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September 18, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Crushing Left Wing Majority At YPSL Convention Make Impossible Alibi Attempt of Socialist Call mer AKRON CIO CHIEFS PLAY POLITICS WITH DEMOCRATS (Continued from page 3) cials of Labor Non Partisan The rubber companies comp League, meeting with the Demoleted large inventories this sum cratic chairman, determine this and also their plans for strategy. decentralization of production.
In an off. moment Patterson They began a campaign of attri told the press, expect to go tion to break the union spirit. high in Democratic national In last week issue of the So the Mississippi! And east of the Production was lowered to two politics. labor candidate. Not Wishful thinking There were proday a week schedules. Lay offs an iota more than that faker, La cialist Call there appear two Mississippi. ex bably or from Cleveland, repDid Hamilton answer the claim began by the hundreds. If you dentally: Patterson admits he is plain away Clarity crushing resenting 20 members, or from that the delegates who packed told the union committeemen.
Confident that the unions were the back of the workers. He cialist League. One, written by bers there, from Baltimore was healthy and vital in the on the turn, Goodyear and Good hasn even promised anything to Al Hamilton, secretary of the (made possible by the purchase League, that they came from rich permitted the National Labor labor, he has no program, yet Clarity Right wing caucus, is a of dues stamps on credit in ex cities which had shown growtime Relations Board to hold employe the union officials are seeking to sniping prevarication at the Yip cess of the real membership of and activity? Could Hamilton elections to determine if the put him across.
sel convention after Clarity had the YPSL in that city. from dispute the fact that his few URWA would obtain sole collecbolted. The other, by some an Milwaukee, and possibly another delegates, who represented hardtive bargaining rights.
Stalinists Right Wing The onymous scribe, is an attempt delegates from legitimate or ly more than themselves, came And what are the Stalinists weakness could be seen the sesto show strength where only semi legitimate sections.
Unions won 1 at Goodyear and from sections that had stagna10 at Goodrich. Despite the doing? No sooner had the charac sion of the Clarity Right wing ted, declined? Was it acciwavering of the leadership, the ter of this political campaign caucus that had the impudence The Figures Broken dent that Hamilton report on the year activities made absounion rank and file wasn on the begun to expose itself and militant to call itself YPSL ConvenDown lutely no mention of figures on past three years were not for with the Democratic party, than remains is that of the poor aurun. The great lessons of the workers began demanding a break tion.
The only impression that League membership How much of a joke their preHamilton saw the worried gotten by the rubber workers. the Stalinists organizer gave a thors, pecking away half hearted tense was, is revealed by the look on the faces of the left wins In order to make this analysis radio address, begging the work ly at their typewriters, while a New York delegation. In New delegates. These worried deleof Akron as clear as possible, ers not to split with the Demo: sickly blush betrays their tweaks York City there were 357 paid gates held the most spirited conwe must now refer to the specific crats! The usual attack against of conscience.
up members.
political considerations that have the Trotskyites also featured Allowing another vention in the history of the Were their shouts of been the center of controversy in his speech. Stalinism is being Says Hamilton group of 100 for members in arrears. League.
the labor movement.
exposed in all its brutality, hy Appealites who were visitors, and (the cemetery vote) the total is enthusiasm when Erber opened Scheme pocrisy, and reformism in this a smaller group of about 40 dele 460. Even the most unregenerate the convention the cries of worcampaign. The Stalinists, to the gates remained with him (Er Clarityite will now admit that ry. Was it with worry that The Stalinists began an intens amusement of many workers, are ber. when he opened the con at least 200 of New York Yipsels they boomed out the Internaive campaign for the formation the right wing of Labor Non vention. Hamilton never had an were left wingers (250 would be tional while the Clarityites of a Farmer Labor party in 1936, Partisan League!
opportunity to estimate accurate more accurate, but we won quib slunk out? Did Hamilton detect in Akron as elsewhere.
