Page THE MILITANT Saturday, February 8, 1980 Dressmakers on Strike Hoover and the Farmers Chicago Is Bankrupt Help Us to Sustain The Militant (Continued from Page 1)
Continued from Page must call down its own members in every An intelligent member of the working you. They will ask themselves, Why is it by over 400, 000, 000. The big down town dress shop.
class cannot help being astonished at the that in this country, though we have an properties alone cut ove: 300, 000, 000 with It is not enough for the Left wing, utter helplessness of the capitalist econ abundance of fertile land, raw material of none of these taxes paid as yet. Injuncwhich has been so seriously weakened in omists and their complete bankruptcy in all descriptions, the most highly developed tions, suits and political manoeuvering keep the last year or two to call upon the ideas. Though not in so many words, they industrial and transportation systems in this money in the pockets of the exploiters, dress strikers to come to the Left wing yet admit that they do not know how to fact, everything to satisfy human needs, As one City Hall authority stated signifi.
halls. The fact is that the bulk of the solve the economic problem confronting yet millions of industrial workers are de cantly to a newspaper reporter in regards striking workers are going in the other the world today.
nied the right to produce the things of to the fight stirred up over the budget. direction, and it is imperative to keep In the apnual outlook report issued by which the farmers are in want, and at the The finance committee group (who fought close contact with these workers so that the Bureau of Agricultural Economy of the same time, the farmers must let their land for the cut) will win a victory or two.
the Left wing is not isolated. The Left Department of Agriculture publislied ty lie idle while millions in the cities starve? The mayor will save his face. The appropwing must follow a conscious and persis the New York Times (1 27 30) farmers are riations may be a million or two above the tent policy of mingling with the workers And the Communist answer to their warned against overproduction because of estimated revenue, but no more. The battle temporarily misled by Schlesinger and the period of industrial depression we are Question will be: The capitalist system was decided in advance by the bankers.
Dubinsky. It must work shoulder to can only allow industry to run when there now experiencing. They are plainly adOscar Nelson, the alderman who caries shoulder with them, iş profit in it for the capitalist; his only vised not to plant too much and to econoa union card, Vice President of the Chie Fighting side by side with the mass of mize in their expenditures. This in the interests are rent from the land and divi.
cago Federation of Labor and floor Icader the workers, gaining their confidence in face of four to five million industrial workdends from the factory human beings don for the Big Bill Thompson administration struggle, the Left wing will be able to ers unemployed or working on a part tine count, for, under capitalism, property in the city council, has voiced aspirations put a spike in Schlesinger efforts to schedule (also because of overproduction)
rights precede human rights.
to become candidate for mayor in the round up the workers without protest for who scarcely know where they are going to Day by day the proletariat learns by Spring elections. But such change of perBale to the bosses. By permeating the find the wherewithal to live from one day experience that the Communists are right. sonality would mean not the slightest break ranks of the Right wing workers, the to the next.
The time will come when it will challenge in the continuity of capitalist politics. The Left wing will be able to reawaken their The Capitalist Solution the rule of the working class and the poison Chicago workers are, of course, not so militant sentiments, and prevent a preThe only solution, judging by this regas of the capitalist press will be but a much stirred by the budget fight, one way mature and treasonable conclusion of the putt of wind in its face.
port, that the capitalist economists have to or the other. While they could, by acting strike.
offer to the tremendous problems raised Neither their paid intellectuals nor politically in their own nane and using Schlesinger has planned parade of by this situation is for the proletariat to their armed strength will be able to save their own mags power, easily catch some of workers on his field in order to show starve for want of surplus of food products the capitalists state. For the proletariat these big thieves and tax dodgers, their the bosses that he is worthy of their hire.
in the farmers warehouses, and for the has the power and will know how to use it. real task will still remain ahead until they The Left wing must establish fraterfarmer to economize on clothes, Shoes, Russia has taught us how.
chase all the capitalist politicians out.
nal contact with the strikers ranks and farm machinery, and other necessities of PETER HANSEN A, turn the parade into a real struggle, prewhich the industrial proletariat in its turn vent the dispersal of the forces of the has produced a surplus. Both are expected workers. They will not win the sympathy to continue in the hope that the almighty and support of the strikers by remaining will find a way out that has so far, escaped Isolated in their own little Left wing halls, the attention of his apologists.
They will win them by fighting by their The farmer himselt is certainly in a side to make Schlesingerja strike sad fx. The world do move. technical real strike of the workers agatnst the changes are going on, even in the most busses and their emissaries in the labor backward of industries, and with the inmovement.
troduction of power machinery in agriculΦ ture, and large scale farming, the farm hand and the small farmer have no alternMILWAUKEE Wages of 32 to 42 cents ative but to go to the city and join the labor paper, partciularly a revolutionary organ, does not receive the big an hour do not indicate American pros ranks of the harrassed proletariat. Here advertisements and subsidies, without which a capitalist paper is unthinkable.
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bosses to Pres. Hoover, according to bustime industrial, which has already made The Militant was founded because it fills a special and urgent need in the theag agent Jac. Friedrick of the Milwausuperfluous large sections of the working labor and revolutionary movements. Ithas been maintained by a group of dekeo machinist union clasg.
voted workers, who understand the value of adherence to the fundamental teachNew men are being hired at this rate, The report from Washington at first ings of the great leaders of our movement, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
though the previous rate was higher. This raises the slight hope that conditions These teachings are not strong if they are limited to small groups; they beconstitutes wage cut because the ultimate abroad will improve at a point somewhere come a powerful weapon for labora liberation when they are made known to the effect will be to drag the other wages down between 1930 and 1931 and provide a mar whole working class honestly and truthfully. This is the task set itself by the to the 32 42 cents level. In spite of the ket for the American farmer surplus but Militant.
low hourly rate there are up to 500 men Immediately shatters the hope by announcBeeking fobs at the plant every day.
ing that export will be met by keen compeThis great work can be carried out effectively only if the existence of the Militant la secured. For this purpose, it is necessary to establish and strengФ tition from Argentina and Canada and posthen a systematic SUSTAINING FUND. Such a fund will not only enable us NEW ORLEANS (FP) Bitter cold, and sibly Russia. This is bad news, But what to print a whole series of most valuable books and pamphlets.
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THR MILITANT, Vol III, No. 6, February 1930. Published weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at 25 Third Avenue, New York, Subkription rate: 00 per year; foreign 50. Five cents per copy. Bundle rates, cents per copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, MauReactor, Arne Swabeck. Entered as second class mail matter November 28, 1928, at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 1879 TotalNo. Chicago Name DANCE 31