BEHIND THE SCENE OF TWO DICTATORSHIPS
Price, M. Philips
BEHIND THE SCENE OF TWO DICATORSHIPS Lenin Feared Early Peace Would Kill Bolshevism, Italian Woman Aid Writes in Her Memoirs By M. Philips Price TJTTHKR the war kills the revolution or the...
...His approach of defending the Communist Party and Its dictatorship on the basis of inner democracy is entirely foreign to Russian conditions and is demonstrative only of an Anglo-Saxon complex which is too deep to be set aside even when considering Russia...
...Now only as recently as but November, the representatives of the Chinese Communist Party and of the Left Kuomintang officially thanked the Russian government for its material and moral assistance to the Chinese revolution...
...2znd A. D. J. L. Afros who recently returned from a visit to Soviet Russia will speak at our headquarters, 21 • Van Sicklen avenue on Tuesday evening, March 6th, 8.30 p.m...
...This statement simply proves that the man who wrote It doesn't understand the Communist Party...
...New ones are* coming into the party...
...On March 2 he will speak at a Joint meeting of Circle's Two and Nine Juniors, 218 Sackman street...
...The referendum vote will be taken In March...
...At first this news made a bad impression on me, especially as I heard that compromises were spoken of which the Bolsheviks seemed to take quite as a matter of course...
...On Monday evening, March 13th, Dr...
...Now, it isn't that Mr...
...rfTHE five titles cited above were published by the Vanguard Press as a part of a series of Vanguard Studies of Soviet Russia under the editorship of Professor Jerome Davis of Yale...
...At all lectures colored slides portraying the life of the Indians will be shown...
...Some have drunkards, some have epileptics, a third has a Bolshevik as a member...
...8th District, consisting of Oneida, Madison, Cortland, Onondaga, Jefferson and Oswego counties...
...This eagerness on the part of the editor and the author to explain away Russian foreign policy, is also illustrated by a passing remark of Mr...
...Subject: "Revolutionary Methods—Old and New...
...Genius—Heredity vs...
...The social fabric In Russia was collapsing...
...Not that we question the figures...
...The Motives in Human Behavior-—Incentives and Ambitions...
...Their study is chock-full of statistics, figures, graphs, tables and excerpts...
...Branch Seven East At a weU attended meeting held «o Sunday, Feb...
...The Arrangements Committee is also soliciting advertisements from Socialist Party Branches, individual sympathisers, trade unions, W. C. branches, cooperatives and friendly organizations...
...W. Ostrander...
...S-S.ll AJD...
...A nunibf r^cf jsppfVsirksss for gratifying to sssjSBBss that this was tS first large meeting to this section ef Brooklyn in many yearn, tt will he followed by sun more mmtlngi or tins character...
...West Virginia will be represented in the National Convention...
...It was coming to Us...
...Crime and The Criminal—A Challenge to Society...
...Is "sincere" the only adjective to be applied to the four generations of Russian Revolutionists...
...Comrade Max Rosen, one more of the group of active comrades mentioned in recent issues of the Leader has done heroic work in making this affair a success...
...The Third International Is more guilty of the failure of America to recognise Russia than either the State Department or the A. F. of L. or both...
...The Concert and Danceheki last Sunday evening sit the Pythian Temple gLfjjg * a«a* success and tt was iateresaagto note that the mernhcrshtp of the branch was growing...
...This conference, at which representatives of the Minority Movements in Germany, Prance and England, and of the whole movement in Italy, Russia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Norway, and Holland issued a manifesto, which was couched in Marxian language and called upon the working classes of Europe to take up the bitterest struggle against the war and exposed the shameful failure of the Second International to do its duty during this crisis in the forsunes of the working class...
...Auspices...
...Awakening interest and confidence in the Socialist Party is the welcoming sign throughout the State...
...Socialism.'' Brownsville Labor Lvceum, 219 Sackman street...
...New York City Samuel E. Beardsley, Morris Berman, Simon Berlin, S. John Block, W. Chameides, Frank Crosswaith...
...MANHATTAN 1-t AJ...
...And so in Balabaaoff's words, "Zlmmervald marched f»»»*»"y into Petrograd.'' Its two years ef existence in the back courts of the...
...An enrolled Socialist voters meeting will be held in our headquarters on Tuesday evening, March 13th...
...Baldwin and Mr...
...Simultaneously we read In the daily prints of the growing crisis due to Inadequate and uneconomical industrial production and we also read about the failure of the richer peasants to yield their grain to the state and of the consequent near-famine conditions In the Russian cities...
...Every branch must tag* tba matter up at ttw next regular meeting or call a special meeting for this purpose...
...Beth Russia and China are the losers to the benefit of Mr...
...BraUsford's Volume To come down from the general to the particular, we shall stop first at Mr...
...If you were a Menahevik or even a Socialist-Revolutionary you could live with us...
...Religion Under The Soviets, By Julius H. Hecker...
...Tschernoff and tile Mensheviks had gone into a coaltion Government with Liberal Imperialists, who were for carrying on the Imperialist war...
...Subject, "The Best and the Worst in American Civilization...
...The following is the list of the com rades who have been nominated by the branches in their respective counties...
...A Sad Home-Coming Balabanoffs return to bey original Fatherland, Russia, was not...
...Responses are coming In well and it should cheer comrades to know that there Is excellent cooperation coming from various parts of the country...
...Driven to despair by the general condition of Russia, her apparent inability to withstand the pressure of the Entente on her to continue the war, the general state of economic chaos Into which the country was sliding, he came to the conclusion that peace wss absolutely necessary for Russia at all costs and under any condition...
...The series of lectures delivered by Esther Friedman at the East Side Socialist Center have been very successful...
