WORKERS OF T H E WORLD. T h e UNITE MILITANT & Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition] * V iiim t VII, NO. 7 [WHOLE NO. 211] NEW YORK, SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 10, 1934 PRICE 2 CENTS Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime ------s ------a ------______Latest Developments in the N .Y . Hotel Strike Reaction in Significance of Taxi Drivers’ Strike Analyzed Latest developments in the strike of the New I insolently rebuffed the men and revealed that her The signal for working class struggle sounded by age wage of ten to twelve dollars; twelve hour shifts York hotel and restaurant workers, as we go to press, institution had their sympathies definitely with the the general strike of New York hotel workers has and more; some men worked the “Coolie” shift------include the following: hotel bosses. found a stirring response in the strike of the New twenty-four hours a day, sleeping at the wheel; fa il­ On Monday, 4,000 strikers, their wives and chil­ A scandal was caused in the dining room of the Power with York taxi drivers.Already in the first week of its ure to bring in a minimum resulting in discharge; dren, surrounded the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in an aristocratic Waldorf-Astoria when a number of pa­ stormy career it has given the working class of New the black list; and, finally, the five cent tax cutting imposing mass picket demonstration. After a short trons rose to appeal for solidarity with the strikers. York and the country an inspiring demonstration of into their tips. time, police suddenly attacked the pickets with brutal Hired thugs of the management beat them up and working class militancy. In its staccato language The strike received a certain stimulus from La violence, knocking down organizer Costas whose seiz­ threw them out of the hotel. Dum ergue of speed, action, and solidarity can be heard the auth­ Guardia, when he offered not to appeal the decision ure was prevented by the workers. Many workers Thursday’s press reports that officials of two A. entic voice of the proletariat. Consider it! Here of the Supreme Court of New York declaring the were cruelly beaten, and one woman was arrested. F. L. locals, 1 and 2, have instructed their members were men horribly exploited, unorganized, a prey of five-cent tax on all rides illegal, if the cab company Tony Tarcentino was badly beaten over the head. not to take scab jobs in houses struck by the Am­ France, whose bourgeois states­ politicians, racketeers and' crooks, without traditions owners would turn over to the men all the tax money On the same night, a mass demonstration around algamated. In striking contrast to the scab tactics men and philosophers have latterly of trade union struggle or even the most elementary collected up to the time of the court’s decision and the Casino de Paree came into conflict with hired of officials of Local 16, this action reflects the de­ enjoyed feelings of superiority to understanding of the class struggle. Notwithstand­ held in escrow pending the decision. The companies gangsters and city police. In the ensuing fight, doors mands of rank and file A. F. L. members for solidar­ the country which submits to H it­ ing, within a week, in the fire of struggle, they refused La Guardia’s offer and made a substitute offer and windows of the establishment were badly damag­ ity with their Amalgamated brothers. ler, trembles on the brink of epoch- forged a union which embraces almost half the driv­ of only forty percent. The men felt that all of the ed by the enraged workers. A number of organizations have announced their making changes. Rising to a high­ ers in the industry. money belonged to them as the tax really came out On Tuesday, union representatives met with Mrs. refusal to hold planned dinners in hotels on the un­ er pitch than on any occasion since I The basis for the strike is to be found in the mis- of their tips. In their view La Guardia was with Herrick of the local Labor Board of the NRA, who ion’s strike list. the glorious days of the Commune, j erable conditions of the taxi drivers: a weekly aver- ______«Continued on Page 4) the resentment of the exploited j ______French masses has broken out in to Lewis Triumphs at openly anti-govemmental, anti-state demonstrations. To halt the deter­ M ilitant Action EDITORIAL mined ranks of embittered workers Cab Drivers In Scab Cars Run Mine Convention and middle class demonstrators from invading the Chamber of Deputies, no belief that the workers can In Cab W alkout Seventeen hundred delegates at­ At the end of the second week the Daladier government ordered Huge M e e t Off Streets win by fighting. The attempts tended the thirty-third convention of the general strike of New its police and m ilitia to fire upon are reactionary and defeatist About 8,000 enthusiastic, cheer­ of the United Mine Workers held York’s hotel and restaurant indus­ unarmed men, women and children. recently at Indianapolis. The maj­ try, the strikers stand firm in un­ through and through ---- ” A t Garden ing hackmen, gathered in the Audi­ Im m ediately thereafter, having been to riu m o f P. S. 27 on 42nd St., be­ Of N.Y. ority gave the John L. Lewis ad­ broken. ranks. The strike re­ m * * * | in office eleven days, the Daladier tween Second and Third Avenues, ministration a vote of confidence, mains as effective as be­ There is as yet no indication | government resigned. on February 3. The meeting call­ cheered his pompous convention fore, and the service in the hotels that this pernicious tendency 15,000 taxicab striker's jammed I While Donmergue tries to ed by the United Taxi Drivers Un­ The a uditorium of P. S. 27 was verbiage and bestowed a goodly is still crippled1, particularly in against which we warned, has the basement of the Madison Square build a new union sacree, a holy ion, a merger of the Fusion Taxi jammed, men sitting on the steps portion of the acclaim upon his re­ the kitchens. been checked. Here again the Garden at 11:00 P. M„ Saturday, alliance of reactionaries to sup­ Committee, N. X. Taxi Drivers Un­ aud stage and filling the back aisles tinue of mediocre horn-blowing The bosses have been, dealt a contrary is the case. Some o f the February 3, in a monster demon­ press the indignant masses of ion, ami the Taxi Drivers Nou-Par- and the entrances: a conservative lackeys who constitute the pillars powerful blow. A magnificent un­ publicity issued by the union is stration of solidarity and deter­ France, rioting continues in the lisau Ass n. They cheered aud ap­ estimate would place the number at of his high-handed regime. ion of the workers is in the mak­ little less than scandalous. Such streets of every important French mination to fight for the unioniza­ plauded all of tneir speakers. When 2,500. A whole coterie of officials had ing, and the militancy of the is the press release that the union tion of the entire field. In spite of city. France “the most bourgeois cneir attorney Leon Seifer, sug­ The meeting was electric with come direct from the anthracite strikers, especially of the rank counts among its numbers such a the attempts of the speakers to country in the world”, despite the gested that the hackmeu wanted enthusiasm. Every call for action coal fields where they had been in­ and file workers, is a sound assur­ large American citizenry that___ dampen the tsrikers’ militancy by hopes of its bankers, was unable only 40 percent of the tax money from the speakers evoked an in­ strumental in breaking the back­ ance of its future. The well It cannot possibly be considered demanding over and over again that to escape the world economic crisis now held by the cab companies, stant response. The business con­ bone of the strike conducted by the organized mass parades around a “ red union”. Nor can we regard no violence be permitted or toler­ which has mobilized class against cries of “No! No! came from the sisted o f: “insurgent” union. That suited the the struck hotels, bespeak a readi­ it as anything but the greatest class in oittev conflict in every capi­ ated during the strike, the tone of Dack of the hall. The taxi-men hand-picked delegates who consti­ ness on the part of the workers mistake when Secretary B. J. 1. A report of the conference talist country. Similarly, it has (he men was for a determined and anew what they want, and what tuted the majority in the conven­ to fight vigorously against the Field of the Amalgamated Hotel with the "mediator” at City Hall been unable to escape the trans­ bitter struggle to win their demands they are out for. tion. Strike-breaking has become bosses, the strike-breakers and and Restaurant Workers Union the previous day at 12 noon. The formation of this economic crisis for complete and thorough union­ Especially great was the cheering, their trade. Lewis ruled supreme all their porteotors. fails to repudiate some of the conference was unsatisfactory. into a deep governmental crisis. ization of the taxicab drivers, re­ whistling aud applause for their at the convention. Opposition was statements which the capitalist 2. An announcement of the final « * * » .Mases and the Crisis cognition of the union, full protec­ own hac-kman-speaker, when he told squelched. Progressive proposals press has attributed to him or to strike demands as drawn up by the tion of employees on the job, the of the miserable eonditons under were defeated hands do-wn, shelved The strike has become a test of the union whose most prominent The («vents o f the la st few days, Committee o f 13, the leading com­ entire five-cent on a ll rides and the which the hackmen have slaved for in committees, or so garbled in endurance, with the backbone of official he is. We have nothing sensational though they are, should mittee of the strike which includes tax money already collected to go to years and said that the strikers formulation that after their adop­ the workers as stiff as ever. Here in common with such statements, not obscure the meaning of the gen­ all four involved. the strikers, a minimum wage would never go back until the un­ tion they w ill remain dead letters again, as we have emphasized be­ and we feel confident that in this eral political crisis affecting the scale aud maximum work week. ion was recognized 100 percent, 3. A discussion on plans for fore, the question of maintaining we share the sentiments of country. Through the depression, An “Industrial Statesman” Ross, the chairman, had difficulty until there would be a shop stew­ amalgamation of the unions. the morale of the strikers is of every class conscious m ilitant. A the capitalists of France have Since the recent revival of the in obtaining order, so high was the ard in every garage in the city, anu Seifer stressed the necessity of paramount importance. The dis­ fight such as the hotel workers steadily cut down the real income U. M. W., John L. Lewis has been and standard of living of the mass-1 enthusiasm and spirit of the strik­ until the union received representa­ a union, and pointed out that if hailed tar and wide by the press- organizing activities of the Stal­ are engaged in, cannot be won es of the French population. The!ers' tion at the City Hack Bureau. .he cabbies get nothing else, they wbich is always on the side of the inists in control of the “18th St. by such methods. We cannot p a trio tic French peasant has seen Ex-Judge Pankeu, Socialist poli­ When the speaker said that, of must get a union. The response enemies of the miners—as the out­ Union” are unmistakably one of cease to underline the need o f prices for farm products tumble. tician, spoke, “It is high time that course, they had given Mayor La to this was overwhelming. standing example of labor-indus­ the danger spots in the struggle. the union and its leadership con­ The m iddle class has been squeezed the taxicab workers organize them­ Guardia their promise against the At this point the chairman an­ tria l statesmanship. But this praise Placing their own private inter­ cerning Itself exclusively with the by French monopoly capital, while selves” . (W ild applause). “You can­ use of all violence, hut they must nounced that the 5th Avenue bus did not refer to the union revival ests above the interests of the public opinion—not of the bour­ civil servants and workers on gov­ not buy them by nickels now, what realize the mayor was a reasonable drivers had voted to strike at 6 but to such instances as the strike­ workers, constantly implanting geoisie, the hotel owners, and ernment-owned or controlled indus­ they want is union conditions!” human being, and couldn’t expect A. it. the next morning. The strik­ breaking in the anthracite and else­ demoralization and division into their kept press—but of the rank tries have suffered severe cuts in (W ild applause, cheering and whis­ the union to be responsible for the ers cheered madly, the ovation last­ where. The revival was due to the the ranks, these wrecking crews and file, and of the fighting labor wages. The w orking class as a tlin g -----throwing hats into the air actions o f 70,000 men and 20,00c ing a good five minutes. The bus indomitable spirit of the rank and take upon themselves an ever movement in general. whole has shared the miseries and commotion and enthusiasm for drivers and conductors have failed file miners and their fight for union weightier responsibility. (Continued on Page 3) which the capitalists of the world several minutes). However, when .0 come out thus far, however. organization. Lewis enters to col­ The most effective prosecution Essentially the same outlook have forced upon all