The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1933, Page 5

‘ * the Socialist Party McLevy Must Act on Worker’s Demands, Say S.P. Rank and File Interview Shows Socialist Mayor Opposes Revolutionary Policy, Upholds Present By CARL RSEVE BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec, 22.— Jasper McLevy, the Socialist mayor of Bridgeport, by failing to present ® program for the Bridgeport work- ers, and on the other hand by trai- Sicking from the start with manufac- turers and Republican and Demo- cratic politicians, has so dissatisfied ik and file Socialists that they ready opposing him inside the This came to light in an interview with McLevy, and with rank and file Socialist. party members in Bridge- ‘This opposition has reached int of severe criticism in the membership meeting of Mc- es, y's outlook is best summed up in his own words: “The philosophy of Socialism is founded on the theory and laws of evolution.” McLevy claims to believe in the class struggle, but this struggle does not include revolutionary action. As McLevy told the Daily Worker, the struggle does not even include mass workers’ dem- onsirations. The central point of the interview with McLevy was the mobilization of the workers of Bridge- port for a fight for their demands, and in every case, on every demand, McLevy ovposed any such fight and even opposed putting forth clear cut demands and- a clear cut program. At one point McLevy became angry and criticized the Communists. “I know you Communists,” he said. ou can’t get anywhere with that I don’t believe in demonstra~ ‘0 Action for Negroes s to favor the sto workers, inter- fense against lom of t languishing in the b any action. When city council tin simply ; been referred to mittee of the ing of the ion was done by 10 at the council, won to be read, ated it to the commi ~ saying a single word in ctice, MeLevy will terests of the Negro Altack on N.R.A, d, in the inter- his attitude toward erament, and toward program of Roose- i, “I am opposed to have spoken of the a part of the N.R.A., t direction be- gives y to the workers instead of to the rich. But I realize that the Recovery program as a whole is an aivempt to perpetuate capital- ism. Tf it breaks down they will try something else.” But the proof that this criticism of the national govern- ment is sheer demagogy is seen in the fact that whereas McLevy in all public speeches praises the C.W.A., he does not attack the Recovery Program of Roosevelt. A Socialist Party member, a worker, told me later “McLevy told me the same thing, he told me he is opposed to the N.R.A.” “Have you ever heard McLevy make a public speech at- tacking the N.R.A. or the Recovery program of Roosevelt,” this worker was asked. His reply was “NO.” On this question also, in practice, Mc- Levy supports the Roosevelt govern- ment. He refuses to put up a fight agefnst the capitalist state. No Fight On War McLevy claims to be opposed to capitalist war and war preparations. But what has been the practice? Mc- Levy has watched American Legion leaders prepare Bridgeport’s “Defense Day” program, inviting militarists into the town as speakers, without making a single public statement against these war preparations, which axe going on with his knowledge and without any opposition cu his part. Tn fact, he stood on the official re- viewing platform. Supports Present System McLeyy was elected because the workers expected a fight, and leader- ship for all of the demands of the workers. But McLevy’s every action, | ice of his stand on every question, has shown that McLevy is attempting through his demagogy, to chain the workers to the capitalist system. Mc- Levy, under cover of his demagogy, is trying to prevent the workers from carrying out a fighting, revolutionary policy, He does not want a fight on these issues—on the issue of unem- of @ workers’ government. He is silent on the Soviet Union. A true italism, but of Snaine of @ fight against it. Tt is on the question of relations to the two openly ys’ Marties, the Republic: Democratic parties, that come out in the party most. He has out the program of i ; : ahd charter gives him no not, But with regard to appointments, MeLevy has power, even under sestrictions and technicalities in the charter, to appoint socialists, Relations With Old Parties When asked about appointments, |" | McLevy. System Daily Worker, “I will appoint social- ists wherever I have the power to do otherwise. ® He appointed Joseph Wierer, a Democrat, town clerk. He is about to appoint a city attorney, a major appointment, and he has already pre- pared the ground in the capitalist press for the appointment of a non- socialist. Where socialists were ap- pointed, they followed his line of