Page Four THE or Trotskyism ALBIA, IOWA, IS (Continued last Issue) dictatorship? petty- FORCED TO from the Is it not a KNEEL bourgeois deviation? CLEAR TRACK FOR MARCH IS! Lenin criticised severely those com- 64-PAGE So long as the party is perfectly CONCERT AND DANCE PAMPHLET ON sound everything TO daily and weekly paper connected with she Workers Party and rades (including me) who had not ob- and goes well, Com- “KINO COAL” served that the revolution had already rade Trotsky quietly performs every BIG PARTY EVENT IN EVERYevery federation and branch of the party and the Young Workers LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM task which falls to him; but passed from one phase to another. as soon Miners Seek an Escape League will co-operate In one tremendous effort for the benefit of ths He progress the party encounters aivy obstacle, as feared most that would DETROIT ON FEB. 22 Communist press in Madison Square on Sunday, March be hindered by the party’s falling into NOW IN PREPARATION son as it has* to adjust its rudder, from Economic Ills 15. a track, the rut of Trotsky’s abstract theory, then Comrade Trotsky at once springs DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 12.-4>n In order to assure that this affair will have olear the NeW meeting and again he accuses it of wanting to This installment is part of a pam- forward in the role of savior and (Continued from page 1) Sunday, Feb. 22, the Workers Party York district executive committee at its on Feb. 9, unanimously spring over the ’ movement teacher of the party, but invariably resolution; phlet"Leninism orTrotzkylsm”now neither city water, gas, sewers nor of Detroit, will stage the big event adopted the following before this in hands. points out the wrong way, since he was our in preparation. It includes articles sidewalks, except before a few houses of the season, in the form of a con- "Whereas, the cooperation of every party unit is essential to make i There was no need for Lenin to has not absorbed the principles of Bol- by three outstanding figures in the where prosperity had smiled for over cert and dance, be held concert and change his equipment. The old Lenin- shevism. which will success of the Commune pageant, ball that is being Russian Communist Party: G. a mouth at some in the distant in the of the House ist theory, the old Leninist, Bolshe- Our Errors time auditorium of arranged under the auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Work- Zinoviev, I. Stalin and C. Kamen- past. Many of the j’homes” seem to the Masses, 2646 St. Aubln. vist conception of the character of the Comrade Trotsky has another trump ers League for the benefit of the Communist press, and that will take revolution, ev, to form a most timely and im- have been put on the install- Delegates Russian and of the rela- in his hand against . This from the party branch- place in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, March 15, therefore be it tions between and peas- portant contribution to a discussion ment plan, others show resourceful- es on arrangements committee trump consists of certain errors com- the "Resolved, by the district execuive committee of district 2: first, that antry, were seen by Lenin to have of world interest. The pamphlet mitted by some few Bolsheviki (above ness and ingenuity in making much report considerable enthusiasm for all branches and party institutions shall refrain from arranging any proved fully correct. And now we had will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 all by me and Zinoviev, then those out of little. this event in their units, and every- con- to advance further on the same lines. flicting affairs; seoond, that party members shall sell no other cents and will be ready at the con- of Rykov and Nogin) in October, 1917. From the outside the miners’ thing indicates that the Feb. 22 af- tickets But the greatest must be taken, care clusion of this serial publication. The errors of the Bolsheviki are natur- shacks, in the large majority of cases' fair will go than the subscription tickets for the March 15 affair during the first two in the advance, not over big. to fall into Trot- .. . ally invariably exploited by our look like the town of “Lost Hope.” The program weeks of Mprch; {bird, that competent comrades are called upon to volun- sky's mistaken footsteps. Twelve enemies. Trotsky includes vocal and Comrade did not Inside, however, the women folks con- teer for the work for visiting all branches as quickly