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Page Four “CANADA MAY GIVE THEM ‘A HINT” N GEOFGE. November when the to outlaw Canada may give them a hint in her the same the Czar 2, that would not have been reference. Because what happened r had “taught « lesson* to the be # poor recommendation to do the ite of Woll and Hoover's of local authorities to break 1e March, the Washington servants of Wall t, with the gaze of millions centered on heir actions, felt unable to go through with the they had cooked up to “treat ‘em rough.” deed, would not agree that alan neral Glassford, g machine guns on the Hunger Ma’ be the best tactics. In an G pp in “Labor,” organ of the Railway Brotherhoods, issue of Dee. 15, Glassford is re- is ed to have said “Il saw the start of the Russian Revolution. A group of peasants and workers tried to tell their grievances to the government, and they shot down, That was the beginning of movement which wiped out the Czar’s gor- ernment.” ii was against just such a rise in struggle of class of Canada that the Canadian et the word of Wall Street, which 436.011,000 invested in Canada, directed the th ‘seditious conspiracy” and “unlawful associa- at the Communist Party of The capitalist crisis struck Canada head on. Half the wo the 1 z class are jobless, about 600,000 0,000 workers. Others suffer part- ment. All who are working have ts from 10 to 40 per cent. Federation of Labor claims Canadian unions .and just as es, it has helped the bosses to 1 organization which is “opposed” f L, but which follows the same ican the the capitalists against the workers, as Independent Labor Party,” which is ‘independent’ nor “labor’—an outfit snewhat similar to the “socialist” party in the Canada is largely & farming country—are lious, nearly 300,000 of the total of 800,000 ‘s are near starvation or actually starving. he Bennett government, like thé Hoover gov- ment, promised to bring “prosperity” back 1 when it went into office in July 1930, but vorse. gainst the treachery of the reactionary trade union leaders, the workers organized for strug- Hunger March. reached | omprod Publishing Co., Inc slephene ALgonauin 4-7986 | gle against the capttalists under lead of the ized | Congress of Labor and went over to the Workers Workers Unity League (the revolutionary trade mion movement). ‘The miners, needle workers, metal workers, and lumbermen fought strile after strike. In Alberta province, 6,000 organ- miners quit the treacherons All-Canadian Unity League The farmers were extremely militant, 5,000 or- in the Farmers’ Unity League and 170 ittees of Action took up the fight against st, robbery locally and generally, with de- tor real farm relief. The Communist Party of Canada hes been winning ever wider circles of toilers. There, tdo, was & campeign for Onemployment Insurance, supported by 100,000 signatures ‘and a demon- stration of 120,000 when a delegation of 34 pre- the mass demand to parliament. “All Canadian Congress of Labor” | ly the workers, but the small farmers— | ntenced to prison, was growing swiftly, Buck increasirig his vote by 600 per cent in Toronto. Even since the Communists were imprisoned, a Communist has been elected to the city government in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit! This shows that the workers of Canada are not terrified. Their demands are not met by persecution and their struggles continue! “Sedi- | tious conspiracy” indictments is no substitute for something to eat, for Unemployment Insur- ance, regardless of Mr. Woll’s recommendation | | that the same thing be tried in the United States.. | | Tn fact the American capitalists are already responding to Woll’s call to “take a hint from Canada.” The Communist Party in the United States of America is being attacked with evident intention to reach the same end as planned by the Canadian servants of Wall Street. In Chi- cago the old “Criminal Syndicalism” law is dug up and the District Organizer of the Communist | Party, Bill Gebert, and six other workers are already indicted for “fomenting a strike of coal miners.” The chief weapon of defense of the workers, their right to strike, is being attacked! Let Canada “give a hint” to American workers, | that they may be. prepared! Against this attack upon the leadership of the Canadian toilers and the flank assaults on the American workers and their Communist leaders, there must be the mass mobilization of the workers of both countries! ‘The anti-worker laws, in Canada “Section 98” and in Illinois and 37 other states the “Crim- inal Syndicalist” law—both much alike, must be made the target of a mass demand for repeal! A great movement must be organized to demand the release of the imprisoned workers on both sides of the Canadian-U. S. line! Workers, whose rights to strike, to hold meet- ings, to speak and organize, meet now renewed attacks, must defy the capitalist repreasion and demand that all “laws” forbidding these rights be repealed! Every worker, and every worker's pennies must aid the fight, and back up the Labor Defense League of Canada and the International Labor Defense of the U.S.A. The