The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily ~QWorker TRRTRAL onear wy par U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? “Amertea’s Onky Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODARLY PUBLISHING CO., INC., # E. 13th Street, New York, N.Y. Telephone Cable Address Washin; 14th Midwest T7954 ALgonguin 4 - Press Building B 708, Chicago, 1 Telephone Subscription Rates and Bronx), 1 $6.00 00; 1 month,” 0.75 and Canada rear, $8.90 months. $3.90 TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 The New York Taxi Strike HE strike of 4,500 Parmelee System taxi drivers in. New York is part of the mounting struggle raging throughout the United States against the growing menace of company unions, whichehave increased almost 100 per cent under the aegis of the N. R. A Since the N. R. A. has been inaugurated, over ‘700,000 workers, cniefly in the basic industries, in the steel and have been black-jacked thto these organizations by the finance capitalists with the active assistance of the officials of the various Re- gional Labor Boards. The aim of the bosses and the Roosevelt new dealers in making this move was te tie the workers hand and foot to organizations controlied and operated respect by the bosses. What is the purpose of company unions? To put over the wage-cutting and starvation codes of the Roosevelt government by taking away from the workers their best weapon against the onslaught of finance capitalism—the strike weapon. s auto. in every This is what the Parmelee System, a General Motors controlled concern, along with the Regional Labor Board Chairman, Mrs. Elinore Herrick, is attempting to do at the present time in New York. But the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York, a militant independent union of hackmen, which was organized during the recent general taxicab strike through an amalgamation of all taxi drivers organizations, has answered this offensive of the fleet owners as it should be answered—by a strike, 'HE role of the Regional Labor Board in attempt- ing to put over the company union on the driv- ers is clear. During the first taxi strike Mrs. Her- rick told representatives of the Parmelee company union, known as the Drivers’ Brotherhood of Par- melee System, that if she had her way she “would throw the committee of 13 out of the window.” ‘The committee of 13 was the union committee which was leading the stri This remark, made in the presence of the press, reveals clearly that Mrs. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 Support LL.D. Drive for. Austrian Victims of Fascism Herrick’s position is dead set against a trade union and for the company union Now that the drivers have gone out on strike against the company union, under the leadership of their own union, Mrs. Herrick begins mafieuvers to herd the men back to work, telling them that they can vote on whatever organization they wish to belong to after they return to the garages. “I do not consider that a free choice of the workers can be secured under strike conditions,” declared Mrs. Herrick, while trying to stampede the drivers back to the cabs. The drivers should understand that a successful strike, led by their own union, will settle the matter of choice of organizations. Through strike action the drivers can smash the company union, they can defeat discrimination and the blacklist and win bet- ter conditions in the garages. Indeed, the drivers have already decided to which organization they wish to belong. The strike, with its militant picketing, has proven this. The fact that the Manhattan Local of the Taxi Drivers Union alone has over 12,000 members proves that the hack- men will have no part of the company union THE hackmen are fighting a good fight. They are following the correct policy of broadening the strike committee by electing rank and file drivers from each garage to lead the struggle. The Man- hattan Local has repudiated Panken and Levy, Socialist leaders, who worked with Mrs. Herrick during the last strike trying to pin the hopes of the drivers on the maneuvers of Mayor La Guardia and Morris Ernst, whose chief aim was to get the men back to work without winning the demands they fought for so militantly. The drivers must continue to isolate all those who talk about co-operation with the fleet owners, or the Mayor, or Mrs. Herrick, or other officials of the N. R. A., the Socialists and the La Guardias to perpetuate strike-breaking company unions. Parmelee strikers are blazing a path of struggle in New York against company unions. They can defeat company unions if they continue their good fight under the leadership of their Taxi Drivers’ Union and the rank and file strike committee. The strike must be extended and spread to the other systems, to the Terminal System, where the bosses are trying to put over the Association of Terminal System Drivers, a company union project under the guidance of Mr. Kamm, a former superintendent of the company. BROAD anti-company union conference should be initiated by the Taxi Drivers’ Union, drawing in unions and labor organizations throughout New York, thus getting the active support of the whole working class of the city and swinging them into action against the company union menace. Smash the company union by spreading the strike, Demand no discrimination against nnion members! Demand recognition of the Union of Greater New York! Taxi drivers, forward to victory! Taxi Drivers’ 1 Killed, 10 titesing Improvement Continues As Sub Drive Enters 7th Wee in ManchurianRaid (n Japanese Army Rebel lion Flares Up Again Despite All Gov't Terrorism HARBIN, March 12.