...Soon after.tills she left Russia for Sweden, where she started a Zlmmervald bureau and issued...
...I could see from close quarters how the war had affected the temperaments of the different persons...
...Arnot's book Is prefaced by a statement of A. N. Mikoyan, a member of the famous politburo on the question of inter-relations between the Communist International and the Soviet government...
...In his chapter on the "Nationalities and the Union" Mr...
...One morning her sister shewed hat in great distress a Press cutting in which was printed . an attack on the Italian Socialists for their anti-war attitude, and this was largely ascribed to the "influence of the energetic Bolshevik, angelica Balabanoff...
...and Mra-BHsh an ccgirirssflnri drive wul commence in a week os, so to the Platbosh section of the Isth and 21st API Taking advantage of the Workmen's Circle Center on Church avenue, there is every reason to believ that a good branch of the Socialist Party will be formed as this territory within a very short ttme...
...Hennington Hair...
...Brailsford think of Mr...
...At the same time he expressed his opinion to me about Trotsky...
...Although lunch bad not been advertised, the players evidently brought their appetites with them, for the soup disappeared and the crowd voted the evening an unusual success...
...It is urgent that every Bronx Socialist attend the nest meeting of bis or her branch and tee to It that they are given an opportunity to vote on the County as well as the State Referendum Ballot...
...This was a bad blow for Zlmmervald...
...Amongst others was the refusal to vote war credits...
...Soon after this the Zlmmervald movement had a set-back...
...Borders brings testimony to the fact that after ten years of Soviet rule, the peasant is essentially what he was...
...The reviewer, as It happens, belongs to this class and he was considerably jarred by the ambiguity of this dedication...
...James b. Miller, secretary of local Terre Haute, writes National Headquarters that the local is doing excellent work...
...Hence Lenin's adherents grew, and one of them was Balabanofl...
...in Switzerland, in September, 1915...
...Branch officers should be zealous in their efforts to get out the best possible vote...
...But the more one reads in books on social questions, the more one is convinced that statistics do not necessarily tell the truth...
...the German Government to sound them on the question of conditions on which the Kaiser would be willing to make peace...
...The editor seems to have been afraid to take definite sides in the controversy about Soviet Russia and wished to express a sentiment of friendliness Without spwdflreHy stating for whom it Unded, Socialist Party Plans and Progress Through The States National Readers in unorganized communities eeahiag information on how to organise local divisions of the Socialist Party may obtain instructions, leaflets, charter applications, membership cards, application cards and all other necessary information by addressing William H. Henry, National Executive Secretary, J 651 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...In order to test the worth of the Menshevik Ministers the Zimmervaldlans sent a telegram asking for the right of entry for Grimm, the president of the Zlmmervald Cemmwaton, who was being kept out of Russia by the Cadet Foreign Minister, Mllukoff, on the ground that he was supposed to be proGerman...
...A. Weil...
...working class quarters of Swiss towns -was at an end...
...Comrade Robert Lee mans of Northern New Jersey visited the office the other day and promised us some five or six pages of advertisements that will include every friendly organisation in that part of the State...
...Her first thought was to use the-apparatus of the Zlmmervald Commission to help the real revolution which had now come In Russia...
...Brailsford...
...As our previous meetings of thl scharacter were very successful, we expect a big turn out to attend this meeting...
...In the very near future, the new re-decorated club rooms which wul be the new home of the 23rd A. D. Branch will be opened with appropriate ceremonies...
...The most sympathetic side about all these people was that though they were suffering from the pressure and persecution of their own Governments and from ill-treatment by their own party colleagues, they were still able to take up critical attitude to all that their party and Governments had done...
...Workmens Cir-le Center, 7316 20th avenue...
...In a friendly warm tone and with Justifiable sympathy toward the trials and tribulations of peasant life In Russia, he writes a number of Interesting observations which make pleasant and profitable reading...
...Four to be elected...
...An Ambiguous Dedication Another book which tries to give facts instead of interpretations and Is of real value to this series on the Soviets is Prof...
...The labors involved in making recruits sign on the dotted line have been entirely too arduous of late to suit Prank, and his cries and lamentations have ascended to high heaven...
...Next Monday evening at the business meeting of the Branch, Comrade Louis P. Goldberg will give his last of the series of talks on "Socialism", immediately after the business meeting...
...Statistics and Reality Scott N earing and Jack Hardy deal with the economic organization of the Soviet Union...
...Speaker...
...All members In good standing are entitled to vote...
...A separate footnote tries further to argue with the "liberal reading of the idea of nationality" In explaining that "It may, of course be pleaded (1) that the independent Georgian government persecuted native Communists savagely and (2) that the Western powers used the Caucasus as a basis for intervention In Russia...
...Woman's Sphere...
...Tinkering at the surface was now criminal...
...The branch Is busily ngaged in the sals of tickets for its Theatre Party which Is to take place on March 30...
...Yet when it came to the point many of the Zimmervaldlans in Switzerland followed Lenin across Germany to Russia and amongst these was Balabanofl herself, as she describes...
...Up-to-date about $1,000 is in sight...
...writes Balabanoff, "was much diacuaaed in the press at the thee,: It provided much interesting rjsvchoksj, teal material...
...Some of Lenin's colleagues, and amongst them Zinoviev, who was later .the meet extreme of all the Bolshevik leaders, when It came to Inciting revolts outside Russia, created much doubt and hesitation by letting it be known that they disapproved of the seizure of power to Russia, Soon It became clear that the new revolution was safe for a time at least tin the International forces of reaction could summon up strength against it...
...Comrades In Pittsburg promise three to five pages: comrades Sidney Stark and Wm Van Essen are on the Job In that part of the country...
