A Concrete Program on the Unemployed Urgent Appeal!
city could be held. Demonstrations should be held not merely on ritual days mechanically set by Moscow for the whole world. but at Continued from last issue times when there are burning local issues By ALBERT WEISBORD The Party wants to fight the police.
In the proletarian quarter alone can be Good.
helping only to spread opportunist and parBut then why not think HOW to to meet. The evictions of families, or a affected the widest mobilization of the liamentary illusions. Besides local strike, or the picketing of shops that while the fight the police? Do the fools leading the unemployed and of the workers generally.
have raised prices or a similar event, can Here is the place where the poorer gections workers must raise the question of social Party ever think of this? Let us analyze very well become the starting point.
of the petty bourgeoisle can be neutralized insurance in the sharpest manner, making the meetings at Union Square, New York But besides that general huge deit also a blogan for building a labor party) City. or City Hall Newark.
and in part won over. Here is the place It is in a monstrations should be held 80 arranged a social insurance bill proposition can not commercial neighborhood. It is a huge where the relatives of the unemployed who that they can result in the workers helping give bread to the starving nor shelter to open square. It is far from the big may be working elsewhere can be drawn themselves to food! This is of paramount factories. It is far from workers neighinto the movement.
the evicted. How can we answer the quesSince the proletarian borhoods. The police entirely surround importance, a fact that the lovers of Union quarters usually surround large factories tion of the hungry and evicted jobless?
Squares and City Hall Parks entirely fail whose workers live in the neighborhood, ONLY BY ANSWERING: SELF HELP the meeting Can you imagine a general to see. Such demonstrations must be most here is where a living unity between emWILL GIVE YOU BREAD AND SHELTER!
calling on his troops to fight, who isolates carefully prepared.
ployed and unemployed can be consumThe proletarian revolution will do so perhis vanguard from his reserves and places Marches from the proletarian quarmated and strikes of all the factories in manently, seizure of food and shelter will them in a regular police trap? Maybe this was the way Browder fought Chiang Kaiin mighty disciplined formations marks nathe quarters most easily affected. Finally do so immediately.
Shek. eh? Poor Chiang Kal Shek! If the turally the highest stake of the struggle here is where the police are weakest and We must boldly say to the starving and leaders of the Party were stool pigeonsters to a central point or to the City Hall the workers strongest. destitute poor that the whole immediate to use the favorite expression of Browderand should be held when the movement 18 The fourth difference is that such objective of the unemployment movement they could not betray is to seize the things necessary to live.
fighting movement widespread and well organized and when a method as the proposed insures the debetter.
there is the greatest determination to meet velopment of leadership from among the The careful organization work in the prothe stiffest police attack. Under some cirworkers and the activization of the nonletarian quarters, the carefully prepared How then, should street demonstracumstances, in some countries such a stage Communiat council members. In this restreet demonstrations must all be with the tions be organized. a. Mainly, through the of the struggle may very well mean the spect the Party can show no worthwhile thought firmly in mind of leading to that block groups in proletarian neighborhoods. beginning of the issuance of the slogan for results whatever. But since large sections situation where the workers are enabled Here, the streets are often more narrow.
Workers Control of the factories. etc.
of workers, with the exception of those to help themselves of the things they need!
Here, if fighting takes place, the workers The organization of such a movement not yet expelled by the Party are fascista. if the immediate major objective of have a chance. The buildings can be used can not be done without the creation of the social fascists or worse, what can be the unemployment movement is the seizure advantageously. Here the fight can spread. widest united front of the workers. or expected? Under the plan proposed, howof the necessaries of life, the entire proThe police can not easily surround it. this the Party leaders with their theories ever, the will be changed through the gram of the unemployed movement must The widest masses, wives, families, store of Fascism and Social Fascism are insmall block unemployment council. Real be based on getting food and shelter for keepers, students, clerks, employed work capable. But it must be done. This is a business will be conducted by the members the jobless. The formation of Tenant Leaers, etc. can be drawn in. Shops and fac test also for the Communist Opposition themselves, their own officers and execu gue must be started by the unemployment tories can be pulled on strike and swept groups. Come, when will you mobilize your tives will be elected, small dues will be paid, movement on a large scale. Desperate reinto the battle. In short, here the police forces? When will you join hands on this meetings will be held regularly, responsistance of every kind must be put up to are weakest and the workers strongest.
