Page THE MILITANT Saturday, May 10, 1930 After May Day Demonstrations Hoover Bunk Wall St. Speaks ess events have repudiated cuccessive bally hool official statements from Washington has had its logical effect on the business mind It has produced a conviction not only that the government does not know the facts, Even the briefest review of the May organizational strength of the Party and but that the facts are probably rather Day demonstrations this year must begin the possibilities for its growth and power, worse than has been generally supposed with a clearing of the air so that the facts The second qaurter of the year, coman ever increasing gap which the destructments the Annalist, financial weekly of even outside of Washington.
become visible. That meang unfortunately ive Party policy makes it extremely difficult the New York Times on Hoover recent Annalist in dex of business activity nowaday to discount from the very be to bridge. Ono neel go no further than optimistic statement about the turn for even below the lowest previous mark of ginning all the figures given in the official the needle trades representation in the the better, opening with business activity for March, its latest figure, shows business Communist Party press. The definite in parade: In spite of the radical decline in approximately at the depression level of December. Freight car loadings, electric formatiion we have already received about organizational influence of the Party and last December, offers no reasonable prospower production, cotton and wool con a dozen of the most important cities shows Left wing in this industry, needle trades pect of other than an uneven and low progsumption and soft coal and zinc production what recent experience with the Party press workers formed the largest group, many, ress out of the valley of the current buswere all below the December figure.
has taught us to expect: in every instance, of them coming from Right wing shops.
iness cycle. The normal relations of proΦ the figures given in the Daily Worker on That the Party has lost in organizational duction and consumption have been dis LITTLE PIECE OF FORGOTTEN HISTORY the participants were distorted anywhere influence over them is largely traceable to organized. Productive facilities, and all from twice to ten times the number that the incoherent policy of blunders it has The Daily Worker of May 7, 1930 writes, commodities including bank credit as used, greeting the new Weekly Young Worker were actually on the scene. This sort of pursued for the last period of time.
are ebent in excess. The new stabilization reporting has the worst possible conse As for the much tooted mags political organ of the Young Communist League, as that needs to be worked out is threatened quences because it gives a misleading pic strike it simply did not materialize. Not follows: In the United States the youth by existing cheap money policy and rising ture of the response of the working class, of all the bluster of the Party press can conmovement has long lagged behind. There Opeculation.
the strength of the Party, and thereby per ceal this damning fact. That the slogan has not been a weekly youth paper before petuates the basis for adventurism, and, in was wrong and inappropriate for this Cynical Over Predictions in this country. The author of those lines general, for policies all out of proportions period, that use could result only in must have joined the Party a few weeks to real conditions.
discrediting the slogan itself, was already, The Annalist sees a broad valley of ago. Had he been in it very much longer, depression out of which business is not clear when it was first promulgated. On he might have remembered that more than Achievements of Meetings May Day, the dispute was tested in life.
likely to emerge in much less than six four years ago the Young Workers League But when the outrageous falsifications The Daily Worker was unable to mention months or so. Hitting directly at the launched the Weekly Young Worker and of figures are wiped out, and the consider the name of a single factory or shop of any Hoover prosperity pronouncements the maintained it for a long period of time, ation is taken of the fact that for the real importance throughout the United Wall St. weekly says: Another point to be successfully, too. It was only when the imfirst time in may years this May Day was States which responded to the mass politnoted is the indubitable fact of a reaction mediate predecessors of the present misfits almost everywhere organized as an open ical strike slogan. As in so many other among business men against the cheerful in the League took over the power that demonstration, frequently in the face of instances, the Party leaders are going business propaganda initiated at Washing they wrecked it a job they have conducted police terror or opposition (instead of, as through the regular process of self expoton. The ironical fashion in which busin with great success to the present day!
formerly, in meeting halls. the participa sure as irresponsible phrase mongers.
tin was indicative of the increasingly radical mood of the working class. It may Opposition Active even be said that relative to the strength of in all the demonstrations, the members the Communist Party, the demonstrations of the Communist League (Opposition) parin the United States were superior to those ticipated actively in groups. The Party, The Crusader News Agency is a press Day demonstrations goes without saying: service directed and controlled by the Cen it in the blood. But it never dared go so in many, if not most of the Fluropean bureaucrats, as is known, followed a crimUral Executive Committee of the Communist inal course of ejecting our delegates from far as its colleague, the Crusader News countries where, preliminary reports would Party, under the immediate responsibility every united front May Day conference Agency. Its issue of May 2, 1930, says: Indicate, the May Day demonstrations of of Cyril Briggs. It is intended primarily the Communists were not at all up to the they controlled, issuing, at the same time. hundred and fifty thousands New condemnations of the rank and file for not for Negro newspapers in the country, and is mark set in the past. Most certainly, they one of the methods by which the Party York workers (not 300, 000. turned out lacked the militancy that has characterized organizing the united front conferences on yesterady, striking and demonstrating on brings its viewpoint to the Negro workers.
such meetings on previous occasions.
a broad basis. Needless to point out that May Day.
this did not halt us in any instance from In its press release for the week of May 5, The demonstrations in the United participating side by side with the revolu1930, it prints the following astounding re and speaking of the paradeft The States showed, at one and the same time, tionary militants. As on May Day, we will port of the New York May Day parade and procession began shortly before 1:30. And, the weakness of the Party and its great continue to march with them, helping the meeting: what a procession? close (close, Briggs. possibilities. In New York, for instance, workers in the Party to unload the crush In this city (New York) over 300, 000 checkup indicated 25. 000 in line (not 70, 000 most obvious particularly as indicative of ing burden of stupid and criminal policies workers, Negro and white, answered the Plriggs. the organizational decline of the Party, was and an even worse leadership. The needs call of the Communist Party of the But what is a little matter like an the falling off of its influence in the rade and possibilities of the movement, shown to strike and demonstrate.
additional even if non existent 150, 000 unions. The shoe workers, who formed one starkly on May Day, make this unburdening And further: Oved 70, 000 joined in a strikers to the Party bluffers? Or a matter of he most impressive contingents in last imperative.
gigantic, colorful parade from Rutgers like an additional 45, 000 marchers who year demonstration, were represented by Square through some of the worst slum never marched? In the third period, the the barest handful this year. The food ON THE NEEDLE TRADES districts to Union Square where the big Party leadership calculate, the best way to workers were to be remarked only by their The next issue of the Militant will gest meeting of the day was held.
win the masses to Communism, and (ev fewness. In other trades and industries, print an extended comment on the amazing The Dally Worker is the official organ Idently) the Negro workers especially, 19 an even worse picture was presented. And statement Bullding the Needle Trades the Communist Party. That it exagger to bluff and bluff and bluff. Surely someone as a whole, the demonstration made evident Workers Union which appeared in the sted the facts in its reports of the May will believe it!
the enormous gap that exists between the Daliy Worker on May 7, 1930.
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