THE MILITANT WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Entered as second class mail matter, November 29, 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 3, 1979.
VOLUME IV, NO. 20 (WHOLE NO. 791 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931 PRICE CENTS Losovsky Unloads the Blame. 78 Trotsky Votes MINE STRIKE CALLED OFF in Santander Opportunity for National Movement Missed by Party Blunder The Revolution in Spain Trotsky Letter tothe ap pointed journal from Yaroslarsky article. The elements of the petty bourgeoisie and un to call all those whom it does not want kles. The same issue of the Daily The Lesser Losovskys in their Old Role of «Whipping Boys We have received the following in When a false policy and a bureaucratic the hope that Losovsky speech sign teresting report from Spain: regime end as they must in the ditch of ifies a better course in the trade union In the clty of Santander during the disaster select the scape goats and cast work are sure to be the victims of anthe whole responsibility upon them. This other terrible disappointment. The man elections to the national Cortes, 78 of the ballots were demonstrately filled is the sacred creed of Stalinism. Loov. euver is designed to delude them and Confronted with the fact that the mine field which human flesh and blood, has always been to transfer the out with the name of our comrade striking miners of lennsylvania, Ohio could stand no longer. That they ralliatrike to the job. Such a theory only sky, the General Secretary of the ro to head off their threatening mutiny. It Leon Trotsky. What lends added intintern and consequently a wheel horse may have a temporary success, as has and West Virginia find their ranks reunder the banner of the Left wing min. serves to spread deception and fatal 11 terest to this report is the fact that duced from an original 40 000 to a pre ors union Is tribute to their instinctive lusions among the workers, especially in in the Centrist machine, is a very adroit been the case before. The Communist practitioner of this odious method. Thing workers are long suffering and patient.
in Santander there is neither a Com sent 10, 000. the National Miners Union feeling that to strike under the besmire the present situation. The new plan munist party organization nor one of has issued a statement which is tanta ed and treacherous ting of Lewis would is only a variation on this exploded have come to such an appalling state in They have a great faith in the Comintern the Left Opposition. No Communist the American Left wing unions, despite which has been disloyally and shamefully election propagandn, consequently, was mount to the calling off of the strike in be equivalent to no strike at all.
theme. To encourage the dissipation of the fields mentioned No one even the most favorable objective conditions, abused by the usurping apparatus under The Heavy Odds the remaining strength of the returned that some kind of an explosion could Stalin. But the day of reckoning draws carried on in the city. The spontanestrikers in futile, isolated struggles slightly acquainted with the conditions not be avoided. In a properly adminisnear. The very fact that Losovsky has cus and demonstrative action of the of this heroic battle can fail to see the But the odds have proved too great for around individual mines right after the 78 workers is therefore so much more tered movement the situation would be been driven to make these astounding rel significant correctness of this step. The miners the moment. Against the miners were defeat of the strike on a tri district scale, reflected by an upsurge from below. relations is an indication of its apfought courageously nnd unitedly, driven mobiliul not only the bloated wealth is a thoroughly blockheaded and worse Since that is forbidden we usually get proach. No Losovsky, unloading the to bitter desperation by conditions in the and power of the coal barons, but also yet a criminal course for Left wing as a substitute the horse play of sell whole responsibility for the debacle on the power of their pollee, of their state leaders to advise.
criticism from above. Losovsky per the little Losovsky, can affect the slightland federal machinery, of their injunc formed this sickening ritual in his est cure. Centrist bureaucratism is the tion Judges ready for any arbitrary act, Speak Out Frankly!
speech at the Eleventh Plenum of the real disease. Lasovsky and Company and oot the least of them the John An honest, revolutionary leadership Physical exhaustion Comintern. Speaking or the American are its fountain head The revolutionary Lewis machine.
unions there is reported in the Inprecor, workers must recognize this and direct from within, Induced by years of unem must tell the coal miners: herole and We were he unburdened himself of the following their blows at it.
Conflict of Tendencies in the Ranks of the Working Class ployment, deprivation and in some cases militant fichit has been fought downright starvation conditions and we made the following mistakes: one.
overwhelmed by great odds. In addition, remarks What is the fundamental weakness of THE FORCES OF THE to Moscow. But the delegates of the physical assault from without color as two, three four. Now we must go back SPANISH PARTY Comintern proposed a delegation which form of police clubs guns and tears in the most orderly retreat possible, for our American trade unions? They do not kcow how to intervene in the economie The membership of the Spanish Com struggle of the toiling masses, and when munist Party has grown considerably in the representatives of the having miners back to the pits. Out of the must conserve our strength, spread the and which the latter deemed inadequate the first instance, relentlessly drove the this strike was only the beginning. Con they do intervene, they frequently do it bureaucratically. Our trade unions lack has seen in this tow of new elements a Maurinist Federation, the rupture of reigh point of the strike, only small and solidly as we can, and then, armed internal life and trade union democracy: Pravda motive for renewing a violent series of Intious was brought out.
