The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1930, Page 4

Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Jnc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East 13th Street, New York City, N. Y. ‘Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Cable: ‘DAIWORK.” WORLD CRISIS AND REVOLU- TIONARY TRADE UNIONS (At the Fifth R. EL. U. By 1. ERENBERG THREE full sessions of the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions heatd the reports of its executive committee. ‘The’ main reporter, Losovsky, general secretary of the Profintern, spoke for six hours and out- lined the downfall of the rotten capitalist system, the steady, rapid growth of the Soviet Union, the impetous revolts of the revolutionary prole- tarian masses in all especially in the colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries. The representative of the Comintern, Heckert, in his three hour speech, laid the whole concrete work of the R.EL.U. and all its sections under the spectrum of strict Leninist Bolshevist self- criticism. The other reporters told in their hour long speeches about the work among women, youth’ and the oppressed Negroes. Situation of the Proletariat Losovsky began his report with an analysis of the crisis that has shaken the whole economic Structure of the capitalist world. “It is a crisis of over-production, continuous growth of pro- ductive possibilities; called forth by the tremen- dous disproportion existing between the produc- tion and the markets which have been narrowed down by the pauperization of the masses and by the rebellions in the colonies. “The whole burden of the world crisis is being born by the working class. Permanent unem- ployed armies existed in several capitalist coun- tries due to capitalist rationalization, already be- fore the crisis. The latter gave birth to an un- heard-cf extent of unemployment, the terrible weight of which is lowering the standard of living of the workers and influencing their class struggles. “First comes the U. S. A. with over seven million unemployed; second is Germany with about four million; then follows Great Britain with over two million; Japan with two million; Italy with 800,000; Poland with 400,000; Austria with 400,000; Latin America with 1,500,00, ete. In all the capitalist countries there are already over 20,000,000 unemployed. Every day brings news of the closing down of further factories and mills, of the dismissal of further hordes of work~- ers. With their families, this means that about 70,000,000 people are thrown into misery, famine and starvation. This army, unprecedented in its dimensions, for the most part is not receiving any unemployment benefits and even where such are granted (Germany, Britain, Austria) they are just sufficient to carry on a semi-starving existence. “But this is not yet all the misery that is trushing the working class. There are millions working short time, who have been thrown in this way into misery, famine and starvation. Be- sides all this, there also takes place a systematic lowering of the standatd of living of those who still work: increasing of their working hours and Towering of their wages . . .” and Losovsky brings figures after figures of each capitalist country and industry separately, with which he draws clear and sharp pictures of the terrible misery and of the systematic progressive worsening of the already terrible conditions of the workers in every capitalist country. The Soviet Proletariat Losovsky deals with the extraordinary growth of the Soviet economy and the progressive growth and betterment of the standard of living of the Soviet proletariat. “While the economic crisis is shaking the foundations of the whole capitalist and colonial World, and increasing the misery and degrada- tion of the working classes, the Soviet Union is the only country unaffected by its terrible con- Sequences. The reason for this lies in the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, in the nationalization of the means of production, and in the systematic Planned work and activity. “The Soviet Union has since the Fourth RI. L.U. Congress begun to carry out the gigantic Five-Year-Plan (Pyatiletka) of socialist construc- tion, the reconstruction of industry and the col- lectivization of agriculture. The rapid rate of Progress of the industrialization of the Soviet Union, and the growth of socialist competition among the workers in the shops and factories are making it possible to complete the Five-Year Plan in four years. In some industries it will be completed in three and even two and a half years. (At this point the entire Congress burst out in tremendous applause.) “The industrial output of the Soviet Union, constituting 122 per cent of the pre-war produc- tion at the time of the Fourth RILU. Congress, has in 1929-30 risen to 180 per cent of the pre- war level. The industrial growth of the Soviet Union, made possible by the dictatorship of the proletariat is accompanied by rapid increase in the number of workers and the improvement of their standard of living. Real wages of the work- ers, including social insurance and contributions Paid into the fund for cultural improvements, hhave risen 167 per cent of the pre-war level. While the average working day before the