Letters from Militants PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1932 who were the Communists and the Units affiliated organizations all real ideolemployed Council. He further exposed ogical life has been criminally snuffed MILITANT BUILDERS the conditions of the unemployed work out by purely mechanical control the ers in the city The workers were very puppets change continually but the strings Our Club Plan enthusiastle and interjected several times are always pulled by essentially the same Left Commun very beginning that the Communists during the trial, and the judge threaten petty bureaucrats. In Socialist Meetings places upon is the task of presenting the would begin to heckle them. younged several times to clear the courtroom ism Lenin wrote that there are class QUESTION BY COMRADE COOVER Last week comrade Coover, whom our Left wing program for the miners. We introduced a local member but evidently didn have the nerve to representatives who nether think nor In Youngstown of the who immediately announced try to do so because of the mood the are capable of thinking. we greatly re.
readers may know as a star sub getter cannot draw back now. We must conYOUNGSTOWN that there were three workers parties workers were in. The case was dismiss gret that many of the local party func from Minneapolis, sent in a couple of tinue to speak out for Communism and Two members of the Opposition and but that he wasn there to throw mud. ed after the American Civil Libertiestionaries fall under this classification. subs and raised a question about the the Left Opposition. We must make the two party members attended a recent luc Referring to the P. and Union lawyer made his appeal to the With our limited forces. we hope to club plan: collected from the busl Militant the recognized spokesman for the ture of the on Historical Mac. he asked, Why can we all get court.
salvage something from their wreckage ness agent of the branch for a year views of the Communist left. So get terialism. The lecture was used as altogether? And this certainly was one That evening a meeting of the Unem. and to prevent them from completely dis sub and then applied the two fifty cent subs for the miners. take off for election campaign propa. thing we as Communists wanted to ex.
Eanda. The was represented as plain to the workers present. But after ployed Council took place where the party sracing the theories of communism and plects to two Left wing unemployed mem THE DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE sary issue have come in. Most of them the only revolutlonary workers party: the last speaker, who was the Le brought in a plan of reorganization which driving workers away from the move bera subs. Hope can get by on this some greetings to the double and verWe don like to be too formal about have been gathered in by the New York the Communist party was criticized as organizer for Ohio, concluded, he annoure in itself is very good. They tried to ment. KOEHLER.
discussiou.
cram it through without the legal aspects of the club plan. So we branch. There is little time left, com refortuit because it took a part in the ed that if those present had any questions but it was prevented by the workers and have decided to let comrade Coover getrades. It we are to realize our plan of Needle Trades Convention away with it. But it wrong. club printing it back age of greetings a litemployed workers and encouraged them their name and address on application of four is a club of four half year substle speed is necesary in getting the to fight for reforms or partial demands. cards. Then we ll send you literature real discussion was had in the Unem(Continued from page 1)
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an Opposition comrade immediately arose ty announced as he stepped down to twenty workers taking the floor. This not met with success. The Industrial year subes. It does not mean one on When the chairman called for questions dealing with these questions, he craven plosed Council for the first time, fifteen and defended the Communist standpoint. QUESTIONS! we and the xrty mem. Surprised the party members, and many Union must have the courage to acknow year sub and two half year subs, Nortion is whether we can get a whole juge of them were enthusiastie over the fact ledge this fact and to adapt its tactics does it mean one paid one year sub and of greetings. We think we can. And we pointing out the necessity of taking purt bers and sympathizers called.
in the daily struggle of the masses in The organizer got up again that workers took the door. One of our to the situation. Only in this way can one free. Not means only what it want you comrades to get rasy and prove comrades of the Left Opposition was the lost ground be regained and a new ways. In the future we shall have to that it can be done.
order to prepare their organizationally and with a lot of loud tulk revealed very elected to the Committee to reorganize stage of the struggle be unfolded.
disallow any such doings. So beware. THE STAFF TO DATE and politically for smashing the capital plainly to all the workers present that the Unemployed Council in spite of the The next step of the Industrial Union ist state and setting up a dictatorship of the socialists were afraid of the Com fact that the party had a full slate ofl Since last week report some additionis to make an open proposal to the ALL AROUND THE CIRCUIT Nash the working class which will organize a munists and could not answer our ques. its own. Konikow for the readmission of its memsocialist republic. The replied Lious. The crowd was with us and we On October 11 a meeting took place at wership in a pody in the field of its juris al club plan suls have come in. That Coover to the effect that the Communists were explained to small groups of workers which Ford, the vice presidential candi diction. This proposal must demand the was to be expected, of course. The enH.
