WORKERS THE MILITANT OF THE WORLD.
UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Published weekly by the Commandet League of America (Opportion) at 128 East 10th Street, New York, Satered as second class mat matter, November 28, 1988 at the Post Odce a New York. under the act of Marea. 18 VOLUME VI, NO. 39 WHOLE NO. 186)
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933 PRICE CENTS Civil War Shakes Cuba; Perspectivesof ofL. Leaders Sanction Ready to Intervene the Uptura No Strike Policy!
clubs LABOR MIGHTY CHALLENGE im ୧୫. Anti War Congress and the Trade Unions por andauemest besides, ha vel arai Socialists Withdraw from Arrangements Committee delegate for an industrial Question of Policy is Decisive in the Present Stage raten in de contact met overed By LEON TROTSKY This analysis by comrade Trot.
The political crisis in Cuba ap occupation of Haiti, have made the made with the errors of opportun sky was written in August last which year as an introduction to a dis bor, under the leadership of Wro. no one can predict. It uprovides for farmers were rubbing salve pears at last to have reached a State Department reluctant to in ism and of adventurism, The American Federation of La of recovery. How long that is to be striking upstate New York milk definite climax. The pressure of tervene with armed forces in Latin sina their expression in the con le signe ceptretains hem realidit: Green and ewis, has entered an arbitration board of Beven men their limbs, wounded und sore from the working class and the petty American countries fusion of slo today except for the reference to throw of Butcher Machado, has ever the situation in Cuba may The Left Opposition of the Cuban The demand. contained. correct then it came as an anti climax to the sentatives, Green and Lewis the bourgeois meses almed at the over methods can possibly be used. How s, and terroristie tendencies. the German trade union question. Industrial Recovery Administ the bers headed by senator Wagner. contact with the state troopers thrown a monkey wrench into Am casily develop to a point where Party is conducting an intense has now been obriated by events. numerous strikes in various indus very ones who lead No sooner was the ink on the tries, the most powerful being the labor right to strike. This is by than the 11. rlek Cuke Comselling out bassador Welles attempts to solve Wall Street will demand armed instruggle for the correct Leninist Ed. siguatures to the agreement dry the Impasse by arbitration. Strikes tervention. Steps are already being policy.
Business cycles in the post war one of the Pennsylvania inners no means the first base initiated by the revolutionary work taken to facilitate rapid movements BULLETIN period have ceased to constitute which involved at the time of the performed by these reactionary and all reference to the union which the ers in Havana as a protest against of armed forces to Cuba ona moAs we go to press, we learn that the normal machinery of capitalist truce some 70. 000 men, threatening bor leaders. It is only one more interese Tuine organizmus. com meand viceroy as mediator in the island ine and navy units are already pre horrible machine gun fire from the development, insotar as capitalism, to extend to embrace several hun added to the record that the coming has 10 intention We can still remember the no whatever to recognize the univers land affecting an industries and patches indicate that the startis mowed down hundreds of Cuban decay. But this does not mean that the steel industry. That instruck partaking of the nature of a genery Brigade now in State demonstrators on the streets of economic fluctuations belong to the fear into the hearts of the capi strike agreement entered into be right to organise. But the gov.
eral political strike. Even the and about 1, 000 marines stationed Havana and has aroused the entire past. Immediately after the war, talists and labor lieutenants alike tween the of olicials and crument had no punishment to meet america.
Va. would be the first country. Martial law has been de it is true, they lost their cyclical They hurried to reach the no strike the Hoover administration at the out to detiance from that side. The tions in some places are glving to be clared. There is danger of imme and as to the recovery, at least, agreement. This is a desperate inception of the crisis. It was stipmiuers, on the other hand, have in diate intervention by Amer their universal character. Both atempt to hamstring the American ulated to remain in effect during this a clear iudication of how their their support to the movement.