rev- elution lasted from 10 to 11 hours, not.a single Industrial worker there now puts in over 8 hours Per day. In the middle of 1930 more than 40 per cent of all workers employed are working only seven hours per day, while the workers in dan- gerous industries and those under 18 are work- only six hours per day. The five day week embraces about 70 per cent of all industrial workers, every fifth day being a day of rest. “Every workers is granted leave for at least two weeks, while those in dangerous industries get a whole month per year with full pay. The state bears all expenses of the social insurance Of the workers (illness, accidents, unemployment, old age, etc.) and all wage workers are insured. ‘Im 1930, 681,000 workers are being sent to the health resorts at the expense of the social in- Burance fund. The building of workers’ homes Increases; 400,200,000 rubles were expended for this purpose in 1926-27, the figure for 1929-30 “being 871,000,000 rubles. Large funds have been established for the improvement of culture, so- ‘lal education of children, cultural and educa- tional work of the trade unions and are in- ‘creasing every year. While unemployment in the eapitalist countries has reached the figure of ‘over 20,000,000, the number of unemployed in- dustrial workers in the Soviet Union. is very small and in several of the rapidly growing in- dustrial districts and branches of industry, a severe-shortage of ‘labor is making itself felt. . “Not only the conditions of the workers have ‘been greatly improved. Owing to tue famous and successful collectivization, the standard of living of the wide peasant masses has been raised as ‘well. Bef the revolution, the workers and especially the peasants never even had enough food to eat. Now they are masters of their, coun- ‘try and want to satisfy all their requirements. If the same quantity of manufactured articles cond is produced now in the Soviet Union had preduced by the capitalist regime, the shops Congress) » fr the capitalist countries, | and stores in Moscow and other towns would have been over-stocked, but a very small part of these goods would have found its way into the workers’ districts and villages. Now all the out- put of the factories and mills is directed into the workers’ districts and collective farms, ex- cept what must be used to buy machinery for the Five-Year Plan. The requirements of the | workers and peasants have risen by many times | while production increased only to double—this explains the shortage of goods .. .” The hundreds of workers’ representatives listened with the greatest attention to the living convincing facts formed by this great amount of figures and statistics. These dry figures speak louder than any ‘words and tell about the con- ditions in the capitalist countries and those in the Soviet Union. In their minds they at once compare the situation in. their “own” country with that here in the Proletarian Land.’... What @ difference! There in their own country just as well’ as in the. entire capitalist world, such a terrible crisis. Here, in the Soviet Union—such an unusual, growth and improvement. While the Soviet proletariat is entering into a period of political, economic and cultural growth .and steadily increasing prosperity, the proletariat of the capitalist countries is faced with the dilemma, either of suffering patiently a further lowering of its standard of living to the point of complete degeneration, or of choos- ing the way the Soviet proletariat -took, i. e., ovérthrowing the power of capital and establish- ing the dictatorship of the proletariat. Interna- tional and Soviet experience confirm the truth of Lenin’s words, that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the only power that really defends the economic interests of the working masses, for it is “the only: step towards equality and democracy in fact, not on paper, but in real life; not in political phrases but in the economic reality.” Self-Criticism and Tactical Conclusions Comrade Losovsky dwelt on the great number of strikes since the Fourth R.I.L.U. Congress. He takes up each strike separately and points out their specific characteristics in the period of the world crisis. He brings facts after facts about the treacherous, strike-breaking work of the re- formists and social-fascists in every strike. He also points out, that notwithstanding that the sections of the R.LL.U. often conduct economic struggles, organize around them a united front of all interested workers, mobilizing new layers of workers, expose the strike-breaking role of the social-fascists, .etec—notwithstanding all that, there are still noticed many weaknesses and shortcomings in this work. Here he dwells con- cretely.on all weaknesses and shortcomings of the various struggles in each country separately, that had right opportunist and left sectarian deviations. Losovsky emphasizes that. under the present conditions there cannot be any purely economic strikes. To revolutionize the strike movement means to make clear and understandable for the strikers the connection between their econo- mic demands and the entire system of bourgeois dictatorship, to expose the role .of the social- fascists, to make out of every worker a consci- ous fighter for the