Page THE MILITANT April 15, 1929 Page of Letters from the Militants The Expelled HAVE BACKBONE IN PRINCIPLE estimation. The response of several members to our policy. If comrades break through the side doors at comrades Bethlehem, PA cause is gratifying. Especially when the facts have been sup meetings, it is time for all Comununists to think. Why does pressed from them, it shows healthy signs. Their alertness to Dear Comrades: not the Party have open meetings to discuss the differences?
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The more read the paper the better am acquainted with HELEN HORN lave just returned from Colorado and have only fairly the true situation concerning the Comintern. the Russian Party reported on the situation to Swabeck. The Party appears very and our own Party in the much dead with the National Miners Union doing very little It is a shame how the Party press handies the most imporcant work in spite of Corbishly courageous work. In my next letter FROM AN IOWA FIGHTER matters and questions of fundamental principles and tactics of the Communist movement. never thought that will tell more. In the meantime send me the information on Marxistthe results of the Party as am absolutely cut off from all Kellogg, Iowa Leninist Party could degenerate itself so low through its proDear Comrades: sources of news except the Militant.
fessional, backboneless puppets, the so called American leaders. have received the last copy of the Militant. have read Well, am old enough to withstand these shocks and young GERRY ALLARD. every word that was printed in this latest copy and gave its enough to understand and fight for the correct position in contents close consideration, would be glad to receive it labor movement.
AN ANSWER TO GANGSTERISM regularly. do not belong to the Communist Party but I am with you 100. came from the DeLcon school in have supported it since its inception and am, believe, the which learned two important things to have backbone oldest reader of the Daily Worker. took the old Ohio principles and be honest about them. have come to the con Paterson, Dear Comrades: Socialist before the division came at the St. Louis Emergency clusion that our so called leaders have neither of them.
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the Daily is taking the same course as the Appeal to Reason CZAPKO.
used to. am well informed about the revolutionary move was present at the last meeting held on the 19th of the ment, and can tell when the movement gets adulterated month, in answer to the first one attended in February. THE SITUATION IN YOUNGSTOWN wanted to see whether the would act like organized and when the officials run the Party in an opportunist and bureaucratic manner.
Youngstown, Ohio gangsters. am subscribing to the Militant in answer to the Party Always yours for the revolution, Dear Comrades: BLASU TCH There is a strong and well grounded suspicion among the AVAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ comrades of our group here that the four detectives who attended our meeting today and the four uniformed John Laws on the outside were called there by some of the official Party members of this city.
Trotsky Cannot Enter Germany Two of the official observers at our meeting threw up their hands and exclaimed: See, Trotsky meeting held under police Among the comrades recently expelled by the Party bureauprotection. However, the chief dick told us what be thought ceats for supporting the standpoint of the Opposition is the BERLIN, April 12 (Associated Press. The German Cabinet of things before he left.
following: after brief meeting officially announced today that it had This chief dick, a burly rummy faced son of Saint Patrick declined the request of Leon Trotsky, Soviet exile, for a viss New York City told us in unmistakable terens that both Trotsky and Cannon to his fassport, wbich would permit bim to enter Germany.
NATHAN BERMAN, Needle Trades Worker should be led to the whipping post and made to pay for their sins. So who called Joba Law?
Wilmington, Del.
The reactionary German regime of Stresemann and Hermann Mueller has finally made its negative decision on comrade TrotKing Israel Amter, the district organizer of District Six, BOB GREEN, Young Workers League.
sky request for permission to enter Germany. The Scalinite was here last month. When he saw comrade Plarinos on the Toronto, Canada press has maintained a significant silence about this decision.
sidewalk talking to two of the Young Workers League mem. JOE SILVER. National Executive Commitee, Young Com. The united front of Stalin with the fascist dictator Kemal bers he felt as though the earth trembled beneath his munist League Pasha, based on the secret agreement between them to keep However, Plarinos could not see his way to swallow his majesty Trotsky a virtual prisoner in Turkey, with his life constantly peremptory commands and did not hesitate in telling him so THE OPPOSITION IN CLEVELAND menaced by the White Guard emigres in Constantinople, har They commands were to keep away from the Workers Hall and so forth. Then Amter also issued instructions to the mem Comrade John Brahtin, of the Cleveland Opposition Group. been openly extended. This shameful united front now includes spoke on The Situation in Russia and the Platform of the th reactionary heads of the German government, Stresemann here to keep all sinful renegades and counter revolutionaries Russian Opposition before the members of the Bildungsberein and the socialists Hermann Mueller and Rudolf Hi ferding, away from the ball and especially this Platinos must be kept Eintracht on April 4th.
who have joined with Stalin to keep Trotsky from Germany at a safe distance. But the members have so far refused to where he might participate actively in the revolutionary labor obey these instructions. Poor oid lady discipline is waked Sixty three Bolsheviks on Hunger moveinenc.
and buried: What will the pen prostitutes of the Stalin Yuzosivalsky Comradely yours, Strike in Russian Prison school say now about the counter revolutionary united front CHARLIE BYRNE with Trotsky. They will continue their barrage of lies and slander in order to cover up the abominable unity of Stalin FROM NON PARTY REBEL We have just received an appeal issued in Moscow, February 15, 1929, by the Bolshevik Leninist Opposition, addressed to all and the bourgeoisie against Trotsky. The truth wil inevitably reach the workers.
Dear Comrades: workers and members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Jamestown, Union. It deals with the astounding facts of the hunger am seading you a check for 05. That will be 30 cents strike begun February 4, by 66 Bolshevik Oppositionists in the STATEMENT to the good. have been selling the Militant to workers here Tobolsk prison (in Siberia. Among them are comrades Dreizer, OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION: that are interested in the movemnt.
