Page THE MILITANT Saturday, December 21, 1929 Illinois Miners on the March Opposition Group Formed in Argentine. out.
present wilderness. Nor for Mr. Ford to And so on down tre line marvelous give they to you on a silver platter. His cars all, built, says the souvenir catalogue, lately published story of higher wages is by High sounding Name Co. Rotten the bunk.
hypocricy! They are the product of un You start with a minimum wage or Continued from Page aroused to active participation. While known proletarians, toiling long hours for a day just enough to keep the wolf away of the sell out career of the old union of all the demands made in this strike cer small wages in unsanitary shops under then after a couple of years you are to tainly represent the needs of the miners hazardous conditions and Aicialdom. It legalized the speed up, Wage the jaundiced get an increase. But here where the cut system and the complete loss of union there can be no question that with a con eye of the boss, trick comes in There never are a couple conditions. The miners knew that be centration on a couple of the most prom Who, though, in this gay assemblage of years to follow; you never get that inEore the contract went into effect and they inent points a broader basis would have cares? They don know, and they don crease, for after six months, or, at the yoted against it. canvass made of 177 been provided, making it much more pos want to know that automobile workers most, one year in that slave mill, you start locals of the of A, shortly after sible that the workers employed in the have been laid off by the thousands.
on your way to the Home for Cripples, or the referendum vote showed only 14, 000 heavy coal producing territory of Franklin You ve done your work as a good servant worse yet, the Home for the Feeble mindTotes in favor with 39, 000 against. Williamson and Saline counties, could should. Now go and hide your misery in ed. Your successor will start at the botThis Illinois miners strike once again also have been brought out, thus creating the slums. You re not wanted here, mak tom, where you did, and repeat the process.
demonstrates how quickly the government a real basis for victory.
ing a nuisance of yourself. That is the It like a treadmill: when you step up al authorities will respond to the call of Ever since the present squabble for attitude of those who ride in 20, 000 cars one you go down one.
the employers and order out troops to the division of the spoils between John toward those who built them.
Ford Paradise for Labor pmash the workers ranks when they dare Lewis and Fishwick began, the favorable The automobile industry, though the And don forget the annual laying to enter into open struggle for the needs possibilities for establishing militant union second largest in the country, is practically off by Mr. Ford or General Motors. At of their daily life. Particularly is this the ism and building the National Miners Union unorganized. Men in it work from 54 to the present time thousands upon thousands case when the workers militancy is feared. have increased nianifold. It presented the 60 hours a week, the only exception being of auto workers are walking the strets unThere is not the slightest lack of unity be opportunity for organization and strike pre. New York City, where a small union has employed They, worked too long hours and tween those who have common interests: paration. It required the establishment of been able to maintain itself and hold a few produced too much. The market is glutted coal operators, their iellow capitalists, of correct tactics and real solidarity. This of the bosses down to 44 hours a week.
with cars and there comes a stoppage to their government, and their althful lieu opportunity was squandered by putting up In all shops, the conditions are practical the whole industry.
tenants place1 as officials in the union straw men to be knocked down. All ef ly the same as they were 20 years ago Organize and fight for better condicorrupted by them, the of But forts were concentrated on fabrication of with the addition of a highly developed tions, is the slogan of the moment. Are this time also the Taylorville struggle false isues against the national president speed up system. At several conventions you an auto worker? Do you by chance live showed a remarkable display of working of the John Watt. This brought of the American Federation of Labor reso in Detroit? There is a small union there.
class solidarity: the rank and file mem about a practical split situation at the Bel lutions were passed to organize the autoJoin it and demand an industrial auto bers of the refusing to work while leville convention just when the building mobile industry, but like most resolutions workers union.
troops were mounted against their bro of solidarity should command all attention. they were voted for with a great hurrah, Do you live in New York? There is a thers in the National Miners Union. For this the leadership of the Communist and then shelved until the next convention union here Automobile Vehicle WorkThe response of the coal miners to Party is fully responsible animated pure when they get their annual dusting off. ers Union 18065. Join it and demand a this strike, known in advance to be against ly by its false theory of complete mechani Hell wil freeze over before the of united front for all auto workers. Help Heavy odds, shows their temper, which has cal control of all organizations in which it buraucracy will bestir itselt on behalf of build the union and in the end we ll get been steeled under conditions growing con wields an influence. The results so far automobile workers.