every union has the ambition of going attacks against the Communist Left. Our call for a return quite properly acknow with greater forces, we shall fight again in for high politice, instead of concerning Proda, No. 180 of July 2, publishes Stalinists are very realously seeking to itself with the every day needs of the As a result, Mundo Obraro has publish Wedged the existence of this indisputable to wrest some of our demand from the workers. Party leadership consists in an article by Yaroslavsky under the confuse us with the splittery of the ed a resolution of the finally Pact and is the first measure to be tax coul operators. nless the miners are selves entirely for the trade unions: the sky. According to this paper, smontan Balearic Federation and accuse us arity with him The resolution declares of the coal miners in preparation for into the sectarian lough from which the fractional nuclel substituting them xading: New Assistant of Pilsud. Agrupacion de Madrid and the Catal expelling Maurin and all those in soliden to conserve the remaining energies told this the will again be sunk the strike raised it.
trade union members anddenly hear that supposed to have written an article for of having created a second Communist that the disapproves in toto of Maur the struggles that are coming with the But that is not all. In cddition to the since such and such a date not x, bu the Kurier Codzienny of Warsaw against party. Everybody knows, and above all in policy, but that it can admit into sureness of tomorrow. is chairman or Secretary of the un the Five Year Plan, against the Soviet the Stalinist bureaucrats, that the same the ranks of the of Spain all the external factors combining to crush the Yet, before we refer to the pointed antike, there is another factor which lon.
power, etc. and this article or some differences separate its from the Federa militants of the Catalonion Federation other Yaroslavsky is not very exact tions Madrid and Barcelona, la and the Madrid Grouping who request der was one more wipele movement must played a really tremendous role in the Functionaries are removed and behind the scenes, as if this dis supposed to have male the rounds spite of this the argument is employed it individually ment explains that only a lack of organ of a considerable part of the bour in order to create confusion in the Spanless, they will have to disapprove the off of the strike must be mentioned and Juring the struggle. The state not concern the rank and file members, party and non party, organised and even teoisie preas of America, of England, orlish working class and they assert that policy of Maurin and naturally of the awarning raised against its consequ ixing forces due to the youth and weak ences. The statement announcesness of the a. II presented the iml oland, of Rumania. Leaving aside the party is growing and progressing Trotskylsts.
that this change of tactics does not call mediate spread of the strike to unorganised workers who follow the The maneuver could not be more hypo off the strike, but only changes its churat lenst several times as many miners.
clude Workers to whom membership in revoluthe political and other commentaries of in spite of the Trotskyist inaneuvers.
But in spite of all the scoundrelism of critical. It aims at the disorganization acter. The next phase of the strike What pitiful leaders are these who seek tionary trade unions is connected with Yaroslavsky contine myself strictly to the Stalinists, we are defending the or privations, with the risk of losing their the material side of the affair.
of the ranks the Catalonian Balearle in the have given no article at all to the table and doctrinal unity of the Span Federation by invoking pretended good marily rent strike zone will be pri to explain their failures by anything and around individual mines everything except an analysis of the they must know where they are going Karlod codzienny, have no relations in the bas had the number of its owe tot the Stalinistih the unification and more struggles for late the manuels polley they pursued. The truth of the spite of lay the basis matter this thesis strike strus.
not therefore reduce the trade unions to learned of the very existence of the it has admitted into its midst dubious Reial party reserves to itself the right for broader and deeper The leadership of the and of a few officials and circular instructions Such a trade union cannot crow trade sticle published under my name in the scrupulous adventurers. For example, to readmit Trotskyists. Thus, the awarker contain this statement (8 17: the Communist party had an unparallel union can grow in the midst of stres Kurier is a forgery which differs in no it has admitted an individual who, durity will be a fraud, a remedy withou: 1931. adds in verification that the plan lomportunity to spread the strike. They gle, it can grow through the develo: way from the famous Zinoviev lettersi ing the Primo de Rivera dictatorship rauk and file militants of his Federation to a struggle for Ilmited demands in spreading the strike to other fields and grow, if every worker, every member formation of friends, the Kurler contined a letter in which he renounces his not political differences. This could now. in labor struggles in America. men from returning in despair of the knows well his elective leading organ: tinues to publish counter revolutionary Communist ideas and promises to be a well have been the beginning of the the union will grow, if the leadership articles attributed to me.
