Page THE MILITANT Saturday, June 28 1439. THE YOUNG VANGUARD Appeals to Young Babbittry License for Shriners Clubs for Workers people live in small national clans, in which the solidarity of ideas usually serves as a screen for business connections, Each The Young People Sociali. League There inust be somethng else. clan has its own leader, usually the most represents the interests of the petty bour.
The Conditons of the Working Youth prosperous of the Babbitts They tolerate geols youth. These interests are hostile and dangerous to those of the young workThere are over ten million toiling youth all ideas provided they do not undermine their traditional authority and do not threatin the United States, of whom more than ers They run counter to each other, and five million are exploited in industry. There en God forbid. their personal comfort!
clash irreconcilably. The petty bourgeois youth aspires to establish himselt comfort.
are over two and a half million child laIt would be an unjust slander to say ably and securely in some well paying proborers. The average wage of the young that the post war generation of Yipsel Bab.
bitts are in any way interior to their Bab.
fession. In the Yipsels he can pursue his worker is about 14, and his working day bit elders in the Socialist party.
personal ambtions of well being congenial is about 10 hours under very bad conditions. Since the war there has been an GEORGE RAY ly and at the same time retain his ideals.
His interest is to preserve the capitalist reintensive rationalization process which has lations which permit within its confines the drawn millions of young workers into inSelf Criticism fulfillment of his small minded desires.
dustry and increased his importance in Revolution and revolutionary working class industry. There are some industries which employ exclusively or very large proporThe self criticism of the ruling facprtivity is abhorrent to him. But capitaltion consists in making tardy admissions of sm with its innate contradictions refuses tions of young workers And amidst all this the Yipsels shout There must be the least significant of the errors they 20 run smoothly. and often disturbances ocsomething else. As it in mockery of the committed, without indicating any conneccur which menace the attainments of the bitterly and miserably exploited working tion between them, or the basis upon which puny aims of the petty bourgeois youth.
youth who of course establish homes. sit they arose. The important and more danThen he talks fiercely against capitalism, and indeed becomes terribly radical.
back and enjoy life, go motoring and other gerous mistakes committed by them are admitted only under the most severe pressuch delightful pastimes, the middle class We have before us an appeal of the philistines advise So while we do not sure and even then, in most cases they entitled Young Man, Young Woare falsely ascribed to the opponents of man What are You Going to Do With suggest even for a moment that you give the very errors. The nature of the errors, Your Life? which is eloquently expressive up any of your good times, that you cease the reasons and reponsibility for them, are of the nature of this organization. It beenjoying yourself, we ask you to turn your thoughts to those questions that face your never repeated in the same form, or else gins by saying that every young man and elders, and will face you.
they are repeated in an inverted form woman has two big things to think about.
caused by irresponsible swings to the op The first is important. It is how you Trotsky on the Grown Up Yipsel posite extreme are going to make a living. But the answer Permit me to quote comrade Trotsky A genuine Leninist self criticism is a to the second is even more important, for excellent and fitting description of this type primary requisite for the establishment of upon it depends the way you are going to of people. In the United States there clarity, the raising of the ideological level live your life. Truly this could be said a large group of successful and semi sucof the Party and the elimination of the oniy to people to whom the question of cessful doctors. lawyers, dentists, engindistrust and cynicism caused by its abearning a living is a matter of slight coneers and the like who divide their precious sence Instead of self criticism, the Party cern, something about which it is not nechours of rest between concerts by Duropean leadership has instituted a regime of dipessary to worry, not a life and death quescelebrities and the American Socialist par.
lomacy, concealment. distortion, and selftion. And indeed, are we not all to be ty. Their attitude towards life is composed praise. its own achievements are pardentists, doctors or lawyes Join the Yipof shreds and fragments of the wisdom they aded and exaggerated in the most revolting seis not because it will help you to fight for absorbed in their student days. Since they shopkeeper manner. blank check ol better working conditions in your shop or all have automombiles, they are invariably inmunity from any error or crime is an factory, but in order to learn how to spend elected to the important committees. comautomatic premium to any of its faction your money culturally and your leisure supporters.
time idealistically.
missions and delegations of the party.
