Trotsky on PERMANENT REVOLUTION page four Coal Miners! THE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Vol. III, No. 9, Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YORK, Saturday, March 1, 1930 PRICE CENTS The Murder of Blumkinis An Act Build Broad Movemet Against the Russian Revolution To Aid The Unemployed TROTSKY ON STALIN AND BLUMKIN The coll ooded and cynically cal tion has been proved correct on every maculatea murder of the Bolshevik, Blumkin, jor issue before the and the Through out the United States millions demand for compensation, for wages must by Stalin for his adherence to the ideals of Communist International. What cynicism, of unemployed workers, their ranks in be made upon Industry and the government, what brutality coarseness, vihat the Left Opposition is bringing in its wake creased by tens of thousands in recent local, state and national.
swilt revulsion against these latest meth disregard of the interests of the proletarweeks, face a future of increased misery, Organice Unemployed on Elementary Issues ods of the Stalinist bureaucracy toward iat of the Russian October, mark this degradation, poverty and starvation. Under the conditions it is possible to the Leninist Bosheviks in the Stalin and his conscienceless chinovalks, capitalism offers fine words to the unem develop a broad movement on behalf of the The worker Communists and the proletar the Molotovs, Thaelmanns, Fosters, Minors, ployed but no work or compensation. In unemployed masses, as has been previously ian forces throughout the world are put CachLs! With cne hand they wave the November 1929, immediately after the Wall shown by the Militant. This can be done it ting the question: Why the imprisonment, red flag of the revolutionary proletariat Street crash, President Hoover called a the class concious workers, the revolutionexile and now shooting of the Left Oppo and with the other they persecute and conference of millionaire bankers, industri arles and particularly the Communists, use sitionists? What is behind it all. Stalin even shoot the best fighters of October and alists and manufacturers at Washington to correct tactics; that the broadest concelvand his bureaucrats, in firm unity for the international revolution. The prolet map out a vast industrial and building pro able rovement is sought and worked for; years with the Bucbarin Rykov Right wing, ariat, the Communit. workers demand an gram that would normalize business again that simple elementary demands, such as.
carried out a program that was swiftly answer!
and provide employment for the mass of un Work or Compensation from industry and giving renewed life and strength to the Stalinists Politically and Morally Bankrupt employed workers. That conference has the government of the bosses, are put in the Nepmen and Kulaks in the Soviet Union, The acts of Stalin against the Oppos sulted for the workers in exactly nothing. forefront. Mere noise and bombast and They were thereby earning the gratitude sition, now culminating in the murder of Leading capitalist and governmental demonstrations (here today and gone tomorof the bourgeoisie throughout the world. the noble fighter for the Revolution, Blumoftlcials are now less sanguine about row) will not serve the purpose. Sectariat The expulsions and persecutions in the kin, are acts against the fundamental inprospects for a swift and huge economic narrow movements, in which the main object most vicious forms of the Opposition led terests of the Revolution. Stalin performs revival. Lieutenant Governor Lehmann of of the leaders is only to express their parby Trotsky went on simultaneously. the work of an anti Bolshevik when he the State of New York, in which unemploy ticular views, and who regard the workors But the Opposition, firmly rooted in the decimates the ranks of the Communist ment is greater than in any other section of involved, but as objects of agitation, will working masses of the Communist Party movement. In far of China, the Stalinist the country, states: We are not going to also not get anybody very far, and least of and the country continued to stand by followers shot at a leader rt the Chineso return to normalacy overnight. There never all the unemployed worker who is looking their platform; for an industrialization Opposition. In the United States the Foswas chance of that, in spite of over for a job, food, clothing shelter.
optimistic predictions.
The participation of workers in such The gravity of the situation, the misery movements of struggle, however, serves as rampant throughout the country, rise everyan excellent preparatory school in the class where to confound with stark facts the war. Such movements teach the workers Hooverian sooth sayers. The capitalists and their hired scribblers and mind befogging the nature of class society, the role of the governing classes, and certainly aid the de.
professors find themselves unable to put velopment of the workers towards a class Blumkin did visit me at Constantinople.
forward any capitalist remedies that can conscious ideology and action. This is the told him among other things, that my exile as well as the imprison relieve the acute conditions of existence and objective to be sought. But such confermuent of other comrades did not change our fundamental line; that in the starvation that affect the lives of millions ences of the unemployed as the one called moment of danger tho Oppositionists would be in the most advanced posts: of working people. On an international and held by the Trade Union Unity League that in the difficult hours Stalin would be forced to call upon them, even as scale, in fact, the deadly pall of unem of New York City, on Wednesday February Tseretelli appealed to the Bolsheviks for aid against Kornilov.
ployment hangs over tens of millions of 19th, at the Manhattan Lyceum will end. The Stalinist repression against us does not yet signify a change workers and their families. Their need is, in short, brend. They are ready to work only in a swamp, and bring about no bonain the class character of the State, but only prepares and makes more easy fide organization of the unemployed workers that change; our course remains, as in the past, that of reform and not that to get it. If they cannot get work, the to make effective their demands upon the of revolution; the implacable struggle for our ideas must be based on the bosses and the state.
perspective of a long delay.