masses can and will defeat their enemies! The Civil War Plans of the Hitler Party By J. BRAND (Berlin). revelation of the civil war plans of the national socialists in Hessen has created a great sensation in the whole world. For months Hitler has been negotiating with Bruening re- | garding his participation in the government. For m tions exist between the national socialists and the Reichswehr. Only recently, General Groen- er, the Reichs Minister for Defense and for the Interior, confirmed the legality of Herr Hitler in order to use him as a witness against the Com- munist Party. Now, however, one learns how the Hitler Party intends to set up its “third nere is to be @ mass murder of the empire”: tt working cl: and the whole of the working | population. The document published in Hessen contains a ‘‘proclamation to the population,” which is to be regarded to a certain extent as the first gov- exnraent proclamation, and a number of “direc- tions” for the carrying out of the government measures. The appeal culminates in a “com- mand to the entire population of the country” with t orders: Anybody disobeying an order given by a Hitler man, no matter how idiotic it may be, will be punished with death; anybody who possesses a weapon and does not hand it over within 24 hours to the national socialist storm detach- ments, will be shot on the spot; workers, em- ployees and officials who do not immediately place themselves at the disposal of the national socialists, or venture to offer open or concealed resistance, will be punished with death; every violation of the emergency order issued by the national socialists will be punished with death. The “directions” contained in the document also relate to the question of food supplies. All food will be immediately confiscated, without compensation, by the. national socialists; all free sales of food are prohibited; infringement of these regulations will be punished with death. This measure is directed in the first place against the working peasants and middle classes. ‘The confiscated food will be distributed under the control of the national socialist storm de- tachments, but only to those who are docile to the national socialists; the rest can starve. A further “direction” provides that private property shall be secured, but that “until fur- ther arrangements” all private incomes will be done away with; the wages of the workers, the salaries of the employees and officials, the in- come of the lower middle class and peasants de- rived from the sale of their wares, will be abol- ished. The object of this order is to compel the working population, if they do not wish to starve, to seek the favor of the national socialists. Fin- ally, further “directions” provide that all Ger- mans of either sex are obliged to perform work of national importance, and that they will have the right to receive food from the confiscated stocks only if they report for service; Jews and other “people of alien origin” are not permitted ne followi to perform national labor service, and therefore | are not permitted to receive food and can there fore starve. ‘That is the government program of the Hitler Party. For the working class and the working middle classes it means wholesale shootings, onths it has been known what close connec- | | Starvation and slavery. : Hitler and his crowd attempted at first to | represent the document as being a forgery and the work of spies, and talked about “forged documents”; but within 24 hours there could be no longer any dispute regarding the genuineness of this document. Its author, a leading national socialist and member of the Hessian Diet, Dr. Best, admitted having drawn it up. At the con- ference at which this document was discussed, only prominent national socialists were present. Thus the second excuse, that the authors of the document are not leaders but only unresponsible persons, is prvoed to be a lie?om the part of Hitler. In view of the Hessian document Hitler has again solemnly assured General Groener of the perfect “legality” of his intentions. Even the | closest friends of the national socialists, the German nationalists, have been placed in a pain- fully embarrassing situation; they can find no better excuse than to say that these plans are “hundred per cént Bolshevistic!” By this dodge they seek to maintain and continue the agita- tion for the prohibition, of the Communist Party, | But the chief Public Prosecutor 1s also ser- iously compromised in connection with the Hes- sian revelations. This man hastily sought to excuse the national socialist civil war strategists by declaring that their plan had been worked out only for the eventuality of a Communist re- volt. In view of the indignant protest of the broad public he was unable to maintain this thesis, but was compelled to bring a charge against the national socialists. But up to the present not one of the accused national socialist leaders has been arrested! General Groener is particularly compromised by the revelations of the civil war plans of the national socialists. Acting on his behalf, the Reichswehr General von Schleicher, at repeated conferences with Hitler, had established a close connection between the Reichswehr and the na- tional socialists. In his declarations to the press, General Groener had demanded “draconic, ex- ceptional measures” against the Communist Party, but never so much ax mentfoned the Hit ler patty. In his speech to the Ministers for the Interior of the various provinces, in which he again made the sharpest atack against the Com- munist Party, Groener recommended that the material against the C.P. of Germany, which Hitler had handed over to him on the previous day, should receive the special attention of the provincial governments. 