THE MILITANT August 15, 1929 Page All Quiet on the Unity Front The Aftermath of Red Day sup.
to resign Finland, the that the Commission is holding the Party in receivership; the Polcom members are too timid, loyal, obedient and Bolshevized to do anything but cry Ditto to anything that George Williams hands down from From a very well informed Party sourse we learn the Stachel, who is a cheap edition of Lovestone, has Mt. Sinai. The Almighty Williams has finally decided following information about contemplated changes with replaced Minor on the Political Committee, since the that a Plenum of the Central Committee can be risked in the organization as the various little groups of Stal representative doesn think much of the latter! in about weeks, when the Polcom and the Secretariat inists (all of them united, you understand) continue to No one knows who is the secretary of the Party, and will be re organized again and unity established more jockey for position: not many care. The fact of the matter is, of course, firmly than ever before.
Robert Minor to remain nominal editor of the Daily Worker, for the time being, with the threat that the redoubtable Harry Wicks, may take his place.
Earl Browder, however, has the thankless task of being politically in charge. e. of commissaring Minor.
Fralkin, who is more than suspected of having symThe international Red Day demonstrations organ What else but unvarnished idiocy can we call such pathies for Lovestone, is to be replaced as business ized by the Communist International on August 1st pathetic dilettantism, as well as similar nonsense about manager by Wagenknecht.
were precisely what the Opposition foretold they would our comrades guerrila warfare with the police. the REORGANIZED AGAIN be: artificially inflated actions that only demonstrat armed camp in Chicago or shock troops We will The has been re organized for the third time ed the growing weakness of the official Communist not speak here of the romanticism of the uniformed in nine months since the removal of Cannon, Abern Parties and their tremendous loss of influence upon young worker guards. Martian reader of the Parand Shachtman for their support to the Leninist Opthe workers. In some places this was proved more ty press would become seriously convened that we position. The Wagenknecht Tallentire administration rikingly than in others, but everywhere the Parties stand before volcanic revolutionary convulsions in the failed by miles even approach the aims originally United States, which the Party is prevented from had a swift collapse; it was followed by the PoyntzHacker combination which reached its high point of set by the organizers of Red Day. The Stalinists taking proper advantage of solely because of defeatsucceeded more in exposing their own weakness and ists and counter revolutionists.
efficiency in a struggle between the two as to who would sign the checks. Now Louis Engdahl is to internal collapse than they did in exposing the grow We proposed that the demonstration be called off.
ing danger of imperialist war. The net result of be made national secretary and he is sure to bring Our estimate was proved correct.
It had nothing in the affair is another set back for the Communist moveenough of his inherent bombast into the organization common with defeatism. It is often necessary for to put the finishing touches to the work. Jakira, ment.
the workers to retreat, either because of the immaturiThese sad facts cannot be covered up, even if the ty of the situation or lack of revolutionary preparation who was so phenomenally successful in reducing the Pittsburgh District Party membership to a shadow official Party press were to mispresent the situation Lack of preparation there was a plenty. One has only of what it before he became districi organizer was rwice as much as they have been doing. The policy of to read the speeches at the 10th. Plenum of the Execthere, is rewarded for jumping off the Lovestone band falsehood and self delusion serve only temporary ends, utive of the Comintern for crushing evidence of that.
wagon in time by being made national organizational and even those are of an injurious nature to the work Read the speeches of the reporter, Barbe, on Intersecretary of the George Maurer, who is one of ing class movement. Therefore the facts must be re national Red Day. read the speeches of Horner, Sethe original faithful, becomes editor of the Labor De capitulated here so that a proper evaluation of the mard, Gottwald, Hansen, Jaquemotte, Piatnitsky and Bell. From them you will get a fairly clear picture fender. The in view of the Third Period. August 1st demonstration can be made.
has become very revolutionary lately. It thunderously of the utter lack of preparation by the various ParTHE MASSES AND RED DAY condemns the Civil Liberties Union, the the ties of the for the Red Day. the absence of of the Socialist Party, Mooney, the Centralia In no country (outside of the Soviet Union, of any enthusiastic response in the ranks, the universal prisoners with equal courage.
