NEW MILITANT Weekly Organ of the W orkers Party of the U. S. VOLUME 1 NO. 3 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934 PRICE 3 CENTS Prepare For a Year of Determined Struggle!

To the American Working Class: ods, by “voting for the right party”, they can use the The resources of this continent on which we live are New Year’s Manifesto o f the Workers Party apparatus of capitalist government to bring in Utopia almost boundless. The productive machinery built up for the workers. Here also experience sounds a warn­ by the workers, farmers and technicians of this coun­ In this period of the decline of capitalism», the in­ coast. The same administration acts openly in Cuba ing. These methods used by the Social Democrats of try can turn out goods in unsurpassed abundance. dustrialists and financiers cannot maintain their pro­ and elsewhere as the direct agent of Amican imperial­ Europe have led only to Fascism, to the open, brutal, The working class is trained and equipped to operate fits wit! lout pushing the standards of the people lower ists and is carrying out the greatest naval building war-like dictatorship of finance capitalists who have and perfect this machinery. Under these circumstances and lower. Resistance to this process they crush by program in all the peace time history of this nation. abolished all the forms of “democracy” and plunged every family, every person in the land, might today any and every means. Where the workers themselves The warning is clear : here in the U. S. also, no matter whole nations into barbarism. have food and clothing in abundances a comfortable do not act in time an open, brutal Fascist dictator­ how “liberal” may be the pretensions or even the mo­ To the professional, technical, and agricultural home, adequate medical cave, abundant opportunity ship is set up. All democratic rights are suppressed, tives of individuals, the attempt to “save capitalism” workers— to the farmers— to the Negro people and all for education and recreation, security against acci­ all the forms of democracy are abandoned. The trade can end only in the horrors of Fascism and War. oppressed races— to the small shopkeepers— to all ex­ dent, sickness, unemployment and old age, and the unions, the cooperatives, all the independent organiza­ ploited groups, we say: Only by the complete abolition THE ONLY WAY OUT assurance of rapid and speedy improvement in the tions of the workers and farmers are smashed. The of capitalism can you gain freedom from insecurity, standard of living. right to strike is abrogated. Open terror is exercised There is only one way fo r the masses to avoid this discrimination, exploitation and tyranny. The solu­ T h is we m ight have. against any one who dares to raise his voice against catastrophe and to achieve for themselves and their tion of the industrial workers, a socialist society, is What we actually do have is far different. Seven­ this capitaist dictatorship. Women are driven back children plenty, security, freedom and peace. That is the only solution for your problems also. The one teen million men, women and children are living off into medieval subjection. The intellectuals are perse­ to abolish the present economic system— to take the road to the socialist society is the road of the revolu­ relief. Many million more are forced to live below cuted. The basest racial and national prejudices are productive plant and the agencies of distribution and tionary seizure of power by the working class and its what even conservative government departments call called into play. At the behest of the same capitalist ownership and control of the natural resources, the allies. Refuse, therefore, to heed those who seek to a decent standard of living. Fifteen million are un­ interests struggling for markets, raw materials, out­ communication out of the hands of private individuals discredit or to attack the workers’ revolutionary move­ employed. The threat of losing his job hangs like a lets for investment, the nations pile up armaments. and corporations, to use and operate them for the ment and to organize you in or around any other social sword over every worker, technician and professional. In e v ita b ly w ar results. The masses who, under capi­ fulfillment of human needs and not for private profit, movement. Under whatever guise they may appear, Homes acquired with hard-earned savings are sold talism, are machine-fodder in time of peace, become to build a socialist society. they are the agents of capitalism and they prepare over their owners’ heads. Families are eyicted from cannon-fodder to be slaughtered by millions in time of This can be accomplished only by the revolutionary the way for Fascism. their houses and thrown on the streets. Poor farmers war. Humanity sinks back into the Dark Ages. Fas­ action of the working class. The poor farmers, the THE NEED OF A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY are put off the land and thrown on the labor market cism and W ar— that is the only “way out” capitalism doubly exploited and persecuted Negro people, and to compete with the workers. Farmers who still nomi­ can offer. Trying to “save capitalism” can have no the impoverished middle class can find no salvation ex­ In order that the daily struggle against the lower­ nally own their own land are loaded down with a other result, whether in the U . S. or elsewhere. cept by supporting the workers’ revolution. The ing of the standard of living may be carried on effec­ growing burden of mortgages and debts and are less capitalists will resort to any means in order to retain tively and in order that as Speedily as possible the THE “NEW DEAL” SWINDLE and less able to make a living from the sale of their their power and their profits. The government serves workers may take power in order to establish plenty produce. Millions of young men and women are un­ Yet it is now as plain as day that this is just what as their agent. Unless, therefore, the masses are to and security, it is necessary that the advanced work­ able to obtain jobs even at starvation wages. The Roosevelt is trying to do— “save capitalism”. yield supinely to their enemies and be plunged into the ers be organized in a revolutionary political party. aged are thrown on the scrap-heap without assurance The New Deal is the same old Raw Deal for the horrors of Fascism and W ai, they must take control Not “just another political party” seeking to elect of so much as a bare subsistence. This is the real masses. The unemployed have not been p u t back to of their own destiny. Having “grown weary of exist- somebody to office under the capitalist system, but picture of America as it faces the new year. work. Relief standards are being beaten down and ing government” they must exercise “their revolution­ the vanguard section of the working class itself, organ­ capitalists again talk openly of throwing the jobless ary right to overthrow it”. ized for leadership in revolutionary action. CONDITIONS GET WORSE, NOT BETTER back on the mercies of private charity. The minimum Both the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, CAPITALISM CANNOT BE “REFORMED” The economic system under which we live— capital­ wage set in NRA codes have become the maximum. On the Second International and the Third International« ism— is responsible for these conditions. Under this the other hand, the number of millionaires has in­ Reforms and half-measures offer no way out of the have in recent years demonstrated that they are utter­ system, the resources of the nation, the factories, creased under Roosevelt, arid corporation profits have misery, insecurity and chaos of capitalism. Advocates ly incapable, whether in the United States or in other mines, railroads, are owned and controlled by private gone up. The employers have been encouraged by the of such solutions only confuse and mislead the work­ countries, of organizing the workers for effective de­ individuals or corporations. The capitalists use these government to organize one hundred per cent. Mono­ ers. The New Dealers, the Huey Longs, the Bilbos, fense against the offensive of capital, much less of resources and operate this machinery not for fulfilling poly capitalists, the “big fellows” as against the “little the Father Coughlins, and the various cheap American leading them to victory and the new social order. the needs o f the masses but in order to make profits fellows”, have been strengthened. The right of the imitations of European Fascists— they all fawn upon fo r themselves. T h e masses are le ft w ithout the means workers to organize and bargain collectively, sup: the “under-dog” and the “little man” and profess to WORKERS PARTY OF THE U. S. to purchase the goods which they have themselves pro­ posedly guaranteed in section 7a of the NRA, has not, “have the interest of the workers at heart”, but they For this a new party was needed. The Workers duced. Under this system, which is now everywhere in however, been enforced. On the contrary, company sabotage strikes, oppose m ilitant unionism and bitter­ •Party of the U. S. was established on December 1, decline and decay, the workers cannot find deliverance. unions have been encouraged. Roosevelt himself wrote ly attack the revolutionary movement through which 1934 by the merger of the American Workers Party Even for individuals the possibility of personal im­ the infamous “proportional representation” clause alone the masses can gain th e ir freedom. W hatever and the Communist League of America. Workers who provement every day becomes narrow er. F o r the into the automobile code. Strikes have been sabotaged. their demagogic protestations or their motives, there­ had played a leading part in the great strike struggles masses, so long as capitalism endures, conditions will The use of militia against striking workers has gone fore, they serve the capitalists and prepare the way in Toledo, Minneapolis and other places, founders of grow fundamentally and rapidly worse. unrebuked. “Liberal” members of the Roosevelt ad­ for Fascism. The Upton Sinclairs, the Social Demo7 the Unemployed League movement, together with This has' been proved before our own eyes by recent ministration helped to whip up the “red- scare” crats and the Farm er-Laborites te ll the masses th a t by founders and former leading members of the Commu- developments in Germ any and ehsewhere in Europe. against the striking marine workers of the Pacific “civilized”, “peaceful”, “democratic”, “gradual” meth­ (Continued on Page 4) 18 Sacramento Workers on Trial —Face Long Sentences

