THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America Opposition Vol. III, No. 19 Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YORK, Y, Saturday, May 10, 1930 PRICE CENTS Whalen Anti Red Forgeries Peshawur and the Gandhi Arrest Judge Denies Bail to Foster, Minor, Amter Mr. Cossack Whalen is now well on the downward road to the other great American Red balters wno preseded him: Mitchell Palmer and ex mayor Ole Hangon of Seattle. Not to be outdone by either of The almost impenetrable vell of official The pagelve mutiny in Peshawur of the them, or by their international colleagues British censorship continues to make it native Garhwal Indian Rilles is the pro who concocted the anti Soviet forgeries in difficult to get a clear and well rounded logue to active resistance and militant of Berlin and the Zinovlev letter in Engpicture of the situation in India. That the tensive. real fight against British im land a few years ago, this cheap Tammany British are being hard pressed. however, perialism, in the interests of the Indian Hall politician has gained another bit of can easily be seen even though the highly masses and not of the Indian bourgeoisie, briet publicity for himself by publishing as colored official reports that are allowed to can only be led in spite of Gandhi and in crude a set of forgeries as have yet come Alter through. They have finally been direct battle against him and his.
of the presg. It seems that Whalen is incompelled to arrest Gandhi They are The absence of a conscious, organized tent upon proving that there is a Communtaking fear stricken measures to confiscate revolutionary movement a crine of omist movement in the United States and all arms and ammunition in the hands of mission for which the Stalinized course of that it has connections with the revolutionthe Indian people. They have been forcedthe Communist International must still anary movement in the Soviet Union!
openly, last to admit the dispatch of swer hampers the development of the Nevertheless, the appearance of the substantial military forces of infantry and struggle. But it can yet be created in the forgeries at this particular moment is far cavalry, accompanied by alrplane fleets, fires of contlict. Peshawur shows the from accidental. The stage setting for to the most turbulent sections of the possibilities, them has been in preparation for some country. time. The development of a sharp unemMacDonald: Servant of Capital ployment situation in the United States JOBS SCARCEST SINCE 1914 with the accompanying disillusionment of All these actions, let it not be forgotten NEW YORK Factory employment in millions of workers on the score of Amerfor a moment, are being taken by the Bri New York state, Gov. Roosevelt announces, ican capitalism tabled permanent progtish government that has been advertised is at the lowest point since 1914. It has perity. has opened up previously non existeverywhere by the Mberals and socialists dropped steadily since last October. he said, ing prospects for the growth of the Ameras the most progressive and enlightened and will probably drop further, as it usual ican Communist movement.
in the world, the Labor government of ly does in May. The Annalist, financial Whalen forgeries are calculated to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Where is the dem. weekly, states that national employment nip this growth in the bud, to whip up ocratic Laborite freedom of the press which is the lowest since 1922.
sufficient anti Red hysteria to cut it down 18 announced as so superior to the methcds of the Communists? Sunk without a trace by the censors! Where is the democratie opposition to imperialism? It exists only in the mealy, pious speeches of MacDonald, agent par excellence of the British money 3ail for the leaders of the March effectively combacted by the Communists bags, Jallor and executioner of the Indian unemployment demonstration, including alone, much less by the official Communist masses!
William Foster, Amter, Robert Minor, Party only. The arrestu and persecutions India is today an armed camp, but and Harry Raymond, has been refused by all over the country in connection with armed only on one side. For that, the Indian supreme court Justice Gavegan in New the unemployed demonstrations, the May masses have Mr. Gandht to thank. It is York. The four Commnists have begun Day meetings as well ac at other working under his treacherous direction, his insis serving the three year term to which they class gatherings make imperative a gentence upon pacifism and non resistance, were sentenced under star chamber pro uine mobilization of all progressive, Left that the Indian people are today defense ceedings and without the possibility of in wing and Communist forces ready to unite less before the imperialist troops armed to troducing evidence or defense witnesses. on a program of resistance to the terror the teeth and ready to repeat an Amritsar The crassly class character of the prose and persecutions of the employing class massacre on an All Indian scale without cution was more than demonstrated during and for the freedom of all clags war prisonfear of successful resistance. Rarely has the trial, the udges gave the defenders for the establishment of full civil rights the British llon been served so well by ants the vicious an almost unprecedented for workers and working class organizaGandhi. He has hog tied the Indian masses, sentence of three years.
tions, etc.
and trapped them in the paralyzing jaws It is evident that the convictions were It is necessary to change this course of non resistance.