'There could be no doubt | that Groener was aiming at a general prohibi- tion of the Communist Party, while at fhe same time he openly favored the national socialists. But in spite of everything, General Groener again comes before the public and im an article published in the “Deutsche Aligememe Zetims” on November 29, calls for new emergency orders against the “calumniators of the State” who venture to “pry into” the secrets of Germany's defensive policy. The monstrous sentence of 2 years 9 months’ imprisonment on the editor of bourgeois periodical “Weltbuhne,” which criticised the air budget, is not severe enough for Groener. But this Reichs Minister for the Interlor has no word to say regarding the civil. Wer plane of the metionel socteliste, ‘The Gere the @aily éfcept Sunday, at §¢ Best Cable to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y, “DATWORK." By mail everywhere: One of Manhatian and Bronx, SURSCRIPTION RATES: New York City. Foreign: year, $8; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughe one year, fa $8; six months, $4.50. FEEDING THE BLOODHOUNDS ~*. (This article was smuggled over the Bulgar- iam frontier by a worker sympathizer. Any attempt to send these facts out of the country is met with savage persecution of the writer and suppression of the material, if the at- tempt ts detected by Bulgarian authorities.— Ea.) i , hi eas (Special Correspondence from Bulgaria) recent reconstruction of the cabinet of the “National Block in Bulgaria (Mushanoff superseding Malinoff) was a most striking evi- dence that under the influence of the growing agrarian and general crisis on one hand and under the pressure of the growing militant revo- lutionary upsurge of the toiling masses in city and village coalition since June 21, is being ever more sharpened. Tt proves also, that the government of the “National Block” in continuing the bloody reac- tionary policy of their predecessors, against the toiling masses and their revolutionary organiza- tions and struggles, prepares the ground for a new blow, new programs against the revolution- ary working class movement in order to insure for itself the capitalist solution of the crisis, by putting all its burdens upon the shoulders of the workers and peasants, as well as dragging Bulgaria into an anti-Soviet war. ~ To this capitalist and fascist offensive, the workers and peasants under the leadership of their glorious Bulgarian Communist Party, an-~ swered’ with a counter-offensive. The mass strike movement, the doubling and almost tripling of all legal working class organ- izations, the splendid victories at the-polls in the parliamentary elections on June 21 (175,000 votes and 31 mandates) and in the recent city and county elections {one-third of the small villages—55,000 votes) the mighty increase of the circulation of the labor press despite the mon- strous terror, the national movement for amnesty and abolishment of the Law for the Defense of the State; the activities of thé unemployed, etc.—all this speaks in no uncertain way for the constant growth of the revolutionary upsurge and ripening of the crisis in Bulgaria. Especially of great. importance is the speedy radicalization of the toiling peasants, which was expressed in hundreds of resolutions with de- mands for: full and unconditional amnesty; abolishment of L. D. G.; indemnification for all the working class victims of the class strug- gles during the period from June 9, 1923, until now; trial for the peoples hangmen; disband- ment of the fascist organizations, The radicalization of the masses is also ex- pressed by the mass desertion of single members and whole groups from the Bulgarian National Agrarian League and joining the Workers Party; by the tremendous nation-wide sympathy to- ward U.S.S.R. and the outcry against interven- tion, ete. Of course, this upsurge of the peas- ant masses comes from below and is supported and led by the Bulgarian Communist Party; however, the agrarian fascist leaders despite certain internal clashes with the city bourgeois parties, are in complete harmony with the lat- ter, and under the command of the National and : IED ener man social democracy can be really proud of the fact that on October. 16, they rejected the Com- munist vote of no-confidence against Groener. Will Reichs Chancellor Bruening, even after the Hessian revelations, still continue his nego- tiations with the national socialists regarding their forming a joint government? 