THE MILITANT Saturday, January 4, 1980.
LETTERS FROM THE MILITANTS The NEW YORK BUILDING TRADES struggle. No matter how reactionary the The mills have been idle since the NATIONALISM YS. INTERNATIONALISM New York, N, old unions may be, we must get into them first week in November. Some departments New York, Dear Comrades: and fight with the workers for real mili are working a few days each week and Dear Comrades: Marching the sidewalks of New York tancy, connecting their economic struggle others are not working at all. Many wor think it is pertinent that the Militant looking for employment, one is reminded of with the political fight for the working kers had not a dollar coming on last pay give voice to the subject: Nationalism verthe advice by that good fellow known as class. In the bulk of the bullding trades day, which was supposed to be our Christ sus Internationalism in the labor moveProsperity Hoover who suggests that the today, it is absolutely ridiculous to keep mas pay.
ment. The time is ripe for every worker salvation of the unemployed is to. find yelling at the workers to break their unions They wish us Merry Christmas and to understand the full meaning of Marx employment. Simple as it sounds, it is and form new ones at the present time. invite us to church to bing Glory, Glory, saying: Workers of the world, unite!
not quite so simple in its application. It is by working as Communist workers Hall a lula, and to commemorate the birth As is known, there is a vast army of We all know that skilled labor, the with these workers who are not yet conof Jerusalem Slim But the willingness workless seeking work not only in New scious of their tasks that will win them aristocracy of labor, and its trade unions to sing and the desire to commemorate York but throughout the country. It is no for the cause.
are essentially nationalistic in their outcannot emanate from the body which carlook.
Their heads are puffed up with exaggeration when we say that the number JACK SPRAGUE ries an empty stomach.
nationalistic prejudices.
runs well over 4, 000, 000 and is still going Hence they are strong.
How can we be merry, how can we be enemies of internationalism, enemies of Among the industries that have been TWO KINDS OF CORRUPTED PRESS happy when we are walking the streets workers unity.
hard hit is the building trades. In good Chicago, Ill.
from place to place, begging some masOne ason the millions aut ter leave to let us toil for him, while times we always had a few thousands out Dear Comrades: workers, textile workers, etc. have not of work in the industry, but of late the was extremely pleased in reading poverty and starvation stare us in the face?
been organized into trade unions is because number has soared pretty high. Bricklayers, your article in reply to the falsifications When the mills are going at thefr best the average aristocrat of labor looks with Iron workers, steam fitters, plumbers, paint published in the Daily Worker by Browder we receive nothing more than a sustenance contempt upon an unskilled worker.
wage. For this wage we are the victims Uners, tile layers, etc. about one third of that we are in a united front with the Loveskilled laborers to him are rabble. an them are unemployed right now, not to toneites. We thought that only the capof a diabolical speed up system. The speed undesirable. disloyal element.
speak of their helpers, laborers, and men italists, with their corrupted press, were up system, the twin baby of capitalism, has But we have arived at a stage of capwho are engaged in the manufacture of capable of misrepresenting and distorting filled the bosses warehouses, has precipitalist development where trade unionism building material.
itated the present industrial slump and has whatever was against their own interests, thrown us out on the streets as slaves is being sorely tried. Through improved Well, some explanation of this can be but we see that these malicious tactics are machinery, thousands upon thousands of found in the report of the Chamber of without the means of existence.
finding their place in the Stalinist press.
skilled workers are being pushed down the Commerce that in the year 1929 there was Because they have no concrete arguOur only chance of fighting this speedladder into the gutter among the unskilled In 360, 000 000 less building work done than up system is through organization.
ments to present against us, in the great The circle of trade union aristocrats is in the year 1928 a normal year. That is ideological. struggle against Trotskyism, union there is strength. considerable how it looks in general, let us examine the getting smaller and smaller, while the they use such methods only in order to number of the mill workers are ready and circle of the unskilled, semi skilled and particular trades.
prejudice and blind the members. The hoping for, organisation, industrially at those workers who have lost their trade Take the bricklayers, for instance, TO only thing they know about Trotskyism least. But they ot so easily see how through the machine, grows larger and day there are concrete buildings coming. is that we are renegades and countretheir working conditions can be improved larger. It falls upon the shoulders of the It requires less material, legg labor to revolutionaries. They willingly accept by joining a political party which issues pour in buildings than to lay single bricks.
