The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-13

that the absent members of the G. G.
were perfectly aware h at the
majority was not in agreement with
| Zinoviev and Kamenev. And now,
after the decision of the Central Com
mittee at the meeting, which Kamenev
considered to be competent to make
decisions, member of the c. C. has
the impudence to write, "the Party
was not asked" "such questions must
not be decided by ten members; that
is nothing short of strike breaking.
Up to the Party Conference decisions
rest with the C.. C. The C. C. has de-
cided. Kamenev and Zinoviev, who be-
fore the decision did not bring for
ward any objections in writing, began
to combat the decision of the C. C.
after it had been adopted.
This is a complete case of strike
breaking. After the adoption of a
decision no opposition is permissible
when the matter concerns the i'm
mediate and secret preparation of a
strike. Zinoviev has the effrontery
now to charge US with warning the
enemy" Are there, then, no limits to
impudence? Who else has injured the
cause, has betrayed the strike by
warning the enemy" but the people
who have come forward in the press
not belonging to the Party?
To come forward against a ode
cisive" resolution Of the Party in a
newspaper which in the given ques-
ton goes hand in hand with the bour-
geoisie! The Party which permits
such a thing renders itself impossible,
ruins itself.
To call that separate opinion"
which Basarov learns and publishes
in paper not belonging to the Party,
that means to treat the Party as a
joke.
The proclamation of Kamenev and
Zinoviev in the press not belonging to
the Party was particularly despicable
because the Party cannot openly re-
flute their contemplate lies: l am not
aware of the decision regarding the
time, writes and publishes Kamemev
in his own and Zinoviev's name.
(After such declaration Zinoviev is
fully responsible for the whole be-
havier and proclamation of Kam-
enev.)
How can the C. C. refute this?
We cannot say the truth in front
of the capitalists, /. e. that we had
decided on strike, and that we had
To ii
the time fixed for the strike.
We cannot refute the contemplate
+ lies of Znoviev and Kamenev with
! out injuring the cause still further.
| Therein, indeed, consists the boundless
ebaseness, the real treachery of these
two persons, that they have given
away the plan Of the strike in face
of the capitalists, for if we keep silent
in the press, then everybody will see
how the matter stands.
Kamenev and Zinoviev have be-
trayed to Rodsjanko and Kerensky
the decision of the c. C. of their
Party regarding the armed revolt and
regarding =. concealing the prepara-
ton Of the armed revolt, the choice of
the time for the revolt, from the
enemy. That is a fact. This fact is
not to be refuted by any excuses. Two
members of the C. c.. have, by con-
! temptible lies, divulged to the capt.
talists the decisions of the workers.
To this there can and must be only
one answer: The immediate decision
of the G.. c.:
after establishing the complete
case Of strike-breaking in the procla-
nation of Zinoviev and Kamenev in
the press not belonging to the Party,
the c. C. eXpels both from the Party"
1t is not easy for me to write this
of comrades with whom | was for
merly closely associated, but l would
regard hesitation here as crime, as
otherwise a Party of revolutionaries
which does not punish strike breakers
among it's prominent members is
bound to come to ruin.
The question of the armed revolt.
even if the strike-breakers who have
betrayed the cause to Rodsjanko and
Kerensky have postponed it for long
time, is not pushed into the back
ground, by the Party How can we
prepare the armed revolt and COM
mence it, if we tolerate NOTED strike
breakers" in our midst. The more
noted, the more dangerous, the more
undignified pardon" as the French
say. Only one out Of our own
midst can become a traitor.
The more noted" the strike
breakers, the more incumbent it is to
punish them by immediate expulsion.
Only by such means can one make
the workers party sound, purge it
OF dozen intellectuals without char
acter by closing the ranks of the revo-
lutlonaries; only thus can the great