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Page Four THE FIGHT AGAINST DEPORTATION OF or (Continued from last iesue) our theory has bean realized, we nust stride forward.] How? In such VICTOR ZOKAITIS, ALDERMANIC SCHEDEI NOW ON Trotaky on Hlmeelf and Leninism 64-PAGE PAMPHLET ON manner that we gather together the DON’T NEGLECT proletarian Trotsky, in his book, ”1905” (pp. elements of town and CANDIDATE, ENDORSED BY THE 4-6) writes as follows: LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM :ountry against the petty-bourgeois Case Before ‘D.of J.’ and "In the Ilfelements, on the basis of the realized period between January 9, THE JUNIORS’ COMMUNISTS IN ELEVENTH WARD dictatorship Department of Labor and the strike in October, 1905, I NOW IN PREPARATION of theproletariat and peas- formed those views of the character antry. This means the mustering and organization of the proletarian ele- Victor A. Zokaitis, atho only 22 years old, has to his credit many achieve- Petitions from all over the land of the revolutionary development in FEB. 14 PARTY ments as an participant struggle. Russia which have received the desig- This Installment is part of a pam- ments on the basis of this dictator- active in the class have been pouring in to the depart- ship, in order to proceed from the was of . rev- He born Oct. 17, 1902, at South Manchester, nation 'permanent ’ . . phlet“Leninism or Trotzkylsm”now Comrade, come with us. Conn. While still ment of justice, asking that the crim- olutionary dictatorship of Despite the interval of twelve years, in preparation. It Includes articles democratic Pause in the fight, attending high school, his views on the class struggle caused him to be inal case against John C. Schedel, this the and peasantry to the estimate has been fully con- by three outstanding figures in the Be a child with us. suspended several times. In the summer of 1917. when he was fifteen years who was deported during the height firmed.” (This dictatorship of the proletariat, to the was written in the Russian : G. Just for one night. old; he led a strike of young on Plantation, of the red raids, and who later came year 1922! L. K.) purely socialist revolution, this tobacco workers Hartman’s Buck- Zinoviev, I. Stalin and C. Kamen- This is the invitation extended to land, Conn. hack, be dropped. But during the whole of these reason, Lenin adapted his This tobacco plantation ev, to form fit most timely and im- tactics to the development of the mass the older comrades by. the fighting Was owned by the American Tobacco Petitions have been sent in from years this theory was opposed by an- / -V portant contribution to a discussion movement In the and he Junior Section of Chicago for eve- part one coast to the other, containing other theory, Lenin’s theory, express- peasantry, the Co., of the American Tobacco of world Interest. The pamphlet studied the "peculiarity” of the realiz- of at names ed in the formula: "Revolutionary, ning the fourteenth of February, Trust. Thru this strike the young among them well known to pages, dictatorship prole- 11th Ward Candidate' democratic dictatorship of the prole- will be of 64 selling at 20 ation of the of the the School, 1902 West Division workers won an increase In wages all in this country. con- tariat and the peasantry, which con- V. 1 tariat and peasantry.” cents and will be ready at the St. and a reduction of hours from ten to from all walks of life have sisted of the fact that 7 the latter, at JVJen "This idea,” so wrote Comrade Trot- clusion of this serial publication, The Junior Section of Chicago, that nine per day. appealed to the government of the sky in 1918, again the given stage of theresolution (April and wrote it in large group of Communist children Upon leaving high United States to forego prosecution 1922 without the slightest reservation, 1917), retained their confidence in the school In his who are successfully bringing the sophomore year, of John C. Schedel on account of "this idea has been repeated unwear- mental questions of the revolution, bourgeois government in the form of at the age of sixteen, struggle into the school- Comrade was re-entering the United States after ingly by Lenin since 1904. But that with the mutual relations of the dif- “defense of native country.” After Zokaitis employed by rooms Chicago, preparing Cheny deportation, and to set aside the does not make it correct." ferent classes during the revolution, describing the views