—As a result of rebellion of Manchurian peasants which has flared up in the Sunga: region of Manchukuo, the new pup- pet state of Japanese imperialism, Colonel Asakachi, Japanese com- mander of infantry, was killed, and 10 other officers are missing, a dis- patch reveals. Despite every precaution taken by the Japanese military rulers and the Japanese officials who really run the Manchukuo government, the peasants of Manchuria have broken through all the terrorism and have taken to guerilla armed warfare against the Japanese invaders The latest raid on the Japanese military bases is probably of un- usual proportions since even the strictly censored Japanese dis- Patches can no longer conceal it All details of the present rebellion have been kept back by the Japa- nese officials. The native population of Man- churia has never ceased its resist- ance to the Japanese military rule through the new Manchukuo goy- ernment. Japanese imperialism has hhad to send far more troops to “maintain order” in Manchuria than it originally counted on. The latest rebellion reveals that thus far its attempts to crush the continuous rebellion of the Manchurian peas- ants have been unsuccessful NEW YORK.—A steady although not sharp enough improvement is noted in the Daily Worker circula- tion drive as it is about to enter the second half of its 14-week lap, During the sixth week, from Feb. 28 to March 7, the districts sent in 434 new daily subscriptions, show- ing a rise of 25 over the 409 sent in the week before, and bringing the grand total up to 1,659. New Sat- urday with a grand total of 940 from Jan. 24 to March 7. Chicago sent in 73 last week; Philadelphia, 46; Cleveland, 39; Boston, 30; Detroit and Newark, 29 each; Omaha, 24. Chicago Leads From Jan. 24, the start of the campaign, to March 7, Chicago sent in a total of 223 new daily subs, subs last week reached 128, | consideration the time-length of these subs. Many of the new subs are for less than a year, while the quotas are for yearly subscriptions. At the end of the campaign a special tabulation will be made showing the net gain in yearly subs by each district. The district making the largest net ake fe yearly subs at the end of the will be the winner and will sts the National Daily Worker banner. The more total subs each dis- trict obtains, the better is its chance to also show the largest net gain in YEARLY subs at the end of the drive. One of the features at the Party | Convention in Cleveland will be re- ports from districts on the Daily Worker sub drive. Intensify your efforts, comrades, and enable YOUR leading all districts. Cleveland is district to bring in the best reports second, with 170; Boston is third t» the Convention! among districts outside of New vs Newack York, with 128; Philadephia, fourth, ee Deny. : , oust with 127; Newark fifth, with 196, "| Dittritt_ Subs Geel ile = Saturday Subs iver York isk Chicago also sent in the most new|3 Philadel, 177 500 381008 Saturday subs last week. 38, bring-|{ Butalo | ot ing its total up to March 7 to 350.|¢ cleveland 170 500 9% = 1000 Cleveland sent in 35, and is in sec- | 7 Detroit a4 500 2 1000 ond position on Saturday subs with |$ Chicago | 223 7a 581800 a total of 96. Boston, third, with | ?,Minnespolis 100 = 38200 81, sent in 14 new ones last week.| 11 N.&S. Dak. 35 100 28 = Minneapolis sent in 18 last week,|12 Seattle 37 300k it ig | 13-California 3 pee is fourth with 72, Detroit 1S | ig Newark 106 300 » a ifth with 42, its last week’s new|15 connecticut 38 200 19 Saturday subs totaling 12. 16 N.&S. Car. 7 50 2 17 Alabama = cu 6 Chart Figures 18 Milwaukee 47 200 ™ The chart below shows the total|19 Denver = 48.180 ne new subs each district gained up to)° & 7 4 —~ March 7, but does not take into Total 1689 5000 240 10200 Nazis Murder Stolt, Berlin C. P. Leader Only Intensified Fight Will Save Life of Ernst Thaelmann BERLIN.