THEMILITANT WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Weekly Organ of the Communist. League of America Opposition March 1879.
Enteral as second class mail matter, November 28, 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of VOLUME IV, NO. 14 WHOLE NO. 73 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931 PRICE CENTS Off the Leninist Track Stalin «New Economic Policy» Light 23, 000 West Virginia Miners Die? Are Out in New Strike Wave Wc the Movement Begins for the Defense of the Two Philadelphia Oppositionists The more reled only in bringing a very small The new economie policy enunciated the wild grass of bureaucratism. Sovby Stalin at a meeting of industrial dir iets at Work, page 42. ectors on June 23, and made public only The forms and means of mass contwo weeks later, has brought him paeansrol have been reduced to a minimum The day draws near when eight inof praise from the hourgeois prexs. under the stalinist regime. The exse nocent Sexro hoys will be taken one by Forward to a United Front of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Va. Miners This latest step back toward the normal dovskys and Agabekovs can rise to the one to the electric chair to have their in working conditions, writes the New top in the party weanse the workers lives burned out by the fatal current, York Times on July 7, is scarcely do not control them from below The The Hadistic bourgeoisie of the South, On July 6, the miners of the Kanawha. Indie cment movements developing from of actually solving this probletu, shorter than the restoration of private tamzins, the Ossatchis, together with thirsting for blool, is determined to add West Virginia, coal fleks went on strike various directions and through various have emphasized before that the correct property rights and liherties would be the Menshevik conspirators, can go on the Scottsboro victims wholesale to the acainst the existing starvation cond methods and forms of the struggle. But method is a kenuinels established united Fortunately, the clation of the Times for years with their criminal work be list of those who have fallen to the tions and on the very first day equalled all are genuine in mass character, all front, an amalgamation of all these re contains more wish than reality. There cause collective leadership has not only Kreater clory of Lynch law and capital in the splendid manner the solidarity are striving in one general direction bellious miners sections with the is no doubt that the Times and other le responsibility ist justice.
already displayed by the miners in other toward the building of a miners union. leading toward complete unification bourgeols commentators would prefer but hecause there is no control of the The day of the execution which was sections now on strike. total of 23, tree from the corrupting and treacherous within one such all embracing union. We to have the Hovlet Inton restore those workers over this responsibility. set for July 10 has been postponed pend. 000 went out in this fiell. This strike influence of the old John Lewis mach repeat: these various movements are in private property rights and liberties In 1927, Stalin told the American ing an appeal to a higher court by the is called in the name of and under leadine. This is what we have already em dependent and genuine in their mass conwhich have demonstrated their super trade mon delegation to Russia that defense. But this is only the most tem. ership of the independent West Virginia phasized as the only way out. Its content as well as in their revolt against fority over the socialist estem by the not a single factory manager can re porary and deceptive of delays. It was Mine Workers union. The conditions of rectness is being demonstrated in its the old corrupt bureaucrney. They must planetary crisis of capitalism and the main at his post contrary to the will of in this manner that the murderers of poverty there are almost indescribable first step by the realities of life. It all be treated as such and there must misery and want that have accompanied the workers or the particular trade im Masstehusetts kept Sacco and Vanzetti wages are down to rock bottom, as low rives the lie to the Right wing Love Be an honest approach toward them in it. There is equally no doubt. however, ton. It must be overved also that in in nerve wracking suspense, while the as for getting out a ton of coal stoneiters to their uroposal to return reunition of this baix. In the prothat the whole spirit of Stalin nexprery factory and workshop there is a movement for them was partly delnded It thus follows right upon the heels of to the decadent and flings it rexs of wifications, the. ommunista polley the formal and official adoption factory council elected by the workers and taken off its guaril. Only the ret the strike in the Western Pennsylvanat, Back into their face. How pititul was have nothing to fear and everything to of which in naturally a foregone con which control the activities of the man olutionists pointed out then as they are ustern Ohio and Northern West Vir their aim, how clearly it is now beinkin. Only the office seeking opportuncluston, marks a step backward from the agement of the particular enterprise, pointing out today: What will save these cinia territory under leadership of the demonstrated that it could mean ons iets and on right traiter nerd fear the revolutionary policies of Lenin time. etc, etc. Since then, the lecree was is victims from the savages who plan their National Miners Union and once more roing backward, to give up struggle to unity of the fight in minerr. And it is How the New Poliey Is Made sued aholishing all these guarantees death is an iron willed mans movement submit to the houses agents and to precisely in such a press that they of the workers. The courts and their prohibit the miners from finding a mill will xhind exposestwhile the superiorThe manner in which the new turn which were exaggerated ly Stalin even RUSH RELEF!
