Argo THE MILITANT Saturday, April 26, 1930 LETTERS FROM THE MILITANTS THE NOOSE OX THE NEW LINE shevik Opposition? On the contrary, he Now that the International Left has sition where he may in any way have any PHILADELPHIA, Pa. was a loyalist of the loyalists, against formed a Provisional International Secre influence. After two years of careful Dear Comrades: whom not a breath of suspicion had been tariat, think that more attention should combing, persuading and expelling, we are That the sounding of a personal opin directed. Even allowing for this insane be given to the Negro question and the told that for April 26, 1930 a convention has ion within earshot of the caricature Com Third Period ideology, under which no special organizational needs and problems been called in New York City. Led by munist Party of the has become, class war prisoner with political beliefs dealt with. The Opposition must recruit those deep sea seamen, Mink, Sparks, the running foul of the Stalinist corkscrew as many Negro workers and radical stuto the American agents of the Stalinist doughtly Hines there is to te launched bureaucracy, a bugle call for loosing the line can expect aught but contumely from dents as possible into its ranks; wage a real revolutionary marine union under the terror upon the dissident voice, is surely the bureaucrats; even supposing that Eng determined fight against white chauvinism sponsorship of and pre arranged by the no longer news. Nor does the unanswer dahl and his fellow Jumping Jacks fight both inside and outside the Communist Of course, it is understood that able charge. levelled against the third the capitalist courts only on behalt of yes movement.
none of the disrupters. such as the Rusperiod Bolsheviks, Forter, Minor, Browder yapping Party automatons, the InternaThe Negro future liberty and sal sells, McDonalds and many others will be and Co. of having delivered the death tional Labor Defense was in duty bound there.
vation are inextricably bound up with inblow to the International Labor Defense as to put up a struggle for comrade Dunn.
ternational Communism and its inevitable Unite. All Militants to Build Seamen Union broad, non partisan workers organiza It falled ignominiously.
victory over world capitalism.
There is serious need of a real worktion any longer retain the ring of novLet it go record that the Trotsky.
J, ing class approach to the problem of the marine industry. There is no basi. inelty eating Herbert Benjamin, then PhiladelBut that personal initiative in the phia district organizer, and his wife, Jennie dustry that is so strategically placed in class struggle, no less than personal opinCooper, as district head of the D. ON ORGANIZING THE SEAMEX the working class scheme of struggle, es1on, now opens the most loyal of Party formulated the truly new Bolshevist tacpecially with inevitable war developments.
New York in the unquestioned development of the members to persecution, and that the ser tic which helped to railroad a Party memDear Comrades: vices of the such as they are, are ber in good standing to prison. The conmerchant marino as a naval arm, which is This fact has been established with all provided for by the Jones White Act, an refused to the worker who has displeased tribution of this precious pair to Stalinist those familiar with the marine industry etfective industrial union, having a real the Centrist drill master, is not yet very strategy. though not up to Stalin for years. In 1917 Andy Furuseth, speakbase among the workers in the Industry, widely known.
own achievements along this line, exeming on the possibilities of organizing the sympathetic and morally exhilerating plified in the cold blooded murder of Blumcan serve as the most powerful weapon in Eastern Coast where the backbone of the incident showng to what lengths that twokin, yet deserves signal mention.
the coming struggles of the American workindustry lies, said: that even the Salvation ing class.
lung power revolutionist, Engdahl has BolThe strike broke out so suddenly that Army, 1t so minded, could organize seashevized his Party bureau has just been Adventurist speculation that may wreck Dunn had no time to inform Benjamin or men. That is basically even more true the ground of appeal by militants 1s crimbrought to our attention by the victim himMurdock, the organizer, even if today, selt, a Philadelphla comrade. It is superinally inexcusable. Certainly, the revival they could have been located at the dis However, since 1917, a number of things of 510 of the though doomed to fluous, to state that neither the Dally trict office. Before he knew what had haphave taken place, among which is the out fallure, is an indication that the reaction Worker nor the Labor Defender has ever pened, the strika leader was in prison. He standing fact that by 1919, the Internaagainst cheap adventure has set in.
