The Daily Worker

Urbahns Writes to Cannon Group

Dear Comrade!

Your wish that we send you all our newspapers and publications we will gladly fulfill. We will also send you all the pamphlets which have appeared up to now. Only you must, before we do so, inform us whether the samples that we are sending you today have arrived, because we have had the experience that the newspapers which we have sent to America in packages have evidently not arrived there.

If the package that we are sending you today does come, then we beg you to inform us of this fact.

Also the samples of the Militant of which you spoke have not yet come into our possession. If the police here or in America have seized these packages, then I would recommend that we send individual numbers in letters. We will try to send you the collected publications through

We take this opportunity to beg you also to request the Volkszeitung at least to send us an answer to our letters if they do not wish to respond to the other matter that we send them. We have repeatedly written to Comrade Lore that he should put us in touch with the Volkszeitung but are still without an answer. We hope that the relations between you and Lore are close enough that you can use some pressure upon the New Yorker Volkszeitung. At the same time, however, we request you to give us a report about the situation in the American Party that we can use for the Fahne des Kommunismus. We know from the Pravda about the expulsions, but we have no more exact information. Please write to us in detail.

We greet the fact that we can enter into the closest relations with you, and earnestly beg you again to transmit to us more exact political information.

With Communist Greetings,

H. URBAHNS.

Lenin Group (Left-Communists).

The above is a verbatim translation from the German of the letter of H. Urbahns, renegade expelled from the German Communist Party and now engaged in counter-revolutionary activities. The "Fahne des Kommunismus" (Banner of Communism) referred to is the organ of this German Trotskyist group, which calls itself "Lenin Group." "Pravda" is, of course, the organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the expulsions mentioned are those of Cannon and his group.