The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-26


eminent capitalist daily, the New York Herald
Tribune, is himself publisher of a week.
ly sheet, the carrier of his counter-revoution-
airy propaganda. To prove beyond any pos
siblity of doubt on which side of the barri-
cades he is fighting, Cannon, in his mill
fancy adds his voice to the bowls of all the
other capitalist wolves.
The French bourgeoisie yelps: What did
Stain do with General Koutiepoff?
The pope yaps: What is Stain doing with
Jesus Christ.
And James P Cannon croaks: What has
Stain done with Bumkin?
Just at this moment the whole capitalist pack
of wolves bowls about new "reign of terror"
of the Soviet Union. James P. Cannon, hear
ing his capitalist masters voice, adds his bark
to that of the pack. After frothing at the
mouth about the killing of Blumkin, Mr.. Can
non laments with a most heart-rendering VII
bration in his voice about the Communists who
don't dare to take public responsibility for
this "act of Stain
We are ready to answer although we do not
know whether Blumkin was shot. But we do
know that the capitalist class and the capitalist
order lose their base in Russia because of the
rapid progress of collective Agriculture we do
know that socialism is being built in the Soviet
Unon we do know that the classes are going
to be lqudated in the Soviet Union; we do
know that the revolution is marching toward
it's final victory; and knowing this, when we
hear ham on the stage of capitalist counter
revolutionary propaganda needing his capital
ist prompter, croak about the shooting of Blum
kin, we base our judgment on this knowledge.
Was Blumkin shot? We are sure he was if
he deserved it.
We know the revolution. Let us try to get
a knowledge of Blumkin. The employee of the
"New York Herald Tribune" Mr.. Cannon
of Washington Heights, cannonizes Bumkin
and calls him ian irreproachable revolutionist."
Let us see if we cannot pierce this armor of
irreproachability.
Bumkin, at the time of the November revo-
ution, member of the social revolution
aries. This was the party of the peasantry
Mr.. Victor Chernoff was land is) its leader.
cleft wing of this Party saw in the revo-
luton a chance to enhance the land holdings
for its peasant constituents bv the division of
the big estates. Consequently for few months
they supported the revolution. However, the
revolution rapidly unified all of its enemies
1t was threatened from all sides. It's rule
BECAME confined to Moscow Petrograd and
few gubernas. But the bolsheviks fought
with SUPREME courage, with their backs against
the wall. At this moment not only the bayo-
nets of counter revolution threatened the So
Wet rule but also an extreme famine in the
cities. And this moment the wcllto-do meas
antry selected as the favorable opportunity to
extract from the famine-tortured proletarist
of the cities whatever they could for their
foods. The bolsheviks answered this counter
revolutionary endeavor with the formation Of
the committees of the poor peasants" for the
collection of grain from the rich. The left
social revolutionaries considered this extenton
of the class struggle to the village as crime.
They raved about the tactic of setting the poor
peasant against the rich They preferred a
counter-revclutonary well-to-do peasantry
fighting against the proletarian revolution to
the establishment Of revolutionary front of
the proetariat and the poor peasants against
the rich peasants. Therefore the social revo-
lutionaries decided to stop their support Of the
Soviets More than that. The social reyolu-
tionaries prepared armed insurrection against
the bolshevik regime led by Lenin. This in