The Semi Monthly Organ of the Opposition Group in the Communist Party of America It is necessary that every member of the Party should study calmly and with the greatest objectivity, first the substance of the differences of opinion, and then the development of the struggles with in the Party. Neither the one nor the other can be done umless the documents of both sides are published. He who takes somebody word for it is a hopeless idiot, who can be disposed of with a sim ple gesture of the hand. Lenin MILITANT VO! 11. No. NEW YORK, N, APRIL 15, 1929 PRICE CENTS FOUR DAYS WITH TROTSKY An Interview with the Bolshevik Leader who Was Exiled to Constantinople of the Another Stalinist Pogrom in New York glance, menta! brou am not Then you do not recognize me?
to treat me like a scoundrel, replied the had indeed remained without voice, as if By Maurice Paz Paris man.
speechless, when after a three days journey That would be, responded our comrade, a found myself facing him in this hotel room. two of his closest collaborators, Sermouks and pretty poor consolation for me.
How could fail to recognize him despite Posnansky now imprisoned in SiberiaCould one expect anything else but false the seven years gone by since our last meeting? would be permitte. Sto rejoin him by the very promises from Stalin? One day, he was inTo be sure, the radiant hair has turned grey; next boat.
formed that Sermouks and Posnansky would the crease in the cheeks denoting the contrac And if you deceive me in this matter also. not come; at the same time he was compelled tion of a powerful jaw is accentuated, and the asked Trotsky.
to quit the Consulate at once. Aside from the smooth face shaved on the boat that brought Then in that case, you will have the right CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR ZZZZZZZZZZZZUVUVA ZZVZZY face popularized by so many photographs. But who could mistake it? Behind the large rims Syes wipectacles are the same magnetic blue their eagle the same monuthe large wilful mouth and The bloodiest and most criminal attack in the record of the police arrived in response to a riot call, fifteen were arrested, literature there is still that the terrorist campaign against the Opposition Communista took including a number of our comrades and Holzbauer, who was same impression of a superhuman force: Yes place Tuesday night, April 9, when an organized mob of Stalinist later taken to the Hospital. Comrade Fenyes was held on a gangsters raided the regular weekly meeting of the Hungarian charge of assualting Holzbauer, and was released Thursday it is certainly Trotsky, it is the companion of Opposition group at Hungarian Hall, 323 79th Street, New afternoon on 2, 000 bail. The Daily Worker reports that Lenin, the chief of the October Revolution, and York City. Fifteen comrades, six of whom were women, were Fenyes had been identified. This is false. The frame up the encounter, after all the ordeals, leaves me present in the little hall when the trouble began. They had against our comrade is all the more evident when it is known without words.
finished the business matters on the agenda of the meeting and that his right sum has been treated by a doctor for some time, were just starting a discussion of the Platform of the Opposition and was practically useless in any kind of a scrimmage.
My emotion, his own also At last, a friend!
to be adopted by the National Conference, with comrado Louis Basky as the opening speaker. gang of fifty or more Stalinites THE ORGANIZATION OF THE POGROM cannot express itself otherwise than in a fraternal embrace.
invaded the hall in a body. They were armed with blackjacks.
brass knuckles, knives, lead pipes and clubs and were composed The reports of the affair in the Party press, especially the We speak. Indiscriminately. In hurried sen chiefly of Party functionaries and employees of various ration. Daily Worker, Freiheit and Uj Elore, exceeded the already tences, crammed with incidents. Tomorrow we slities. Their leaders were Emerich Lustig, editor of the Hun loy Brass Check level to which the Stalinist sheets have descenwill be more methodical, but how can it be sacian Party paper, Ui Elore, and Gustav Mayer, manager of ded in their lies about the Opposition. By the most brazen the party Hungarian Workers Home perversion of sets they are attempting to work up a lynching arrançed when there are so many things to spirit against the victims of the raid and to prepare the ground talk about?
STALINITES BEGIN THE ATTACK for other pogroms. They even try to conceal the fact that the First of all, haw. is he, after that harsh year Upon a signal from Lustig, and without the slightest pro of of pass them off as obseure militant workers and make no ref vocation, the mob of hooligans threw themselves upon the deportation at Alma Ata, in the region erence to the fact that the raid was organized under party chosen for him Stalin as a place of exile, assembled comrades whom they outnumbered by four or five instructions, as all the similar affairs have been organized. The doubtlessly because malaria shares its domin was struck across the face with a rubber hose wielded by Stalinites had PREVIOUSLY ORGANIZED their hoodlums, Lustig and was attacked from alf sides by others. The speaker armed them with the weapons of the underworld, and sent 75 year old father, Lucas Basky, who has been in the revothem to the meeting in a body with the express purpose of Actually, malaria has taken hold of him, and if he speaks a bit cheerfully of his health, lutionary movement for decades, jumped to the defense of his the physical attack. The presence in the raiding squad of party son, only to be truck over the head with a sharp instrument members of various Nationalities at a Hungarian meeting is his wiie and son, who share his exile and were which opened his scalp in two places and knocked him to the proof on its fact that constructive discussion had no. part in themselves prey to the same their purposes.