—The body of the Com- | munist Party functionary, Stolt, ar- |rested on Jan. 19 with 40 other workers, has been found in the Berlin morgue, with marks which indicate that he was murdered by his captors. A Nazi doctor, refusing the relatives’ requests to take away his body for burial, derisively remarked: “It is magnificent for a revolutionist to die of heart failure for his convictions.” Two Nuremburg employes, Fried- rich Peter and Peter-Bottner, were |sentenced to two and one-half | years for “inciting to sedition” by | | the High Court at Munich. The former Communist Reich- | stag Deputy, Arthur Vogt, has been | sentenced to three years by the} Leipaig Supreme Court, and four | other functionaries of the Commu- | nist Party in Berlin to terms ranging from one year nine months | to two years six months, for carry- | ing on illegally the work of the) | German Red Aid (1.L.D.) and the | Communist Party. | Two young workers, Robert Polo and Erich Puder, have been sen- | |teneed to three years by the Berlin | Assizes for their activity in carry- | ing on the work of the illegal Young | Communist League of Germany and | |“extending their activities over 25 | German sesiicanil | NEW YORK—Four xara, workers meeting at the Spa Greek Workers’ Club, 269 West, 25th | St., Sunday night, sent a telegram to Hans Luther, Nazi Ambassador in Washington, protesting against the continued imprisonment of Ernst Torgler, and declaring they | will never be satisfied with any- |thing but the unconditional re- lease of Thaelmann, Torgler and all | isgneees prisoners in Germany. | * . { | The murder of leader after leader | | of the German Communist Party | | seized by the Nazis is a signal that | | only the most vigorous, unrelenting mass protest will save Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German Com- munist Party, from sharing the fate | of other Communist fighters who | |have fallen into the hands of the| Nazis. The world-wide demand for his release must continue, and be in- tensified. Every workers’ organiza- tion should again and again raise the issue of the freedom of Thael- mann, and thunder its demands at the. doors of the German Consul- ates ike Embassy. Catholic Schools Face Shutdown in New Nazi Actions: Differences Within the Capitalist Camp, | Move Shows | BERLIN, March 12.—In its drive to stamp out all opposition, the Hit- | ler government may soon abolish all) Catholic schools, the Nazi Premier | Siebert announced today. | | ‘The Catholic schools’ have been a source of opposition to some of | | Hitler's policies regarding the church | organizations and school system. | | The opposition of the Catholic sChools is only one of the many op- | positions even within the capitalist |camp that Hitler's government has | been unable to repress. | Differences between the big indus- ‘00 | trialists and the big agrarian cap-| | italists still continue to crop up, | | despite all the government’s at- | uae | tempts to give the impression of leading the workers in the fight to “unity” in the top sections of the ‘ruling class of Germany. CAPTAT eRe eerrrsees hott KIDD—1934 STYLE By ee ‘Hail Weinea’e Day With Enthusiasm In Many Meetings, W orkingWo omen Pledge Support of German Revolution NEGRO WORKER KILLED IN BIRMINGHAM FIRE BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 12.— Downtown Birmingham witnessed eg most disasterous fire yesterday hen a whole block smoldered in mite the damage mounting to $40,- 000,000. A Negro worker was killed and 40 firemen were overcome by | smoke while hauling gasoline to! supply fire-fighting equipment. Gov't Order Stops French Veterans Group Adopts Full Fascist Program |Becomes Largest Open Reserve of Storm Troops in France wew ron — rms « All Airmail Planes vn x52 oe workers throughout this city de-| |monstrated on International Women's Day, March 8th against fascism and war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolution, For equal rights for Negroes for the immediate re- lease of Thaelmann, Torgler and all anti-fascist prisoners. The workers, men and women, Negro and white responded readily to the call of the Communist Party | of New York to mobilize the working | class women for struggle against | their double oppression under capi- talism. The extreme bad weather didn't | stop the workers from crowding the | 16 meetings held throughout the | city. In this manner the workers showed their determination to fight for special néeds of the workings pant ener equal pay and for ork. “a P. Defends Interests of Women The stirring appeals of the Com- | munist Party speakers, Comrades Robert Minor, Harry Shepard, Rose Wortis, Max Bedacht, Charles} | Krumbein, Jack Stachel, James W. Ford. Anna Schultz, Steve Kingston, | Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Anna Damon, and many others to take up the | Struggle for the women against their increased miseries, against the N. R. A. met with enthusiastic response. Comrade Anna Schultz, wife of John Scheer, the German Com- |munist leader murdered by Hitler, roused the workers at Manhattan Lyceum and Irving Plaza meetings y her fiery speech against fascism. In true spirit of class solidarity the workers pledged themselves to rally to the support of the German work- ers in their fight against fascism, to support the Communist Party of | | Army Halts Service Till Further Notice WASHINGTON, March 12.