8 THE COMMUNIST Majority. The Russian Federation organization of the middle classes As to Party Funds had not paid the party for dues against the organized workers. Continued from page stamps sold in December and owed The Communists realize that these between eight to twelve hundred dolThe situation in the party was of lars on this account and this has strikes are an inherent part of casuch a character that large sections been paid to the acting secretary of pitalism itself, just as imperialistic of the membership were unwilling to the Majority. In other words the wars are inherent in capitalism. No intrust any money to the control of mandates, no coercion, no schemes Majority group received approxthe majority of the Central Executive will abate these strikes. Nothing imately 2, 000 of the party funds, Committee and it was only through short of eimination of the root cause, whereas over and above loans which the Executive Secretary giving his it is obligated to repay the minorthe system of production for profit.
personal guarantee that the funds Communism proposes to give to ity holds about 1500.
would be properly administered that these strikes an affirmative, militant money was paid over to the National character, directing them to the reOrganization. Under these circumCosts Of Strikes.
volutionary overthrow of capitalism.
stances the Executive Secretary could not and would not turn the funds over to the Central Executive Com New York bank figures the cost mittee majority, even if there were of our 1919 strikes at 2, 000, 000, 000.
New Offensive Against no other reasons for withholding Of this total 750, 000, 000 is stated them.
as loss in wages, 1, 250, 000, 000 as Soviet Russia Another fact to be considered in loss to the industries. Indirect costs, this connection is that the greater due to higher prices, higher rents on Continued from page 1)
part of the money in the hands of the account of stoppage of building, was mainstay of reaction and its leader Executive Secretary had come from not estimated.
the world over. It is to the British the Chicago District. This was not These figures are obviously inworkers therefore that a most imonly true in regard to the money accurate, because the normal capitalloaned but the collections for dues, istic interruptions of production portant part in this struggle will organization stamps and defense would probably have created a large fall. Let us firmly resolve of us to fund stamps in the Chicago District part of the loss in wages anyhow. do our duty.
were nearly equal to the collection There is no free, maximum productfrom all other districts combined. ion under capitalism, so that it is Be prepared for a general strike The Chicago District Committee had likewise inaccurate to assume a loss against the coming attack on Sovietturned in this money on the personal of the potential output during the Russia.
guarantee of the Executive Secretary work time lost. For example, the that it would be correctly adminis steel industry, in spite of the world Answer the Polish. French. Atered and the Executive Secretary needs for steel, was probably ready merican. Finnish. British. Hungarwould have been untrue to this trust for a curtailment of production ian. Roumanian. Japanesse etc. ofhad he permitted this money to fall because of the inability of foreign fensive by in the hands of the majority of the a the mass movement customers to pay or give satisfactory assurances of future payment. The world over in all countries and with Although the minority group has coal industry only operates inter one common purpose: the rescue of the support of the greater part of mittently under normal conditions, so Soviet Russia and of the world out the party membership, the majority that the operators likely sustained no of the has secured for its losses which are not perhaps to be of the hell of Imperialism unto the own use a larger part of the funds more than offset by the higher prices. new life built up by labor for labor.
of the party than is under control The significant thing is not the For the Amsterdam Sub Bureau of the minority. when the obliga monetary calculation, fundamentally tions for loans are deducted. sum of the IIIrd International unsound, but the condition of anarchy of 1, 000 had been appropriated for in the economic system which is inD. WYNKOOP a certain purpose but was not used dicated by these strikes. The cry is ROLAND HOLST for that purpose and this was return for arbitration, for industrial ed to the acting secretary for the courts, for laws against strikes, for RUTGERS.
The Coming Elections (Continued from page 3)
on the ground that it violates the Theory is not action, but the means c) Prove of real value as an answer provision in our Party program to action.
to the reaction and the repression, against making nominations for Moreover, the nomination of impart an impulse to the Party executives.
Ruthenberg (who in every sense is recovery, unify the Party and constriBut the stubborn fact is that the logical candidate) would be a bute to making it an aggressive factor under the conditions of the President revolutionary challenge, considering in the struggle.
ial elections in general, and under his innumerable arrests and the fact The Communist the prevailing conditions of our Party Party is in a that now there are four indictments in particular, there can be no real favorable or unfavorable position against him and prospects of 30 do campaign without a Presidential can 40 years in prison. a challenge accordingly to the measure in which didate. would much sooner see no none the less real because only of it combines concepts and practice, local candidate at all than making no moral value.
nomination theory and realism.
for President. It is Active Communist Party particabsurd, moreover, to argue that our ipation in the campaign would: Not a single opportunity for candidate may have to assume res a) prove an enormous agitational struggle must be avoided. Not a single ponsibility for thc acts of the factor.
means of action in accord with our bourgeois state. such an argument b) Constitute a means of action tasks and our principles must be makes absurd the Party conception against him and prospects of 30 to missed. The test of a Party revolutconcerning executive offices.
Party (alll the more necessary should ionary integrity is not the formal, The Party must discourage becoming Eugene Debs accept the Socialist mechanical adherence to a Program, so absorbed in a theory as to develop Party nomination for President but the capacity to use programs for mongers of phrases instead of doers endered to him by tricksters of the purposes of revolutionary action.
of deeds.
worst type. Berlin. March 10, 1900.