THE MILITANT Saturday, March 29, 1934 Po Independent Workmen Circle Confronted by a Split NAVAL PARLEY SINKING An Open Letter to Leninbund Members elected and everything seemed to be Again Split Polley But the Party could not get control of the SO something had to be done.
Suddenly a new order was given to the Stalinist supporters to take the new executive comroittee into court. So Zaltsman The life of the Naval conference has The Co. believe in the injuncition!
not yet been pronounced officially extinct, About 23 years ago the Independent there were the capitalist city mayor, the but it is already beyond the power of huWorkmen Circle was organized as a fraorder was obeyed and the Frethelt started police marsbal, and the alderman of that man aid. Only a miracle can save it. All ternal organization in opposition to the ward. Also the delegate of Branch 29, a new publicity, attacking the that optimists confidently predicted for it Workmen Circle. The Forward and the from one side, and from the other side Berg, elected as a Right winger and who it called for a conference for March 30, has come to nothing, and even more reasonW. are controlled by the same machine. had instructions to vote with the Imparable hopes of those who had weighed careNaturally the Forward all the time bitterly tial delegates voted with the Left, to Zalts with the aim to split and organize a new fraternal organization, fully the dilliculties against the opportunattacked or ignored the Their man Jubilation. Berg apologizes now for It seems that the united front is a ities are vanishing into thin air. In this action made the rank and Ale of the his action and also condemns the Left wing manner the London Times bemoans the colmere phrase of the Party.
condemn the Forward and the At the Chicago convention the resolu It is comical that the Freiheit is trying lapse of the conference. It is only a que3When the Left wing split away from tion on the industrial unions was the main to make one believe that the conference is tion of time now, when the closing chapters the Socialist party in 1919, the branches of one. Looking over the referendum results called to discuss the methods of the IW. on this peace farce will be written.
the Independent Workmen Circle began which were printed in the January issue At the same time they have already decided The delegates spend the week ends in to sympathize with the Left wing. The of Das Naye Wort, one can see Zaltzman to split tho Let it be known that jaunts to the countryside, playing golt, at.
branches supported the Communist Party artificial 45 delegates. Here is the re the Party gave an order to the few small tending tea partica, and making merry of morally and financlally.
sult of the referendum vote in a few of branches which are under their control, their trip. All of them awatt officially the Practically at every convention of the Zaltsman branches: not to pay dues to the national offico of announcement of the close. Attempts at a Left wing resolutions were accepfive power treaty are already abandoned.
the So some of the branches are ted. At the Philadelphia convention held No. of For Industrial Against suspended.
Now the direction is toward the signing of ta 1927 the Left wing resolutions were ac Branch union resolution Did the Party tell the members the a three power agreement between the copted.
At that convention resolution United States, Great Britain and Japan. 15 consequences of such a policy? It seems 20 was also Rocepted to raise 18, 000 to colon19 The impossibility to arrive at an agreement 13 that the new order will not work, because 14 tze 50 Jewish families in Soviet Russia.
50 between France and Italy, the refugal of 20 the membership of the and also 47 The membership of the is not at Britain, Japan and the United States to 108 all as Zaltsman and Olgin describe them 10 the new members will not follow any more 14 agree to the French demand of a 725, 000 124 14 16 their splitting policy. The Party action in the Frelbelt.
131 tonnage ration, and their insistence upon 43 breaks again the Left wing movement in From the Philadelphia convention till the and it also reacts badly on the a reduction of the proposals of Italy and the Chicago convention which was held at After the Boston convention, held Jan movement in general.
France, spelled the death of the negotiathe end of May, 1929, 23, 000 was raised for uary 12, 1930, a new national executive was tions some weeks ago. SCHLOSBERG the Left wing movement. This money Possiblities for Continuation Slim went through the general office, except that As matters stand now France will branches sent their donations directly to neither agree to reduction nor parity with the Left wing movement, Italy. Italy insists on parity with France.
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tion the characteristic traits of governmenThe other three continue to demand a de With the above mentioned facts you ment with any of the existing Russian tal centrism, at the same time appearing The official French delegates have returned crease in the ratios of France and Italy.
can see that it was not necessary for the groups, is by this very fact obligated to to say, We want nothing from these, or Party to come to the Chicago convention create a new Russian group which will lay those.
to France, and only representatives remain and make a pogrom there. What happened down a correct political line in the Soviet so that it cannot be said that France reIn other words, they exchange the ideoin Chicago? The Party forced the dele Union. Otherwise, there would remain nological criterion, the class criterion, for mained absent from the conference.
gates to accept resolutions which would be thing for this group except to declare its a national criterion. This most often hides three power arrangement, too, will suitable only to a Party convention. The neutrality towards the October Revolution, the petty ambitions of a small circle of in.
meet the same difficulties as the conferleaders forgot that the is not the The same can be said in connection with tellectuals who defend their precious auence proper. This is already indicated in Communist Party, any country. Communism must be internathe position of Japan, who states that in tonomy from the dangers which threaten This impractical action brought an ab.
tional or it is not communism.
It on the part of the Russian Opposition.
the event of a three power treaty the solute defeat for the Party. The resolution But the bureau of the Leninbund?
question of parity ratios would have to be It is not seldom that to this is simply added that the industrial unions organized by the What is its stand on this question? Is it chauvinist cowardice. It is thus that withreopened, since their temporary discussions with England and the United States were Party were the only bona fide unions could in agreement with any Russian group? Of in our ranks ideas and tendencies of the surely not be accepted. The Party should course it is not a question here of mechanon the basis of a five power treaty.
