Saturday, March 29, 1930 THE MILITANT Page The Shooting of Blumkin seasoned dishes as the murder of Blumkin: SUFFERING AMONG It is also a fact that in Lenin Testament to the Party, Lenin pointed out Stalin disloyalty, his tendency to abuse power, JOBLESS GROWS and recommended that Stalin be retired STALIN STORY IN PROCESS OF PREPARATION from his important post.
WASHINGTON (FP. Suffering from Another fact is that immediately after the Testamentunemployment among factory workers is The protests and indignation of Com Fahne raises doubts concerning the exisMarch 6th, 1923 Lenin in a letter broke New York state has grown rapidly worse, munists and the masses of workers over tence of Blumkin (that is, concerning his the murder of Blumkin at the behest of all personal relations with Stalin for his so that in the past six weeks there has past existence. Is it because the Rote been 200 increase in the number of Stalin will not down, despite evasions, lies Fahne raises doubts about Blumkin having disloyalty and crimes.
families who have been given outdoor reand slanders by the stalinist apparatus been an irreproachable revolutionist who The Dletatorship of Stalin and its lief by organized charities, Miss Frances men everywhere. Finally, after a period on many occasions showed an exceptional Consequences Perkins, state industrial commissioner, of silence, as we foresaw, the official courage and heroic devotion to the prolet This was the state of affairg seven told the Senate committee on commerce, Communist press found itself compelled to ariat? Or do Its doubts concern only the years ago, when the position of secretary March 21.
speak. The Daily Worker and the Commun. execution because of Trotsky letter? This of the Communist Party bad a strictly The families thus driven to ask ald ist in the United States became literally does not follow clearly from the article. subordinate importance and when all pow from organized charity, the commssioner hysterical in their attempts to evade the This lack of clearness is entirely deliber er rested in the Political Bureau directed explained, were those normally supported issue of the murder of Bolsheviks by the ate. The Roto Fahne is simply waiting by Lenin.
Now the situation is radically by the wages of their own members. Stalinist regime. Now the official Commun for the version which Stalin will choose to changed. The domination of the apparatus survey of one third the factory workers ist press in other countries also finds it give as the final oue.
has become a personal dictatorship of Sta in the state she said, showed that necessary to answer to the questions and lin, The role of the public opinion of the Stalin Prepares His Story reduction in jobs had taken place sinvo der nds of the Communist Opposition.
Party is one hundred times less. Stalin Oct. last. This would make a total ot The conspiracy of silence is being broken. Between times, the latter has long disloyalty has revealed itself armed with 135, 000 factory workers in this one state Among those who have entered the since prepared his version. The rumor unheard of practices and directed against join the army of the unemployed since the lists in an endeavor to cover or lle about has been circulated in several Soviet pa its own Party. The Blumkin affair un beginning of October. In the building pers that Trotskyites in Siberia have Stalin dastardly act is the Rote Fabne of covers this new position with frightful trades the suffering was even worse, while Vienna, which engages in controvery with sabotaged the transport of troops against forte.
the white collar workers, including the the social democratic press concerning Chiang Kal Shek, and have derailed locoYes, the assassination of Blumkin will clerical and sales people were likewise Eumkin. It goes without saying that the motives, etc. This is now Stalin third be utilized by the class enemies and above guttering acutely. Employment conditions social democracy could not let slip so exattempt to connect the Opposition with all by the Socialists. But who is to blame? are worse today, she declared, than at ceptional an opportunity for refurbishing counter revolutionists. The first two were Those who have engendered this odious af any time since 1914.
somewhat its tarnished reputation, The knocked to pieces, to their shame; the third fair, that is, the murder of Blumkin. The will also be knocked to pieces.
