The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-12
REVOLUTIONARY
ENECADES AID
ANNON'S Group
Iodern Quarterly and
Lettish Splitter with
Eastman, Cannon
; Part of World Plot

[illionaire Pinchot Is
militant" Reader
The Daily Worker is herewith
blishing additional material deal
2 with the Cannon-Trotsky cam
ign to destroy the Workers (Com.
lnist) Party and the Communist
ternational.
For some time the Trotskyists
We been working with the worst
ti-Party elements. The documents
blished reveal this to be an indis-
table fact.
Note the fact that the Rand Book
)re of the Rand School of Social
ience, socialist party institu-
n, is the best distributing agency
r the Militant"
A letter from Mr.. Collier, business
lnager of the Modern Quarterly, is
oecially enlightening in the out ant
t hostility it displays towards the
Wet Union. Golfers letter reads
full:
Modern Quarterly,
Magazine of the Newer Spirit,
P. o. Box 322, Baltimore, Md.
Editors:
V. +. Calverton,
Samuel Schmalhausen,
Walter Lane.
Managing Editor:
Eileen Hood.
Business Manager:
Armistead Collier.
Dec. IA, 1928.
ames P. Cannon, editor.
HE MILITANT,
20. Box 120, Mad. So. Sta,
'ew York.
Personal
ear Cannon:
Please send me your paper (Dol-
r bill enclosed)-beginning with
ie first issue-and let me know
there is anybody down this way
Ou want to reach with it. / had
ome difficulty in getting hold of
ne. Calverton finally sent me,
'om New York, copy of the Sec
nd number.
The Party-ites are reduced to
le necessity of suppressing the
rguments and facts they cannot
zee. 1t is a cowardly method of
ghting-with which the fearless
,volutionist can have no pa
ence.
| am not now a member Of the !
arty-and, | suppose, cannot
d you in your fight within its
INKS. The Social Revolution, as
see it in the light of the theories
Marx and the earlier prophets,
too big to depend for success
support--upon the mean little
ickeries of petit-bourgeois petty
olitics; and as an individual /
i've been forced to stand aside
I'd watch for an opportunity to
in in preparation for the COM
g of the Proletarian World Rev.
ution of the future. In Russia,
construction and reform seem to
ave absorbed and side-tracked
le Revolution.
like your stand. The tone of
our writing rings true. There
no whine in it-and no tiresOme
oIfeish hypocrisy and whang-
)odle. Paid propaganda-even in
revolutionary cause-lOses its
tality and tends towards corrup-
on.
Incidentally. / am glad you
ok whack at CalvertOn's Stall
ism. | became interested in his
Modern Quarterly" with a view
bringing it over to a re-, olu-
onary working class point of
ew. 1t is entirely too high
-ow intellectual-but it has the
usual merit of opening its col
ms (for what they are wnrth)
both sides OF a controversy in
nflicts involving differences of
,inion in revolutionary interpre-
ton. l am not responsible for
policy of cultured liberalism;
1t l would be glad If, at any
me in the future. You can util-
this medium to gain needed
lblicity for forcibly suppressed
volutionary material.
your sincerely and fratcrnally.
ARMlSTEAD COLLIER.
he Daily Worker calls attention
the anti-working class swamp
t James 7. Cannon has at last
nd to be his natural element, as
ibited by the letter from the
ty-bourgeois business manager
the anti-Communist magazine,
le Modern Quarterly" Note that
mons friend, Collier. in address,
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