fundamental interests of the working class. Strikes are not the aim—they are only the means to an end. Lenin, who was the greatest strategist and tactician known to man- kind, defined this end ‘as follows: “The final end of the strike struggle in the capitalist state is the destruction of the state apparatus, the overthrow of the particular class state power.” Here Losovsky turns to analyze the practical and tactical conclusions for the work in the im- mediate future. There are 21 conditions neces- sary for the organizations of a counter attack against the bourgeoisie in the period of the pre- sent terrible world crisis. The most important of them are: the struggle for the every-day needs of the workers; not to lag behind (“chvost- ism”), but lead the working masses; to organize the unemployed, not on paper, but in fact, and unite them in an iron bloc with those who still work; to struggle against fascism penetrating the enterprises, and link up the struggle against" fascism with the struggle against: social-fascism. We must really get down to the organization of Workers Defense Corps and pickets, strengthen the independent revolutionary trade union and the revolutionary illegal trade unions. Serious activities must be developed in the reactionary unions. We must seriously organize. the trade union opposition in those countries where there are no independent unions. We must organize the unorganized, who comprise the bulk of the working class in the capitalist and colonial coun- tries. Concrete steps must be taken to aid the struggle of the colonial peoples. We must organ- ize and fight every day until the final victory of the international working class! Defend the Soviet Union! Especially must we now, and all the time, con- duct a determined struggle against the new war menace, explaining to the working masses what it means, and its class meaning. “The interna- tional working class movement: must also strug- gle to defend the Soviet Union—the land of the proletarian dictatorship—against imperialist at- tack. The working class in every part of the world is now giving central attention to the de- fense of our socjalist construction. And it de- pends on the way we carry on our activities every day, on the way we organize the masses, on our work among the workers at large, whether or not the imperialists will beable. to realize their designs (to attack and destroy the Soviet. Union). In the Soviet Union the international revolution- ary workers movement has a territorial base, and it is the defense of this base, the defense of our socialist construction that is the chief and foremost duty of the working class throughout the world. By defending the Soviet Union the working class throughout the world is defending itself!” A tremendous storm of applause was the best. unanimous answer of the hundreds of workers representatives of every corner of the globe on these last words of Comrade Losovsky. All the delegates are already on their feet. The militant tones of the “Internationale” burst out over the entire hall. The delegates make a stormy ovation for Comrade Losovsky, for the Profintern, for the Soviet Uni@,, for the world social revolution. Yes, not only has the world proletariat the territorial base in the Soviet Union, but the So- viet Union has a mighty fighting base in every country of the world! ... Down with deportation, lynching, Jim- Crowism, segregation; elect delegates to the National Conference for the Protection of Forcign Born, Nov. 30th, Dec. Ist, Washing- ton, D.C. ON HIS LAST LEG SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 By BURCK | Happy Valley By TOM JONMNSON. HE workers of Happy Valley are preparing to march again. Five times in the last three years the 5,000 workers in the great Bemberg and Glazstoff rayon mills at Elizabethton, Tenn., have streamed out of the mills in the middle of the day and another strike was on. Six months after the huge German-owned mills first opened, in March, 1927, without a union to back them, with no organization at all, these Happy Valley workers struck. They struck against the 12-hour day and wages of $8.96 for the girls for a 72-hour week. The strike had no leadership and no organized direction. The company’s pimps soon discouraged the strikers, and broke their solid ranks and the 5,000 men and women drifted back to work. The strike was lost. In October of the same year the workers came out and again with no organization and no lead- ership the strike was lost. Spent by these defeats the workers went back but the spirit of revolt still smouldered and on April Ist, 1929, the 5,000 struck as one man. This time the United Textile Workers Union came into the situation with their usual strike- breaking tactics. So well did these mis-leaders do their work that in 5 days later the workers went back to the mills on the advice of that arch betrayer of the American working class, McGrady, ably aided in this situation by the “progressive” traitor, Hoffman of the U.T.W.U. The workers were induced to call off the strike by the usual promises by the company of the 8-hour day, wage increases, better conditions, etc. They went back without a union agreement. Then started the same old game. The com- pany went to work to systematically weed out the best