as possible to enlist years before 1917 Lenin had prophe- ried out the instructions of the party resort to his trump so long as he hop- instrumental numbers of exception- trive to bring comfort and cleanliness strength sied that, after the revolutionary dem- strictly and accurately, leaning with ed to induce the party to deviate'to al merit, and the Russian dancers their full in this work.” dictatorship that seems unbelievable. ocratic of the proletariat the other members of the party on the path of Trotskyism by means of promise to score another triumph. The DAILY WORKER calls upon ail its readers to aid in carrying peasantry realized, totality common political exper- In Hiteman they have a pre-high and had been we the of the discussion of this or that practical The concert will last till 9 o'clock, out the purpose of this resolution so that the Madison Square should have to advance to the dicta- ience in the party and on the whole school as well as a grade school. Garden question. But after four attempts— after which the floor will be cleared celebration of March 15 a party may be tremendous demonstration of Com- torship of the proletariat, and must mass organization, and carrying Brest, trade unions, discussion on the There are six churches, at one time for dancing. Admission is 50 cents. create munist strength. conditions under which the but this or that task or command of economic plan, and the last discussion there were 13, and every fraternal peasantry co-operate with the prole- the party. At this time Comrade Trot- —had shown that he cannot persuade society in the land seems to have a —a tariat, without simply ignoring the were splendid, deeds and added the Bolsheviki Party to deviate from lodge there. There are so many peasantry as Trotsky proposes. Bol- many brilliant pages to his own his- Trachtenberg Is Next its path, after he had learned from knights and ladles, kings’ daughters, BRONX PARTY NOTES shevism does not need to borrow tory and that of the party. But since the party at the XIII party conference Harlem Forum Speaker | weapons from the arsenal of Trotsky- come forward worshipful masters, noble grands and BABY REDS Comrade Trotsky WILL has that we, the Leninists, do not require kleagles in that small village that no Postponed. ism. as individualist, believing that he and our theory to be corrected by Trotsky- NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Alexander Lecture At the time, there not in knight-errant of St. George could Due to the fact that Thursday, same were some the party is in the right the fun- ism, then he brought forward this ever Trachtenberg will be the speaker Sun- Feh, Bolsheviki who did not advance so damental questions of revolution, and last trump. hope to keep track of them. Nothing PLAY HOST TO 12, is Lincoln’s birthday, the lecturff from stage to stage required day evening, Feb. 15, at the next ses- rapidly that Leninism must be improved by not to short of six emblems. Including the of Dr. I. Stamler at the Bronx Eng. by the" tremendous He is of course the first do sion of the Sunday evening Harlem acceleration of the Trotskyism, we are obliged to see that exploit- masonic or columbus knights will lish branch, Workers Party, by this. These errors have been open forum conducted by the on Mus- revolution caused the enormous other aspect of Comrade Trotsky you Harlem ELDERS sollini ed often enough already by our ene- ever get anywhere in Hiteman SATURDAY and the State, scheduled for pressure of the war. But this does not to no section of the Workers Party, local which shows him be Bolshevik. mies, exploitation often means a date, in the least signify that Bolshevism but both errors and and that job. York, at the Harlem headquar- that at the Bronx headquarters, Four Attempts Made by Comrade were simply buried New wrong beneath the thun- Miners’ Union a Shadow Now. They Only Charge Two 1347 Boston Road, will not take plaoe. was on the track, that it lead Trotsky at Improving the Party proletarian ters 64 East 104th St. The subject bog to victory ders of the revolution. This lecture will be given at a later into a instead of or At the time neither the The terrible struggles that the mine is “American Imperialism.” that had to altered during the The party remembers four occasions errors them- Bits For the Honor date. it be upon Trotsky selves being workers have gone thru in the past to So far the forum has been a suc- this just which Comrade has nor their made use of revolution. And is what by