...Pennsylvania A Lire Wire From the little town of Hermlnie, one of the best hustlers in our party, Anton Zornik, sends in three full lists of names on the organisation petition, having collected $25.00 Hermlnie Is a little mining town where there is plenty of poverty, and yet this live comrade has collected $25.00 to assist the National Organization in its organisation drive ia the unorganised sections...
...Subsidizing American Communism Now one would think that at least on the question of Soviet Russia and her Neighbors, one can afford to be entirely Impartial...
...Hecker's "Religion Under the Soviets...
...Thirteen titles dealing with different aspects of Soviet Russia have been published already or are In process of publication...
...Forum, 16th A. D. Kings...
...Eleven of these thirteen and four of the five under review were written by non-Russians and by the spelling of some of the Russian words used by them, it is safe to assume that the majority of the authors are not familiar with the Russian language...
...The local holds social affairs which have been drawing sympathizers as well as Socialists to meetings These affairs are proving to Kansas Ross Magill writes from Fort Scott ordering dues stamps...
...Irrespective of criticisms and attacks levelled against Communist philosophy, or even the Soviet system, the progressive mind of the world was unanimous in demanding recognition of Russia...
...The French on the other hand denied that conditions were so bad in Germany...
...William L. Herman, alternate...
...Connecticut New Haven The Socialist Party Forum will be addressed by State Organizer Karl C. Jursek on Sunday, March 4. His subject will be "Socialism of Tomorrow...
...This slave state may have one of the best working organisations in the country...
...Upper West SMe The next regular meeting of the Upper West Side Branch will be held on Thursday evening, March 15th, In the office . of Dr...
...At the branch meeting held last Monday evening the members were engaged in the circulation of the primary petitions for the election of delegates to the Convention and Tsrtoes matters pertaining tcUhe week of the branch...
...Straight as a die, sweeping all hindrances aside—that was his motto...
...Brailsford "enjoys peace and harmony...
...New Jersey A new local has been organised at Peterson, and judging from communications we expect rapid growth of its membership...
...On this Commission Balabanofl sat, and she was the only one who attended all the meetings of the Commission from the beginning to the end...
...Bransford's book, which on the whole, contains Important observations, is impaired by this uncritical attitude toward anything that Russia does...
...In the name of the Commission, - a manifesto calling upon the workers of Europe to come to Russia's aid by all means In their power...
...The last night in her sister's house she beard a deep sight and the voice of her sister saying: "Families meet with different kinds of unhapplness...
...Speaker, I. George Dotasevage...
...Comrade S. A. DeWitt was the guest speaker of the evening...
...Prank Brodaky, the uncrowned king among member solicitors, has found this to be the unvarnished truth...
...Everything seemed cold and official There was the SocialistRevolutionary Minister, Tschernoff, a delegate at the first Zlmmervald Conference...
...McLevy, of Bridgeport: Plunkett, of WalUngford, and Davis of rTamdjga, Excellent progress was reported by the delegates from the various district...
...Why should Mr...
...M. Feigenbaum, Louis P. Goldberg, Morris Hochen, Samuel Kantor...
...Nevada State Secretary W. H. Cordill, of Reno, writes that it is not an easy Job to get our ticket on the ballot...
...It was a terrible time, and one which Western Europeans could but dimly realize If they had not lived in Russia during those months...
...1S4 Zldridge street...
...Lenin's Trip Through Germany The Russian revolutionary emigrants In Switzerland tried all through these days to find a way to Russia, though the Entente lands barred the way...
...Lenin's Fear of Peace Her activity was next directed towards the proposed International Socialist Conference at Stockholm In order to discuss the question of whether the antimilitarist and Left Wing of the International Socialist Movement should take part In this Conference which was being summoned by the "social patriotic" elements of the old International, she, as secretary, summoned the Zlmmervald Commission...
...A Commission was established to keep the parties and groups together after the delegates had gone, and to form a sort of central bureau for a new International if the old one should fall to do its duty...
...There are active members in other parts of Arkansas, a state organization will be formed In the near future and a full ticket placed In the field for the November election...
...In every country the Third International has set itself upon destroying whatever friendship there was among the working classes for Soviet Russia...
...W. C. Hall, of Jonesboro sends In three applications for membership and continues his activity...
...Speaker, Esther Friedman...
...The team of Brodsky and Brodaky give promise of setting the Socialist world on fire...
...Magill does not claim to be the best organizer in the party...
...The atmosphere of today is beyond all comparison cleaner and healthier...
...For some days there was uncertainty in the air...
...It was decided to change our meeting dates to the second and fourth Thursday of the month...
...The iiiilnn of the Zlmmervald Ooaumetiea in Petrograd...
...McAllster Coleman, Maurice Caspe, Pierre De Nio, Henry Fruchter, Raphael Goldstein, Julius Gerber, Marius Hansome, Wllho Hedman, Anna Ingerman, Leonard C. Kaye, Mark Khdnoy, William Karlin, Algernon Lee, Bela Low, David Mikol, Rudolph Modest, Isidore Menkes, Jacob Panken, Nina Prey, Celia Rotter, Emerich Stelnberger, Samuel P. Ulanoff, Herman Volk, Joseph Viola, Louis Waidman, Bruno Wagner...
...Auspices...
...Warren Atkinson, B. W. Gray, A. Hoch and Geo...
...Davis felt It necessary at the very start of the study to display their over-eagerness not to describe but to analyse Russian foreign policy...
...This famous Zlmmervald Commission was the only international organization which the Socialist movement had during the war, and the first one to become the organized centre of resistance to the war...
...The large ¦sclslfcd larnThnsnt and increasing vote tn this section of Brooklyn presents Uaelf as a fertile field for the organisation of more Party U-tl AJD...
