Page ILITANT Saturday, 1930 Stalinist Officials Sabotage Communist Unity Simon Report Declares War ar on Revolution a la cele cerrections of our home MEETINGS MARK LEFT ADVANCE in Canada ing the chair if they were against the In India proposa! the storm again broke loose.
To sum up. The conference should be a powerful lesson to the Party, and Left wing workers as to why the Party is TORONTOhands for the election program, that the so badly disorganized and continues to lose The Canadian Federal election confer Party functionary had just finished reading. ground from day to day. The bureaucratic ence organized by the Communist Party The chairman remarking to a question of regime will continue to destroy the Party should be a striking proof to the members our representatives that all discussion and ideologically and organizationally as long The second volume of the Simon Report of the Party and YC. and Left wing work criticism was out order and if there were as the members are satisfied to remain a is now available for analysis and it bears ers in what a dangerous impasse the Stal any present that didn agree, they knew Party not of militant Communists but of out the most cynical expectation of the supinist bureaucrats have brought the revoluwhat to do. Our representative as before hand raisers.
porters of the Indian revolution.
tionary movement. have attended what took the floor anyway and asked the con For the Communist League of America nothing more or less than a direct declarithought were raw conferences but nothing ference to discuss the following to be em. Opposition) it marks another step forward tion of war to the bitter end for the throtlike the one pulled off by the Party lead bodied in the election program. That long in the fight for the regeneration of the tling of the Indian revolution. It does not ership recently.
term credits be given to the Soviet Union Party and against the bureaucracy. Our even contain the recommendation of Home Oficialdom Bars Opposition Communists to help temporarily to relieve the growing mem er brought down a half dozen copies Rule. Divide and Rule! India is to be At the conference were present many unemployment and at the same time, ns. of the Militant. They were grabbed up in still further cut up by the separation of members but very few from other or sist the Russian workers in the socialist less than one minute. Our representative Burma so that the British can have a base ganizations. Outside of the Industrial Union construction. At first the chairman tried was also elected on the executve of 20 of operations against the Indian revolutionrepresenting a handful of workers, no other to remain deaf and dumb to the proposal together with some 19 other Party mem ary movement.
unions were represented. The conference but when Harry Clairman, insisted on ask bers. The other eight provinces will have was typified by the Stalinist brand of the self governing Our National Tour united front from below, the steam rolinstitutions and will ler edict from the chair of no discussion send representatives to a Federal As.
sembly. Even to the capitalist press (the New York Times, June 24) anxious to sugar. winded speeches from the Party functionarcoat it the purport of the Report is to fes, and no discussion from the floor give Britain a stronger hold on India than except that initiated by the Communist League of America (Opposition) members.
Since the last reports on the National The attendance at the Chicago and ever. The British Governors in the proThe narrow bureaucretic spirit that Tour of comrade Max Shachtman for the Minneapolis meetings, commented on briefly vinces will be virtual autocrats with swcene ruled the moeting, was strikingly expressed Communist League of America (Opposition) in the last issue of the Militant were 125 ing powers to override the Indian Ministers in the manner in which the of repsuccessful meetings have been held in St. and 100 respectively. There was much sat the governors can call the British troops resentatives were barred from the conferPaul and Duluth, Minnesota, Superior, Wis. isfaction in all respects with the results.
in any emergency. and the British army ence. The credential committee decides consin, Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.
will continue for many years under the couKansas City and St. Louis not to accept the representatives of the Despite the terrific mid summer heat, there trol. of the Inperial Government.
