The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1927, Page 4

"are Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927 ‘rotsky Against Leninism WOLFE. dD. By BERTRAM {N the Soviet Ur workers lyule. They use their power as the ruling class to d y step by step he remai: of capitalism and to guild up s Within the Ts are gre peasants. is a ring of armed to the teeth destruction of the ment. The workers of t have made th ald of the resist attack w the peasants. tain their rule changed to ho: maintaining workin building soc! Union is in lem of maint tween peasantsxan Alliance a V Any policy break that al Whoever importance of that » Soviet Union ion with They cannot services howeve proposes measures ad Unio: ers’ % the Party which 1 Opposition’s F One of the fur the Opposition cor They do not under of class fore n the They do not u the peasantry. > stand the importance of m the alliance of worker : and the role that this play in the buile They make con if- adopted, would ¢ anee, hence their gerous for the wo Soviet Union. Trotsky’s Old Quarrel With Lenin. i Leon Trotsky is the real leader o: | the Opposition in the Communist} Party. He expresses in the sharpest | form the failure to un and thi essential problem of thi dictatorship. In fact, he has ing class of the \has ood it. He had his first Lenin on this ques- e period of the revo- On thi: fought ain her grounds, Trotsky t the theories of adership of Lenin n the Bolshevik wing mocratie party was yted Lenin’s aided by the en then, as we shal! ’s own words, he h Lenin as to the and expectec k off imme- vietory over a > pe > would br the of the Nature of Revolution. e of the revolution ed a book th the title he expressed some enin on this e years after Theory the » faile | they were helped by the victory of same dangerous role of furnishing the working class in various other ntries and by the actual and im- mediate aid of the working class gov- ernments in other countries. Menshevik Views. In the period before 1905, Trotsky’ views were even worse. He tended, n i to agree with the Mensheviks who{ and again for his ey i Ute did not believe that the peasants | phrases” and for hig lac a a nue should play any role in the revolution standpoint on fundamental questions. at all. “Never”, says Lenin, “in a single The Mensheviks, in the period pre- serious question. of pave Bis ceding 1905, were opposed to Lenin’s|Trotsky had a firfh Para atin policy of stirrimg up the peasantry. |Ways squeezes himself in sah ‘ : Chey were opposed to Lenin’s theory | between this and that difference o: hat the working class should assume | opinion and always runs from one ary phrases to conceal and cloak the most counter-revolutionary content, the most dangerous proposals, which | would lead to the betrayal or liquida- ion of the revolutionary movement. Lenin had to attack Trotsky again 1903 a Menshevik, he left this Party in 1904, returned to the Mensheviks 1905 and paraded around with Mensheviks said: This revoiution that is now be- \1 inning is not annot be a |! 6 werine class Sees It must | ultra lutionary phrases. In 1906 be a bourgeois (capitalist) revolu- | he @g@ im abandoried this Harty. ae tion to establish capitalist democ- |the end of 1906 he again defended the racy in Russia. The working class |¢lection alliance with the Cadets ion of } aber, 1917, he r d the same book with a duction, intaining sub- views. peak for him- the period be- tween the 2nd of uary and the October strike (this refers to events in the E OrSE: B. D. W.) that f ent writer ned on the char- Rus: c The idea that the Russian revolution, con- onted by immediate bourgeois fier gain- cannot be content a: evolt nm cannot task by by the seiz- seized power, nnot confine itself frame-work of the to the bow: revolution. On the con the firm establishment of ory re- res that van- guard once inaugurate its rule by perty as well. (Thus far Trot- grees with Lenin’s theory.