The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
miners OPPOSE
Cannon TREASON
Industrial Workers in
Dist. s for c.. E. c..
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from our Party of Cannon, Swa-
beck, Shachtman, Abern and other
adherents of Trotskyism. We af-
firm our full association with and
support of the. statement of the
Geo and DEC on the issue of Trot-
skyism and the expulsion Of its sup
porters.
'For the firm Bolshevik unity of
our Party. For the unqualified de-
Tense of the Soviet Union. For the
feminist line of the CT and for full
support of the Comintern program
without any reservations whatso-
ever" -
This is the center of the best sup
port of the Party of the whole
southern Illinois coal field. There
are mine nuclei in Benton, Ziegler,
Waller, Orient No. /, Orient No. 2,
Buckner and West Frankfort mines.
Not a single voice was raised in
defense of the Trotskyist would-be
supporters of our Party.
When the sub-district organizer,
Will Matheson, who wrote the above
resolution, presented it for action
every coal digger's hand shot up
Immediately.
In Bicknell, Indiana, the center Of
a two years strike, and one of the
best strongholds of the left wing
miners movement, the nucleus of
fourteen members unanimously
stands by the Central Committee. A
meeting to explain the issues of
Trotskyism was held on Sunday,
December 9th, with William F.
Kruse, district organizer, as the
speaker. But already at the preced-
ing meeting the nucleus had unani-
mously adopted the following reso-
luton:
I'm most emphatic terms the
Bicknell nucleus fully supports with
out reservations and endorses the
action and decisions of the DEC and
Geo in the case Of Cannon, Shacht.
man, Abern, etc. Much as we re.
greet to learn that Comrade Swabecl
has allied himself with anti-Party
elements, thus causing his expul
sion, we recognize that the Trotsky-
lists in the American Party must be
eliminated"
Thus far not a single nuclei in
any mining town has voted against
the Gee. In other sub-districts
also the vote is practically unani-
nous in support of this line. In
the industrial centers of Racine,
Kenosha, West Allis the vote was
unanimous. In Madison, Wisconsin,
likewise. In Milwaukee the south
side nucleus voted unanimously, the
north-side IL to d, and the central
nucleus 7 to 8. These votes cast in
opposition were declared to be not
against the expulsion of the Trot-
skyists but against the statement
accompanying this expulsion.
In Gary, Indiana, when the city
secretary, ]. j. Rusak, offered
statement with strong Trotskyist
inclinations the membership all but
unanimously voted to reject this
statement and instructed him to
submit another. After a somewhat
lengthy consideration over a period
of several weeks he did so and dis
ISOLATED himself from his former
position.
Special agitprop measures are
being taken with respect to a group
of five lower functionaries in Chi
cago who expressed themselves for
statement somewhat along the
Rusak line and it is expected that
all of them will be retained for the
party. Thus, in District s also,
where for many objective reasons
the Trotskyist Opposition was ex-
pected to show its greatest strength,
it has been completely smashed and
the Party stands more solidly than
ever for the feminist line Of the
CT and Gee. ~
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