quarters any up preserve cess, with highly interesting discus- Claaaea. Trotsky is trying prove. tried to instruct the party, and to hostile resulted in build and their union, This happy little Junior is appeal- to upon Trotskyist practical consequences. only camps sions on various important subjects The class in A. C. of Trotsky has never grasped the es- force it his own de- It is which in the was the social ing to you from the very heart of the B. , viations. first occasion was a few since then that these errors have been and with , Juliet will be continued on Tuesday sentials of the Leninist theory on the The and educational center of activity, Chicago Junior Section. She’s danc- nights, months after Comrade Trotsky en- raked up again maliciously by those Poyntz heretofore, Stamler, relations between the filling their lives with dignity, resolu- and William Weinstone as ing in anticipation of the good time aa. Dr. I. instruc- ’ tered the party. It was at the time who had deserted communism: Levi, speakers. tor; at 1347 Boston Road, 8 p. and the peasantry in the Russian revo- tion, fraternity and culture develop- she and all the other comrades are m. ' of Brest Litovsk. The party is ade- Frossard, Balabanova. Levi and Fros- The remaining program as announc- Classes in elementary English lution. Even after October he did not being by ment. Now the union has become a going to have on Saturday, Feb. 14, on t quately and accurately informed as to sard are now followed Trot- ed will be Sunday evening, Feb. 22, Mbnday nights, at 523 East 173rd grasp it. and he did not grasp it when Comrade Trotsky’s attitude at that sky. sort of necessary burden upon them, the evening when all Communists will St i Joseph Manley on a subject to be an- and in advanced English, Saturdays, our party successfully manoeuvred forr time. He underestimated the role Vacillations unallowable. Lenin empty when they would fill their lives pause in struggle and turn aside to were nounced; Sunday, March 1, Literature between 2 and 4 at 523 E. 173rd St. the realization of the dictatorship off played by the peasantry, and covered armed himself against them with pleasant association; dry when revel with and help the Communist with all and Art, and the Revolution, a Sympo- the proletariat without separationi this over by revolutionary phrase- the power and passion of a leader who they would drink from the fountain of children’s section. Lectures. sium—led by Simon Felshin, Louis Lo- from the peasantry. His own theory, , ology. This was theroad to the defeat sees that his co-workers are liable to music and mirth. Their union that All the Chicago comrades realize Lecture every Sunday at 8 p. m. at carry zowick and a third speaker. which in his opinion has proved en- . of the proletariat and the revolution. confusion into their own ranks was so much to them has now become the importance of the children's sec- 1347 Boston Road, Sunday, Feb. 15. by vacillation at tirely right, has prevented him from , If we recollect the evidence brought decisive moments. He a shadow. The church cannot fill the tion of the Communist movement. Joseph Manley will lecture on the against Trotsky exposed every vacillation relentlessly, grasping the Bolshevist position. Iff at this time Comrade void in their lives and so they join The Juniors aro the ones who are car- American labor movement. by Comrade Lenin, we see that Com- and in critical and decisive moments Branch Educational Trotsky’s theory had proved correct, not one but many fraternal societies rying the message of Communism to Affair. ’ rade Lenin brought no other evidence he did not shrink from the severest % signify that supposed e>| Directors in New York this would that the than the substantiation with which he words or propositions. And he was are to be somewhat the children of the working class, who Section affair Sat., Feb. 28, at 1347 power long elusive. give would since have ceased had rejected Comrade Trotsky’s gen- right, right to the end, without reser- These him dignity, so- Hold Meeting Monday are working hard day after day in the Boston Road; plenty of good eats and 1 ciability, to exist. This theory of “permanentt eral ’attitude during the course of the vation. fraternity, music and mirth. school rooms of Chicago counteract- good dancing; a good time is assured. revolution,” which does not trouble ! preceding decade. But when the moment for calm dis- The women become “king’s daugh- Monday, Feb. 16, at 8 p. m., at 208 ing the