in- action and support of the manufac- turers’ interests. The opposition of the rank and file socialists to McLevy’s appointment of agents of the manufacturers came to a head over appointment of head of the Park Board. On this question the socialist rank and file expected a fight. The city charter states, “The membership of said board, with the exception of the mayor, shall at, all two political parties having the larger number of aldermen on the common council”. This clause means that the Park Board shall now consist of four democrats and four socialists (with the mayor). McLevy Allows Edmes Appointment The charter has a contradictory clause which states, “each of the eight commissioners shall be ap- pointed by a majority vote of the board by and with the consent and advice of the board of aldermen, to serve for a term of eight years from Jan. 1”...The term of George Eames, ;Tepublican, leader in the Bridgeport ; Manufacturers Association and in a | high position in the Singer Sewing Machine Co., had expired this month. |The park commissioners insisted on ¢ | re-appointing him. A meeting was held together with the mayor. The e |resuits of this meeting are described |in the Bridgeport Times Star of De- cerber 16 (the facts I have substan- tiated). “Although Mayor Jasper Mc- Levy ailowed unprotested the re- election of G. M. Eames, president of the Park Board, for another eight year term on the board, when the Park board held its annual meeting sterday afternoon, he declared that ie expected the socialists to be con- {sulted about the next election to the board.” However, the appointment of Eames, when brought to the city council for ap- proval, did not go through, the dem- | ecrats in the city council put up a fight against it on the ground it is a violation of the city charter. The whole question was finally referred to the city attorney for an interpreta- tion of the contradictory clauses in the charter, on the initiative not of McLevy,but of the democrats. One Bridgeport paper, which supports Mc- Levy, said of this incident, “The mayor was not after Eames because he knows about the good work he has done for the city.” (Bridgeport Sunday Herald). This month, when the socialist A. K. Auth was elected president of the board of aldermen (city council) his nomination was seconded by James A. Turner, a republican, and was supported by three other republicans. In his seconding speech, Turner stated that he supports the socialist. ad- ministration because he is for the “economy” program, for getting the budget balanced without having a burdensome tax placed upon business and upon the manufacturers as well as the people in general. Because of McLevy’s failure to put forward a program for the workers, and because of his dealings with the republicans and democrats, the rank and file socialists began to criticize A memberskip meeting of the socialist party was called for Wed- nesday night, Dec. 20, Reports from the meeting indicate that it was marked by a sharp clash between McLevy and the rank and file. The mayor, it is reported, was especially criticized for upholding the appoint- ment of Eames to the park board. McLevy was also criticized for his at- titude toward the demands of the unemployed, for his faiiure, specifi- cally, to appear at the meeting held by Amter in under the auspices of the Unemployed Council, In this meeting, according to reports, recording secretary of the party. He was defeated by the vote of the rank and file of the socialist party. Before the meeting, the Daily Worker interviewed several rank and file socialist party members. “McLevy says that he can’t find capable men in the socialist party to appoint,” one of these workers said, “But how are we ever going to learn if we are not given a chance. some honest workers in the socialist party, and that’s the main qualification. In- stead he allowed the re-appointment rep- | Eames.” » but allowances for McLevy. They er oa Bera yay hag el fact that the legislative state control Bridge- finances to a large extent, time, they see the need of " employed. Some mands made by the Unemployed Council on the city council in Bridge- times be equally divided between the | the and of the various reformists limitations of the city charter. At! formists to mislead the Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was } welcomed by a cheering mass of workers upon his return to the Soviet Union after successfully negotiating recognition with the U. 8. Litvinoff is shown here with his daughter, Tanya, upon his arrival in Moscow, USSR: Bu (Culture, He By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) Before a large audience at Pari: come to hear his impressions of recent trip to the Soviet Union, Edouard