WORKERS O F T HE WORLD. THE M I L I T A N T UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America VOLUME V II, NO. 12 [WHOLE NO. 216] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1934 PRICE 2 CENTS

Toward the Fourth International The new Strike Wave Revolutionary Youth Meet Dutch Police Deport Youth The Automobile Workers Revolt Delegates to Germany! In International Conference HE automobile workers, poised for a mighty Last year they believed a promise—now they T struggle for the rights and demands which the proceed to independent action. The greatest danger rades were held in the Laren police The international conference of New Deal” promised but did not give, are heralding to the strike movement now comes from Roosevelt station. The four comrades, Kurt revolutionary youth organizations, the advent of the new strike wave which w ill most directly. His strategy of delay is the strategy of Another Step on the Road to the Liebermann, Franx Bobzien, Hans for the purpose of discussing the likely swing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, the bosses. Now is the time to strike. The workers Goldstein, members of the Socialist present international situation and of rebellious workers into aggressive action. “The w ill make a great error if they allow the action to New International Workers Party of German, and the tasks of the youth, was called worst epidemic of strikes in our history”, which Gen­ be delayed while the bosses continue their prepara­ Heinz Hose, a member of the Inter­ (Ed. Note.—Albert Glotzer, the for Saturday, February 24th, at eral Johnson foretold and tried to head off, is knock­ tions and the edge is taken off the strike spirit in the name of the Internationalist nationalist Communist League of author of the following article, Communist League and the Socialist Laren, Holland, to last for three ing at the door. endless negotiations at Washington. days. Many delegates from Europe Germany, were handed over directly has just returned from the Inter­ Workers Party of Germany. The The new strike movement w ill be deeper than The forces are lining up along the whole front and Am erica were present. A t 10.00 by the Dutch police to the Hitler national Youth Conference held plenum agreed upon an agenda for last year’s, more m ilitant and more difficult to pacify for the greatest labor struggle since the post-war p. m. on Saturday, this conference police. at Luxemburg, Belgium which he the conference and decided to issue with empty promises and patriotic demagogy. It days; possibly, as General Johnson predicted, “the was raided by city and state police. Democratic Holland has been attended as the representative of a manifesto to the international w ill encounter fierce resistance from the industrial worst epidemic of strikes in our history”. In this The orders for this disruption came guilty of the same crime which once the Spartacus Youth organizations working dass movement denoundng overlords and their mercenaries, and this, in turn, impending struggle the masses w ill confront a differ­ from the chief prosecutor in Amster­ earned for imperial Germany the of the United States.) the actions of the reactionary Dutch w ill call forth great resources of working class cour­ ent attitude on the part of the Roosevelt administra­ dam, acting under the direction of contempt of the masses of the world. The international youth confer- regime and1 calling upon a ll organi­ age, endurance and sacrifice. The im pending class tion, the NRA and all the rest of the governmenal the minister of justice. Passports Just as Bismarck and Bulow turned ence, called by the youth section of zations to voice their protests. battles w ill mark an important step on the road to machinery. Once the strike wave takes on real scope were inspected. About twenty for­ Russian revolutionaries over to the the Independent Socialist Party of the class awakening of the American workers and, and militancy, once it become^ clear that the old On Wednesday, February 28th, eign comrades were arrested, al­ Czarist Ochrana, so the Dutch gov­ Holland for the purpose of discuss­ consequently, to their political organization. game of ballyhoo and promise does not suffice to stop the conference convened. The fol­ legedly because they had no resid­ ernment has delivered young Ger­ ing the international situation and the strikes, the iron hand w ill come out of the velvet lowing organizations were represent­ ence permit. After being question­ man revolutionaries into Hitler’s The emergence of the automobile workers as the the tasks of the youth, was dispers­ glove. The Government w ill demonstrate very quick­ ed by delegates: ed at the Laren prison, a majority hands. That means they have de­ vanguard of the impending struggles invests the entire ed two hours after convening by the ly whose side it takes. 1. The Youth Secretariat of the of the young comrades were taken livered these revolutionaries up to labor movement with a new force of incalculable en­ Dutch police, acting under the in­ A ll the forces of the capitalist order w ill be lined Internationalist Communist League, to the police headquarters at Am­ jail, concentration camp, the terror ergy and power. The machine proletariat, the most structions of the Minister of Justice. up against the workers. These include not only the representing the youth sections of sterdam and deported to Belgium dungeons of the Nazis — perhaps to powerful and dynamic section of the class, hitherto On February 24th, noon, delegates Government from top to bottom, but also the entire two days later. Four German com- death. unorganized and quiescent, is bestirring itself and representing independent socialist (Continued on page 4) upper stratum of the official labor leaders. In break­ organizing for action. No wonder the politicians and and communist youth organizations This is not the first case. Only ing through the net of the NRA and coming directly the conservative labor leaders scurry like rabbits in from over fifteen countries of Eur­ a short time ago an anti-Fascist who to grips with the capitalist masters, the revolting fear of the strike! Once the machine proletariat ope and America, gathered at Am­ had escaped from a concentration workers w ill also collide at every turn with the con­ National Tour of Mass Delegations gets into mass action the relations of capital and sterdam, and in a body proceeded camp was driven back over the Ger­ stricting barriers of he A. F. of L. structure and the labor, as well as the internal situation of the labor to the town of Laren, one hour man border by the Dutch police. treacherous policy of its leaders. At the crucial mo­ movement, w ill undergo a pronounced charge. A trade away. The policé entered the con­ On CW A Work It is not alone the International­ ment these leaders w ill fight the strikes openly. Many Shachtman Builds union movement dominated by the factory proletariat ference while it was in the stage of ist Communist League and the So­ of the strikes w ill be branded as “outlaw” movements would be too wild a horse for Green & Co. to ride. organizing itself, arrested the 19 For the New Party Go to Washington cialist Workers Party which are and w ill have to proceed independently. foreign delegates and drove them affected by this shameful persecu The NRA machinery, as such, failed to satisfy the In this prospect of stormy struggle of the mass­ tion. Every German enemy of Fasc­ auto workers or to hold them back. It required the away by bus to the Laren ja il. There Mass delegations of CWA workers es, with enemies assailing them from every side, with ism, every exile, whatever his pol­ direct intervention of President Roosevelt to effect a the delegates were divided into two Reports of prepartions for Shacht­ from New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, the government; taking off the mask and the labor itical position is also menaced. This postponement of the general strike scheduled for groups, one remaining at the Laren man meetings in the important Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cam­ leaders showing their true colors—in this stormy atrocious act, should be a warning Wednesday. The breakdown of the NRA in the ja il and the bulk of the delegates cities all the way to the Pacific den w ill converge on Washington, movement the working class of America w ill find it­ to the international working class. situation is a powerful blow to its prestige. The ex­ transferred to the investigating coast vie with the reports of suc­ Saturday, March 24th and unite in self, clarify its aims and march with seven league Taking place in “democratic” Hol­ press determination of the automobile workers to prison at Amsterdam. cessful meetings already held on the presenting their demands to Hop­ boots on the path toward revolutionary action. The land, it is a signal begin at once, strike for the enforcement of their demands signal­ German Delegates Landed oevr to national tour. Outstanding is the kins and Roosevelt. formation of a revolutionary party which could aid without delay, to resist this march izes a profound change in their attitude toward the H itler Police fact that he has, amongst the many Hopkins’ instructions to State and guide this process is the most important task of of reaction. NRA. the hour. other important activities, spoken relief organizations, the gist of Four German comrades who re­ Workers of all countries, all anti- upon invitation before various work­ which appeared in the press March mained in the Laren ja il were sum­ Fascist parties and organizations ers organizations. In Dorchester, 20th, make clear even to the most increase the cnances of both to win marily handed over to the Hitler must raise their voice# in protest Mass., a well attended meeting of conservative workers what the gov­ against the bosses. police by the mayor of the town, against this accomplice’s service to New York Taxi Drivers Continue the shoe workers club listened to ernment’s program w ill be if the despite the active intervention of the bloody Hitler regime. There Hostile to NRa comrade Sneevilet of the Revolu­ the viewpoint of the League on workers do not stop it. "Between The general strike of the taxi- 1,500,000 and 2,000,000” persons w ill must be brought upon those respon­ Militant Fight For Union tionary Socialist Party of Holland trade union questions. In Tonaw- drivers occurs during, the prepara­ be on work relief, Hopkins says, sible a pressure so pow erful th a t and a member of the Dutch Parlia­ anda N. Y. a fine meeting of the tion of a local code for the industry, which, translated into practice, such crimes must not and cannot be The taxi drivers of New York A complicating factor is the in­ ment. The delegates transferred local Unemployment League, with rhe code provides a twelve dollar means at most one out of four on repeated. City are striking back at the grow, dependent owner-driver, for whom under heavy guard to Amsterdam about one hundred in attendance, minimum, and its other provisions CWA now w ill continue. ing menace of company unions. The a strike against the fleet owners is (three Germans, two Norwegians, voiced its approval of the message are of a similar generous nature. The rates w ill be at a minimum Panken-Ernst “settlement” of the an opportunity to reap a golden har­ two Americans, one Frenchman, two presented by comrade Shachtman The attitude of the taxi drivers to­ of 30c an hour “provided that week­ February strike left the men with­ vest. There are enough independ­ Belgians one Swiss and one Pole), by insisting upon another engage, Lining Up For Big ward the NRA is one of hostility. ly earnings shall not exceed the out recognition of their union and ent cabs in New York City to break were deported to Belgium, after re­ ment on his return trip. In Chel­ The Regional Labor Board, which budget”, employment is limited to constituted an encouragement to a strike. In the former strike the maining for two days in prison sea, Mass., he spoke to a meeting of functioned so well against the hotel 24 hours a week, and Hopkins esti­ May Day Edition the fleet owners to proceed with union attempted to prevent the in­ where they were severely Cross- the Labor Lyceum having an attend strike, is trying to intervene by ar­ mates that wages in large cities— the organization of company unions. dependents from working. In the examined, photographed and finger­ ance o f 120. ranging converences to settle the Which in theory are to have the One of the largest, Parmelee, pre­ present strike they’re trying to work printed. The biggest and most spirited O f the M ilita n t strike. The union has expressed highest wages—“w ill be about $12 sented the men with an ultimatum: out a sort of compromise arrange­ If the “democratic” Dutch re­ its willingness to attend the confer­ meetings so far were held in Can­ a week.” And for the overwhelm­ Either sign up in the company ment. The union is trying to organ­ gime thought that by this dastardly The issue of April 28th w ill be a ences, but the fleet owners have not. ada. In Toronto a mass meeting of ing majority of the unemployed, if union, or get out. The men struck, ize the independents into the union act they had thereby prevented the special May Day issue. It w ill con­ The men should be on guard agains? 