NO THE MILITANT March 1, 1929.
Page Letters from the Milita nt A VOICE FROM PRISON teachings to the world situation and Russia in particular. MINNEAPOLIS MILITANT Sing Sing Prison, To my understanding the Opposition is the real Bolshevik Minneapolis, Minn.
Ossining, New York, group. am organizing an Opposition group; there is Dear Comrade: February 12, 1929. a large field to work on and need information regard Our Communist work is going on in Minneapolis de Dear Comrades: ing its organization. For that reason would like to spite the expulsion, slander and finally the fascist meth have received your letter and also the editions of the keep in touch with you. regretted very much that ods to which our Party, has degenerated in District Nine.
Militant and you don know how happy was when missed the opportunity to arrange a meeting for you Bureaucratic, gangster and suppressive methods workers read aḥou the wonderful work our Group is doing. Dear when you were in Cleveland a short time ago. If you have to be fought whether in our Party or in other wor Jim, when read about the deportation of and intend to come to Detroit, please let me know so that kers organizations.
about the way the Thermidorians and the Caesars of the will arrange a well attended meeting of workers who short time ago, in fact on the evening of the same present regime in the are doing with the Lieut sympathize with Trotsky views. am sure you will day on which was notified by the little bureaucratic enants of Lenin and the leaders of the October, it made find the very promising supporters.
Devine, District Organizer here that was expelled from may blood boil, but as has foreseen this very tactic They have requested for all kinds of literature that will the Party, the pamphlet entitled Emotion Hides Com of theire before it is not surprising to us. Lenin said in enlighten them about the present situation in the move.
munist Trickery issued by Green and Morrison of the 1923 to remove Stalin from his present position and that ment. There is a big demand for the book The Real of was read before my union. took the floor he will in time split our Party. Lenin was the first one Situation in Russia by Leot Trotsky. lot of these to predict and foresee that. Lenin said that this cook will books can be sold here. read that book, and think feed us a peppery soup and he will yet break the Party. it will clarify some comrades who are misled by Stalin.
Later, after Lenin death, this same Stalin collected all Comradely yours, those that were against Lenin in October (in those days Alex Schriber.
when deeds counted and not words) like Zinoviev, KaKamenev, Rykov, etc. and to his collection be added the COPIES OF FIRST ISSUE OF MILITANT WANTED theoretician and phraseologist, Bucharin, who was out All readers of the Militant who have on hand copies of of the Party in 1918 at Brest Litovsk, propagating against the first issue dated November 15, 1928 are urgently reLenin by saying that Lenin is misleading Russia and will quested to send them to us. Even single copies will be bring it to ruin. Together thiey started the attack against those that stood with Lenin side by side at all times in greatly appreciated as our file copies were stolen in the al emergencies from 1917 until his death.
burglary conducted by the professionals hired to do this In this country Pepper boys started the pot boiling job by the Central Executive Committee of the Party.
litst with the miners, then with the endorsement of Pan ken and the Socialist Party then with the sending of Conumunist Party members into the then with the NEW EXPULSIONS pou to obey the Master voice in the liquin portant task On the eve of the Party Convention, which is to mark Trotskyites. They are so eager in doing it that they the fake internal consolidation of the Party, we have Alcad up with the expulsion of all the proletarian mem bers of the Party and remain with the City College of to record numerous other expulsions of active workers New York boys like Weinstone, Miller, Wolfe, Benjamin, from the Party for their support of the Platform of the Russian Opposition. Behind all the hypocritical bun.
more, teachers, lawyers and petty Bourgeois. When Pepper combe about Party unity the campaign of expulsions gest through with those he will be able to repeat those and Party splitting is continuing in full blast. New ex Words that he wrote in 1918 against all Bolsheviks.
pulsions about which the Militant has recently been in Now will conclude with the words of Lenin plus a formed are as follows: BOSTON httle 8f my own: Watch these cooks for they will feed us COOPERSTEIN.
with peppery soups. They will ruin the Party.
