maro THE MILITANT saturday, June 7, 1930 Dissolving the Communist Party into the Class Trifling with the Textile Workers Union Iowards the XVI Congress of the dred kilometres from Moscow. The proletarian staff of the factory was always considered in the Moscow Party organization as a backward one, and it really was.
Over 70 of the workers are not only At the end of January 1930, a new re aren any. All voet for. inclusion of bound to the village, but they have their cruitment of workers into the Communist crafts and factories into the Party as a own cabin, cow, garden, etc. The brother, Party of the Soviet Union was proclaimed.
The decline of the Left wing National means of raising the productivity of lathe father of a Kolomensk worker is a The February issues of the Prayda are full Textile Workers Union goes on. While the bor, as a more successful realization of peasant, he works in the factory and helps of information about the great upsurge. United Textile Workers Union, with its intensification and higher tempos. They them they own their holdings together.
policy of class collaboration continues to about the mass flocking of workers into are not concerned as to what becomes of The psychology of an average Kolomensk the Party etc. The Central Committee gain recruits among the textile workers, the Party, or whether the Party exists as worker is that of a peasant. He often conespecially in the South, the siders his work in the factory as a support has already given the directives: To get such.
not less than half the Party membership The Gap Between Leaders and Masses for his peasant holding. Kolomensk steadily losing ground.
from workers in industry until the Sixworker resembles very little the Lenin When one studies the activities, or In December 1929 the influx of workers teenth Party Congress (Pravda, Feb. 11. grad proletarian. It is this factory that rather lack of activities of the into the Party was still very low. But Translating this into the language of fig.
became now the vanguard of the workers during the last period it is amazing that ures it means that in approximately two now, the Pravda states, there is an unarmy, and Leningrad its rearguard. Up even the shell of the union continues to expected great change. The Party organmonths the Party has to admit a minimum to March 14 the Moscow district had over function, for there is no doubt whatsoever of about 150, 000 new members Up till zations are caught unawares At the 90, 000 applicants and the Leningrad about that only a mere skeleton of the organiza.
factory something unexpected and untornow there are already about 200, 000 30, 000. And it is no accident. An explan tion is left.
seen occurred: columns of workers sign applicants. In a few weeks the number of ation for this fact will be found not in the up for the Party. The nucleus could in no members and candidates in the Party will city, but in the village, and particularly in At the center the notoriously incomway expect it (Pravda. The writers and the collective policy.
exceed. mhion.
The collective petent Clarence Miller has been replaced editors do not even notice what a fatal Collective Admission pushed the Kolomensk, Podolsk and Myby William Murdoch who is now in charge verdict this is for the Party regime, what tishchensk worker into the Party. His of the national office. Murdoch has had All the newspaper statements underline a terrifying statement on the deterioration peasant status decided Without penetrathis eye on the secretaryship for many the collective character of submitting ap of all the Party tissues. If we assume, ing into the complicated problems of col months and at last is rewarded for his plications for admission to the Party. They according to the apparatus. that there lectivization we nevertheless will point patience and subserviency. Dvious to enter in brigades, shifts, crafts, and even really is a mightly rise in the workout that the element of insurance played no Eli Keller election to that post almost whole factories. Factory crafts, that is ing class, and the apparatus sitting there small role. will have to enter the cola year ago he was an active candidate several hundred men, with the foremen at does not know anything, does not expect lective anyway, then may as well enter it for the post, but due to the opposition of the head, and often even with the tech anything, does not foresee anything, then as a Communist there will be more privil Jim Reid, the president of the union and nicians and engineers, are poured into the It must be recognized that it is separated eges. This way he hopes to get easier others, he was not given the position.
