THE MILITANT Saturday, July 26, 1930 Page Saul Joins Opposition The Unemployed Gather es:WE?
The Iron Heel Grinds onderur There can be no doubt that now Mexican Labor The Chicago Conference of the fact that all of the railroad unions have officially gone on record recognizing the six hour day as a necessity.
But among all these demands no room (Continued from Page 1)
could be found for the pressing one of Opposition comrades of the Left.
large scale credits from this country to the The way to overcome the serious mis.
the Soviet Union to further insure her buc.
cakes in the internal life of our Parties By ARNE SWABECK cessful industrialization and build the bonds is to do what Comrade Trotsky and others of solidarity between the working classes the sbort socalled strike of the were expelled for wanting to do, namely, CHICAGO of both countries. The Stalinists will to raise the level of political life in the The Chicago unemployment convention, in New York; the strikes of the Pittsburg the Soviet Union Communist Parties in all their organiza.
the first of its kind, sharply denoted. in taxi drivers, St. Louis bus drivers and the probably answer that does not need such credits. But that tional links on the basis of wider internal more than one respect, the present degree rocent strike of the Pittston anthracite is contrary to facts. Simeon Zuckerman democracy.
of development of the unemployed move miners. All these were defensive strikes vice prysident of the Amtorg, reports that The bureaucrats have lied to its long ment in the United States. It was the first and none under the leadership of the Left.
orders in the United States for machinery, enough coucerning the contentions of the culmination point around this burning issue Where the Leit does play a role has been on Called by the equipment etc. averaged 10, 000, 000 monthfacing the working class.
a small scale in the New York cafeteria Opposidon. The methods of the bureaucrats ly for the first six months of the tiscal has only resulted in the isolation of the Trade Union Unity League, its policies be strikes and the present Flint automobile year. In April avd May of this year, they Party from the workers, at a time when the came those of the official Communist Party, workers strike.
fell to 3, 000, 000 while orders placed in Such is the picture at the present moobjective situation tends for radicalizing While the crowded one day session Germany ran to 10 000. 000 because Ger the politically backward workers.
brought out many healthy aspects it also ment. Within it is contained the visible many offered a full 100 per cent credit for In view of these facts la glaringly showed the extremely narrow outlines of the upward curve in which the eigbteen months and on some deals for two strength and energy to the support of the character of the movement to date. More resistance, as yet isolated, can become a offensive ot workers over the policies adopted will. instead of years or more. He adds: possibly broad movement led by the Left Opposition. big Soviet construction program in stand for the adoption of the fundamental overcoming the difficulty, tend further to sweep and surely of much sharper conflicts.
the lirals metallurgic plants, tractor and views of the Left Opposition by Comintern Darrow a basis where now the broadest Each such curve requires its specific tacmachine plants were planned with the aid internationally and of the views of the scope is not only essential but also possible. tics. Each has possibilities of growth for of American specialist, who are cooperatthe movement and the tactics of one must Communist League of America (Opposition)
Many Extraraganzas ing in building. But in the present difficult in the nited States. stand for the imA summary of the speeches made, all simultaneously be the preparation for the period, which our leaders never attempted mediate reinstatement of the expelled Oppo other.
bristling with a healthy militancy, would to deny or disguise (so. credits play an sitionists into the Party and Comintern.
indicate the complete absence of a serious First Tanks important role. If we get better terms from For a genuine World Eolshevik Pars tackling of the problem how to set the At this moment the Srst necessity is Europe we must place orders in Europe ty! For the Proletarian Revolution!