what we want. Gene Debs once said The tantly worse. Mechanical mining has have been failure to prepare as conditions No, fellow workers in the automobile workers build fine cars, but do they ride lefinitely established the worst features demand, and if continued can be nothing industry: if you want better conditions and in them? The answer to that must one the speed up system and mass unem but a disastrous narrowing, not only of the shorter working hours, don wait for some day be: They certainly do!
ployment. Added to these features are basis of the present struggle, but also of of Moses to lead you out of the PETER HANSEN reduced wages, all made possible for the the organization itself.
benefit of the capitalists by corrupt buRally All Support!
reaucracy of the old union. The miners are beginning to see the only way out of this However, despite all shortcomings the struggle is on and is not merely the conHlemma is through struggle. In growing cern of the miners but of the whole worknumbers they welcome the new unton. It Buenos Aires, Argentine. sky there are, but only a few buy and read has great possibilities, ing class. It demands their support, and particularly does it demand the support few days ago some of us decided to books. Of course, later on we will do our Strike Shortcomings best to get something, even if it is only by of al class conscious workers. Relief for send out some invitations to about 25 comthe mimeograph.
With the heavy odds against the strike, The main thing right the strikers must be furnished.
rades, including members of the central It will ha spite of which the conditions for further now is to organize some groups for Oppocome only from the working class. To be committee, for a meeting and discussion extension are favorable because of the effective, such relief action must be organsition propaganda.
on the subject of the International Situasplendid fighting mood of the miners the must not forget to mention that when ized on a broad united front basis endeavtion and the Russian Communist Opposiwe said we thought it would be advisable absolutely inadequate preparation prior to tion. Another comrade and were called oring in this maner to bring in large numto the strike call falls back upon the leadfor the party members to discuss the interber of workers to understand the need by two members of the executive commitLack ership as a heavy responsibility.
national situation so as to be ready for the tee and told that we couldn be allowed to of solidarity with the struggling coal minof preparation in this instance is the greatcoming party conference, we were told that ers.
hold the meeting in a comrades house, nor est handicap. Calling of a general strike The Illinois coal miners are strughave any discussion unless permitted, and this point would not be discussed at all at is a serious matter even under the most favthe conference.
gling against the combined forces of the the couldn permit any discussion of erable conditions. It requires first of all GUINNEY.
capitalist powers and corrupt traltrous that kind in the party. The reference is to a concentration on the issues of the strike union officials. They are struggling for the group split off from the official in such a way that not only the most millThe formation of the first South Amerithe building of militant unionism. Real the Penelon group. Ed. or course, that tant workers know what the fight is about can group of the Opposition marks a great working class support will bring victory so was going too far. It meant that the membut so that the broadest strata can be step forward in the international struggte much nearer.
bers could read and study certain things but couldn open their mouths to speak to for the regeneration of world Communism.
one another unless the gave permis It serves as one more reply to the twaddle: alon. So that we are now out of the Party, about the decay of Trotskyism. The fuWe are now receiving literature in four ture will soon show that the step taken.
languages the militant, La Verite and Con by our comrades in the Argentine will be NEW YORK With a somewhat hesi another corner is a beautiful cabriolet by tre le Courant in French, the Bulletin of repeated in every other Latin American tating step and ill at ease as a proletarian Brunn Just made to set the eyes of a pamthe Opposition in Russian, and Volkswille in country. The American Opposition sends is likely to be when he approaches the pered mistress of a captain of industry to German. But the main thing for South its warmest greetings and wishes for vicTair of the owning clasg entered the glittering.
America, some organ in the Spanish lantory to our comrades in the Southern conKreat ball room of the Hotel Commodore was in another world now; had al guage, we have not got. Books by Trottinent! Ed.
where the classic of the automobile world most forgotten the slum where betake is acnually hela The Automobile Salon myself when the boss has wrung a day 1s distinct from the ordinary automobile measure of toil out of my carcass; felt show, for it caters only to the upper crust of society, and the place it is held in and of the bottom. the nature of the wares there exhibited sembled crowd discovered the familiar Continued from Page Right in the face of Hoover buncoautomatically excludes the mob faces of a few other workers who had had steering panacea to settle the unemployThe contrast between the Commodore a demagogic move to cover their own symlike myself, the audacity to horn in on the pathies towards the Rights. This is especialment problem and industrial depression by ball room and the East Side, where usual show. They, mind you, had merely bullt a bigger construction program comes a ly hang out when not in the shop, was so ly true of Radek, about whom there is evithese expensive speciments of the coachcrushing blow in the form of the Washinggreat that was for a moment dazed at dence that being in exile, he did not hide maker art, and it was only by the gracious ton report of the Dodge Corporation, his sympathies for the followers of Brandmy own audacity in being there, and was permission of their resp ctive bosses that which shows that the decline of construcler. Later on Radek gave me involved further dazzled by the brilliant light from they were allowed the privilege of looking explanations of his behavior, similar to tion contracts from November of this year the crystal chandeliers reflecting itself in at the fruits of their toll in surroundings as compared with October awards for Novthe dress shirts and diamonds. studs of those he gave at the time when it was appropriate to their grandeur.
