PAGE 1 HB MILITANT SEPTEMBER 17, 1932 The Opposition at Work from Militants as a con Reply to Comrade Allard murty.
The Four Portraits of Chiang Kai Shek Letters What Happened to the Ones Sent to Stalin, Rykov and situation, the danger of Fascism to the Shachtman Meetings Soviet Union, the German and internaVoroschilov, and the One for. Trotsky Shipstead Exposes His Another Leader tional working class, and explained the in Chicago EXTRACTS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF STALINIST UNITED FRONT POLICY Bankruptcy standpoint of the Several Opposition.
Against War CHICAGO hundred workers were attendance, and MINNEAPOLIS LOS ANGELESA series of successful meetings hela although he spoke during the dinner On April 3, 1927, Stalin defended his To the Eastern Secretariat of the lenders Yesterday, Sunday, September 4th, the Among the chosen of the the here during the brief stay of comrade hour, they listened attentively to alliance with Chinng Kal Shek before a cops: To the Presidium of the ECC 1, Minneapolis Central Labor Union held World Congress Against War appears Max Shachuman resulted in a spurt for very end.
and the Political Bureau of the Cen its annual labor plenie at owderhorn the name of Upton Sinclair as one of ward for the Left Opposition in Chicago The same evening Shachtman spoke on select meeting of party officials in the tral Committee: Park with its program of sports, re the organizers of the movement, along The largest meeting held was one in the role of the Left Opposition at a Moscow Hall of the Columns, Borodin feshments and speaking. The writer to with Wells another smug little Hmboldt Hall where with the intense heat foundation meeting for the Friends of 19 vigilant! Through the intermediary Nr. 45 gether with other members the Com bourgeois philistine, as Lenip once conof the evening, more than 100 workers the abitant Club which has been or of a vigilant agent he hoped to co ordinReturned from leave of absence, munist League attended the plenic to temptuously referred to him.
appeared and listened with close interest ganized by friends and sympathizers of ate the strnggle of the classes and to 11, 1927, Chiang round the photograph of Chiang Kallisten to the speakers and to place our Sinclair shifly rerolutionary record to the unfolding of the Left Opposition the Milltant in Chicago. All those who utilize it. On April standpoint on the German events, which were present pledged to join the club. Kal Shek after having smashed the pro shek sout me through the Eastern Deconstructive criticism on the political proletarian propugandist of Prolii.
bankruptcy of their utterances while ultion, socialt and patriotle pacifismWats followed by a number of questions The Labor Day week end prevented a full letariat, carried through his coup Etat rartment of the ECC. and the reShortly before the over. quest promptly to send him my auto mingling with the workers preveut. is pretty well known, oven to his friends from all over the ball on various pro attendance by many who hail signified in Shanghai.
Very few of the many Party and and it is expected that the Club win to exchange portraits with stalin, itykov saphe picture Had received such a ter speaker reminded she workers of New Masses; but the following data mas and Je of interest to your readers other than members and sympathizers present show. grow rapidly and become a rallying cen and Voroschilor, through the medium of request through the Foreign Office then, their plight of mounting taxation ed that blind hostility which the bureau ter for the radicals in Chicago. Doctor Stalin personal agent in China, Bubnor. regardless of my attitude toward this growing unemployment of the heavy con the Stalinist who have to read The crats seek to instill in them, and comrade Ruby was selected secretary and It should not be forgotten that in those request. would find the fact itself ex. centration of wealth in the last twenty Militant on the sly, to keep posted on the Jonn Edwards, chairman of the meeting plans are being made for the elaboration days the Kuo Min Tang belonged to the plainable. But it is absolutely incompre enre on the one hand and growing revolutionary situation. In opposition to the official stand received a warih reception when he ex of activities for the coming fall and Communist International with an advis hensible to me why the Eastern Depart. poverty with all its attendant miseries prosed the frame up launched against the winter period.
ory vote. The fourth portrait of Chiangment of the the International on the other. But not one single state taken by the socialist Party of AmericaOpposition in New York connection Kal shek was intended for an exchange organization of the Communist vanguard ment was made by any of them which in which he was and is a shining light with. Trotsky. The Secretariat of of the proletariat occupies itent with heard as to what the workers ought tol Sinclair ned a manifesto or round with the death of two workers at the robin letter during the World War, the not only sent along Chiang such a thoroughly compromising matter do about it.