trying Vomvas apply the tactics which net why we weren united with the Pldete spoke. This meeting was held in unity of the two organizations on the couraging feature about this growing re.
the situation in backward Russia to our that the socialists are mere salesmen Rock Island at the Workers Hall, with basis of no discrimination, no special sponse is the fact that the subs are comChicago Friends of advanced America. We ought to be for the capitalists wheu really we should about 200 in attendance. Ford made the Militant Club thankful, he said, for the ripenud de kick them out, and also what the Mil very good agitational speech outside ocl condition or restrictions imposed on the ing in from cities, which, as a rule, have Hamilton doing to the velopment of American industry and the waukee socialists are the fact that he tried to make an attack members of the Industrial Union, call been behind the others in our sub drives.
The appearance of the name of Coover freedom and democracy we cujuy here. workers with their sweet right of emin on the Lett Opposition and especially on rights for every member om den: from Montreal. but last week they stepThe workers have only to elect the sent domain.
our comrades in Illinois in the mining ocracy, and rights of minority political goods. Boston, too, sent in a club plan If Coover broke into the list that means and then everything will be holuy totny the meclins, prove that is pression that they were working hand to dustrial Uulon and the return to the have to hear from New York, Philadel who make it a point never to let Cover to the presidency and to congress Both instances, the 10. lecture and situation where he tried to leave an im expression. The proposal of the Love. Det up to the firing line and delivered the on this list means trouble for the others.
14 stone group for the dissolution of the insub And so did Minneapolis. We still there will be local rivals in Minneapolis Communists tac and heaven like in America. tie they can win over the class conscious to the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Un as individuals is in no way!
several other places. Let very odd thing happened then. For proletarian elenients, who are now blindly ion which he tried to show that the Com Justified by the situation and the rela phia, Newark, Clevleand, Youngstown and go it alone. That means the whole inur us complete derers row up there will swing into the first time this cits. So far as we following the so called socialists. to the unist loft opposition was trying to detion of forces at the present you must the cirenit, comrades.
line. Let er go.
The record by cities follows: party inecting and very successfully de combat it (the unthinkable contidence of Chicago Subs are still coming in for the miners.
87 It seerned that this did not satisfy the be rejected. The Industrial Union memfendat the Communist stratexy and tac the masses in the Socialist Itevolutionist Chicago district bureaucrat or Jack wu. Ders must demand their rendalston The latest is from comrade Nash of Montreal tics as set. so they prepared a Pittsburgh (This comrade is new in ONLY ideologically, by comradetyper in which some of the comrades of the correct and reasonable demand can gain than ever it is important to reach the Boston this town, probably. u. fun Hunsion, by reference to life experience. rty were to ask questions concerning the enthusiastle support of the masses of miners with the Militant. The Right Minneapolis tionary. All that the P had to (Lewin, WORKS, Vol. XX. page the Lent Opposition and then he was workers in the industry least reelut orbet wing victory at the Gillespte convention! Watch it grow!
say after that only revealed their com. 135. All party agitators, in factories, torced to come out into the open with syuarely and sincerely and reeuforced and.
MILITANT BUILDERS CLUB PLAN BLANK fact, it was so apparent to them that vocate these views and this proposition Goor and in a very short statement ex the small mimber of workers present had (regarding Bolshevik position on Soviets posed the real situation existing in the must be given for the devenit that in regiments, in the streets, etc. must ad. the usual tripe Papeun then took the with the proper campaign of agitation.
At the same time every 1 HALF YEAR SUB of 26 ISSUES for 50e in CLUBS of FOUR or MORE.
of been won over to the Communist view. by means of peaceful discusminers fight. Then the crowning thing genuine Left wing opposition within the THE MILITANT, 84 10th Street, New York City.
point more than to the Ps. that sions and peaceful demonstrations, as well happened. party member or sympath which will work militantly Enclosed find for which send the MILITANT for 20 weeks to the following: after the meeting many of their members as meetings everywhere. taking izer got up on the floor and tried to and constructively for the program of NAMES ADDRESSES CITY STATE bers of our jurty we had better not al. comradely discipline. Ibid, pp. 245, 916. Council Bluffs about a year ago due to a class program and leadership of the deserted unity with the Industrial Union and for low the Communists to talk Communism It is the Leninist duty of every Commun the attack of the police. This didn 80 movement as a whole. All futile subter.
