The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-16

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Tr1IlIR0rTa 41l THE IMPORTANT THING is WHAT
LIZ, LIE LITTLE OLD MAN IN THE CFNTER1 OF
LIE STAGE AND HIS HALF DOZEN Stall
"AKI ASSOCIATES, ADVISE AND VOTE FOR.
III !hese officials have nothing in common with the
idDOrlng masses. They live off the labor movement
but they do not belong to the working class William
Dunne characterized them with such bitter caustic
ruin at Portland, as had ever depicted them
"eiOIG' eye 70 eye: You are trying to convince
the employers that you are Just as respect
aOle, just as conservative Just as much in
CereSCeo IN maintaining the wage system as
are the employers themselves. You stop at
the same hotel, you wear the cloths YOU
belong to the same fraternal orders and
you hObnob with them in their cubs'
In PORTLAND the ruling GOmpers bureaucracy
had all the officials all the power of the elaborate
HacnIne, all the advantage of regularity and they
were pound to win, even the English army was
found to win at Bunker Hill. But the GOmpers
kingdom is much farther removed today from the
commence OF the laboI1ng masses than was the
British kingdom from the confidence of the Ameri-
can people in ITS. And the battle of Portland has
shown just as clearly the big abyss between the
GomperS bureaucracy and the rank and file as the
Battle of Bunker Hill showed the abyss between the
English kingdom and the American masses.
COMMUNICATIVE BIG ISSUE
Why is this defeat of the Communist issue at
the Portland convention big Communist victory?
First, because the convention declared the
Communist issue as the big issue, in fact as the
ONLY ISSUE of the labor movement. Communism
was for long time an theology and small sect in
nothing OF the theology, and the small sect was not
connected with the labor movement. In the last
year in many cities and many unions the slogans of
the Communists have penetrated masses The
Workers Party entTenched itself in the labor move
ment the inertial of indifference OF the masses is
too great. The Communist Party is too young and
not strong enough, and we could not lift the issue
OF Communism to national issue of the working
class, to the central issue of the labor movement.
But it was the GOmperS bureaucracy itself which
turned the Portland Convention to a national anti
Communist convention, thus making Communism
the national issue of the labor movement. The
Workers Party still has English daily and it can
not reach with it's voice every day the hundreds of
thousands of workers. But it was the GOmpers bu-
Teaucracy and the Portland Convention which for
days and days filled not only the labor press but the
entire capitalist press the subject of the activ
ties and slogans of the Communist and in this way
THEY THEMSELVES MADE THE GREATEST
PROPAGANDA FOR COMMUNISM EVER MADE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
The capitalist press is more farsighted than the
reactonary labor leaders and it forewarns of the
danger. The New York Times wrote as follows
about the expulsion of Dunno: '"The Federation
ton make a new hero among the Communists, AND
MAY GIVE THAT PROPAGANDA NEW IMPET-
US among the workers" And then again. about
Dunno: "His address of defense was remarkable
for ability and audacity. HE PROBABLY SCORED