vicious capitalist propaganda Come en masse. about the peasantry or provide any’ Comrade Lenin reproached him with cussion arrived, the moment for the ters” or join some other order with a E. 12th St., New York, there will be of the public schools. Their work is solution for the question of the al- ■ two political sins: Lack-of comprehen- avoidance of the repetition of similar “high” sounding name, but they still a meeting of Branch Educational Di- a real and vital and important one. liance between the proletariat and the s sion for the relations between prole- errors in other Communist Parties, tend to the comforts of the “king” rectors. A special order of business They need your help, your active sup- Stamford, Conn., Notes then Lenin characterized peasantry, renders the labor govern- tariat and peasantry, and liability to these errors and the chief attraction at all gath- will be reports by Branch Education port. ■ very accurately. When at- ment in Russia absolutely dependentt be carried away by apparently left, Serrati erings, as in the times when the ai Directors. Comrades are requested STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 12. An tempted to cloak his withdrawal from un- Happy and £erious. upon the immediate proletarian revo- . apparently revolutionary phrases. ion was the social center; when John to be at this meeting. enthusiastic and spirited Lenin Mem- . typical communism by these errors of Zinov- They are busy now making plans lution in the West. According to the These two errors, of Comrade was simply John and not king kleagle. Rebecca Grecht, Sec’y, orial meeting was held here at the , Trotsky whilst outside of our party, iev and Kamenev, Comrade Lenin for your -entertainment, and theirs. theory the proletariat, after having wrote: "Before When struggle comes the union Workers’ School. Workmen’s Circle Center. ’ were repeated by him within it. the They promise to give you a good time taken over power, is plunged into the in Russia, and immediately it, a once more takes on substance and is Altho weather conditions were sueb . after at Then came the civil war, the epoch • their party. Four hundred children most hopeless contradictions. Its number of excellent communists com- the center of activity in the camps. advertisers. that traversing the streets was almost of . Comrade Trotsky Patronize our are counting on your power is limited by objective social [ mitted errors which we do like to Titles laid on coming and tak- impossibility, the number ex- the alloted to him. His not are the shelf and John an was difficulties: executed task remember Why do we not ing part in the “grown-up” dancing participation in the direction of the now. like is once more brother and comrade in ceptionally good. Comrade Sadie Am- to remember them? Because it is and gafles that they have planned for "Their solution is prevented by the ! general policy of the party was less the fight for all. Lerner Lectures in ter spoke in English and Comrade wrong to call to mind which you. Four hundred little hearts will economic backwardness of the coun- hun before. But now the revolution errors Holtmann, in Yiddish. have been made perfectly good, unless Discouraged—Not Yet Rebellious. Tonight be happy day if try. Within the confines of a national •eached a fresh turning point. The Milwaukee the after you come. there' is more special reason for do- The long drawn out struggle against of Four hundred little . Communists revolution there is no means es- elations between the classes shifted, ing so.” On Trade Unions cape from this contradiction.” (Trot- i’he party anticipated, in the form of a oppression, unemployment and pov- will start again in their battle for All Roads Leading Special attention must be accorded sky, “1905,” 286.) liscussion on trade unions, the ques- erty has dampened the splendid fight- the working class with renewed hope Russian editioq, p. to the manner fn which Lenin formul- MILWAUKEE, Wis„ Feb. 12.