INEQUALITIES SHOWN Big Meeting Hears Muste BY A. F. OF L. SURVEY Red Frame-Up Is Mask Norris S.P. Leader And Cannon on WP Program * On the basis of Labor Depart­ , For Drive against Unions ment reports and federal income tax figures, the monthly survey of Joins Workers Party Adopts Resolution on Situation in Soviet Union business of the American Federa­ Victims W ere Leaders of Agricultural Laborers tion of Labor has compiled a table shewing the inequalities which Irving Plaza was jammed to standing room when A. J. Muste and The campaign of the Workers of the Revolutionary Policy Com­ One of the most Vicious anti-labor trials in years is now in full have contributed to present condi­ James P. Cannon addressed a meeting last Sunday night on the Workers Party to unite the revolutionary m ittee. swing in Sacramento, ^ California. The District Attorney, on behalf of tions. It summarizes this table as Party and its Program. The entire audience, with the exception of workers under its banner gets a The action of Comrade Norris is the Industrial Association, is trying to send 18 m ilitants workers to the fo llo w s : seven members of the Communist Party greeted the speakers with en­ big push forward this week by the the first positive answer of the State Penitentiary at San' Quentin for the “crime” of organizing to get thusiasm. In the course of their speeches they referred to the present “ In 1933 corporations increased statement of W. W. Norris In revolutionary wing of the party to higher wages, an activity described by the capitalist legal system of executions and arrests in Russia. A resolution, appended below, was their total Income by $654,000,- which be announces his withdrawal the arrogant attacks of the right California as “Criminal Syndicalism”. The defendants were tbe leaders introduced at the conclusion, and passed by a standing vote, censuring 000, made excess, p ro fits (over from the Socialist Party and en­ wing since the Detroit convention and active m ilitants of tbe Agricultural and Cannery Workers’ Union. the secret nature of the trials, arid demanding that the persecution of 123%) o f $125,000,000 and de­ trance into the W. P. The appli­ and the capitulatory attitude of Masked as an “anti-red” crusade, the trial is aimed primarily at this party opponents, old Bolsheviks, such as Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Yev­ creased their deficit by $1,900,- cation of Comrade Norris has been the “M ilitants” and the R.P.C. The organization, tbe most active and effective of any of the unions under dokim ov cease. The vote on the resolution was everybody fo r, seven 000,000. Incomes o f persons re ­ accepted by the National Commit­ Workers Party expects in the near C. P. leadership in California. against. ceiving over $25,000 a year in­ tee on the recommendation of the future to announce the applications At this writing, the jury is ing picked which w ill be asked to The Resolution • 1 ■ 1 11" ------creased by $128,000,000i W orkers’ Minneapolis Branch with which, he of other revolutionary Socialists convict these workers, some of incomes on the other band de­ is in direct contact. who are coming to the same con­ The resolution, to be presented TOUR DATE§ MUSTE DINNER them members of the Communist to the Soviet consulate, follows: creased by nearly $500,000,000 Was Minnesota Secretary clusions as those of Comrade Nor- Party, and others without political “We, the workers of New York, (in reporting industries alone). W. W. N orris was the state sec­ 1s. His statement follows: affiliation. • • • in mass meeting assembled under Following is the schedule of the Our1 total national Income was retary of the Socialist Party in On Wednesday, January 9, a tes­ The prisoners were arrested in appearances of A. J. Muste and 42% below 1929, workers’ Income the'auspices of the Workers Party Minnesota and was a delegate from Statement of W- W. Norris timonial dinner w ill be given for connection with a raid on the James P. Cannon, who on January was 49% lower.” of the II. 3. on this 23rd day.of that state to the Detroit conven­ Minneapolis, Minn. A. J. Muste, National Secretary of Workers School of Sacramento 13 w ill open the first national December, 1934, declare our un­ Prospects of improvement in em­ tio n o f the S. P. He was connected To the National Committee the Workers Party, at Irving Plaza, during the anti-Red drive growing swerving allegiance to the Soviet speaking tour of the Workers ployment are pretty slim, accord­ with the Revolutionary Policy Workers Party of U. S. out of the collapse of the San Party, to extend to February 9, and New York City. The dinner Is to Upion, the workers’ state, which ing to the A. F. of L. survey. Committee and was elected to the Comrades: commemorate bis fiftieth birthday, Francisco general strike. In this is and has been since 1917 thè star covering 21 cities and Industrial National Executive Committee of After full deliberation I have “anti-Red” setting a blow is being centers: and the fifteenth year of his inval­ of hope and inspiration to thè revo­ ORDER W. P. PAMPHLETS NOW. this group at the Detroit conference definitely and finally come to the uable service in the revolutionary aimed at m ilitant unionism. lutionary workers of the entire Buffalo, N. Y.—Janusrv 13-14. conclusion that the Socialist Party labor movement. It has for years been a sytematlc w orld. has no revolutionary future and practice o f the bosses’ police to a r­ Youngstown, Ohio.—January 16. “We condemn terroristic actions, One Year Ago in Labor that the place for every revolution­ Comrade Muste was one time ex­ rest known militants among the sqch . as the assassination of Kirov, Newcastle, Pa.—January 15. ary socialist Is in the ranks of ecutive secretary of the American agricultural and cannery workers and pledge ourselves anew to the Cleveland, Ohio.—January 16. .the Workers Party. Accordingly, Federation of Textile Operatives, a of Sacramento Valley in the late (Dee. 28, 1933-Jan. 3, 1934) defense Of the Soviet Union against, Toledo, Ohio.—January 17. plans- for war mobilization under I have withdrawn from the S. P. New England textile union; served, summer. They are thrown in jail * * * and present herewith my applica­ at one time, as vice president of on vagrancy charges, held with' or external or internal enemies. We D etroit, Mich.—January 18. the National Defense Act,” he shall raise- no Objection tò drastic WASHINTON.—Its ends accom­ stated.” tion for membership in the W. P. the American Federation of Teach­ without tria l -for some weeks, 'nnd measures against any who conspire, Chicago, 111.—January 19-20-21. plished, the Roosevelt “revolution” Like every other revolutionary ers; was the founder of Brookwood turned loose after the harvest is to overthrow the workers’ state. Waukegan, 111.—January7 22. is over, the president told Congress • • • socialist I have been in conflict Labor College; and one of the in. The purpose is to smash or The right, and the duty of the pro­ Madison, Wls.—January 22. in his message to that body. The HARRISBURG, Pa. — “Work-re- with the principles and policies of founders of the American Workers prevent possible strikes at harvest letarian state to adopt the stern­ Minneapolis-St. Paul,' Minn.—-Jan. evils which brought about the lief” Is nothing more than forced the Socialist party for some time. P a rty. time so that there need be no raise est methods of repression against 23-24-25-26-27. smashup of the capitalist machine labor. Executive Director Eric Bid­ But up till recently J had the hope Among the many sponsors of the in thb slave-wages paid to the in the past four years have been its class enemies is indisputable for Kansas City—Jan. 27-28-29-30. dle of the Pennsylvania Emergency that it might be revolutiodized dinner are Roger Baldwin, Ernest workers of the Valley. abolished, he stated. Among evils the revolutionary workers. We Des Moines, la .—January 28. Relief Board stated in his annual .from within. As a delegate to the Sutherland Bates, James P. Can­ Penalty to 84 Years ended is the “ruthless exploitation condemn the hypocritical outcries Davenport, la.—January 29. report to Gov. Pinchot. Detroit convention and a memhef non, S tu a rt Chase, George S. This year the anti-Red drive of all labor”. How this had been of, anti-Soviet elements, whether St. Lout's, Mo’.—January 30-31, of the National Executive Commit­ Counts, Margaret De Silver, Max gave the authorities an opportunity accomplished was not specified. * * • they be social democrats or capi­ Illinois Mine Fields, Staunton. tee of the Revolutionary . Policy Eastman, Arthur Garfield Hays, to strike at the union and to pro­ WASHINGTON.—Unions affiliat­ talist editerà who now come for­ Gillespie, Springfield, —Feb. 1-2-3. • • * Committee, I looked forward to the John Hayhes Holmes, Sydney Hook, secute the leaders on the more ser­ ed with the American Federation of ward to renfew their agitation, for Columbus, Ohio.—February 4-5 NEW YORK—“Our army hap­ transformation of the S. P. into a Freda Kirchwey, Ludwig Lore, Ro­ ious charge of crim inal syndicalism. Labor were called upon by Presi­ bogus bourgeois “democracy” and Charleston, W. Va.—February 6. pens to be the only branch of the revolutionary party. Developments bert Mores Lovett, Reinhold Nie­ I f convicted on a ll counts, each of dent W illiain Green to “take such seidc to id e n tify the w orkers’ d icta ­ Pittsburgh, Pa.—February 7-3. government which is already or­ since the Detroit convention have buhr, Robert Paddock, James Ror- the accused con get as much as steps as Seem necessary to make torship with Fascist dictatorship.: New York City—February 10. ganized and available nov only to caused me to change my mind about ty, George Soule, Carlo Tresqa, 84 years in San Quentin. We who have witnessed from afar defend our territory due also to the boycott of German goods and the prospeejs of the S. P. and to Stephen Wise, and Oswald Garri­ The defendants were arrested the mass murder of the victims of All comrades and sympathizers cope with social and economic German services effective'”. The' jo.jn the W. P. son Villard. during tne week of July 18 and Fascism and reaction m Germany, are urged to get busy at once ar- problems In an emergency,” Asst. boycott' had been ordered by the Contrary to the hopes of many tried for vagrancy, nine being con­ Austria, Spain, and/lUAve seen w tth rafiklng. moeOiigs, conferences, etc. Secretsrv of Wdr Harry 6- Wuod- Washington convention of the A. members, the leftward d rift of the Tha dinner w ill be served at the victed. These cases are being ap sur ewa sees the murder of ,strikers ©a the dates indloatad and to keen n n f wrote Jn an article in Liberty P. of L. last toll. 9. P. hM bean sharply arrested. Irving Plana, Irving Place and 15th pealed. During the vagratwy trials too National Secreutry informed m agazine The G.C.O. «amps were Btrestnt To’clock. A ll friands and t i tht prsrr—i of the arrangements. “the first real teat ef the •m fi N W n o WORXRBfil PARTI. ifiontlnasd an Page 4) aynutothlaarg are Imvttefi to afetoad. PAG E 2 NEW MILITANT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934

