The Meaning of the Elections EDITORIAL NOTES in THE ECONOMIC MONTH PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931 in which the Mooney case is tacked on as necessary ideologically to the capitalto a number of other issues, and in its as his profits and his power. The which its special appeal is lost the same broad social vision is applied to other cases will not lose by this tem relief activities for busted and misporary segretation of the Mooney issue. guided bankers by the Hoover Banking they will gain a hundred fold by the Plan. True, the bankers who need relief (Continued from page 1)
sweep of the broader Mooney movement have to come with hat in hand and three meet the vital needs of the workers at the protests of the Communists so long which can be created. To change the different kinds of security before they The Communist Party Vote WHERE IS THE MOONEY the moment; but, moreover, they must as these protests are not supported by course and correct it now while there is can get a loan, and there is no telling MOVEMENTO An interesting feature in this con be linked with and be capable of causwider masses of the workers. This is yet time means in New York and such but that some of the relievers will need tection is that appeal to the secondary lng agitation against, difficulties for, and It is nearly three months since Tom the crux of the question. Without the other places where separate conferences relief themselves before long, but a good or cancer growths of capitalism corexposure of the capitalist class and Mooney issued his memorable appeal initiative and driving force of the Comhave been organized Communist and game of ring around a rosy with banking ruption, gangsterism, etc. had no effect capitalist government who will aux eau To al Militant and Revolutionary La munists the dynamic element. the or reformist to propose to the reformists funds will give evidence of constructive on the voters who overwbelmingly renot carry out or concede to fundameutal hor Organizations and Group for un xantxing force there can be no militant merger of the conferences into one. It activity from the greatly misunderstool turned Tammany politicians or demands of the working class. Our obited action in his behalf. Thereby he movement on a national scale. But the their Ject in a class sense, in presenting immeput the fifteen year old case once more agitation of the Communists cannot be goes without saying that every direct engineer in the White House.
blood brother Republicans to office. Fuudinte demands in connection with our proposal to the official leadership of the effective until it penetrates the masses reformist organizations and conferences on the agenda of the labor movement damental education on principle questions ultimate program, is WORKING CLASS He around the enthusiasm of every oon and sweeps them along in a joint moveof socialism, the class struggle, etc. was EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATION for setentious militant for a new struggle ment. Tom Mooney understood this by an intensive agitation in the ranks naturally missing, with the exception the principles of Communism.
for his liberation and for the cause of as his letter shows. His letter created Under the conditions, where king nun the working class which he symbolize the most favorable ground to realize this ceptance of the unity proposals of these organizations to compel an ac «YOUNG SPARTACUS, here and there of a socialist candidate who spoke for socialism in the soccer held dominion in New York City with in his prison cell. Because of the pro necessary union of forces The Stalinlalist manner.
This is the way OUT THIS MONTH!
blow the breath of found response which it called forth from ist lenders of the Party have bungled an approximate inillion unemployed, the And what was the case with the Com the depths of the movement, the call of the whole question. The next move is life into the Mooney movement. This is issue of IMMEDIATE RELIEF, cane Tom Mooney sent the leaders of all the up to the Communist workers. It is for the tactic of the united front as Lenin Communist League of Americate opp om To cite one example, Amter, Commun The National Youth Committee of the munist Party and its election campaign.
first. As natural currolaries to achieve factions scurrying to prepare their ans them to force the issue and compel taught it, and as Mooney appealeri fortion) is speeding the work of pub ist candidate for Borough President of real immediate relief, there followed the wer. The class war prisoner has a great change of course.
in his letter. The reformists are doing lication of the first number of Young Manhattan, received the miserably demand for unemployment Insurance, at authority and nobody dared to ignore What does his appeal. All the factions and groups It mean this mean, concretely. now everything in their power to make this Suartaeus. The announcement of the eredibly low vote of 789. Add what the expense of the boxes and govern for the Communist Party and letter remain a scrap of paper. But we answered. Each in its own way made the to make direct, format pro have no advice to offer them. Our sug proposed publication of a youth paper votes were stolen or uncounted, as the ment, agitation for a six hour day and of the Left Opposition in the United Party claims, and it is still far beyond five day werk, amul, from a broader but gesture of compliance. And there the posals to all the organizations and Festions are directed to the Communist States met Immediately with an enthus tistimate expectations, The living is matter rests at the present moment groups mentioned in Tom Mooney letter as a means of forcing the reformists. lastie response. In correct political class angle, the agitaNew York a drive suce were there: the economie crisis Where is the new Mooney movement for joint action on the single issue of! The Leninist tactie of the united front for donations and subscriptions is nog and unemployment, around which the tion for the widest jonsible economie which the rank and file militants de the fight for Mooney. It means to give is a powerful means to this end.
