Volume 16, No. 11, November, 1937
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TWENTY YEARS O F SOVIET POWE R BY EARL BROWDER Where Is the Socialist Party Going? JACK STACHEL Trade Unions in the Land of Socialism New Developments in Organizing the Marine Industry ROY HUDSON Southern Textile W orkers Organize JOHN .J . BALLAM On the Eve of October LEt TN A n STALIN ALEX BITTELMAN on PPare and Trade Union Unih• TWENTY CENTS / STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, .MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUI;RED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST '24, 1912, AND , \ MARCH 3, 1933, of THE COMMUNIST, published monthly at ;New Yoi-k, N. Y., for Octob<>r 1. 1937 . State of New York .. <~ounty of New York \ _, 1 Before me, a Notary Public In and tor llp.e St~tte and county afor';,s,ald, per --~-Ona-ifY--appeared Joseph Fields, who, haVing beeri--dulY-SWor~ a~co~ding"~to raw, deposes and says that he Is the Business Manager of The Communist, and that the following Is. to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of thP ownership, management (and If a dally paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore said publlcatl~n for· the da'te -~ow:n In ·the ~bove caption,- re,qulred by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended b;p' the, Act of, March 3, l!i33, embodied In Section ii37, Postal Laws and Regulatldn8, printed cin the--reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor. 11.nd business managers are: Publisher, Communist Party of U.S. .,'\., 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Editor, Earl Browder, 60. East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Managing Editor, None Business Manager, Joseph-.Pields, 60 E·ast 13th Str·Pet, New York, N. Y. 2. That the owner is: (If ·owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also Immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stock holders owning or holding one per. cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, _the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, Its namP o.nd address, as well as those of each Individual member, must be given.) Communist Party of U.S.A., 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Earl Browder, General Secretary, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. A non-profit organization-political. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders own lUg or boldine 1 per cent or more of total 9mount of honds. mortgages. or other aecurltles are: (If there are none. Ro Rta te.) None. 4:. 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That the average number of copies of each Issue of this publication sold or distributed through the malls or otherwise, to paid subscribers during thP twelve months preceding the date shown above Is , .. (This Information 1• rP quired from dally publications only), .TOSFJPH- P'IFJLDS. Business Manager. <Seal) Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of October, 1937. MAX KITZES, Notary Publlc. (My Commission expires March 30. 193R). VOL. XVI, No. 11 NOVEMBER, 19!17 7he COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM -LENINISM PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. EDITORS: EARL BROWDER, ALEX BITTELMAN, V. ]. JEROME CONTENTS Review of the Month . A. B. 973 Twenty Years of Soviet Power EARL BROWDER g86 Lenin and Stalin on the Eve of October gg6 Where Is the Socialist Pahy Going? JACK STACHEI. 1000 Trade Unions in the Land of Socialism 1007 New Developments in Organizing the Marine Industry ROY HUDSON 1016 Southern Textile Workers Organize JOHN J. BAI.LAM . 1023 Unite the Negro People for the People's Front! . For a Common Front Against the War Makers EARL BROWDER From the World Communist Press 1045 Book Reviews M; CHILDS PAUL NOVICK Recent Books Acknowledged Entered as second class matter November 2, r927, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 'h r879. Send checks, money orders .and correspondence to THJ! CoMMUNIST, P.O. Box r48, Sta. D (Jo E. rJth St.), New Yor.l. Subscription rates: $2.110 a year; $r.DO for six months; foreign and Canada $2.50 a year. Single copies 20 cents. PJIINTED Ill' U.S.A. ~209 V. I. LENIN V. I. LENIN JOSEPH STALIN JOSEPH STALIN Read about the Victories of Socialism • LIFE AND LABOR IN THE SOVIET UNION by Robert W. Dunn and George' Wallace 5c SOCIALISM MARCHES ON IN THE SOVIET UNION by James B. Turner 5c ON THE EVE OF OCTOBER by V. I. Lenin . 5c (Special Anniversary Edition) THE ROAD TO POWER by Joseph Stalin . 5c THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.S.R. IOc Complete text, illustrated STALIN ON THE NEW SOVIET CONSTITUTION 2c TOWARD A LAND OF PLENTY by A. Mikoyan . IOc THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION by Joseph Stalin . $1.00 FROM THE BOURGEOIS TO THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION by V. I. Lenin . 2.00 (Vol. VI of Selected Works of Lenin) C011ting Special November anniversary issue of "The Communist International" • Order from your bookshop or from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Sta. D New York City REVIEW OF THE MONTH Roosevelt's Peace Program. Collective Security Is Only Road to Peace. Who Is in Opposition? Finance Capital Is Not Isolationist. Various Tendencies in Wall Street. Is Second World War Inevitable? It Is Not Here Yet. Norman Thomas Writes Another Open Letter. Socialist Phrases Covering Reactionary Substance. Why Not Make China Safe for the Chinese? Wilson and Roosevelt and Two Different World Situations. Browder's Call to Realize President's Peace Pmgram. Mobilize Masses in Inde pendent People's Peace Movement. The Nine-Power Conference and What to Do. Labor Takes Position Against Fascist Aggressors. Com munist Party Presents Program of Action. Denver and Atlantic City. C.l.O. Establishes Leadership in Struggle for Unity. Unity Is Possible. Next Steps. Greetings on 2oth Anniversary of October Revolution. Party Recruiting Drive and Lenin Memorial Da'V. T Is necessary to say plainly and Ironically enough, they attacked it as I directly that the opponents of col a "war" program, as a policy that will lective security, whatever their inten take this country into war. They tions may be, are in fact helping the picked up quickly the insinuating/ fascist aggressors. threat of the German fascist press that · This has been true right along, and Roosevelt would suffer the same we have said so. But after the Presi "shipwreck" as Wilson did. And while dent's anti-war speech in Chicago, there is as yet very little unanimity on which necessarily aroused widespread what exactly should be done in a discussion and hastened political positive way, the camp of reaction alignments on the issue of peace or seems to be pretty solid in its deter war, the enemies of collective security mination to sabotage and, if possible, are making the meaning of their op ruin the President's peace program. position crystal clear. It is opposition As usual, the reactionaries are try to peace. ing to play upon the isolation illu Speaking for the most reactionary sions of certain sections of the people. and most imperialist circles of Not that the reactionary monopolies monopoly capital, such organs of ex are themselves isolationist. This they pression as the Chicago Tribune, the never were and never will be. Repre New York Herald Tribune and of senting the economic foundation of course the unspeakable Hearst have imperialism, monopoly · or finance been attacking the President's peace capital is by its very nature the main program from every imaginable angle. driving force of imperialis~ wars of 973 974 THE COMMUNIST conquest and aggrandizement. Whom appearing isolation illusions, is at the do the fascists represent, if not die same time opening up new angles of most imperialist and most rapacious attack against the collective struggle sections of finance capital_? Whose bid for peace. One of these is the patent ding are the fascist war aggressors do absurdity that the danger of a new ing today in China, in Spain, in the world war is really not so great and Mediterranean, in the whole world, not so close as it is being pictured by if not that of the most imperialist and the adherents of collective security. reactionary monopolies of Japan, Ger That is, the war danger is no~ denied. many and Italy? Who can deny that and get away with No, the reactionary opponents of it? In fact, the coming of a new world the President's peace program and of war is made to appear as being in collective security in general are not evitable, but that it is still far off and isolationists by far.