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Our Readers Views

|. To the DAILY WORKER: l am ly-
ing on my back in. the Morton Hospi-
tai, Taunton, Mass, with a broken
leg (femur) and am likely to be here
for some time. Am enclosing S100
which is all can raise to have the
DAILY WORKER sent me for as long
as that will pay for. If any local
comrades or sympathizers could visit
me here, welcome would be a cold
word to describe my sentiments. /
can see enough in the bourgeois press
to convince me that the Riffs and the
Chinese in two widely separated parts
of the world are bothering the imper-
ialists somewhat.
But even tho know the lying bour-
geois propaganda for what it is, /
hate to have to read it alone without
the Communist light rays to illumine
1t. Quite tempest in teapot this
Scopes trial seems to me. Both
sides in the controversy seem to be
convinced that the questions of sci
ence and religion can be fought out
on their own feet without any ques-
ton of their merit or demerit to a par
ticular class. Let them go to it, tho.
There is no doubt that the wide pub
licity given the matter will force open
new though cells in the brains of the
static ones. Some day before long we
well get Marxian-Leninist questions
attracting the attention the Darwin
ian ones now are. s-FE
Entering the hospital here, was
asked my religion. ~ answered: mo
religion, | am Communist. AS such
we get along very well without gods
or other spooks."
There are lots of catholics among
nurses and patients here. so we have
plenty OF beads and the poor, hurt
children are told God is furnishing
you. Be resigned" 1t makes me
grind my teeth at times to keep from
opening direct battle with the expo
nents OF such theory, but l have to
lie silent. But | know the day is al
most here when the working class in
those OF their children. The capital
power will blow sallIthe dark mists
and terrors from gtheir minds and
lists will beat us inimanyi a battle yet,
but for all that wepwilllwin the war:
the class war.--Fraternally, Il. c.
Fillmore, care Of Morton Hospital,
Taunton, Mass. -, -
7. 5. ] hope thatsyou can read this,
lying on my back~is not conducive to
good writing. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-07


MTHEN, on November 7I1917, the
w Workers, Soldiers and Peasants
Councils, directed by the Bolshevik
Party led by our Comrade Lenin,
seized state power from the PREACHER.
GUS hands of the Kerensky regime, a
new erai in human history was begun,
an era of the proletarian revolution.
And the fire of proletarian emancipa-
ton lighted by the immortal Red
Guard has not failed to lightithe path
and warm the faith of the exploited
and oppressed of all races and in
every land. , Mqel
Now, in the eighth year Of the
Soviet Power, the Union Of Socialist
Soviet Republics, triumphant over
every foe, internal and external, stands
like giant citadel of proletarian
power from the Baltic to the Pacific,
from the Black Sea to the Arctic
ocean.
THRU the dark and terrible years
4 since 1917, the workers and peas
ants of Soviet Russia have starved
and battled against every sort of dis
enlargement and assault. Unified and
led by their vanguard, the Communist
Party of Russia, they themselves have
been the heroic vanguard of the world
proletarian revolution.
Suffering unexampled sacrifices and
starvation, the workers and Peasants
of Soviet Russia have proven their
right to rule and won fervent admira-
ton and active support of the workers
of all the world Hinged around with
the invading armies Of the combined
imperialist nations, murderously at
tackled by white guard armies under
Yudenich, Denikin, Kolchack, and the
rest, betrayed and stabbed in the back
by the menshevik assassins of the
Second International who were sub
sidized by the allied robbers nations,
and starved by the allied blockade and
the drought and crop failure along the
Volga-thru all, the armed workers
and peasants have chung persistently
to the state power of Proletarian Die
tatorship, and today all their Com
munist theory is justified, all their
sacrificial action is rewarded as the
Soviet Power stands unified and ex-
tended triumphant and strengthened,
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Our American Pledge to the Soviet Union

/ luton against foreign imperialist OPP
,ression of the Chinese people, all
points not only to the revolutionary
stimulus which Soviet Russia affords
all oppressed by its very existence.
but point as well to the menace to
capitalist Imperialism which such ex-
istence constitutes.
