THE Page MILITANT Saturday, January 11, 1930 LETTERS FROM THE MILITANTS AXOTHER YICTORY IX DIARY OF AN UNEMPLOYED PLUMBER officialdom in order to be fixed up. But DAILY WORKER AND ILLINOIS STRIKE THE INDEPENDENT New York, N, what does the officialdom care about unem. The Daily Worker recently printed Minneapolis, Miun. Dear Comrades: ployment? Only a few weeks ago their vicious attack upon the work of the ComDear Comrades: Inspired by the dazzling figures of prosalary was raised 25, making it a total of munist League and its supporters in the No doubt, by the time this appears in lected construction that President Hoover 125 a week, besides extras.
recent Illinois miners strike. The folThis reminds me. shall have to borthe Militant, the Freiheit will have re and the lesser presidents of the railroads lowing excerpt from a letter by comrade ported another victory for the Party in and business corporations have been an row some money to pay my dues. Work or Joseph Angelo, member of the League and the Minneapolis Independent Workmen nouncing bo repeatedly for the past few no work, this must be paid for otherwise one of the best known militants in the Circle, Branch 89. It seems that the more weeks. spurred on by the contentions of there is a fine imposed, hope no plum National Miners Union speaks for bers died this month.
President Green in chorus with the whole decisively the Party defeats itself in the Every dead plumber itselt. Ed. mass organizations with its barricade capitalist press, that as a consequence of means an addition of fifty cents to the dues.
Springfield, ill.
policies the more triumphantly it proclaims the stock market crash the speculative capThey sure have been dying lately. Is it Dear Comrades: because of starvation. ital will be diverted to legitimate busin victories, The Daily Worker is surely getting The scene this time, was the election ess, and primarily to building construction, rambunctious when it stoops so blanketyof a delegate to the special convention of had set my alarm clock the previous WHO SUPPORTS THE STALINISTS?
blank low as to call me a stool pigeon, the order to be held in Boston, January 12, night for an early morning hour. had a Minneapolis, Minn. renegade, etc. in its columns. did my 1980 After weeks of campaigning in the feeling of confidence that with sufficient Dear Comrades: share in this last strike, more than some Frelheit, and caucusing with every element offort would undoubtedly get a job.
If am to judge the role of the Com P, members, as for instance, X, who willing to negotiate, Moses was finally able Carried on the wings of my new am munist Party today by the Minneapolis would not go on a picket line because he to gather together a motley support for bition getting up was not difficult although membership espescially the Jewish sec might be arrested, or who would not himself at the meeting.
it was still dark. grabbed the World, tion as well as its supporters, then must address a mass meeting in Springfield be.
In the front rank of the supporters of and to my great surprise there was over assert that only a miracle can save the sit cause warrants were out for his arrest.
the Communist party policy and its can a column of plumbers ads. It flashed uation. As well believe in Stalin theory was on the picket line in Springfield and didate stood such gentry as Supak, well through my mind that only lunatics in of building socialism in one country. led the Taylorville miners to Auburn where known needle trades boss, Segal, provented the myth about a depression in this Let us aonsider for a moment the we pulled that mine out on strike. orprietor of a men garment shop, Shulberg country. My hand was itchy at the thought standard bearers of Communism, those who ganized the first relief committee and went novelty perfume manufacturer, and others of my first pay envelope. could see the are strengthening the position of the CI out and collected relief for the Taylorville of this ilk. This alliance is an excellent happy face of my wife when at last an line in the workers movement.
marchers. spoke at Taylorville and when Illustration of how extreme Leftism in nounce to her that she can have the money First we have Supak, a manufacturer found out that although every mine was theory goes hand in hand with open oppor to pay back part of the grocer bill. Right who exploits from 60 80 workers, and ex out on strike in that section, no strike tunism in practice. Moses is the same one there and then decided what creditor ploits them in the most refined manner, in committees were organized, urged the we have many times exposed for the same can wait longest for his money. But, alas, whose shop the Amalgamated established miners immediately to organize strike compractices while in the Party. This is the upon closer examination of the ads, real the union. As soon as the, contract was mittees, not only mine strike committees Bame Moses who shrieked for our expul ized that was looking at the situation completed with the boss, this gentleman but committees of other workers as well, sion as renegades and counter revolu wanted section. There were men stating was established in the leading councils of yet this was not done because cannot tionaries.
their long experience, high qualities, great the Party.
see further than his nose.
