The Communists in the South Blackmailers Cloaked in Red Mantles criminal As matter of Review and Criticism tive situation and how wide a breach we can make in the class enemies ranks, the unity of the first and the division of the second spell success for us. But without a favorable objective situation we cannot speak of success.
CLEVELANDBy HUGO OEHLER In Marion for example, the Musteite of The wing of the first sent the striking Czecho Slovakian Stalinists workers back to work with a promise ot Rovnost Ludu continue to make bitter at(11) With the black hundreds in the with months of this inactivity was transtacks upon me because exposed them in saddle and our activity shifted to bolding a settlement that we know never did come, formed into pessimism and our fraction of second, they did not force the mill owners the press. They call me ex detective. and reorganizing our forces for a comeback northern comrades was in a similar condiwe started our new work. Secret work in to live up to the preliminary conditions and according to them, was supposed tion. The pootponed national textile cohthe Gastonia area through mill locals and pending settlement, third, sold these work have clubbed workers heads in Youngstown vention held in December in Paterson did increased open work all over the South ers out after they were back to work, and during the steel strike. This is one of the to hem in Gastonia and to narrow the not solve one of the basic problems of the fourth, betrayed these workers to the most calumnies.
Having no circle and close in. All that was needed south. In the meantime the was instrike against the sellout contract.
ground to stand on, they invent the vilest in the outer area was organization, for the creasing its work and with the liberals and Such action DeLeon and others pointed out and most vulgar stories.
sentiment for us was there in masses and a section of the bosses was being used as a before and it is nat a new and exclusive fact, was shot by a scab since was the our organizers and colonizers from the dam against our advance.
development of the Third Period.
one that grabbed him and prevented him outer area all sent letters telling us they Another blunder following from the After all this and after the Marion from sneaking in through the gate. was are behind us and to keep up the good Third Period is the lumping of all outmassacre the Musteites still retained lead also on the strikers committee, representwork. Many new contacts were gained and side the official Communist Party as Faswork toward October 13 went ahead.
ership and gained influence throughout the ing a crew of 25. know the methods of cist or Social Fascist while life was proving country. The southern fraction tried four The newspapers predicted that our con the class struggle is not so mechanical and the Stalinists pretty well, yet am 28times to break into Marion, but realize vention would now be a failure and the tonished at such cheap and disgraceful mesimple.
now that each time our advance and atbosses openly declared that it would not thods against an Oppositionist in the In the Atlanta case the Daily Worker be held. We decided it had to be held even tempt at united action against these fakers ranks of Communism.
had a scare headline telling how the Was shackled and we failed to gain our obif we had to move out of this area but a official on the jury helped indict our comThe pen slaves of Rovnost Ludu, an survey of our forces convinced us we could jective because this shackling from the top rades calling for the death penalty. But official Party paper, are the kind of Comby Third Period tactics predetermined hold it in Charlotte as originalig planned.
facts prove that Steve Nance, President munists who accept money from CzechoWe were The third trial wag on and while the legal our united action from below.
of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, memSlovak multi millionaires like Bata, the criticized four times by the center for these end was taking care of the trial the organber the Grand Jury that brought in the izers wore as busy as hell with the union world richest shoe manufacturer who exfailures that can be traced back to them.
work in the two Carolinas, Virginia, Tennindictment was the only one who voted Why not ask ourselves this: How can ploits his slaves in the most inhuman manessee and Georgia. Campaign after camagainst the indictment. Later the Trades such brazeu betrayals be rewarded by ner. In Rovnost Ludil, you can find big paign was launched against us, one on the Assembly passed a resolution with only greater influence of the Muste wing while advertisements from railroad companies, or heel of the other so fast that it seemed like Secretary Marquardt of the State Federour class struggle of Gastonia, which even Camel cigarets, not to mention various ads one continuation: red scare, Negro issue, ation and one other voting against the our enemies admit was led by forces that from bankers. This paper has degraded revolution, etc. but this did not stop the resolution calling for free speech for the cannot be bought out or run out (as is the itself to such a degree that even Mr. Browwork from progressing toward October 13. Communists. This third period tactic case with the have not been able der and his cohorts have protested against (m) Now to consider a few of the and misstatement played into the hands of to organize our influence from this strug these advertisements. But then, who is other issues for a while. As far as the these fakers as similar tactics play gle which was on much higher class really to blame for these anti Communist national LD. campaign by this time was into the hands of Muste, Thomas, Howat, ways of the Rovnost Ludu management if concerned it was a flop.
plane?