Herriot, former Premier of France, declared that al “The law of the Soviet Union is | } seience. Science has become the | real idol of the new Russia.” | Herriot then gave a detailed descrip- | tion of the great achieyements of the All-Union Academy of the Sciences, and other leading Soviet science | groups, which are merging their sci- | entific work with the practice of So- cialist construction, the re-construc- tion of industry, and the collectiy- ization of agriculture. Continuing his address, which was | heard with the greatest interest and | attention, Herriot pointed out the enormous achievements of education | in the USSR. Particularly, he stressed the present immensely im- proved position of the education sys- tem as compared with the 1922 period when he first visited the USSR. | | He singled out the Soviet Polytech- nical School for high praise, com- menting on its high degree of prac- tical scientific culture. He emphasized , the great advantage of the State cul- ture of the U.S.S.R. compared with ilding Great rriot Finds the capitalist countries. He also paid tribute to the great achievements of Soviet literature, in- dicating the leading part played by Maxim Gorki, and he spoke in terms of the highest praise of the achieve- ments of the Soviet theatre. Herriot is‘considered to be a lead- ing representative of French bour- geois politics and culture. N.Y. Party Section Orders 2,000 Copies Of 24-Page Number NEW YORK.—Section 2, of this city, placed a cash initial order yesterday for 2,000 copies of the 24-page tenth anniversary issue of the Daily Worker to be published on Jan. 6. Section 1, paid for 600 copies, Unit 28, Section 15, accepts the challenge by Unit 8 of the same section to sell 200 copies of the anniversary edition by pledging to sell not 200 but 250. Every Party Unit should haye its revolutionary greetings in the his- torical 24 page, tenth anniversary What an absurdity! Lenin advising Roosevelt how. to save caplialism from its present crisis —and Roosevelt learning from Lenin's writings how to build Socialism! Such is the presentation given by Louis Fisher in the December 20 issue of “The Nation,” in an article with the high sounding title, “Lenin to Frank~- lin D. Roosevelt.” Of all Lenin's writing, Fisher, as did Professor Beard before him, se- lects Lenin’s pamphlet, ‘The Threat- ening Catastrophe and How to Fight It,” as a “guide” for Roosevelt's New Deal swindle, But there is logic to this absurdity, this “madness.” Tho Class Purpose of His Madness ‘What is the class purpose of this “madness?” American capitalism is “threatened with @ catastrophe” and it is netss- sary to fight it, and above all, it.4s necessary to save the capitalist syg- tem, with the right of a handful of financial magnates to rob and murder the majority of the population and in the first place, the working class, Who is the “sane” statesman to- day who would OPENLY dare to de- fend Wall Street? How many learned professors would, in the fifth year of the crisis, consider it wise OPEN- LY_to defend the cariialist system? The New Deal in ACTION js the N.R.A. The N. R. A. is the favor- ite child of Roose The N. R. A. was conceived of and lives for the handful of financial plutocrats in the country, The N. R. A. the instrument of monopoly capitalism, paves the way for fascism. The New Dea: the midwife. of fascism. The N.R.A. is the instru- ment, the forceps, for giving birth to fascism. To be sure, we still, in the main, have with us bourgects democracy, the masked dictatorship of finance capitalism of Wall Street. But precisely because the “threaten- ing catastrophe” is approaching, fas- cism is growing by leaps and bounds, the New Deal, the N. R. A. is ac- celerating its growth. Confusing the Masses class to distort, to confuse, and blind the masses to the growing men- ace of fascism. Aboye all, the con- crete sources that give birth to fas- cism, must be hidden from the searching eyes of the workers. Nay, in this period, of the growing popu- larity of the Soviet Union and its founder, Lenin, in this period of DE- CLINING faith in capitalism, and GROWING faith in Socialism, the very instrument of monopoly capital- ism, the very instrument for ushering in fascism is represented as an in- strument of rocialism, a twin child of Lenin... And Mr. Fischer does his bit! To begin with his own quotation from Lenin’s “The Threatening Catas- of our “Daily.” But it is necessary for the rukng t BY evitable catastrophe . . . Half a year of revolution (shall we soy Ne R. A.) has pawed. The c: trophe has come still closer . Control, supervision, accounting this is the first word in the fight against catastrophe and famine. This is what arouses no objection «+ And it is just