Now although the open support of the speed, excellent references, all around, Then, take Sachs, boss plumber, an JOSEPH ANGELO bossos contributed somewhat to the defeat knowing also steam, lead wiping, etc. etc. other comrade. who amassed enough at the Party, the outstanding honors in all und offering themselves to the highest bidФ wealth from workers sweat to build a Justice, must be given to comrade Saltzman der.
beautiful home in the fashionable Lake ON TROTSKY himselt. Moges, it seems, was doing a Having realized my mistake, quickly Harriet district.
falrly good job organizing his group in prep turned the page and without dimculty And Mr. Sell. Every Jewish carpenter Writing apropos the articles of comaration for the elections, when the aforefound the place where once ads for plum or building trades worker knows Sell. rade Trotsky that have been appearing in mentioned strode upon the scene. First on bers used to be. As an ugly monument to He is one of the worse exploiters and slave the Militant, the Canadian One Big Union learning, that Berg. Secretary of the the prosperous boom days there was the drivers of his men. Yet he also is a stan Bulletin (12 19 1929) remarks in its editlocal branch was nominated in opposition following ad: Plumber he per wanted; dard bearer of the Communist Party today. orial entitled Tho Growing Influence of to Moses, he launched a campaign of attack three dollars a day; husky; one who can Store keepers who donate 25 at a time Trotsky. He (Trotsky) commands the again him and all those who might supwork alone; must have own tools. Call to Talmud ahs and other Jewish bour respect of both friends and foes and port him as Trotskyists, renegades early. They don want a helper, they geois institutions; sweatshop bosses like he never compromises in the slightest deand counter revolutionartes. although want a mechanic sufficiently starved to be Segal; boss barbers like Wolk; American gree. The same undaunted spirit reveals Friend Berg is quite innocent of the charge.
willing to work for a helper wage. Legion members like Singer and Fink itself whether in conflict with Stalin or the In reality, Berg is a typical Left wing But this was not enough to discourage all these types stand today in the front worker of whom there are huncapitalist world. For ourselves we can only me this morning. resolved to set out in rank of the Jewish Communist movement say we have gleaned more from his works dreds in the organization, loyal, painstaking search of a job, ads or no ads. revisited in Minneapolis.
than from those of any other current and unalterably opposed to the policy of all the contractors worked for in the Worker comrades of the Party! What Russian writer. We would like to suggest the party in the Independent, and to past, who for the last six months have been does this mean? Does this not show a that the Bulletin reprint, therefore, Moses, whom the party has entrusted with telling me in the same monotonous voice, dangerous degeneration of the Party sup the article by comrade Trotsky entitled the execution of that policy. No factor con nothing doing. Aren you in on Presport and membership? Is it surprising Syndicalism and Communism which aptributed more towards crystallizing oppoident Hoover construction projects? that the Communist Party which bases it peared in a recent issue of the Milltant.
e!! ion to the party than the charge that all asked one of them indignantly. They did self on an overwhelmingly non proletarian those who supported Berg as a delegate It would be of particular interest to the not know what was talking about; they support, should conduct its bitterest readers of the Bulletin!
to the convention were Trotskyltes. renthought me insane.
struggles against the Leninist Opposition. egades and counter revolutionaries. Every With every place had been to my It is the duty of all serious Communists, Bell respecting Left winger, not befoozled inside and outside the Party to mercilessly by the new phraseology (and many who spirit dropped lower, my confidence of the pick out and expose the petty bourgeois were) rebelled against this schoolmaster morning failed me more and more. was elements in the Party and to fight against LOS ANGELES, Calif. Belmont News Co. threat and voted overwhelmingly for Berg, growing desperate. Walking from one end the wrong policies which allow them to 101 East 5th St. Western News Stand, though normally their vote might have of the city to another, from the Bronx to develop in the movement.
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Manhattan, covering all the plumbing shops Enlist yourself in the siruggle to puron the way, all kinds of thoughts entered It is regrettable that our own comrades SAN FRANSISCO, Calif. McDonald Book ify the movement from petty bourgeois indid not clearly take the lead for the posmy mind. envied the shop and factory fluences!
Shop, 65 Sixth Strect tion of the Communist Opposition. No workers. Their industries are concentrated WASHINGTON, Gale ook Shops MAX KAUFMAN clear voice was raised in defence of Comin definite localities, they have their marTenth St, munism and the Communist Party kets. Although the results might be the PEONAGE ON HIGH SEAS CHICAGO, ILL, Cheshinsky Book Store, Against the distortions and hysteria of the same, at least the process of looking for a SAN FRANCISCO (FP) story of 2720 Division St. Horsley Book Store, present party misleadership. It is true that Job is not such a painful one.
peonage on the high seas was told in the 1623 Madison St. and on various newethe provocations of the Party bring out Some argue that in the building trades court of Judge St. Sure in San Francisco, stands.
passionate rebellion from honest proletar It is impossible to divide the work equally. when James Lamey, colored cook on a SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Joe Angelo, 431 No.
hans; but a Leninist direction mus be If the bos compelled to hire a new United Fruit Co. vessel, was awarded 500 Wesley St.
given to this healthy movement, or it will set of men for each building through a damages. Lemey proved that Capt. George BOSTON, MASS. Shapiro Book Store, be lost in the swamp of reaction and may labor bureau controlled by the workers, Eppelman had chained him to a stanchion Beach St. near Washington.
become anti Communist in character. It 18 every man in the trade would get his share in the forward peak of the ship for four ROXBURY, MASS. Goldberg Store, 536 Above all essential at present for the com of work.
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rades of the Opposition to clearly define As it is now, one must be related to mess room, since this was the mess boy DETROT, MICH. Aidas Book Shop, 1713before the membership Its policy on all the boss, or lick the boots of the union duty.
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