CENSING its historic doom. the
~ sinister forces of world capitalist
Imperialism again are gathering their
armies and navies, again loosing their
floods of lying propagandists, again
mobilizing their lackeys Of the social
democracy and trade union reaction.
aries to attack the, Union Socialist
Soviet Republica The so-called "Se-
curity Pact" in the west, the arming
of the puppet nations on the Soviet
Unions western frontiers the estab-
lishment of British naval base on
the Dago Islands in the Baltic, the eff
forts of the imperialist powers to
unite their forces against Soviet Rus
STA in China against the Chinese-Sovfet
rapproachment, the provocation Of
British courts trying Soviet citizens
on Chinese soil, the attempt to sever
trade relations by the Baldwin cabl-
net, the British naval maneuvers in
the Baltic, the military preparations
in America, and Coolidge's continued
and studied insults tosthe Soviet I'm
ion, all indicate an approaching new
war of violence and invasion against
the workers and peasants Of Soviet
Russia.
TN this hour the Workers Party Of
L America, knowing its duty and
ready to act with vigor and decision,
pledges anew to the workers and
peasants of Soviet Russia its every
effort to defend and advance the world
proletarian revolution, to support
Soviet Russia and its allies among
the worlds exploited and oppressed,
to extend and intensity the movement
for recognition of Soviet Russia by
the American capitalist government
on the basis of the common interests
of the workers and poor farmers of
America with the workers and peas
ants of Soviet Russia. We shall make
an efforts to resent a new militant at
tack upon the U. S. S. r. and to hold
aloft the banner of the ProIetarian
Dictatorship before the eyes Of the
toiling masses still exploited by the
Dictatorship of the American bour-
geoisie.
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Not So Bad

Warren s. Stone, late president of the brotherhood
motive Engineers did leave million dollars
originally This
doubt conceived by his enemies perhaps William Lee
organization by John Lewis workers No.
indeed Stone honest labor leader to leave million
dollars his widow The poor fellow had only $15O0OO
when he passed away
IL is that not every worker that much money
lifetime when considers the number Mr.
Stone interested in grand officer of powerful union
when that he financially personally
other companies. he might have left money
Stones holdings entirely in stocks bonds would
like know how much W any stock Mr. Stone held in the New
York Central Railroad? Or in the scab that
aged in West Va Mr.. Stone
fellow left only 100000 behind him. when be might have left
. million avs,ttts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-07

Loreism, the theory of hesitancy and
inaction, must be overcome by an
antidote of decisiveness and ACTIVITY.
Loreism must be drowned by Bolshev-
ism. This is not merely a phrase;
Bolshevization will drown Loreism-
first because it will draw all Commun-
list elements of the party away from
inaction where idle speculations MAJ
make the victims Of Loreism, and
pulls them into the mechanism OF
revolutionary political action; an
second, it will make existence for II ,
unassimilahle non-Communist ele-
ments within the party physical inn
possibility .sAe ~
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around the chancellerieseofP Lon
don and Washington, the allied block
ade is broken, the famine aended, and
with the powerful RedfArmy and the
watchful Red Navy guardingfth the outer
fortications, the workers and peasants
of Soviet Russia are successfully ham
mering out Socialist reconstruction
and building stone by stone the struc-
ture of new society.
THIS tremendous success of the eco
L nomic restoration of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republic recognized
in the, Report of the British Trade I'm
ion Delegation in 1924, has penetrated
even the most remote sections of the
worlds working class, together with
the growing fraternal relations be-
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tendency for our party increases with
this process. q
TOWARD the party Loreism has al
ways maintained an attitude Of
superior" criticism. Neither the left
wing, nor the party was their move
ment. From the Olympiag heights of
their intellectual superiority" they
consider the developments and the do
ings of our movement and pass judg-
ment "over'' it's This Judgment, of
course, is always against the party's
and the Comintern's doings and in
variably in favor of their own
concept, that of Olympians. But
in spite of the serious shortcom-
ings" of party and Comintren these
Olympians condescend to gtace it with
the honor of their membership. Attic
| am member of it, cannot take re-
sponsibility upon myself to advise any
one else to join" declared Lore in a
meeting of German-speaking comrades
in New York at the timeoof the or
ganization of the Communists in an
underground party in the face of
Wholesale persecution of party men,
bers by the government Here we
have Loreism again in "Reinkultur."