300 was followed by a banquet net­ they can get it— Home Relief. Demonds of the Union and has come to an agreement with actually convening of the confer­ ting some funds not only to help tain special material appropriate for any attempt on the part 0f Herriek Faced with this pauper wage un­ After eight days of an indecisive them by which the independents pay ence they were to be rudely dis­ cover expenses of this widely ex­ the general significance of May 1st. and Golden to play the same tricks der pauper conditions, the CWA struggle, the union called a general three dollars a day each into the appointed. While jn prison the tended tour, but also to finance some and for its special significance this on them which they played on the workers could have chosen no more strike. The estimates of the re­ treasury of the union. confined comrades prepared for the in itia l steps toward establishing our year in view of our efforts to build hotel strikers and other workers. propitious time for marching on sponse vary from 27 to 45 thousand. reassembling of the deported dele­ Canadian section on an autonomous the Fourth International and a new There is yet no sign of an attempt The impending strike of the auto Washington. The New York delega­ The main demand is recognition of gates and the holding of a confer­ basis. In Montreal over a hundred Communist Party in the United on the part of the union to spread workers is of the utmost importance tion is being organized by a joint the union and abolition of the black ence. Luxem burg was chosen as workers attended Shachtman’s States. the strike to other sectors of tarns- to the taxi drivers. Not only is the its meeting place. On Monday, Feb­ committee of the Associated Office list. Economic demands have been meeting. We want to feature a long list of portation. In our opinion this is a issue of the right of workers to or­ & Professional Emergency Employ­ put forward and are substantially ruary 26th, the deportations were revolutionary greetings to the New necessary step which should be car­ ganize in their own organizations The main subject on the tour ees, Association o f C iv il W orks Em ­ the same as those advanced in the effected and on Tuesday evening a Communist Party of the Fourth In­ ried out without delay. The work the same, but both have exactly the covers the new party project. The ployees, Emergency Workers in Ad­ last strike, providing for a minimum plenary session was held by the de­ ternational and its banner bearer, ers of the F ifth Avenue Coach Com­ same enemies in the most direct and tour is part of a concerted drive by ult Education, Tenement House wage o f $22 a week on the day s h ift, ported delegates under illegal con­ The Militant. We expect that all pany are smarting under the tyran­ immediate sense. The Parmelee the League. The problem of the CWA Employees, and the Workers and $25 on the night; maximum ditions at Luxemburg. the branches in the League w ill send ny of the company which has im­ Company is owned or controlled by new party and our views in regards Unemployed Union. Mass meetings hours, no discrimination against Conference Reorganized such greetings in their own name posed a company union on them and Cord Motors, makers of the Auburn to it are being presented to the Am­ and rallies have been and are be­ negro drivers who are allowed to The original conference was init- and that the organizations sympath­ through the use of pies prevented and Cord cars. General Motors erican workers by comrade Shacht­ ing held throughout the city and drive only cabs which by their dis­ tated by the Independent Socialist etic to the League w ill do likewise. them from voting for an independ­ owns outright the Terminal cabs man in the public meetings. scores of thousands of leaflets dis­ tinctive markings are recognizable Party Youth of Holland. With the Individual comrades, sympathiz­ ent union in the recent NRA elec­ and controls, through a weighted trib u te d . as having negro drivers. events in Holland, it became dear In St. Francisco and Los Angeles ers, and friends may also wish to tions. The issue for which the taxi mortgage coverage system, the Ra­ In order to leave and return the Picketing has been organized at that the conference would have to big- prepartions are under way to send such greetings. The comrades d rivers are fig h tin g is the same one dio cabs. same day and spend as much time the garages and squads are out on be completely reorganized. The utilize to the fullest extent the first who solicit greetings should care­ for which the Fifth Avenue Coach The strike of the auto workers as possible in Washington, the Joint the street to prevent scab cabs plenary session decided that the League speaker to cross the con. fully explain that where a comrade Company w ill struggle tomorrow. w ill shake the auto industry to the Committee has chartered a special from trying to break the strike. The conference, while having its origin tinent. The balance of the schedule does not wish to have his name ap­ An appeal to them must find a warm ground and increase the chances for train. The fare is $4 round trip. spirit of the men is militant and in Holland was actually a new con­ on the outgoing part of the tour ap­ pear in print his request w ill be response. Serious and energetic ef a successful outcome of the taxi A ll OWA w orkers are asked to come they are clear on the central issue ference, and resolved to hold it in pears on page two. complied with. In such cases we fo rts to p u ll them out on the same strike. The two struggles are really and raise funds to send other work­ involved; a working class organiza­ suggest that the greeter use another issue have more than a fa ir chance one. The workers should be united ers from their job. A drive is be­ tion controlled by them, or a com­ name or initials or simply some sig­ of success. A common fight would in fraternal bonds of solidarity. ing made to get indorsement and nature such as “a friend.” pany union. The Strange Adventures of Insull funds from trade unions and other The greeting rate are as follows: woikers and fraternal organizations One inch, one column—One Dollar; ed to sell the paper on this day The doings and goings of Samuel secretly departs by himself, char­ to pay or supplement fares of the Two inches, one column—$1.50; should be carefully organized now. Court Hits A t Substitute Teachers Insull, formerly of Chicago, more ters the freighter Maiotis, and away lower-wage CWA workers. Five inches—$3.00; For two column You w ill need a much larger recently resident of Athens, Greece, he sails. The Stalinist-controlled “United greetings the rates are double. In­ number of papers than you take About 7’00 New Y ork C ity high In this struggle it was assisted by and decidedly well known to cer­ Such flaunting of Greek regula­ Action on CWA” responded to the d ivid u a l names—$.25. now. Please send in your order for school teachers, fu lly licensed, but the conservative administration of tain United States utility stock, tions could not be tolerated by the Washington call by going into com­ May 1st, as always, w ill be the the additional copies as soon as you compelled by an “economy”-seeking the Teachers Union which contribut­ holders, has flared excitedly on the Greek government. When the ex­ petition with it. At a mass meet­ occasion for demonstrations, pa­ can and MAKE SURE THAT IT IS Board of Education to work as sub­ ed funds and sent a speaker to a headlines of newspapers these past m illionaire’s disappearance was dls- ing March 19th at Stuyvesant Cas­ rades, mass meetings, lectures, ACCOMPANIED BY PAYMENT stitute at a lower rate of pay than mass meeting. The administration few days. I t seems th a t on Wednes­ covered a wireless was dispatched ino, the previous “face” for the forums, and social affairs. The FOR THEM as our financial situa­ the regularly appointed teachers, of the union, saw in the factional day afternoon, M arch 14th, 1934, to the captain of the ship ordering Stalinists, the Federation of Arch­ opportunity for the distribution and tion is still such as to make it im­ were turned back in their fight for division of the unemployed an op­ the 74 year old gentleman surrepti­ his immediate return. An airplane itects, Engineers, Chemists and sale of The M ilitant w ill be excep­ possible to undertake the printing permanent jobs by a decision of the portunity to strike at the U. T. A. tiously slipped out of his Grecian with machine guns was placed In Technicians, receded into the back­ tionally great. From the political of a larger issue unless it is paid Appelate Division of the Supreme which is hostile to it and to which home. Although reported sick in readiness in case the captain should ground and the Unemployed Coun­ point of view it is a first class op­ for IN ADVANCE. The bundle Court on March 16th. it is hostile. While it supported bed suffering from heart attacks, cils came forward. The Stalinists prove stubborn. The cables from portunity to strike a blow for the order rate for this issue w ill be the Several months ago the teachers te fight of the Eligibles Association the indomitable Insull was not the shoved through a motion to boycott Athens failed to mention Whether New Party. The machinery requir- same, one cent a copy. went to court to compel the Board it refused to have anything to do man to be kept down. the Washington delegation. Instead, the navy war vessels were mobiliz­ to make appointments in conformity with the case of the U. T. A. With the police guarding the the Unemployed Councils decided to ed, but we assume as much. Any. with the law. Supreme Court Jus­ building, how he managed1 to make send its own “United Action” to The Unemployed Teachers Asso­ way the ship returned. The Qacstion of the Honrl tice, Wasservogel handed down a de­ his getaway is subject to various Washington a week later! This is ciation tried to rally mass pressure cision in favor of the teachers. The versions. One story has it that he Now, it was believed, InsulTs re­ a typical continuation of the disrup­ behind its legal fight. It held a Board of Education appealed the escaped through the back door, while call would mean that the agents of tive activity of the Stalinists in number of mass meetings, organized decision and won its case. The another states he left by the front the United States Department of the unemployed movement during THE PROGRAM OF THE protests at the sessions of the Board teachers are now making prepara­ door in disguise. One can have his Justice would at last get him. But the years of the crisis. of Education, and was instrumental tions to carry the fight further. choice or develop his own- hypo­ alas! The M aiotis had been recaU- The answer of ail m ilitant Work­ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL in getting a number of organiza­ thesis. We are inclined to think ed but not for that purpose. The ers is to support the Joint Commit­ There are some lessons which the tions to send protest telegrams to that the two versions are credible. ship returned, Insull’s papers pro­ tee’s “On to Washington” drive and a Lecture by teachers can draw from the fight the judges who heard the case. Like Back in Chicago, Samuel had learn­ perly stamped, the prestige, of the join the delegation on Saturday, which they made. One of the most its prototypes, the Unemployed ed that a front door disguise plus Greek government saved, the regula­ March 24. Any time up to Friday important Is the fact that they con­ Councils it succeeded, more than a back door method could accom­ tions duly observed, and Insull night, arrangements can be made JAMES P. CANNON ducted a divided struggle. The pro­ anything else, in demonstrating its plish something, and why not in sailed away again. to go, at the headquarters of the ceedings were instituted, both by or­ impotence in face of the Serious is­ Greece? For what port is InsuU sailing? Joint Committee, 22 East 22nd St. IRVING PLAZA HALL ganizations of unemployed teachers, sue and its sectarian isolation from Insull was to have been deported It is rumored he wishes, to go to —EMERGENCY EMPLOYER. the High School Eligible Associa­ the main stream of the teachers movement. from Greece under the Undesirable Abyssinia. There it is said they 15th Street and Irving Place tion Influenced by the Lovestoneites, Aliens Act. There had been several want him as an advisor in the Buy a PIONEER PUBLISHERS- and the Unemployed Teachers As­ Of these facts the teachers should postponements due to his alleged building of power interests In CERTIFICATE- It’s only $5 and sociation which follows a Stalinist take careful note. The first prere­ SUNDAY, MARCH 25th, 8 P.M. policy. sickness. Instead of waiting to be Africa. The spirit of emulation has entitle you to 40% discount on our quisite for a successful struggle to publications and to a 20% reduction properly and legally deported in seized some of the Abyssinian offi­ Admsisior? 15c Questions and Disscussion The Eliglbles Association conduct­ ; secure relief is unity, unity among accordance w ith a ll th e G re e k re­ cials. If it can be done, in Chicago, on any bosk jwWtohad by other ed a strictly legal fight placing its •the unemployed, and unity or the gulations, the ungrateful Insull why not in Abyslnnia? —€L B pubUAsis. faith in the “processes of justice”, employed and unemployed. —t L I t . w m u m SATURDAY MARCH M, 1934

Greek Workers’ Club Organized Labor Organizing the Home " Protomagia" Australian Youth M A R C H OF Under the NR A The Gresk Worker« Ciub “Pro- tomagia” now has its own head­ EVENTS Relief Workers quarters and reading room at 633 Organizations Company Unions Gain Under Eighth Avenue, Manhattan (between MANHATTAN HOUSING. the N B A About three months age a group •f tho werker* to th* first «all for 40th and 41st Streets).. Despite the existing conditions, i C. of the party without question. A survey of collective bargaining of workers in the Emeregncy Hama organization, they immediately call­ which are favorable for organizing No critical thought is allowed un­ East side, West side, the firetraps Relief Bureau, under the pressure ed a meeting of the PROVISIONAL less it is in accord with the party of Manhattan have taken their toll under the NBA was made by the The headquarters are open from the youth, we find that the major­ of intolerable working conditions COMMITTEE and there laid their decisions. The unit meetings are a of sixteen lives of women and chil­ Industrial Conference Board. The noon to midnight every day. Food ity of the young Australian workers and miserable wages, called an plans for “capturing” the organiza­ replica of party meetings; the same dren in recent weeks. Horrified survey showed that Company Un­ and refreshments are served all are unorganized. open meeting of Home Relief work­ lengthy reports and theses are dis­ working class mothers and children, ions made bigger gains since the tion. They also drew up a “pro­ day at the counter. A ll comrades The small section of the youth ers for the purpose of laying the gram” to present to the organiza­ cussed, and the same amount of ac­ aroused to realization of their aw­ inauguration of the NRA than the are invited to drop in any time. which is organized, is chiefly cen­ unions of the workers, and that in­ basis for organization. tion, which however never saw the tered in the bourgeois sports organ­ tivity is expected from the young ful plight, have demonstrated » * * * dividual bargaining still hold the light of day, since it was so far izations or other sporting bodies worker recruit as from a party mem­ against these conditions brought As a result of this meeting an In­ Next Sunday night, March 25th, dominating place in the American short of the program presented by which pretend to remain neutral, ber. about by the landlords’ greed and itiative Committee was elected and at 8 P. M., Arne Swabeck w ill lec­ scheme of class relations. the Initiative