pf./he Bolsheviki of are a Bros., silk manufacturers, with the question of "permanent revo- contending against (I was one Communist entertainment planned by working original order of deportation against In this book (“1905’’), Trotsky de- him of in their broadsilk weave- lution,” or Comrade Lenin’s theory, these), a shaßp upon room, carpenter Bchedel so that he may remain in this scribes Lenin’s fundamental idea as and after attack Juniors. shop, and paper bcrx an empty abstraction, and writes that and this is the question of the role us, Lenin writes: They are busy now making up their shop. He was fired and blacklisted country with his American-born wife played by the peasantry in the revolu- the Bolsheviki “arrive at the idea of a “A Marxist must never quit the firm program of half-hourly' mass games, for attempting to organize his fellow- and four American-born children. bourgeois-democratic tion, the question of the paths lead- self-limitation ground of analysis of Class relations. into which everyone will join between workers into a union. Carry Many proletariat possessing ing to in an agrarian coun- Petitions Names of the state The is in power. And is dancing. Contests will vie with other joined power.” try, the question of the methods In 1918 he the Among the individuals who have and the mass of the peasantry not another conditions for the realization of the deep Red novelties thought up by our and became educational director of signed petitions He continues: "Whilst the anti- bourgeoisie belonging to another strat- or have written let- revolutionary features proletarian dictatorship in a country wide awake young comrades. the young people’s socialist league of ters of menshevism um, of another description and char- to the department of labor and population pre- Comrades! They need your support Connecticut participated are already visible to their full ex- in which the acter? Does It follow that this strat- in 1919. He department of justice are such well the ponderates. This is no on in the flesh. Come and spend a joy- in tent, anti-revolutionary features of contention um may not seize power by the ‘con- wing movement within that known authors as Robert Herrick, theory per- ous (I underline these words abstract formulas. The of summation of bourgeois democratic evening with the future commis- organization and has been in the Com- Anderson, account manent revolution upon a Sherwod , on of their importance. U.K.) is based revolution? Why should this not be sars of the Chicago Soviet. munist movement since its inception. threaten to appear as complete underestimation of the role and David Starr Jordan, Dean James mighty danger possible? Old Bolsheviki frequently At piesent he is district secretary of only in of a revolutionary played by the peasantry: it replies to Parker Hall, Professor Ernest Freund case vic- judge in this manner.” the Lithuanian Section of tory.” one question only; it tells how power the Work- and practically the whole faculty of Los Angeles Notes Party Trotsky, be seized or maintained 1 replied, “This is perfectly possible ers for the state of Illinois and the University of Chicago law school. Comrade who caused this cannot under . . president phrase on the dangers of the anti-rev- these conditions. . it is quite possible that the of the Chicago Lithuanian One of the recent petitions sent in peasantry LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 11.—The olutionary features of Bolshevism to Trotsky’s viewpoint, summed up seizes the whole of the land Workers’ Educational Society. contains the of many teachers the same time the whole pow- Freiheit Costume Ball is always a names be republished and confirmed in she from a study of the “Lessons of Octo- and at Comrade Zokaitis has ben a mem- .’’ . great Angeles. and students in Clark University. year 1922, adds the following: ber.” may he expressed as follows: er. event in Los This ber 6t the Chicago Typographical Un- There are H. P. Little, Dean of “As year a $260 phonograph and radiola Col- is already well known, this did “On the eve of the events of 1905, Len- Lenin continues: "If the peasantry ion No. 16 since his arrival in Chi- VICTOR ZOKAITIS. lege, Clark presented by the American University, Chancellor not happen, for Bolshevism, under in imparted a peculiar character to ceases to support the government in Music Co. cago in September, 1922, and is an ac- Capen of University of Buffalo, Char- Comrade Lenin’s , changed the by