The party is never their party. The
party is one thing; and Loreite is
another thing. Tho the two may
meet, they never merge. This inabil-
ity Of the two to merge, demonstrated
by the attitude of Loreism toward the
party, must also be officially recog-
nized by the party The recognition
OF this inability to merge must in turn
be demonstrated by the party in a re-
lentless attitude toward Loreism.
IN the past the struggle against Lore
ism was sporadic one. Since the
tendency was not crystallized in a dis
tinct group but manifsstk0.. itself
mainly in what individual party men,
bers of that tendency said or did
Comrade Lore. himself was again and
again the object Of criticism and at
tack for his consistent non Commun-
list attitude. In the left wing move
ment at the time of the birth of our
party Lore was the center Of very
justified suspicion and attack. At
that time his attitude of superiority
led him to a criticism OF the left wing
which in many points conceded with
that OF the right wing. IN the days Of
the underground party the state Of
war of the party against Lore was
permanent one. At the time of the
formation of the Workers Party.
Lore's membership ing our party be-
came so questionable that he was
treated completely as an outsider.
Several times during. the existence
Of the Workers Partyt we find the
party in fight against Lore and Lore
ism. Even the walls OF Sing Sing
prison could not prevent Comrade
Ruthenberg from taking issue with
Lore because Of the latter's attitude
toward our underground party. Com
rades Lovestone and Pepper took is
sue with Lore in the "Toiler," in the
underground Communist" and in the
Weekly Worker"
The party took issueggery decisively
against Loreism when It raised its
head in a dangerous form in the Jew
ish Federation, like II does at present
I'm the Finnish Fedefhuon, The Cen
tral Executive Committee at that time
proceeded 10 save the party from Lore
list poison. In spite OF hesitnncy on
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tween the Soviet Union and the races
and nationalities oppressed by world
imperialism, is stirring and setting in
motion the exploited and suffering
masses of the entire world.
The movement for International
Trade Union Unity, the shattering of
the leadership of the treacherous,
class collaborationist social democra-
cy in the unions of both Europe and
America, the struggle against the
Dawes plan, the mobilization and
march to the left of the British work
ers, the Indian strikes, the rebellion of
colonial peoples in Africa, the savage
clashes in the Balkans, the sporadic
workers revolts in Latin america and
the intensification of a national revo-
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international Labor Defense Endorsed

has already takenw that it defends
and supports all class war fighters ir-
respective of their organizational af-
fliations, and has been widely ac-
claimed in all sections of the mill
tant labor movement.
International Labor Defense is an
absolutely indispensable organization
for the militant labor movement and
merits the unqualified support of all
those who stand on the platform of
the class struggle and who recognize
the necessity of a common fight
against persecution and reaction.
The International Labor Defense
must be built into a mighty organiza-
ton embracing scores of thousands
of workers and exploited farmers, re-
CARELESS of their political Affiliations.
THE Workers Party endorses the
= International Labor Defense and
pledges full support to its activities
in defense and support of persecu-
ted workers in America and all
countries of the capitalist world.
The convention calls upon every
Party member to do his full duty by
joining the International Labor De-
Tense as a dues-paying member, by
giving moral and material support to
the organization in all of its work
and by carrying its message into all
labor organizations with which they
are connected and to strive in every
way to draw them into its ranks.
