Saturday, April 5, 1930 THE MILITANT Page Relieve Unemployment Communist League to Print Important Books can make militant efforts on behalf of the Buffalo Unemployment Heavy tion by Zinoviev.
Tasks of the Communists To the Communists it should be plain that such an economic development, the (Continued from page 1)
The Party has failed to initiate broad wider Importation of machinery and agrimovement for the unemployed, to unlte all cultural equipment, would aid tremendously have wasted two hours listening to politiThe Communist League of America possible elements on this issue. By their the five year plan of the Soviet government (Opption) will begin the publication cal propaganda. From such as these the fallure to propose united front to the (howsoever crudely, mechanically and ar shortly of a series of books and documente Walkers, et al nothing can indeed be exsocialists, of and other elements bitrarlly this plan is being carried out by pected. It is for the workers to understand of the most extraordinary interest and imbeing Jerked into motion by rank and Ale the Stalinists. We do not here deal with and act in their den Interests.
portance to the working class and the ter.
pressure, the official Communist Party has the question, that naturally arises through Workers Begin to See Capitalism as Cause olutionary Communist movement in general, made and makes it easier for these social the growth of such a policy, international of Unemployment This material which represent some of the reformists and outspoken capitalist suppolitical and economic relations between It is no longer possible to get all the most important writings, speeches, these, porters to lead the unemployed movement the Soviet Union and the capitalist world workers to accept the situation as quietly etc. of the Russian Opposition, of Trotsky and its contradictions: such as the reducinto channels that betray the interests of as they have in the past.
Rakovsky, Zinoviev, Radek and others, has Greater numtion to absurdity of the theory of socialism the workers bers of them are becoming conscious of Not one real step has the never been published in the English lang.
Party taken to develop such a urited front in one country (Stalin Bucharin) and the uage.
the situation and tho causes behind mass They have been suppressed by the movement peculiar brand of National Socialism of the Stalin Bucharin factions.
uneraployment. They are beginning to recThe official Comyunist Party press is Right wing of the Western countries ognize that unemployment grows out of, Despite the fact that these documents filled with the arrests and persecution of (Brandler Lovestone) vor of all the other 18 nurtured by, increases, and cannot be were presented officially to the congress of workers throughout the coun contradictions which can be solved only in done away with under capitalism.
the Communist International, the Commun Thus who en gaged in activities in the unemployed movethe area of the international socialist they are driven to the consideration of ist Party of the Soviet Union and to various revolution.
ment, organizing the unorganized, etc. It These will be dealt with in ways and means for the abolition of capitalParty plenums, and represent the views is necessary to unite all possible forces other articles. ism.
and platform of the Opposition, they have for the defense of these arrested workers What we reiterate again in the sharpThe Senate Committee on Commerce lisnever seen the light of day. Among these est manner are: teni for hours upon hours and days upon and against the attempts of the bosses and books, the first of which will soon be out Revive the policy of the United days to capitalists or their representatives, the government frame them up and rallare: road them to prison. But the defense moveFront for a struggle in the interests of the The discusses business growth, tarif revision, Revolution Disligared by ment of the Communist Party, as expressed unemployed.
LD. Trotsky.
censorship of radical and scientific literathrough the International Labor Defense, Build a genuine mass movement of The Theory of the Permanent Rere ture, but they will not permit and will not refects in practice any proffers to ald the the unemployed.
listen to representatives of workers who olution by Trotsky. Organize a wide national defense have definite measures to put forward for defense of the arrested and pereecuted The Platforn of the Russian Oppo.
movement for the ait of the arrested and the alleviation of unemployment.
workers and continues a narrow line on sition (Bolshevik Leninists. This all fronts.
persecuted workers at the hands of the The Struggle for Peace and the was very clearly demonstrated when the ruling clase, Anglo Russian Committee by D. Trotsky, representatives of the Trade Union Unity Demand Communist Party Change Its The rank and file of the Communist The Declaration of the 590. This League were refused a bearing on the matIsolation Policy Party must demand of the leadership that a lengthy document addressed to the ter of unemployment. To listen to repre It is high time that the Communist it stop at once its sectarian and isolationist Political Bureau of the Communist Party of sentatives of the workers le not to the lik Party turns sharply away from this course policy and that it unite all Communist the Soviet Union by 500 of the leading Boling of the bosses; but soup lines remain that leads to further isolation and weakenforces to lead an effective struggle for the sheviks of the Russian Communist Party. meanwhile and the poverty of the masses ing of the prestige of the Communist move above demande. The Chinese Revolution and the incrones.
ment. Thesis of Comrade Stalin by Trotsky.