We had a direct etc. Our plan is to defeat these labor lieuYou cannot answer this on the basis not the Party chiefs?
issue, more important to the American tenants and not to strengthen them.
workers tdan the Sacco Vanzetti issue (as of capitalist reaction and the necessary While Lovestone reigned in the Party The Party Task in the South reso smallness of the revolutionary forces far as they were concerned. Such favorI warned him in letters that if he and the lution to the 7th Convention of the able situations no organization had faced until we are at a higher stage of the class rest of the committee would continue to says, Our perspective must be for the for years and naturally halt an effort struggle or in power, because the question neglect their duty to discipline the editors defeat of the and its Muste wing in would show some results but on the whole is not the organization of the majority of and managers of this paper, one of the the mass industries of the south. We must we saw failure. Why? This failure can workers under reactionary leadership or Party organs would soon disappear or be traced to the third period tactics and by all means defeat these fakers in the revolutionary leadership but the organiza would end in a pit of mire. Ever since the third period tactics can be traced to ranks of labor but to say this in harsh tion of a goodly section of the forces either then, things have gone from bad to worse Stalin revisionism of Marxism, of the most terms, that may denote our feelings, and to reactionary or revolutionary in the strug 60 that in Foster Browders Third Period. fundamental international issues and the accomplish the task are two different gles and strikes. We must also not forget workers are obliged to read the announceelimination of the Opposition.
things. The present tactics of the official we are in the Third Period with revo ment in that paper that asks them to attend In correcting the Party policy of the party is strengthening the position of these lutionary upsurge. Facts prove that with the funeral of a fat business man in the Right wing Lovestone leadership of marfakers instead of weakening their control proper tactics the revolutionary movement Holy Trinity Church rying all possible fakers in the and over the masses.
can consolidate its influence organizationalother working class organizations we cor Not even a hait baked revolutionist will It would be well to mention that the ly, as it has done in the past. In other rected this by dumping overboard with the argue that the struggle is simply one of proceeds from such ads are privately fakers all progressives and Left wingers words, our tactics have not only weakened the capitalist against the workers.
pocketed by a most unscrupulous individThe and Leninist united front tactics and reour own forces but at our expense have renproblem in the concrete is more comual named John Zuskar, who is supposed placed them with pure united front tacdered aid to these very enemies we talk to act plicated in the divisions and the many ansecretary of the non existent ties with ourselves. Paper conferences so much about. We do not expect to build tagonisms within the classes and between Czecho Slovak Communist fraction. Unwere held everywhere.
POWERFUL REVOLUTIONARY INDUSthe classes. Success or failure in advander his influence, Communist morale and in(n) And the masses or other blunders TRIAL unions in a few weeks work, overthe fluence has dropped among Czech cing our position in winning a strike or and mistakes, a volume in itself, of all shadowing the few million membership of workers.
types of mistakes from important ones to revolution depends upon how many of the the but we can expect to build a sublittle ones that amounted to setbacks were antagonisms and divisions in the workers stantial influence and organization in the Before was expelled from the Party made by the incompetent leaders, Engdahl, ranks can be eliminated for united action labor movement under our leadership with this scoundrel never dared make insinuaPoyntz and Jakira. The field fraction against the enemy in a favorable objec correct tactics.
