EDITORIAL NOTES their own bail. Up to the present date the party, through tht door of Muste and the Party press has suppressed all news of counterfeit militants. and thus to close their case. The publicity ignores the avenue of approach to the Communist them. On top of that the united front con workers. The Communist League, the ference of the with Engdahl pre other hand, endeavors to bring Communsent, refused to seat the delegates of the ist criterion to every question of the class Communist League a few days after their struggle. Its mission is to educate the NOW FOR THE WEEKLY MILITANT! Stalinists for joint acton to initiate the indictment. Retreating from this shameful party. To the extent that it succeeds with The decision of last Monday meeting fight failing, they are proceeding to the position under a storm of protest from this task it draws closer to the Communof the National Committee to bring the organization of broad Free Speech Conworkers in the ranks of the they ist workers and becomes a guide for them Militant out again as a weekly when the ference which will draw the trade unions are now trying to cover themselves up with in every field. The real issues involved in Expansion Program Fund reaches the and other organizations into the fight. By a promise of legal defense at the trial. the party crisis were buried at first under thousand dollar mark, and setting July 1st position this means they aim to shift This is not enough! Morgenstern and a mountain of misrepresentation and conas the definite date of publication, repre from a fight of the city administration Goodman are revolutionists, and they do fusion. Time and the test of events are sents another real advance. The New York against the Communists to a fight of the branch has already endorsed the decision, labor movement, or a large section of it not rely on lawyers to get them justice making them clearer. This is the explanain the courts of the class enemy. We want tion of the trend of development noted including and there is no doubt that it will be bailed the Communists against the above.
a mass movement of working class protest with enthusiasm by the entire organizaillegal usurpations of the police.
to defend them! We want a public mass tion and the circle of sympathetic workers For our part, we are in complete agreemeeting to inform the workers what is who surround it and support it. There is ment with the course adopted by the Minngoing on and what it means. We want THE WHITE COLLAR UNEMPLOYED.
likewise no doubt that the decision will be eapolis branch of the Communist Leaguo.
a broad united front conference of workrealized in life on the day set, for the task It has a double importance: For the reers organizations to launch a While the prolonged unemployment of militant has been carefully weighed and the ground storation of civil rights in Minneapolis and campaign against the sedition law and for millions of workers and the drastic reduchas been prepared.
contact with a wider circle workers in the defense of all its victims! We want tion of standards for the entire class, are The first four months of this year have the struggle for it; and as an examplerapidly maturing the conditions for an publicity about the case, not a conspiracy witnessed an improvement and strengthen and a badly needed one to the whole Amenormous development of the proletarian of silence worthy only of agents of the ing of the Communist League all along the erican movement of Communism. The Comprosecution. class movement, the process is being asline. All this work has gone forward under munists a small minority must fight to sisted and supplemented from another You are playing with fire, bureaucrats!
the sign of political consolidation and a he henrd. Democratic rights are of the utquarter. The evil days which have fallen The revolutionary workers have never vet planned program of expansion for the year. most importance to the workers in their upon the professions, the small business One third of the two thousand dollar fund struggle for organization. We ought to inturned their backs on class war prisoners people and the white collar stratum of has already been contributed, and the ex scribe them on our banner and call the because of their political views. If you emploiyees will undoubtedly have a con.
continue to do it they will turn their backs ecution of the program, in sections, has workers to a joint struggle with us to desiderable intluence, even if it is primarily kept an even pace. Two numbers of the fend them. The fight itself has an imporon you. If the class defense of Jorgena negative one, in narrowng the gap be English edition of the International Bul tance hardly less than the object, so long stern and Goodman cannot be organized tween the working class movement of Amwith your help it will be organized withletin have appeared; field organization work as it is conducted without illusions.
erica and its industrial development.
has been started in the Illinois mine fields. Stalinism has bronght devastation into ont you and against you!