told floor in a pool of blood. Six stitches were later taken in his me Leo Davidovitch made them very uneasy wound by a police doctor. Numerous other of our ocmrades, including the women, were most brutally beaten, among them Our comrades were unaware of the approaching pogrom and during a certain period when the illness as were entirely unprepared for it. The Workers Self Defense being. comrade Edmund Fenyes whose scalp was also cut opea sumed a very sharp form. To this day, malaria Guard which protected the last meeting of the Opposition so has not yet left Trotsky, but it seems to be by the hoodlums.
successfully had not been called, since this was simply the Our comrades defended themselves as best they could against regulat weekly meeting which has been held by the Hungarian weakening. Periodically, attacks of fever, acthe overwhelming odds, despite the fact that thy had no Group in the same Hall regularly.
by headaches, still come on weapons but their bare fists.
The fact that some Stalinites were also hurt causes then to denote the virulence of the disease.
In the course of the fight, one named Michael Holzbauer to raise howls of complaint, as though they expected our comThe malaria attacks an organism weakened was cut by a knife wielded by one of the Stalinites. When rades to stand with folded arms while the gangsters cut them by twelve incredible years of activity and harddown in cold blood. People who raid a peaceful meeting of workers, who are capable of murderously ulting wo ships, twelve years of Revolution. It is added an old man of 73 years with gas pipes and brass knuckles.
definitely place themselves in the category of criminals toward mation of the colon which obliges our comrade whom labor ethics have no application. Every honest worker follow a strict regime and to think, in short, will uphold the right of self defense against them.
of locking himself.
The defense of comrade Fenyes against the attempt to frame At the moment these lines appear, the ques.
him will be a duty of the class conscious wor ers involving tion of the visa will, elementary working class rights. Another Centralia Case must not be permitted. At the same time the Opposition sts will refrain froin any counter prosecutions. The capitalist courts are to receive the care necessitated by his condibe able to proceed to Germany not our tribuna. Leave that business to the people like Lovetion. Up to now, he has asked officially for stone, the witness for the prosecution who has already he p:d asylum only from Germany where he can TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1929, P.
to send one Communist, Harry Winitsky, to prison.
recourse to the doctors who at the LET THE WORKERS JUDGE THEM viously. But in other countries, friends have already made application HUNGARIAN HALL if the LET THE WORKERS JUDGE THE FASCIST LEGION AIRES OF LOVESTONE AND FOSTER! Expose the method: intrigues of Stalin should succeed in preventing 323 East 79th Street of gangsterism and their corrupting consequences before the otsky entry into Germany, we can surely (Between 1st and 2nd Ave. working masses and fix the responsibility on their sponsors, reckon that he will find a more hospitable welSPEAKERS: Form a united front of all progressive forces in the labor movemear against these methods. Organize a stronger Workers Se. Defenx Guard to protect the meetings from them. This On the whole, our comrade has lost none of James Cannon. Martin Abern is the Communist way to fight and defeat gangsterism. This his power to work, but he will have to bring is the way of the Communist Opposition.
himself to rest for a while. This will be cruel, and Speakers in Hungarian The Hungarian comrades are proceeding along this line by and one understands it when he knows the acand Italian the organization of a Protest Meeting for next Friday night tivity of a Trotsky. But will it not be better the came Hail. similar movement will be started generally.
to this security to the future: The truth must be told to the workers openly and fearlessiv.
Brought by force from Odessa to ConstantiRICH MUSICAL PROGRAM The methods of the Stalinites against the Opposition are the methods of FASCISM! If they are not defeated and stopped nople on the Soviet vessel, Ilyitch, under the ADMISSION: 25c.
they will inesitably lead to a horrible tragedy, to the discredit escort of the Trotsky lived for the and disintegration of the movement. Only provocatuers or mad first three weeks at the Soviet Consulate.
Workers Self Defense Guard will Protect the men can deliberately bring the movement to He was formally promised, before he sailed, Auspicies: New York Communist Opposition raise his voice orainst saakster methodo in the labor and revoevery class conscious worker, inside and outside the party, that in order to assure, a mininum of security Meeting.
lutionary movenient and in in the struggle against them.
fevers, thar violent after May Day MASS MEETING on can have and decide to give this pass. Let