fighters, the strongest union men. Over a_hundred men and girls were fired before the workers clearly realized what was up and then they answered this treachery of the company and the U.T.W.U. officials with the greatest sttike of all on April 15th, 1929. The spirit of the strikers was high. Until June, 15th they held the company at bay and prevented over a few hundred scabs entering the mills. During these two months the U.T.W.U. officials with the efficient assistance of Judas McGrady did their best to curb the militancy of the strikers—but in vain. Injunctions against mass picketing were broken b; thousands of workers as fast as the courts could issue them. Attempts to kidnap strike leaders were answered by the guns of the strikers, and when the smoke blew away four of the kidnappers were dead or dying, one of them a Baldwin-Felts detective, one the plant doctor and two local business men. On. June 15th, McGrady and Kelly of the U.T.W.U. announced that they had concluded an agreement with the mill owners and the men were to go back to work. According to this pair of scoundrels the workers’ demands were granted and there was to be no discrimination against any of the strikers. Significantly enough Mc- Grady and his partner in the sell-out, Kelly, did not produce the agreement or show it to the men. The strikers trusted their leaders and the strike was called off. Back they went to work— to find out how badly they had been betrayed. Out of the 5,000 that struck only 2,000 were taken back. The rest were put on the permanent blacklist. The supposed “agreement” of Mc- Grady and Kelly proved to be non-existant. Building Workers Reject Stagger System By JACK TAYLOR. 7) will install the twenty hour week with no increase in wages,” said Zausner, offi- cial of Dist. Council No. 9 of the Brotherhood of Painters, affiliated to the American Federation of‘Labor. He was talking about the “Stagger System” as proposed by President Hoover. The “Stagger System” is the newest creation of the bosses and the A. F. L. to place the full burden of the constantly growing crisis upon the backs of the workers. Means a Wage Cut. ‘The proposal of the “Stagger System” to the building trades workers by Zausner is in reality a proposal to cut the wage-scale of the workers and at the same time compel one part of work- ers to remain unemployed while the other part is subjected to all of the speed-up and rotten conditions that exist on the job. Why does Zausner propose the “Stagger Sys- tem” at this time? Here are some of the rea- sons: The building bosses together with the A. F. L. officials are trying to solve the crisis on the backs of the building trades workers. With the present great slump in building construction and the continued withdrawal of finance capital from the building industry, a greater and great- er portion of the building workers remain unemployed. Majority Is Jobless. It is estimated that approximately 75 per cent of all building trades workers are at present unemployed. With the coming of winter this army of unemployed will reach an_even greater figure. The remaining 25 per cent are employed part time and are worked under the most mis- erable conditions. Why the “Stagger System.” It is to meet this situation and in an attempt to stem the growing demands of the building trades workers for unemployment relief and a shorter ‘work-day with an increase in wages, that the bosses together with the officials of the A. F. L. have proposed the “Stagger System” to the workers in the building industry. In Local 905, 499, 848 and other painters’ locals affiliated to the Brotherhood of Painters where the “Stagger System” has been proposed in the form of a 20-hour week with reduction in wages, the workers, following the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, have success- fully defeated this. scheme to “Stagger” the workers. In its place the workers are damand- ing a shorter work day with an increase in wages and unemployment insurance. Broach Gets Licked. Four thousand electrical workers of Local 3 of. the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have recently defeated a fake unem- ployment scheme proposed to them by H. H. Broach, International president of the electrical workers and better known as “Little Caeser” of the building trades. Broach’s scheme was in the form of a tax of one day’s pay every three months. A committee of three was to consider applicants for unemployment relief. The defeat of these fake plans of “unemploy- ment relief” as well as the def» t of numerous other A. F. L. schemes, proves. that the workers are now beginning to understand the role taken by the A. F. L. officials in the attempts. of the bosses to place the full burden of the economic crisis upon the. backs of the working class. Unorganized Suffer. The unorganized building trades workers, in- cluding tunnel, engineering construction, bridge and alteration workers, a total of 125,000 in Greater New York, are subject to terrific speed- up, low wages and great unemployment. For years these unorganized building trades workers were refused organization by the A. F. L. . These workers now correctly realize that the A. F. L. will’ not and cannot organize the unorganized building trades workers and that it is impossible