proletarians. Pankcn said—“the machinery for On top of this the chairman re­ lect the check-off. of the strike requires that should animate the attitude of ported that the Parmelee owners we point out here some extremely While cutting the wages, of its the protection (of the workers) in Nab Khaki Shirt In His career of “industrial states­ the union to the NRA and its La­ employees, the French government the hands of the workers is not nad wired some hacks to start manship” began many years ago serious weaknesses in the con­ bor Board. Nobody is so stupid, work the next day at 11 A. M. duct of the movement. If the has not hesitated to pack Its bud­ protest, not resentment, not viol­ as a petty official systematically it goes w ith o u t saying, as to th in k get with huge appropriations for ence” the fighting mood of the Cab Driver Murder Chairman: "What’s your ans­ looting the treasury of the Pan­ looseness in the organization of that this powerful governmental wer?” the srtike could be excused in its war materials. Behind the budget­ strikers was reflected in the ornni- Art J. Smith, “commander-in­ ama, Illinois’ local union. Through institution Can be ignored in pre­ ary struggles there has raged a ous silence on the part of most of chief” of the Khaki Shirts (U. S. Strikers: N-N-N-N-NO ! ! ! that he learned the first lessons in first stage there is no justifying sent-day labor struggles. Far Jacques Buitenkant, an I. L. D. it at present. Quite the con­ political difference within the capi­ the workers, and the clearly heard Fascists) and gangster, was ar­ the shady art of buying henchmen from It. Precisely because of its talist class, reflecting different in­ “Oh yeah’s!” and “We know how rested Thursday in Shamokin, Pa., lawyer spoke in favor of the unity In the highest office of the union trary, the failure to tighten up all pretenses, precisely because many of all cabbies. He stressed the need aroupd, to improve the function­ terests and varying theories as to to handle this” from various sec­ as a result of the reported confes­ he made it into a system. He re­ workers still believe that this how best to preserve capitalism. tions of the hall. sion of his ex-aide, Frank Moffer, for approaching the independents inforced this with the methods of ing of the directing committees, to capitalist instrument is impartial, as fe llo w workers who have to be French heavy industry, led by the Leon Seifer, attorney for the concerning the murder of Anth­ deliberate vote stealing, frame-ups organize on a far better scale it is necessary to make use of won over and make an integral Comité des Forges (steel trust), United Taxi Drivers Union, spoke, ony Fierro. Fierro, a taxi-driver and slugging of opponents. Martin than hitherto the all-important every means at our disposal to part of the general strike. The at­ aud certain banks (Credit Lyon­ emphasizing the program and de­ and anti-Fascist, was killed dur­ Ryan who led the powerful strikes mass meetings at which the strik­ strip it to its real essentials. It titude of the taxi drivers was nais) desires to organize the at­ mands : ing a “shirt” rally in Astoria, N. for union organization in the Penn­ ers are fused into a solid and must be pressed to the wall, it dear ; they are absolutely opposed tack against the Soviet Union. Tar­ 1. Every man in the Industry Y., last summer. sylvania coke region sat in ja il dur­ informed fighting group—can eas­ must be made to speak) out. I t to any cab operating; and they are ily prove to be of the deepest dieu is the political chief of these gets a job, gets a cab___and no­ Athos Terzani, another anti- ing the convention, framed up on must be left no loophole to crawl brigauds. In their train march all even more opposed to the independ­ seriousness. The responsibility body horns in. (Men out of work Fascist, was framed by the police a charge of assault and battery. out of with its shabby pretenses the expropriated shar

waiting, I overheard the supervisor telephoning for police. He was tell­ ing the cop at tlie other end of the The Unpleasant Task of O . Piatnitsky wire that he wanted police to keep LETTERS from the M IL IT A N T S ordeP as discharged CWA workers had1 already arived and many more and How Lenin Is Used to "Help" Him were expected. The workers were 1 was just readng O. Piutnitsky’s I wish to refer. Piatnitsky opens ing fund o f the excesses to be used front of the departments, and pa­ the section and three others from expected to protest their dismissal. pamphlet, The Present Situation in Lenin’s pamphlet, “ Left” Communism C.W .A. Workers Must m case of shortage, was flatly turn­ tients wait to see the doctor, very Chelsea, we formed a unit. Later that afternoon I was hand­ Germany, published by the Commun­ —ami quites Lenin’s definition of a ed down. often for as long as four hours. The Unite as One Member of Section Committee ed a sealed envelope to deliver to ist International. This piece of revolutionary situation in the fol­ Axanagers are required to call the place is too small to accomodate 1 was made a member of the unit the Parle Department in Manhat­ apologetics is pretty sickening, es­ lowing way: Marine Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.— mam ornce frequently by telephone a ll the: people th a t come. I f you buro and the section committee. 1 tan. When I got to Manhattan I found out that I was “discharged”. pecially tbe impudent way in which “For revolution it is essential, Down in this remote and God-for­ tor additional merchandise, special come early enough to get a seat on was one of the most active mem­ Piatnitsky talks down to the suffer­ first, that a majority of the work­ saken part of Brooklyn, 'where instructions, etc., as the stores are the uncomfortable benches, you are In other words, I was fired before bers of the unit, which as a whole 1 was hired. I went to the Central ing workers of Germany. But I ers (or at least a majority of the 4,000 C. W. A. workers are herded not equipped with telephones the lucky. When, finally, you do get in to perform absolutely useless labor, was a very inactive unit as all the Bureau which had sent me the spe­ want to point out one thing in par­ conscious, thinking, politically managers have to stand the cost ot to see a doctor, tbe examination is, units were. cial delivery letter to get an explan tic u la r : active workers) should fully un­ the wage-cut axe has fallen almost of necessity, a superficial and bast.v without warning. From $15 tney ims duty themselves. In the meantime, 1 kept pestering ation. “No funds; project held up” This pamphlet has tbe unpleasant derstand the necessity for revolu­ one. have been cu t to $13.44, in spite o f inspectors from the State Labor our unit organizer and tbe district was the reply they gave me, and task of explaining away the collapse tion, and be ready to sacrifice are giving thousands of others. the tact that every worker sup­ Department come in from time to The basement has two filth y wash­ literature agent for anti-Trotskyist of the C. P. of Germany in the face their lives for it ; secondly, that ports a family on his “salary”, and time, carefully uote all the infrac­ rooms. I have been here many literature but they couldn’t even Tlie capitalist press now) reports of Hitler's attack. It has to answer the ruling class be in a state of has to spenu a good chunk of it just tions of the labor laws and depart, times. Always, 1 have found the refer me to any names of pamphlets that CWA workers are being fired the questions: YVhy was no better government crisis, which attracts for canare (double) and warm xhe bosses boast th a t the cost o t plumbing out of order, no water in or books. for loafing. First capitalism makes defensive struggle put up by the even, the most backward masses clothing. As one worker put it: a “loafer” out of you by throwing keeping these investigators “quiet" tbe sinks, and indescribable filth. On Monday, Nov. 13, there was German proletariat? Why did not into politics, .weakens the gov­ “They’re simply taking the milk It is drafty and cold. The odors, you out of work; then it refuses away from my kids.” isn't mucn. Meanwhile, washroom a section membership meeting in the C. P. lead in organizing such ernment and facilitates its rapid and extreme discomfort of stand­ you unemployment insurance. Fin­ conditions remain disgraceful, girls .toxbury. At this meeting the I). O ally It gives you a lousy, fake job; a struggle? Why did not the C. P. overthrow by the revolutionaries.” Along with the announcement ing for hours on end in drafts, that 1500 men are going to be laid continue to work more hours tnan in his talk said that Trotsky was and then it fires von for “loafing”. force the S. P. D. into a united How Fiatnitsky “Edits” Lenin allowed by the law,” tor wages makes one sicker after leaving, against the theory of building so­ on: within a week, the c. W. A. offi­ front? Instead of answering them, T his seems c le a r: a m a jo rity o f cials are looking for any sort of much less "than required by NBA." than before entering. cialism in one country and that — J. H . however, it concentrates on another the workers must be for revolution­ excuse tQ give us the gate. Tracy, The pharmacy connected with Stalin was in favor of it. A general undercurrent of resent­ question: why did not the C. P. ary struggle even to the death; the the held foreman, wanted a gang of the Out Patient Department is just 1 read a quotation from Stalin’s ment is apparent in tbe majority of make a revolution in Germany last government crisis must do two men laid oft whom he accused of as ill-kept and dirty. The rows “Foundations of Leninism" (the leautng a delegation to park head­ girls, but tnls is less obvious than year? things: (a) draw even the most and rows of shelves have an inch first edition) in which he unmistak­ quarters to hna out why our pay _ueir petty bourgeois attitude to­ Now it is indisputable that, in backward into politics, and (b) of dust on them. Bottles are kept ably declares that socialism cannot was held up. But only one man ward their working conditions and tbe last analysis, German capital­ weaken the government and facili­ open and are not sterilized before be built in a single country taken was bred, and later reinstated. May­ employers. When the bosses on th e ir ism’s willingness to use Fascism to tate its overthrow. But why the be tue tact that 1000 men had they are filled with medicine and by its e lf. auny rounds talk about the enorm­ preserve itself could be answered three dots toward the end of the marched down from the other side ous profits they make and then, given to tbe patients. Becomes A “ Counter-Revolutionist”. PioneerPublishers only by a proletarian seizure of quotation? Was Lenin so long- of the park to park headquarters These terrible conditions are not I asked for an explanation of this >vith woeful expressions on their power. This, however, need not winded that a big chunk of his de­ hud soiuetuing to do with it . ... exclusive with the Bronx Hospital. quotation. Weiss the D. O. got up Une old worker collapsed from idees, say "we wish we could do THE SOVIET UNION AND THE necessarily have occurred in any finition had to be dropped? No. They exist in many hospitals and attacked Trotsky, not bis theory the cold and all of us were almost more for our employees”, very few FOURTH INTERNATIONAL given month of last year. It is con­ Here is the last part of the passage throughout the city. Municipal hos­ or his ideas but his personality and frozen stnf when we were obliged of tne g irls seem to be aware o f ceivable that, had the C. P. and without omitting thirty-seven little pitals and dispensaries are especi­ then he sailed into me. He said By LEON TROTSKV to marca all the way across the ine hypocritical nature of this sym­ the working class put up a better words Piatnitsky overlooked: ally notorious offenders—just one that 1 was a counter-revolutionist heius in the face ot a bitter-cold, pathy. During the last few weeks the fight, the balance of forces which "The ruling class (must) be in sun-zero win.er blast in order to more consequence of capitalist pro­ and everything else under the sun. Not until the girls understand Pioneer Publishers tried hard to prevailed under Schleicher might a state of government crisis, which get "checked in”. fiteering—always at the expense of A fte r Weiss made his speech, I c h a t they can expect nothing help- publish comrade Trotsky’s new have been shifted in favor of the attracts even the most backward insceud of directing the single iu i iro m th e ir bosses w ill they be the workers—even to the point of was given an opportunity to defend working class. In other words, c-uecx.er to come across and caeca endangering their lives. —J. T. pamphlet on the class nature of masses in to p o litics. I t is a sign a Die to direct their resentment into myself, when all I had done' was Fascism would not have been imme­ us as we got off the bus, the gangs the Soviet Union. Jn spite of of every real revolution, this rapid mi organized attempt to Improve to question a statement of his. 1 diately crushed, but would have had to walk across and duck again. great financial difficulties, we fin­ tenfold, or even hundredfold, in­ asked him to answer my question b u ll, the toremen and bosses are cueir conditions. —J. T. ally succeeded in bringing it out. been held o ff from power fo r a per­ crease in the number of representa­ first and then take up the question fearful as the devil of "agitators ’ We are, however, in great debt. iod by means of mass struggle fa ll­ tives of the toiling and oppressed A n Expulsion at of my activities. I asked why there ana organization. Before tue mun­ Branches and individual comrades ing short of the seizure of power masses, heretofore apathetic, who had been nothing wrong w ith me icipal elections, every drunken Tam­ should rush their orders without by the proletariat. The seizure of are able to carry on a political many man nauued out as many cir­ High speed until I had asked this queston. A Pig-Sty of a delay. Cash with order w ill be of power might have occurred at a light which weakens the govern­ culars as he wanted to. Now, when Weiss then called for a vote to somewhat later date when, as a re­ Bouton.