WORKERS OF T H E THE MILITANT WORLD UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America VOLUME VII. IVO. 15 [WHOLE IVO. 219] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934 PRICE 2 CENTS

Movement in Behalf of Four AFTER THE C. W . A. Minneapolis Workers Deported Germans Grows With official figures revealing the unemployed is over. With the th a t the supposed 4,000,000 on CWA anniversary of the New Deal “cele­ brated” by an army of unemployed jobs had dw indled to about 2,000, Non-Partisan Defense Committee Initiates the as large as that of the Old Deal, FightStarvation Program 000 by M arch 22, massi dism issals liquidation of relief work and cut­ Movement in the United States since that date show that the Gov­ ting down of relief means a ghastly 3 ernment program involves the al­ future for the workers, unless they Important Notice most complete liquidation of relief fight back. New York figures in­ Militant Demonstration of Ten Thousand Aroused by the recent deporta­ ganizations which have lodged pro­ work. The local authorities were dicate what the Government plans. An important meeting of all tion from Holland to Germany of tests with the Dutch government merely supposed to “take over” the According to Welfare Council sta­ members and sympathizers of the Unemployed at City Hall four German workers, one a mem­ are the Socialist parties of Ger­ OWA projects and payrolls; the tistics, 187,000 fa m ilie s were receiv­ Communist League in Greater New ber of the International Communist many, France, Italy and Holland; liberal press, like the New Republic, ing home relief in February, and York w ill take place this Sunday, Minneapolis, Minn., Friday, April board, added greatly to the dissatis­ League, American labor groups and the British I.L.P.; the Norwegian pronounced the change merely “a about 160,000 were on CWA jobs. A p ril 15, a t 8 P.M. 6.—In the largest and by far the faction of the unemployed. advocates of civil liberty plan Labor Party; the International change in name” ; Hopkins, Federal That is, 350,000 families, number­ Comrade James P. Cannon w ill most m ilitant demonstration here Last Tuesday morning at the re­ to ask the Hutch government League of the Rights of Man; the relief administrator, declared about ing a t least 1,500,000 persons, were report on the developments in the in recent years, over 10,000 unem­ gular meeting of the Welfare Board through its local Consul General League of Communist Internation­ 2,000,000 w ould s till be employed. living on relief or CWA wages. movement for a new Communist ployed1 workers voiced their opposi­ in the C ourt House, some 5,000 un­ for asylum for political exiles. A alists (BolsheVik Leninists) ; the But the first day the La Guardia Even at this point, the peak of the Party in this country, our relations tion to the starvation program of employed led by the United Relief joint statement of protest against French General Labor Confedera­ regime in New York took over the Rooseveltian honeymoon, home re­ and negotiations with other groups the Roosevelt NRA administration. Workers Association gathered and the Dutch government’s policy of tion. The Dutch Independent So- payrolls, a t least 40,000 out of 150,- lief (for the 187,000 families, and next steps. Discussion w ill fol­ acting as deputy for the H itler Fas­ icalist Labor Party and the Dutch 000 were fired. Similar; wholesale This demonstration, which marks sent its committee of 23 to present approximating 845,000 persons) low the report. a new stage in the development of the following demands: cist police w ill be presented to the Revolutionary Socialist Party have dismissals are occuring everywhere. amounted to the munificent sum of The meeting w ill be held at the the struggle of the unemployed, A 40% increase in relief; No dis- Dutch Consul General in New York. jointly retained Attorney B. J. In sharp contradiction to Hopkins’ $8.50 per person per month. (The Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irv­ came as the result of the ending of crimiantions; Continuation of the Stockvis to go to Germany on be­ promises are his own official esti­ total disbursed for home relief, in The organizations signing the ing Place. Sympathizers w ill be ad­ the CWA work and its replacement CWA on a cash basis; No RWA or half of the four deported workers. mates th a t $65,000,000 w ould be the February was $7,216,000). Now, protest include, in addition to the mitted on special invitation cards by the RWA scheme of work relief other forced labor schemes; Imme­ Thus far, however, no information total cost for work and relief in however, with no rise in employ­ Communist League of America (by to be secured at the City Office of on a pauper basis. The endless red diate relief for all dismissed CWA its National Secretary, Arne Swa- has been obtainable as to their dis­ April—just one fourth of the aver­ ment in industry, both CWA and the Communist League, 126 East tape of investigations, the discrim­ workers formerly on relief without beck), the Young People’s Socialist position by the police. age cost for each previous month home relief rolls have been cut since CWA began. 16th Street. You can call for these inations and the arrogant hostility investigation. League of America (Arthur G. Mc­ A fund w ill be raised to aid in ruthlessly. During the past month cards at the office all week, prior of the welfare board, particularly The honeymoon of Roosevelt and Refuses to Receive Committee Dowell, Chairman), the League for the defense fight. in New Y o rk C ity a t least 60,000 to Sunday, A p ril 15. of I. S. Joseph, a member of this Industrial Democracy (Mary Fox, have been dismissed from CWA jobs The Welfare Board refused to re­ Secretary), the National Unem­ and more than 50,000 dropped from ceive the committee on the pretext ployed League (Louis Budenz, Or­ the relief rolls, so that officially the th a t “ 23 were too many” . The ganizational Director), the Sparta­ Order May Day R ailro ad Robins “needy” have dwindled to less than workers who crowded the corridors cus Youth Clubs (Joseph Carter, 250,000 families. And these w ill N . Y. Conference Cannon to Speak were infuriated at this reply and National Secretary), the Commun­ now receive sharply curtailed relief crashed through the locked doors of ist Party Opposition (Jay Love- Special Edition and Gras for Wo rk wages or home relief. Even the Against W ar Is O n W a r and the the Mayor’s Reception Room, where stone, Secretary), the American social workers do not pretend that the Board was in session, sweeping Workers Party (A. J. Muste, Chair­ in Hotel Strike these facts and figures indicate im­ 4th International aside the police massed there and man), and the Left Poale Zion. In O f the Militant provement in conditions. As Jane Pacifist Affair were greeted by the retreating addition, the statement was signed M. Hoey, director of the Welfare backs of the Welfare Board mem­ by Koger Baldwin, director of the Council, cautiously puts it in her ber^ who had hastily adjourned. The Hotel Owners’ Association “War and the Fourth Interna­ American Civil Liberties Union; Bundle Orders. Now in prepara­ report; “It should not be assumed Anti-war conferences, sponsored The leaders then announced that exacted vengeance for the m ilitant tional” w ill be the topic for a lec­ on Friday morning a demonstration Carlo Tresca, editor of 11 Martello ; tion is the SPECIAL MAY DAY from these figures that there has by prominent individuals, which strike of the hotel workers last ture by comrade James P. Cannon James P. Cannon, editor of the M il­ been any decline in the amount of substitute generalities and futile would take place at the City Audi­ EDITION. It will be crammed Friday in securing the conviction on Sunday, A pril 22, at 8 P.M. This itant; Herman Gund, General Or­ need; there has been a decrease pacifist fulminations against war torium, where the Welfare Board full of high-powered political ma­ of Harold Robins and Andres Gras ganizer of the Amalgamated Food only in the amounts available for for a concrete program of united is the first of a new series of lec­ was asked to be present and hear terial most effective for the cover­ on charges of second degree assault action by workers’ organizations, tures on the international program. the demands of the workers. If Workers Union. in the court of General Sessions. re lie f.” ing of May Day mass meetings, are the order of the day. The Stal­ In his lecture on the program of the Board was not present the Protest Movement Grows The conviction, which carries with Disproof of Roosevelt’s Claims parades, demonstrations and all inists set the fashion for these mas­ the Fourth International several workers would then march to the it a penalty of two and one-half to This attack on the relief workers The statement w ill be presented working class gatherings. Com­ querades. Now they have encount­ weeks ago, Comrade Cannon dealt Court House and again attempt to five years in the penitentiary, was and unemployed is sufficient dis­ to the Consul General by a deputa­ rades should not wait but should ered the rivalry of the socialists in with the question of war very present the demands. At 9 o’clock the outcome of one of the rawest proof of Roosevelt’s avowed claims tion from the Provisional Commit­ plan their distributions now and this field. briefly since the time did not per­ Frday morning a large number of tee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense, send in their bundle orders imme­ frame-ups yet perpetrated in the that he seeks to raise the wages of Following the departure of the mit. an extensive treatment of the unemployed gathered outsde the a recently formed independent group court presided over by the notor­ workers. One of thei best guaran­ diately. Undoubtedly you w ill need socialists from the “League Against subject. Following that lecture, Auditorium. The Welfare Board supporting m ilitant mass defense more Militants this year than be­ ious labor-hating Judge Corrigan. tees of high wages for the employed War and Fascism”, separate con­ we have received many requests failed to show up. Orderly lines activities on a non-partisan basis. fore especially with our urgent Sentence April 16 is a decent standard of relief for ferences, engineered by individual that the more important phases of were formed and the demonstration According to Herbert Solow, secre­ Sentence is to he passed on A pril the unemployed; this was, in fact, message of the New Party and the socialists and pacifists, have been Cannon’s programatic lecture re­ proceeded. Although all traffic tary of the group which drew up drive for the Fourth International. 16. F riends o f the tw o victim ize d the basis of thei reactionary objec formed in various cities. The New ceive special treatment in separate cops had been brought into the po­ and circulated the statement, they worker's are now making plans to tions to CWA when it was first be­ We want a really impressive list York; conference held a three-hour lectures. lice concentration at the Court w ill continue to seek further ad­ appeal the case. gun. Roosevelt’s new curtailment House the march throughout was of revolutionary greetings this year. session at Town Hall Friday, April In complying with these requests, herents to the movement on behalf Robins and Gras had been among of relief means that the New Deal­ characterized by its orderliness, at­ It w ill add appreciably to the po­ 6th. we have chosen the question of war of the four German workers and the active spirits of the union picket ers have come to see eye to eye testing to the mood of the workers. litic a l fo rce o f the issue to see na­ Like the Stalinist conferences on as the first lecture in the series. the demand for asylum for all fu­ committee and, as such, were with the most reactionary industri­ As the demonstrators circled the tion-wide expressions of revolu­ the same subject it had more the War is the primary touch-stone of ture refugees from the Hitler dic­ marked for persecution. A previous al elements. Court House the police were much tionary good w ill from the move­ character of a ceremonial mass a revolutionary party. The Second tatorship. attempt to “get” comrade Robins Undoubtedly among the reasons in evidence, massed inside and out­ ment. Naturally we expect the meeting than a gathering to discuss International was put to test in the The movement of protest contin­ fe ll through as a result of the clum- for hastening the dissolution of side the numerous entrances. branches to act first. There should and plan a serious fight against im­ World War