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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

Louisville, 10; Toledo, 4.
Minneapolis, z; Kansas City, 4
q. Paul, II; Milwaukee, g.
SQnly Games Scheduled -..AS--S..
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San Francisco, 6; Portland, 4.
Oakland, "a; hollywood, IL.
Seattle, 7; Los Angeles, 0.
Sacramento, IL; Missions, 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
!: "PRAVDA" ON THE ILLEGAL TROTSKYIST ORGANIZATI0

CARNATIONS measures which showed
its desire to appeal to the better
sense of the Trotskyists, to get them
to perceive their errors, and to in
duce them to return to the way of
the Party. For several years after
the discussion in 1928 the Party
patiently pursued this line,-the line
of mainly theological struggle.
Even at the Fifteenth Party Con-
gress the measures adopted against
the Trotskyist organization were
still of this same character, regard
less of the fact that the Trotskyists
chad passed from differences of
opinion of a tactical character to
differences of opinion of a program
matte character, in that they sought
to revise the feminist standpoint and
went over to the position of Men
shevism." (Resolution of the Fiji
teenth Party Congress.)
The year which has elapsed since
the Fifteenth Party Congress proved
the correctness of the decision of the
Fifteenth Party congress expelling
the active functionaries of the Trot-
skyists from the Party. In the
course of the year 1928 the Trot-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

campaign for collective agreements
and for the preparation of his Ca
dres for an eventual fresh civil war.
This letter from Trotsky was pub
lished not only in the organ of the
renegade Maslov but in whiteguard-
list organs such as "Rul" and others.
Other Trotskyists openly state that
in preparing this civil war they must
not hesitate to execute any instruc-
tions, whether in writing or not.
The calumnies against the Red Army
and it's leaders, which are spread
by the Trotskyists in the illegal and
renegade press and by means of this
press also in the whiteguardist news
papers abroad, prove that the Trot-
skyists do not shrink at melting the
leaders of the social democracy and
the international bourgeoisie against
the Soviet State. In these docu-
ments, the Red Army and its lead
ers are represented as being an army
of a future bonapartist coup. At the
same time, the anti-Soviet Trotsky-
list organization is endeavoring, on
the one hand, to disintegrate the sec
lions of the Comintern in the other
countries, to split the ranks of the
Comintern by forming its fractions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

everywhere and, on the other hand,
to incite the already hostile elements
against the Soviet Union.
The revolutionary phrase of the
Trotskyists is no longer capable of
concealing the counter-revolutionary
nature of the Trotskyist appeal and
of the Trotskyist calumnies. Lenin,
on the occasion of the Kronstadt in
surrection, warned the Tenth Party
Congress that even white guard
lists endeavor and know how to pose
as Communists and to appear more
Left" than the Communists, solely
in order to weaken and overthrow
the proletarian revolution in Rus
STA" Lenin gave us an example
"how the Mensheviki made use of
the differences of opinion within the
Communist Party of the Soviet I'm
ion in order to support and to drive
forward the Kronstadt insurgents,
these social revolutionaries and
white guardists, and, in the event
of the instruction proving a fail
ure, to act as if they were adher-
ents of the Soviet Power with GER
tain improvements" The illegal or
ganization of the Trotskyists has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

against the Central Committee of
the Soviet Union had it's logic, and
this logic led the Trotskyists into
the anti-Soviet camp. Trotsky start
ed by recommending his followers,
in the year 1928, to attack the lead
ership of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union without adopting
hostile attitude to the Soviet
Union. But owing to tie logic of
the struggle TrotslSy, in attacking
the leadership of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, the lead
ing forces of the rroletarian dicta-
torship, inevitably also directed his
attacks against the Soviet Union,
against the Soviet Power in gen.
eral. The Trotskyists wished by all
means to discredit the leading fnrty
OF the country and the organs of
the Soviet Power in the eyes of the
workers. In his letter of instruc-
tions of October 81, 1928, Trotsky
wrote calumnious anti-Soviet decla-
rations to the Trotskyist groups
abroad, alleging that the system
prevailing in the Soviet Union is an
inverted Kerensky regime; he
called for the organization of
strikes, for the thwarting of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