7th Street meeting. good collection mobilizing the intellectunts in the party Kai Shek portrait with a note to Trot an the spreading of portraits of Chiang was taken up for the Muitant. Opposition Expands sky but also categorically demanded that Kal shek, on top of that as a result of Senator llenrik Shipstead, who has to come out openly in support of the At the end of the same weel Its Activities Trotsky promptly send back to the Sec. malicious irony of fate on the eve of spent ten years the Senate as Allies. The leading socialist workers were radely supper party was held at the home of comrade Nashow, which was retariat his own portrait for transmis the coup Etat carried out by him dola Farmer laborite and during that time appealed to, to take sides in the greatWith the rising tide of the class strug sion to Chiang, with a corresponding de not doubt that this job, unseemnly for the has traveled extensively America antest organized slaughter of human beings Tilled to the very doors with Langue Rehind this whole action, it is was done some employee Europe for his own entertainment, was in the history of the world. Many of the members and sympathizers, and even gle everywhere the left Opposition indication.
Party members and friends. Shacht striving to carry out the tasks Imposed plain, stood the Political Bureau of the of the Kastern Department not enpower the main speaker of the afternoon. The most prominent Socialists in America re.
man spoke on the role of the left wing on it hy Its historie mission. It is break Communist Party the Soviet Union. to do it, without the knowledge of platform was equipped with amplifiers ponded to the call. Spargo, Walling, in the Communist movement and the hising new ground wherever the objective The supposition advanced in the Trotsky the leading persons and especially of the to convey the words spoken at the micro Stokes, Ghent. M. Simons, Charles candidate for bankruptcy of the Stalinist regime. Here small size of its membership still imposes was happening without the knowledge sequence of which deem it necessary employed and partly employed, who wait on one time socialist too several questions were asked and on a certain modest in its efforts of the lending persons is naturally meant to bring this distasteful affair to your ed in vain for instructions as to what President and other Marxist reneanswered to clarify the standpoint of our But these are only, we may nay, the ironically. We already know that Stalin attention The pleture of Chiang Kat to do with their sconomie Ils. It was andes joined in with the forces of im.
a splendid opportunity for anyone per portalism, and devoted their talents to movement.
Some twenty five dollars acorns from which will grow the revolu aid at that time exchange his pertrait Shek am herewith returning.
for that of his Chinese ally. Here is With Communist Greetings mitted to 180 that microphone to spread the worrice of their enpitalist masters In were taken in LS result of the get tionary onks of tomorrow.
workers perunding the workers to destroy one ideas to large numbers of April 18, 1927 together and all those who attended left Most important of our present activ. Trotsky letter: TROTSKY. eager to listen and learn. The equipment another to make the world sate for in good spirits.
ities is the work we are doing in the was there, the workers by the thonsand Democracy. Youth Meetings Illinois coal fields. There we have ex were there but those who could and In 1918, during the progress of the Shachtman also met with the members cellent prospects and tremendous up would give them advice were carefully war, Upton Sinclair the great champion of the Young Spartacus Club which has hill struggle. But the party false and kept from the platform. Instead it was of peace (in lace time)declared to the been formed here around a group of damaging policies in the past perlod bare used by labor bureaucrats, public of writer, in just these words, that the Young Oppositionists who were expelledestranged the bulk of the miners from Dear Comrade Allard: xtruggles of today in America, though on cals and Farmer Labor politicians who salvation of society depends on how many fro the Young Communist League by the Communism with the result that they Your letter of August 31 desperate bureaucrats, although they were took on every spokesman for Communism as an answer to the party bureaucrats in these false concepts and wrong policies (published a smaller and less decisive scale. From cither had no advice to offes the workers Germans we can ki or lacked the courage to do so.
As a confirmation that these were the among the most active and advanced with warpicton. Agatone, bebos hobeturile last week Militant) calls for some now the burenucratic method and prac.
trne sentiments of this professed paclcomrades the League. Shachtman our comrades in the Shipstead Exposes His Political tist, have in my possession a letter, those who have Bankruptcy gave an outline of the development of the live and work there daited lasadena, California, June 22, revolutionary youth movement in Amer song out as field organizers are stric that we fully recognize the enormous tees which not only stifies the party and 1918, which Upton Sinclair wrote (and Ica and the task to be performed by the ing to redeem the lost prestige of com. onders to which you have been subjected but strangles its activities and the move laborer and his labor power which the where it was opened by the authorities provocation from the bureaucratie party renders it impotent unable to develop and The Senator spoke at length on the sent to me through the Postoffice, young Oppositionists coming into our unin.
movement. The youth organization here They are trying to organize branches as a milltant on the Aring line and in ments It influences and coutrols. This Creator had given him at his birth and condemning my attitude toward the war.
is advancing rapidly despite all attempts or the. and groups of sympathisers. the fendership of a mass movement light prevents the party from fulfilling its collected at his death. That the crea in this letter, he said: the sixth day. of the Stalinists to dam our progress. They are following up the shipments of ing for correct policies. This is the rat historle mission, it prevents it from thon did not stop do not like misunderstandings and con will therefore make my position clear.