What makes the general economic sitinternational party of Noske which is reAnd if Stalinists could not have failed to under uation for the workers more serious, Miss sponsible for the death of Liebknecht and Stalin is still determined to renew his instand what are the consequences of such a Perkins told the committee, is that those Rosa Luxemburg eagerly seizes hold of visible miserable effort, it is only because crime. They could not have failed to who are employed are by no means all the assassination of an irreproachablo revhe needs some story to cover up the assassunderstand that the Opposition would not ination of comrade Blumkin.
working full time. Hence the totals for olutionist by the Stalinists. It is not this keep silent. Because to keep silent would the unemployed do not tell the wł le story side of the affair which interests us at this The Rote Fahne ends its article with mean to unchain the Stalinist bureaucrcay of suffering.
moment.
a panegyric on Stalin as the chosen disciple and to prepar tens and hundreds of affairs Couzens and Hiram Johnson asked her Independently of the threats, the in of Lenin We know that similar panegy similar to the Blumkin case.
view of unemployment insurance. The comtrigues and the slander of the social dem rics in all parties are now the sine qua non That is why we declare to the official missioner replied that her staff was engaged ocracy the question poses itself in this conditions for maintaining one position: editors, to the secretaries and functionaries in a study of the matter. Government infashion to each revolutionary: Is it true of editor, secretary, people commissar, or. the Fosters, Minors, Bedachts and even suranco against unemployment, compulthat Stalin had comrade Blumkin shot be of president of the Comintern. But even the small Browders: We shall not permit sory on the employers, she said, is strongly cause he visited Trotsky at Constantinople so we find that the editor of the Rote Fahne you to erade a reply by covering yourselves opposed by many employers and taxpaye and attempted to turn over a letter to links up quite imprudently the question of with a polemic on the bourgeois Journal ers some fighting comrades in Moscow? If this Blumkin with Stalin character and his ists and social democrats and popes. We John Andrews of the American Asis true, what must we call him who de relations with Lenin.
shall compel you to render an accounting sociation for Labor Legislation recited the bauches Communism by such acts? This It is a fact that Lenin was hostile to before the workers of what has happened. history of Congress failure to act on planis the question of importance. One cannot the nomination of Stalin as secretary. He We shall compel you to answer the question: ned unemployment relief since 1914. He help seeing for a single instance what a expressed his fear that this cook will Do you take the responsibility for the testified that unemployment conditions in blow such a bloody crime can strike at serve us a peppery dish. Naturally, in murder of the Bolshevik Blumkin! Yes or the region of New York City are the worst the revolutionary prestige of the Soviet 1921 Lenin could not yet foresee guch woll No?
since 1914.
power not among the thousands of bourgeoisie, or sympathetic intellectuals. or lates it more and more from genuine mass lawyers, or newspaper men, or writers who contact. It has failed to date to make 80 nobly visit the fringes of the Soviets for the celebrations and take in its harbors proposals for a united front of all labor or but among the genuine revolutionary (Continued from Page 1)
the unemployed situation and then to reganizations on the issue of unemployment, workers. This is why the question of burg Cabmen strike, Aberle Mill strike in port to the bosses what they are told to and thereby plays into the hands of the Blumkin must be completely cleared up. Philadelphia, etc) are to be noted the de say.
socialists and labor fakers who are now tensive but militant struggles by the rank To divert attention from the situation stepping into the situation with their false Running Away from the Facts and file of the workers against the bosses. of mass unemployment, the repressive meaand betraying proposals.
What has the Bote Fahne to say about In view of the acuteness of the indus sures against the Left wing and Commun The Communist party has substituted the actuality of the facts? It brands the trial situation generally and mass unem ists are continued and intensified. In New a policy of mass meetings and demonstrainformation concerning the murder of ployment particularly and the rising dis York parents of children who attended the tions, coupled with gross exaggeration and Blumkin as an absolute fabrication which tress and discontent among the masses, March 6th unemployment demonstration self praise of its achievements, very much any fool could shatter. This looks like a bourgeois politians, and now also the so were sentenced to a day in jail for permitlike in the days of Lovestone, for a policy categoric denial and we would be entirely clalists and the of fakers, in New ting their children to solidarize with the of systematic education and organization ready to congratulate ourselves on the York, have been forced to take note of the unemployed. Young Pioneer has been of the unemployed, linked with the emfirm and categoric tone of the Rote Fahne; situation and to propose remedies. Theirs given the vicious sentence of five years in ployed and the organized and unorganized.