'The “Berliner ‘Tageblatt” reports that right up to recently con- ferences between leading people of the Centre and Hitler were still going on in spite of the civil war plans of the national socialists. ‘The Hessian document has had a tremendous effect on the masses of the working population of Germany, for the broad masses had never before so clearly seen the real character of the ‘Hitir party. The united front movement, at the head of which stands the Communist Party, has thereby acquired fresh forces, expecially from the ranks of the social democratic workers, who have had their eyes opened to thé tremen- dous dangers to the working class which have yarisen as a result of the social democratic policy of ease collaboration and toleration of the ‘Broming government as the “lesser evil.” On with the Struggle Against the Fascist Dictatorship in Bulgaria foreign finance capital, are ready again to enter into an alliance with the fascist Block and the “socialists” for ‘National’ government. Their cries in thg Parliament against Tzan- coff are in reality only demagogy for keeping the peasant masses under their control and sell- ing them more blindly to the big financial capi- tal, under whose commands they will murder and terrorize the workers nob any worse than Tzankoffs and Russeffs. With the full consent of these “champions” against the fascist block, Mushanoff carries on the terroristic methods of the fascist block both against the workers and the toiling peasants; sends the army against the strikers at the meet- ings with orders to shoot to kill; terrorizes and kills Communists on the streets; forbids free assemblage of the Workers Party and the Na- tional Independent Trade Unions; padlocks their clubs; exercises monstrous terror over the labor press; makes mass arrests and deportations, etc. Gicheff have neither raised nor will ever raise the question in the cabinet about that, on the contrary, they fully justify it and accuse the workers and poor peasants, who are being killed, tortured and deported. Recently this terror against the Bulgarian Communist Party, Work- ers Party and I.W.G.U. has been immensely strengthened: ‘ About two months ago the Communist, Pelo I. Pelovsky, was killed on the street. On Oct. 30 two Communists were killed on Debar St. Sofia, Com. Nickola Kofardgieff, member of the C.C. of the B.C.P. shot in the abdomen and the head and Com. Racho Tzaneff, who was seriously wounded and immediately taken to the jail to be tortured. Mass arrests have begun. Over 100 comrades, working men and women, students, have been arrested and sub- jected to beastly tortures. Among them are: T. Stoyanoff, member of the Young Workers | League, Christo Radevsky, editor of “Workers Cause,” 'Tzvetan Stephanoff, N. Gavriloff, lawyer, etc. All have been immediately sub- jected to unheard of inquisitions in order to Squeeze out of them “self confession.” How inhuman those tortures are, can be seen by the fact reported in the police organ, Zora,” that Comrade Racho 'Tzaneff has attempted sui- cide by cutting his veins with glass in order to escape the sadistic tortures. : This new blow against the B, C. P. is at the same time dn attempt to prepare the grounds for the dissolution of the Workers Party, in con- nection with which the Minister of Justice, Mr. Verbenoff, has declared that he is getting ready to take the matter to the court of Cassation on the grounds of violating the La D. G.; it-is also an attempt to stop the ‘radicalization of the worker and peasant masses in order to insure the bourgeois solution of the cgisis, and the anti- Soviet intervention, which due to the present: conflict in Manchuria, appears closer to its realization than ever before. / These vicious attacks against the workers and peasants by the Bulgarian bourgeois are resorted. to in order to facilitate. the work of the coming “national” government and for carrying on more . Consistently and more openly to fascist dictator- y ship in Bulgaria, With this only purpose in mind could be ex- plained the growing terror over our parliamen- tary fraction and the threats of its expulsion from the parliament; the prohibition of our W. J. 'T. U. congresses; the increasing persecutions of Young Workers League, etc. But in spite of all that,, we, the workers in Bulgaria, do not Antend to bend down; on the contrary, we will’ arouse the. masses and will spread everywhere our struggles against the capitalist offensive and fascist. reaction, until the realization of our proletarian solution of the crisis. However dear to us the victims are, we will always march forward and we are deeply convinced that not the bourgeoisie, but we, the workers, will be the victors. But right here it must be stated and empha~- sized thet eur struggle against the Bulgarian forctsm today, more than ever before, has not only national significance, but international sig- nificance. Bulgaria is one of the countries where the conditions of the revolutionary crisis are already beginning to ripen and just because of this, we must. have WARNING AGAINST DISRUPTERS AND ENEMIES OF THE WORKING CLASS Roh Lenard, of Buffalo, N. ¥., was