DISCUSSION ARTICLES Cliques Gird for Spoils The Double Task of the Left Opposition closet kuit group of our faction. Be or engaged in activity. It is our duty to strategy of the Centrists, renders them nishing the National Office with a special can only be overcome by a centralized of cases where cutting rooms are oper The Party and the Opposition Tasks Dizziness. from Failure SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931 THE MILITANT PAGE phase refer to, and that is where the working class. any elements coming party fails to act and leaves the field into the movement with ties and consiIn the lA.
open to the reformers or syndicalists it dorations of a personal nature superis our duty as Communists and parti sedling the interest of the movement are cularly as left Oppositionists, to all the totally unfit for inembership. SystemaKais left lay the Centrists.
tic efforts should be made to fit the One can answer that our forces are whole membership into contacts that too small, we will be lost in mass work, will enable us to get a two ply beneat.
Clique Aghts and rivalry for jobs and cheaper. The wages paid in those shops When the present Left Opposition were wrong action or no action, and where etc. etc. am not calling for maas One: establish real intuence with work control in the New York Amalgamated average 10 per weck. Thousands of still members of the American party. we are able to carry out our Marxian work of the Welsbord type. The wrongers in the every day struggle. And see Clothing Workers organization are the presentation of a thesis by the Expositon and are unable to impress the theoretical position puts Centrism in aondly, obtain some badly needed season. matter of routine. The specific condi. shop conditions. These workers resisted a workers are employed there under sweatecutive Committee always brought out Centrists we must take the initiative position where they are incapable of ing for our membership. The job of tions in the clothing industry and the the strike call, been use they had nothing fundamental differences between the em and lend, forcing the party into activ carrying out many tasks Communists publishing the basie theoretical material, existing craft divisions that are a probryo three currents, which were more its and directing the class battles. The must. Our forces are too limited nwn the lack of which in the past was duct of conditions that prevailed in the that willmau promise to the New York to benefit by a walkout, and they feared than mere tactical questions or ques more pressure we can bring against the orically to carry them out, even though sponsible for most of the ills in the past and are a vestige of the old de The difference Contrist bureaucrats the more will the we have a position and understanding movement unquestionably has been an funct United Garment Workers Union, New York might be carried out andre may have started on tactical questions program of the Lett Opposition become of the needs and road to follow. Sucli. immeasurable achievement. Part of the foxter these evils. Graft corruption and sult in the loss of their jobs. Illman, formulations, but only the blind could the program of the But the cor on our part, is a good excuse for not present limited resources of the League demoralization permeate the organization however did not carry out his promise not see the deep channels these ques rect function of our forces, in the party finishing the activity but it is no excuse should be utilized to send out qualified from the very top to the lowest lasers, and many cutting rooms were shut down tions led to The break up into three supporting the party as expelled mem for not starting such activity. The Bol organizers to establish contacts with embracing wide sections of the memrin New York because of the above out.
currents is a proof of this. Our thesis bers and in direct leadership where they shevik party in Russia by itselt could elements close to us who are at present bership.
presented for discussion gives a Marx fail or are incapable is the way to innot complete the revolution, neither can dispersed.
The specific conditions of the industry of town shop having swallowed up their work.
ian analysis of conditions and in the crease the pressure of the Left, the party, the Left Opposition by itself complete Our woeful lack of resources in the are the decentralized system of munu.
main is correct. think our group, not members and the class Against the tasks in America which we are compelled face of pressing situations, such as oc facture and contracting. The difficulties in retaliation, the cutters officials have through bureaucratic suppression but Stalin bureaucrats.