— We Thinks Workers Must Fight Peasants. “This means for the proletariat hostile eneounters with every group of the bourgeoisie which has sup- ported the proletariat at the begin- ning of the revolutionary struggle, not only with these but with the itali i i r y ideas, must help the capitalists in this |: Trotsky borrows some aoe | fight but must not fight as an in- | today from one faction and tomorrow | di ; york. |ftom the other, and, therefore, con- Pee a avnse io Gsta pial work |siders himself as a man _ standing above both factions.” Fundamental Difference. ing class rule. The peasants can | help the capitalists but cannot help | the working class. | This“was a counter-revolutionary ‘ | Proposal which would have meant} We have noted above that Lenin |neither capitalist democracy nor|regards the allian between the | working-class role and would have| workers and the peasants as the basis {made the working class nothing but a tool of the capitalist class that was jreally afraid to fight the Czar to a | finish. | Trotsky’s “Revolutionary” Phrase. To sum up: of rule i attacks, the peasantry, makes of them | beautiful ‘ultra-revolutionary-sound-| as the leader of all the toiling and ing slogan to cloak the same Men-|exPloited masses, including especially shevik attitude on the peasantry and|the peasant z on the character of the revolution. But Trot regards the working | This slogan of Trotsky’s was: “No | Class as the enemy of the peasantry Czar, but a Labor Government.” and speaks of the “contradiction of Meaning No Revolution. a workers’ governnient in a backward This sounds very revolutionary, but | ea ee eS 45 Lenin pointed out that the slogan) joy Trotsky, the dictatorship of ‘No Czar but a labor government” | the proletariat is carried on against was really a slogan which meant the | the peasantry and cannot endure un- revolution without the peasantry.|jess the proletariat is aided by suc- But the revolution without the peas-| cessful revolution and state aid from jantry was impossible—hence the} other countries. slogan, “No Czar but a labor govern-| For Lenin, the, dictatorship of the ment,” for all its fine revolutionary d * a | proletariat is a form of state power fants meant in practice—no revolu-|hased upon the alliance of the pro- tion at all. ‘s letariat and the masses of the peas- Kamenev, who now follows Trot- antry, an alliance which is to last radical-sounding ultra-left. revolution- | state power immediately upon the | Side to the other.” s : Bia Beran a of the Czar. gel At anot time Lenin said of him: | Therefore, on the eve of 1905, the} “He y) was in the years ip of the proletariat, The revolutionary workers would|a bitter enemy and causes “hostile}tnere! ‘Lhis is a uanges vo iabor that never accept this counter-revolution-| encounters” between the working} wUr is combating.” ary theory in its neked form. |class government and “the broad} /ians are now going ahead for ex- But Trotsky came forward at this|masses of the peasantry.” | pansion of the Cnicago — siation, | | time, as at many other times in Rus-| _ Peasants ends or Enemies? JNocwels said, An appilcauon has ai- |sian revolutionary history, with a| Lenin speaks of the working class}reagy been maue ivr a 10w wave sky, at that time declared of the| until capitalism is. completely over- | | No. 2 In THE Workers Lisrary | broad masses of the peasantry as well, whose support has enabled them to attain power.” Considers Alliance Temporary. From this quotation we see that even ,after Trotsky came to accept Lenin’s theory that the peasantry must be won to help the working class in its struggle for power, he considered this alliance to be only temporary, and believed that the Trotsky slogan: “The original theory of Trotsky takes from the Bolsheviks the appeal for decisive revolutionary struggle of the proletariat and for conquest | mental differences between the the- of political power by the proletariat; | ories of Trotsky and the theories of from the Mensheviks the negation of | Lenin be understood because we will the role of the peasantry In}see that these differences give the reality Trotsky approaches the lib-|key to all important differences in eral labor politicians of Russia, who| practical proposals and all funda- by the ‘negation’ of the role of the|/mental conflicts in the Communist thrown, the socialist system com- pletely set up and classes abolished. Key to Dispute. It is important that these funda- The Coolidge Program Capitalist Democracy Prosperity Exposed peepee class, once in power, would take such measures against the in- |terests of the peasantry as would the alliance and arouse the and fter the experience of 1905 And we shall see further, | still his belief and the of- heory underlying all the pro- of the opposition bloc. That! at makes the proposals of the dangerous to the safety n revolution. howed Trotsky’s Error. ent is the revolutionary | Lenin Lenin maintained he conquest of power and the ol of the state apparatus by the uld make it possible workers’ government to sat- needs of the peasantry and anent