The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

on the role played in the PREPARATION
question by the German and French
trusts? How many of our commun-
list newspapers follow up the strug-
gle between the American and Eng
lish naptha trusts, one of the motive
powers Of international postwar poll
tics? Works dealing concretely with
these questions are read with the
greatest interest by the workers.
Three editions of my pamphlet on the
Genoa conference were sold out in
Germany within few months. The
heads of the party pay less attention
to these questions. At the time of
the beginning of the Ruhr struggle
an excellent pamphlet was written by
two young German Communists,
Friedrich and Leonid, dealing with
this struggle. This met every require
ment demanded by Lenin for such
pamphlets. 1t was short, running in
to about thirty pages, and it was
based on accurate and clearly out
before the party issued this pamphlet.
In Russia we published a great deal
of material on the Ruhr struggle, but
"The Young Guard" which undertook
the publication of these brochures,
could not bring them out for many
months. We could cite dozens Of SINH
lar examples. And we do not even
accomplish the most necessary work
towards enlightening the communist
vanguard of the proletariat as to the
approaching dangers. give another
example An English war specialist
on the question of chemical warfare,
Major Lafargue, published a book in
the English language: "The Riddle
of the Rhine" in which he drew a
frightful picture of war chemistry and
it's attendant dangers. This book
should be in the hands of every COM
munist agitator. 1t should be popu-
larized in pamphlets and in thousands
of articles. But there has not been
one single communist newspaper in
the west which has taken any notice
of it. Our revolutionary council of
war has now had this book published
in the Russian language. But our
newspapers make no comment on it.
! No practical difficulties lie in the way
of our propaganda and agitation in
questions of international policy. In
the Comintern we possess number
of comrades thoroly versed in inter
national politics, as for instance COM
rade Van Ravenstein in Holland and
comrade Newbold in England, who
are among the best informed writer's
on the connections between the Eng
lish business world and English i'm
perialist policy And then we have
the Polish comrade Lapinski, whose
works on foreign policy represent the
best analysis of international rela-
lions which / have had the opportuni-
ty of reading, and comrade Roth
stein, who possesses thoro and con-
crete knowledge of English foreign
policy. Here in Russia we can count
among the members of the Comintern
such competent and energetic COM
rades as comrade Voytinsky for ques-
lions of the Far East, comrade Brike
for the Near East and comrade Tivel
for Indian questions. The reports is
sued by these comrades show their
competent knowledge of their sub
ject, but at present these reports are
only accessible to a limited circle.
They could be of great Importance
for wide circles Of propagandists and
agitators in the Comintern. 1t is
merely a question of overcoming
certain inertia with regard to the or
ganization of the matter. A wider
knowledge of such reports would en-
sure that ten or twenty of the most
advanced workers in all countries
could obtain a clear knowledge of the
questions of international politics,
and would be able to enlighten hun
dreds, thousands, and millions OF
workers.
1t need not be said that even the