Mass demonstrations in In this regard the American Comican marines. The Cuban militia these characteristics, however, up workers until the industrial codes that period of national emergency right to organization will fure in Havana munists must raise the slogan has been called out by Machado. to certain point, at least, are be with their class collaboration and so there we have it. no strike the coming urbitration. No sooner and other cities have created a sit Hands off Cuba.
compulsory arbitration machinery agreement with the bosses and was the ink on the signatures dry nation that at this writing The populace is urged to defending revived before our eyes.
thel The Cuban masses require and the country against foreign imperThe present crisis is of world is firmly established.
their government during the crisis than the non union cal operators police and military have been un Street government in order to batism. The Cuban tyrant thereby wide character. This means that the no strike truce is to cover the period of recovery Chain the to withdraw their open shup quali and a no strike agreement during at the hearing of their code refused able as yet to dominate overthrow the dictator who until hopes to win the anti imperialist world economy whose existence was all unions and industries and to workers more solidly to the chariottication from the code.
Mass Murder (Continued on Page 4) remain in effect during the period of capitalist exploitation while their Machine guns are being used in to continent months ago was able forces to mais bathner aspirations and their endeavors to It is no wonder that the capitaldiscriminatingly against all groups cipally to the support of the Amergathering in public places and the ican imperialists.
attain a human standard of living ment were eager to obtain a no ist representatives in the governlist of dead and injured mounts Correct Policy Decisive are crushed beneath the wheels of strike truce. They recognise per majority of the population is being poetung to play a leading role That is the policy of the labor they see it. They fu ve first of all brought into action, all of the bour in the struggles now developing Industrial Recovery Act went into ganization and to elevate them of correct trade union policy will right into the mitt of the Wall stupen Stop trusts which will insist Only a few brief weeks since the to enforce their rights of union or. In this coming periol the question lientenants of capitalism. It Si the task to satisfy the powerful in the demand to de the coming period will depend al operation and there is already Iselves from the extraordinary debe decisive, Woe to the revolu. executives at Washington.
upon moving ven und eurth to throne the Machado dictatorship, most entirely on the correctness husky crop of powerful strikes such ased upon them during the years tionary party if it falls in that!
cline At the very moment when the prevent unionism from entering are exerting their chief energies with which the party reacts to the as the country has not witnessed of crisis. The spring which is too respect! It will disappear from truce was being signed the Penn Cheir plants. this the govern ment and keep it under their con aire advanced and the correcte tare bingers of coming greater, and more tightly compressed must ease and the scene as an affective factor for killed and many wounded doja Kulets the trusts. Thie Washington merrytrol.
The Communist party, while tics pursued, the Communist party intense, struggles Unquestionably wire was period of widespread a long time to come not in any sense having the hege may well find itself in the direct that is the case.
spewed from guns of private plug bo round was set into motion. Adcountry to its very foundation can For a correct solution of the de luglies hired by the coal and steel, nistrator Johnson went by airmony of even the workers in leadership of the Cuban working The workers are beginning to be expected from which the work cisive question of trade union pels barons: striking Pennsylvania hos mome to the Pransylvania strike broad sympathies among the mass however, a definite break must be tially upon their own mass power, tical consciousness.
with class. In order to achieve this assume the offensive, relying esseners will have much to gain in policy and activity the Left Opposi fers workers were subjected to tear cd, back to Washington to get gas attacks by the police and the siguuture of the labor leaders, un to Crum Elbow for the approval Challenge to Capitalism For many months the American or the President from his vacation imperialists, who have a dominating These strikes already constitutes retreat and back to Washington control of the Cuban sugar indusa mighty challenge hurled into the again. He was followed by the latry and of most of the island Dor adviser to the ery Admin ized that Machado regime was in delay, may to a certain extent its decay stage and incapable of almost the same route. The fear throw confusion into these develop ments, but it cannot stop them. The of an extension of the labor offenfurther serving their interests efOn Labor Day week end, Septem representation on the arrangements labor lieutenants of capitalism may We are entering a new stage in demand for the right to muion orsive oiled the machinery. It work fectively. Any one of the principal lenders of the opposition (Menocal. ber 1st to 4th, the United States committee. This was soon agreed perform their service in aiding con working class developments. This gunication. That can be said also ed well and under high pressure Mendieta, Gomex. all of whom Congress Against War will be held upon. number of Socialists, Nor fusion and disorganization within is veritied not merely in the ap 10 hold true to u more or less de spoed. The labor lloutenants of repeat once have extensive interests in the in New York City. The official call man Thomas, Julius Gerber, etc. the workers ranks, but they cannot pearance of the and the tree for other strukes of a smaller capitalism can now sugar industry themselves together of the Congress contains the signs were added to the Committee; a few hold the movement back for long. new methods of capitalist co or scale. In other words under the guin: We do our prt.
