was no longer the militant “enfant terrible” of the United States, but when it had bheeome, the fashionable haven of every fake riddlee’ass liberal in Americ Your knowledge of “ at**an nit op half-baked like your in- tellectualism. How do you expect to retain your ny When you don’t understand .¢ principles cf J rage The newcomer, we see, is dazzled and perplexed by Driscoll’s vocabulary. He tries to interrupt him several times during his answer, but we manage to stop him, anticipating his speech by means of the movements of his hands. (They are funny, those hands. You might as well expect thunder from the heavens without lightning as speech from his mouth without the movement of his hands.) But now he shoots a funny look at Driscoll from his sharp beady- bright eyes, and says with the curious lilt of his, ’you know, you talk like a prophet. Like Isiah. Only you ain’t so poetic like him. Why, I remember ence Avrum Raisin said. . .” It is after fifteen minutes of his incoherent chatter that my hands begin to itch for the feel of his neck. We hadn’t known when he had begun, that this little fellow with the mahogany-colored teeth could talk so Jong and way so little. But there is no method by which to squelch this super-incoherency. Besides, he is too small to hit. e -He is still talking. “Of course,” he says, “I don’t believe in god or any such trash as that, ‘butistill 0? “What, you don’t believe in God?” <A passing preacher has heard the remark and has stopped to answer. “God, my friend, is the Creator of all life. Do you think you would be alive and talking now if not for the existence of God? Do you'think you would be blaspheming Him to his face and still ssess the power to blaspheme if not for His Infinite Mercy? The fact of His Being is as definite as the virginity of Mary, and is borne out by His revelations to Paul and Barnabas, and His Son Jesus Christ. You don’t know ei The preacher has swatted the New York mos- quito, but has turned out to be a Jersey specimen himself. There he stands, the eternal believer, ballyhooing like an Aimee Semple MacPherson or an Elmer Gantry, only not as delectably over- flowing with sex-appeal as the first, or as reck- lessly bombastic as the second. He is on the verge of delivering a sermon, but luckily a third fellow comes along. “Say bud, gotta match?” I light his cigaret for him. “Say, d’they let a fellow in the lib’ry, without a jacket?” “Sure,” I answer, “They’re even more liberal than that. They’d let you read Marx in there if you wanted to.” His vace brightens up. “Marx,” he chuckles. old fellow .. .” He rattles off a sentence about two pages long puctuated with the word ‘“perifery.” Driscoll jumps up. “Dammitohell, a Watonite! I can stand a Yiddish intellectual and a Holy Roller, but a Watonite can kill stronger men than us. Let’s, move.” We move. The Watonite, as arguing with the preacher. We walk up Broadway. Autos rolling up and down. Rolls Royces, Renaults, Chevrolets, and the inevitable clanking creations of The Great Amer- iean Jew-Baiter. Lights. Stacombed shieks in the theater entrances, hiding their skinnyness’ behind twenty-four inch trousers. Driscoll enters the subway with a nickel that Red lends him. There is a beggar sitting on a doorstep, “What » the hell's the matter with him? No legs, no arms, missing ...” We walk past him, and see sticking out of the ends of his sleeves two lumps of raw flesh haif-cove red with bloody gauze. Red almost pukes at the sight. Across the street at opposite corners are two. crowds of people listening to two wild-eyed women soapboxers. They are so close that the words of one blend in the respective crescendos and diminu- endos ot the other, “”... and when Nebuchadnezzar awoke the next morning, he called unto him his wise men and said, ‘I have dreamt a dream. But I have for- gotten it. What, O womexgble sages was the dream, He sits down. “Yea, he was a grand we look back, is ? as members of mintern absolu Notwithstanding the undertaking it gave to the August Plenum of the Central Committee and Cen- tral Control Committee. the Opposition continued to form its organ ich in fact represent nothing more nor less than an attempt to form embryonic nuclei of a Second Tro parallel with the Leninist Part CPSU (b). At the same time it t tain and strengthen its connections witt rene groups abrozd, with the Maslow-Fischer , with Souvarine in France, in the CPSU was supp in the Comintern. The nace of a second party OUTSIDE OF AND grcoup in Germar The splitting wor by splitting wo the forr ete. ited AGAI T THE CPSU (b) supplemented by the menace of creation of a new “fourth inter nationa UTSIDE OF AND AGAINST THE ne when the international position of the . has ely acute, when the menace of impc on hangs directly prolet the opposition hich represent the of the, international! labor movement h groups which stand on the border of direct cou revolution, which ous slander ‘iat INESS By M. Pass. and how interpret it?” And lo, they discovered his dream and gave unto it a meaning that...” ety will cost you one dollar, a sum that I know is within the reach of every man and woman here, and will save you the equivalent of fifty dollars a year in doctor’s bills alone. MacFadden himself the nearby hills. And Nebuchadnezzar heeded the words of the wise men and also took... .” & . . a cold shower every morning which is NG, dicta 5.0 if Christ.” “C'mon,” says Red, “let’s get the hell out of here before they start selling bibles... .” We plow thru the crowd and continue up Broad- way. The cop patrolling the oratorial district ex- hales a predigious yawn. A Ford rattles by, painted with familiar college legends. “Don’t look, lady, it may be your own daughte “Don’t laugh, girls, you. look like hell too, with- out paint.” “Don’t shove, I'll go myself.” “Pay as you dent ’er,” etc... . We turn up Columbus Circle. I light my next- to-the-last cigaret. Red sponges the