Party. The nuclei grow, 100, 200 and more from the mass with an impenetrable parcredits, inventory, etc. On the other hand Murdoch is the fourth secretary of the percent. Formally, the procedure for ad tition. The fact in itself shows even to the. and this is the most important the nonmission is as always, individual, but in blind, the depth of the abyss the apparatunion in about a year time. First there Party worker in the factory does not see reality the admission is collective. The us has dug between itself and the mass.
was Albert Weisbord, who was removed any big difference between himself and the for not following out the third period pronewspapers and the Party leaders insist The Kolomensk factory entered the Party worker Why shouldn I get into that the commissions for recruitinent rush Party almost gram as desired by the Stalinists. He was in collective body.
the Party, perhaps it will be easier he with the formalities. The Central Recruit Eight thousand workers from this factory succeeded by EU Koller who became a asks himself. Depriving the Partyite, as ing Com hission decided to simplify the already entered the Party. The, Kolo well as the non Party of all rights, press likewise disappeared from the scene. How Lovestoneite. The next was Miller who has admission into the Party (Pravda, March mensk workers should be an example to ing them in the bureaucratic clamps, the This is why, in view of the purely for the others appeals Pravda.
long will Murdoch be at his post?
It is thereusurpationist apparatus has made of both mal character of the procedure, the per fore interesting to consider this factory of them speechless executors.
The appointment of a new national centage of rejected applicants is extremely in a few words. The Kolomensk factory secretary of the union is accompanied by insignificant. The lack of the least serious produces machinery (tractors, locomotives, Neither the non Party nor the Party a new district organizer in New Bedford, judgement of candidates, in a word, all this Diesels etc. it is something over a hun worker dares to decide, criticize, or delib which was and still is the only city really anti Party method of the campaign erate. Opening wide the Party doors wipes where the union has any members. At one is already alarming the less short sighted The figures on the age of those in out the distinction between the Party and time It numbered about 3, 000. At present Communists.
the factory entering the Party are very the class. The Party ceases to be the about 300 are left. The previous organizer, The pursuit of high percentages (al interesting. Most of them are 30 40 years vanguard, it ceases to be a Party. But this Martin Russak, from Newark, has beeu most always fictitious) result in the fact old this holds true for other places. Fifty is precisely what the apparatus is striving removed for some sort of a deviation.
that a recruiting agent, grabbing by the percent of them have more than ten years for. Simutaneosly with the dissolution of His successor, Joe Rapparport from New sleeve one who refuses to join the Party of industrial experience. The change that the Party in the class, the apparatus rises York, is the fifth within a year. He follows begins to persuade, advise, etc. As a reoccurred among the older workers, those above it all the more. Both these processes Keller and Ellen Dawson now in the camp sult a worker correspondent remarks working in the factory for the last 20 30 40 are parallel, one supplementing the other. of the Right wing Lovestoneites and John in the Pravda. political illiterates having years, is particularly gratifying. Pravda On the top the apparatus became a supra Nahorsky, a fourth rate functionary who insignificant industrial experience go into writes. It is doubtful whether this fact is Party institution, it is without control, it asked to be relieved when he found thau the Party. What this policy leads to can particularly gratifying. An old worker is infallible, it commands the Party below the job was too big for him.
be seen from the partial cleansing of the who was not shaken by the October, or the ceases to exist. The further development Party. For example, in one of the Donbas civil war is advanced. The youth, the of this process is the decay, the death of As we stated in several previous ar.
districts (Usovca) one third of the mem Comsomols, that is the most advanced the Party as a Party we must be frank ticles and now repeat: unless the Stalinist bers in the industrial nuclei were expelled and active part of the mass is lagging beabout this, stating it with all determination. stranglehold is removed from the Pravda, February The results of the hind. This symptom is more alarming than March 30, 1930 and all militant and left wing workers who cleansing In Sumara speak still more el gratifying.
belong to the organization are allowed MARKIN oquently that the apparatus has wiped out to freely participate in its work, there will the boundary line between the Party and be no organization left, except in the minds the class, taken into the Party a raw mass, of the Party leaders and in the reports which is not only not transformed in the of tbe Daily Worker and other Party Party melting pot but in view of the terpapers.
rible condition of the inner Party regime. Continued from Page 1)
illa warfare. This expedient for throwing is pushed away, either by expulsion, or by dust in the eyes of the workers was off The textile workers, especially in tho tragic collaboration of the Stalin Buchar.
South, are ripe for organization but the falling away. In place of those falling in faction with the bourgeois Kuomintang cially termed a higher stage of devel.
opment.
out, new raw material is poured in. The The Stalinist slogan for the irresponsible policy of the Party alienates in China and the connected theory of WorkParty entrance and exit gates are wide them. Many workers who join drop out ers and Peasants Parties as substitutes period of the ebb of the revolutionary tide in disgust, others never join due to the open.
for the Comniunist Party in the colonial suddenly became soviets. But the whole typical methods used by the Stalinists who Premium on Political Illiteracy countries.
opportunism that is contained in the abuse head the organizations.
