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Box 148, Station ,O (~3f' Bro~dway), 'New York, N. Y. I '\ ,. I' ( .1~ .'.,. I I •' ';:1'•., .. ,, ;/ ,_~ '~ '. c . ) ; / ,'f /" ~- I ' ,, < v' " '•/:· ' ' '' VOL. XXI, No. 3 APRIL, 1942 THE COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM·LENINISM EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS In Tom Mooney's Name Let Us Build the Unity of American Labor . ·. Statement by the N a­ tional Committee, C.P.U.S.A. 195 Tom Mooney: One of America's Finest Sons Georgi Dimitroff . 198 For a Second Front in Europe! To the Of- fensive Against Hitler! . Eugene Dennis 199 The Course of the War and the Present Tasks Gil Green . 214 A War-Time Tax Program for Victory Jean Francis 225 The New Role of China . James S. Allen 239 National Unity and the Coming Elections Ralph V. Barnes 250 Negroes and the National War Effort li'rederick Douglass . 262 From Leipzig to Riom Hans Berger 270 Lessons From Our War .of Independence A. B. 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Browder: Why He Should be Freed, by Joseph North . .01 Japanese Imperialism Exposed: The Secret Tanaka Document .10 Thomas Paine: Selections, with an introduction by James S. Allen .25 From Defense to Attack, by William Z. Foster . .0 I Work Under Capitalism and Socialism, by A. Leontyev .15 Our Ally-The Soviet Union, by Robert Minor .01 The War and the Negro People, by Jame.s W. Ford .02 • WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D (832 Broadway), New York, N. Y. IN TOM MOONEY'S NAME LET US BUILD THE UNITY OF AMERICAN LABOR (Statement by the National Committee of thle Communist Party, U.S.A., March 6, 1942.) OM MOONEY is dead. came a symbol of the cause of the T Every working man, every working class and therefore the working woman, every youth and center of a world-wide struggle child of this great nation has lost that reached across battlefields and an irreplaceable friend and guide inspired the men of all nations. In and leader. The American labor California the "open-shop" move­ movement has lost one of its best ment of war profiteers had set out organizers in the brave Tom to destroy the whole American Mooney, upon whose face we will trade union movement or at least look for the last time tomorrow. all but the most exclusive of the unions of the skilled crafts. * * * Brutally reactionary politics, shar- The history of our country and ing in the loot of unprecedented its democracy-and the history of war profits, made use of the crimi­ trade unionism, without which there nal courts of California as a means can be no democracy in the modern to destroy any who dared to intra­ world-could not be understood duce trade unionism into new fields. without understanding the role of Tom Mooney was sentenced to the magnificent figure of Tom death by a frenzied reaction that Mooney. In the world-wide labor was a combination of greed and ex­ movement for the past twenty-five ploitation of labor, corruption in years the chai:acter and role of politics and a corresponding stag­ Mooney have loomed upon the hori- nation in the labor movement. He zon as a symbol of all that was most was convicted on false evidence of courageous and true and far-seeing a crime of which he did not share in the struggles of American labor. the slightest shadow of guilt, ut- In the midst of the great World terly strange to his life's record, his War, the young Tom Mooney of beliefs and those of the labor move- 1916, member of the Molders Union ment. and organizer of the Amalgamated Tom Mooney's distinction was in Association of Street Carmen, be- the fact that he became the leader 195 196 TOM MOONEY of a movement for the spreading of movement to higher forms. Him­ the organization of the American self a member of the American Fed­ Federation of Labor beyond the eration of Labor in good standing narrow field of the skilled crafts, for more than thirty years, he reso­ that in doing se he brilliantly un­ lutely adhered to his firm belief derstood the historic significance of that the future of the labor move­ his work in the light of historic ment would reach beyond the nar­ destiny of the labor movement. He row bounds of craft organization pursued his course in defiance of and would embrace the whole of the reaction and stagnation in the labor working class. movement itself. Where imprison­ Throughout nearly a quarter of a ment and even death became the century of imprisonment, first under threatened penalty for performance sentence of death and later for of his duty to his union and his many years of imprisonment, class, Tom Mooney went ahead Mooney became the friend and ad­ without fear. The annals of the viser of all honest elements of the American trade union movement labor movement. Even while locked contain no epic more magnificent in prison the powerful personality than the long struggle for a quar­ of Mooney was able to surmount all ter of a century that grew out of difficulties to the extent that he be­ the faith and the work of Mooney. came a pillar of light in the move­ Son of an Irish-American coal ment for labor unity. His honesty miner, Tom Mooney had no educa­ inspired respect even where hate tional opportunities, but found the and fear still linger. Mooney's priceless key to enlightenment and strength and incorruptible courage the advance of his class in the made it possible for him actually science of the modern labor move­ to become one of the strongest fig­ ment. Studying by night after labor ures in the political movement of in an iron foundry, Mooney made labor that mounted to great heights himself capable of understanding in California with the New Deal. the underlying principles of modern In turn his example inspired great history. and the emancipation of his deeds on the part of labor. The people. Mooney became a student of growth of the trade unions was Marx and Engels and a devoted stimulated by influences on which follower of Eugene V. Debs. The must be counted that of Mooney. emancipation of labor became the Tom Mooney was a symbol of lode star of his life. His mastery of confidence in the working class the strategy and tactics of the labor and its destiny. Never sinking to the movement, in the light of his Marx­ narrow bickering and division ist studies, made it possible for him which the enemies of labor encour­ to make his graat contribution to age in the unions, Tom always un­ the development of the trade union derstood the first principles of movement, not through sectarian unity; that those who start baiting fads, but through the inexorable against the "Left" are really injur­ development of the existing labor ing the entire labor movement by TOM MOONEY 197 disrupting its unity.