ember of this year as compared with Octothe high powered salesmen all about. These discovered that he, Radek, and no one else, ber amounted to 12 percent, or 54, 629, 800. saw them in their threadbare overgentlemen were rushing about it anything Insisted in January 1928 that Trotsky give coats timidly stealing about, instantly an extenalve Interview (it would be more The decrease as compared with the conin a white collar may be sai to rushtract awards for November 1928 was 80, crushed by the stern look of a salesman it explaining to numerous society ladles overcorrect to say: extensive political declaraone of them dared to finger the shining burdened with jewelry and paint and tired 460, 700 or 17 percent. The report says furtion) to the Moscow correspondent of the ther: New work reported in the contemsides of the thing he had built.
business men the superior merits of their Berliner Tageblatt. These pretended eneplated stage in the 37 states (east of the Isn Look at this Mercedes sedan.
mies of the Right will now try choking the respective cars.
Rocky Mountains) amounted to 720, 301, it stunning?
Leninist Opposition, in company with the 000. This total represents a loss of 10 perCars for the Leisure Class Yes, young lady, and the man who Rights and the Centrists.
cent from the amount reported in the preDetermined not to be overawed by any built it was also stunned when the boss The banishment of Trotsky united the geding month and a drop of 23 percent salesman, or any bourgeois present, male laid him oft on completion of the job, to Right Center leadership with the capitulafrom the amount reported in November or female, braced myself mentally and face a winter of unemployment and hard tors. From Bucharin, who voted for the Jooked about. There were cars of all shades ship.
banishment, to Radek and Smilga, a united The workers who expect to have their and for all purposes needed by a leisure And that Packard sedan your com front has been formed against the Lenin present difficulties solved by Hoover class family, at prices running from a panion admired. know all too well every ist Opposistion. We can confidently assert good looking blueprints are going to wait mere five thousand to a bagatelle of thir piece of wood in 1t! For weeks toiled and that in accomplishing its Thermidorian act, a long, long time.
ty thousand and perhaps more, Here was sweated to build it and now it is ready for the Centrist leadership expected to facillф smart looking town car exhibited by Hib some parasite to enjoy while who made tate the work of the capitulators. In their MINNEAPOLIS ABC CLASS dard Darrin, Paris, that will no doubt it pound the pavements in search of an turn, Radek and Smilga, in starting a cam Thirty two comrades were present at de crentually used by some feminine para other master, paign for separation from Trotsky, were the last sesion of the class in the ABC Rite for her shopping tours or to take her Exhibition by Fleetwood: beautiful coming to the rescue of the party leader of Communism being conducted by the Minpet dog out for his daily airing in Cen cars, yes but built by men working 60 ship. It the latter had not been sure of Deapolis branch of the Communist League.
tral Park. There stood a Duesenberg road hours a week for a bare subsistance the support of the capitulators, it would All workers wishing to join the class are ster just waiting the masterful band of Exhibition by Le Baron: Obscure toll never have ventured upon such a mad per requested to get in touch with the School the collegiate son of some millionaire. In ers putting in 54 hours a week turned them formance.
Committee, Box 45, Minneapolis, Minn.
THE MILITANT, VOL. II. No 21. December 21, 1929, Published weekly by the Com munist League of America (Opposition) at 25 Third Avenue, New York, Subtion rate: 32. 00 per year; foreign 50. Flve cents per copy. Bundle rates, cents per copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon, Mar Shachtman, Mautor, Arne Swabeck. Entered as second class mail matter Novembor 28, 1928, at the post office at New York, Y, under the act of March 3, 1879.
The Auto Show and the Auto Slaves as in. too were on top of the heap instead Reply to the Capitulators Hoover Building Panacea 1928.