the form- the social revolutionary and menshe- will be given as the first prize for the tive militant worker in that union. lea B. Randolph of Clark University ita ideological equipment in this most ula: Democratic dictatorship of the vist Soviets, if the peasantry, having most interesting costume. Many Philadelphia Italian and other many prominent indivi- important question in the spring of proletariat and peasantry. But, as deserted the bourgeoisie, seize the other valuable prizes will be given Branch to Hold Ball, of Worchester, 1917, that, before the conquest of later developments showed, this form- land and power in spite of the bour- fororiginality duals Buffalo, etc. power.” and J»eauty of costumes. (Trotsky, "1905,” ula • eoisie, we a new stage Russian had only significance for one then shall have The ball will be held on Feb. 28. Study Class Proceeds Publications Take Stand edition, p. 285.) stage in the bourgeois democratic revolution (ZXeCiP(u£fUviActjln/f2s on the way.” This is followed •* * Among the publications which have Trotsky’s idea is now clear. The by a literary dissertation to the effect and one which will us greatly.” , PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—Italian standpoint held by Lenin and This Is much more complicated than also expressed themselves definitely by the that ttyis stage was a stage on the way Let’s make the DAILY WORKER branch No. 4 has arranged a ball for Bolshevist Party on Trotsky's theory, straight in this case and pointed out the in- the character of to Trotsky’s formula. And this is the as the line powerful on the Pacific Coast. Talk Saturday, Feb. 14, the the revolution, as developed between in which the crow flies. For Trotsky, Party Activities Os at Croatian justice which would be done to Sche- actual intellectual kernel of all Trot- to your friends about the DAILY Singing Society Hall, at 2523 East 1904 and the spring of 1917, had not sky’s writings. Trotsky with his slogan of: "Off with the del and his family were he deported, latest shuffles WORKER. Get them to subscribe! Thompson only been wrong, but even counter- his Trotskyism czar and on with the labor govern- Local Chicago St. This is a new branch are the New Republic and the Christ- beneath Leninism with * * * revolutionary with respect to the so- the whole of the literary art and talent ment,” the matter was much simple. of the Workers Party just organized ian Work. cialist peas- The opening of the left wing everal ago revolution. Lenin and the Bol- peculiar to him. This last book of his He simply ignored the whole new week and promises to be the Labor obliged antry THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Thru Defense Council sheviki were thus to “change 's not written for the whole party, but and the conditions prerequisite radical center, the Co-operative Cen- one of the most active branches. and the American Civil Liberties their equipment” in the spring of 1917, ter Czecho-Slovak North Berwyn, So- ’or the younger generation now grow- to the realization of the dictatorship Building, will be celebrated with The Italian comrades of Philadelphia Union, thousands of signatures on before the conquest of power, for the ing up, youth who of the proletariat in a capitalistically a grand bazaar on Feb. 13, 14 15. kols Oak Park, Roosevelt and Scoville. purpose for the within a and always attend the party affairs and petitions have been forwarded on be- of accomplishing the conquest year or two will have to determine the backward agrarian country. The building has a large dance and Lithuanian No. 2, 1900 S. Union of power. That is, they found them- furnish with their songs and spirit half of this defendant. In addition destiny of the party. greatness of Lenin lies in the meeting hall, capacity 800 seats, and Ave., Savicke’s Hail. selves obliged to substitute the coun- The a true revolutionary atmosphere. This many unions and working-class The aim of Trotsky's latest fact that he began to carry out the a or- ter-revolutionary equipment of Bolshe- book, number of smaller meeting rooms. Mid-City English, 722 Blue Island dance will be a truly proletarian ganizations passed resolutions "1917,” is to take revenge for the dictatorship of the proletariat under call- vism by the really revolutionary Already a co-operative union bakery Ave. affair, being situated in the heart of ing twelve years in which Lenin exposed the given conditions of a given agrar- for the dismissal of charges