Baturday, March 22, 1930.
THE MILITANT Page 40. 000000 Letters from the Soviet Union 101 RIBBFERED Employment Sharks Exposed The Five Year Plan precedent no snall. Allusion to We shall upon the following: the Party regime, the with the poor and middle peasantry is beconstruct socialism, even at a snail pace situation of the working class, the indus ing weakened and when the working class And the Kulaks of Bucharin The verification trialization, the complete collectivisation, 1s undergoing increased pressure from the of the theory of socialism in one country, the situation in the country, the command apparatus, must be condemned as advenAt double pace the voids caused by the whose hour is close, will show its complete to wipe out the Kulak and the Nepman as turist.
The slogans Long live the day unfitness of the year plan are being failure.
a class at a time when, thanks to the week; down with uninterrupted work; long Alled in haphazard and uncertainly. SudCentrist policies, the middle and poor pea live the collective rest of the workers; denly hall a million rubles are withdrawn sants are lined up against us and when, must be put forward. We must warn the from the food cooperatives; now, a figure Stalin Endangers the still thanks to these same policies, the working class that after the present ultraties with the working class are beginning Leftist course, Centrism can, with the easily conjured with in any plan. Whole Proletarian Dictatorship to weaken. We must shout at the top of same facility, introduce a new NEP.
sale prices are being increased. You January 25 our voices that Centrism is on the road It is certainly necessary to stress th recall this was a Trotskyist fraud. acto cutting down the branch on which rests am sending you some bits of news.
fact that events are confirming our Plat cording to the Stalinist theory. What is the entire Soviet regime.
First, the oldest: at the October celebraform.
more, this increase is retroactive. For all selling organizations, a revision of accounts tions about a thousand of our comrades The Slogans of the Opposition The putchist tactics of Molotov resulte is being made. Speed was ordered for were withdrawn from circulations throughIn a word we must say that Stalin is in the decomposition of the Eastern Par out the Union. This is very gladdening, isn those two measures and at the same time destroying the dictatorship of the prolet ties. great deal of attention must the press was kept quiet. How much ink it? This shows the good feeling that still ariat. It seems to me that in this appeal, given to the questions concerning the Com prevails. You certainly know that a short was poured out against the rise in wholewe must also point out in what manner it munist International, as they deserve. Th while ago the two musketeers (Zinoviev sale prices when it had been proposed by will be possible to get out of the impasse Opposition must be reintegrated. The Part the Opposition not as a panic measure and Kamenev) issued a declaration whereinto which Centrism bas led the Party and must be left to its own course. We mus by they once again (how many times albut in the name of economic foresight.
the country. The issues will concern the appeal to all the workers to drive out the ready. rejoined the Party. This is what All the symptoms of instability are clearly betterment of the position of the working stranglers of proletarian democracy. We took place. When Zinoviev had to present present.
class in the political and economic field, must appeal to the workers to purge, with Here is an extract of the leading arhis statement at the purging of his nucworkers democracy, secret ballot in the out waiting for authorization from above, ticle of a country newspaper of a hundred leus, a great number of members showed Party and possibly in the trade unions, the Party, the trade unions and the Soviets, percent collectivized district: The Kuup; he was given 20 minutes. He started and a Leninist course in the country. As of the Thermidorian bureaucratic scum.
laks and the middle peasants fraudulently out in this manner. To narrate my autofor the administrative introduction of so We must state openly that the present kill their cattle.
biography would be to give the entire hiscialism into the country on a very weak leadership is leading the country and the tory of the Party. This introduction was The Kulak spirit has penetrated all technical base, a sharp end must ve put dictatorship of the proletariat towards degreeted with applause. After 20 minutes departments of the local government (all to this stupidity. The order for the com struction, and that their policies are paving he had not yet reached the Third Party this in hundred percent collectivized displete collectivisation must be abandoned. the way for counter revolution in the Congress. His time for speaking was extricts. They kill the horses of their own We could break our heads on this course. country tended. He harangued for three hours.
volition, cattle are chased into the forests The order for the liquidation of the Kulak Yours, His speech was often interrupted by apand the valleys where they die of cold. In through orders from above, when the Unk plause. At the end of his speech, he made the forest of. there are two hundred abandoned horses. And yet Pravda, full it clear, with carefully chosen phrases, that the Opposition, although it had made of authority, shows that it the middle peasome mistakes, had in general been corsant strangles his cattle, it is because he rect. Thus, he concluded, we were is firmly decided to enter the cooperative fighting not against the Party but against Ry Federated Press labor agent for another man. From each and this is why, before leaving, he liquidthe Right wing, The next day he was The base for the new Admissions in the United States Senman who is sent to the job the agent colates his cattle!
called before the powers above who washed adventurist bond of centrism is a break lects a fee, which he divides with the emhis head, black soap being necessary. Then 3, 100, 000, while the actual unemployment ate tut known unemployment is now ployer who obligingly makes the vacancy with the middle peasantry. Instead of he entered his declaration. The secretary difficulty, the Centrists is twice that amount, give tragic emphafor him. Thus, as one squarely facing pert has put it, of his nucleus was designated as concilithink that a theory, scholastically elaborsis to a report on fraudulent practices of the employment shark has three men for ator.
ated and administratively applied, that is, private employment agencies just issued each job one on the way to the job, one collectivisation, can strike from the order With Kamenev, matters were entirely by the American Assn. for Labor Legis on the job and one on the way home from of the day the fundamental question of different. During the purging, he was given ration, in New York.
the job. An investigator in Buffalo tesIrregular relations of the classes in the six minutes to state his position and not The report, prepared by George tified before the commission that in one country. With this new formula they exa second longer. But a private paper was Trafton, summarizes hundreds of pages of case he had affadavite of the man who stolen from his house in some unknown pect to exorcise the truth.