Facts A re Facts IN THE UNIONS which he had in council which pro­ frame-up remains to be defeated: By KARL LORE -- Three Leagues vided for taking the ground rent the charge against Philip Scott for For Coal Miners The Labor Racket no doubt that the relations- of th« that was now going to Europeans the same murder which the labor- Chicago’s unions still fight the two have been increasingly inter­ owning land in Pittsburgh. haters failed to pin on Holstein. labor racketeer.- The cancer which twined and that the whole tendency Built in W eek He also told the delegation that The County Attorney v has been ILLINOIS "EXPOSURE" EXPOSED made its way into the labor move­ of the NRA labor machinery has “every mayor should take up box­ moving heaven and earth to get ment of that city has not yet been been to tie lab or’s hands more and LEHIGH COUNTY ADDS 600 ing”. He then invited the commit­ Scott before a jury as quickly as eradicated. The agents of Murray more in the exercise of its elemen­ tee outside to have their pictures possible, hoping to railroad him A llard Cites P.M. of A . Records Against Humphries and of the late George tary rights. It is almost inevitable ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Three new taken with him in front of some before the defense could get organ­ (Red) Barker still have infleunce that this should happen. branches, Coplay, Ormrod and advertizing benches which a furn­ ized. Article by Ralph Shaw In Labor Unity in the workers’ organizations. The defense movement got going A recent decision of the National South Whitehall, totalling more iture company had sent for the un­ The Federation News, organ of Labor Relations Board illustrates faster than the prosecutor, how­ than 600 members, have been added employed to sit on while they were By GERRY ALLARD more than $7.00 scale.. . . as I view the Chicago Federation of Labor, how the process works and how— to the Lehigh County Unemployed waiting for food orders. The com­ ever, and now the latter has begun In the October issue of Labor it we must make a wage scale that reports the efforts of the Joint almost by accident—the precedents League during the past week. Two mittee declined to accept the honor. to stall. He claims to have dis­ Unity, Ralph Shaw, it is announced, w ill catch most of the operators at Council of the International Team­ are established by which later la­ oi the Leagues, Coplay and Orm­ covered a new material witness, The mayor is such good copy for begins a series of articles in which this time in that part of the coun­ sters Union to oust “Lefty” LynCh, bor’s rights may be curtailed. Four rod, grew out of the demand of and wants to postpone the trial. the local Hearst paper that an of­ he hopes to “expose” the Musteite- try where we hold most of our secretary treasurer and business workers brought a complaint unemployed youths for work on Meantime, the defense campaign ficer of the Workers Party was told Trotskyite elements in the coal membership. The operators say agent of Local 704—the coal team­ against the Bennett Shoe Company relief projects. goes fo rw a rd w ith great speed. by this paper that if the party fields of southern Illinois. Now it they can’t pay a higher wage scale sters organization. The local was of Marlboro, Mass. The company Many cement workers in this re­ wanted publicity for any of its The Auditorium has been hired for than Franklin county and compete originally known as the Chicago New Year’s Eve and the labor is common knowledge in the radi­ had entered into a closed shop gion work only two days per week meetings they should get the mayor cal movement that truth and ac­ w ith them. Coal Teamsters Union and was one agreement with the independent earning $7.50. Relief officials have to speak. movement w ill stage a big party “Douglas: I think this convention of the locals of an independent for the benefit of the Scott Defense. curacy are held as “bourgeois pre­ United Shoe and Leather Workers consistently refused to place on judices” by the Stalinists. Shaw’s should work out a differential. I organization, racketeer controlled. Union of which the complainants relief projects adult members of Local 574 has requested Herbert think that in placing a 12c differ­ In February 1034 i t a ffilia te d to Solow, formerly Managing Editor mixture of indictments, ’ charges had been members. Sometime later the families of these workers. and insinuations are written in ential as yon go on north ydu can the teamsters union of the A. F. these complainants were expelled of its daily strike bulletin, to soli­ render the situation satisfactory. of L. and in the elections Lefty, a Draw Up Plans Holstein Freed cit funds in the east for the sup­ characteristic “Labor Unity” prose: from the union because they vio­ former officer of the old organiza­ lated a provision of its constitution The Coplay League has drawn up port of the defense movement. he quotes people, but Consistently A llard Opposes Retreat tion, was placed in the saddle again. that no member could belong to'any plans for a municipal swimming Other Minnesota unions are also fails to tell the reader where the “Allard: I realize that in the first In Minneapolis “It turned out”, says the Feder­ other organization in the trade pool and town hall which it will being asked to back the fight. The quotations can be found. place I speak under a handicap at prospects are promising and it Taken as a whole his article this convention because I am from ation News, “that Lynch could not (the Shoe Workers Protective Un­ push through in order to provide ONE FRAME-UP REMAINS ion in this case). The union de­ work for the unemployed of the looks as though the Citizens A lli­ simmers down to precisely one Franklin county and my mine Is forget the tactics employed by the Chicago Teamsters and it was not manded that the employer discharge town. The Ormrod League hopes ance is due for another trimming. thing: a clear example and admit­ working under the $5.00 scale. MINNEAPOLIS.— The Hennepin long before he thoyght that he was the four, which he did in accord­ to force the authorities to approve tance that the Communist party is There are one of two courses to County Grand Jury has voted a no­ a new Mussolini. . . One of his first ance with for provisions of the a project for a community center. no longer an important force in the pursue. Ohe course is to retreat bill in the case of Emanuel Hol­ actions after taking office was to union contract. The fired workers The League at South Whitehall Illinois coal fields. and the other is to spread the stein, leading m ilitant of Drivers get out a book for which he solicit­ appealed to the N.L.R.B. was formed when workers realized Relief W ood Shaw’s article is long and cum­ strike movement. Here is where Local 574, whom the Citizens A lli­ ed advertisement from coal merch­ • * * their unified power through a spon­ bersome. It is not necessary to we incur lots of difficulties. The ance and Police Cfiief Bloody Mike ants and others costing from $25 to taneous strike called to reinstate answer his allegations in detail, retreat proposed by the scale com­ Dangerous Precedents Johannes have been attempting to Strike Looms save from one paragraph. I quote $ 100.” a worker who had been arbitrarily mittee I don’t believe is very well The Labor Board upheld the frame for the murder of a m illion­ from Shaw, page 18, Labor Unity, fired by the boss. The workers on timed. There is not a section of He transferred the union head­ right of the boss to discharge aire special deputy who died during SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 19.— Oct. 1934: the project are organized practical­ the state that has expressed a de­ quarters to his own home, miles the May strike. The clearing of Intensifying their fight against re­ “Facts Are Facts” workers under these conditions. It ly 100% and have elected commit­ sire to retreat. The spirit of the away from the center of town ruled that “by joining the United Happy Holstein is a direct result lief officials because of their no­ “The Musteites and S. P. ele­ tees to carry on collective bar­ membership is s till on the upward.” where it was impossible for thé the complainants ratified . . . the of the fight staged by the Minnea­ torious system of distributing wood ments helped put over the infamous gaining w ith the bosses and re lie f After considerable discussion a membership to attend meetings or closed shop agreement. . . . By re­ polis trade union movement led by while thousands of miners of this ‘we must accept the same scale as officials. motion was then made to accept the to take any active part In union af­ questing and accepting membership the m ilitant fighters of Local 574. city are idle, the Illinois Workers Lewis has with Peabody.’ Here is scale committee’s recommendation, fairs. Special assessments were in the United at a time when that Organize In Palmerton Minneapolis unionists are wild Alliance is preparing for a strike how it was done: The Independent which was to stand pat. on the levied against the membership at union had already adopted the con­ with enthusiasm at this new blow at all wood yards of this territory. Operators’ Ass’n. was willing to A new League has also been $6.10 temporary agreement. Mc­ meetings with only a handful ol stitution they assented to It and it to the Citizens Alliance, which had A strike committee, with Joe An­ give $5.70 to settle the strike (a formed in Palmerton, in Carbon Gill, Springfield board member and the 3,000 members present. No ac­ must therefore . . . be assumed to hoped to terrorize labor by railroad­ gelo, Workers Party member, as reduction of 40 cents from the or­ County, a company town of the right wing adherent moved an counting was made on the union be . . . binding on them.” New Jersey Zinc Company. Weston ing Holstein to death. A few weeks secretary was elected at the last iginal contract). Pearcy and Keck books of his disbursement of or­ amendent as follows: If we take such a ruling away Kelsey, administrator of relief for ago the attempt to frame the meeting of the alliance. Workers did not accept or reject this but “McGill: Amendment that they ganization money and the President Machinists Brotherhood business from its setting in this particular this area was formerly manager of Party and Socialist workers are came to the Convention declaring be instructed to return back and and vice president of the union case, it may easily be seen what this company and draws a huge agent was also smashed by mass leading the fight which is quickly ‘we want the same scale as Peabody make an agreement indentical in were summarily expelled when they a tremendous repressive effect It pension from it. pressure. spreading in all circles of the local has, no more, no less’.” (Peabody wages to this agreement in effect opposed him. Conditions in Palmerton are un­ One more Citizens Alliance labor movement. scale was lower with U.M.W.A.) * • • can have on minority groups lu in southern Illinois.” uhions, or on insurgent groups believably bad. One family with The Musteites now try to disclaim 50 Opposition Votes Union Receivership which revolt against their leader­ nine chi.dren was found sleeping responsibility for this act of betray­ The amendment was carried by Charges were preferred against on the floor, with no mattresses al but facts are facts and undeni­ ship and strike out on an Indepen­ a vote o f 112 to 50. A fte r A lla rd Lynch in the Joint Council and dent organizational path. In sub­ and few covers. Children were Independent Printing Employees able." had led the opposition against the ¿hat worthy was expelled. The stance it makes it possible for na­ touted who had no clothing but un­ We admit that facts are facts cut the fifty opposition votes con­ local itself has been1 placed in the tional union officials to get together derwear, many others who had out­ and they are not deniable. We w ill sisted of the solid left wing vote control of a receiver by the Inter er clothing but no underwear. therefore let the facts speak. I with manufacturers, to impose W in 5 Day Altum Press Strike in the convention which included national, elections have been> held anything on a local nuion and to Company houses have been neglect quote from the proceedings of the Corbridge, Steed, Fraser, Allard, and it is hoped that another step make them like it. A local in this ed lo r so long th a t i t is alm ost first constitutional Convention of Burrell, Battuello, Ansboury, Tracy, has been taken In blasting the rack­ situation could not revolt, would impossible to heat them. Plaster the Progressive Miners of America A . F. of L. Printing Unions Urged to Help Organise Industry Bernard, Leveque, Scremin, etc. eteer out of the labor movement. find it impossible