NEW YORK romain yours for the victory of the Opposition and HAROLD ROBBINS, Young Workers League.
the bealth of Maurice Malkin.
JOHN JUSTIN, Young Workers League.
SAM WATTS, Young Workers League.
ANOTE: Comrade Malkin has been transferred from GEORGE CLARK, Young Workers cague.
OSCAR COOVER Sing Sing prison to the prison at Comstock, New York. MAX WALDMAN, of the Furriers Union.
Slugged by Lovestone Foster gangsters at Minneapolis Together with him went the two other needle trades workST. LOUIS meeting Erst Les Franklin and Sam Kurland. All comrades are ELMER MCMILLAN, Communist candidate for Mayor.
urged to write to him regularly at his new address: Ma MARTIN PAYER, Acting sub district organizer and in an 18 or 20 minutes talk exposed the lies, in arice Malkin, No. 10061, Box 51, Comstock, New nuendo and cheap trickery contained in the pamphlet York. GOLDBERG.
and also explained what we Communists stood for ja CHARLES MAHLER, Young Workers League.
the unions, as well as our final aim, the necessity for our LEAGUE MEMBER ON THE NEW YORK CARLSON, Young Workers League.
democratic centralized form of organization, the dictator MEETING DETROIT hip of the proletariat, etc. etc.
ALEX SCHRIBER Probably our Party bureaucrats will claim this is coun to the Editor of the Daily Worker JULIUS ROSEN, Section Agit Prop Director.
ter revolutionary work but just the same it helps to clear Dear Comrade: RICHMOND, CALIF.
the minds of the workers. Their saying we are not Com The occurrences at last Tuesday Troskyite meeting ROSA POWELL.
munists doesn make it so, and am satisfied that by held at the Labor Temple will repay the scrutiny of Party WILLISTON, DAKOTA the time this fight is over we will have it made it so hot and League members. The disgusting spectacle enacted MILLER, first Communist legislator in for the little bureaucrats of the Communist movement 25 a consequence of Party tactics was surpassed only by BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA that they will never again dare try the suppression of real the putrid report of the affair which appeared in the next SARAH LINN.
Communists or their platform honestly put forth.
day issue of the Daiy Worker. If nothing else was ac.
TORONTO, CANADA With Comradely greetings, complished it gave conclusive proof that certain Party QUAELER.
OSCAR COOVER etements have nothing more to learn from capitalist teachers as far as gangster methods and maliciously false WHO ARE THE EXPELLED COMMUNISTS newspaper reporting are concerned.
VINCENT DUNNE Member Western Federation All the allegations in the Daily Worker article give of Miners, 1905; joined at foundation; in quite the opposite of the truth. In all cases the disturb actions in Missoula, Spokane, Seattle, Fresno and ances were provoked by Party or League members. The San Francisco. Participated in strikes and free first blow of the evening was struck at the ticket taker speech fights, 1906 Served sentences in Seattle and STATEMENT TO DOWN TOWN UNIT NO. 2, by one who alleged himself to be unemployed and tried Los Angeles for street speaking. Worked in lumber YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF Y, to force his way into the hall. Most ridiculous of all is camps, mines and construction camps in Idaho, Washthe accusation that the presence of police was due to a At the Tuesday night (February 26) meeting of the ington, Montana, California, Texas and Arizona Mem. Opposition to protest the deportation of Trotsky, we elephone call from Cennon asking for police provedi ber of strike committee of Saw Mill Workers at Boga. saw the kind of activity that the officials of the Party and adjourning the meeting, the chairman explained loosa, La. 1908. Express wagon driver and messenger League carry on against the Opposition. big squad that the reason for adjourning at that time was due to for Northern Parific, Wells Fargo, Adams Express, dis. was sent down to the meeting by Bert Miller, the organ the presence of police. The Daily Worker article omits charged several times for organizing workers, finally ization secretary of the Party in New York. They did to mention this but declared that the adjournement was blacklisted and forced out of industry. Active in Mooney not come in order to argue or discuss the issues intelli forced by the departure of the audiente. have been Defense fight and in Friends of Soviet Russia. Charter gently or in a manner that would convince workers of present at many a Party mass meeting, however, which member Minneapolis Office Workers Union, financial the correctness of the Party position. On the contrary, was considered a success, and which did not have more secretary and delegate to Central Labor Union, 1922 24. they came there only for the purpose of breaking up the of an audience than was present at the adjournment of Removed from office and expelled from for Coin. meeting by violence and physical attacks on the sup.
