The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-07-02
A Pill For an Attack of left Sickness
By H. D.. WENDELL.

seems to me false alarm"
Does he try to show wherein it isl
false alarm? No. He heeds the toe
sin, turns tail and runs away. But is
it not SO? Was it not the case in the
Italian "siezures", in the Spartican
uprising, aye, even in the Paris Com
mune? Was not the success of the
Russian Revolution due to the all-in-
clusiveness Of its scope?
Comrade Mulati asks the question:
"Why cannot the |. w. w. be the eco
homic organization of the workers of
the U. S.? Is it because he Frank
is afraid that the c. P. elements will
not be able to gain control?" AL
though it would perhaps not be cor
rect to say that the /. W w. cannot
become the economic organization Of
the workers of this country it is just
as incorrect to presume that it WILL.
On this matter, let us hear from one
of the leaders of the /. w. w., George
Hardy: "There is no official Of the l..
W. w. or any of it's members( y who
think we can build one hundred per
cent organization even though we
state in our programme that we must
build the new soc.ety within the shell
Of the old'." AS far as the communists
fearing they cannot control the /. W.
w., that is nonsense. Have not the
Communists set themselves the task of
penetrating the A. F. of l.. for con-
troll and is not that hundredfold
more difficult than pursuing the same
task in the /. w. W.?
Comrade Frank: "There can be no
duality in Bolshevist activity, no
splits, no dissipation of energy among
tie class conscious workers. Bolshe-
visits on the political field and l. w.
WIS on the economic? A fine con-
fusion in the ranks of the working
class" Whereupon our alienist ex-
claims that the confusion resides in
comrade Franks head, and adds the
brilliant discovery that "a member of
the |. w. w. can be GOOD COM
munist."
In support Of his ingenious conten-
tion that there must exist division
of tasks between the |. w. w. and
the Communists, comrade Mulati re-
fers VS. to the lumber industry in TIE
West: "Hence in an industry as the
lumber industry in the West, the
Communists MUST join the /. w. W."
Maybe so in that particular industry:
the ]. W. W. is the accepted organi-
zation of the lumber men, it is their
leading spirit and is numerically
stronger than any other. But this is
the only large scale industry in which
that condition exists. The comrade
does not consider this. What reason
does he give for the Communists to
join the /. W. W.: GAIL the workers
in the industry must be organized, the
|. w. w. has room for them and the
c. P. has not" Is that the reason I?
Well, so has the A. F. of L. room, so
has the LOYAL LEGION OF LOG
GERS. But wait moment, comrade
Mulati pointed out that where there
were two unions fighting for job con-
troll the Communists should join the
revolutionary union and NOT the re-
actionary". So, there you have the
whole argument, nicely hog-tied by
Lenine's helpful hand But search and
rack our brains as we will we can
neither find or remember where Le-
nine advised the Communists, even
in cases Of THIS kind (and the re-
verse is certainly the more usual)
NOT to join reactionary unions. We
can however recall Lenine's admoni.
tion to stay with the old unions. We
can, too, remember that Radek told
us to vigorously SUPPORT the more
revolutionary unions, even that We
should join them, but not at the ex.
pense of abandoning the old unions.
Continues comrade Physician: EUR.
thermore, strikes for better living
conditions must be carried on and
again they must be carried on undel
the auspices of the /. w. w. OR
SOME OTHER UNION (now our spe.
cialist shows signs of weakening) and
NOT by the C. p" All! there's the
rub, "or some other union" And
under whose auspices" arc the major
portion Of these strikes conducted
Who will deny that the strikes ant
demonstrations Of the A. f. of L
take enormous precedence (botl
numerically and in extent although
perhaps not in intensity over thos,
conducted by the /. W. w.? And tha,
i is one of the chief reasons why tn