Almost the only, at any rate, the de.
of this slogan at this time is manifested by But instead of soberly recognizing cisive criterion for admission into the Party the general demands of the so called First Members of the organization must de their mistakes, the Stalin faction desper1s the question of the productive work and mand the end of this policy at once and the ately clings to office by the sowing of Soviet Congress. Provision is made for the the model discipline of the applicant.
expropriation of foreign capital. But nou opening of a campaign to organize the tex.
illusions inside the official Communist par The most important proof of fitness for tile workers into the a word is said of the expropriation and naties. On May 30th, the Daily Worker dedU. on a basis which will allow all militant workers admission into the Party, is the degree of icated almost its entire issue to heralding tonalzation of the means of production in the active participation of the workers in to participate in its activities. Any other the convocation of the First Soviet Conthe hands of the Chinese capitalists. Sta. policy will mean that before the year is the shock brigades, in socialist competition, gress of China. There are no words lin slogan is still democratic dictatorship out, the union will exist only in name and and their actually advanced role in indusstrong enough to condemn the criminal for China and the whole East. Such trifltry these are the instructions of the all the gains achieved by several years of and fantastic light mindedness with which Ing with the Soviet idea was absolutely of the Pravda, Feb, 11. struggle in Passaic, New Bedford and Gagthe Daily Worker misrepresents the ac. unheard of under the regime of Lenin. tonia will be lost. What will the Party Did you participate in socialist competitual situation in China. An eighth of the choose?
tion? How many days were you absent The Centrists swing about erratically. FRANK BROMLEY whole territory of the country, it is claim They fear the criticism of the Left Opfrom work? How much did you subscribe ed, is under the sway of Soviet authority.
for the loan, and did you sell it? In what position and make radical gestures calф Yet the fact is that there is not a single way do you help collectivization? These, Communist daily in the country. Thanks culated to disassociate them from the blun PIRTY MEMBERS! NOTICE!
and some more in the same spirit, are the ders of their bloc with the Comintern Right.
to the consequences of the Stalin Chiang questions that are asked of an appliBut their oscillations and the confusion IN THE NEXT ISSUE Kal Shek alliance in the Kuomintang the cant. There are no Party and political they sow only rebounds to the advantage of Communist Party first subordinated to the Brandler groups.
The next issue of the militant will con.
questions. Even classic Trotskyism is The latter consisbourgeois discipline for years, was then absent. One may think it is a matter of tently continue the democratic dictatortain an important declaration of the Na.
decimated by the executions of Hankow and one Admission into the cooperative or ship and Kuomintang policy unabashed.
tional Committee of the Communist League Shanghai. The Red Trade Union movement the trade union, this is the extent to which was devastated by the White Terror. The In a manifesto on the Indian situation of America to the Members and the ConParty spirit is lacking. But what does the Canton insurrection was drowned in blood signed jointly by Brandler, Roy, Lovestone vention of the Communist Party. Watcld and others of the Right wing. they openly Stalinist apparatus need that for? It looks for it!
upon the new additions to the Party only Nevertheless, with that the adventur call upon the Indian bourgeoisie to organAs a shock support to the industrial orism which is the reverse side of Stalinistize themselves into a national revolution gang. Lacking any kind of political out opportunism, the Sixth Congress refused ary Party in other words an Indian Kuomin.
look the adventurist leaders consider this to work out a series of transitional de tang Into which they can maneuvre the If the number on your wrapper is sometimes semi compulsory (the chairman mands about which to rally the masses Communist Party when formed.
asks: Who is against? naturally, there anew. As a substitute for the Communist The Left Opposition demands a returu Party and the requirements of mass action, to the Marxist Leninist theses on the col then your subscription to the Militant has During the year 1929, 200, 000 workers recourse was now had to armed bands who onlal revolution.
expired. Renew immediately in order to intered the Party.
roamed the country waging sporadic guer. MAURICE SPECTOR avoid missing any issues.
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