Letters from Militants be the lehet mense se les home to relief and rest work on reader the enter New Forces Join the Left Opposition SI 2 PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932 MILITANT BUILDERS Our Eight Page Double Our Clab Plan Jobless United Front after his insistent effort, together with Anniversary Issue. COMPLETING THE CIRCUIT the demands coming from all sections of donations for this purpose from comSince last week report two more raules, sympathizers and workers organithe hall, that he was finally given the in Chicago cities have steppwd up to the firing line xations. Remittances should be made floor. Comrade Edwards presented the CHICAGO. line of the Left Opposition, hailing the Yearsofthe Russian Revolution Yrs. ofthe Militant and sont in club pian subs. They are on the club plan barils. The minimum Philadelphin and Toronto. Philadelphia remittance should be for which we For the first time in many years there first genuine united front conference hela The fifteenth anniversary of the The minutes of the famous Novem makes an occasional appearance in these will shoot ont four hall year subs. This was achieved in Chiengo last night a in Chicago since the Stalinist regime Russian Bolshevik revolution will be her session of the Petrograd Comlists but the name of Toronto is almost does not mean that the must be raised genuine working class united front, con has been in existence. He pointed to the celebrated in the next issue of the mittee of the Bolshevik party at which newcomer. Greetings! Salute us from one comrade or sympathizer. Yo.
sisting of the three largest organized un persistent advocacy of such a correct Militant At the same time our fight Lenin and Trotsky jointly defended often in like manner.
It can be collected from three or four employed routes in Chicago; the Unem. Leninist united front on the part of the ing paper will mark the fourth annitheit standpoint against the concilior half a dozen. But the remittances PITTSBURGH ployed Councils of Cook County Con Left Opposition over the period of years.
versary of its existence. With the ators. These minutes suppressed by Last week we heard from comrades secont way of raising money for should be made in units of trolled by the oficial Communists. the le pledged the support of his organizatwo dates coinciding almost to the Stalin we shall print for the first time.
Vomas and Sifakis again. This puts miners subs is to get half year subs Workers Leagues of America controlled tion to the conference and warned the day, we are making the next issue a Lenin last speech to the Commun them away out in front. You can judge from workers at the old rate of and by the United Workers arty and the Stalinists, as representatives of Com.
joint anniversary number with twice ist International in 1922. nt the from what they say whether this is a include it in a club plan of four. In this Chicago Committee of Unemployed con munism, that they must carry through as many pages as usual.
Fourth Congress, on Five Years of xudden burst or the beginning of a pow. case you need send only two names trolled by the Socialista. Despite the the United Front on the specific issues The eight page issue will contain a the Russian Revolution, brilliant obvious packing of the ball by the Com at hand.
erful and sustained drive. We think it on the club plant blank in, explaining Attorney Goldman who was given the good deal of material on the Russian summary of its achievements and promunist party with delegates from all revolution which is not available to blems and an advance refutation of is the latter and we are all comrades that the other two dames sire to be filled to read attentively and follow Nut in by us with miners tames. But be sorts of paper organizations, all three floor to make a collection speech made the sevrage militant in this country. the national socialist pigoner.
groups were well represented.
with a depression like this it is very sure to explain to the subsider that he Among one of the finest communist speeches Some of it has never appeared in the In addition to these and other his English language; other documents torical documents, the Militant will hard to appronch the workers and ask the other representations were F of heard in these parts from a Stalinist.
asked to subscribe, in effect, for him.
are known to comparatively few read. contain many other timely them to subscribe for the Militant or self and a miner for a half year each trade union organizations, and fraternal His viewpoint on the united front was articles, to donnte the sum of fifty cents for a at the rate of for both. Explain that working class groups. The bulk of re so close to that of the left Opposition Among them, the readers of the including one on the Russian revoluera presentatives, however, came from the that he even used the exact words of next issne of the Militant will find: miner sub. As we know, very many we are able to do this as you will tion and the American Communist The first proclamation of the Rev. movement, another on the birthday Iwranch organizations of the three mem comrade Trotsky when he stated that, in workers not only can afford to pay fifty include his sub with other on a club cents but are in great need of money and plan sub and that thereby the minimum ployed bodies, signatories to the call order to carry out our alms, we can olutionary Military Committee of the etrograd announcing the deposition on the same day as the anniversary of comrade Leon Trotsky, which falls it is a problem to them how to make of u will be realiud enabling us to Among the political organizations direct make united front even with their living. So far as we could go well in two miners names ly represented were Communist party devil himself He continued. We will of the Provisional Government.