Communist movement to gather and orany discussion with members of the a bulletin once in a while, telling them lles The framework of a building or the Iron ganize the unskilled, semi skilled and all the the even with the about the job on which they are working.
those workers disinherited by the machine, structure, as we know, is all made and Fascists. but not with the Trotskyists.
These workers cannot be blamed for under the banner of Internationalism. The patterned according to the architect plan As for the Militant, not only don chey their views on the Workers Party. When time is here to bring home to every worThat is also the case with fixtures, win dare to read it, but even do not touch it they attend a public meeting called by the ker the incomparable words: Workers of dow and door frames which are done in for fear of being contaminated. And how official party, they can see at first glance the world, unite!
shops and put in acording to the plans of they dare to call renegades such comrades that the Youngstown branch of the party is PAULINE CUTRINGER the building. Such methods have existed as Trotsky and Rakovsky! knew the not run by workers, but is dominated, in these lines of work for quite some time. latter personally, in Rumania when he was steered and warped by second hand shoe Take the plumuing trade, where prac secretary of the Socialist Party and one of peddlers, storekeepers, by the lowest grade GREETINGS FROM ALABAMA tically 100 percent, or at least 90 percent the most prominent figures in the abor of petty bourgeoisie. And of course they of the pipe work was cut and threaded on Birmingham Ala.
movement of that country.
go home from such a meeting with feelDear Comrades: the job by union mechanics. It is today For these reasons, think it necessary ings of disappointment, disgust and concut to sketch, brought on the job and then that the Militant not only unmask such tempt.
Three cheers for the Weekly Militant put together by lead and screwing the fit calumnies as are published in the Daily We were amused, in addition to being and the brave boys behind it! Well, here tings together, thus eliminating about 40 am again with another little piece of my Worker, but also begin publishing regularaassured of our correct political line, by the mite.
percent of the work. Well, if 40 percent ly, in a fixed space on the front page, our Put this down for a half year sub Dally Worker outburst of Mr. Chiang Kaiof the work is done on the outside, in open political platforin so that the revolutionary Shek Browder, the sent day Wolte. and here hopiag may be able to come shops, how about getting the unemployed again soon.
workers will know what is the real postWell, what the use of a watchdog it be plumbers, whose job it is, to demand that tion of our Communist group.
Your comrade, doesn bark? And how can one play the this work be given to them? Didn they SARAH LINN We indeed realize the great difficulties role of a Wolfe without howling?
get the 40 hour wek? What does it matand obstacles which confront us.
History We do not forget that Browder was ter it union or non union material comes teaches us that in every new movement Stalin Yankee priest in China, and that in. the masses the multitude, do not think he carried out the orders of pope Stalin.
One of the biggest plumbing bosses in rightly. Their minds are mainly dominEven though Chiang Kai Shek was murthe city, who formerly had about 35 jobs ated by a certain ruling class, LOS ANGELES, Calif. Belmont News Co. We also dering the workers of China, Browder on the go, has now about 10 jobs and not know that such great struggles require aided him until such time as Chiang 101 East 5th St. Western News Stand, small ones either, but jobs ranging from thumbed his nose at Stalin.
Box 604, Arcade Station, self sacrifice and persistance until our 48 stories down. On big Job, such as 48 final triumph and victory.