Threats made by the latter have not the hundreds of Militants we are mak reason for the provocation. In view of functioning as an netire factor giving stated in renesis, but that labor availed to stop the fraternization of the ling weekly to extablish a base for a wid. this your reaction is understandable: but correct direction to the every day strugo of wealth concentration, unsound. Ainane that it is the greatest crisis in history, tinues to create and produce. Ile spok take this war serionsly. helleve young comrades in both organizations. er circulation. And they are trying to your conclusion is faulty.
ules. It alienates the workers from the ing on and off the gold standard and and that the cooperation of every lover and increasing sympathy among the establish workers correspondence direct The Party and Its Errors intation deflation of money, etc. of liberty is imperatively required. You themselves. members is being constantly inani from the wine the field to date telllarre correctly and precisely. We defend tleularly because of this, our duty be the misery and suffering which tows war with contemptuous Indifference, and tested.
Our attitude to the party we must deDespite all this, or we may say parete. He also informed the workers of do not agree with this. You regard the All reports from The Spartacus Youth Club also held a story of the great work being done in the Communist party at all times, but comes the more clearls outlined. We re from prolonged and growing unemploy son declare your intention to remain more than 60 comrades, most of them ports teu, too, an alarming story of the release presupposed its night a kagainst the cunu its historic mission and its tasks news and very instructive to the trou nou am a socialist, and consider it necescame to hear swift rise of the Socialist party and the false views, tactics, methods and policies of today only through correct Marxian sunds of Minneapolis workers who have sary to sacrifice one personality to the Shạchtman speak on Anti War Congress isolation of the Communist perts, hela of its leadership in this sense we make orientation. We know how exsential the been out of jobs for the last two years community. Signed) SINCLAIR.
the questions and answers flew thick and of the struggle by the incorrect policies nureaucratic leadership, and only in that why workers political party. This 18 After his lamentation on bad conditions This is not a mere hysterical outburst fast between the speaker and the Stalin. of its leadership. What is needed from manner can we corectly defend the party. why we make the distinction between and poor statesmienship at Washington hvor ill considered opinion as might be Ist representatives, one of whom diss is a great effort to put forward the This is not a new conclusion which the communist party and the mistakes abruptly ended his talk by paying his expected from this quarter. It is the graced himselt thoroughly, as well as banner of Communism. For this we need we have come to just recently. On the of its Leadership. This also defines our compliments to Governor Olson, who was calm and reasoned expression of the the league of which he is an active func organizers, literature and money. We contrary, it has formed a baste principle to function in its place in the sense of ter the workers had patiently waited and at the time. though some of us may be tionary. He argued tu favor of Com are asking our sympathizers to help of the Left Opposition platform since its taking over the duties of the party. But listened to the flow of words from the utterly unable to understand or follow cabinets as a step toward taking power to the SILUT. ANT, 84 Fast 10th Streer inception, and all exeriences so far have we mnat combat the wrong reactions of amplifiers telling them of their suffering his line of reasoning. It recalls the dismunist joining capitalist ministerial mediately with donations, Rush all funde Also, he declared, the fact that Tang New York, cotelusion proceeds from our recognition workers who, because of these mistakes, they were all of a sudden left there tinguished writer freak war time magal ing Shan, as Minister of Agriculture in Davenport, Iowa of the krent role assigned by history to ifrn against the ideas of Communism. standing by the Senator without ene sin wine or private Journal of opiplonthe Hankow government in 1927, headed party. The proletarian We must uphold the banner of Communale suggestion or practical proposal pton Sinclair which came to an an army to suppress the peasant upris Recently, possibilities for work for the the Communist ings was to be explained by the fact Ixtt Omposition have developed in Daven revolution is inconcelvable without the lo restore the tou regenerate the party. to what to do about their growing dit curly end in the herole ettore too lvo birth to Wilsonian Socialism.