...Like a mighty rainbow, full of hope, it lighted up the whole horizon of our thoughts...
...Z3rd A.D...
...March 9. • 30 p.m...
...Monday evening under the auspices of two of these branches, the newly organised 18th A. d. Branch and the Bensonhurst Jewish Branch washighly successful...
...Auspices, Bensonhurst...
...Of course, he couldn't make any such statement now with all the leaders and most of the members of the Opposition under banishment and in exile...
...Auspices...
...Her first few days in Russia had been spent in her old home with her sister and brother...
...9th District, consisting of Monroe, Niagara, Chautauqua, Chemnug, etc...
...At once the two wings of the revolutionary International movement, the Zimmervaldlans and the Bolsheviks, sent telegrams to Petrograd to protest against the policy of coalition with the capitalist parties in revolutionary Russia...
...The large Socialist enrollment, the tacreese in our vote, makes that prediction possible and with the leadership of Comrades Bush and some of oar BrownsvIQe comrades who five in this district, we should be successful m oar endeavors, lath aj...
...The next few months were engaged partly in work at Stockholm and partly in Geneva, whither the bureau was temporarily transferred...
...Some of them have a fine power of observation and nearly all of them, at least those whose studies the reviewer has already read, tried to avoid conspicuous propaganda...
...Harry F. Ward, of New York...
...Hyman Nemser, M. K. Parson, Bernard J. Riley, W. B. Robinson, Saul Rifkln, Herman Rlvkin, Sadie Rivkin, Frank Rosen farb, Chas...
...But now where will you find a room, and how will you eat...
...BROOKLYN Friday, March 2, 8.30 p.m...
...Then came the great event of 1917, the greatest event, in fact, of this century, which opened out new vistas for her activity...
...Both mother and daughter are doing nicely, thank you...
...Socialists and radicals all over the world, were against intervention and have constantly demanded recognition for Soviet Russia...
...It is very laadable on the part of the Vanguard Press to attempt to give a full-sided view of all excruciating problems facing Russia ten years after the Revolution...
...Would that we had a Magill in every state that needs organization work I West Virginia The West Virginia newly organized Socialist movement continues to grow...
...The Social Plays of Henrik Ibsen...
...The entire value' of Mr...
...3th District, composed of counties along the Hudson River, Edward P. Clarke and Herman Kobbe...
...Hecker's book as limited as the Interest of the subject treated might be to the general reader...
...B. Botwtnick and August Olaessens...
...There is every indication of success for this affair...
...Marks avenue...
...Grimm, Its president, who had come with the Russians from Switzerland and bad been specially allowed to come in by the intervention of the Menshevik Ministers, committed a grave indiscretion...
...But Mr...
...Balabanoff was now left practically to sole charge of the Commission...
...The Forum meetings are'held at the Workmen's Circle Educational Centre, 438 Oak street, Sunday at 8 p.m...
...There was in fact no other way to get to Russia...
...Speaker, William Karlln...
...Kings County J. L. Afros, Rose Brody, Emil Bromberg, Barnet Bettin, Nathan Chanln, Israel M Chatcuff, Carl Cummings, Wm...
...The din of the endless controversy over Georgia Is always in our ears and on the liberal reading of the idea of nationality, the Georgians who stand for independence have right on their side...
...This meant that Zlmmervald was beginning to split up...
...The news leaked out and Grimm was expelled immediately from Russia...
...Arnot in his discussion of America and Soviet Russia in which he states that "any alteration in the policy of the State Department would be followed by modification of the attitude of the A. F. of L." Which is to imply that the A. P. of L. is nothing but yi tool in the hands of the State Department and that the American Labor movement has no grievance of its own against Soviet Russia...
...The Great Event of 1917" Concerning the difficulties in getting this resolution put through Balabanofl writes interestingly: "During this time I was able to collect some most interesting psychological material...
...Julius Hochman to Lecture Julius Hochman, general manager of the Joint Board of the I. L. G. W. U., will speak on "Communists in the Trades Unions" on March 11 at 1167 Boston Road...
...So too, tat spite of the new Invasions the more important social meres cling...
...On Feb...
...204 East Broadway...
...A AM ad was roted lor the National Ogovaotioo Journal...
...I cannot close this review without referring to the dedication which is carried in front of every one of the Vanguard Studies...
...Lenin and most of the the atuctrVBlll" Conference was amy called by" the -social patriots" hi order to "act as a cover lor diplomatic neg...
...His pleas for assistance have been answered by that someone who presides over the destinies of this troublesome earth of ours...
...Schenectady Rev...
...He left the city of Pittsburg where he organized a local with seven members...
...Harlem A mass meeting is being arranged at the East.Harlem Educational Center, 63 East 104th street on the subject of unemployment...
...The Caucasus now, according to Mr...
...Are you really a Bolshevik...
...Comrade Rievo Is assisting in lining up all of the Finnish branches, cooperatives...
...1466 St...
...Brailsford who is not a Communist, justify Russian imperialism in Georgia...
...In Sweden the Zimmervaldlans heard that the Russian Mensheviks had entered the Government of Kerensky along with the Liberal Cadets...
...Friday, March 9, 8;30 p.m...
...It war decided to place a four dollar "ad" at the National Convention ..umber...
...But to his artless manner, Mr...
...Lecture Calendar NEW YORK Srfnday, March 4, 11 a.m...
...That watchword soon began to have its effect in the first real conference of the anti-war elements of the European parties at Zlmmervald...
...Between three and four hundred people were present at the Savoy Msnitnn.anrt Uatcoed to comrades Jacob Panken...
...Arkansas Socialists of Arkansas are joining the party...