with the Imperialsts, would be tures of the Communist party, more Stalinists were put on.
and dination which it attempts to put the workers are taking It will sweep over their heads and into life, but primarily in the new advantage of the change toward eant to accept the truce. That At first the miners were reluctequally willing, given the power, number of organizations which it Double Game of Stalinists kain in scope and effectiveness.
to serve Wall Street interests, and controls, pacifist groups, the In the preparations for the Con. These strike movements are a chal relationship of forces created by more favorable relationship brought should not cause any wonder. They would be able to do so in a less new economic conjuncture. about by the turn in conjuncture have had many bitter experiences and the Socialist party, lenge to them and all their policies the crude and more efficalous manner. cently the National Executive Com: same. In the press they continued for. They are a challenge to the express the efforts to find new wazal workers is to translate the fact of ty could there be found one example ne sress the Stalinists played a double or the dead past which they stand These new methods of co ordination The elementary instinct of the of truces and arbitration, and hardBehind the Arbitration ado overthrow could only led to of criticism against it contained members and others. At meetings into service for the advance of the in the old bounds.
It was the realzation that Mach drew from the united front because for the consumption of their own pressing it forward, pressing it ship of forces and maintain it with of production into unity in ore where this sort of intervention has zation. Everywhere there is manl the bosses. Their reluctance set not always served the interest of long drawn out struggle among in the Daily Worker. few words of the arrangements committee they working classe those very elements now collabor on how this united front was ar spoke very humbly and even apologomle struggles over a far fung field seeking organization and it is to foderal government has opened an It is a stage of developing contested the tendency of workers added machinery into motion. The Challenge to Official ating in the opposition which ranged.
ized for articles appearing in the might give the Communists and other extremist elements an oppor. Henter the paternal guidance of Daily Worker attacking the Social. But these strikes are also a chal which is unfolding before us. At be assumed that the new conditions investigation into alleged Commun tunity for struggle and growth, the United Sates for the Congress weeks ago when the socialists took party leadership to have done with its small beginnings, however, with develop this tendency. But in com. Hields. It is to be led by Assistant Anderson, Theodore the representatives to task its third period antics. To have a charpness and acuteness fully in. weeties there with the important Pederul Attorney Lloyd Bryant which in this manner the powers that bo tion to seek a means of comprom Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair, men for an article in the Daily and done with its fatal policy of split Ise through mediation. The revbers of the American Committee for Minor replied by stating that he is the trade unions and Isolating enlarge their scope and intensity. stream gravitate, towards the con uy the basis for permanency of the will ensue as these struggles unions will this working class are closing in on the workers to olutionary mass movement is not struggle against War, issued an had not read the article. Instead of an open appeal to the Now is not the time to play with play in this next lehaupter, to be called revolutionary awards the wo strike policy.
