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Ho~··ever, I still am in no r:10oti to ~·:rite end this in just

e brief noJ~e to lt.:t you 1."110".'.' that I •n h(:lpiP~ conraQe \iribht

in his res~arch v1or:o for y<m. I >~ill, of course, be very glad

to help in any \'lay I can (I stil~ hr,ve ny Tiussian ty_pr,writer)

if you should have need oi' direct assintnnce ;fl'OT-1. ne. Hm:: is

the BtA.lin '·mrk progressil18?

PJ\R'llJ:SAl~ Hl!.VI:E~~; has not accepted t.he Lcndelycev artiCle

!IS they feel that thuy <10serve a r~cently \'!ri1;ten article by

you, I wia see conree.e BurnhP.rt an< dioouss the further fate

of the translation.

norte of the CO:'·lrac!es v:ho take the r-rans~ tion Proaram

vr:r.y se:r5 oUsly nre orcc.nl?.ing o.ncless" in the ert of C:efenae.

f.:e will .hc.ve o•.tr fi:rst mcctine this :3atu1·da.y ana I V.'ill report

to you in ny.next letter,

Greetincs to Hate.lia, Thank you both i'or the very

v·nm letter Rent ne while I v•ru3 in Chice.Go, Recards to the

l'lhole household.

As ever, r-ost cornradely,

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I presu1:~e Joe shm·ted you ny note recar•1il1G Ken

Johnstone of Rneland. Since then I hnve spolcen to com.

Cannon v:ho tells ;.e that Ken nust hnve received your

letter since he hnr. received n letter fron Ken in which

he ste.tes thnt he \'!oulil neet CO!l. Cr:.nnon in Pe.ri~ ..

Conrnc1o Eo.rry J:ilton•o thoughts once er::;nin turn

to renl"tzins his drenn of see:tng you A.nd, if e.t all

:pos::.ible, v:orkinz for the "household". He expect.s to

be in Eexico 'by the end of .tm.cust. If fount} useful, --he is ready to rene. in for a perioC of at le1:>.st six :-!.onths.

I:e "prides" hir.1.seli' on not being nnl'rieG; ·that is, he oan

r_er1nin il!c efini t.ely zo far o.s those }{ind o1' ties ere con-

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the jiC - Sp~~tor, Weber, Lewitt. H~veck - ''!ho tell me

tl:ey are c~.ivicii!lg their ,··o~k: 1). l'ropegancJ.a .\'tork for the

ronrtll International a: :ong J~wish \':o~kers; 2) ,;torJ:: at:;ainSt

enti-S~::1i tisn linong· non-Javlish v.·orJ::ers. Tn~:·ses e.re dra.\m

u;-- e:-td they nre r.ml)pir!G ont. a fs\•: lect~res b,1t they feel

tt1at so far as the S( nson ir. conceraecl -ti::.er-e -:. R very

li<:tle activity ~;oing on In nu.-:.:r,r in city 1'adical. oirolea

they are starting at a bed tine.

book. I find the research ''lorlc on 1 t here rather inte-

restins end alnost hope thnt I do not lend a job so that

I can continue v:orkinG on it.

\'innnest reeards to Hatalia and the household.

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at th:.: London Uon .. ~;ress uont you by Co~.1. ;.'rit.ht were =all· . , ~~-;-~~~::·:; tak~n 1'ro!'1 tho orisinul .Paris f1i1:! tion. In looking over: the .. _:;~;_· now (1935) edition of tho sene Congrena I found that .as:a.,i>,~t?> sort oi' lll'~fo.co t~ tf~e edition, T.horc is reprinted an : ... .. fi:~~~:, article about the proaeedings oi' the Congress th.et St.aH_ 11\:t'~­OlfPlJOael.ily v~rote in 1?0'7 in the "Daldnsky Prolets.ryr~·~,~·::·~-~~~:.... .. ~ ... :t-~ SJ.nae thin newllpe!Jer J.s nowhere to be gotte!! here, :E· anr~un-".'.:·· · ifble :to judge whether the discovery of t.he llZ'tiale at this ' ~te cnte is due merely to the fact that all the resources of the 3talintern were needed to fln~ an article of an obscure "ICo ba Ivanovi tch", or whethe:q the whole thing is a fabrication. i