Such a plan could have been evolved the fact that the strike was not spread.
good boy in the future. This indivistruggle for the destruction of the un only in the minds of people ignorant of The Militant proposed the only effec will carry every question to the masses. know absolutely nothing of what dual has subsequently been entrusted principled bloc of Maurin. But there the labor struggles in America or so tive maner at the moment of spreading Nothing of this kind is as yet to be art of the hourgeols press of America with the management of one of the party can be no doubt that the best commun: irresponsible that experience and retfee the strike. The Stalinist telers, incom not surprising that the Seamen and is inder my name. have given no Another typical case: its not very ist bureaucrats. They will be called custom of the labor skates to drag out a chietly with the preservation of their Miners Unions have lost most of their article to any Journal of these countries long ago that the party expelled a bourmembers.
on the Five Year Plan. Thus, in this soos journalist, Antonio Espina. Four Left Opposition. Maurin runs the risk polnt of complete exhaustion, without sibility of spreading the strike Trotskyists and will join the Spanish lost strike and its participants to the bureaucratic prestige, rejected this posThis is rather plain talk about the case too it is a question of a forgery or days later, this bourgeois journalist was of being left all state of affairs in the unions directed what is most probable of a reprint of made civil governor of province by that his conduct was contageous when and energy of the workers are thus of the hest opportunities yet offered the alone. We recognize ever calling it oft definitely. The spirit was, they light mindedly threw away one In this by the Communist Party of the United the article in the Kurter.
States, and every word of it is true.
The Manchester Guardian is the only our wed journalist accepted with of the the representation of the must have the courage to call a defeat vast masses of workers. revolutionary leadership Left wing movement to set into motion There is nothing new however, in the her Logosky revelation. And Our Proposals is not because he was in the dark about this interview is devoted to showing fend the bourgeois republic he wrong and we would not be recoge for recovery. Our Stalinist strategists Such cases could be cited by the dozuizing our duty as the genuine defenders do everything but this in their plan.
What did the Militant propose, not it before. Every one of the monstrous the enormous historical Importance of practises he condemns in the speech at the Five Year Plan and of the necessites, Evidently. We are enemies of what of the unity of the were we not Further, the bankrupt polley of the (Continued on laget)
the 11th Plenum has been concretely of collaboration between England and the bureaucrats call progress of the Madrid leaders who abandoned it.
exposed time and time again in the the This interview therefore, We want the union of all to denounce the attitude of certain For that matter, the unification of the the evils that are sapping the life out which is attributed to me by the forcers party and make it stronger, but not that)
who have long ao est anti working class and bourgeois cles. cannot be made by royal de of the Left wing unions was counter shed themse revolutionary slander. But every milies in Warsaw, Riga and other places, ments should inject themselves into the cree from Moscow, nor by sending to the a delegation which is tant engaged in trade union work knew By Yaroslavsky article, Pravda leads ranks of the working class party.
the truth and could testify to it out of millions of readers into error. believe PANIC IN THE TWO INDEPENDENT dictatorially prepared and imposed, but Red Baiting Is Prominent Feature of New Frame Up Attempt by the organization of a national conhis own experience. The little Loov that Pravda is obliged to publish my FEDERATIONS gress which will re restablish the ComIn the midst of a fierce reign of terhave been made on the flimsiest pretexts.
skys could confuse the issues with blusdental out of respect for the millions of ter for a time, but they could not pre workers of red soldiers and sailors, of The Comintern bas sent the of muntstunity sbattered by the bureau ponto crush the fachting spirit of the Jerse Wakefield, representative de the miners in Harlan, Kentucky 35 miners International Labor Defense, and Arnold vent the policy from bringing forth its peasants, of students and of other citi Spain a delgation in order to settle the erats of Stalin. It is the comrades have gone on trial for their lives, charg. Johnson, of the American Civil Litxertics inevitable fruit. The tragic results of zens of the deceived by it internal crists of Spanish Communism. the ranks who must designate the deleStalinist administration of the trade un Kadikoy, July 16, 1931 They have taken some very adroit steps Rates to go to Moscow and the crisis ed with the shooting of Deputy Sherif Union, have been jailed, Boris Israel, Jesse Pace. Raids by deputy sheries correspondent of the Fulerated Press was ion work have accumulated around the Federation of Maurin by must be solved for us in Spain.
and company gunmen on the miners con forced into an automobile driven out of TROTSKY side to such an extent that the truth proposing the dispatch of a delegation (Continued on Page 2)
tinue unceasingly. Numerous arrests the elty limits and shot in the left leg.
cannot be covered up any longer. MatThe attempt to frame up the 35 miners ters stood at this pass when the General and send them to the electric chair is Secretary of the Profintern with that proceeding in an atmosphere of lynch pompous air of infallibility which is terror. The court room and vicinity is tinguishes all the apparatus men when dotted with company gunmen armed with they criticize others, took occasion to tell The internationalist spirit of the Left, Press Fund. In Toronto, comrade Quarter Our fund has already passed the onements made in last week Issue are rifles, machine guns and tear gas. The clearly and concretely to the fore in tic approached a number of Spanish speak hundred dollar mark. But this can only herewith recorded with thanks (unless Judge, Jones, delivered as tirnice what everybody already knew.