Despite equatorial heat (the temperaorganization calling itselt the Communist has been an excellent attendance and the ture had climbed to 100 degrees) there were The Simon Commission is composed League of America (Opposition on the keenest interest displayed in comrade turnouts of 50 and 40 at the meetings in of labor, liberal and conservative repregrounds that they disagree with the prinShachtman survey of the world situation Kansas City and St. Louis. There were sentatives of the groups in the Britisa ciples and policies of the The chair and the role of the Left Opposition, the im a number of free admissions, as elsewhere, House. The Simon Commission functioned man, You have all heard the decision of portant visit of Shachtman, representing due to unemployment. The meetings of under the direct responsibility of Ramsay the credential committee, want no disthe Communist League, to Trotsky at the are not as well attended, since the MacDonald Labor Government. Whateve: cussion all those in favor. But there was Constantinople, the unification conference advent of the Third Period.
a few more radical rank and filers in the discussion. Comrade Quarter, representaof the German Left Opposition at Berlin, supporter of the Communist Party American socialist party may think, the retive of his Industrial Union local stood up and the preliminary Conference of the inin Kansas City, one Sol Morris, developed port of the Simon Commision is the type and fought the ruling till he was shut up. ternational Left Opposition in Paris. the logic of the Third Period. He declared of self determination granted to the opThe Party officialdom did have to discuss Good Results in Duluth in the discussion period apropos of Norpressed nationalities by the Governments and try hard and unsuccessfully to explain. At Duluth, Minn. seventy persons as way refusal of a visa to comrade Trotsky and parties of the Second Internationa.
In his statement, comrade Quarter pro sembled among whom were a number of that against the Trotskyltes, the com What will the Simon Commission retested against the steamroller tactics for Finnish Party members, whq heckled munists. should unite with the Mon.
port acbually solve? What does it change?
the suppression of discussion. He pointed Shachtman teebly at the beginning, but who archists! Morris was properly plasterThe driving forces of the Indian revolution out that in the conference call nothing had were soon silenced by the barrage of facts ed by the speaker after these remarks and have not been wiped out by its flood of been said about the necessity of one hun about the true situation in the Comintern. the audience applauded Shachtman vigor words. The Commission says as you dred per cent agreement with the Party Discussion ensued, in which one Sankari, ously.
were. British Imperialism and its bayorprogram in order to be allowed to send del. a Finnish youth with aspirations to be a At Kansas City a banquet was also held. ets, its exploitation of the Indian workers egates. Moreover Socialist parties and Stalinist commissar for the Finnish sec In St. Louis, Jenkins of the Steamfitters will remain. We will not release India other organizations that the Communists tion, spoke for half an hour. His own sup Union also spoke on behalf of the Molders by any constitutional surrender, says the fight tooth and nail were admitted while porters finally stopped him after which the Mooney Committee, and the meeting adoptCommission All your nationalist movethe Communist League were barred. The speaker, Shachtman, answered questionna ed a resolution for the release of Mooney ment your civil disobedience. your salt Communist League agreed with the Party and made his concluding remarks. This is Billings, the framed New York Communists, tax violations mean little to us. We election program and would support it ac the first time an Opposition mass meeting Foster, Minor, Amter. Raymond and the understand one language that is the langtively and financially. Our comrades would has been held in Duluth and the meeting Georgia defendants now on trial for their uage war power the language of speak at the election moetings, etc. The was a moral success lives.
and revolution members of the Communist League (OySuperior, Wisconsin At all of the meetings, a good deal of The Indian revolution enters on a stage position) were nearly all workers from the At Superior, Wisconsin, 50 workers literature has been sold, new contacts and that is clearly defined. The vacillations, shop and factory. They had been the most turned up at the meeting. Many questions members secured and the enthusiasm en the mystichim, the pacifism with which active members in the Party and be were put to the speaker, including ques gendered in the Communist League, gives Gandhi has weakened and betrayed the fore their expulsion for fightng bureaucrat tions on the position of the Lefu Opposition high hope for increased activity in all fields revolutionary fermenu in the past can no ism and opportunism.
on the situation in the Cooperatives, to by the Left Opposition. Comrade Shacht longer so successfully confuse the issues.
