INSIDE OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
Price, M. Philips
INSIDE OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL "The Bolsheviks Have Undermined the Masses Confidence In the Coming of Socialism," Balabanoff Writes )ByM. Philips Price With this article Comrade...
...Immediately after the business meeting August Claessens will jpeak on some question of Interest to the Party...
...This was eeaa daring her ahsuiue in the TJkrasaa, and when she was asoapswai to return to--Moose*, awing to the fas* that the BwnBda Whites were toast, . tag the » sentry la the saaasaar ef ' 1919, she fOaad that aB this hai been deae behind bar back...
...Judge Jacob Panken, who was announced to lecture at the above forum on Friday last, on: "The Philosophy of Law", wui deliver this lecture, af...
...Owing to some mistake, te could not appear last Friday, having seriously been booked for another orrananvMon...
...Zlmmervald had done its duty...
...We were stopping at the Chief Osceola Hotel In Jacksonville with our spring samples...
...Auspices, Socialist Party...
...Choice seats can be obtained at the City Office, 7 Eastlfm street, or at branch and county uftionv Those desiring to be present arc mgaa to get their tickets now...
...Johanna Rjawsky, financial secretary...
...Subject: Genius—H?rdlty and environment...
...But Jones plucked the sleeve of my Kuppenheimer and whispered "Look...
...The enars for others unrelentingly snatched him as a victim...
...Lenta and Trotsky pal OHBflart hej nrtrsal i ly to give up her work In the Ukraine aa dcome to Moscow and be striasajj to the new International But soon aftsr Zlnoviev, who had hem relieved of ha Job in Petrograd, because of Ids unpopularity there, became President of the I...
...Subject, The Socialist Campaign Issues...
...Fire and sword- be repelled with blood and decimation...
...She had never been in the East to her lllfe, spoke none of the languages and knew nothing about the movements and traditions of the people...
...The maelstrom of the revolution swirled him about to a labyrinth of mutations and social changes...
...It was at once decided to have a conference of these delegates to see what should be done to reconstitute the International...
...But with the exception of a few comrades who 'had got through from Germany, it consisted mostly of former' prisoners of way'who were in Russia...
...Be created the Revolutionary Tribunal that waa destined, to send him to the- guillotine...
...Their name, Influence, and authority was to be placed at the disposal of the Communist International, but never were they to have the least control over policy or Insight into the activities of the leading clique...
...Trenont Educational Forum, 4215 Third ivenue...
...Since she left Russia the mighty Zlnoviev has fallen...
...Subject "Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance...
...And below It the motto: "Progress, Education, Truth I. . . . "We Believe What We Say!* DICTATORS Why They Never Last By Morris Boschwitz tTJICTATORSHIP is not big, great or grand, but pretentious, corruptible and small...
...Science Is great...
...An organisation campaign through letter writing la being kept up...
...Rhode Island' An' effort will be "made to put up a state and national ticket...
...This kind of work can be repeated to twenty other states that need attentiSL' Tha^omanised states Nevada Carson City livens up again...
...j .. Wiry Communism Failed The internal decay of all Communist Parties in Europe shows only too clearly the end to which the way of unscrupulousness to the use of methods leads...
...Heredity and Rnvironnent", under the auspices of Tremont Educational Forum, at 4215 Third Avelue, near Tremont Avenue, Bronx...
...Subject "Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance...
...On March 16, Pierre De Nio will speak at Circle 8, Juniors, meeting on "Co-operation" and 3eorge Ross will lecture at a joint meeting of Circle one...
...After a time, however, I saw that this was only a move to get rid of Kollontay and put me to her place, so I refused...
...J Texas State Secretary Taylor sends for more dues stamps and forwards contributions to help the National Office In its effort to organize other states...
...March 12, 9 p. m. Speaker: or...
...Forty-five electors are to be chosen...
...He could not carry on a struggle of such stupendous magnitude without falling a prey to the lust for power...
...I started on...
...BROOKLYN Friday, March 9, 9 p. m. Speaker: Samuel A. De Witt...
...They have learnt the art at deceit and lying, net in the' struggle against Taarism bet hi carrying eat the instructions ef the mighty Ztaeviev...
...Local York is reviving and will put up a lively campaign aVttstswa Local Pottstown has held two excellent propaganda meetings and is getting Into its stride of former years...
...The membership worked hard towards its success and every Brownsville member Is happy about the outcome...
...And we stepped down again to the lobby to scan the daily bulletin board...
...muttered Jones in my ear...
...She was appointed secretary of the International...
...It was on the basis of these principles that the first President of the Communist International chose his people to work with him...
...Abe Kaufman, Educational Director...
...Scraps of the world's best poetry, epigrams of the ancients, thoughts from the Great Thinkers...
...Everything was to be swallowed up' in the International...
...Robespierre appeared upon the scene at this time, loudly proclaiming the necessity for revolutionary dictatorship...
...ales the controller of the policy'of the International...
...She was recalled to Moscow by telegram, for In the meantime some representatives of Socialist Parties in Western and Central Europe had succeeded in breaking through the blockade and getting into Russia...