support from them for the defending of the proletarian | state and the building up of socialism. In fact the alliance which Trotsky ould break immediately after the | f power, Lenin believed | lly become strong un- By Jay LovestonE ERE is the answer to all the pre- election bunk of pros- perity. Here are the facts of just exactly how “prosperous” the workers in this coun- try are. In simple, very read~ wble easy style, the author explodes the P > ; workers were in power and myth of high wages ) show their ability to defend 5 jet the inte s of the peasant masses and presents conditions as well as their own interests. as they exist today. Thus Lenin said: eS 2 “In order to win the majority of This is an ideal pam- the population to its side, the pro- ; Z jletariat must first overthrow the phlet to 1 eas out to the | bourgeoisie and get the state power : workers in your shop info a oe bees Second, it must : introduce the Soviet power Pe and trade union. | Whereby it roots out immediately the > r CENTS is ape oe praeied and he iy } | flue of ie bourgeoisie and the % | petty-bourgeois compromisers amon in lots of ten or more the mondavolgtstiat, toi } ; | wiarly the peasant 3 CENTS Third, it must destroy onee and for ie< ints of one hvndred or all the influence of the, bourgeoisie fig and the petty-bourgeois compromis- among the majority of the toiling ORDER A HUNDRED TO threugh the revolutionary DISTRIBUTE IN YOUR satisfamion of their economic needs SHOP. at the cost of the exploiters.” Hence we see that Lenin believed Get Also These Two as t the proletarian dictatorship or Other Splendid New jrule of the working class would ip Docks i be much mae Ne satisfy t elementary needs of the peasants at ” Bit TENTH YRAR—The the cost of the exploiters and thus Rise and Achievements make it easier for the working class ET 15 et gs the ae of eae ae if | mass of peasants and maintain ani ie ee ieaibdde hake strengthen the alliance with them. Labor Banks and Investment Trotsky Failed to Understand, Bee aries PC che Brotherhood Because Trotsky did not under- By Wm. Z. Foster 125 stand these things, because he lacked faith in the potential ibe are fh : i | role of the peasants as the ally and Workers Liprary Pus Sirmtes st pialainnd class, there- “ore he also lacked faith in the revo- tusHERs, 39 E. 125th St. ution itself, in the possibility of the NEW YORK vorking class maintaining power for ————————— my length of time in Russia ~ peasantry understand the reluctance to stir up the peasantry.” 5 Reactionary Content of Trotskyism: We shall see in the course. of this .| series of articles that many times in critical moments in the history of the Russian revolution, Trotsky plays the SEABOARD AIR LINE SHOP By LELAND OLDS, (Fed. Press). The spotlight is again turned on the problem of stabilizing railroad shop employment by the recent agreement between the shop craft system federa- tion on the Seaboard Airline and the management of that road guarantee- ing steady jobs to at least 2170 shop- men during 1928. Although this will mean an increase of about 800 in the number of shopmen employed on this road it falls at least that much short of the number on the payroll prior to recent layoffs which reduced the force from about 3000 to somewhat over 1300. “ In August, the Seaboard Airline was ready to sacrifice the condition of its equipment to its determination to reduce the number of shop em- ployes. In this period when the per- Anti-Monopoly League To Hight Power Trust WASHINGTON, (FP) Dec. 2.— George L. Record of New Jersey is president, and Benj.| C. Marsh of Anti-Monopoly League, established -| by numerous labor and farm organi- zation officials. It announces that one of the chief purposes of its organization is to fight the power trust. Public owner- ship of that industry may be advo- | garian Hall, 4309 Lorain Ave. on Sun- | cated. B. Wankel & WW i Se O aR kinds of Tools and Supplies for Plumbers, Electricians, Mechanics, and Carpenters, etc. AGREES TO STABILIZE | EMPLOYMENT; 800 STILL LAID OFF AS ale Party of the Soviet Union. The next article will take up the basis of Trotsly’s lack of faith in the possibility of building up social- ism in the Soviet Union while it is surrounded by a capitalist world. (The Series to be Continued) centage of *he Seaboard Airline’: equipment in bad order was increas- ing, it was cutting its shop forces to less than half their previous strength. The present agreement will restore about half of those laid off. It sets forth in