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The following resolution was uni
mission for submission to the Natio
munist Party to be held August 81:
THE recent action Of the supreme
= court in upholding the constitu-
tionality of the New York criminal
anarchy law, under which Comrade
Gitlow was sentenced to prison, fore
shadows another period Of prosecu-
ton and repression Of the working
class movement under which the lib
erty Of its best fighters will be placed
in jeopardy. This new decision marks
another stage in exposing the sham
character of the supposed rights of
freedom of speech, press and as
sembly stated in the constitution and
practically ratifies the criminal syn
dicalist laws of 35 states and makes
concrete the danger of the enactment
of federal law of the same charac-
ter
This presents the greatest danger
to all working class organizations
especially to it's most advanced and
militant sections. This decision
taken together with the fact that in
spite of all pretenses of democracy
and cessation of wartime persecution
at least 1913 workers are still confined
in state prisons for no other crime
than activity in the interests of their
class demonstrates the imperative
necessity of all class conscious work
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the part of some Of the members of
the then c. E. c., the majority of that
body proceeded firmly with its meas
ures, 1t put the "reiheit'' under inn
mediate control of the c. E. c., and,
finally expelled Salutsky, who had de-
veloped his non-Communist attitude
quickly into an anti-Communist one.
DURING the last two years, with the
- slow process of Bolshevization, the
Lore tendency crystallized slowly as
group. In this capitalization it was
aided considerably by the fact that
outstanding adherents of this tend
ency were not only permitted to oc-
cupy but were even appointed to i'm
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adopted by the Parity Com
al Convention of the Workers Com
ers banding themselves together on
the platform of the common fight for
the release of all class war prison
ers and for the defense and support
Of new victims and their families.
THE International Labor Defense
= which was recently organized at
a national conference in Chicago, as
non-partisan organization, for the
defense and support of all workers
prosecuted for their activity in the
class struggle in America and for the
assistance of the victims of the white
terror abroad, has taken upon itself
obligations which should be regarded
as the common obligations of all sin
cere and class conscious workers.
The International Labor Defense
fills a long-felt need in the American
labor movement. 1t brings new cour-
age and hope to the working class
fighters who languish in prison and
gives the assurance to all workers on
the firing line of the class struggle
that they will not stand alone and
their families will not be neglected
in time Of persecution and imprison.
ment. The International Labor De.
tense has already made substantial
progress in its work, has given sub
stantial evidence by the actions it
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10 the Joy Of the world proletariat and
The chagrin Of world Imperialism.
The reactionary generals are de-
teated, the invading armies of the
democratic" allied robbers driven into
the seas and across the borders by the
pressure of Soviet arms and the threat
of revolution by the workers of the
western nations, the counter-revolu-
tionary lackeys to the bourgeoisie or
ganized in the infamous Second In
ternational which has sold itself to
the capitalist discredited and un-
masked, roost like dean vultures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-07
BY MAX eEDAcHT.


THE Loreist concept of party tasks
proceeds on the erroneous theory,
thatAhere exists a difference between
the task of building the party and
that of entering political activities,
and executing maneuvers. Again and
again we meet the argument that we
must first build our party before we
can enter this or that action. This at
titude is social-democratic.
The task of building the party can
not be separated from the political ac-
tivities of the party. Our only source
of new strength is the working class.
We endeavor to set the toiling masses
into motion in the direction of decis-
i've struggle against capitalism. Our
party cannot carry on this struggle
without the masses; the masses can
not carry on this decisive struggle
without the Communists. We build up
the party in the same degree as we
succeed in identifying it with the
struggles Of the masses. AS long as
we are a small party our participation
in these struggles will be one with
comparatively small means. But just
as the athlete gains and improves his
abilities in practice so does the party
build itself in action. The Commun-
lists will win leadership only if they
really lead. The workers will learn
to follow the Communists in final &C
ton if they see them march and
tight with them and ahead OF them in
all preliminary actions.
WHEN Loreism expoands this
w theory of first building and then
acting, it tries to cover up its opposi-
ton to action with plausible form
ula. This formula is the more danger.