to withdraw from has almost entirely disappeared held at Gillespie, 111., October 3 In a last desperate effort to out- through October 8, 1932. On page It is unfortunate, however, that under its national leadership and from many. A weather vane placed A s trik in g success has come out; 3. Recognition of a shop com­ maneuver the right wing Allard 1 of the proceedings, Wed., Oct. 5, labor organizations generally seem would have to accept its command on the table in one of the “homes” of the first strike conducted by the mittee as the collective bargaining moved the following according to 1932, n ig h t session beginning a t 7 to believe that the cure for one unquestioningly. . . . indicated the direction of the wind! Independent Printing Employees agency of all the workers (of the the proceedings: P.M.: dictator is another dictator. The • * * Some months ago when a League of New York. Despite an empty highest importance since all the “A llard: Motion made that a From the Record practice of putting the affairs of was formed in Palmerton the lead treasury, sabotage by government workers belong to the I.P.E.). referendum be held within two local unions under the fu ll control B riefs ing members were evicted from “Scale Committee’s report given: officials supposed by law to be im­ 4. Amount of employment in weeks.” o f receivers has been a curse In The growth of company unions company property for their activi­ “Pearcy: The operators said that “Motion to table. Carried 90 to partial and the organized resis­ slow season and overtime rates to many national unions. The rack­ in the past year is reflected Ini a ty. The new League is so strong, they had to have a scale- that was tance of the boss printers, the be arranged by agreement with 46.” eteers had the doors opened to them recent report of the National In­ however, that the Zinc Co. officials competitive. We had a group of From the above one can see that dustrial Conference Board, em­ workers in A ltu m Press, 165 W il­ the shop committee. mechanized operators represented in the first case by the trade union dare not interfere. Already it has liam St., after a five-day struggle the debate and opposition of the ployers statistical organization 5. Guarantee of one-year em­ and out of that group one repre­ bureaucracy. The denial of the forced the relief administration to are back on the job under condi­ left wing was vigorous. Heated which shows that, of the companies ployment for all men. sentative of the Southern Coal Co. fullest trade union democracy is set up an office in Palmerton. For­ tions that set a high mark for discussion took place as the lefts studied 126 have company affairs In a statement to the New M ili­ They stated that they couldn’t pay bound to breed the rats who fatten merly the unemployed had to walk .shops not organized by the A. F. and rights crossed swords. The on the organized workers. white only 17 have agreements 8 miles to the nearest relief station. tant, a leading official of the I.P.E. the $6.10 scale and compete with left wing fought to the end trying o f L . The classic example of this faci with unions. Under the New Deal yesterday said: with other operators in southern to refer the matter for a referen­ 42 new company unions have been Last week’s strike was the cul­ “This victory w ill help us quick­ Illinois. Then they brought in a is, of course, the case of the New mination of a ten-months struggle dum vote of the rank and file. started w ith twelve more in process ly add many to our present mem­ proposal. They wanted us to allow Three Stalinists, all speakers, did York electrical workers. H. H. led by the Altum workers under Broach was sent in by the Inter­ of formation. Only nine more com­ bership lis t o f 1,000. In the la s t their mines to operate next morn­ not voice a single word during the Mayor McNair the I.P.E.’s leadership. Altum national to clean out a nest of cor­ panies signed union agreements two days the workers of two shops ing on this proposal until this con­ debate according to the official re­ Press brazenly ignored the Gra­ ruption in Local No. 3. He did so however. . . . Another survey of have called us in to organize them. vention gave their approval or re­ cord. 697 public u tility companies shows H as a Flair phic Arts Code, which is sup­ The I.P.E. w ill continue to urge jected the scale. We said that if and then set up a dictatorial regime posed to guarantee the workers Shaw’s Nightmare that of the 580,000 employees cov­ FOR SINGLE TAX AND SCABS the Allied Printing Trades Council the mines went to work in the Now let us compare the above of his own to “keep out the gang certain conditions. The I. P. E. sters”. Under the era of "enlight­ ered in the survey, only twelve per to back -a joint drive to organize morning they would have to pay facts with the nightmare in Shaw’s cent dealt with their companies PITTSBURGH.—W illiam N. Mc­ fought before the NRA boards the industry 100% and to bring all the $6.10 temporary agreement. ened dictatorship” that Broach in­ so ably and vigorously that the a rticle . through organized labor unions. In Nair, Pittsburgh’s Single Tax may­ printers in the city into the A. F. This group only represents a small 1. Shaw states, “the Musteites augurated the same mess came into boards could not evade giving a being all over again. The only the railroad industry the figure Is or, continues to play the role of of L. The perspectives for such a group of operators. The largest and S. P. elements helped to put decision in favor of the workers. guarantee of clean unionism is full radically different, 75% of the Allegheny County’s leading strike­ drive are excellent. The Altum operators say that if we would take over the infamous slogan ’we must 760,000 w orkers covered dealing breaker. Recently in the strike of The NRA, as usual, did nothing fight involved only a small shop this scale not only them but other accept as Lewis has w ith Peabody’.” democracy in the organizations ol labor. . . . through regular unions. . . . Be the A. & P. haulefs, McNair rode a to enforce its own “decisions”, and but tested our mettle. It is merely large operators would sign it. The convention proceedings (as happy Tom Mooney. The workers truck beside the police and a scab 'finally the workers struck. The the beginning of a long struggle “K eck: . . . The question is what Shaw says, “facts are facts” ) dis­ • * * of the San Francisco Market Street driver to assure the safe delivery boss p rin te rs trie d to make th is a that will end In victory and im­ are going to be our demands from prove this in no uncertain terms. Unions and Government Railway Company—the outfit which of supplies to A. & P. stores. When test case. The workers held out proved conditions for all workers, now on. The mechanical operators 2. Shaw states, “the Independent Radicals and progressives have framed you when you tried to or­ the strikers persisted in following on the picket-line, however, aided including those already in the A. told us very frankly that it would Operators’ Ass’n. was willing to always warned against the tenden­ ganize their employees—has bad to the truck McNair got off and lead by volunteer pickets from the F. o f L .” not be possible for them to pay any give $5.70 to settle the strike (a cy on the part of many union lead­ come to terms with the labor un­ the police in an attack on the strik­ Workers Party. On request of the reduction of 40 cents from the o ri­ ers to involve the trade union ions. Shorter hours, higher wages ers and ordered their arrest. I.P.E., the A. F. of L. Printing ginal contract).” movement closely with the machin­ and union recognition were award­ McNair first became infamous as Pressmen’s Union 51 notified all W.P. to Open Training School; The truth is that the original ery of government. There can be ed following the general strike. . .. a potential strike-breaker when he its chapels not to scab. Finally wage scale for this classification of •faaetfettBagganr announced last June that he would the boss had to back down. labor, conveyors, was $8.04, a re­ support the employers if there was Altum Press negotiated with a In Fight Against Capitalism duction of $1.34. Facts are facts, a steel strike. committee headed by Sam Gordon, but Shaw is not sufficiently con­ Build A Marxist Library After being on the losing end for president of the I.P.E. Matthew The International Workers School, relief, to fight for progressive versant with details to know what twenty-five years McNair became Levy, member of the Socialist to show workers how capitalism ex­ measures in trade unions, to recruit he is talking about. KARL MARX—Capital (3 vols.) each...... $2.60 mayor last fall in a New Deal Lawyers Association, advised the ploits and keeps the masses in pov­ advanced workers into the Workers 3. Shaw states, “Pearcy and Critique of Political Economy ...... 1.25 landslide. His hobbies are apple I.P.E. committee on legal aspects erty, but better still, what' to do Party and to build the Party Keck did not accept or reject this | Poverty of Philosophy ...... 1.25 eating and “ground rent”. He ve­ of the final settlement, which has about it, w ill open a district school through mass action in the work­ but came to the convention declar­ Letters to Kugelman ...... l.o o toed an ordinance of the city coun­ been signed by the boss and a ll the in New York within the next two ing class struggle against capital­ ing we want the same scale as Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte...... 60 c il w hich provided $500,000 out o f workers o f. the shop. This settle­ weeks, to be followed by the open­ istic poverty and exploitation. Th.e Peabody has, no more no less.” Critique of the Gotha Program ...... 50 a bond issue for unemployed relief. ment included: ing of other schools in keeping with aim of the Party and Its schools is The facts are that Pearcy, Keck Selected Essays ...... , ...... 2.00 Wheu a delegation from the Pitts­ 1. 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Educational Committee of the W.P. the masses politically and economi­ Now, Shaw here is trying to cover Socialism—Utopian and Scientific ...... 25 In addition to the International cally free. up the treachery of Pearcy and Origin of the Family ...... 60 Keck. He does this unconsciously, Workers School, the plans of the Class Outlines Feuerbach ...... 60 of course, but no shrewd Stalinist committee include a National Branch and district schools of the PLEKHANOV—Fundamental Problems of Marxism ...... 1.50 Training School to train Party gymnast would care to be quoted The Party at Work International Workers School w ill on such a careless faux pas. Socalism and Anarchism ...... 60 members. The training school w ill be opened as rapidly as possible be in New York. 4. 