...Montana Local Whiteflsh of that city met on March 1 and made preliminary arrangements to have a fufecity'ttctet for the election that takes...
...At the zero hours, there being no reason why we should'nt, we whlmmed to walk up the three flights rather than Inconvenience the elevator boy who was reading...
...re-raw, economic and Ideological blockade of Russia now began In earnest...
...includes men...
...Though we were surrounded by the audience there was not one bodily odor to be detected, and not the slightest trace of halitosis tainted the Muriel-scented air...
...the Communist International on the other hand, has not only under, mined the belief of the masses In revolutionary action of any kind, but hai severely damaged the prestige of the Russian revolution and weakened the belle] of the workers in the release of manktrxi from capitalist slavery...
...Henlington Hall, 214 East 2nd street...
...Pomp and vainglory are like burnished metals...
...Many of these foreign comrades...
...Everyone in Moscow now was persuaded that the old Second International was dead...
...With tragic similarity they have all abandoned their hopes...
...They were com pellet...
...The talk by Frank Brodsky on the "Economic Interpretation of History" was interestingly delivered and the discussion following was up to standard...
...Candidates for electors can run for public office at the same time...
...not a vmui who could have ' remembered' McKlnley..' As they hung upon the speaker's words, their gaze was as keen as a blooded pointer's: —Men of keen judgment, smoking out the facts, I thought.' And their clothes were' such dreams as a style-creator might have dreamed after having just bought a Stock Exchange seat at a new high...
...Members and friends are cordially invited...
...We Just discovered something— same as, well...
...to.Russia to the ol 1920...
...Clifford Allen, and Wellhead, But all of...
...Worknen's Circle Center, 7316 20th avenue...
...Simon Berlin...
...His face was a startled white...
...y • . When, however, ofavof the foreign, comrades began, as they'-.sometimes did.- to demand an insight into these activities or to object to certain methods, Zlnoviev at once began an attempt to quiet them by giving them some nee) and more mora trve office...
...9-16th A. D. Friday, March 9, 8:30 p. m. Speaker: Charles Solomon...
...Soon she became aware of the fact that Zlnoviev had appointed a young Russian Communist who had no knowledge of Italian or of the Italian movement as "assistant" to her but really as spy for himself...
...But thexjpere quite Ignorand of the face- that they wee*, oovasmg with their 'names, and authority v deeds which they would never have osontenanced to their relations with thefr.comrades to their own country...
...I was first offered the task of acting as secretary to the Russian Women's Organisation In place of Madame Kollontay...
...In fact he waa filled with the profound conviction of a French Republic, and of liberating the French peasantry from the bondage which hereditary monarchy """^g^td it to...
...That a new International had to be formed, that it had already been formed to Zinunervald and was being further developed In this conference in Moscow, no one was clearer about than I was...
...like Tom Shaw, Boa Turner...
...Consequently the honest ones were only used as decorations...
...On the .other 'hand those who -are the most capable of leading a workingclass movement, those who had the real interest of the Russian revolution at heart were eliminated, because their honest devotion to the cause of the revolution and the experience and confidence which they enjoyed among the masses made them . enemies of such methods and systems as he was determined to build up...
...From Menes To Mencken' was the topic...
...Balabanoff, as secretary of the Zlmmervald - Commission, which had kept the flag of International Socialism flying during the war until her expulsion from Switzerland and till the blockade of Russia, was wanted in Moscow...
...96 \venue C. Auspices, Socialist Party, 6l-12th A. D. BRONX Friday, March 16, 8:30 p. m.—Speakers: Samuel Orr...
...BrownevWe Labor Lyceum, 219 jackman street...
...or if this sad hot succeed, they were dubbed as counter revolutionaries and Social Democrats, they were deprived of all their offices, and the whole appartus of espionage and...
...In his ardor for the revolutionary cause he cruelly sacrificed human hostages...
...This is her description of what happened, and it Is interesting, as it Is an account of the way in which the Third or Communist International came Into being...
...But he essayed the impossible...
...T.-.Tliealie Fatty __M Socialists pf Greater New York ahooM reserve Wednesday evening, March ¦ for a Theatre-Party at the Republic Theatre...
...I caught such names as Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Elbert i Hubbard Buddha, Guest, Roosevelt...
...Edward Cohen will give the first of a series of talks on the "Cooperative Movement in America...
...Ai long as the leadership of the Communis...
...And where else but In Russia, - where the fundamental Ideas of Zlmmeryald were being put Into practice, should the home of this International be...
...Kansas Ross Magill, State Secretary, has proven that it can be done...
...reeman Mansion...
...Use despoils them of their glittering sheen...
...Foreign Socialists, of course, can, with difficulty, see through these machinations...
...The Italians loft Russia and Serrati insisted on his policy of not splitting the Left Wing from the Right Wing to tbt Italian Socialist Party...
...All sorts of stories were concocted about Serratl's personal character and his past career, in order to rouse feeling against him...