at our meetings.
ist, particularly of Oppositionists, to pro over so good because the workers knew luges and camoutage united front test against the breakup of workers differently, as Papeun did not leave Coun bodies, designed to nibble off little secmeetings no matter by whom organized. cil Bluts until ten months after the tions of the International must be done The following night the local Opposi: In the eyes of the workers, to refuse to kidnapping and beating that took place, away with. The task of the hour is to tionists attended a street meeting of the take part in a comradely discussion of and that in the midst of the attack of penetrate deeply into the ranks of the which has recently organized different ideas and programs is to admit, the Fascist element he was deserted by workers in the International, to force a MILITANT BUILDER a branch here. Four speakers exhausted the bankruptcy of your own ideas. the Party leadership who expelled him at fusion of the two organizations by the the usual socialist twaddle, denouncing City. State The Youngstown meribers of the Op that time because he was reading the pressure of the inasses and to reunite the the capitalists, reciting a Help Circulate a Marxian Paper for Class Conscious Workers sweet poem position are few, but we intend to take literature of the Left Opposition. Then Left wing vanguard with the masses so about Jesus return to earth and promis a more and more active part in the labor the meeting was in an uproar and Jack artificially separated from it by the diving to abolish unemployment by practic movement, patiently propagandizing the Wilson, from the platform made an at ision of the organizations. The concen.
ing their right of eminent domain. revolutionary teachings of Marx, Engels, tack and tried to incite to the idea that tration of the Loft wing militants on this if elected.
Lenin and Trotsky, comrade Papeun should be taken for a campaign is the foremost task of the They were obviously afraid from the KOEHLER. ride from which he would not return hour.
to spread the views of the Left Opposi.
We are only two issues away from But more than that. We put the ques.
tion. Very little applause was given to our first eight page issue the double tion even more emphatienlly. We want these remarks of Jack Wilson. In fact With the Greck Workers anniversary number, celebrating the fif this issue, as far as the greetings are many workers resented that such refteenth anniversary of the Bolshevik Oct concerned, to be a demonstration of the marks should be made by a Communist NEW YORKober, and the fourth year of the Mill. sympathy and prestige which the Militant party organizer, and some expressed Last fall, as the readers of the Militant. We are busily preparing the nee enjoys all over the country and abroad.
themselves that if Papeun is taken for tant remember, a group of our comrades essary material; the historie documents The greetings will be ono wa of making The Opposition in was endorsed very enthusiastically by a ride Jack Wilson had better prepare were expelled from the Greek Workers never before published in the English this demonstration, lat fhow tho the Unemployed Council. And due to the himself to take the consequences. Club Spartacus. because they insisted language, which we promised and other world that we are solidly behind Davenport fact that the newspapers have been rag upon the application of the Constitution material dealing with the four years tight of the Communist Lengne and the ing continually about apeun refusal to of the Club which plainly states that the light of the Militant for the ideas of Militant in its historie fight for the line SITUATION IN DAVENPORT leave town, a meeting was arranged nature of the Club is educational and as revolutionary Iternationalism.
of Leninism We know that everyone is cagerly On September 30, 1982, a debate took Where Papeun and Jack Wilson should Opposition Debates such aims to approach every GreekA greeting is only a quarter. Every place over the question of Socialism in spenk to show that there was unity speaking worker of City. The of awaiting the appearance of this issue. one must be able to raise at least that One Country or World Revolution be against the boss.
Socialists ficial Greek Stalluists could not tolerate They are expecting us to keep our pro sum. Let us flood the Militant with our tween the section organizer, Jack Wilson In the meantime the capitalist press such criticism and therefore resorted to mises. For our part we will do the very crectings Make it a political demonstraof the and George Papeun of the carried on a vicious agitation against YOUNGSTOWN. the same destructive tactics of expulsion best we can. We will come through. The tion! Use the blanks below.
