PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1932 STATEMENT OF THE MARINE WORKERS DEFENSE COMMITTEE The Ruse Spain Bourgeoisie on the Offensive he (Continud from page 1)
three Billion would have to stand a loss This is the second of a series of General of Socurity (roughly, the equl. poly, the government and its Civil Guard of approximately 42. wo and one half articles on the situation in Spain by billion losses of 18. The merchant valent of our police chiets. or to the were to be found exclusively on the side (Continud from page 1) ing committed specific crimes which and worker unable to pay the high rents comrade Max Shachtman who regovernor of the province, and if that of the employers. In Madrid, he teletion, parts, group and tendency to parti carry a penalty on conviction of as much of 1928 and 1929, the real estate owner cently returned from an extended worthy grants the required permission. phone exchange was completely occupled cipate in the common work on an equal as for y years in prison, with an acent unable to pay the interest on. he mortvisit to such centers a Madrid and a formal meeting is called eight days by the Civil Guard. Each sab repair.
Ensis. The committee now contains re provocateur and perjured evidence to com. enge and the same with the farmer; the Barcelona. Ed.
later which the organization is for man who went out, was accompanied on presenteative of two communist group, but which requires the most thorough anu bank unable :o pay its depositors. This Move the workers walne politically will constituted. At this meeting, two the truck by four Cu Guards, armed the the the young skillful legal preparatione must be is the picture presented.
People Socialist League, trade unions, appalled at such a criminal maneuver. To Anarchist groups and other organiza propose the discharge of able counsel In the field of railrond bouds the sit. an Socialist coalition government which purpose of supervising the procedure same story can be told about any other tions The and the Communist horoughly famllar with the cuse and uation is exactly as serious. More han came into power after the oven hrow of and taking notes for their reports to their strike. Nor do they stop clving pro superiors. If the meding formally aptection to scabs. The instances are Pay are absent only because they re prepared by weeks of patient work to 70 of all rallroad bonds are held by the monarchy last April? What rigtits proves the deposed statutes and the of. piling np when the Civil Guard has fired The have they been accorded? To what exfused specific and repeated invitations to conduct the trial, and substitute new banking and similar institutions participate.
Lawyers whose specialty is minor cases severe decline in the net income of rail tent do these rights conform with the scals of the organization are elected. polat blank at Srikers, killing and in the Magis rates Court Is that not roads, dropping from 1, 284, 000, 000 in high sounding phrase the democratic report is then turned in to the Ser wounding men and women and even lle.
Now, with the adoption of the Law of many difficulties in a few weeks time wonder that the prisoners who would be brought aboia consequent decline in the socialists had incorporated into the cords of every officer, and then only Thats records alonemade in the face playing with the lives of men is it any 1928 to the low of 631, 000, 000 for 1931, republic of all the workers whlet the wridad. towether with the names and retle kids.
conkl stand as a refuta ton of any attack lad lo have their help then Is the organization legal. we for the Defense of the Republie. the it were given railroad bonds. In 1981 alone to say fundamental law of the land?
hasten o add, providing all of this has altination become worse. Merely to quote against the committee. there is one in good faith, recolled again this in nothing of the sharp decline of the Inst An Atmosphere of Suppression by the authorities. Every from its provisions will kive an idea of more accomplishment, and the most im famous proposal with the bitterest in few months of 1930, rallroad bonds have been approved The visitor to Spain is immediately meeting. regardless of whether it is a how the shades of Bismarck and the portan one of all: The Marine Workers dignation and refused to talk with them experienced a dexline of 25 to 50 per impressed with the fact that the most publie mass meeting or closed business Russian Czars manst envy he reactionDefense Committee established the fact any fur her?