And properly speaking they are simply. FROM THE PLATFORM OF Socialist Doctors and Dentists variants of Babbitt. who supplements his THE COMMUNIST OPPOSITION Thea America future dochors and commercial activity with dull Sunday med.
ADOPTED (CHICAGO) MAY dentists go on to say, Every young man itations on the future of humanity. These 20, 1929.
AD. woman who is at school or college erany youth who knows that school days wit soon be over and that the struggles for living are looming just ahead (this probably refers to the less successful dentists has to make a decision very soon In this issue of the militant there ap the only reason they speak of it is for as to how his life is to be led. Yes, inpears a statement signed by a group of Par. educational purposes. Dut for anyone in the least acquainted with the Lovestone deed. we forgot all about our college eduty and Young Communist League members.
cation methods. this is just so much duplicity. The There are apparently millions of This group represent the advance guard in truth is that the Right wing in their efforts collyge graduates working in factories for the slow but steady march toward the Left 14 dollars per week But the poor tools Opposition which is bound to occur in the to win the more advanced comrades in the have only themselves to blame. Who asked coming period among the Communist Youth have detected a current which flows now under the influence of the Stalinist in our direction.
them to become They should have regime or the Right Wing. Shallow minded The Future to the Youth become and The Yipsels perhaps do not know that people may under estimate the importance Despite these favorable developments.
one out of every four children who enter of this development because they do not we harbor no illusions about our future Bchool never reach the sixth grade, that see large numbers rushing forward to the growth. We realize that our inevitable vicalnost one half never reach the eighth support of the Left Opposition. But rer tory is not a matter of wecks or months but grado, and that less than one third of the olutionists, unlike opportunists who can yoars. Today we are assembling our forces, school age population enter high school, base themselves only upon what happens slowly, in small numbers. We are creating and that but one in eight graduates. It is under their nose have perspective and can the cadres which will play a big and denot worth speaking of the number who project the meaning of immediate events cisive role in the future of the revolutiongraduate college. How can such facts con.
into the future beyond the limits of tangary movement. large proportion of this cern petty bourgeois Yipsels?
ible occurrences.
vanguard will be formed from the youth And now listen to this most illuminThis declaration is not a detached and elements of today. The regime of bureaucracy ating outlook on life revealing the true accidental event separated from the proand political corruption which bas dominated the Comintern to an increasing degree soul of the American Yipsels: Now after cesses at work within the ranks of the you are earning a living (such an unimIt is indicative of certain trends.
in the last seven years, has incapacitated forever for revolutionary leadership the portant and simple matter. you know These three comrades who have now progreater part of the present Party cadres. or pursuing a course that will lead to claimed their adherence to the Left) Oppo.
These will have to sition aro by no means the only ones in be replaced from such an honest and decent living (it either amongst the youth, Here lies one of the the one or the other, of course. the today who are definitely for our most importatn tasks of the Left Opposiwhat next? What are you going to do with platform. But for each one of those who tion: to educate the youth in the real spirit yourself and your life?
are for us, there many who are thinkof revolutionary Marxism and Leninism. Are you going to establish a home, ing and studying our viewpoint and in due The platform of the Left Opposition sit back, enjoy life to the extent of your time will be with us.
will surely attract the Communist youth.
means, and call it a day? Are you going Right Wingers Distortions It is permeated through and through with to blind your eyes to the world around In the there is a growing reneut. the spirit of revolution. It clashes with you ment and dissatisfaction, still weak and and repels everything that is narrow, pro Most men and women realize that submerged, toward the prevailing course. vincial, and nationalistic. It is the antimerely earning a living and then going to The Lovestone opportunists are trying to thesis of opportunism. It forms a harmonthe movies and motoring does not consdivert this sentiment in their direction. But ious whole in which alt questions are linked titre a complete and wholesome life.
all young Communists are not to be de.
to the main question of world revolution.
ceived so easily. There are many who are That is why it is entirely in accord with not superficial or lightminded and will in.
the bold and revolutionary spirit of milsist upon examining the platform of the Itant youth. It is necessary to reach them Ten individual Lolding each ranging Left Opposition. It is very significant that with it. We must sbatter the barriers of from 250, 000 shares upwards control the among those who are definitely for us to prejudice and deception built for years by General Motors Corporation through the day there are a number who were formerly the Lovestones and the Fosters.
