THE MILITANT WORKERS OF THE WORLD.
UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Published weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at 84 East 10th Street, New York, Entered as second class mall matter, November 28, 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 1879.
VOLUME V, NO. (WHOLE NO. 102 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1932 PRICE CENTS The Railroad Wage Cut New Developments in Far East estern Imperialists Register Protests as Japs Hold on to Booty early and late was the one: You wimpetitive means of transportation) is to sare, of course, not only still wrapped up astern rialy during the last few months. Reconstruction Finance Commission» Ruse hemployment. STATEMENT OF THE MARINE WORKERS DEFENSE ly gone. They face an entirely new perspective for the future. Class Approach Necessary The railroad workers are being reduced from their exclusive craft position.
From the protracted negotiations for of the matter. There should never again. They are now in a more direct sense on a new railway wage agreement, the mill be any reliance placed upon arbitration an actual class level. Their problems are lionaire magnates have emerged victor machineries or proceedings. The work ever more becoming bound up with that lous. But that they accomplished onlyers can obtam only what they can u of their class. Only an approach, no by the cunning servility of those with tually take; what their position of or longer from the exclusive craft position whom they nexotiated the union lead sunlaed strength will force the employers but from a class poaltion can hope to Φers. These rogues accepted the 10 per to give into begin to approximate a solution. In this While Japanese warships are continu. ly inclined to kindle the war spiritist Party of the Soviet Union is ineetcent wage cut while the 1, 500, 000 rail What were the heavy compelling argu sense there is a gigantic change in pering to bombard Shanghai, at the same against the imperialism of the Ear Justing in Moscow. There was a time when spective rond workers were not consulted. ments which the railroad magnates martime hanging martial law over Nanking yet. The present line up of the powers he communist Party of the Soviet UnIt would be difficult to expect any other shalled to convince all and sundry? it their unions and to this we will again fortresses at he mouth of the Whangpoo one of the instigaters of the Japanese Communist International by far more It means new and enormous tasks for and laying waste the Chinese Woosong is bardly a stable one. France, of late ton justified its lending position in the outcome in view of what happened since was primarily their plea or inability to return in a future issue. One may say River, the imperialist government at adventure, Great Britain, the traditional than the fact that it possesses state the negotiations assembled several hun.
there is some slight ray of hope for Tokio is tenaciously clinging to dred local union chairmen in the Chis maintain earnings in face of the heavstature prospects in the fact that in these inch of ground it has seised since thel on. Their interests are not at one with when it was the veritable leader of the every ally of Japan, are hardly to be counted power. That was in the Lenintat period, ago conferences According to one competition from bus passenger than recent negotiations representatives of all start of the Manchurian adventure chairman who was present, only speak portation and from freight huulage by of the unions were brought together those of Wall Street. But England world proletariat.
ers designated by the official union bler trucking. It is very true that new mod and acted together despite the fact of qude naturally become alarmed over the for. Che time being. That explains her fiagration are spreading from West to The brigand powers of the West have does need the aid of American finance Today, when the flames of social conarchy could obtain the floor. The stand ing retrain repeated by these hort role as mediator in the present tension. Bast and from East to West, the alin. flare up in the current Far Eastern Ixed has nothing more to have to accept a ware cat. That spell surge extent superceeding railroad ser. In the exclusive craft position of the Under the sanctimonious maak as much as ever functioning of the tangle fs not excluded. But the relation offer the International working class at ed defeat in advance.
Paet of Paris the United States, of abip of forces we are witnessing now, will a Conference than the latest figures on The New York Times says, in com investors in railroad securities because ism within the ranks of labor. Hence peace formula pretending to have the formation, before matters come to a head. shall ye come back. The oppressed and superceede the dividends collected by the purely and simply as agents of capital course, leading four powers drafted have to go through a rather sharp trans the Fixe Year Plan. To which we menting editorially upon the great good it is the same bondholders in each case. In any consideration by the rallroad Interests of pacifism at heart, but whose which is to aceruenot to the workers As a matter of fact the existing bus workers of future problems one thing sole aim was to create a check to the class conflict in Germany remains, as be and restless proletariat of Germany, are In the meantime, the outcome of the plundered marses of China, the starved but to business in general, to the lite lines are practically all owned by the at least remains axiomatic. struksle successful robber activities of the Niptore, of decisive importance to all turns waiting for a word from the Soviete.
insurance companies and to the banks railroad companies us for or which have more than 4, 500, 000, 000 in Greyhound owned by the Penusylvana to improve their standard of living. can. Ponese competitor.
