LETTERS from the MILITANTS Shall We Subordinate Social Insurance Fight?
gades any Powers (both party members, brother announced that he and the chairman. etc.
took the initiative to point to the necessity The fear of our delegation, and the deof organizing a Scottsboro defense.
sire to hide the very name Communist After we were thrown out there was are far from accidental. They are the no more discussion (the delegates evidently HOW THE DEFENDS de puid arrested and charged when sedi reasons why the names of the organizafear to make a suggestion, let alone to disOPPOSITION WORKERS tron, facing from one to twenty years in tions represented were not mentioned. Two agree with anything. And the conference pr. sou. These people are trying to political organizations which two? Soe that might have been a stepping stone to The Inetrnational Labor Defense and stop me because we have different proposals ialist, Democratic, Communist? Shall the further education and organization of the the League of Struggle for Negro Rights than their s, etc.
worker delegates present know who defends workers to the necessity of united workers had their Scottsboro Defense Conference on The bureaucrats were wild. If defense was concluded.
the workers? Sh sh! Nothing must be said.
May 25. At a previous meeting of the you don shut up, we ll throw you out Thus the national representative of the Philadelphia, Pa. LEON GOODMAN.
Philadelphia branch of the Communist League we elected comrades Morgenstern they screamed, ignoring all protests and and Whitten as delegates and LeCompte as motions from the floor to permit Morgie to alternate.
go on. That the only way you can get At the conference, we handed in our me away from this conference, he replied, The deep protracted crisis in America the downsliding of stocks. The coming organization credentials to Leon Plott, you ll have to carry me out.
has long ago blasted the 1928 platform of Winter. the third of the crisis) will not party district organizer, who was at the It was a magnificent display to the Lovestone and his Right wingers. At the only be the most severe thus far but will door. We were told to go in. The confer workers present of the strangulation policy same time, the longer the crisis lasts the be one of the worst, if not the worst, ever ence began about p. in a small ball of Stalinism. It warned the workers that more is revealed the utter bankruptcy of experienced by the American working class.
that was soon overcrowded.
Delegates even here at a meeting to protest lynch the policies pursued by the Stalinist (CenIn view of the above facts, to suborwere asked to remain and visitors to go ing, they must be on their guard. Here trist) party bureaucrats since the crisis dinate the struggle for social insurance 18 to another meeting room on the same floor, was raised the voice of a delegate of at set in. At a time (Winter of 1929 1930)
where they were entertanied with speeches a severe mistake. Also to speak of such least one organization who gave expression When the workers, after experiencing a long strikes as the textile strike in Lawrence of the open air to the barricades type. to those who voted for our comrade elecperiod of prosperity (probably the highest Mass. as the beginning of the offensive But in the conference hall itself, an tion to the resolution and to the creden. degree of prosperity ever experienced by struggles of the working class in the period other line entirely was pursued. Here tials committee: and who would not say iny, working class under capitalism in any of the upward curve as comrade Swabeck Lovestone famous united front confer Yes, Yes. to all the stupid and criminally country) were just beginning, in a bewildrecently wrote in the Militant is speculaences were made to look sick by the burered confused manner, to feel the effects of incompetent work of the bureaucrat and his tive reasoning.
eaucrats of the erstwhile third period.
the crisis, the party bureaucrats wrote iu puppets.
The conference was the biggest thing they their theses of the revolutionary upsurge of The working class is still entirely on It was at the same time a fine display the defensive. The recent had in years.
the masses and came forward with their strikes which Ninety eight organizations of proletarian courage to stand up boldly now famens slogan of Fight for the with 191 delegates were announced.
are and will become more numerous, are dein the face of this howling mob (the wellthe streets. Thus The officers and committees were of third period was fensive strikes. The capitalist class having known Tasker Street gang was present usherel in.
failed to get out of its crisis by two years course party affairs on the George too of lay offs and wage cutting has decreed the Powers was chairman. Everything was cut The Stalinists rushed us and forcibly As the crisis deepened, the bureauerats to order. Not quite everything. howerer.
only remedy they know of, namely; more ejected us from veered to the Right, following a policy which the hall. They would Two people were announced as the Credenwage cutting, thus seeking load a greatwas a mixture of ism and adventurism.
surely have beaten us up had there not er share of the burden tials and Resolutions Committee: Jack Rose After giving birth to their flimsy Insurthe working class.
of the and Coleman of the been so many people around. Cries were Lately they speak even more openly of the ance bill hunger marches became and Then, after need for further wage cuts. The increastime they announced raised in the hall: Let him speak! He still are the order of the day. At the prethat to sped the work of the committee.
telling the truth! We want to hear him!
ing number of strikes are half organized, sent time, the question of Social Insurance and mingled with cries: Kill him!