through Marxian understanding 18 the to take up because the theoretical posi cured in Southern Illinois a few months of control of widely scattered manuluc held back their cooperation in the strike Where the party ts leading a struggle tion, which causes wrong tactics and ago Implies the pressing need of turturing units under a contracting system and manifestly subotaped it in a number cause we hold such an unanimous pOR support them, first with Marxian critic. incapable of taking up. Our Communist organizational fund which will enable industrial organization under democraticated in full force with the local not inand don have to waste time on these second with all the activity tion on the main theoretical questions ism of their strategy and tactics and duty is this two fold activity to properly us to respond organizationally in the control. But the erait divisions are care terfering even to the extent of placing Issues, we should devote greater am This possible support the party and the Third Interna futuro in such emergencies. Manifesta fully yuarded by the local officials who pickets there ount of time and discussion on the con activity is coordinated with the other not tall. endism, if this kind oftional tions such as the Duluth Longshoreman are not at all ready to gire up their The pledges of support and cooperation cretization of our international position HUGO OEHLER. strike described by in the militant positions. Some locals, especially those of the officials of the various branches in for America. Therefore, for this purof June the 21, show the absolute need in strategic positions, are firmly en the strike appear, in the face of what is pose. raise some tactical questions and of our ability to send capable organizers trenched and dletate terms to the rest in really happening to be mere lip service.
into favorable felds. Duluthe will to the organization. Hillman has long Each is concerned with his personal in questions of formulation of the thesis. Continued from Last Issue)
pent themselves with greater frequency failed in his attempts to subdue these terests and is looking for his ends in this strike. The consequences of this The section presenting the perspective party in the face of its miserable fall as the bankruptus of stalinism will recalcitrant local chefs to his domina The Southern textile Industries, ures in all fields. The base of its pos show itselt just as glaringly in the tothom. He is now playing his samele situation are bound to be disastrous for of the Left Opposition, as a faction of the party, and not to build a new parts: the next field upon which the party mobsible expansion instead of increasing turo.
eording to the formula: divide and rule, the conditions of the workers. This orgy to win the membership of the Third in lized its organizational forces, was, in a constantly shrinking. And if our evalua The splendid example of launching our throwing one set of officials against the of sabotage and letrayal proceeding ternational to our Marxian position aud fashion demonstrative of all the reasons tion of the baste currents within the first weekly Militant in the face of all other by means of bribery with jobs. He with full speed behind the lack of the pay the a role of reform in relation to the Sovllere they entered upon a virgin field, can draw but ono logical conclusion bioving success bids fair to remain an organization for those of his favorites Tenalty for their inactivity.
Towar Split iet Union with its opposite in relation where the most elementary class mant. The role of the Opposition inust be that example of fine revolutionary Initiative who failed in the game. These unfor.
to capitalism the theory of the perman festations were just beginning to show of training a cadre of well equipped ror that should wint the road that the Am tunates are placed in the auxiliaries of organisation must inevitably The fight between the cliques in the ent revolution is correct considering all themselves, only to begin by raising all olubonists who, in the coming developerican Opposition must follow fac the organtuntion the banks, the Cutters persikelive 18 a question the thesis doosists have long been taught that the rais basis of a real Communist party worth ly take stock of our past work, modestly ance offices which are under Hillman Union and the New York Joint Board factors of today. How to carry out this sorts of unapplicable slogans (Communments will find the road of forging the ing all future problems. Let us honest cooperative houses unemployment insur result in a split between and the ruin of the last restiges of unnot handle in all its aspects.
ing of slogans for struggle must be cons of the name of vanguard of the work appraise our achievements, and face the direct control ditioned upon the needs Ion conditions for cutters and tailors in In all these machinations of the offl Wrong Views and under ing class. The example of the Bolshe future with real Communist confidence The ultra Lefts who desire a new party addition to raising unrealizable slogans, and initiate independent standing of the masses involved. In viks who from 1903 to 1917 carried on in each other. The tasks of the Oppostin is the members are used as pawns. New York shop. To prevent such disaster is the duty of the left wing moveare wrong. likewise the other extreme activities. tion are largo, and cannot be faced up their ignorance and prejudices being ex ment in the of being a tall to the ACTIVITY of the every type and kind of hodge podge ad though formally a faction of the Russian til we have built up absolute confidenca ploited to create confusion and demorali Unity of the tailors and cutters innst party is wrong. First let us dispose of unions. to Dunne right of self do as a model for the immediate transitory a real Leninist criticism motivated by venturism from Johnstone two color social democracy, can well be accepted in our ranks. That can only be done by xation.
