Saturday, March 29, 1930 THE MILITANT Page Throughout the World of Labor Conditions of the German selves representatives of the workers. In The Labor Movement whites has for some time shown signs of relaxing. It has been found that measures Workers and the Communists Right of even some bourgeois liberals, like In South Africa their zeal for betrayal they are far to the such as these do not stem the advancing tide of the cheap native worker. EuroBerlin the well known economist, Prof. Bernhard, peans wage standards were definitely enThe past few weeks have evidenced who sees a solution to the capitalists (The following excerpts of a letter take dangered when by a court decision, the new surges in the unemployment wave.
troubles in price sinking in the domestic up questions that are yet in the process of color bar in the gold mining industry, which market, in place of what he calls wastetul discussion and decision in the Communist Each month adds at least 40, 000 new recdebarred natives from skilled occupations, dumping on the foreign market. The ruits to the army of the jobless. But the League of America. No doubt its contents was declared ultra vires the constitution work is still in the stage of ascent and has main things for them are the government will prove of interest to our readers, be and upset. The European workers then posts and their salaries. For the sake of sides giving further evidence that the up lent readier ear to the message of the not at all reached its high point as yet.
these, everything else will be surrendered. position is making its way into every secNo one has any illusions about this. Quite Communist Party, bidding them assist, it Amsterdam and the have moved the contrary: tion of the world. Ed. for no bigher motive than self interest, the The statistical publication of the Inso far in the direction of Mathew Woll, native to secure higher wages and thus that it becomes really difficult to find the stitat for Konjunkturforschlaug reckons Johannesburg eliminate competition based on differing least distinction between them. Each de The Militant with an enormous growth of unemploywage standards. The legal color bar havlivers the goods to the national bogses. was indeed glad to get your letter of ing gone by the board it was natural that ment in the spring, dne to the matriculaEach according to the local needs.
tion and introduction into industry of about the 18th. January, and more particularly the rest should follow. The Communist The Attacks on the Workers Organizations half a million young workers, apprentices.
the copies of tbe Mliftant.
slogan: Workers of all lands, Unite!
Naturally, the economic offensive of the It will also interest you to know that This is aside from the regular conjunctural found a more ready response among the It adds: that in Increases (seasonal, etc. bosses is only the axis of an offensive was member of the Communist Party whites. Some trade unions went the length order to keep unemployment from becoming all along the line. While the unemployed (South African section of the Communist of admitting non Europeans to membership.
menaceingly critical, Germany would have are being robbed of their last support, the International) of which was a foundation The Comintern Polley to increase its exports at the present rate bourgeoisie are feverishly arming the sol member. The section was formed in 1921, Then came the Comintern new sloof 100 million Reichsmarks per month. diers of civil war, the police. The state and for many years prior to that was an gan for South Africa: An Independent Which looks quite impossible at present. budget cannot ineet its slightest obliga active member and official of the Industrial Native Republic, with autonomy for racial Another issue of the same periodical tions to the starving, but it can and does Socialist League which afterwards became minorities. The Europeans naturally reports a semi monthly decrease of. proportion enormous sums for the equip the Cape Town branch of the Communist asked: Why a Native republic? Why not in the consumption of nourishing foods ment of churohes and for every other Party. In the Communist Party held at a Workers and Peasants Republic. why among the working class population. When means of strangling the working class. various times the respective positions of is the white working clasy (a not insignifiwe keep in mind the recent fall of prices in But the hungry masses can and won let Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Acting cant part of the proletariat) contemptuouseggs, milk, butter, meat, colonial wares themselves be intimidated by the black Editor of the party organ, whilst for ser ly left out of the programme and relegated (cocoa, etc. and in food products in general, Jacks of the police, by lead balls, or by eral years in succession was a member to a definite position of inferiority? To we can realize the importance of even such horses hoofs. There is a limit to silent of the Central Executive. In addition was these plain questions there has been no a harmless figure to its full extent. suffering.
for many years secretary of a large trade answer forthcoming. Within the Unemployment, and the reduction of union (Witwatersrand Tailors Association) these have been the effects of the new polThe bosses and their social democratic maintenance for the unemployed (Hilferand treasurer and executive member of the icy: police sergeants think that by slandering South African Trade Union Congress (an ding only, prepared the ground for a steady the Soviet Union, that by jailing the editors Racial animosity on the part of the procedure towards the liquidatiou of the of the militant labor press, that by disexclusively European body, excluding na native members towards the European tive workers from membership) which posts maintenance) in direct proportion to each solving the proletarian defense organizamembers has grown and is developing to other and Inversely with food consumption. relinquished over two years ago.
tions and by driving the leader of the an almost incredible degree, the native Three million unemployed with their famThe cause which led to the severance working class, the Communist Party, undermemberg logically the slogan llies this means: nine million beings on of my connection with the Communist ground, they will stifle the angry protest starvation rations. This means the most Party Mias the newly adopted policy of as implying superiority for themselves over of the hungry nine millions. They will be the hated oppressor (whlte Communists are gruesome misery for one seventh of the An Independent Native Republic, with ausadly disappointed.
included here) and population, a fate that awaits millions more tonomy for national minorities (meaning The party, overpowered and made in the whites mainly) was one to which 2. Wholesale desertion of the white in the period to come.
potent by its hazardous course of empty proletarian members who would not subBourgeoisle on the Ofensive was unable to subscribe. In the circumphrases, is struggling to disentangle itselt stances it seemed to me to be a gross scribe to the abandonment of the Marxian So intrenched has the ruling class befrom the self imposed shackles. It is havslogan Workers of all lands, unite! and departure from the principles of Marxism come with the ald of their reformist lackIng a very hard time. It has lost many posi and Leninism.