attitude towards the active Illegal
Trotskyist organization revealed by
individual Party members is abso-
lutely impermissible. All Party
members must take this to heart. 1t
is necessary to makeeit clear to the
whole country, to the broad strata
of the workers and peasants that
the Trotskyist, illegal organization
is an anti-Soviet organization, an
organization hostile to the proleta-
rian dictatorship.
Those Trotskyists who are main
tanning a halfway position should
likewise consider this new situation
which has arisen as a result of the
latest actions of the Trotskyist lead
ers, and the activity of the illegal
Trotskyist organizations. They must
choose, either to go with the Trot-
skyist illegal organizations against
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and against the proletarian
dictatorship in the Soviet Union, or
to break completely with the anti
Soviet, illegal Trotsky organization
and to refrain from giving it any
support whatever.
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skyists completed their transforma-
ton from an illegal anti-Party
group into an Illegal anti-Soviet or
ganization. This is what constitutes
the new factor, which in the year
1928 caused the organs of the Sow
let Power to adopt repressive meas
ures against the functionaries of
this illegal organization. The organs
of the proletarian dictatorship can
not permit the existence of an anti
Soviet, illegal organization in the
land of the proletarian dictatorship,
which organization, even if it is
numerically small, nevertheless pos
sesses its own printing works, has
its own committee and endeavors to
organize strikes against the Soviet
Power and to prepare its supporters
for a civil war against the organs
of the proletarian dictatorship. For
that is how far the Trotskyists have
come, who at one time were frac-
ton in the Party and are now an
illegal, anti-Soviet organization. Of
course all anti-Soviet elements and
Menshevists in the country now SYM
pathize with and rally round the
Trotskyists.
The fight of the Trotskyists
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completely proved that it is mask
ed organization which is gathering
around it all the elements hostile to
the proletarian dictatorship. The
Trotskyist organization is now in
fact playing the same role which the
Party of the Menshevk played in
the Soviet Union in their fight
against the Soviet regime.
The undermining work of the Trot-
skyist organization calls for a ruth
less fight on the part of the organs
of the Soviet Power against these
anti-Soviet organizations. This is
the reason for the measures lar
rests and banishments) recently
adopted by the G. P. U. for the pur-
pose of liquidating this anti-Soviet
organization.
1t seems that far from all mem
bers of the Party clearly realize that
there already exists an unbridgea-
BILE chasm between the former Trot-
skyist Opposition within the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union
and the present anti-Soviet, Trot-
skyist illegal organization outside
of the Communist Party of the So
Wet Union. Therefore that liberal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

The position Of the Majority on
the question of rehabilitation was
proven to be untenable. So much so,
that the Majority felt compelled to
retreat somewhat admitting dissat-
isfaction among the workers in the
"sick" industries), but without alter
ing it's position fundamentally.
The Minority has proven that we
are now witnessing the beginning of
a process Of general rehabilitation
of the broad masses Of the working
class and the toflers in general. We
maintain that the analysis of the
vi World Congress (Which rests at
the basis of its tactical line) that
there is general rehabilitation of
the broad masses of the proletariat
and the toilers in general, applies
also in the United States. We are
opposed to the theory of "excep-
tionalism" of the Majority of the
Central Committee.
1t must also be pointed out, with
more emphasis than before, that this
general rehabilitation in the United
States is now In its initial stages,
and is uneven in its development be-
cause of the uneven development of
capitalism.
Failure to understand that the
rehabilitation process involves the
broad masses of the toilers and the
entire labor movement in the U. S.
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stein, 81; S. Almozoff, 81;
Novick, 81; Abrams, 81;
Marmor, 81; Yukelson, 81;
Manevitch, 81; Mandle-
baum, 81; Weiner, 81; POM
erantz, ST.; Steinberg, 81;
Minkin, 81; Lifshitz, 81;
Yuditch, 81; Nadir, 81; Oh
gin, 81; Rosenfeld, 81;
Saltzman, 81; Bergelson, 81;
Chopper, 81 .............2 1880
Collected by George Constan-
tine, Pottsville, Pa: Geo.
Constantine, IS; J. Nagabon,
So; Ben Ochner, 81; Nato
Cenor, 81; Mrs. E. Adorizi,
Brockton, Pa, 81; Benito
Suterrero, $3.50; Henry
Haspe, Santiago Onguraro,
soc; E. Soto, Coldale, Pa,
John Forcello, Soc; H. Rit-
eel, 25c; Peter Gratis, SOC,
Enrique Fernando, Soc;
Emilio Suterero, 81, Fam
aqua, Pa. ............ 1875
Collected by Frank Tupikaitis,
Chicago, ILL.,: Mr.. j. Sarku-
mas, $40; F. J. Tupikaitis,
IS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1900
Women Auxiliary and Young
Workers League, Iron Riv-
er, Wis. $500. 1910
z. c. Mershoe, San Francis
so, Cal. 200
M. V. Rebich, Toledo, Ohio. 200
c. Gerlach, Kenosha, Wis. -. 200
George A. Halamback, Detroit,
Mich. 200
|. Friedman, City .......... 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Lessons OF the Party Discussion
BY ALEX RITTEIMAN.

