NEW PARTY FORCES FOR LEFT OPPOSITION T h e MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] t 5 ! u 1, N o. ' Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YOKK. N. Y. Saturday June 21, 1930 PRICE 5 CENTS Unemployment and Communist Tactics Defeat the Capitalist Offensive ! The fresh breaks on the stock market 'June 12 and 16, the most devastating since O rganize United Front A gainst Unemployment and Wage Cuts ! last November, burst another bubble In the tnedlclne-man tactics of Hoover, the vaunted Equipped with thousands of dollars for The tribunals of the Spanish Inquisi­ We openly conspire to rouse the work­ engineering genius whose election slogan preliminary expenses, the Senate has tion sat In judgement over bourgeois Pro­ ers to resist the mobilization plans to r ¡was “Business Administration” Cotton has launched its star-chamber "investigation” testantism. The Czarist autocracy sab in the next war by a revolutionary struggle «lumped. Steel production has declined. into Communist “plotting” In the United judgement over Ifyassian revolutionaries. for the defence of the Soviet Union. We The index for automobile production drop­ States. The Hoover government, the Na­ The United States Senate “investigates Com­ openly conspire to separate the masses in ped June 14, 36.8 per cent below that of tional Civic Federation, and the American munism". The past is replete with judge- the American Federation of Labor from taat year. Federation of Labor are a single united raenb3 of the dying over the living, of the t t j r treacherous find bureaucratic mis- But) the obviously well-fed Secretary front. With the ghost of the infamous Pal­ forces of reaction over those of revolution. leadership of the William Greens and the Of Agriculture Hyde maintains his poise. mer presiding, cabinet officials, labor ta­ But when have such investigatons and Mathew Wolls. We openly conspire to or- The nation, he declares in a statement, "is kers, stool-pigeons, hungry politicians and judgements permanently halted the advance gninze the toilers of the tinted States for back at work..W e have suffered from little the remainder of the unsavory crew bur­ of history or the development of the class the proletarian revolntioa to overthrow the more than seasonal unemployment... dening society, w ill testify to the existence struggle ? The spectre of Communism capitalist system and replace the business there was relatively little distress..." If of a “Red Conspiracy”. which Marx marked as haunting the Euro­ dictatorship by a revolutionary Workers’ you are of a credulous nature you can The Crisis ef American Capitalism pean bourgeoisie of 1848 has materialized Government. take his word for it. On the other hand Outside, in every city of the United in the Soviet power of today. Nor could But as a matter of fact the capitalist there are the very conservative figures States, members of an army of six million any Holy Alliance, Romanoff Ochrana, mas­ class has no illusions about the nature of of the official Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployed fbrm in bread line. In the sacre of Communards or strategy of • Bis­ the Communist conspiracy. The investig­ which reports a further decline of 1.6 per shops, relentlessly driven by the speed-up. marck prevent it. ation is a cover for something else. The bent in employment and 2.4, per cent in workers face the menace of wage-cuts. Mas. The Open Conspiracy of Communism ruling class aims to master the deepening payroll totals in the manufacturing indus­ ter-incited Southern mobs burn and lynch . I t needs no investigation to establish economic crisis and improve its position tries in April of this year as compared poor Negroes. Militant labor organizers that international Communism is a great­ for a sharper attack on the world market With April 1929. of the unorganized and the unemployed in er danger to world capitalism than over be­ and by an offensive tor wage reductions. The fore. Communism is an open conspiracy. employers are fully aware that as a result U may be added that there arc in­ Gastonia, Georgia, California and New “The Communists have always disdained to of the mass unemployment and the wage- deed “unemployed” who have “ suffered York are imprisoned, sent to the chain gangs, or threatened with the electric conceal their aims". We openly conspire cutting offensive, tens of thousands of relatively lititle distress" These are the to organize the workers for immediate im­ workers hitherto faithful to the traditions ■horde of dividend -receivers whose nur­ chair. But parasitical coupon clippers gar. ner the biggest dividends in years. Con­ provements in their living conditions. We of capitalist poltics and the craft preju­ tured fingers neither tail nor spin but openly conspire to avail .ourselves of every dices of the A.F. of L. w ill be radicalized can and do