That being carried on by the comrades and Communists have contered their agita collaboration between the capitalist sire wit all their hearts.
is not the least of its merits.
It is not yet up the horse play of a united front em number of donations and subscriptions tion for two years. Wby the pitiful ited States and the Soviet Republic through the medium of the extension of under way. Even the campaign to set bracing only Communist organizations the great movement in motion still waitse have already been received, as well 85 The Communist Objective in Elections large and long term credits to the Sov.
showing in the elections?
bundle orders. subscriptions is the the initial steps of organization.
immediate goal of the Youth Fractioning of noses at election time, but its in election campaigns and NOW. remain We do not over emphasize the countlet Onion. These immediate demands And this is not because there is no of New York.
the immediate demands and issues for basis for the issue. All the elements The subscription price to Young Spar value as a partial barometer of work the Comunists to present. These defor a truly clgantle movement, one that tacus is fifty. 50) cents per year ing class development has been indicated mands, alive and comprehensible, if incan reach into the very depths of the for Canada and foreign. 30. 05.
Older) For Communists, election time offers telligently presented, more than adequmost conservative labor organizations The long expected wave of wage cuts the price of commodities; that is, credit comrades and workers are asked to sub special opportunity to intensify the conately cover the sum total of the actual and set its members into action, are at broke in the first week of October, iu and paper values have been created at Tibe on behalf of young people whom reach the workers with the message of working class demands set forth in the hand. It is the method that is lack itiated by the Steel Corporation, and a more rapid rate than physical goods. they know, or for their children and 75 demands by the Party. But it is even ing: it is understanding and the will quickly followed by Bethlehem of the leaders of the factions and groups Aluminum Co. Allied Chemical, etc. that the Federal Reserve banks, on Oct. subacription drive for Young Spartacus and the solution. Even actual election for morete ortant per present clearly to whom Mooney addressed his appena capitalism serves notice on the worker 28, 1981, had outstanding in the form of Bundle orders are at the rate as to office, unlike with the socialists, is the election campain that there is It must be said plainly, because it is the that it can no longer maintain the Am rodiscounted paper and bills bought in cente per copy in bundles of Ave or for Communists essentially but a chance to lasting way out for the working class bitter and incontestable truth: they have erican standard of living. In previous the open market, 1. billion dollars, more to use the parliamentary tribunal for but the Social Revolution.
Win Workers to Communist Principles have played factional politics with it: they have sooner or later recovered, as and less than 400 million a year agd will go to press in less than one month the capitalist machinery of sofernment tion times and at all times, is to teach all diplomatized with the appeal: they crises, too, wages have been cut, but against less than a billion six weeks ago The first issue of Young Spartacus, communist education, to point out why The object of the Communists in elce.
they have sabotaged it. The problem is American capitalism has increased its a year during which business has eer. The present editorial commiktee constate cannot be used to achieve fundamental to develop and to organize Communists.
to break through this rotten game. And productivity to new high levels. Unless tainly not improved. To be able to pump of Joseph Carter, Abern and George Gains for the working class, and why the best weapon for this is the appeal American capitalism can turn the trick these credits into the money market. Ray. Send donations, bundle orders and and social system is the only bona fide abject in mind during the campaign, the a complete class change of government This simple but primary. It the Communist Party had really had this of Mooney himself. In that document the again, this time wages will not come the Federal Reserve had to create an subscriptions to Young Spartacus, 84 means and methods for unfolding the back.
solution artificial money shortage, which sent up East 10th Street, New York, movement can be found. Did the official New York Communists results, votes or no voter, would have carry out the tasks Communists dur been better from a Communist viewpoint.