sion, and envisages a practically
smooth and unobstructed conquest of
Latin American by U. S. imperial
ism.
Some of the expressions of the
Minority in the past on this ques-
ton have given rise to justified mis-
apprehensions. For instance:
"the present depression must in
evitably become the forerunner of
a deep-going crisis. fright
Dangers, etc.
The expression deep going crisis"
lends itself easily to the interpre-
tation of "final" crisis, "basic" crisis,
which, of course, is erroneous. Such
misapprehensions have arisen, de-
spite the fact that the complete SEN
tence clearly states that American
imperialism may succeed (as it did)
in postponing the severe crisis. We
quote:
"the present depression END of
1927-Beginning 1929 must in
evitably become the forerunner of
a deep-going crisis, even though
American capitalism may succeed
in postponing its coming with the
help of the reserve powers which
it still enjoys" (Our emphasis.)
However, the whole stress of the
argument is SO much the other way,
that the formulation becomes made
quate. 1t suffers from the fact that
it does not take sufficiently into ac-
count the factors in the immediate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
BY ALEX BITTELMAN.

trends which retard the breaking
out of the economic crisis.
The Minority has proven that:
1.-The present economic situation
cannot be fully understood, and a
correct perspective from the imme-
diate trends cannot be formulated,
as the Majority is trying to do, with
cut properly correlating the upward
swing in production of steel, auto
mobiles, agricultural implements,
etc., with the crisis in coal, textile,
agriculture, shipping, credit infla-
ton, ETC., and without properly cor
relating these immediate trends
upward and downward) with the
basic trends in American and world
capitalism.
2.-On the basis of such correla-
ton uneven development internally
and sharpening rivalries externally,
we analyze the present trends not as
beginning of a new cycle of pros
perity but as the conclusion of the
previous cycle and the maturing of
the next cyclical economic crisis
whose outbreak was only temper
a1ily delayed
Furthermore, "the very factors
which have contributed to postpone
the sharp outbreak of an economic
crisis will considerably worsen the
consequences of the crisis when it
comes" (From Minority Thesis to
Gee Plenum.)
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is leading inevitably to Right OPP
portunist tactical orientation. In the
first instance, it leads to failure
to place our struggle against reform
ism CHIEFLY, the A. F. of L. in the
CENTER of our task to win the
masses for the class struggle.
We. have already dealt with the
failure of Comrcde Lovestone to see
in the A. F. L. power-main power
of reformism. Comrade Pepper
has recently accentuated his old err
ror april, 1929 by further mini
mixing the possibilities for the build
ing up of new industrial unions, and
a new trade union center, which are
developing in the struggle against
the capitalists and against the So
cial-imperialists of the A. F. L.
Another error, which the Party
may easily slip into, is to assume
that the A. F. L. is already going
out of business because of its evil
dent Transformation into an instru-
ment of imperialism, militarism and
naturalization. The A. F. L. is not
going out of business. 1t is going
ever deeper and openly into the
business Of serving as a social-re-
formist and social-imperialist agency
of capital to break the developing
rehabilitation of the masses and to
drive them to war. AS the struggle
becomes sharper, the capitalists are
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EMERGENCY FUND