and it revealed its com­ ues to grow on an international isness of the frame-up and inexpert CWA was the fear o f bosses and The marchers and onlookers, by be a sort of roster of Left Opposi­ perialist war. Also like its Stalin­ plete bankruptcy. The policies of scale. Recently a mass meeting coaching of state witnesses. In the government that if millions of th is tim e num bering over 10,000, tion units throughout the country. ist prototype, the Friday conference the Third International, in combat­ was called in Paris by a united present case, with Corrigan on the workers were permitted to be completely surrounded the building Then sympathetic organizations, was, consecrated to the s p irit of ing the danger of war through the front youth committee composed of bench, the wheels were oiled and grouped together for any length of which occupies a square block. those who appreciate the signifi­ pacifism. so-called anti-war congresses, in representatives of the Young Len­ the conviction railroaded through. time they would become organized Mounting the low stone wall which cance of our drive for the New In­ Extending the collaboration of which it uses all sorts of liberal inists (formerly Left Opposition At the tria l a man named Bonna- runs around most of the building, ternational should' be approached (Continued on page 4) the Communist League and the intellectuals and pacifists as its youth), the Young Socialists, the faux claimed that five men had as­ the leaders, a fte r a short speech o r to send in their greetings. American Workers Party a step front, reveal that there is nothing Socialist student organization, the saulted him. Robins had four wit­ two, called upon the committee of further, the two organizations pre­ to be expected from this quarter in youth organization affiliated with And finally, we w ill make room nesses who testified that he was 23 to assemble on the wall. The sented a joint resolution to the the fight against the impending the P.U.P., and the anarchist youth fo^ the host of individual comrades, home at the hour of the alleged Cuban Arrests committee then proceeded and en­ conference. In the resolution, read w ar. friends and sympathizers who de­ attack. Gras had his wife as wit­ organization. The Young Commu­ to the conference by James Burn tered the courthouse, without any sire on May First to express their ness to the same. With the vicious The reactionary Mendieta govern­ nist League was invited to partici­ ham of the American Workers Other lectures to follow in the interference from the police, to solidarity with the movement. attitude of the Judge, the| conspir­ ment, in its service to American series w ill deal with the Trade Un­ pate but refused and called a com­ Party and in a speech on the reso­ present the demands to the city Start immediately. Make a system­ acy of the Hotel Association and imperialism, has instituted a vicious ion question, Fascism and the council which was then in session. peting meeting in another hall in lution by James P. Cannon of the atic canvass for greetings, explain­ the complaining witness (who has campaign of terror agaipst the or­ United Front. The crowd remained orderly and order to draw workers off from the Communist League the Communist ing that pseudonyms or initials w ill been paid “wages” by the Hotel ganized labor movement in general listened to the speakers. mass protest meeting. point of view on the question of The lectures w ill be held at the be used on request. Assn.) and the District Attorney, and its revolutionary vanguard1 in Cops Throw Tear Gas Bombs Among thè other European or- war was briefly outlined and con­ Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irv­ they were found guilty. particular. A direct result of this A few minutes later a file of cops crete proposals were made for unit­ ing Place. Questions and discus­ Hostile Rulings of Judge terror was the recent arrest of began to push through the crowd to coomade Sandailo Junco (see last ed front action of the workers’ or­ sion from the floor w ill follow the The Judge refused to allow testi­ week’s M ilitant) and other m ilitant ganizations, with political parties lecture. Adm ission w ill be 15 cents. (Continued on page 4) Rousing Meetings O n Shachtman Tour mony regarding the payment of and leading comrades of our Cuban and groups taking the initiative in “wages” to the complaining witness section. Those of Spanish origin their own names. by the Hotel Association. He also The national tour conducted by a similar turn-out. A ll these meet­ are being deported to Spain. The refused to allow testimony to im­ No action was taken on the re­ Anti-Fascist Dinner For Bellussi comrade Shachtman has now ings} were held under the auspices fate of the others is yet unknown. solution except to refer it to a con­ peach the character of the com­ of the League. Our Cuban comrades who are reached the Pacific coast. There it plaining witness — which would tinuation committee for considera­ On his return trip comrade playing a m ilitant and leading role tion at its first meeting. In view A dinner to Anthony Bellussi, w ill take in the cities of Portland, have established the best possible Bellussi spent 10 miserable Shachtman w ill make another stop­ in the heroic struggle of the Cuban of the provisional nature of the trade unionist and anti-Fascist, San Francisco and Los Angeles. motive for an attack on him by months in jail, and was finally or­ over in Chicago and be available working class against American conference and the possibility that who has been ordered deported fo r Since comrade Shachtman started others than the strikers. For years dered deported to Italy, where for a May Day meeting. At the imperialism and its native lack­ exists of securing a consideration his activities by the Federal author­ out from New York on March 4th, he was “shaking down” men who death or torture in the hands of same time he w ill make a visit and eys find themselves in a des­ of the resolution in the continuation ities, is to be given by a committee p ra c tic a lly every day has been worked under him and depended the Fascist butchers awaits him. speak at Waukegan 111., where a perate situation. We have just committee, which w ill contain rep­ of his comrades and friends at taken up with meetings in a num­ on his favor for their jobs. Through the intercession of friends new branch of the League has been received an urgent plea for financial resentatives of all the participating Stuyvesant Casino, Second Avenue and m ilitant labor oragnizations, he ber of important industrial cities Detectives and police on the w it­ organized during the last couple of assistance. It is the duty of every organizations, the Communist and N in th Street, F rid a y, A p ril 20, is temporarily spared this fate. and new and valuable contacts ness stand1 accused Robins o f being weeks. revolutionary worker to help our League decided to remain with the at 7:30 P.M. He has been granted the right of have been gained for the League. a Communist and strike agitator as imprisoned Cuban comrades who conference in order to bring the The committee includes Roger voluntary departure to South Am­ After leaving the Twin Cities, part of the process of prejudicing Chicago had a record audience at are in desperate need. Send funds revolutionary standpoint forward. Baldwin, Louis Budenz, James erica. Unless the fare can be comrade Shachtman put in a busy the jury. Despite this, the jury the main meeting where comrade immediately. The need becomes A notable feature of the confer­ Burnham, James P. Cannon, Elliot raised, however, this right w ill be week in Winnipeg, Canada. He ad­ was out over five hours before ar­ Shachtman spoke on the New Party more urgent daily. Don’t wait. A ll ence was the failure of the Left E. Cohen, Max Eastman, Herman lost, and he w ill be sent to Italy. dressed a delegate conference of riving at a verdict. The biased rul­ project. It was not like the meet­ communications should be addressed Socialists, in particular the Revolu­ Gund, Sidney Hook. Rose Karsner, He must leave before May 1. ing held on the previous national unemployed organizations repre­ ings of Judge Corrigan and his senting some 7,000 workers. He ad­ to Communist League of America, tionary Policy Committee, to appear A. J. Muste, Elinor Rice, James Speakers at Dinner tour of comrade Swabeck which hostile instructions to the jury un­ 126 East lht6 Street, New York dressed the main League meeting and present an independent point Rorty, Herbert Solow and Carlo To raise his fare, and to protest had an extra large turn-out of doubtedly had a determining influ­ C ity. of view on the question of war. Tresca. Stalinist hooligans who attempted held at which 350 workers were in ence on the result. against the deportation policy of for several hours to break up the attendance. In addition to this he Bellussi had to flee Italy in 1924 the Government, the dinner is being because of his opposition to Musso­ meeting. It was in vain. But that also addressed the Workmen’s Cir­ CLUB PLAN DRIVE FOR 1000 MORE SUBS held, under the auspices of tlie failure^ plus the good preparations cle Club and the Fort Rouge I. L. P. lini's regime. He came to this Bellussi Anti-Fascist Dinner Com­ Fascists Attack Rivera m ittee. now made by our three Chicago open forum. Since returning once country and worked as a coal miner more to the States, comrade Shacht­ The Club Plan drive for a thou-'without saying. It is only through in Pennsylvania. He was active in Bellussi at present free on bail branches, prevented the repetition The bloody hand of Fascist ter­ man had meetings scheduled in sand new subscribers, terminated the assistance of the regular contri­ the United Mine Workers Union. supplied by the Civil Liberties Un­ of such a dastardly performance' ror has openly shown itself in Williston N. D., and Plentiwood, last week with the gratifying re­ butions of the Pledgers that that ion is to speak at the dinner. and secured this time an excellent Mexico. On April 2, two gunmen Arrested June 17 Montana, from which we have no sults of 1014 new subscriptions, as we are able to supply the paper to Other speakers w ill be James P. meeting. Various tendencies in invaded the home of the world fa­ report as yet. reported in the last issue. the thousands who want it but are On June 17 of last year, Bellussi Cannon, of the Communist League the labor movement, the Stalinists, mous revolutionary artist, Diego Today, in response to the many not able to pay the fu ll rates. was one of a crowd listening to an of America; A. J. Muste, of the the S.L.P., the Yipsels' the United On the whole the national tour Rivera, and fired two shots through requests which came to the office, ON TO A NEW 1,000 SUBSCRIB­ open air meeting held by “General” American Workers Party; Quincy Workers Party and its minority so fa r has been most successful. I t his bedroom window. Police in­ we begin a drive for a second thou­ ERS! Art Smith in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Howe, editor of the Living Age; group, participated in the discus­ has brought home in a striking vestigation disclosed that Rivera sand. Smith is the same khaki shirt lead­ Herbert Solow, of the Provisional sion and all remained to the end. manner the constant advance made had1 been the recipient of threaten­ BUY YOUR CLUB PLAN CARDS er who now faces trial in Brooklyn Committee for Non-Partisan Labor by the ideas represented by the ing Nazi letters because of his The rules are the same as in the WITHOUT DELAY! Several Meetings in Chicago for his perjury attempt to railroad Defense, and Carlo Tresca, editor League. The tour has been an enor­ treatment of H itler in his American last drive. Another) meeting on the develop­ worker, Terzani, to the electric of Ii Martello. mous help in laying a preliminary A Club consists of four new six- THE INTERNATIONAL ments in Austria was held on Chi­ m urals. chair. basis- for the actual creation of a month subscriptions at 25c each, BULLETIN Tickets are 50 cents each, and cago’s West Side. The audience Attempted assassinations of this Federal agents, scattered in the new party. It has stregnthened the paid in advance. For every dollar may be obtained through Elinor numbered a little above a hundred, sort can only serve as occasions to The English edition, printed form, crowd, pounced upon Bellussi when League in every important city you receive four prepaid sub-cards Rice, treasurer, 151 E. 83rd Street, which was all that could be packed emphatically reaffirm our position eight pages, is now off the press and he sought to argue with the speak­ taken in, expressed most concrete­ which you dispose of later and mail New York City. into the small hall. On the South on anti-Fascist activity. We can can be ordered directly from the er. He was “detained” for ques­ ly, in new membership gains. in as you secure them. Foes of Fascism, enemies of re­ side a meeting was addressed by not, we dare not wait until Fascism national office. It is 10 cents a tioning. His home was searched action, friends of the working class, comrade Shachtman on the subject' The remaining schedule of the begins to consolidate Its forces in That this low rate doe« not pay copy and cash must accompany all and radical literature found. Bel­ of whatever shade of political be­ “The future of the New Deal” with tour appears on page four. the western hemisphere. fo r the cost o f production, goes orders. lussi was ordered deported. lief, are urged to attend. P A G E 2 THE MILITANT SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1934