—Last January 1 became great help. ment and facilitates its overthrow a ienow nands out C. W. A. leaflets, expel me for counter-revolutionary sult of that mass struggle and part­ Hospital actively interested in the radical * •* * * by the revolutionists.” (“Left” as happened in one case, the fore­ a ctivitie s, saying th a t I had been men try to gran him in order to movement. 1 attended all sorts of ial victory, the ranks of the class Communism, Toiler edition, page The original Bronx Hospital on meetings, lectures and forums of the sent into tlie league to undermine IMPORTANT OFFER had been further consolidated and sneilac him and get nun locked up. tne corner of 189th Street and 6 6 ;. Further, just beiore we got our O. P., P. P., 8. L . P „ L O. O l’ O, SP, it. 1 was expelled by a show of the enemy further weakened. Fulton Avenue, was abandoned as The Pioneer Publishers, besides 80 it is not the crisis which weak­ cut pay-checks, the foremen, with­ and liberal organizations of all de­ hands. —DAVID UDELL. publishing Marxian books, is en­ Ignores Real Issue unlit for use not so long ago. Its ens the government, but tbe strug­ out teiung us about tne cut, warn­ scriptions. deavoring to supply the militants ed us to go rig h t home a fte r we new quarters across the street are All tills Piatnitsky ignores. Point­ gles of the ouce-apathetic masses 1 did all the reading 1 could find with Marxian literature and im­ got it, and “not to hang around spacious, modern,—and expensive ing to the historically indisputable “who are able to carry on a poli­ time for and soon found myself portant hooks of an informative and talk to anybody” to get into. The very latest scien­ axiom that only the dictatorship of tical fight” because of the existence wavering between the C. P. and the The Jew-Baiters in character at very low prices. The U. W. a . men, to protect them­ tific apparatus is installed and the the proletariat can stave off Fasc­ of n crisis. Now the point about selves, must join up with a figuring Left Opposition. 1 leaned in the This time we have succeeded in private rooms are lovely to behold. ism whenever the latter threatens, the three dots becomes clear, if a organization. There are already Uirectiou o f the C. P. and1 hopeu Chicago getting two very important books Nothing was forgotten—except— he argues that a revolutionary sit­ revolutionary situation did not two optimizations in the field. Thu and wished that it was the right or­ To the Editor: which every worker should have. uation did not exist In Germany, exist, it was just because these is entirely unnecessary ; it w ill only cue Out Patient Department. ganization because i t was the offi- Your articles in the Militant by We offer two big volumes ROSA that therefore power could not be masses were nob carrying on such contuse the workers aud handicap In an old dilapidated, dirty, euil party, it was a member of the Geo. C larke on the Fascist S ilver LUXEMBURG'S LETTERS, a seized, and that therefore Hitler a fight. And whose fault was that any so rt o f campaign. C. vv. A. vvooden house next to the old hos­ Comintern and it has the backing workers must fight to make both Shirts are very good but incomplete. beautifully bound book with Rosa’s could not be stopped. Hence the if not the vanguard’s, the C. P.’s? pital, workers who do not make of the 8. U. groups uuite, and they should de­ The Chicago Fascist link with portrait, and THE LETTERS OP C. I*, was rigid to «10 nothing. And Piatnitsky's whole pamphlet being enough for food and rent, and un­ No Answer to Questions mand: ONE OftGAN IZATION, ON if the Silver Shirts is the profession­ SACCO AN1) V A N ZE T TI, cloth in case you don't believe it, he written in order to avoid this ques­ employed men and women, crowd in At the beginning of June when F i g h t , o n e E iNf a x i ! — al patriot Harry Jung, who runs bound, ROTH volumes for ONLY warns, the ECCI has said it and tion, n a tu ra lly he does not hesitate from morning to late afternoon. the German events were s till fresh. the patriotic racket called the Am­ $1 .oO. For certificate holders, $1.25. you'd better believe! to amputate Lenin a little bit lest This is the only quarter of the old 1 asked the Boston District Organ­ erican Vigilant Intelligence Federa­ Add 15c fo r postage. A ll this is fishy enough, but the the rottenness of his bureaucratic hospital that was “forgotten”— izer questions on the united front, tion w itli free rent offices in the We are glad to inform our num­ worst is ye t to come. IIo w does argument become suddenly appar­ A "Shoppe" Under a ignored—because it is not a source socialism in one country aud several Tribune Tower Building of Chic­ erous inquirers, th a t we. have on Piatnitsky prove that there was no ent. o f p ro fit. otners. lie didn’t answer them very ago. Jung is the Chicago anti-Jew hand Lenin’s book IMPERIALISM revolutionary situation in Germany? The alternative theory ist that N .K .A . Lode satisfactorily and as lie was busy The house has two floors and leader and lie holds secret Fascist and STATE AND REVOLUTION Partly by referring to facts about Piatnitsky couldn’t find room in there wasn’t much discussion. But The Henrietta Shoppes, Inc., a basement. The first floor is used meetings on anti-Jewism at the in one cloth volume for 75c. the concrete situation, facts pulled this 64-page pamphlet w ith its close­ manufacturers and retailers of silk mainly for registration, and has I did ask him for some autl-Trot- Chicago Union League Club. One Branches and certificate holders— out of tbeir context, twisted, fab­ ly packed type for thirty-seven ad­ hose and lingerie, have approxim­ several small rooms labeled, “Eye skyist lite ra tu re aud some of of liis backers is the young moron 60c. ricated, misinterpreted. But large­ ditional words by Lenin out of the Stalin’s' works, which he promised * * » * ately twenty stores in New York Dept.j’, “Dental Dept.”, etc. The Clement Studebaker, whose father ly by quoting from Lenin. And it middle of a sentence. to give me. Oity. Three of four girls are em­ "clinic proper”, where the great was a utility magnate. Also the Buy a PIONEER PUBLISHERS- is to one of these quotations that —HARRY STRANG. majority of the patients are sent, is The following week i attended a ployed in each retail store; during Kn Klux Klan has or did have its CERTIFICATE. It’s only $5 and ■ "J1 'gsaaoMa— i meeting of tbe Dorchester unit. 1 busy seasons, five or six. The fact in the basement. Here are eight or office in Jung’s office. Y'ou have entitle yon to 40% discount on our again asked for anti-Trotskyist lit­ that the firm is “operating under an nine little cubby-holes—none of to have the password to get to publications and to a 20% reduction O rganize Jewish Club in Brownsville Nit A code,” and w ill tolerate no chem is large r than ten feet square erature or tbe names of some books Jung’s office. He is organizing on any book published by other or pamphlets on the subject. 1 was attempts to change its rules aud re­ —also importantly named, Depart­ Fascist units, members of which publishers. Some tim e ago, a number of a strict rule to bar from member­ gulations is explained carefully to ment of This, That or the Other. s till very much unclear on the ques­ .are sworn to secrecy, undying hatred Jewish workers took up the ques­ ship any person who is disclosed tion of Trotskyism. But with a every girl hired. Sale^ girls are The floor and walls are stone. Bows of all Jews, and each member is tion of organizing a Jewish club in upon investigation to be or to have supposed to receive a $15 m inim um of wooden benches are placed in friend of mine, the comrade from assigned a code number. Brownsville. The need for a Jew­ been a scab, o r strike-breaker. The O ur School in Brooklyn ish club that would base itself on constitution further provides for for 48 hours, 35 cents an hour if Investigate this racket and ex­ the principles of the class struggle election to the executive commit­ they work part time, and time and pose it, as i t is one o f the w orst and at the same time be free of tee every six months, initiation to two-thirds for overtime. in the country. The Brooklyn branch of the In­ all mechanical party control, grew be 25c and 25c m onthly' dues, w ith These employees find out in a 5 6 9 Su bs! Fraternally, ternational Workers School an­ up as a result of the widespread five cents for unemployed. The very snort time that one of the R. L. expulsion and discrimination against name of the organization has been Before we say another word about the sub drive we want to apolo­ nounces the opening of a lecture anyone who dared as much as show chosen to be “October Club of firms most important rules is: Chicago, ill. course entitled “The Present and never pay workers what they really gize to the Minneapolis Branch. In last week’s listing we omitted the a dissenting voice against bureau­ Brownsville” and has its head­ sixty Club Plan subs sent in by the Branch. That, of course, also af- Future of American Communism” cratism . quarters a t 154 W atkins St., and earn. Overtime is paid at the re­ to be given at the Militant Hall, meets regularly every Wednesday. rected the total. The sixty subs are included in the listing below. Steps were immediately taken to gular rate of 35 cents per hour in­ 154 Watkins St. The first lecture organize such a broad Jewish club. The “October Club” has a variety stead of tne 58 cents culled for in Besides the sixty Minneapolis subs we omitted we received, since Hotel Scab Agencies will be given by Arne Swabeck, Now after a short period of exist­ of cultural and educational activity tne NftA code that the Henrietta the last issue went to press, 257 new Cl«* Plan subs. The odd figure is secretary of the Communist League ence, the club has a membership of as well. Sometime ago a lecture ¡Shoppes were among the first to accounted for by the fact that one M ilitant Builder brought in five of Fall Through of America, on Monday, February more than 20 and about that many was held under its auspices with sign. tbe Club Plan subs. The total now stands at 669. 12, 8 :00 P. M. The subject o f his more sympathizers who w ill un­ Jacob Berlin reporting on the con­ Extra Work Without Pay Sixth Avenue’s blood sucking em­ doubtedly join very shortly. A con­ dition of the labor and Jewish The New York Local took another long step toward realizing its ployment agencies were sadly dis­ lecture is “What the Communist Did i say overtime is paid at 35 stitution provides that the club movements in Europe after H itler’s goal of four hundred new subs by adding 112 to its total which now appointed when the expected rush movement looks like today”. The base itself upon the general prin­ coming to power. An enthusiastic cents per flour? 1 snouid have said stands at 316. The Kansas City Branch shot in 48; the Minneapolis of applicants for striking hotel and1 lectures w ill be given every Monday ciples of the class struggle. It audience was moved to long and the small part of overtime that is restaurant positions did not mater­ evening. The second lecture w ill w ill support all phases of the rev­ heated discussion following it. Now Branch added 28 to its total; Pittsburgh added 20. The record follows paid to the girls is paid at tnat rate, ialize. Personnel managers of ho­ be on “The Communist. Party-work­ olutionary struggle of the working fo r th is coming Wed., January 12, New York Local nor a long time before Christmas, 316 tels who Interviewed job-seekers at ing class vanguard or brake on the class such as strikes, demonstra­ the club is arranging a lecture on the different Sixth Avenue agencies, and regularly on ¡Saturdays and Minneapolis Branch 88 revolutionary movement” tions and the defense of political Democracy in the Trade Unions and busy evenings during the year, girls Kansas City Branch despite their pleas and promises of prisoners regardless of the political the Situation in Local 9, I. L. G. 48 no fees for the jobs and sleeping are allowed only 15 or 20 minutes views they hold. Every member XV. U.” with Sylvia Bleeker, long Pittsburgh Branch 32 accomodations in the hotels could w ill have perfect freedom of ex­ active trade unionist, lecturing. A ll tor luiicn and supper, but they are Youngstown Branch 12 get only’ a few men. JUST OFF THE PRESS! pression and adherence to whatever workers are invited to attend. Ad­ dotned for two hours. They are D. O’Dwyer 12 Fearful of the results that hiring tendency In the labor movement he mission is free and questions and required to work later and report or she wishes. The club makes it discussion w ill follow. D. L 8 of scabs might have, many of the earner than “NltA hours” call for, agencies are now pretending that The Soviet Union to clean the store and rearrange J. Ruby 8 they are not supplying them. The stock, but are not paid for these G. Papcuu 8 H otel bosses have set up th e ir own and the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS SCHOOL extra hours at all. Bosses M. H u rw itz 5 employment agency on West 57th (Winter Term) St,, with little or no success. explain that “this is not really M. Steinbach 4 4th Intenational Arrangements have beea made The International Workers School is about to enter Us third work” ; it’s “just fixing up the store M. McLeod 4 with steamship companies to rush by year of Marxist education for the revolutionary workers of New a little”. Aching bones at the end L. Goodman 4 cooks and waiters to various hotels o f an 11 or 12 hour day refute the York City. It has issued its announcement of courses for the Win­ St. Louis Branch 4 as soon as a boat docks. In this LEON TROTSKY ter of 1934 which extends from February 18th to April 31st The bosses’ conception of w hat “ real way Japanese workers have been L. M urphy 4 following classes are listed: w ork” is. supplied to the Hotel Chatham. IN ENGLISH .oc IN JEWISH The most highly paid and respon­ M< Koehler 4 Colleges and' universities in New 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNISM Martin Abern sible positions this concern has to C. Genfan 4 York City and vicinity have been 7c in Bundles of 5 «Mr More (Based on the “Communist Manifesto” ) offer in their retail stores are held, R. Carlson 4 sending students to the struck Wednesdays—8 p. m. to 10 p.m.