clip coupons, Recorded div­ gress stamps approval on a Tariff to as­ sure the corporations still vaster monopoly strike, every lockout, every demonstration by their experience of misery. They are fur­ idend and interest payments in May of to sharpen the edge of the class struggle, ther conscious that the leaven in the work­ this year were actually $570,000,000 com­ profits. M ilitary expenditures for the to lay bare the process of capitalist exploit­ ing class is the Communist movement, that pared with $490,000,000 a year ago. next imperialist struggle reach the high­ est peak in history. ation and government suppression. the Communists understand the laws of The signs accumulate that the capitalist economy and the fraud of bour­ capitalist class w ill seek a way out of geois democracy. To suppress the Com­ this crisis by a campaign for the “de­ munists, to terrorize these proletarian lead­ flation” of the workers' wages. In,,close HUGO OEHLER JOINS OPPOSITION ers who croon no pacifist and liberal lul­ collaboration with the social democratic labies, becomes the entering wedge of the bureaucracy of the General Labor Feder­ Through the adhesion of Hugo OeHler to the platform of the Communist capitalist offensive against the whole work, ation the German industrialists have in­ League of America (Opposition), the Left Opposition recruits one of the best types ing class. itiated a movement for a ten per cent of organizers that the American Communist movement has yet developed. Comrade The Tasks of the Communist Party wage cut to challenge coal and steel Oehler was the representative Of the National Textile Workers Union In its organizing in this situation very heavy respon­ market!, of Great Britain and the United campaign in the South during the Gfustonia struggle and thereafter. He was every­ where hailed as a courageosu and clearheaded fighter and leader. sibilities rest upon the leadership of the Skates. Tlio capita Irts of the United Communist Party. Sectarianism in these States w ill not lag far behind. It will Hugo Ocliler has held numerous posts in the Communist Party. He was or­ circumstances would be tantamount to po­ be a dastardly betrayal of the interests ganizer of the Kansas District of the Communist Party, and during the Colorado coal litical crime against the interests of the of the German workers by their “leader­ miners strike directed the Party’s work in the field. He is well known to all m ili­ tants, class conscious workers and revolutionists in the West and South, as well as proletariat. The possibilities for the ad­ ship” but noiihing that the bureaucrats vance of the revolutionary movement are to the Party organization generally. Oehler has presented the statement in the cur­ of the Amerlcau Federation of Labor can­ great. But to avail ourselves of this his- rent issue of the M ililitant to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party not emulate. torjr opportuVty, the Party must give and to the District Committee hi Chicago where lie is at present working. Government reports indicate that per leadership to a UNITED FRONT movement capita, earnings in manufacturing nlilus- The pre-conventiou discussion of the offici—it can only be obtained and held by against the capitalist offensive. The Party tries in April, of tihis year had dropped Communist Party,'the Thesis to the conven­ actual leadership in theoretical and. prac­ w ill uot be able to do so until it breaks '4.5 per cent from the levels of 1929. The tion and the Comintern organization letter tical problems- facing the working class. with its present course of blind faction­ textile ■ capitalists, bituminous coal and list the greatest number of shortcomings Leadership in the Marxian sense cannot alism aijid adventurism. The situation steel industries, where unemployment is the Party has ever had presented to any of sprout from the top like the Peppers,Love- must bo soberly analyzed for what it is. .on the ¡increase are beginning to talk its conventions. A review of these docu­ stones and the present incompetents. The There la no iinmedate “acute revolutionary openly of wage cuts. The open shop or­ ments will convince one at once that they are thesis presented dealing with the short­ crisis”. There are yet no “offensive revolu­ ganizations are becoming increasingly ac­ not shortcomings in the nature of a progres­ comings does not and cannot deal with tionary struggles” on the horizon. The tive. sing party that is at a higher level but at their fundamental causes. masses have not yet deserted the labor The situation requires a thprough a lower level in comparison witl. the past, The Menace of Revisionism bureaucrats and the social reformists. The overhauling of the present course of the especially in relation to the increasingly The Manifesto of the Communist Op­ capitalist class of this country has not yet Communist Party.