—Army carrying of air-mail has been tem- porarily suspended by order of Roosevelt, it was announced yester- day, until further notice. This leaves | the country without air-mail ser-| vice. Since the uncovering of graft and | mail contracts, more than 10 Army} | fliers have been killed carrying the! mails. This has been used as an argu-| ment for the return of the mails| to the private companies, as well as| an argument for more equipment for the airplane divisions of the Army, ruption in the handling of air- | of Feb. 12, | | Communists, and the second point ’ tensive Tells of Japanese Activities Among Cincinnati Negroes uU (Cross of Fire), the reactionary | association of French veterans which | supplied some of the fascist bands) in the street battles of Feb. 6 and 7, formally declared itself a fascist po-| litical party at its annual meeting | in Paris yesterday. It thus becomes the main organ-| ized fascist group which has been \created in France to support cap- italist reaction against the growing radicalization of the masses, which was shown in the street demonstra- | tions and the gigantic general strike) The first point in the program of the Croix de Feu is the fight against is the fascist “corporative state.” The organization has thrown its ranks open to sons of men Killed | in action, and is carrying on an in-| recruiting campaign. Editor, Daily Worker: is very timely. We here in the cil vestigation about 8 days ago and leadership, and Moslems. to Africa and Manchukuo. In the meantime, if it is possil other article dealing with the Mos! || position to expose it. good comrades have left the Party organization. Germany, the only Party which is | overthrow Hitler and to establish | '& Soviet Germany. Cincinnati, Dhio, The article by Comrade Briggs in the Daily Worker of March 3 There have been a lot of rumors around the Negro people that Japan will send ships to the United States to take them away, back ing the Negro workers on the same program we would be in a better This is very important for us, as some of our Comradely yours, March 6, 1934, | ity of Cincinnati undertook the in- found out that a large number of ble that Comrade Briggs write an- lems organization that is penetrat- and are at present in that Moslem N. FELD. Detroit Sends First Funds; Quotas Are Set; Proceeds of Baltimore Commune Day To Aid Austrians NEW YORK.—The first diress contribution for relief of the va» tims of Austrian fascism from an | International Labor Defense dis- trict has been made by the Detroit district, it was announced by the national office of the organization today. | The Detroit district sent $20 to- ward its quota of $260 in the $3,000 | drive opened by the L L. D. last week, The quotas for I. L. D. dis- tricts in the drive are announced as follows: Chicago. $650; New York, $600; Philadelphia, $200; Boston, $125; | Buffalo, $60; Pittsburgh, $200; Cleveland, $100; New Jersey, $85; Minneapoiis, $30; Seattle, $100; San Franeisco, $130; Los Angeles, $200; New Haven, $30; $175; Denver, $30; Baltimore, $30; Omaha, $30; Kansas City, $253 branches in North Dakota, $12.50; branches in South Dakota, $12.50; and branches in Texas, $25. Every cent collected will be trane- | mitted to the International Red Aid, | without, deduction for any expenses, |for the relief of the Austrian vic- | tims. | One hundred and fifty thousand stamps in denominations of one and cents, are being printed by the . D., to be sold for the benefit |r the Austrian victims. | The I. L. D has caled on all or- ganizations which have collected Suge for the victims of Austrian fascism to turn them over immedi- jately to the I. L. D. for direct transmission to the International | Red Aid. } | ae ek eA BALTIMORE, Md.—Ail fands col- lected at the Paris Commune cele- bration here Mareh 18 will be de- voted to the relief of the victims of Austrian fascism, it was announced |today by the International Labor Defense, sponsoring the meeting. The affair and meeting will be | held at Workmen's Hall, 2500 Bast Madison St. at 8 pm. A well- known Negro quartet and a number of language choruses, will provide | the entertainment, assisted by the Young Defenders (formerly I. L. D. Kiddy Club), who will present a Scottsboro play. The main speaker will give an analysis of the events in Austria, of the general struggle against war and fascism, showing their histor- ‘ical connection with the Paris Commune. Japanese Warship Wrecked, 120 Lost “Sea Scorpion” Suffers in Mysterious Wreck TOKIO, March 12.—One ot Japan's latest warships, a 527-ton | torpedo boat completed only three weeks ago, was mysteriously wrecked at the Sasebo naval base today, with the apparent lost of its crew of 120. This ship, the Tomozuru, was the | first to be completed of a projected | fleet of “sea scorpions” outside naval Negro workers are in some kind of an organization under Japanese || treaties because they are less than 600 tons. They are extremely heavily armed for their size, with three 5- inch guns, in addition to torpedoes. Three have been built, and 18 more are either building or projected. Clerici, Exiled Italian Socialist, Shot in Paris PARIS, March 12.