...The confidential and irresponsible agents are sent abroad to ordei to send back reports of the type that J are wanted by the Russian leaders...
...Seven comrades send in their contribution to help organize in the weak states...
...As soon, however, as the Italian workers ware defeated and Mussolini triumphant, the Russians began a wild attack on tbt Socialist leaders for not having dose more thoroughly the very thing which they themselves expressed some doubts about the wisdom of...
...The State Convention called for March 10 at Oklahoma City, in Musicians' Hall, 219 1-2 North Broadway, will be well attended...
...I looked around greedily for some new sphere of activity...
...Monday, March 12, at 2:30 p.m...
...That's why it happened that on the mezzanine, passing one of the hostelry's convention rooms and seeing the doors ajar, we paused to peek in...
...There were perhaps 300 men (and a few women) Inside whom a speaker was spieling at from the farther end Nothing unusual...
...In one of his speeches he said "the newspaper writers who desire to contaminate public opinion need their mouths stopped for them...
...Massachusetts Lewis' Speaking Dates Wednesday, March 7, Worcester Central Labor Union...
...Local Buffalo is arranging to have Esther Friedman speak at a meeting in Elmwood Music Hall on the 22nd...
...The Italian party was the first victim of the fateful, suicidal policy of the leaders of the Communist International...
...West Virginia Comrade Higglns, State Secretary, reports a number of new members and repeats his previous statement that the Party will be well organized before he is through...
...Information regarding speakers, literature, platforms, etc may be obtained from the National Office...
...France was about to put its king to death...
...She was to be got cut of the way, because she knew something shoot conditions to the West and especially about Italy, and If she was to Moscow she might spoil Zinoviev's plan of «pH*Hrg the West European Socialist movements...
...The Policy of Split*" ; "Later the question arose on the Executive of the International of the number of delegates which should appear at the next Congress...
...He sent the king, Denton and numerous other pesky individuals to their doom...
...She has returned from a trip around the world and it will be of great interest to hear what she says about conditions abroad Several new members will be adopted Into the family and plans will be made for an Intensive membership drive...
...Balabanoff ends her memoirs by pointing a moral to this unedifying history of the Communist International: "The tragic situation In which the Russian Revolution finds Itself, has been used ay the leaders to foster sectionalism in ihe workers' movement throughout Europe and so keep these leaders in power...
...The dictator clothes himself In a garb of power and rules his dynasty without let or hindrance...
...which -this literature la crammed...
...Subject: "Unemployment...
...The speakers will be Samuel Orr, August Claessens and Henry Frucbter...
...Mew* S* Ocammmtty rrn^b...
...It is not by the broadcasting of these which, when they are written to a periodical by some learned Marxist, are of value, and are read with Interest by those concerned, that the masses can be educated to action, any more than by vulgar polemics and personal attacks, with...
...What matter, I marvelled...
...Divining my effort, a gentleman at my right supped Into my hand a marked program and a cigarette...
...More mystified than ever, I gave It up and, nudging Jones, crept out "I must find out, Jones, Oh, I must...
...Thoroughbreds, by gad...
...With the help of Lenin, who was always a sympathetic friend to her, she came in contact with Rakowsky, the head of Ukrainian Soviet Government, who took her with him to the Ukraine, where she worked in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs...
...Yipseldom Circle One Circle One, Bronx, met last Sunday afternoon and elected she following ofaccrs: William Dancid, organiser...
...It is typical of what has.happened since that in the newly-founded Communist International he, who was largely instrumental in seeing it- born, the enthusiastic Austrian comrade, has now left its ranks and has returned to his printer's trade and, like so many others who have remained true to the original ideas of the new International, has refused to co-operate with those who have abused their trust...
...State Secretary Merrill has advlced such locals as have not designated candidates for party position to be voted on at the spring primary to take measures to have names written In on the primary ballot on April 3rd The State Secretary announces that suggestions should be made to the State Office for candidates to be nominated by the official State Committee for electors of President and Vice-President for the Socialist Party...
...Indiana The State Secretary of Indiana again reports increased enthusiasm...
...A new member of the discussion f roup has been acquired in the person of Gilbert R. Sackman, an old-timer who has rejoined the party, and who is an asset of which we are exceedingly proud...
...Bfiantnr The borough of Shflnngton has been granted a charter by Local Berks County and the new branch starts with 23 members...
...But then " there arose an Austrian comrade who had been living some-time to Russia and had become a Communist, an honest but highly impressionable man, a printer by trade...
...If our busy modern life foe a round of choosey food and crunchless manna, these teeth have defted pinktoothbrush and Black Plague Pyorrhea...
...The Honest Resolutiavtuats Leave "So it happens that nearly 'all the honest revolutionaries dfdifferent lands, who joined soon after, the funding of the Communist International, have now left its ranks altogether, ji-*TThe system which is set up by the leaders which excludes all possibility of .'combating the scandalous state of affahw/ m-the inside of the organisation...
...i ..•( . "A small rgraup esTrfce eat aTJ Moscow -executives decisions n the Oommurdst parties outside Russia blindly and without any discrimination of their own...