What a mockery the benefits of cap Such a broad united front movement The Thesis on the Chinese Revolu.
italiat society are to the working masses, is exhibited by the words of Dr. Julius Klein, unemployed for work or compensation, a assistant United States Secretary of Com8. The Defeat of the Chinese Rerolu.
shorter work day, lessening of the speedBUFFALO Again the workers of Tuftion by Karl Radek.
merce and a close co worker of President up, a campaign upon the United States falo have been promised pie by and by.
Hoover, who states: At least two thirds Letter of Three Conrades. Repgovernment for large scale and long time Meanwhile they will have to sate their resentatives of the Stalin faction in China)
of the population of the world live in credits to and recognition of the Soviet hunger with the more solid Seel of police countries where a considerable proportion presented in March 1927. powerful critgovernment by the United States governbillies. One doubts if the promise of bet.
of the people are underfed.
icism of the line of Stalin in the Chinese inent.
ter times that comes from the head of the Revolution.
Chamber of Commerce will enable the To Aid Unemployed, Demand Credits for it was to be expected, as we anticiworkers to extend their credit at the corner 10 Speches and Articles of Soviet Government pated, that the national unemployment Trotsky to the Sth Plenum of the Executive Union conference of the Trade Unity grocery. For the present they are perHoover strikes tup the band with a League, with a Committee of the Communist International mitted to starve.
narrow outlook, would roar of prosperity that is to come and on the Chinese Question.
prove chiefly a talkfest and hence will Buffalo is a highly industrial town and writes the score for programs of work, conditions are very bad. Norinally there 11, The Transformation of the Russian building and reconstruction.
leave its various slogans on behalf of the But all reProletariat and the Party as Created by the unemployed largely paper resolutions. It are about 8, 000 unemployed workers in the mains on the sheet. Nothing is said of the is time for the Party to call a halt to Proletarian Dictatorship by Ch. Rakovsky.
region. According to the figures of John utilisation of such actual sources as would 12. The Crisis of the Right Centrist Bloc such practices and conceptions. Johnston, secretary of the Buffalo Cenmake possible the employment of tens of Methods in the Unemployed Movement tral Labor Council, there are at present and the Perspectives by Trotsky.
thousands and even huurireds of thousands 18. On the New Stage by Trotsky.
On the burning issue of mass unem about 40, 000 unemployed in the city alone.
of American workers now out of a job. We Johnston bases his Agures primarily upon 14. The Crisis in the International by ployment, which will remain a central Trotsky.
refer here to the silence on the question reports of the skilled and semi skilled orof the extension of large scale and long time problem for capitalism and which the ganized in Copimunists must know how to utilize effecthe trade unions, so that the Speech of Comrade Yuyovitch to credits to the Union of Socialist Soviet Rethe 8th Plenum of the Executive Committee tively, the Left wing and Communists have to percentage of unemployment is actually publics.
higher.
present the issue concretely so that every Even Johnston figures would of the Communist International, This, on the one hand, would make worker can understand the partial program show one out of every four Buffalo workers 16. Sorry Document, by Trotsky possible the purchase of largo orders of maunemployed.
of the Communists for the relief of the un(On the Question of Capitulation. chinory for the industrialization of the So17. The Legend of Trotskyism.
The reports from the various charitviet Union, as well as modern agricultural employed. The appeals to the mass of the These books and documents, which able organizations testify to the miserable equipment for use on collective and Soviet unemployed and the employed cannot be based merely on the abstraction of solid conditions of the uorganized workers eshave already been translated from the Rys.
farns; and, on the other hand, it would sian, German and French, will all a number arity. big task is to reduce to the pecially. The municipal department of pubtherely make possible in return the greater of large volumes, form an inexhaustible minimum the friction between the em lic welfare is now giving aid to 3, 400 famexport from the Soviet Union of various reservoir for the student of revolutionary articles of consumption, such as, grain, butployed and the unemployed that natur ilies, three times the average number.