tant solution to their problems! Well, ity of the revolutionary policies and lend1s made is in itself characteristic of the then. Members of the Communist party. Justice are a cruel illusion. They exist state of affairs in the Soviet Union tonton representatives and shop commonly as the instruments of our enemies. The strikers are in desperate need of the miners gave no heed to such reform ership will le demonstrated.
day. In the days before the bureaucracy tecx. said the decres, are instructed not to expect justice for the oppressed from relief to help them win. The coal operist proposals and even if they do not The Need for the United Front had fastened its talons upon the party. to Interfere in questions the hands of their masters is to expectators are relying not only upon their fully succeed at this present stage a The National Miners Inlon, and more water from stores Itely upon your thugs, private and public, it also upon tremendous step forward has been taken particularly the party tondership, has a questions of this sort were subjected to ment. Freiheit, September 9, 1920. a thorough discussion by all the ComSocialism cannot be built up by hour own action, upon the power of your un General Hunger. The splendid move Ilowever, these struggles of various kreat opportunity in this situation to iteil efforts. ment of the tons of thousands of miners, bona fide morements developing in one carry out a Leninist policy of tlo united munists, and the non party workers assols specialists. Not even the foundaThe stay of execution must now beharbinger of a new day in the American general direction, despite existing defront. It is absolutely essential in the well. Every phase of the problem was by them. They can be of great atd. utilized to the maximum The workers working class, must not be allowed to rects, present yet one bigger problein interest of the rank and tile coal miners der that it had the guarantee of the but the main task require the whole and the Negro masses as a whole who suffer for want of relief. The miners pressing for a solution That is the one that it heols this opportunity. Transcollective wisdom of the party. What heartedl. enthusiastie, collective. Initin Scottsboro boys their own cause. have to days, because they had nothing to save. rank within one militant union emrnc. Pureel by have richtly made cause of the saved nothing from the prosperity of unifying all these fighting miners lated into action into practical steps is more, its promulgation was assured the proletarian masses.
tive. Nell activity and participation of the present situation it of an understanding and popularity merely descendinto practical work of Alabama or in indicating the justheir kids and wives are hungry for want Holidly on a basis. The proposal adopt a polley for the National Miners They must not interest at all in saving the fair name They have infinitely less now. They ana ing all the coal diegers and resting means that the party leadership must nion of it becoming instrumental in of this mode of procedure the only one Check the plans by the results: they leave these nime to the whining liberals homes the operators evict them daily invite these various sections, or perhaps calling a conference and take all the proper for a workers stato. was the man must feel in the most intimate sense of Wack and white who have played They are rexed for want of clothes, only some of them, to come to the plan other nipsary steps to bring menuine adopted and applied the New Economie the word that ther. the working class, such a shameful role in the whole case. Al is desperately needed. It will help ned convention of the Nafonal Miners representatives of these intependent secPolley. In the present case, the new are the rulers of society, the masters of having the face of the decadent Institu Send funds and cithing either to the the former reactionary polley of boy their problems as quals and to find the a change from tional movements together to cusa turn was first made public upon the sole maintenance and teepening of this feel tons of a barbarie ruling class. We local stations, or to the main office of cott of these movements by the Centrists. way and provide the means for united Secretary. The party much less the among the workers, industries may grow want to save the lives of the Bight. We the Pennsylvania Olio Striking Miners brought about by the pressure of action. When these steps are taken working class as a whole was never con to fabulous proportions, all the efficiency want to use the occasion offered by the Relief Committee. 6! Penn Avenne Piterents and by the pressure of our there should be good prospects for unisulted. The speech was deliberately but socialist society will not be ereeted. prisoners as a new point of departure systems in the world may be introduced movement created for the defense of the tsburgh Pa.
correct proposals, is nevertheless false. tication into one militar miners union.
withheld until the day when the Central It does not present the correct method Committee session opened. In this way, issued the warning in its Platform: Four years no, the Left Opposition tem of super exploitation of the Negro beurs testimony to the widespread revolt for an offensive against the virulent sysFor a United Defense. Stalin Insured himselt against any discusulon at all. The Central Committee, The Opposition Warning maxsex, against the political, social and within the coal miners ranks.
economie inequality under which they a purely advisory body to the General The regime within the shops has de suffer. For it is not merely elght mentKanawha New Impetus Secretary, will adopt the measures pro terlorated. The administrative organ bers of an oppressed race who are held derous police and gunmen attacks, the In this last named territory, the nrur.
posed by him without a word. are striving more and more to establish for execution. The Negro, mushes have vicious injunctions and the treacherous What is the essence and the spirit of their unlimited authority, The hiring been tried and sentenced in the lynching efforts of officialdom have sue the new measures proposed? It is a dls and discharge of workers is netually in atmosphere of the court.
quieting continuation of the course which the sole hands of the administration.