that no worker no matter how obscure medies hat are being experimented with authors les not only It was in answer to these machinations foreiguers but the o. of the authorities before it are considered as acts of aggression he may be, who falls into the hands of that all three defendants sent their tele! 20w, to increase railroad income. Name even more no over the native born. Spain can be held local trade union can against the Republic and as such liable the be and left without means of defense: Those sram o the mass meeting and declared: will succeed in bringing in an additional cept Fascist Italy, known to this writer discuss its internal affairs withont perly: the rate increase recently granted, is the only country on the continent, ex not call its own members together to to the present law. who try to intringe this prindple and reacterim our contest care am liter von profit of 100, 000, 000; he second, if put where there is a passport or document mission from the Seguridad which also inestation to commit acts of violence The Indirect provocation or deny assistance to a persecuted worker contidence in the committee bramedling out into reality, another 200 000 000; while ary examination in the course of a trip nns the right cand exerclzes it) to send against persons, things or property for dla in this case will find a defense where to give the committee its fullest earned now is estima ed at 75, 000, 000 control nt frontier countries is a matter to attend the meeting for supervisors Every word or gesture of contempt movement arising, spontaneonsly without cooperation and assistance on the The holder of railrond bonds and secur of course everywhere, but in Spain the purposes and :o make a report. Eren for institutions or organizations of the of the work of the present committee prisoners themselves, which only spective increases, were it not for the terior city to Ruother has an official go representatives in the Cortes and three of state.
and its strongest Appeal to the honest restatement of wha! they have said on realization rikes not hat very little replacing of ing down the length of the railway car ministers in the cabind, must apply for days in advance, unless there exist other announced eight workers of all organizations every occasion when the matter was Axed capital, very little of necessary re ringe demanding his documents. We permission to hold a public or private intervals designated in the special law; HOW THE DISRUPTTERS ACTED AT tee resolves (o continue its work and done during the past year. Were the ae Madrid to Barcelona, two cities called Into question, the defense commit pairs to locomotives and cars has been travelled with one of the comrades trom, meeting and have them attended by strikes launched for motives other than THE TIME OF THE ARREST calls on the L. to cease its disruptual balance shed to be drawn, it would within the frontiers of the country, bu the Madrid loenl of he Opposition which been proceded by arbitration or concilia well police! regular branch meeting of questions of work and those not having When the Daily Worker comes forward tlon.
In its issue of January 25th with the THE FRAUDULENT ISSUE OF be much worse than it now appears; for we had scarcely got under way when attended was also graced by two plain tion.
statement that the defense committee has CLASS STRUGGLE DEFENSE money that should have heen used for police official, accompanied as usual by clother men, who made no secert of their Punishment is Indiented in the second a policy of betrayal of the class strugreplacement purposes, has been used for the evil looking Civil Guards, approach business, listened to the proceedlings will article: The direct authors of the acts gle and of the defendants particularly Condemned by their record in the case dividend purposes to the stock and wonded his and asked for our documents My Hront attention and made colour notes enumerated in paragraphs to 10 of the it Invokes a reminder of its own policy from its inceptlof, thelp dishonest man. 000 000 is already being balanced against has been arrested 29 times now. gained meeting place was located, were station will have incel them to commit them, and conduct, and that of the D in eurers repulsed by he prisoners, and replacement of worn equipment. Only us both the dubious honor of being need four Chell Guards and two regular may be deported or Innised for a per the case. The people who now proclaim their own rank and file members pro a substantial increase in the total huu companied all during the voyage by the policeulte an escort of honor for the lod no greater than that of the validity fendants, who offer to defend them ters seek to justify themselves with a themselves the only champions of the de testing against their policy the disrup age of the rallroad of the country can agent, who kept pacing in frow of our business mee ing of the Madrid Oppose of this law, or have imposed upon them return to Chem a portion of the income even again their own committee spoke Anal argument. They want all workers of the prosperity days This increase in compartment till we reached Barcelona. tion! The Russian Okhrnna could do noa fine up to the maximum of 10, 000 in slightly different manner in the and workers organizations to fight this haulage is dependent upon a general im all the while as hough to prevent us! We have already had occasion to writel casting the most suspicious glances at us better.
pesetas.
days following the arrest when SoderA Dictatorial Power berg. Bunker and Traser were helpless case along class lines, along the lines of provement on the business situation as a from making the slightest move to dis about the Spanish court system in re in the bands of the police without influmass defense. This argument against whole.