—Frenco Cler- ici, prominent Italian Socialist liv- ing in exile in Paris, was shot today while on his way to his office. The assassin escaped, The 1e Communist International Was Born In Struggle / Against Imperialist War This is the second of a series of articles giving the historic back- ground of the rise of the Third (Communist) International out of the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat in the last world war. The first article traced the con tinuity between the First Inter- national, founded by Karl Marx, and the present Communist In- ternational. By ROBERT MINOR Part n. 1914 brought the inevitable re- sult of opportunist, the desertion of the opportunist leaders to their “own” bourgeois, and the complete collapse of the Second International. In the furnace of the world im- perialist war, only one Socialist Party of all of the world remained truc to the internationalism of the revolutionary Socialist movement. This was the party of Lenin and) Stalin—the Bolshevik section of, the Russian Social-Democratic La- bor Party. Under the leadership of Lenin, | the Bolsheviks took up the struggle| against imperialist war—for the de-| feat of their own capitalist state. The opportunist corruptionists, the) social-patriots in all countries, took! their stand for the victory of their own bourgeoisie, and the “greatest” leaders of the social-democratic movement the world became & i) of corruption— | LENIN LED BOLSHEVIKS IN STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPORTUNISM OF SECOND INTERNATIONAL LEADERS, OF TROTZKY AND MARTOV kings’ ministers In the belligerent governments, “Centrist” | Socialist | (as Inthe case of Trotsky) “neither victory nor defeat.” Lenin groups among the and Lenin’s Party alone took the} revolutionary position that each Socialist Party in every imperialist country should work for the defeat of its own government and the transformation of imperialist war into the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the capitalist state, Lenin| declared: “A revoluionary class in a re- actionary war cannot but ‘wish the defeat of its government.’ “This is an axiom, It is dis- puted only by the conscious par- tisans or the helpless satellites of the social-chauvinism. To the former, for instance belongs Sem- kovsky from the organization committee (No. 2 of his Izvestia) ; to the latter belong Trotsky and Bukvoyed; in Germany Kautsky. ‘To wish Russia defeat, Trotsky says. is ‘an uncalled-for and un- justifiable political concession to the methodology of social patri- otism which substitutes for the revolutionary struggle against war and the conditions that cause war, an orientation along the lines of the lesser evil, an orient- ation which, under given condi- tions is perfectly arbitrary’ (Nashe Slovo, No. 105). This is an example of the in- leaders took the position of | flated pharseology with which Trotsky always justifies oppor- tunism. ‘A revolutionary struggle against the war’ is an empty and meaningless exclamation, the like of which the heroes of the Second international are past masters in making, unless it means rev- olutionary actions against one’s own government in time of war. A little reasoning suffices to make this clear. When we say revolu- tionary actions im war time against one’s own government, we indisputably mean not only the wish for its defeat, but practical actions leading towards such defeat.” (The Imperialist War, p. 197). Call For New International After the opening of the war and | the collapse of the Second Interna- tional, the Bolshevik Party on Nov. |1, 1914, satd in a manifesto: “It is impossible to fulfil the task of socialism at the present time, it is impossible to achieve a true international concentration of the workers, without a resolute break with opportunism and an explanation of the inevitability of its collapse to the masses . . The masses will create a new In- ternational despite all obstacles.” Lenin and Lenin's Party became the central force and inspiration of the movement for the creation of the 3rd International. Conferences of Socialists opposed to war from many countries took place at Zim- merwald, Switzerland, where the revolutionary forces were organized under Lenin’s influence in the “Zim- merwald. Left,” and at Kienthol. However, the majority of the Zim- merwald conference was led by the |German Socialist, Ledebour, and |the Russian Menshevik, Martov, | both of whom were destined to play \a centrist role against the revolu- | tion, in Germany and in Russia. The majority, though declaring it- self internationalist, condemning the tactics of the open social-pat- riots, and claiming to recognize the | necessity of class struggle in war \time, nevertheless rejected the | revolutionary conclusions put for- | ward by Lenin of the necessity to ‘extend the class struggle to the point of civil war, rejected Lenin’s slogan of “transformation of im- perialist war into civil war.” These} centrists were unwilling to support a ruthless exposure of the counter- revolutionary treachery of the lead- ers of the 2nd International, to make a clean break with the lead- ers and to organize a new Interna- tional, At Zimmerwald and Kienthal there were already the beginnings of the formation of the 3rd (Com- munist) International, but these) centrist