What Losovsky said is true enougas rumah sorventer comm. com ima esperanto which she workersmediatecles factorew lands Spainoi derecede samme beginnine rent atherwise noted the donations are from against the Reds telling the jury that Communism and law and order cannot est sacrifices to advance the movement.
be honest with the Communist workers will enable them to start with the pub warm letter breathing the spirit of in sleep in the same hed. We have our he would have to say that the Minks Lication of a weekly paper. The contri ternational solidarity. From London, The very least that we can do in this sins of course, but never until these and stmilar Overgaards to say nothing butions, received from all parts of the tho Marxian League sends a money or country is to support them with our snake doctors came here from New York of the Saxers, who have been having countries are we ardently hope yder for an English Pound, an answer fancial aid. Do not forget that didiJames Cannon: 00 Winte: 50 and taught these doctrines, have we been their fun with the Left wing unions, did leginning. Every American revolutionist to the call issued by the Militant. The cult as is the economie position of the James Gilday: 11. 00 Rose: 00 Attorney, Brock, threatened the must beur in mind that the situation in response of our English friends is espe troubled by Communism. The Statex own independent efforts and means. They olutionary possibilities. In the midst of British comrades write: not arrive at their positions by their Spain is pregnant with magnificant rescially welcome. In their letter, the ent, they are still in a relatively better Nathan Berman: 00 Gomez:. 15miners with the cold chills of steel.
are merely the office boys who have been the torn and confused Communist movestate than are the terrifically underpaia Sartori: 00. Ililda 00. Alin Workers everywhere must support the Enclosed herewith is a money order Spanish workers. The American dollar ando Naclo: 00 Jose Vargas: 25 defense of these 35 miners faced with appointed to these functions because of ment of that country, our militant op for five dollars a contribution from thel (we do not say this out of national Dlaz: 23 Salazar 23 Gomez:. 25 their unfailing readiness to do what thes josition group alone is holding firmly league to the fund you are collectin: Pride. goes a long way when translated Sol Sarachik: 00Minneapolis branch: trle chair for struggling to improve their capitalist Justice and death in the elee are told. The monstrous excesses the the banner of Lenin and Trotsky of Bol for the Spanish Opposition Press.
have committed against the revolution bevism, which they have unfurled. Acute into Spanish pesetas. An accumulation 55 Bolsnert, Los Angeles: 00ary labor movement only represent the as is the need the Militant feels today We are following the movement will of American dollars sent to our Spanish Boston branch: 00 Toronto branch starving and miserable conditions de natural working of the nefarious system for financial support to maintain itselt intense interest and are thirsting for de comrades means that so much more of Copposition and members. 25. mass pressure of the workers is the small and inconspicuwe are nevertheless urging all our friends talls regarding the precise position and cleared for the forward marcha leto not 40 Marxian League of London: 85 workers from the clutcher of the coal ous parts. To single out these inconse to make an exceptional effort to make quentiallerrand boys for attack white the most generous contributions possible and tell them that since an uprising on strike the hardest blows at reaction and of 50 Christ Harris: 25 Altman: YOUNGSTOWN: Denis Plarinos: 00 We are asking to send our greetings doubly valuable for this is forget, further, that money sent now is time to Frank:. 50Jos. Gottlieb: 25 Sym leaving the system and its apparatus to the movement in Spain.
pathizer:. 20 Solls:. 281 Frank Chelwhich they represent untouched, and to Our appeal has already born gratifs the world proletariat in general the confusion in Spain. All funds should be 50. Canas: 50 Gabriel Hierro:. 50 Trotsky thorough analysis of the latest SEE PAGE FOUR for comrade Leon for the prevailing evils, is to practise ing results. At meetings we have held In particular their task is a noble The Miutant, 84 Fast 10th St, New York, Total this week: 285. Previous conNpeech delivered by Stalin before the pass that comedy off as a serious remedy addressed to comrade Gonzales, co Guillermo Coria: 50 Villalba. 15 deliberate fraud against the workers on street corners, at least in New York one and we are hoping for the very best movement.
workers in the audience have contributed news.
tributions: 81. 01. Grand total to date conference of the industrial managers e Communist workers who nourish enerously to the Spanish Opposition Max Nicholls, secretary. Funds received since the acknowledge. 144. 76.
and economists.
openly about the situation only now, it an interview on the Five Year Plan worker assassinated who does not del cannot akree with Jaurin, but it would who followed it to outline a wine course Try 35 Kentucky Miners on every SPANISH OPPOSITION PRESS FUND INCREASING