• Tho ~rticle was too long( (23 pages) to ·retype, ( espeeia: ly since tomorrow I leave :for l'{ashington for one weal:). · Ho·:1ever, by retyping the ·first seation complete and a number of leading paragraphs o~theirest of the article I !:loped to co:>vey. a sort of resume of ~lte article so that you could jud!le the st.y;t:>1 the period iin which it was supposed to have been \'ITi'Cten. PleaSBf tell me whether you consider it important for 1:1e to retype the whole. nrticl~. . · \

The stenoer= of. the sessions, so far as I have been nblo to checl,, · ere identical with those origi­nally printed but, of course, through "biographies" of the pai·ticipents at. the Congress end through editorial no·tations 1 the new edition ·succeeds in distorting and flasifying tbe record. I copied the biogl'aphical. notes on Rosa Luxc;ubourg ar..d you; a renark of Lenin and the · "notation" e:x::;>laining his reference to !{eutsky and you as an e::ram:p;te ot how fer the distortion,was ecoom;plished. Peculiar1y enough there is no-biographical sket.ch of Stalin; his name is I:lentioned only in Yeroslavsky•s pratece in which,· naturally, the article of Stalin· is highly recollll!lended as an e!JBlySis of the. Congress. · , ....

Please remember r.te ·~o th<{ household. lt!ex too oaks to be renenberod.

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Thank you ver; nuoh for your lovely note --I 1 1.1 hardly out of the nir;htnnre, and mtller iloes not yot }'now% It oounds Lto~·e like a uolodra:>a than a real story, !\D<l hurts the deeper in tlult it is 1'aot, not nelodra!lt\o nut what is the use or dwelling on a personal nituation I cannot help?

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to leave for Chicago ex)lainn \'IllY I have l•LJt answertld your letter datod June 29th regarding our r:oralist :Cricnds. I had shown it to coorade cannon~, who said, "I a it really true I.ugene Lyons au•>ears at l;hite Guard meetin;;s?" Ue have no such ini'ormation. J.ild Pioneer Publishers assures xoe that thai1· c:Jntaot ''lith Lyons consists oi' having invited hin to s:>eal; at a synposi\1!:1 they ... , conducted and having Gotten i'ra:J hin .. 25. toward the 1"Und neoessal."Y' to t;et ::arrow• s pru.1phlet on Spain publiohed. .

As l'or Dewey, no doubt you have seen the o...TJilOunoB!'lent: in the "A;>peal" that he has [liven .the "Hew International" his article in oriticisn of youra, "Their ::orals and ours", which hae .indeed started a rt>volution !ll!'.ong otir inte;Llec c.ual frienue v1ho :took askance ut our ":::orals". Dewuy•a article, however, vr.l.ll be pub­lished without editorial, oot11!1ont, Com. Durnhan told :roa, since the Editorial Board is divided in its on~±~~· .:r presune• Com.Durnhmn was re:i'erri~ .·co hinself who,! thouglqac;reeing politically vr.l.th your article, has "bones to piclc" with its philosophic approach.

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:rn ilntween :fUnerals, soo..to-sp calc, I !lave nanaged to do a little work about the ea113e of' the :~ssiun Du:Lletin, having doubled our bundle orde1•-;-even now lt's only 120 ooDiee--,. gotten· seven new subso~tions, ond otnrted n ·o~athizera• olub in i:T.Y., t.hrough Which VIB hope t.o get i'inanoinl aid i'or the B'.1lletin to malce it posoibl.., '£or it t:> cone out on ~~e~tte~!close copy of first circular note I oent out on

I . presume. COlli. Sara has sl'.own you the lc.tter the rtussian .conrades·sent to the Bulletin, Ur[lin(; representation·i'or the nussian Bolahevik-Loniniats at the Internatbnal Conference. :