—Max to the Harlem Dance ion submitted a few weeks later at ing spirit of the coal diggers. Danger and vigor if you your interest Under such conditions a delay or ated our errors: “In the period Lerner, district educational director, show question of tran- of and hardship postponement of the proletarian world Kronstadt; the the which I speak they vacillated, fearing continues without res- will lecture on “The History in their struggle for our cause. NEW YORK, to pite. of the Feb. 12. All roads revolution would have inevitably sition from war communism the that the Bolsheviki isolating Part time keeps him in poverty Look again at the little social direc- lead caus- . What was Com- were Trade Union Movement,” tomorrow to Harlem on Saturday evening, ed the immediate collapse of the work- themselves, were rushing too reck- and unemployment, like'death. stalks at tor of the Juniors of Chicago? Can rade Lenin seeking for at that time? night Miller Hall, Bth and State St. March 21, when the Harlem English ers’ lessly into a rising, were too unwill- him at all times. “There are ’too you afford to disappoint them? By all dictatorship in Russia. Thus the ! He was seeking new forms for an al- Every comrade is vitally concerned branch of the Workers Party will give ing to meet the advances of many mines adherents of the “permanent revolu- liance between the proletariat and the a certain and two hundred thous- about the American trade union move- means “No!” its spring festival and dance at the section of the ‘mensheviki’ and ‘so- and tion” are bound to pass through stages peasantry, new forms for leading the surplus miners” it has been said, ment. So don't misß this meeting! Show them your support! Come! Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox 1 cial revolutionists.’ The conflict of despair and profoundest pessimism working by of gaining went therefore, the coal digger is without Feb. 14, 1925. Juniors’ Dance, 1902 masses means so far that the comrades named re- avenue. March 21 is the first day of to attempts at overcoming the econ- their convinced adherence rather hope and so the union becomes a Revel W. Division St. (Changed from than signed demonstratively from all re- Red Masquerade Ball, 37 South Work- spring, and therefore a good time for omic backwardness of the country by by force. To what did comrade Trot- shadow, the six-hour day a dream sponsible positions both in the party and Ashland Avenue ers’ Lyceum.) celebrating Saturday evening is a Torce, with the aid of military com- sky look for salvation at that time? He the miners, together every and in the Soviet work, to the great with mem- Corner of Monroe and Ashland Blvd. good time to stay out late as the next nands. ad vised us to tighten the screws of joy of the enemies of the Soviet ber of the working class in America is February 28. day is Sunday Real Bolshevist policy, as pursued war communism. This was again and revo- Build the DAILY WORKER! and no work. by lution. The affair culminated in a weakened and discouraged. Lenin ftom February to October, ' and again an underestimate of the very severe criticism in the press, on One mine employed 300 miners has nothing in common with either peasantry, the liability to be carried aur- the part of the C. C. our party, ing this policy or this psychology. away by externals, by of the war, now but 20 are employed. methods of against the resigning comrades. How did matters really stand in “pressure” and “administration from And All thru this territory are deserted after a few weeks, at latest a October and immediately afterwards? above.” after homes and some camps with 50 or few months, all these comrades re- Seen from the standpoint of , And Comrade Trotsky’s further at- 100 houses have been abandoned. from cognized their error and returned to the standpoint of the analysis of tempts—even during Comrade Lenin’s Coal is being shipped into this ter- the class of the revolution, their responsible party and Soviet forces was lifetime—the question of the “plan" positions.” ritory from other fields. The railroad not the acceptance of the social revo- according peculiar to his conception, Is this description “brotherhoods” at Ft. Dodge have a lutionary decree on landed property, “dictatorship of Lenin in any his "formula” on the way similar to the depot, the suplementation of the Sovet gov- industry,” again malicious attempt coal their members are of were not these at- made by Trotsky—ridiculous ernment by S. R„ the designa- temps to petty bourgeois in |ta active salesmen for coal from their force elemen- malice—to twist this “right” wing tion of the government created by the upon us from into non-union fields in West Virginia. tarily above with bonds an actually “menshevist” October revolution as “Workers’ and not wing in the More coal sold, dividends of iron, did they once more show Bolshevist Party? appears more on Peasants’ government,” all proposals that But this to their investment lack of comprehension of those be Comrade Trotsky’s in the Brotherhood of Lenin, was