aimed primarily to curb the movement of immediately, and take advantage of the But the arrest of Gandhi shows that he the unemployed workers among whom the general sentiment against the convictions has accomplished against his every desire Communists are the most active elements.
that exists and can be aroused among broad and will something else, too. Just as the All the more reason why every effort must sections of the workng class. united deKerenskys involuntarily aroused a genuine be made to compel the most rapid release fense for the prisoners is the best reply revolutionary movement by their timid opof the four prisoners. Thus far thel de to the harpies of class justice.
position to the czar; Just as the Chiang Kaifense has been organized by the Party on Sheks unwillingly let Icose a mass movethe narrowest possible basis with the reNEW YORK Trial of 46 Brooklyn shoe ment in China, so the sensational march to sult that tbe fina opportunities for developworkers for violating an injunction taken the sea of Gandhi has roused milliong of ing a broad movement for the four have not out by the Diana Shoe Co, against the Inthe people to a militant mood which is even been approached.
dependent Shoe Workers Union has been alroady overflowing the reactionary boundThe New York convictions are but postpoen to June The company broke ary lines he originally staked out for it.
ominous forerunners of persecutions against its contract with the workers when Charles The Meaning of Peshn war militant fighters of the working class Wood, red balter, of the federal labor throughout the country. They cannot The sharp struggles in Peshawur, conciliation service, notified it that the therefore be understood merely as an isowhich required the dispatch of large numunion was led by Communists. The inbers of British troops, made a mockery of lated instance of capitalist ylolence against function sustained the company refusal the Communists. Nor can the bosses and to contine a contract with a Communist led Gandhi treasonable policies and indicated their police, court and gangland agents be group.
the correct way to remove the British yoke.
before it assumes really dangerous pro.
portions for the class he represents. Ile is not alone. The rapidity with which congress bas snapped at the opportunity to organize a public demonstration in preparation for a national anti Communist lynching campaign 18 indicative of the general spirit of the masters. All of them are quite well aware of the fact that outside of the Communist movement, despite all the enormous and persistent blunders of the official Party, there is no force working actively and energetically to mobilize the permanent army of unemployed to fight for their lives, literally for their lives.
Lvery worker must therefore be vigil.
antly on guard for the next step of cap italist reaction. The scheme to crush Communist moven ent, to fall its fighter to deport and harass the foreign born workers in particular, is aimed not only at the Communists, but at the whole work.
ing class in which the Reds so justly hated by the bosses, constitute the most militant sectiou. Every blow the capitalist class and its Congress strike at the Communists hits with redoubled force at the interests of the whole working class.
There is yet another reason for the Whalen forgeries. They follow hard on the heels of the bomb plot against the Sovitt embassy in Poland, the anti Soviet military maneuvers of the Rumanian and Polis marionettes of French imperialism, and the hypocritical religious crusade against the Soviets which stank so noticeably of good Stock Exchange gold. All these events were timed with the sharpening of the economic and political difficulties in the Soviet Union rising out of the industrialization and collectivization campaign. All these incidents are calculated to exert a violent pressure upon the Soviet power, and the Party which exercizes it that will make it veer to the Right.
The Pressure on the Soviet Union Knowing Stalin for what he really rep.
resents, the reactionary forces throughout the world are keenly aware of the fact that precisely at the present moment well concentrated pressure can strengthen the toe hold of capitalist elements in Russia by compelling a shift to the Right. But the slags relations in the Soviet Union are so taut right now, that a sharp turn to the Right, already implicit in all of Stalin recent acts and words, would have the gravest effects not only upon the workin)
class republic but upon the proletarian movement throghout the world.
The anti Sovieti drive in the United States, even though based upon the schoolboy documents that many capitalist papers refuse to take seriously, is a timely reminder of a danger. blow at Soviet Russia is a blow at the Communist movement.
In turn, and because of that, it is an even heavier blow at the whole working class.
The common danger and the common injury demand a common front. All workers: on guard: WILL SPEAK ON THE Max Shachtman AT THE LABOR TEMPLE 21 East 14th Street (near Sud Avenue)
ON Thursday, May 15th, 1930 at P.
ADMISSION: 23 CENTS Auspices of the New York Branch of the Communist Lengue of America (Opposition)
WORLD REVOLUTION AND THE OPPOSITION Delegate to the International Con.
fereuce of the Opposition in Peris. Just returned from a Visit with Leon Trotsky