of the Russian revolution, etc. etc.
and Socialist Party and Yis criticize each other but we will have a succeeded in collecting subs given by The minutes of the Extraordinary letarian Party and Farmer Labor united front because we have to have Session of the Petrog workers, of which are of the miners 30 DOES THE TRICK While special edition will Soviet after and for the names below. have been 30 will transfer the whole of comParty. The Left Opposition was repre united man action. The struggle alone the Bolshevik Insurrection, including printed. It will nevertheless still be sented by three delegates.
will prove the correctness of the collected by comrade Sifakis and six by rade Angelo lint to the Militant mailing speeches by Trotsky and by Lenin who limited, and we urge that all special program of different political comrade Vomvas.
list. But more than that it will mean had just come out of enforced con orders be sent in immediately and The fact that the conference was held lives. But this know that a socialist cealment.
without fail.
The names of the workers who donc miners who will read the Militant and able to organize itself for the tasks worker hailed before a capitalist judge ated for the miners subs are: Al. Vas. regularly. So let get going. Who will set out, namely, the organization of a for participating in the class struggle silins 500: Rabarin 50c; be the first to knock this 30 down a joint march to the City Hall, energetic suffers exactly the same fate as a Com10: Bil Theocharis 50c. The sub o nek or two? Have no hesitation. Step George Cephalos has been donated by right up.
other practical immediate mensures, is a cumstances. On the other hand, a Comtwo workers who can read English and living vindication of the correct united munist in bed is as safe as a Socialist (Continued from page 1)
Psands of emprisoned and exiled Lert who knew that George could but couldn THE STAFF RECORD front polley that the Left Opposition has in bed. Personally am convinced that so persistently advocated. The party can if the workers struksle is to be success. raised the question in parts meetings Oppositionists! Long live the Worla afford to my other so they save to win that cory of the proletarian scene on this olution in Russia by Lenin in Trotsky no longer say in Chicago that it refuses ful, the only path is the path of the as to why the di not publish Trot Revolution. to sit in the same hull with the leaders Communist struggle. later on when sky arguments. In this way, pointFor the regeneration of Lenin third really inspiring news from our comrades we are offering to the comrade who he In ittsburgh the staff in the universary issue on of the social. Fascists and even the the names of the organtuntions who gave ed out, the party leaders would enlight luternational Comradely.
MINERS SUBS November Left Opposition. SEBASTIAN PAPPAS. In response to our appeals for subs for Vomvas II. Nash united front from below. so called; the position along with the rest.
It is a most complete reversal of the Hot Shy from mentioning the name of trict leadership looked upon me (and minere we have received 50 which, the Communist League of America (Op many other comrades who also raised this question) with distrust and BUS.
according to the club plan rate, is 11 Krem whole conference was a very dramatic snbs. 11 miners are now entered on the 15. Morgenstern One of the most provocative spreches picion. At this point. may be permit. Help the Illinois Miners one with frequent outbursts and tense made at the end of the conference was ted to point out that even many of the Militant mailing list who were not there Konikow The heroic battle which the Illinois before. The comrades who sent them in Cover moments. From the moment that the that of Ilerbert Newton, party Negro present lieutenants of Stalinism, at that months are as follows: Sifakis 82: Vomras conference elected Weber as chairman by luder, Ile delivered himself of some pure time, also objected to such expulsions, miners have been lighting for Chiengo Friends of an orerwhelming majority, there was no pieces of stalinist ultimatism, of prac. though in private conversations, under nainst the greatest odds is in itself an 82: Hamilton 1: 11. Nashs. 50.
doubt in anybody mind that the Comtcully inviting the socialists, the Farm cover. appeal to every worker in the country This is only a small beginning. On the the militant Club munist party representatives came with er Laborites to leave the conference.
to come to their aid. The long period of pretiminary lists which comrade Angelo Hamilton And the record by cities: full intentions of capturing organiza.
of has sent us there are sixty more names.
The conference was not The criticisms of the Left Opposition unemployment through which most without its tional control of it.