be mnde the central slogan of the Rank the question of criticism of the Center rense. to Reed cowardly desertion was period. The American Opposition, tak an examination of realities, and not Hiltman Beckerman Struggle and File movement. The attempts at An outstanding example of the devast. plitting the organizations to Insutre domfun critters to activity. fuster tempo indulged in. The first real test of strusing a stand of real leadership in the empty abatractlons ating effect this condition has brought ination are clearly manifest in the mangle showed a number of desertions and coming sharp struggles of the working of change from a negative criticism to manifestations of sheer cowardice on the class, will bring to our banner the SM ROSH. to the organization is the situation that eurers of the Human and Orlofsky clla positive criticism of Centriem must be part of a number of party leaders. This good revolutionary and Communist elehas now developed on the basis of the ques. If a plit occurs, both cliques will mado. turn toward speaking to the coupled contlict between Hillman and the Beck Justify it and much, under the pretende class (which includes the party) hus struggle and sacrifice on the part of the the party by its opportunist policies.
with splendid capacitie oments who have been driven away from erman Orlofsky clique, a situation that of saving the union, will widen the been made which has increased our ef workers generally as well as on the The task of the Opposition is boldly to is pregnant with grave consequences for breach and bring more dernoraliuntion in fectiveness speaking to the party, Just part of some of the younger party fue pose and lead the way. There will be the whole organization. Fillman has for the ranks of the membership. The Left like a correct elevation of Centrism hestionaries. The result of this whole sawmore gained by correct principle evaluayears allowed and even rendered support wing munt throw in its forces to launch made more effective our struggle against paign is that the party much bonated tions of objective work applied in Lento a reign of terror and racketeering in a campaign to unite the rank and ble syndicalism and anarchiem. This pont the Cutters Local as a price for the ser of the cutters and tailore branches for penetration of the South has restorinist fashion towards influencing the tive approach will accelerate the pro rices the Orlofsky Beckerman gang furthe struggle against the maneuvers of cess of correction through greater pres back for quite some timo.
in turning the movement in the region worth while proletarian elements who The crisis that has afflicted the United nished him in subjugating the tailors to their officials.
sure and on the other hand help correct throu sheer Inertia are still left in States has also been agitating the print the yoke of the piece work and speed up The Rank and File Committee mtist our position in relation to party activity The unemployed orises following the party than score of disjointed parers the last two years. For long system. Today, these officials are also give serious attention to the out ofThe line of march laid down in the upon a period of decline of organized tlalpation in spontaneous struggles. time the officers of Big Six (Next York hindrance to Hillman rule, their pol town situation. The out of town shops thesis eliminates the danger of ultra labor resistance was immediately greet. The road of the Opposition must be Typographical Union) have been sucicies being in direct conflict with the must be organized simultaneously with Leftiam in the form of a new party and ed by the party with a central slogan that of polftical leadership in the devel. cessful in side tracking the issue by tell trend those of Hillman have taken in re those of New York. The tank and File a fourth International, but it leaves wide (incorrectly formulated at that time) oping class struggle. The question of Ing the membership that there is no un cent years due to developments in the Committee cannot directly undertake this open the door for sectarianism and for Work or Wages. The advocacy of a size and technical equipment can and employment in the printing trade. When New York market.
work because it is by its very nature Marxlan retreat for tired radicals line of action which posed no less a ques will be overcome by healthy growth confronted with the question of some wn The most important problem of the or limited to work in shops controlled by because the thesis doee not explain our tion than the capture of the streets which is bound to result from the ne employed member as to why he could ganization today is the unionization of the But this work can and relation to party ACTIVITY, or rather and open struggles with the polico. ceptance of real tasks. Size never not get a job, he was told that if he the out of town shops that have succeed should be undertaken by the lack of activitywith a Marxian line. This whole movement started off with a daunted Lenin. Intransigeance in primis a printer he should be able to get a ed in establishing themselves and are The workers in the out of town We have a double task in our rola splendid demonstration on March 6, 1990, clple applied as a living force, and devel. job. But not for long were they suc undermining the unlon conditions in New shor should be approached with a mes tion as the Left Opposition. First, In involving some few hundred thousand oping with it, is the curest rond of Com cessful in sidetracking the issue. They York with the aid of racketeers and snge of gennine unionism in opposition relation to the Party to correct it and workers in the leading Industrial citlo. munist growth. faction of the party had to recognize, under pressure of gangsters who have found a strong base to the fake unionism of Tillman and win the members to our position, and at these gatherings. party spokesmen. yes, a living faction, stoeling the Iron course, that there is a problem of un for their activities in the key locals of Company.