—Beginning February 21st. shops to work after school hours. Order from by girls who have been with them Parole and probation officers are PIONEER PUBLISHERS 2. THE YOUTH MOVEMENT Joseph Carter for many. years. These are the T o ta l 569 sending jobless ex-eonvicts to work 84 East 10th Street, N'. Y . C. Sunday—2 P. M. to 4 p. m.—Beguiling February 18th. managers who In return tor their This astounding record was made in less than two weeks. Our con­ as scabs. The paroled men fire 3. SURVEY OF AMERICAN TRADE UNION STRATEGY “loyalty” to the firm, that is, work­ tention is that the Club Plan has not begun to exhaust its possibilities. afraid to refuse this dirty work out AND TACTICS Arne Swabeck ing too many hours for too little of fear of being send back to ja il Literally everybody can pitch into the wofik of spreading and building Wednesdays—8 p. m. to 10 p.m.—Beginning February 21st. pay without complaining; reporting as “parole violators”. —A. S. the M ilitant through the Club Plan. Take the first step now. F ill out THE MILITANT 4. ELEMENTARY ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN SPEAKING “radical” workers; reporting com­ Entered as a second class mail tbe blank below aud become a M ilitant Builder. WORKERS S. Blake plaints of dissatisfied workers; in m atter November 28, 1928, a t the Fridays—8 p. m. to 9 :30 p. m.—Beginning February 2nd other words, underpaid spies—these Build the M ilitant! Help circulate a Marxian paper for workers! Post Office at New York, N. Y, Un. 5. THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK PARTY girls receive $18 per week. They •Order for Club Plan half year 6ub cards for one dollar! Use the blank Fired by the C .W .A . der the act o f M arch 3, 1879. J. W rig h t are abused by the bosses exactly Published Weekly by the Com­ below! But Not Hired! Fridays—8 p. m. to 10 p. m.—Beginning February 23rd. as the sales clerks are, and the munist League of America pressure brought upon them is in THE MILITANT After a two-and-a-half month (Opposition) REGISTRATION: Tbe registration fee for each course is $1.50. turn placed upon the sales clerks 126 East 16th Street, New York City, N. Y. wait for a CWA job, I suddenly 126 East 16th Street, New York, N.Y. Arangements can be made for payments at convenient intervals. who work under them. received a special delivery Satur­ EDITORIAL BOARD Individual sessions are 20 cents each. Those workers wishing to Martin Abern James P. Cannon ‘‘Fixing” Labor Inspectors Enclosed please find $...... fo r ...... (four is the min­ day, February 3rd to report for as­ register for one or more courses can do so either by mail or by imum) Club Plan half year sub cards. signment the following Monday. I Max Shachtman Maurice Spector coming to the office of the International Workers School. 126 E. When the cash register is short, Arne Swabeck was told on Monday to report at 16th St., N. Y. C. The office Is open for the registering of pros­ the deficit Is deducted from the V ol. vn, No. 7 (Whole No. 211) Name ...... the Municipal Building in Brooklyn pective students all day long and every evening. girls’ salaries. But when there is the next day. There I was told to SATURDAY,. FEBRU ARY 10, 1934 Registrants can secure complete outlines for the courses at ten an excess, the money goes to “head­ Address ...... report at Prospect Park for work Subscription rate: $1.00 per year quarters”. A proposal made by a day la te r. A t Prospect Park I $0.50 per h a lf year—0.25 fo r cents per copy. some of the girls te ereate a stand­ C ity State ....a.....«...* bad to wait several boors. While 26 issues in blocks of four or more. SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 10, 1934 THE MILITANT PAOS 3

dominated by petty shopkeepers, professionals, rabbis and priests, the F. S. U., is the main bulwark American-Soviet Agreement for Soviet defense. Further com­ The Movement In Mexico (From the Bulletin of the Inter The Significance of Russian torious working class" and “weak­ ments are unnecessary. Mexico City.—There is no lack of Revolutionary Events A s Islands, and who would never be the nationalist Communist League). ening the international bourgeoisie” , activity or signs of activity of the same—this was the agent among The workers have nothing in com­ Seen by Our Own Recognition by the the Stalinist bureaucracy, after hav­ Bolshevik-Leninists in Mexico City. (he working class sent by the gov­ The resumption of lelations be­ mon with this murder case It is a ing killed the Chinese Revolution In fact, judging by the number of Correspondent ernment. tween the United States and the United States struggle between two counter-rev­ and precipitated the German prole­ posters, signs, etc., on the street the Marxist Education. Soviet State marks, of course, a olutionary groups desperately trying Internationalists are as active or very important stage in the present Both the United States and the tariat into a catastrophe, is reduc­ the group, and where he worked— Poverty-stricken, haragsed by the to maintain their position, having nearly as active as the Stalinist development of an international U. S. S. R. need allies to meet the ed to a labor of preserving the bal­ all the police had to do was pick government, our comrades in Mexico as their objectives to restore their party. situation, chiefly characterized by alarming situation created in the ance of power among the capitalist him up and send him to the Islas work on. They are developing all rule in the Soviet Union. The first day in town I noticed a the question of supremacy in the Far East by the Japanese offensive. powers. This has nothing in com­ de Tres Marias on this information. sides of their work. They are edu­ statement of our comrades on the Pacific Ocean. Since the center of In this sense the new American- mon with the strategy and tactics —J. KAMIAT. When I showed this to a Stalinist cating themselves in Marxism. They Montevideo Congress, printed and world relations shifted from inland Soviet agreement is certainly one of revolutionaries. party sympathizer hq stated, “Oh, are doing w ork among the masses. pasted all over the workers' sec­ seas to the great ocean routes, not of the most important factors in One of the most direct consequ­ the police don’t bother the Trotsky- They are internationalists and so tion. only has an advantage accrued to international politics of this epoch. ences o f the new Am erican-Soviet ites”. I said that I didn’t believe are preparing a Boycott Hitler Then in my walking through the countries which dominate such What w ill be its future repercus­ agreement w ill be, in effect, to in­ JUST ARRIVED! him. In a little while you w ill see Campaign. They are also planning town I saw painted in a great num­ routes, but still more a struggle sions? crease the servile anti-proletarian the truth of this statement. to set up an apparatus for legal spirit of the Stalinist bureaucracy, ber of places “Viva la Oposicio de The story itself was a delirious work. They are organizing syndic- among the various imperialist Indisputably, a workers’ State its submissiveness to international THE BULLETIN OF THE RUS­ Izquierda Communista” w ith sickles lie. The truth is the contrary of ates (unions). They are going to powers for predominance over them has every right to utilize for the capitalism, its most open abandon­ SIAN OPPOSITION has just ar­ and hammers. I also noticed a all the statements Machete made. carry on the Boycott Campaign in was inevitably developed. Here benefit of the proletariat the dif­ ment of the road of world revolu­ mimeographed statement of the op­ Our comrade did not help the boss two ways—first, a statement by the again the forecasts of Marx and ferences existing among the various rived from Paris. The feature tion. Did we not have a proof of position on the 7th of November all cut the workers' wages—he organ­ group and then in a united front Engels respecting supremacy on the bourgeois groupings, even to the deals with the 17th Congress of this submissiveness even before the over the working class sections of ized the workers against this cut in form. The statement w ill be print­ Pacific Ocean and the development point of concluding when necessary the 0. P. S. U. There are impor­ signatures were affixed, in the sil­ the city. wages. For this he was thrown ed and distributed by the League of the United States, have been “a defensive understanding with ence of tlie Comintern during the tant articles by Leon Trotsky, There is another sign of activity out on the street jobless. and pasted on walls all night, and confirmed to the letter. the bourgeoisie of one color against Cuban revolution? S till m ore: some Alfa and others. There are also of the Internationalist Communists. It was through this statement at great risk, lest the pro-govern­ The United States of “kidnappers, the bourgeoisie of another color.” Stalinists have preached non-viola­ important letters from the Soviet This is the great attention and that I made contact with the group. ment Trotskyites are picked up by But this tactic, rightly defended by bandits, rapists and pickpockets”, tion of American property in Cuba amount of space given them in ths I went up to the shop where the the government they are so devoted­ Lenin and all revolutionary Marx­ Union. It is indispensable for has given the world “an amazing in order to “avoid1” the interven­ Stalinist organ, the Machete. Every comrade was supposed to have done ly serving and sent by that govern­ ists, is comprehensible only on con­ Russian-speaking comrades. Get example of what miracles can be tion of the American fleet. As issue of this rag is filled with rabid his counter-revolutionary work and ment to the Igland. But our com­ dition that it serves, “to lighten the realized by a State of confirmed though the national liberation of it now ! There are only a few frothings, lies, slander, provocation, asked where I could find this man. rades here are internationalists in work of the social revolution, to rascals,” These “confirmed rascals” , oppressed peoples could be carried copies on hand. denunciation—this is their “ideol­ The workers did not manifest any theory, and in fact—'and are w ill­ speed its coming, to weaken the the capitalists of America, in ac­ out without expelling the imperial­ ogical” campaign. signs of indignation when I said ing to suffer for their international­ complishing their “miracles”, that international bourgeoisie, to reen­ ist oppressors! 