desperate attempts at resistance on four more delegfiates were to be elected the is mentioned with decreasing frequency in to each committee.
part of the working class. The only unemThat was their deviaSeveral delegates and others walked out the columns of the Daily Worker.
ployed workers that the capitalists willing.
tion.
iu protest against the bureaucrats united Lately the Left Opposition has also Comrade Morgenstern was ly feed are those who will do strike breaknominated front tactics.
manifested a strong tendency to minimize for the Resolutions Committee and then After our ejection from the hall it ing duty. Big business is now rubbing its the importance of social insurance. Is the hands and calculating that the unemployed four others. Bill Lawrence, a bur might have been expected that the rene struggle for social insurance to be comare now more hungry than they were two eaucrat made a motion to ask the four were denounced. Not so this is pletely subordinated or given up entirely?
years ago, hence ready to work at from the bottom of the list if they accept, not the party line here. On the demand What should our attitude to this question price and under any circumstances.
and put them on the committee. Our pro of delegates for explanation, it was ex be? Where do we stand to day? How much tests were of no avail one, two three and plained. that we were not delegates and longer will the crisis last? With the exThe Communists must not only take a Morgenstern is out. Then, on nominations that all visitors had heen asked to leave. perience of the last two years behind us greater hand in these defensive strikes but for Credentials Committee, comrade we should be able to analyze the present must organize and lead them.
The bureaucrats were entirely on the deAgainst the Morgenstern was again nominated (the fensive. The reason for the strange exsituation and draw a few conclusions re wage cuts we must counterpose the shorter fourth this time) along with four others, planation of what occurred can he undergarding the length of the crisis.
working week with no reduction of pay.
Well, the same trick couldnt possibly be tood from the following: This much is certain: the crisis which We must not give up the fight for social repeated. And our motion that the five insurance but on the contrary we must keep Throughout the entire erening. we never has lasted nearly two years at this time stand as nominated for the committee was this issue in the foreground. Around this declared absolutely out of order impossioner heard mention of eren the word Com shows no signs whatever of abating. The fight and the fight for a shorter working munist let alone Communist parte) nr enn lowest point so far reached by the crisis ble the committee must have four and week, the unemployed and the employed ialist.
laga et le Onlr Rights was touched this Spring. The tendency is four only. vote is taken and the four must be united in the battles that will de.
Courts Thirnnes Richte Richte at These still downward. The latter is shown by the highest elected Partyites. delegates and velop during the coming Fall and Winter continued falling off of exports. falling off non delegates voted and abstained in the hurennannte cron tante tandring to the of revenue by the so called blue chip over the question of wage reduction.
church solatos he calling aarhnther. not same way. The chairman announced 36 the Tamronco companies. continued unemployment and comrnda hut hrother. MIHELIC.
votes for Morgenstern. He had at least 56 votes.
This looked pretty suspicious to ererybody not initiated into the factional trick(Continued from page 4)
ery of Stalinism. But nothing was said is not so simple, says Garine for his part. but because they had first dug up the at the time.
Garine and Borodin will be delivered of The revolution means paying the army ground under its steps. Anarchism, it it Comrade Walters reported or rather their benevolent vassaldom towards the does not live within the four walls of indearly, adds Borodin. These aphorisms was supposed to report on the work of bourgeoisie. They will only have chosen contain all the elements of the noose in tellectuals cafes or newspaper editorial the joint committee of the and as the new channel of their activity, Chang has which the Chinese revolution was stranoflices, but penetrated more deeply, As a matter of fact, he did nothKai Shek, son of the same class and fellowtranslates the psychology of despair in the gleile Borodin preserved the bourgeoisio ing with the exception of killing time. Sercadet of Tcheng Dai. Head of the military which, in recompense, made contributions masses and represents the political pun.
eral Negrocs got up timidly to speak. Nothschool of Whampoa founded by the Bolfor the revolution. the money going to ishment for the deceptions of democracy ing of importance. No discussion. Justice, sheriks Chiang Kai Shek does not confine the army of Chang Kai Shek. The army and the treachery of opportunism. The The credentials Comhimself to a passive opposition; he is ready Rights and Rights.
of Chang Kai Shek exterminated the proboldness of Bolshevism in posing the revto resort to bloody force, not in the plebmittee didn bring in its report until alletariat and liquidated the revolution. Was olutionary problems and in teaching their eian form, the form of the masses, but in most 11 Rose who is in charge of it really impossible foresee? And was solution, left no room for the development the military form and only within limits of anarchism in Russia. But if the historsabo the defense of the Philly Op 1t truth not forseen? The bourgeoisie that will permit the bourgeoisie to prepositionists, made the report. He announced pays willingly only for the ical investigation of Malraux is army which serve an unlimited power over the army.
his recital shows admirably how the op 98 organizations with 191 delegates distri serves against the people. The army of Borodin and Garine, by arming their en.
buted as follows: 11 churches, 19 delegates. the revolution does not wait for rewards: portunist policy of Stalin Borodin prepared emies. disarm and repulse their friends.
called the the ground for anarchist terrorism in China.