Continued from Page On
rum, Soc; Nat Weiner, Soc;
Max Zwickler, Soc; Meyer
Angelo. soc; Yetta Gold,
Soc; Fannie Kaplan, Soc;
P. Temkin, Soc; NJ. Mirium,
Soc; I. Sherman, soc; j.
Rappaport, SOC; N. kre-
mer, soc; A. Stugenko, Soc;
/. Kabakoff, soc; M. Bord-
man, Soc; Sam David, 25c.
collected by Working Wom-
ems Council of New Haven
F. Zientz, 81: R. Temkin,
81; l.. Ziskin,. $1.25; r. Har-
rison, 81; T.. Jacobson, 81;
j. jacobson, soc; E. Vein
sell, 81; S. Sheitelman, 81;
2. Fish, 81; A. Schwartz,
81; j. Collenburg, $1.25; S.
Simons, 81; A. Ginsberg,
81; L. Ittenberg, $1.25; G.
Duell, 81; r. Weissman, 81;
S. Spector, $1.25; G. Brown,
Soc; Bernstein, Soc; G. Med
vedow, Boo; Abelson, $50;
Libenson, Doc; l.. Weisser,
25c; Bill Taylor, Csc. -.
collected by Comrade G.
Kostis at an affair of the
Greek Workers Educational
League, Chicago-G. Kos
It's, $3.50; P. Markou, 81;
7. Assiouras, 81; Nicolo-
poulos, 81; Gagas, 81; G.
Paul, 81; Gertrude Brown,
$3.50; Karspetoff, 81; Gil
annoulis, IS; Pappae Co.
nomou, 81; Tropanoff, 81;
Ahtypes, ST.; Thomas, 81;
Kotinas, 81; Ahtypes, 81;
saldaris, So; N. Sideris, 81;
Anonymous, 81; Albanis,
81; S. Kouris, 81; c. Ahty-
pts. 81: Bitsiotis, 81;
"Olympos Cafe" So; An
onymous, 81; A. George,
81; S. Ponlos, 81; M. Wag-
ner, 81; M. Adamson. 81;
s. Stroutzos, 81; T. Pomo-
mis-, So; Misses, 81; S. Bas-
sis, 81; X. MEMS, ST.; An
onymous, 81; G. Pashas,
81; Louizos, 81; Anony-
nous, 81 .......-........
Collected by the Workers
Party Of Hartford, Conn.
E. Gadd, So; A. Epstein,
SO; H. Wolfson, $3.50; E.
Gaberman, So: J. Hurvitz,
50; P. Finesiloer, 50; M.
Plotkin, 81; l.. Fishman,
So; T. Sander, So; p. Sta
gaitis, So; E. Benovitz, So;
A. Tischofer, $3.50; D. AL
pert. 81; s. Apation, 81;
Y. Becker. 81; E. Spomen,
81; R. Skrozna. 81; A.
Skroza. 81; A. Smith, 81;
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(Leading Editorial of the "Pravda"
on January "a. 1929

On january "a, 1881
The necessity of clearly discussing
the question of the Trotskyist il
legal organizations is dictated by
the recent activity of the Trotsky-
lists, which compels the Party and
the Soviet Power to adopt an atti-
tude to the Trotskyists differing in
principle from that maintained be-
fore the Fifteenth Party Congress.
The open appearance of the Trot-
skyists on the streets on 7th of No
vember 1927 was that decisive step
which demonstrated that the Trot-
skyist organization had broken not
only with the Party but also with
the Soviet regime. This action of
the Trotskyists was preceded by a
whole number of acts hostile to the
Party and the Soviets: the seizure
by force of hall in the Moscow
Technical High School for the pur-
pose of Trotskyist meeting, or
ganization of an illegal printing
works, etc.
Nevertheless up to the Fifteenth
Party Congress the Party still
adopted towards the Trotskyist or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
AGAINST EACEPTIONALISM, MONROE DOCTRINES
AND RESERVATIONS. .a

We have proven that the Majority
persists in its Right opportunist
crientation and that it actually
claims that an exception must be
made for the United States in the
matter of Comintern analysis and
line.
To cover up it's own theories of
exceptionalism and Monroe Doctrine,
the Majority has attempted to con-
Wet the Minority of having reserva-
tons to the CT line. Undoubtedly,
many of the followers of the Ma
jority were influenced by that, al
though this charge has no basis in
fact. The Minority has stated on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
ARTY PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION SECTION

progressively making more use of
the A. F. L. for the imperialist and
anti-working class offensive.
From this point of view, such ex-
pressions as "the crisis" of the A.
F. L., the decline" of the A. F. L.,
ETC., are open to criticism.
The social-reformist and social-im-
perialist apparatus of the A. F. /.
is neither in crisis nor in decline.
1t is adjusting itself continually to
function more effectively as an agent
of imperialism and militarism among
the working masses. The question
of whether the A. F.. L. will grow or
decline in membership and influence,
and how fast the new unions will
grow will be decided in the very
heat of the struggle, in the head on
collision, between Communism and
reformism, between Profintern and
Amsterdam, in the coming period
in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