...On the following day," she writes, "I heard Zinoviv had been appointed its chairman...
...All that was wanted now was a comprehensive organisation to function for this new International...
...Friday, March 9, at WeUesley Forum, Wellesley College at 4:30 p.m...
...On the day when the martyred remains of Matteottl were being buried, representatives of the Soviet State in Italy were having an intimate conversation at lansh with Mussolini...
...They are denounced as traitors, and Social Democrats and new ones elected in their place, who fat their turn are expected to be pBable elements to the agents' hands.' . . . For the creation of a dam consciousness among the masses, social and economic conditions are the determining factor...
...At the meeting March 0. at 1463 St...
...On those commanding faces neither ache nor worry had wrought a sign...
...I glanced at some of the faultlessly shod feet within my vision...
...On the report of an agent of the Russian Party, who had had no experienes of the Italians, the splitting of the Ballon party was to be prepared behind the backt of everyone by intrigues and cwiupttaa, On one thing I was clear, that I was not going tp play a double role towards the Italian eonmadeo or act behind their backs...
...1243 Southern Boule'ard...
...A rsooeat for a puisne roaftiua* aa S^T...
...She managed to get herself appointed as guide to the Italian Socialist Party delegation, her...
...This was to be done without Comrade X one of the most able and devoted of the old Bolshevik guard, who was at,the-'head of this bureau...
...When the conference was over Balabanoff thought of returning to the Ukraine to continue her work to the foreign Commisariat there...
...Corns could be to such extremities only academic allusions, and prostituted arches would be to them an architecture-base as the cloven hoof...
...Sunday, March IS, Pttebburg Local, ''Unemployment and- Unemployment In"•End...
...The idea was widespread too in Russia that without an extension of the revolution to Europe, Russia could not hold odt alone...
...The fourth lecture is by Julius Hochman, general manager of the I. L. G. W. U. will speak on "The Communists in the Trade Unions" at a meeting of the Bronx Yipsols at 1107 Boston Road, Sunday, March 25...
...as* cab/ hseaase aha sassse) "—ft frees there bat hseaase ; an the taalUcnHal agents easae tress" tharojWho give the orders about . sasthssa seat tactics and hand eat . the aaaney aoasrdmaiy...
...No one wanted to give me any work to do In the land of the Revolution...
...Subject "The Economic Basis for Brotherhood...
...Nothing damages the prestige of a party more than lies and intrigues...
...Monday...
...to see that It was not information from abroad that was wanted...
...6 Byron street, Boston, at 4:00 p.m...
...After much trouble she managed to get this new Intrigue of Zlnoviev's quashed, only to hear that he had revenged htmsslf on her by formally dismissing her .front her post ss secretary to the International...
...The entire house is engaged ana the play la, "Porgy", the most «J* ceseful production of the Theatre Quae in many seasons...
...It was there in gilt lettering: "Annual Convention Of Associated Advertising Agencies Of America...
...I peered again thru the smoke star titled atmosphere.—I never had seen such a gathering in my life Splendid creatures, cleancut as cameos, complexions like schoolgirls, heads of hair such as Tonsor himself might have carried—and not a bald-pate near a gray...
...For the creation of an Influential political party prestige Is all important...
...at the clubrooms, 96 Avenue C. Ballots for election of delerates to the National Convention are on band and several other vital matters win be taken up...
...The branch meets every Monday eveDing at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street...
...Suggestions will be transmitted to the State Committee...
...he gasped...
...Gibraltar was the seat of a party organatatlon several years ago and the request for organization will be given attention as soon as possible...
...They also report an increased membership, most new members coming from the railroad workers...
...Vuspjces...
...Subject: "The Peoples...
...groups in Europe, I felt I could speak In thejr name and join up with the nex International In Moscow...
...One felt the existence of hierarchy above, which I bad never thought possible...
...That's that...
...Only the question of the opportune moment was doubtful, but when this yas decided by, the speech of the Austrian comrade, I felt It my duty to support It in the name of the original Zimmervald Commission...
...bn^of sSj^2»w''^^fa...
...Not content with merely urging upon the public mind the death of the royal element, he filled bis retainers with violent hostility toward every form of opposition...
...Swayed solely by personal ambition he seeks nothing but personal glory...
...Than came the attempts to occupy Italian factories...
...Philips Price With this article Comrade Price concludes his story of the life of Angelica Balabanoff, veteran Italian Socialist leader who was the first Secretary of the Communist International...
...Subject, 'The Social Plays of Henrik Ibsen...
...former colleagues...
...the ibove address, next Friday, March 16th, it 8^0 sharp...
...23rd A. D. The annual ball held by this branch happened last Saturday evening and we are glad to announce that it was a very successful affaftf...
...As for the cigarette, I demurred, whispering, "My throat . . , ." "Ah," indulgently smiled my courteous friend, "Belasco, Jenny Lind, Grover Whalen and Kreisler also have throats"—and he slapped on his pocket lighter,—"these are Stoutmother Cigarettes...