The Opposition (Left) is fighting for which Shachtman replied in full. Our po man also is reporting to the Branches of the issue is more sharply defined. It is its re instatement in the Party and Youth sition in this respect has been outlined in the League and taking up special and con surrender to Brtish Imperialism which acLeague on the basis of the right to maintain the columns of the Militant. The youthful crete matters with them.
ceptance of the Commission report means their communist principles. These air elements, young comrades in the Forthcoming Meetings. or revolutionary mass action of the peatight bureaucratically manipulated conter have the soundest attitude on the basic As we go to press meetings are sched sants and the petty bourgeoisie under the ences doomed them to impotence in ad issues before the Communist movement, and uled for Springfield, Ill. where comrade leadership of the industrial proletaria.
vance.
there are prospects for Opposition growth Joe Angelo is making preparations for a The opportunities for a Communist But the Poale Zlonists are Sented among them. number of the audience big turnout at Cleveland and Youngstown, Party and a revolutionary policy in India The conference had hardly settled down voiced. pleasure at the report of comrade Ohio and at Pittsburgh. Pa. The local com today are inspiring. Will, can the present to its ifelessness when a crisis loomed up Shachtman.
rades, Jos. Keller, Bryar, Denis Plarinos Comintern regime utilize the situation for again with the arrival of delegates of the Lelling Party members present el James Sitakia and others are working hard the international revolution?
Jewish National Workers Left Poale Zion Shachtman lecture in St. Paul, Minn. were for successful meets which will be reported In the next issue of the Militant there Organization, who had been invited by the literally begged to state their views after on in the next issue of the Milſtnat. It was will appear a thorough analysis of the Party. The situation was the result of Shachtman speech. After much goading. decided after consultation between the local whole situation in which the Indian revolu their own bureaucratic blindness. hur one of them announced, an unemployment comrades and the national office to postpone tion now finds itself.
ried caucus and the credential committee meeting and another mumbled some re return engagements of comrade Shachiman had again to go out to try and figure out marks about the 500. members of the to Toronto and Montreal, Canada, till coolsome explanation. They came back with National Miners Union in the Minnesota er weather. The remainder of the schedule ATTENTION, CHICAGO. PICNIC the recommendation that the Poale Zion district follows Thirty attended the meeting.
Sun. June 29, 1930 at the Forest Preserve were renegades, but they could remain in Meet at the end of Milwaukee Ave. Car line the Conference if they accepted the Party Program. This brought the Zionist delbetween 10 and 11 a. For those delayed egates to their feet, they had been invited signs will direct the way. Bring lunch to support the Communist Party candidates baskets. Cold drinks will be there.
not the program. Didn the Auspices Communist League of America know they were a political organization (Opposition) Chicago Branch well as they, and what was more they SPPRINGFIELD, ILL.
PITTSBURG, PA.
didn agree with the program or tacTuesday, June 24. Place to be Saturday, June 28, Mass ties.
Meeting at Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St.
announced. The superdramatic Annie Buller, now stood up to implore the Zionist dele CLEVELAND, OHIO PITTSBURG, PA.
Who says that Business hasn a heart?
Eates that it was in the best interests Wednesday June 25, Mass Meeting at Sunday, June 29, Branch Meeting The National Bureau of Economic Research of the labor movement for them to remain PAINTERS HALL 2030 Euclid.
MONTREAL, CANADA triumphantly reports that Corporation renegades. They were allowed to remain in July 4th (Place to be announced cbarity has increased six times since 1920 Bpite of their categoric refusal to accept the Thursday, June 26 Membership Meet later. and the number of business concerns that Party program, 6th World Congress, etc.
ing.
TORONTO, CANADA have made appropriations for public health Opposition Slogan For Soviet Credits.
YOUNGSTOWN OHIO July 6 (Place to be announced and happiness has increased thirteeen Rejected Friday, June 27.
later. times. New York Evening Post, June 23. The delegates who now, that they had These kindly capitalist will do anything in ocepted the third period and the Sixth the wide world for the workers but get World Congress, were asked to raise their off their backs.
Sub THE MILITANT, Vol. III, No. 25, June 28, 1930. Published weekly by the Com munist League of America (Opposition) at 25 Third Avenue, New York, tcription rate: 00 per year; foreign 50. Five cent per copy. Bundle rates cents per copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, Maur ice Spector, Arne Swabeck. Entered As se cond class mail matter. November 28 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March, 3, 1879 (Total No: 50)
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