In the third allele, we read that The turb the law and order of the country lation to workers. The abominations of ential friends money, attorneys or any the Defense Committee is just as false, The third unstable factors the defrom the vast age point of a train car. orerimental detentiou. desplaed 80 Minister of the Interior has the power means of defense. Here is what the just as dishonest, as all they have said faulting on both the European and the While representatives of the most renc heartily under Primo, are erried over to: Probibit publle meetings or mantDally Worker wrote on November 18th.
and done in the case The Defense Latin American markets. The vastness tionery section of the foreign bourge today luto the republle without be slight festations of political, religious or noe two days after the arrest: Committee has worked from the begin of this item is impossible deterosle receive the undisturbed hosphality est change And carried over mostly un lal character when, by reason of cir ning to convince the workers that this mine, but when we consider the countries of the government, foreign Coinmunista der the regime of the very men who ful. cumstances, it may be assumed that their Soderberg, secretary of the Tidewater use is an issue of the class struggle, and defaulting countries in which the Amhave not only been arrested, but, as in minated so violen ly against the system untoldment may disturb the public penca Boatmeu Union, whom the capitalist by no means an ordinary crimiual case. erican banker has been investing his the case of some communist members of when the dictatorship applied it. The Dissolve centers or associatoins conpress calls Red. was expelled from its chlet activity has been to organize funds for the pat decade, an inklinghe French Chamber of Deputies who Outstanding example is Galarza, the Dir sidered as ineiting to the realization of the Communist party for being a sus the united front of labor to protes of the size of the canvas can be obtained. came to Spain, bave been transported ector General of security in Madrid the neta ennmerated in article of his picious element and also from the Narine Workers Industrial Union for disagainst the frame up and defeat it. It In recent statement of the Chase Na to the border of Spain for deportation. o hers, like Axona, the president, Prieto law. And article four informs us that was for this almhat the cooperation of Monal Bank, It was pointed out that Under Primo de Rivera, practically the socialist minister. Domingo, the the application of the law is conflded erTuptive and anti working activites.
Tra the was requested in written approximately 96 of the total re every labor organization, regardless of man to the left of the Left. could also clusively into the hands of the Minister Jer, Rellly, and Bunker were expelled form three different times. But instead sources of he bank consisted of German Its form or an ivity, was suppressed or Workers may (and are)
of the Interior.
from the Marine Workers Industrial Un of cooperation. bulld united mass credits (with Germany on the verge of declared illegal. The only exception to ll be arrested without charges placed The resnis of the application of such ion as bad elements. At the same time movement of the workers the LD. of defaulting. Adding to the above the this rule was the Socinlist party and its against them. They can be held without monstrous place of ultra reactionary the Young Worker stated: Soderberg Tered unqualified lawyers to replace the loans to the and European default organizations, for the simple reason hat either charges or being brought to trial. legislation may well be immagined. The is stool pigeon.
counsel already retained. At the eleventhing countries, brings the total to a far the sanguinary dictatorhip enjoyed the They can be kept prison for years reactions of the workers and peasants cused men went to the L. for aid, me and begin with an attempt to dis Moneral all around, world wide re. Largo Caballero, party leader, secretary the system of governi e not gained in the republicanism of the bourgeThen, when personal friends of the achour they promise a workers muss move from negligible item on the asset sheer collaboration of no less a personage than withod due process of law That 18 to the law, of the workers and peasants detention. who retained so many of their illusions was refused. The refused to rupt the movement that has already been fun to pay, as seems to be Imminent, of he socialist trade union center, and Just as the workers have anything to do with the rene organized while they kept silent Their would seriously impair the condition of councillor of State under the monarchy. the real righ: to organization Ro little olsle, are increasingly sa Isfactory from gades. the suspicious elemen the own statement in the Daily Worker the American banking Instutions The advent of the republic has not have they gained the right strike. In the revolutionary point of view. The stool pigeon. the people who had been testifies to the effectiveness of this move The above are the conditions that brought about any appreclable change 1926, Primo crented the socalled comites bourgeoisie, by the adoption of this law expelled from the Communist party ment. When they say In this sutement the creation of the Reconstrud fon Yin in this respect. The labor organizamaritarlo. or pary committees, which and by its subsequent application, 18 And from Nov. 18th until Jan. 25th, the that the Internationul labor Defense ance Corp. is to remedy. Even the lead tions exist at all as yet 18 dne solely to were composed of one representative of manifestly on the offensive. It is almDally Worker never mentioned the case considers this colle as a direct at ack up. Ing. Annnciers of the country are very the fact that the bourgeoisie, in forsak the workers, one of the employers and the ing at the complete suppression of any by a single word L: requires a supreme on the workers in the marine industry skeptical as. its value, Sixty billion ing the monarchy, was con peleed to give impartial government chairman com Independent working class movemen. of cynicism an unbounded contempt they are only repeating what they learn dollars in values loet during the past a formal recognition to the militant le pulsory for every industry. This scom reducing the proletarian and peasant for the intelligence of the workers for ed from the publeity material of the three years cannot be repaid by two bll bor organizations which had broken drelly law was elaborated and approved movements to the subterranean, illegal those who made such a record in the Defense Committee. What they have yet ton. The Annalist of January 15, 1982 through the dictatorial repressions of by his councillor of fate, Caballero, and level to which it was depressed under case come now two and one ball to learn is that all workers bave a com uses the phrase There is no real rem Primo and of Berenguer in the months only the socialist unions (U. and the rule of Alphonso and Primo de Riva months later, on the very eve of the mon interest in repulsing the attack and edy for this depreeld lon in security before the fall of the latter. But now the Catholle unions approved it; the era.