Bible work will be assigned to all, delegates every eviction that takes place. Here we issue? When will you işsue a broad united Through the fighting squads organized by front call? When will you begin the work will be elected to higher bodies, reports can learn a great deal from the tactics the block groups, a whole section of the the Party criminals can not do?
will be regularly made, policies will be used in the Passaic, New Bedford and Gasinitiated and understood by the rank and tonia strikes. The widest movement of file, the terror of the police will be mini resistance, including making it unprofitable mized, the leaders tested. In short the for landlords to evict, the boycott, picketing unemployment group becomes the real lead.
mass resistance street demonstrations and As our readers will note by the date fice of The Militant, 25 Third Avenue, New er of Its block.
strikes can be aroused on the question of the present issue, we were compelled York, We come now to the question: how 13 of evictions and non payment of rent. Such it that these simple considerations never movements are the best teachers for the to skip publication of the October 15th OUR STUDY CLASSES revolution.
number.
entered the heada of the Party officials, The ommission was caused by Two successful classes have already the bad financial sitiation of the Militant that no such work was ever done? The Hand in hand with the formation of which forced us last summer to go back been organized by the New York branch of answer is clear. The leaders of the Party Tenant Leagues should go the formation of the Communist League of America, each are amateurs and worse. They never won cooperative restaurantg we hasten to add, from weekly to semi monthly publication.
with an average of 25 worker students. One their spurs of leadership through doing not like those of the Proletcos in Union To skip even a single issue of the paper is conducted by James Cannon, on mass work in a Communist way, now is a heavy blow to us. It means that The few Square, or of the co operative houses in the many of the problems with which the History of the American Labor Movement who tried mass work (like Foster et al. the Bronx, and not like the soup kitchens and the other by Albert Weisbord, on did 80 as 80 called fascists. that is as proposed by Party members but real Militant deals regularly, the questions it Marxian Economics. More students have lakes up, the information it presents that CONSCIOUS AND LOYAL agents of the workers co operative restaurants that will registered for the Weisbord class than Gomperses in the American Federation of cost but very little to establish that will is contained in no other revolutionary pathere was room for, and others who reper in this country must be neglected.
Labor. The Party has never really chosen sell a few simple dishes at cost (and thus gistered cannot attend on Friday night its leaders. Foreign federationism, fac help those who while not destitute have but The need the Militant Gills in the movewhich is when the class meets. To accotionalism, and the saw to that. Final very little money. that will help compel ment is being kinderstood by an ever inmodate them, another class has been openwas ly, the Party never and never contributions from other stores and reg.
creasing circle of workers. The Militant ed for them on Thursday nights with comis more and more becoming the organ of developed into a real Communist Party in taurants, that will help to support a move.
rade Weisbord as director. This class bethe United States. Under the able lead ment for the extension of credit by storethe most conscious and thinking section gins on Thursday, November 13. Workers ership of past and present leaders euch keepers to workers families out of work, of the Communist and Left wing move who have not yet registered for this course a development was impossible.
that will wipe ment.
the color line most efIn the marine industry, in the coal can do so by getting in touch immediately fectively etc.
miners struggle in Illinois, in the needle with the Militant office, at 25 Third AveThe question of food and shelter involves trades, in the reviving Left wing in the The unemployment movement must nue, Room 4, New York, The classes have a comprehensive and concrete prothe question of wages. The unemployment Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America meet at the Labor Temple, 14th Street and movement must be closely bound up with in a dozen other situations, the Militant gram of activity, far different from that of 2nd Avenue: Weisbord every Friday and is doing ploneer work of immense signi Thursday, Cannon every second Wednesthe faker leaders of the party, a program the movement for resistance to wage cuts ficance.
and worsened conditions.
that will answer the question of the workThe unemployIt is not only a semi monthly day. The tuition fee is purely nominal, that is required: We must have a weekly ers: What are we to ment movement must help in the organwhen we are hunMake registerations immediately.
as soon as possible!
gry, are being evicted from our homes, ization of the unorganized and in the creation of a strong Left wing to win the workare out of a job? How indeed shall the The temporary setback in regular puOF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN.
SAGEMENT, CIRCULANC ETC. REQUIRED blication which we have suffered does not ers in the reactionary unions to a militant hungry be fed and evictions stopped? The BY THE ACT OF at all correspond with our growth in in 1912.
policy.
Party shouts Work or Wages or the Of The Militant, published weekly at New York, The immediate program of non payuence and membership. On the contrary.
Insurance Bill reminding one sometimes for Oct. 1930.
