THE MILITANT WORKERS OF THE WORLD.
UNITE Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Published weekly by the Communist Layue of America (Opposition) at 84 East 10th Street, New York. Entered as second class mail matter, November 28, 1928 at the Post Onlice at New York, under the act of March 1879 VOLUME V, NO. 36 (WHOLE NO. 132 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1932 PRICE CENTS with the Embattled Miners Massacre Striking Miners On Murder Frame Up Hearing The Stalinist Bureacrats Back Out Fascists Waiting, in Franklin County, Illinois Ready to Strike the never The Political Programs of the Petty Bourgeosie War Meeting an To date, the Stalinist leadership of for the deaths of the two workers, but the official party has not yet replied to more vaguely and more safely, to disour challenge for an open hearing on the ruptive elements expelled from the ComThe Coal Diggers Regather Their Forces After the Slaughter sta med et en vende bany worked tre mundesite pour les chephrine tena porest one Clara Zetkin Calls For International Solidarity Against Fascism SPRINGFIELD, II. August 25. Springfield) week. They have contented themselves group on the affair in question, the Forty thousand miners and familles, Sub Disrtiet No 100 out with exploiting the tragic deaths of the Freiheit restricts its editorial remarks The bourgeols and the socialist press, Calls for International Solidarity in six thousand cars and trucks, forming (Taylorville) workers Semren and Krasiuk in a mouth exclusively to an attack against the in commenting upon the breaking up of. Clara an army eighty miles long, were am Sub District No. 100 out to mouth campaign of incitement agaidst Ruleht wingers and does not even once the negotiations between the Hindenburg: Zetkin, speaking in the name Combushed and brutally attacked at (Staunton) the Left Opposition.
Franklin County border. The trek worn Sub District No. 100 out Bureaucrats Retreat The pressure of the outraged party ranks spoken of a set back for the latter. Noth. munism, called for the formation of the extra parliamentary united front of the miners were about to arrive at their (Belleville) In their public press, the bureaucrats has made itself felt. The dustardly scheme ing is further from the truth. What is working class without distinctions of destination, when hired killers of the Sub District No. 50 out coal operators opened are about P. Du Quoin) line. The Daily Worker and the Freiheit, wreck.
have taken in German politics of recent solidarity with the German proletariat Wednesday, August 24, 1932 From Sub District No. (Franklin County) which on August 23 and 24 were filled days, is the fact that a part of the big on the part of the international workMust Be Brought to Account thelr ambush of brushes and weeds, the inines working out of 10 (losing with venomous lynch propaganda against But the spokesmen of Stalinism must expenses and disturbances and instabiling class. Yes, the formation of the exbourgeoisle, which generally fears the murderers permitted some five hundred ground. the Communist League, have sinced hush not be allowed to retreat in silence. They ity of a Fascist regime, is content for only method of saving the German work.
tra parliamentary united front is the Sub District No. 10 without cars to enter the county and No strike ed up the affair entirely. Not a single have got to be made to face the working the time being to play another card. It warning opened fire with machine guns. Herrin) statement has issued forth from the class openly for an accounting. Ther is their alm ers and workers Russia from a tearful rifles, shot guns and pistols.
Sub District No. 11 see if it is not possible catastrophe. But it is not enough to talk One mine out responsible organs of the official party, wretched policy of disrupting working to explolt the deadlock between Fasc about it, to veer around helplessly by As the miners scattered, caught of (Harrisburg) not one editorial comment stating pa class meeting of employing violence ism and the working class on the arena successive turns at united fronts from guard, teror stricken women and chil Six thousand miners still dren wounded by their men sprawled on Forty four thousand out solidly.
leadership itself is on the subject. The tion has already by their own admastons entrenching less expensive and more stalinist leadership of the has the hard roads and ditches amidst splat The struggle continues. We will goed it sater to hide behind surreptitious ust 27) led to a general attack by the ment of Schleicher Papen.
tered glass off from automobiles. The directly to the coal operators and form insituations in the guise of news art city authorities upon all Communist that the Nazis have not been defeated killers, provided with torches, ignited our own contract when we have International solidarity with the Gergasoline, burning up cars, truck loads of trenched ourselves as broadly as posslcles.
meetings. The rude tactics of Stalinism is evident from the extreme caution and man workers in their bitter struggle food and First Aid ambulances. The ble. Win, lose or draw Lewis and Faced with the wide spread disapproval play into the hands of the enemy.
killers singled out lost miners, they Walker are through from so far out as of the Communist rank and file, the Cen Communist workers, demand that the cowardice with which the Relch gov. that is the utmost task of the hour. But or pounced on them and stopped Northern and Central Illinois are contrist apparatus of the party is swallow. Leadership of the official party bring its sins of the Communist worker Pietczuck, this international solidarity is. to bring beating them with pistol and rifle butts cerned.
ing its words, covering up the traces of shameful accusations against the Left a case which has rocked the whole nation pressure upon the German party to adopt until the miners tell completely uncon.