...more old time mebers becoming active-again and paying dues...
...Both the Second and the Comnunist International live by the mistakes ind fallings which the other has comnitted towards the workers...
...There wlB be a conference of Sociaiistsi at Mass CM* to the nsej-future...
...She waa ordered to go back to the UkrsiriBB?-taTgr vocfe ':4toaWCtw wMriil sMbmnbSbv~ f|g put to her jjtoe* as secretary who bad never had any experience of the ¦~Slhi movement outside Russia...
...them have been more er lea estranged by the demagogy of the leaden of the Communist International" Km ,Snowden, however, she puts into anotisn category of those whe were far more interested In the fate of the church, of the clergy, and of the Tsarist nobis*} than in the conditions of the Rosaasa workers and nnunti But It was with the Italian delegation that Balabanoff had the most to do...
...Comrades who will help are urged to write at once to the district office...
...Edward Cohen...
...Yet now their confidence is altogether destroyed when this very Zlnoviev who started the campaign against Trotsky is turned out of his poet, and declares that the greatest mistake he ever made was to attack Trotsky...
...Jessie W. HughMi will be present...
...But as she was an the point ef taking up her work again as- secretary and of preparing for the reception ef the Italian and British Labor delegations, which were Just now coming to Russia, following the relaxation of the blackade, she received a noties to the effect that the International was sending her on a long Journey to Turkestan and Central Asia to carry on Communist agitation among the Mohammedans...
...The first by George Ross on "India'' will l»e deUveryi Sunday, March 11, at Circle 13's meeting, 420 Hinsdale street...
...The case of Zlnoviev shows in a peculiarly drastic Form in what a frivolous way the Bolsheelk leaders have sinned in their duty towards the masses and have undermined their confidence to the coming jf Socialism...
...abanoff pays that most of them laaDy were sympathetic towards Soviet Ruses, "They, understood the heroic struggle at* was making and the suffering* ahe waa undergoing for .the great Idea of proletarian emancipation, Among this tyas she...
...Not gross mammon but the fine precepts of social Justice Inspired him...
...and ill Tipsels should- attend Lecture Calendar Sunday, March 11, 11 a. m.—Speaker, Jacob Panken, subject, "Current Events", fithelred Brown, guest speaker...
...This was the whole nature of this man, who saw an ulterior motive in everything...
...One can call forth no mass movement, If one looks upon the masses only as Instruments to a game, and if one tries 'to" influence them by Inferior types of persons who are only carrying out their instructions sent .from abroad, because that Is their only means of livelihood Under such leadership the masses lose confidence to you and to themselves...
...It Is essential that Bmm bahem be vaftrd -upon at the next 5a*2ttel flUMtf1 °y ** * special reports to the City Office no later than March 28...
...West European ScdaUst Parties would not be won by honeycombing the International with committees of the Russian Communist Party or by flUine these committees with toexperienced instruments of Zlnoviev, oka was told that she could go on a holiday on account of her "health...
...That no one else has reported In anything like it, means nothing to me nor, I am sure, to Jones...
...Stake In Coal and Oil...
...The time might come when this would be necessary, he said, but if it happened now, it would only assist the Italian reaction...
...What Is left is the sullied, tarnished alloy...
...New York City Delegates te the national Ceavewtiea All branches to the five counties of Hew York City now have their quota of ballots for tt* eleoUon of delegates to the autioaal Convention...
...Angelica Balabanoff's work for the reestabllshment of the International was for the time almost Impossible...
...The National Convention Agenda was discussed at the last meeting of Local Schenectady, but no action was taken to Instruct the delegate from the Schenectady District, ; | Socialist Party Plans and Progress Through The States National Readers to unorganized communities desiring 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, £653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...The events of recent years have anvlneed me more than anything eke hat only one way leads to u«i that kthsw^ of Truth.THE NEW RACE Perfect Products Discovered By Raymond Fuller TVI EITHER of our firms would stand for it...
...BROOKLYN 18th A. D. The membership of the 18th A. D. is now above 70 and with the members diligently at work canvassing enrolled voters there is every hope of attaining the goal of 200 members by May 1, which was set for itself some weeks ago...
...for long, have no idea of a world Outlook, are mostly products of, the war and the after-war period, who value in the Russian Revolution only its mttttary suceesaj and only value it and its leaders which are to be blindly obeyed...
...Before the breakdown of the Communist International wai I as apparent as it is to-day, the mart naive and honest of the foreign era, whe sympathised with it and even belonged to it, tried.to explain away this state ol affairs by attributing It to the lack of...
...Inevitably the question arose: What words could o^-h beings be listening to, save the ultimate words of genius and success...
...Quite by change, happening to meet in the lobby near the entrance to Ye Toethsomme Cookie Jar, we improve the shining hours between dinner and midnight "talking-it business" together over Sally Lunns and buttermilk...
...1248 Southern Boulevard...
...tcrnationaland began to intrigue asanas her...
...Not a man over 35...
...SKUNX 5th A. D. On Friday, March 16, at 8:30 p. m. an enrolled voters meeting will be held at the Freeman Mansion...
