Lumetete rrogt of Action The Communists and the Unemployment Crisis Kote Zinzadze Dead!
Without any let up, the economic crisis By ARNE SWABECK bearing on the world aspect of unemployhas been hitting deeper and the ranks of ment and furnishes a means of cementing unemployed workers the have increased ployed cast off from industry even during portunism of the amount of dollars and the natural interests between the Soviet from day to day, with the beginning of its favorable period when employment de cents demanded for each worker per week?
Union and the world proletariat.
1931 so far showing the very lowest ebb. creased despite the increase in production. Next the leadership even reduced its ori4. The forms, methods and tactics apConsequently, the economic experts and the It is further caused by the growing intensity ginal demand for 25. 00 weekly benefit per plied in the agitation struggle for the unfinanciers, in their New Year messages. of the struggle to reduce the working class worker to 15. 00, putting it exactly on a employed are of as equally vital importance maintained an extremely cautious tone, in standard of living as a whole through what par with a similar bill for 15. 00 per and can become correct only when thorougheverything except their demands for wage is euphemistically called reduction of the week now proposed by a newly organized ly inspired by serious efforts toward a cost doing business. These are some New York cuts. From the International Labor Bur.
committee representing civic broad united front basis. The hunger eau at Geneva comes the announcement that of the main factors in the present situation. social welfare groups and conservative trade marches must be made demonstrations in the world unemployed workers today count The contradictions of the savage system union leiders. Such a policy will in no way which all workers can participate and fur20. 000. 000, the European share being 11. of capitalist production and rule have in serve as preparation for the next stage, for ther fight: jointly their for common intercreased enormously, becoming of serious 000, 000 on a whole, a rather moderate esthe coming upturn in the movement for acests under tre proper broad slogans.
timate portent for the future. First we must re tive resistance to the capitalist offensive.
It is necessary to effect a reorganization That there has been a constant decrease gister the fact that nenceforth we will It cannot mobilize the workers under the of the unemployed councils genuinely on a have in the rich United States a of jobs in the United States with an allarge Communist banner but on the contrary helps united front foundation. Especially should most exactly corresponding growth of bread standing unemployed army creating a cen to put new life into an otherwise rather serious efforts be made to include the existlines is evident even to the casual observer. tral problem for correct Communist policy, feeble social reformism.
ing trades unions and working class orThe New York Industrial Commissioner, Present Status of Working Class Movement In the revolutionary movement there is ganizations even to the extent of such Frances Perkins, reports factory employ At the present moment, the outstand no escape from the inevitable logic of er whose leadership in an effort to offset posment in the state hitting the lowest level ing feature of the situation is still the capi roneous policies. general strategy which sible rank and file revolts, pretends to be record for December since the establish alist offensive, the working class attitude runs counter to the basic curve of the pe championing the needs of the unemployed.
ment of the bureau in June, 1914. The being expressed in distinctly defensive citie period leads to a continuous decimating Efforts toward a correct Leninist united December index for factory employment manner. ferocious slashing of wages, of the forces available. In this respect front policy includes in particular the showed 77. a drop of from November, both directly and indirectly, to a point matters stand not any better with the direct approach to the rank and file through which is again the largest decline of any where many standard trade unions are un hunger marches of unemployed now ini the workshops, the breadlines, the union single month since 1920. Steel output dur able to maintain their officially set scale: tiated by the party leadership. The very meetings but also the formal approach to ing December reached its lowest in six a murderous increase of the speed up sys slogan itself, hunger march is wrong. as it the organizations officially.
years. production for the month being tem. pitting the employed workers against leads, even under the best of circumstances. Above all it is necessary for Com38. 57 of capacity. Foreign trade during the unemployed; efforts to saddle the scant to a separation of the unemployed from the munists to draw the complete revolutionary the year 1930 fell off a total of 2, 737. 780. charity pittances to the most needy cases employed. With the objective of marching implications of the unemployment struggle.
000. There has been an epidemic of bank entirely upon the backs of the workers; to reinforce the demand for the fifteen bucks To tie up the agitation for the immediate failures and while, to an extent, this re brutal dispersal of unemployment and other weekly relief, however, just as glibly pro needs in an indissoluble bond with the flects the struggle between chain and unit working class demonstrations, and mass mised by the civie reformers and pursuing struggle for the socialist revolution and in banking, on a whole it is only additionally Arrests of the Communist vanguard. methods which eliberately make the small such a manner that each step for the realisymptomatic of the ravages of the economic Is there is yet an actual working class Communist vanguard an easy target for zation of the former becomes progressively crises growing inevitably out of the capi resistance to this offensive? Unquestion police dispersion, we must not be surprised a step towad this final goal, is an inescaptalist system of production.
ably, there is a growing widespread mass at the working masses remaining passive able duty of tre Communist movement.