Will let you know definite steps day the Bolshevik Leninists. In leaflets pu mand that they face a working class emergency decree covering political er the proletarian tront by putting the lethit ausgraceful postoin tactics against Opposition before a public hearing! De with its repercussions. In spite of its the Leninist unted front, to establish scious.
by day.
About one hundred and Afty men. GERMINAL blished since the provocative articles in tribunal.
women and children were shot down. The the Daily, the Stalinists no longer refer cesses with special Schnellgerichte argle and treacherous social democracy (Continued on page 3)
number of slain is undetermined as yet.
to the Trotskylsts as those responsible reactions to the Frame Up. See Page Four for party members courts of extraordinary, speedy action to the test. Workers, Communists, ansThe miners came peacefully and unarmed.
still remain without a trial, government with the German proletariat by demand They marched right into the fams of action is being delayed notwithstanding ing within the party and the working death, only being able to resist with bare the popular indignation aroused by the class organizations the adoption of the hands.
incident.
Leninist line of the Left Opposition.
The caravan leading the huge army Attitude of Hitlerlem was tropped all along the road. The by LEON TROTSKY Nor are the Hitlerites themselves un strategy of the state forces was to the the armies arrival in Southern Minots Any serious analysis of the political situation must bisie, does not at all rest upon reciprocal confidence after the rupture in the negotiations, the conscious of their position. Immediately Youth Hold Antiby nightfall so they could lead them to take as its point of departure the relationship between and pacific collaboration. In its mass, the petty bour Fascist Goebbels wrote in the Berlin or slaughter the three classes: the bourgeoisle, the petty bourgeoisie geoisie is an exploited and disfranchised class. It resan of National Soclalism, Der Angriff At Plekmeyville we were stopped for ineluding the peasantry) and the proletariat. gards the bourgeoisie with envy and often with hatred. dictatorship against the whole September Warks the eighteenth three hours, Anally we were permitted to Impossible in the long run, no The economically powerful big bourgeoisie, in itself, The bourgeoisie, on the other hand, while utilizing the matter how many bayonets one was at niversary of the celebration of the first pass through. We were then reventeen represents an infinitessimal minority of the nation. To support of the petty bourgeoisie, distrusts the latter, his disposal. We have no intention of International Youth Day as the day of miles from Darnell where all prepara. enforce its domination, it must ensure a definite mutual for it very correctly fears its tendency to break down blurting out our plans. At any rate, we strute de magasinet of strategy stopped at Da Quotn for a relationship with the petty bourgeoisie and throughits the barriers set up for it from above.
Natioual socialists would be least of all militarism. When the Berne conference conference. This was Ave miles from médiation, with the proletariat.
inclitied to shed tears over the shipwreck of the International Union of Socialist our destination. Our army proceeded as To understand the dialectic of the relationship be for bourgeois development, the Jacobins engaged, at dented us last Saturday, will perhaps in Unternet later oor onstrates ganet is day While they were laying out and clearing the road of the negotiations. What has been Youth organizations held in 1915, sent Signated place. Arrivius two miles from torical stages: at the dawn of capitalist development, served it in intransigeant struggle against it. After Dose conditions.
tween the three classes, we must differentiate three his every step, in sharp clashes with the bourgeoisie. They pleadingly. Then it will be up to us to set aside, and in terme thon altowhday per per Instructions to pitch camp at de Darnell, our vanguard was several hundred deputles, at the point of when the bourgeoisie required revolutionary method they had culminated their limited historical role, the The Fascists are quite conscious that and stronger every year.
machine guns, to move on to Franklin to resolve its tasks in the period of bloom and maturi: Jacobins fell, for the domination of capital was pre they are the indispensable arm of bls. The year 1932 lista no exception. The few sluggings and cocked triggers forced dowed its domination with orderly, pacific, conservadestined.
capital, that they control its only base danger of war exists in reality. The our vanguard to move Eastward and For a whole series of stages, the bourgeoisie en people for the purpose of the capitalist den of this huge militarization falls of operations in the broad masses of the world is an armed camp, while the burthere lay the killers in weeds and brush tive, democratic forms; finally, at the decline of capies only eight miles off. The state talism, when the bourgeoisie is forced to resort to trenched its power under the form of parliamentary solution of the sharp economic and pol upon the shoulders of the working class, patrolmen and deputy sherits of Perry methods of civil war against the proletariat to protect democracy. Even then, not peacefully and not volun tlcul crisis. They know that sooner or especially upon the broad mass of young County brazenly forced our peaceful army its right of exploitation.
tarily. The bourgeoisie was mortally afraid of uni later, the big fanclers will have to reworkers. The demonstration this year into the slaughter.
