Third Period Bluft Carolina Demands Its Pound of Flesh Bessemer City Strikes Again News from Southern California usual. a strike The same thing only LOS ANGELESTrials! Every week another one! With the exception of March 6, the demonstrations of February 26, March 20 (Paris Commune. May and August 1, were only attempts at demonstrations but in this reactionary town of comrades are being arrested for attempting as well as for holding a meeting.
At the head of the Red Squad is none other than Wm. Hynes, who boasts of having belonged to the Workers Party for nine months at its organization, who boasts of leading a strike in San Pedrothis working class traitor and boiler of.
little children (for he actually punished children way) arrests 28 at one meeting, 16 at another, 10 at a third, puts them behind bars, beats them, and then sentences them long months of imprisonment.
There is not a Communist in Los Angeles Party member or not, member 01 Pioneer who hasn got a jail sentence waiting for him.
of all the demonstrations, March was the exception, due to the newspaper publicity that the Communists are going to capture the City Hall. The streets were packed with great crowds who came to see the big show. Where were the masses on May and August 1? They were not to be seen in spite of the fact that 100, 000 leaflets were mimeographed and distributed for May and 35, 000 for August The Red Plaza was empty both occasions.
The Communiste were not allowed to enter the Plaza on May and so a few hundred comrades who gathered demonstrated on the sidewalks near the Plaza, led by the Pioneers. On August 1, the 50 comrades present witnessed the following demonstration. the members and Pioneers hired a truck with high sides, hid within it, and entered the Plaza in the truck from which the singing of the International aroused the police and 28 were arrested.
Of course the papers played it up. Reds Riot on the Plaza is their favorite headtine.
For the first time in the jury disagreed in the last two trials. Frank Spector and Carl Sklar, sentenced to 42 years in Foisom and San Quentin were brought handcuffed from the California Bastilles to these trials. Of course, dates for the new trials have already been set. California Justice cannot afford to let its victims loose. One woman Juror was reprimanded by the judge for reading the Daily Worker while on the jury. She replied that the ather jurors read the labor hating Low Angeles Times.
a perer up Ler The hue and cry has been raised. The posses are out for their victims. The North On May 18, over 800 workers of the localities and industries where it should Carolina supreme court has upheld the de American Mills, No. and of Bessemer have been decisively in the forefront and cision of the lower court in the case of the City, went out on strike against a leadership.
seven militants convicted for their activ 20 to 30 percent wage cut and the ruinous Instead of this difficult wark of ities in the recent Gastonia strike, and the pace at which they are driven by the mil authorities are demanding the surrender of persistent (and sometimes slow) founda.
basses. In flarng headlines, the Daily the defendants out on bail. But the deWorker immediately announced this detion laying, the Party leaders follow the fendants are not surrendering and they are policy of making the membership drunk fensive struggle as being under the lead not to be found. It is even said that some with intoxicating phrases about the massership of the National Textile Workers are on their way to the Soviet Union or Union.
es following our leadership by the milThe next issue of the Worker have already arrived there. And the chilion. about the crisis in American caphowever, meekly and obscurely informed valrous southern lynchers of Negroes and italism is finally breaking it down. and women are in an uncontrollable rage. us that there is a danger of a repitsimilar blubber.
Their victims are beyond their grasp. They ition of the form of betrayal made famous Result of Phrase Mongering have no intention of serving twenty of in the Flint automobile strike, with mistheir best years in the murder holes that leaders seeking to betray the strike by The result is that when a struggle serve as Carolina prisons.
waging an attack on the ordoes break out, the Party and the Left The fury of the textile kings legal ganization which has outlined a policy wing are frequently on the outside, esfootmen is boundless. Here they went to of struggle and spreading the strike.
tranged from the workers. This was true the expense of staging an elaborate frame On the third day, the Daily Worker dein the anthracite movement; and to cover up in court, of producing their prejudiced clared even more humbly and more obwitnesses, of paying god fearing jurors, in scurely, that it is not true, as previously up its own bankruptcy, the leadership followed its course order to send the active Gastonia Reds to stated that the is leading the of monstrous bluft to the effect that the was leadprison for terms that mean life. And after strike.
the trial, and after the appeal, the cells ing thousands of miners in.
prepared for the workers are just as empty Leadership of strikes and other strue against unemployment.
as when it all began, and they promise to gles is not won overnight, nor do betray. held true in Flint. No preparations of substantial, The remain empty.
als take place with such startling and solid nature strike The hyenas have been cheated of their mechanical suddenness. Betrayals come broke out. The customary concealment prey; the courts of their victims; the like lightning as culminating of impotence by loud shouting and bluff bloated textile manufacturers of their ven points of actions and tactics over a to the effect that the Auto Workers Inhgeance. And the people who murdered Ella iod of time, prepared in advance in a dustral Union is leading the Flint stikers May in cold blood are shouting about manner obvious to the militant elements. until the ease with which the bosses honor. the people who raided and smash. at least they should be obvious. and this agent, Comstock sold out the workers put ed tent colonies and relief stores, who is precisely what the Worker tries to cov. an end to the pitiful fairy tales of the kidnapped and tortured union organizers, To make it clear would be to ext Daily Worker. And now the Bessemer who brutally assaulted picket lines, who pose the results of the official Party City strike in the heart of the Party organized hooded terror bands, are ghouting former strength in the South, without the policy about the processes of law. The bullies slightest Communist or wing infur who attack womon and children, who Year Ago and Now ence on it. Here the attempt to bluff lynch Negroes when they outnumber them about leadership collapse a hundred to one, who are immune from One year ago, we led the strike in in two days, and the shamefaced denial reprisals by the mighty powers of the state Piessemer City at the same time that we had to be recorded quietly in the Party and its courts and police forces, are shout led the Gåstonia strike, and although the ing about cowards who run away. press.
strike committee had misleaders and stool respecatble and impartial cap.
pigeons on it, our forces with correct tacThe Party is entirely correct in pointitalist press of the North has joined in the tics, were able to isolate them and said ing out that a leadership which rejects hue and cry for surrendering the seven.
