The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26

ing war, see a militant daily in the
United States preparing to carry on
the fight against the war from which
the workers and farmers the world
over will suffer. Hence the Ameri-
can Communist Daily is of impor-
lance, not to the American Party
alone, but to the working class move
ment Of the world.
The DAILY WORKER will and
must tell the truth, unfiinchinKly. 1t
must copy the press of Soviet Russia.
Altho the Soviet government Is in
power, it recognizes that there are
serious defects in the organization.
1t has to combat the bourgeois sa-
botage. 1t has to deal with inefi-
cheney Theft and embezzlement
must be rooted out. The press does
not hesitate to reveal the crimes Of
leading Communists. Workers in the
factories write about bad conditions
and the tyranny Of the managers.
This publicity puts an end to this
unsocial attitude. Discussions on
government plans reach the workers,
who know what their government in
tends to do. Where else does this
occur?
The Communist Party is at pres
ent conducting heated discussion in
innumerable meetings in factories,
universities. clubs and in the press.
The discussion has taken the form of
a polemic. And like all polemics,
personalities are INDUCED in. The
whole world learns Of 1.-THE Com
munists have nothing to conceal.
What comes out of these discussions?
Clarity of purpose and will. Only,
clear-minded Communists, working in
the interests of the working class, can
act in this fashion. Only the Com
munist press can dare to enter into
such discussions. Secret diplomacy is
the very nature Of the capitalist sys-
tem--Secrecy is one of the sources of
capitalist power. Openness Of dis
|cussion, with nothing to hide, is the
strength of the proletarian press.
The DAILY WORKER win have
this as its motto-and will be one Of
the powerful weapons of the Ameri-
can workers and farmers against the
American bourgeoisie, and Of the
standard bearers Of the workers and
peasants of the world in the violent
struggle that they must conduct in
order to put an end to bourgeois
rule and capitalist governments with
their bloody exploitation and destruc-
tive way. eve are really going
to have an English Communist Daily
in the United States" we can now
say. ut is another armament of the
American workers in their struggle
and in yours"
be. In spite of powerful opposition
in the ranks of the Communist
Party, Lenin's policy prevailed and
the treaty Of Brest-Litovsk was
signed, which enabled the Bolsheviki
to consolidate its position and meet
successfully the numerous counter
revolutionary forces.
Again in the spring Of 1921, when
due to the strain of the civil war.
and the blockade of international
Capitalism, the economic life of
Russia had an but ceased to function,
when chaos and confusion were
everywhere, it was Lenin who
Poihted out the correct path to take.
I'VE must retreat a step and
repair our economic machine, and
increase production at all costs.
We must permit the peasant to sell
his surplus, we must encourage free
trade, and give concessions to for
eign Capitalism in order to develop
large scale industry which is so es-
sential to Communism" Again the
intense opposition faced him but the
logic Of his position carried the day.
and by the adoption of the new
economic policy Russia is recon-
structing her economic life and lay
ing the foundation for Communism.
As Mar,ists. we are not worship-
pers OF the great man theory. We
realize that great men are the
product of certain conditions and
that men are the product Of their
environment, not the makers of it.