Left Opposition. Immediately after the Reds and Communists generally, tried to October 9, 1932 toward every comrade that attempted to question we want to pose now is: Is ev. So much for individual greetings. Do debate both of the speakers were taken stir up an agitation to ride Papoun out Last Thursday we held a debate with put an end to the many shortcomings of Ty comrade and sympathizer discharging you know workers organizations symto the Police Station, where Jack Wilson of town. olice haunted comrade Pap the Socialist party of New Castle, Pr, the Club. Last week thirty workers, his obligation to this isse? We must puthetie to us! There are good number.
first was quizzed by the Chief of Police cun place of residence daily. On Oct at thelr local headquarters. About thirty through their committee, appealed to the way frankly that there is a noticeable Get greetings from them. The rates for by himself with the Chief of Police for apeun was arrested, thrown in all, and and take part in the discussion, all of for reinstatement in its ranks, because conrades and friends to our appeals for wide greeting is a two inch, oneabout one hour. Then he was let go and held under 200. 00 cash bond, charged which was centered around the question they are sincerely convinced that only greetings and special bundle orders. colmn wide greeting is 76; a five inch George Papeun was taken in under pro with vagraney. Comrade Peck gave the of the different strategical and tactical the unification of the revolutionary forces Everyone knows that the only way of greeting is For two column greettest, demanding that the comrades be bond for Papeuu release. Comrade programs of the social democracy and among the Greek workers can bring about meeting the added expenses of this is in the rates are double. These greet.
allowed to go with him. After about ten Papenn immediately proceeded to the Communism. Several rank and file mem the fulfillment of the goal for which we se is through the support of our com. can also be had from newsstands minutes of questions and answers about meeting and spoke with Pock and ww. bers of the Communist party attended are striving. They stated plainly that rades and sympathizers. Unless they and bookstores which handle the Mili.
when appeun was born and he son. The comrades received him very the meeting and took an active, com as revolutionary workers they must par seni in greetings and special bundle ortant. The blank helow can also be used was told that he must leave town. Then enthusiastically and passed a resolution radely part in the open discussion. ticipate in the class struggle and that der we will be table to meet the ex this purpose. Now let us go to work comrade Peck was called in and asked to of protest against the persecution of It cannot be said that we disclosed it is impossible for them to expect in a peuse.
in carnest and get greetings.
prevail on apeun to leave town. eck workers, plexing themselves to support conclusively the inability of the workers fatallst manner the spontaneous awakenTHE MILITANT immedintely objected. This request of Inpean. From the meeting rosen bureau to succeed in overthrowing Capitalism ing of the Greek workers.
81 EAST 10th STREET, NEW YORK, the Chief of olice to leave town was erat from Chicago hy the name of Becker and establishing Socialism under the made as the result of a demonstration of who was introduced by the chairman as leadership of the Socialists, and also the They pointed out that the responsithe unemployed which took place on the a representative of the District Execu inevitable betrayal of those same leaders. bility for the continuation of the division Enclosed find. for which please enter my greeting in the Jubilee morning of September 30 before the Civle Live Committee. It seemed that in his The limited time and the inexperience of of the revolutionary forces rests upon the Anniversary Issue, November 5, 1932.
Planning Commission. The Chief then opinion it was terrible that such a meet our comrade (this being his first attempt shoulders of those who expelled them or decided to let Papcun decide by tono ing should be taking place where the of this nature) made this impossible. those who will prevent their reinstate Name clock faturday morning, October Section Organizer of the party should us chief offort was made in explaining ment in the ranks of the Club. There club whether he would leave town or not. The speak with a Left Oppositionist, so he simply why Communists take part in fore the organization of another City State comrades from the debate went over to got up and in an underhanded way at elections, the capitalist nature of Your could be prevented.
the police station with the two comrades tacked the Left Opposition though not democracy, what Soviets or workers Last Monday, October 10 the regular and demanded their release. Immedi. openly. He begon by utilizing the same councils are, what is the dictatorship of membership meeting of the Club was on account of the total absence of any For the last months they disconately on coming out of the police station, old arguments, stressing the socalled the workers (proletariat. and other held. Before the meeting was called revolutionary news in the columns of the tinued their one sidedness and began to about midnight, Jack Wilson, who re outside Interference (meaning the such fundamental Marxist Leninist teachto order some Stalinists began to attack Empros and its entire preoccupation with attack both newspapers as equally remained with the crowd of workers, imme. Left Opposition. ings. And this he did quite successfully comrade Brass with every kind of slan the personal love affairs, religious rights sponsible for the exploitation of the Greek diately got hold of comrade Papenn and His actual work of destruction and In New Castle we are gradually but der. Brass demanded an explanation of of its editor and every other kind of news workers. At that time we warned the told him to leave town, for that was the the Stalinization of the membership be surely making progress after over best thing to do. Comrade apeun imme gan the next day when he began to hold month contact with rank and slemem the conduct of the Stalinists but they befitting tablold but not a Communist Greek workers through Communistes that The Greek party members they must always be alert in order to diately refused to carry out this advice meetings with the section Committee ana bers and sympathizers of both the Social point of correspondence on the agenda protested to the high priests of Stalin prevent the repetition of the old course of the party section organizer, and the the comrades generally, when he made ist and Communist parties. There is a was discussed, comrade Brass requested is, and the scandal reached such probecause we were sure that the mere subworkers and party members backed him statements to the effect that the party good worker element in both groups that the letter of the thirty workers be portions that they were forced to restitution of bureaucrat by another up in this decision.
