YOTNE HOTELS WORNERS. 50 Our Deportation Cases. Communist Party THE COMMUNIST proletarian revolution in action. ions as counter organizations to the Bolshevism, as developed by the party, as has been too long the case.
Russian and other Marxians during They want Communist propaganda in the past two decades, was a synthetic their own language; they are done OFFICIAL ORGAN application of the science of Marx to with nationalistic demagogism in the interest of Russian speaking politicCOMMUNIST PARTY the concrete facts of capitalism at ANISLLADARE OF AMERICA the stage of finance imperialism. The ians.
Commun st International expresses There will be no harm to the Commnot a revision or a variant of Marxism unist movement in this country on but a faithal of the adaptation David Damon, account of the repudiation of the underiying concepts of socialist Acting Editor.
Central Executive Committee by the science to the actual social facts of active party organizers, if the memtoday.
bers survey critically the history of No.
But it is nos enough for the Amer the Left Wing movement since last VOL. II.
ican Communist Party to take over June and take its lessons to heart.
May 8, 1920.
ready made the principles and slogans of the Communist International.
Singles copies There must continue to be an adaptation of these precepts of working class CTUAL deportation of Comaction to the further developments of munists has already begun.
capitalism. There must be more or There will be no more arks. less adaptation of these principles of but small groups will be taken on Criticism.
action to the special circumstances of freight or passenger ships right the class struggle as it develops in along. number of deportees from this country.
the middle West were gathered at EGINNING with Karl Marx, the It may be said, in all candor, that critics of the Chicago to start their journey to most unsparing socialist movement have been the up to this time our zeal has been Europe on May first, among them more in the direction of faithful John Schedel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Socialists and Communists themselves.
imitation of phrases than in Comm who leaves behind him a sick wife The literature of the movement is of the study unist expression of the class struggle and five small children, all born in primarur a critical as it develops from day to day in the the United States. Schedel has been social process, and this criticism is United States. We have done only a in this country since 1906, has always directed equally to the socialist movelittle toward the integration of Comm been a steady, industrious worker.
ment as part of the general social unist understanding with the great But he become a Socialist, then a process. It is, indeed, the pride of working class battles of the past Communist, so he outlived his welsocialist science that it is no less than it is of the critical of itseir year, but even that little marks off come to this free country. We have as the Communist Party decisively as the yet no information as to Schedel bourgeois systems of thought and most aggressive working class organaction.
fellow voyagers.
in the United States, however, ization in the United States and the The first attempt to defeat the there has been largeiy an acceptance most responsive to the mass move Communist deportation warrants by of socialist science as a system of ments which are the life force of the court action was begun in Boston, revolution.
dogma and absolute faith, rather than before District Judge Anderson, some as a method of analysis. What is Our crying need is a more precise weeks ago. This case has brought to required to Vitalize socialist science and more understandable expression light the lawlessness of the raids as is its constant adaptation to changing of Communism as part of the every conducted by the Attorney General Circumstances. but the Socialists of day working class fight in the United staff, also the brutal treatment ac this country, for the most part, have States. The vaguest sort of phrases corded the thousands arrested, most Consered is sufficient to take over will serve the purposes of celebrating of them upon the vaguest sort of fottins of words without seriously the Russian revolution, which has been suspicion. Already the Department of euing the unplication of these too much the exclusive concern of our Labor has cancelled more than half horus in action. Toe Socialist Party, public meetings. But only the most of the 3000 warrants of arrest issued preambles concerning the precise phrases of immediate appli at the beginning of the year, and cias scruggle and the social revol cation will challenge the attention of there is every likelihood that many LL. on, proceeded strictly along the the millions of workers.
ordered deported will be released by iures of bourgeois politics, appealing The weakness of the Communist the courts. The record of the Boston to the workers to use bourgeois po Party is on the side of its immediate cases will no doubt be published in lities as their primary method of program. This is not so much the fault detail as soon as available.
action.
of the September Convention as it is Writs for the release of four deThe Socialist Labor Party some of the Central Executive Committee, portees have also been filed in Milyears ago degenerated into a static, which ignored or dodged practically waukee, to come up soon before Disierte coservance of phrase formulas, all problems of immediate action, strict Judge Geiger.
scoret to give the least consid even the primary problem of educa Meanwhile a vicious attack is being Chun co the constant progression of tion of our membership.
made against Assistant Secretary of. Cats struggle. Recently the Let no one dismiss the present Labor Louis Post, who is disposing in its official literature, has struggle in the party as an affair of son stubborness in insisting upon of these cases for the Department of a few persons who happen to be the Labor. To be suspected of being a senseless dogmas, even to the point party officials. Is is a life and death of savagely attacking the whole Bolshevik is quite enough in the struggle to save the party from the coramumst movement rather than to minds of some of our Congressmen, grasp of the Russian nationalists who give up two or three empty phrases.
and it is claimed that Post is derelict have made a demagogic merger of But the in contrast with the nationalistic and ultra revolutionary in his duty for examining these cases Socialist Labor Party, has a vitality phrases, but to whom the building of from the angle of legal evidence.
which is belied by its own official It may now be definitely said that a real party to take part in the class propaganda, the vitality of a militant conflict in there will be only a few hundred orembodiment of industrial the unionism.
United States is ders of deportation out of the 3000 meaningless.
On the other hand, it is certainly Against this group January arrests. It remains to be true that the Communist Party is not most of the members of the party, are arrayed seen whether or not these orders will free from the same vice. The Commwithout distinction withstand judicial scrutiny, though it unist phrases have the advantage, of nationality.
Practically all of the Federation is already certain that quite a numhowever, of greater inherent vitality, members have made known their ber of the cases will not be brought because they are the phrases of the hostility to the use of their Federatinto court, because the deportees are not interested in further contest.