Hoover Promises discontent which has not yet assumed con bystanders. Thus there are very good crete forms: the illusions of the capitalist Even to the most gullible, the optireasons that despite the splendid prerequischarity crumbs as a solution still prevail; ites for the beginning of a real proletarian mistie promises, made at the famous Hoover conferences more than a year ago, to the working class political ideology has not movement this negative result is all that yet reached beyond the boundaries of the the balance sheet can show to date.
bolster np the waning confidence in this system, for initiating large scale industrial capitalist parties but still swings within the The next immediate future will unsphere of transfering allegiance from the emergency undertakings, alleged to be (Continued from page 1)
doubtedly bring a further rise of prere.
Republicans to the Democrats. here and mounting into billions of dollars to alleviate quisites of there growing support to reformism; 1930 class movement of the Ameried secretly in Menshevik Georgia and did unemployment, should now have proven can workers.
the pioneer work of arousing the proletariat shows fewer strikes on record than any year The low ebb will be followed themselves incontrovertibly as nought. The in by an upward curve of workers reassemduring the past decade despite the drastic the civil war that finally liberated railroad magnates stepped up with the bling their forces, entering into active reGeorgia from the yoke of British imperiallargest single item of alleged expansion but wage cuts: there is not yet a mass response sistance and gradually assuming the ofism and its Menshevik handmaidens. For to the fight for the unemployed led by the at the end of September, 1930 showed a Communist vanguard. In fact, we must re.
fensive. With this in view the problem of a time, he served as head of the Georgian drop of employment on all Class roads the Communist movement of correct revoluG. helping to crush the enemies of cord a decided drop in such response once of 261. 000 jobs: from 1, 747. 816 to 1, 485, 906 tionary poliey becomes a seriously pressing the proletarian revolution with the same manifested largely, however, due to or 15 per cent. Mr. Wollman of Hoover the matter.
courage and devotion he demonstrated blundering tactics of the Communist Party Unemployment Commission reports a dewhen he fought czanism before the revoluleadership. In sum and substance the sitWhat Must Be Done?
crease of number of workers engaged in tion and was imprisoned by the Ochrana.
public works in June 1930 from the same uation presents itself to us at this moment Facing a coming crucial period of an After the death of Lenin, comrade Zinzadze month of the preceding year. All in all as a downward curve of the working class upward turn, our mass activities must be found himself in the ranks of the Opposimovement.
sufficient proof of the fact that capitalism.
of such a nature as to effectively prepare tion to which he adhered until his death, in order to maintain its existence needs From Wrong Estimates flow for its success, give the correct direction defying the abominable pressure of the an industrial reserve army.
Wrong Conclusions for the working class struggle and estab Stalinist apparatus, which sought but could At the very inception of this crisis the lish Communist leadership.
Undoubtedly there have been valiant This means not find in him a capitulator of the stripe bottom fell out entirely from the party efforts on the part of the capitalist owners first of all a correct evaluation of the preof Radek und Co.
leadership estimate of the general trend sent defensive character of the movement, of industry to dispose of the large stocks He who fought for the living teachings of surplus products on hand together and from the tactical policies it pursued. re secondly it means a correct program for with a curtailment of production in presulting in a constant narrowing down of the of Lenin and the victory of the October today and in anticipation of the next steps, still lived to see the counter revolutionists paration for a revival. Above all, this is movement and preventing the rich potent When fighting for immediate demands, a ialities from materializing. Its cry of wide.
aginst whom the Opposition organized, come expressed in what is politely called efsharpening of the general line of demaren to trial in Moscow The Ramzins and their spread workers radicalization workers forts to reduce cost of production. in other tion from reformism. Concretely the fol ilk found the ready mercy of the Stalinist words, to increase the rapacious speed up offensive struggle already culminating in a lowing points must be emphasized. revolutionary apparatus, caught red handed though they upsurge came system and further reduce wages.
nought, The It is absolutely necessary to make were in their nefarious plot against the automobile output. for example, has come shattered upon the rock of realities and clear the general object and limitations of workers state. But Zinzadze. who strugfurther negated by its own inclination todown to an estimated total of 350, 000 for immediate partial demands and not to gled with his comrades igninst the Therthe year compared to the 5, 350, 000 for 1929.
ward opportunist distortions of the slogans arithmetically add new demands for every midorians inside and outside the party, was Mr. Wiggin, the president of the Chase Nafor immediate demands.
ill of the present situation appearing as allowed to die in exile by a cynical party We witnessed in the early part of the tional Bank in his New Year message. solutions struggle the attempts to set up national themselves, such ends only in addext his voice to the many other exploiters reformism pure and simle. Partial de organization of unemployed councils, ready What a bitter and illuminating comdemanding a further wage reduction.