vested in rallway issues: Union leader. Kallrond, the Uniou Pacitle system and he carried on only hand in hand with fused to accept the now famous Point factor is left altogether out of sight by Was it all strange that Toklo re but sad to note that this determininging to say to them.
ship has sacrificed an immediate ad the Chicago and Northwestern having the most determined struggle against in the peace formula to settle all the official Communist press, which in ret this. The workers will begin to deThe ollers of the world will not forvantage in order to obtain a larger obtheir net of bus llues in the Western all traces of domination by these cap outstanding controversies between Joctive. No, the leaders sacriticed noth territory and so forth. The truck haul talist agents.
the stead, indulges in all sorts of tortuous mand an accounting. It is to take care ing, not even their honor for such they ing is also rapidly belug gobbled up by the capitalist offensive against never had as long as they occupled ther, the roads.
working class is still in full blast all fact, to be expected. Japan considers contradictions. which they are unable Opposition under he Leadership of Leon official positions. The sacriflee is all on the outstanding controversy In Man to understand.
along the line It calls for the most Trotsky la preparing itself.
the part of the workers. To them it The railroad owners thus The 17th Conference of the Communclip the determined resistance Meak submission churla settled. And Tokio said as much, SAM GORDON will mean lower standard below the cupons and pocket the profits from prac will only bring new and more ferocious for the Chamberlin Incident, replacing slyly offering a satisfactory apology be the average earning of all railroad tion. But for the railroad workers the organization, divided and split up along the more acceptable Admiral Nomura and workers, counting both employed and luation is an entirely different one. cratt lines, repatedly betrayed by their unemployed. The railroad owners on the They have been hit, in addition to the leaders, but nevertheless a powerful or deftly withdrawing her troops from the other hand will receive an additional wago cut, with heavy unemployment. ganization it brought into action. It is Marine Zone. Interference with The latest patch to our threadbare, cial bank means the throwing of a monplum of 215, 000, 000 to further line thelr and lay offs to the extent of about 700, certainly incumbent upon the rallrord her already well established conquests, capitalist soeld y to being applied. They key wrench Into the wheels of all the pockets during the coming year, during 200 being eliminated during the last de wrokers to endeavor to lend in this re she will not, however, tolerate.
which the reduction is ot remain in el cade. Many more are on a part time Ristance. But this require fighting With the exception of few ultra are now announcing the birth of the business that was transac. ed by the confect. These servile, cringing union of working basis. Their exclusive craft program.
Jingolst papers, notably the Hearst Reconstruction Finance Corporation cern baring deposits there. Increased cals served them well Indeed.
position in the higher brackets entire press. American public opinion is hard. Not so many months ago the bankera unemployment and misery. The tallure hemselves, at the pronounced initiative of a saving bank, although not having The railroad magnates could easily of the president, created the National the direct effect upon bersiness in general give gllb promises of reciprocity to the Credit Corporation for the purpose of as hat of a commercial bank, brings demand for the Hocalled alding the weak banke, Admittedly, within its train the pauperizing of all stabilization advanced by the union of has been of Httle ald. Now, a bigger and the depositors, who particularly during ficials. This promise is just as meaningbroader plan is being put in effect, the times of crisis look upon the few dol.
less as the manner in which the demand The case of Soderberg Bunker and eary means of defense. From this the legal laterests of the defendants; was proposed was futile. The promise Trajer the marine workers Indicted to point of view. chronological statement brought the case to the attention of the The Mul providing for the lar saved during the seven fw years offers only to endeavor to increase employment whenever practicable. And, of the calendar for trial and the whole committed. This bare statement of the case it work. distribution of leaflets billion dollar fund to be raised through alore so than the bankruptcles of ordinhe sale of bonds. 500, 000, 000 to be ary Industrial and commercial houses course, with the magnates now pleading spracy will soon be unfolded before the as it really stands will sufice to enable speakers before organizations and a pubsubscribed to by the governmentwhich lank failures beenuse of the wide diminishing returne, this will never be for the Indicted workers, when the questhe disrupters and call them to order inability to meet the payroll because of court At this moment of deepest peril the honest workers of all came to judge lle mass meeting It succeeded in money will be used to loan honey o spread tentacles of modern financial cap.