Far better to go to the extreme of ala remarkable presentation of the quesable it to create new fixed capital at low meet the outflow of gold now that this of England and Germuny, second, to enpose of the inflation was to be able to justify themselves on the ground that costs based on low. wages plus low raw has been achieved, the inflation will in Forum of the New York Branch of the han its organizational expression, it demand for the realization of the social Pon Friday, November 6, at the Open In dit is true that the Communist Party Westende resolutionists as the Socialists Mooney 1s in all and doesn under already an excessive supply of fixed Opi or if it gets out of hand, will itself gen tion. comrade Arne Swabeck spoke anfalled indeed to consolidate its strength Party to put forward 75 demands which material costs. The fact that there is all probability either be checked at once Communist League of America (OpposiRevolution, than like the Communist stand the situation. They are all wrong and influence at the ballot box. Actual The class war prisoner, immured in Santal in the form of Industrial equipment, erate the forces which will before longl Fourteen Years of the Russian Revolu1y, however, misleadership and false polsmother the main task of Communist Quentin these afteen years, understands railroads, houses, will not hinder capital counteract it and cause renewed declino tion. The comrades felt that this forum icies of the Party in the trade unions education. The Communists cannot. com even possible that his superior Wiadom if it can be created on such a low cost dvity, profits and, if the workers do while for one of the best methods for at the polls, in the failure of unioniste on the matter of amelioration of condican be attributed to his imprisonment. asle, due to low wages, that the newly.
not offer adequate resistance, wages too. Joining in solidarity with our Russian and strikers to vote Communist tions of the workers; to do so means only New turns and new periods percolate created fixed capital will produce a procomrades, is to understand the nature to sink into the quagmire in which soe through the prison walls only after a fit. Such a polley may not make sense to create a national economic Advisory tlon, to appreciate its great achievements, crying weaknesses of the party program The Party Program Senator La Follette is sponsoring a bill and significance of the October revolucertain delay. Mooney has assimilated but it makes money.
The Militant has dealt before with the talist weeds flourish, or into the ydicksands in which the revolutionary outthe idea of the united front as Lenin The recently announced wecision of the seconded by the Chamber of Com from without and within so that we can similar manifestations in council. In this worthy effort het to know the dangers that threaten it for the New York elections, which found look is buried.
taught it. Perhaps he has not yet learn Interstate Commerce Commission dony merce and the of After all, be armed to fight against them. Equip and other points. There was first and Philadelphia The Central Committee on the Elections ed about the new amendments. At any rate he has not been converted to them.
ing the application of the railroads for why not? Why should not capitalism be ped with knowledge and busight. we are foremost a program of On the day before the elections, the immediate de That is he strength, and the strength of a 15 flat increase in freight rates able to plan as well as communism? prepared more realistically and enthus Central Committee of the Communist his appeal That is why his appeal con and suggesting instead a to in Production for use, for which planning Instically to participate in the defense good and correct ones mixed, like chop its appeal to the workers to vote the mands with no lo o less than 75 demands, Party (Daily Worker. 11 31) said, in stilutes the guiding line alone which crease, whose proceeds are to be pooled is necessary, is the same as production of the Russian Revolution. It was in ped herring or chor sues, with demanda Communist ticket. Our party. is alone a real mass movement for his llb eration can proceed.
how hard is the way of the demagogue fered with by planning: In the same way spoke. He made an analysis of the ois kind, a mish mash that left everyone the proletariat war. It organizes as the worker interest in his wages is economic processes developing in the the basis of class and yet remains a great Ounity for when a showdown is called for. The his profits. The advice of the advisory Communists in the capitalist countries demands concerned themselves with tional Labor Defense. On the one hand the railroads at Mr. Hoover 1929 conmaintenance of wagen, agreed to by council need not be taken too seriously. in relation to the Soviet Union, and spoke che per milk, ex service men demands. capitalist class, for the struggle for power.
It was a forinal notice from Mooney terenees, is a plensant illusion shipwreck it will help to amuse the working class, it it comes to a showdown: and after all of the role of the Left Opposition.
a limit of 3, 000 salary for police capWhat a pity it is that the Communist tains. Yes, it is sad, but true. the election campaign was not conducted on to the so called progressives: no exclused on the rocks of reality. The only particukrly the most advanced workers. nounced, comrade James Cannon wii return of money to muleted bank depos: the lines of this baxie appeal. At least ion of the Communists from the Mooney reason why the showdown was deferred in these gloomy times.
speak on The Haymarket Martyrs itors, for unempoyed relief, against the then some workers would have undremovement. On the other hand rightly so long is that the railroads fear understood it was an intimation to the strong railroad unions, and partieularly Capitalists are being kept busy these valuable lessons from the great hour ion, and lastly, the 75th demand, for Communists and the Socialists, not to Communists: depend on you to press the militancy of the rank and file as days, when they have no business of day movement that culminated in the a Workers and Farmers the issue and lead the way, to force the demonstrated in the 1922 strike of the their own to attend to, by taking the Haymarket events of the 80s, particu. We are given to declare that no Social mention the capitalist parties. But it reformists and the trade unions, includ. shopmen. How far this militancy has place of nice young ladies from the set. Iarly now when the tremendous unemist Party local in American history ever is this same Stalinized Central Commiting the most conservative ones, to fight been worn down by the growth of com. tlements in doing social service for the ployment puts on the order of the day put together such an enormous list of tee that formulated the election program with you in a common front. Mooney rany unions, and Ism, and the class working classes. Unemployment rellet the hour day.
