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MILITANT Saturday, Febraury 22, 1930 Billions Made by Big Industrialists The Greatest Disciple of Lenin The «Third Period» of the Comintern Mistakes. by Trotsky 66 MACHINIST UNEMPLOYMENT WORST SINCE 192: WASHINGTON Reports made by 10cals in 55 American cities to the Washing Comrade Stalin never deviated a halr, fought against compromise. considerable ton headquarters of the International Assocomrade Stalin fought side by side with part of the Bolsheviki were in favor of girciation of Machinists, each week, show that Thirty eight leading Industrial corporLenin in October Dally Worker, 18 30. ing way so far as to create a joint Allthe present crisis in unemployment in this ations each paid out in 1929 over 10, 000, 000 When Stalin made a united front with the Socialist government. We can hold on, skilled metal trade is the worst since 1921.
in cash dividends on common stock. ReChinese militarists against the Chinese they cried, too much is against us; we Most of these reports show 20 to 100 ports of many other large corporations are workers, he never deviated a hair. When haven the men; we will be isolated, and union members unemployed, and trade yet to be published, but profits already an Stalin was in favor of continuing relations the whole thing will fall. Thus Kameneff. bad or poor or very dull. The denounced are flaunted in the face of unemwith the traitors of the British general Rykov and others. But Lenin, with Trotpression began last August and has grown ployed workers and of other workers whose strike, he never deviated a hair. When com sky beside him, stood firm as a rock Let steadily more serious. Many veteran workrade Stalin was in favor of a coalition with the compromisers accept our program and wages have recently been cut.
ers still in the prime of life, who have the Mensheviks in 1917, he never deviated they can come in. We won give way an inch.
General Motors Heads Lists kept at work through all the previous per a hair. When Stalin supported the Right If there are comrades here who haven the fods of unemployment, have now been with General Motors Corp. in 1929, as usual wing in the Comintern and when he split courage and the will to dare what we dare, out work for six months, In recent years, heads the list of ce divevery Communist party into three groups, let them leave with the rest of the cowards idend payers. Over 155, 000, 000 was distribhe never deviated a hair.
and conciliators. Backed by the workers 60, 000 Unemployed in uted during the year to holders of its It is true, says John Reed in Ten and soldiers, we shall go on. So, Stalin, KANSAS CITY, Mo. The unemploy.
common stock, Second on the list comes Days that Shook the World (pages 123 124) side by side with Lenin in October. ment situation in Kansas City is very serAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Co. that the Petrograd Soviet had not ordered What my eyes hear and what my ears fous. There are at least 60, 000 out of work paying to common shareholder approxi a demonstration but the Central Committee see; laugh, world, laugh with Stalin burLess than 35 of the union men are workmately 116, 000, 000, an in ease of 13, 000, of the Bolshevik Party was considering the eaucracy.
ing. About two weeks ago the city hired 000 over the previous year. Steel Corp. question of insurrection. All night long, DENIS PLARINOS some men to shovel snow, with the weathstands third, paying over 63, 000, 000, an the 23rd they met. There were present all er 10 to 15 below zero. Many of the men Increase of more than 26 as compared the Party Intellectuals (the leaders) and St. Louis Fakers Trg Militant Painter were so weak that they could not work with 1928.
delegates of the Petrograd workers and the ST. Louis Morts are being made by until they were fed.
DuPont, the fourth company on the list garrison. Alone of the intellectuals, Lenin the labor fakers in the St. Louis Painters paying more than 50, 000, 000, distributed and Trotsky stood for insurrection. Even Union to expel Elmer McMillen, leading RAIL WORKERS DISCUSS MERGERS over 60, 100, 000 in common dividends. Thus the military men opposed it. vote was militant and Left wing worker in this MINNEAPOLIS Railroad workers when the leading four include the largest auto taken; insurrection was defeated. Then town, from the Painter organization. He they gather in the yardhouses and other mobile company, the largest public utility, arose a rough workman, his face convulsed is about to standtrial on trumped up railroad hangouts, find proposed consollthe largest steel corporation, and the largest with rage. speak for the Petrograd pro charged preferred by the officials. These dation of the roads an absorbing topic of chemical and explosives anufacturer. 011 letariat, he said harshly. We are in fa do not like the contrast of their do nothing conversation. Some railroad leaders, with is not one of the leading four only because vor of insurrection. Have it your own way, attitude with McMillen activity in orears to the ground, have taken up the the Standard Oll interests are broken into but tell you now that if you allow the So ganizing the unorganized workers, leading hour day movement. Others will be surseparate units. But together the biggest viets to be destroyed, we re through with the recent unemployed demonstration in a prised when they find their members forfour Standard Oll companies paid close to you. Some soldiers joined him and after demand for work or compensation, and ming Left wing groups. 150, 000, 000 in common dividends.