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the leadership of the strike.
The New York Telegram, with its pseudoclass struggle unionism and direction, and run Communist participation will the Iberalism that melts away at every touch semer City strike, it is true, had largely strike to ground.
been foreshadowed by the Gastonia strike The Party is similarly of the class struggle, also presumes to gorrect in fighting against the element speak of the missing defendants as cowbut it was our tacties that carried us for.
in control of the strike and attempting ards. Its editors probably got the tip ward, and the July 28 Bessemer City con.
to win the strikers to the National Texfrom the miserable article in the Daily ference, with a couple of hundred delegates Worker recently by Earl Browder, who acand over 1, 500 workers present demon tile Workers Union.
But the Party mecused comrade George Saul of cowardice strated our progress.
We had a union thods are wrong and it is these that have for having run away from a six month hall in Bessemer, held regular meetings, given birth to the very forces they are chain gang sentence. This creature of had two mill locals and two other groups fighting. To miss opportunities and fight Stalin, without convictions of his own or in the first stages of mill locals. Besse with false exaggerated policies, is to play the courage of the convictions allotted to mer City supported us through the over into the hands of the reactionary element him by his employer, maintaing a deep whelming majority of the textile workers who can then demagogically influence the lence on the Gastonia defendants now, not and the police were friendly just to the workers against a proletarian outlook and having the courage to defend their refusal degree that they were former textile method of struggle.
to walk into the life long dungeons the workers themselves and felt our strength It must be repeated that Bessemer City Southern Bourbons have prepared for them.
and the solidity of the workers.
is in the very heart of the Party most For our part, the prison cells of South. Bessemer City, by the way, was the home sensational struggle, at its ern reaction may continue to be empty. town of the martyred Ella May. the South The executioners of capitalist class fustice That it is now entirely out of have already taken more than enough toll From a condition of hegemony and unthe hand is an alarm signal in the wracked and tortured bodies of disputed leadership and with the possinil for the Communist workers. The third thousands of labor best sons. Let the ities greater and favorable objective fact period and its philosophy have already assassins of Haymarket, of Little and HII, ors, only one y. ar passes for us to reach a witnessed several strikes in this country: of Sacco and Vanzetti, cynical jailors of point where our leadership is not only re Illinois, Flint, Imperial Valley, Pattston, Mooney and Billings, the Centralfa men, jected, but organizers sent into the town and now Bessemer City. They were inthe Communists throughout the country are beaten up and almost lynched by hos dications of the better objective situation for let these Shyloks demand their pound of tile elemens, who, consciously or not, the movement, and the incapacity of the flesh of the Gastonia militants. Their howls play the game of the bosses and the Black Party leaderhip. The dumping of the leave the class conscious working class Hundreds Last year, when the Black third period and its philosophers is the cold. and firmer in its determination were Hundreds rode Gaston County We preliminary condition to the progress of the to release the class war prisoners who are revolutionary movement.
able to hold our own in Besgomer City Piessemer City still inside. which is six miles from Gastonia. today shows us why. HUGO OEHLER the tables are turned.
сонинішнісаllairiliconiншiсациншісіі пісаlluiliнiцгина Not all of the bombastic phrase mongering, and the self praise so disgraceful All readers on the Militant and their in a revolutionist, not all the cheap jourfriends, who desire to get their copy of nalistic talk about Our Party being the mags only revoutionary leader of the of Leon Trotsky, My Life. should make it The Militant, Room struggles of the American workers. can a point to order the book directly through Euccessful 25 Third Avenue, New York City conceal the lamentable failthe Militant. Shipment will be made the ure of the Party bureaucrats and their Enclosed find 00 for one year day the order is received, and the cost of Lciicies. The Beesemer City st. ike. Jike subscription to the Militant. Please the book, five dollars. 00. covers the the Flint, Michigan and Pittston strikes send me at once a copy of Trotsky postage charge. Send your order, together before it reveal the fact that the Party book on the Draft Program.
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unawares by struggles in precisely those The BER Organizers in the Party in change like hot cakes on a Childs frying pan.
Bureaucrat Begler is gone, charged with criminal neglect of duty. Mobil suddenly disappeared. Clark is in jail. So a 20 year old girl, hardly capable of holding a post tion, was appointed, for the job.
fortress to «MY LIFE The Friends of the Soviet Union held an enthusiastic meeting with Dan Donovan of the American Labor delegation to the Soviet Union. The hall was crowded with a thousand poople who listened attentively and applauded heartily, for the story of the Soviet Union is the only one that can fill a hall for the in Los Angeles. Of course, Donovan did not mention the persecutions undergone by Oppositionists. No questions were asked due to the lateness of the hour, and pictures shown did not show the prisons and places of exile where Rakovsky ad his comrades are suffering under the Stalinist regime. To defeat the great, centralized boura thousand times easier than to defeat millions and millions of small owners (bosges) who in their daily, le perceptible intangible but demoralizing se tivities achieve the very results desired by tne bourgeoisie, which restore tne bourgeoisie. Whoever in the least weakens the iron discipline of the party of the proletariat (especially during its dictatorship. aid in fact the bourgeoisie against the proletariat. LENIN ACT NOW!
geoisie is a THE MILITANT, Vol. III. No. 29 September 1930. Published twice monthly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at25 Third New York, Sub scription 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 matuer, November 28 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 3, 1879(Total No. 54)