...The first action of the new local was to elect a Committee on Education and Propaganda and can on the National Office for propaganda matter...
...Davis states In the name of Zinoviev that "In 1919, 1920, and *21, the American movement received some financial help from Russia...
...The German General Staff, which in this respect showed greater wisdom than the Foreign Office, saw in the Bolsheviks a two-edged sword, which might wound them as much as it would wound Russia's fighting force...
...Central hi thb) social scheme, as it is central hi the architectural structure of the village, is the church...
...The candidates for district delegates exclusive of Greater New York, are as follows: 5th District, constituted of Westchester County and allotted two delegates, Theo...
...BRONX Friday, March 2, 9 p.m...
...Karl Borders "On Village Life Under tbe Soviets...
...The Arrangements Committee is enthusiastic about the success of this work and Is looking forward to a handsome donation to the Campaign Committee at the National Convention as the proceeds from this Souvenir Book...
...Cchoushan, A. I. shlplacoff, Charles Solomon, Emanuel Swltkes, B. C. Vladeck, Jos...
...An entertainment and dance which will be the flrst affair in the new clubooms and the proceeds of it wfll go to the Sustaining Fund of the Sunday School...
...This typical Communistic view of the American Federation of Labor has done more harm to the cause of Russian recognition than 300 books can ever correct...
...Mikoyan states that "The Soviet government must not be identified with the Comintern...
...The outbreak of the Russian February Revolution," she writes, "gave our thoughts and actions an entirely new course...
...The situation In Russia was so catastrophic and so tragic that only peace and the extension of the social revolution 'could save the country...
...It (Russia) has won its right to understanding and respect but above all it has won its right to peace...
...The annual ball In Brownsville win take place this Saturday evening, March 3rd, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, "219 Sackman street...
...Village Life Under The Soviets, By Karl Borders...
...Numerous articles are being prepared and they wilL make . this book a very attractive souvenir...
...happen in Europe now...
...University Settlement...
...7th District, composed of Schenectady County...
...August CiaasBens...
...Only the present absorbed us now...
...You and your friends are welcome...
...Comrade Esther Friedman has consented to the suggestion to continue the course...
...Fifteen to be elected...
...The Sunday night forum continues to be highly successful...
...Tow Testa Held at her home, 3461 Ofies Place, New York Ctty...
...214 East 2nd street...
...she asked...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will speak before the New Haven Trades Council Forum Sunday, March 4, at the Hyperion Theatre at 3 pjn...
...A very handsome journal containing some $900 in "ads" has been printed and is ready for distribution...
...tietions between the belligerent Governments,- which might lead to peace and a general, agreement to put down the' revolutionary) danger to Europe...
...Date and speaker win bs announced shortly...
...Speaker, Judge Jacob Panken...
...It Is also laudible to make this attempt in a spirit of fairness and good will toward Russia but at least those readers of these books who are familiar with conditions in Russia, will from the very start be sceptical toward an undertaking of such a magnitude being guided and executed by foreigners...
...At the same time I was convinced how different it was when a big man, like Lenin, did a thing like this, than it was when it was done by a small man, who was only imitating him...
...And I might add—It has also won its right to be criticized even by its friends...
...Another comrade has joined from this town, and within a short time there will be a local there...
...To Be Concluded Next Week) Five Friendly Studies of Russia The Vanguard Series A Warm And Uncritical Survey By B. C. Vladeck (A Review of Soviet Russia and Her Neighbors, By R. Page Arnot...
...Indiana Old members having become delinquent in their dues are paying up...
...She and the Italian Socialists would follow Lenin...
...will discuss Militarism at Sunday's meeting of Schenectady's Labor Forum, and Norman Thomas has been scheduled to lecture at the Forum on March 18...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 12nd A. D. Sunday, March 4, 8:30 pm...
...See-, retarv was instructed to call an enrolled voters meeting for Thursday, March 8. :t*d a. 0. ¦_ ' * Branch aieethJgs are held every Frl_ ^rtnlsl at the etuD-rocena, 00 Htnsfi ^nliA wen-known Socialist speakBwfB be present at each Of the future fT.Twirt and the enroUed Socialist votSeftbe district will be invited to at~ Ei The business at these meetings Kl be reduced to consume but a small Qrt of the ttme and the...
...It seems that all that was needed was a good live wire at the helm...
...State Secretary Hlggins is much enthused over receipt of many letters from comrades who are joining the party and assuring him that they will organize locals in their community and back him up in every way...
...Grimm alone would remain, and for him grave difficulties were In store...
...New Leader readers In or near Stanford and West Haven are requested to communicate with Karl C. Jurseck, State Organiser, Greenwich, Conn., as locals will be organized there...
...Julia Ward Pennington, a member-at-large at Fayetteville, writes that she is ready to help place our ticket on the ballot...
...Speaker...
...A Tory Journalist writing of English claims to India, could not be more terse or less effective...
...Sunday, March 4, 4 pm...
...on March 11 as the guest of Circle 13, 420 Hinsdale street at 6:30 p.mh...
...There are four branches in this territory and a meeting held last...
...The State Executive Committee's recent action in making Unemployment Insurance and Old Age Pensions living isues for the present industrial depression, has been heartily commended by Trades Unions, progressives and radicals...
...Only members In good-standing will be eligible to vote in the coming elections...
...It was also decided to purchase 5000 copies of Victor Berger's recent speech in Congress and that these copies be mailed to the citizens of the district...
...It may be wrong headed...
...Jasper McLevy reported that he has succeeded in getting Bridgeport unions to back the Unemployment Insurance and Old Age ePnslon Bills...
...It counted among Its numbers Ministers of the first revolutionary Government tiiat bad arisen out of the war In Europe...
...Chamberlain...