Like every crisis, but on a far wider preparations for the National Conference every phase of revolutionary ideas, methscale, the present one has the effect of are nearing completion; and the publishing ods and practices. Not the least of this hurling vast sections of these intermediary company has its first book on the press. has resulted from its false approach to the THE RIGHT WING CAPITULATORS classes down into the proletariat. In the Now we are ready for the next step the question of free speech and the discredit The increasing number of capitulators further entrenchment of big capital, and Weekily Militant. Another jush along the it has brought to the idea by its own hoolfrom the Right wing is one of the most the more economical organization which whole front and the task will be accom igan practices. It is high time to turn the interesting and signficant aspects of the ensues. the great bulk of the victims will plished.
helm. The Minneapolis example is a good development of the inner party struggle. be permanently displaced. Even more imOur Militant is the flax of Communisin beginning.
The announcements of these capitulations is portant: The chances for workers to climb in America. When its first issue appeared, becoming somewhat of a regular feature of into these preferred positions are corre they looked at the mere handful gathered the Daily Worker. Taken together with spondingly restricted.
around it and said the first issue would be WHAT ABOUT MORGENSTERN the recent outright desertion of a whole In the American Mercury for April the last. But they miscalculated. They did AND GOODMAN?
group to the Musteites, they add a fresh there is amphle account of the ruth not kuow the power of the idea behind it.
What are the officials of the party and confirmation to the idea that the position They did not know the resources, in enless swath which rationalization, spurred the going to do about the defense of a faction attemping to stand halfway bedurance and sacrifice, of stitf necked conon hy the crisis, has cut through the whitetween Communism and social democracy is viction of Morgenstern and Goodman, the two memcollar division of industry, from clerks to Sixty eight numbers of our paper bers of the Communist League who are not a strong one. It cannot be maintained high powerd salesmen and junior bear testimony to their error. The triumexectithat the capitulations represent merely the phant re emergence of the Militant as a facing trial on charges of sedition in Philatro. Many of them are dispensed with delphia? Are they going to support them falterings of individuals, which occur in weekly will underscore it once again. The permanently is part of the waste that sciin the spirit of class solidarity and arouse every fight. There are too many of them.
concentration of our forces for this event entific management has learned to avoid.
the workers about the case, or are they goNor is the fact that a number of the former is the order of the day. whole army of people whose incomes ran oing to continue to sabotage and betray supporters of the Right wing, recently re into five figures are on the industrial scrapthese militants ont of factional spite, as admitted to the party, had previously been heap. Brooks Shepard, the author of the FIGHTING FOR FREE SPEECH.
inactive in the faction of any great impor article, speaks of former top sergeants, they have been doing up till now? We inMinneapolis, where the Communist tend to have an answer to these questions, tance. It means only that Lorestone has lieutenants, and captains of industry who League branch comprises a majority of and every honest class conscious worker been losing them by a gradual process; have come to the end of their tether and the experienced Communist workers and will want an answer too.
that sympathizers as well as members are face the stark problem of existence which falling away from the faction. This is thereby has the possibility of applying our Our readers already know about the but yesterday seemed pleasant and secure.
the actual trend revealed the recent policy independently in the class struggle case. It is a part of general attack There are no statistics on the curtallevents.
is the present scene of a very interesting against the radical labor movement in Pennment of professional incomes, but we know demonstration of revolutionary tactics. The In this respect also the position of the sylvania. The two comrades were arrested Right wing contrasts sharply with that of in a general way that it has been severe.