elements were already dem- action, the international of revolu- tionary realization, the international of practical action,” that they could only be an obstruction to the revolu- tion, a barrier of protection to the social-patriotic lackeys of the im- perialists. The heroic labors of the Bolshevik Party in the highly concentrated big industries of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and in the regiments at the front, carried forward inces- santly the revolutionary line of the Bolshevik Party, expressed in the slogan “Down with the imperialist war; transform it into civil war; dit it against your own govern- ments; Long Live the Proletarian Revolution and Socialism!” The rotting structure of the Czar- ist empire, shattered under the im- pact of war, defeat, corruption and imperialist intrigue of Russian monarchists with the German im- perial government on one side, and the cynical diplomats of Great Britain and France on the othor, gave way and fell. The overthrow of the Cazarist monarchy was accomplished. Beginning of World Revolution At the “April Conference” at Petrograd in 1917, immediately on Lenin’s return from exile, the revo- | lutionary program for the necessary overthrow of the imperialist, bour- onstrating that they could play no part in “the international of mass geois Provisional Government of Russta—the mapvine of the further course of the revolution to the revo- lutionary dictatorship of the work- ers’ and soldiers’ councils—the “Dic- tatorship of the Proletariat”—was set before the Russian masses by Lenin in his “April Theses.” Lenin was able to develop the Marxian concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat on the basis of the revolutionary experience of 1905 and of the first days of 1917, and to point to the Soviets of Workers and Soldiers Deputies—the “dual power,” the “other government”— as the form which the dictatorship of the proletariat would take in the proletarian revolutions of the mod- ern world. epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution. To be more precise: Leninism is the theory and the tactic of the proletarian revo- lution in general, and the theory and the tactic of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.” (Len- inism: by Joseph Stalin.) But even in those first days of March, 1917, in this first approach to the probem of overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government in Russia, Lenin culd not speak of the “Russian” revolution without at the same time speaking of it as a step in the world revolution! Even then, Lenin spoke sharply and clearly of the formation of the rev- olutionary Third International, The Bolsheviie eonference of “Leninism is the Marxism of the | April, 1917, declared: “The task of our Party, co-oper- ating in a country where the revo- lution has begun earlier than else- where, is to take on itself the initi- ative in the creation of a Third International making a final break with the ‘defencists’ and also reso- lutely struggling against the inter- mediary policy of the ‘center.’” In order to realize this task, says the same resolution, one prerequi- site was indispensible: “The new Socialist International can be created only by the workers themselves by their revolutionary struggle in their own countries.” Through the conquest of the lead- ership of the industrial proletariat, the winning of the decisive peasant masses and peasant soldiers to revo- lutionary alliance with the’ prole- tariat under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, through the use of the slogan of self-determination for smaller nations, the October | ¢) Revolution was accomplished. And from the first moment of its victory Lenin and the Bolshevik Party looked upon this revolution not as a “Russian” revolution, but as “... merely a part of the world revolutionary proletarian move- ment, which is drawing in strength from day to day.” we dings of the ‘pralotarian, dcr foe di of pro! in dic- torship, Lenin ‘referred to the new- fon revolutionary State as “the continuation of the Paris Com- mune!” ine ee interventions of the Allied and German imperialist armies in the Soviet Republic during the war. openly supported by the treason of the leaders of the Second Interna- tional, were driven back by the revolutionary armies of the Russian workers and peasants, and also with the aid and support of the in= ternational proletariat. (We shall | never forget that an American regi- ; ment of the army of intervention in Archangel, mutinied and com- aitied officers to return it to the The defeat of the German and Hungarian proletarian revolutions were again aided by the treason ef the counter-revolutionary leaders ot the Second International. While the smoke of the world war and erenon still hung over Eu- “This is the epoch of the composition and breaks oe of world capitalist system which mean the break-up of European culture in general if capitalism, with its irreconcilabie contradie- tions, is not destroyed.” The proletariat of all countries was called to immediate sedwure of Power, lV