the Cannon meeting.
munist activity by order of Executive Council of of porters of the opposition. We are absolutely convinced The success of a Communist movement is not based on in 1924. Secretary of 12th Ward Farmer Labor Club that such activity can only bring the greatest harm to a policy of distorting facts or obscuring issues. The (Minneauolis) 1924 Removed from office for fighting the movement and help to discredit it before the eyes movement thrives only to the extent that workers are pre bureaucrats and labor fakers Shipstead, Cramer, of the workers. It will bring about a situation where septed with the facts and given a sound ideological Weir, Starkey, Landeen, etc. Expelled from union Nov. the cops and dicks will become the judges and final basis. There are enough capitalist agencies thru which ember 11, 1928 for opposing Shipstead as Senatorial settlers of all disputes in the ranks of the movement and the minds of workers are doped with falsehoods. candidate, just three days before expulsion from Party. the working class. We are abolutely opposed to such The Labor Temple meeting is not important in itself, tactics but there is something seriously wrong with the sort of neapolis for three years. Member District Exec We believe further that a real discussion of the importtactics that were employed. These same tactics are have utive Committee, 1923 8; of District Polcom, 1926 28: ant issues, should be conducted, especially for the young ing their deplorable effects in all Party and League units. member District secretariat, 1927 Delegate National comrades in the League. Such a discussion can be worth comrade is not even permitted to present an opposing Convention, 1927. Delegate to every convention of while only if both sides of the issues are clearly presented stand on vital questions, and if he votes according to Farmer Labor Federation and Association. Member of to us, and all the material made available for study and National Party Election Campaign Committee, 1928. discussion. All we have had so far is the pamphlet by protest against such tactics and in doing so know Communist candidate for Congressman in 1928. Ex Betram Wolfe on the Trotsky Opposition which that am expressing the attitude of many members who pelled from Party, November 14, 1928.
didn each us anything. Otherwise we simply become are not yet prepared to speak openly.
HELEN JUDD Secretary of North Side English automatic hand raisers who endorse everything that the Paul Green, member branch of Socialist Party in 1919 and helped to swing Party and League Officials instruct us to do. We proit into Communist Party when William Kruse, Louis pose the immediate opening of such a real discussion FROM DETROIT COMMUNIST Engdahl, Victory Berger, Adolph Germer, Seymour, Sted and the end of the kind of work that the Party carried Detroit, Mich. Feb. 9, 1929. man and others were trying to hold it in line for the on at the Tuesday meeting Dear Comrade Cannon: Socialists. Indicted in the Palmer Raids, held under JOE BURTON, member of Executive Board, American wish to inform you that was expelled from the 10, 000 bonds. Secretary of Local Chicago, National Association of Plumbers Helpers.
Workere Party for holding certain views regarding Trots Defense Committee, for two years, while Party was MAC KUDLER, member of Executive Board American ky. Two years have been fighting to express my views underground. Afterward active for several years in Association of Plumbers Helpers.
and was suppressed. The Party removed me from all forming pioneer groups. At the time of second expulsion IRVING SPREIREGEN, vice president, American Asactivities and on February 3, 1929, was expelled. by William Kruse, was secretary of Nucleus 31, one sociation of Plumbers Helpers.
After a thorough study of both sides, e. Stalin and of the largest and most active in Chicago, and also a memJOSEPH FOX, League unit Industrial Committee.
the Opposition, came to the conclusion that the Oppo ber of the Control Commission of District Eight of the HAROLD ROBINS.
sition is more capable of applying Marx and Lenin JEAN TISHMAN.
Proletarian Youth Against Gangsterism Party.