this which is NOT BEING DONE out of fear of | encroeching upon the omnipotence of the landlords and capitalists, upon their enormous, unheard-of, scandalous profits... profits which everyone knows about, everyone ob- serves, creryone laments and be- moans.” | Liberal Fraud | Here Mr. Fischer very neatly, | with the typical fraud of the libezal Journalist, places the N. R. A. on the same historical footing (as Lenin did whem he discussed) the 1917 March | revolution. (Note Mr. Fischer's brackets in tho quotation.) But the urce of the unpardonable deception which Mr, Fischer is out to spread is to confuse the CONCEPTION of | “control, supervision, and sccount- ing,” which Lenin sveaks of in order to curb famine and, the profits of the bankers and the trust magnates, and the “control, supervision, end ac- counting” of the N. R. A. codes, which precisely raise prices, create more profits for finance capital, thus creat- ing more faméne in the country. Here lies the crux of the discussion. In justice to Mr. Fischer we will say that every distortion and historical charlatanism has a certain “objective bas And that is as put by Fischer. “Ié cannot be repeated too often that Lenin conceived of this program of state econcmic control within the framework of capitalism...” But to understand the class mean- ing of Lenin’s proposal to be car- ried through, “within the frame work of capitelism,” one must grasp the historical situation in which they were made. It was the period fol- lowing directly upon the 1917 March tu when alongside of provisional e existed Sor government, Tt was a time It were armed. Menshev y, Scheidernanr Fillqui naries w in a coalition government with bourgeoisfe. The Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, in whom the masses at the time still had con- fidence, made endless promises, but in the name of Socialism allowed the 2 ‘s and trust magnatesin Russia to continue profiteering, and the bourgeoisie to organize a counter- revolution. Keynote of Lenin's Proposals As long as the masses believed in the socialist phrases of the Men- sheviks, the March 1917 bourgeois Gemocratic revolution could not velop into the proletarian revoluti trophe and How To Fight It”: “Russia is threatened by an in- The Mensheviks and Social Revolu- tionaries paraded before the masses (Continued from page 4) their left phrases and right deeds ;the miners from finding the path of the class struggle which alone leads to an improvement in the conditions of the miners. Thus the Mustcites (Allard and Co.) have been the main- stay of the present leadership of the P. M, A. and now that they are ex- |cluded from the top councils of the P. M. A. are continuing to fool the miners through their attacks on the Communists and only help the bureaucrats in keeping the miners chained to the reformist policies, LOVESTONEITES TOOLS OF A. F. OF L., BUREAUCRATS In the Anthracite the Lovestonites, burocrats, trough their policy of the A. F. of L. at any price, are exposing themselves as the tools of the A. F. L, bureaucrats and the enemies of the miners. In the name of unity, policies of the bureaucrats. And they declare that every attempt to organize @ genuine opposition is splitting the miners, when in reality it is only freeing the miners from the domina- tion of the bosses agents, so that they carry on an effective struggle. FOR ONE NATIONAL MILITANT The Communists must on the basis of the development of the oppositions within the reformist miners unions, on the basis of strengthening and building the base of the N. M. U. among the unorganized, and its in- fluence among the miners generally lay the basis for the fight for one national militant miners union. We must reject the theory that only through the U. M. W. A. can the jmMiners form one organization. The tens of thousands of miners who are organized in the various other unions do not wish to return to the domina~ tion of Lewis. To do so would be @ big step backwards and a betrayal of the interests of the miners, Nor can any of the other reformist unions Communist Program of the renegade brigade of the A. F. L.