been moved to Bolshevik self criticism was bailed out, but not by the tional Seamen Union claimed a memberThe time for a real marine union is here, proof the crime perpetrated against him; nor When the time for trial arrived, Cooper ship of 115, 000 out of a possible 140, 000. vided the militants who through years of have the responsible machine people been made it clear, that so far as the Party and After succeeding in this almost unprece struggle have established a claim to leadtaken to heel were concerned, he could go up dented manner, in knitting together this ership, can be utilized. We must rememAn Active Party Rank and Filer the river for life because he had called tremendous mass into a labor organization, Thomas Dunn, the young worker inber that in this industry that all militants the strike withoat orders from the Com. the organization was almost completely volved, was admitted to the Party two years have gone through the organization of the munist Party or the Consider disorganized a year later by the first test Marine Transport Workers of the ago and from the first was marked out as the political, implications of such a stand which the union was called upon to face. and to imagine that one can build a mil loyal, courageous, active comrade, heart by these comrades.
and soul in the movement. Shortly after Two years later, despite the defeat and Itant union without these elements is to His family got the comrade out on disillusionment, the succeeded in being assigned to a unit, he took part in a give birth to one more of the still born Washington, demonstration, was arparole after he had spent nearly three carrying on organization work to the point unions of the official Communist Party with 25 other Communists and months behind the bars. Later he brought rested where in 1923 they could count 35, 000, but leadership. There is still time for the genserved a 80 day sentence in a Virginian charges against Cooper, but nothing re only soon to have their organization smash uine Communist elements to realize that He had been back in Philadelphia Bulted from them except a genteel vote of ed, not by internal rotteness, as in the case ngeo there is needed a real united front of all censure, which was hushed up at the source of the but by lack of coordination militants in order to organize an effective less than a week when the denonstration of solidarity wth the Colombia banana strlk by the hand picked control commission.
and perspective. However, the sharp and union in the marine industry.
era was staged before the United Fruit The commission also ruled that the money significant difference between the Marine expended by Dunn fatherless family on Copier in that city; and numbered among Transport Workers Union of the the lawyer who obtained his release was to and the before the war was the hose who refused to break ranks despite be replaced by the This little Police persuasion. he was again hauled and slapped with a 30 day sentence to reparation has still to be made.
brought to life a real rank and file organANGELES, Calit. Western Isolationism is being carried out to ization. All organization work was done as Moyamensing, the notorious Mellon Vare News Box 604, Arcade Station.
shambles.
its logical, albeit grotesque, conclusion. The a result of tremendous effort from below. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. McDonald 65 Between vacations in the capitalist Jalls, American Party bureaucracy more and It seemed as if all the latent militancy in Sixth St.
the marine industry centered Itselt in Ind comrade Dunn gave virtually all of his more Isolates itself from what small meaWASHINGTON, Cale ume to rank and file Party work, serving ure of sanity it retains in the third dystrial Union 510 of the Tok ShcC13 Tont: St, on hall a dozen committees, distributing period.
To go into the detailed reasons for its PITTSBURG, Pa. A News Co. 320 leaflets, assisting at open air meetings, do ARCHIPENKO failure would require more than the alot Federal St.
ing clerical jobs in the district office when ted space. It is sufficient to say that it CHICAGO, ILL, Cheshinsky Book Store, unemployed, etc. Finally, he was elected was possibly the last time a real working 2720 Division St. Horsley Book Store. tcretary organizer of his unit, located in COMMUNISM AND THE AMERICAN NEGRO class revolt was wrecked by the machin 1623 Madison St. Walden Bookstore, the proletarian Kensington area.
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ations of stupid bunglers in the General 311 Plymouth Ct. Britecke Store, 1611 Strike 1s Called Dear Comrades: Office of the with these intro Kedzle and various newstands At this time he got a job as a foodductory remarks one can safely approach handler in a certain warehouse and almost One of the most important problems SPRINGFIELD, ILL: Joe Angelo, 431 No.
the convention called by the Marine Work Weay St.
Immediately he set about organizing a facing the Communist movement in Amerers League.
strike of the ruthlessly exploited clerks ica today is the Negro problem.