Committee. such as the V .M. C. A. and factory have demanded enforcement of the the E. H. R. B. Employees Associa­ ture at the Headquarters on “The YOUTH SECTIONS A canvas o f 3,314 companies, em teams. law. And in good old muck-raking tion was formed. For two years Before the INITIATIVE COM­ Lessons of the Austrian Events' For several years there has been ploying 2,585,740 wage earners, es­ Even the Australian Labour Party, style, so effective in capitalizing prior to the formation of the Asso­ MITTEE was disbanded, it bad won Admission free. Questions and dis­ much talk within the party of or­ timated as 27% of the total num ciation, the C. P. members working the recognition of the Administra­ which has the support of the major­ misery to build up circulation, the cussion. ganizing a youth section in every New York Evening Post investigates ber employed in manufacturing and in the Home Relief Bureau, although tion as well as a 25 to 50% increase ity of the workers in Australia, has fraternal organization. The Y. G. * » * * and exposes the landlords responsi­ mining, showed the following per­ constituted as a UNIT, never called in wages for all Home Relief work­ only recently establised A. L. P. L. drafts a few of their none too The Club intends to hold regular ble, none other, of course, than the centages : any open meetings of Home Relief ers. It also won the re-instatement Younger Sets. However, these numerous comrades into a fraternal lectures every Sunday night and to elite of society, the wealthiest fam­ In d iv id u a l Workers. The extent of their ac­ of 54 of 76 dismissed porter-watch­ Younger Sets are essentially social organization, and these represent conduct an agitation among the ilies, the Stuyvesants and Astors bargaining 1,181,000 46.7% tivities constituted in issuing wild, men as well as a few minoç con­ clubs, which occasionally pass re­ the youth section. They busy them­ Greek workers to enroll them for and Wendels. Employee repre­ ultra-Left leaflets distributed by cessions. These concessions, which solutions of confidence in “Jack selves around their office, Issue a active participation in the class These old tenement houses “paid sentation the Unemployed Councils, calling were granted by the administration Lang” the leader of the A. L. P., and few circulars; possibly recruit a struggle. for themselves” many times over Collective bar­ for a general strike, etc. No address in order to forestall further organi­ sell buttons during election cam­ few petty bourgeois elements who * * » • w ith the e xorbita nt rents squeezed gaining 1,164,000 45.0 was given where worker» could zation, however had the opposite paigns. They are neither more nor haven’t the courage to join the Y. Announcements of other activities out of the poor. But the landlords Labor union communicate with them. Every­ effect. Within a month 3500 work­ less than sporting and electioneer­ C. L., and that is the sum total of w ill appear in subsequent issues of nave ever an eye for the main agreements made 241,000 9.3 thing was done in a very secretive ers were enrolled in the organiza­ ing outfits. their activities. Why? Because The M ilitant under this heading. chance, in this case the unloading Their report says, “the most and underhand, manner. Later they tio n. Vain attempts have been made by there is no basis for such youth or­ Watch for them. of an investment that no longer pays striking result of this survey is the began signing the leaflets with the Just as soon however the PRO­ the Young Communist League:—Aus­ ganizations. It is just as hopeless on the city. So Vincent Astor, “lib­ relatively small proportion, of em name of PROVISIONAL COMMIT­ VISIONAL COMMITTEE, which tralian section of the Young Com­ as forming youth sections in strike eral” host during Roosevelt’s vaca­ ployees found to be dealing w ith the TEE, giving the address of the Of­ munist International—to organize committees or defense committees. managed to get themselves elected tions, comes forward magnanimously employers through an organized la­ fice Workers Union. Needless to to the most important posts in the the youth at various times, and it is Some o f the organizations th a t are to offer his many tinder-boxes to bor union” ___“Employee represen­ say these tactics had a very disast­ organization (by 6 votes) in the city these attempts that we shall en­ supposed to contain youth sections Shachtman LaGuardia at any price at all— say, tation (company unions-ed) appears rous affect on the workers who be­ committee), by virtue of their com­ deavour to deal with in this article. are:—the Minority Movement; Uni­ “to be fair”, two-thirds or three- to have made considerable progress came very wary and suspicious when ing in as a bloc, took over the reins Since the Y. C. L. claims to be ted Unemployed Councils; League quarters of assessed value, imme­ in the large companies” ---- “ I t is later approached by the Association. of the Association they started a the political vanguard of the youth A gainst Im p e ria lism ; F. O. S. U .; diately fifty other landlords follow cle«*r th a t in d iv id u a l bargaining has Seeing the tremendous response vicious factional campaign against Tour section of the working class, and I. L. D., W. I. R., etc. suit. To understand this overwhelm­ not in any way been eliminated everyone who dared disagree and maintains that it is based on Marx. On the basis of what is mentioned ing burst of generosity one need only by Section 7-a of the Recovery Act oppose their policies. This cam­ Schedule ism-Leninism, it is necessarily an above, coupled with practical ex­ remember th a t assessed values are ___“In the contest for popularity paign tok the form of vile character The schedule for the tour, in addi­ expression of internationalism, and perience of working in the Y. C. L., far higher than present real values; between the two methods of collec­ assassination and name calling tion to the cities already covered, only by comparing its Australian we have come to the conclusion that that the high land values in Manhat­ tive bargaining, the employee repre­ 919 which disgusted and drove away the is as follows: section with other sections can we the Young Communist League which tan act as an insurmountable bar­ sentative plan appears to have won non-partisan elements. At every Sat., March 24th—Minneapolis & arrive at a correct estimation of its sets itself up as the political van­ work. rier to the rehousing of families in the initia l advantage.” meeting of the City Committee an­ St. Paul Minn. guard of one section of the working • * * * the slum districts; that whereas other representative from one of the Sun., March 25th— Minneapolis. MEMBERSHIP class; is simply a juvenile Commun­ Green Admits the NBA Cannot dwellings have increased in all the N e w Subs! C. P.’s numerous paper organiations Mon., March 26th—Minneapolis. From what we know, there is no ist Party in a mutilated form. Help Beal Wages other boroughs, they have decreased appeared and demanded to be given Tues., March 27th— Minneapolis. country in the world, except the The March issue of the American Sixty-five more new subs came in SUGGESTED ORGANIZATIONAL by more than live thosuand in Man­ the floor either to ask for contribu­ Wed., March 28th— Duluth, Minn. Soviet Union, In which the Y. C. L. Federationist admits that the NRA FORM hattan in the past five years; that last week bringing the total up to tions for a march to Washington or Thurs., March 29th— is In any way strong numerically, cannot help the workers obtain an 919 and b ring ing us w ith in 81 subs The following is a brief outline “recruiting” for the slums has de­ for a “United Front” (C. P. style) Fir., March 30th—Winnipeg, Can. or near the size of the Party. Its increase in real wages and that the of our goal of one thousand. of what we consider a superior creased with the lowering of im­ against one thing or another. Sat., March 31st—Winnipeg, Can. membership is continually fluctuat­ trend of real wages is downward. method of Working among the youth. migration. The mouths of the land­ The subs received last week: Sun. April 1st—Winnipeg, Can. ing and has no ideological level. Of course the Federationist does not Disruptive Tactics That the youth question be taken lords water for the cash to be Boston Br. 16 Mon., April 2nd— In Australia, numerous young admit that one of the many things up By a youth department set up handed out by the R. F. C. for slum Oakland B r. 12 Discussions on these questions, Tues., April 3rd—W illiston, N. D. workers have been attracted to the the N R A was designed tQ accom­ within the party. clearance. On top of this the City F. Berensmeier 8 although important in themselves, Wed., April 4th— League, but it has never managed plish, is a real wage reduction of Such depts. to have the task of offer to tear down free, for the Chicago Friends of were nevertheless irrelevant to the Thurs., April 5th— Portland Ore. to retain any but the careerist ele­ the workers w ith as little resistance organizing youth clubs on similar landlord, with the aid of CWA work­ the Militant Club 8 immediate problems facing the or­ Fri., April 6th—Portland, Ore. ments and a few sincere comrades. and as few strikes as possible. Green lines to the Spartacus clubs, em­ ers, all firetrap. tenements which Q. P arker 5 ganization. And when workers saw Sat., April 7th— This is mainly due to the fact that and Company, as agents of the cap­ bracing social ahd educational ac­ should have been razed years ago W. Sukut 4 that the meetings never even get Sun., A ^ril 8th—San Francisco. the Y. C. L. has established itself italists in our ranks, carry out this tiv itie s . by the landlords. Yes, c h a rity does New York Local 4 around to discussing the first point Mon., April 9th—San Francisco. as the “Communist Party of Youth”, task through the NRA class colla­ The youth dept, would pay at­ oegin a t home.' Philadelphia Br. 4 on the agenda, due to the intrusion Tues., A pril 10th— San Francisco which drives out elements who, boration machinery. tention, to anti-m ilitarist work, or­ Davenport Br. 4 of delegates from other organiza­ Wed., April 11th— though class-conscious, ar0 not yet CUBA.— The Federationist says: "In gen­ ganizing the children, and all other tions who insisted, with the help of Thurs, April 12th— Los Angeles. prepared to be so active, or to ac­ eral there has been no increase in Such phases of youth work. The situation of the organizations T O T A L «9 the Stalinist officers, on dissipating Fri., April 13th— Los Angeles. cept discipline, as a party member rea l wages__ The codes w ill not The political lead should come of the Cuban workers, the trade un­ The complete record up to date the time at their disposal, they re­ Sat., April 14th— Los Angeles. would be. The sincere young rev­ safeguard real wages. ...The gov­ from the political party, thus doing ions in p a rtic u la r, has become des­ fo llo w s : fused to come to meetings and be­ Sun., April 15th—Los Angeles. olutionaries, who are prepared to ernment monetary policy points to­ away with duplication and con­ perate. Mendieta, the “strong” New Y ork Local 388 came inactive in the organization. make sacrifices, soon become dis­ ward diminishing real wages.” fusion. man, the puppet speaking with the Minneapolis Br. 106 The insanity of these tactics can Shachtman Tour San Francisco gusted with the political passivity voice of Wall Street is atempting to Green and Company do not howl Kansas C ity B r. 48 On the question o f a new Y. C. I. best be appreciated, when it is real­ of the Y. C. L. and want to join carry out the mandate granted him because the wages of the workers Boston B r. 32 MASS MEETING we are of the opinion that the work ized that the majority of the work­ the p arty. by U. S. imperialism. He aims to w ill be reduced. They how l because P ittsburgh B r. 32 ers are from the white-collar strata Of the Y. C. I. could well be man­ INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE break the backbone of the Cuban they are afraid, if the capitalists do New Castle B r. 24 with a definitely petty-bourgeois “TOWARDS A NEW REVOLU­ aged by a Yohth Bureau within the working class by first smashing its not give them a greater share of L. Brown 20 TIONARY PARTY IN THE U. S.” Y. C. L . Fourth International. background and no previous organi­ organs of struggle on the economic collaboration in the Code Authority Chicago Friends of TUESDAY Evening, A p ril 10, 1934 The League reflects all the inter­ We hope that you w ill print this zational experience. The non-par­ front, the trade unions. bodies and the Industrial Relations the M lita n t C lub 16 tisan elements seeing that vital pro­ a t nal diseases of the party. Bureau­ as a discussion article in the M ili­ cracy is rampant. We find that in­ The Cuban Revolution, the ach­ Board!, they w ill not be able to keep Oakland B r. 12 blems affecting the organizations LABOR COLLEGE HALL tant or the youth paper Young in check the rising discontent and dividuals possessing no political Spartacus. ievement of the Cuban masses, is a t Philadelphia B r. 12 were relegated to the waste basket 1254 M arket Street strike struggles in the making. ability, are elevated to the leader­ (Submitted by Australian com­ stake in the present struggle. Only Davenport B r. 12 for discussions on the “United the working class, leading the peas­ J. H am ilton 12 Questions Discussion ship because they are willing to rades of the International. Com­ Front” with the Relief Workers ants and the oppressed masses, can A Teacher 12 ADMISSION FREE carry out the Instructions of the C. munist League). International Workers League and the Unemployed Coun­ save the Revolution by carrying it Chicago B r. 12 cils—before they were even suffici­ forward. A strong united front of Youngstown B r. 12 ently organized to participate ef­ the workers of town and plantation School Notes Q. P arker 11 fectively in such actions—walked TROYANOVSKY - 1916 AND 1934 must be cemented by the building F. Berensmeier 8 out of meetings in disgust. Several Two New Courses Are Being Started of Soviets, the weapon of defense F. Simlngton 6 precincts withdrew from the organi­ In 1916, when Lenin and T rotsky country independently then they T his Week tion limited to the arena of his of the workers. The united front M. Steinbeeh 8 zation and others, although organ­ can have no strong motives for 1. Elementary Bussian: This is were struggling to reorganize the own state, w ill be cramped by the of 'the oppressed has the immediate D. Marcus 8 ized, have refused to join. collapsed international labor move­ standing by the workers of other a course for beginners to be given interests of the labor movement aim of defending the democratic D. L . 