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FIHST, LONG OVER-DUE THANKS FOR YOUR TWO VERY LOVELY NOTES. HAVE WHIPPED THE AHTICLE ON YOU INTO SHAPE BUT HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONVINCE A BOURGEOIS MAGAZINE TO PUBLISH IT AS YETe 8UT I HAVE USED IT AS BASIS FOR A SPEECH TO THE FIRST SEMI-OPEN (BEINn A GOVEHNMlNT EMPLOYEE I COULD NOT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE MY SPEAKING ON A· POL I Tl C.lL TOPIC )Mt::ET I NG Of OUR Bf<AN-::H HEf<E. OUT Of

THE ~~ THAT CAME ij YOUTHS WERE si IMPRESSED THAT THEY ASK~O TO JOIN A CLASS IN THE ORIGI~ OF THE FOURTH IHTE~~ATIONALe ~ WILL THUS HAVE A CLASS OF 12 LECTURES COVERING THE PERIOO ~F 1~23-TO THE PRESENT. WE HOPE THAT THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CLASS WILL INCREASE AUD THAT WE WILL GAl~ NEW MEMBERS (TWO NEGROES HAVE SIGNED UP) TO THIS OVER-STUFFED GOVERNMENT E~~LOYEES LOCAL.

I SPENT A MOST MEMORABLE WEEK-END IH NEW YORK BECAUSE! I) V/E HELD THE BIGGEST (o•ER I 500 PRESENT) MEETING VET UtiDER OVR OWN AUSPICES. (NATURALLY SUCH A BROAD COMMITTEE AS THE DEFENSE COMMITTEE COULD DRAW MO~E PEOPLE BUT AS fOURTH INTE~NATIONALISTS THE LARGEST WE YET DREW WAS"A I~OUU TO THE SEDOFF.MEETING)! THE MEETING \'JAS BOTH A,\1 INS?IRED OfiE DUE TO YOUR EXCELLENT SPEEC!i (RECORDED VERY WELL INDEED) ~ilvALSO ,TO THE IMPRESSIVE WAV 'IN' WHICH IT WAS CONbUCTED: Ttl£' YFSLS STOOD GUARD AT THE

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O~ER 1 WHICH HUNG A PORTR~IT OF YOU, AS IF THEY WER~ ACTUALLY GUAROI~Q YOU •. WHAT A ·sPURT TO· THE GROWTrl OF OUR MoVEMENT WOULh .IT·BE IF WE·

'CO'JLO ,REALLY HAVE VOU IN NEW YORK I 2).. THE RUSSIAN CLUB .HELO ITS FlkST-VECHERI~Ki, AT WHICH COMRADE ANTOINETTE KONIKOW WAS GUEST SPEAKER. WE NETTED $3U 1 BESIDES NEW SUBSCRIPTIO"S TO THE BULLETIN. (I HAVE JUST s•NT THE RVSSI~tl BULLETIN $40i)• WE HAVE AGAIN. INCREASED OUR BU~OLE OROEit TO 18U THIS T.IME .. SINCE. I'M IN· W~SHINQTON THE BUUOEN OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BULLETIN AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE "VECHERINKA" FELL 0~ THE SHOULUERS OF COMRADE SYLVIA BLEECKER. WHO IS fAA.KING 11.-., ExcELLENT JOB OF IT.