New York Conference a Talkfest Excerpt from a letter of comrade Leon Trotsky of January 5th, 1930 The nationally, as the trade at Prinkipo, Turkey.
union instrument of the Communist Party in the United States, has set a task to orprogram for the Soviet Union, presenting ter zovestone cliques adopted the methods ganize the unemployed of this country, their projects in 1927 in the form of a of the underworld, of gangsterism, against BOSTON During Janaury but 60 of which is to culminate in an international the Communist Opposition. Why? We ask the 260, 000 workers who would be ein5 Year Plan; for the policy of collective demonstration on March 6th agaist the and Soviet Farms and against the en and will continue to demand adequate re ployed normally in 1, 106 Massachusetts fac. scourge of unemployment in all capitalist ples of the Stalinist regime for their de tories and mills were at work on full time croachments of the Kulak; against the countries. The New York Conference of growing bureaucracy in the Party, the So fenseless acts against the Opposition, schedule, Jobs, part time and full time, the therefore serves as pic.
viet Union and the trade unions; and many against the Revolution, could be found for only 213, 000 of the ture of what is undoubtedly being dupllother principle and tactical issues.
These brutal acts only show more con quarter million or more, states the Massa cated in other cities where it has or is Opposition Pressure Forces Stalin to the clusively the political and moral bankrupt. chusettts labor department.
calling similar conferences, Left cy of Stalinist Centrism. It is the replace Employment declined between De At the New York Conference, 300 people Under the pressure of the Opposition, ment of a political line with the bureau cember and January and average earnings representing, according to the chairman, the Stalin Centrists have been compelled cratic power of a corrupt apparatus. The sank from 24. 16 a week to 24. 08. An up Sadie Van Veen, 12 unemployed councils, to swing back from Right course toward murder of Blumkin will but serve to con turn in the shoe industry of 17 kept the Ieft wing unions, groups, workthe Left, and piece meal to adopt the Plat solidate more firmly than ever before the average from sinking far lower. In 31 in men circles, working class housewives, form of the Opposition. The Militant has growing ranks of the Opposition. At the dustries employment dropped below the etc. were present. The chairman, Van Veen, made and will make further evaluations samo time the murder will call forth the December level. During the month seven was not elected, she just served and opened of this latest Stalinist zig zag, the so called protest of the Communist and class con factories went out of business, including the meeting with a speech of some 30 min.
Leit turn.
But we put here the question: scious workers throughout the world. Come three woolen mills and two shoe factories.
utes length. In the course of her remarks, How does one carry out a Lett course what may, the Opposition knows its patu The state labor department has created she stated: There is no trade union movegenuinely and at one and same time ex and duty. The Opposition remain at their a new index of employment, based on a ment outside the Such propel, imprison. exile and murder the Left post and continue to serve the cause of figure of 100 for 1925 27. Employment in found notions may or may not be the main Opposition? Why this Cury? The Opposi Communism.
January was 82. 9, according o this revised problem to discuss at conferences called index, contrasted with 89. in January, 1929.
to organize and aid the unemployed; or SNOW FAILS TO BRING JOBS TO JOBLESS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MOCKED BY Cotton goods showed 68. 3, or a decline of they may also help to make clear why the INCOME REPORT one third in the number of jobs in four MINNEAPOLIS. FP. The hungry and Trade Union Unity League is virtually nonWASHINGTON Equality of human opyears. Other depressed industries are: jobless used to look to the skies for help.
existent.
portunity in the United States in these days Woolen, 67. 5; textile machinery, 81. 2; rub.
When snowflakes began falling, they reCalled upon to speak, ali or of big scale industry is mocked by the ber goods, 72. 2; hosiery, 76. Industries ported to the snow removal bureaus and members, were a Negro comrade, Internal Revenue Bureau preliminary rewhich have gained in employment are: bak.
lined up for jobs.
Alexander; a Pioneer speaker, a youth orport of taxable income for 1928, which ery. 107; women clothing, 102; printing This year snow means little to the unganizer of the a speaker of the Communist Party, Darcy; a Needle Trades employed. Tractors are being used with shows that 24 persons had private incomes and publishing, 109.
scrapers to collect the snow, and automatic amounting to 242, 000, 000. As these were MASS. EMPLOYMENT CONTINUES DOWN Industrial Union speaker. No remarks from hoists to lift it into the trucks the taxpayers in the class above 5, 000, the delegates were invited.
BOSTON Employment fell off in None of the Eighty per cent was the estimate of 000. it is to be assumed that some of them, Massachusetts public utilities between Despeeches advanced concrete tasks for imunemployment given by one building trades such as the Rockefellers and Fords and mediate solution and action.
cember and January, reports the state laAll truthcouncil representative. The Citizens A111 Mellons, must have had incomes of 30, 000, bor department. Steam railroads, with a fully assailed capitalism as the cause of ance admits that thousands have been laid 000 to 50, 000, 000 each. In the year 1927 cut of accounted for 2, 040 Jobless unemployement; all called for the over oft in the last two months, and that the only 11 persons admitted Incomes above throw of capitalism and for the establish men, Payrolls fell. and ot the ratl. le nn vet in sigh. 5, 000, 000 ment of workers rule.
roads alone, 40 Percent Jobless In Bay State