...It is an empty phrase that methods--must not be confounded with objects...
...The former Uved at a time when revolution was the order of the day...
...French as the French use it, German as the Germans say It...
...3!E2?j£ES* town...
...What we saw, we beheld...
...Through the haze I finally made out a triumphant placard near the speaker's platform...
...Important Items will be the election of delegates to the National Convention...
...Bensonhurst Forum, 16th A. 3., Kings...
...Rita Xubinow...
...There.were other placards, too, which I could not decipher...
...Since the war a demagogue of e different type baa usurped the power of dictatorship in war-ridden Italy...
...But I came up against unexpected hindrances...
...New York State Buffalo's Delegates Secretary Schnabel of Local Buffalo, has advised the State Office that James Battistoni has been chosen to represent the 10th, or Brie County District, ss delegate to the National Convention of the Socialist Party...
...But who is It for whom methods have become objects in themselves .? How is it when those who control the methods, autocratically control the resources of the State and wield the most dangerous weapon by the most unscrupulous use of money and subsidies and so get into their power human being* who become creatures of their will...
...Before the founding of the Communist International there was a small bureau In Moscow for keeping up the connections with other European movements and circumventing the blockade, Zlnoviv's first act was .to suppress this bureau...
...Yet now of all times when a revolutionary Government was to power to Russia, and the sufferings of the working masses were greatest, there was urgent need for an International...
...But, unfortunately, Lenin and the other big Russian Communist leaders were too busy with the work of the difficulties and dangers that surrounded It, organizing the Red Army, feeding the masses, fighting hunger and placating the peasants, to pay much attention to the detail work of the new International...
...He could not conceive that anyone wanted to get at facts from an objective point of view, everything must be done for a personal object and for the attainment of this object any method is justifiable...
...Who . . . who are these people...
...The President of the Communist International has fallen a victim to the very methods which he himself created and by means of which he sacrificed thousands of honest 'Socialists to his personal ambitions...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 5th A. X Friday, March 9, 8:30 p. m. Speaker: tugust Classens...
...Ail four -speakers are extremely ip.',ere»tinv...
...information of the Russian leaders of affairs outside Russia...
...But as...
...Every attempt to offer your services as a comrade in arms was looked upon as false modesty by a new bureaucracy in the making...
...It had failed to function since the disaster of August, 1914...
...She appealed to Lento who managed to put Zlnoviev to has place again...
...Ausoices...
...Ballots wul be at the meeting...
...Auspices, Socialist: 'arty, 23rd A. D. August Claessens And Judge Panken To Lecture in Bronx August Claessens...
...If then some revolutionary action, organised by this agent, fails and ends in bloody defeat, the leaden, who probably knew -nothing about it till it was started, are disavowed, and all responsibility thrown on them...
...Interdenominational Ministers Alliance, 454 Massachusetts avenue...
...Looal Be^shiletW that a sentiment extorts to Ota-altar which will make the organisation a party branch there an easy matter...
...the Executive Secretary, Socialist Party of Greater New fork, will deliver a lecture Friday, March ), on: "Genius...
...This did not arouse my interest particularly, except that I had heard the rumor that he had been -relieved of his post as President of the Petrograd Soviet, because the workers there were very dissatisfied with him, and one wanted to compensate him by putting him In where he would be less harmful...
...Wisconsin The Socialists of Milwaukee are now in the midst of their city campaign, but the West Side Woman's Branch remembers the work of the National Organisation and sends to $25...
...When ahe protested that the confidence of the...
...It was an a question of rank and name...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, !3rd A. D. Sunday, March 11, 4 p. m. Speaker: McAlister Coleman...
...218 Van Slcklen avenue on Tuesday, March 13, at 8:30 p. m. Having had good results from our previous enrolled Socialists meetings, we expect a big turnout...
...Though we are equipped with 4-wheel brakes, we seldom need them, and though accessoried with Unbreakable Glass horn-rims, flexible phbphogen-steel handshakers, and laminated underslung shoulderblades, we look not upon the high-test stuff when it is pink...
...Death to the Traitors of the Revolutionary Cause" was the outcry of this man and his cohorts...
...He has learned nothing from French history...
...m 4 . whets teds* ¦ ran 5"1 fresa JMaseew...
...Formed...
...The result s that the great manses in Europe are jecomlng disillusioned and apathetic...
...In three days we reached Moscow and found the conference already begun...
...The matter was of no^very great Importance, but when, a difference of opinion developed between me and Zinoviv, as' to the number which we thought desirable, Zlnoviev wrote a note and handed it to a neighbor of mine, asking him why I insisted on this number...
...The proposal 'to regard this conference as an assembly for constituting a new International was at first rejected by all...
...It was not just why, but what was my object...
...March 11, Branch 1, Independent Workmen's Circle, 62 Chambers St., Boston, at 12:00 o'clock...
...About the British delegation Bel...
...The first two articles appeared in The New Leader under the title "Behind the Scenes of Two Dictatorships...
