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James P. Cannon’s M em orial Address “ Trotskyism Lives" T H E MILITANT - SEE PACE 3 - Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party VOL. V— No. 35 NEW YORK, N. Y. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941 FIVE (5) CENTS WORKERS ARM TO SAVE LENINGRAD(y Leningrad in Danger... Kearny Plant All Fight to Defend USSR Masses Inspired Taken Over Revolutionary By the Navy By Memories O f Policy Can No Assurance Given October 1917 That Union Demands Kremlin Finally Compelled To Make Appeal Bring Victory W ill Be Granted To Traditions Of The October Revolution KEARNY. New Jersey, August AN EDITORIAL 25 — The Navy Department to As Workers Rally For Defense To The Death Leningrad is in danger. The imperialist wolf-pack is closing day completed preparations to --------------------------------------------------------------- <•> In the hour of gravest danger in upon the city. Workers, understand what this means! take over and operate the Fed to Leningrad, birth-place of the eral Shipbuilding and Drydock October Revolution, its more Leningrad is the second largest city and industrial district Company yard here, which has Demurrers To than 2,000,000 proletarian in in the Soviet Union. Leningrad is the hearth of the October been closed since August 7 by a habitants are mobilizing arms Revolution. The most glorious traditions of revolutionary strug strike of 16,000 workers affiliated in hand to defend their city to gle cluster around this proletarian center. Here Lenin’s Bol with the Industrial Union ot Be Filed In the death against the approach shevik Party grew strong; here ’T rotsky led the insurrection and Marine Shipbuilding Workers ing armies of Nazi imperialism. the Russian Revolution of 1917 began; here the first victorious (CIO). President Roosevelt last A tremendous revolutionary re Saturday issued the order to take banner of the Socialist revolution was unfurled. St. Paul Suit surgence is sweeping the masses. over the plant. Leningrad today is witness to Despite the degeneration of the workers’ state under the On or before Saturday, August The union has voted to termi scenes having their only parallel Stalinist regime, these glorious traditions inspire the working 30, the legal staffs of both the nate the strike. Plant operations in the heroic days of the civil class of Leningrad. Once again, as in 1905 and 1917, the Lenin are expected to be resumed by to Socialist Workers Party and the Local 544-CIO defendants will file war, when, in October 1919, Yu- grad workers are rising and arming themselves to cope with morrow. Armed workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, like these shown in this radio-photo from demurrers to the indictment ob denich’s army was crushed by the their class enemy. The outward signs of proletarian resistance While union officials expressed Moscow, have formed numerous guerrilla detachments which are harassing and slowing up the tained against the defendants by aroused might of the armed Len-. the belief .that the government Nazi armies, cutting lines of communications, etc., and creating increasing difficulties for the are visible in its streets. Barricades are going up. The factory the Roosevelt administration. ingrad proletariat. workers who constituted the Red Guard of Lenin’s day are would grant them the “mainten Nazis behind their own lines. ance of membership’’ clause, The demurrers consist of ap The city, according to all re practising armed drill. As during the Paris Commune and the proximately 20 objections to the which was the main issue of the ports, is turned into a huge work 1917 revolution, working class women and youth are by their indictment. Challenging the legal strike. Navy officials assigned to ers’ training camp. On the left side. The veteran combatants of 1917 are coming forward to manage the plant have given no validity of the indictment, some bank of the Neva, on ground hal of the points attack the consti teach the younger generation how to fight. assurance that ibis would be the Tobin’s Terrorism Hit lowed by the blood of revolution tutionality of the Smith Act, while ary fighters of the civil war, tens This mass rising of the Leningrad working class is the case. others contend that the indict of thousands of men and boys are supreme manifestation to date of the resurgence of the revolu Admiral H. G. Bowen, technical ment is too vague and uncertain, being drilled by veteran barricadt tionary spirit of 1905 and 1917. The proletarian power that aide to Navy Secretary Knox, de By Minneapolis Drivers giving the defendants no definite fighters in the use of the baiy- created the USSR now springs forth to save it form destruction. clared on this point: . “I was sent here tQ operate the idea as to the nature