8 ment, Alexander Troyanovsky, now countries in their socialist strug­ by comrade S. Weber. The first The depths to which these sterl­ of his own country, and he w ill rights won by the downfall of Mahc- J. Ruby 8 Soviet ambassador to the U. S. A., gles. An international) built on lose all interest in the Interna, session w ill commence at 4 P. M. ing “revolutionists” w ill not go to ado, in particular the right to or­ G. Pagern» 8 published in Zurich, Switzerland, a such principles must fa ll apart at next Sunday, March 25th. win their objectives is difficult to tional and internationalism. (The ganize and strike. The workers the first transition from words 2. Public Speaking: This course S. H ardy * imagine. This can best be illustrat­ pamphlet entitled Do We Need An italics are Troyanovsky’s). are now on the defensive but, de­ L. GtelMea 8 about international solidarity to is exclusively for Left Opposition­ ed by the fact that although they International? There he vigorously “International solidarity would spite the Caffery-Mendieta machina­ G. K o tz 6 deeds, (p. 8 ). ists and members of the Spartacus themselves take every precaution to assailed Karl Radek and his “dis­ then remain at best an ideal for tions, the struggle has not yet ter­ Los Angeles Br. 6 ciple,” Lenin for their theory that Youth Club. It is intended to train hide the fact that they are "Com­ "If the workers of the various the remote future. For the unit­ minated. Mendieta can still be pre­ M. Hurwite 6 speakers for our SPEAKERS’ BU­ munists”, even going to the extent only a socialist revolution could countries are to reach thè social­ ing of proletarians of all coun­ vented from consolidating power Buffalo Br. 4 REAU. The thirty members who of denying it—without being press defeat imperialism, called them “ex­ ist order through different door­ tries we would have to await the completely if the masses can be ral­ G. E llis 4 have been assigned are requested to ed for a statement of belief—print tremists” and deserters of the class ways, without being forced into socialist revolution, after which lied in the struggle for democratic D. Fogel 4 be on time next Sunday, March 25th attacks on other Communists in the struggle, criticized the Zimmerwald joint socialist struggles to break there w ill be no more proletar­ rights. But this struggle must be M. Gendelmaa 4 and Kienthal Conferences for being at 1 P. M. The course w ill be con­ Daily Worker, giving their political down barriers constituted by ex­ ians and the international, itself directed along the road to Soviets. C. Hoffman 4 insufficiently internationalist, and w ill no longer be needed... (p. 12) ducted by Comrade J. Weber. and organizational affiliatons. And isting international conditions, * • • * T. M ill 4 then they dare call other workers offered instead a program, formu­ then, strctly speaking, there can “Deny Necessity of International” THE JAPANESE-ENGLISH Salt Lake City Br. 4 AH other classes are well under “stool-pigeons” ! The Administra­ lated, according to Troyanovsky’s be no talk of workers’ solidarity “If we visualize the social rev­ TEXTILE NEGOTIATIONS W. Toupin 4 way but each lecture is self-contain­ tion, no doubt, is very grateful to statement, by Kautsky. and of a common goal of the olution as the individual task of In the war of currency deprecia­ H . Sukut 4 individual national partes and re­ ed, thus permitting those interested them for this information. There is no need to go into all workers' movement in the various tion for the purpose of extending W. Sukut 4 to attend individual sessions. Needless to say they have been that old dispute. History has re­ countries (p. 8). gard as impossible a class strug­ foreign markest, Japan started the D. O’Dwyer 4 gle against imperialism waged in * • * * too busy with their factional activ­ futed Troyanovsky if nothing else “An International Scientific Society” earliest and gained the most. She Trad« Union Strategy and Tactics M. McLeod 4 ity to do any real work in the or­ has, and now he takes off his hat the spirit of international solidar­ gained the most because her foreign “Under such conditions, the in­ Comrade Swabeck w ill present St. Louie Br. 4 ganization. Since the INITIATIVE every time Lenin’s name is men­ ity , then we m ust deny the neces­ trade forms so large a percentage of ternational would inevitably be interesting material in his next two L. Murphy 4 COMMITTEE has been disbanded tioned. There is space, however, to sity of an International and ad­ her economy and since inflation transformed into an international M. Koehler 4 and they have had control of the quote a few important passages vocate the division of socialism made her goods dirt-cheap in world lectu re s: sdentino society dealing with 1. The revolutionary struggle in O. Genfan 4 organization nothing has been ac­ from Troyanovsky’s pamphlet. Ac­ into a series oi national socialist markets, she was able to drive all R. Cerleon 4 questions of the labor movement, the labor movement. complished. Many of the problems cording to our author, Lenin’s movements disconnected from competitors out of the market. The maintaining information bureaus, 2. The movement for the eight on which the INITIATIVE COM theory of imperialism led to an at­ each other.” (p. 32). bulk of Japan’s exports are textile and, finally, calling occasional T O T A L »1« MITTEE had begun negotiations titude of offering “no resistance to Clearly Troyanovsky did some goods, cotton and to a less extent hour day. congresses w ith solemn proclama­ Wednesdays 8 P. M.—-March 28th Can we reach the goal e l 1000 with the Administration, such as imperialism, to the exploitation of pretty lavish “interpreting” of silk. The cheapness of Japanese tions of the principles of socialism new subs on the Club Plan this pay for sick leave, which was pro­ one country by another, or even to Lenin. The national-reformist at­ cotton goods has resulted in an am­ and April 4th. and ovations to veterans of the • * • • week? We are counting mi it. mised—and some proceedure for the domestic reaction growing out titude Troyanovsky attacked—"so­ azing loss of business for the British socialist parties of the various History of the Russian Bolshevik What do you say? collective bargaining with the ad­ of imperialism”, fle continued cialism in one country”, perfunc­ textile mills. The largest Empire countries. Such an international P a rty ministration, have not been pressed th u s ; tory internationalism, separation of market, India, was flooded with Jap­ cannot be the international of a Comrade Wright w ill deal with WHITHER ENGLAND? There also remain the other points workers along national lines, etc., anese textiles until the outcry of Troyanovsky Accuses Lenin unified w ill, a real common strug­ events that every class-conscious on our program which have to be etc.—was* as has been plentifully the English capitalists brought the Pioneer Publishers have just re­ “This abandonment of resistance gle, and a consolidation of the worker should understand thorough­ fought for, such as: demonstrated1, not Lenin’s. Tro­ threat to close this market com­ ceived a supply of the English edi­ proletarians of all countries for ly : 5-day week and 6-hour day for to imperialism not only does away yanovsky’s attack was beside the pletely to Japan. Japan retaliated tion of “Whither England?” by L. joint intervention in internation­ 1. 1965—the Dress Rehearsal for all Home Relief Employees. with the necessity of the inter­ mark. Now all that is history. The by declaring a boycott on Indian D. Trotsky. Price 96 cents per national as an organization of in­ al affairs. In a time of interna­ the October Revolution. 80-day sick leave through the USSR, having made terms with the raw cotton. copy postpaid. ternational proletarian action. In tional conflicts no sign of life can 2. The Tears of Revolution (1905- working year—with fu ll pay. U. S. A., sends as Ambassador T ro ­ The negotiations for a “truce” on principle, it leads to an estimate be expected from such an interna­ 1M T). A month's vacation to all em­ yanovsky, the old “internationalist,” a world scale continued in London tional. Just where theory ends Fridays 8 P. M. — March 2*rd ployees with one year’s service— of socialism as a national task to who, arm-in-arm with Kautsky, at­ but the Japanese, in the superior SPECIAL NOTIC* and practice begins, this interna­ ahd March 81st. and those with less than a year bs carried ont w ithin the confines tacked Lenin “from the Left.” position, wanted to lim it the truce The fu ll page artlelo by com­ of existing states by the working tional w ill be impotent. Should * * • • on, per diem basis, with pay in * • • • to British Empire markets only. The rade Trotsky in a recent m u­ some energetie, decisive interna­ Fundamentals and Communism advance. class forces of such states. The Well, Ambassador Troyanovsky, result was the breakdown of the tant, with its devastating sum­ tional action be needed, then the Comrade Abern continues his Two weeks pay #* dismissal. social revolution thus ceases to what about socialism in one coun­ conference and the problem has now mary ef the 18th Plenum of the course with Ieetures on: The organization to have to right be aa international matter, the true nature of this scientific so­ try now? Are you still as bitter as been taken from the hands of the E. C . C . I., has evoked a demand ciety w ill be tihown.... (p. 11). 1. The Bourgeois Revolution and to review a ll eases o f dism issal. result ef a unified international ever against it? What about an in­ capitalists into those of the dip­ tor its re-publlcatlon In cheap the Working Class Those demands ean only bo won straggle of the proletariat of the “An international labor organi­ ternational whose Congresses are lomats. Unquestionably the Jap­ pamphlet fem . Os* sympathk- 3. The Marxian Analysis of Cap­ by a leadership whoso interest is the entire world', and becomes a goal zation with such ideas w ill and merely perfunctory—or never held anese w ill lay down political condi­ er h a t offered to contribute $10 ita list Development. welfare of the Home Relief Work­ to be reached by the seperate ef­ cannot educate the workers in the at all? What about breaking up tions for concessions in trade that for this purpose. If $18 more Mondays 8 P. M. — March 26th ers and not the sectarian interests forts of the proletariats of sep­ spirit of international solidarity, socialism into a series of national w ill involve the stand of England can be secured we w ill proceed and A p ril Sad. of ”l3th Street”. Toward this end erate countries, independent of and cultivate them into members movements, lim iting the horizon of in the imminent war. If Japan can Immediately with the publication a progressive group is being formed the nature of existing interna, of the future socialist society, the worker, postponing solidarity obtain England’s promise to check­ of this brilliant article as a small tional conditions, (p. 7.) GRammercy 5-9524 - - - to fight for a class-struggle policy, which must be built on the basis until after the revolution, and all mate the U. S. in the matter of ally­ pamphlet. Bend contributions to of the fraternity and unity of na­ This is. the phone number of the and against the disruptive activities T4 the rest of it? And finally, your ing with the Soviet Union against PIONEER PUBLISHERS tio n s ___The horizon of the work- M ilitant, The Communist League ef the Stalinist leadership 1st the “If the highest goal ef ail eur question o f 1916, do we need an Japan, the latter may hesitate no 84 Jtost. lttfc fttrm t W who has aceeptod the dogma of afcfi fhse itrtarnattenat Wcnfetm àBWBtl'IlttW». weris, serialise», oaa and must he Ihtematisnal? longer in her planned attack. aehisvtt by tbs werkers st sack the pootdblllt|r of » sostai rotàia- School. —HARRY STRANG. —JACK WEBER. SATURDAY M&ÜCH 24» «*34 THE MILITANT P A C E 3

isons and Jeffersons consistent rev­ olutionaries whom we have to save from the “misinterpretation” of the O n eYear of Roosevelt’sNew Deal bourgeois prolessors. Space does Communism and the Intellectuals not permit me to go into an explana­ The Technique of Serving the Exploiters and Fooling the Masses, tion of the Great French Revolu­ 2. A Program for the Intellectuals tion, its similarités and dissimilar­ The Demagogy of Roosevelt Program exploitation do not yield them with­ The B ig Interests and the Codes ities with the American Revolution, (Ed. Note.