no black-list. These provisions w ill only be Letters to the Editor strictly enforced in those shops Shachtman on Tour REVIEWING where there are a sufficent number UNDER THE in the party’s ranks spread Silvers of the union members to enforce tortions, and succeeded only in fu r­ THE NEWS The Furriers Again was immediately withdrawn from them. Williston, N.D. ther discrediting himself in the eyes NRA the League and brought up on ex­ .. —SAMUEL MEYERS of the workers present and especial­ To the Editor of the M ilita n t: pulsion charges. The charges Williston, North Dakota.— Com­ ly the coal yard workers. The C. P. Convention claimed that he had misrepresented The majority of fur workers rade Shachtman delivered a lecture St. Paul Meeting Federal Unions and Company loathe the International not only be­ the I. L. D.; supported an anti- Judging by reports in the “Bally A Pacifist Morass in the courthouse at Williston, The St. Paul meeting was by far Unions Worker’,, ovations and the singing cause its leadership is ,(or was) Soviet group; sent a report to an North Dakota, April - at 8 P. M. the best meeting yet held in that The two outstanding types of corrupt, stupid and ineffectual, but enemy and used the I. L. D. to sup­ New Haven.—The New Haven ot the International” was the main Over two hundred city workers and city under our auspices. An audi­ new organization forms developing because the Union was FORCED port an enemy’s plans. Silvers in League Against War and Fascism purpose of the C. P. convention. farmers listened attentively for ence of 60 members, including sev­ under the NRA are the Federal From “loud and prolonged applause UPON THEM BY THE BOSSES. his defense pointed out that the held an anti-war meeting on April |nore than two hours while he de­ eral C. P. members, was visibly im­ Unions of the A. F. of L. and the lasting several minutes” for “the This is an undeniable fact, and party had been unable to substan­ 6th in Central Parish Church. This livered his lecture on “America pressed by comrade Shachtman’s Company Unions. leaders and disciples” — Stalin, once it is recognized, the mystery tiate it’s charges; that as an I.L.D. meeting, together with the entire Heading Toward Another War.” speech on the “Lessons of the Aus­ The labor agents of the capital­ Browder, Stachel, etc., down to a of why the Industrial Union has delegate he had every right to pro­ program of the “anti-war” week, He also dealt with Fascism which trian Events”. Following the lec­ ists are attempting to use the Fed­ simple ovation for the “Martyr of the furriers and not the cloakmak- test against injustice to another was endorsed by various ministers has destroyed the workers’ organ­ ture several party members took eral Union to prevent the crystal- Madison Square” (Hathaway) the ers or dressmakers, is explained. working class organization, and and rabbis of the town. izations of several countries of Eu­ the floor and made the most miser­ ization into genuine industrial un­ delgation went through the whole Since the day the dual union, the that the I.L.D. had no right to ex­ The usual Stalinist argument for rope. able defense of Stalinism that I ions. The Company Union is eoun- gamut of ovations. They were final­ International, was formed, " fur pel him for opposing a charge so the League is that it gives the Com­ He blamed the official Communist have ever heard. After the meeting terposed by the bosses to the trade ly so well trained that any men­ workers consideerd it an appendage false that even one party member munist Party a chance to present party (Stalin group) for its false several of the workers left their unions of the workers. It is the tion of “granite and steel”, brought of the Association. And with justi­ on the League’s Executive Commit­ the revolutionary program before a policy and indifference while the names and addresses saying that instrument of the dominant capital­ the entire convention to its feet. fication. For without the aid and tee had voted against the exclusion larger audience to the discredit of Fascist bloodhounds were organiz­ they wanted to learn more about ists who feel strong enough to re­ They knew that meant Stalin. And backing o f the bosses, the union attempt and continued his opposi­ the pacifist program. Such an ar­ ing their forces to crush the work­ the Communist League and its pro­ ject the class collaboration program by the way, atfer Hathaway’s ill- COULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED. tion until the motion to refer to gument, however, would never suf­ ers. gram. A good collection was taken of the conservative labor leaders. fated exploit at Madison Square, he Today, for the sake of argument, the credentials committee was fice to justify this meeting as no Comrade Shachtman showed how and a considerable amount of lit­ The struggle for industrial un­ is considered such a pushover that I’ll grant Koenig that the leader­ passed. “Communist” speuker was allowed inactive the. nationalistic Stal­ erature was sold at this meeting. ions under class struggle leadership even Browder has pushed him to ship is more honest, b ut th is does A new member of the I.L.D. stood to present his position. inists were in this fight. The next The Minneapolis branch intends is the order of the day for the-class page 5 of the D aily Worker. not negate the fact that once again up and stated that when he had The chairman, B. P. Murhpy, a morning we heard he was hired by to follow up this begnning in St. conscious workers of America. * * • • the council had to depend on an joined he understood that the divinity student at Yale, opened the Wall Street to fight the American Paul with future public meetings * * * * Convention Highlights agreement with the Association to I.L.D. was a non-partisan organiza­ meeting and introduced the main C. P. T his of course came from a and discussions with those workers Dr. Wirt and the NRA (Extracts from the Daily Worker’s FORCE workers into joining it. tion. The vote to expel Silvers soon speaker, Dr. Mendenhall of Colum­ r.if mind of the party. We want The sensation mongers have convinced him that he was mis­ who are interested in knowing more report of the Convention) They did not represent the work­ bia University. The latter gave a Comrade Shachtman to come back found their “revolutionary plot” in ers. And today, as in 1927, fu rrie rs taken. about our program with the hope “When we make mistakes let plea for anti-war activity, intimated to Williston again in the near fu­ that in the near future we can lay Dr. W irt’s story to Bulwinkle’s rebel against being coerced into a —NEWARK WORKER. them be new ones”.— A Delegate that wars were caused by arma­ ture. the base for a St. Paul branch of House Committee, which chagres “A tremendous ovation greeted union against their will, a union ments manufacturers, and asserted — A. G. M IL L E R Tugwell and other members of the they had never wanted, never liked, the League. Browder. His clear simple words that we could prevent war if we “Brain Trust” with conspiring to and, given a free choice, would * * * * were listened to with bated breath”. Los Angeles Milliners followed the program of the League. destroy the social order. never vote for in a referendum. More About St. Paul — Olgin. The concluding speaker, M. Sapir, We know nothing about the con­ The question, then, centers down To the Editor of the M ilitan t: Minneapolis Last Sunday, A pril 1, comrade V. “After applauding and cheering chairman of the New Haven League, versations of these “Brain Trust” to this: Should the Communist In their sectarian antics the and a Stalinist supporter, reiter­ It. Dunne gave a lecture on the 4th Stalin for several minutes, the del­ Minneapolis.—The meetings ar­ reformers and defenders of capital­ League be a party to herding work­ Stalinists do not consider the inter­ International at the St. Paul Muni­ egation sang the International.” ated the last remark. In short, the ranged by the Minneapolis branch ism. But we do know that a social ers into a union they correctly re­ ests o f the workers. meeting was entirely a pacifist cipal Open Forum (non-partisan), “I t was only when we opened fire for comrade Shachtman were very change, from decaying capitalism to gard a bosses’ agency? To do so, I Altho several hundred workers making the first presentation of our on the Social Fascists in Southern one. successful. Three public meetings a socialist order, cannot be brought think, would be a fallacy, for any belong to the local of the Interna­ point of view at this forum. The Illinois, especially the Musteites, In the question period, originally were held, two in Minneapolis and about through the NRA and the group which proposes such a step, tional Millinery Workers Union, C. P. members on the executive that we made the first inroads scheduled to be a discussion per­ one in St. Paul. All three meetings other machinery set up under the w ill be viewed with suspicion by Local 48, the policy of the Stalinists committee of this forum spoke among the miners.’.— Bill Gilbert. iod, Murphy ordered a young work­ were well attended and were fol­ “New Deal”. We know that the the more class-conscious elements has steadfastly been to estrange against allowing our comrades to “With Comrade Browder leading er to sit down because the latter lowed by interesting discussions, working class w ill have to raze the among the furriers. Just what pol­ and isolate the handful of active give the talk, but the two hundred us we can and we will go forward had expressed disagreement with testifying to the increasing interest bourgeois state to the ground, along icy the International Communists unionists at their command from workers present voted almost unani­ to win the masses of the American the tenor of the meeting and had of the workers in the program of with the class collaboration mech­ SHOULD adopt, I cannot say; the workers of the International by mously to hear what comrade Dun­ workers. We w ill go forward to said “what wei need is a revolu­ the League. anism now being constructed under measured from all angles, the situa­ maintaining the Millinery Branch ne h ad-to say. Soviet America.”