a. member of the Unemployed Council; has’ been exposed by the Communist Party District Bureau as an agent-provocateur. . He has tried to disrupt the work of the Un- employed Council by various “urder-handed methods, by trying to disrupt meetings, agitating against’ the leadership in the Unemployed Coun- cil,» spreading false rumors and accusations against the Communist Party, etc. On top of this, he was seen at a police station, and, when confronted with this informatian, he refused. to explain what business he had there. He is about 5 ft. 8 inches tall, has dark brown hair, and weighs about 145 Ibs. He is an. intel- lectual of Russian birth, thoroughly American- ized; and he has lived in Buffalo for a num- ber of years without known means of livelihood. Charles O. Duett (also known as Chas. Gold- smith), of Houston, Texas, was expelled from the Communist Party in 1930 as an unreliable and disruptive element, who slandered the Party in articles written for an LW.W. paper. He was expelled from the Marine Workers’. Industrial Union at the same time. 4 He has now been exposed as haying joined the Party again under the name of Goldsmith, and as having stolen organization funds and proper- ty, and left Houston for California. He is about 5 ft. 6 inches in height, talks ina slow drawl, and constantly brags (falsely) of having attended Party schools and having per- sonal acquaintance with Party leadership. Wm. Nelson, of Grand Forks, N. Dak., former- jy in Bemidji, Minn., has been expelled from the Communist Party as a totally unreliable and de- moralized individual, who-has stolen organiza- tion funds, borrowed money from various work- ers, and generally lived as a leech upon work- ers’ organizations and sympathizers. Raife (or Rife), of Los Angeles, Cal. formerly in Denver, Colo., has tried to join the Commu- nist Party several times, but has been rejected as a rotten unreliable individual, who attaches himself to various workers’ organizations only to rob them and to swindle money from their members and sympathizers. He was first, found out in Chicago, in 1927, where he misappropriated to himself some funds of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. ‘Then he moved to Denver, Colo., where he tried to swindle some funds from the Icor. All work- ers and Workers’ organizations should’ beware of this leech. ...CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, » o-- COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S. A. the international proletariat. t: Besides our hard struggles in the country, we to get the immediate ald of | and International’ Red “Aid Lat then await the joint action of the world masses in a new wave of mighty protests against the bloody repressions and frame-ups of the Bulgarian fas- eist.government; against the new provocations and programs over the B. ©. P. against the out- |, lawing the W. P., for the abolishment of the L, D. G. and legalization of the B. ©! P. for full and unconditional amnesty; for disband- ‘ment of the fascist organizations; for the -pre- version of «intervention against the Soviet ‘Union, ete. z Especially at the present moment of ‘the strug- gles this action should be sharpened against the nefy methods of “cleaning up” the Communists in the streets and the outlawing of the Workers Pariy as well as against the crippling of the amnesty, which is wanted by the whole toiling people, full and unconditional; for immediate “elease of the arrested comrades, trial for the -infellectual and physical assassins of Kofardjuf. All its proletarian organizations—parties, union§; mutuals, and cultural organizations, young workers leagues, etc—must come to our help by expressing their protests not only in resolutions and telegrams against the Sofia hangmen, but at the same time to strengthen and raise to a higher level the struggle against the fascist reaction in their own countries, Fascism can and must be smashed not only in Bulgaria but everywhere, especially in Ger- many, Poland, Jugoslavia, Roumania- and other countries. In this respect, special problems are facing also the Anti-Fascist League, the.Inter- ‘national Workers Aid; Anti-Imperisiist: League | - Wanted: A Soviet: Crisig _ Well, folks, we see as how Mr. Under-Scratch- etary Mills of. Uber-Scratchetary Mellon ane nounced on all last ‘Tuesday’s front pages that; “MORATORIUM. AVERTED DISASTER.” It is also added: that:—“Hoover ‘Action Pre vented World Crash.” That's kinda nice, ain’t it? N. Y. Post; of Dec, 15. ‘Then we looked up what the “Sun” said. And what do you think it said? "This is how it stagted off in an article-by the Financial Editor: “After spending another morning of listening to rumors calculated to make creép the flesh of security. holders, Wall Street took a breath of fresh air.” We just glanced down the thing and Bonds were backward and lost ground. A mild wave of bank failures. . in Dutely guilders... Canadian. dollars «sa Hed..." y Ro, hum | Let's look at the World-Telegram, First off, there is the Rock of Ages, U. 8. Steel, We read it in the A sharp drop Gérman marks easier...» nk further, “but: -yen rale | which all