WE .FEEL THAT WE REALLY HAVE A BASIS· f~R T~E BULLETIN UOW AND COVLO. PUT IN ON l"HL MAP OF THE REVOLUTION'I\RY MOVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, lF -- IT CAME· OUT IN TIME ANO AT LEAST DART OF ITS MATERIAL VIAS PUBLISHED TliERE PRIOR TO ITS l'RAN_SLA!J..2l.t INTO EUGLISH. LOLA WHITE.S ME THA! WITH THE HELP THE AMERICAN~E.NOW_ GIYINC& TI"'E BIJLLE:TIN IT COt.H .. O COME OUT 01~ TI.ME BUT THAT- YOU ARE . . MUCH TOO OCCUPIED ?o TUR.~ OVER TOO MUCH t~EW MATERIAL TO THE BULLETIN • HAYING BEEN A MEM~J!R OF THE CO¥t)ACAN FAM1lf 1 I ·KNOW WELL HOW MUCH WORK lHERE ALWAYS/AND WHAT A LITERARY CREATION OF THE SCOPE OF THE B'OGRAPHY OF STALIN MEANS IN TE~MS OF. WORK BUT IT ~EALLY IS IMPOR~ lANT TO 'tAKE AUYANTAGE ·or THE FAVORABLE SITUATION FOR THE BULLET I~ AND MAY I THEAEFORC Uf!GE IN A COMRADELY WAY THAT YOU YET INCLUDE THE BULLETIN I~ YOUR CALCULATIONS OF CONTRIBUTIONS. FOR THE 8UL~ETIH TO APPEAR NEW, HOWEVER, IT NEED NOT W&WAYS MEAN CURRE~T ARTICLES BUT EVEN SOME MATERIAL OUT OF THE ARCHaVES THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN TRANSLATED !NTO ENGLISH, ETCo IN THAT NO DOUBT THE COMRADES IN FRANCE OR COVOA• CAN COULD HC.l.Pe

HOW IS EVERYONE IN COVDACAN! PLEASE TRANSMIT MY LOVE TO NATALIA IVANOVNAo MAX &ENDS VOU BOTH HIS WARMEST ORtETINOSo HE

IS TOO OUSV WITH ORGANIZATIONAL W ORK TO WRITE AND ALSO

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flee. :il, 1938

Dear L. D.S

Just a few words rocardinr. the attached

Russian article. I received it from our Palestine

comrades and evidently the only reason it was addressed

to me ra.ther t!1an to the NE'N Jt.JTLRtlATIOU/11. is that

they saw JTIY name in connection with the Russian Bulletin

and thus tho\lf!;ht I would understand it. I h'ive tY,POd

it since they asked the) a copy be ~ent to you. ·However, i·

it was written so poorly, in ~encil k on. cheap paper that .,

I am not Sure that I got it·all correctly done but for

.the most :rnrt it is. Since they do nOt encloso a ·return ·~

address for"unde~ound reasons ", any note t!wt you

might v1i Sh to send them will have to be sent througl'l

COMrade Aboi"n. NO.turally I'~ turning Over the MS to

the National Office.

?Jhat is new?

My very warm~ at regards to Natalia Ivanovna

and the whole household.

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Dear L.D.!

TharJc you for both your kind ll>ttero.

Yes, 11m in constant eorrespondonco with Lola and know

that eho will bo hero in the Statee. Naturally I 1vo written her very

warm, welcoming letters, and yours will but emphnoizo tho fact that

sho will ibdeed be a very '1!1' elcome guoot. I am· also getting in touch

with whatever comrades I think will be of help in seouring for her~

tro.neit visa. '!hero will also be a gathering of' the Russian comrades

and we "ill no doubt invite of tho NO 11!81ilbors to help us solve the

problem no to 11hat will be the :fUture homo of the Bulletin. You will

get- reportJ t'rom uo regularly.

How do you like your new homeT What are the conditiona·ot

l!.·fe and work! You nrlt~r so little of' your ·ne~ds ~d yet· they are what

interest me.

There 1o noihing very new bore.· We are i:l.nally getting

Jo.mea to up~ak hero end even ~o routine a matter ae a.rra"ngiug a

meeting for Jilin io,. in thie Jim Orow town, a· problem ao the Negrooo

will not have him because he io a 0Rod1 and the whites will not have

him b.ecsuse he 1o Negro, arid of couroe, also 'Rod'• · Dut we finally did

aocuro a hall and hope to make a auccoaatul mooting or it.