detail for each shop point on the line thg number of mechanics, helpers, etc. to be guaranteed em- ployment for the year 1928. Previ- ously this road could cut its forces to any extent desired by the manage- ment provided it gave 5 days notice. The Seaboard Airline is not alone in seeking to stabilize shop employment at a lower level than prevailed some years ago, although it is the first to sign an agreement establishing a minimum below which it will not go. The question is also very much to the jfore on the Chicago & Northwestern. \Protest Shooting of Colorado Miners at | Two Mass Meetings CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 2, — two meetings in Cleveland arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party, District 6. The first willbe held at Gardina Hall, 6021 St. Clair, on Friday eve- ning, December 2; the other, at Hun- day, December 4 at 2 p.m. 1573 Third Ave, (Bet, 88-89th) New York City. Wholesale and Retail Hardware Store: <> ep OPEN DAILY from j 8 A. M. to’8 P, M. peace SATURDAYS to 10 P. M. “|We are digging | Shooting of Colorado miners by the | Washington is director of the new| national guard will be protested at | Radio Trust Fights ‘Long Distance Wave For Labor Station iY | By HARRY KL. CHICAGO, (FV) Dee. usning but a iracuon of wnat 1v een jaccomplisn ,for tne iavor movement. | bo sayS b. AN. INOCAEIS, Secrevary OL entertainment will be neia in Asniand | } auaitorium. j svockeis told of his dream for la- bors raaio as “wie cerpration ap-|} proached, “1 expec. every worker in| wie United Svaies to ha a Tecelving | set,” he said, “So thae the envire 1ader | movement can Listen mm on iavgrs} yauio. We pian when uiere Will be a CMa os Labor radio] sLaulons in the counuy, Wita Wri! as the center,” | Capitalist Monopoly. This win have to come, Nockeis | said, if tne workets are iO provece Interests Lruim tue Yauio hivil-} a ler luc UuiMne wea vpay Wuich now Contos Lie au. cupwalisuc Chain can now broaucast program to 01,y0u,000 persons, aNocKeis pointed oul. “As a resuil this greac number of iisverners can be suade to listen to any Kind of docirime or prmeipie taal tuuse 1m contrui de- sire, Lins of tue propaganua power vile juengin which wili enavile the stauon to broadcast to ali other nations o£ the worid. ‘ihe radio trust is at- tempting to prevent WUt'L oviaiming a license ior use of this wave jengta, but Chicago lapor is 1ignung ior 1. wCFL now has equipment, built in its own laboratory, ior international broadcasting. “The Radio Corporation of America is pulling all of its strings to get the commission to deny use ot this jength,” Nockels said, “and it is up to the workers to get behind the sta- tion.” WarnMinersFromOther Statesof Unemployment In lil, Coal Districts SPRINGFIELD, Ill, (FP) Dee. 2. —Coal miners of other states are urged to stay away from Illinois in a statement issued by Harry Fishwick, president District 12, United Mine Workers of America, because of great unemployment of miners in the state. “Miners coming here from other states in search of work are only making matters worse,” said Fish- wick. “Mines here are overcrowded and unemployment among our own men is prevalent. We are now de- vising means of relief for our own people.” He declared that miners in other states are being misinformed as to the number of mines working and the number of days worked in| | Illinois. & “Allies” Order Austriato | Disband Armed Guard PARIS, - Dec. As Austria has compiled with allied demands for dis- armament, the Council of Ambassa- dors today decided to dissolve the “Austrian Liquidation Organization” | on Jan. 31. In the meantime Austria must enact a law restricting the manufacture and exportation of war | materials and suppress the Vienna Municipal Guard. COLORADO MINERS We are digging, we are digging Days without sunshine, Nights without sleep Your grave, oh masters, beware! Wide and deep. For all your henchmen South and north | Beware the day When we shake the earth. | We are digging | We are digging. . . .