BOSTON, Mass. Shapiro s, Beach St The Narrow Line of the Marine near Washington, Andelman 284 Treand truckmen, who had long been nursing The dark skinned proletarian is destined Workers League to play, along with his white comrades, an mont St. Newsstand, 38 Causeway St.
their grievances and lacked only leadership In the first place, to those familiar important part in the world proletarian ROXBURY, MASS. Goldberg Store, 536 to plunge into struggle. When the walkwith the facts, the strong efforts to force revolution. The Negro is one of the most Warren St.
out was called, Dunn found that a fink had the official Communist Party, in control of bru ally exploited of the American proDETROT, MICH. Aidas Book Shop. 1713prepared the boss for a counter action the the Marine Workers League, really to per 24th St. and on various newsstands.
letariat. Along with this goes Jim Crow ringleaders. with himself at their head mit seamen to carry through the organiza MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Engelson News were summarily fired, notwithstanding ism, peonage, concubinage of Negro women tion of a unlon are, one may say, two years Co. 234 2nd Ave. So.
wbich, a picket line was formed outside and lynching.
belated. Two years ago, the need for or KANSAS CITY, MO. Buehlen Book Store, the warehouse. Running into the same The task of the Leninist Opposition in ganization in the industry became so forc. 20 West 12th St.
ink later in the day, the young strike lead dealing with the Negro problem must be a 1bly noticed by all members in it that ele ST. LOUIS, MO. Foster B er demanded an accounting. He was atdetermined assault upon these evils in par. ments who ordinarily would not come with Store, 410 Washington Ave.
tacked at first with curses and, since ticular and the social caste system in gen in smelling distance of anything remotely PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Newstands at 19th these proved ineffective, with fists. The eral. The Negro masses must be taught related to the Communist movement were and Market, Cor. 15th and Market, Btoolpigeon blows were returned in kind that the only way to social, economic and drawn into the Marine Workers League or Cor. 13th and Market, cor. And with interest, whereupon the boss, prob political equality is through the gateway its counter parts, whatever the nams that Warwicks News Depot, 262 11th St. 11th ably prompting the attack from ambush, of proletarian revolution, the key to which may have been given to them in the past. and Market, cor. 6th and Market, sent in a hurry call for the bullg.
is scientific communism, as embodied in Leading elements who for years had cor. 5th and Pine Sts. cor. Dunn was clapped into jail. Charges of the Leninist International Opposition. distinguished themselves in the bitte or 9th and Locust Sts. cor.
conspiracy, assault and battery, inciting to The Negro leaders will only betray ganization battles in the and NEWARK, Alter Stand; 58 Princa riot and divers assorted crimes were lodged the dark masses to their imperialist mast threw themselves into the organization with St against him. All this occurred in April, ers. They are doing that very thing today. the question: When do we start to or SUATTLE, WASH. Raymer Old Book the case coming to trial on the first of Hundreds of Negro workers are awakening ganize a union? They were told to Wait Store, 905 Third Ave, November, when the International Labor to that fact. The Negro workers can now until the the Party faction fight is over. TACOMA, Wash. Raymer 1817 Pacific St.
Defense covered itself with glory by re see their sorry economic plight. They can When these new elements answered that St.
tusing to lift a hand in the young militant see the fruits of years of leadership by they were not interested in Party factional TORONT. ONT. CANADA. On defense. So Dunn, with a state lawyer Negro preachers, politicians and social Alghts, but interested in organizing marvarious newestands. defending him was railroaded to Moya workers.
ine unlon, they found themselves attacked NEW YOR. :On varlous nowsstands la mensing for a six months stretch.
Negro business is falling year efter on all sides for being motivated by syndt Now York and Brooklyn; Bloderman Book The Fallure of the to Aid the year. It cannot keep pace with the mergers, oallet impatience, or whatever the third store, 20 Ave and 12th st. Rand Arrested Striker chain stores and industrial monopoly. It perlod equlvaleat is termed. Xast 15th St. The Militant, 25 Third Ave, What was the principal reason for this it approaching its doom. Unemployment However, at last the mountain has CALGARY, ALTA, CANADA: Boston Now tudubitably class conscious, this laudably that creeping parulysis of capitalist society, come to Mahomet or VLOR VONA after all 00. 109 8th Ave. Wost Lanlalat, this utterly revolutionary act on mercilessly squeezes and saps the very the third period preparation wloh Arat Ia addition to the stores lote RbOTE the part of the now thoroughly stalinized existence of the Negro workers, White of all made certala that anyone who fan The militant also on bs nhtained the us! D. Was the comrade in question chauvinism 18 a bed fellow of Negro un almon puro ia hewing to the Partly lino to members and branches of the Communis talated with the concepts of the Left Pol ployment.
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