that voted again insurrection won. Sta his steady efforts on behalf of the rank Woolwerth Co. aying its work. lin side by side with Lenin in October. and file. The members are strongly symOUR YOUTH SECTION ers from 10 to 15 a week, paid Its com The Congress was to meet at one pathetic to McMillen. The outcome of the For lack of space, we are omitting mon stockholders 23, 400, 000 in cash. o clock and long since the great meeting trial has not yet been made known, from this issuy the Young Vanguard. our hall had filted, but by seven there was yet Enormous Profits Continue regular section devoted to the working no sign of the Praesidium. The Bolshevik TULSA, Okla (FP. There are more youth. It will appear in the forthcoming Common stock cash dividends of the and Left Social Revolutionary factions were than 4, 000 unemployed in both Oklahoma number and contain articles by George Ray, 19 industrial companies whose payments in in session in their own rooms. All the life City and Tulsa Albert Glotzer, Joseph Friedman, and Char1929 exceeded 20, 000, 000 were as follows: long afternoon Lenin and Trotsky had les Curtiss.
General Motors 155, 000, 000 163, 300, 002 Amer. Telephone 116, 000, 000 103, 821, 440 Steel 63, 096, 801 Du Pont 60, 163, 216 49, 655, 669 Standard Oil, 46, 738, 063 36, 583, 117 32, 909, 565 Continued from Page is upon this dependence that the tactic of Kennecott Copper 43, 936, 359 basic currents in present day Communism 42, 265, 656 Gen Elec.
the united front is fully based. Only it is 43, 268, 504 splte, the far Eeastern conflict broke out was called arbitrary and they affirmed that Anaconda Copper 42, 753, 253 14, 419, 034 in the very heat of the preparations for the necessary to carry it out, not according to for France such a classification is not real 32, 416, 528 Standard Oil, Ind. 40, 040. 133 First of August The official agitators and Zinoviev and not according to Brandler. not because of the absenco of a Right wing.
23, 978, 185 Consolidated Gas 34, 867, 361 Journalists yelled about war in general and according to Stalin and not according to The facts of the last months however gave 37, 728, 294 Standard Oil, Cal 32, 500, 000 danger in general so furiously and continu Bucharin. It is necessary in this question life and blood to the international schema 27, 580, 290 Standard Oil, Y, 28, 600, 000 ously, that the real international conflict to return to Lenin.
also in France. The Syndicalist League Tex. Corp.
decisively raised the banner of struggle 28, 500, 000 24, 306, 712 was drowned in the cries finding only a 16, 452, 300 Eastman Kodak 26, 000, 000 weak approach to the consciousness of the Groupings in Communism against Communism finding in this a comReynolds Tobacco 25, 500, 000 mon ground with the trade union opposl26, 000, 000 masses. Just so in the present policy of The Left Opposition, which has not Woolworth 23, 400, 000 19, 500, 000 tion of the second order. Simultaneously the Comintern do the lean kine of bureal joined in with the catechism of the Third 21, 091, 512 15, 623, 172 Amer, Tobacco cratic schemas swallow the fat kine of live the more reformist elements split away from Period. will once more bé accused of a the Party. Gas Imp m 21, 000, 000 They utilized the struggle 19, 788, 907 reality.
Right deviation by skirmishers itke MunUnion Carbide against bureaucratic adventurism, and under 20, 606, 859 16, 235, 208 in connection with the question of the mousseau. After the experience of the last The other 19 companies paying a paltry struggle against the war danger, it is again the guise of a new party are attempting six years, we can look calmly at this accunecessary to observe the strategy of the sation 10, 000, 000 to 20, 000, 000 in common divito preserve their mandates. Immediately, by Already at the Third Congress of second period. as one of the main reasons dends include Sears Roebuck, Sheel Union the Comintern, many of the gentlemen who the power of political relationship, the in favor of the bloc with the General CounOil, Morgan new Standard Brands, three later went over to the social democracy or Right trade union opposition appeared con cil was put forth the necessity of a common other motor companies, Bethlehem Steel, remained temporarily at the Brandler nected with the new parliamentary munistruggle against the war danger. At the Ualted Fruit, and Westinghouse Electric.
cipal party. Thus gradually everything stage, accused us together with Lenin of a July Plenum of the Central Committee in finds its place. And in this we think the Dividends on common stock are got the Right deviation. It is suicient to recall 1927 Stalin swore that a bloc with the that at the period of the Fifth Congress, service of La Yerlte was very considerable.
whole story of returns to investors. Most General Council was fully Justified by the Louis Sellier was one of the main accusers straight line is determined by two of these corporations have also made large fact thet the English trade unions were of Trotskyism.
points. For the determination of a curve payments to bondholders and to owners of helping us conduct a struggle against Bripreferred stock. Part of their net profits There is no doubt, however, that the it is necessary to have not less than three.
tish imperialism, and therefore a demand they keep in the treasury to increase the The lines of politics are very complicated to break with the striko breakers could Right olements will actually attempt to and curved. In order to evaluato correctly corporation undivided surplus.
come only from those people who haven make use of some elements of our criticism. the different groupings, it is necessary to the defense of the Soviet Union at heart.