trial and pose as the only real friends that they must fight unitedly to that end. value, except the restoration of earning the rigts which the working class and anarcho syndicalist would have Even before this law voted by the of the prisoners They come, too late. The Defense Committee appeals to the power In referring to the recent peasantry gained for themselves by sheer no part of it. These harity comm socialists and Catalonians as well as by THE UNITED FRONT POLICY OF honest workers of all sections of the la measure they say, the business depres force in the early moments of the repub tees. which virtually crippled the right the bonrgeols parties but especially THE DEFENSE COMMITTEE bor movement to join and support this slon canno be cured by such measures. le are being cynically abolished by a to strike, are still in force :oday, at after it, the repression has been accenThe Marine Workers Defense Comunited fight and condemn the atempts Recognizing the truth of the above state ractionary bourgeoisle in power which least to the extent that the workers retrated. Scores, perhaps hundreds of committee was formed only afer the to disrupt it. If Soderberg Bunker and ments, one must search elsewhere for the is taking no chances on allowing the cognize them.
munists, are in prison now. When was and all other defense agencies had Trajer do not stand alone before the explanation of he creation of this pre workers the democr le political rights The Government and Strikes in Barcelona, the editor of the refused or falled to intervene. It was court, as. hey stood in the Arst days sent Corporation.
which were originally promised them.
When the workers go out on strike in dalls paper, Solidarid Obrers, the formed at the express written request of after their arrest, it is due to the prin DOLE FOR BANKERS Legalizing An Organization spite of the strangulating class colla archist Felipe Alaiz, told me that in all three defendants who hnd no other ciple of labor solidarity which called the STARVATION FOR WORKERS Under the republle today, all organizaboration commiteer, they meet with the Barcelona alone there were more than means of defense and nowhere else to Defense Committee in o existence. Labor The bill has been described as a two tions, whether trade unions, political violent organized opposition of the 200 members of the imprisoned, turn. The first nucleus of the commit. solidarity is the best, and in the final bullion dollar bill to relleve bankers par les chers clubs, sports associations or government. The same people who today and more than 000 throughout Spain.
tee at its first meeting adopted pol analysts the only real defense of per mistakes. The explanation of the above sewing circles, must legalize them occupy some of the most important poets The number hos undoubtedly increased ley of med front and invited all elsecuted workers who fall into the hands is easily seen by a careful reading of selves if they have 19 members or more In the state once did all they could to since then, especially after the recent rev.
ments in the labor moevment to join and of the class enemy. Those who violate the measure as passed. The initial cap The statutes of che organization must be roment srices and disturbances under ontlonary events.
cooperate. In its broadensted statement this principle, who put narrow factional al ts to consist of 500, 000, 000: the represented advance to the Director the monarchy: today they drown them MAX SHACHTMAN.
on the case, published in various papers interests above it, who seek to disrupt maining 1 billion is to be made up In hlood if necessary. During the fam. The third article will denl with and in leather forin, it stated: It is the the movement organized on that basis, through the sale of bonds, but and this ons national telephone strike of more the Socialists and the question of a alm of the committee to broaden its mem. are acting against the interests of the is the all inclusive but, the said obliga new scheme to restore confidence and re than six mow hs ago, directed at the Socialist government in Spain Ed.
bership to Include representatives of all clasg. defeat of these disrupters will tions are to be Cully and uncond to turn prosperity.
