The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

date action in fav0r of the work
ing class in Spain. This imme-
date action of the two Interna-
tionsIs at the present time, out
side Of national actions, would be
an event of prodigiOus moral
breadth coming after the French
experience; it would cause an
enormous satisfaction to permeate
throughout the working class; at
stroke, all discussions Of details
would disappear; it would enOr-
mOusly facilitate subsequent
IMPROVEMENTS, rapprcchements
which are very necessary in view
of these grave events. Because
tomorrow perhaps even more seri-
Gus incidents will occur, pressing
upon both of us in spite Of any
united action which we may form
then.
This is the sense in which we re-
greet keenly that you find it impos-
sible to do anything before Novem-
Der 10. We insist, in any case, that
you assure us Of your efforts to
| hasten the convocation of your ex-
ecutive; moreover, in all countries
actions must be launched in each
of the local sections, and an at
tempt made to organize a united
front similar to the one we have
realized in France.
Vsldervelde: I can only repeat
what we have already said; if we
did that, we would be trespassing
the single mandate given us.
However, in connection with what
Cachin Just stated, there was some
thing which struck me and which
! personally I would be disposed to
retain. When we drew up this dec
laration, just before coming here,
/ we were predisposed to inform you
frankly what the situation was, but
in this declaration there were GER
tain things that were a little sharp,
and that, for my part, 7 was strong
ly prejudiced towards thrashing out
if the declarat ton we're going to be
published. If you care to review
the text again, shall indicate pas
sages which could be suppressed.
Firstly, the fourth paragraph
which reads; "Thus it happened
that in several countries the first
/ impression had been that this was
not question of anything else but
! another so-called vancouver of the
united front"
make no difficulty about recog-
nizing that this is little hard,
which we could without any incon-
venience suppress. (Assent0.
Also, we could suppress further
on these two paragraphs: where the
discussion is wrapped around such
countries as England. the Neither
lands and the Scandinavian coun-
tries.
"In these countries the numerical
connections between their Socialist
and Communist parties have been
such as to be considered negligible
tendency; even then those who
spoke in the name of these parties
managed things on their own ini-
tiative. and worked on their projects
of forming pacts on united action
rs if they represented very i'm
portant fraction of the proletariat.
Under these conditions. our par
ties in these countries did not re-
ceive in any pleasant spirit any
propositions which were inspired by
these methods"
7 believe that with the view of
publication, we could also suppress
these two paragraphs. assent.
Furthermore, there are two little
corrections of editing, always in view
of publication
In the following third paragraph
we could replace "brusaue solu-
TONS by "improvised solutions, /"
and say:
AFTER what has passed since the
last II years, any united action in
an international sense must. on any
hypothesis, be prepared by prelim-
mary discussions"
Finally, we could suppress a part
of the last paragraph, which con-
stitutes a repetition, and simply say:
ut is for this reason that in the
appeal which we communicated to
YOU we engaged our parties in agi-
tsting without any delay for the
support Of the Spanish workers.
ION your part you have taken a
parallel attitude" (Assent.)
In that way our declaration will
have lost its sharp character, and
I think we can correct it in this
way without in the least over
stepping the mandate confided to
us. (Assent)
Adler-These are matters of
style, and I agree with Vandervelde.
But the problem remains and I
confess openly, in our first discus
sion Of this whole affair I always
said: we are not sure at any given
moment: is this really change of
course at Moscow or is this only a
| maneuVer of a higher sort? We
really pose this question.