several occasions that it is opposed
to reservations 1latly and unequivo-
cally. We have stated that the dec
laration of the Minority in the
Party delegation to the VI World
Congress was never meant as reser-
vations. Moreover, this declaration
has liquidated itself, is considered
by the minority as having been liqui-
dated and no longer in force.
We desire the concentration and
sincere application of the analysis
and tactical orientation of the VI
World Congress to the United
States.
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Stephen Prikopa, Chicago -. 100
V. |. Jerome, New York City 100
John Sagaroka, Passaic, N. j. so
J. B. Georgeson, Vinalajben,
Maine ............... so
On account of lack of space many
names have been omitted. These
will be printed in future issues Of
the Daily Worker.
The modern IabOrer, ON the con-
trary. instead of rising with the
progress of industry. sinks deeper
and deeper below the conditions
of existence of his own c1ass--karl
Marx Communist ManifestO)
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coordinate the growing internal and
external contradictions of imperial
ism, and consequently under-estim-
ates the war danger.
The substantially correct position
of the Minority on this question is
given in the above quotation from
it's document fright Danger, etc.)
which states that 1.-TWO basic fac
tors determine the condition of
American capitalism in the present
period:
1.-The maturing inner contradic-
tions.
2.-The fact that these inner con-
tradictions are maturing in the sur
roundings of declining world CAPT
talism and the socialist growth of the
U.S.S.R.
This gives the starting point for
the analysis (the inner contradic-
tions) and the relationships Of these
inner contradictions to the general
framework of world capitalism and
the world situation (the outer con-
tradictions).
AND BASIC ECONOMIC TRENDS.
the forces which are creating diff
culties for growth, which are making
for serious disturbances and crises.
The most recent evidence Of this
is to be found in the Majority thesis
which practically "abolishes" the
agrarian crisis, discovers the South
and it's lndustrialization as almost
limitless source Of unbroken expan-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

M. Scion, 81; H. Bobroff,
81; B. Shub, 81; V. Zema-
kozin, 81; M. Kershnetz,
81; A. Sacks, 81; H. KAN
leskas, 81; S. Cohen, 81;
N. Levitsky, 81; A. Leiber-
man, 81; B. Rosenberg, 81. AZ
Collected by White Nelson,
Powhattan Point, Ohio: Joe
Vorga, 81; H. Hartonan,
SOC; Sartizalis, Csc; T.
Dziovinly, 25c; j. E. Dorick,
Csc; J. Bier, Csc; M. Ia
tezalo, 25c; Guknio, Csc; D.
Mavrinich, Csc; T. Bier,
25c; A. Danmley, 25c; j.
Himra, 25c; J. Galevich,
25c; collected at supper,
Soo ............. "a
Collected by Rose Cohen,
Cleveland, Ohio: Collected
by f. Moshogianes: C.
Withers, soc; X. Stasenes,
81; Collected by J. Mack:
A. Gailinnas, 81; A. P. Bel
son, 81; A. Samnolis, 81; A.
Bekienis, 81; J. Mack, 81;
A. Jakoitis, SOC; A. Kupstas,
25c; E. Moshogianes, 81;
Marcelja, 81; Seminuk, 81;
M. Rund, 81; Green, 81; J.
Bartoff, 81; M. Machlin, So;
F. Uzek, 81; Section l
Workers (Communist) Par
ty, SIS -. :. 81
Collected by Kusti Niemi,
Glassport, Pa: P. Halmer,
So; N. Smolsky, 81; Kusti
Niemi, 81; A. Lattio, 25c;
Y. Kanppitas, 25c; M. Pol
anchuk, 81; L. Ranta, Soc;
Oscar Janka, 81; F. Vita,
So; Mrs. Simmer, 81; P.
Simmer, 81; J. Kortes, 81;
L. Soderback, 81; A. F.
Santapakka, 81; S. Kivista,
81; J. Jarvis, 81; F. Max
inen, SOC; E. Lacko, SOC; G.
Anderson, 81; A. Tahuitie,
81; f. Hiina, SOC; X, 81;
John Aho, ST.; N. NJ, So; w.
Malin, SOC; Maria s., SOC; j.
Sassitta, SOC; G. Kannus,
soc; A. Jahde, Soc; H.
Tukianen, SOC; A. Lakmi,
Soc; S. Wertegord, SOC; X.
George, So; E. Nick, 81; V.
Peren, Soc; P. Hif, 25c; F.
John, 25c; j. Kretecos, Csc;
G. Koukouthakis, SOC; N.
Koukouthakis, Soc; G. Far
makis, Csc; S. Mandras, 81;
/. Cepis, 50c >. 81
Unit l, Section 5, Boston,
Mass. -. -. 20
SIS BIB, City :. 26
Freiheit Staff, City; r. Sultan,
81; Buchwald. 81; M. Ep-
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Another thing that we must re.
member is, that merely to under
stand the role of reformism, basic
as such an understanding is, is not
sufficient. We must also learn how
to conduct in PRACTICE the strug-
gle against reformism. In this re-
spect, the writer of this article must
admit his share of responsibility in
an error of the Central Committee
(CEC statement on Hoover's Trip
to South America). The serious en-
ror consisted in this: that the state
ment does not show the social-IM-
PERIALIST and militarist role of
the A. T. L. bureaucracy and does
not contain single slogan of direct
attack upon the reformists. In adj
dition to correct line, we must also
acquire the ability to wage an eff
fective every day struggle against
social-imperialism and social-reform-
ism in all its varied ramifications
and manifestations. ..s..e.-r