City Government there has been seized by for distributing the unemployment leaflet Occasional news items and reports throw a a fit of Red hysteria and for some time has the Left. Our capitulators were an insignof the Communist League, and the staterevealing light on the situation. know ificant handful, and were confined almost been prohibiting and breaking up all kinds ment in the leaflet that the solution of exclusively to the first months of the strug.
lawyers with first class training and exradical meetings. The gatherings of the memployment problem can be found gle. And lately, even among those perience who are starving said Justice who the official party fell under this ban and only in the proletarian revolution was Jacob Strahl at a meeting of the Brookturned back at first signs of a new apseveral meetings of the Communist League held to be seditious by the Grand Jury lyn Women Bar Association in Brooklyn.
shared the same fate, since the chief of proach to the Opposition is to be observed.
which brought in the indictment. numpolice is an ignorant man and does not The same contrast appears in an opposite One of them is reduced to peddling razor ber of Communists have already been condirection. From all indications the moveblades. Another was arrested recently know that the real purpose of Dune and victed under this law. Only a few weeks for selling tomatoes without a license.
ment of party members toward the Right Skoglund is to support the war against ago comrade Lawrence, party member. winy has cease. while the Left Opposition So reports the Times for May the Soviet Union. Both wings of the Comwas convicted and sentenced. Indictments continues, steadily if slowly. to recruit In the hey day of imperialist prospermunist movement were thus reduced to a are pending against several others.
members and gain sympathizers in the ity the class movement of the workers was virinal state of illegality, at least in re The problem is a very serious one. It party ranks. Such declarations as that reundermined, among other things, by the bard to the right of public assemblage.
involves the legality of the revolutionary cently issued by Clem orsen, head of the opportunities for individual escape from Their contrasting reactions to the situation labor morement in Pennsylvania and the in the Twin Cities, occur frewage labor created by the exceptional vircan afford a fruitful subject of discussion.
liberty of the most active militants. quently enough to show the way the wind cumstances The workers movement was The same state of affairs prevails in other renl move to arouse the workers and form is blowing. But open declarations of adsystematically robbed of its natural leaders places and, as the class struggle grows more a united front of class defense is needed. herence are not the real measure of our and almost the whole class was poisoned acute, there will be many more.
The has the duty of organizing this strength and growth in the party. Many with the psychology of individualism, fatal The tactics of the Stalinists led by the fight, but it is not being done. On the con more are fighting for our slogans, in whole to class solidarity. The lesson to be read peerless Karl Reeye. who was sent to Minntrary, the bureaucrats are playing a game or in part. still wider circle hits heen in the present plight of the white collar eapolis by his factional opponents to fight of the most treacherous sabotage.
neutralized.
elements is the closing of these avenues the Trotskyites and be destroyed by them At first they refused to do anything For these developments there is of escape from the proletariat, and the are characteristic. Imbued with the ideolfor Morgenstern and Goodman and the principle explanation. The Lovestones are increasing insecurity of those who have alogy of the Third Period, which is only one latter were compelled to get their own law driven by the logic of their position to ready attained such positions.
step removed from undergroundism in prinyers in the first proceedings and to raise furn more openly toward the Socialist ciple, they have virtually accepted the sitA prolongation of this state of affairs will redlound to the advantage of the labor uation as a proof that the capitalists are movement. The more futile the hope of against the workers and that the city ofindividual emancipation ficials are tools of the capitalists. Thus appears, the ANNOUNCING stronger will grow the determination of they prove that there is no free speech, the ambitious workers to rise with the which they consider a point in their favor, class. Individualism will be replaced by The chief of police, at the same time, thiuks the class psychology of the proletariat.
it is a point in his favor. So both are satThis development will be an important fac.
Isfied and there are no public meetings tor in liberating the unbounded energies of the Party.
of the American workers for the revoluThe Left Oppositionists have a different tionary struggle.
idea. They think free speech. and demJ.
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THE MILITANT, Vol. IV No. 10, May 15, 1931. Published twice monthly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at 84 East 10th St. New York, Sub scription rate: 00 per year; foreign 50. Five cents per copy. Bundle rates cents per copy. Editorial Board. Martin Abern, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, Maux Ice Spector, Arne Swabeck. Entered as second class mail matter, November 28, 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 3, 1870 (Total No. 69. a The Permanent Revolution By LEON TROTSKY 69 A1