Its substitution by a black (native) chauLet me glve you a briet eys, that st has resolved to discard tions in the trade unions; a rebellion has outline of the position in South Africa.
vinism. Comrade Bunting, who atthem completely from their employ in pol spread among its own functionaries.
tended the last world congress in Moscow The Working Class in South Africa itics and to subjugate them completely in The Opportunism of the Brandlerites was contempuously dubbed a Social Demthelr service as trade union agente. The Our working class is divided on racial Now that the militant spirit of solidarscrat when he said that the white workers bourgeoisie are out for the whole booty.
lincs Europeans and non Europeans. The ity has really impregnated a broad layer In South Africa must be taken into account In a recent number of its official organ, of workers and unemployed, with and with hostility of each of these sections towards in the framing of the programme. These the other has been born of their relative the Arbeitgeber, it demands of the DG.
out the aid of the Party, the Brandleriets same comrades, Bunting and Roux, leaders, halt in threat, half in entreaty, positions of superiority and inferiority in are very reticent with positive proposals voted for Trotsky expulsion from the full subordination. It demands that the for action, of which they usually have every sphere. This hostility has been agComintern against their own convictions on reformist bureaucracy surrender the Amertheir mouths full. The 6th of March they gravated by discriminatory laws and more the matter. ican theory that high wages bring pros don consider worth noticing. Instead of particularly by the action of the Europeans The above have been the effects within perity. it demands of them (who have making any move for a united front (dein maintaining a rigid color bar. Most of the Party of the new policy. Translate the natives are disenfranchised, they are shown such concern for the recuperation sired or not) with the Party, to exploit the this to the wider field of the whole work of German industry, for the promotion favorable situation for immediate action, made to carry passes (licenses to be ing class movement and it will be seen that Abroad. are subjected to gross it treatof the national export trade, etc. the programists, the apostles of mass the Party is now completely isolated from promise not to ask for a wage increase work. are concentrating all their attenment and brutality. The native who atthe whito section of the proletariat the tains high educational standards is no when most of the wage agreements in the tion to win the trade union rebels of the most advanced, the most intelligent, the metal and textile industries terminate (in Party for their factional platform. Their less contemptuously treated on that acmost class conscious, whilst the old racia the spring and fall of this year. Because. emergency program 18 an opportunist count. Europeans refuse to work with naantagonism has revived in active form tives on certain (skilled or semi skilled)
they entreat: all the benefits that you and piece of work. It appeals for a broad proMany native workers have been won by the jobs and they debar them from entering we, in our concentrated efforts to unburletarian defensive struggle, for immediate new policy, but at the price of the relin their trade unions (the natives have now den industry by recoiling from all men demands for relief and unburdening of the quishment of Marxism and the adoption o tion of industrial increases, by stuffing trade commenced organising their own masses. Very good. But it does not point petty bourgeois slogans.
the. Young plan obligations upon the unions. out a single gulding principle, by which the It seems to me that the Marxist Lenin broad shoulders of the proletariat be social democratic, Catholic workers can The white population of the Union of 1st structure of the Comintern has beer cause, all this noble work which we have find their way after the experiences of South Africa is approximately 3 mil dangerously undermined, its fundamenta accomplished for the national weal will the impending struggles, Sr. to the red front lions; the native approximately millions principles thrown overboard. For freedon be spoiled by such a demand.
of the proletarian revolution, into the ranks The majority of the native workers are ag of discussion in the Party ranks has bee of the Communiste.
ricultural laborers, whilst those whom the Social Democrats Continue to Sell Out substituted so called discipline which ro development of industry has driven to the Workers quires as the only virtues in a communis The Need For Clear Left Communist towns are engaged in unskilled occupa ability to speak heatedly of the errors o And they hold up the shining example Opposition tions. The key positions in industry, com Trotskylam and preparedness to sacrifice of sacrifice that Bill Green and the other The Communist Party is in agony, The merce and communications are held by good comrades to the fetish of the thira darlings of the American bourgeoisie made leaders are helplees. hey have shown white workers. On the average natives period. Healthy inner Party criticism 1: for the common good. when these themselves as pitifully incompetent as wages are about one quarter of what the dead (Shades of Lenin. Loyalty to Stalin of fakers, in the now famous. conference theoreticians and, consequently, as organ whites earn. Needless to remark, the com and Co. is the supremem virtue.
with Hoover and the bosses, promised not Izers. strong left opposition, clear in paratively high wages of the whites in the There are adherents of the Opposition to annoy the latter with similar demande principles, homogeneous in its own ranks, town are possible because of the very low in this country. But we are all scattered in the period of national crisis.
equipped with a real bolshevik platform wage standards of the native workers a We are, nevertheless, much interested The reformists will capitulate here and an unequivocal attitude toward the parrallel position with that of British and in what is going on in othe too according to precedent. For the ulti role of the Party, could fill a burning need Indian workers before the war. Capitalism countries and welcome the receipt e raate good of their economic philosophy 18 in Germany at present. The masses are uses the bribe of high wages to retain the your paper and will be glad to hear fron the accumulation of capital for the pro ready to begin the struggle, which is to loyalty of the whites who can in the cir you from time to time.
motion of the export trade and the capital mold them into a solid phalanx against cumstances be relied upon to police the With comradely good wishes, ist import. No sacrifice, no working class the tottering capitalist order, mase of discontented under paid natives Fraternally yours, sacrifice. is too great for those reptiles March 200 GORDON The artificial color bar raised by the FRANK GIA