—This is the second iganism ,” and some phrases in the ground has been discovered than On the first anniversary of the out a struggle. We are not unmindful of the fact Suffice it here to state the following of two discussion articles by one article). We trust that other ar­ concrete activities within class- New Deal four thousand gentlemen President Roosevelt declares that that the big fellows, the steel trust, tacts: there were really two revolu­ of the signers of the Open Letter ticles w ill follow, and honest dis­ struggre organizations. in control of industry and finance social conditions had previously the automobile corporations, and tions within the ¡¿cope of what is to the Communist Party on the cussion. From them many intellec­ Does that mean that we must or­ gathered in Washington to be har­ been perm itted w hich allowed vast others like them, resisted the indus­ Known as the Great French Rev­ Madison Square Garden affair.) tuals w ill emerge with a clearer, ganize intellectuals into private, angued and cajoled. “We must con­ sections of the population to exist trial codes of the New Deal. But o lu tio n : th a t of 1789 led by the It is the credit of the Left Op­ more fundamental political under­ separate intellectual organizations? sider immediate cooperation to sec­ in an. un-American way, which al­ they resisted them in order to obtain oourgeois Gironde and that of 1793 position that it sees the problem of standing, the essential basis for true A thousand times no! No sincere ure increase in wages and shorten­ lowed a mal-distribution of wealth the modifications they desired, to ied by the petty-bourgeois Jacobins the intellectuals who are in a state revolutionary action. revolutionary party w ill repeat the ing of hours”, said President Roose­ and of power. In his book “Look­ insert their company union clauses Our R evolution o f 1776 was not fo l­ of open or suppressed rebellion Discussion Not Enough completely impermissible practice against tbe Communist Party as a ve lt. V e rily , th a t m ust have been ing Forward”, he says: “I believe and merit system clauses, by which lowed by a revolutionary Jacobin But the major part of the prob of the Party in organizing intellec­ serious challenge to a il working-class spoken entirely in defense of the that the government, without be­ they could more securely maintain wave, but by reaction, for the Con­ iem still remains. Discussion is tuals’ committees, leagues, etc., as groups who believe they bold tbe forgotten man—at least so it ap­ coming a prying bureaucracy, can their power of exploitation and pre­ stitution was, broadly speaking, not enough. The bedrock of any permanent political bodies. These keys to tbe revolutionary future. peared. act as a check or counter-balance vent counter-action by the workers. the document of the counter-revolu­ program for intellectuals must be cribs of tbe revolutionary demi- The article in the M ilitant offers Before the same gathering Gener­ of this oligarchy (the ’few hundred Even now the apparent pressure put tion. The Jacobins, though they practical, concrete work with and world have served only to infect in­ the aid of the Left Opposition in al Johnson argued against the com­ corporations’ and ‘fewer than three upon them to give up their company cleared the ground for the bour­ for workers on the class-struggle tellectuals with a host of diseases: rearming “in the service of the pro­ pany union. But he made his dozen banks’ which control our unions presents the substitute of geois order, were trying to repre­ front. Concurrently there must be snobbish condescension; political letariat these intellectuals who.. reasons perfectly clear. “We know”, economic life) so as to secure in­ reliance upon their own agents in sent the sansculotte. It was exact discussion of tbe Marxian theory sophistry, cynicism, and ignorance; might otherwise lose contact with he said, “something about what is itiative, life, a chance to work, and labor’s ranks—the Greens, the ly this contradiction in internal and its application: free discussion, isolation from workers; self-dis­ the m ilitant working-class.” toward in this country—the worst the safety of savings to men and Lewises, and the Berrys — as a make-up plus, of course, the fact criticism and democratic decision trust; “juvenile Macbivollianism” ; The M ilitant offers a concrete toadyism. T his does not mean th a t epidemic of strikes in our history women, rather than the safety of more effective means of keeping the that there were not the material upon proposals and plans are an proposal which not only constitutes .... I would rather deal with Bill exploitation to the exploiter, safety masses in subjection. requisites for such a transfer of essential part of sound action. But intellectuals should not be encour­ an excellent first article for a rev­ Green, John Lewis, Ed McGrady, of manipulation to the manipulator, On the whole the demagogy woven power that caused the downfall of activities for working class ends are aged to join economic struggle or­ Alike AlacDonough, George Berry, olutionary program for intellectuals, ganizations in their separate pro­ safety of unlicensed power to those around the New Deal policy has a the Jacobins. both the core and goal of any rev­ but can serve as an essential basis and a host of others I could name, who would speculate to the bitter distinct purpose. It is under its Long ago Plekhanov correctly olutionary program. fessions. Unions for teachers, for future activities. Tbe Garden than with any Frankenstein that end with the welfare and property cover that the real measures to estimated the Jacobins : writers, etc., yes. But no more in­ you may build up under the guise incident, tbe M ilitant asserts, has And the fact is, though the Party tellectuals* clubs. of other people.” salvage the badly dislocated capital­ “Private property and the petty o f a company union. deeper roots and consequences than sneer who shouldn’t, that the intel­ Wall Street Not Really Disturbed ist system of production are being bourgeois purposes closely connect­ lectuals want to work. The chief Moss Organizations a Necessity "In fact—take it from me and a put over. In the make-up of this the signers o f the Open L e tte r seem And so we have the New Deal, ed therewith, forced themselves into challenge of the intellectuals to the The only healthy solution of the wealth of experience—their inter­ policy and amongst its executors, to recognize. A proper understand­ supposed to check and counter-bal­ the programs of even the most ex­ Left Opposition and similar groups problem is tbe building of sound ests are your interests and under including the ‘ braiiirtrust’ , there ing of its full implications, it main­ ance the oligarchy. Aloreover, has treme revolutionaries of that time is that they offer organizational mass organizations. Here the intel­ the law and in this modern day, it is very likely a mixture of various tains, must lead to such revolution­ not Wall Street been investigated? .... The Party of the Mountain fa il­ ary conclusions as the fundamental channels for this impulse. lectual can work with workers. This is the best and quickest way to currents. One of them is made up Was not a whole section of this ed just because of that innermost The Left Opposition is too intel­ would be tbe fu lfillm e n t of the need economic peace.” by the traditional radical liberalism responsibility of the “doctrine of crew of capitalist pirates headed by contradiction between its petty bour socialism in one country” for the ligent to make the easy answer, and desire that attracted him to the Fear Collapse of System which becomes so indignant at the J. P. Alorgan summoned to appear geois conceptions and its endeavor disastrous “united-front from be­ “Join our group,” although no doubt revolutionary movement in the first That is the rub. Essentially these effects of “socal injustice” when they before a senate investigation com­ to be a representative of the pro­ low” tactic”, and the immediate it looks forward to including with­ place, the desire to escape the fru s ­ statements are all motivated by the fear that this may bring retaliation mittee and tell why they had evaded letarian interests... .To the present- necessity of building a new Party in ranks of the new party qualifieu tration of the merely intellectual fear of decay and collapse of the from the workers, but fight might cax payments to the government? day representatives of the working- and a new International. It invites intellectual elements .To join a life; the hope of finding, in alliance capitalist system. They mean to and main against the abolition of i’hat is perfectly true. But it is one class, these contradictions are for­ intellectuals to meet with members revolutionary party one must feel with the only vital, productive class, convey the idea that it is time to its causes. They believe in thé ching to investigate Wall Sreet and eign, because modern, scientific so­ of its group in free discussion on himself a full-tim e, professional rev­ che proletariat, roots in substantial do some serious patching o f the soundness of capitalist economy, but dress the investigations up in radi­ cialism is nothing but the theoretic this and on other topics, and it of­ olutionary, and we believe that the soil and a renewed creativeness. kind which w ill reinforce its basis, want to save it from the few “bad’ cal sounding demagogy in order to expression of the unbridgeable anta fers its columns to intellectuals for great majority of the intellectuals In a mass organization, the intel­ consolidate its most essential parts and “greedy” men who have brought catch the uninitiated. It would be gonism of interests between the the publication of their opinions, and would agree that they are fellow- lectual no doubt w ill find political and strengthen its whole structure. it opt of gear. But another, and quite another thing to attempt to Bourgeoisie and the proletariat. for mutual criticism. No doubt travelers, sympathizers, intellectual guidance and education, not in abs­ This, at times, can be accomplished far more important one, is the hard- dislodge W all Street from its econ­ Exactly. And Lenin was very numbers of writers w ill avail them­ allies of the revolution, not full- tract, theoretical form, but on the most effectively by means of appar­ headed current of aggressive capi­ omic power. careful in explaining what he in­ selves of the guest, or should we fledged revolutionaries. Indeed, they job, in the struggle. He w ill if he ent concessions, presented in the talism, of ruthless capitalist expan­ terpreted Jacobinism to be; he de say fellow-traveler privileges of the have never claimed to be profes­ finds there revolutionaries not only terms of glamorous demagogy. Keep This, of course, is not at all in­ sion ready to crush all opposition fined it “as the transfer of power M ilitant columns, as this writer has sional revolutionaries. T h a t some wise and experienced, which he is the workers at a level where they tended by the investigations. On which stands in the way of a great­ to the revolutionary oppressed class, hastened to do. w ill grow In time to Party calibre not, but willing to lead him find can endure exploitation without too the contrary, we shall be able to er capitalist empire. That is the fo r th a t is the essence o f Jacobin The M ilitant article, with its of­ we firmly believe; there is material teach him not by terrorism or mech­ convulsive revolts. Work closely prove that in every respect Wall current which, in the final analysis, ism.” ten severe but always comradely here that time and experience could anically or by faith, but by patient, hand in hand with your agents in Street has been strengthened, and determines the policies of the New criticism, sets the seal of a good temper into useful theoreticians and comradely discussion and criticism, labor ranks, the respectable labor its power and all it stands for has Deal. In this sense its main feat The Struggle of the Masses example on the promise. (No doubt cadres. permitting him, also a fu ll vote in leaders, and discard your company Deen consolidated, by the advent of tures are of a permanent character Our predecessors, the artisan and you w ill permit us a criticism. Per­ making decisions. In the process, unions lest you actually pave the the New Deal. President Roosevelt and w ill count in the shaping of poor farmer, though weak in organ! Indeed, this is an important rea­ haps we are a little shell-shocked he w ill become not only an increas­ way for new and more serious said in his anniversary address: the future economic developments. zation and not constituting as clear son for having an organized program ing useful member of his mass or­ strikes and for militant unions. “No one is opposed to sensible and But as the realities of life remove cut a class as the proletariat of on the subject, but we think you of activities for intellectuals. The might indulge a little less in mere ganization, b ut he w ill be developed Such was the real character of these reasonable profits.” This means its demagogic smoke-screen, the today, accomplished the revolution, revolutionary movement needs their routine invective. We dislike the so th a t in many cases he may consi­ admonishments. that profits are to be rationalized, working masses w ill become entire­ and tried to make of it a social work above all, but secondarily it title of your article, “The Intellec­ der and be qualified to take a fur­ To say bluntly that these state­ in other words, the right of exploi­ ly disillusioned. That process be­ revolution ; it was through their needs them, the best of them. And tuals Revolt against Stalinist Hool­ ther political step. ments are motivated by fear of the tation is to be stabilized on a basis gan already during the first year pressure that even such democracy no other training and testing decay and collapse of the capitalist which will insure it against too of the New Deal. as we now have was established But more important than the deed system may seem e n tire ly unsub­ violent disturbances and shocks. —ARNE SWABECK. They acomplished this in bitter of the intellectual and his political stantiated. Are not the authors of struggle against the bourgeoisie. It THE BRITISH HUNGER M A R C H future is the crying need of the the New Deal enjoying the confid­ 'O*o*o#o«c*oaof; is this heritage of the struggle of working-class itself for such mass organizations. There are tremend­ ence of the vast majority of people the masses (the people) that we On Saturday, February 24th, 2,000 confine the main activities of the ous immediate problems facing the from all walks of life? Is not the accept. Once more I refer to the hunger marchers from all over the marchers to the vicinity of Parlia­ working-class; the defense of class- President still extremely popular French Revolution and how Marx­ country moved into London and at Discussion Article ment but they also obtained the fu ll war victims, relief to strikers and even in the humblest of working ists interpreted bourgeois achieve­ the same tim e 1,400 delegates from flood-light of the press for them­ their dependents, the fight against class homes? Does he not seem to ment. trade unions, political parties, CO' selves, a very necessary thing for war and Fascism. Only mass or­ represent their fears and their de­ Listen to Trotsky: operatives, etc., assembled in Ber­ Maxton and company. ganizations built on the sound basis sperate hopes? Undoubtedly this O n the Resolution of the National Youth Committee mondsey for the Congress of Action. “In general the bourgeoisie, In So fa r as the Bermondsey Con­ of union of all elements willing to must all be answered in the affirma­ From North, South, East, and West, the proper sense o f the term , op­ gress is concerned, it is hard to con. fight on a common limited program tive. But it does not in the least The thesis of the National Youth private property was a progressive the unemployed marchers brought posed the peasant revolution w ith ceive of anything substantial com­ of activities can enlist the forces settle the question of what the New Committee contains the formttla- step historically as compared with greetings from their fellow-victims all the power it had... .Through­ ing from so loose a body of repre­ necessary for m ilitant and success­ Deal is, for whose benefit it oper­ tion : “It is essential in the educa­ feudal private property. But when of capitalism and despite a bitter out the five years (1789-1794) the sentatives who merely represent the ful broad struggles. Today the ates, and the