I am so fed up with this town and because my Party aotivitieo

here are o1' neoesoity limited .that I'm making every effort. to get

t.ran.of'erNd to Now York.

How doeo Natalia teelT Pleaae embraee he~ warmly fO~ me

and g~•eet tho root. of the household.

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Excuee f1!!/ not 110knowledging rooeipt of your letter with the

~nolt'eed srtiole11 on the Ukrainian question and the one on the 'lhe:midorlan

•tate. I ,..,. wo! tine; to find out what would booome of thmJ finally Lol&

ot.et.e:i that oho would handle thmn inaaofo.r ae ebo still handle• the Bulletin

ond ita homo is still Pario. Lola baa boon ho.ving talks with Sara and others

re tbe removal of' th~ Bulletin to the u. s. but. I do not know the :final results

and lli.ll 11eed wait till I go to New York next before I wlll know. In eny caao,

both 1m!)ortant artie lee are nO'I' in her banda. due to

Att.er a moat disappointing time for the liaahlngton Branch :bl/-tho N.0. 1e

inofficient handling or James' meeting schedule, and the domoralizat!on that

sot in att.er that, Jomea suddenly appeared on the oceno, Hot having boon

into:nnod about hi's scheduled mooting in time, be bad """nd hie wo.y up oiowJ:r

through the soutjl, He made a good meny. contacts llith Negroes in tho South

eo tJ-18.1;. het was invited to attend a trade union eoni'eronco of Negro railroad

. workers in \'laehingt.on, and that 1o bow wo had tho 1uclc of aloo hoariDg bbl.

'!he notice was too short to arrange a public mooting but we. oe.lled whom we ·

could, and '' people cane; 10 of' th"" were Negroeo. Jamea apoka on the

eituation of the intornational Negro. He 1a an excellent epeeker and oamplet.ely'

wins the confidence of' the Negroeo, TWo of thesa W6l'O followers ot the Bilb~

(that reactionary Southern B<mlltor -.bo 1e proposing that the. Nogrooo · 11hom be

calla ~tho depresoing and doprosaod race• be repatriated to L1bor1aJ he iw

getting oonoidorablo follolling amonp; the Negroes whoeo polli tion in thla "bite

oi'fili~d oociet,' of oura ia ao unbearC>blo that eny change so111a to be ""

improvo ... mt, oven 'l"dovoloped Afriot.)mov ... ent were 00 impressed b). Jomoo that

they invited him to apotk to 1beir meoti~J JDlllBO boliovoo be can ~n tha and

m~ more o.wrq :!'rom tho Biblbo following to the :revolutionary ro&d,

To tho mombore Jmea oleo opoko ot hio new theaio ,of a oeparo.te organiu.•

tlon tor tbe Nogrooa, I 11111at. •&¥ th&t I • lolllling towa:rcl the iclaa, -.hloh 11

~ tu ot.ap aw~ :!'rom tho pooit.loa I uoocl to bold ot being clet.oldnocllf oppooecl

te oolt-dotorminatiCI\1 ate. :IDII U., at.tempto to work ""'ong tho NosroOI l!l thia

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city baa con·1inc&d me that their diotruat of the whitea 1a so deep-rooted that

thar do Mt bother t:<> distinguish as to 'lilether it io ._ell-intentionod1 or

ill-intentioned whitos. Also, even those Negroes. who aro vor,y oloae to ue

'·· and have a fair ome.ttering of Marxism 'IIIlich appeal• to them, otill can onl7

be a~ouoed to actirltr when you apeak to them of the conditions of their own

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4"acs and of definite program to'3'arda their liberat,.on. One of th~:~m• Pqno•

who has an Illll background ond ns militantly opposed to self-determination

which he called another feney nord for segregation, is now listening utentivol:r

and 9)"lllpathsticall)" to Jsmes 1 proposals, Though he has not joined the SliP, he

would bo read)" toder to join, nay, work hard to start, a sopl\l'ate organization

to fight for Negro riW.to, I beliove that if we could, ""·the Branch will

try to do, to get Jomee down here, once a month or eo, we could get a m111tan~

movement started among tJlo Negroes. . .