Second International are introduced. It fcal homogeneity but of agreement on funknow that members of the also a reconsideration means that Japan will is clear that we can but fight implacably damental questions.
belong to the of and declined this we know noagainst such smuggling.
stand by her original position of a 70 perGerefore to be stamped as scabs, etc. Also thing. Obviously, as far as Urbahns is cent ration of the United States and Engthe resolution to recognize the Freiheit concerned, this is a secondary question, Choice Must Be Made land. But a three power treaty will result and Daily Worker as the only revolutionary as are all questions relating to the internein only increasing the unsolvable contraWe do not defend the idea of democracy in tional movement.
press is likewise incorrect.
dictions of the imperialists. It will only The Urbahns faction, in expelling from general, but that of centralized democracy; intensify the differences.
After the Party defeat they started Its ranks the adherents of the International that is just the reason why we rank national McDonald finds himself in a sorry mess, with their old method of slander and disOpposition, is prepared at the same time leadership above local leadership, interna It must be recalled that one of the main crimination against every one who does to ally itself on the international arena tional leadership above national leadership. planks of his administration was precisely not agree with them. Zaltsman is trying with any left group on condition that it The revolutionary party has nothing in on the question of disarmament. With to tell us that this a Right wingers fight is not prevented from pursuing its national common with discussion clubs, where his cabinet already in a bad way over their against the Left wingers, but there is as everyone comes as though to a cafe (this complete failure to solve any of the probmuch truth in it as their yellow slander Foreseeing their national bankruptcy is Souvarine big idea. The Party is an lems of the British working class, and his that comrade Trotsky is for a Tsar. in organization for action. The unity of Par.
in their struggle against La Verite, the alfurther difficulties with the opposition parthe Soviet Union. The Freiheit daily atlies of Urbahns Treint and Paz dream of ty ideas is assured through democratic ties, the failure of the conference will have tacks the leaders of the and channes; however, the line of demarca a disastrous effect on him politically. He tries to discredit them where only yester creating a united international which will be open to everybody: those who are for tion defining the limits, enclosing the is making desperate gestures to save the day they were praised by the Freiheit.
Chiang Kai Shek; those who are for the frameworks of the Party concepts, should conference and all of them have fallen to The membership has learned better than Soviet Republic; those who are endeavoring be traced quite distinctly. All the more the ground.
to believe the Freiheit. After the Freiheit 60 since it is a fractional question only.
to save the autonomy of the industrial Pre Conierence Situation Remains mobilized all its champions, they went It must not be forgotten that we are not a The conference has brought into the all over the country and brought chaos unions; those who struggle for the influence of Communism in the trade unions; those Party, but a fraction that is to say, that open the tremendous contradictions of the in the who are for a united front with the Right we are the elite of adherents animated by powers. The complete failure of the negThe Leit Wing Branches against the official party, and those who the same idea which binds us together otiations while disappointing the pacifists, With slanders every day in the Freiheit, call for a united front with the official party strongly, and which causes us always to Is illuminating in that it gives an excellent the Percy could not succeed to bring more against the Right wing groups. The prokeep our ranks unbroken in order to be able picture to the mass of workers as to the than 43 delegates to the Boston convention gram of this motley crew is put forward to influence the Party and other working real intent of such conferences. Behind and the most of these were fake delegates, under the slogan of party democracy. OL class organizations. It would be monstrous the mask of peaceful intentions the The impartial delegates or loyal all things, can one imagine a more bitter and quite foolish to demand from the Op wolves howl and snarl at one another.
branches were represented with fifty two irony directed against party democracy?
position that it become a melting pot for They threaten and demand. The situation delegates. Zalteman tries to call We must say openly that, under the the ensemble of national groups and small however remains before.
The burden his delegates class conscious. Let us guise of struggling against the bureaucgroups composed of all sorts of the dis of armaments continues on the shoulder satisfied, the offended and the look over his class conscious delegates. racy of the Third International, strenuous kickers of the working masses of the entire world.
Branch 50 as a Communist branch. efforts are made to slip in tendencies and who do not know their own desires.
It is increasing every day. Its solution passed a rosolution that was printed in actions suited to the Second International. No, we represent a current of ideas, we is in the hands of the proletariat.
October, 1929 in Das Naye Wort (officio! And yet, the bureau of the Communist in raise our structures on ground made of organ of the Here is the reso ternational did not fall from the sky: It certain principles and certain well estabganization. Each member of the Leninlution: At our meeting which was held arose from certain definite class causes. lished traditions. It, under these condibund should understand that as soon as the Zeptember 12, 1929, it has been decided It is the fact that the Communist Inter. tlons, the adherents of the International spilt of the Leninbund becomes a fact, the o condemn the Freiheit for her anti semite national finds itself completely dependent Opposition cannot find a place in the LeninLeninbund will immediately be transformed actics that it used toward the Palestine on a state power which in turn depends on bund, it is akin to the Leninbund decinto an Urbabnsbund, e. will immedipogrcm; it was also unanimously decided the international class struggle. Theoret. Iaration that it itselt does not desire a ately be transformed into a small national to tax every member a dollar for the Jews ically, this finds expression in the contra place in the ranks of the international opIn Palestine. And this is a Communist diction which exists between the theory of sect, of no importance, without a future, position. clear cut accounting must be without any prospects.
branch according to Zaltsman interpret socialism in one country and the elemen nade.
Thic means: choice must be made ation.
tary bases for the existence of the Com You see, comrades, that these questions But for a true revolutionary, it is not ditEranch of Erockton is also a real munist Internation.
Are incomparably more important than the ficult to choose.
Bolsbevik branch. Branch bought a build There are some national Communists trifles and nonsense on which Urbahns With Communist Greetings, ing for an lyceum. banquest was who believe themselves to be Left Commun is at the moment basing his prosecutions. TROTSKY arrangel and among the honorable guests ists, who attribute to the Russian Opposi The question involves the fate of your or Constantinople, February 6th. 1930.
Such policy.