— delegate Hudson tion.” The audience, mostly Stalin­ The house party was attended by the codes, through a social revolu­ tion becomes complex and difficult. of the N.T.W.I.U. in a sectarian It is interesting to note that al­ “To some the Open Letter is a ists, did not protest the chairman’s 70 people among whom were several tio n. 1 think, however, that a more cor­ form . most all the objection and criti­ secret letter”— A Delegate peremptory action. new contacts. Comrade Shachtman Talk of “revolution” by a few rect attitude would be to take the The criminal results of this pol­ cisms offered— even those from the “The entire party must have a A member of the Communist gave a short talk on the history of reformers and parlor pinks like position that: Party-controlled un­ icy came out most clearly in the the Communist League of America C. P. members— harped on the tune Lawrence Todd has no significance daily consciousness of control tasks ions, so far, have proved ineffectu­ one day general strike called by League then arose and asked Men­ and concentration points”— B. Ge- denhall if he thought that war and its perspective for future de­ that the points raised by comrade In itself. But the investigation and al ; they did not succeed in winning the International Millinery Work­ Dunne were all maybe valid enough ballyhoo about these conversations bert. could be prevented without the velopments of the labor movement over the masses. What “Red” un­ ers Union, Tuesday, M arch 21, 1934. but of no immediate concern to us “I don’t know whether I have a overthrowing of capitalism, the as a whole, and the need for a new is good propaganda for the oppor­ ion is successful? Even the Indus­ Instead of furnishing leadership to International as well as a new re­ here, as we have our hands full tunists and social reformers who parliamentary deviation or not, but trial Union has the following of the workers on strike the members breeder of wars; and if capitalism I really have an ambition to go to could be overthrown by, any other volutionary party in America. The with our local problems, that it is tell the workers that the NRA is only one section of the needle of the Stalinist union were in many talk was well received; those pres­ an inner Communist dispute, etc. an instrument that can be used by Congress. I think we can find five trades, the furriers. cases excluded from shop-meetings means than by a civil war. Refus­ or six who ought to be convinced ing to give a direct answer, the ent showing their sympathy with However, in the limited time al­ the workers for their own interests. The duty of class conscious ele­ of the strikers. ♦ * ® * of the necessity of making a really speaker returned the questions and the work of the C.L.A. by contrib­ lowed comrade Dunne (45 minutes) ments, it can be argued, is to form In the pen shop town of Los An­ he was able to convince a number Berious election campaign.” — E. asked what) our comrade thought. uting liberally to the collection. Open Shop and Company Unions the vanguard of wherever the mass­ geles the conciliatory policy of of workers that both Internationals Browder. The latter answered his own ques­ Speech on “Austrian Events” Already throughout the country es are. If they are in the A. F. of Zaritsky did not arouse any enthu­ are bankrupt and that it is abso­ signs indicate that the capitalists tions in the negative and said that Sunday morning, March 25th, “The largest number of delegates L., then that is where the Left siasm among the bosses u n til sever­ lutely essential for the further pro­ are taking fu ll advantage of Presi­ the spreading of the idea that war comrade Shachtman spoke at the joined since the Open Letter was Wing should also be, not divorced al hundred workers walked out on gress of the revolutionary move­ dent Roosevelt’s interpretation of can be prevented without the end­ Labor Lyceum. The subject of issued last summer” (And w ill no from the masses, but in its midst. a one day strike . ment to build a new revolutionary Section 7a in the auto strike settle­ ing of capitalism was harmful to this lecture was the “Lessons of doubt be out in time for next sum­ With this premise, I think all Disrutpionist Policy 4th International, and also that it ment. The interpretation guaran­ the workers and should be con­ the Austrian Events”. This meet­ mer’s self-criticism.) factions, including the Party, w ill The disruptionist policy engin­ is vitally necessary for the Ameri­ tees the open shop and the company • * * * demned. ing was sponsored by the Labor agree. Speaking of the Party, it is eered1 by Miller of the N.T.W.I.U. can workers to draw the lessons union. In the new period of labor Lyceum Open Forum Committee. The “D. W.” reports that “Brow­ possible that from the current weakened the strike. The dragging A C. P. war vet then stood up from the recent experiences of the struggles that we have already en­ About 75 people listened attentively der’s masterly report lasted for six Cleveland convention, such an or­ of workers to the Industrial Union and urged that we take the capital­ European workers in Germany and tered such a guarantee is a power­ to the lecture. Shachtman traced hours.” We pass by the “masterly ientation w ill be more clearly de­ hall instead of strengthening the ists’ bullets and use them against Austria. We hope to get another ful weapon in the hands of the cap­ report”. W hat interests us is the the history! of the Austrian Social veloped. In that event, the trouble­ picket lines was the result of M il­ them. Evidently he doesn’t know opportunity to address this forum italists. Especially when this is Democratic Party and its leader­ masterly endurance of the delegates. some situ a tio n among the fu rrie rs ler’s directives. Most of these the new Party line. He w ill prob­ coupled with the existing NRA ship, showing how at the crucial on some of the most immediate Despite the recesses given to cheer w ill be cleared up instantly. For, workers joined the International ably be reprimanded for his tact­ straightjacket and the “outlawing” moment it was unable to defend questions of the, day. Stalin and sing the International if the Industrial Union proposes and turned against the Industrial lessness in embarrassing the C. P.’s of strikes under the codes. even the most elementary “rights” ffm. CURRAN. this six-hour record undoubtedly unity with the International on the new pacifist allies. After this, the I f the bosses can bei asured o f Union. and the very existence of their or­ Bets a new mark for collective en­ basis of free elections, it is a 90 to The settlement registers a slight chairman, red in the face, hastily such a labor policy from the “lib­ ganizations themselves which the Davenport Meeting durance and discipline. 9 bet that the Communist-led slate gain for the workers that can be adjourned the meeting. eral” Roosevelt for the coming • * • • workers had built up through many THE COMING WAR w ill be swept into office. Then and greatly improved upon by the work­ The pacifist talk of the meeting period they w ill be satisfied. How­ Horse Thieves and Politicians long years of struggle. Fascism or Communism? only then w ill the seemingly im­ ers in the shop if they w ill take a which only served to confuse the ever, the workers have not yet He also demonstrated how the Lecture by Assemblyman Lawrence M. Ham­ possible One Union be achieved. stand to enforce the provisions of class-conscious workers, was made spoken. When they do, the Roose­ pernicious theory of the gradual ilton, nephew of J. P. Morgan, de­ —JACKINSON. the Agreement, which include: all the more ridiculous by the fact MAX SHACHTMAN velts, Johnsons, Hillmans and transformation of capitalism into nied last week that the legislators Equal division of work, Recogni­ that there were scarcely two dozen Member of the N. E. C. Greens had better run for cover. socialism, when applied in practice, at Albany were “horse thieves”. We tion of the shop committees, raises non-Stalinists at the meeting. at * * » * lead to the blackest reaction. Sev­ are ready to accept his denial and, of from one to four dollars and — M . G. Unity Center Hall, 3rd floor Mrs. Pinchot Says Wall Street Expulsion from I.L.D. eral S. P. members and sympathiz­ furthermore, we ao not'believe they Whitaker Bldg., 3rd and Brady Sts. Rules Johnson ers were in the hail but only one are cattle rustlers either. The let­ To the Editor of the M ilita n t: Mrs. Pinchot says Wall Street was so unaffected by the arguments Davenport, Iowa ters of Senator Thayer to the As­ rules Johnson and that the general Following is a report on the ex­ as to defend and try to justify thr on sociated1 Gas and Electric Company is using his high office to thwart pulsion of Sam Silvers from the Socialist policies. It was quite Monday, A pril 30, 1934 at 8 p.m. show that at least one senator Pledge Fund the workers and small business Newark I. L. D. clear to the audience, however, that Admission 10c. T ickets obtainable didn’t have to do any small time men. Sam Silvers, one of the two I.L.D. An Appeal to Our Sympathizers AND M ^IL TO US AT ONCE. despite the heroism of a small min­ fro m B e tty Rowland, 2224J Rock­ stealing. Times change and so do We think it is best to tell the delegates to the Newark branch of It is easy to be a sympathizer of NEW PLEDGERS ority of the Austrian leaders who ingham Road, Davenport, Iowa. customs. The horse thieves of yes­ whole story. The NRA and all that the League Against War and Fas­ a movement if all it means is “pla­ Contributions to the Pledge Fund stobd beside them on the barricades terday become the “honest” politi­ goes w ith i t is the attem pt of the cism, was expelled from the I.L.D. tonic friendship”. We feel, how­ came from B. Weisbroth, Coney the leadership and policy of the Shachtman Tour Salt Lake City cians of today. American imperialists to reorgan­ for demanding that the party sub­ ever, that our readers and' sympa­ Island, One Dollar; from Jos. Kel­ Austrian Social-Democracy stand Wednesday, A pril 18th 8 P.M. * * * * ize the internal economic structure, LaGuardia— S. P.— C J \ stantiate the false charegs on which thizers are more than that. That ler, Cleveland, Ohio, Five Dollars. condemned once again in the eyes I. O. O. F . H A LL D. L. of Bay Ridge, L. I. pledges Salt Lake City, Utah to eliminate the weak and small Thanks to the leadership of the it excluded the Communist League they are ready to participate ac­ of the world’s working class for this 25c weekly. S u bje ct: sections, to consolidate and central­ 8. P. and C. P. the working class of America from the L. A. W. & F. tively in the life of| the organiza­ collossal b etrayal o f 1934. G. Holly of Newark, N. J., pledges ize« industry and capital through of New York is shown the edifying The main charge was anti-Soviet tion, whenever and wherever pos­ Downtown Meeting “THE FUTURE OF THE 50c weekly. cartels and, at the same time, to spectacle of the mayor being called activities. sible.. One way of doing this is to At the downtown mass meeting NEW DEA L” J. W. o f M anhattan, pledges $1.00 hold the changing class relations in in to settle disputes between these At the first Executive Committee help in our efforts to stabilize the comrade Shachtman addressed an Admission Free weekly. the straitjacket of class-collabora­ two “revolutionary” parties on the meeting of the League Against War M ilitan t. To make it possible for audience o f 250. Speaking on the Questions and Discussion tion. us to broaden the circulation. To PREVIOUSLY REPORTED question of the use of Union Square following the exclusion of the Com­ subject of “Do we Need a New Re­ On the following day, April 19th, The NRA is of, for and by the enable us to send the paper to all on May Day. Last year the police munist League, Silvers and others Brooklyn volutionary Party in America”, he Shachtman w ill address a group of capitalists. Johnson and all the who want to read it regularly but weekly arbitrated the difference. This year raised the demand that the party 1. Paul K in g $ .25 went into a detailed description of Salt Lake City university students others, down to Green and Hillman, cannot afford to pay the fu ll rates. an impartial committee apointed by introduce evidence to support its 2 . Subway Worker 1.00 m onthly the birth, the life, and the death of on the subject, “The Events in are their flunkies. The friction in In the sub column we print a LaGuardia is1 to serve as arbitrator. charges. This demand was carried Manhattan the last two Internationals and A u stria .” the camp of these enemies of the letter from a worker that tells this The “united front from below” cer­ and referred to the next Executive 3. G. W rig h t .50 weekly gave the reasons for the necessity workers, from Wall Street’s direct story better than we could. We tainly leads to strange maneuvers Committet meeting. The party 4. E. Konikow .25 weekly of building a new revolutionary 4th Shachtman Tour Kansas City, Mo. representatives to the A. 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The Cuban Situation LEON TROTSKY A Year of Roosevelt's A fte r Grau A Centrist Attack on Marxism N ew Deal