| they wish the miners to accept the} become, the united union of the min- | ets. Even if this would be possible | it would not be progress for the min- ers to be united under Pearcey or than under | Cappelini any more | Ley The N. M. U. in its program | and pol: | ests of the miners. | union of the miners. | union of the miners. union of miners that all the miners | must join the N. M. U. Rather the N. M. U. must, while strengthening | and building its base among the un- | united miners union. | Which all Communists through the | to the miners. FIGHT FOR UNEMPLOYED AND BLACKLISTED policy into effect the Communist Action in the icy does represent the inter- | What is more | the N. M. U. has proven through its heroic struggles that it is a fighting But it has not | been able yet to become the fighting It would be a | mistake if the comrades in the N. M. U. would make as preconditions for the formation of one militant | organized, develop the united front | with the rest of the miners, and take the lead in the fight for one national This must be the line of the Party fractions in all miners organizations including the N. M. U. must bring In order to effectively put this As one of the main points of the present recruiting campaign, it is necessary to undertake the streng- thening of the base of the Party and ¥. C. L. among the miners. With- out increasing the number of Com- munists among the miners (which in most districts is very small) it will be difficult to carry through the gigantic tasks facing the Party. The Party must give special attention to winning Negro miners‘ and young miners who though they play a yery important role in the industry are especially numerically weak in our organization. Furthermore, the Pariy must strive not merely to organize the economic struggles of the mincrs ers, but to win the miners for the Party program in the struggle for & revolutionary way out of the crisis. Party enlightens the miners on all the important issues facing the :min- ers and the working class as a whole, role of the reformist league, the Socialist Party, the League of the Musteites (who in order to betray the workers yet more skillfully or- ganized the so-called American Workers Party) and build the Party and to bulid the unity of the min-! | This can be accomplished only if the! carry on @ constant exposure of the | Mine Fields of the working class and the Com- munist Party and the Y. C. L. One of the most important tasks confronting the Party is the increas- ing of the circulation of the Daily Worker among the miners, to de- velop the miners correspondence and} utilize the special Saturday mining edition for winning the miners. Similarly the Party must take im- mediate steps to develop Party mine ‘papers in the most important mines and in the first place in the mines where the Districts have established the mines for concentration. Finally, it is necessary to develop the work of the Communist fractions and guide them in the‘r work. With- out the Communist fractions it is not possible to lead the miners in successful struggle or to win the min- ers for the revolutionary program of | the Party. For the building and guiding of the Communist fractions the District beats the full responsi- bility. Aside from the fractions the District and Section Committees must give special attention to develop the Party mine nuclei, basic organiza- tions of the Party in the mines, their mass work, their inner life, their/ constant recruitment of miners. fraction in the N. M. U. together | with the Communist fraction in the U. M. W. A. in the fields where’there | | UNITED MINE WORKERS CONVENTION exist only groups of unemployed and M. U., must mobilize the miners to of the N. M, U. to get jobs and be- come full fledged members of the U. M. W. A. The unemployed miners in these fields organized in the N. M. U. should take the lead to trans- form themselves into broad organi- zations of the unemployed miners funemployed councils) to include the U. M. W. A. unemployed in these organizations and jointly with the Support of the U. M. W. A. locals fight for jobs, relief and unemploy- ment relief. STRENGTHENING TRE PARTY—KEY TO CARRYING THROUGR | ALL TASKS Iv The present struggles of the min- ers, the rise of the militant opposi- |tion of the miners, and the ability) and left re~| ers was made possible to a large ex- Of |tent because of the weakness of the | support, for example, the de-| Party base among the miners and the failure of the Communists among the! to carry through effectively the tasks laid down in the resolution of the 14th Plenum of the C. C. of Party and sharply called to our | attention in the open letter of the i They are interested in a united front|¥¢ bear in mind the control tasks | immediate issues facing the when interviewed, McLevy said to the | workers. for every District and the concentra | tion tasks laid down. This program concentration and the control | tasks not only remain in full force, but alone furnish the possibility of making serlous headway in the carry- ing through of our tasks among the miners. Experience has shown that militant min-| where these tasks were partly under-| against taken with seriousness (sections of Tilinots), the Party was able to make important headway among the min- ers. CLARIFY RESOLUTION TO MYNERS All Party organizations in the first