The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
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Lenin's clear realization of the sltu-
alton which enabled the Russian
workers to transform the bourgeois
revolution Of March, 1917, into sue
cessful proletarian revolt.
Sigman-"BoOo-O-o!"
Engdahl called for mass support
for The DAILY WORKER in this
crisis in the unions of New York.
The audience loudly booed the names
Of Sigman, Hillman, Green and all
reactionary leaders as they were
mentioned by this speaker and sue
Feeding speakers.
VIM. z. Foster, the next speaker,
was cheered until he was forced to
pause in his speech when he started
to analyze the New York situation,
and first uttered the words" Left
Wing Furriers."
Foster Speaks.
"The life of the organized labor
movement in America is at stake .
said Foster. "The struggle in New
York, and in the needle trades gen.
orally, is one segment of a struggle
that pervades almost the whole field
of unionism. In the United Mine
Workers. the reactionary president
Lewis, is following a policy that must
wreck the union if it prevails. In
all unions where the fight is on. the
left wing struggles to preserve the
organizations, and to make them use
full to the workers.
"The bureaucrats, like Sigman, sit
ting in his office and trying to win
the masses back to him with fifty
cent membership books. viii fail
Their tactics of expulsion will fail,
When Sigman expels the left wing,
he has no union left for himself
There is a group Of workers, the cen
ter of resistance to the union wreck
ing policies of the reactionaries, and
this group is feminist. The Workers
Party Of America raises the stand
ards Of resistance"
Lenin Gives Advice.
Moissaye Olgin spoke Of the
struggling workers of America, as
standing before the grave Of Lenin,
with heads unbowed and backs I'M
bent. for they know that altho Lenin
is dead, Leninism lives" and asking
his advice in the present crisis-num-
bers of militants too few, intense
reaction against them by all the
forces of capitalism, betrayal OF
workers interest by the corrupt la
Dor bureaucrats, attacked by the
yellow socialist press, and in that
nest Of reaction, the Vorwarts.
Lenin answers thru his deeds and
writings, said Olgin, and reminds the
American workers that all these
things were known in Czarist Russia,
and the Russia of Kerensky. We have
the yellow socialists, but Lenin and
the Bolsheviki faced the Mensheviks.
We have Sigman and others in Eu-
rope-they had Kautsky and others.
eco TO the Masses"
an 1914 Lenin said," olgin re-
minded the audience, "only the eris-
tocracy and the bureaucracy Of labor
have made peace with the bour-
geosie. Go to the masses; And that
is good advice to the comrades in
America"
One way to go to the masses, Oh
gin pointed out, is thru the press.
The New York workers who read
Jewish have the daily Freiheit, and
other papers. But that is not
enough. There must be a daily in
the English language here, and now
we have it.
The Youth Arc Here.
Sam Don, New York organizer for
the Young Workers Communist
League, spoke on one of the lessons
Il Leninism, which means b. unite
all oppressed sections Of society
against their common enemy, and
specially the oppressed proletorians,
and among these, not to forget the
young workers, sometimes especially
oppressed.
Comrade Scott Nearing.
Scott Nearing was introduced as
Yesterday our friend, today our
comrade." He got royal welcome.