American trust which holds the mono.
tendencies in the Inbor movement. One vidory for the class and for all ally guaranteed as to interest and prin To the millions of unemployed work tendentene te ment Invitations to the comclass war prleoners, now and in the fa ciple by the United States, by he gov. beste alde but to the inancial oligarchy Resolution of Marxian spevtor on Rosa Luxemburg, which ap CORRECTION munist party and the IL On Decture.
ember 5th, on Decemebr 18th, and again Build a stronger movement of workernment has agreed to buy two billion It is prepared to lend its entire machpeared in the Militant of January 23, The resolution below was passed several unfortunate mistakes crept Ino on December 20th, It addressed letters ers solidarity for the imprisoned mar dollars worth of depreclared and worth. Inery. As the cous Jester of American to the D. asking for cooperai lon Ine workers. less paper from the banks and railroads capitalism, WIN Rogers, Intimates: The unanimously at the Marxian Youth the proof, which require rectification.
in the struggle to arouse the whole labor Club, on Sunday January 31. The movement for a united night. All these Defend all class war prisoners regard The proper title for the measure should government is always ready to help those In the paragraph beginning with The reason for its issuance is evident from response of Rome. The sentence have been The Bank Subaldy Bill of who do not need it those who do, tre Invitat sons were ignored. The request less of their views or amiations!
working class, will have to wrench it its context Collect funds to help the defense of 1932.
reading When the character of the Rnsfor a speaker to represent the at All this by itself is nothing new. Big from them in the course of the struggle The Marxian Youth Club has resian revolution was debated at the Lonthe publie mass meeting was unanswered. Soderberg, Bunker and Trajerº MARINE WORKERS DEFENSE business repeatedly atempts to secure against capitalism for its eventual overthrow.
celved a letter from Weisbord making don (1007) Congress of the Russian THE ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT COMMITTEE the aid of the class as a whole for its accusations against one of the former social democracy and Lenin defended the THE LEGAL DEFENSE ON THE STONE.
82 Fast 10th St. own particular enterprises. The whole members of his organization who is now position of the Mensheviks. Rosa EVE OF THE TRIAL New York City campaign to dump the reparations bromom member of the club.
Luxemburg along with Lenin represented Rejecting all appeals to help in the the Atlantic revolves around the question In view of the fact that Welsbord the viewpoint of the Bolsheviks. mmmmm THE MILITANT of ald by the capitalis government to organization of the workers silldarity has taken his quae a ninst this worker to should, of course, rend:. And Plec movement, the resorted to an particular group the bankers. The Published weekly by the Communist the enpitalist court, we consider it be hanor defended the position of the MenInsidious enmpaign, through its lawyers, present plan has exactly a similar char League of America (Opposition) neath the dignity of workers organin sheviks, etc.
to demoralize the prisoners and Induce acter.
at 84 East 10th St. tion to consider the charges at the same The sentence at the beginning of the them to change counsel. the last moFor the Benefit of the Imprisoned The latest patch has been applied EDITORIAL BOARD time they are pending here. last paragraph, should read: German ment Taking advantage of statements Marine Workers our Industrial and financial system Two Martin Abern James Cannon We condemn this appeal to the menshevism and the bourgeoisle had of the prisoners that they wanted the billion dollars have been diverted from Max Shachtman Bunker. Soderberg Trajer Maurice Spector callst courts as a violation of the triumphed. not has triumphed. Ed.
help of the L. as well as that of the taxes to ald the bankers and railethics of as Arne Swabeck at the all other organizations which was like roaders in their present hore plight.
far greater offense even than the one CHICAGO OPEN FORUM wise the Delley of the committee. the STUYVESANT CASINO Although the measure may have a tem.
Entered as second class mall matter charged against the worker in question lawyers tried by every means to Second Avenue and oth st. porary effect, there is obviously no real November 28, 1928, at the Post Office We demand that Welsbord withdraw Sunday, FEBRUARY 14, 1932 induce the prisoners to sign a statement Friday Evening, February 12th.
remedy for this depreciation In security New York, Under the act of his case from the capitalist court. Only What will the 12 Million Unemployed repudiating their defense commt tee and Ausplees of the values except the red oration of earning March 3, 1879.
by that can he nin the right to appeal Do the legal counsel employed by it and to Marine Workers Defense Committee power The trend out of the present Vol. 5, No. (Whole No. 102) to any workers organization. When that Speaker: JOHN EDWARDS turn the case over to them.
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