that Communists must do anti militar port, Iowa. Comrade Satir from ixt work. So sad is the low state to ago has gone to Davenport. He will also prepare for the attainment of that all tive. Counbining this with our active Tenin becomes the fundamental objec This is one of the men to be trusted Of course we Communists did not ex again to tell the workers what to do which the militants in the Stalinist movedo organizational and propaganda work the every dny working class struggles ment have been debased, that even the in Muscatine, and council Blues. Re require the active intervention and directement conation in the class struggle. In pect anything else from the characters in one of war friends of the Stalinist who were preports from that area tell another storytion of the Communist party. In order of the working class, we will carry for workers did. We as Communists and the solution of the everyday problems who wpoke bat, no doubt, many of the When the threatened war breaks out etween the forces that stand for rene sent urged him to remain silent and vir of a political group making political and to illustrate this latter point we need ward the banner of Communism and fight trade unionists went to the rinneapolis lon and those that make for progresstually apologized for him on the floor. organizational capital of the blunders of only cite the situation at present existfor the realization of its Ideas. This is labor plenle to get more and concrete between the forces behind the falling The Young Spartacus Club comrades, in the Stalinists. This time it is the Proing in the Minols, coal fields addition, are beginning to make headway letarian party which is trying to salvagel You have there a powerful movement selves in earnest.
our task to which must derote our evidence of the political bankruptcy of tructure of capitalism, on the one side, It proceeds through those who wpoke and whom the great and those representing the rising power also among the members of the youngl for its own ends the wreckage left be. now marching in progressive direc. the kind of struggles in which you and masses of workers have so far followed of the allsposed workers of the world, been hind hy the Stalinists. Watch the Mi tion. It is made up of workers who have others of our comrades are now so ac and supported for political leadership on the other we shall know where to Socialist organization who have moring towards Communism but have tant for reports of comrade Satir work. carned many bitter lessons and who lively engage.
This eumulative evidence we as Commun look for these peace loving patriots, who been repulsed by the anties of the Stal Question of United Front inist bureaucrats. The Opposition places branch are working in Des Moines to leadership is composed of elements of ists use in a practical way to help and are always ready to sacrifice them.
professed principles, great hope in the development of the sether with comrades in the party. They various views and tendencies, ranging direct the workers, step by step towards selves, and their It is in direct accord with the above the proper goal through the ure from the outright conservative of capitalyouth movement, especially in Chicago, are distributing Militants and proper for the benefit of thelr country and their where an excellent group exists. The and are sowing the ground for future or ist ideology to the Communist view. hat. We also want to correct the state: medium, the Communist parts with eas. They will be found in the camp of the enemy, exhorting the workers to be need for drawing more working youth ganizational reaping. Watch the Militant These various tendencies will pull in ment in your letter of invitation to the Communist program different directions with the conservative rank and file of the National Miners mithful to their masters and fight for into the group is keenly felt and meas for reports of their work.
ones applying the brakes upon the pro Union (for a united front. Maintain.
The League members their relom to work and to starve gressive development which is no necesing this attitude would be to Imitate the large number of the leaflet ined by truthless war, to preserve Humanity.
ures will be taken to meet the situation.
distributed a driving the unwillingly into another The following night, Shachtman spoke Picnic Success sars, and driving the movement back mistakes of the Stalinist bureaucrats, in National Committee on the German kiton Problems of the Development of the The New York plenie was a success, ward. While a solid rank and file con reversel form. The National Miners Un mation and handbills announcing our to save Civilization to wtem the tide of Aslatie barbarism. upon the invitation of the HXducational Committee of the north side The weather was the best we could ask trol is onsential for the success of the lon we consider as a bona fide workers open forum meeting next Saturday. at chaos and ruin.
from Communist section o the National Students League. for, allowing a large turnout of com. new union it is just as necesary that organization. Moreover it is a Left wing 1730 Fast Franklin Avenue and our In the Innt war, it was the ferocious At the last minute the priest rudes and sympathixers who were well it have a leadership conscious of its union. Our attitude to this union Hard Time Weiner Roast at Glenwood luns aur young men were taught to order to prevent Shachtman from speak. ganization of the banquet and refresh. progrexive course. Is there any possi. On must he that of a genuine united Attinde of the Farmer Labor Party toate little Belgian children allve when hood tried to maneuver the meeting in taken care of by the food committee or tasks and capable of pursuing a genuinel well as to the other unions named by Park next Sunday, September 11th. The fear and forced to fight because they Ing. Another speaker was arbitrarily ments. The Young Spartacus Club trim ble way of guaranteeing this without al front. llence we must approach these words the FarmersStrikewill be the they couldn get rabbits and they were unions, and especially the Left union, subject for discussion at the open forum on their way to America to take away went to the meeting so as to shut out the med the league team and won the ball Communist nuelens functioning officially. in our united front policy, as meeting, and The Civil War in Germany Our wives and daughters. In the next constantly exerting its influence Oppositionist, but the trick did not suceume.