George Saul. of the Communist This criminal procedure heromes all There is no time to be lost.
the Stalinist bureaucracy has pursued Pre revolutionary relations between mas ment must be extended and rooted deep the Kauawhn field miners shoull now from a week series of meetings in the movement in view of the mimerow fraction back to the pits. The action of Lenguc. has fast returned to New York the more disgraceful and disastrous for since its rise to power. It means that ter and workmen are not rarely to be er in the masses. But its base must be offer a new inspiration to their ranks Philadelphia where he addressed work other cases that have been or are being the hand stretched out more openly found. Never hetore have the trade a solid and sure one.
to the bourgeois elements, while the untons and the working mass stood so lourgeois Nekro masses who will savetion of the battles of Paint Creek and tion recently handed down against Berber of Communist party members are It is not the petts and vividly reawaken the glorious traders on the significance of the convic prosecuted under the Flynn Act. nunworking class is pushed back another cur from the management of the socialist the boys. They oscillate constantly low Cabin Creek it is to breexpected that mard Sorgenstern and Leon Goodman, already been convicted under it. Others step from control or influence over in Industry as now. The self activity of tween their white masters and the Negro the conl operators here will also live up two members of the Left Opposition wito run the same danger. er the provi dustry.
the mass of workers organized in the ws. Their snost consistent repro. their brutal tradition of using all were indicted under the Plynn Sedition sions of the Act any organization with The sabotagers still exist and will trade unions is being replaced by agree exist so long as classes exist, but salot ment between the secretaries of locals, seutatives are the heads of the National ruthles attempts to crush this strike. Act of Pennsylvania for distributing an Communist program is autematically agers are now isolated. The nth the factory directors, and the chairmen Advancement of the Colored eople. Nor is already on the job endeavoring to situation. Comrade sal reports hunAssociation for the Ensluvement not The contemptible gang of the Opposition leattet on the unemployment considered illegal. Ili olier words, the tude towards the old intelligenzia must of the factory and shop committees (the are the various religious and church were the bosses as they did in the past, dreils of workers in attendance at mecta preliminary to crushing the whole various prosecutions for sedition are change. The desire for cooperation, to triangle. The attitude of the work organizations which have come to the when the West Virginia miners were ingy, great interest displayed in the case communist movement, driving it out of gether with efforts to improve the mat ers to the factory and shop committees conferences at sutliclently sure left in the lurch in 1924.
erial situation of the intelligencia must is one of distrust.
and firm basis for the movement. They and a good distribution of literature. legal existence, as a forerunner to intenbe stresser.
Since these lines were written, there willies of the moment but not for In Harlan, Kentucky, nearly 10, 000 In order to centralize the defense sitled attacks ungu the lahor movement realistle Communist statesman can process of removing the workers from long. The movement must be extended miners are still standing solid, striking movement, a. Morgenstern Goodman De and the working class as a whole.
United Front Imperative not to be sure, reject or ever fail to seek control of management has advanced with among the traile unions, the workers or under local leadership. Seventeen of the Committee is now being formed in Such a state of affairs demands the ists in the construction of a socialist the triangle no longer obtain. The depths of the most exploited sections of the electric chair for having defended ments in the labor mcrement. The Com. most energetic structe possibile anche society. They are some of those bricks latest turn only makes matters worse. the Necroes themselves.
of the old society which are found at How much longer will the Stalinit Giving large enough scope, such a operators gunmen. Recently also some in for the two militants, councting failure of the bureaucrats to hand when the old strucure is torn down hureaucracy le permitted to pursue its movement enn wrest the right from the 000 miners struck against starvation the defense, raising the necessary funds. take even the elementary step towards by the Insurrectionary proletariat. But disastron course which strengthens the talons of the Bourbon south. Upon the conditions in the heart of the Illinois sending out speakers to labor organiza establishing class solidarity in defense the most villant attitude must be ob lements hosle to proletarian rule, which workerx Mack and white rexts red coal fields at the Orient mines, number tlons and so forth. The need for a work has already met with the protest helven that the workers have the op which threatens the revolution with dis Bight Die Let there to sucede thunder forces attempted to rescue the bosses by been rendered imperative to the fact members of the IL This is the best portunity to control them, to prevent solution and clecay?
our response that the Southern assassins ordering the men back to work But just that the International Labor Defensa sign of the vitality of the ranks of the them from undermining the rule of the MAX SITACHITMAN. shall hear and heed!
so much more should the miners strug under the control of the Stalinist bur organization, whom the bureaucrats seek profetariat. It was the fallure to eskles throughout the country become cancracy has shamelessly sabotaged the to stifte. The rabotage of the tablish these assurances in the past that On Guard Against Betrayal. rallying crs to all militant workers to defense of the two workers from the very which is giving stenal service to the stare made possible the penetration into the Live their instinted support to the reliet The 1D. even failed to provide the The workers in the ranky must demand beginning, solely because they were ad prosecution, must le stopped forthwith.