motivation behind it. tional and propaganda of the Spar­ the bourgeoisie try to put the word, yellow press campaign, the local peasantry rose at every critical fringe of the movement, the real working-class movement is ham­ The Ballyhoo Technique tacus Youth Clubs and Young finis, on human history, now that trade unionists and cooperatives moment of the revolution, prevent­ machinery being safely left in the strung because no such organiza­ Spartacus, American revolutionary their aims are realized; when the had rallied to the aid of the march­ One of its brilliant critics has said ing a deal between the feudal and tions exist. traditions, bourgeois and' working- bourgeoisie calls the proletariat hands of the bureaucracy of the that it is suggestive of an adven­ bourgeois property holders__ The ers all along the road. Labour Party and Trade Unions. class, play a predominant role.” who try to go one step further and The responses of the puny sectar­ ture on a rocking horse, that it is Parisian sansculotte, pouring out ’’Congress of Action” The Congress declared for strike It is my opinion that this formu­ totally abolish private property ian groupings to the increased needs unreal, and that it does not remove their blood for the republic liberat­ action but before this line could be lation is confusing right from the “the coarse rabble”, it is the Marx­ On the same day, the Congress of of the past years have revealed the causes of “social injustice”. ed the peasant from his feudal successful it would have to be car start, and serves only as a hind­ ists who beg to remind these gentle­ Action passed a resolution calling their impotence. Yesterday, such Standing alone, that is of course chains.” ried out upon a national scale com rance to the education of the youth. men that force has always been the for work or maintenance and the organizations as the W. I. R., the not sufficient as a characterization. I repeat : it is this heritage of bining political with industrial ac­ My reference is particularly to the midwife of history ; that the bour­ delegates pledged themselves to use I. L. D., the League against War The New Deal is not intended to struggle of the masses everywhere tion in the form of a political gen phrase, “bourgeois revolutionary geoisie accomplished their aims, as every means in their power, includ­ and Fascism were parodies of “uni­ remove the causes of “social injus­ that we accept. And this heritage eral strike. This requires not only traditions.” had the feudal lords before them ing strike action, to smash the new ted-front” mass organization. Under tice”. Only the successful conclu­ w ill find its realization when the a thorough permeation of the trade One encounters these days many and slave lords before them, by unemployed insurance bill. The the impact of recent events they lie sion of the class struggle can re­ now full-grown proletariat will unions but also a powerful political references to these “bourgeois rev­ forcible means ; and that they could marchers stayed in London for a today in ruins. move this. And here is the import­ sweep aside the now impotent and p a rty capable o f leading the masses olutionary traditions”. Demagogues not have done otherwise. And that week and a deputation headed by ant question : What does the New reactionary bourgeoisie from the in a direct struggle for power. But Build Mass Organizations Now! and reformists of all shades exhort we “reserve the same right” to ac­ Maxton, MacGovem, and Hanning- Deal mean to the workers? To un­ h isto rica l scene. I t is th is message in Britain there is neither a party It is not too much to say, we be­ the misery-stricken workers and complish our greater aims. Does ton called at 10 Downing Street in understand this it must be examined that we bring to the American work­ lieve, that the test of all political farmers to find salvation by follow­ that justly our including in the order to interview the Prime Min­ or a communist-permeated trade un- in its economic aspect, from the ing-class youth. When we Ameri­ ion movement, and unfortunately groups who claim to know how to ing the footsteps of their “revolu­ thesis a call to study “bourgeois ister. But Ramesy MacDonald was point of view of its function in so­ canize Marxism, we bring to the build revolutions! lies in this prob­ tionary forebears”, the Madisons, enjoying himself at the British In­ Bermondsey was a poor substitute. cial and class relationships, as well revolutionary traditons” ? No, that American working class the mes­ lem. Mass organizations are th« Adamses, Jeffersons and Company. dustries Fair and so the unemploy­ Comintern Reply to I. L. P. as from the point of view of its only helps to confuse the matter. sage of Marxism, of proletarian rev­ most imperative need of the work, They lay claim to the Declaration For what we emphasize, above all, ed' were denied the opportunity of ballyhoo and demagogy, expressed olutionary internationalism, not a At the Congress the I. L. P. and ing-class today; through them runs of Independence, the Constitution, is that they utilized revolutionary seeing the Premier. both in words and action, which is vulgar flag-waving speech. We do the C. P. endeavored to keep on good the road to a new party and the the American flag itself. “A ll this”, means to accomplish their aims, The I. L. P. representatives then intended to maintain illusions in not make the confusion of the youth terms but the arrival of the Comin­ revolutionary future. they say, “belongs to the American raised the question in the House of the workers’ minds. Each one of with which the proletariat can have that is trying to free itself from the tern reply to the I. L. P. letter has people. This is what they under­ nothing in common, just as they Commons and they obtained the Intellectuals are ready, we be­ these aspects requires separate bourgeois point of view foisted upon opened up hostilities again. Signed stand.” Away with the imported support of the Labour Party and lieve, to join with all political treatment. In this article we con­ utilized the extravagant rhetoric him more confounded by speaking by Kuusinen, this latest epistle from Marxism of the Reds.” There is a of the Declaration of Independence a section of the Liberal Party. They working-class groups who w ill join fine ourselves to the demagogic as­ of “American revolutionary tradi­ Moscow contains nothing new. To rich experience of late with this when they needed to mobilize the desired the approval of the mem­ with them in a sound mass organi­ pect, leaving the others to subse­ tions, bourgeois and proletarian”. become a sympathizing member of sort of stuff, what with the latest masses fo r the revolution but th at bers of Parliament for a deputation zation. Intellectuals do not ask for quent articles. At best, this is a misleading phrase, the Communist International, the “Continental Congress”, and the flag once the masses accomplished the of the hunger-marchers to address Leadership in such an organization; While the New Deal machinery an unfortunate wording, and ought I. L. P. need not accept the 21 con­ waving at unemployment and trade revolution, they sought to consoli­ the House and also that the Prime they w ill take their places in the creaks and groans as it is put into to be stricken out from the thesis, ditions as formulated by Lenin but union conferences. Because of this, date their power and foisted the Minister shall receive the marchers rank-and-file, and if and when they motion, there is a certain revolu­ which should be a guide to action, must prove in practice that it is as­ it seems to me, our thesis should adoption of the Constitution upon in Downing Street. Both proposal« earn responsible posts they w ill be tionary flare attached to its basic not confusion. sisting the work of the C. I. and strive more than ever to explode, were turned down by the Tory maj­ proud to fill them. They are not philosophy. It is acclaimed by the masses w ith a ll the fraudulent —RAE SPIEGEL. it must carry on a fight “against with the weapons of Marxism, this ority and when Buchanan, Maxton, altogether unexperienced: they have some as “a new social order”, by means we now designate as Tam­ the Second International and the re­ and MacGovern taunted MacDonald fought at Harlan, at Washington, others as “disciplined democracy”. spurious Americanism for the Am­ many and at which our “revolution­ formist leaders of the trade unions WILLIAMSBURG MASS MEETING with episodes from his past career and at Scottsboro. They have use­ President Roosevelt calls it “an erican working class. ary forefathers” were masters in­ and come out decisively against all as the alleged champion of the un­ ful gifts: they can write publicity economic constitutional order”. It Liberal Phraseology deed. F rid a y, M arch 23rd, 1934 attempts to create new internation­ What we emphasize is what Marx derdog he replied by pointing to the and pamphlets; they can raise has even elevated to a basis of re­ The liberal phraseology of the WHY A NEW COMMUNIST als” emphasized in 1849; when the Na­ Labor Party Conference and Trade money; some of them can do minor spectability the method of abrévia­ Jeffersons and Madisons is essen­ INTERNATIONAL? tional Assembly passed the Faucher Union Congress—those two bodies The leaders of the I. L. P. are organizational jobs. And they are tion of names by initials, formerly tially the same as the Liberal bill against the right of associa­ Prominent Speaker had also refused to allow de­ accused of being anti-Soviet and to willing to learn. considered to belong only to the phraseology of the Roosevelts. Just tion, although the constitution guar­ Auspices : Communist League of Am. putations from the unemployed, and actually "reflect the foreign policy Many of these intellectuals would Bolsheviks. We have now the NRA, as Roosevelt, in the interests of anteed all Frenchmen the right to Williamsburgh Branch Ramsay finished his speech by loud­ of the British Government”. They prefer to work in a mass organiza­ the AAA, the PWA, etc. An ingen­ bourgeois private property, deludes tion whose purpose is defense. Their organize : 58 Manhattan Ave. ly denouncing the hunger-marchers are also accused of holding back ious middle-class mind has suggest­ the masses with words, and tries “What the constitution, first of as dupes of the Communist Party. the rank and file of the I. L. P. from interests and their experience hap­ ed the addition of a tax-payer’s to cover up the class struggle, so the ADMISSION 15 c all, was to have constituted was Having tried constitutional meth­ joining the Third International. pens to lie in the struggle for class- SOS. Madisons and Jeffersons, in their the rule of the bourgeoisie. Evid­ ods without result, the leaders of war prisoners, and against Fascism. N ot 4 “Revolution” time, acted in a similar manner, the I. L. P. Conferences ently, the constitution could there­ THE MILITANT the marchers now attacked the rul­ They would be interested to know difference being that at the time of | Meanwhile, the divisional area Donald Richberg, the counsel for fore mean by the right of associa­ Entered as a second class m all ing class with vague threats of if the L. O. and other m ilitant pol­ the Madisons and Jeffersons, these conferences o f the I. L . P. have been the New Deal, says that it is “a tion only such associations as were m atter November 28, 1928, a t the other and more militant tactics” itical groups think this is the most demagogues had a progressive role Post Office at New York, N. Y. Un­ held in London, Lancashire, York­ revolution not in purpose but in in harmony with the rule of the but all that happened was a demon­ fruitful field’ in which to begin. to perform. The fight for independ­ der the act o f M arch 3, 1879. shire, and Lyneside. A ll these con­ method.” Suchi statements are in­ bourgeoisie ; i. e., w ith the bourgeois stration in front of Buckingham Pal­ In any case, we urge on the L . O. ence from England was a progres­ Published Weekly by the Com­ ferences rejected affiliation to the tended to catch the gullible worker, order. If, for reasons of rhetori­ ace and a fu rth e r spout o f o ratory that it consider this problem as ar­ sive fight. But what is even more munist League of America Third International while the pro­ discontented with things as they cal decorum, it expressed itself in at Hyde Park, after which the mem­ gent and immediate. We should important for the proletariat of to­ 126 East 16th Street, New York, N.Y. posal to form a Fourth Internation­ are. The New Deal could', of course, general terms, was not the govern­ bers went home by train. like to hear whether it is willing day to remember is that it was the Phone: Grammercy 5-9524 al was also turned down. The pre­ to join with other political groups, not be a revolution in purpose, a ment and the National Assembly artisan and farmer who in the main A Peaceful Demonstration sent middle-course position of the revolution which does away with there to interpret it in specific Vol. V II, No. 12 (Whole No. 216) and with the intellectuals, on an formed the fighting forces of the In contrast to previous hunger- party found favour everywhere but agreed program for defense (or capitalist property rights and the cases? And the C onstituent Assem­ SATURDAY, M ARCH 24, 1934 Revolution, and tried to make of it marches this latest venture was a in Lancashire a resolution calling power of exploitation. This is the bly decreed that the violation of EDITORIAL BOARD some other im p orta nt need) in a a social revolution. The aim of most peaceful demonstration awak­ for a return to the Second Interna­ non-partisan, united-front mass or­ only revolution wihch means some­ the text was the only adêaqute Martin Abern James P. Cannon even the most extreme bourgeois Max Shachtman Maurice Spector ening a considerable amount of tional was carried by 21 votes to 16. ganization, based on m ilitant class- thing to the workers. Such a rev­ rea liza tion o f its lite ra l sense.” olution Is not engineered by the revolutionists were linked up with Arne Swabeek sympathy for the hard lot of the The leaders of the I. L. P. have not struggle principles, democratically Lenin on the Jacobins capitalist rulers themselves. They the institution of private property, Subscription ra te : 51.00 per year unemployed hut leaving them just yet revealed their attitude but the carried on and controlled? are its bitter* opponents. Nor do Which institution, of course, it is There are comrades who think $0.50 per h a lf year — Canada where they were before the march Easter Conference of the party may Comrades, we await your answer. revolutions come about peacefully. the aim of the proletarian revolu­ that because Lenin said the Bol­ and Foreign? $1-50 per ye a r; started. The parliamentary leaders follow the divisional conferences in And your concrete proposals. Those in possession of the capitalist tionary to overthrow. sheviks were proletarian Jacobins 75c to j e l* months. o f the I. L. P. were the real victors favour of a waiting policy. —A SIGNER OF THE frepecty rights and the power* of The establishment ef capital!«* that juttlÉM Mir «ailing the Mad­ Bundle rates otic cent per copy. e f tke Mtrok, f*r net eubr t!4 tkar 1 . C. A m ru # t viMi««.. A 6 E 4 THE MILITA I1 SATURDAY, MARCH Í*«-,