place in the mining fields, the Dis- trict and Section Committees, musi undertake the carrying out of dis- cussions in the mine units for clari- fication on this resolution and the mobilization of the Party members for the carrying through of the tasks in the mining fields blacklisted miners affiliated to the N. fight for the right of these members| M. v The coming convention of the U. . W. A. must receive immediate attention from all Party organiza- tions. On the basis of the following issues and immediate loeal grievances we should cyerywhere stimulate the discussion in the locals of the U. M. W, A. and the selection of militant workers as delegates on basis of fol- Jowing demands. () Fight against the sell-out pro- visions of the Lewis N. R, A, agree- ment, (@) Against arbitration and for un- restricted right to strike; (b) Against all forms of check-off and for volun- tary dues payments; (c) Against ajl forms of fines and penalizing the miners for their resistance to the agreement, etc. (2) For increases in wages cor- responding to the increase in prices; payment for all forms of dead wor! improved weights; delivery of su plies; adequate safety measures; pushing of cars; and other numerous local demands. (3) United Front of the U. M. Ww. A, P.M. A, N. M. U, and other local unions with the Unemployed Councils and all other workers or- ganizations in struggles for immedi- ate rellef, against forced labor, against evictions and for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance. (4) For the right of the Negro miners to work in all parts of the mine, on any fob, against sagrega- tion in bad sections and houses, for equal relief, equal rights and other needs of the Negro miners. | () Equal pay for all young min- ers, especially those classified as the |“ Page Five Lenin, the N. R. A. and the Historical | Fraud of A Liberal Journalist | SAM DON posals ed in initiative them for the urb i and Th work of do so propo: sentative would ev 1917, In the tral wrote as possible, roristic demand as seon ment case of pecially “greasers, trappers, couplers,” etc. (6) Building of Women's Auxiliary | jaround each union with the purpose | jof involving the women in the daily, struggles of the miners, particularly | those phases of struggle effecting the i women and children directly, in ord to strengthen the struggles of tho, miners. | (1) For the removal of the treach- jercus leaders from ail lIcading posi- | jtions and election of militant rank; and file miners to all leading posts; | for the necessary changes in consti- | tutions; for trade union ema ete, (8) For united front in action of all | ,existing unions into one powerful; | militant class struggle union of the| | American miners. One Union—One Agreement, Six-hour day without re- duction in pay. : (9) For immediate preparations for mass strike struggles around April at the expiration of the agreements. The convention and the election can serve a8 & means for stimulating the struggles in the mines, the fight for the unemployed and the election of delegates to the National Unem- ployed Convention in Washington from the U, M. W. A. locals. The hearings on the coal code on Jan. Sth, and the preperation for the ex-| piration of the agreements (April ist) also should be taken up noi: alone with the miners in the U. M.| 'W. A., but with the miners of all or- ganizations and among the hicsigh Ranized miners, as the represer democracy. that would curb th ly capitalism, that ses closer to the cor duction, thi Servarits of Monopoly Capitalism | cf monopoly cay “ionize the mass tober prole in the Marzi revolutions. Committee of League to Its Members in Germany,” written in London, March, 1850, Marx “During the conflict and imme- dintely after the struggle, the work- ers must things and in so far as it is at all by forcing the democrats to carry out themselves their present ter- set ready to take over the govern- into thelr own hands. these guarantees by force, and es- the new ruiers should bind them- selves to as many concessions and pledges as posible. The surest way is to force them to compromise revolutionary the various Li for in n e nationaliz: the pamphlet resentatives of 1 themselves... .” i y" to take one single! tn the March, 1917 bourgecis-demi- ts s onalizetion, ete» | cratic revolution Lenin made the ; ne profits of monop: & tionalization coupled ing of decrees for the con- (a point which ecause this was way to force them (the heviks and Social revolution- s) to compromise themselves,” e| W would bri of the Social Support ef Imperiaiiom : MADE| To free the Russian proletariat HIS PROPOSALS FOR NATION- inStieting’ Of Sanopcle ale ALIZATION, contained in the hin its own ranks Ge. emphlet under discussion. viks