...Bs answered: 'Now there will be either a ' farther revolution or the counter-revolution.' In view of subsequent events and of Lenin's general outlook that meant: We must dare, for there is as time to lose...
...Information regarding speakers, literature, platforms, etc., may be obtained from the National Office...
...Tremont Educational Forum, 4216 Third avenue...
...The Zlmmervald movement's sphere of activities was now brought back to Russia once more...
...Murder As a Fine Art...
...Comrades are urged to attend circle meetings during this period so that their vote may be cast...
...More refreshing are the observations of Mr...
...Reading The Women's Socialist League will hold another hasenpfeffer party at Labor Lyceum Saturday night, March 3. A surprise feature of last week's event was furnished by Mrs...
...Then when it was clear that Germany was going to lose the war and that the fear of revolution in Germany might cause sympathetic movements In Switzerland, she and the Commission were expelled from Switzerland under conditions of iinrramnlfl cruelty and privation...
...Hoto The Soviets Work, By H. N. Brailsford...
...Socialists should get in touch with Comrade Cordill by writing him at Box 75, Reno...
...Comrades are urged to attend...
...Louis P. Goldberg...
...18th A. D. Kings...
...ttjt^°S «* ^^Jg'up considerably for the Socialist Party throughout the lath ft-P- Kings County...
...We read for instance, that "harmonious relations between the country and the city are being established by a number of measures which are lowering the costs of production to a point at which manufactured commodities will be within the economic reach of the peasantry...
...After I had breathed the ah- of Petrograd it clear to me that I must fight with Lenin against all those who consider the Russian revolution wss ended with the fall of Tsardom...
...Ross has delivered the same lecture in Bronx and Manhattan circles where a fine showing was made...
...There was no time, no psychological possibility of thinking either of the past or of the future...
...And Mr...
...It takes 1,400 signaures on a petition...
...At the next meeting of the branch it Is hoped to have A. Beckerman present and he will speak on "Some Phases of the Present Labor Situation...
...and at a meeting of Circle Two Seniors, 219 Sackman street on Sunday, March 25, at 8:30 p.m...
...Thursday, March 8, 8:30 p.m...
...Members are again urged to pay up aU back dues...
...Queens and Richmond Barnet Wolf, delegate...
...I am quite certain thai most of the things stated in those volumes were correct...
...counties...
...On Tuesday evening, March 2nd...
...It is quite possible that in one particular field a genius should be able to grasp deeper and more penetratingly conditions in a foreign land than a native but it is doubtful whether the same possibility can be realized In covering a huge and unexplored field...
...Arnot who writes on Soviet Russia and her neighbors in this series and also Prof...
...Bronx Jacob Bernstein, August Claessens, I. George Dobsevage, Esther Friedman, Samuel Orr, Isidore Polsteln, Sarah Voiovick...
...Baby Brodsky, of course, has Joined the 18th...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-8-12th A.D...
...Without pretending to dig Into,the substructure of Russian society of today, Mr...
...Socialist Party, 33rd A. D. Friday...
...Hardy were so anxious to erect a beautiful picture of Russian economics, that they forgot to prepare a foundation and with the first blow of adversity, the whole building begins to sag...
...Each one saw the situation as he wanted it to be seen...
...So important an election as this one should not go by default by having but a small percentage of the membership vote...
...There ia leas silence and' less sycophancy...
...Candidates for the three delegates at huge were announced last week...
...We must make the best possible showing...
...The Economic Organisation of the Soviet Union, By Scott Nearing and Jack Hardy...
...Monday, March 5, 9 p.m...
...The excellent work performed by Magill can be duplicated In any other state that needs organization...
...Brailsford did not guess right...
...I think the most striking paragraph hi the whole book Is tbe opening of his chapter on the Church to which be says...
...22d, Frank's life partner, Kate Brodaky, the former Kate Wolfaon...
...Nevada is a small state in area and population, but the Socialist sentiment Is good...
...Unorganised Socialists in other cities and towns in that state should follow UX0 OswMBPIsia Delaware Socialists of Delaware wishing to have a Presidential ticket in their state in the election of 1928 kindly get In touch with' the state secretary of Maryland, 8. M. Nelstadt, 1607 E Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md...
...We also read that "production Is distributed between millions of small peasants whose holdings are so small that they are not likely to become serious accumulators of private capital before the state is able to industrialize and economize rural production and direct it in the path of cooperation...
...Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street Auspices, Socialist Party, 21rd A. D. Mrs, ToW Held Passe* Comrade Adotafc Held: President of tbe ¦nishjainstsd Bank, sustained a his mother Mrs...
...Then," says Balabanofl, "the rumor got about that Lenin and some of his colleagues, with the help of the Swiss Socialist Party secretary, Flatten, had decided to make the journey to Russia through Germany...
...Admission is free...
...It reads: "To the sincere men and women of Russia who, despite prison, exile, and death, burned out their lives trying to attain freedom, peace and brotherhood for the common people...
...Comrade M Weintraub, of St Louis, is doing fine work In that section and there are excellent responses from all para of the country...
...The vote closes March 24th...
...March 6, at the headquarters, 4215 Third avenue, 8:30 p.m...
...Although this was often somewhat removed from true workingclass Internationalism, it was at any rate better than the outlook of the average social patriot...
...Fred Sander and James A. Manson...
...Tegtmeyer and Louis Ufiner...
...Charles Solomon...
...The German Government imposed no conditions upon their journey, except that they were not allowed out of the train...
...However, most of the authors entrusted with the job of explaining Russia to the world are trained journalists...
...Everything is so scarce and so dear...
...She was engaged in this work when the news arrived that Ijenln and bis colleagues had seized power In Petrograd and that the Soviet Republic had been declared In Russia...
