The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
To the Members of the Cooperative Central Exchange
To the Members of the Tyomes Publishing Association:

Comrades:
Petty bourgeois proaran
selves felt and definitely in the workers cooperative
Some of the leaders of this although pretending be
evOutons make themselves the spokesman and carriers of these in
t F~cba b l c HaI p ELn Ron ' fsuntin
the interests of the thousands of proearan
cooperatves only they
effective aids the workers their struggle against capitalist
mon tbs snic sbonIener o,aIiaon of the clerks or managers
coopaves depends which cooperative
institution inspire the of oers and exploited
daily struggles against capitalists
capitalism.
the warbasss
and Aanne such dangerous enemies the workers cooperative
ment
enmiy coperatves
in the innocent looking formula mo politics in the cooperav But
politics. merely politics collide with bou
geOs politics. 1t prohibition against challenge to bou
political theology and leadership in the cooperatves
Anyone cry politics" coopera
tive agent of the urgese matter with what cloak he
attempt to himself.
George raising this
Wbassm the workers cooperative movement thereby at
lacking the life of this The of workers and
defeat them
George Haonen Eske
Party held leading positions They
ing placed
the workers and their interests They element
the aspirations of the exploited Their at
tude George Haonen associated in the Finnish
with all social democratic elements that had made their
appearance time another in the Communist Party He
with with Ake with Sukanen When American Communist
Party determined resistance of all social demo-
These elements strong within the then Fin
nsh Federation Almost the whole leadership was
This social democratic element tried to cover up its political
1t tried hang to the organizations with their club houses
newspapers publishing companies printing plants
tives, 1t hoped for better times.
The cleansing of the Finnish Section the Communist Party like
s @ mas % was s of was
openly secretly by all of the remaining reforsts the
spite these elements Our Finnish Section rid itself Of
outstanding social reform elements Aann Lanen Ask
Sann and Others These traitors to the working class
found that desertion of the of the poar is not
revolutionary Finnish workers the United States
their fight the ground of apparently nonpta issues But all
of the influence of the Party and
leadership who loyal Party members fought
policies of the Party to be attacked osensy
factonalsm.
This working within the Party
the Party The prevailing
factonam led the of the leadership of the Party
which dictated by factiona expency rather than by political
themselves Only and then did these differences
openly But when they appeared they showed the full depth
illuminated like flash of lightning the anti
proetaran Ekel
Rom the of 1928 During the stay OF the
Coolidge president of the United States, the Summer
organized public reception for Coolidge Eske Ronn member of
incidentally of the Cooperative Central Elk
change Chamber of Commerce the
cepon committee He accepted For this he expelled from the
Party social democratic elements st within the Party in Su
perior ready forgive
Their lack of revolutionary feeling could not what any vo
unary umberack will understand without expana
Any worker would reject with proposal to
hono ebreaker Coolidge other tool of capitalism by rv
ing reception revolutionary worker make
mistake of accepting service reception committee for Cool
guarded nothing principle such
might consideration to the concu
otherwise unwise act.
and expulsion did not make him out
among leading spirits of the Finnish Section of Party in
Superior On the contrary he became martyr He was pictured
by the Central Committee representatives of
Committee who participated Communist Fraction meet
usuaey considered foreign by these
while found perfectly order invite Ekel
Ronn Party committee member
to Coolidge to the same meeting.
The theological leader for this tolerance toward Rom and ntoler
Haonen, close cowoker and
protagonist Aske Bowman and Sukanen He
aged the Party Although he publicly
ASSOCIATED careful enough
himself with them after their unmaskng There
he associated freely with them Ar
social democratic Ravaau and speeches by Sui
indications that George Haonen connections
the anti Party elements supplying them with information and
crety supporting them.
the Cooperative Central
Exchange organization built and maintained by revolutionary
These the cooperative to be nsu
and school Of class struggle They want to be aid to the
their battles George Halonen utilised his position
educational director couneract this will Of the rank and file of
Instead the fctnares revuonsts
clerks glarng illustration of Honens
conception revolutionary his severahours
club picnic nshpemng before five to thousand
few minutes speak perunctor about the