BolshevismBujarinCominternCommunismDemocracyLeninRadekSocialismSocialist PartySovietStrikeTrotskyWorking ClassZinoviev

110 THE WORKERS COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 15, 1921 SEPTEMBER 15, 1921)
111 THE WORKERS COUNCIL Long Live the World Revolution!
After the Detroit Disaster (Continued from Page 103. tariat of all countries to learn to benefit by the les and educating the great proletarian armies is yet to sons which the working classes of one country has be accomplished. It has shown that great, victolearned as a result of great sacrifices, and to apply rious conflicts are in store for those armies. It has them internationally.
declared that we will be victorious in the struggle.
Take care to preserve discipline in the struggle. It has shown the worid proletariat how it should The working class and the Communist parties of prepare itself to secure victory.
all countries are not entering a peaceful period of It now remains with the Communist parties of all propaganda and organization. At the present time countries to enlighten their members as to the decapitalism is preparing a series of assaults against cisions of the congress, which have grown out of the proletariat in an attempt to crush it, while makthe experiences of the world proletariat, in order ing it bear all the disastrous consequences of its that all the Communist working men and women policies.
may be able to enlist the non communist proleIn this combat, the Communists should strive to tarians for the battles which are to come.
develop the strongest discipline. The executive Long live the Communist International! Long committees of their parties should take into conlive the World Revolution. sideration all the lessons learned during the course of former conflicts and control the field of battle.
Onward to the task of preparation and organizaThey should combine great fervor with thoro tion for our victory!
reflection Under the watchfulness and criticism EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE THIRD INof the comrades in the party they should initiate a TERNATIONAL: Germany, Heckert and Froehplan of well considered action for the whole party.
lich; France, Souvarine; Czecho Slovakia, Burian and Kreibich; Italy, Terracini and Genari; Russia, ZinoAll the organizations of the party, the press and viev, Bukharin, Radek, Lenin and Trotzky; Ukraine, the parliamentary groups, should follow, without Chumski; Poland, Glinski; Bulgaria, Popov; Jugoflinching, the executives of the party, inspired by Slavia, Markovicz; Norway, Schefflo; England, Bell; them, in every one of their words and actions.
America, Baldwin; Spain, Marino, Garcia; Finland, Sirola; Holland, Janson; Belgium, Van Overstraeten; To the Task.
Sweden, Kilbohm; Lithuania, Stutschka; Switzerland, The survey of the Communist advance guards is Arnold; Austria, Koritschener; Hungary, Bela Kun, ended. It has proved that Communism is a world and for the International of Youth, Vouyovitch.
power. It has proved that the work of organizing MOSCOW, SOVIET RUSSIA, JULY 17, 1921.
ments that have remained without affiliation during the past two years. These elements have answered the rallying cry of the Workers Council. They are enthusiastic for it.
The Ohio movement, which has for its spokesmen such comrades as Marguerite Prevey and Charles Baker, promises to establish numerous local organizations of the Workers Council. In Toledo, the comrades have been organized and working as the Industrial Socialists. At a meeting attended by Comrades Prevey and Baker they voted to change their name to Workers Council. On the same day an open air mass meeting was held and a collection of 75 taken up for the Russian Famine Relief. Council has been organized at Akron and work is already under way at Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and other centers.
German Workers Help Another great advantage to the Workers Council is the expressed sympathy of the organization of our German comrades known as the Arbeiter Bildungs Verein (Workers Educational Society. constituted from the big section of the German Socialist Federation that left the party two years ago. It has a fighting organ in the Volkszeitung, the German daily published in New York City, and its weekly, the New York Vorwärts, both edited by that brilliant journalist and tireless worker in the cause of the downtrodden.
Ludwig Lore.
The correspondence of the Socialist Party National Office must make gloomy reading these days. Only this correspondence, with that of the party state and local organizations, can fully disclose the extent of the Detroit disaster that becomes more apparent from day to day.
Immediately the convention adjourned a referendum proposing withdrawal from the party went out to the membership of the Bohemian (Czecho Slovakian) Federation. This referendum carried by vote of 387 to 45, nearly ten to one.
Moving Toward the Left Ever since the armistice, and before, the membership of the Bohemian Federation has been steadily moving to the leftwards. The Detroit Convention ended their affiliation with the Socialist Party. This federation has a daily paper in Chicago, in addition to several weeklies. It also issues books and pamphlets from its own press.
Charles Kolarik, secretary of the federation, is also secretary of the federation organized Workers Council, an organization of Socialist and sympathetic elements in the labor unions and other working class bodies. The Bohemians are a big factor in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union in Chicago and elsewhere.
The Bohemian Federation, and its subsidiary body, the Workers Council, will meet in convention, Nov. 24 26, to determine their future affiliations.