meant to say, as he said personally to collaboration policies of the leadership committees money raising activities to be an interesting one, and takes place meaning or purpose in regard to class Is that the election campaign witnessed the present writer three years ago. The Wibe demonstrated but the next few help keep them in trim and bring that on Friday, November 13 at the Labor content or reality to the situation, another brand of socialist competition. reds are the dynamic element; they must weeks. In Canada, the question of vol rony glow of self satisfaction which is Temple, 14th Street and Second Ave. The masses, it is true, again voted That is, the Communists competed start the movement; they must set it untary acceptance of a wage cut has been put up to the workers and definitely overwhelmingly for the capitalist wys with the socialists on the platform and into motion.
tom. But there were some thousands arena of the socialists and the socialists rejected It is bad that the leaders of the Party wbo, thinking a little more clearly, voted naturally won this competition handa The flood of gold out of the country.
didn understand this, and still worse and the tendency to hoard bank notes, for the first time for what they regard down.
ed as a vote for socialism They The Communist Party forgot the main that they do not understand it yet. They have both subsided sharply, and Monday, are people to whom the obvious is alvoted either for the Socialist Party or issues in the campaign. In trying to Nov. 2, for the first time in six weeks, ways a mystery seated with seren seals. there was an actual gain of some 25, the Socialist Labor Party. Why not for understand the workers, it fell to the Any one who has as much as a causal000, 000 of gold.
Even the bureaucratle shiftings can that this is precisely how it happened, the Communist Party, the official repre level of outlook of the in the class acquaintance with the line up in the spectacular breakdown of the banking idze was transferred to the All Union mits that it might have been so These who expected be of great significance. When Orjonik but every informed apparatusman adsentative of the future society common sense, undeduented worker. The Party dealt too much with the manifestations bor movement ought to know that the system are obably disappointed. The Council In the lam?
People Economy, Yaroslav Because the Communist Party cam of eapitalism, and too little Indeed with trade unions under their present lead American banking system has a long way sky undoubtedly expected the appoint. Tents carried out under the direct in paign was scarcely distinguishable from the causes and cures for capitalism, ership, and the other groups addressed to go yet, in concentration and the creaIn brief, capitalism in America held in the letter, whether conservative, paetion of still more gigantie banking monment to the post of chairman of the structions of Stalin, or in the hope of a stupid, near sighted campaign such as Central Control Commission; but the his approval.
udo radical or socialist, will not make opolies than have been known yet, beIts ground, though getting ready to one expects from reformists and social a genuine and militant fight for Mooney appointee was Andreyev one who is it would seem. exactly who should be ists. Under the conditions of a volume switch the personnel of its political At best they will only render lip service with those of capitalism in general, split fore its internal contradictions, together much younger and who, it would com. put at the head of the cc. it not of reformist demands, why should any committee, the government: it made no in deference to the sentiments of the it into pieces. There are still some 25, earned it incomparably less. There the incomparable Yaroslavsky!
ranks, arrange a formal demonstration. 000 separate banks in this country, comwere even whispers in Moscow, hall who is more qualified than Yagoda atist as against the milder toned Socialist. Lalist Party, weak too, nevertheless de make a mild, polite and orderly protest pared with in Canada, and four that was going over to the opposition.
carneat, halt serious, that Yaroslavsky the head of the to execute Stallis just one way a worker could reflect veloped its main ideology of reform and in most intimate commissions. all of which means nothing, or next In making his decision poultices for capitalism, and laid the amount to anything in England.
to nothing, in such a bitterly contested As a matter of fact the leadership of The Apparatus Men Are Nervous What kind of Denunds should be Raised ground a little better for the period when the has been concentrated in class fraue as the Mooney case.