Grau’s government has crashed, A rtic le I I I | of the working class in subjection DeCespedes government fell. They Dear Comrade Sneevliet: and not the right to the point of therefore that in the process of de­ and with it all the “groups” and screamed against the “murderous Industrial recovery is now under by attaining special privileges such I was much interested in the view. Nobody in the working class velopment of the proletariat a cry­ “sectors” that chorused its shouting Grau-Batista-Carbo government” de­ way with “irresistible force”, says as higher wages for their specific theoretical article of Comrade de world is particularly concerned stallization of the most advanced1, for the four hectic months. In scribing it as a “bourgeois-feudal Alfred I . S.oan Jr., president of the crafts, by keeping the unskilled Kadt (“A fdw Remarks on the about whether anybody has the far-sighted, courageous, of the elite, spite of its war apparatus, in spite landowners-imperialist block.” And General Motors Corporation, in his without organization and, thereby, Program of the New Internation­ “ rig h t” to b rin g to lig h t a t some of the real vanguard, should take of its menacing gestures, in spite then they called for the insurrec­ report of the corporation’s business a ^s0 on a much lower wage level, al” ) as it represents a very impor­ later day a non-orthodox point of place. And only through the aid of its appeals for “Law and Jus­ tion. The official Communist Party, for 1933. He also added that the' These officials have not changed; tant theoretical avqwal of one of view. What one wants to know is of this, its most important organ, tice," it was displaced from power taking a schematic and sectarian labor section of the NRA must be but on the old narrow union basis the leaders of the O.S.P. (Indepen­ the point of view itself so as to can the proletariat fu lfill its his­ without a serious attempt at re­ stand, led the proletariat to mas­ clarified “or there is the certainty they could no longer furnish the dent Socialist Party of Holland— test its real content. But the secret toric mission, that is to conquer sistance on its part. sacre, and caused it to lose confi- of industrial strife the equal of guarantee of holding the masses in ed.), I thought at first of waiting lies in the fact that the centrist has power and maintain it in the form A simple dilpomatic maneuvre by dense in its own revolutionary ca­ which this country has not yet check a condition required for for the completion of this article! in in general no definite, clear-cut, of a dictatorship until the complete Caffery with Batista’s avowed com­ pacity. The 29th of September was seen.” capitalism to issue out of the crisis the “De Nieuwe Weg.” But as I well-thought-out point of view, liquidation of all antagonisms plicity was sufficient to sweep out, the culmination of that political im­ on the backs of the workers. It note this article still remains un­ Therefore, he remains content with That it is a question of a dictator­ Nobody needs to doubt that Sloan like a little heai) of refuse, the becility. The day of Mella’s burial spoke from the point of view of his tkereforel became necessary to per- finished. But even what has ap­ the right . . . to have no point of ship of a class is proved by the Government of the “True devolu­ was decided on as the day of the peared suffices. We know that cen­ view. relation between the class and its class. As the president of the Gen- lnit a broader scope of the conserv­ tion.” AH the demagogic adulation insurrection, and then the army, trism always holds back with its The Class Theory of Soceity vanguard: without the support of es! Motors corporation he repre-'tttive uuions in order t0 make »°s* of the people, all its decrees for the which had already begun to fra­ sible the extension of the system strength from entering the field of Immediately following the above the vast majority of the class the sents the most hard-boiled section “nationalization of labor,” all of ternize with the workers, massacred of class collaboration and make of “gray theory” precisely because it words of de Kadt, the latter con­ establishing of a workers’ state of monopoly capitalism. They defi­ its criminal legislation dealing the latter in the streets of Havana. i t a permanent institution. That does not want to reveal itself clear­ tinues as follows: ‘“To give an ex­ would be impossible. That the pro nitely oppose union organization in with the famous 80 per cent move, is what is really meant by Section C. P. Loses Its Bearings ly. De Kadt found himself impelled ample: must we continue to speak letarian revolution is however ac­ any form, save the company union, was of no use to Grau’s govern­ 7a of the NRA. The laobr agents Then the Party, losing all its by the whole situation to take a of the “Dictatorship of the Prole­ complished1 through the intermedia­ aslong as union organization can ment. Upon the first threat of a of capitalism were given a wider bearings, launched the call for a stand on the! programmatic prob­ tariat” when in reality the dicta­ tion of the vanguard is explainable possibly re prevented. But that is change, the groups directed by field in which to function as sales­ general strike. This would have lems of the New International, and torship can be exercised only by the heterogeneity of the prole­ not exceptional. A ll employers do; Bringier and the “National Recon- men for the New Deal. led to the most complete rout of this step of his can be regarded as through the socialist portion of the tariat as it is given us by history. only they are not all equally as able quest” mob, the loud-mouthed le­ Basic Policy of Capitalists the workers if the Labor Federation nothing short of ominous. proletariat and the non-proletarian Marx operated not with bare ab to resist as the General Motors gion of professional “Cubanists,” of Havana, foreseeing the disaster, corporation is. Yet in face of this It is this social relation feature In this letter I wish to touch on elements that are devoted to social­ stractions (“Class,” “Socialism”) which, backed by the armed forces, had not then shown the way. The fact—which nobody w ill deny— which is the most fundamental as­ only a few points which, though ism? In reality we have to deal but with historic realities, their made a practice of attacking work­ Bolshevik-Leniinists succeeded/ in Section 7a of the NRA, which was pect of the New Deal Program. lying in different planes, are equal­ with a “socialist dictatorship,” actual interrelations and their ef­ er centers, decamped leaving to its having the workers return to their sponsored by the Roosevelt admin­ ly characteristic of centrist think­ dictatorship exercized through so­ fects on each others. While the hard boiled monopoly fate the “authentic revolutionists.” positions, and this is the reason istration, recognizes the right of concerns, such as now the General ing. cialists for socialism.” Well said Historic Role of Classes And the iumpen proletariat, al­ why the present period of struggle indeed: “to give an example” ! The collective bargaining to the work­ Motors corporation, put the most That deserters from other classes ways ready to back new masters, is not closed. A “Non-Orthodox Point of View critic does not notice at all that by ers. Does this mean a conflict of stubborn resistance to union recog­ participate in the dictatorship is is again going thru the contortions But this was not sufficient to “It is not our task,” de? Kadt his “example” he attempts to sweep viewpoint and policies within cap­ nition—for that is what Sloan explained by the fact that we deal ordered by the old politicians of heal the wound made by the ad­ writes, “already to present today away, in passing as it were, the italism ? means when he demands “clarifica­ with living social matteij in which the bourgeois parties. venturers. The disorder provoked the formulations which we consider whoi|e structure of Marxism. For tion”— this cannot shield the fact classes merge into one another, af­ The NRA Illusion The Petty Bourgeois Farce in the proletarian ranks enabled necessary. The aim of these re­ here it is not a question of the that there is agreement in the main fect one another, and not with the From official A. F. of L. circles The first act of the petty bour­ the Government to stop short the marks is to establish in advance name dictatorship of the proletar­ amongst the various capitalist rep­ druggist’s compartments in which this is actually the way in which geois farce is ended. As the cur­ workers’ offensive. The sectarian our right (!) to defend a non-ortho­ iat but of the essence of the class resentatives in the matter of basic each preparation has its special the matter is presented. According tain falls, new political experiment­ adventures of the Stalinists explain dox point of view in the coming theory of society. Marx who at any policy towards labor. While each packing and label. It is precisely to these labor agents of capitalism, ers appear before us. There are in part the harm produced by the programmatic discussion.” Here it rate was not satisfied with the section w ill fight for special ad­ the decisive historic role of classes the Roosevelt New Deal is a new Menoca lists, clever at all sorts of 50 per cent law and other decrees is a question—is it not?— of work­ mere right to ideas but had many vantages and special modfications that imparts to the progressive deal for ial/or. According to them tricks and ready for all crimes, old of fascist nature. The weakness of ing out| the fundamental principles a good one, considered the theory of for their own benefit, in principle class the ability to carry along with the policies of his administration Macliadistas, emasculated national­ the proletariat in opposing such de­ of the New International. It would the dictatorship of the proletariat they w ill support the idea of rec­ it the best elements of other class­ are friendly to labor and fighting ists,—in short, the entire assort­ crees, and the cowardice of the of­ be difficult to conceive in this epoch as precisely his most important ognizing and extending the conserv­ es. To declare the class theory for its rights against such hard ment of political dabblers, who are ficial party are results of the ad­ of a more important document. contribution to the science of so ative A. F. of L. unions as a means null and void on this account, as boiled concerns. At the inception now repeating the maneuvres they venture of September 29th. Under the circumstances what ciety. of preventing more m ilitant organ­ de Kadt does, is the same as deny of the NRA this presentation; was The Duty of the Vanguard should be the most urgent, immedi­ Back in 1852 M arx stated to ization and action. trie d in the days o f Cespedes, who ing the law of gravity because a accepted among the broadest work­ ate, deepest need of every Marxian Wedemeyer that the class theory of are now walking arm in arm with Therefore the displacement of balloon travels up and not down. ing class strata. They had1 im p lic it In permitting the general ex­ Caffery as they did yesterday with the Grau government by a rightist revolutionist? At the least, the society had been discovered and tension of the conservative unions De Kadt takes next another “ex­ faith in the NRA. Welles. At their head is old col­ block, manufactured by Caffery formulation of the most important formulated long before him by it is hoped thereby to draw a line observations, generalizations, state­ ample,” this time not against Marx, Now practical experience teaches onel Mendieta, who bends his back finds the proletariat in a defensive bourgeois scientists, that he— Marx of division more effectively between but against Lenin: “Why must them something else. The automo­ loyally in the service of Yankee attitude. It is the duty of the re­ ments and slogans which should be —applied this theory to the further the employed and unemployed we,” he asks, “accept in our pro­ bile workers learned to their re­ finance in the name of “peace and volutionary vanguard to take care­ incorporated in the program pre­ development of capitalist society, workers. The class collaboration gram the “Soviet principle,” since gret that there were no great dif­ friendship.” Behind these puppets ful cognizance of this fact: The im­ cisely because it concerns the vital carrying it to its final conclusion, system of which these union offi­ not even a trace of proof exists ferences at the recent .Washington is the omnipresent American am­ mediate task of the day is a fight matter of giving the uprooted, dis that is to the dictatorship of the cials are to be the guardians is to that the “Soviets” were anything conference. The automobile manu­ bassador and Batista with his iron without quarter against the fascist oriented, disappointed, groping proletariat. Lenin wrote his book become a more effective instrument (!) else than temporary (!), im ­ facturers and President Roosevelt, hand, utilizing the U. S. ambassa­ laws and in defense of the con­ workers the answer to the burning (“State and Revolution” ) in which to check the unemployed and keep provised (!!) forms of organization together with their special agents, dor for the imposition of his designs quests won such as the eight-hour questions of our period. At least he clarified this fundamental Marx them in subjection. in which the masses unite immedi­ Green and Collins, succeeded in on the country. Camp Columbia day in all industries. In these