The political. PROGRAMS or Tax Petty Bou KO BO18 versal suffrage. But in the last instance, it succeeded, to stem the tide of working class resist We gave definite instructions to camp The political programs characteristic of these three with the aid of a combination of violant measures and unce agatust their attempts to solve in International Youth Day, the Foung night, Teen to walk in Coubeay Puterone ståges. Jacobinism, reformist democracy (social dem. concessions of privations and reforms, to subordinate the crisis by the drastle reduction of Spartacus Club of New York is holding an the border to Franklin County. Two of the vanguard members who got away of petty bourgeois currents. This fact alone, more the petty bourgeoisie, but in considerable measure also by the strangulation of the proletarian the various phares of the history of the with minor injuries reported they were than anything else, shows of what tremendous ra the prokotariat, by means of the new petty bourgeoisie aware that their headstera kono we hebat ere eles of the porter des pour ende te sturen.
forced to traverse Franklin County at ther, of what decisive, importance the self determina th labor aristocracy. In August 1914 the imperial regular army of 100, 000 alone will not comrades Joe Carter and Albert Gotzer even Teleorted almost to the restorwenetion of the petty bourgeois masses of the people is for ist bourgeoisie was able, with the means of parliament sufice for this purpose. The polley not will be the speakers, and Wartung mer ary democracy, to lead millions of workers and pea Waiting the danger of the Fascist coup held at the Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd Ave.
the whole fate of bourgeois society.
murderers.
watchful rett, the chairman. The meeting will be The army retreated to Coulterville and Nevertheless, the relationship between the bourge sants into the war. Etat has not been decreased by one and 9th Street, on Sunday, September Pickneyville, twenty miles Northwest. oisie and its basic social support, the petty bourge(Continued on page 4)
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4th, at P. Admission is free To whnt oxtent the army has held its forces is unknown as yet. There are three campe, twenty thousand miners are camped in one woo We used alrplance this morning. The Hunter Brothers of Sparta, endurance flyer flow their planer for our cause. New and Militant Type of Middle Class Revolt Our planes were spied immediately by Big Wave of Struggle of British Workers Rising Scott Field Scouts but all the damage The strike of the farmers in Sioux of the Missouri valley agree to begin The cotton and textile mills in Lancas The British capitalists are desperately they did was to give dirty looks and City has spread to other parts of the blockade of highways leadide to Omaha.
hire district, have come to a virtual trying to rationalize their Industry at circle us. We dropped thousands of state of Iowa and Indiana, and into on August 26, the press reportare standstin.
leaflets on Franklin County miners early nearly status. Truck gardeners and enforend picket lines on all roads leading More than 135, 000 working the expense of the workers and they men and women engaged in the British have brought all their trustles into ac in the morning. The miners greeted our datry farmers have joined the movement to Council Blufta from the Iowa side.
Last week we informed you of the Textile industry have downed tools in tion, the labor government. the labor leaders with waving of hadderchiets and threaten the law and order of the At Sloux Chty the arrested striker Anandal emergency. We told you how response to a strike call and practically skates of the Hicks, Citrine stripe. in and caps. The leaflets called on the authorities. Minneapolis reports show were relee sed on habeas corpus proceed the stalinists conoceted the frame up paralyzed one of the mainstays of the eco order to prime themselves for an attack Franklin miners to meet their brothers the strike has reached the Northwest. ing. Iowa national guards are in readingainst us in an attempt to rebuild the nomic life of Great Britain. The cap on the world market.
the County line.