working masses Into motion aginst their the most elementary ground work. Milinsteada of America. OORGE SAIL class enemy. They were well typified by lions of workers are unemployed and only The Chicago unemployment conventhe first speaker from the floor, following a small section get into motion. Millions tion did not take up or attempt adeguately the main report. This speaker, on behalf are still blissfully ignorant of their future to solve the tasks which the present situof the New York delegation, extravagantly status as members of a standing army of ation had place upon it. Despite its narpledged: to build the mass unemployed unemployed. That is the first point to rowhes, a correct policy could have made councils to build the mass revolutionary bring home. The bourgeoisie have se to a substantial beginning toward laying the The Daily Worker of July 18, 1930, unions to build the mass Communist work actively to divide the ranks of the un foundation for a broad genuinely united prints the report made by Stalin at the 16th Party, etc. etc. Nor were any of the dem employed workers from those having jobs movement of the working class against the Congress of the Communist Party of the ocratic encumbrances of ordinary labor and already with some success to isolate present captalist reaction and in the strugSoviet Union. In it, Stalin says: gatherings apparent at this convention. the unemployed movement in its organized gle for the unemployed. The Left Commun The Chinese workers ar) peasants All was cut ready to order its first business expression fro the working masses. Can ist Opposition must intensify Its fight for have already replied by forming Soviets being the selection of a presidium from a these efforts of the bourgeoisie be effective such a policy.
and Red Armies. IT IS REPORTED that previously made up slate. The presidium ly defeated in any way than the broadest Soviet Governments are being formed. IF THIS IS TRUE, do not find any cause for then proceeded to select those who were application of the slogans for work or to speak from the floor, as per its an compensation, unemployment relief, shorter announcement from lists submitted in ad workday, credits for Russia, etc. Obvithing but the Soviets can save China from vance by district delegations. This method ously not. Certainly the successful carryfinal ruin and impoverishment. gently eliminated in advance anyone ing on of the struggle for the unemployed It is reported. it this is true who might not hew closely to the official means to spare no efforts really to unite that is how Stalin speaks of the much adline.
the working class, which cannot be done The white terror in Mexico continues in vertized Chinese Soviet regime. The On its positive side the convention had within the narrow framework of the still greater force than formerly, there Daily Worker, and with it the international some real healthy aspects shown for ex There could hardly be any situa having been within the last few weeks nu Stanist press, have been filled for weeks ample in a large Negro delegation, 153 out tion where correct united front policies merous, especially vicious, attacks on the with columns of clap trap sensationalism of a total of the announced 1120 registered are so essential than precisely in this one working class organizations on the part with wirelesses from Shanghai. about the delegates. Many splendid prolotarian types Could the hypocrisy and deceit of tbe so of the bourgcois counter revolution Se80, 000, 000 Chinese who have established a had answered the call and came clearly ev cial reformists and self styled progressives veral working class leaders have been mur. Soviet regime in Southern China. These idencing the signs of pressure of the econ on the burning issue of unemployment be dered by the present regime in widely sep stories were used to justify the false polomic crisis drawing workers toward the better exposed than just through a correct arated sections of the country. Recently icy of Stalinism in China and to confound Left, themselves being attracted by a move and genuine united front policy?
in an armed clash between a Communist the Trotskyist renegades. Stalin now iment which had fearlessly taken up their These, however, were not the matters demonstration protestil. the governments sings another song. Has the Daily Worker battles. Otherwise the composition of the given serious consideration at the unem anti labor policy, twenty conrades were been bloffing, as we said it had. delegation showed but little sweep of the ploymont convention. It wag keyed up to killed at Matamaros Leguna. State of Co Has an organized Chinese Soviet regime movement beyond the general periphery of a very revolutionary phraseology but forgot ahuila been established? Does the Comintern realthe Communist Party and closely sympathe its elementary tasks. William Dunne, The Communist Party and ly know anything about it or not? YES OR tic organizations and groups. 484 delegates in his report for the correctly (Unitarian Labor Federation affiliated to came from the Chicago district alone, 150 stressed the necessity of unification of all the have Leen entirely incapable from Michigan, 73 from Minnesota, 92 from of the struggle of the workers But from of resisting these attacks. e part o. the Ohio, 56 from Indiana, 53 from New York that came the wrong conclusion, in the pro reactionary forees. The niasses inder pieces as a result, but the Communiste and a sprinkling from some other states. gram of action adopted, entirely to limit pressure of the general crisis, with its remain for the most part at thelr posts in There were none of those Southern workers the unemployed movement within the frame continuous shut downs, and unemployment the existing state labor federation, who had taken buch splendid part in the work of the Thus the exact opro reaching the 700, 000 nark, continua Conrades Eduardo Calero and Jorge strikes of the Carolinas.