SUrely, it is all important that our NO get down to lu•insas of elaborating

a thosia on tho Negro question during the coming (July 4th) aor.rention eo that

we have eomething concrote to w,:, rk on; md so that, having fl policy~ our ~1-t .

isn1t hapbazard·end dif'fe1·ent in e~ch part of the country, I do not know whether

they intend to isouo ouch a document or iaauo for the edification of the membora

your <iiocu•rlons with Jan:es on the Negro queotion but ourolr pressure hao to . . '

be brought to bOilr upon them in that respect, . All teo of'ton such discuss.1ona

have remair.ed in th<> files of the J PO .. ,

Of tl1e otatua of the Ruooian Bulletin I will write you agdn aff.er I will.

have oeen lola (I boliove it •ill bo Juno 10), Nothing oho io now hol"lo

llhat 1o now in ·tho housohold.f How io No.tsl. ia Ivanomaf llhat io the

oiiuntion wl th tho Ruuio.n oocrotazyt

Pleaoe gin 11\'1' warmoot. greotingo to NataliaJ aloe to Van and the othOI'

membere ot tho household,

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i'/i th the help of Comrade George :Jatthaws • the organizer ot the Boston Branch of the s.w.P •• I sold A set of the Russian Rulletin to Harvard University for $100.00. As a special incontivo for him, I dared promise that if the sale gpes through,"the Russians" ~uld see what thoy could do to got him an autographed picture of you. I know .. d"ar Lov Davidovitoh" how vary busy you are and have no right to impose: on your timo: still your autographed pioture means so mueh to tho rank and file comrades and-s1ncG it did act as an incentive for a good CllUGc, "the Russians" would greatly appreciate it if you 'WOUld autograph a picture or yourself for Comrade Georga Matthews and send it to him care of Konikow.. 11 Keswick Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Naw as to the $100. ~would like to hevc Your ad~ce.on ho~ to uso it. That_ is_. it had al-.vays been zqy understanding that when a. special sale of this sort is effected the money. is to go for a special purpose ... as, for instance, the $50. I had gott~n from Coluubia Universit,y -~~re-to h~ve gone ror issuing your article on Leon aedorr 1n p~phlet form. in tho original RussiBll, ofi:e~oul!'• Now the comrades hertt ,.no aro taking care or tho Bulle<i1f~n~ a single issue cost $150., whioh· would me~ the whole lump sum is to go for one is~ue of. the Bulletin as hardly any money oomos in ~or subsoriptiurts., etc. to the Bulletin.

I In any oe.se, we will ~adly. accept your suggestion as to how to utilize those $100.

I ho.vo just recently gotten transrorrod to Ne\f York; however• I· am not to.king over tho JO!IlU!gemont of: the Russian BulletL"l but leaving . it in the hands _or th~ comrades who have it now (except iUsofar as to

try to promOte sales or-,m.ole sets) because at this tlme I am concentrating· all my timo for l'IOrk in the Negro field. In Washington I wa.s succcsstuJ. in winning over 3 }~o£o wor~c;···membership in our organi~ation and. have contacted U&ym.pitiaiz:"ei-6-some 6 more. New York. which la a muoh n:.oro important center. ho.s suooeded in 'rlnniilg a faw Ueg,roes over but non!! in He.'rlem itstiilr. I wish to devote all ntf spare time to work 'in that fi&ld then and thus must leavo the Russian Bulletin· to Sara and tho oOmrados ln N. Y•

What is now in tho household? !.!ax and I --during the Russian diaouaoion -- suddenly recalled that '~ forgot on this anniveraar, of tho Ruasim Revolution the Man o_t October. so, with Hury l!iltnn, wa ran a d~ late to tolsgraph you grsotings. The day late is inexousablo but tho warmth ·that attended their sanding 111l8 not diminished thero1>1,

Romombsr me to Natoli& and tho reot of tho household,

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