The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-21

They are, stripped of verbiage, as fol-
lows:
l. That the workers revolution in
Russia has been betrayed by politi-
cal bureaucrats.'
2. That the Russian Communist
Party has delayed capitalist eco
nomic development in Russia eight
years."
8. That Soviet Russia is "going
back to capitalism
4. That a dictatorship suppresses
the rights" of free speech and press
and the right to strike is taken
away
What the article proposes should be
done about it is the following: THE
thing for the workers of Russia and
everywhere to do is to leave off chas-
ing the political will-'o-the-wisp and
establish the industrial state with its
workers self-government." Express
ing the intention behind this better
than the anarchists themselves do, we
see that the meaning inherent in it
presents US with another assertion, as
follows:
8. That, given the present situa-
ton, the Russia workers should abol-
ish government in all its coerciye and
forceful forms, and limit their social
machinery to the production and dis
tribution of commodities.
THE same article appearing in Ian
L guage papers of the l. w. W. also
carried other assertions, such as that
there was graft in Russia" We may
grant that in a nation of 142,0OO,00
there may be some grafters yet UNI
caught. But these do not reflect any
general situation or any policy of gov
eminent and certainly prove nothing,
That a chairman of the l. w. w. exec
utive board should think it worth
while dragging this in is, however, to
be wondered at.
We can leave this, too, out of reck-
oning as proving nothing about the
policy Of the organization, and take
up the above points in articles that
are to follow and show them to be
purely capitalist propaganda.
[LTE do not say that all who call
w themselves anarchists are DELHI
crate traitors. Many in the l. w. w.
are quite honest in their beliefs. Some
do not recognize their beliefs as an
archistic and deny that they are an
archists. But this does not alter the
fact.
When, however, such elements
build up a group inside the organiza-
ton, drive out of office the secretary
elected by overwhelming vote of the
members, as was done in the NJ. T. w.
by the Pettersson-De Chaniogny
clique, when they pass the office
around among themselves like a play
thing, when they are Joined by Roger
Francezon, who, as M. T. w. delegate
to the last general convention, pledged
that the M. T. w. would not withdraw
from the l. w. W., yet who sits in the
executive of the M. T. w. when it did
withdraw and permitted its branches
to print their own due stamps, then
anarchism is becoming a menace to
the unity of the /. w. w.
MORE. When Peo Monoldi, as
4f1 chairman of the G. e. b., surren-
ders to such a group-or, better said,
joints their group, when he suppresses
an issue of the general Office bulle-
tin which officially denounced them as
splitters, when he legalizes their
printing OF their own due stamps, for
gives them their debts to the general
organization, takes them unto his
bosom and organizes a similar group
in Chicago with Homish, Gahan, Le-
haney and company, and when the
whole tribe throws up smoke screen
of Beware of Communists" and
Down with Soviet Russia!" -then II
is no longer question Of honest con-
viction, for this is the mark of anarch-
ism. This is the brand of Emergency
Program" split. And II IL is not &c.
p" organization within the I. w. w.
Il Is at least threat to its very exist
ence.
In the United States there is capt.
talist government. II Is to the inter.
est OF workers to oppose II. In Rus
STA there is workers government.
Workers should support IL. But an
archists in the |. w. w. oppose H..
How this happens and what II means
will be told in articles TO follow.
ITO be continued)'c
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