ly the number of delegates pre ble. That leaves a maximum single left winger who was not Gathering delegates from all Uncompromising sent because he did everything of 250 for Clarity, the Right impatient with the delay of the their stooge organizations, gaincentrists?
in his power to prevent the con wing, the YCL stooges and mis convention by the Struggle ing some support from the unions vention from convening. cellaneous independents. This Wishful thinking. Did Hamilton here, the Stalinists called a con Whether Patterson wins or not Let Hamilton think back: 250 got 53 delegates. One of think the delegates would worry vention in May 1936. Rubber (his chances are (50 50) a new When Erber opened the conven these came from Circle Sr. because he was leaving the unions sent observers. Since stage of political development tion and Hamilton filed out of Manhattan and represented her League. most of the delegates were either has been reached in this rubber the hall with self conscious self, the lone Clarityite in a cirA Sorry Confession Stalinists or stooges, the move center. Basically, we have an handful of followers, there re cle of 14 members. Two came ment collapsed, as the revolution attempt of the bourgeoisie to mained 148 people by actual from 1c (City College) repre Hamilton makes an admission ary Socialists had predicted. At divert the growing class cons count. Of these, 104 were regular senting just themselves in a cir that knocks the prop from under tempts to blame the Trotsky ciousness of the workers into the delegates present in Philadel cle of 32 members. Ditto for his arguments. the eliminaites failed. The militants wanted safe channels of class collabora phia to attend a convention Hunter College and other circles. tion of the large New York dele.
independent political actoin but tion on the political field.
which Hamilton was determined Need more be added than the gation might have given the Apbecame disgusted and withdrew would never be held. Who, that fact that in the last city elec peal bare majority. Precisely!
when the program adopted was was present in Philadelphia, does tions the Appeal received the only the majority would not 30 mild that its best supporters, JOHN BULL ARMS, not remember the miserable pic largest single bloc of votes, or have been bare. In these words along with the Stalinists, were ture of the Clarityites shuffling 41 of the whole, and that since Hamilton admits that the APLABOR LEADER AID out of the hall while the walls then many left wingers joined it. peal had a conclusive majority the worst reactionaries labor movement, like Continued from page 3)
rang with the singing of the Inin the entire country.
Blanckenship, vice president of ternational. When all the Clarthe CLU at the time, one of Ak. such as the Nyon Conference. ityites had left, not a dent had When the Old Guard Militant Clarityite Answers and likewise be assured of com been made in attendance. Those split took place in the Socialist ron notorious red baiters.
The huge rubber workers vote plete support when the war it who remained filled every inch During the (National) Com both delegations equal rights Party, the party convention gave Thus the decisions of the room.
mittee deliberations. in the last presidential election self breaks.
says until the convention had decided of the Trades Union Congress, Hamilton, the created the basis for the present which ended its session simulelaborate widespread statements concern neither side had the right to vote upon the merits of the case, and political situation. Hungry De taneously with the Nyon Con Figures Compared mocratic politicians saw a pos: ference, are by no ing gerrymandering (etcetera. on the qualifications of the other.
were one after another answered, At Philadelphia, however, the sible means of grabbing the spoils Forty delegates, indeed! At the along with the naling of lie after Clarity NEC sought to prevent of city hall from the entrenched cident. The entire Congress revRepublican machine. Union bu. olved around the question of the League convention there were no lie told by the Appeal leaders in the Convention from exercising reacrats saw a source of political foreign policy of the National less than 23 delegates from Chi la desperate effort to heighten the its constitutional right of decidGovernment. The entire work of cago alone, elected by 187 mem morale of a worried rank and file power.