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for “national defense” in the next w ar. And a t th a t moment in 1923 U.S. Role In Making when the “Jap” scare was being Saar Basin Is Pawn History in the Making whipped up in earnest, and loudly drummed into the people through the newspapers and into the chll • HAT the revolutionary party is to play one of the most important Bosses' W a r Shown dren through school text-books, the O f Imperialist Rivals roles in American labor history is no longer a question of doubt. At U. S. War Department began help­ this critical moment, when the Socialist Party is moving faster and ing the duPont Company of W il­ more determinedly to the right, and when the Communist Party is defi­ WORKERS DIED FOR MORGAN LOANS mington, Delaware, sell munitions PLEBISCITE MASKS REAL AIM S nitely failing the leftward moving workers, there remains only one to Japan. force capable of giving correct leadership in the class struggle—the Six years before the outbreak of maintaining our present pre-emi­ The American government agreed In the Saar today, there is in­ lest that ruin American plans for Workers Patty of the U. S. the World War—wherein millions nent trade position and averting to turn over to the duPonts a part volved much more than the fate of a bloody re-division of the world The class conscious workers are giving concrete manifestations of of workers dressed in uniforms a panic is by declaring war on of the U. S. reserve supply of car­ the Saar or even all Europe. on Its own terms). Is designed to their willingness and readiness to struggle. Witness the general strike were torn to bits—the Colt Patent .Germany.” tridges to be shipped to Japan. The tiny Saar district, packed prevent it. Naturally, American in California; the Toledo and Minneapolis historic battles; the textile Firearms Company, the duPont Ne­ At that moment, according to the Since then both the War Depart­ w ith alm ost 900,000 people, the diplomacy makes its constant moves workers and numerous other instances. What is lacking is a revolu­ mours & Company and the “Gov­ Committee’s experts, the British ment and the State. Department majority miners, has become a against England under cover of a tionary mass party. To fill that need becomes the paramount duty of ernment” of the United States knew government was being pressed by have aided the American munition pawn in the hands of practically desire “to ensure European peace”. the Workers Party. This imposes enormous tasks upon us. that it was going to happen. And the Morgan bank and other Amer­ makers in arming Japan, Germany every great Imperialist rival In the Today England seems closer to The united forces of the two organizations which merged to form they -set about secretly arming the ican financial institutions to pay and other so-called “enemy” coun­ struggle for hegemony in Europe. its goal than ever before. The “un­ the new party contain sufficient material with which to carry out this nations for the conflict. back $400,000,000 w hich had been tries, at the same time preparing The question to be decided now derstanding” between German and obligation. A ll that is necessary is a determined, obstinate struggle Nothing could give one a better advanced In war credits. The B rit­ at home a psychology of fear and is th is : French imperialism as to the future for its achievement. Every party member, every sympathizer, every insight into the nature of the Am­ ish government was unable to re­ hatred, and building up a modern Is it possible for Germany and of the Saar mines is, in the main, friend must make a little sacrifice and success is assured. erican capitalistic government — pay the loans, and the loans were “war machine”. French imperialism, bound soon­ England’s work. Powerful capital­ THE URGENT NEED government by the capitalists—than in danger. None of this is new, of course. er or later to crane to grips over ist groups in Germany and France The first need of the new Party, weak as yet compared to the great this. The illusion that the “Gov­ Woodrow Wilson and Congress Since the industrialists constitute the question of continental hege­ which fear a premature showdown the real government of the nation, between the two, and which there­ hi ¡ate« aherd, is a Fund to enable us to carry out the plans of the ernment belongs to everybody” is declared war on Germany immedi­ mony, to reach a temporary un­ nothing less could be expected. The fore favor an alliance under British Program of Action. iwept away. The words of Karl ately thereafter ;. and not only did derstanding which would break First and foremost we must rush capable organizers into the Add, Marx, who some 80 years ago wrote the banks collect ■ their loans, but game has been going along all the up the present alliance between overlordship against the Soviet brtld and Party districts in the industrial concentration areas, ¿hat a capitalist government Is just the “Government” footed the b ill— time. The Nye Committee has France and Soviet Russia, there­ Union (and the U .S.), seem to be and organize the coast to coast tours. This w ill bring immediate results che “executive committee” of the and while the doughboys were being rendered a real service, however, by allowing British imperialism gaining the upper hand. The Ger­ in membership increase; it w ill help double the circulation of our paper capitalists themselves, are brought sent over and slaughtered to the by giving the public a peep behind to weld all Europe for a short man and French press have toned and lay the foundation for a national Left-progressive wing in the to m ind. tune o f $1 a day, more than 500 the scenes. time into a powerful bloc directed down mutual attacks, a fact grati­ fying to the petty-bourgeois “paci­ trade union movement. Why America Entered War American capitalists were drawing The “Government” is like the in­ against the U.S.SJR. and the PALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE FOUNDATION FUND CAM The facts unearthed by the 'Sen­ down a m inim um o f $1,000,000» a famous Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton U.S.A.? fist” who sees here a victory for PAIGN. DON’T DELAY. EVERY SYMPATHIZER, EVERY FRIEND ate Committee investigating the year each, and some were “getting” wrote a book about Jesus and a At the moment of achieving such “the cause of peace”, but very al­ arming to the Marxist who under­ —AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT. munitions industry show up clearly as high as $15,000 per day through­ book about the Bible, then he wrote an agreement, a new world war the interlocking alliance between out the war. a terrific article in the American would become an imminent danger stands that this agreement really r e c e ip t s t o d a t e W asserm an...... 2.00 smooths the way towards the out­ Branches the financial and .political “rulers” The “Japs” Are Discovered Magazine against war, entitled in a fa r more imm ediate sense Mann ...... 3.00 break of another world war. New York District, less percentage of the United States, between the When the war was over, a new “Let’s Advertise this Hell”, and he than hitherto. Thus far the an­ J. Weber ...... 10.00 capitalists and the Government. enemy had to be found, and if not then donated several full-page ads tagonism between French and Ger­ The Saar has become the key deducted for local w ork.. .$159.60 M ille r ...... 1.00 to the war question, in the sense Rose Rolene ...... 2.00 On M arch 5, 1917, Woodrow W il­ found, then made. against war in the popular maga­ man imperialism has been the main D. Eastman ...... 1.00 son, who had just been returned The W all Street financiers, the zines for World Peace ways. But stumbling block to England’s per­ that the negotiations around the G. R...... G ilm an ...... 1.00 plebiscite are being utilized for Allentown, Pa...... 12.00 to the White House by an over­ munitions makers and the coun­ all this while he was serving (at sistent attempts to realize its S. Weber ...... 25 whelming majority “because he try’s big corporations, including the a big salary) as advertising agent dream of an all-iEuropean anti- the purpose of breaking up the Boston, Mass ...... 100.00 Green ...... 1-00 present alliance between French A. Konikow ...... 25.00 kept us out of war”, received a U. S. War Department, got busy. lor the Remington Arms Company, Soviet bloc with Hitler-Germany as Branch No. 4 cable from Walter Hines Page, And soon poor dumb guys at cross­ the Standard Oil Company, the its spear-head. Such a bloc seems imperialism and the Soviet Union. Philadelphia, Pa...... 3.60 West ...... 10.00 Individuals then U. S. Ambassador in London. road stores and on street corners Chase National Bank and the du almost indispensable if British im­ For England the plan of an Graham ...... 5.00 The cable, made public by the Nye across the country were talking Pont Nemours & Company, equip­ perialism together with its Japan­ “Eastern Locarno” was, in- the final J. H., New Haven, Conn...... 1.00 Purshman ...... 5.00 H ild a B rahinsky, B ro o k ly n .. 5.00 Committee, said in part: about the “Japs” and the “Yellow ping armies in Europe, Asia and ese ally is to fight with a chance analysis, but a threat whereby to B ro o k s ...... 10.00 “Tbe pressure of this approach­ Peril”. Plenty money was spent South America. of success against both the Soviet pound Germany into line. The real Steinberg, Spartacus, N. Y. 1.00 Beecher ...... 1.00 ing crisis^» I am certain, has gone to get that result ; newspapers were In the same way, this capitalistic Union and the U.S.A. Every move settlement of the question of “Eu­ B a rry ...... 1.00 823.20 beyond the ability of the Morgan subsidized by the big Interests—the “ Government” dupes the masses on the part of the U. S. (itself an ropean peace” under Britain’s wing Pons ...... 25 financial interests. . . . It is not “invisible government”—and. Con­ and serves the interests of the fi­ xious to prevent Efaglland from is to come out of the negotiating Two New York Sympathizers, Colay ...... 1.00 Mrs. M. and R. S...... 400.00 improbable that the only way of gress began appropriating millions nanciers and industrialists. solidifying its European position around the Saar. Once the as­ C hertoff ...... 25 cendancy of groupings favoring a Copeland ...... 2.10 T o ta l ...... $723.20 German-French understanding has B lack __ , ...... 1.00 been assured in England, France (Certificates w ill be Issued to the Branch NLovestoneites spoke about princi­ The background to the present cris­ pledness, about the Tammany Hall viev’s writings and plenty of analy­ How the Lefts Were Fooled to a single one: the best possible Suter ...... 3.00 Linen Works at Worcester. is is far more complex, however, methods of the Lovestoneites. This sis of these quotations, but we The fact, however, that Stalin line-up for the coming war. than the average party member speech was reprinted in pamphlet never saw an actual textual, expo­ supported the Left in the American But to the unfortunate people of suspects. Essentially the crisis is form in this country. Stalin pre­ sition of the opposition leaders’ and other parties as against Brand- the Saar the plebiscite has enor­ HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO YOUB due to the fact that while officially tended not to have favored any of position written by themselves! ler, Lovestone and Bucharin threw mous importance. True, if the ma­ Lenin’s teachings are supposed to the factions. I, knowing the de­ “Explaining” the Opposition me oft the track and prevented me jority votes for the continuation of be the official guide of the party, PARTY FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE tails, knew he Was lying unscrupu­ from drawing any further conclu­ the status quo (under the League Leninism in fact has been abolished Trotsky’s position, according to lously and preparing to cover up sions then and thinking the matter of Nations), the question w ill sim­ or. substituted by the mediocrity of these “quotations” and commentar­ O N E DOLLAR his tracks at the same time. This out subsequently. The audacity of ply be laid over for a while, giving Stalinism. This double bookkeep­ ies which purported to “explain” FIVE DOLLARS was done by dispersing the leaders the slander against the Trotsky op­ the workers of the world a chance ing is at the root of the present the opposition’s point of view, was of the American Left, sending them position as counter-revolutionary to make of tbe Saar, instead of a TEN DOLLARS Situation in the C. P. and the whole as follows: 1) A split with the pea­ to various countries. This was done yras another factor, for none of us source of triumph for Hitler and a Comintern. santry. 