the capitalist “experts” said a year ago “simply couldn’t go below 150”—and darned if we don’t read: “United States Stecl Dropped Below 40.” Then, further along, more about those ghastly rumors: “Wall Street. was a gloomy. place throughofit the entire session. All sorts of dire predictions were being made, and rumors were flying thick and fast. , .. The weakness in bonds of late has had a great deal to.do with the strange feeling in the stomachs of so many people in’ the finan= cial district.” i Another headline: “23 Nations off Gold’Stand- ard, Review Shows.” And, on page two, Willfam Philip Simms, foreign editor, says in summing up things: “An entire world, more than half of which is in, or bordering on, revolution or war; the rest being in a state of nervous uncertainty of what may happen.” Now, folks, isn’t it lovely: that’ Under-Seratch- etary Mills “‘assures” everybody that “Mora~ torium Averted Disaster” and that. we éan feel relieved because “Hoover Action Prevented World Crash?” . Roger Babson, the “great” economist, said about five months and twenty-nine days ago that he would “Stake his reputation” on “pros~ perity’s return within six months.” Well; how much do you think his reputation would bring on the dog-meat market? % What's needed, and needed BADLY, is some sort of a ruction in the Soviet Union. Can’t SOMEBODY scare up a “Soviet. Crisis?” ; Here Hoover declared a couple of months ago that the Soviet. was in “difficulties’—and all that hap- pens is that U. S. government bonds have gone down to 88 cents on the dollar! Hell’s bells! But the N. Y, Post has it! Send out reporters to‘intervic scmebody who has been in Soviet Russia and don’t like the bathtub shortage and the lack of cream puffs. Ah, ha! , Discovered! A Mr. Chester F. Appleton is found who finds nothing: about American industry. “deceiving” Ameritah’ workers, but declares with glee that “Amtorg deceives Americans. when . employing them" a4 ‘Appleton is the boy! He says that the, auto factories being built by the Reds “have no mar~ ket to absorb’ their full production.” .. Punny, ain’t it? Then he says “Soviet officials offer prizes to workmen who would not work,” -Still funnier! For we have been told they were “forced” to labor! ° “And then the climax; which the Post editor put into the headline: “Soviet Fall. Near, U. 8. Engineer ‘Says.” ‘THAT, of course, makes us forget that in the same day on which Under-Scratchetary Mills “assures” us that: “Moratorium Averted Disas- ter,” the same Mr. Mills made a spooch, which the N. Y. Times of Dec. 15 tells about this way: “Mr. Mills opened his address with a review of the government's fiscal situation, pointing te a aut deficit of $4,400,000,000 by the end of 1933.” _* eS What a Cat-Astrophe It Would Be If the workers, would overthrow capitalism. Take, for example, Philadelphia, the “city of brotherly love,” where thousands upon tens of thousands of workers are facing hunger, cold and privation—whtre, if we recall aright, we read recently of some homeless workers in the city’s outskirts digging caves) to’ “live” ‘in. , We are moved to menition Philadelphia because of a dispatch appearing in the N. Y, Times Noy. 13, which ran as follows: - “Philadelphia.—Twelve eats will be the sole residents of the fine brownstone house at the southwest corner of Broad. and. Norris Streets, ‘until the last one departs for whatever pera- disé is reserved for them. Such is the deci- sion of Miss Emma D, Miller, a professional dancer and. daughter of Mrs. Annie " Miller, who died Wednesday.” = > | 2” What a cat-astrophe it would be if the workers would overthrow capitalism and. insist on’ in brownstone houses in place .of cats—and cape talists. s ‘ Something Worth % : Remembering ai “Who, except hopeless bureaucrats, relies upon mere paper documents? Who, except archive bure rowers, fails to grasp that the Party and the leaders must be tesied first ofallb y their deeds, and not only by their declarations? History has known not a few socialists: wHo ‘have ‘been very willing to sign. all sorts of revoltitionary résolue tions, in order 10 protect themselves’ from ‘intrue sive critics. But this has-not meant that they have put these resolutions into practice. And his- tory has again known. not afew socialists’ who, foaming with excitement, have demanded the most revolutionary actions from the workers’ Parties of other countries. But this has fot meant that they. have not: capitulated, in their own Party or in:their own. country, to thelr own o} portunists, to their own bourgeoisie, Was this ‘the reason why Lenin taught us ridt'to judge ther their declarations and resolutions, but by their deeds?” —-From Stalin's letter to the editors of the “Proletarskaya Revoluzia”, and in chains, fallen in this glorious struggle, ‘Wke, our’ already. immortalized militant comrade, \N. Kofardjiaff, serve as bantier ‘and “stimulant ‘in the mighty struggle for the defeat of the jcommmon enemy and for the establishment of ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat and the soe Ctaliam all over ths world.

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