Chiengo humoros moments. For example, after on the fundamental questions and their them have gone has left them in no And there are other lists coming. The Pittsburgh The first order of business was the re the report of the credentials committee, proposals put forward convinced me of position to conduct a struggle without edure is to transfer these names to Montreal port of the secretary of the joint com. comrade Satir, another delegate of the its correctness. I, therefore, uncondition assistance from the outside. Relief is the Militant list as fast as we get subs full agreement now urgently required by the men and for them.
Toronto mittee, Lockner. He read the demands Left Opposition, arose to ask why the ally declare myself in Philadelphia agreed upon by the Joint committee of name of our organization was not in with the views of the Left Opposition. In their families, and the miners union is HOW TO GET SUBS FOR MINERS luston the three organizations. He was follow. cluded in the list of those read. The my struggle against the district and now making a great effort to supply the The club plan drive should be pointed linneapolis ed by additional reporters of the three reporter, Miss Thompson, was evidently of the Food Workers Industrial Union, anceThe Militant therefore urges all loints. The first is to get outright TUUL bureaucracy through the fraction coal, clickers with a minimum of sit. in this direction. There are two pivotat It going up!
organizations, Karl Borders, Givens and not well versed in the intricacies of tend.
Lemson. They ench stressed the point encles in the Communist movement. She (which shall deal with on another oc its readers to do their utmost in coming Illius In your MILITANT BUILDERS CLUB PLAN BLANK thut despite political differences, unity took the Communist League to be part enston) the proposals put forward to the ad of the in whatever movement you may have 1 HALF YEAR SUB of 26 ISSUES for 50e in CLUBS of FOUR or MORE.
must be preserved on the question of re of the Communist party organizations and there were in the main guided by the rulon, your fraternal organization, THE MILITANT, 84 10th Street, New York City Hef, and against the system that breeds stated so in lier answer. The Left Op. policies of the Left Opposition.
volce, raise the question of relief for hunger. Following these three a represition delegates profusely shouted Enclosed find for which send the MILITANT for 20 weeks to the following: sentative of the TUU Mike Zalisko, their thanks, stating that that was where Under the theory of the the third all that you yourself can raise among the Illinois miners, and then contribute NAMES ADDRESSES CITY period. the party split the left wing took the floor and launchell into a tirade they belonged anyway.
STATE agufust the of Delegate MeVey. The conference adorned with the resulting in giving the yellow traitors a forces away from the of Lithus your friends and comrades.
representing the Purmer Labor Party singing of the Interuntional started by free hand for their betrayals and sell Progressive Miners of America, Gillespie, All aid should be forwarded to the throwing the conference into pandemon. It is the opinion of the comrades here groups were also split away from the immediately started to heckle the speaker the left Opposition delegates.
outs. Even small, insignificant Left wing Illiuols.
inm. Ele objected to the correct charac that this united front has far reaching varions of unions in order to terizations that Zalisko made agalust the possibilities. good deal depends upon build revolutionary unions. of After quiet was restored, the tactics pursued by the Stalinists from of these groups compose today the var. Hundreds USE THE CLUB PLAN. GET SUBS FOR THE MINERS.
the speaker was writte go on.
now on. It was obvious at the conferious leagues and unions of the TUUL. The sensation of the whole confer MIILITANT BUILDER ence that the hangovers of Stalinism For, according to the theory that the. Address ence, however, came when John Wil. are yet ton strong to permit the official of Li Fascist and company ING TO THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE?
HAVE YOU SENT IN YOUR GREET. City.
State.
Help Circulate a Marxian Paper for Class Conscious Workers the floor, reading a carefully prepared ostali per le dont elles sont pe Lunion, the left wing could not possibly speech in which he, correctly enough. be made. We hope that the party will these unions. Guided by the theory of mistakes win afford to lose time working within crittelwed the Socialist party and the not place itself in such a position as to social Fascism. the party also split in other reactionary organizations. How appear to the workers as splitters and dependent unions like the Amalgamated ever, the manner in which his express thereby continue to drag the banner Food Workers that for years supported siogs were formulated coupled with the of communism in the mud, The Chicago the revolutionary movement.