2) Preparation of a war We can supply collection lists for those who cannot afford any to “prove” that Stalin did not favor against capitalist nations. 3) Loos­ could fathom that the responsible step towards war, a stepping stone one of these sums by themselves. A certificate w ill be issued for However, In order not to antici­ the minority faction. Stalin, then ening of the foreign trade monopo­ leaders of the Russian C. P. could towards the proletarian reconquest the total collected. pate too much and in order to re­ in full power, was preparing to ly. 4) Building up a war industry have possibly sunk so low as to of Germany and an ally of the Members of the organization w ill receive certificates equal to late things against the background forbid all factions. Not only that, but neglect of the rest of economy. commit such a falsification. Hence fighting French proletariat. But if their Party Foundation Tax paid through the branchea of American events I w ill tell my there was to be a “monolithic” 5) Socialism cannot be built in a I and many others did not bother as a result of the Nazi terror, the own story, for this is the story of party, a party of one thought, the peasant country, hence the prole-, to find out the actual facts even bargain between French and Ger­ HELP REALIZE THE PROGRAM OF ACTION many others still in the party. My thought of Stalin, and no contro­ tariat has to exploit the peasantry after we were out of Russia. We man imperialists, and the lack of own experience brought me to the versial discussions. It would not to prepare for the International took it more or less for granted the active solidarity of workers of HELP BUILD THE WORKERS PARTY same conclusions as those stated in do, therefore, to have proofs that Revolution, war, etc. that Trotsky had become what the' other countries, the Saar majority the Workers Party Declaration of GIVE YOUR ACTIVE SUPPORT TO THIS DRIVE. Stalin had been organizing factions Such was the peppery dish pre­ 0. I. said. votes fdr return to Germany, then Principles. I am deeply convinced for years before. Differences were pared against the opposition. Need- The present new turn to the right, .the plebiscite w ill hand over to the that many others w ill take the Fill In Blank Below and Mail Today. outlawed as “Left Social-Fascist” ness to say we foreigners were this time executed officially by torture chambers and firing squads same road. (Lovestone) or “counter-revolu­ thus finally convinced that Trot­ Stalin himself, had to occur in or­ of the Nazis the flower of a prole­ Back Stage Methods tionary” (Trotsky) sky’s position was all wrong, con­ der to stir up the memory of things tariat whose militant traditions Workers Party of the U. S. Even while Stalin was combined We were then coming into the demned it as “left” phrase-monger­ of the past against the background rank with those of our fighting 112 E ast 19th St. Room 702 with the Right wing in Russia it­ era of Stalin’s fancy theories of ' ing, “objectively” leading to a of present events. Now I know, of miners of West Virginia, Illinois New York City. self (Bucharin, Rykov and Co.) in Social-Fascism and the united | counter-revolutionary position. Lat­ course, that all and severally the and Pennsylvania. order to fight the Left (Trotsky, front from below. Tbe stage was er this was further simplified to alleged deeds and views of the op­ The workers of the Saar see to Enclosed find $ ...... for a Party Foundation Fund Cer­ Zinoviev, etc.) he at the same time being prepared for events in the read: “The counter-revolutionary position led by Trotsky, as stated the east a country in which their tificate. GR — Send me...... collection lists for the Party was intriguing against his Russian American party. In the spring of platform of Trotskyism,” or “Trot­ ■by Stalin and his clique, are out­ brethren, having suffered a cruel allies (Bucharin was then in 1928 in Moscow I objected to a skyism, tie Vanguard of Interna­ right fabrications, i know now defeat, are incapable of lend'ng Foundation Fund. charge of ■ the Comintern ) in the resolution calling Trotsky a coun- tional Counter-Revolution.” that the whole fhing is a tissue of them any helpt To the west they Name ...... foreign parties by encouraging thé tef-revolutionlst, hut In this case 1 Just about the time that we were lies. 'The whole Stalinist system Is ■see a proletariat hardly able to development of “Left” factions was far from understanding the pretty well convinced of the an unscrupulous system of slander hold its own in a deadly struggle Address ...... , ...... against Bucharin. That is, it ap­ full implications of the thing. I Counter-revolutiqnary nature of gnd blackmail that w ill condemn with reaction and- fascism. The peared that way; in reality Stalin could even be talked out of my Trotskyism, occurred the Chinese its authors forever. workers Of the Saar seem to have Otty ...... State...... was not afraid of Bucharin at all. impressions. But tbe “molecular” debacle. Those who follow events In the next issue I w ill point out been left almost completely la the publicity use the name ...... W hat he was aim ing a t was to iso­ processes kept on working down in the- movement w ill remember . flow things proceeded in the Amer­ lunch, facing the most cruel and late his main enemy, Trpinky, frost deep is my kaneelousness. \ Some- that, contrary to the. fundamental ican c. £>. on the basis of this» powerful enemies the working «less the Left In the tonHgtt panse*. th k ig M t it *4 t A tseohiags of Lanin, Stalin iausad methods and pottalsa. has ever knew». SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1034 P A G E 4 NEW MILITANT

looked for the final solution of the difficulties and contradictions of the Soviet Union on the arena of Issue New R e s o lu tio n NEW MILITANT the international revolution. The theory and prac­ Glass Faces Ten Years w ith which is merged tice of “Socialism in the Soviet Union alone” could International, THE MILITANT work only to isolate the Soviet Union from its chief Adopted by Published weekly by the Workers Party of the U. S. and, in the final analysis, its only real source of On Syndicalist Charge 112 East 19th Street, New York City. reenforcement, the international working class Party Organ N.Y. Meeting Phone: ALgonquin 4-9068 movement The "Opposition”, treacherously de­ scribed as “counter-revolutionary” and now even W . Va. Unemployed League Aid Defense branded as “terrorist”, was animated from the first W ith the December issue, the (Continued from Page 1) Entered as second class m ail matter a t the Post Office New International appears for the at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. by this internationalist and fundamentally revolu­ Stanley Glass* Socialist and ac­ ed Glass and he was not appre­ in the “democratic^’ United States, tionary conception. The purpose was to save the last time as an unofficial organ. tive worker in the West Virginia hended until October 26, oh a war­ will not shod tears over the fate of The historic importance of this JAMES P. CANNON, Editor Soviet Union by spreading the revolution to other Unemployed League, is facing a rant dated August 27—a day before a few White Guards and counter­ countries. last issue is great. The articles by ten-year sentence for “conspiracy the speech for which he was sup­ revolutionists who would restore HARRY A. HOWE, Associate Editor. A. J. Muste and James P. Cannon CARA COOK, Business Manager The accusation that the oppositionist political to overthrow the government” for posedly arrested. the capitalist order in the Soviet on the Foundation! of the Workers daring to revive a strike against Glass’s room was searched and Union. groups which originated in the Communist Party are Party contain a survey of the past SUBSCRIPTION RATES: responsible for the assassination of Kirov, or any the Baldwin Shovel Plant, a sub­ his wife’s papers confiscated with­ “Since the revolutionary workers history of the revolutionary move­ sidiary of the notorious Welrton out a search warrant. He was sec­ of the world mast know the facts In the United States $1.00 per year; 50c six months. other acts of terrorism, is a monstrous and fantastic ment and perspectives for the fu­ Canada and Foreign: $1.50 per year; 75c six months. slander. Such accusations hurled at the Marxist op­ Steel Co. retly taken to Parkersburg, the about white guards and foreign ture. agents who may threaten the Sqviet Bundle Rates: Two cents per copy. ponents of Stalin are not believed anywhere* least Last August at the request of scene of tbe strike, and brutally of a ll in the circles of the advanced and class con­ Sydney Hook, in his article on the strikers Glass revived the third-degreed for two days and state in order to be adequately pre­ Marx and Hess presents a signifi­ pared for its own defense, we pro­ Vol. 1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934 No. 3 scious workers. The uncompromising hostility of strike at the Parkersburg plant nights by tbe police. Finally his cant analysis of the evolution of test against the secrecy and mys­ the Marxists to the methods of terrorism is too well afteft it seemed to have been brok­ friends learned of his whereabouts Marxist thought. Ruben Gotesky tery in which tbe Soviet Govern­ known. The chief result of this infamous attempt en; reorganized the picket lines; and secured his release on Nov. 3 starts the first round of a battle, ment has shrouded recent happen- to foist the assassination of Kirov onto the opposi­ and held several successful meet­ In $2,000 baU. T h e R eal Issues in the Soviet U n ion in his article on Sydney Hook’s in the “democratic” United States, tionists is to sow confusion and demoralisation in ings outside the plant. A t one Of On January 4 tbe state will call book “Towards {be Understanding will not shbd tears over the fate of HESE are times which impose upon all revolu­ the ranks of the working class supporters of the these meetings on August 29 Glass for his indictment under the Red­ of Karl Marx”. His chief criticism a few White Guards and counter­ tionary workers an attitude of the greatest Soviet State and thereby to weaken its position in­ was threatened by a scab armed man Act, West Virginia’s version T is based on Hook’s contention' 1) revolutionists who would restore responsibility and the most sober judgment in regard ternally and externally. By resorting to such meth­ with a pitchfork, who later ap­ of the criminal syndicalism law. That Marxism is not a science, 2) lags. Imperialists and their diplo­ to the Soviet Union. Those who have seen the Rus­ ods the Stalin bureaucracy testifies to the weakness peared with a shotgun and fired The West Virginia Unemployed That socialism is not inevitable. mats work in the dark. Not so the sian revolution, and its product the Soviet State, as of its position and the fear of proletarian criticism. ten times at the picket line, wouu League at its state convention held Hook will answer Gotesky in the