32 pages 23c per copy Stalinist Provocation 1 was his friend. On the contrary, ism if necessary. is to say in piling up treasures, de­ force the positions of the victorious Once again the workers must be A ll orders should be addressed to The four numbers I have seen of one worker volunteered to show me The comrades here have some­ veloping themselves technically in working class.” shown that the IJ . S. S. R. and the this paper each contained lengthy where he lived and accompanied me thing that is unique in our interna- such an extraordinary manner, ac­ Rae Spiegel, c-o The M ilitant, 126 Now, the “tactics” of Stalin- gains of the October Revolution attacks. In one attack, they gave there. He did not curse comrade tional organization—a group of cumulating enormous capital, have Litvinov are to the revolutionary, can be saved only by the force of East 16th Street, New York City. the name of one of the leaders of L. or abuse him, but rather spoke children organized in a Red Pioneer reached a situation in which they Bolshevik-Leninist tactic, what the the international proletariat, the of him with affection and admira­ Group. These children learn about must spread their “miracles” out­ negative is to the positive. A ll the joint action of the proletarians of tion. This worker, by his intelli­ ihe class struggle both from books side their country and even well revolutionary sagacity in the strat­ all countries. Thei ripening of the gent class conscious conversation, and in participating in the battle. outside their continent. They must egy and tactics of Lenin has, in proletarian revolution is not assist­ Militancy Shown In Taxi Strike showed that not a faker, or govern­ They organize demonstrations of secure domination over the entire the strategy and tactics of the Stal­ ed by ca rrying on, as does S ta lin is t ment agent had worked for some the children for free books and world. Especially in the war and inist bureaucracy, become a swin­ diplomacy, a labor of preserving (Continued from page 1) ing. Now, you were told to stay time beside him but a class con­ papers. post-war period, American capital­ off the street today. Get your dle of the workers. Instead of “re­ the balance of power among the sympathizers, the hackmen broke scious revolutionist. Demagogy of Government ism has grown most rapidly, out­ damned car into the garage and enforcing the positions of the vic- international bourgeoisie. info wild laughter followed by great Young Internationalists The government, a master in dem­ stripping all its rivals and competi­ keep it off the street.” applause. The haekmen understood! agogy (it is in reality a Social Dem­ tors. Its own territory being too A cop rushed up holding his 1 made contact w ith our comrade, William Gandall, the chairman ocratic government) has, with a narrow to hold its wealth and ac­ blackjack in his hand, and ordered who at present ig working in a lit­ of the union, assured the strikers loud blast, inaugurated “Socialist tivity, Amercan capitalism can no the marchers to keep moving, but tle shop. After I showed him your W ho Was Bishop Tourian? that no settlement had been made, Education”. They do not, with all longer content itself with an “iso­ i be line held its ground. “Don’t letter and had talked with him, he and no settlement would be signed their “Socialist education”, give the lationist” policy. Its economic ex­ Recently an Armenian Arch­ nag before the threatening hand of use that, buddy, if you don’t want gave me the following information: without the consent of all the un­ workers’ children adequate school pansion demands the subjection of bishop, Leon Tourian was assassin­ labor. "Archbishop is copicentrat- to start trouble”. The cop retreat­ We have in Mexico City a group ion members. He informed them facilities or free books or paper, other countries, demands that, it as­ ated in an Armenian church here ing anti-Soviet forces around the ed. of 47, about 25 active. The major­ further that a meeting of the dif­ thus making the loudly proclaimed sume political hegemony. in New York. Armenian National Church Council” ity are young, none of them work ferent ta x i groups fo r th a t same Then the cry went up “To Broad­ compulsory education illusory. Our It is perhaps worthwhile to re­ says the declaration. “What do for the government, all are work­ The only European country which evening was scheduled to discuss way, clean up Broadway!” Broad­ Pioneers are educating the struggle veal certain facts pertaining to the you expect from an archbishop who ers. How different from the Stalin­ had thus far escaped American con­ plans for amalgamation of the four way, was cleaned up cleaner than of the workers’ children. Some of attitude of the Stalinists regarding was sent here from Celust Gryben- a ballroom floor, that Saturday ist Party: He invited me to a meet­ trol is the U. S. S. R. Now Amer­ unions in the field. ing of the group the following night. these grammar school children in this case, especially the Friends of kin’s (a former oil magnate in night; while the cops kept chasing ican capitalism, by means of the The hackmen became impatient I accompanied this comrade on the group have more than once seen the Soviet Union. Tsarist Russian now in Paris—J. up and down trying vainly to dis­ recent agreement with the Soviets, with the many speeches and poured the meeting night. We entered a the inside of the ja il of the Mexican The archbishop was stabbed to K.) own church in London to re­ perse the dozens of hackmen groups has welded one of the last links in out into the street to attend the room, then went upstairs. Every­ Workers and Peasants government death by a few members of the concile the two parties__ Four who kept surrounding all indepen­ the chain which binds Europe to it central mass meeting at Madison one who entered was firs t seen from (so the government describes Itself). Tashnag party, a reactionary or­ Tashnag were elected to the Na- dent cabs, ordering all passengers as a dependent. In effect the doors Square Garden. It was evident, above. it must be understood that the ganization composed of Russian tcnal Council when asked by the out, and tearing off the doors of all of the U. S. S. R. have by this that the march was not prepared. The first thing I noticed about work has many shortcomings. This Armenian counter - revolutionists opposition why, the reason was "tough” independent drivers. “The agreement been opened wide to Am­ There wasn’t a single poster in the comrades was that the majority is inevitable, granting the condi­ having as its aim to restore the given as a means of reconciliation.” color of your badge ain’t no differ­ erican capitalist exploitation which sight, except for an impromptu were young. I mean really young, tions. The comrades find it difficult bourgeois nationalist republic in In the same number of Panvor ent than iniue, bud”, they said to thereby obtains a serious prop at piece of cardboard on an end of —17 to 22 was the m a jo rity. There to buy books and read, they are the area which is now Soviet Arm­ a letter is printed by Hoc (an Arm­ them. Four riot squads were call­ a moment very important for it. a stick, marked “Bronx”, which were a few older workers, obvious­ so expensive. The. illegal paper, the enia and to extend that, territory enian version of the F. S. U.) dated ed out; many of the workers were But the chief political meaning of was wildly cheered, wherever it ly unskilled laborers, one of whom “Izquierda” (Left), has difficulty at the expense of Turkey. August 7th to the archbishop. hit with blackjacks on their backs the recent American-Soviet agree­ bobbed up during the march to brought the latest copy of the in coming out due to the high coot (the cops didn’t dare smash them ment relates to the question of The archbishop was a member of It quotes the Armenian Church the Garden. Machete with a slanderous coward­ of stencils and papers. over the head). But after it was Pacific supremacy. the liberal democratic party which Council as saying: “It’s unfortun­ But in the very improvized char­ ly attack upon us in it. Trotsky’s Works Popular all over, very, very few cabs were Is composed of Turkish Armenians, ate that the holy archbishop was acter of the march, the workers The first order of business was The book $tores here prominently At the same time as the United to be sc n on Broadway, and many apparently having a passive atti­ involved in that affair of removing revealed their militancy and iron the reading of this article and its display Trotsky’s books and' they States, there has grown up rapidly a begowned and bejeweled lady, had tude to the Soviet Union and oppos­ the Armenian national flag on Arm­ courage. As many as were able refutation. Then a class took place seem to have a good sale among in the Pacific a young power, Japan. to walk to a Fubway. By a hold aud tenacious attack, ing the imperialist aspirations to­ enian Day, July 2nd, since he al­ piled into the empty hacks—“We in historical materialism. (This the students and intellectuals. I After participating in that clean­ the Land of the Rising Sun is try­ ward Turkey on the part of the ways in the past as well as in the might just as well ride in style for was an educational meeting). have seen all of Trotsky's work on once in our lives.” up, this reporter, for one, realized, ing to come forward as a formid­ Tashnag. Hence the enmity be­ present stated that he respects the Persecution of Comrades display—printed in Spain and Chile national tricolor.” Hoc requests why the strike has spread like a able antagonist to the United Sta­ tween the two groups which led to As the line passed across 42nd When the meeting broke up, one in the main. The tragedy is that prairie fire, and why there isn’t tes, and to take from it the place the tragic afflair. denial or conflrmatifm of the above Street and Fifth Avenue, the men of the comrades in conversation w ith they are so expensive. Sixty cen­ statement. Answer never received. a single big company Cab on the which the latter seeks in the Far The contradictory attitude of the stopped a passing independent me accidentally let the remark drop tavo^ which is the cost of the streets of New York today. East and especially in the vast at the expense of Turkey, How do these facts correspond cruiser, told the passenger to get that he had done time on the Islas cheapest pamphlet amounts to near­ For the first time in their lives, Chinese market. A new world con­ acteristic. The archbishop when with the present characterization out and advised the driver to go de Tres Marias. I was amazed. ly half a day’s wages for ani un­ the hackman of New York feel, in flagration would already have alive was a Fascist to them; after of the archbishop by the Stalinists? right back to the garage. On 42nd Here was a youngster of barely skilled worker. It amounts to half the words of one of their speakers, broken out, i f Japan had not been his killing he became a Friend of That we leave to the Stalinist con­ Street and .sixth Avenue, traffic 17, a ch ild , who had spent six a week’s wages for a young work­ that “they are not lice, or scum of able to profit in its attack from the the Soviet Union. They even call­ fusionista to explain. was tied up completely for about months on the Devil’s Island of er. Marx’s, Engel’s, Trotsky’s and the earth, but workers, rendering state of uncertainty still prevailing ed a mass protest meeting against It should also be remembered that ten minutes and the cop on the Mexico. He had, besides, been ar­ Lenin’s works are loaned among the service just like the worker in a in the camp of its enemies and from the murder affair. last summer the F. S. U. invited beat couldn’t do much about it rested Innumerable times. comrades until the print on the big factory or plant.” They are the internal and international weak­ Panvor, the Stalinist organ in the archbishop Benjamin to deliver an cither. Ever/ passing independent When I expressed my amazement cheap paper becomes indigcernable feeling their strength and unity, ness of the U. S. S. R. As for the Armenian language, of August 19, anti-Soviet speech from its platform. cab was hailed and stopped. All he showed me three other comrades and the book is in tatters. know what they want, and do not United States, everything indicates 1933 carried a lengthy declaration (See N. Y. Times, July 1st and passengers were ordered out. The ranging in age from 15 to 22 who The M ilitant also plays a great mean to go back until they get it. that they have had to take and still of the Central Committee of the Militant, July 8). And yet the strikers piled in and ordered the bad also been picked up with him role in the edcuation of the com­ take a cautious attiude toward the Armenian Buro with the most vici­ Daily Worker of January 12 in an driver to beat it back to the gar­ A spokesman for the Independ­ and had served tim e. Tw o were 22, rades. By dint of great labor im­ offensive of their rival, fearing to ous denunciation against the arch­ editorial entitled, “The F. S. U. age. If he protested the doors were ents is reported to have said: “Why one was 16, and' one 15. portant articles are translated and come to grips with Japan alone. bishop, trying to prove the similar­ convention”, says that: “The F. S. jerked oft. Sometimes the windows should we quit, when every night is I wa.s rather bitter when I thought are read to the comrades. Unfor­ Russia has also had to make con­ ity of Tourian and his party with U. is the- main bulwark in the strug­ got broken by accident, while the New Year’s?” After what I saw of of this party sympathizer’s state­ tunately, since none of the com­ cessions to Japan, thus heightening the Tashnag. A cartoon» is p ic tu r­ gle against anti-Soviet poison pro- strikers angrily yelled out at them last night, I think the Independents ment : “The police never bother the rades know English, this can only American capitalism’s fears of Its ed to that effect, Tourian protect* ganda” Not the C. P. but the -—“You guys were laughing, when w ill have some pretty good reasons Trotskyites.” I looked at the child be done at all-too-rare occasions. antagonist’s aggrandisement. ing the liberal democrats and Tash- typical petty bourgeois organization we were walking the streets starv­ to change their minds. —B. C. who had contracted dysentry on the —C. t \