Comrade Shachtman spoke on the Lert clearly showing this direction. You will an organization to be invited through its Today will be the subject discussed at one, the Yellow Peril will be the scare ceed. The audience of 50 students, workby a majority to hear the scheduled lec struggle. The Friends of the Soviet Un left wingers should function in an or the rank and Ale membership that the In ing Thoth of these meetings worker, em wir frenzy: the Bolshevik Bernt will be ers, Party and League members, voted opposition, dealing with the German readily agree with us that all senuine elected leadership, simultaneously urging the Glenwood panne attuale dhe attendant crs raised to stir the masses into ture and comrade Shachtman was able ion and the Tremont Workers Clubs hela ganised manner within this mass more vitaiton be accepted.
ployed or unemployed, will get informa: the bucalino spread throughout the westto proceed under the chairmanship of picnies in Adjoining plots. Friendly ment to help insure a correct conrse Iloping the will help to clear up these ton concerning their problems they were unable to get from those who with the help of hypocritical howlers which crn world by the yellow capitalist press comrade Nathan Gould, one of the most discussions were held by comrades al But that would also be a hopeless task few points. remain Fraternally yours, were privileged to speak at the well at for penec, prosperity and human brother active militants of the Young Communist day, but the climax was reached when without the initiative of a Communist ARNE SWARECK.
tended plenle of the Minneapolls Cen hood. inder capitalist control.
Lengne who was recently expelled. The over fifty of these workers cke over nuclens. Needless to add that in gener.
tral Labor Union.
interest of the audience may be gauged to listen to our speaker The discussional in the decisive struggles which will 0, 21, The self sterfeing socialiste patriots by the fact that the meeting was ad period was lively. Interesting and order face the new union, this responsibility and the humanitarian capitalistic pacl.
journed at 1:30 in the morning, after is. Many Stalinist sympathizers left the of the Communist forces only multiplies.
Watch the coming number of the fists will fall into line when the bugle hours of discussion and questions. discuvion with a better understanding of these examples we belleve are suficientMilitant THE MILITANT blowx and do their bith in the coming day later, Shachtman spoke briefly the Narxian position of the left Oppost: to emphasize the role, the duty and the of the tasks of the Communist party in the Entered a second class mall matter agoguers.
war to make the world safe for Dem.
at the meeting of the Chiengo branch of tion. The Communist worker JAPAN Norember 28, 1928, at the Post Omca the Opposition on the growth of the Centrist faction is showing greater inter revolutionary perspectives as well as in Yew York, Under the act of NELSON COLLIER.
movement in Europe, Asia, the American est in our meetings, our Indoor meet. the every day working class problems.
Blunders of Stalinism Reginning in the next issue of the March 1879.
continents and South Africa. The late. Inges, our street meetings and our plenies, FULL REPORTS ON AMSTERDAM Militant, we plan to publish a series of However, and here we come to ness of the hour prevented more than The Militant received 40. 00 from the timely articles on the developments of Published weekly by the Communist CONGRESS extremely important question, it is prea short discussion. At the same meet plenie.
cisely in this role and in these duties capitalism in Japan and the present Just as the forms for this issue are League of Americe (Opposition)
ing plans were laid for the winter East 10th St.
being locked up, the mall bringe is a FAIRY TALES AND FAIRY TALES activities of the Chicago League which that Communist party has situation in that great imperialist failed detailed report of the deliberations of power of the Orient. The series of returned delegate has said that the most glaringly since its leadership fell are to be facilitated by the acquisition EDITORIAL BOARD articles is by Louis Weber who has the Barbusse Congress in Amsterdam of regular headquarters, the holding most absorbing thing at the Barbusse into the hands of the Stalin regime. We Martin Abern James Cannon and the role played in them by the Left devoted himself to an extensive study Amsterdam Congress was the remarkable have repeated time and again the examMax Shachtman of forums and other meetings, etc.
Maurice Spector Opposition delegates.
of Japanese conditions and develorbrief sumway Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish writ ples of the fatally false policies pursued Arne Swabeck South Side Meeting mary contained in this issue will there An even by this regime in the Chinese revolution ments and especially in view of the SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932 The last Sunday of his stay was oe er, had of telling fairy tales.
revent events in Manchuria, the theme fore be extensively supplemented in the Vol. V, No. 38. Whole No. 134)
cupled by two more meetings for Shacht. more remarkable thing is the manner in of 1925 27. In the British general strike next number with the newly arrived of the series acquires extraordinary Subscripti man. The first took place at the south which pacifist fairy tales are belog told of 1926 and now being repeated in the 00 per year for port. All readers are urged to be on importance and interest.
Side Forum in Washington Park, where today by the Stalinists in the name of extremely critical situation in Germany sa precante per copy the lookout for this extremely important today. it is repeated again in workers Bundle rates. cents per copy.
Shechtman again spoke on the German Communism.
baterial, an