Nevertheless, why was this so picWe are for immediate demands. But capitalism will need to seek them out But is it not equally clear that the 48 cents a bushel early in October to The price of wheat has recovered from recent years in the hands of Yagoda turesque Yaroslavsky pushed aside by they cannot be 75, or 50, or 25 or even 15. and use them as their cover and protect He seemed to be the natural successor protests of the Communists and their 67 cents: cotton and petroleum have also of Menghinsky. Suddenly Yagoda the pale, though zealous, figure of And. They must be a few clearly and definite on.
and centralized demands close sympathizers alone a mere handThe Party Pays the Price of Wrong been strong. The bourgeois prexs, with ful of the American working classdemoted to the post of second assistant, reyer? And why did Yagoda, who 18 Which it a given situation. Immediate Theory its indestructible optimism, Bees the beconcede scare nobody, and least of all the time ginning of an upswing. The basic factor to first place.
and the little known Akulov is advanced seady for ervalov? This is an inter demands are not permanent; nor are his place to The working class as a class is still necked and class conscious persecutors appears to be the beginning of purely of Mooney? They do not care a fig for artificial inflation expressing itself in sky and Yagoda are two figures of the for Stalin to appoint to the most respon selected demands must appeal to and capitalist minded. It must yet take its What is the meaning of this? Yaroslavl esting question. In the impossibility the same ones always emphasimd. These first steps as an independent political force. The Communist Party had great same order, of a similar type, as it sible posts the people most necessary to created for similar commissions. Closely bim, is expressed the unvolced, almost Read!
tied to each other, they were carrying nameless, but insurmountable resistance ATTEND. MILITANT. for Communism, but failed almost tot atus repressions that can launc. and the sults of the stalinist aystem. In general ANNIVERSARY DANCE only one answer to the Tallure of the official Communist Party. The CommunG. Stalin most delicate com and in the main, the Stalinites will ae Out Soon On Saturday, November 21, 1931, the ist Party must once again set both feet missions in the field of struggle with him. But here we find that even Yaro third annual Militant Ball will be held on solid theoretical ground, it must ex personal revenge against all who at any slavsky and Yagoda cannot swallow ov. in New York at the Stuyvesant Castuo, amine its past and present. If it will time, in any way, brushed against Stal erything down. Stalin has to make ex 9th Street and Second Avenue. This will look straight, it will find that, wittingly Watch For It traordinary efforts to retain the peo be a grand get together of all friends, or unwittingly, it has been under the Published by the National Youth Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition)
These people, Yaroslavsky and Yagoda, ple most needed by him even in second sympathizers and members of the Com insidious and corrupting effects of Stal YOUNG SPARTACUS Official organ of the Communist youth opposicould be assigned any sort of commis) ary and tertiary roles. Here lies the munist League of America (Oppositioninist theory and practices, sinking, even tion in the United States, prints news, articles, educational material sion, without the risk of meeting with symptom one of many symptoms of the Each year the attendance at this annual as other communist Parties, Into nationeditorials on the economie and political situation in the United States and clsewhere, particularly as related to the youth and young workers in Incould be commissioned to bring about through the apparatus, is in a constant, even larger turnout is expected at this ism, coupled as yet with a general out look and comprehension of communism.
dustry. It prints also the writings of Leon Trotsky and other leaders of the suicide of pure Glazman? Who but, volceless struggle with the apparatus year dance and entertainment.
which somehow feels upon itself the The. committee in charge 18 utilizing The elections are but an outstanding exthe International Left Opposition of the Communist movement Yagoda could have been capable to Published Monthly 84 Enst 10th Street New York, starve out the innocent Boutor? And pressure of the Party. The passing by of every means to have the militant the heavy toll of being wrong in theory Fifty. 00) cents per year (Canada and Foreign 65) 5c per copy.
what other pair could better carry out Yaroslavsky and the demotion of Yagoda a spirited and happy gathering of the ample. The Communist Party is paying the soviet and party order the shoot is a singular warning to Stalin on the comrades.
There will be good musle for the and principles. Party ignorance receives YOUNG SPARTACUS ing of Blumkin? One could consider part of the apparatus, one could almost 84 East 10th Street New York, quite probable that the alleged article say a secret vote of lack of confidence dancers and listeners, and at the tables payment in kind from the workers.
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to learn, and to redress and reform itself State Trotsky counter revolutionary crusadel in the future we should expect more and THE DATE: before it is too late?
against the Soviets. We do not afirm more very significant facts.
NOVEMBER 21. MARTIN ABERN.
The open letter of Tom Mooney was and the social reformist in times of crists the same as the capitalist interest in Soviet Union, and cited the tasks of the bewildered as to what it all meant. These cainst class, working class against the The workers of today can learn many war danger, defense of the Soviet Unstood the baste distinctions between the Very Significant Facts. by Alfa have to TO Subscribe!
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