Page Five Socialist Leader, Waldman— The "Patriotic NRA Critic” at Communist International Celebrates Gen. Johnson’s ”Round-Up” 15thYear UnderLenin, StalinBanner; “We Feel That NRA Is a Distinct Step Forward,” Embodies s Marx, He Tells General Johnson, “And Must Be Teaching of Engels Regarded Important Social Legislation’" By ROBERT MINOR [ mune, and with the consequent re- ’ he led, that Lenin laid the founda- I action. The First International had ; tion of the C. I. Lenin built up and By HARRY GANGES President Roosevelt. General John- la this gone as far as it could under the trained a core of Marxian revolu- son, and the A. P. of L. month is celebrated the Under President’s Roosevelt’s officialdom fifteenth anniversary circumstances. Its liquidation was tionists, the hardest, clearest and of “patriotic that followed the hearings. Wald- of the found- designation criticism” ing of the Communist practically accomplished with the best of whom he nicknamed "Com- of N.R.A. come man said: Interna- the would certainly tional. which is the heir shifting of the headquarters from rade Steel” (Stalin) wrho was seven Attorney Louis Waldman, Socialist "I take at face value the state- and con- tinuator of the best revolutionary Europe to New York in 1872. But years younger than the young .eadcr who believed his little piece ment made by the Administration i the fruits of the First that these traditions, the leader of the pres- International Lenin. at General Johnson’s “field day of hearings are really in- were not lost. criticism.” tended to receive honest, fair and ent General Staff of the World i The center of gravity of the revo- The 80s the death just criticism, and then to pay at- Revolution. i brought of lutionary movement shifted to Waldman in a dual ca- • • • spoke tention, Marx (1883), and his work was con- Russia, and in 1905. the Russo- as “code chairman of the giving due weight botti to pacity, the facts and to 1847, on the eve of revolutionary tinued by his great collaborator, Japanese War, with the defeat of Public Affairs Committee of the the argument be- hind the facts.” IN A COUNTRY WHERE THERE I« SOMETHING TO BE JOYOUS ABOUT INstruggles throughout Europe, the i Engels. the Russian Casr, was followed by Socialist Party,” and representing first great programmatic document 1889, the 2nd International was This accepting at "face value” all JN the revolution, the “dress rehear- "several international labor unions,” The oatstanding leaders o t the Soviet Union, pictured in one of their moments of merriment as of scientific socialism, the Commu- founded. the demagogy of the Roosevelt re- | sal’’ which hardened and trained more accurately the officialdom. they grouped around Comrade Stalin daring his recent report to the 17th Congress of the nist Manifesto, was written. ‘The 2nd International pre- How Roosevelt a gime, which has already led to the Communist the Russian proletariat and Its did define “pa- . of Soviet Union. While . that the first step in the rev- pared ground triotic critic?” “The critic shameless slashing of liv- Party the outlining the serious tasks still confronting the Soviet Union, the for a wide ex- ! revolutionary party for the later is patri- workers’ olution by the working ig to otic,” said the President, “if he says, ing standard, is the manner in Stalin’s report pictured the vast industrial achievements of the Soviet Union, possibly the reason for class tension of the movement in a ! victory. raise the proletariat to the posi- number of countries.”—Lenin. I don’t like the methods you are which the Socialist Party tries to the happiness expressed in the picture. In the struggle against opportuc- keep tion of ruling class, to establish By the recognition using to solve the problem; I be- the workers chained to the 90’s, the of j ism, the in promises democracy. Marxism as the of In- against "liquidators,” the lieve it would be far better if we of the bosses; to keep them ideology the period of reaction, in the clarlfl- from struggling, or “The proletariat will use its ternational Socialist movement, be- were to use the following alternate preparing for -1 cation of the question of the alliance method, and thereupon outlines for struggle. political supremacy to wrest by , came general. Friedrich Engels, degrees all capital from |of the proletariat and the the benefit of his neighbor and his When Roosevelt says is Statement Anti WarLeague on the bour- Marx’s collaborator, carried on his he not S.P. Leaders’ geoisie, to all instru- peasantry, in the development of (!) government a helpful proposal.” developing fascism, of central'ze work and brought to completion the the Socialist ments of production in the hands | revolutionary understanding of the In other words, a "patriotic