last. “Good,” I say, “Now. I’m through with cigarets,” and I dig my hand into my pocket to see whether I have enough to buy a pack of Luckies with tomorrow. We enter the subway. ~A body on wheels raises an emaciated hand clutching three pencils. We rush past, through the slotgates, into a mass of sweat- ing doughy flesh . . . cause, my friends of the’ crucifixion of. SIR HENRI DETERDING Sir Henri Deterding, the Dutch petroleum king, of British Royal Shell is sore as roaring hell. This greedy oily knight, doth lie with all his might and vomits forth predictions of direst afflictions upon the wicked heads of the country of the reds. Oh hear him roar and rant and rage because he can’t grab that good precious oil that’s found in Soviet soil. —By ADOLF WOLF. LISTEN, LORD! Lord, my friends are alw: You an’ I are good, old iriend That if I were only prayin’ I would have no cause for brayin’ ’Cause on You good luck depends. Lord, my pals have always tol’ me What a darn, fine skate You are! An’ especially they tol’ me That You never, ever sol’ me— Only holdin’ ovt my star, Well then, Lord, if T must stop it, Must shut up an’ not complain—. Keep Your luck—I’m gonna hop it To a place where I can cop it Without mooshin’ in the rain! —TRAAL THAISIS. TS ECCI han claim t these bankrupt revolutic th genuinel distinct from apostates of U. 8: € concerning 1 the CPSU (b). r nsciously val Com- on the y spreads ne Cen- debts, con- Not- t Plenum (b) to which tself—con- nth prior that ery n viola- Kula a few da of a et printing es W cep- s intellectuals, spicious and Th or g not only iy the centre of hosti » the pro- t he proletarian torship irksor ) overthrow it. ‘alled to account 2 meeting of the Presidium of the ECCI h mber 27th, Comrades Trot- sky and V clarations which in them- elves rep: ps AWAY from the Comin- tern anc ards Maslow and towards the charges of maliciou: », Comrade ipline of the for him. In his ratie discipline not an instrument ing and d 4 ing that Comrade Trot letarian disci sky refuses to submit to p 1 and characterized n need of the defense Somrades Serebriakoyv, Preobrazhensky and Shar- ov, who, as they themselves admitted, were the or- s of the anti-Party printing Comrade Trotsky squarely declared at the Presidium of the ECCI that“‘Serebriakov, Preobrazhensky and Sharov in their policy stand two heads above those who sereen their crimes behind Pa i line.” People who organize illegal printing offices against the Party with the aid of bourgeois intellectuals are proclaimed to stand politically two heads higher than those who on the structions of the Party fight in defense of its unity, who guard the elemen- tary principle: cipline, without which the Party and the ern as military organizations ; of the working class cannot exist. ce. Such an attitude towards Party discipline is of course connected with a definite attitude towards the Party and the Comintern. Neither the Party nor the Comintern as such figured in Comrade Trotsky’ speech as supreme organs of the revolutionary pro- letariat. The world organizations of the revolution- ary proletariat—the Comintern, and its leading sec- tion—the CPSU, is ribed, in unison with the whole yellow bourgeois pr a crowd senselessly and dumbly foilowing vari the pres- ent time,” said Comrade Trotsky in his speech, “not a single organization di merely carry out. Even th tern is not an exception They Presidium of the Comin- In his declaration ma at the August Plenum the Opposition abandoned its theory of the so-called “Thermidor.” This, however, did not prevent Com- rade Trotsky from once again uttering malodorous phrases like “the Thermidor course,” and “Bonapar- tist forgeries.” Moreover, the leading bodies of the Comintern and the CPSU (b) re directly charged with being “usurpers.” authority of the Pres- idium (of the ECCI),” said Comrade Trotsky, “lasts for only one year. The arbitrary prolongation of this authority is usurpation.” “Above all the ques- tions:is the question of the organizational self-prege * ervation ofthe Stalin-Bukharin group.” In thus estimating the presently acting leading organs of the Communist movernent and in this way trying to explain their open to submit to Party discipline, Comrades T y and Vuyovitch warned beforehand that t will not regard the s of the fusal Comintern as being authori hem to any degree. “The apparatus,” declared Comrade Trot- sky, “is preparing a congress of their own pre- imi appointed workers who must authorize stratum of the apparatus work in the future.” The Presidium of the ECCI does nd with the renegade political a condemned by the Party and the Comintern as sccial-democratie devia- tions, which Comrade Trotsky and Vuyovitch tried to develop. But the Presidium of the HCCI cannot ignore the cont es to the organiza- tions of the Cow ist proletariat as a voting crowd. Tt cannot ignore proclamat * disrupting Party discipline as highest It cannot ignore the open jus fon and ise further to continue the prez et anti- Party ‘printing offices The Presidium of the the continued member: Vuyovitch of the E as usurpers and fight with the secret printing office: centres and malicious slander on the U. S. S. R, 3 With the aim of preserving the unity of the Lenin- ist ranks, with the aim of combating the disruptive of the Oppos opinion that all p and that it is imposs from organizational measures, the Presidium of the to conduct this the pre onsiders impossible les Trotsky and have proclaimed conduct a rabid abroad and ion of illegal ECCI, jointly with the International Control Com- ~ mission, on the basis of the above-mentioned resolu- tions of the VIII Plenum of the ECCI, UNAN-~ IMOUSLY resolved, at its mecting of September 27, tional schismatists, being of the | ble warnings have been given © le end dangerous to refrain t regard it as | 1927, to EXPEL Comrades Trotsky and Vuyovitch from the ECCI, PRESIDIUM OF THE ECCI, INTERNATIONAL CONTROL COMMISSION.