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.