GUS because the special regard these
opportunities seem to have for our
party carries an appeal TO loyal and
well-meaning party members. Thus
the theological influence of Loreism in
the party tends to paralyze the party's
activities to much larger degree
than the organized strength of the
Lore group would Indicate The last
party discussion, for instance, reveal
ed to what a degree this .untenable
theory of dualism of party building
and party activities, is accepted even
by leading members of our party who
otherwise, admit the dangers of the
Lore tendencies for our Party. The
Comintern took cognizance of this
tendency in our party when it wrote
into the decision on the American
question the following fundamental
principle that the Communists must
continually influence the workers in a
revolutionary sense, and that this
task cannot be accomplished by mere
agitation and propaganda. Any ideo.
logical struggle against Loreism must,
therefore, also uproot these tenden-
cies where they have lost their clear
identity with Loreism, and especially
when they make their appearance as
pure Communist principles" Com.
rade Lenin called this tendency In.
verted opportunism. 'Fq YA'
II is evident that the lopportunist
tendency OF Loreism finds the more
bases for capitalization and expos.
ure the more the party. Bolshevizes
ITSELF the more the psEtS becomes d
party Of proletarian Membership and
revolutionary action. Mhd h is jus
as evident that the dangerS OF thir
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The following resolution unanimously
be held 81.
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portant party positions.
But whatever the causes of this
Capitalization might have been, the
fact remains unchallenged that Lore
ism, while in the first period of the
existence of lour party merely a tend
ency, has become distinct group
which menaces the Communist integ-
rity of our party and tends to arrest
the party's progress toward complete
Bolsheyization.
WHILE, forganizational steps, such
w as are proposed by the parity res
olution on Loreism, are absolutely
necessary in our fight against Lore
ism, yetythey will not be sufficient.
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The following resolution unanimously Parity
mission for submission
Partvtn he haldAn o..
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-08-08

Lake street, in Girdletree. Consider
alton, $40, etc.
S. Wilkins Matthews from l.. Paul
Ewell, Attorney, farm containing 100
acres and poles, more or less, on the
east side of the State stone road, lead
ing from Klej Grange to Stockton, in
the Eighth Election district. Consid
GRAFTON, $500.
Elwood NJ. Pusey from Lizzie 3.
Malone and Roger Malone, Executors,
"Holly Grove" containing 25 acres,
more or less, in Atkinson's district.
Constellation, S425.
VIM. E. Townsend from Elwood NJ.
Pusey and wife, "Holly Grove" con-
tanning 25 acres, more or less, in At
kinson's Election district Consider
alton, $40, etc.
Phillip C. Dennis from Richard Long
and wife and others, 2 tracts of land
known as parts Of Beverly" contain
ing 43 acres, more or less, in the list
Election district. Consideration, $40,
etc.
John E. Smith, George F. Adkins
and John NJ. Mumford, Trustees of
Evergreen Lodge No. 1853 A. F. & A.
NJ, of Berlin, Md, from Adelia A. Adj
kins and others, lot on the easterly
side of Main street, in Berlin, Md.
Consideration, $40, etc.
VIM. T. Mason and Chas. L. Mason
from Homer l.. Hughes and wife, tract
of land on the County road leading
from Cedartown to Newark, in the
4th Election district. Consideration,
$40, etc.
Edmond H. Johnson from Mary L..
Gordon and husband, an undivided II
interest in certain lots in Ocean City.
Consideration, $40, etc.
Calvin w Chopper and Theresa M.
Chopper, his wife, from Stephen M.
Richards and wife, store house and lot
on Main street, in Bishopville. Consid-
GRAFTON, $40, etc.
Joseph A. O'Conner and Margaret
U .O'Conner, his wife, from Adelheid
Vandegrift and husband, 45 acres of
land, more or less, on the County road
leading from Nassawango church to
Corbin's P. O., in Atkinson's Election
district. Consideration, $40, etc.
Matte r. Ball from Clayton E..
Dykes and wife, so acres of land,
more or less, on the Easterly side of
and binding upon the County road
leading from Fruitland to West P. o.,
ir Atkinson's Election district. Con-
sideration, 81. etc.