The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-27
Three Generals with No Army
By Fred Ellis

the American Workers." published
last year, wrote:
"The hope of the victory of the
working class in such a war lies in
the fact that the armies that will
be sent against the Soviet Union
will consist of workers and that
they will defend the workers lands
against the attack of their own
master class.
"In this situation, the class-con-
scious workers of the big imperial
list countries must make every effort
to rally the workers of the world to
the defense of the Soviet Union, to
deepen their understanding of what
the workers of Soviet Russia are ac-
complishing, to strengthen their love
for the only land the working class
can truly call its own.
"In the face of this necessity,
where is the opposition leading?
eff the Soviet government is not
workers government, then the
question that the workers of the
world will ask themselves is: What
reason have we to defend the Sow
let Union in the Forthcoming war ?
If the Communist Party and the
Communist International are not
fighting for the interests of the
workers, then what reason have we
to follow the leadership of the Com
munist International
eff they were successful, if the
working class were to believe their
SANDERS, then they would be
strengthening the imperialist arm
les, lessening the possibility of
turning the imperialist war into a
civil war, strengthening the forces
preparing to attack the Soviet
Union, and weakening the forces
preparing to defend it. Their propa-
ganda is more dangerous because il
is disguised in the name of Com
munism."
There is nothing new in this re-
spect in the propaganda against
the Soviet Union, the Communist
Parties of the Soviet Union and OF
America, and the Communist Inter
national. The specifically new fea-
ture is the astounding speed with
which Cannon has run in a matter
of few days thru the whole road
of renegade degeneration into the
position of open participant, along
with Lore, the Jewish Daily For
ward. and the other organs of the
"agitprop department for the pre-
pairing of war on the Soviet Union.
Unexpected Speed.
But this is really not so great a
mystery as it seems. Cannon joins
this international union of rene
gades and expelled Communists, not
at the beginning of its development
when it was still moving slowly
away from Communism. cautiously
ashamedly, with much camouflage
and concealment, but at the end OF
it's degeneration when it lands open
ly, stripped of all Communist pre-
tense, naked and unashamed, in the
camp Of the plotters of war on the
Soviet Union, in the camp Of the
enemies of the working class, in
the camp of imperialism, the social
democracy, and the counter-revolu-
ton.
Cannon has never been known for
speed. For a long time he has tend
ed in the present direction. But the
requirements of Party membership
held him back. Now he has been
out of the Party but few days
and already he is travelling with
the speed of an express train-has
landed in the camp of the open enc
mics. However, the speed is not
the speed of Cannon. 1t is the speed
Of train which he boarded with a
flying leap, train that has ira
yelled far already and had five years
to get under way. He joined the
international opposition of Trotsky,
of Fisher and Maslow, of Salutsky,
Eastman, Lore, Basky and com