The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-29
How Stain Repudiated the New Leader
Hearst Version of His Speech
ey William E. DUNE.

THE editor of the New Leader hay-
ing challenged the authenticity of
the cable received from Comrade
Stain, a copy of which he received,
repudiating the wholly untrue version
of his criticisms Of Comrade zinoviev,
which the New Leader reprinted YER
batim from a Hearst news dispatch,
and a reputation of which the New
Leader publicly promised to publish
if Comrade Stain would make such
reputation, We publish herewith cut
Of a certified copy of the cablegram
from Comrade Stain as received by
The DAILY WORKER.
We publish also the statement of
Comrade Stain carried by the Inter
national Press Correspondence, Vol,
6, No. 65, its issue for the 18th Of Oc-
tober.
THE editor Of the New Loader tried
L to squirm out of the mess he had
mixed for himself when he accepted
capitalist press dispatch as true
and accurate account of Comrade
Stains utterances, and based his
case upon the veracity Of the Hearst
press, by insisting that the words
"affirm all July criticism" in the cable
as received by us represented an at
tempt either by us or Comrade Stain
to evade the issue.
We call attention especially to the
statement Of Comrade Stain pub
lished in the International Press Cor
respondence, publication which car
ries all official statements Of the
Communist International and its Of
/ fcials. Our readers will notice that
the official version, signed by Stain
does NOT say "affirm all July critic
ism" but DOES say "afflrm or deny
as cabled by the editor of the New
/ Leader.
UNFORTUNATELY for this gentle
- man, the cut of the cablegram to-
gether with the statement Of Comrade
Stain published in the number of the
/ International Press Correspondence
cited (Which is available to all inter
ested' persons and the subscription
/ rate of which is only six dollars per
year, exposes the pitiful artitice to
which he has resorted in an attempt
I to excuse and explain one Of the most
despicable attempts to distort the
statements of world revolutionary
/ leaders ever made in America.
/ THE editor Of the New Leader, like
the leaders of the moribound So
cialist labor party and other enemies
Of the Communist international and
the workers and peasants govern
ment of the Soviet Union, follows
what is called an "inside strategy"
/ Such a strategy is resorted to by
! leaders of discredited and nearly de-
funct organizations when they have
/ lost hope of winning new recruits and
/ have to spend all their energy in keep
| ing what they have.
"Insde strategy" of this kind spe-
| eializes in downright receptions de-
signed to prove to the still faithful
few that bad as their decrepit or
ganization may be, what is outside OF
| IT is infinitely worse.
TINE lengths to which leaders fol-
L lowing this kind of strategy will
go, forced by the logic of their situa-
/ ton to indulge in more and more in
volved and dangerous receptions, is
obvious to every intelligent worker.
The editor of the New Leader, to
use term originating in the Roman
arena when gladiators fought sword
and shield with net and trident, has
been caught in his own net, the net
of deception he attempted to weave to
show that leaders of the Communist
International, the leader of the world
/ revolution, had abandoned all idea of
/ revolutionary struggle against world
capitalism-as he, his paper and his
party have.
We remind the editor of the New
Leader again that he has promised to
publish Comrade Stains cablegram.