iting in a common fight, organizations practicable. But after all, as far as the tion of their liberty or imprim. nment 18 THE WORK OF THE and groups of conflicting tendentes and banks advance money to the railroads to ital although also an effect of industrial union leaders are concerned they never about to be deelded for many years o DEFENSE COMMITTEE views on a broader basis than has been cover maturing bonds aid to over mort crisis, add new fuel of most highly in.
seen for many years.
tuged farmers and similar transactions, flammable nature to the economic ca asIntended their propesed stabllization come. the defense commi tee, which was The first and more important answer the essed, lal nature of which is the trophe.
schemes to be taken seriously. For formed at their request and which has In harmony win the wishes of the de thawing out. for the present holder, them it served only as a smoke screen conducted the struggle from the begin to the accusations against the Marine to hide their failure to heed the need ning in their bebait, turns again to be workers Defense Committee is the re tendants, the committee dedicated to frozen and perhaps even worthless sound Anancial system cannot be under of Aghting workers hamely to secure working class with an appeal for solid cord of its work. Coming together for self from the very beginning to the prio: Paper The success or failure of the estimated. It is tor that reblonu bet the defense of persected workers, who ciple of the united front of labor against entire scheme can be established only they have been so quick the six hour day. serious fight for arity and support.
were deserted and without his proposal would at least have served as a warning upon the rallroad magnates been carried on under the slogan or un means of defense, the committee succeed invited every important labor organiza) after survey of she entire banking sit. remedies that they hope may relieve this ed in securing able counsel to look after (Continued on page 4)
About three years ago the first rum one of many the mood grandiose one that the workers are deeply concerned ity and solidarity, for we have been con about finding some means of alevlating, vinced thathe united support of the blings of the present crisis could have of all. There are the Mutual Aid Plan the ravages of unemployment and heavy workers is the best defense of the men BUILD OPPOSITION PRESS! been detected by the trained ear trom of the New York State Savings Hanka lay offs due to the advance of labor on trial and the strongest safeguard the of is as even the bankers admf, they have rivets saving machine technie against another frame up tragedy. For By April 1, an important addition to gels and again restored by Lenin and hammer, as fewer and fewer of the present The railroad companies won this the same reason the commit. ee, which is the Left Opposition press in America will Trotsky in common with thelr Bolshe were driven home to secure the girders not been of much help in the many buildings that had been scheme, all that can be said is, that alskirmish; but their real objective is a comprised of delegates representing var make its appearance. Thats to be vik co workers.
Never before in the history of the shoo:Ing up. Beginning with the con though it may succeed in helping hrough definitely to come to gripe with the rail views, has retrained from all controversy theoretical organ, THE INTERNATION wprid revolutionary movement, we can struction industry, the ware of depres: the coming few months the smallest and road unions and they will be certain to and has endeavored to concentrate atten AL COMMUNIST REVIEW.
say with emphasis, have there been slon rolled ever onward, from industry weakest of the banks, no too great bank lque no opportunity to continue in pur. tion on the single issue of he defense Undoubtedly this will be greeted wh such fateful and deep going problems to Industry, until now even the mighty ability can be secured with it.
Rult of their objective to impose more of persecuted workers in the court of genuine enthusiasm by our sympathizers Sacraly decisive phone or the epochogun to wobble and grow dizzy with the COUNTER BALANCED wage cuts, to gradually undermine the the class enemy.
and supporters everywhere.
The present bank crisis hinges on position of the unions in preparation for capitalist decline and world revolution constantly mounting list of casualties.
Through no fault of design of the their final destruction 1t possible. This committee the whole public discussion of We have already made some valuable The part the lett Opposition must play of additions to the Left Opposition Press. is extremely importan. There are in general three types of many important trends. The Federal present wage cut was imposed even with the case has not been maintained on his The beginning was made wh the Youth banks (aside from Invement Ilouses. Reserve System though its rediscounting out the einployers having to stop to util level Attempts have been made to dis organi, the Young Spartacus, next follow ourselves for the task imposes a very teties, etc. that have many functions industrialist to make good on his loans But this effort to more fully equip Inurance Companies Personal Loan Soe power of short term loans helps the ize the rigumaroles of the arb machinery provided by the rallway labor of the trial by the International Labortion organ in the Greek language) malou the job of building he Left Op (1) Mutual Savings Banks. Bowery Sar The was created for the pur.