second, in relation to the class, where raised slogans all of which were bo of revolutionary will on the touchstone employment. Different proposals were the organizations, like the Cutters and In addition to these two tasks the the party has not penetrated or has no yond the comprehension of a class on the of struggles that should ond can be the made and some of them carried, but Expressmen locals, Hillman cry of rac rank and File Committee must make Influence we must function as Commun. downward path of resistance. Now after Immediate role of the Left Opposition in were of little avall. The situation de keteering is an echo of his campaign clenr its policy to the member Lats. The thesis explains the first point. many months have passed with the de America, and internationally.
came very serious last winter and a pro agninst the Left wing in the New York ship. The effects of the must mistakes the relation of the Left Opposition to Anite lessons of unemployment and the Revolutionary formulations coupled Donal was made to force the newspaper organization, when he pulled the doors of the left wing have not yet been oblitCentrism, to the party but the thesis general attack on living and wage stan with defensive practises Lenin called the men to work only five days a week and wide open for these underworld people erated in the minds of the manner. But does not even raise the second point. dards having implanted their lessons up worst polson to Inject into the body of give the sixth day to a sub and tax who are today menacing Ns domination those mistakes have never been made the relation to the class where the party on the workers, an upawing of resist the movement. It has been the lot of all the job and book men four par The chiefs of these locals are now ac clear to the workers and there is even wrong polley or neglect leaves us to ance is being more and more mantfested. consistent revolutionary groups to be cont. In order to be able to my cused by Hillman (not publicly but in an a great deal of confusion still left in the raise the banner of Communism and the party has reduced its whole cam accused of Impatience, syndicalist ten twenty dollara week to the unemploy underworld fashion) of interfering with minds of Left wingers. This condition lash the party into understanding and paign to the collection of signatures deneles, Leftism, etc. It abeolute falth ed. Everybody, of course, expected of his unionization campaigns and of com. greatly hinder the develoment of the activity (for example, the Spanish Rev. for petitions asking bourgeois Con. In the abilities of the workers to do the Amalgamatlonista as the chan pilelty with the racketeers in the indus movement. It can be removed to an gress to grant unemployed insurance. velop along the course of revolutionary plons of the cause of the wemployed try of pursuing their personal ends on honest and frank discussion of past and Dora the thesis mean we are to be The absolute failure in the midst of far decisiveness will be sneered at ly men no other course but to support this pro der the pretense of safeguarding the jobs present policies.
With a program adapteit to solve the the tail of party activity? Does it mean the calls for mobilization into hunger sign of the soundness of our course.
be orable condition to get any tesponse to of little faith, that should be a double position. How shocked were the un of the cutters. They are charged with we are to wait for the party bureaucrats marches is sufficient answer to the employed Amalgamationists when they permitting ent garments to be shipped to vital problems of the industry, and a to act? Does it mean we don act party loss of preatge amongst the return to Russia in the April days, upon distributed a handbill appealing to the deliance of the rules of the organization. coperation with the tr. will The example of Lenin who, upon his heard that the Amalgamation party hnd non union shops to be made up there is correct molley the Left wing in close Centrism act, we are capable of acting? They are employed.
finding that even his close associates members of Big Six to defeat the resumably, Orlofsky and his gang are be enabled to undertake sucressfully the strong compared to our forces, but any The present criats carries with de (built up through years of common strus proposition. The disastrous result of concerned with their own racket and relaunching of a brond mass movement to Marxist knows that numbers and wrong signs of horough going reshaplog cle) were showing signs of weakness in such a policy was the miserable showing set Hillman encroachment upon their defent the Hillman machine in the New York organization and lay the foundapolley cannot correct the non Marxist of the relations of classes which opens the face of decisions which implied sharp at the election in May of the Amalgama private territory.