This is absolutely unavoidable. It is not take their behavior for several stages: at THE SITUATION IN THE MINING Thus not only the Leftward swing of the necessary to think that all the accusations INDUSTRY the moments of revolutionary rise and at English workers but also the war danger of the Rights are wrong. Quite often the Rights have a basis for their criticism of the moment of ebb. To draw a correct rev.
The next issue of the militant will during 1926 27 served as the main argucontain a statement by the National Comolutionary orbit of the Left Communist opments in favor of a bloc with the reforthe goet leaps of Left opportunism. Within position is possible only if we put down mittee of the Communist League of America mists. Now It appears that both the radthese limits they are quite inclined to use (Opposition) on the situation in the mining on paper a series of critical periods: the icalization of the masses and the approacha Marxist criticism, so as to counterpose relationship to the German events of 1923; industry. It will deal particularly with the ing wer danger demand a decisive refusal under its cover opportunism to adventurthe question of stabilization in 1924; the ism.
recent call for an anti Lewis International of any kind of agreements with them. All relation to industrialization and the Kulak convention issued by Harry Fishwick, Alex the questions are put so as to confuse the It must be added, however, that in the in the In 1923 1928; the question ander Howat, John Brophy, John Walker advanced workers as much as possible. ranks of that Opposition, which quite justly of the Kuomintang and the Anglo Russian and otheps; the recent strike of the National There is no doubt, that in case of war considers Itsell the Leit, were until recently Committee; the relation to the Canton upMiners Union in Illinois; the coming con or even an actual and clear approach of the remnants of such elements as joined us rising, the evaluation of the theory and vention of the in Pittsburgh, and one, the reformists will be completely with in 1924, not because we defended an inter practice of the Third Period. etc. Each the tasks of the Left wing in the industry. the bourgeoisie. An agreement with them national revolutionary position, but because of these questions by itself includes a whole for a struggle against war is just as impos we fought against Zinovievist adventurism. group of tactical tasks. Out of the conTYPOS DEFEAT SALARY BOOST sible as a bloc to carry out the proletarian Many potential opportunists, at that period plicated system of ideas and slogans the aprevolution.
INDIANAPOLIS. Again the memuerPrecisely for this reason, to in France adopted the protective coloring paratus maraudere tear single phrases and imagine the Anglo Russian Committee a3 ship of the Intl. Typographical Union has of the Russian Opposition. Some of thein construct on them the idea of an approachdecided by referendum that 5, 000 a year weapon of struggle against imperialism, paraded even until very recently with the ment between the Left and Right. Marxists is plenty for its chief officials. Convention as Stalin did, meant to deceive the workers fact that they agreed with us without any take the problem as a whole, carrying the criminaliy. But matters are such that hisaction to raise the ante 50 was vetoed by reservations. Sans reserves. But when unfty of strategic thought throughout dit26, 794 against the increase of 22, 882 votes tory knows not only wars and revolutions the real question of the struggle for the ferent circumstances. This method does not but also periods between wars and revolu views of the Opposition came to the forein favor.
glve instantaneous results but it is the only tions, that is, periods when the bourgeoisis front, it was revealed that between theso reliable method. Let the spolters despoil.
makes preparations for war, and the prolet parlor Oppositionists and us thero is an GAIN 40 HOUR NIGHT WEEK We will prepare tomorrow day.
arlat for revolution. We live at present in abyss. They deny the presence of a rev Prinkipo, Janaury 8, 1930.
MT. MORRIS, Ill. FP) Union prin precisely such a period. We must win away olution cry situation all the more since hey ters of Mt. Morris, where hundreds of mag the masses from the reformists, who gained do not feel the slightest need for it.
By the way, in creating workers azines are printec by Kable Bros. have strength in recent years and did not weaken, Many good souls were sincerely worgained the 40 hour week for the night shift. By their strengthening, however, they put and peasants instead of a proletarian party ried by the fact that we unceasingly drove Wage increases include 11 cents an hour themselves into a greater dependence upon Louls Sellier and company have given life wedge between the Left Opposition and in the West to the gifted formula of Stalla aights and cents an hour days.
the evolution of their proletarian base. It the Right. Our classification of the three intended for the East.