The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-30

eacn faction mad the floor, each for
five minutes. Trotsky and Bucharin
spoke against sending a telegram
with an offer to sign peace, Zinoviev
and Lenin in favor of it. Lenin said:
We face situation which demands
immediate action. If the offensive of
Imperialism goes on, we are all for
the defense. Then the masses will
understand. Not a minute to lose
now. Either for revolutionary war or
for peace negotiations. The proposal
of Lenin for peace negotiations was
lost by vote of z to 6.
The next meeting was held the
same day. Trotsky reported on the
Germans seizure of Dwinaburg, and
the rumors about their entering the
Ukraine. He proposed to ask the
Germans and Austrians about their
conditions for peace. AS matter of
fact, Austria did not take part in the
offensive. Lenin said:
Now we have neither war nor
peace, but We cannot play with war.
We are losing numbers of railroad
cars and this affects our transporta-
ton. Now it is impossible to wait
any longer. The situation is very
clear. The people will not under
stand our talk of rehabilitation if
war is going on. The Germans will
take everything. Comrade Joffe re-
ports from the front that there are
no signs of revolution in Germany.
If the Germans demand the overthrow
Of Bolshevism, we have to fight. The
proposal of Trotsky is only paper, not
politics. We can only demand the
continuation of negotiations. The
Germans are marching while we are
writing paper resolutions and are vas
cillating. History will say that we
gave up the revolution. We must
sign peace which does not threaten
the revolution. We cannot make war,
not even blow up anything. We have
helped the revolution in Finland, but
cannot do more. There is no time
to exchange diplomatic notes, to feel
out the Germans. Now it is clear that
they can attack.
7iiAfter eUritsky; F'r0tsky, Stain and
Bucharin had had the floor, Lenin
continued: The peasant does not
want the war and will not go out to
fight. A permanent peasant war is
utopia. The revolutionary war must
not be a phrase. If you demobilize
the army, you cannot conduct the
war. The revolution in Germany has
not begun and you know that our
revolution was not victorious from the
beginning. The Germans will now
take the rest of Latvia and Esthonia.
They demand the evacuation of Fin
land. This does not mean that the
revolution is lost. To say that the
Rehabilitation has ceased is to fool
the people. We must accept the
terms.
Lenin's proposal: To Immediately
approach the German government
with an offer of peace was carried by
seven votes. (Lenin, Smilga, Stain.
Sverdlov, Sokolnikov, Trotsky. Zinc
view Against 6, (Uritsky, Joffe, Jo-
NOV, Bucharin, Krestinsky and DER
jinsky.) Stacova refrained from vot-
ng. Then the content of the wire
Tess telegram was discussed. It was
decided that it should contain: pro-
est (all voting for with two abstain
ng); to say that we are forced by
The emergency (all voting for with
two abstaining); expression of readi-
ness to sign the former terms or
others (seven for, four against, two
abstaining). The left socialist revo-
lutionists refused to sign the peace,
even at the risk of the revolutions
collapsing.
The note of the council Of peoples
commissars to the German govern
ment was sent February 10. There