If it had been the case of a ware Defense. These attempts at disruption Kommunistes and the Jewish language putton press into the powerful and oring (2) Commercial Bank. National pose of counterbalancing those features increase the workers would surely have bave been furthered by an article in the paper. Unser Kamf. These are bere totective Instrument it should be Our City (3) Private Banks Morgan been at least compellede first to run the Daily Worker of January 25th, which stay. We can now announce the most platform is unassailable, but it must be wbolo umut of this complicated mnch falsifles facts and Jeopardises the Iner important addition to our coming theor translated into reality. The first step. They are the ones that hold the meager ate market (2) he sharp drop in rail The first two concern is primarily. rend. 1) the collapse of the real estinery. But that is what it is for. To ests of the defendants at the time of etical organ With that, our press will is to further build our press. However, savings of the well to do worker and European and the South American counroad bonds. 3) the defaulting of the function as a brake upon the workers; thelr greatest need to be entirely set aside or ignored when reply to these attacks and bring out the for the regeneration and rebuilding of suppod to be given by our comrades and let from the momeu of the purchase of boldogs accompanied by her subsequto be at the service of the employers and it becomes Imperative, therefore, and equip us 41 a powerful instrumentetical organ on the date set upon the that act as the support of the industrial trlen (Aside from the Increase in stock the employers feel themselves sufficiently truth of the situation with facts and the Communist movement as originally sympathixers we expect you to help his raw maorials until the time he ser entdecline in value. The act bas as its strong to do so.
documents An exposure of these disrup conceived and founded by Marx and En build the Lett Opposition Preses!
To the workers one important lesson tive attempts, as a form of assistance CUNNINHEIMISCHINO TOMORRHARE OUTROLLHA TALAHATCHIMONIO ures the returns on the finished product. a vowed intention the alleviation of any should remain in respect to this phase to the proseco don is at present a nee These banks are the ones that falling weaknesses displayed by the banks as will add a heavy blow to the attempts a result of the firstwo of the tendencies of the capitalists to rise from their pre enumerated above. Of course this will sent pro ration. These are the banks defauled foreign bonds.
at the same time lessen the effect of the that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. 18 to ald.
The Importance of these trends upon In the campaign now being conducted able flower of the party is destroyed, the bank situation can be easily observed with increased vigor agains! the Left Incarcerated and choked off; when Stalin THE IMPORTANCE OF by a glance at the set shee of the Opposition, a considerable place is de has Butov choked to death and Blumkin BANK STABILITY large banks of the country. Thus the voted to the question of the uprising of shot by Yagoda all this is explained For savings banks the almost ta al. Bowery Savings Bank, the largest savNovember 7, 1927 In his historie ar.
and for commercial banks the orerings bank in the country, lists out of dele Stalin places this uprising in the not by the fact Chat the Left Opposition whelming. bulk, of the liabilities (money the total akses of 685, 000, 000 foremost position as the main evidence has not recognized the theory of socialthe bank owes to other people) are to Mortgages. 204, 000, 000 in favor of the policy of reprisals against iam in one country that it did not agree he depositors Thus the recent state. Railrond bonds. 04, 000, 000 the Bolshevik Leninists. When the best to the bloc with Chiang Kai Shek and ment of the National City Bank shows The books of commercial banks would revolutionaries are subjeded to the most that it reeds today the capitulation be out of a total llability of 1, 800, 000, 000. also list large bond holdings. The com.
frightful injuries and to acts of violence fore Hitler! No! The bloody reprisala the sum of 400, 000, 000 under the templete collapee of the real estate boom In the solidarity of Verbchne Uralsk: are explained by the fact that the Lett of deposits This grand sum came from of the prosperity ere brought with a when they are forced to resort to hun. Oppos. Son is supposed to have made an by LEON TROTSKY Industrial and commercial concerns wbo consequent depreciation of the value of gerrikes in order to defend their most attempt at an armed uprising four years are constantly deporting and withdraw. goodly percentnge of all mortgages. The Single coples. 10 Cents In bundles of or more7 Cents Ing money to transac. their business. On totally and depth of this shrinking away elementary human rights: when they are 30. All the organs of the various gee.
tlong of the Comintern have once more Order Now the side of the assets we find a similar of values can be gathered, to Night being fired upon withont warning: when reminded thelr unfortunate, systematical Item: short term loans (for clrculating extent trom recent survey of mortgage Rakovsky and eds of others crowd is decelved readers of it.
Pioneer Publishers, 84 East 10th St. C: capital) of 012, 000, 000 out of a total as bonds throughout he country. Of a the places of deportation; when the ver(Continued on page 8)
of 1, 868, 000, 000 the largest single total of ten million dollars outstanding.
Item recorded. failure of a commer (Continued on page 4)
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