equipment which Trotsky had kept equipped with the finest modern ma- 11th Italian, 2439 Oakley great Trotsky’s policy, prove ian country, and actually did carry Ward S. this industrial center. The tow- against Schedel. ready on hand for twelve years. It Is wretched to chinery has been installed. that revolution confirms his this out by means of constantly keep- Boulevard. ering structures of the great Cramp In the following words to the de- Trotsky’s conviction Lenin came the (Trot- that sky’s) theory, and to poison the minds ing in sight those real elements upon Union Carpenters and Painters have Scandinavian Lake View, 3206 N. shipyards will cast their shawdows partment of labor, Attorney I. E. over to Trotsky after first building Fer- of future of party, now whose foundation thtß dictatorship can given up their holidays to work on the Wiltou St. on this happy assembly of revolu- guson ..up the party for fifteen years the leaders the has completed the presentation' on "anti- studying not only be proclaimed, but built up. building entirely pay. Scandinavian West Side, Zelch’s revolutionary” Ideas.” in the Communist universi- without Archi- tionists. , of the case before the departments ties, workers’ 'faculties, colleges, As a matter of fact, even in April tect Hall, Cicero and Superior. Trotsky has proved to be in the etc., Evans and Contractor Forman The party class In which can the complete freeing by this shuffling of Trotskyism it was not possible to judge whether Scandinavian , 2733 effect right during the whole course of his into gave their services free. The cost of History and Tactics meets every of Schedel charges: Leninism. cannot permit there might not be a moment in the from all intellectual with Bolshevism We this aim the building is $50,000. Hlrsch Blvd. Sunday morning sharp, "In conflicts to be realized. Russian revolution in -which the peas- at 11 o’clock view of the fact that if Schedel and with Lenin up year — Russian, 1902 W. Division St. to the 1917 antry the social revolu- At the last shareholders’ meeting at 521 York Ave. The class is reach- were convicted and imprisoned that is the import Trotsky’s In this book (“1917), Trotsky in- would leave on of all tionary menshevist Soviets the the following officers elected: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 ing the most interesting stage of the charge stated, his latest books ("1905” and veighs against Zinoviev, Kamenev, Ry- and in were deportation would "1917.”) lurch and turn against the provisional President, Comrade Feinberg; Scandinavian So. Chicago, 641 E. “The Structure of the A. F. if this is so, kov «nd others. I shall deal further finan- course. automatically follow such imprison-, But then we must state government, It could attain to 61st St. it openly. If Bolshevism with this, and with my own errors, before cial secretary, Rosenstein; recording of L.” will be the subject for Sunday, ment, we have proceeded first by ap- contains an- the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lettish Branch, 4359 Thomas St. ti-revolutionary features, but am of the opinion that the secretary, Airoff; manager, Simons. Feb. 15. All members of the Workers plying to the department of justice if we have re- Lenin, as real politician and mass to change our equipment a proaches made in this book are not All are members of the Workers Party and the Trade Union Education- for dismissal of the criminal proceed- before de- leader, knowing that we pursued the cisive battle, right we intended for us only. The of Party. This shows the confidence al League are invited. ing. my then what have names policy of the proletariat under the the Patronize our advertisers. It Is understanding that the to teach uncorrected Bolshevism Kamenev and Zinoviev are given, but wing department to peculiar conditions of an agrarian left radical movement has in the of justice has now sub- our proletariat to Lenin is meant. The question of and the the country, arranged his tactics for both leadership of the Workers Party. mitted for your consideration the pe- of Why say fate of Bolshevism may be put aj[l countires? do we not in the possibilities. The proceeds from the bazaar will tition on behalf of the alien anywhere, not in single textbook following form: Lenin had an excel- Chicago, Please Help NOW! for dis- one Lenin would not have been Lenin, go to finance this gigantic co-operat- missal read by proletariat of country lent theory, hut the disciples