The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

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is not satisfied with the American
Communists. We do not blame him
for it. We have unmasked him. We
have compelled him to make clear to
the American workers in general and
to the Jewish workers in particular,
where he stands. In an open letter
published by him in several papers
in the Yiddish and English language,
he speaks about 'the energetic self
defense of our comrades" He for
gets, however, to point out that this
self defense" operated with the aid
of police, detectives, and sluggers
The blot of this self defense" will
glow forever on the forehead Of this
socialist" counter revolutionary. =,
\ Abramovich is not happy over the
lreceptiona accorded to him by the
workers. Yet he would not admit that
that it is his political platform the
workers are protesting against. He
is out to convince himself and others
that a special conspiracy against him
is on foot, that the Communists have
embarked upon a course of vitupera-
ton and vilification," that the pres
emit writer is "the very initiator of
the dirtiest and meanest personal
calumnies" spread against him. (Quot-
ed from the Yiddish text published in
The Freie Arbeiter Stimme, which
seems to be the Originally
1t would hardly be necessary to re-
ply to this new sally of despairing
menshevik. We have conducted our
campaign in the open before the eyes
of all the workers. Those who fire.
quented our meetings or read our
publications know that we conduct
political campaign, not campaign of
personal vilifcation. We expose
Abramov4ch as a traitor because he
betrayed the great proletarian revolu-
ton in Russia and because he kept
on betraying the very principles
which he asserted to be his sincere
convictions at one time or another
/ personally heard from the mouth of
Abramovich in 1920, when he still
lived in Moscow, that he stood on
Soviet platform, that he accepted the
entire Soviet constitution and that he
was only angry with the Communist
government for not adhering to Its
own revolutionary laws" A few
months later Abramovich was engag-
ed in a vicious campaign against the
Soviet republic as a whole. i person
ally heard Abramovich advocating
something akin to the new economic
policy when this policy was yet i'm
possible. When, however, the N. E.
p. was inaugurated by order of the
Soviets, Abramovich only intensified
his struggle against the Soviets. In
personal conversations Abramovich,
in 1920, assured me that he stood
nearer to the Soviet system than to
the right wing socialists. Later, how
ever, Abramovich found his haven of
rest in the arms of the Scheidemanns
and Noskes. This is treason, and it
proves that Abramovich is not in
earnest about his principles" that he
uses them as weapons against the
Soviet republic. This is what we as
sert at our meetings and in our press,
and it is not necessary to dwell upon
it in the present connection.
But Abramovich brought in a new
element into his desperate struggle.
He Informs us that "the man who lent
him the money and made it possible
for him to leave Russia was Moissaye
Olgin who was at that time in Rus
sia." Abramovich, who is so dis
pleased with what he calls personal
fights, resorts here to personal
means of attack. He wishes to ere
ate the impression that l was in ac-
cord with him in 1920, that ! was then
an opponent Of the Soviets, and that
1t was therefore that | helped him
leave Russia. II is, certainly, unnec-
essary 10 refute those allegations.
The American workers sjll remem-
Der the articles written by myself in