WORKERS O F THE WORLD. THE MILITANT UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition1 LEON TROTSKY IN ILLINOIS Apropos the WHAT'S HAPPENED P. M. A . Starts Jobless Struggles Sharpen; Foreign Policy TO RAKOVSKY? National Drive; The question of the fate of Ra- pothesis which requires verification. Policies Differ Unity Need of the Hour of the Stalinists kovsky is enveloped in a tragic In any case, it seems to us today mystery. It may be stated with cer­ to flow from the whole situation. tainty that Rakovsky is no longer Iiakovsky’s illness coincided in The Progressive Miners of Amer­ In the Orient the Soviet govern­ at Barnaul, the locality of his for­ point of time with a new wave of ica are now facing a life and death ment is prepared to sell its rights mer deportation. Basing oneself anti-Trotskyist fury on the one struggle against the operators, the Demonstrations in in the Chinese Eastern Railroad. N. Y. Anti-Eviction Conference upon information from two differ­ hand, and with the negotiations be­ State, the gun thugs and the Lewis In the Occident it is renewing the ent sources, one Oppositional and hind the scenes w hich led to the machine. For the past several old German-Soviet treaty over H it­ the other ‘•official”, that is, connec­ latest capitulation of Zinoviev and weeks, the policies of the Right New York, N. Y.—More than four conference last May where a pro­ New York End in ler’s signature. In the two opposite ted with the Stalinists, it may be Kamenev, on the other. From the wing leadership have weakened the hundred delegates attended the gram, a series of demands and a directions of its foreign policy, the stated with certainty that Rakov­ content of the declarations of Zin­ union and now the rank and file Anti-Eviction and Relief Conference plan of action were to be elaborated. Stalin-Molotov government is bow­ sky, ill, was brought from Barnaul oviev and Kamenev it is clear how are beginning to assert themselves called by the provisional Commit­ The socialists and their unemployed Alarming Disunity ing before imperialism and Fascism. to Moscow. The Oppositional source badly Stalin stands in need of in order to save the PM A. As yet, tee Against Evictions at Irving leagues were conspicuous by their The abandonment of the Chinese also communicated that Rakovsky authoritative witnesses against the it is by no means a losing fight. Plaza on June 3rd. These delegates absence. The Lovestonites came but New York, N. Y. I,eft Opposition. It is hard to state Eastern Railroad does not signify had died in the Kremlin hospital. Proper steps and correct tactics now came from organizations close to withdrew after the provisional Four thousand New Y'ork unem­ simply the loss for the workers According to the “official” source, that tlie Stalinists utilized Rakov- can make up for the lost ground or under the direct influence of the conference rejected their unaccept­ ployed demonstrated on Tuesday, of an important economic and! 1{akovsj£y ig sai(i to have under­ sky’s illness to extort from him state ... — — . - and w ill result in a victory and in Communist party and its unem­ able demands to exclude all poli­ June 7th, for immediate jobless re­ some declaration or other. It is strategic position, but the direct gone an operation and to have been the development of the struggle to ployed councils. With the excep­ tical or' trade union bodies. lief from the city government! transfer into the hands of Japanese cured. Through l’Huinaiiite, Stalin probably towards this end that a higher level. tion of the Left Opposition and the But this was hardly the worst of q’hree delegations appeared before Rakovsky was brought to the pri­ imperialism of an important instru­ denied in an obscure manner the In class struggle—against the Musteites, it was a purely party the actions of the reformists, whose the Board of Estimate with pro­ vileged Kremlin hospital, that is, ment which w ill on the very morrow report of Rakov-sky’s death. Never­ Peabody, Horner, Lewis forces—the gathering. whole policy has helped to divide posals for relief. A joint committee was accorded conditions which are the unemployed to the great satis­ be directed against China and also theless, the leading circles say PMA surged forward, and like a The failure to secure the parti­ headed by Norman Thomas, and beyond the dreams of a deportee. faction of Tammany Hall. The against the Soviet Union. nothing about his subsequent fate. flash out of the dark night heralded cipation of the socialist or the representing the Workers Commit­ The operation, as is reported, was Stalin's agreement with Hitler A well-known telegram of the a new stage in the American