all this not a growing fate: In order concrete conditions under which it is o attain his objects he is invariably Bank. Mephostophellan brothers who development of the dictatorship of the to a alone possible realize dictator- obliged to “overcome” for dollars and cents condemn the proletariat and peasantry into a sys- agrarian Lenin, Lenin- ship in an country with un- ism. and the Leninists. soul of the miner# to the damned. tem whose actual essence was already at a dermined industries time when (To be continued.) the dictatorship of the proletariat? the international revolution is retar- ’ Message of Hope. It is possible to omit some of these ded ? A series of meetings have been ar- facts of the October revolution; but Beneath Comrade Trotsky’s effective ranged by the Party in this thßn we do not arrive at any scien- formula we can here easily distin- 1-t>wv' territory starting with Albia on Wed- tific analysis of Lenin’s policy. And guish the feelings inevitably involved heutit /3A. nesday, Feb. 26, at the Woodman what about the transition from the by his original theory: On the one Hull; Centerville Thursday, Feb. war on communism to the new economic hand despair, pessimism, disbelief, - 26 at the Labor Hall, over Brody’s policy, from the committees for the other hand exaggerated the and on Store or square, impoverished peasantry to Lenin’s hopes in the methods of supreme ad- north side of and meetings Mystic, speech on the "medium farmers)’? ministration (a term of Lenin's), in at Clnclnnnati and yet arranged. How can this be brought into harmony the competent subjection of economic Brazil to be Speakers with that theory of permanent revo- difficulties from above. SALZMAN TOUR DIST. will be David Coutts, ac- lution which has proved so “perfectly The last discussion is still fresh in IN tive member of Omaha Stone Cutters’ correct?” our memories. It gave the party a I 51 Union, and J. E. Snyder, district or In 1916 Lenin wrote that life was al- graphic survey of the totality of Com- jfeb. 11 to 18'—Cannonsburg, Hous- ganizer of the Workers Party. Admis ready a rade Trotsky’s errors, dealt with Saturday Night—Grand Finale decade ahead of Trotsky’s as ton, Midland, Meadowlands. sion will he free And the subject of inagnlflcant theory. above. But it also showed with spe- Now we can add Feb. 21—Pittsburgh, general the speakers wllUoe unemployment, another eight years. Does the cial clearness another error, another mem- circum- bership meeting. child labor, "Open Shop Drive," stance that life has passed Trotsky’s feature of Trotskyism, and one far and 25-26—Wheeling, theory by for eighteen years justify from being new. This Is the attempt Feb. W. Va. a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- GRAND COSTUME* BALL —Bellalre, > Trotsky In claiming to be able to cor- to undermine and weaken the main Feb. 27 Ohio. ment. \i rect Leninism by Trotskyism? frame work of the dictatorship, the Feb. 28—Powhatan Point, Ohio. ' at the Since life has passed Trotsky’s party. The same object was aimed at March I—Neffs,1—Neffs, Ohio. HAVE A HEART I theory by, Trotsky attempts in his i by the discrediting of the "cadres” of March 2—Yorkvllle, Ohio. Come to The books to not only correct Leninism, the party, by the resurrected menshev- March 3—Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. JUNIORS’ DANCE but life as well, and to prove by every ’ Ist conception of the party as a col- March 4-s —Dillonvale. FEB. 14, 1925 JOINT BAZAAR art currents,” of which he is master that life fol- lection of “groups and and March B—Pittsburgh.B—Pittsburgh. District or- lows Trotsky after all. the essentially Hquldatory undermin- J LYCEUM, 86th and 3rd Avenue | ganizational > conference. < It Is Incumbent on the party to show ing of the authority of the leading in- Patronize our advertisers. precisely the contrary, und to prove | stltutlons (“they arc leading the ! All New York will be there. You too! You musn’t miss this event of the season! to not only Trotsky but every new country to destruction.”) And has it < - ’ necessity not been under Comrade Trotsky’s , member the of "Bolshevlz- Chicago, Please Help NOW! < mg Trotsky.” How far has the party banner that the idea of greater free- succeeded in this? dom from party influence for extra- Saturday Afternoon, 2 P. M.—Junior Day HI. party organizations has flourished? Fifty thousand letters to be mailed out from 19 South Hus not at this, tuken together, ! 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