the Congress was summed up in bers. an under statement, but which did not want to leave the ing in advance that this huge ining delegate contesta by decreeDemocrat Victorious its vote to support the rearma the figure set by the Clarityite League. Where facts are not tlated Right wing Clarity bloc Labor Non Partisan League, ment policy of the Government, National administrative secretaries with you, use rhetoric. By whom Wate legali sand that it would helpen Then delegates were the widespread statement voice and rotte on its own eligi, dormant after the Roosevelt reelection, was revived. The Stalin the British working class, fol. had come in from California to answered. mbers: the record manipulations in New bility. The NY left wing could the bank magon. But they were ren and Stalinist deputies who in other delegates. could not man: York? Bershop? Hamilton. Milt nation, brat only a. of Le politicians who grabbed French war budget, announce delegates from New York (only the pitiful complaint by Milt pelled members, seeking redress of grievances.
leading posts in the League, even their treachery in advance, in ad 27 of the total) most of them Friedman, the NEC member from Precisely because left wing ed the vote. municipal judge, government that they will turn to be place direction the rest had put them on the defensive, 10wed the shareste elements Patterson, in Democrat, was over to it the British masses for presenting die meblos ante least the that all that mattered was Apdemocracy, it clamored for the chosen for mayoralty. Candidate, slaughter in the imperialist war. number of members set by pre peal split perspective.
to run on the Democratic party Pledge Sell Out Before attended from Louisville, Cleve: unprecedented growth and a wing bloc knew its own weekonvention rules. Other delegates answered California claims for opening of the convention. Con ticket. He didn bother with a land, Akron, Youngstown, Read tivity! Hamilton did his best to mess it tried to stymie the conprogram.
hand ing, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bos belittle it. But Drob, with his Patterson received 17, 000 votes vention in the primary, swamping the During the last war it was ton, Dorchester, Lynn, Albany, last ounce of honesty, had other Democratic nominee. The not until after hostilities had be Syracuse, Newark. 35 cities in admit that California had made Convention Republican mayor got less than sun that the parties of the Se all. Every one of these was there remarkable progress, up to completed in the flesh, representing 1000 certain point. After that cerCompare the League convenhalf that figure but he was unop cond International posed. This primary result was their betrayal and voted the war members all told, according to tain point California had hela tion with the centrist caucus sesthe most successful summer sion. The old young tired radihailed as a great victory for budget. The immeasurably great. Drob figures in most cases.
labor.
er profundity of the present But examine the Clarity cau school in the history of the YP cals who attended the centrist No Program crisis of world capitalism is in cus: 92 delegates were seated, SL, recruited members, and open meeting lacked spirit and enthu.
dicated by this fact that today 53, or 57 of the total came ed new circles.
Biasm. They gathered in an air However, subsequent events the bourgeoisie must exact its from New York. Of the remainWas the motion for an inves of discouragement. In their dis have already justified the revolu pledge beforehand. And it is ing 39, five were members of the tigation committee an answer to cussion on Spain, the right wine tionary socialists who refused to this fact which at the same time NEC, who, by the bureaucratic the proof that Ward Rogers was ers combined with the normal support Patterson and the gives the revolutionists the op rule of the old Constitution, had a fink and stool pigeon? Did centrists to defeat a minority of League nebulous political pro portunity, which they did not voting rights. Twelve came from Hamilton nail the lie when the seven who presented a left wing gram The corrapt Democratic have in 1914, to make clear be Philadelphia. representing photostat was thrust under his position. An NEC was elected, politicians, the ward heeler, and fore the outbreak of the war the people out of the 65 who voted nose? An answer was given by composed of badding Lawyers other stooges of the capitalist exact character of the betrayal, in Philadelphia (the other 21 had Blackie Palle, seaman, who de semi retired radicals, and inacsiass, and specifically of the to point unerringly at those voted Appeal) and only one vot clared Rogers would be hounded member of the NEC Hamilton terson. He is campaigning not forces which are determined, at League convention for these 211 from the labor movement just as himself, can boast of any real or u labor candidate but as a any and every cost, to oppose the There was not one Clarity dele scabs and finks are chased from imagined contact with youth.
democratic candidate. The off war.
gate from the country west of the waterfront. Continued on page 7)
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