should never have allowed the debate to the members of the especially have read to the membership in order that move the famous editor Sncellarios will not change the evils. Ilow the course October at ton o clock in the morning go on and they should never have support shown their unwillingness to follow their every worker acquaint himself with its whose despicable record in the labor of time justified our warnings is proved Papeun with a large group of workers Papeun in his fight against being de socalled lenders blindly or to be bullied content. Every epithet was hurled at movement we printed in the Militant last by the last three issues of the Empros.
came back and told the chief of police ported by the police. Much of his inner by them. We hold comradely discushim by some stalinists and most of the year. The new editorial board condemned serious issues of the class struggle are that he was not leaving town. Then the party instructions and discussion was desions with them, and frequently they members kept an ley silence. The comrade the past course and promised to the elther eliminated from the columns of Chief of Police, Ward, threatened that voted to the Loft Opposition and how to have demonstrated their agreement with left the meeting protesting against the Greek workers that in the future they the Empros or are given an insignificant he would be prosecuted on the charge of het rid of them and their influence among us on individual points by propagandixing abuse of the elementary rights of the will follow a correct policy which will space, and the main issue is becoming our views and distributing our liter members, and was followed by and under the pressure of the workers spite this, on October 10, when the triniture, such as The Militant, Trotsky members who later returned to other not give any suspicions of favoring the again the publication of Vassardakis the monarchist organ Atlantis.
affairs with his former master in the was released. Then the workers and the came up the court room was packed fuit pamphlets and our leaflet on the German meeting to light out with the bureauers the printed a statement which reads Greck elections they preferred to men To dispel any suspicious of the work Greek and American courts. About the party member present adjourned to a at the city hall about three hundred situation.
crats this shameful procedure. Next follows: The collection thieves, in tion nothing before the elections to enhall to discuss the situation, and it was workers pac in the small room and In Youngstown, however, it cannot be week we are going decided that the party should back up many more standing outside in spite of sold that there is a good worker element ports of the proceedings of the meeting their attempt to color the revelations of lighten the Greek workers concerning the comrade Papeun. Jack Wilson also the rain and snow that was going on among the Socialists; we have successEmpros against them as a personal strug struggle of the Communists in Greece.
changed his mind as to him leaving town. Many of the workers came before eight fully made contact with the few work.
gle, attempted to connect Mr. Vassardakis Even the Scottsboro case is not considerand in fact extended an invitation to o clock thongh the trial was not to start ers they have in their ranks. On the The Empros with the Empros. We considered this ed of such an important nature to be comrade Papeun to make a statement for until nine, and it didn actualls start situation. We are going to try hard to As we pointed out many times in the pretension of theirs as needing no re given, prior to the demonstration, any re entry into the party, and that Papeun until a quarter of ten.
ers misled by the Socialists. We plan to past the Greek Stalinists, with their one pudiation, because every one knows that space at all. Well, the Greek Staliniste should discuss it with the Section Com The trial was made into a political increase our activities in New Castle dur sidedness towards the National Herald, only members of Communist party par can pride themselves on being more ideal mittee. October 3, at the Unemployed trial in spite of the Chief of Police and Ing the coming winter; we feel confident have clearly given the impression to the ticipate in the direction of a Communist representatives of Stalinism in America Council meeting. It was also proposed the prosecuting attorney who tried to that our efforts will meet with success. workers that they were under the control newspaper, And Mr. Vassardakis is not This claim of theirs we granted to that the Unernployed Council back com make it a vagrancy charge. Comrade It is very unfortunate that, on the of the notorious lackey Vassardakis. The a Communist but belongs to the bour them and they really deserved it.
rade Papour against police terror and it Papeun explained from the witness stand other hand, in the Communist party and reasons of this suspicion were created geols class. Empros, June 26, 1932.
Our Anniversary Number The Opposition at Work the Address.