child, or his own life to such piti­ as an isolated national entity but knew were the best to follow at able dullards. No capitalist, on as a part of the International. that particular time. "Unser Wort" a Weekly the other hand, would entrust the The small Unser Wort is now the Discussion of Youth Problems Because, besides my personal erection of a plant to an engineer only organ in the whole field of the experiences I had the advice of who did not master thoroughly the German working class movement comrades long connected with vari­ A Real Achievement fundamental theories of technology. that realizes correctly, earnestly, in O n Industrial Activity ous phases of union activity, I was Only in the sphere of politics, even a Marxian fashion the interrelation able to voice the workers’ demands “revolutionary” politics, ignorant of tactics and strategy, of a na­ in a generally correct line. And de­ The transformation of Unser Wort seek a way out in the same direc­ quackery continues as pretentiously tional party and a new Internation­ In a recent discussion article I working class fights shy of such spite my youth there is no one who into a weekly is a great achieve­ tion. Can they, in th is ease, refuse to argue against the scientific meth­ al. Precisely in this lies the guar­ read with interest the remarks of mechanically imposed leadership? had more of the comraderie, the sym ment not only of the revolutionary the establishment of international od. It is at times difficult to be­ antee of its success. In the epoch a comrade who bemoans the lack Our in d u s tria l w ork must be pathy and the trust of the workers wing of the German emigration, not connections, elaboration of program­ lieve that the Manifesto of the Com­ of dissolution, ferment, confusion, of concrete suggestions by the Na­ taken seriously and anyone entering than I had. only of the new party of the Ger­ matic and strategical questions, ex­ munist Party was written 85 years p o litic a l half-heartedness may some­ tional Youth Committee on how to into a specific' field must enter it, Industrial activity should be our man proletariat that is now being change of political experience and, ago! times register great successes which begin- youth work and by what not with the intention of helping concentration and immediate per­ built, but of the Fourth Interna­ finally, mutual practical support, The disputed questions, now split­ are of the greatest surprise to it­ method to proceed. He criticizes out when it is on strike and flip­ spective. But I add this. Our work tional as well. The strength of already at the first steps of their ting the world working class move­ self and blind it : but these success­ it and then attempts to enlighten pantly and peremptorially leaving must be taken seriously, spasmodic Unser Wort lies in the fact that it work? ment, have not an episodic, not a es are not trustworthy, they dis­ the comrades with what, when it when the excitement is over or jumps from this field to that are serves at one and the same time na­ Some wise slow-movers go even tactical but a principled, strategic appear together with the political read, turns out to be equally, if even with the purpose of contacting worthless. Comrades must decide tional and international tasks. further and say: “We do not want and, by this very fact, internation­ conjuncture that gave birth to them. not more vague. He raises the the workers spasmodically at their on a trade and prepare to work Some wise men who understood to split our ranks because of ques­ al character. No matter how great The successes o f Unser W ort are cry “Into the working-class youth!” homes, but he must enter it with years in it. Groundwork for the nothing of the character of our tions of the Character of‘the Soviet the peculiarities of this or that of a different order; they are suc­ as the orientation for the more the intentions of spending years in revolution is laid in the trade un­ epoch and learned nothing from the state ,the strategy of the Comin­ country m ay be, they determ ine in cesses o f method, system, M arxian serious work of the League and it. That is the crux of the situa­ ions. Let us then enter into them victories and defeats of the prolet­ tern in the Chinese revolution, the our epoch merely the tactics and c la rity —these successes are solid. points out the necessity of organiz­ tion and I can bear it up with very not by mechanically taking out a ariat, try to reason as follows: first policy of the Anglo-Russian Com- not the strategy of the working Friends of Unser W ort must spare ing cadres of youth on an economic concrete examples. union card at the time of a strike we w ill build a national party and mitte, etc., etc. We want “simply” class. The importance of tactics, no efforts to insure the weekly ap­ basis into either the Spartacus During the recent Los Angeles but by working in the shops and then on a solid and safe foundation to help the workers of our country is, of course, great; in the final pearance of the paper, enrich its Youth Clubs proper or broad work­ dressmakers’ strike I was secretary earning the right to a union card. we shall erect the International. to carry on the class struggle. Thus analysis all strategy dissolves into content, enlarge its size, increase ers’ clubs. of the general strike committee and Let us not make the mistakes the This argument sounds very serious, reason, for instance, the initiators tactics. B ut we cannot make one its circulation, facilitate its pene­ How typically Y. C. L. is the cry virtually in charge of the picket Y. P. S. L. and Y. C. L . had made circumspect, solid but in reality it of a new Workers Party in the correct tactical step without a tration into Germany and make and as equally characteristically, lines. Why was I able to do so and assume that going “into the demonstrates Philistine short-sight­ United States (C. P. L. A.—Muste strategic compass in hand. We ready for publication, alongside of im potent! much work? Was it the result of working-class” is the signal for tak­ edness. The regenerating workers’ et. al.). Of the same opinion are the cannot orientate ourselves in the Unser Wort of a theoretical month­ How are we to enter “into the the sudden appearance of myself ing over leadership. movement does not begin history leaders of the Swedish Independent national situation, without estimat­ ly for the elaboration of the prin­ working class youth” ? How are on the scene and the equally quick The working class follows that anew; it has a colossal past, sim­ Communist Party (Kilboom & ing theoretically the world situa­ cipal questions of our epoch, that we going to raise our youth slogans, approval of me by the strikers? No. organization that has identified it­ ilar in its main traits for all coun­ others), the British I. L. P. (Fen­ tion, without drawing conclusions is, of the program of the Fourth how are we going to build cadres? For a year before the strike I self with the working-class through tries. The proletariat of the whole ner Brockway and others), etc. If from the international experience International. Time and time again the Young worked in the shops in the needle its day-to-day struggle in its be­ world had been united for decades yon w ill, the authors of the Ger­ of the working class, without out- Hearty greetings to the editors, Communist League has attempted trade side by side with the work­ half, follows that organization by the Second International and man pamphlet “Begin Anew” oc­ l ning an international perspective, personnel, administration, readers to form “youth sections” in their ers, experiencing their hardships whose members have built up a the trade unions. After the world cupy even a lower place in this that is, without a program of a and friends of the weekly Unser own T . U. U. L . unions—and as and struggles, understanding their prestige in their unions by virtue war the proletarian advance-guard question. Can one imagine a doc­ new Into, national. W o rt! —L. TROTSKY. often have they failed. Failed be­ trials, encouraging their militancy. of their years of long work side united under the banner of the tor who would say that he is not When deep-thinking people say: January 24, 1934. cause they forgot one important For a year I carried on, to the by side with the workers in the Third International. Not only the concerned with the fundamental “do not hurry, now is not the time factor: the working class w ill never best of my ability, the workers’ shops. world crisis, Fascism and the dan­ theories of anatomy, physiology and for the Fourth International”, they A NOTE TO BRANCHES have confidence in or follow the day-to-day struggle w ith the bosses. All this w ill be the wedge where­ ger of war, but the decline of the patholpgy, that he does not want could with equal success say: “Do Arrangements have been made by leadership of anyone but a worker Then when the need fo r a strike by cadres of youth can be formed. Comintern as well have an inter- to argue about the newest theories not hurry, now is not the time for Pioneer Publishers whereby branch­ and a worker in their own specific was apparent I raised the cry and Consistent and systematic work in natlonal character. It is clear that on cancer, or malaria, but prefers the class struggle”. Since it is not es of the Communist League can trade. Does the comrade imagine carried It to the workers. On the your trade brings personal con­ under the influence of the very same “simply” to treat the patients of a question of the formal “proclama­ obtain all literature published by that merely to enter “into the work­ meeting floor I was able to speak tacts and -personal contacts form common causes advanced proletar­ his locality? Not one thinking tion” of the new International but Charles Kerr and International Pu­ ing-class youth” insures his position the workers’ language and propose the nucleus for your youth cadres. ian elements in all countries muat| work» would trust the life of his of the building of a new party, not blishers at a 25 percent discount. in it or can he understand that the such measures as I, as a worker, —FLORENCE WYLE. PAGE 4 THE MILITANT SATURDAY,FERREARY 10, 1934

Disagreements w ithin the uncon­ trolled bureaucracy must be settled Another “Victory" for Lewis Bolshevik Congresses Once and Now from above, by the “ Leader” who is but the personification of the ap­ paratus. But if it is not a question now O n the Eve of the Congress af the withering away of the state The U .M .W .of A .Convention ju t of its highest intensification, .here should be deep social contra­ The impending congress of the first of all by getting rid of the ences also disappear. dictions which give rise to this pro­ week. Yes, but on this point also, the Progressive Miners Union in cess. In what direction must we (Continued from page 1) ruling party of the Soviet Union control of the party and establish­ Lewis hastened the assurance that Illinois, which lays claim to 30,000 In reality no one of the rulers ,ook for them? erators’ organization, addressed the is being called upon to give its ing the cult of the Leader. there would be no truculence in members. New unions have sprung of the U. S. S. R. believes in such Polemizing in 1932 against the convention. But what is the real approval of the political leadership, I t is impossible to read without the attitude of the union. He warn­ up in Washington, West Virginia, a perspective. The second five year author of these lines in the columns significance of these declarations the economic plan and the work of a feeling of embarrassment and ed the delegates not to raise false and Nova Scotia. But the indepen­ plan, calculated on a fu ll and com­ of the Berliner Tageblatt, Radek of conciliation? Are they intended the Comintern, in accordance with oometimes shame the Soviet press hopes back home that such desires dent union in the anthracite, head­ plete liquidation of class distinc­ explained to us with his usual play- to secure peace and harmony in the a formula prepared in advance. where in each column, in each a rti­ could be obtained. “ We do not ed by Cappelini and Maloney has tions, does not foresee at all a . ulness that socialism means the mine camps with a filled pay en­ However, these tnree closely inter­ cle, each telegram and report of a wish to cripple the inustry or em- not differed essentially in its meth­ mitigation of government coercion, nationalization of the means of pro­ velope and a “ fu ll dinner pail” for connected spheres present a number meeting, the "Leader” is honored barass the federal government or ods from the U. M. W. The so- nor a decrease in the budget of the duction and distribution and noth­ the miners? That is not the mo­ of burning questions which the con­ and praised in the very same un­ the recovery administration,” he called progressive leaders of the G. P. U. The ruling bureaucracy ing more, and that if working class tive. gress cannot and does not want to changed and universally obligatory said—There must be no strikes, ac­ Illinois union have adopted all the does not prepare in the least to children do not get enough milk, The cringing pledge of these "in­ answer. Not because these ques­ expressions. Even a journalist like cording to Lewis. In glaring con­ bureaucratic methods of expulsions give up its commanding positions, this is explained by the scarcity of dustrial statesman” before the coal tions conflict with the interests of Louis Fischer, who is not very trast to these assurances, however, and frame-ups of the Lewis mach­ on the contrary, it supplies them cows and not by the absence of so operators is an effort to guarantee the workers’ state but because their critical with regard to the Soviet it is necessary to recall the fact ine. with ever new and' more material cialism. Despite all its captivating that there will be no fight for im­ very presentation is Incompatible oureaucracy, found it necessary to that never in history have any ser­ guarantees. Coercion, even within simplicity this theory is radically proved wages and working condi­ witn the interests of the ruling bu­ point out the insufferable charac­ ious gains been recorded by the However, the indomitable spirit the formal framework of the party, false. Socialism presupposes not tions made by the miners So that reaucracy. ter of these standardized panegyrics. miners except by fighting fo r them, of the rank and file coal miners has already has such a harsh charac­ Lewis may secure formal recogni­ First of a ll: why wasn’t a regu­ The connection between deifying only the nationalization of