highest posts of the party: the Soviet behalf of these strikes and to the defense day, the official party and pub a change in polley. The movement must elements as were finally uncovered in of those incarcerated.
lications have not breathed a word alont be broadened, it must be built upon the he recent trials and those that preceded the arrests, the trial and the conviction. basis of the united front. It must em them. Does Stalin new policy strenSimultaneously with the beginning of herents of the Left Opposition. To this trace the cases of Lawrence, Ryder, the West Virginia wtrike, the Illinois workers with legal defense much less Morgenstern. Goodman and other victims gthen these assurances? The contrary is unfortunately true.
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers The following week, Hillman issue rebellious miners are meeting in conven an agitational movement. To blacken of the Flynn Act. Clumsy, topheavy Soviet organiza and its president, Sidney Hillman, el appeals to the clothing retailers and the thon at Belleville. Whether the definite the record even more deeply. or com The Left Opposition is prepared to steps for the formation of and amplified to permit leaders the possi. The. C, through Hillman Paceneral publie for support in his noble will be taken at that wathering is not defense conference called by the front movement.
tlong, says Stalin, must divided up being given wide publicity in the new moon rades have been forcibly ejected from hive its entire support to such a united has placed campaign to clean ont racketeering in the bility of learning what happens to all itself on record as a bitter enemy of industry. He then held a number of con xt known. But it can be stated with parts of the apparatus, Collective lead racketeering and sangsterism. Hillman ferences with Mayor Walker, District wrought everywhere in the soft coal absolute certaiuty that the wreckage communicatucumicama.
ership must develop Into individual recame as a progressive labor leader, won Attorney Cruin and Police Commissioner tields by the capitalist agents of the sponsibility. chairman, with a few by his elaborate system of self advertis Mulroney, and secured their services John Lewis clan should leave no doubt assistants must head concerns, whilst ink has been augmented by a new the coming struckle against the enemies in the minds of these miners that there PICNIC remaining members of the collegium must achievement: the ridding of the men of law and order and the wreckers Of is no other way out. The lack of organidescend into practical work to their own clothing industry of the plague of racket the industry. Ipon the Mayor ques. axtton in the face of these important advantage and that of the cause. eering and angsterism.
How Lenin Viewed the Problem He started his campaign against rae would be no strike in New York, growing struggle is sadly apparent. The To Celebrate the Appearance of the Weekly Militant Lenin did not oppose the subjectin: keteering in connection with the deman answered that it there will be inek of unity stands ont clearly. The The New York branch of the Communist League invites all militants of the will of thousands to the will of laration of his program for the coming strike, the rocketeers would call it and time should be past for office seeking one in industry, any more than the senson at a meeting of 1, 500 shop chair that he was concerned with peace and the situation in order to land a job. to join with it at the icnie to celebrate the appearance of the Weekly Militant. The affair will take place on Bolsheviks were ever opposed to the esmen called by the New York Joint cooperation in the industry, It should also become a real test and tablishment of piece work during the Board. The program calls for a genetal In his public statements and declara process of selection of leadership of transition period to Communism. But trike in the New York market.
SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1931 tions about the contemplated general the character ready to take the bold Lenin did not fall to emphasize that the At that meeting. Hillman stressed the strike, Hillman made it clear that the mes required by the slution. There more firmly we now have to advocate point of putting an end to the racketeer strike would be called only against the should be an opportunity as well to make at TIBBETTS BROOK PARK a merciless and firm rule and dictator ing and gangsterism rampant inside and unfair contraclors and manufacturers short shrift of the opportunists and conGames. Races. Rowing. Baseball ship of individuals for definite processes out of the union. He referred to the who are under the influence and proteccions reformists who step into the situaof work during certain periods of purely murderous attack upon officers and mention of the racketeers and constitute only tion to harness the movements into safe Directions: Jerome Ave, Woodlawn subway to the end of the line. IIlke executive functions, the more diverse bers of the union hy gangsters in the about percent or so of the industry and channls and prevent the militancy from should be the forms and means of mass strike against Silverman and Turner, whose shops number about 60 in all unfolding. The actual test of the preor take street car to Park: Plot control in order to paralyze every possi which must be taken as it challenge to Who then are the rocketeers so power sent situation will quickly show where bility of distorting the Soviet rule, in the organization and met with the utful and influentiai inside and outside ench aspirant to lendership stands.
ser repeatedly and tirelessly to removal most determination. Continued on page 3)
We have presented a pieture of various and the economte Inaltations of such Hillman New Racket. The «Campaign. Against Racketeering