| Oh! Adams, Colorado’s head What’s the price \John D. pays For a worker’s pint of blood, For a rebel’s body dead For a striker’s pound of flesh ¥or a picket’s broken ribs. We are digging Weare digging. . . . Oh! Wall Street bankers, Masters of the world You count the gold , We—the dead We don’t forgive We don’t forget You pay in full The day we rule. We are digging, we are digging. ... —EMGEE. labors radio station 1s nuw accomip- | * pN. With the Young Comrades Good News, You Bet! Dear Comrades: T have some very interesting news for you, at least I |think so. We, the little comrades of Bethlehem, have organized 2 Pioneer Club! We just started about two weeks’ ago, and we have thirty-seven members. Now isn’t that fine, in two weeks’ thirty-seven members. Each ov. 20, we already had thirty-seven member: We hope to increase to twice as much next time we meet. We meet every Sunday at ten he Chicago bederation of Laver and | o'clock. Comrade Anna is our leader. | ther’ vs stauion WUi'L, the broad-| She teaches us cheer songs and how |death of Sacco and Vanzetti. Many casung Siauon operated by the tede-|{to play games. We are also planning | of them are Wondering for the first lvation, WCru ceiepraces its second! for long hikes. I am sure that you | time whether they are really living note of it, for we are going and climb higher. Your faithful comrade, ROSE HERCZEG, A Bethlehem Comrade reporter. to climb, OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT. The following is the battle song from the miners’ Miners’ children! Miners! come to- |gether on the picket line, singing a song, a UNION song, to the strike- lveakers, to let) them know that we are for the right, and we will FIGHT for the UNION. Ripsaw! Ripsaw! Ripsaw! Bang. I belong to the UNION gang. Strike here! Strike. there! everywhere! We Win! We Win! We the masses on the picket line. Union, Union, Union, Union, Union, All the way, oh what fun it is to Work for seven-fifty a day. Strike THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE. This week’s puzzle is a subtraction and addition puzzle. After you add and subtract as indicated, you must arrange the letters in your result to mean “one who works underground on coal, iron and other metals.” DIG+ORE-DOG-E+MEN= ? Send all answers to Daily Worker Young Comrade Corner, 38 First St., Y. C., stating your name, age, and number of puzzle. MORE ANSWERS TO PUZZLE 40. Jack Rosen, N. Y. C.; Nicolas Vas- ileff, Leningrad, U. S?S. R. striking front. | ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 41. | The answer\to last week’s puzzle |No. 41 is: FOR EACH PUZZLE EVERY WEEK, TRY IF YOU CAN ,| THE ANSWER TO SEEK. The fol- lowing have answered correct! | . Emily Marcinkewitz, Brookly N. | Y.; Peter Zuyus, Pittston, Pa.; Helen Chicago | Sunday we admit new members. By | Mantuska, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Edmund |Banelis, Pittston, Pa. OUR. LETTER BOX. They Go Marching On. Millions ‘are wondering about the janniversary on Dec. %, when @ puvlic | will appreciate this letter and take/in a republic where democracy and | equality exist after what happened at | Charlestown, Mass. Once upon a time {at Charleston—this time in Virginia, j@ man was likewise done to death. Sixty-eight years ago John Brown jkissed a little Negro baby, and then jhe was hanged by the neck until he }was dead. It was a legal execution. |He had attempted to arouse the slaves to fight for their freedom. It |was a madman’s dream and it was ,ended at the end of a hempen rope. ut John Brown’s. soul goes march- gon: just like the souls or rather ‘spirits of Sacco and Vanzetti. —VICTOR BATSWINSKY. | | OUR REPORTERS On this page today, you will find a number of news articles written by children from different parts of the {country. For example, the activities jof the children in the miners’ strike jis covered by Margaret Jancsar sf Martins Fefry, Ohio. The organiza- tion of a Pioneer Group in Bethlehem, Pa., comes to us thru Rosie Red Her- ezeg, one of our reliable reporters, |who has been corresponding with us almost every week. Victor Botswinky, who organized a club in Frackville, Pa., writes to us about his views on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. This is the kind of news we want and we hope to get. Is your father jin the miners’ strike or any other strike? Tell us about it. Especially tell us what the children are doing. Tell us about your clubs, your schools, and your friends. Become one of OUR REPORTERS. Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! Work Daily for the Daily Worker! $250. WILL BUY well built, new modern house, 6 large rooms, plot 50x100, all improve- ments, steam, garage; price $6,750; balance 1% monthly. Also new mod- ern bungalow, 5 rooms, plot 40x100; price $4,950. Free bathing, boating in adjacent lakes in 900-acre public park. hools, buses, trolley. 5 minutes 3 railroad stations, Easy commuting, 35 minutes Manhattan. 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