the arbitrary Interference of the suddenly an arrangements commit National Executive Committee of cutite Paper unions of your own recorded by history in this period, it seek new and independent forms? This no strike truce, by the time State Department, but is also tee an attempt on the part of the St. composed overwhelmingly of the by the Communist apets the revolutionists and left wingers will become one of paramount im. It should not be difficult to a will be sure to prove another serlStalinist controlled organizations for united front against war, the to enter and take up work in the we can say contidently it is carried to its final conclusion, portance. In the same measure, wer this question. The answer de Cuban masses to seek the revolu was organized. The tionary way out of the political joined in. Under Musteites stalinists employ intermediaries. miss unions. Now is not the time questionat de union policy be maturity of the American workinges. The of leaders will radical or liberal intellectuals. But to split the working class, but on the decisive question of the immedi. class. And, in this respect we Will the pends in the main upon the political ous lesson to the American work impasse and of Rehis did not help them. The Naeconomic crisis ily of pacifist friend sure stund the more clearly in their Island ever since the collapse of Hughan of the Win the excuse that it was looking So withdrew from the Congress and opportunity for its unification all can afford to overlook or ignore working class politically mature of the opptreret the courses very centong ate future. Communists least of know that we cannot or we true light. The role of the state the sugar industry in 1925. League, the National The colossal failure of American Committee of the Socialist party for: a criticism of it cion will become the more appar having a tradition of socialist confent. Its effect will inevitably be to armed intervention in Nicaragua joined the united front on the con Worker of the og lite the Deity France Friend of neupward economic conjuncture or fact we are not here concerned about there to be there other future economicos and the scandals attendant on the dition that it be given adequate the arrangements committee replied by appealing to the to re(Continued on Page 4)
a cumbersome, contradictory nature USSR. Litvinov larger scale.
consider its decision. August and heralding deeper plunges into 3rd It decided. That this arrangeprolonged and more turbulent ments committee takes the position that in developing the united front these two quotations First is the needs to prepare in this present We beg our readers to compare perspective for which the workers crises. But that is a quetsion of no organization which is carrying declaration made by Litvinov in The announcements that comrade they receive in our midst, that they out the purposes of the anti war Paris (Le Temps, July stage. Meanwhile the sharper the present change the sharper the ac Trotsky, held in Turkey for five also authorixe, it appears, to go Congress should be attacked by Neither our political por our bronse of years by Stalin diplomats, is alto Marseilley and Corsica. July participating organizations on fields economie interests clash with those the reduction of unemployment will set up united front between the new Division will soon swallow up masses. The fact of the Roosevelt Administration has Division In the Industrial Recovery Acttion are being combined into a new Investigation.
of common work. That all part of France in any part of the world.
This lowed to sojourn in France, has 23. bureaucrats Listen to Renaissance, the Rus cipating organizations shall first That is why we consider that noth correspondingly increase the self national government and the big any other bureaus. Most import into confusion. For a week, the sian monarchist daily, the organ place before arrangements commit ing should stand in the way of the confidence of the workers. Even a capitalists for the purpose of driva ant of all. the new Division of the tee or the sub committee enpower small change of economic conjune ing wages down to starvation vestigation will have special squads editors of Humanite, organ of the of the Gorguloffs: French have Alled its col. The present as likely that he (Trot ences of opinion between the partian economie rapproachement.
Dar, one of the editors of Humansky) will have no lack of visitors. cipating organizations relative to that Herriot is going to undertakeling its mark. The change which necessary for the government is being created. In view of Roos Further down, it is announced does not take place without leav the least possible commotion it is ing under Federal jurisdiction. In ite, has been instructed by Stalin And moreover, perhaps there is the Congress Against War, an official mission in the USSR. hired by the factories a national police department is expressed in new workers being have its own police, in addition to agents to sling mud, to concoct de reason to predict that besides belles toal, nowever, but leveret os Peri, theoretician of the French spirit beatirely dierents from the winter arrogante we against workers evelt methods in the recent past, coste de those who are expected, there will understood, however that every core party explains in Humanite dalle one of the continual layoffs attack on their living standards, that the main purpose of the new fective Stordcocation wereby her be others, quite unexpected. July sanization shall be perfectly free orxan of the French Communist white guard. The Political Bureau 25. to urge its own program with re: Party (July 17th. With all the efforts of capitalist Such a national police is already police is not that of stopping kidco ordination of its economie struc being formed. It can be said that the role of of the French party which was too. The. Down with the masks! What spect to the struggle against war napping and racketeering.
