Saturday, March 29, 1930 THE MILITANT Page Unifying the Left Opposition The MILITAN We believe, has fulfilled a vital role in the best interests of the working class and Communist movement in the United States.
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We ask and count upon your INJUNCTION JUDGE HALTS UNION TAXI SERVICE PITSBURG (FP. Union taxi service has been halted on Pittsburg streets by Judge Josiah Cohn, defender of judicial tyrThe Militant, in the issue of February etc. This split took place before the eyes anny during the 1919 steel strike. Al15th raised the question of the unification of the international Opposition as an out though the service, initiated by the striking of the Left Opposition. In an article by growth of a close ideological struggle which cab drivers, was on a voluntary contribMartin Abern entitled, For an Interna assumed, to a certain extent, an interna ution basis, the judge ruled it contravened tional Conference of the Left the Need for tional character. The magnitude of the state public service commission rules and Organizing the World Opposition. a num differences was confirmed by experience, granted a temporary injunction, ber of concrete proposals were set forth and the two parties have drawn the nec Back of the court order is Parmalee to make possible such an international con essary consequences for themselves. It is Transportation Co. which according to the ference and unification. Simultaneously, clear that an international conference state public service commission, has monLa Verite, organ of the French Opposition, which wishes to slight similar matters in opoly privileges for operating Pittsburg taxi brought forward a number of proposals the name of unity will be still born. service. The firm is making another etfort with a similar objective. The Russian Bul. The political Marxist in one country to operate a small fleet of cabs on downletin of the Opposition, official organ of the is as impossible as the construction of a town streets. Loud prophecies by the scab Russian Opposition (Bolshevik Leninists. socialist society in one country. Any firm that its old drivers would return in responded to the initiative of La Verite. group which attempts to develop a political flocks to operate the scab cabs have been The Militant is in accord with these prop line confined to national questions is inevgiven the Ife. Not a single unionist has ositions which sets the Left Opposition on Itably doomed to sectarian degeneracy.
been discovered operating Parmalee taxis.
the path of international organization and That is why we do not doubt that none of unification on a common principle basis. the truly revolutionary groups will remain We reprint below the reply of the Russian aloof, but will adopt a clearcut position on PITTSBURG Forty percent of PittsBulletin of the Opposition to La Yerite. all the controversial questions and will burg building trades workers are unemsustain the initiative of La Verite in the preparations of an International Conferployed according to Chairman Rust The French Left Opposition which is of the Building Trades Conncil.
ence.
grouped around La Verite has at the insistence of a number of organizations in other It is extremely desirable that the first countries, taken the first step towards the Qumber of the Bulletin, whose publication international unification of the Left Comcan perhaps be assigned to La Verite, until Attention, Boston!
munist Opposition.
the secretariat is formed, appear as soon THE STRUGGLE IN THE The proposals stated in issue 24 can as possible and that it contain the opinions of all the European Opposition groups, at mass meeting on the subject, The be summarized as follows: Struggle in the will be held on It is necessary seriously to beleast on the question of the conference.
Tuesday, April 1st, 1930, 7:30 at the The replies from America, Asia, etc. can gin to prepare an international confer.
Hebrew Institute Center, 140 Shirley Ave, ence of the Left Opposition.
be published in the following number of the international Bulletin. That would be Revere, Mass. Among the speakers are: With that end in view, it is prl.
Antoinette Konikow, Schlosberg, marlly necessary to create an interna.
an important beginning. The Editorial Board of the Russian Dubin. Admission is free. The meeting is tional information bulletin.
Bulletin of the Opposition arranged by the Boston Branch, Communist The editorship of this bulletin League of America (Opposition. must rest in a secretariat especially (Bolshevik Leninists)
created for this purpose. Such a program may appear as too moBUILDING TRADES DROP IN MASS.
dest and prudent. We can certainly start BOSTON Employment of Massachuby the creation of an international llason setts building trades workers dropped bureau, to which would be joined the sec(Continued from page 1)
between January and February, according retariat which edits the bulletin. We do vail among the sugar plantation workers.
not believe this question to be decisive. Formerly assured six months work, they to the state labor department. Employment is 85 of the 1928 level.
of primary importance is to start.