mands for partial objectives are advanced made by mere administrative orders from Most certainly there have been similar by the Communists essentially for the purmentary on the present leadership that they above and within the artificial limitations find it possible to work in harmony with valiant effonts by capitalism in the pose of setting the workers into motion of the It remained conferocious struggle for further re divisions against their class enemy and in such a the counter revolutionary and restorationist fined to the party and crcles immediately forces for years, but cannot tolerate in their of the world market. One need only cast way that the struggle will lead ever more sympathetic unable to develop itinks the best Bolsheviks of yesterday, toa glance at the latest South American rertoward the revolutionary goal. In this unroots in the life of the masses, There day and tomorrow! The Stalins. Molotovs, olutions made to order by Wall St. and employment situation.
can, of course, be no other result from this its slashing and their creatures throughout the Interat the proposed silver loan for the stabilicapitalist offensive, particularly the sont of short cut manouever, which attempts de national. who desecrate the memory and zation of China: in other words, attempts mands which uite the unemployed with to skip over a whole stage of diligent preteachings of Lenin at their hypocritical at saddling part of the burden of American the employer and prepare for a working paration essential for an actual mass foundamemorial meetings, rest uneasy while the capitalist restitution upon the shoulders of tion upon which to set the workers into class offensive. We must make clear that nzadzes, the Blumkins, the Rakovskys, the workers abroad.
motion and from which alone can spring partial demands are never advanced by and thousands of the best sons of the RusCommunists in the reformist sense of beEconomie Cycles of Capitalist Production genuine organization. Correct tactics dursian revolutionary proletariat, continue to ing in themselves a solution, we must say Despite the efforts of the masters of ing the period of the low ebb belive. The revolutionists must die. must be definitely: There is no solution to the Industry we have now for more than one come the preparations for the flood murdered on their siek beds cr in the courtunemp oyment problem under capitalism.
year been in the midst of this crisis, an in tide the rise of the movement. But just yard of the so that the legend of evitable outcome of the cyclic nature of as surely, the hitting of a too righ key from Based upon the above considerations Stalinist infallibility and the permanence of capitalist production constantly proceeding a note of an entirely fictitious revolutionary the demand for the six hour day without Stalin rule may prevail.
through its course: depression prosperity upsurge any reduction in pay must become the cenproduces a relapse. a setback.
The Thermidorian Right wing remains to depression again. That this crisis is In serious matters of revolutionary politics tral immediate demand. It should be clear a source of blocs and maneuvers for Stalin, more convulsive and more deep roing than from this relapse flow the inevitable conthat this demand has the widest base of while Zinzadze dies in exile and Rakovsky preceding ones is a natural outgrowth of sequence. downward sliding.
appeal and tends the most directly to set is This threatened with the same fate.
beThe the developing process into motion and embrace unitedly both the contradiction be came expressed in the opportunist tendency Ramzins anel Kondratiers come forward in tween increasingly socialized production and of the party leadership concentrate al unemployed and employed workers. As a new editions every day. produced out of the individual capitalist appropriation.
It is most exclusively on the slogan direct slogan of action it can become a very relief.
loins of the apparatus, while the Blumkins caused mainly by the general decline of embodied in a spurious unemployment reeffective means of preparation for the work are shot down in the dead of night. The imperialist capitalism especially in Europe lief bill. Further, in a collection of signaing class offensive in the next stage.
proletarian heart of Russia is enfeebled hy and the growing interdependence of world tures for the bill, also to be presented to Other demands to be linked up with the (rushing grip of the apparatus and the capitalist economy, making the crisis ap congress, turning the workers attention in this most ontstanding one should be formu party is strangled by the noose of Stalinism.
pear almost simultaneously in every capi that direction and to that extent away from lated not from the view of having as many But out of the soil that produced the legion talist country, and becoming more acute in the powerful dynamics of mass struggle.
as possible, seemingly covering every need. aries of Russia October revolution will all its manifestions. It is caused by the im Playing into the hands of Reformism but from the view of becoming definite new Zinzadzes and Blumkins, new mensely increased expansion of productive Is it surprising that the party leader rallying points. For example. a) Imme Bolsheviks from the new generation. who capacity due to technical application of sci ship found itself in a position unable to diate unemployment relief from the bosses will yet achieve the triumph of the living ence to the machinery of production grow. make any other distinction from social, lib and their government. b) extension of large real Leninism in the International. The ing rationalization and speed up. It is caused eral and ordinary bourgeois reformers, also scale credits to the Soviet Union. The last coming victory will be the memorial to the growing standing army of unem framing relief wills. except the vulgar opmentioned demand has a particularly direct those who have died in battle.
régime.
to of