the by using the powerful strike wea­ remained. I t is due to their vital­ ter as it never had during the years means of production but also the tion of the union and collect the lar party congress convened in three the leader and the leaders (local pon. ity and fighting ability that the U. of civil war. Moreover, in all the ability of the latter to satisfy all check-off on the dues payments. years and eight months? Under leaders are deified w ithin the The most brilliant pages of Amer­ M. W. has revived and today repre­ official speeches and articles the human needs. Precisely because of The operators of the Pennsylvania the most onerous conditions of un­ .imits of a definite territory) and ican labor history carry the story sents perhaps the strongest union perspective of a further intensifica this the old primers stated that captive mines, that is, the United derground struggle and emigration, the violation of the statutes, the of the valiant fight of the coal in the country. There are still tion of the methods of the dictator­ States Steel Company empire, show­ from the years 1908 to 1907, four abolition of criticism of the sum­ socialist society is possible only on miners. But they also record the great latent forces hidden w ithin ship is pictured. This crying diver­ a certain level of development of ed Lewis that they could beat him congresses took place: in Brussels- mits, the convocation of congresses innumerable betrayals perpetrated the smoke-filled mine fields. There gence between two perspectives, the the productive forces. at his own game of vote stealing, London, Geneva, Stockholm and it arbitrary intervals, after even by Lewis during the administration is no reason to believe that the pol­ economic and the political, demon­ It is true that social democrats intimidation, frame-ups, and blud­ again in London. The years of re­ more arbitrary cleansings—is abso- covering almost two decades. icies which prevailed at this In ­ strates irrefutably that the ruling drew from this proposition the re­ geoning. They had told the NRA action and of the complete decline .utely evident. A ll these phenom­ The Insurgent Unions dianapolis convention mark the in­ bureaucracy obviously does not actionary conclusion that the Rus­ labor board to keep hands off while, of the party that set in, interrupted ena in their entirety mean the liq­ In 1925 he made his infamous auguration of a new epoch. On the know how to make both ends meet sian proletariat must not take po­ by these methods, they carried the the regular succession of congress­ uidation of the party as an active proposal to drive 350,000 miners contrary. The spirit of rebellion theoretically. wer in general. They came to the elections in their mines for the es. Only in 1912 did a Bolsehvik political whole that checks, elects from the industry. The scourge of w ill again assert itself. The econ­ same conclusion for Germany of establishment, of their company un­ conference gather in Prague, equi­ and renews its apparatus. The first Young Soviet theoreticians, it is unemployment and the increase of omic pressure upon the miners w ill 1918 as well and through the officers ion. Lewis did his best to betray valent in importance to a congress. question which arises before the true, have attempted to present the machine mining aided this nefarious call forth their resistance against the miners who struck fo r recog­ No sooner did the revolutionary congress reads: where and why did matter in such a way that the so­ of Xoske brought this admonishment plan. Where once upwards of 800,- the continuous and increased en­ forcefully to Karl Liebknecht and nition of the U. M. W. Now he movement revive (1912-1914) than the Bolshevik party disappear? cialist growth of the country and 000 coal miners worked in and slavement. This resistance w ill re­ the war broke out. the liquidation of the classes lead Rosa Luxemburg. But the conclu­ promises that there w ill be no around the mines, there are now duce the deceptive conciliation and In A pril 1917 a new party con­ Bureaucratic Dictatorship and before our very eyes to the mitiga­ sions of the social democracy are strikes so that he may thereby ob­ 400,000 men employed. Many re­ peace proposals to naught. In the ference is called, similarly equal in tion and weakening of purely state no less false than those of Radek. tain the check-off. volts against the Lewis regime mine fields are excellent prospects Social Contradictions. importance to a congress. Four functions. Some people believed The theory of Kautsky, Otto Bauer, No Strike Assurances have occurred, and insurgent unions for new and more serious rebellions months later, at the end of July For social development in gen­ them. Louis Fischer, is one of his Leon Blum and others assumes an But the convention went on re­ have been created. There is today and for much more serious contests 1917, under conditions of semi-il­ eral, for proletarian dictatorship in generally not very fortunate excur­ extremely harmonious evolution cord for higher wages, for the six- an independent union in the an­ against the treacherous Lewis ma­ legality, the Sixth party congress particular, a course and norms of sions into the realm of theory, tried of social forms: having reached the hour work day and for the five-day thracite claiming 50,000 members; chine. —A. S. assembles and sets out the political pure reason cannot be prescribed, to present the merging of the Com­ necessary mnturity, the productive premises for the October uprising. it is naive to say that the Soviet missariat for Trade with the trade- forces invite Messrs, socialist lead­ Bight mouths later a new party state is not a dictatorship of the unions as the beginning of the liq­ ers to power. Everything takes congress is called upon to solve the proletariat merely on the basis that uidation of the state. In reality, place within the framework of dem­ 3rest-Litovsk disagreements. The .he given form of a dictatorship we have only a merging of two bu­ ocracy with fu ll comfort for all the Masses Shake French Regime participants. In reality, the prin­ following five congresses are con­ Joes not correspond to our a priori reaucratic apparatuses. The new (Continued from Page 1) w ill tame ihe masses. This fierce ed by Piatnitsky at the recent 13th conceptions. But if reality cannot statutes of the party, which are cipal characteristic of historic de­ vened at regular intervals of a important bourgeois politicians were reactionary was co-author of the Plenum continues its sectarian, dis­ ae judged by ideal norms, it is just to be ratified by the 17th congress, velopment is the constant disruption year, and each, of them marks an part of Stnvisky’s swindling appar­ imperialistic Franco-Czarist secret ruptive conrse. The two bureau­ ns inadmissible and no less dan­ make a decisive turn towards the of the equilibrium between the important epoch in the development atus. treaty of 1917. He is an enemy of cracies togetehr manage to keep of the party and of Soviet policy. gerous to elevate the Soviet reality merging of the state and the party, productive forces and politics, in­ reform and democracy, and a profes­ half the working class immobile The long pent-up discontent of Bach congress is preceded by a into an ideal norm. The historic —but how?—by a final and formal side the productive forces them­ sional Red-baiter. while the other half throws away discussion unfolded with complete failure of the Comintern is caused replacement of the party as well as selves, for example, between indus­ the masses now began to break I t is doubtful in the extreme, its energy in futile forays. try and agriculture, between the loose. Its dramatic expression was freedom. primarily by the fact that it pro­ of the mass Soviets by the single however, that Doumergue w ill suc­ 8o apparent, in this that the bour­ • » • m claimed the Soviet state, more pre­ bureaucratic apparatus. I t is not social weight of the bourgeoisie and the attempt of thousands of Paris­ ceed in stifling the rebellious mood ians to storm the Chamber of De­ geoisie indulges in complacency. Such was the regime prior to the cisely, the Soviet bureaucracy, as a question of the “ whithering” away the weight of the proletariat, be­ of the oppressed French masses. puties. Undeniably the demonstra­ The World-Telegram remarks that death of Lenin and prior to the a categoric imperative. Meanwhile, of the state in the Bngels sense, tween the potential power of the "Whether successful or not,” writes tion in the Place de ia Concorde was “ there seems to be even less organi­ declaration of war against “Trot­ .he international proletariat as well but on the contrary, of its further proletariat and the real force of its the liberal New York World-Tele­ organized by reactionary elements. zation now than in the somewhat skyism” . The 13th and 14th con­ as the Soviet state itself need noth­ bureaucratic concentration. I t is party, etc. Contradictory historic gram, “ this wide popular revolt and The Royalist groups led by the similar riots which resulted in the gresses already took place after ing more urgently than free, unham­ no wonder that the ruling summits conditions forced the Russian pro­ violence is the stuff of which revolu­ Camelots dn Roi—an organization short-lived Red Commune of 1871.” great delays, necessitated by back- pered Marxian criticism. severely rebuked the careless young letariat to take power first, al­ tion is made__ An event of this led by the scions of the nobility However exaggerated this state­ stage bureaucratic maneuvers. The The harsh character of the dicta­ theoreticians for attempting to draw though from the point of view of kind is never forgotten. I t lights which the liberal French Republic ment may be, revolutionaries can 15th congress was called, contrary torship is caused by the need of political conclusions from the “ liq­ “sensible” socialist accounting it new flames of revolt which, even has decade after decade permitted draw small comfort from the recent to the party statutes, more than suppressing the resistance of the uidation of the classes” . would have been infinitely more though smothered for a while, are to plot openly its own destruction— record of the French C. P. The two years after the 14th: it was overthrown ruling classes and to The withering away of the party advantageous for the proletariat of likely to burst out with greater desired by a show of force to bring problem in France today is one of necessary first to smash the opposi- undermine their economic roots. in the socialist sense of the word the United Slates, England1, or intensity later.” about a swing to the right in the speed: can the real revolutionary ion. In the autumn of 1927 the But according to the official theory presupposes the liquidation of pol­ Germany to have taken power first. With open reaction in the saddle French Chamber. Thus they hoped leadership, and especially the Inter­ Central Committee decided — al­ this basic task of the workers’ itics in general, therefore also of Had the Russian proletariat, how­ in France, however, there w ill be to get into the tent the nose of the nationalist-Communists, organize a though the statutes did not and/ state is in the main achieved. The state coercion, and signifies the ap­ ever, obeyed the Mensheviks, not a more rapid andl intensive devel­ Bourbon camel which is eventually powerful revolutionary party more could not grant it such a right—to j second five year plan w ill merely proach to an anarchistic society and seized power in 1917 and not na­ opment of French Fascist trends. rapidly than the Fascists rally their tionalized the means of production, to crowd out the republic. convene all future congresses every have to complete it. The 17th party by no means to a bureaucratic re­ L ’Ami du Peuple, organ of million­ black hundred forces? The possi­ two years. This decision was car­ conference already decided—this gime. Is it this that we see in Russia would have been doomed to What the Royalists did not count aire Senator Coty, is preaching an bility cannot be doubted. The task ried not without inner friction in decision is now repeated day in— reality? I f “ politics” has disap­ the fate of China. on was the mood of the masses. By unadulterated Hitlerian doctrine to is posed. the apparatus itse lf: it was difficult day out—that the task of the second peared in the U. S. S. R. it has dis­ * * * * the thousands, workers hastened its enormous body of discontented The coming of Doumergue to to explain openly why the Bolshevik five year plan is not only the “ liq­ appeared for the masses only. All However, the disproportions of to the Place de la Concorde to join petty bourgeois readers. H alf a power, it must be added, has its im­ party as a ruling party was denied uidation of capitalist elements and politics is monopolized, centralized, the belated and jumpy economic and in the demonstration. Among them dozen Fascist grouplets contend for portance for the U. S. S. R. Under the right which it enjoyed in the classes in general” but “ complete personalized. I t would be the great­ cultural development have not dis­ were many war veterans, tired of the honor of becoming the vanguard Stalin, the workers’ state has plac­ revolutionary underground: the liquidation of causes which engend­ est naivete to think that the con­ appeared in the dictatorship of the the “ ingratitude of the Third Rep­ of reaction. Money w ill now flow ed its trust not in the forces of in­ right to control its apparatus and er class distinctions and exploita­ stant “ deification” of the