site of unification. Each union and indus swing towards the Left. The Commun Pino, members of the Central Executive To understand the basic cause of the trial league is to set up unemployed coun ists, however, are no. able properly to or Conimittee of the Young Communist Fedpresent narrow limits upon a movemeni ells in their industry as a part of the ganize this growing discont it, with the eration of Mexico, have been expelled for General councils, according to the prowhich has grea. possibilities and has otherresult that the anarcho syndicalists of the disagreement with the present Party line.
wise displayed vitality in struggle should gram, are not to be organized where a sec. General Confederation of Labor, also suf Comrade Calero has issued a statement in now be the object of serious efforts of tion of the existe These ade niech fering at the present time the government support of the Left Communist Opposition, all militants. Without that no shortcomings anical limits which isolate the movement persecutions, are reaping a big harve in by which step the Mexican Opposition group will remedied. It is wrong to conclude and confines it to that section of the work fields of organization and infuence. Low finds itself reinforced by one of the finest ers ready to join the revolutionary er Colifornia is becoming the scene of great as the Party does, that the present situaelements of the youth movement.
tion is one of a revolutionary upsurge of unions. There could be no better way of struggles and the anarcho syndicalists are Ping and also comrade David Alfaro the working masses in the United States.
actually preventing a mass basis of strug Sus activities far exceeding those of Siqueiros, recently expelled from the Riding the crest of such a wave which is gle for the unemployed. The social re the Communists in both the Imperial Val of the Party and from the Party itself as artificially constructed will at best get us formist will thus have a free field to raily ley Region and in the mining camps of mentioned in a former issue of the Militant, caught in the dip, and at the worst preall those workers who by vain search for a Santa Rosalia in the central part of the are both among those remaining in jail, pare us for serious defeat when the offen job are turning away from capitalist ide peninsula.
after their arrest for participation in the sive begins The March Sixth and other clogy but are not yet ready to join the Not only is the Party incapable of car May Day demonstrations. They are being unemployment demonstrations have mani revolutionary unions. In that broad feld rying its struggle to new fields but is held together with a number of Party and fosted splendid working class response, but they can continue to sow their seeds of ileven losing heavily in sections where it comrades without ball and without nevertheless what is most outstanding at lusions and deceit. And it is precisely also formerly had great strength. In the State trial.
the present moment is a downward curve. in that field where a united front strufgle of Michoacan, the local labor federation, The Mexican section of the InternaEverywhere increased capitalist reaction; around the burning issue of unemployment wbile actually manipulated by the state tional Red Aid, which for a time, under innumerable jailings of Communist and as well as Communist activities bas such governor who is posing as a Leit and a the able. direction of Enea Sormenti, workers on strike (many delegates were rich potentialities. laborite. has been greatly subject to made a big stir on the basis of plenty of arrested on the way and in Chicago. The Program of action Communist influence from some time back. bluff but with no substantial national basis, break up of demonstrations; intensified The program of action lists the im Recently the Central Committee ordered is unable to do more in the present crisis speed up: wage cuts, directly and indirect modiate demands to be made: Work or the Party comrades in Michoacan to affil with mass arrests, terror and almost com11; the trade unions, including the new wages, unemployment relief, no evictions, iate the state labor federation to the plete Illegality than to shout an occrsional industrial unions, losing members. With hour day, free employment ogencies, or else organize a dual organization slogan or issue a few leaflet in protest.
this reaction also increasing signs ot etc. total of 17 demands. Unquestionably dependent on the he Michoacan The Party claims that Pino and Sicuciros workers resistance through small defen the few most pressing ones, which are also comrades, realizing that no profit could are government stool pigeons and that they sive strikes. There have lately been, for the most elementary ones, must become be effected by this policy which the masses had themselves arrested in order to win example, the strikes of the southern tex the outstanding slogang. It would, however, could not fail to recognize as having an prestige among the Party rank and flle!
tile workers in Elizabethton and Marion have been more correct and realistic to open splitting character. refused to obey Naturally they are not receiving the 4and those of the northern section in Nazar advance the demand for the six hour day. the orders of the Central Committee. The efits of the non partisan defense che eth and Aberless, Pa. and Plainfield, More realistic, 11 for nothing else, in view Party organization in the state fell to Red Aid. RB NO?
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