...3rownsvtlle Labor Lyceum...
...The branch will meet each Tuesday evening at 141 East Elm street and sympathisers in this looaOtr eta Invited, to attend the meetinaa...
...Any Socialists to the district who win help are asked to write to the District office, a EnMaine Comrade Wendell 7. Farrlngton of Livermore Falls has consented to put up a ticket and do organisation and campaign work in Maine...
...Auspices...
...The tragedy of contemporary Socialism is that the Second International destroyed not only Its own work, but also undermined the confidence of the massee in the world emancipating idea of Socialism...
...Subject: "NecesJty of the Socialist Press to the Labor Movement...
...It Is obvious that the best elements to Russia should have taken over the control of the work of this new International, if it was going to be a success...
...Our 1928 "Light-running Dachshund Eight" personalities may when fully warmed up exhibit certain trifling defects, but flooding the carburetor is not one of them...
...Here and there the half-parted red-blooded lips that drank in the wisdom pouring out to them, gleamed pearly teeth without a film...
...But alas the events which made him will undo him...
...It flies in the teeth of all historical precedent, directing its leading spirits to the precipice of death...
...Seats range frost $1.10 to $3.85...
...It is na accident that the peeple who became these sssdaaantsal agents are not peeple with bread outlooks and ideas, bat are largely chosen (aad this hi partly ends hied by the state ef Meckado under which Russia has so leog suffered) by their ability te erase frontiers Illegally and to dude the paUey at the capitalist lands...
...22nd A. D. August Claessens...
...Councilman James H. Maurer of Reading win lecture on "What I Saw to Russia" to Pottstown on March 11...
...The whole Italian question was to be brought on to the level of a personal quarrel and by methods which had nothing to do wfth Socialist principles...
...S-S-lSth A. D. This branch win meet Monday evening...
...Maximilian Robespierre and Benito Mussolini stand out in relief in thenroles as dictators...
...When Zlnoviev wanted to get rid of Trotsky, whose Influence m feared, and partly because the latter tsar tha audacity to reralnd him of his unheroic past, he used his position to denounce Trotsky as ' Menshevik' and a 'reactionary.' . . . When on Zlnoviev's orders the masses were made to doubt Trotsky's service for the Russian Revolution, his work in founding the Red Army and all the other feats which he performed in the crisis of the Revolution, the masses were torn with doubt...
...Oklahoma Mew members are being added to the list with every day's mail which makes us feel confident that Oklahoma will continue to develop to a Socialist way until it will be one of the best organised states in the union...
...wtMAtaUi Pennsylvania, Last week we reported US collected for the National Office by Anton Zomik of Herminle and now he sends another list of names accompanied with $23, a total of $47 from this hustler to date...
...These reflections actually took but a few seconds to make...
...Subject, "The Economic Basis for Brotherhood...
...In Moscow the tactics of the confidential agents are laid down, and they act not only behind the backs of the members of the party, but behind the backs of the Isadora even...
...there is no god but Science 1 I calculated their dietetic standbys...
...Sooner or later must come the dreaded moment when the power of enforced greatness slips from the despot's hands, and lo and behold!, the crass, material power that was is no more...
...7 able the ¦nssattse ef the Intirwsllsa * al which was charged with the task ef seeing thai the laternattanal earrisd eaa> the ssiMswi ef the Wssilaa Osanaaatst Forty...
...Finding that it was hopeless to work with the Communist International, Balabanoff left Russia and returned to Italy where she worked once more on the "Avanti" with her former colleagues under the terror of the Fascist regime...
...The German delegates were especially energetic In demanding the rejection of this - idea...
...The literature which Is issued by the Communist Parties of Europe by order from the all mighty powers in Moscow is of the type the least likely to have any real effect «nnng the masses...
...But both Lenin and Trotsky persuaded her to stay in Moscow, on the ground that her knowledge of the European Socialist movement would be invaluable to the new International...
...The Russian Communist leaders were determined to put all their best effort into the new International and to attract all the live elements of the West European Socialist movements towards it...
...Balabanoff then describes to considerable detail her own experiences aa secretary of the Communist International...
...Robespierre did not seek to play the role of tyrant...
...Letters inviting voters of the 5th A. D. wul urge voters to come on that evening...
...These are people who have not belonged to the movtahent...
...Only when this is realised can It be understood why the wrong appointments were always made, why the 'policy wasi followed ef attempting to spilt the otherEuropean Socialist parties, in order to get the movements there controlled by inferior, unimportant, morally corrupt types of persons...
...But already in the first days of my work with him I began to feel (Eat something was wrong...
...So rapt were we in our contemplation of these deml-gods that I may tell you we noticed then hot a word the speaker was saying...
...On Monday evening, March 12, Dr...
...Go thou and do likewise...
...Members of the 18th A. D. are circulating a petition among voters protesting against the Navy Appropriation Bill now pending in the United States Congress...
...International is to the hands of the present persons, there will be no sounc Communist movement abroad" Steering Committee...