of the al onet and hand grenades, and in The proletarian revolution within the Soviet Union ex the tactics of street and house- plant under the terms of the Pres M IN N E A P O L IS , August 26-*—The Tobin-employers-gov- prepared to continue the parade leged crime. to-hodse fighting. ..." hibits irrepressible vitality. After all the injuries inflicted ,by ident’s executive order. I have no emment attempt to smash LocaJ'544-ClO motor transport work of CIO witnesses before the hear The date of hearing on the le Metal and shipyard workers, in Stalin’s regime upon the revolutionary proletariat, its living further instructions since the ori ers union, met with further reverses this week as the C IO union ings indefinitely. gal questions involved will be set cluding participants of the assault forces well up in a mighty stream. Stalin, who disarmed the ginal order from the Secretary of hammered away on its demand for democratic industry “We'll keep Blair sitting there later on. If the judge sustains on the Czar’s Winter Palace in workers years ago, is now compelled to rearm them. The Stal the Navy. wide elections to determine the choice of bargaining agency for and hearing the testimony of the the demurrers (and this is not ex pected), the defendants are dis Leningrad in 1917, are practicing inist bureaucracy lakes this step with misgivings, at the most “My instructions at that time (he truck drivers of this city. Minneapolis drivers, warehouse charged with the government hav sham battles on the Neva’s right critical hour of its existence, in order to save its own skin. But were to take possession of the A parade of C IO witnesses has appeared in the past two men, platform men and inside in g the right to appeal or obtain bank. that does not lessen the objective significance of the act. plant and operate it under the days before the hearings being held by state labor conciliator workers until everybody in Min a new indictment. I f the judge schedule of hours and wages Blair on Tobin’s AFL-“544” ’s petition for certification as the neapolis, by simply counting noses, THE WHOLE WORKING The arming of the people gives testimony that the workers' overrules the demurrers, then he which were in effect before the exclusive bargaining agent for all the local drivers. The CIO will see for themselves that the CLASS PREPARES state endures. Leningrad is not, like Paris and Brussels, ruled sets a date for trial. strike, with such changes as had witnesses — drivers from a num CIO represents vhe workers in the No hand is idle. Tens of thou by a powerful capitalist clique which could oppose the arming been agreed to by the labor un ber of different firms — gave tes a democratic election. industry, and Blair will then have sands of workers, old men, women of the people and their fight to the death against the fascists. ions and the management. Some timony to the terroristic tactics The claims of Tobin’s agents to agree to an election,” said polis employers are invalid, be and children, are toiling with The workers have no selfish private property interests to protect questions remain to be settled, of Tobin’s hoodlum “organizers” were knocked out completely Dunne. cause they were signed while a heroic energy, night and day, at the expense of others. The readiness of the Leningrad workers such as reclassification of work in compelling them to remove CIO Monday night when over 1200 Last Monday Local 544-CIO at CIO petition for an election was erecting barricades in every to offer up their lives to save their city demonstrates that they ers. That will require some buttons and sign applications for drivers, packed the 544-CIO head torneys filed charges of unfair la pending, in violation of the labor street, making every ditch ant know they are defending, not the privileges of Stalinist bureau study.” the AFL outfit. quarters at the regular member bor practices with the National relations code. wall a fortress. crats, but the nationalized property and other remaining con Roosevelt, prior to the issuance A score of drivers appeared at ship meeting, in the largest turn Labor Relations Board against 43 Conciliator Blair held the first Throughout the city, throngs of of the seizure order, had at transfer concerns and four cold quests of the revolution. the hearings Monday to give dam out since the union disaffiliated conciliation meetings Monday on workers parade the streets and tempted to put pressure on the storage houses. Similar charges strike notices filed by 544-CIO squares, organizing new fighter The Stalinist regime fears the people in arms as the fore aging testimony against the claim from the AFL Teamsters and strikers to accept the company’s joined the CIO. At the last re had been filed previously against against four cold storage and ten detachments.