bat­ so the question appears to us, “or­ ian tenet and freed it from the ately prior to and immediately af­ spiking the automobile workers’ Force for Union Organization rules today more effectively than tles, which w ill assume gigantic thodox” Marxists. “non-orthodox” revisionist fog of ter the struggle for power.” The strike for a union, at least for the But intent is one thing, the reali­ in Grau’s days. Ulsiceno is in the proportions in the sugar mills, it is Kautsky, Otto Bauer, etc. N ot so, however to, to de K adt. idealist and metaphysician is not time being. I And since then the ties of life may be another. With Palace; Colonel Mendieta reigns possible to build more firm resist­ He approaches the problem in a Now comes de Kadt with his inclined to attribute to the “Soviet President appointee on the automo­ the first steps toward a turn in the but does not govern. ance for the beginning of greater purely individualistic, subjective, “right to a point of view” and princple” any great importance, for bile labor board cooperated consist­ business cycle the economic press- struggles by the union organiza­ makes plain to us “for instance' The liquidation of the Grau gov­ dilletante fashion. For him it is Soviets are nothing more than ently with the manufacturers to sure upon the workers increased en­ tions. A realistic acquaintance with not a question of formulating defi­ on the dictatorship of the proletar­ ernment is complete. It is our task “temporary” forms of organization; stall the movement further until ormously and rapidly. That itself our past acts and methods are es­ iat : "Nothing of this sort exists at now to draw up a balance sheet for nite ideas, but of reserving the they serve the proletariat only “ im ­ the busy season is over and thereby was a powerful motive force for the Cuban proletariat, indicating sential in guiding our future revo­ all,” since in reality “the dictator­ “right” to present a “non-orthodox mediately prior to and immediately disorganize its attempts to get ac­ union organization. The workers the lessons to be drawn from the lutionary activity. ship is realzed only through the point of view in the future. The after the struggle for power.” We tio n . entered the unions in masses but tragic experience with the petty — Translated from “Rayo”, organ question of program is however not socalistic portion of the proletariat’ and what is more, non-proletarians Marxists are not at all set upon in­ Unionism the Issue for quite different objectives than bourgeois rulers. These lessons of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party a question of right. What needs to those| intended by the NRA. F or participate in it too. In other cluding in our program “eternal, Throughout the whole of the w ill be of value in future battles. of Cuba. be presented is the point of view them it was a matter of regaining words, it is not a matter of the “everlasting” values; we are satis­ NRA experiences so far the main Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists a standard of living. dictatorship of a class, but of fied1 just with “temporary” things issue of ever sharpening conflicts From the very first days of Sept­ rule of a like-minded group, a gath­ like Soviets, which—and de Kadt concerns the question of union or­ And while today the masses from ember, we Bolshevik-Leninists said ering of people around the idea of admits this too—are instruments of ganization. Today it is most acute the very heart of basic industry that the insurrection of September «BRAIN TRUST» CONSPIRACY socialism. Tims we see that not the seizure and maintenance of in the automobile industry, tomor flock into the existing unions, at 4 had a profound revolutionary con­ classes decide in history but ideas. power by the proletariat. So fa r row it w ill come to a head in other the same time, due to the changes tent. The very technique employed, It follows therefore that every self- that is completely sufficient for us. industries. Everywhere the mechan in the business cycle, the NRA reg­ bringing the intervention of the The greatest issue since the Civil Indiana. Although he has been an respecting person must safeguard We are willing to grant the “right” ism created by the New Deal pro­ ulations begin to impose severe re­ soldiers and classes, and the dema­ W ar has lx?en brought in to the educator for several decades, the his right to ideas. De Kadt coun­ to De Kadt and his co-thinkers in gram, the industrial codes, the la­ strictions upon them. Resentment gogic program flaunted by the petty open by Dr. Wm. A. Wirt, says New York Times has the temerity terposes to Marxism “for instance’ future to invent far more “eternal’ bor boards and the arbitration is held back only by still lingering bourgeois of the Junta of Five James H. Rand Jr., who read the to undertake to educate the learned a through and through idealistical­ form of organization; first however schemes, appear in operation as hopes, or it is diffused by the var­ obliged the government to certain revelations of the aforementioned doctor from Indiana. It was not ly metaphysical philosophy oil his­ let them try at least to create means to harness the labor move­ ious mechanisms of arbitration. But measures that might have made W irt to the Houes Committde on Stalin who supplanted Kerensky, tory. A dozen lines suffice for him ‘temporary” soviets and to conquer ment within definitely laid out this can succeed only in postponing possible the broadening out of the Interstate Commerce on Friday, the New York Times informa Dr. power. to break from the fundamentals of channels. In that there is a speci­ the decision of what course the revolutionary movement. We af­ M arch 23, 1934. The issue is whe­ W irt: no. it was Lenin. M arxism . Echoes of Bernstein fic function assigned to the reac­ working class w ill take. The re­ firmed that the hegemoneous role ther the Brain Trusters are going The doctor must have been read­ Ideas and Classes tionary trade union leaders. sentment is bound to accumulate of the petty bourgeoisie led the to succeed in their sinister plot to In this fashion I could take up ing the? Daily Worker. During the crisis the general and is due to be let loose in a ser­ government to an indecisive policy supplant the Kerenskian Roosevelt We poor “orthodox” ones believe the whole article sentence by sen­ wage standard had become vastly ies of explosive class battles. The of zigzags. The ascendant march with an American Stalin, or shall In the investigation of this mo­ even today that not ideas determine tence to prove that—excepting for mentous Brain Trust problem it reduced, as was the standard of longer they are postponed the more of the Revolution, the formidable liberty prevail. the fate of society but classes; that meaningless platitudes— de Kadt’s might be interesting for the sake living foi the working class as a turbulent the explosions w ill be. strike struggles of the proletariat Through a series of machinations social ideas—as the old, wise Ita l­ article consists only of horrible of science to peer into W irt’s cere­ whole. How to maintain this eri rs Unions a t Crossroads forced the Government to aggres­ a resolution is to be engineered it ian Antonio Labriola said—do not mistakes against the fundamentals bellum to determine whethefr the level—or keep near as possible to sive acts against the bourgeoisie the United States by the members fall from heaven, but give expres­ of Marxism. De Kadt never men­ The conservative unions w ill be this level—while advancing com­ and imperialism. This did not ex­ of the Brain trust. Legislation to day of his appointment to school sion to immediate or historic inter­ tions the lights that have given him at their crossroads. Recently they superintendent in the Steel Trust modity prices in order to restore clude, as we said' a hundred times, thwart the recovery program is to ests of classes. The “idea” of so inspiration. Certainly they are not have had a big influx of proletar­ town of Gary coincides with the the profit iuducement and finally set repression against the proletariat, be introduced, the government is cialism is the theoretical expres­ Marx, Engels and Lenin. But in his ians from the heavy industries. day his brain ceased operation. the wheels of industry into motion, and even barbarous acts, against to assume the operation of indus­ sion of the historic trend of the latest, revisionist revelations we Their composition is being trans­ this was the problem which the which we should always fight. try and banking, and the press to The plot of the Brain Trusters, proletariat coordinated with the find only echos of Bernstein, of the formed. In that same measure the be prevented from protesting by logical development of capitalist German Neo-Kantians and also of owners of capitalist monopoly con­ general working class interests w ill The correct position of the van­ shrouddd in the darkest mystery, threatening it with measures which society. The relation between class the Austro-Marxists. And all that cerns set out to solve in their reor become more d ire c tly reflected guard of the working class hinges might remain unsolved, and what and “idea” is not mechanical but should serve for the setting up of ganization for “recovery.” within the unions. The more this on an understanding of a situation. compel thd unvarnished /truth in is of greater concern, succeed, did advertising. Finally; when the mo­ dialectic. The class attains self- the program of the New Interna­ Peaceful class relations would be is held back the more the resent­ The tactics followed had to be con­ not the country possess an in d i­ consciousness not through revela­ tional? Oh no! De Kadt w ill have the main prerequisite. Restlessness ment w ill accumulate within the ditioned by living reality; and had ment is ripe, Roosevdlt is to be re vidual who sees deepest and lowest placed by a Brain Trusting Stalin. tion but through difficult struggle to look for some different applica­ from the millions of unemployed unions. to follow the ascendent rhythm of into such plots. Hamilton Fish ap­ which takes also the form of an tion for this. had to be allayed, actual convul­ the revolution. Patriots to the Defense pears on the scene. E verything At the same time every collision internal struggle within the prole­ Our critic is very harsh with re­ sions ensuing from their desperate The Fight for Revolutionary Juntas Menaced by this insidious and becomes transparent. I t ’s th is with the NRA code regulations and subversive conspiracy, striking like way: There are twelve Brain tariat itself. So—by your leave— gard to Bolshevism, even the gen­ position had to be prevented. Some every conflict with the state forces, To ardently continue the work of a snake in the White House bosom Trusters who are Socialists, be­ our struggle against centrism is an uine—Lenin. He does not want to measure against a resurgence of which are now much more integrat­ regrouping the proletariat, to exact from men trustdd by the President) cause they belong to an organiza­ important component part of the idealize” it. That is not at all labor militancy had to be found. ed with the economic organs of from tlie petty bourgeois Govern­ all Washington has been agitated tion which is closely affiliated to struggle of the working class for necessary. But what de Kadt says But the general levelling process by capitalism, w ill be reflected within ment the fullfillment of its own like shivering gelatin. All patri­ the? Communist movement in the self-knowledge. It is inevitable on Leninism is truly lamentable. which the formerly privileged the unions in collisions between the demagogic program (Revolutionary ots have sprung like a man to the United States. This organization We are faced here not with princ­ skilled sections became further re­ rank and file workers and the re­ tribunals, the distribution of land, duced, left the conservative unions, defenses. What’s to be done? is (beware, Hamilton knows all( The Austrian Constitution ipled criticism but with distorted actionary officials. To the extent the Constituent Assembly, etc.) ; to “Let’s get out the firing squad,” the American Civil Liberties Union. facts, anachronisms, misunderstood composed almost exclusively of that the unions fail to adjust them­ fight for the constitution of Revolu­ demands Senator Schall, Republi­ Now we know. It looks very much The new Austrian Constitution, relations, false, personal estima­ these skilled crafts, almost entirely selves, in objectives, in policy and tionary Juntas, as a step to the or­ can, of Minnesota. “It may be an like