to transform the A. F. L. company unions into trade unions of the workers as. instruments of struggle against the bosses. ¢ The unorganized building trades workers as well as the building workers within the A. F. L. unions, now begin to realize that only the Trade Union Unity League, the new revolutionary trade union center, organizes and leads the workers into struggle for higher wages, better conditions and unemployment insurance. To Hear R, I. L. U. Report. In August of this year, the Red International of Labor Unions issued a call to all workers to send delegates to the 5th Congress of the R. I. L. U. The building trades workers, attacked on all sides by the bosses and their agents, the A. F. L. officials, answered these attacks by sending a delegate to represent the building workers of the U. S. to the 5th Congress of the RIL U. The delegate from the building trades work- ers of the United States has now returned and is*prepared to give the building workers a full report ofthe proceedings of the 5th Congress of the R. I. L.-U., and the plans of the Congress to organize the unorganized workers as well as the plans for the intensification of work within the A. F. L. unions. Mass Meet Nov. 22. For this purpose the Building and Construc- tion Workers’ Industrial League will hold a mass meeting on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 1 p. m. at the Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. All building trades workers are invited. On this day, Nov. 22, the building trades work- ers of Greater New York will give their answer to the attacks of the bosses and their agents, the A. F. L. officials. Deportation and criminal syndicalist laws are twins; elect delegates to the National Con- ference for the Protection of Foreign Born, Nov. 30, Dec. Ist, Washington, D. C. F nothing but a trumped-up lie to get the men back to work. McGrady and Kelly promptly left town—their work of betrayal well done and in all probability their pockets well lined by the grateful company. In October of the same year the workers again begged the U.T.W.U. to lead them into the strug- gle. The situation became so threatening that the mills sent in a hurry call for the best ally, Gorman, ‘the president of the U.T.W.U. Gorman answered and came to Elizabethton where the union hating business men of the town were “kind” enough to allow him to use the County Court House for a union mass meeting. He used it to such good advantage that the 2,500 men who attended, determined to strike, were finally persuaded by Gorman to go back to work “until spring.” The workers remembered and last spring, in March, despite the best efforts of Paul Fuller of the A. F. of L. and the best iabor traitors in the leadership of the U.T.W.U., the mills were struck again. By this time all but about 200 union men had: been fired from the mills while the union stood idly by. When the strike came thousands of the non-union workers came to the union hall and agreed to strike with the union men if only the union would agree to share what relief came in with all the strikers. The U.T.W.U., now stooped to the lowest depths of treachery and refused to pay relief ty any strikers except those who had been members of the union for at least 12 months and were in good standing. Thus the union entered into combination with the company to starve the unorganized strikers into submission. They’ succeeded and the strike was lost—the last of five tremendous struggles in less than three years. The United Textile Workers Union will sell out no more strikes ‘at Elizabethton. To almost every worker in the great mills the name of the U.T.W.U. has come. to mean all that is treacher- ous and corrupt. It has come to stand for an organization which has as its highest mission the betrayal of the workers to the bosses. No high sounding “progressive” phrases o! the Hoff- mans and the Fullers will again deceive the workers of Happy Valley. The workers are today preparing for new struggles. In the mills and in the homes of workers scattered up and down Stoney Creek, in Valley Forge, and qll up and down the valley, the workers are again talking strike. This time they are determined to make it a real strike—a revolutionary struggle against the oppression of the mill owners. The next strike in Happy Valley—and it is not far off— will be led by the revolutionary union of the tex- tile workers—the National Textile Workers Union. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Please send me more infarmation on the Com- munist Party. Name Address City ......006 State .....cce00. -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y. Every Party member, | every Young Commynist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to be in good standing. —————————————————? Red eofoarte Le By JORGE Those Movie Reviews We again hear approval of our “spark” against what appears on page 2 as “movie reviews. Comrade S. B. writes: “The comrade from Chicago is not the only one to find fault with the assinine movie re~ views that have appeared in the Daily right along. Every strip of foul Hollywood celluloid is called a “masterpiece,” and any film that comes along is “worth seeing,” according to the anony- mous ‘reviewers’ of our paper. Something needs to be done. I can