This new strike action of this section neus to be sent id any part of the state. arumbling walls betweyn our comrades tallat press states that the scope of the we can rest assured that if the fate Several miners in this territory went of the pety bourgeois indicates the deep The Nebraska farmers started picket and the Communist workers in the party. strike will extend so far as to effect of the strike is to depend upon the trade down today. No reports from Franklin changes the agriculture of the United in roads in and around Omaha. In Iowa. Now the capitalist and socialist press the existence of more thad 10, 000, 000 uhlon leaders the sell out is a foregone County today yet. Martial rule by de States is undergoing.
the state power of the capitalists has have picked up the stalinist frame up people whose lite depends upon the pur conclusion. The labor fakers who work puties. Pliners meetings barred by The reduction of wholesale food price been used against the striking farmers against us and are uslpg it against the chasing power of the textile operatives. In collusion with the bosses and their statement of Sheriff and Lewis headquar the boxses hold on the farms and the arresting strikers, routing them with whole Communist movement and particu British capitalism, astounded at the force government lackeys will drive the workters of this general strike is moving all its ers back luto as great a slough of misery Status of strike the workers bes upset the standards of striking workers are well trained a larly against the Left Opposition.
The emergency for the Militant is not power and influence to corral publie op as the bosses desire.
Already they are Sub District No. 100 out the rich tarm regions which were able The farmers of lowa, Nebraska, North over. The financial condition calls for inton. to discredit the strike and is pre rushing to His Majesty berging him (Pekin La Salle) to survive the constant agrarian crists and South Dakota and Minnesota are rebewed effort on the part of the MALI Mured to move in with more decisive to assert his royal impartiality and to Sub District No. 100 ont up to the present. In Hlour City and following up the strike movement in one tant supporten.
measures if necessary. arbitrate the strike. To the only ones (Peoria Council Bluft s, Iowa higher plane of form or the other. In other farm regions In spite of the Ipcreme in membehs The purpose of the strike 1s extensibly that can really arbitrate the strike the Sub District No. 75 out the struggle has been reached. Mase preliminary steps in this direction are and sympathizers, the mass unemployed the re instatement of 3, 000 union mem workers, who by their uuflinching solid(Danville pleketing, tights, and clasher welthacaba belns taken. The middle class state farm and the low wages reduce considerably bers who struck while the misleaders of arts can force the bosses to yield the Sub District No. 100 out and authorities are reported dalty. In organisations are endeavoring to give the linancial returns from our expanding the British textile workers were conduct British Labor fakers have no thought of Connell Bluffs the Striking farmera readership to the movements and link activity.
ing negotiations with the manufacturers appealing. That means class strug marched upon the fall and forced the them up in a general struksle against The Militant is the main orgap in Am who had abrogated the general agreement, cle. The fakers still having nightmares authorites PICNIC All reports indicate the strike is spread. Idaho us that 400 farmers in this Bolshevik Leninints in theory and action. The parless came to a standstil but noth exceedingly aware of the militancy of the Surxay, September 11th Press reports from western papers ment to sell none of their wheat top 60 The suspension of The Militant, its delas. ing was done about the re employment of working class. What will the footstool 80 like last weok, when the prem broke these three thousand workers who placed of the British bourgeolsto, the king who show that in spite of minor ebbe and days unless a profit can be made. They down, or the retreat to a semi monthly no trust in their perfidious leaders. We Is fed from crumbs of their table, arbfTibbetts Brook Park, Plot flows, the farmers revolt against condi control million bushels of wheat.
would be blow to the whole Intern learn, however, although it is but vaguely trate? In whose interest? The answer Take Woodlawn Jerome tions is growing The farmers can ro Significance of Farm Strike tional Communist movement. Unless we stated, that there is also the question of is self evident he who pays the piper train to last stop. Street cars longer argne against the striking workers because now the striking farmers What significance has the or bus to park.
farmers uation our press and movement will sur are able to meet the present difficult sit a 10 wage cut. The aliek British labor pleks the tune, fakers would never permit an official Only by dumping these fakers will the SPECIAL: have joined them as allies in the strus strike? What is the relation the farm fer. Collect funds for the militant from strike in sympathy with members that strike make any progress whatsoever.
gle against the Ananclers and their ers strike has to the workers struggles your fellow workerst Readers of the have flaunted their treacherous decisions. The British textile strike is one of the OPEN AIR AN QUET henchman. survey of this struggle is essential to Militant, arrange atairs for The Mlitant, In the recent period there has been ist world today. The opportunities for (in case of rain we will hold August 22, the striking farmers stop prevent the vanguard from being shifted plenies, house parties, etc. Rush all more than one wage cut imposed upon Communism are mounting by leaps and banquet at 84 East 10th St. ped two trains enroute to Sioux City into opportunist channels by Stalinism funds to THE MILITANT, 84 East 10th the textile operatives, bringing their liv. bounds. More power to the Lancashire with livestock and milk. 400 farmers (Continued on page 2)
Street, New York City.
ing conditions to the rock bottom level. strikes. Farmers Holiday» in lowa APPEAL APPEAL Strike in Lancashire Mills FUNDS!
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