THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Vol. III No. Telephone: DRYdock 1656. NEW YORK, Saturday, January 11, 1930 PRICE CENTS KARL LIEBKNECHT DAY of Opens KARL LIEBKNECHT At the Martyr Grave side Up in the South As we go to press (Monday) the AmerBy Karl Radek ioan Federation of Labor opens it long proclaimed conference in Charlotte, to With your tears you have bathed his map out a plan for organizing the wage dead body, whose wounds cry to the heavearners of the South. It is composed exens against the socialist betrayers; with clusively of A, of officials, coming the red banner of the proletarian world revolution you have covered him and placed largely from the United Textile Workers and its affiliated groups.
him in your hearts so that he may rest there forever, The whole record of the leaders of the Millions of you know no more of him than that, in the black night, of from William Green to Thomas Illuminated only by the flash of cannon McMahon, president of the is a living refutation of the statement that they he broke out of the trenches with a small will organize the Southern workers for a force to fight for peace; that cast into genuine struggle against their Bourbon prison by the mighty, he stoically endured masters One need go no further than the every torment and hardly Mberated from textile fleld to evaluate the work that his chains raised anew the banner of the fat boys of the A, of will do in struggle and fell with it in his hands, fell on the threshhold of the South new life.
Remember Passafe!
But want every proletarian to know About two years ago, the of about Liebknecht, to love him. not only 19 leaders entered the Passaic strike, after the the blood bedecked symbol of a martyr, but Left wing had led one of the most spirited as he was in life, with his faults and merits, struggles in American history, took over not as a puzzled out book but as a man the union created by the Communists and with his contradiction. The man Liebthe Left wing, offered the workers up to the knecht should be our great model, a model bosses on a silver platter, and then strangfor our youth who should learn to fight, a led what was left of the union. In the New model for our women who should not let Bedford strike, the leaders of the of themselves be oppressed by life, a model organized the skilled workers, kept them for our weather beaten men who are haurseparated from the unskilled who formed ted by doubts, the time has not yet come the mass of textile operatives, and then to proceed to a detailed biography of Karl worked their fingers to the bone in order to Liebknecht, In his house of mourning the break the strike, soldiers of the German counter revolution In the more recent Elizabethton, Tennstill rule, and as write these words, an essee, strike, the sellout by the inspection of the papers he left behind is leaders was so raw that many of the worimpossible, yes, myself Illegally in hiding, kers struck over again spontaneously, in cannot even gather the printed documents spite of the lid that had been put on the But belleve that see at a glance his rich union by the imported bureaucrats. The life in its peculiarity and want to decribe same story can be told in Marion and elseit here.
where.
At Liebknecht Cradle What is most significant of the ofL entry into the South at the present time. Songs of heroes were sung at Liebis that it only comes after the work accomknecht cradle. The first impressions that plished by the Left wing particularly in the the boy received were the persecutions of Gastonia strike. As the press announces, the Socialist Law. The German bourwithout an attempt at concealment, the geoisie and the Hohenzollerne sought to of is going into the South in order stifle the first socialist stirrings of the Ger to wipe out the Left wing and its union, man proletariat. For him who spread the the This is precisely the aim the By SCOTT NEARING States, bosses have set themselves. The latter uncriminal teaching: the putrid belly shall Begin with the army. Up to the time not waste what diligent hands have earned. derstand their William Green very well. Velvet words, hiding the growing claws of the Spanish American war the United who aroused the poor and disfranchised, While he is not needed by them in ordinary of naval and military power: thus might States army numbered about 27, 000 reguthere was no peaceful working place; he peaceful times he comes in very handy be summarized the position of the Amerlars and 113, 000 members of the national had to wander, persecuted, from place to when the problem arises of fighting the ican Empire during recent years, Coolplace. nowhere secure from police sples.
militant Left wing and its union. It is idge followed this policy. Hoover has guard, or a total of some 140, 000. In 1910 clear from the whole situation in the South adopted it. Both have talked persuasively the total strength of the regular army was Wilhelm Liebknecht remained at his today that: The bosses will use the ser about peace. Both have been preparing the 80, 000 and the national guard, 120, 000, makpost and did not suspend the struggle for vices of the of displace the country for war.
socialism even when it was again necessary ing a total of 200 00.
Left wing union or to ward off the danger Recently the London Economist pub In 1927, the regular army numbered 133. to show by suffering that we live for the lished a detailed report on the 1929 cost ot 000 and the national guard 181, 000. In of the Left wing; when the Left wing men.
liberation of humanity. Karl may often ace 18 removed for the time being, the war to the various nations, The United addition to these two branches of the arhave asked himself as a chlid what the bosses know how easy it is to handle the States leads the list with 4, 553 million gold my, however, there were 110, 000 in the of strange men were ferretting for in the accomodatng Greens, The bosses will francs. Great Britain, second on the list. ficers reserve.
house of his father, why people came into These, with some inclspends only 2, 800 million gold francs on dental figures, make the total army fight against the of LA mildest atthe house secretly at night, whispering tempt at unionization in those places where war. If, to the figures of Great Britain are strength of 1927, 430, 000, or more than quietly like thieves: good people they must It is not needed to head off into harmless added the figures of arms expenditures for twice the figure for 1910, and more than have been, for warmly welcomed by his the remainder of the British Empire, the three times the figure for the period imchannels an existing or impending struggle.
parents, they would stroke his little black head.
The coming of Green and MeMahon to mediately preceding the Spanish American Thus he grew up in the result shows the American Empire and the British Empire together are spending more war.
the South is not a step forward for them, years of persecution as the son of the soldier of the revolution.
but a sinister move against the Left wing, than two fifths the total for the entire There were 276 vessels in the United To be a soldfer, a and therefore against the textile workers. world.
States navy in 1906, having a total displacewarrior of the revolution, that was the gift The blunders made by the Left wing, under conferred upon him in his cradle.
Military costs are greater in the United ment of 693, 000 tons. For 1927 the numthe direction of the present leadership of States than they are in any other single ber of vessels was 731 nearly three times The Socialist Law fell. The growing, the Communist Party, will only facilitate country. These costs, with some modific the figure for 1906.
strengthening The tonnage had capitalism simultaneously Green work. Instead of intensifying its ation for the increase in the cost of living more than trebled 2, 225, 000 tons, also strengthened the working class numeractivity in the South, the Left wing has show very clearly the direction in which Whatever Hoover, or any of his sub ically, and with the growth of the working had its most capable and experienced peo the country is moving.
ordinates may say, the fact remains that class, the German social democracy grew ple withdrawn until only a skeleton of the As lately as 1926 United States expend the American Empire la spending more for in spite of all the persecution. There began forces required is left there. Besides this, Itures on the army and navy totalled only military purposes than any other nation the new course. the endeavor to win the the Left wing still persists in its policy 580 million. They were 685 million in in the world, and that these expenditures, working class through social concessions, of self satisfied Isolation and sensational 1929, and the 1932 budget calls for 891 and the military machine which they are and although it apparently retreated imultra Leftism. Its present course only million.
mediately to a new sharp course, yet the building up, are growing raptaly, year after Even clearer, as indices of military year.
doubles and trebles the difficulties with spirit of the epoch was such that, while which it is confronted by the latest preparations, are the figures showing the (Prepared for Federated Press by the strengthening capitalism accorded the of move in the South.
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