...Thus ended the career of a man whose life" was spent, in the main, to free the French people from monarchical despotism, but who was altogether free from personal passion...
...them in such a state of enthusiasm' that they honestly thought they would help Russia by occupying, a decorative, peat on the International...
...I declared that .although the blockade of Russia prevented me from consulting the Zlmmervald...
...It had during the war held aloft the banner of the proletarian International and encouraged the masses to the fight for Socialism, The time had come when Zlmmervald, could go...
...Juniors, and nine, seniors, at 219 Van Sicklen avenue, 3rooklyn...
...March 12, at 8:30 p. m. ..to Boom 402 People's House, 7 Bast 16th street...
...Could damagagy go further...
...more new members affiliating with the party...
...Thoroughbreds If I ever saw 'them...
...Reports from abroad of a certain kind were wanted Everything else was rejected as "Social Democratic...
...After a while she was, however, aa compensation, appointed as member of tbt Executive...
...He was to report to the Executive of the International about the doings and impressions of the Italians, and not aha...
...Obviusly they "ate more bread", ditto apples, ice cream, raisins, sun-shot oranges, and, of course, yeast...
...At first the Communist leaders expressed to T**1**—grave doubt as to the wisdom of this step...
...Who then should they believe...
...recording secretary...
...Socialist Party, 6-8-12th A. D. Thursday, March 15, 8:30 p. m.— Speaker, Dr...
...W. B. Robinson and M. C. Miller will address a meeting of enrolled socialist voters which will be held in our headquarters...
...Finally she had to .fly for safety to France, where she has written these memoirs...
...All seemed to radiate In a subtle though compelling aura that undennable sense of Pep which only a lifelong diet of the Right Sort of breakfasts could have imparted...
...Marks avenue, voting on delegates to the National Convention win take place, followed by the resumption of the discusIon on the Agenda of the National Convention...
...in s*Maro- He wui surely ippear on Marsh ittb...
...ready actively at work.' The reywav S-5-1S A. D. This branch will meet Monday...
...Mateottl, the Italian Socialist Deputy, was thus sacrificed to make this self-imposed oligarch doubly secure...
...f «• •. J ''Only when one knows the psychological background can one undarstand Sow it .is possible for a vary small' clique Ho etultify a great movement which bad immense possibilities and to Which, in., spits of all, the future belong...
...On the other hand the rotations between the Russian Soviet State and the Dictator Mussolini steadily unproved, "•th bad a common interest in the destruction ef the Italian Socialist Party...
...TBS principal order of business will be mreport of the recently organized Ocannntee of 100 and a discussion of manao pertaining to .the National ConrtmOm and Campaign, The Commutes of WJ has drvlefed flu forces into many sobv coaaaasMsaa and •several of these srs^ae...
...The plot was clear...
...Charles H. Roth is the alternate...
...It is true no International can exist which does not have a certain degree of discipline and power to enforce its decisions, but in order to attain that end the decisions must be made by free discussion of all and by general agreement or majority vote...
...General Party Meeting A meeting of the memberahop of Local New York City is being called ft* Wednesday evening, March 14...
...In a fiery speech he spoke of the enthusiasm for • the Russian revolution among the European .masses...
...Sunday...
...Another week's report shows he has added twenty-five more members to the party, sold a number of "Walls and Bars" and other books, beside* giving out a considerable number, of leaflets and taking care of his office duties...
...No one hindering, we slipped into seats beside the door...
...His speech ended in a demand to found immediately a new International...
...Like Robespierre he has quelled every agency of opposition, even resorting to murder, rapine and assassination...
...That matchless conversations must flow from those lips...
...SpjW on the Visitors The British'and Italian Labor ililisa tkms came...
...They went to Moscow to inform but had at last to realise that the system waa the cause and that was what thej were up against...
...Meetings continue interesting and the discussion group which has developed as a result of our educational programs win constitute an excellent nucleus for a soapbox brigade when we are in the heat of the campaign...
...place on the first Monday to April...
...Subject: "Crime and he Criminal—A Challenge to Society...
...dmunclation was let loose- on them...
...March 12...
...it is with the Communist International how, it would be more honest to say that the leader of tte Ra^a .Oitmnun^t*e^^ is...
...A motion was passed to donate one dollar a month lo the sustaining fund of W E V D. Four Lectures Four lectures this week...
...Conversations with our delegates show that 189 out of 202 use and prefer Nutmeg Facial Soap I" It read...
...The old tuners in Nevada are on the job again...
...Subject: "Socialsm...
...August Claessens, Heny Fruchter...
...were content to occupy an honorary post on the Communist International, because their sojourn in the land of the revolution set...
...Boro Park Labor Lyceum, !2nd street, 14th avenue...
...The Italian Conuuunht Party was now formed which made confusion worse confounded...
...So Balabanoff went to her new task with the blessing of Lenin, but with no gurantee that the colleagues she would have to work with would be equal to their task or indeed would have to work with would be equal to their task or Indeed would have the least Idea of how the European Socialist Movement was to be attracted towards the new International...
...219 Sacknan street...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 12