Leader is proletariat: they have merely tak­ ublic” . But these masses did more to them from the coffers of the ternational revolution, but in pacts to give it instructions for the fu­ tion” as well. In the conditions engendered by personal bad tastes en on an unrecognizable form. The than join the demonstration. They Comité des Forges more generously and treaties with bourgeois govern­ ture. The 16th congress (June that the second five year plan is and by official subserviency. This productive forces of the U. S. S. R. transformed its political character. than before. While the liberal ments. The Stalinists have argued 1930) however, was convened not ,o create, state power w ill have purely psychologic explanation ex­ develop now in a nationalized form From an expression of Royalist re­ press tries to center attention on that H itler’s triumph was not an two years after the 15th (January nothing more to do. The struggle plains nothing. In reality the dei­ but they still pass the stages left action, its voice was changing to the demands of the Royalists, laugh unmitigated evil from the revolu­ 1928) but two and a half years against external dangers would re­ fication of the leader is a necessary far behind by the advanced capital­ that of the oppressed masses of the ing them off as silly and outmod­ tionary viewpoint, since “ it threw after, that is, already in violation quire, of course, also In a social­ element of the present political re­ ist countries—especially if reckoned country, to become a thundering pro­ ed, Fascism, the reaction a la mode Poland and France into our arms.” of the new statutes. Finally, be­ ist society, a powerful m ilitary or­ gime of the U. S. S. R. Since the on a per capita basis. From this test against political corruption, is being prepared. With a fierce Communist-hunter tween the 16th and the 17th con­ ganization but by no means inter- workers are denied the possibility follow, despite the “ liquidation of economic collapse and relentless To trust in such a situation to in the saddle of France, and behind gresses three and two-thirds years al government coercion, not a re­ of re-electing and directing their classes” , the social contradictions exploitation. From the organized "the common sense of the French him the steel trust, whose handy have elapsed. During the twenty gime of class dictatorship. Where apparatus, some other Instance is of Soviet society as well as the Royalists and would-be Fascist people" the democratic traditions man, Tardieu, may become Doum- months that the Central Committee he causes disappear the consequ- necessary to solve state problems. great theoretical confusion of the groups, the government had little of 1789” , the parliamentary opposl ergue’s Foreign Minister, the illu ­ ruled by usurpation, not merely In leaders. to fear. But in the close-packed tion of the Socialists, for the head­ sory nature of Stalinist diplomacy fact but according to the letter of Socialism, that is a society of mass which boldly went head-on ing-off of Fascism would be as is again exposed. the statutes as well, not a voice harmonious production and distri­ against armed and mounted soldi­ futile and deceptive as it proved Once again it is demonstrated of protest was raised in the party. EDITORIAL bution, presupposes at any rate that ery, there moved a different spirit to be in Germany. The Socialist that only the revolutionary prole­ For two reasons: (1) no one be­ all the children should drink milk from that of the reaction. Party of France continues to work tariat of France can help restrain lieves that the apparatus congress to their heart’s content. I f the Hence the launching of cavalry to hold back the workers of the French capitalism from launching is capable of changing anything in (Continued from page 1) sary improvements has opened cows are nationalized but their and machine gunners against the country from militant extra-parla- against the Soviet Union a Franco- the work of the ruling summits; the door to the Stalinist number is insufficient, or their demonstrators, hence the press cen­ mentary struggle, And the Com­ Russian-Polish army of intervention (2) if any one would try, in his to the dishonor of the workers to wreckers. The only way to elim­ udders dry, it is still not socialism, sorship and suspension of civil munist Party of France, having under the leadership of Adolf H it­ simplicity, to protest, he would im­ accept. An honest leadership inate this dangerous cancer is by because for lack of milk conflicts liberties. And hence the calling to learned nothing from the German ler, whom Leon Trotsky long ago mediately be expelled from the worthy of the name w ill have no making the necessary corections arise: between the city and village, power of Doumergue, “ the strong catastrophe or from the steady de­ characterized as “ the super-Wran- party. The “cleansing” which pre­ need of being ashamed to organ­ and then by dealing with the between the Kolkhoses, Sovkhoses man” , who the bourgeoisie hopes, cline in its own membership report­ gel” of counter revolution. ceded the congress expelled tens of ize its ranks even for such an out­ Stalinists in the only way per­ and individual peasants, between come if the conditions impose it thousands of people for lesser sins. missible to class conscious m ili­ various layers of the proletariat, the Committee of Thirteen which upon the workers. If in the classic period of Bolshev­ tants : by proving in objective dis­ between all the toilers and. the bu­ The Significance of the Taxi Strike conducted the negotiations for the ism a discussion lasting a number cussion and above all in practise, reaucracy. Precisely these sharp strikers. The terms of ths sell-out of weeks preceded the congress, the the superiority of the policies and constant conflicts which take on But as matters stand now, the (Continued from page 1) one cab. The flve-cent tax question are the worst imaginable. The present congress was preceded by conduct of the union’s leadership inevitably a social, and in their hope and prospect for a victory did not affect them as it went into question of union recognition which a bureaucratic cleansing which to the misleadership of the 18th tendencies, a class character, de­ them and the companies against remain unimpaired. I t is neces­ their pockets. They are likewise in­ has became the crucial one in the dragged out for a half a year. Un­ Street incompetents. mand the powerful intervention them. sary, however, that the steps be different to the hours and wage strike is not even mentioned. The der these conditions the congress * * * * from above, that is, state coercion. When La Guardia saw the tor­ taken which have been indicated question. In short they are petty wages and hours question is Ignor­ w ill be a ponderous parade of the For our own part, we stand with Sometimes, we see how a fight rent he attempted to unload respon­ in these pages on several occa­ bourgeois individualists. Consequ­ ed. The accumulated tax money is bureaucracy. those who seriously pursue such a about m ilk leads to a malicious de­ sibility before his own bourgeois sions. The rank and file have ently they were and are eager to referred to the future for distribu­ Liberals and social democrats course, and' with no one else. And struction of dairy cattle, and this and petty bourgeois supporters and shown a superb spirit, a flawless reap the harvest of fares that they tion. The men get absolutely noth­ have frequently drawn a very su­ although we represent only a min­ forces the government authorities hamstring the movement, He advis­ solidarity, a gratifying militancy. saw when the company drivers ing. perficial analogy between Bolshev­ ority in the ranks of the Amalg­ to de-nationalize the cow, giving it ed the men to affiliate with the A. There is no doubt that even more went on strike. Terminals and Before this maneuver was put ism and Fascism. The late Serrati, amated, we are ready to cooper­ back to the peasants as private F. of L. and made efforts to secure houses can be pulled' out on strike piers reserved to the company cabs over on the men they tried to spread former leader of the Italian Max­ ate with all the progressive and property. Only very recently the the intervention of Green himself. and the movement extended s till by contract were now Inviting them the strike to other sectors of trans­ imalists and a Communist during m ilitant forces in the union who government found itself obliged for As a result of his “ help” Gailbraith further. And this is just what to come in and render “ service to portation, They chose the bus the last years of his life, said to are marching in the same direc­ the same reasons to transfer the of the A. F. of L. Philadelphia Taxi- msut be done at once to assure the public” . The independents of­ drivers and conductors of the F ifth me in 1914: “ To our shame, Mus­ tion because they, like we, are horses to life-time use of the peas­ men’s Union was sent to New York victory. But for this, the Im­ fered to pay two dollars apiece a Ave. buses as the point of attack. solini learned more from the Bol­ concerned only with the advance­ ants. The real key to the puzzle as general organizer of the stirke. provements in the organization day intp the treasury of the union The strike has already record­ sheviks than we did.” I t is not ment of the interests of the work­ of bureaucratic omnipotence lies in A t the same time La Guardia and direction of the strike are if the union would agree to their ed positive gains for the taxi men necessary to explain the irreconcil­ ers and their strike. Especially these simple facts. We say, and Called in Morris L. Ernst of the essential prerequisites. working. and the entire labor movement. I t ability of the aims which the two a labor strike is the last place not at all for paradox’s sake, that American Civil Liberties Union to But the strikers saw through this stiffened the morale of the hotel The leadership is the decisive principal world currents serve: one in which a faction monopoly or if certain ancient religions, also be­ act as mediator. Ernst arranged a scheme. They realized that if the strikers, and it has helped their problem. It must prove capable wants to perpetuate decaying capi­ clique tendencies can be permit­ cause of insufficiency of cattle, bas­ number of meetings. The fru it of independents were out on the streets strike to the extent that it has of organizing and coordinating talist society by means of univer­ ted. Their continued existence ed themselves on the bull Apis, the his efforts was a “ settlement” which that would be a powerful lever in made it difficult for most and impos­ the work, of drawing in all pro­ sal police-rule, the other wants to can only prove fatal, because they religion of bureaucratic sovereignty saidi nothing about the recognition the hands of the bosses to break sible for some diners to reach the liquidate classes and states by gressive forces, of discarding all are an insidious poison. bases itself on the cow—not on the of the union, minimum wages or the strike. They sacrificed the money hotels. I t has set an inspiring exam­ narrow and clique tendencies, of methods of the revolutionary dicta­ A genuinely collective direction one that exists, but on the one maximum hours. In addition the nnd voted fo r “ no cabs on the ple of working class militancy and inspiring the workers with self- torship, thus liberating society and of the strike, a heightened note that is lacking. proposed distribution of the accum­ streets.” And forthwith they re­ w ill undoubtedly be an impetus to the human being. But in the course confidence, of sharpening and ex­ of militancy, a serious concern The problem is, of course, not ulated tax money was unsatisfac­ paired to the streets to translate other workers to struggle against of a combat mortal enemies fre­ tending the demonstrations and with the organization of the work, exhausted by milk, it only begins tory. The men voted down this the vote into reality. their intolerable conditions. And picket lines by heightening the quently exchange weapons. The a sober approach to the prospec­ with m ilk and bread. The contra­ “settlement” and demonstrated It is not clear exactly how the what is of paramount importance morale, of Instilling the workers fact is that if in the struggle for tive outcome of the. struggle— dictions pass through the whole what they thought of it on the Socialist Panken got into the strike for the taxi drivers; win or lose at the daily mass meetings with power the Fascists have borrowed’ these problems, at the end of the system of economy and of social streets against the scab drivers. and how he became one of its they will come out of this strike greatly from Bolshevism then in the knowledge and spirit which second week, now stand out, fu ll relations. The question, however, But the nub of the boss strategy spokesmen. But one thing is cer­ with a union. We are also sure of the last period the Soviet bureau­ alone can make them a cohesive of promise that their solution is too complicated and requires a was the attempt to use the inde­ tain; he is a partner to the latest another thing. This strike of the cracy has familiarized Itself with and battling army. w ill mean the triumph of the special article. —L. TROTSKY. pendents to divide the ranks. An perfidious sell-out aranged by La taxi drivers will not be the last. many traits of victorious Fascism, Any failure to make the neces­ Workers and their union! January 20, 1984. Independent Is the owner-driver of > Guardia, Ernst and some people on —T . STAMM.