course) did the workers take possession of the streets of the workers as whole, the absence It also gives its un Either they held theirmeetings without any apprequalified endorsement to the Communist Party, tħe of any conviction, the depressiveness of the generTrade Union Unity Congress. The has become ciable interference by the police, as in Berlin Lustal atmosphere. Then compare their speeches with Very radical.
garten, or, where the authorities were determined the light headed vaporings of one Bewer, of the that no meetings were to be held, as in Paris, no meetIn Pittsburgh, Pat Toohey has resigned as national who is this new mentor of Bolshevism, by the tings were held unless the scattered, disorganized way. The excavators (of Paris) managed to secretary of the National Miners Union, evidently in and futile turnout of a few hundred or more workers break through the police cordon and to demonstrate, accordance with the views of Lovestone whom he can be entitled a demonstration. Most depressing is ports. The other proletarian fig leaf of the Lovestone true, in torn shirts, true, covered with blood, with the fact that where the police proceeded with particufaction, William White, did great enthusiasm through the boulevards of Paris.
get a chance to lar violence and arbitrary measures against the deHe Such must be the line of the Comintern. With the has been replaced as secretary in Pittsburgh monstrations, as in Czecho Slovakia, China, France or by one of the graduates from the so called Lenin School, Communist Parties weaker, less influential, more torn. Communist Parties showed themselves Max Salzman, whose diploma was found to be duly by dissenssion, more misled and less capable of the signed and sealed by Stalin. Pat Devine has been entirely incapable of arousing the masses of the taking advantage of a revolutionary situation than at workers In such instances, the Commun any cther changed from District Organizer in Minneapolis to the time in the last six years, we are condemned ists and they very closest sympathizers fought alone.
same position in Pittsburgh. In the meantime, the as ileteatists for refusing to fall into line with such The working class masses did not rally to them. Un phrase mongering extravaganzas.
Minnesota proletariat palpitates in anguished anxiety der the best of conditions, the demonstrations were atover the selection of its next leader. Devine solitary in Europe the slogans and actions of the tended by no greater number of workers than are to contribution to Communist work in the Twin Cities was arties were tragic, in the United States they assumed his be found at the average mass meeting held during of expulsion certain aspects of infantilism. After three damaging the most able and experienced Communists from the Party for their views on the Opposome regular campaign of the Party. In such coun defeats for the Communist Party and the left wing tries as England, the demonstrations were a series in New York in the cloakmakers. furriers and iron sition. There is no written record of any other acof miserable debacles.
workers strikes the Party complishment by him.
Party goes blithely ahead with a Unity has also been established in the In the United States, the huge demonstrations call for a general strike on August 1st! The fact that John Williamson has been made assistant national existed largely in the columns of the Daily Worker, this slogan meant nothing, that not even a sizable secretary. His former minority group association has which has over again justified the view current in the minority of the workers heeded it (Stachel says apolobeen balanced off by making the former majority International that it is the worst and most unreliable getically: The mobilization of the Needle Trades Ingroup member, Karl Reeve, editor of Labor Unity enough sense to lie with consistency, Communist paper in existence. It did not even have dustrial Union was not very successful. does not disThis anaemic sheet, starved for the last few months For example, turb these irresponsible dabblers in revolution. Nor do the New York demonstration, attended by 5, 000 to bit about the fact that the serious and its sterile editor, Hathaway, is now doomed in the name of unity to suffer the really pitiful fate of fall6, 000 workers, was reported in huge headlines: 20, 000 significant slogan of general strike becomes dangerYORK ing into the hands of so eminent an incompetent as WORKERS DEMONSTRATE ously discredited among the workers when it is played AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR (August But with so lightly and unwarrantedly. Never mind; Reeve. The patriarchal Ballam, who is distinguished the the review of August 1st by Stachel (August 12) says: hird Period from Reeve only by his age, has been made repreenough cover all sins.