Roger Baldwin is behind the according to recent press dispatch­ tions etc. Refuting all this would, out of the picture. in organization forms and methods, ganization of Soviets, and at the ancient custom,” he saye, “but we whole conspiracy. es, is basing itself on the papal en­ without being of any great value, Role of Craft Unionism explosions w ill occur within them. same time carry on intensive work take up too much time. It is suf­ may have to revive it under the Representative Foulkes of Mich­ cyclical issued by “His Holiness,” In the past their officials could But with that also a formidable among the masses to prepare the ficient to establish here, that de New D eal.” igan has his own opinion of the1 Pope Pius on May 15, 1931. be relied upon to uphold their end basis for new unionism w ill develop. latter for defense against the ag­ Kadt criticizes most severely the “It’s treason!” exclaims Speaker matter. He says of Dr. W irt: “He There will be a “legislative” of the system of cooperation with ARNE SWABECK. gression of the Government, such system of Lenin-Trotsky,” in or­ Rainey. “The matter should be in­ is either a faithful servant of the chamber composc?d of 59 delegates— capitalism. They had been able to were the tasks set for itself by the der to attach himself to the system vestigated by the Department of sinister forces of predatory wealth all elected by State officials and the turn the conservative craft unions ORDER A BUNDLE OF MILI­ Bolshevik-Leninist Party. of . . . Tranmael. Hand in hand Justice.” or a consummate ass.” church. The duties of the “legisla­ into an instrument to hold the rest TANTS—ONE CENT PER COPY. We continued to maintain that ture” w ill be limited to accepting with the Norwegian social-demo­ Representative Bulwinkle of such tactics would maintain the Why can’t he be both? or rejecting measures submitted by cracy which is only the diluted edi­ North Carolina demands a Congres­ movement on the upgrade, and as a — G. R. the? government. tion of Austro-Marxism de Kadt sional investigation, W irt to be result the Government would soon Correspondent Gedye, of the N‘. Y. wants in a “revolutionary” manner summoned before a special commit­ pass from words to compromising Times, summed up the situation as to reconstitute the international tee and the Brain Trust to be put acts. The day would come when CLASS IN TRADE UNION follows : “Other autocracies, even working-class movement . . . on the under the spotlight. basis of principles which w ill be the cowardly petty bourgeoisie PROBLEMS Hitlerism, preserve the outward would have to turn against the The Brain Trust should be in­ form-—howeve?r worthless i t is in revealed to us only later. masses. The entire effectiveness of vestigated. There can be no ob­ practice—of a popular vote. In the We do not want to dispute any­ Every Wednesday 8 P. M. our tactics lay in that we insisted1 jections to such a probing into the new Austrian autocracy general one’s “right” to a distorted point on making use of this period to give gray matter of these intellects who International Workers School elections find no place in the con­ of view. But to the Dutch workers the workers the force necessary for believe that juggling the letters of This course takes in a survey of stitution.” we want to say with full, convic­ the alphabet is going to make us further advance. the history and development of The Dollfus government has also tion: To build a party on the phil­ all prosperous. But stupidity and the inability to the American labor movement, issued a decree that anyorn? is liable osophy of de Kadt is to build on Wm. A. W irt from Gary to detention in a concentration sand. Beware of doing so; build understand is characteristic of and problems of strategy and Stalinism. Devoid of any critical The author of all these hair- camp for an indefinite period mere­ on Marxian granite! judgment of reality, they launched raising sensations is Wm. A. W irt, tactics. ly on suspicion of having worked —L. TROTSKY. the slogan of Soviets as soon as the superintendent of schools in Gary, Instructor—ARNE SWABECK for a forbidded political party. March 1«, 1934 P A G E 4 THE DOUTANT SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1®34

ed front. They stated that the job anywhere else, this means members of the M.C.C.W. would, N.Y. MAY DAY that the numbers w ill probably nevertheless, participate in the • continue almost as large as ever, Minneapolis Workers demonstration in support of the After the C. W . A . despite Mr. Hopkins’ assurances demands. CONFERENCE th a t only 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 o f the 4,000,000 w ill continue to At the demonstration a member (Continued from page 1) unemployment becomes now the Fight Hunger Program of the M.C.C.W. volunteered some most important issue in the unem­ need help.” information to one of the speakers. The New York May Day confer­ into powerful unions. As in the ployed movement, to which all im­ Not only does the editorial com­ factory of an individual capitalist, pletely ignore the actual facts, of ployed has been reached. These Instead o f welcoming the) in fo rm a ­ ence held in the Rand School April mediate struggles— for reinstate­ (Continued from page 1) so in the government’s relief set­ workers in ever-increasing numbers tion, which was valuable at the 7 th, after a lengthy discussion, ment on relief work, cash relief, no mass dismissals from relief work ups, there is a systematic and con­ the corner of 5th St. and 3rd Ave. are beginning to see that the “New time, and asking the support of all elected a broad Arrangements Com­ discrimination, etc. — must be and home relief, of curtailment of scious aim of keeping the workers where - the speakers were. With Deal” is even worse than the old organizations of workers, the speak­ mittee, representative of all major joined. relief funds, but goes to the length in changing relationships, uncer­ little resistance from the workers one. They are beginning; to real­ er launched into a violent and organizations and political tenden­ Despite the grim realities which of wondering why—since, by its tainty and flux, instability and de­ the cops cleared a small space in ize that the unemployed army is a slanderous attack on the M.C.C.W. cies present to arrange for what show through the Roosevelt dema­ own theory, the change from GWA moralization. front of the speakers. Suddenly a permanent one under capitalism This is the Stalinist “united front promises to be the largest May Day gogy, many illusions are current is no rea l change—- shower of tear gas bombs came sail­ and that it is necessary to organize from below” in action. demonstration ever held in New As workers In the factories fight among workers as to the intentions “The President and Mr. Hop­ ing down from the upper windows to defend their interests. To every The Minneapolis Central Council York. this aim by organizing and stabil­ of the Government. Many believe, kins certainly knew when they of the courthouse. The workers, serious worker the question of of Workers has as its corner stone The call for the conference which izing their status, regulating the for example, that the new shift of made their dramatic announce­ taken by surprise, began to fall HOW to organize the unemployed the idea that the interests of the was issued1 by the S. P. was ad­ amount and cost of wage labor administration of relief to the local ment, that the CWA workers back to escape the fumes. is surely the most important one. organized and the unorganized, the dressed “to all trade union and available to the bosses, so the un­ authorities is merely a technical would still be care for, and that But now it was the cops’ turn, In this period, in which, one of employed and unemployed workers fraternal organizations,” thus ignor­ employed must take as their chief change. Actually it means that the no one w ould be allowed to and they got the surprise of their the greatest strike waves in the are identical. It is convinced that ing all other political parties and task of the immediate future the Government in abandoning! its pre­ starve. Why was it necessary, lives! Instead of dispersing the history of the American workers is the policy of the united front from groups. The delegates of the Com­ regulation and legalization of their viously asserted responsibilities to then, to frighten all these men and demonstration, which was the pur­ developing, the greatest need is organization to organization w ill munist League of America, the status. Instead of shifting relief the unemployed, is covering up its their dependents nearly out of their pose of this deliberate attack, the that of united action of all work­ enable the workers to cope w ith the Spartacus Youth, and the Ameri­ schemes, with changing schedules broken promises by turning over wits by neglecting to emphasize workers, giving way to the feelings ers, employed and unemployed, or­ problems that confront them. It can Workers Party were stopped at of amounts of relief, there must be the firing and the relief curtailment this important fact?” of anger and indignation, brought ganized and unorganized, on all believes that the struggle of the un­ the door and not allowed to enter — and the unemployed can win this to municipal officials. In most The President “neglected to em­ about by five years of misery and fronts against the boss class. The employed has only begun and it the hall until the credentials report — a| stable form of Federal unem­ cases, as in New Y ork c ity and phasize the important fact” that the shattering of NRA illusions, be­ only means of achieving this united attempts to bring the entire work- was made at 10:15 P.M. A motion ployment insurance at living wages state, the same officials do the fir­ everyone would be taken care of, gan to fight back. Seining the hot action is through the policy of the ingclass movement to the active to seat all delegates was then car­ for all those to whom capitalist in­ ing and cutting, only now they have for the simple reason that they are bombs with their bare hands they UNITED FRONT. The united front support of the unemployed. ried. dustry and government do not make municipal titles. not going to be taken care of. But flung them back at the cops with work available. tactic is simply the joint action of The early part of the conference The belief that Roosevelt will, what has happened is that the New such telling effect that the police Trade union workers especially, various labor organizations, trade revolved around a discussion over Need of Unemployment Insurance under whatever name and set-up, Republic has invented a character ran like scared rats into the court­ should urge their organizations to unions etc. on a specific issue, an indoor meeting or an outdoor For this task there must be unity take care of the unemployed, is as­ fo r Roosevelt w hich does not re­ house. The battle continued for action in building a united move­ such as for example, increased re­ demonstration. The I.L.G.W.U. and of workers and unemployed. The siduously cultivated by the major­ semble him in the least. No won­ some time with the workers brav­ ment of this character. The instinc­ lief for the unemployed. These or­ some other uuions had decided in the best immediate assurance that ity of the capitalist press, which der, then, that the New Republic ing tear gas and ocmpletely de­ tive desire of every worker is for ganizations, irrespective of their favor of holding an indoor meeting workers on the job can have that continues to picture Roosevelt as a ends on the fantastic note of calling feating the attempts of the cops to unity of the class and the united different opinions on other ques­ at Yankee Stadium. The decision the unemployed w ill not be driven humanitarian who, though bent on the country to learn from the Pres­ disperse them. front points the way. tions, come together, agree on a of the Conference was to go ahead to underbidding them or scabbing saving capitalism, w ill save the ide nt : Bombs thrown back by the m ili­ — W . K . common program and carry it out. with preparations for an outdoor on them is Federal unemployment workers, and especially the unem­ “The important thing is that tant workers crashed through win­ Such a policy can weld the em­ demonstration and at the same time insurance. If the employed work­ ployed, from any attendant hard­ the country should realize, as the dows of the building, forcing ployed and the unemployed here in to try to convince the I.L.G.W.U. to ers fight for the intersts of the un­ ships. President and his advisers now judges to adjourn