impotent to organize the slightest is behind this acmpaign, these in. These assurances which the leader of the anti Soviet crusade are the creating sigante mono But it is not the blunt old Hoover poly, competitive warfare action against Fascism, has atirred eitements to murder issued by the rangements Committee will make held for so long by French impernot cease. It only becomes eleve Administration that is effective and which was agreed to ialism, has itself to hysteria to incite the appolitical bureau?
this Division of Inthis new weapon of the bearing The head guests are not needed.
paratus against Trotsky.
rage will do much to open the good! That Lunacharsky is officialist party should make fruitful coaffirm that this signifies that the by the process of production. Their offensive against the workers He was rensible for the deportaThose articles and these bursts of in the company of Tardieu, very ng representatives of the Commun What does this signify? We must selves in increasing measure united Act and is directing the capitalist svo of Attorney General Palmer other hand the workers find them the National Industrial Recovery This man was one of the red buiters in the early twenties.
workers eyes to the real policy orlly recelved on his disembarkment at operation possible. Daily Worker USSR, weakened by the defents of interests become constantly am now builds up new machinery of the. Parls, perfect! That Muenzenberg 2033. the international proletariat, is remerent down to a more united level. coercion. This shrewd gentleman tions of Emma Goldman, Alexander And where do they look for argu obtains a regular as portland the Meaning of Non Aspression Pact sorting praction serance In this sense the relationship of is now ments? They look to the Fascists, right to carry on his publications, length particularly, with France einforces is changing in faovr of the crime. carios. Tacketeering, ervlette to the a campaign against Berkman, Ludwig Martens, the so to Coty. the arch reactionary per that Paul Schwenk has the author of the importance of the section. perialist, the policeman of Europe workers. The intolerable conditions. tortion and blackmail LAWe are and He has also served as Read the articles in Ami du Peu the Prussian Landtak, to organize be more simply written. No critle Treaty. Was it not that viciousdard of living imposed upon them ment jurisdiction over all crime ready to aid the bosses by deportof the Bureau of Immigration ple (Coty paper. listen to which has always ieen notoriously Vetings in Paris, all very ism on the field of common work. enemy of the during the years of the crisis press interfering with interstate still better, that Radek, Does not this mean no criticism of Churchill, who just said recently ever harder for readjustment. But merce and over all criminal activing militant workers. There are cries of hate from the allies of coml Humanito: new defender of the Versailles the pacifism and Socialist action at Paris that the French army was rendjustments are not at all con Atles involving operations in two few men is capable as Mr. The traitor Trotsky is given verentsi e lo perder a Creas where sexual and policies of war so Where didata Mee udpeguarantee of the security trained in the alldemamore states Hoover for the job of leading permission to sojourn in France. One has the right to demandled by Pilsudsky, is officially re first go to the united front commit Peri and Co. lie to the proletariat wages and shorter working hours laws, and no doubt they will being class. It is clear that with srole palaver of higher nominal liberal interpretation of such government attack upon the work its decision by authorizing the trait. hy the editor of the biggest Polish take note: before writing critical the bourgeois press, all praise the Readjustments mean struggle. That ality. gives the government control police are intended to serve not or Trotsky to sully French soil by bourgeois paper. Yes, all that is articles of editorials on the anti Litvinov, does not conceal its opin is what we see initiated today.
his presence.
very natural: socialism one war Congress submit it to the ar lon of the Soviet situation. Le over all labor disputes. At the against the gangsters but against country that.
rangements committee! The stat. Temps, of July 17th, publishes a greatest och nackerlistele. etike to the draw whipe the burden of in bedre the starvation pay of the It is this wretched creature, who has shed French blood, that (Continued on page Continued on Page Continued on Pake 4)
Pennsylvania miners grew trom the gation, identification and prohiblul PETER MORTON.
On Jackal Press Howls at Trotsky Roosevelt National Police of umns with a torrent of Alth. Dar such that it is care of things ised to act for it, any and all dirror continuation of a political as wellture in one direction or another levels. In order to do this with of police to suppress all crimes com politiazeLetrinov sojourns in Royat sig et participating groupe Tinelud ality hands today passed into other handigher stage on the rose Vente las pe boerouets estimation is joku Edgar Hoover and in