labor Lovestonite unemployed councils misleaders called a conference of tee on Unemployment (Socialists), successfully accomplished. Then— strengthens the position of Hitler Reuter Agency, sent from Moscow, movement. After four years of must be laid directly at the door their own. They objected to the the Workers Unemployed League and this is quite in harmony with and cannot help reacting painfully said that “Rakovsky is practising of fear, sabotage and disruption on participation of political organiza­ (Socialists), and tlie Association of the character of Stalin—the latter crisis, after the American workers upon the state of spirit of the Ger­ medicine in the Yakutsk district.” had been driven back year in and the part of the reformists and their tions in the provisional united front the Unemployed (Lovestonite con­ must have presented Rakovsky with but they sat side by- side with the man workers. “If the powerful Reuter could not have invented year out, when the whole class close allies in this perfidious job, trolled) ; a committee from the Left a political bill to settle. Rakovsky socialist party in the conference of workers’ state is obliged to seek that: it undoubtedly got the tip in was still in disorderly retreat from the Lovestonite Right wing. What wing unemployed conference for im­ —and this is quite in harmony with their own calling. What the re­ friendship with Fascist Germany, Moscow. How should these facts the capitalists’ onslaught on wages no doubt helped the reformist mis- mediate relief; and a delegation of his character—must have indignant­ formists really had objection to was then that means, the position of the be tied together? The transporta­ and the standard of living, the Il­ leaders in refusing to participate in clergymen and social workers ap­ ly spurned the reckoning presented the militant Left wing organiza­ Nazis ‘is solid.” This is what every tion of Rakovsky from Barnaul to linois miners called a halt and stood a common conference and a com­ peared before the Board of Esti­ him. That is why the old warrior tions. thinking German proletariat inevi­ the Kremlin hospital would indi­ their ground. This acted as a tem­ mon demonstration are the past mate to present their proposals for did not return to Barnaul, but was Not content with this miserable tably says to himself. At the mo­ cate, i t seems, an e xtra o rd in a ry a t­ porary rallying ground for the class errors of the Stalinists for which relief. tention paid him . In th a t case, thrown under the Polar Circle. they have not yet paid in, full. record of sabotage the Right wing­ ment at whiph the bureaucracy of as a whole. New life began to Efforts had been made previously then, why was Rakovsky, after the We can find no other explanation. ers, in mortal dread of the program the Communist International pre­ surge, new hopes began to rise. All the efforts on the part of the to unite the three workers unem­ operation, not only not sent to the The Stalinists have every possibi­ of the Left wing militants and their sents the H itler victory as a passing But as soon as the union stabi­ Provisional United Front Commit­ ployed groups in a common action Southern region as the doctors have lity of denying our hypothesis. We effectiveness in action, excluded the incident and puts on the order of lized itself, the Right wing policies tee to organize the struggle against for relief. The Socialists and the been demanding for some time now, will await the denial with impa­ complete delegation of the Provi­ the day, the question of the general in the union took shape and began evictions jointly with the socialist Lovestoneites had demanded that a strike and the insurrection (on nor returned to Barnaul, but was in­ tience, or perhaps our hypothesis sional United Front body from their to dominate. Now it is time to call and Lovestonite unemployed move­ precondition for the united front be stead deported to the Polar Circle, is too . optimistic, and the Stal­ conference. The revolt simmered paper), the Soviet bureaucracy finds a halt, to smash the class eallabo- ments were in vain. Their sabotage the absence of any political banners that is, under conditions which are inists w ill find it more to their ad­ among the rank and file of tlie so­ it indispensible to establish “nor­ rution policies and to swing out was consistent and to all intents at the demonstration. This the Left fatal for him? We have no infor­ vantage to remain silent. cialist gathering against this split- mal” relations with the Fascist again in to the channels o f Class and purposes, deliberate. They, to­ wing conference refused. The latter mation to explain this contradiction.