Lenin of the criminal complaint.” the our of that is, he would not have been the ive enterprise. and of the whole world: Comrades, did not know how to apply it, they practical leader of millions in class * * * letters to be out from we teach you Bolshevism, not did not recognize the needs of Fifty thousand mailed 19 South but do the war, if he had really taken over Trot- forget that Bolshevism anti- concrete situation. The formula On Feb. 21 the Needle Trades Coun- Lincoln St. (phone Seeley 3563) for the Labor Defense Detroit, contains was sky's equipment, for Trotsky’s theory Attention! revolutionary features, right, but it has been badly at Co-operat- Council. and as soon as carried would have inevitably led to the cil will have a ball the the fight begins, then you will out by this or that Bolshevik. It is not be breakdown of the proletariat and of ive Center. A week later the Frei- Help us fight the reaction in Michigan! able to manage with the possible to put the question in this SECOND equipment the as well. In its heit Costume Ball will take place at Volunteer! of Bolshevism, manner, but it also be peasantry pure but will have to re- can stated as form, by Trotsky the Co-operative Center. place it by_ another, the equipment follows: If we draw all the logical the line taken is sim- Contribute your services, at least. of ply the Ignoring of the peasantry, the Trotskyism. conclusions from the Leninist form- ...... - - ” ’ -—~ . Annual Dance ignoring of that transition stage dur- ■» ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 We mpst either teach ula. we are bound to land in a bog. Bolshevism, ing which the peasantry still places its Given by the Leninism, as it is, without correction, The itself is wrong, and this formula confidence in the ruling bourgeoisie at as the real theory of proletarian wrong formula has been employed Branch, revo- first, is disappointed and turns against Detroit Creek W. P. lution, or, if anyone logically, correctly. In the there is who be- first case bourgeoisie, not for the benefit theory we have a justification of the but still does Join of the only Greek lieves that this is not the true the Bolshe- proletariat; stage workingmen's , vist theory an the this transitional newspaper “Empros” theory of but and indication of the which ends by theproletariat taking that it has to be supplemented by errors of Bolsheviki, but in individual over the leadership of the peasantry Trotskyism in order to the second case, if we Saturday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m. become such, are told that in the form of peasant’s risings, real- must state openly Lenin’s nearest disciples accepted then he and his izing the dictatorship, and endeavor- at the HOUSE OF THE MASSES, straightforwardly what alterations formula and landed in a bog thru ap- he ing to bring about an alliance between 2101 Gratiot. thinks should be made. Is there real- plying it literally, then we see —en- ly something anti-revolutionary lightened as already by workers and in various Admission: Men 75c; Ladies free. in the we are Trot- changing forms. teachings of sky’s assertion as to the Partners assured for all. Bolshevism on the revo- anti-revolu- pamphlet in th'e by tionary features of by in the same lution? Then works issued Leninism, and aglnst'the his Trotsky’s theory, which he wrote old Bolshe- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< Lenin before the spring of 1917 must statement that viki, not authority and not Lenin’s has “completely states: be made the scientific been "In my theses have secured my- >n proletarian struggle and proletar- confirmed”—then we see that I, the self against any leaps over agrarian an strategy against bourgeoisie. blows struck not against PITTSBURGH, PA. the are directed or petty bourgeois movements which )r we must at least say: But the art Kamenev and Zinoviev alone, but To those who work hard their thru have not yet overcome, against for f realizing proletarian revolution is them at Lenin’s main formula. been money, I will save 50 per cent on all any playing with ’secure of power’ their dental lot to be learned from Lenin’s works Lenin In April, 1917. work. by the labor . . ‘Trot- ip to 1917, but from Trotsky’* Is It true that Bolshevism, in order government. work* skyism’ ‘down with th| czar,’ ’up with , since 1905. to solve the problems of the revolu- DR. RASNICK / the labor government’—ls wrong. The The either tion, was obliged to withdraw from