...Auspices, Reamer Club...
...Marks avenue...
...I read in the chapter on the Communist Party: "The speD ef alienee was broken by the same fact that he (Trotsky) forced a thorough public discussion within the Party of the main issues of Russian policy...
...Attendance at meetings is better than at any time for many years...
...Growing unemployment In Connecticut will make these bills real ammunition for the 1928 campaign...
...Every member who has not heard Ross should make it a point to bear him...
...She gives a full account of her journey from Switzerland, which lasted some weeks...
...She also agrees to make a tour of the state to line up members and prepare the way for an active campaign...
...But only after a time did I realise the full significance of Lenin's decision and could see how exactly this fitted in with his character...
...L must say," continue* Balabanoff, "that although Trotikyi pride always made a bad impression oa me, nevertheless his enormous Intellectual gifts, his inner tact and self-discipline enabled him to keep himself in head at a time when It was needed to the interests of the revolution...
...State Executive The State Executive Committee met in New Haven Sunday, Feb...
...The following comrades were nominated by the various locals for delegates to the national convention, Junsek, of Greenwich...
...He came towards me smiling, but I said to him straight away without a greeting: 'What, bo soon from Zlmmervald Into a coalition Government.' . . . From the first moment of my entry into Russia it was clear that I must stand with the left wing of the revolutionary movement in conflict with the coalition Government...
...The 10th District, which Is composed of the County Of Erie, will make its own nominations and conduct its own referendum...
...Freeman Mansion, 1243 Southern Blvd...
...Though the Socialists of the Entente countries saw nothing wrong in this journey through Germany, this action was carried through by the Russian Bolsheviks alone, and not in co-operation with the rest of the Zlmmervald Commission, which was opposed to these tactics...
...New York City Election ef Delegates to the National Convention Ballots for the election of delegates to the National Convention are now in the possession of the organizer or the secretaries of the various branches in all five counties of Local New York City...
...Bronx The Bronx Branches now have the ballots for the election of delegates to the National Convention...
...Hochman is preparing a book on the same subject, his many years in the labor movement and his present post in one of the largest unions In New York make his lecture extremely important and interesting...
...Mac Donald If the latter had taken the same attitude toward Egypt and India that Stalin had taken toward Georgia...
...On March 4, she win speak on "Woman's Sphere...
...The Chinese Adventure The most Illuminating example of the futility of Mr...
...Frank Brodsky will apeak on "The Economic Interpretation of History" at the Headquarters, 1465 St...
...Nobody who is familiar with the activities of the Third International, not from the statements of Zinoviev or Mlkoyau, but from actual experience, does not for a moment think that these activities would be possible without direct support from the Soviet government...
...W. Noonan for delegate and Charles Autere for alternate...
...New York State State Referendum Ballots have been sent out on the referendum for delegates and alternates to the National Convention...
...Labor Lyceum and affiliated bodies...
...new home...
...For the Bolsheviks always held somewhat aloof from Zlmmervald and bad their meetings separate from the International Socialist Commission...
...Speaker, August Claessens...
...The fight of the Greek-Orthodox Church against the Soviets, Its involuntary submission and the attempt of the Soviets to encourage a new church, more to sympathy with the new order, as well as the vista that has been opened to other churches as a result of the Revolution—all this and more is competently recited to Mr...
...He thought it was Trotsky's persona...
...The American Communists have repeatedly admitted that they receive from time to time support from Russia, and Stalin, In a public that such assistance is Justifiable, that such such assistance Is justifiable...
...The resurrection of the Russian proletariat, the end of Russian despotism, the beginning of the end of the ghastly war I What could be done to cause the spark kindled by the Russian Revolution to spread over all Europe...
...Cart Larsen, Darwin J. Meserole, Harry Ma Ills...
...Comareds Arkln, Rocwer and Lewis are doing the same for Boston and vicinity...
...Yipseldom Elections Members of the Senior Y. P. S. L. olease notice that elections for League Executive and Financial Secretaries will begin March 2 and end March 12...
...Does this dedication apply also to tbe present rulers of Russia...
...A suite of rooms in the Labor Lyceum has been set aside for the pur"Kwe...
...And if so, do they try to attain freedom...
...Walter Duranty defines as the Russian Communists' usual errors on the side of optimism, fundamentally they are probably correct.- But nearly twenty years ago I read, while confined in a solitary, cell In the Wilna prison, two volumes on the History and Constitution of America...
...that the Soviet government in Its notes to foreign powers has repeatedly emphasized the falsity of the assertion of identity between the Soviet government and the Third International...
...Arnot fails entirely to see the great misfortune brought upon Russia and her future standing to the world by the Communist policy to China Just as English hostility and Intervention during the first years of the Russian revolution helped the Communist Party o establish its sway over Russia, so did Russian policy to China help to save Imperialism for Great Britain...
...In what way is Russian imperialism more Justified than English...
...06 avenue C. Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-8-12-AXJ...
...The Economic Interpretation of History...
...The completeness with which this ancient institution encompasses every move to the Hfe of the individual from the day of his birth to his death aad even after that pursues him with the prayers and candles of his family, Is nothing short ef marvelous...
...Somewhere it has been said, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown...
...The Germans, who were filled with hatred against their Government and against their party which had betrayed its trust so shamefully, saw everything that concerned Germany in the blackest possible light...
...On the contrary, today it Is actually sending some money back to Russia...
...Seven to be elected...
...Instead of consulting his colleagues on the matter, he approached, through a neutral embassy in Petrograd...
...presented Frank with a baby girl, weighing 6 3-4 lbs...
...Our objective Is about $5,000 In ads...
...on the following subject: "My Observations of Soviet Russia...