EDITORIAL Revolutionary Youth Meet in International Conference at Luxemburg the perspectives of the Stalinist union, must respect The Fu rriers’ Problem the attitude of the majority of the workers who sup­ (Continued from page 1) and worker youth to the support the it possible, with the acceptance oi I I V :l I* VOG •: whpn wii. and following such an event to then our proposals on the new interna­ tinued to carry the- banner of in­ port it and fight in the ranks beside them. The Love- the I. C. L. which could not send N many respects the situation in the fur trade, re­ conference on principled questions tional, to agree to the motions. ternationalism and proletarian rev- stoneite policy must bo rejected with contempt. delegates. I ported by a correspondent in last week’s M ilitant, * * * * declare and work for the new inter­ All the other organizations pre­ oultion. It must be an active body presents a unique trade union problem. The right of 2. The American, French, Bel­ Inside the Stalinist union, however, the m ilitants nationals. The comrades argued sent — with the exception of the alive to tbe needs of the hour. the workers to join an organization of their own gian, German and Swiss sections of should fight for a realistic policy that would open up that while they agreed to the neces­ Norwegian Workers Party— accept­ Because of the hurried character choosing, the cardinal principle at stake in many of the I . C. L . the perspectives for success in the struggle which are sity of the new international, it was ed the theses. As a re su lt the basis of the conference it was unable to the labor battles now taking filace or impending, is 3. The Socialist Youth Associa­ not too bright with the present policy and leadership. not the decisive question. They for the creation of two buros be­ discuss separately, nor to work out clearly at issue. The Fur department of the Needle tion of Germany (SAP). A head-on fight against the A. F. of L. in a compara­ proceeded to divorce the question of came non-existent. These decisions a concrete program of action on the Trades Industrial Union (T. U. U. L.) has the great 4. The Workers Youth Associa­ tively small and isolated sector of the needle trades the new international from the of course remain provisional, de­ war danger. Similarly with the majority of the organized workers on its side—but tion of Norway (NAP). reduces the struggle of the furriers to an endurance agitation for the principles of com­ pendent upon the actions of the or­ question of Fascism and the strug­ no recognition from the bosses and no agreement with 5. The Mot Dag group of Nor­ contest in which the odds are on the other side, A munism, as if such a separation was ganizations represented at the con­ gle to win the mass of working •the bosses’ associations. The In te rn a tio n a l F u r way. - broader and more flexible strategy is necessary. possible.. ference. youth. These are fundamental ques­ Workers’ Union (A. F. of L.) has an agreement with 6. The R evolutionary Youth As­ The heart of such a strategy is the fight for unity, The SAP concluded their discus­ tions that have to be acted upon the bosses-—but only a few hundred members and no sociation of Holland (RSP). Appeal to A ll Revolutionary Youth not only of the furriers but of all the needle trades sion with the proposal: to accept and solved by the leading body. It real support of the workers. 7. The Socialist Youth Associa­ their thesis which did not contain With the above political basis must begin at once with an inter­ workers. Nobody in his rig h t senses can im agine tion of Holland (OSP). . On the face of it the attempt to impose the Inter­ the necessary declaration for the laid, the conference proceeded to national campaign to popularize the that such unity is to be realized under the banner of 8. The Youth Group of the Com­ national on the furriers is an attempt to force them new international and the new youth the more practical questions of the decisions of the conference, to win the T. U. U. L. As things stand now, after the recon­ munist League of Struggle, U. S. A. to accept an organization chosen for them by the international. Following the ac­ future. It was decided by the con­ greater support for them, to initiate stitution of the I. L. G. W. and the affiliation of the By a transfer of mandates, the bosses. How can there be tw o opinions as to ceptance of this, to elect a buro, ference to extend invitations to all an international campaign against Amalgamated to the A. F. of L., it should be cleatf youth organization of the PUP of the stand the workers should take on such a ques­ with a secretariat located at Stock­ independent revolutionary youth or­ the daqger of war and the Fascist which way the stream is flowing. The furriers ought France, and the Roumanian Asso­ tion? If the bosses are to be allowed1 to decide which holm which would have as its tasks ganizations, including those organi­ reaction. It must work out a pro­ to aim deliberately to connect themselves with this- ciation of United Socialist Youth union the workers should belong to why not let them the work of rallying the broad zations within the official interna­ gram o f ra lly in g the w ide masses of main stream and influence its further development. were represented. Holland had re­ tionals, who show leftward1 tendenc­ specify a company union and be done with it? That, * * * * masses o f youth around the banner proletarian youth. In a word the fused to admit the representatives In our opinion, is the ’fundamental issue although it of the principles contained in the ies, to. attach themselves to the* de­ leading body must build a genuine In order to do so it is necessary for them to of the Independent Communist is somewhat obscured by numerous complicating as­ thesis. Then, in order arrive at a cisions of the conference. The Buro, Communist youth international. overcome prejudices against affiliation to the A. F. Youth organization of Sweden, who pects of the situation. concord w ith the ICL, they proposed the conference decided, should con­ Thq youth organizations of the of L.—prejudices against the course of a mass move­ had sent telegraphic” greetings of * * * * an additional resolution proclaiming sist of one member for every na­ Internationalist Communist League ment are quite futile anyway. It is likewise neceS' solidarity from Copenhagen, and tional section adhering to the de­ An exactly analogus case is not to be found any­ the necessity of the new youth in­ w ill do all in their power to further sary to make a sharp break with any sense of obliga­ transferred their mandate to the where in the American trade union movement. The ternational and to elect a buro loc­ cisions of the conference. Because this work. The buro can rely upon tion or loyalty to the T. U. U. L.—this paper pretense Mot Dag group of Norway. fur workers, a small section of the needle trades ated in Paris to work for the reali­ of its international character the our active initiative and support in of a labor movement is not worth anybody’s loyalty, ICL is to be represented by three as a whole, constitute the only section where the Reports of National Sections zation of aims of the resolution. this direction. We feel confident Once this correction in the orientation of the Left members. Stalinist Industrial Union has the majority of the wing furriers’ union is made its position in the strug­ With the opening of the confer­ Standpoint of I. C. L. that an application of the decisions organized workers. In the other trades the organized gle w ill be strengthened and the way w ill be opened ence it was found that while a These proposals were unaccept­ It was further decided to create of the conference, a persistent ’and a secretariat of this buro, consist­ masses are in the A. F. of L. unions; uotside the fur- for a number of effective moves to get out of the pre­ smaller number of delegates were able to the delegation of the I. C. L. intense activity on the part of the rires, the Needle Trades Industrial Union, like all sent blind alley. present, actually, all the organiza- which decided to rejeet the motions. ing of three members and made up buro and the sections adhering to the other Stalinist unions, leads an isolated, sectarian First, it can demand a'charter from the Inter­ tions assembed in Holland were re­ To us it was inconceivable that the of representatives of the Socialist the conference, w ill make possible and futile existence devoid of any future. national with only one condition: that the local re­ presented at Luxemburg. The first proposed Paris buro could carry on l’outh Association (SAP) the Inde­ the creation of a mass ' Communist - Besides that, the leadership and internal regime tain its autonomy and the right to choose its own point on the agenda was a series of an intense activity for the new youth pendent Communist Youth of Swe­ youth international based on the den, and the Internationalist Com­ of the furriers’ section do not speak for its future officials. If that is refused, a proposal can be made reports by the national sections on in te rn a tio n a l w ith o u t a t the same principles of Marxism. munist League, with its center at either. The paralyzing bureaucratism—character­ to unite the two local organizations into a single body the status of their organizations. time working and agitating for it on —ALBERT GLOTZER. Stockholm. This secretariat would istic of all Stalinist organization— to say nothing of affiliated to the International and, consequently, to These reports showed that in almost the basis of the principles of com­ have as its tasks the practical carry­ the systematic errors—also .characteristic of Stalin- the A. F. of L., with officials to be elected in a super­ all the countries present active and munism, which could not and should ing through of the decisions of the ism— weigh in the scale against the union and mark vised election of the united organization. Third, the vital organizations and groups ex­ not be separated from the question ^ Correcrion conference and the buro. it for the same doom that has befallen all the other Left wing union can declare its intention to campaign isted with a w ill to reorientate the of the new international. The exist­ To the Editor of The M ilitant: Stalinist unions. The Stalinist party, which con­ for the amalgamation of all the needle trades uhions proletarian youth movement. ence of two buros of this character Thus, the conference dispersed by Dear Comrade: trols the furriers’ section of the Industrial union, has into one industrial organization affiliated to the A. The reports formed' the introduc­ would only result in a dualism of the Dutch police, became a reality Shown an infinite capacity for disrupting and destroy­ tion to the political discussion. The work. through the efforts of the ICL and In cutting down my article “Or­ ganizing the CWA White Collar ing mass organizations, none whatever, in any field, * * * * political discussion of the interna­ The Stockholm buro which would the SAP. After a day of sharp and .Workers” (March 17th) to about to build and. maintain them. In supporting the In­ If such proposals are made known to all the fur­ tional situation and the tasks of the stand1 on the position that the social intensive discussion of a comradely half its size, the blue pencil pro­ dustrial Union in the fur trade as long as the major­ riers, and combined with a widespread agitation for youth was the most important .ques­ democracy and Stalinism were bank­ character, we succeeded in over­ duced some errors. Particularly, in ity of the organized1 workers prefer it to the A. F. of unity throughout the needle trades, they w ill awaken tion of the conference. Here was ex­ rupt, would carry on its work with­ coming the differences of the con­ telescoping the last part of the arti­ L.: body, the revolutionary militants in the trade a hearty response from the workers, strengthen the pressed the opinions of the various out te llin g the workers w hat to do. ference, and arriving at an agree­ cle into one paragraph, I was made should not close their eyes to all these facts. sagging morale of the Left wing and put an enorm­ organizations present on the basic We demonstrated that to wait until ment which makes possible for. us to say: “The Lovestoneites must be * * * * ous pressure on the officials of the International, in­ question of What to do. In the mass national organizations were to go a step forward. But it must forced to break their bloc with So­ The role of the Lovestoneites in this situation is cluding their Lovestoneite come-ons. Either -— these course of the discussion apparent in existence before building the hew be stated very clearly that the con­ cialist and reactionary elements”, particularly revealing, both as to the ultimate logic officials w ill be compelled to accede to the demand of agreement was reached by the dele international could lead to nowhere, ference and its decisions while etc. As a matter of fact, in this of ‘ their trade union policy and as to the essentially the masses for the unity, or—they w ill be convicted gates on a series of principled ques­ and that it was inverted “interna­ marking a tremendous step forward, particular situation, the Socialists opportunist political character of this group. The to the hilt of responsibility for the split, robbed of tions such as the proletarian dicta­ tionalism”, since the reorganization is after all only the first step. are very valuable elements; and Lovestoneites are betting on the victory of the re­ every plausible argument and completely isolated torship, the soviet system, the arm­ and reassembling of the new organi­ Great Tasks Ahead though some o f them are fo llo w in g actionary com bination o f the bosses, the N BA and from the masses who want unity more than anything ed struggle for power, the united zation of the working class could The real work lies ahead. Every­ the Lovestoneites in their unprin. the A. F. of L. and have taken steps to “get in on else. In any case the position of the Left wing union front, etc. only be on the basis of the existence thing depends upon how the buro cipled bloc, others of them are with •the ground floor of th§ boss-supported International. w ill be strengthened, and if it has to fight alone for But on the decisive question of of the international movement. We and its secretariat ' proceeds to the Progressive Group. What I said They h e ac i 3d leading posts in the International. another period its members w ill be fortified with a what to do sharp differences ex­ therefore proposed that the confer­ realize the conference decisions in in its original form was that the Th iney g "radical” face to this organization new conviction. The chances of victory w ill be m ulti pressed themselves between the de­ ence come out openly and clea rly life. This, after all, is decisive. In Lovestoneites must be* forced to Which nas no support except that which it gets from plied many times.. legation of the ICL.and the left- for the new youth international, our opinion, the executive must break with the reactionaries. The the employers. * * * * centrist elements adhering to the with one buro to work in this direc­ emulate the activities of the Inter­ Socialists belong in a progressive I he Lo e r e te policy of supporting the A. F. of The Stalinist bureaucrats in charge of the Left London Bureau (now transferred to tion. national of oScialist Youth during bloc in this organization. L. at all costs, which led them to an objective sup­ wing furriers’ union, of course, w ill oppose such a Amsterdam). Thei ICL declared Agreement on Amended Thesis —EMERGENCY EMPLOYEE. port of Lewis against the heroic struggle of the Pro­ strategy and w ill try to suppress any free discussion that, following the fundamental After an intense and protracted (Ed. Note.