information buried in the unpublished prosaw the actual payment of money by the As already said, the class relations manner (he has certainly no luck with ceedings of the New York State Industrial fee charging agent to the employer.
in the country are disturbed. believe that private papers. In this paper, among Survey Commission. Witness after witDuring the investigation, the United the offensive of classes hostile to the dicother things appeared this phrase: ness testifying under oath. says Trafton States Supreme Court handed down the tatorship of the proletariat is inevitable. Trotsky) was right in saying In the described flagrant abuses practiced by some typically capitalist minded decision that the under the guise of civil war supported Party nothing can really be achieved.
of these commercial enterprises, conclufees charged by private employment agents by external intervention, Actually great The matter of this paper was brought up sively demonstrating that the fee charging are not subject to regulation by law. Hence confusion reigns in the circles of the Party in the Political Bureau. They even wished employment agency business is still intes the agencies can charge the workers their base. This brings in a new stage in our to expel Kamenev. But he had opportuneted with unscrupulous characters who do very eye teeth for a short lived chance to work. It is necessary to leave home for ly written his statement, and the tempest not hesitate to mulct the helpless, and who be exploited. One instance is cited of a free air. Some prefer to remain in waiting subsided. This is how the sages of the find the jobless worker an easy victim. woman who paid 18 for a job which. because it is more dignified and more Party conduct themselves. Their life is One of the most common complaints lasted only two weeks; so that her job We must break with them bedroll indeed. It is enough to drive one to before the commission was misrepresentcost her hall of the total wages received.
drink cause passivity becomes a chronic disease.
tation of jobs. Witnesses testifled, says She returned to the agency, but received It is a serious danger. To enter the new Morale of Opposition Excellent Tratton, that after paying fees they had neither another position nor a refund.
activity a very precise and pointed appeal As for ourselves, our morale is ex been sent to jobs which obviously they Sending of girls or women to immoral must be written, The country is being cellent resorts is also a standing grievance against We are following the advice of could not l and for which they had not led towards catastrophe with bandaged eyes.
applied. Others swore that they had been the private agents investigated in the old Spinoza which you suggested to us: The working class must take the fate of sent off to temporary positions which Not to weep; not to laugh; but to underreport.
the in its own hands. The stand. As for weeping, we don weep.
had been represented to them as permanΦ appeal must be made not only to Russia As for laughing, at times we do laugh. ent. Some told of going to distant cities HALF MILLION STRIKERS IN INDIA but to the international proletariat. The One cannot help laughing, however much for jobs which did not even exist. Still IN 1929 dictatorship is in danger. It can be saved it may be mixed with bitterness, when one others testified that the wages paid on only by bringing it to the Leninist path.
reads in Prayda that the middle peasant Job were much lower than the agency had WASHHINGTON Half a million workers in India went on strike in 1929, in some Now, many signs show that interest in Lenis killing his cattle and liquidating his represented.
inism and the proposals of the Opposition possessions because he firmly intends to Theft of fees, collected in advance 140 industrial disputes, according to are rapidly growing. Our appeal can and Join the Collective. He sacrifices his cattle Jobs, but not returned as the law requires report cabled to the Department of Commust play an enormous role.
because of enthusiasm.
merce from its agent at Calcutta.
Seized with the when no job was found, was also charged As in one of Andersen fairy tales (The Sometimes The unsettled labor situation is not sacred fervor of socialist construction against the private agencies.
Emperor New Clothes. at the most 80the employment sharks flatly refused to expected to improve materially in the near and the general line he sells everything lemn moment of the imperial procession future, this agent reported, as the growin order to prepare himselt for complete return the fees. At other times they would our appeal must shout: But Centrism 18 ing demand of labor for higher wages to collectivization. One cannot help laughing send the disappointed workers off on other completely naked! In Stalin speeches improve living conditions will no doubt At the Marxist explanation given to these wild goose chases. In this way, one witit is stated that a completely new course continue to make for protracted strikes.
disturbing phenomena. As for what con ness stated they would keep the men gois being instituted, that is, the liquidation cerns the to understand of Spinoza, we ing back and forth until they got tired of the NEP. That which interests me, understand the situation thus: so that they would not come any more JOBLESS COSTS ON CHARITY MOUNT above all, is to know whether this course and they would not go back for their fee.
is the product of an unavoidable necessity, The plan to appeal to the Party and to Another witness reported having seen felST. LOUIS (FP)Unemployment 18 of a blind alley which does not permit of the working class must be realized in the responsible for 60 cents of every dollar the lows thrown down the stairs, when seekmaneuvering with respect to the peasant quickest posalble time. This appeal must Provident Asen. local family case work soing return of their money.
class, or whether it 18 a product of the bo in as brlot form as possible in order ciety, is spending for relief nowadays. One theory of socialism in one country.
that it may affect the entire working class, Employers in on Gypping Game third, or 33 cents, of each reller dollar 15 It one holds to the official ideas, to the the entire Party. We must tell the Chlet Charges of tee splitting with employ the average spent the two year period 1928phraseology of the leaders, it appears to (the Central Committee) not only the ob ere or foremen, repeatedly made against 29 on families whose need was caused by originate from a voluntary desire. Thus jeative candes but also those who are di the private employment sharks in the past, the wage earner lack of a Job. Each It is an adventure which allows of the rectly responsible, denouncing them by are contrmed by this latest report. Under winter the proportion chargeable to jobentistrophes being foreseen, But many the fee splitting system, the boss fires the lessness rises sharply, but this winter it sions indicate that it is the result of the In the appeal Hght must be thrown worker after a few days, and asks the has climbed to unprecedented heights.
peaceful.