name dozens of jingo, reac- tionary films that were weighed and found ‘worth seeing’ by your critics. This is nothing short of misleading to the proletarian reader. I hope that your timely discussion of it will help to achieve a viewpoint in motion picture reviews more worthy of the Central Organ of the Communist Party.” Well, boys and girls, we achieved something. Firstly, you don’t know what was kept out by reason of our little battle. Secondly, we are told that if we can find New York comrades (Party or non-Party) who can -be reached quickly, by phone preferably, who will volunteer to go to shows (now who the devil would decline?) and who not only feel able to write reviews after the spirit of our dis- cussion, but who will sit down and do it right that same day or night, then there will be a new day 11) our movie—and dramatic—reviews. So, boys and girls, let's hear from you. Call, write or phone to leave your name, address and if possible, your phone number, and any specific days free or engaged, so if we can’t get you we'll get someone else in a hurry. No stalling by saying you can’t go tonight but would we wait. Reviews, wait, like time or tide, for no man. Also note that we will limit your space to the bone. And don’t get sore if you’re passed up, no prima donna temperaments go with us. We have only four pages for every- thing. | * A Peaceful Afternoon in Havana From the N. Y. Telegram of Nov. 14, we give the following observations: “Riots in Havana which yesterday cost the lives of seven civilians resulted from an order issued by President Gerardo Machado for the assassination of Alfredo Hornedo, owner of El Pais, Cuba's largest newspaper, it was charged today by E. N. Robaino, general representative in the ‘United States for El Pais. “The office of El Pais was surrounded by police and soldiers all afternoon, Robaino said. ‘They cut off all outside communications when thousands of students and citizens, enraged at. the rumor of the impending murder, gathered in front of the building. Friends to whom I telephoned told me they were unable to get within blocks of the building.’ “‘Hornedo, a member of the Cuban House of Representatives, had been informed by inti- mate friends of Machado that he was to be murdered as he entered the capitol, and the rumor quickly spread through the city. The huge crowd immediately assembled. Machado then prostituted the Constitution again and de< clared martial law would be in effect at 3 p.m. the hour when Hornedo was to go to the Capitol. The soldiers rode horses into the crowd, strik- ing left and right with their machetes.’” ° The Telegram adds: “Dr. Ramon Zaydin, edi- tor of El Pais, who fled from Cuba a month ago, but who has maintained a rigid silence since his arrival here, continued his refusal to talk.” All Things to All Men —And a number of Women Heywood Broun, writer and recent socialist candidate for congress, proclaimed himself a revolutionist because, he said, “revolution means change, the antidote to inertia."—From the N. Y. Times of Nov. 17, giving account of Broun’s speech at a “socialist” meeting. “There is a great deal to be said for laziness, which has often been vilified in copybook max- ims. If my secret yearning must be revealed, I'd like to trade places for a season with a matinee idol—Heywood Broun, in his column in the N. Y. Telegram, Nov. 17. * * * Hey, Young Workers! Want to go to war, do you? Just spoiling for a fight, maybe? Then look at this! At Wittenberg’s pawnshop on Third Avenue, New York, you can see what other cocky young- sters traded off for arms and legs and other things. Medals! And Wittenberg’s is just one Pawnshop in one city in a world of pawnshops. What do you want? Glory? Here are hun- dreds, thousands of medals testifying that those who once wore them were “rewarded” by their capitalist governments. But these same fellows, thousands of them, have found out that without a job and without eats, their “glory” wasn’t worth much, no more than the hockshop would give them, the’ price of a cheap meal, So maybe, if you want to be “decorated for valor,” instead of trading off your arms and legs and lungs and things, you can step around and pick your brand of glory. Here are: Distinguished service crosses, tor prices rai around $3, the best brand of sarin gier von can buy. Maybe you want a French brand of glory, and the hockshop has any number of Croix de Guerre for $1.50, Then there are Belgian Croix de Guerre, British, Italian and Japanese crosses for Prices around $2.50, and German iron crosses by the bushel for four bits each. Name your brand of patriotism! He As Why Pretend, Trots!y? A reviewer for “Solidarity,” the LW.W. paper published in Chicago, commenting in the Nov. 18th issue on Trotsky’s book, “My Life,” after generally applauding Trotsky, grows angry at harmony as a proof that his obedience to Lenin- ism. He says: “At times Trotsky is disgusting, when he seeks to smooth out and minimize his controversies with Lenin in order to establish their seeming harmony as a proof this his obedience to Lenin- ism can be unchallenged.” Quite properly, the Lw.w. challenges. it, as though to say: Be yourself, Trotsky, your own counter-revolutionary anti-Leninist self, then our bel en will be without this annoying limita- a