toiling masses; they need to see the star of hope and inspiration of the international The suspicion Inevitably grows that further Steps to ding five persons. Although brought November lb-11 in Charleston ad­ next issue. Arne Swabeck writes and know where they are going, working class must In no case allow their vision to the right in the field of foreign policy are contem­ to tria l for this atrocity, the case opted a resolution pledging soli­ on a current problem—the signifi­ especially in this crisis when the be obscured by the happenings of the recent days. plated, and that the aim is to silence criticism and against the scab was immediately darity to Glass. A local Glass De­ cance of the November elections. threat of war hangs like a sword It is necessary now to hold fast to fundamental con­ smash proletarian opposition in advance. The bu­ dismissed. fense Committee has been organ­ Among the special features w ill be over the workers of all lands. reaucracy can derive political and factional profit A t the instigation of the com­ ized at Charleston to take charge ceptions and to view all the happenings in their another “Archive of the Revolu­ light. The greatest danger of all is that the sympa­ from the use of such methods only at the expense oi pany, state troopers began a search of the case. The Workers’ Party “We earnestly protest, further­ tion” and several book reviews on for Glass with machine guns, and calls upon its membership to sup­ more, against sowing confusion and thetic and partly symiiathetic masses will be alien­ the Soviet Union Itself. Therein lies their condemna­ religion, a rt, science, etc. ated from the Soviet Union itself by the things tak­ tion. Mrs. Glass was told by troopers of port the activities of this commit­ division at this time in the minds Beginning with January, the New their intention to murder Glass, ing place now. I t is the duty of the conscientious tee. Contributions can be sent to of workers everywhere, as the We know nothing of the details surrounding the International will embark on its J. Gordon, Chairman, 14 Capitol revolutionists to counteract this trend. The indig­ whom they knew solely as a “red­ Soviet Government does when it latest incidents—and neither does anybody else ex­ new career. According to its edi­ headed agitator”. Strikers conceal- Street, Charleston, W. Va. lumps together as counter-revolu­ nant protest against the Stalinist frame-up of Trot­ cept the official circle which keeps it secret. We tors : sky, Zinoviev and other working class critics—which tionists, White Guards, Japanese do not know what the political position of Zinoviev, imperialists, German Fascist butch­ is voiced instinctively by every honest revolutionist “It will not only be the theoretic for example, is a t the present time and consequently ers, and revolutionists who are —has to be combined at all times with the defense organ of the Workers Party dealing cannot take any responsibility for it. But we do Hearst Red-Baiting inSchool System party opponents of the officials of of the Soviet State against its class enemies and an with socio-economic and historical kuow that the attempt to “connect” Trotsky and his the Soviet Government. We de­ unqualified condemnation of a ll terrorist acts and problems but w ill also contain ar­ adherents with White Guards and with the assassin­ clare that only distrust can arise tendencies which can only facilitate the eventual ticles of a scientific and technical ation of Kirov is a transparent frame-up. We know Vehemently Protested by Educators from laying the charge of conspir- downfall of the Soviet State. nature—articles, on science, medi­ that secrecy serves such ends, not the exposure and cine, industrial technique, housing, :ng to assassinate Kirov against The idea that the Soviet State is immune from this That noted scholar, William Ran­ man schools under H itle r.” defeat of class enemies. For these reasons we de­ literature and the arts. From time reolntionists who, as Marxists, danger is a profound illusion. As long as the Soviet dolph Hearst, who failed to obtain It is just possible that the Dick- mand open trials and full information. Opposition to time non-party writers will be have always bitterly opposed indi­ Union is surrounded by a capitalist world it is never his degree when he was a student stein Committee will accept the to this demand in the present Circumstances is a asked to contribute on these tech­ vidual terrorism. free from the danger of a counter-revolutionary over­ confession of guilt. The working class of the world at Harvard, has recently been con­ challenge. Nothing, of course, could nical subjects, or to engage in open “We demand, therefore, that per­ throw. Lenin and all the Bolsheviks who made the must be armed with the truth for the effective de­ ducting an anti-red campaign di­ be more appropriate than an- in ­ revolution always said this, and that is why they polemics with party writers. The rected a t American schools and vestigation of Benito Hitler Hearst secution of party opponents of tbe fense of the Workers’ State. fullest freedom of discussion w ith­ colleges. Mr. Hearst’s only educa­ for Un-American Activities. officials of the Soviet Government in the broad party lines w ill be en­ tional qualification is an honorary While the New York Post and cease immediately; that the Soviet couraged between party members. LL.B. from Oglethorope, a jerk­ the World Telegram both carried Government desist from attempts Thus, qualitatively and quantita­ water college in the south, a degree full column stories on the inter­ to lin k proletarian opponents of tbe Sacramento Trials Aimed at Labor tively the New International will which he received in 1927 some view, the New York American (a present Soviet regime, who stand be the foremost theoretic revolu­ th irty years after his unsuccessful Hearst paper) was strangely silent, on the principle of the proletarian tionary journal in the English- (Continued from Page 1) career at Harvard had been for­ not a peep about Professor Counts. dictatorship, with White Guards or men’s League. Lorine Norman is vealed that the Assistant D. A. is speaking world.” criminal syndicalism charges were' gotten. So Radical. . . with the agents of capitalist gov­ secretary ot the Sacramento I.L.D. quite pally with one of the jurors, ernments; and that open trials be entered. Donald Bigham is Y.C.L. organizer. a Mrs. Rose. Mrs. Rose likes this The next day, however, the edi­ that when our economic system When Professor George S. Counts held for all charged with conspir­ A ll defendants are charged with The other defendants are Fred district attorney well enough to fails to satisfy the minimum needs of Teachers College in New York, tor did rehash a story from last "w ilfully, unlawfully and feloni­ week on Professors Hook and Burn- ! acy against the Soviet Union and Kirkwood, Lee Hung (a Chinese present him with a brace of ducks of the majority, the little minority received a badly written letter last the widest publicity given to these ously, by spoken and written words worker), A. G. Ford, Luther Mincy, . . . but she w ill give an im partial who profit from that unworkable week asking for “The inside stuff ham. Under a glaring misquotation and personal conduct” advocating of Lenin the editor remarked that, trials in order that the advanced W. H. Hufflne, Harry Collentz, verdict, of course. system will attempt to maintain on Socialism, Capitalism, and Com­ workers of the world may be armed criminal syndicalism and “crime Mike Plesch, and John Fisher. The Communist Party is legal in themselves in power against the munism,” he was forearmed. The “Last weeks press carried reports sabotage, violence and unlawful of the merger of two groups ‘so with the truth about the dangers Two Out on Bail California and even appears on the will of the majority by force, and same crude provocateur’s trick had which threaten the Soviet Union methods of terrorism as a means In all these cases the bail under ballot. These defendants, however, that I believe that the majority been employed by th e Hearst press radical that even the communists of accomplishing a change in in­ have refused to have anything to and the machinations of capitalist the criminal syndicalism charges is are charged with the "crime” of have a right to act in their own at Syracuse University. The au­ governments.” dustrial ownership and control and set at $3,000 cash or $6,000 bond. distributing Communist literature, interest and to follow militant lead­ thor of the letter, a Hearst reporter, do w ith them.’ ” effecting political change by advo­ Those convicted of vagrancy or published by a legal party! Even ership in establishing a government came into Professor Counts’ office The editor was referring to the cating violence and picketing and still under the charge would also those who are not party members which does represent the interests on his red-baiting mission to find fusion of tbe C.L.A and the A.W.P., by particularly advocating the have to provide bail on this charge, are being attacked fo r Communism, of the majority, who are workers a stenographer, ready to register and the conveniently vague, “last W . Norris Joins overthrow of the government of the totalling $1,000 each in cash or although the real objective is to and small farmers, and that I be­ every word of the interview. week’s press” refers to no other U. S. by . . . violence and force.” journal than the editor’s, the same twice as much in bond. This in­ smash the entire m ilitant labor lieve it would be my duty to that Cooking Up a Red Scare They are also charged with “jus- cludes Chambers, Wilson, Decker, movement of Sacramento Valley majority of which I am a part to New York American. Workers Party tifyng criminal syndicalism” , and “Mr. Hearst,” said the re­ “Professor James Burnham of Warnick, Norman, Kirkwood, Hung, and the state. help establish that government by porter after some prompting, “is with printing, publishing, circulat­ Ford, Collentz and Bigham. the Faculty of N.Y.U. is reported (Continued from Page 1) Prisoners Are Fighting force, would that prejudice you at present engaged in conducting ing, etc., matter advocating crim­ Of all these only Jtwo have been to have been elected editor of the Opportunist reaction is now clearly against me?” a ‘red scare’. Personally I am inal syndicalism. Among the docu­ balled out. One is Albert Hou­ The prisoners are making a good New International. . . . Dr. Sydney on the offensive in the party, and Need of United Defense Movement not in sympathy with that sort ments on which this charge is based, gardy, whose bail was provided by fight themselves. Despite the mis­ Hook, also of N. Y. U„ is said to gaining ground. The reactionary The Sacramento case has the ut­ of thing, in fact, quite the oppo­ are the Communist Manifesto by the. I.L.D. and the Conference for ery of a ll these months in ja il, they have been elected National Organ­ Right wing, led by the New York most Importance for the labor site. But Mr. Hearst wants ma­ Marx and Engels, Lenin’s On the Labor's Civil Rights, an organiza­ are on their toes in the court, put­ izer.” “Old Guard”—in reality a conserv­ movement, especially for its pro­ terial along this line.” Road to October, the Program of tion of liberals headed by Bishop ting questions to the jurors which This we are sore Is as much news ative gang which has nothing In gressive and radical section, on a the Communist International, and Francis