sentative to the This pension was awarded The debacle of Red Day was not the first sin of the New York City Main demonstration about 12, 000 workers. Forty percent cut off with a stroke of the Stalinists and it will not be their last.
him for his successful jump from the Lovestone camp to the band wagon in the nick of time. Neverthepen! MANY THOUSANDS MORE STRIKE conless, he goes across only by default: Foster failed to tinued the Daily Workers headline on August 2, en Stalinist Provocation make the necessary fight for a more deserving toiler.
larging on this with: The 20, 000 who gathered in Union Square were only a small fraction of the tens NEW WEAPON AGAINST THE OPPOSITION of thousands of New York workers who at the call CHICAGO GETS GRADUATE In the early part of this year, comrade Ugo Girone, of the Communist Party of District 2, stopped work Chicago is being blessed with the appointment of member of the Italian Communist Party, and a at p. yesterday. Stachel, however, reports, 10 Hathaway as district organizer; he also waves refugee from Fascism in France received permission days later: The partial information indicates that from the Central Committee of the Party to return to his Lenin School diploma on all occasions and his about 10, 000 workers downed tools at p. What uniform is now an Open Sesame. He replaces William Italy so as to bring back his wife. After arriving in fraction is 20, 000 only a small fraction of 10, 000? Italy, Mussolini bloodhounds suddenly arrested him Kruse, who cast his lot with Lovestone and was re Philadelphia and Detroit held big moved. Kruse recently distinguished himself by proin Milan, whence he was transported to Rome for San Francisco witnessed the biggest demonstrations posing that the Chicago proletariat give up capturing trial. In the meantime, the Party Committee had disin years, boasts the Daily Worker (August but the streets on International Red Day, and capture the covered that comrade Girone is a member of the Cen Stachel forgot this when he reports that the Philatral Committee of the Left fraction of the Party (Bor woods instead by attending a picnic on August 1st. delphia, Detroit and California districts. did not Sam Don has been offered the post of organization crganize mass street demonstrations. One day (Augdiga group. While he was still in the hands of the secretary in Chicago, but at the moment of going to ust 2) the Daily Worker said: 4200, 000 DEMONFascist murderers in Rome, the Italian Party press in the Italian Party orpress, he has not yet made up his mind whether the France and Belgium, as well as STRATE IN BERLIN and on the very next day gan in New York, Il Lavoratore, published official ar Center will be able to get along well enough without (August 3) its headline says: 140, 000 MEET IN him in New York.
ticles denouncing comrade Girone, declaring publicly BERLIN. What are sixty thousands here and there In New York, Benjamin has been removed as head that he had gone to Italy secretly to do work for the to these fearless leaders who have taken possession of Opposition among the Party comrades, telling his of the Workers School and Agit Prop director for sup the streets! As a matter of fact the recently arrived name, that he was porting Lovest His place been taken by Sam Berlin papers show that only 30, 000 attended!
professor of Avelino, and insisting Italian citizen, and not Darcy, who can write as dull and windy a thesis as any Girone THE PHRASEMONGERS RANT claimed, a citizen of the Argentine Republic.
of them. Gusakoff has been yanked out of his New And the streets were not only things that were taken infamous denunciation, the work of provocateurs or Jersey organizership for the same reason, and his place In New York, according to Darcy, Centrists gone mad, was just what Mussolini was taken by the obedient Nat Kaplan, who all but cap. Daily Worker, August 10. several hundred of the looking for. Fortunately, comrade Girone was able to tured the carmen strike the first day of his job. demonstrators marched to the headquarters of the prove his Argentine citizenship, and the Fascisti were Here, as in the case of most of the changes, it is sub socialist party (and) took possession of the front steps unable to dig up clear evidence that he had engaged stituting Tweedledum for Tweedledee. of the socialist party building, the Rand School in seditious work. Girone is now in France again, Where in they worry NEW a demonstrations.
he was This possession of.