ownership of 20, 000, 000 shares, Supporters of the Lovestone group during We are marching forward. The burThe DuPont powder interests combined the period when it constituted the leader eaucratic walls are showing signs of dewith the managementt interest controls 75 ship of the American Party. In the last cay. To continue our work more effectively per cent of the 15 million shares. Under issue of Revolutionary Youth under the among the youth we are now faced with the these circumstanc. what substance can query of What is Trotskyism? there is question of the formation of an organizathe point have that there has veen an in a whole page devoted to the distortion and tion of the Opposition youth as a faction crease of 165 percent in the number of misrepresentation of our viewpoint. There of the Its outlines can already be small shareholders. from 83, 415 on Feb. it is stated that Trotskyism is of very discerned. in due time it will become a 16, 1929 to 218. 413, Jan. 24. 1980 States, and that reality on a national scale.
OPPOSITION RECRUITS YOUTH An object lesson in the uses of cape italist laws can be gained by the working class in examining an event that has just taken place in Toronto.
An organization known as the Ancient Arabic Order of Noble Mystic Shriners an.
nually holds a convention, each yearly con vocation being celebrated in a different city.
This year Toronto was chosen as the place of meeting, the main attraction no doubt being the alluring glimmer of sparkling beer and whiskey. The Shriners, as this organization is usually known, 18 a branch of the Masonic Order; to become a Mason one must have aluence, influence and money: to graduate from a Mason into a fullfledged shriner further affluence influence and money are the pre requisite.
The first day of the Convention finds Shriners bedecked in outrageous medieval costumes thronging the streets, bands roam around, and headed by mounted policemen procussions march through the main thoroughfares disrupting traffic and dislocating the routine of the day. Throughout the three day convention these antics continue sporadically and according to capitalist laws they violated practically every mua.
icipal traffle regulation. Were they arresi.
ed? No, nothing is mentioned, they are un.
held and condoned by their paid servan.
the chief of police. Disgraceful scenes are perpetrated in the open street, vagrancy.
and lottering laws are plentifully broken, Were they charged with committing breacc.
es of the law? Certainly not, the Shrinera are just misky and besides this is our convention and we have the freedom of the city, they say. The police put the telescope to the blind eye when breaches are committed. Bacchus reigns and pros.
titutes reap a golden harvest. Practically every law was broken and how. Was punishment meted out to these Shriners?
Why, says Chief of Police Draper, the buc.
ding dictator, we all had the time of our lives, no laws were broken and everybody enjoyed himself. fitting climax to the convention was a peace parade in which hundreds of Legionnaires in full uniform, steel he.
met and guns with fixed bayonets marched The 1930 version of peace.
License for Shriners. lubbings for Workers Now let us look at the other side of the picture. The Communist Party calls meeting in a park where incidentally, even capitalist laws are hard to break. Tha mounted police are present here also, and the workers feel the clubs as proof of their presence. No speeches are allowed and workers are refused the right to assemble. What have they done? Why, says Draper, these Bolsheviks have committed sedition, are vagrants, scoundrels, etc. etc. and immediately places these charges against the workers.
An unemployed delegation is inel at the City Hall by the same police who met the Shriners. But what a difference in manner of greeting! Welcome for the par.
asites; clubbings and arrests for the work.
ers by whose means these parasites are enabled to live in luxury, But when a worker at an election meeting says Long live the Indian Revolution he is arrested and a sedition charge placed against him.
And now an edict has been issued against the holding of workers picnics.
These are cominon occurrences wherev.
er capitalism prevails. The bourgeoisie rules; they can do anything they please, they are the masters. Laws are made to impose upon the workers in case they become infected with dangerous thoughts resulting from a dangerous social system, Bosses make the laws, for use upon the workers.
In the face of the police terror in Tor.
onto the Communist Party is unable to mobilize forces to combat it. With its third period tactics It is isolated, impotent. All healthy elements are strangled; the real Party slogan today is Stalinism.
not Communism. The future lies in the hands of the Opposition and the correct.
ness of its programme will be proran in the coming struggles