While Hillman is solving the out tion for revolutionary Industrial unlonpolicy can obtain numbers in activity, in of the revolutionary movement. The go alone if necessary. This should al polling 400 votes of a total of 1, 000 votes of town problem by granting out of town ism among the men clothing workers.
position; few In numbers Ith a correct wide the question of the immediate rolo departures from the Mat was ready to thon party, the candidate for president ALBERT ORLAND.
struerte. Our action of the past and parts under Centrist leadershly has ways remain a living guide in the mak cast, whereas a few years ago, the cand scab firms agreements for present disproves the very questions falled in a proper evaluation of objec ink of all decisions by the Opposition date of the Amalgamation party got the mere price of a dues collecting. checkraise, but the thesis does not disprovel tive conditions. There is no reason to From the past we learn only how to 600 votes out of a total of 8, 000 vote off system, Orlofsky is anxious to save this. Our action disproves this in so believe that the application of the react in the future, not to see possible cast.
his racket which is threatened by the The Real Situation in lated examples in America to a greater actlonary concepts of Sociallam in one fallure but probable victory. Lenin. Lately, heard some rumors about exodus of the shops into the country country posed by the international The Opposition will maintain real Russia the leadership having gotten a dose of places promoted by such a policy. Or extent in other sections and particularis bureaucracy will release ita deadening Marxian unity at only one price. In relt eritteism. and this was declared to lofsky as a local chief is orientated on in the Spanish Revolution.
By LEON TROTSKY Because this action is not explained. hands from the revolutionary movements transigeance of principle tested to the to a mistake. As has been shown Sub New York, while unliman movements it results in ACTION on our part when rade Trotsky analysis that the three struggle.
If we are to accept com living fires of application in the class sequently, this report was incorreot. are unfettered.
They are not to blame. Their teacher Clique Conflicts in the Strike Introduction by Max Pastman is either tailendism on the one hand wendencies in the Communist movement. The course of our National Committoo, when he gets dizzy from failures, These conflicting Interests between 364 pages. Sold formerly at Through and fourth International action on the Hillman and Orlofsky have been reflected special arrangements with the pobother hand, where the party fails to art are not just tactical formulations batteo up to now has been one conditioned also calls them successes.
lishers can be had from us now at and lead. Only by explaining such can partures, the conclusion forced upon udstock of limitations. That was after al end of July and contrary to the expee sabotaged on the other.
basic principles representing class debe a constant looking back and taking The above mentioned tax expired at the In the last strike where one side has we eliminate both evils.
PART The Fear of Our Platform The following instance presents is that the Left Opposition representa fashion imposed upon us as a result of tations of some of the sponsors of the The Pressure of the Left PART II The Real Situation in Rus the proletarian approach in the move our historical geneals. Rent growth of proposition, conditions are getting worso claring Illustration: sia and the Taaks of the Concretely. for America, it means, ment. The American Communist Patty a revolutionary scope must be condi new tax was again recommended and The shops in the South Jersey towns.
Communist Party where the party has failed to act through cannot any longer be classified as even cloned by a constant daring to scale ove) as the previous tax did not cover the like Vineland, Hammonton and Erg HarPART Stalin Falsitles Illatory wrong policies, which results either in possessing the potentialities of a as greater and greater tasks.
payments, and anticipating the worson bor, were stopped off for only one day Only a limited number of these books One task pored before us must be that ing of conditions of unemployment, it and then the workers were sent back at this special price.
Order now of a systematic examination of our com was raised to six porcent for the next under a union agreement, while these PIONEER PUBLISHERS potion. Is it healthy in the main, or ten weeks. Here was an opportunity for shops have been directly maintained by party is it not a fact that predominantly it the Amalgamation to correct manufacturers from New York for the 84 East 10th St, New York City 1s composed of elementa who have not their mistake. But lo and behold! Again purpose of getting their garments mado any direct contact with currents of a clever move. handbill was again with the Milltant now appearing weekly there should be excellent possi workers in basic industries where the distributed by the Amalgamattonists with bilities for all of our supporters to enlist new subscribers. If you agree with possibilities of real struggles in the to the very snappy catchline. Defeat us you will want to extend the Militant circulation. You will want to keptical contact must be built up out of ing the most conservative element of the ture lie? The only real basis of poll the wage eut referendum. thereby gly.
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tioned upon. membership prepared to the Amalgamationists should look for THE SPANISH REVOLUTION IN DANGER assume new tasks involving a break with support, voted on this proposition, shall the secretary 64 pages 15 per copy Special Rates In Bundles THE MILITANT.
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