its DENTIST was petty bourgeoisie (tint is, the peas- accomplished beneath the banner of past? Is It true that the theory of 645 Smithfield Street. antry. L. K.), exists, and cannot be uncorrected Leninism, or It was ac- the revolutionary democratic dictator- ignored.” complished ship of proletariat beneath the banner of the and peasantry repetition, Trotskyism proved inadequate? Is this not the literal in and its correction of Len- What were the the inism. Here parting facts, heat of revolution, of all th&t Len- E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS we are at a of actual and how were these re- in had long the against? the way*. garded by Lenin? warned party Seven in 1910, Lenin had already said that: Places It was to be expected that Comrade What really happened—as seen by “Trotsky’s fundamental , . 'is *2 W. Van feuren ( 42 W. Harrison Trotsky, In order to grant certain Lenin as well by error. a as us—was that the the lack of thought 189 N. Clark j 118 S. Clark amount of satisfaction party Bolshevist the Bmalleit about to the idea of the "revolutionary question 68 W. Washington 167 N. State which he has thus benefltted, should democratic dictatorship the of the transition from Saturday Night—Grand Finale 234 of the prole- this (the bourgeois) revolution to a S. Halsted willingly admit that he has t»rlnt »nd peasantry” was fully and PHONES, HAKRIBON admitted socialist revolution. MIB-7 certain organizatory errors in the completely realized in the Russian rev- Specialties: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked past. What does an olution, Trotsky’s “original” theory takes Beane and Brown Bread such acknowl- and, after its realization, be- edgment cost, gun from the Bolsheviki the demand for Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee when It serves as a to develop into the Bolshevist idea GRAND* COSTUME BALL decisive revolutionary struggle on Commh'eary and Bakery: cloak for the unpunished assertion of the dictatorship of the proletariat. the part of the proletariat and the demand 1812 Fulton Ct. Phone West 2549 that Bolshevism, Leninism, contains! I here take the opportunity of refer- at the for the seizure of power, from anti-revolutionary features? is ring to one of the works in which Len- political worth mass! If can appropriate in laid down his principles the menshevlki it takes the "denial" a one at that of role of on the played by thhe peasant- the role intellectual and theoretical time: “Letters Tactics.” in which ry. . . Trotsky did not, however, re- Coughs, Colds, leader of Bolshevism he comments on and explains [Relieve and the October to the flect that proletariat JOINT BAZAAR party his April when the induces revolution, it. is worth while to admit famous theses of 4. non-proletarian 'Headache, Rheumatism to even Lenin writes; the masses of the LYCEUM, 86th and 3rd Avenue In the » considerable errors peasantry --vi All past. “The revolutionary democratic dic- to confiscate the land of the 'and Aches and Pains landowners and the mon- Trotsky, in his "Lessons of Octo- tatorship of the proletariat and peas- to overthrow All New York will be there. You too! You -musn’t miss this event of the season! archy, the natlonul bourgeois revolu- ber,” actually antry has already been rsnllzed - does make such a con- In the ... ■ . . . tion” in Russia Is achieved and that fession to the party. "I have acknowl- Russian revolution. , . The workers’ this revolutionary edged my real and great organizatory und soldiers’ Soviets are the revolu- becomes a demo- cratic dictatorship of the proletariat mistakes,” was tionary democratic dictatorship , he writes. But the of the and Saturday Afternoon 2 P. M.—Junior Day fifteen years’ conflict between Lenin proletariat and peasantry as realized peasantry, (To and the Bolsheviki on the one side, In actual life. We are still In the be continued.) Children's Orchestra Young Dancers Revolutionary Tableaux Child Actor* and Trotskyism on the other, concern- ■nlnoritr; we recognize the necessity AD *ad' ,«r. ed with organizatory questions? This of gaining the majority (in these or- Red Revel Meequerade Ball, 37 South , , CM.. ■ M ..1001. mCda. hnll. is nonsense, an endeavor to distract gans of the dictatorship).” (Compl. Aahland Avenue International Workers’ Aid * Labor Defense Council JUittrthan a MuttardFlatter from the point. The conflict was works, Rusian edition, vol. XIV-1, p. 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