The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-22

Thomas Immediately declared that
the duel had gone far enough and
asked for an armistice. This re-
quest was granted by Hillquit.
More about this later.
Communists Doing Better.
With the appointment of Alfred
Wagenknecht as general manager
of the Daily Worker, the Commun-
ist Party seems to have taken a
turn for the better. Since Moritz
Loeb resigned as manager of the
Communist organ, the Daily Work
er has been cursed with an cpl
demic of incompetent managers
who secured their positions and
held them because of loyalty to
the Lovestone right wing rene
William q. Foster. leader of the
gades, as they are now called by
official Communists. Wagenknecht
is man of great organizing abili-
ty, hard worker and one of the
keenest minds in the party. He
has never joined any political fac
ton but always kept on work
ing, hoping that his squabbling
comrades would some day return
to sanity. 1t is because of his
addiction to hard labor perhaps
that he enjoys the unique distinc-
ton of being the only member,
candidate or alternate of the Cen
trail Executive Committee, past or
present, who has never been a
delegate to Moscow. 1t would be
just like "Wag" to have another
campaign on his hands when the
next delegation is going to Rus
STA.
There are three regularly con-
stituted Communist groups in the
United States now, each one sup
porting Russian Bolshevik chief,
and each one claiming that the
other two groups are "renegades."
The group recognized by the Com
Internatoinal-the Foster
group-supports Stain. The Can
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. group sup
ports Trotsky who is in exile. The
Lovestone Gitlow Wolfe group
supports Buchkarin.
TnOtsky Expected Back
The Cannonites were expelled
from the party by combination
between Foster and Lovestone.
The particular heresy they were
guilty of was labelled "Trotsky-
ISM" Trotsky is expected to be
back soon in the Russian Commu-
mist Party since Stain has adopt
ed practically all of his policies
and it must be admitted, did a
splendid job in executing them.
Stain is not much given to blow
ing off his bazoo. 1t is now ad-
mitted by many American Trot-
skyites that they made a mistake
in seeing Stain as the agent of
counter-revolution. The amazing
progress made by the Soviet Union
during this year in socializing ag-
Stains war on the
greedy, rich peasants, the success
IF the Observation-Disclosures
plan and the fight against super
stition, is the best proof that Sta
in is true to the feminist line.
The American Trotskeyites are
still hammering away at Stain but
t would not surprise anybody to
zee Trotsky take advantage of a |
favorable opportunity to declare
hat Stain has corrected his err
,ors," bid good bye to Renal
Pasha and return to the Kremlin:
Decided to Can L0vestone4
Shortly after Cannon and his
followers were expelled, Stain
decided to pitch Lovestone put on
MS ear. Lovestone was a sup
porter of Nikolai Buhkarin, a
brilliant theorist and next to
Crotsky the most popular Bolshe-
nix leader in Russia. But the
Russian Communist Party is hard
'oiled and when Buhkarin got too |
'essimistic and thot the Kulak
:ould not be compelled to cough |
Ip his grain by force; that he
hould be tickled in the whiskers
o make him feel good, the Rus
ian workers sat on him. He is
'retty flat now, politically.
Lovstone must be given credit
or standing by his fallen leader
tut it can be safely assumed that
he reason he did so was because
Iovestone harbors notions of cap
talist strength and puissancy SIM
lar to those of Buhkarin. Viii
lam q. Foster, leader of the great
iteel strike of 1919 and the most
prolific writer on economic and
questions in the Com
nunist Party, with the possible
exception of Bill Dunno, was the
nan picked to pile Lovestone on
he sidewalk. Foster, tho a very
lindly person, performed the dis
'ipline. 1t is reported that the
task as matter of dis
o-called "hatchet-men" in the
FOSTER group, namely Bill Dunno,
Iack tombstone and Phil Aronberg
lad to threaten Foster with de- /
ertion unless he ruthlessly expel-
ed Lovestone and his entire fof- |