Gavsky. Grincehenko, Grinschrein, Raumov, Mino. Bronstein. ETC. REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF Last Wednesday we had the world biggest tiar here. He Marenko. Valentinov, Subrov, Ivanov and others. Deported to is the editor of the Ny Tid. the Party Scandicavian paper, and Siberia, they were imprisoned in Tobolsk. Their request for AUGUST 24, 1912.
we had a discussion. sook the side of the Opposition. This is shoes and warm cloching was refused. The old Bolshevik Of The Militant published twice a month at New York, NY, the first time it was discussed openly in Jamestown. have Drobnis had both his legs frozen. The prison regime was for April 1, 1929.
fought the bureaucracy long before you were expelled from the intolerable. All mail was forbidden the prisoners. They were State of New York, County of New York, ss.
Party and am not a member of the Party just for that reason. prevenced from buying their own food. No exceptions were Before me. Notary Public in and for the State and county Yours for the solidarity of the workers, permitted, not even for comrade Wainoy, who is gravely ill, aforesaid, personally appeared Martin Abern who, having bein ARVIO CARLSON, or for cornrade Turmann, who is in the seventh month of duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the pregnancy.
business manager of The Militant and that the following is, to GREETS PROGRESS OF YOUTH To protest against this shameless regime, the comrades began the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the hunger strike. Twelve of them, including Drobnis who was Christopher. III.
trice decorated with the Order of the Red Army, are in a crc. of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the warship, management (and if a dailypaper, the circulation)
Dear Comrades: serious condition in the prison hospital.
above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, em Your circular calling for the National Conference at hand.
The lives of all these comrades are in danger! Their only bodied in section 11, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on am of the opinion that it is highly imperative. Mainly for a crime was their support to the struggle for Leninism in th: the reverse of this form. to wit: brighter clarification on the perspective of the International Russian Party. The meanest criminals in the Soviet Union are That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, Communist Opposition. What the developments are in Germany, not treated in this horrible manner. Stalin is venting his venmanaging editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Opposition France. Russia and elsewhere should, in my opinion, be the oinous rage upon these comrades for their devotion to the teach Group. Communist Party of America, 340 19th St. New trend of our movement in America.
ings of Lenin York Editor, James Cannon, 340 East 19th St. New anh highly interested in advances of the youth movement.
The appeal of the Bolshevik Leninist Opposition calls upon York Managing Editor, none. Business Manager, Martin Aburn, Much is to be expected from the younger Communists, in my the Russian workers to raise their voices immediately in the 340 19th St. New York.
factory in the Party, in the press to the Party committees2. That the owner is. if owned by a corporation, its name everywhere.
and address must be statod and also immediately thereunder The lives of Bolsheviks who have sacrificed everything one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by th. names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding New Material froin Trotsky for the cause of the revolutionary working class are in the balance! Protest!
a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincor As this issue of the Militant goes to press, porated concern, its name and address, as well as those of cach we have received some extremely important individual member, must be given. Opposition Group Commu and timely material from comrade Trotsky.
nist Party of America. New York, James Canson, Editor, 340 19th St. New York, Martin Abern, Assce.
The first is an article by the exiled Bolshevik PHILADELPHIA gang of nine Stalinite hoodlums, led by Editor, 340 19th St. New York, NY. Max Shachtman, leader which we received via Paris, entitled one Stecie, brutally attacked comrades Leon Goodman and Bob Assoc. Editor, 340 19th St. New York Green who were engaged in selling the Milicant at the Phila That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other hold.
dlphia Workers Forum where Scorr Nearing was lecturing on ers owning or holding per cent or more of total amoun: of Perspectives. The article is a brilliant analySunday, April The two Opposition comrades had been selling bonds, mortgages, or other securities are. If there are none.
fac the Militan: for quite a while, when Steele, a paid functionary in.
so state. None.
and the of the Young Workers League, together with eight other That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names hooligans, swooped down and told our comrades to beat it.
which has been suppressed from formation on of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, conthe membership of the International. The secGoodman and Green were pushed down the stairs to the tain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as sidewalk and then into the middle of the street. Attempts were ond is an article received directly from com made to tear the Militants from their hands and when they they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in care where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the rade Trotsky in Constantinople. It is a letter resisted, the Stalinite heroes (nine against two) began to bear books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relawritten March 27, 1929, them violently, Comrade Goodman right eye was cut from addressed to the and a blow with brass knuckles and contade Green was hit on the tion, the name of the person or corporation for whom such workers of the back with a club.
trustee is acting, is given; also that thesaid two paragraphs concain statements embracing affiant full knowledge and belief gogic campaign of the Stalins and Yaroslavskys Steele, who joined the League from the Army, has as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders Trotsky and the Opposition and ex. found that the knock em down and carry em out tactics em and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the plaining clearly to the Russian workers and ployed by hard boiled sergeants and other officers against priv. company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity those of other countries the reason for the ates, is quite in conformity with the infamous spirit of gang other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no sterism and hoodlumry brought into the Communist movement reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporat on publication of his series of articles in the bour by the Scalin clique.
has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or geois press.
The Stalinites have not yet overcome their chagrin at being orber securities than as so stated by him.
The Militant will begin printing these artiso decisively defeated at the Open Forum meeting at which Martin Abern, Business Manager.
cles with the very next issue. Watch for their corneade Cannon spoke in Philadelphis a few weeks ago. The Swort to and subscribed before me this 26th day of March gingster scies which disgrace the movement will be actively appearance. Subscribe NOW to the Militant! Resisted by our Philadelphia comrades.
1929. Hent: Friedman. My commission expires March 90.
1910. Gangsterism in Philadelphia conflict between veen Stalin fine exposing the demoagainst