The period following the last plenum dictum that Narxism is no dogma but wing trade unionists most of whom have usual Stalinist wame calling angered the left Oppsition will very shortly issue notoriow theory prevented the party of the Communist League, has marked a mulle to action representatives of these organizations and a statement on the conference passed through all the experiences of disorder broke out anew. For a moment from accepting the united front in the the definite expansion of the Leftop It has been decided to continue the the TUEL. reject the Stalinist slander it looked as if the united front waa this class throughout the winter and to draw about the Opposition. They agreed that Illinois miners strike, even when it was position in Toronto. Indices JOSEPI GIGANTI.
all over an organized Left wing, its policies proIt was due to the consummate proposed by the unions influenced by the political and organizational progress are in fresh elements Juste group.
manifest in the several tields of educa cleverness of the reactionaries that the ceeding from the recognition of the Miners Face Big Tasks Trade Union Activity whole manenter of the party was turned tion and agitation, trade union contacts, class struggle, is the prerequisite to any literature sales, youth work, and branch needle militant program of action The events in the Montreal to the discredit of the party, and instead of strenge them in the light of aware that the danger to their regime reThe united front question today is one recruiting, all of which strengthens the trades which precipitated the revolt of Literature The Militant nser Kanf the position of the The Lewis Walker clique is perfectly of the most important weapons of the premises for a more comprehensive pro the rank and fle in the Amalgamated The sales of the Militant, which had Communists put working class against the brutal, vicious cram of action. In appraising this ac Clothing Workers Unton against the slumped prior to the plenum, have trisplitters Most of the non partisan work caining its former prition does not come attacks of the employers to reduce the tivity It must not be forgotten that the man burcuneracy also revealed the pled. There is a growing demand for light and openly gave expression to their new union leadership but from the Left this question the party, due to its ruin. been declared by the courts to lie illegal Fascist trade union strategy of Stalin. faction of which the rigid consorship feelings.
McVey and the others took the floor and on there is a constant barrage against King Confuses this question by pro subjected to the most rigorous polleeties! with Itself and the structure and entry in the West. being Bolshevik ism. The leadership of the Industrial interferes. The Customs confiscates our wing. In the Illinois Miner, the Norry Ons theory of Fascism and social and the revolutionary organizations areUnion (RILU) was no thoroughly satis material and the Militant is prohibited After Williamson speech, Borders, hert which functions as their official orunited front from below which persecution.
in substance, pointed to the attempted the Communists. Formerly it was directis concretized as follows: objectives of the union as the final word propaganda. Apparently the capitalist disruption on the part of the party, ed against the official party, now the Educational Work in revolutionary engineering, that it reauthorities are not convinced by Stalin stating, however, that despite all this, main suns are trained against the Let F of or other unions, are called to of the branch has been the organization ferment that was going on among the Unser Kamf in similarly increasing and Sympathizers, who are members of the One of the outstanding undertakings mained blissfully unaware of the actual assurances to contrary. The sale no one was going to force them Opposition. This sheet, while attempting a united front conference from below of a class in Marxism, under the direc backward masses in the Amalgamated the branch has taken steps to knit the to leave the united front and that they, to detine, as it puts it, the Right wing organized by the TUUL. These members tion of comrade Maurice Spector. The As a result, despite the fact that the sympathizers of this paper into it stable would fight just as strongly as ever for Communists. the official party, and the represent the achievement of the aims of the con Left wing Communists, the League, warns since they were not elected by any. When adres of the younger generation, can for three years it was isolated from the in reality no organization, importance of theoretical training of Industrial Union had been in existence organization.
ference. Meley speech given in the against our flirting with the Progressive the conference is ended, the members not be overestimated. Reference to this discontented mass in the older Imion, and Organizntion and Agitation typical trade union style won the ap. Miners of America and aginst our docannot report the results of the conferurgent need was among the most con the workers anxions to throw of the membership steadily, We put into effect The branch has been increasing plause of many present. At this pointing the best to get control of it. This ence to their respective local union for, spicuous points in s letter of greet. chains of the Hillman machine, set up the principle from each according to his chairman Weber pulled a masterpiece of sheet further concentrates its attacks as mentioned above, they were not electing to the first (Chicago) Conference a new union. Instend of striving for re abilities. No merely passive allegiance Stalinist imbecility. He said, Do you won Gerry Allard attempting to reduced by it. Even if the dare make a re of the Opposition. Continuity of revolutations of close and comradely solidarits is allowed. No one is permitted to wear man who is splitting away from the con down a job. of course, to this kind of locals, according to the law of the contained never more so than in the pre the masses, the officialdom of the Indus Kiving verbal adherence to its principles ference? Meley vehemently ed that this was not so and that he would able than the one of holding down a to represent a local on his own initial Bolshevik history and corruption of Ist position of antagonism. Their atti. trade union work, literature distribution, remain in the conference. The chairman oft job. They complain that Gerry was tive, could demand their expulston. The theory in the Comintern got the horse langh from all sections of first with the National Miners Union, united front conferene of the FWIU hela tude was one of Caesar the hall.
