THE MILITANT The Wage Cutting Drive Published Twice a Month by the Communist League of America. Opposition)
Vol. III No. 28 Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YORK, Saturday August 15 1930 PRICE CENTS What Green Sellout to Hoover and the Bosses Really Means to the American Workers What Going On in China?
Is Sylvia Bleeker to Be Expelled?
Hardly had the stock market collapse tleman agreement by organizing strikes and the mass unemployment that followed against starvation wage cuts. right on its heels had time to sink into the These figures are but part of a much minds of the working class than that ever greater mass. And they relate only to those faithful footman of the American capitalist workers who have jobs. How about those class William Green rushed to the Hoover that are jobless? The Labor Bureau putemployers conference to pledge that he lishes the following would do all in his power to prevent any Twelve. Month Comparison of Volume The Daily Worker, through its great strikes in the coming period.
of Employment As we go to press, we are given the folOrientalist Doonping, announces that the America industrialists winkingly asin percenti lowing important information: Chinese Revolution advances by leaps and sured Green, without smiling, that on their 1928 to 1929 1929 to 1930 Comrade Slyvia Bleeker, cne of the bounds towards the establishment of a So part they would not undertake to cut labwell known leaders of the Left wing in the July. January. viet Republics and that the red armies or wages.
needle trades, was barred from attending August. (D. August February.
grow like snowballs.
Green Remains Loyal the meeting of the Party needle trades frac5 September. March.
The stimulant to this latest effusion is the Green has of course kept his part of tion held in the Workers Center Friday October. April reported operation of the so called Comthe bargain. In accordance with the role he night August The Stalinist appointees November. 2 May munist armles in the Yangtise Valley (Hu is paid to play, and has played for years, in charge of the meeting informed her December. June. 13 nan, Hupeh, Klangsu and Fukien. he has religously sabotaged any movement that she could not attend without a permit couple of months ago, its pages of the American workers to fight aginst These figures represent only the per from the secretary of the Control Commigplastered with maps and rhetoric, an issue the growing impoverishment to which uncentage changes in the number employ sion of the New York district.
ed.
of the Dally Worker appeared greeting the empoyment, speed up anl wage slashing No account is taken of part time The action is evidently the result of convocation of the All Chinese Congress condemn them. He motivates his incessant employment. It is pointed out that the the meeting a week previously of the disnumber of man hours worked would show of Soviets. Thereafter with the same scabbing with a reference to the employers trict Control Commission which comrade an even more drastic downward curve.
startling legerdemain this all Chinese Con pledge to maintain the American wage Bleeker was instructed to attend. There gress completely disappeared from the eyes standard. Here is how It is being mainThe cold figures speak an eloquent she was confronted with an anonymous acof men, sunk without a trace. Long, tained: Language They show as clear as day cusation of being a Trotykyist. In anweary weeks afterwards, with the intelli The National Cash Register Co. of Daythat the American capitalist class is work swer to a number of heresy hunting quesgence service of a great state at his diston, Ohio, has put through a 10 percent ing to issue out of its own, crisis by tions, she replied that she was sympathetic posal, Stalin vaguely referred to this Socut for 6, 000 employees.
squeezing the last drop out of the work towards the views of the Left Opposition.
viet Congress in such terms as It is said Fifty hosiery mills in the United States ing class. The less resistance that is The Inquisition then demanded that she and If It is true, it would not surprise us. have abolished extra rates for continuous offered the more arrogantly will the bouges hand in written stateent of her views.
proceed to carve deeper into the standards Sands of Illusion operation services, says the Labor Bureau, of life hitherto won by the wrokers. The Typical Case which amounts to actually decreasing The Communist International cannot need for a militant front to include every The case of comrade Bleeker is un be built on the shifting sands of illusion.
wage earnings, while members of the Amalworker is now more imperative than ever.
doubtedly typical of scores of other comSuch scruples however play small part in gamated Association of Iron and Tin WorkFor Social Insurance rades in the Party, whom the ruinous the factional calculations to those for whom ers in the Youngstown, Ohio district, are And for the unemployed, whose fate course of the latter has set to thinking to receive 25 cents a ton less as wages the rising of a Bolivian military clique is 18 so closely linked with that of the work fundamentally on the situation in the Coma social revolution, a tribal raid is a war during May and June as a result of a deer with a job, the broadest campaign to munist movement and the işgues raised by against imperialism, five thousand in cline in the average price of steel bars.
the international Left Opposition.
alleviate their difficulties must be conductCoinSimilarly, employeess of copper producers Union Square are fifty thousand, water ted. The costs of the crisis must be shifted rade Bleeker is not only one of the most in Arizona are to receive a preliminary turns into wine and the water into the body to the shoulders of those who profited by the prominent militants in the needle trades, Wishes are not facts and we wage reduction based on the average sellof Christ.
prosperity, the capitalists, and who now but an old devoted Party member She do not propose to replace Marxtom by ing prices of copper during April. Average want the workers to suffer from the dejoined the underground Communist Party journalistic bally hoo. We adhere to Lenselling prices for May will, of course, be cline. The demand must be raised everyin the United States in 1920 to which she In old fashioned practise of calling a lower and hence another wage reduction where for recognition of the Soviet Union had been transferred from the Russian Parspade a spade, and a putech a putsch. To will take place on June and long term credits to it so that it can ty, for which she had been carrying on avoid mere emotionalism, one must retain a Sixty Wage Cuts cominence the purchase of machinery here responsible work in Poland during the clear picture of the character and the perThe August bulletin of the Labor Bur on a large scale. The demand for social most critical days of the Russian revoluspectives of the Chinese Revolution.