J. McConnell. The other is anticipate the district attorney’s Asked if he was ashamed of him­ to Professors Hook and Burnham common w ith the ideas and spirit national scale. I t is obvious that various publications of the Com­ Norman Mini, bailed out by friends. plans to wave the American flag as self the reporter said, “Not ot my­ as it is to us and the readers of of socialism—pushes forward. The munist Party, the T.U.U.L., the Norman Mini is being defended his chief trial tactic. Caroline the defendants are bearing the self, but of the situation that makes the New York American. weak-kneed and unprincipled “M il­ brunt of a reactionary attack aimed Cannery and Agricultural Work­ by Judge Charles O. Busick, a con­ Decker makes a practice of asking it necessary fo r me to do this to “The leaders of the new organ­ itants” retreat before them all at the working class movement as ers Industrial Union, and numer­ servative Republican who, when a prospective jurors the following keep alive.” ization,” the editor continues, “de­ along the line. a whole. Up till now the publicity ous. speeches, theses, etc. of the Judge several years ago issued the question r A stenographic report of the clare that they will be guided by given to the case has been entirely As for the Revolutionary Policy Stalinist Party. ' notorious “Busick injunction” “Should the district attorney whole interview was forwarded to the revolutionary theories of Trot­ Inadequate, in view of its Impor­ Committee, it has forfeited the Finally, they are charged With against the LW.W. movement in use such invectives when refer­ the Dicksteinr Committee on Un- sky as opposed to the Socialistic tance, and the absence of a strong possibility of playing a serious role “ drilling as students and becoming California. Bftsick is reported to ring to us as ‘Reds’, ‘agents of American activities, together with theories of Stalin.” national defense movement greatly by allowing itself to be converted members of a class of students and have subsequently changed his Moscow’, ‘rats’, alien agitators’, a petition signed by twenty two The editor has really got bold of endangers the prisoners. The fact into an agency of the Lovestone engaging in the act or acts of per­ views and is now a critic of the ‘seditious radicals’, ‘free lovers’, New York professors, members of something here. I t is indeed a that only two of them have been faction and consequently, of degen­ forming and executing m ilitary criminal syndicalism law. The re­ or ‘godless people’, would that the National Educational Associa­ strange day when the Hearst press taken out on bail is a striking il­ erate and discredited Stalinism. drills with intent . . . to effect a maining defendants are represented prejudice you against me, and tion, that Mr. Hearst be investi­ is -better able to appreciate the non- lustration of the weakness of the I know the history and back­ political change.” by Leo Gallagher, retained by the make it impossible for you to de­ gated. revolutionary character of the Stal­ cide my case entirely on the basis defense movement. ground of the two organizations The prisoners are in the main I.L.D. Said Professor Coants; inists than tbe Stalinists them­ of the evidence presented?” The Sacramento case calls for which came together to found the leaders and members of the Can­ The prisoners have been miser­ “If IV. R. Hearst succeeds in selves. Let us hope that M r. Hearst Jack Warnick asks this one: Workers Party of the U. S. I have nery and Agricultural Workers In ­ ably treated in jail. Among other the cooperation of all forces in the his efforts American schools and will continue to give us free pub­ advanced labor movement as the read the Declaration of Principles dustrial Union. Pat Chambers is things, Sheriff Cox has refused to “I f you should conclude from universities w ill be reduced to licity for what we are, the only first necessary step toward the or­ very carefully and fully agree with its District Organizer, and was C. deliver to them literature and the evidence that I believe that the ignominious condition of Ger- revolutionary party in America. , ganization of a broad movement in it. I am convinced that the future P. Senatorial candidate in the last newspapers sent by friends al­ every young person should be belongs to this party. In my opin­ election. Caroline Decker is Dis­ though such censorship is illegal. given an opportunity to work at the trade unions. Brownsville Mass Meeting Next week we hope to have a ion, every sincere revolutionary trict Secretary of the Union. Jack Prosecution Is Crooked (tie task for which he is best fit­ socialist will have to make the Warnick is the director of the Sac­ It has already been made clear ted . . . and if you should con­ detailed news story from Sacramefi- to by our own correspondent same decision. ramento Workers School. Norman that the prosecution w ill be rup op clude that I believe our present The Message of the Workers Party Fraternally yours, Mini is an instructor in the school. Sacco-Vanzetti lines: an outright economic and social system does W. W. NORRI8. Martin Wilson is section organizer attempt to bulldoze and hoodwink not afford such opportunity . . . CLEVELAND. — The American of the i.L.D. Nora Concklin, a the jury by playing upon its pre­ and if you should conclude that I Newspaper Guild made another ad­ and the Russian Events believe that such a system ought vance toward organization of news­ Anti-Fascist United Front member of the Unemployed Coun­ judices. District Attorney Neil SPEAKERS cil, is a direct descendant of one McAllister has already begun his to be changed radically . . . would paper editorial writers with the In Yorkvilie that prejudice you against me?” signing of a 1-year contract by the of the signers of the American De­ rough stuff. He got the wife of one A J. Muste J.P* Cannon FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 8 P.M. juror, Mrs. R. B. Nix, to Btate that Martin Wilson: Cleveland News. A minimum of claration of Independence. Albert Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th SA Hougardy, C. P. Congressional she had been threatened by Reds. “ If you should conclude from the $40 a week is set for editorial candidate, is Sacramento organizer An investigation disclosed that the evidence that I believe that the es­ workers with four years’ experl- PREMIER PALACE 5 0 5 SUTTER Auspices; Spartacus Youth League, of the C.P. Jack Crane is a mem­ claim was a fake. sential meaning of democracy is , ence. A 5-day, 40-hour week is es- Proletarische Gemeinschaft, Young ber of the Workers Ex-Service­ On the other hand, i t wub re -1 majority rule, and that I believe j tablisbed. FRIDAY, JAN.4 - 8:30 P.M. People’s Socialist League.

at their disposal. To yield an inch now, to give up the Unite regardless of racial, religious, political or fight for a single moment means to give the capitalists any other differences in order to resist all attacks upon New Year’s Manifesto of the Workers Party a chance to rally their forces for a new onslaught, to the civil and political rights of workers and farmers. (Continued from Page 1) integration in the revolutionary labor movement, an be pushed nearer to the starvation level, nearer to the Oppose all preparations for capitalist wars! smashing of all the workers’ organizations, nearer to Combat all capitalist attacks on the workers regime nist. and Socialist Parties, are among its charter mem- example of unity has been given. A center has been the horrors of Fascism and W ar. in the Soviet Union! bers. The Workers Party of the U. S. is founded on built to which the now unattached working class fight- For the workers of the U. S. in 1935, therefore, the Fight every form of discrimination against the the great principles of revolutionary theory and prac- crs as we^ as the fighting elements in other parties and slogans are— Negroes. tice stated by Marx and Lenin and tested by the ex- groups may rally. A party has been formed which is Organize — build the Unions and Unemployed Remember that today the struggle for bread, for periencc of the workers in the class struggle on an in- revolutionary, international, and at the same time Leagues! security, for a free and decent life, is the struggle to ternational scale, above all in the Russian revolution rooted in the America« working class and adapted to Fight out the battle for union recognition in steel, overthrow capitalism, that the only “way out” for of 1917. Proceeding.from these principles the Work- the conditions existing in the U. S. today! automobiles, rubber, public utilities, all the basic in­ the workers is the revolutionary way. ers Party of the U. S. utilizes the revolutionary possi- THE ROAD OF STRUGGLE dustries. Fight it out on the picket line. Union rec­ Organize and prepare, therefore, to establish the bilities o t American tradition and history, including The road ahead for the new year must be the road ognition cannot be won in capitalist legislatures or rule of the workers! the militant strike tradition of the American workers, determined and militant struggle. This is the New courts. Strike! Strike militantly! Plenty, security, leisure, freedom, peace for our­ and adapts its tactics to the concrete realities and Year’s message of the Workers Party. Though plenty Organize the left-progressive wing, the honest fight­ selves and our children, are w ithin our reach. A crum­ needs of the Am erican masses today. today w ithin our reach, every struggle o f the work- ing elements, in all the unions and on a national scale. bling, insane, unjust economic order stands in the way. The revolutionary movement is necessarily interna- er$ against wage cuts or reductions in relief is met Wrest the leadership of the unions from, those who We will sweep it aside. Reactionary forces will try tional in outlook and character. The establishment with bitter resistance by employers and government, preach and practice cooperation with the bosses or to oppose and divide us. We must tear them down. of the new revolutionary party in the U. S. therefore Every attempt of the workers to organize in order that the capitalist pdliticians. Put the leadership into the American capitalists and profiteers would lead the means for us that we stand ready to cooperate with they may have power to enforce their demands is like- hands of those who preach and practice irreconcilable world to degradation, war, chaos. American workers all groups, organizations and parties in other coun- vise violently opposed. Why? Because in this period struggle against the bosses and their government. will join the workers of the world in the creation of a tries which stand on the same fundamental program of the decline of capitalism every gain made by the Clean out the corruption, racketeering, gangster­ new society, a world federation of workers* republics. as our own for the speediest possible establishment of workers and farmers is at the expense of capitalist ism and autocracy which prevent the growth of mili­ For Working Class Unity! the new, Fourth, International. profits. By the same token, the workers must fight tant unionism! For A Workers World! The formation of the Workers Party is a great step against every cut in wages or relief, must fight daily Demand insurance against unemployment, accident, NATIONAL COMMITTEE, forward. After more than a dscade of splits and dis- for a higher standard with every means and weapon sickness, old age— at the Met of capitalist profits. WORKERS PARTY OF TBE J. S.