65 fraternal organizations. 126 delegates. it makes them pay. That This is the way they prepare the catasDriven by the logie of this policy, Bor19 Us and unemployed groups, 40 dele revolutionary dictatorship.
Hong came fortrophe.
ward successfully in the workers meetings odin consents to adopt a decree against the gates; political organizations, delegates.
But are we not overestimating the in and overwhelms the Russians. the bearterrorists. The solid revolutionists, reIf you take the trouble to add up the numflueuce of the revolutionary bureaucracy ers of ruin for the revolution. The road pulsed into the road of adventurism by the bers, yor: set 97 organizations and 187 deleupon the crimes of the Moscow leaders, the bourevents? No. it showed itself of Hong himself does not lead to the goal zater. All however, were declared seated.
stronger than it might have thought, if not but he is right as against Borodin. Did geoisie of Canton, provided with the beneNo names of organizations were mentioned.
diction of the Comintern. declares them for good then at least for evil. The coolies the Tai Ping leaders have Russian advisors?
Then resolutions and telegrams were who are only beginning to exist politically outlaws. They reply with acts of terrorism And the Boxers. page 189. Had the read. Then organizational against the require a contrageous leadership. Hong re Chinese revolution of 1924 1927 been left pseudo revolutionary bureaustill nothing said or done. All organizacrats which protects the bourgeoisie that quires a bold program. The revolution re to itself, it would perhaps not have come tions must give money. must collect money; pays. Borodin and Garine seize the terquires the energies of millions of rising men. to victory immediately but it would not rorists and destroy them.
must sell Liberators; must distribute leafBut Borodin and his bureaucrats require have resorted to the methods of Harikari.
longer defending the bourgeois but their own heads. It lets, etc.
Teheng Dai and Chiang Kai Shek. They it would not have known shameful capiHere comrade Morgenstern finally man.
is thus that the policy of conciliation slides suppress Hong and prevent the worker from tulations and it would have trained revdown fatally to the lowest degree of felony.
aged to get the floor to speak on organi raising his hanul. In a few months, they olutionary cadres. Between the dual power The book is called The Conquerors.
zational proposals. Morgenstern has some will stille the agrarian insurrection so as of Canton and that of Petrograd there is concrete proposals on policy to put forth.
This title which has a double ineaning when not to rebult the whole bourgeoisie from the tragie difference that China there He shocks the Stalinists by telling the dele the revolution paints itself with imperialthe army. Their strength is that they re actually does not exist Bolshevism; under ism, the author attributes to the Russian gates that this is a good conference, but present the Russian October, Bolshevism, the name of Trotskyism, it was declared a it does not yet represent the working class the Communist International. Having usBolsheviks, or more exactly, to a certain counter revolutionary doctrine and was perfaction among them. The conquerors? The in Philadelphia He proposes to enlarge arped authority, the banner and the sub secuted by every method of calumny and Chinese masses rose for a revolutionary inthe work and scope of this conference and sidies of the greatest of revolutions, the repression. Where Kerensky did not sue surrection, under the unmistakable influence draw into it the workers in the of bureaucracy bars the road to another rev ceed during the July days, Stalin succeeded unions and he proposes to send representa olution which also had all chances of being of the October upheavel as their example ten yends later in China.
and with Bolshevism as their banner, But tives to the great.
Borodin and all the Bolsheviks of his the conquerors conquered nothing. On Then the bureaucrats began to beat the The dialogue between Borodin and generation. Garine tells us, were marked the contrary, they surrended everything to hammer, to shout, etc. But they did not Hong (page 181 182) is the most frightful by their struggle against the anarchists.
If the Russian revolution called succeed. despite their numbers in drown indictment of Borodin and his Moscow in This remark was needed by the author so forth the Chinese revolution the Russian inx ont our comrade, and after points of spirers. Hong, as usual, is after decisive as to prepare the reader for the struggle epigones suppressed it. Malraux does not order, procedure and motions had been put action. He demands the punishment of of Borodin against Hong group. Histor make these deductions. He does not even nd nassed. he still held the floor. the most prominent bourgeois. Borodin ically it is false, Anarchism was unable to seem to think of them. They only follow Irenresent the Communist Leagne and finds this unique reply: Those who are raise its head in Russia not because the all the more clearly from the basis of his myselt one of those workers in Phila paying must not be touched. the revolution Bolsheviks fought successfully against it remarkable book.
THE STRANGLED REVOLUTION. by LEON TROTSKY exact, report. And the enemy.