eau reports 60 distinct wage cuts by as insurance to be paid by the state and the tion. Since 1926, she was secretary of the The theses of the Second Congress of many frms or industries since May. It bosses, must be developed until the force milliners local 43 of the Zaritsky union, the Comintern energetically warned against adds: The wage truce, supposed to have behind it cannot be resisted.
and was one of the leaders in the Left wing the danger of permitting petty bourgeois been agreed to by employers at the Hoover The Camorra of Green and Co. has fight. She was elected a vice president and democratic movements in the colonial conference early last winter, has been vio betrayed the workers. They must lead member of the General Executive Board countries to masquerade as Communist.
lated by reductions in pay. Honor to the fight aganst wage cutting and unemof the Needle Trades Workers Industrial What shall we say today when amorphosu Bill Green who would not violate the gen ployment themselves.
Union at its foundation, and still occupies guerilla bands of socially uprooted soldiery the post of organizer of the Headwear Department of the organization. At the reand peasantry have only to use the insignia of the hammer and sickle to be proclaimed cent convention of the ghe as the genuine Soviet emancipators of was removed from the by JohnIn a few days the third anniversary of China? Yet in this confusion for which the no dependence can be put upon the capit stone and Co. because of the militant dethe cold blooded murder of Sacco and alist nyenas. The need of the moment is Stalin bureaucracy is responsible there is fense of her views on the Party trade Vanzetti will be reached. Their memory, a broad protest movement to shake the a certain logic. Here is more testimony union policies.
ever green in the heart of the world prolet country and liberate the two victims of to the political consequences that flow from The question that now arises is this: ariat, remains a burning appeal for the Californian capitalism, the reactionary idea that the next stage struggle against class Justice and perse is comrade Bleeker to expelled from At the other end of the country, Willin the social development of China is the the Party by the Browders and their little cution. democratic dictatorship. in theory the iam Foster, Robert Minor, Amter and Perillas because she, like so many others, While the workers everywhere gather Harry Raymond remain imprisoned on peasant democracy in fact, the regime dares to hold views, entirely Communist, to commemorate their judicial assassination Welfare. Island. The magnanimous either of a Kerensky or Chiang Kai Shek.
that run counter to the momentarily offthe pledge must be renewed for the fight to Mayor Walker has kindly corisentett to Yesterday this famous democratic dictatcial dogmas of the Stalinist clique? Thus release all the class war prisoners who have the first three released at the end of orship was to be realized through the far, it seems the question of her Party continue to fill the penitentiaries of the six months. Every additional day of their bourgeois Kuomintang: today it is slated membership is pending. Her expulsion, bloated plutocracy o this country. At this incarceration makes more crying the need to emanate from peasant guerilla warfare.
like that of supporters of the Left Opposivery moment, a cynical, farcical hearing But what of the industrial proletariat.
for a defense movement that will release tion in the past, would constitute a disis being held again on the case of Tom them and prevent others to come from takand the Communist Party? In 1925 7, Mooney and Warren Billings.
graceful act by the Stalinists and deepen whole ing their place.
the Communist Party was turned into a the mark of bureaucracy with which their miserable edifice of perjury, falsehood and In the fight for the release of these mere appendage of the Chinese bourgeoisie; past acts have branded them.
crime built up against them has crumbled men, as for the defense of the Atlanta in 1930, the fragment of the Communist long ago. What is left is the hideously victims, the Centralia for the ItalThe aim of the Browders Party left after the massacres of Chiang naked body of the American frame up sys lan Communist Serio, Malkin and others There are many other in the Party Kal Shek, has become a red tinctured editem, the acme of our capitalist culture. elsewhere, the Left wing must take the like comrade Bleeker who allow themselves tion of the green peasant parties of Rad At the hearings, the prosecutors boldly de initiative and the leadership. Thus far to think, to express their views and to deitch and Stambulisky.
clare that irrespective of the evidence re it has failed signally. It is apparently too mand the right to discuss the within the The Third Chinese revolution is inev lating to the alleged crime proper, they fa busy with phrase mongering about the Vinnits of Party democracy. Are they all Itable1f its strategy is Marxist, if its lead vor the imprisonment of Mooney and Bill Third Period to carry out such petty to be expelled? Is the Party to be systemership is actuated by the recognition of its ings becayse they were labor agitators! work as defending the class war prisoners.
atically cut down so that the membership real driving forces. Between opportunism The real crime in the Mooney and Bill It must nevertheless be done. And on a is reduced to the apparatus crust at the and putschism the Stalin machine has ings case remains, as before, the passivity broad serious scale. Let the master class top and blind gagged yesshown that it can only retard and ruin rey of the workers who let their fighters rot learn that they cannot murder and impris men at the bottom? Evidently, that is the olutionary possibilities. In 1925 7 the in prison. Hearing or no hearing, we have on our militants without hearing the reply ideal towards which the Browderian ag(Continued on Page 7)
learned the bitter lesson sufficiently that of the working class!
glomeration is striving.
Our Class War Prisoners Must Be Freed!