^MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YOKK, N. Y. Saturday, June 14, 1930. Vol. IIINo. 23, MANIFESTO TO THE RANK AND FILE AND SEVENTH BACK TO LENIN! NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE C. P. U. S. A. rationalization, wage-slashing, and in gen- The crisis in, the Part;', manifest to and the creation of a huge army of the un- employed are having the effect of wiping eral an offensive upon the workers' stan- all but the self-contented/bureaucracy, de- dards of living, can only hasten the pro- mands the most serious attention of all out this illusion in the minds of broad Left Needle Workers sections of the working class. The sharp cess. U.S. imperialism can re-create a Communist workers. It is to aid them to bourgeois working class in this country, break through the rigid barriers erected contrast between the previous "prosperity" and the misery of unemployment which such as England had at the opening of Convention Meets by the ruling regime in the Party tor the the century, only by enslaving the rest worthless "pre-convention discussion" that and hangs like a Damoclean sword over has cut into more than 6 million workers of the world ,the mere endeavor of which The Second National Convention of the the Left Opposition addresses this appeal involves the most violent military and Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to the Party membership. the rest of them, is jolting the working class out of its bourgeois stupor. A deep- revolutionary eruptions. met in New York City last Saturday and There is a widening gap between the going process of radicalization is begin- Under the pressure of these develop- Sunday, June 7th and 8th. There were over possibilities tor the strengthening of the ning to take place. The process will be ments, the American workers are moving four hundred delegates present of whom movement in the United States and the ac- accelerated by the exhaustion of the "pros- away from bourgeois Influence and ide- 307 hailed from New York. According to complishments that the leadership has to perity reserves" of the workers. The at- ology, and their former passivity. There official reports 200 shops sent delegates record. The increase in Party member- tempts of American capitalism to issue out is a growing mood for struggle and mili- from New York City. In other words this ship and influence over the workers cor- of its crisis by a re-adjustment of its in- tancy. The huge demonstration on March is an indication of the lack of Left wing resyionds less and less to the activity of dustry for more effective competition on 6 and even the smaller ones of May Day organization in the thousands of New York the Party. There is not a single mass the world market, attempts which spell ( Continued on Page 3 ) shops which were not represented. organization of the workers where the The two days of the convention were Party has succeeded in consolidating or devoted to combatting the Lovestoneites, advancing its position in the past year or without any intelligent discussion of tfc9 two, be it in the Left wing unions, in the actual needs of the union. The General conservative A. F. of L. and independ Rally to Weekly Executive Board that was elected was « dent unions, in the cooperatives, in the continuation of the Stalinist factionalism numerous language fraternal orders, etc. w York eaflsttae •which is undermining the Left wing in- etc. In the ranks of the Party itself there As we go to press, we are informed that the New York Execiitre of tha fluence in the unions. Not only were one- Is a deadening passivity, an indifference Communist League- (Opposition) lias met in response to our appeal for $2,000 to hundred percent members of the Stalin and a growing- dissatisfaction with the maintain Hie Weekly Militant, and has pledged a sum of $509.00 toward this end, faction and their pliant supporters elected prevailing Party course, which are pre- A Day's Pay from every member of the Branch wns accepted as an immediate action. to office but even Party members who at vented from completely paralyzing all ac- In addition, the Branch members will proofed to canfass sympathizers with special one time or another had happened to ex- tivity only by feverish administrative lash- lists, and will Inaugurate honse to house collections and other means to assure it press a word of criticism or were unfor- Ings and the ever harder measures of the quota of $500.00 being raised in the given time. tunate enough to harbor an independent) control commission. Sew York has set a good example. We look forward with confidence tot thought were eliminated from the G. E. B. In the upper strata of the Party, new ajtleauiite pledges and results throughout the country. in spite of their superior experience. "leaders" appear every day and old "lead- We go to press just as the convention ers" disappear or are deruot»d without The Militant has been a fighting guide to tiie Communists and Left wing in concluded and nre therefore compelled to the Party or working class knowing any- their struggle against the labor bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. and the "labor leaders" hold over for the next issue a thorough and thing about it until they are informed by of the Hillman-Beckerman A. C. W. crew. detailed analysis of the course and perspec- the official press. The suppression of all The Militant has fought for the organization of the masses of unorganized tives of the Industrial Union. Initiative and the complete dependence of workers into labor unions on a militant industrial basis. all activity upon decrees from above make the Party immobile, and the leadership en- For the Unemployed Save Georgia Class deavors to make up for the Party's fail- The Militant has conducted a campaign on behalf of the unemployed millions ure to meet situations in time by plunging under the slogans of work or compensation, tor social insurance, the six hour day It unprepared into adventures and con- and the five day week, etc., and has mercilesslessly and accurately shown up tha War Prisoners sequent debacles. thread-bare "prosperity" of the imperialist) regime of Hoover and Company. The Party's immobility and the lead- The Militant has maintained a consistent position for revolutionary Com- One of the most brazen examples of ership's adventurism is the more danger- munism, for the preservation and defense of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. It has American capitalist class justice is the at- ous because of the broad perspectives for with equal vigor combatted the revisionist theories, the opportunism and bureaucracy tempt to send to the electric chair the six the growth of Communism in thfe country. that have been nourished by and grown to huge proportions under the directions militant workers, H. M. Powers, Gilmer of the false disciples of Lenin — the Stalins and Bucharins. Brady, Henry Storey, Joseph Carr, Mary Apart! from the historical causes, the Dalton and Anna Burlak, the last three of immediate reasons for the bourgeois, class- For the Opposition whom are members of the Young Commun- collaborationist ideology and political back- The Militant has espoused the cause of the Russian Opposition — the Bolshevik. ist League, at Atlanta, Georgia. The South- wardness of the American workers have Leninists led by Trotsky — who, in prison or in exile, maintain the struggle for the ern Bourbons threaten to deprive them of been the relative prosperity it enjoyed in preservation of the proletarian dictatorship and who struggle for the regeneration of their lives for holding meetings of Negro the past few years and the privileged pos- the Party of Lenin on its October basis. and white unemployed workers and for ition it occupied in comparison with the The Militant fights for the building of a revolutionary Communist Party in distributing Communist literature! For European and Asiatic working class. The the United States on a Leninist foundation, as against the caricature of one as this they have resurrected from the ar- American workers have developed for the developed by the Fosters and Lovestones. chives of 1861 an unused law on insurrec- better part of a decade -under the illusion^ The Militant as a WEEKLY publication, has been better able to carry on tion. of a "permanent prosperity". these historic tasks tian in its early days as a semi-monthly paper. The indictment is so astounding that It The Economic Crisis Last week, we spoke of the danger and possibility of a return by the Militant seems almost incredible, But if anyone The collapse of the stock market, the to existence again as a semi-monthly. We called upon our readers, mebers and thinks this is just some farcical trickery deep-going decline and crisis in industry. sympathizers to render us financial assistance that we may continue as a Weekly with which the reactionaries of Georgia Mjlltant in the forthcoming period, and to solidify our position. are trying to amuse themselves let them Our Appeal at once drive this dangerous illusion out of their head. These legal lynchers are in For Unity of Communist Ranks We need $2,000.00, over and above our regular income of subscriptions, bundle deadly earnest. They want the blood of the payments, etc. to insure our existence as a Weekly publication for the next six months. We raise before the Party convention workers. They hope to terrorize the Negro We believe that we can count upon your support. and white workers, and prevent organiza- the question of restoring the Party mem- Respond generously for the maintenance of the WEEKLY MILITANT.