and Social Revolu- n wrote in the pamphiet: tionaries) was the main task in mo- re “In order to do something seri- | bilizing the forces for the préletartan ous, one must pass in a really |Tevolution, This is the purpose and a, revolutionaty Ww am burocracy ing of Lenin's program made to io democracy, ic, declare a war |the Menshivks “within the frame- against the oil kings and sh holders, decree the conficc2 un. beilisntly expeeend. this 0 their property, and jail s main Leninist-Bolshevik. strategy in for delaying the national | the following words: [- the oil industry, for conceaiing in- 3 : comes and accounts, for sabotag- “In this period (the period of the ing production, for not taking steps | Preparation for the October Revolu- towards increasing proguction. One | tion) the most dangerous social must turn to the ive of the | Support of imperialism were the workers to call | petty bourgeosie democratic parties, vo THEM (1 imme- | the Menshevik and Social Revolu- ir diately into conferences and con- | tionary parties. Why? Because these ‘5: ferences and congresses to give | parties were the parties of concilia- over to THEM (Lenin’s emphasis) a | tion, the parties of class under- oO certain share of the profi ttanding between imperialism and R. dition that a th t the toilerr. Naturally that the Bol- organized and production be in- | Sheviks directed their main blows ni creased. Had such revolutionary | against these parties, because with- Ir steps been taken immediately, | out ISOLATING these parties, we ol promptly in Apzil, 1917, then Russia, | could not count on the break of the D one of the rict toiling masees with imperialists, and world in reserves of liquid fuel, | without securing this break we ° could have done during the sum- | could not count on the victory of a mer, with the ald of water trans- | the Soviet Revolution.” & portation, a great deal in the way of | ‘The revolutionary meaning ot 4 Lenin’s proposals “within the frame- eg . | Work of capitalism” was to isolate the pynote and pur- | parties which were “the most dan- | gerous socéal support of imperialism.” A philistine has laid his hands on | Lenin’s pamphlet and soiled its reyo- e steps that would | lutionary soul! pe ’$ proposa But the whole pur- of Lenin in his pamphlet “The tening Catastrophe and How to It” was to convince the masses profits of monopoly caré in this manner the Men 1 be | that: ‘TT 18 THE CONQUEST OF POWER BY THE PROLETARIAT, WITH THE PARTY OF THE BOLSHEVIKS AT ITS HEAD, es of “revolu- not accept the ough they were ‘hin the frame- v capitalism.” They did not| THAT ALONE WOULD BE CAP- because to act Lenin’s| ABLE OF PUTTING AN END TO | would underm the rule THE MISCHIEF DONE BY KERENSKY AND CO.” eT oak Mr. Fisher is doing # signal serv- ice to monopoly capitalism and to Roosevelt, its faithful representative. He, as Professor Beard before him, took as their text Lenin's pamphlet. They tore it from its historic setting, from the storm of the revolutionary |days in which it was written. The professor in his academic tone, the journalist, with his clever superfic’al- ities, have caricatured history, haye slandered the greatest revolutionary of the 20th century—all in order to cast a halo on the N. R. A. and its creator. In the first part of our article we attempted to clear up the historical charlatanism of the honorable gen- jtlemen and to pceént to their class purpose in doing so. In the second part of our article we shall take up concretely the workings of the N. R. A., and how Lenin, in the very pam- phlet under discussion, analyzed and predicted the functions of monopoly ’ capitalism as it operates through the 4 N. R.A, ‘lism and revolu- And no repre- of the Second International er allow this to happen! y, in the bour- Pp i al b ais he & ae é Pd te t y ic ‘a ve a se 16 se is Pe an revolution is rooted strategy of proletarian “First Address of the Cen- the Communi: follows: counteract, above all bourgeois appeals for peace phrases . . . They must guarantees for the workers as the bourgeois democrats In necessity, they must obtain they must see to it that Michael Gold Chairman of the TENTH f ANNIVERSARY DAILY WORKER © will Present SERGEL KADAMSKY. An evening of new interna- tional songs in German, Armenian, Caucasian, Russian CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Eé., Daily Worker, Speaker DAILY WORKER CHORUS, A New Song Program WORKERS DANCE LEAGUE, Unique Presentation THEATRE OF ACTION, “The Holy of Hollies” ete, TEN-PIECE NEGRO JAZZ BAND, Dance till Dawn Sat., Dec. 30, 8 P.M.--2 A.M. BROMX COLISEUM BAST 177th STREET oe - = ee Tickets 40c at the door (plus 10c press fund) C BEACON, N. Y. 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