or nothing. etc. Comrades MacDonald and Spector, Comrade John Edwards, representing Progressive Miners.
then with the UMWA and now with the here last winter and lasting but two days, season of the year but drew an attend strength of the Industrial Union did cials, have been called upon to speak The class was launched in the hottest Join us or we will smash you. The to the great distress of the Stalin of the Left Opposition, was the first to rise was typical of the nature of such conance of between thirty five to forty, not sufic to prevent the new union to the various Workers to ask for the floor in the discussion. Such efforts to discredit a Left wing ferences.
Associations, throughout, although as a matter of from consolidating itself in Montreal but forums, etc. The Stalin organ has conHowever, the chairman simply could not endor will not get very far with the In spite of the slanders and calumnes policy (in the interests of selection it did suffice to retard the organization sequently become more renomous in its see him, as he called upon delegate after miners, however. To them Allard posi. of the party against the views of the that would be stable no effort was made of a similar mass movement of revolt falsifications. Itumors are circulated delegate of all other groups. It was tion as a militant and as a revolutionist Left Opposition, and the bureaucratic to recruit in the highways and byways. under Left wing leadership against that Maclonald opposed a demonstrat gaining in the ability of pursuing a cor suppression of the party membership by the youth, but there was also an adult officialdom have for the time being sota deputation from Workers and ProducHillman tion in Queens Park (in connection with THE MILITANT Entered as second class mall matter miners be much disturbed over their ing their lectures, the party members of the course dealt with the theoretical Union strategists to prove that it is with previous deputation for the re binele no Norwaishe wank and tie ature of the Left Opposition, and attend. preelete cancelemente todos. trade under per the init nation toile bande and area busiliers Conference to place its demands beNovember 28, 1928, at the post office at warnings against the Communist League begin to see and realize the true Tento system of Marx, the next with the hardly worth while to break away from peal of section 98 Spector was afraid New York. Under the act of of America. We have taken our position ist role of the Lett Opposition. The strategy of the proletariat in the strug the Amalgamated for unlon that is to address the Premier. But such lies March 3, 1879.
squarely with the new minion, as is the blind bellef in the party leadership falls gle for power, and the concluding part not as unqualifiedly revolutionary as the out of the whole cloth are panetured as Published weekly by the Communist duty of all revolutionists, not at all in aside. know of a number of party is to take up the problems of socialist. RILU.
League of America (Opposition) the sense of supporting the direction members who are in secret sympathy with Soviet construction. The lectures were soon as the workers rend our press and at 84 East 10th St. which reactionary careerist elements the tactical and organizational program The third period trade union tacties see us in action.
EDITORIAL BOARD attempt to impose un it; but on the of the Left Opposition. It is only a supplemented by mimeographed reading aid however meet with resistance from Canadian Organ of the Opposition Martin Abern James Cannon contrary, to help the rebellion against the hair breadth that separates these men from the revolutionary classics, and the a sector of the Left wing which rejected To deal more effectively with the proMax Shachtman Maurice Spector enemy facing the miners in the ultimntist attitude.
combined bere organizationally from the Left Op organization of a lending library.
With these blems of the class struggle in the Domin.
Arne Swabeck force and to help develop it into becom position.
It may be stated without exaggeration comrades the Left Opposition established on, we are preparing to publish the Vol. V, No. 44 (Whole No. 140) ing truly a militant class union. That that as a result, the revolutionary move contact and embarked on a course of Arst number of a monthly organ of the SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932 is the direction which our comrades and Long live the views of the Left Opment has gained a number of keen, en. friendly collaboration. The basis of this opposition to coincide with the celebraSubscription rate: 00 per year, For supporters in the field pursue. position and its great international leadergetle and loyal militants, who have collaboration was clearly defined from tion of the October anniversary.
eign 50. Five cents per copy. ers, Trotsky and Rakovsky, and the thou accepted the full implication the the very beginning. This group of Left Toronto Left Opposition Movement Growing in Canada of Fascism of its of