Our ranks and influence are growing. Our State of New York of the English Chartists, who, misguided ment of rent, resistance to evictions reducactivities are multiplying. BUT OUR COMColetore new yorktary in and for the State mand, tion of the cost of living extension of credby the English bourgeoisie in 1832 used RADI AND SYMPATHIZERS HAVE NOT county aforesaid, personally appeared Max Shachtman, to shout for The B111! the Bill! Nothing its, seizure of food etc. as well as the YET REALIZED THE FINANCIAL BUR poses and says that he the but the B111!
ro fight for social Insurance can be enforced Business to Manager de.
the Militant and that the following is, to the The DEN THAT MUST BE CARRIED.
First only by means of street demonstrations.
best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of few words on the slogan Work omission of the last number must serve the ownership, management, etc. of the aforesaid or Wages. Since when do Communists deIt is to this important question that we publication for the date shown in the above caption, now turn.
to remind them sharply of this problem required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied mand work from the capitalists? The that must be solved by all. We can and Postal Laws and Street Demonstrations Right to Work was never a Marxist slothe res must and rely only upon our members Street demonstrations and street fight1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, gan. After the proletarian revolution, the friends. It is they who must relieve the editor, managing editor and business managers are: ing in America have an extraordinary Publisher: Communist League of America (Op.
dictatorship makes it plain that every persignificance. Especially at the present time, pressure of the financial difficulties that positoin) 25 Third Avenue, New York, son had the DUTY to work, but before the Editor: None. food riots breaking out in New York prevents us from executing many of the proletarian revolution, while work means Managing Editor: Max Shachtman, 25 Third Ave.
New York, tasks that confront us so imperatively.
work under capitalism. work that strengCity, Chicago, Detroit, or the other large Business Manager: Martin Aber, 25 Third Avecities of the United States would be of These of our supporters who are work nue, New York City.
thens capitalism, only of fakers, ing must give doubly. Those of them who That the owner Communist League truly enormous international importance.
opportunist socialists, or worse, demand This puts upon the Communists in are out of work must give their aid by Martin Abert Max Schactman, for labor the Right to Work. But perhaps Avenue, non, 25. Can these cities an extraordinary responsibil soliciting donations from other workers the Party is only supplementing the the25 Third Ave. Maurice Spector, 25 Third ity to prepare and to organize these demand friends. UNLESS WE RECEIVE SUB Avenue.
ory in Browder pamphlet Out of a Arne Swabeck, 25 Third Ave.
onstrations.
Job that if the capitalists recognize RusNothing more exposes the STANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND HAVE That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and phrase mongering of the Party bureaucrats OUR REGULAR INCOME INCREASED sia, there will be work. Recognize Soviet other security holders owning Ofis, mori per cent other mortgages, or than their demonstrations. In phrase IMMEDIATELY, THE EXISTENCE OF or morecurities as amount. Russia and get a job goes hand in hand are: None.
THE MILITANT IS DIRECTLY THREA4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving Fight the Police. in practice put the with the slogan we want work. the names of the owners, stock holders, and security workers in such a position that they could TENED.
holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockThe new slogan Social Insurance B111 holders and security holders as they appear upon not fight. In phrase Seize the Streets. We need five hundred dollars right the books of the company but also, in cases where is a clumsy method of correcting the errin practice hold a meeting in a business away! It is not a large sum, but it will hookstock holder compaccyrity buldere appeare upon the or in Work or Wages so as to throw the district in an open square, get a lot of enable us to push ahead with our work. fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporaweight of the demand not on work but tion for whom such trustce is acting, is given also pictures taken buy a lot of ice cream cones Every comrade and friend must aid genthat the said two paragraphs contain statements em.
on wages.
and candy sold by streeet vendors peddling erously, swiftly, with a realization of the bracing affiant full knowledge and belief as to the Spreading Parliamentary Illusions in the very midst of the crowd all through burning need. Check up on all unpaid holders and security holders who do not appear upon It 18 plain to all conscious workers the meeting and call it a demonstration. bills! Make a substantial donation by the books of the company as trustees, hold stock that the Party social insurance bill can and securities, in a capacity other than of a bona etc. In New York City all onstra mail immediately! Collect contributions fide owner and this affiant has no reason to believe never be carried out in America without tions have been held in Union Square. In from your fellow workers! Get subscriphas any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, proletarian revolution. This is not made Newark and most other cities they are tions for the paper! Bear in mind that bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.
clear by the Party. The Party, by making staged before the city halls.
Max Shachtman, Managing Editor. This politi the Militant is in serious danger!
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of the campaign in the way it is doing, 18 calzes It don you know.
Send all funds immediately to the ofOctober, 1930. Keefe, Notary Public (My commission expires March 30, 1931)
in section verse be this form mmted whegulations, printed Third