Jewish Federation Quits While the Bohemians were voting in their referendum, the members of the Jewish Federation were electing delegates to a convention call to discuss and act on the question of withdrawal from the party. The federation executive had declared for withdrawal, this position was upheld in the federation weekly, the New World, and it was finally endorsed by overwhelming vote at the convention, New York City, Sept. 5. We give space on another page to the declaration of this convention.
Out of the formidable array of foreign language federations affiliated with the party in 1919, numbering 13 with 60, 000 members, skeletons of but three now remain. Of these the Italian and Jugo Slav Federations have restless memberships discontented with the Detroit policies. The German membership is negligible.
Jugo Slavs for The Third The Jugo Slav Federation constitutes that social patriotic element that withdrew from the party during the war. It returned only recently to the party fold and its membership is already developing a healthy Third International spirit.
What is true of the Jugo Slavs, is also true of a section of the social patriotic Polish Federation, American supporters of Pilsudski and Co. This element split with the Federation at its recent convention at Rochester, and declared for the Third International.
English Speaking Workers, Too!
The tendencies among the foreign language workers are also present among the English speaking workers. Strong groups of the Workers Council have been organized in New York and Chicago. Their ranks are being swelled by increasing desertions from the Socialist Party. In Chicago half a dozen branches have already voluntarily withdrawn from the party. The same revulsion against the Detroit declarations is spreading down state.
Paul Glaser, member of the Committee for the Third International, is organizing a Workers Council group at Gary, Ind. Flannagan, southern district delegate at Detroit, wires his endorsement of the withdrawal statement of the Committee of the Third, and says the comrades at Atlanta, Ga. where Debs is imprisoned, are standing with him and awaiting developments. Kirkendall, West Virginia delegate at Detroit, also wires his endorsement of the withdrawal statement.
Welcome News from Ohio These are only a few of the tendencies within the Socialist Party. Of equal importance is the desire for unity of eleThe Socialist Party and Free Speech It has been the proudest boast of the Socialist Party ever since the war that it stood unflinchingly for the rights of free speech. Its official organ carried as a sub head for a free press, free speech and free assemblage. It prided itself as the one party which stood steadfastly by the Constitution which in the past it had so irreverantly denounced. In defense of the ousted Assemblymen, Hillquit, Lee and other witnesses for the Socialist Party took great pains to point out that party stood for complete freedom and democracy.
In the light of the above, a recent action of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party is interesting.
At its August meeting, a motion was passed to inform the Rand School that while the would like to assist the school in extending its work, it must protest against the use of Benjamin Glassberg as an extension lecturer.
In other words the school was warned that if it expects any help from the party officials it must remove Glassberg from its staff.
No Reasons Necessary No reason was given by the for its action.
None was necessary. This party of free speech and free thought adopted this policy of the boycott to punish a member of the party, who for the past two years has criticised the reactionary and compromising position of the party chieftains.
Too cowardly to expel him for remaining true to the principles of International Socialism which they had deserted, they adopt the typically capitalist attitude of striking at its critics, namely to strike at his means of making a livelihood. They are still under the illusion that the way to silence a man is to fire him.
It should be noted that the Rand School of Social Science, with which Glassberg has been connected for the past three years, is not a party owned institution. The many lecturers connected with its staff are not by any means as a rule members of the Socialist Party, with the exception of the members of the permanent staff. The school has never atteinpted to prescribe to its instructors what is orthodox and what is not.
Experience with Public School Board Compared with this action of the democratic Socialist Party, the supposedly autocratic Board of Education of New York City must be regarded as an extremely liberal body.
During the war, at a time when hysteria ran rampant, when every effort was made to stamp out the dissenter, and the Socialist Party had just adopted the St. Louis manifesto, Glassberg was oil the soap box both in 1917 and 1918, a legislative candidate of the party, and lectured at the Rand School as well, Nevertheless, no effort was made to remove him; no effort to interfere with his anti patriotic activities.
Lesson for Party Members It was not until after the conclusion of the war that some utterance concerning Bolshevism was used to create sufficient feeling to justify his dismissal.
Glass has complaint to make regarding the action of the He was disillusioned regarding Democracy. during the war. Calling attention to this action of the highest power of the Socialist Party may help to disillusion the few remaining members of the Socialist Party.
The Workers Council is the only Socialist magazine in the United States which INTERPRETS the changes and developments in the International Socialist Movement, clearly and intelligently; EXPLAINS the principles, problems and aims of the Third International; ANALYSES constructively the Socialist and Labor forces in the United States.
THE WORKERS COUNCIL has met with an enthusiastic welcome in every part of the Country.
HELP SPREAD THE INFLUENCE OF The Workers Council!
Get Subscribers.
Send in lists of people interested.
Get radical book stores to handle our paper.
Sell a few copies of each issue.
Get comrades to sell the paper at meetings.
Bring THE WORKERS COUNCIL to the attention of your fellow workers.
YOUR HELP SPELLS LIFE FOR THE WORKERS COUNCIL.