critic,” leaders take this also at Its “face monumetal "Das Kapital.” Engels’ who does value,” of the state, i.e., of the proletariat contributions, ! national question and its role in the is one not attack the and keep the workers from Desertion From United Front Against War both during and after epoch of imperialism, together with whole class, fascist nature of the forming a united organized as the ruling class; and the life of Marx, represented, not front against the (he most basic, the all-decisive NH.A., its undermining of the liv- rapidly increasing to increase the total of productive only basic collaboration in the crea- fascist measures : question of the dictatorship of the ing standards of the American of the New Deal Following the attempt of the forces as rapidly as possible.” tion of scientific socialism, but The enthusiastic support that proletariat in the proletarian revo- worker, but rather one, who like Mr. The latest issue of National Executive Board of the , helped grea’ly to enrich the devel- the "New has developed for the magazine | of the century—- Waldman did, objects to “mere Leader,” March 10, which Socialist Party last summer to Chicago AntuWw IN THIS, formulated by Marx and opment of in the revolution- lution Twentieth features “Fight,” published by the League, clarity this work of preservation method” and teHs the government as its main article split the American united front 1 Engels 37 years ago, we have the ary program. in of a report on Group Pledgee to and its widespread and growing Marxian science and, than of Wall Street how it can best use Waldman’s appearance before the against war and fascism by their germ of the revolutionary program It is notable that at the death of more the to circulation among the most di- that, its development, it* creattve N R A. preserve capitalism. N. R. A. hearings, fails to print his ostentiattous resignation for the Carry on Struggle which was to be developed during F. Engels, 1895. the great successor verse groupings throughout the ! growth in the erf Now to inquire how well Wald- ballyhoo for the N. R. A. “No arrangeemnts committee for the the epoch of imperialism by Lenin of Marx and Engels, in Russia, epoch imperialism, Gain country, give further evidence of ideological of man filled the bill. for Workers Under the N. R. A.” U. S. Congress Against War, cer- NEW YORK—The American and to be realized through the pro- Vladimir I. Lenin, was in the foundation the "We N.R.A. the deep-felt need for precisely i already International being feel that is a distinct reads the headline. But nothing Is tain Socialists who remained in League Against War and Fascism letarian revolution of October 1917. his early maturity, and had begun 1 Communist woe step forward,” Mr. Waldman body this organization. said said about what the New Leader the executive of the Amer- has received the following letter (1) The Dictatorship of the Pro- his life work, and had laid. (all quotations from the offi- ican revolutionary are told the workers they would gain League Against War and from the Chicago Branch, dated Fight for Principles. letarian revolution of October 1917: already produced the of (To Re (ootimor* . cial NJt.A. record) and must be have * beginning when the N. R. A. was passed. Fascism once again at- March 7: s The. League does not assume the “position of ruling class,” and his wide and regarded to all candor and honesty to the profound literary On the same page in which Wald- tempted hamper struggle. ‘Tffie Chicago Branch of the the function of passing judge- the concept of this dictatorship as contributions. as an important branch of social The uxouse this time for * man's “patriotic” recommendations found American League Against War ment upon such disputes as “establishing democracy” the The close of Engels’ the legislation.” these new resignations h that that life and for the N. R. A. are printed, Nor- and Fascism learns with regret which gave rise to the resigna- “higher type of democracy” as ooming to maturity of Lenin coin- A Lewis Agent Before group No. 1 of the “round- man these Socialists will not stay in a that certain of Na- of Thomas takes occasion to boost members the tion of a few members of its Lenin described the Soviet system, cided with the opening of the epoch up critics,” Waldman perfectly united front In which the Com- tional (without President Roosevelt. Since no gains Committee have resigned. committee. It must emphatic- which “new kind of demo- of modern imperialism. A series of qualified for the title of “patriotic were made by munists take part. Seizing the At last night’s meeting of cracy, the workers under our ally be stated that no controver- for the proletarians and the wars of conquest by major critic.” "I desire to present,” he the N.