Indeed, the fact in itself appears so horriis the role of lightning rods to divert the the reformatory. Communist leaders of the It is this policy which makes of the March fying that the first reaction of every revodiscontent of the masses into harmless (to unemployed in New York appear 29th National Unemployment conference lutionary is to refuse to believe it, to deny the bosses and to the reformist and labor trial on April 11th on charges of felonin New York only a caricature of what it it and brand it as slander.
fakers) channels. These socialists and ious assault and provoking an unlawful should and could be. Preparations are inUnfortunately the denial, like the hysfakers have access to and contact with the assembly on March 6th. jury trial, deed rushed as the Daily Worker reports; terla, slander and evasions of the Daily bosges and governmental agencies, which which the defendants requested, was not but preparations which could have made Worker becomes far less categoric further permit them to gain publicity for their granted. The United States Department the gathering a really representative one on. And this is not arcil. ial. The Rote proposals. Without direct pressure from of Labor has approved the method of spyof delegates from various labor organFahne has reacted only on the 19th of Febthe Left wing and the Communists, they ing, blacklisting and brutality against the izations and all sections of labor have not Tuary, that is, about six weeks after the feel free to betray the interests of the workers.
been made. Thereby the March 29th con.
news had penetrated not only the bourgeois workers. The Emergency Conference on ference dooms itself to a talkfest.
and social democratic press but had been Repressives Acts Against Workers Don Unemployment, representing the Socialists It is still necessary that the Communist posed as a direct question in the press of Solve Unemployment Crisis and the A, of unions in New York has Party shall change its course if there is the Communist Opposition. Nevertheless, proposed, as one of its solutions to unBut these repressive measures cannot to be a mobilization of the widest possible after so categoric an introduction, the Rote employment, that the Police Department do away with the fact that American cap number of workers and organizations for Fahne imperceptibly replaces this in the. shåll conduct a census as to the numitalism is unable to solve the unemploy the relief of the unemployed We havo following lines with a statement that the ber of persons out of work. This is indeed ment problem, and that more and more stated this before and shall continue to do talsehood would consist in that Blumkin touching, it it were not tragic and disnumbers of workers are beginning to ques 80 until the sectarianism of the present had been shot only for having been a Trotgusting.
tion the benefits of capitalist society. party leadership is rooted out and done skyist, that mythical Blumkin.
The only possible solution of unemployment away with. The opportunity is yet here stealthy shift of emphasis would look like Socialists Propose Unemployment Censas and capitalism other ills lies in the strug for a broad united front movement for the a Journalistic precaution which divests its by Police gle for the abolition of capitalism and its unemployed.
denial of Its whole moral value. The Vien The reformists and labor takers are replacement by a government of the work The Communist Pary is letting golden na Stalinists newspaper leaves two doors willing to turn over the unemployed into ere. This is the important lesson that is opportunities slip by to reach and Hold open: for the categoric denial of the fact the gentle hands of the soft spoken Whalen. being taught by the Communists in the un large numbers of workers with the Comitself concerning the murder of Blumkin This game Police Department, under Whal employed situation. At the same time, the munist message on unemployment and for by Stalin, or for an admission of the fact en direction and by Mayor James Communiats propose as the only workable the cause of Communism, the only true itselt concerning the murder of Blumkin Walker, beats the unemployed, provokes immediate measures to relieve the acute salvation for the working masses. We by Stalin, or for an admission of the fact rlots at unemployed demonstrations, ac condition of unemployment: Work or com urge again: for the interests of the unembut literally on a day that has not yet been knowledges the use of spies among labor peration to be provided for by the bosses ployed; for the adequate defense of the decided upon.
organizations and use of the blacklist to and the government; a decrease in work arrested workers; for the struggle against Why has the Rote Fahno referred to deprive workers of their livelihood, is to ing hours to allow for more men to be capitalisma; for Communism the Party Blumkin 25 mythical. like the be 10 census taker of the unemployed! In employed; elimination of the speed up sys must change its course and unite, first Daily Worker Who is Blumkin. brief, by the approval of the socialists and tem that breeds unemployment, etc, of all, all Communist forces as a prelimand what is the meaning of this shanc labor fakers, the Police Department is to The official Communist tarty, unfor inary basis for a broad struggle against Cully cynical shift? Is it because the Rote be permitted to bully and spy and lie about tunately, still continues a policy that iso unemployment and capitalism.
Mass Unemployment Continues This