It is wreposterous; and if one did not SAN FRANSISCO, Calif. McDonald Book stories, the Durham system is applied or, Therefore we are determined to work know the recent role of the leaderShop, 65 Sixth Street simply, a screw pipe job. That means that consistently with unshakable confidence in ship. It would seem impossible to imagine WASHINGTON, Gale ook Shop 13 all the piping has to be cut and threaded.
building a movement based on the revolu character like Browder having cheek Tonth St, In such a structure 12 inch to inch pipe 18 tionary experience of history as taught by enough to open his mouth. He may or may Generally, pipe up to inches or used CHICAGO, ILL. Cheshinsky Book Store, not (I don know which) be competent to Marx and Lenin. Let us then devote all even inches used to be cut on the fob, 2720 Division St. Horsley Book Store, our efforts, energy and honest Leninist play the role of a Wolfe, but it he had the but since 1927, when the plumbers lost 1623 Madison St. and on various newedetermination to our ideological struggle.
conscience of a mongrel he would forever their strike, all pipe ranging from inches see the blood of the Chinese working class stands.
upward is done to sketch on the outside.
JAMES ECONOMOU looking him in the eyes. He would not SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Joe Angelo, 431 No.
This boss has a shop with three machines consider himself absolved from the sin of We. ley St.
running two shifts. Employed at this work MERRY CHRISTMAS IN YOUNGSTOWN helping Chiang Kai Shek Just because he BOSTON, MASS. Shapiro Book Store, are young workers or plumbers helpers Youngstown, Ohio. has since done penance by denouncing Chi Beach St. near Washington.
who get 50 and 55 cents an hour. One Dear Comrades: ang, the Chinese hangman, his former idol. ROXBURY, MASS. Goldberg Store, 536 machine alone replaces about 10 sets, that Merry Christmas and Happy New It this man Browder had any sense of Warren St.
is, ten plumbers and ten helpers. Not only Year, say the bosses of the mills of this decency left he would go behind the cur DETROT, MICH. Aidas Book Shop, 1713do the labor bureaucrats refrain from getValley of Iron and Steel. This hackneyed tain where he could keep his eyes and 24th St. and on various newsstands.
ting these machines run by union men but expression, bulging with frony, is nothing ears open and his mouth shut.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Engelson News they won even organize the workers who less than insult added to injury at atime With revolutionary greetings, Co. 234 2nd Ave. So.
run them.
like this.
CHARLIE BYRNE KANSAS CITY, MO. Buehler Book Store, In the steamfitting trade it is known 220 West 12th St.
that all pipe work ranging from 8 inch ST. LOUIS, MO. Foster Bo Store, 410 up is cut to sketch in an open shop. Yet Washington Ave.
there is new mechanization taking place.
In German In English In Jewish PHILADELPHIA, PA. On various newsThe welding of large pipe is beginning to stands.
appear in buildings and more and more SJATTLE, WASH. Raymer Old Book men are replaced. Where formerly It took Store, 905 Third Ave. sets to do the work, one set can do it CALGARY, ALTA. CANADA: Boston News more simply and quickly.
Co. 109 8th Ave. West That is how It runs in the other trades TORONTO, ONT. CANADA. On various The army of unemployed being on the innewsstands, crease, the cutting of wages will take NEW YOR. :On various newsstands in place, hours of work made longer, the fter reading this book by Leon Trotsky, now available in New York and Brooklyn; Biederman Bookuntons smashed, etc. However, the bulldthree languages, the reader will have a clear picture of the store, 2d Ave and 12th St. Randokstore, ing trude proletarian will see all the glorviewpoint of the Russian Opposition and the origin of the East 15th St. The Militant, 25 Third Ave.
ous prosperity he enjoyed for a while, In addition to the stores listed above, gradually fading away.
present state of affairs in the Soviet Republic. This volume includes a After all It will detailed exposure of the campaign of misrepresentation and falsehood The Militant also can be obtained through not be so easy for the building tmnde conducted against the Russian Opposition and its leader, Trotsky.
members and Branches Communist worker, after having such a relatively League of America.
good standard of living, to let it pass by TWO DOLLARS COPY BO lightly. He will fight and fight desperWorkingmen and men who wish to ately to maintain a standard of living for Order from get in touch with Branches of the Communhimself and his family.
THE MILITANT ist League of America (Opposition) or to The Communists must be on the alert obtain The Militant are requeste! to write In the growing radicalization of these worTHE MILITANT, 25 THIRD AVENUE, ha in the frafront of their Room 4, New York, Where to Buy The Militant THE REAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA BYL. TROTSKY 어