...without'an element of tragedy...
...Edward Cohen, will give the first of a series of talks on "The Cooperative Movement in America...
...Brailsford concludes his study with the following statement: "By its unflinching endurance through die dark years of blockade and crtil war, of trials for which there is no parallel In modem history...
...Simon Berlin...
...Under the liadnilitii of Oasnraass Mr...
...Simon Berlin...
...But this meant that all relations with her family would be cut off...
...Funeral services were bold Tuesday, at the shore address and memorial services later la the Attorney street Synasx**a ,aVi r...
...National Convention A Souvenir Journal is being printed in conjunction with the National Convention and the several affairs that are being arranged simultaneously with the Convention...
...Reuben Soliday, who supplied the visitors with a tasty soup at cost prices...
...Borders records his impressions of the Russian' Village as he saw It...
...245 West 74th street, 8.80 pm...
...Now it is self-supporting and receives no financial aid from the Third International...
...rest of the eveKg» *° to d<"voted id a discussion of ¦The nest regular meeting of this branch ¦a be held oh Tuesday evening, March Sot At (htt meeting ballots wfll be aVband for the election of delegates to the National Convention and one hnportaa* feature-of the evetrk* wis-he an J3*-*?0' Prordtnertt Bocmllst, occasion as well an enrolled Bortaint voters of the district...
...That was the slogan which the small band who had gathered round Lenin in Switzerllnd, amongst them Angelica Balabanofl, had made then- watchword...
...at a Joint meeting of Circles One Juniors and Nine Seniors on March 16 at 218 Van Sicklen avenue at 0 p.m...
...It may represent no coheijent view bat it Is strong enough to force a thorough debate on every issue that emerges and loyal enough when the whole Party has debated the point to bow to the decision of its vote...
...It now looks like 400 members by May first, instead of 200...
...Auspices...
...With him she now became as Intimate as she had been with the Italian Socialist leaders...
...The German Foreign Office thought that revolutionary propaganda In Russia would help Germany In the war...
...www»* The Jvwkdi ?erbaad Xranch, Coney Island, which meeu at SUSMermata avenue, is showing considerable improvement in attendance...
...In short, the Party Uvea, for It continue* to combine democracy with discipline...
...I have already indicated that photographically it (the village) is essentially what it was a hundred years ago...
...Only a strong architect, even if he had to clear away some rubbish ruthlessly, was in place...
...Environment...
...Chas...
...The lectures are entertaining and educational...
...That they were not entirely successful in giving an impartial evaluation of the Russia of today, is not the fault of their integrity or ability but the fault of either their approach or their method...
...Six months later the Commission called another conference at Kienthal, at which Balabanofl was present...
...The important business before the meeting will be the balloting for delegates to the National Convention...
...In a short time they got the answer back that Grimm could come to Russia...
...With all allowances for what Mr...
...Four Lee tares George Ross will deliver four lectures m "India" for the League...
...Central Committee The City Central Committee win bold its regular meeting on Wednesday evening, March 7, in room 402, Peoples House, 7 East 15th street...
...He has had little experience but his desire to get this work done—his willingness to sacrifice —has proven what a real live wire can do...
...And in the meantime the Zlmmervald Commission was working under BalabanofTs guidance In Stockholm to Inform the world about the truth of events in Russia...
...I remember asking Lenta, as he stood by the window, what was likely to...
...As such it was of first-class historic importance...
...although most of them were experienced Marxists, educated in the school of objectivity...
...Branch Seven The next regular meeting of this branch wUl be held on Tuesday evening...
...What would Mr...
...The important business for this meeting will be the voting for delegates to the National Convention, immediately following the business meeting, J. Rosenthal will speak and lead the discussion on "The Newer Criticism of Marxism...
...There is lees centralisation...
...After much difficulty it was possible to get a resolution passed which laid down tactics to be adopted by the anti-war sections...
...Speaker, Frank Brodaky...
...Hamden At a recent meeting the local nominated Jasper McLevy, Bridgeport, Karl JuTsek, Greenwich, and Walter Davis, Hamden, to go on the ballot as state delegates to the National Convention...
...I had to realise how extremely subjective were all the outlooks and opinions of those who believed themselves to be acting most objectively and non-partisan...
...Arnot "s study Is his chapter on Soviet Russia and the Chinese Revolution...
...Socialist Party, 5th AD...
...Our reception in revolutionary Russia made a poor Impression on me...
...And "Opposition' exists within the Party which includes some of Ha ablest men...
...Sunday, March 4, 8.30 p.m...
...But when later I came to the United States I found that while the matter I read might have been correct in its relation to books, documents and records, it was not entirely correct Insofar as the daily reactions of the average American are concerned...
...The lecture is arranged by the Bronx Boro Committee and will start promptly at 3:80 p.m...
...Current Events...
...pride that prevented him from Joining the Bolsheviks and made him continue, to keep a small party with a newspaper of his own...
...How could we find our quickest way to Russia, in order to place ourselves at the disposal of the Revolution and of the fight for peace...
...BEHIND THE SCENE OF TWO DICATORSHIPS Lenin Feared Early Peace Would Kill Bolshevism, Italian Woman Aid Writes in Her Memoirs By M. Philips Price TJTTHKR the war kills the revolution or the revolution kills the war...
...State Secretary Merrill, who is secretary of the city central labor body of Schenectady, will preside at the Ward meeting...
...Bast Side Socialist Centre...
...Brailsford has only this reference to make to the conquest by Soviet Russia, of the Republic of Georgia: "A full and honest treatment of the tangled policies of the Caucasus would demand a separate chapter...
...Nearing and Mr...
...And the man who doesn't understand the Communist Party, cannot possibly understand Russia...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 11