Marxism and Leninism. They will serve as ally grows out of the economic situation. When we recollect the case of the ter, meats, as well as those products which broad united front movement is imperyouth who was recently shot and killed a practical guide for the Communists in the Soviet Union now exports in large ative which has the possibilities in while taking a loat o bread, it is testithe working class struggles. They enrich quantities, such as oil, timber, etc. Why greatly the mony to the fact that tho so called charitlibrary of Marxist Leninist this failure of the Hoover government, with it to bring together more closely the omtheory and practice. All of these, as well as all its talk of prosperity building, to utilize ployed and unemployed, the organized and able organizations do everything to disunorganized in the country, and which can courage and humillate the workers who others now being translated, will be pubthe possibility to aid materially the AmerIished with systematic regularity through also be the means of sorving to cement the come to them for ald. Large numbers bave, ican workers through the medium of largethe militant at popular prices which will alliance of workers in all lands. The econnevertheless, asked, but only to be denied scale trade with and credit extensions to enable every worker to purchase them. The omic and political reasons speak loudly for ald.
the Soviet government?
The hokum of Increased building confirst of these to be printed will be The The material interests of both the such a policy.
Revolution Distigured.
It is therefore, for this reason, among struction is also being handed out in this American workers and the Soviet workers city.
others, that we regard it necessary for Average unemployed among the are affected by this question. Obviously, the Communists to conduct a campaign building trades at this time of the year is FROM SOUTIERN WORKER too, the material and political relations befor and to make demands upon the Hoover less than 40. The report of secretary Richmond, Va.
tween the Soviet workers and the Amerigovernment for the establishment of broad Johnston itself indicates that 53 of the Dear Fellow Workers: can masses would be enhanced and a better and long time credits to the Soviet workers in the building industry are out rode in a street car and found a copy understar. ding gained by the establishment Union by the United States. This should, of work. Over 15, 000 workers stormed the of the Militant on a scat, must say that of diplomatic relations between the two in fact, be a central slogan of the Commu city employment office one Friday for snow everything you say is certainly so with us countries, namely, the recognition of the nists in all countries. It is possible to shovelling work, About 1000 were hired working people.
Soviet Union by the United States.
demonstrate to the American workers the for the short time nceded. class consci ve been a former but have It should be plain to every worker that simple material needs that link them close ous labor movement yet needs to develop.
dropped out. wonder if you would send the establishment of big and planned econly with the needs of the Soviet masses. me a copy of the Real Situation in Russia omic exchange between the Soviet Union The refusal of the Hoover government, in SPARTANDURG, bill to curb which you advertise, by the great revoluon the one hand and the United States on the face of mass unemployment in the United stretchout by prohibiting operation of more tionary leader, Leon Trotsky. m interested the other, could help in a good measure States, to recognize the Soviet Union and than 48 looms in South Carolina by one in happenings in Russia and want the the amelioration of the economic situation thereby to facilitate vast economic rela textile worker has been unfavorably re true facts and m sure that book will give of the masses of the unemployed in Amertions between the two countries, more than ported to the state legislature by its com me all the necessary information.
1ca, though it cannot of course solve the ever makes this a national political issue, mittee on commerce and manufacturing. ve been out of work for the last five question bf unemployment under capitalism, The Communists must make it clear that months, and haven a penny to my name, Unite Forces on Behalf of Jobless the development of economic relations on NEW BEDFORD, Mass. New Bedford and therefore would appreciate it if you We have referred time and again to the a larger scale botween the two countries textile mills are operating at only 55 of could send me the Militant free, and some narrow, sectarian policy that has been fol also increases many time the opportunity capacity, with 25, 000 looms idle out of a back copies will also be One couldn lowod by the official Columunist Party in to strengthen the sympathy of the American total of 65, 000. hits is a high for in buy a job here. We need the kind of the movement on behalf of tbe unemployed. working class toward the Soviet Union, ogtlyits in this textile conter unions you are fighting for.