The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-28
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'Flaherty.
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strike developed into a general calam'
lty with such profound imbeciles oc-
cupying commanding positions? Trai-
tors rather than imbecilesl
MTFIAT may be termed spiritual
w demise took place when two
brothers were drowned in seventy
fiveIbarrel vat in a secret moonshine
plant on the northern boundary of
Benton Harbor. There is good rea-
son to believe that a considerable
chunk of the American population
would not turn down such "a happy
ending for their fadeout. Right next
TO this news item was story of an
other fatality, this time of an evan
gelist, who became interested, none
too spiritually in his brother-in-law's
wife. The ''unwritten law pleads
guilty. AS the puzzles say: Find the
killer.
THAT diplomatic relations between
4 nations help commercial transac-
tons is proven by, the jump in trade
between Germany and the Soviet I'm
ion since last year. This year Rus
sian purchases in the United States
are only 81 per cent of what they
were last year. This decline is in
sharp contrast to the rapid rise in i'm
ports from Germany The capitalists
Of the Teutonic nation do not like the
idea of workers rule any better than
our own parasites, but they need the
business, so they grasp the hated pro-
letariat by the hand and do business
with him.
MUCH bunk has flowed thru the
A'A columns of the capitalist press
since news of the recent differences
among leaders of the Russian Commu-
mist Party developed. Rumors of re-
volts, assassinations and other amuse-
ments were rife. Our policy was to
take an occasional satirical jibe at the
fable mongers and let it go at that.
Now that the liars had their wild
night of prevarication, some of them
are taking the cure. Which means
they are getting as near the truth
as is possible for them.
TINE differences in the party were
L deep and important The Interna-
tional Press Correspondence gives
both sides. Zinoviev, Kameneff, and
others took the position that socialist
economy could not be developed in
Russia without world revolution.
Coupled with this was their policy of
breaking the alliance between the
workers, the poor peasants and the
middle peasants. The middle peas
ants would be thrown into the arms
Of the Kulaks or rich peasants, thus
disturbing the equilibrium OF the
foundation on which the Dictatorship
was based. The demand for the le-
galization Of fractions in the party,
about completed the list of errors es.
poused by zinoviev and his sup
porters.
TTTHEN a vote was taken at joint
w meeting of the central committee
and the Central Control Commission,
zinoviev's position received only Is
votes while we'll over 200 were cast
for the position of the central com
mtttee. The committee holds that a
socialist economy can be built up in
the Soviet Union even tho the revo-
luton on world scale is postponed.
It's tough job and promises to be
tougher in the near future, but It can
be accomplished. There is a lot more
to it and the DAILY WORKER will
give the story in full. What would
like to call your attention to is the
fact that Zinoviev's defeat in the con-
troversy did not produce a ripple on
the surface of political life in Russia
and that some of the foreign CORE
spondents now stationed in Moscow
admit that the government was never
stronger among the masses than it is
now. Moral; Take your news about
Russia in the boss press with a pinch
Of enuff.
WTKILE the textile workers of Pas
w sale, New Jersey, are struggling
CALAMITY against tremendous odds,
against the greedy mill barons, with
the support of thinking trade union
lists everywhere, the executive council
of the A. F. OF L., that denounced the
strike as a Communist adventure is
running a scab advertisement from
the Botany Mills in the Federation
list, its official organ. What do you
think of that? The average trade I'M
ionist is not a revolutionist, but he
hates a scab's CUTS. II this isn't scab.
berry, what the devil Is dt7
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