ations against me for fear of having to anpounded away at these errors, constantly, swer before the Party. Now that Stalin has night and day, in every manner and form opened his murderous drive against the Left and found the leading committee at the Opposition, the ardent Zuskar never misses center wanting because they were a hindan opportunity to duplicate his master (Costinued From Page 8)
rance inhtead of a help. realize this now: of Action. which is thoroughly ultra Left methods. By the way, it was due to him That a Marxian Central Committee can away the base from the social reformists and adventurist. The main points of these that the Party criticism of Rovnost Luda correct this but a Central Committee made. It is preisely in the period of radicalrecommendations have been incorporated failed to appear there, until it was finally by a mechanical shift at the top replacing ization that social reformism has all the by the in its Shock Plan. which published in such a thoroughly distorted one variety of bureaucrats with another opportunities of growth among the working we have already criticized in the last issue form that the Fosterites would be satisvariety can only lead to further negative class. The period likewise makes for of the Young Vanguard. It can speak of fied. results.
shock troops, fronts and storming and all greater opportunities for Communism.
the In words the conter accepted our proSince this individual has continually (The Militant, March 8, 1930. other terms Now the in the dictionary of gram but in deeds what follows shows impugned my revolutionary integrity and military letter in its criticism of the warfare.
It even recomrecord, without replying to my demands the contradiction between the two. At estimation says: It is obvious that the mends red liacs for those who for proof, now openly challenge him and this point serious minded comrades at the do good work and black for those who don economic crisis narrows the basis for the the Party to establish public workers We suggest that the institutes a sys.
center (who were not decisive in determin influence of Social Reformism, you have court, composed of an equal number of ing actions instead of words from the tem of dunce caps and high stools, and also made a reservation as to the role of representatives of the Party and the Comcenter) laughed at my enthusiasm and told the League. But even these reservations spank all the naughty culprits whose names munist League (Opposition) who will me that now since the spectacular, emo cannot erase the fact that such a formulation appear twice in the black list. There jointly choose one or more non partisan tional part was over the bureaucrats would childish schemes do not at all relieve the shows an absolute underestimation of the members. Failure to concur in this proposforget the south in deeds if not in words, influence of reformism and its possibilities acute crisis the Is in.
al will brand Zuskar and those who mainand would receive less support froin now for growth such a country as America.
tain him in office as unscrupulous liars on than had From a political viewpoint, although its This was my first trip to Here is indeed confusion. One blind man oniy merit lies in calling attention to a and blackmailers. We await a reply. with several more to follow on the cannot lead another. The letter rec critical situation, the letter is a JOSEPH KELLER same argument and did not fully realize ognizes that there can be growth of re puerile document. It explains nothing and the truth this statement until ry last formism But it is incapable of showing it solves nothing. It may result in the trip in December, what is the basis for it. Ir Yes, the spectacular end was over and changing or removal of individuals, in dethe economic crisis narrows the basis for the Landy incompetence) pullmotions and promotions. But that is to no the influence of social reformism in the ing stakes with the Leaksville strike on avail. It will hasten the process of funUnited States, then why speak of possibil.
was followed by other departments in deeds damental re evaluation in the minds of the ities of its growth. The Stalinist bureau. but not in words) and a decline set in members, which will constitute BULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION crats of the invoke themselves an important step in the direction of the after the end of the trial. The objective in maze of contradictions, and muddle Double No. 12 13 for June July 1930 Left Opposition. GEORGE RAY factor was more favorable but our force the minds of the young Communists.
Published in the Russian Language was not taking advantage of this situation.
Reports from our field organizers and esYo Solution of the Problem If the number on your wrapper 18 25 cents each 18c in bundles pecially comrade Amy Schechter proved What does the letter propose as a remOrder from the favorable situation our work had given edy for the declining condition of the L?
us this far.
The Militant Does it explain the cause for the situation then your subscription to the Militant has The October optimism of our many Third veue.
It can only exhaust itself in futile denunNew York, New York expired.
Renew immediately in order to southern organizers and mill local officials clations. It recommends a socalled Plan avoid missing any issues.
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