their courts. Brownsville Branch Minneapolis and elsewhere into a take p a rt. employed, the unemployed w ill help No less philistine is the picture do, that to go on muddling These judges, according to news­ solid front to the advantage of both. them when they strike, by fighting OPEN FORUM A motion was made by a delega­ of Roosevelt policy expressed by through with the unemployed is paper reports, demanded that the Workers can readily understand scabbery and joining on the picket a crime,” etc. etc. police use machine guns and a num­ “ The United Front from a Socialist tion of the I. W. W. to send a dele­ the liberal press. The New Repub­ this idea and should subscribe to it. line. The New Repulbic’s editorial is ber of these were set up inside the V iew point” gation to meet with the Conference lic , in a long e d ito ria l o f A p ril 4, Stalinist Policy worth quoting at such length in entrances. Fire apparatus, which Speaker: HAROLD LUXEMBURG called by the Communist Party. The fight for Federal unemoy- takes the following attitude toward From this point of view it is im­ order to emphasize to what extent was called to the scene, was not F rid a y , A p ril 13, 1934 The chairman ruled, amid some ment insurance at the expense of the new relief - scheme: perative that we examine the pol­ the fight for immediate relief and used as it was feared that the dem­ disorder, that one speaker for the employers and the government, “It is now quite clear that the icy of the United Relief Workers for a real system of unemployment onstrators would wreck it. The SOCIAL AND DANCE andl one against w ould be allowed. at living wages for the duration of CWA has died only to be born Assn, and the Unemployed Councils. insurance is bound up with the task firemen clearly showed a reluc­ Wm. Matheson, a delegate of the again under another name. Ev­ These organizations, controlled by To Celebrate the opening of our of exposing the Roosevelt demagogy tance to join in this despicable as­ Communist League, offered as a eryone in actual need throughout the Stalinists, reject the united new Headquarters at 1776 Pitkin and showing the workers the reali­ sault upon working men and wo- supplementary motion a series of the United States and heretofore front tactic. Their method! of or­ Avenue. Brownsville Relief employed on a CWA project is to ties behind the Roosevelt program. me: proposals for a united demonstra­ ganizing the unemployed into or­ Extra* Comrade Sarah Meyer, tion in line with the statement is­ be cared for through local au­ As the workers feel the effects of Arrest of Committee formerly secretary to Leon Trotsky, ganizations without connections sued to the delegates and published Demonstration thorities.” the Roosevelt program in their bel­ In the meantime the committee with the labor movement in general, w ill give her impressions of the in the last issue of the M ilitant. So assured is the New Republic lies and bones, the illusions will life and work of the Exiled Revolu­ of 23 had presented the demands to results in a division of the work- The chairman ruled this out of in its tone, one would think it a disappear— despite the liberal-cap­ On Saturday, April 7, the streets the City Council and after much ingclass. Many w orkers are de­ tio n ist. order. The motion was then put government organ. And, in fact, italist chromo of Roosevelt— but we of Brownsville and East New York wrangling the Council voted their ceived by the Stalinist policy of and defeated by the overwhelming the e d ito ria l goes on to counter­ must not wait until then. By the An apology to our comrades. The resounded to the march of 500 in­ approval. Upon leaving the Council “United Front From Below”. This m ajority composed of Socialist and mand the orders of Federal relief remorseless facts, first of all, we dignant unemployed workers. Most room the committee was arrested. policy is false because it; prevents social and lecture by comrade trade union delegates. A motion Administrator Hopkins: must expose the Roosevelt program of them having been recently fired Outside, the workers, not knowing labor organizations as such from Meyer scheduled for A pril 7th was by Zimmerman of the I.L.G.W.U. “Since very few have worked against the unemployed. as a result of the discontination of the fate of the committee, were now participation and calls upon indi­ called off due to conditions beyond that the name of the conference for the CWA if they could get a —RELIEF WORKER. our control. Comrade Meyer w ill the CWA dole agency. The demon­ waiting for its return'. The police, vidual workers to leave their or­ should be “The Labor Committee strators, enraged against the “New failing miserably in their attack, ganizations and leaders. Further, positively appear Saturday, April for May Day”, was defeated. An 14th. You are coridally invited to Deal” government and its hunger adopted the policy of watchful they demand absolute control of amendment by H endin o f the So­ program, marched through the waiting. The leaders now made a their “united front” and the accept­ attend. cialist Party that the Conference streets, shouting m ilitantly for ade­ F A S C IS T S I N N . Y. serious mistake. Instead of raising ance of their policies in advance. should be known as “The Socialist quate relief, an anti-eviction law a demand for the committee which This is a perversion of the genuine and Labor Committee for May It is reported that Nazis of both inist bureaucracy, w ill not budge and unemployment insurance. had been gone two hours, and mak­ United Front in which all organiz­ The Labor Front Day” was carried. With the pas­ German and home-grown varieties from their disastrous united front ing preparations for an orderly ad­ ations collectively, decide what pol­ sage of this motion the Conference The demonstration having reached from below line unless compelled to. journment, they allowed the demon­ icy shall be pursued. are holding open air meetings in Reports from every section of became a bedlam, many delegates Loew’s Square, it halted and held The leadership of the Socialist stration to drag along for an hour Here are two concrete examples Yorlcville, expounding their reac­ the country seein to indicate that demanding the floor. Representa­ an open air meeting, which was ad­ Party cannot see anything ahead more. By this time the crowd was of this perversion :j Last Thursday tionary anti-working class, anti- a new strike wave, unprecedented tives of the trade union movement dressed by the delegates who were but chances for fat jobs either tiring .and getting restless. morning a delegation from the Semitic, “Nordic” doctrines. Symp­ in the history of American labor, is withdrew from the Conefernce, elected to visit the assemblymen through ‘winning an election’ at the A committee of five was selected Minneapolis Central Council of toms of that Fascist scourge which in the process of fermentation. many others were striving to get and aldermen of the community. polls as Mayor Hoan in Milwaukee, to find out what had become of the Workers went to the United Relief is destroying all progress and all Whether this movement w ill take the floor as the Conference ad­ The spokesman for the delegation, or going over to a “Fusion” party committee of 23. Two of these men Workers Assn, and proposed united progressive thought as well as all on a m ilitant character or w ill be journed. a member of the Communist League as Blanshard in New York. They were also arrested. Seeing that action of the two organizations in working class organizations in Eu­ bottled up by the A. F. of L. bu­ At a meeting of the Arrangements of Ameirea, properly exposed the do not want to take any kind of the w orkers were restless the cops the demonstration. The M.C.C.W., rope, are increasingly seen in reaucracy depends on how effec­ Committee held later, it was unani­ fake “representatives of the people” militant action which might en­ started to drive wedges into the which represents a number of labor America. tively the conscious elements work mously decided to drop the name for what they really are: capitalist danger this “respectability.” Be­ crowd and succeeded in splitting it organizations in the city working on A solid united front of all work­ in the mass trade union. “Socialist” and to call the Commit­ flunkeys, who neither can nor w ill tween Socialist respectability on up. But not without fierce hand to a united front basis for the unem­ take up the struggle! in behalf of ing class organizations is the only the one hand and Stalinist infantile * » * * tee “The Labor Committee for May hand fig h tin g in w hich more cops ployed, asked for representation on road to save our organizations from Canteloupe pickers in Imperial Day.” Committees were elected to the workers. nonsense on the other, the bridge than workers were injured. Cops the committee of 23 and a speaker complete destruction. A divided draft the program, drew up ban­ The demontsration had been con­ for Fascism to ride to power is be­ who were foolish enough to leave at the demonstration. These were Valley are refusing to load melons front today means the hang­ unless their wage demands ev-. met. ners, make complete arrangements sciously sabot: ged by the Stalinist ing created here. Workers: Com­ the protection of their squads were logical and fair requests, the grant­ man’s noose tomorrow. The infan­ The bosses’ "P rotective Associa­ for the demonstration, etc. Despite Unemployment Council which ar­ munists, Socialists rouse yourselves severely beaten. Once separated, ing of which would have been of tile chattering of the Stalinists tion” has organized vigilante bands ranged a counter-demonstration for in time. Compel your leadership to the demonstrators were quickly great aid in broadening the repre­ the continued refusal of the ma­ about the “united front from be­ to break up workers meetings and jority of the Committee to make an the same day only a few blocks move or get out of the way. Or­ dispersed. 38 workers were ar­ sentation from the labor movement low,” “Social Fascism” and “Only have kidnapped1 and beaten up effort for a real united front, with away. ganize the united front of labor. rested, including most of the lead­ as a whole. They were turned under our leadership” means no active* organizers in an attempt to the Stalinist Conference, they were Crush the rising Fascist monster. ers, on charges of disorderly con­ down. The demonstration was arranged united front at all. Along that stem the discontent of the workers. compelled to elect a committee to by the Workers Unemployed Union The opportunity is ours today. duct. Seven workers and 8 cops For the United Front road lie the concentration camps, • • • • meet with the C. P. and work out of Brownsville and East New York. were injured in the fight. the tortures and the beheadings of THE PROGRAM OF THE The U.R.W.A. demanded that the In Camden, N. J., the bosses’ an amicable settlement for the use A number of working class organ­ Fighting Qualities of Workers an American Fascist state. Social­ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL M.C.C.W. sign a statement endors­ company union was unable to in­ of Union Square without the “medi­ izations cooperated, including the This demonstration which again ing the U.R.W.A. policy and its de­ ist Party reliance on capitalist de­ Speaker: tim id a te the 2,300 w orkers o f the ation” of the mayor, if at all pos­ Communist League of America, mocracy, on bourgeois laws, on this reveals the admirable fighting mands. The M.C.C.W. delegation Campbell Soup Co. who voted to sible. Spartacus Youth Club, Socialist ARNE SWABECK qualities of the American workers, stated that it could not sign such or that “friend of labor” or this or strike for recognition of their union Party, Y.P.S.L., Workemns Circle, that “foe” of Fascism, in a word 1330 W ilkin s Avenue once arroused, indicates that a new a statement since the policy of the and increase in wages. etc. This demonstration was only the road travelled in Germany by Sunday, April loth at 8 P.M. stage of the struggle of the unem­ U.R/W.A. was not that of the unit- the beginning of an extensive organ­ * • • * the Social Democratic Party, leads Admission 15c 7,300 C. W. A. w orkers in Syra­ izational campaign inaugurated by l£3MSS!rsS3i=8=lMS=ft=!WeS5=S»»SrieSt=a=t^^ to the same result here. Questions Discussion cuse and| Onondago County won a Shachtman thq Workers Unemployed Union wage increase from 40 to 50c a fte r which aims to bring in every un­ The leadership of the Stalinist Auspices: Bronx Branch C. 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