are now lucky to get in three or four An International Organ months. During the busy season, however, We can start with the secretariat and there is plenty of hard work 12 hours a the bulletin for the purpose of creating, day worked six hours on and six hours off. BUFFALO CHARITY OUTLAY CLIMBS in conformity with the reactions of the dil For this Cuban sugar plantation workers STEADILY ferent national organizations, a regular ndw get 40 cents a day, contrasted with 60 BUFFALO, FP. The Departbureau for preparing for the conference. cents in 1928 and a figure of 00 in 1919. ment of Social Welfare in presenting its For this reason we support the proposal Sixty percent of the American capital of annual report to the city council, states of La Verite, inasmuch as there can be no 1, 250, 000, 000 invested is in sugar, Amer that a scrutiny of comparative statements difference of opinion on the first step. ican sugar companies intensify the chronic contained in this report will show that The editorial board of the Russian Bul unemployment on the island by importing that department has been called on to proletin, which is in permanent connection Negro laborers under slave terms from vide the necessities of lite to a much greater with the comrades in struggle in the Union Haiti and San Domingo. Thes are kept number of families than in previous years.
of Socialist Soviet Republics, do not doubt in semi slavery compounds, guarded by The report continues: One of the prinfor an instant that the more energetic and troops and denied every civil liberty. The cipal causes for unemployment of both decisive is the initiative of the French sugar workers union was broken by Ma skilled and unskilled workers, is due to comrades in this question, the warmer will chado through force of arms in 1925. The the increased use of machinery in place of be the support of the Russian Opposition. President of the union, Enrique Varona hand labor.
The preparation of the conference is was assassinated, as well as other union In 1927, in 28 cities of the United not purely an organizational step: it is pri officials. The union has since functioned States representing a population of 22, 000, marilly a political and theoretical task underground, and there have been several 000, 100, 000 families or approximately 500, 000 which may require several months.
spontaneous strikes.
people applied to private charitable organIt is not a question of a mechanical Wall Street Continues Cuban Penetration izations for relief, e. food, payment of gathering of groups, even of small diver In addition to the National City Bank rent, clothing, etc. And conditions are gent groups, but of the unification of the of New York which has dominated Machado, much worse in Buffalo now than in 1927.
international fraction whose inner homo the Chase National Bank of New York and geneity is verifed in theory as well as in the Cuban government has been negotiating SHOPMEN WORK FIVE DAYS TO AVERT practice.
for a loan of 80, 000, 000 to the latter at LAYOFFS La Verite is right in stating that the interest for a term of years. 40, 000, 000 CLINTON, Ia. FP. To prevent pages of the Bulletin must be, within the of the amount would be used by the bank partial layot the shopmen at the Northframe of material and technical possibilities, to liquidate bonds which it already has on western Comanche Ave. Clinton shops open to all groups who adhere to the Left hand from contractors, Warren Brothers of have voted to take a day week for everyCommunist Opposition. The Bulletin is an Boston and the Cuban Construction com body. The railroad is mum on the reason Instrument (one of the instruments) in pany for work already completed on the for the present blackness, evidently fearpreparing for the conference. For its unl central highway. The other 40, 000, 00 was ing to put a dia in Hoover prosperity fication, the Opposition must proceed on a expected be used to increase activities balloon.
democratic course. This means that every in a program of public works. It is not Oppositionist must have the opportunity yet reported whether this contract which to be informed and to learn, with the aid gives American capitalism another strangleФ of the Bulletin, about the ideas and actions hold. on Cuba, has been signed, though it Due to technical mishaps, an article on of the other Left Opposition groups in was expected to be done sometime in Feb the coal mining situation does not appear order conscientiously and firmly to decide ruary.
in this issue, but will appear in a subseto whor. he can rally. In other words, the The Government at Washington has not quent number.
Bulletin must serve as an instrument for yet directly entered into the situation unification on a clearcut principal basis, arising out of the severe economic depresUnity upon Principle Agreement sion in Cuba and now culminating in the If the number on your wrapper is The German experiences of the last one day general strike. Naturally, it is year are of exceptional Importance to us in satisfied with Macrado who carries out determining the course and perspective for their policy of economic and political enthe international unification of the Oppo slavement of the Cuban masses. The worksition, The policies of the Urbahns frac ers and peasants of Cuba, however, evithen your subscription to the Militant has tions have led to a split with the comrades dence that they are ready to struggle milexpired. Renew immediately in order to who solidarize with the views of the Rus. itantly against the oppression of Wall Street avoid missing any issues.
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38 SPORTWEAR WORKERS WIN STRIKE NEW YORK (FP) Workers of the Vanity Sportwear knitting mill in New York have won a strike against the discharge of three leading unionists, members of the Nati. Textile Workers Union.
After one days picketing, the strikers won the reinstatement of their fellow workers and a wage increase for two crafts. Previously a Negro porter had his hours reduced from 54 to 44 a week, due to efforts.