—The error complained gressive Miners, nas brought them to the shabby role of it in the union. But these ideas w ill make their agreement on a series of princi­ discussion, agreement was reached March Young Spartacus of above was made in the editorial of- agents fo r me fakers in the case of the fu rrie rs . way just the same. They are stronger than the ap­ pled question, and following the between the two tendencies at the office. Our correspondent was not •A.;F. ¡of L. fetishism, as a trade union policy, is false paratus of the bureaucrats because they correspond general agreement as to the degen conference. The representative of The March issue of Young Spar­ responsible and we are glad to make to the core, is tne present case, as in many others, i t to the burning needs of the workers. And, in addi­ eration and collapse of social dem­ the Socialist Youth Association (S. tacus contains articles interesting the correction and to concur with tion, they indicate the only way to save the furriers’ ocracy and Stalinism, including A. P.) proposed them to include in both to militants in the movement serves as a cover for political and personal oppor­ his opinion regarding the socialist tunism. I ne revolutionary militants among the fur­ organization from the debacle which overtook all the their youth organizations, it was their thesis the clauses for the new and tbe young workers coming to workers in the CWA.) riers, without deluding themselves in the least about other sections of the Industrial Union. —j. P. C. necessary to declare openly and youth international and the new in­ Communism. It features the les­ without equivocation the need of ternational, to elect one buro with sons of the Austrian events and in­ creating the new international and its secretariat at Stockholm, which Shachtman Tour Los Angeles tlemen of the Blue Grass country. cludes several articles on the war the new youth international. would have the task of realizing the Almost an Eden of contentment, danger, tbe hotel strike, the tasks MASS MEETING Proposals of 8. A. P. Youth decisions of the conference in prac­ HONOR AMONG THIEVES peace and' refinement. The federal of the Spartacus Youth Clubs, and The representatives of the SAP, tice. Inasmuch as the thesis in gen­ “DO WE NEED A NEW REVOLU­ report shows a different picture. report of the New York Yipsel con­ .'Postmaster General Farley, the ed upon to go the lim it in lic k s p it­ elaborating on their thesis, present­ eral renders a correct characteriza­ TIONARY PARTY IN AMERICA?” Sanitation of the worst type, unim­ vention. In addition, a story on former prize-fight commissioner, tle servility and invention. Gorify- ed the unique, and not entirely new, tion of the present world situation proved outdoor toilets, water car­ the Snow-Gang, a poem and some a t who promoted Roosevelt into- the ing “the Leader” and “the Great point of view, that it is necessary and a correct criticism of the 2nd ried- by hand, unpainted, miserable science item§ make the paper very MUSIC ARTS HALL presidency, stated Sunday that there Disciple”, Stalin, in the Daily to win the broad masses of workers and 3rd Internationals, we found shacks, abject poverty. Slums for attractive and readable. In Advance 10c, at Door 15c was more honesty and truthfulness Worker of March 10th, Minor says, the builders of cities, shacks for Plans are being made to publish among politicians than any other “Lenin built up and trained a core 233 South Broadway the growers of food, while hundred Young Spartacus as an eight-pager class of his acquaintances. In of Marxian revolutionists the hard­ of thousands of building trades regularly every month. Branches Tickets obtainable at: other words, the rest of his friends est, clearest, and best of whom, he MILITANT PLEDGE FUND workers tramp around vainly of the League and Spartacus Youth 224 S. S pring St., Room 218 are bigger crooks and' liars than nicknamed ‘Comrade Steel’ (Stal­ searching for a job. That is capital­ Clubs should immediately pay for the Walkers, McQuades, Smalls, etc., in ) ” . Our- call for weekly or .monthly pledges to help sustain The M ili­ ism in its most highly advanced their bundles. Yearly subs at the and- that’s saying a mouthful, as tant has brought some Immediate results as evidenced by tbe list LIONEL TRILLIN G We don’t know if that lie is or­ state. low price of twenty-five cents can the following recent news items printed below. Thus fa’r, the response has been from the members Noted Lecturer and W riter iginal with Minor or not. The facts easily be obtained if the paper ap­ of the Communist League, with one exception which is from a sym­ would indicate. are that Stalin gave himself the pears regularly. Let us hear from w ill speak on The recently deceased Moe Rosen- name of “Steel” and later he took “Party Life” pathizing school teacher. yo u!. THE PROBLEMS OF A REVOLU­ berg, second-hand dealer and 'pay­ unto himself the titles of “the Lead­ A le tte r" in the “ P a rty L ife ” eol. We take this opportunity to make a special appeal to our readers off; man for the Insull-Capone gang TIONARY NOVELIST er”, and “Great Disciple”, and umn of the Daily Worker of March and sympathizers to pledge definite weekly or monthly sums as a con­ in Chicago revealed to the Federal Salt Lake City a t the furthermore, the discription, “hard­ 7th states that the writer joined crete manifestation of their interest in The M ilitant and the cause Income Tax Department that he est, clearest, and best” is self-bes­ the p a rty in June 1932, was made it represents. OPEN FORUM SPARTACUS YOUTH CLUB had on his pay-roll the former towed. Lenin’s qpinion of Stalin is unit organizer, member of the sec­ 126 East 16th St. mayor, Tony Cermak, to the tune of In spite of the many difficulties, The M ilitant has continued pub­ Every Sunday 7:30 P. M. known to Minor. It was written in tion committee, and put -forward as $95,000, and numerous aldermen lication regularly over a period of five and a half years, coming out as on a last and solemn warning to the an aldermanic candidate without 1318 E. Second St. South and other democratic and repub­ a tri-weekly on two special occasions. This was made possible only THURSDAY, M arch 29th, 1934 party. In this document, “Lenin’s every knowing what it was all lican politicians. Many of whom by1 tremendous sacrifices. But this condition must now be stopped. Auspices: Communist League of A. Admission Free Last Testament”, Stalin was char­ about. “On several occasions I was are as well known to Farley, as are Worry about paying the linotyper; worry about paying electric, gas acterized as rude, disloyal, and un­ called1 into the office by the Section Roosevelt, Bull Montana, and Boo fit for leadership. The party was Organizer and told about some op­ and other bills; worry about raising the necessary funds with which Boo H off. urgently advised to remove Stalin position force and to vote this way to mail the paper in addition to worries about personal economics, In Welfare Island Prison, politic­ as secretary. Of course what Lenin or that. But I was never drawn are not conducive to the production of the kind' of a M ilitant we vis­ N.Y. Printers Demand Unionization ians of the Farley stable were actually said matters no more to ualize. into any discussion concerning the RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY MASS MEETING shown to be oto a somewhat lower M inor now than i t did in 1918 when grievance. It was always cut and The Pledge Fund, if promptly and regularly remitted, can help plane ¡than the imprisoned gangsters he attacked Lenin and Trotsky in OF THE INDEPENDENT PRINTING EMPLOYEES dried. All that I was to do was to overcome these difficulties, stabilize the paper, and permit us the and the degen rate male prostitutes the New York World and other cap­ Thursday, M arch 15, 1934. to vote so and so. I th in k the sec­ hope of making it a bi-weekly soon. - We hope that our readers and who cooperated with them in rob­ italist publications. tion was a little too bureaucratic. sympathizers w ill participate in this action by sending in their pledges bing the general run of prisoners. * * * * Now the party just exists. There WHEREAS Tbe code signed by the President for the Graphic a t once. 1 Finally there’s the New York City Rural Housing are no struggle!, no unemployed Ar"s Industry promises to improve conditions among the T H E PLEDGERS Home for the Destitute, where the That the New York song writer movement....”. unorganized but fails to provide the means to achieve honorable Mr. Farley’s “most honest BROOKLYN BRANCH, LOCAL N. Y. who had' the country “Crying for Editorial comment by the Daily this betterment, and ahd truthful” politicians robbed the 1. Paul K in g ,25 weekly the Carolines” a couple of years Worker hopes this situation is not WHEREAS This code does not meet the burning problem o r un­ aged, the crippled1, the blind, and ago would be crying a different tune widespread in the party. It is not MANHATTAN BRANCH, LOCAL N. Y. employment since it refuses to grant a thirty hour thé •feeble-minded. Savings of old if he lived there is indicated by in line with the open letter and 2. G. W rig h t .50 weekly week, and and illiterate scrub-women stolen first reports on rural housing re­ “ i t has been taken fo r granted. . . 3. E. Konikow .25 weekly by trusted officials. These officials WHEREAS The code as well as previous conditions in the typo­ leased by the Department of Agri­ that he (the writer of the letter) is 4. M. Beardslee 1.00 weekly using the unfortunate inmates’ graphical industry causes a deadly competition between v culture. Unpainted one-story frame a full blown Communist.” No doubt 5. M. S terling dread of a nameless grave in Pot­ .25 weekly union and unorganized men setting up different wäge - shacks lacking the most elementary it is the duty of a “full blown ters Field as a threat, forced them 6. F. V icto r .50 weekly scales to the detriment of all sanitary facilities are the general Stalinist—and how full some of to turn over insurance policies and 7. J. Weber .50 weekly rule for the “great American farm them are blown!—to stick up his THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That we, 500 printers assem­ savings accounts into their hands. 8. S. Gordon .50 weekly home” . O ut o f 2,311 houses in Dup­ hand on a bureaucrat’s say-so, to bled in mass meeting in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second When, by accident or otherwise, 9. H. Stone lin County, North Carolina, only slug a Trotskyist who calls for a .25 weekly - Avenue, New York C ity, M arch 15th, 1934, under the the veil is removed from the politi­ 3 had central heating plants and united front one day and the next 10. M. K lin g .50 m onthly auspices of the Independent Printing Employees. cal life of the nation, corruption, 2,052 depended' fo r heat and cooking to march chanting “We want a uni 11. S. Bleeker .50. m onthly gfaft, and thieving is shown. These RESOLVED That the only way to eliminate the competition be­ on fireplaces. ted front”, but what a crime against HARLEM BRANCH, LOCAL N. Y. are but thé sores which, breaking tween printers and the deplorable conditions among the the Communist movement to call 12. T., Sm ith 1.00 weekly through the skin, give evidence of Who has not been thrilled by unorganized as well as to take advantage in any way songs, stories, and movies of old- such a servile wretch a Communist. •the rotten condition in the body of SYMPATHIZERS of code provisions is by complete unionization of the Kentucky homes and Kentucky gen- capitalism. And' liars, crooks, and —BILL. IS.' A Teâebèr 1.00 weekly industry and , . grafters, though they be, we may BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That complete unionization can grant to Farley that the politicians PROGRAM: be attained only by the opening of the books of the are just as “honest” as the Insulls, Saturday, March 31st Chief Littlemouse in a recital of his union of the Allied Printing Trades Council and the Morgans, Staviskys, Rockefellers, Gala Spring American Indian native dance IRVING PL4ZA admission of all the unorganized printers, and Krugers, Mellons, and Harrimans, A Duncan dancer—Lifshitz whose creatures they are. i jth St. and Irving Place BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That this meeting calls upon the Fortune teller * * * * Get your tickets now, only 35c in unions to proceed immediately to open their books to Minor and Stalin Dance and Entertainment Other special feature advance at the International every employee in the industry. Bob Minor can always be depend- ! Good five-piece jazz hand Buffet Private Table Worker* School, 126 E. 16th St.