THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932 STALINIST TAKE MEASURES Chicago Left Greets United Front Scottsboro. What Now?
The Expulsion of Zinoviev all.
Soviet Economy in Danger (Continued from page 1) front movement, they vacillate, retreat, ited front be maintained to carry out threaten and in the end pursue a course (Continued from page 1)
Unfortunately a great many workers its great task.
of betraying the interests of the workers. The text goes on to say: The only fall for this stuff. They have seen The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators The Conference must see to it that the workers in the ranks of the Socialist one of the assignments which we shall Hoover in action. They are familiar there is no vacillation in the struggle on rty miest resist any splitting tactles consider is the second. and it becomes with the peaceful nature of their local with all his agitational radicalism, the struggle against Trotskyism devel the part of the leaders. The workers on the part of their leaders. This applies unnecessary to discuss the facts of the capitalist institutions. But they still Zinoviev always pulled up short before pwed, ufter the manner of their teacher must prevent any organization from with too for all other reformist and labor case or the circumstances surrounding have faith in that solemn and august body the actual inferences of political for Bucbarin, the idea of the kulak grow. drawing from the conference. We realize groups in the conference.
the prosecution. Cowardly decision. of men who are chosen solely for their muiae. Fighting against Stalinist policing into socialism. What stand they the strain of relations, the provocations We want to reiterate: the interests of To deal with the other two would bring merit to sit in judgment on the laws les in China, Zinoviev opposed to the have taken since that time, we do not that exist in such a gathering. But it all workers, unemployed and employed, these judical fossils face to face with the enncted by congress and the states. To end the euk of the Communist party know. But it is quite possible that their an effective movement is to exist and in spite of everything, rests in munintain real issues in the case. They would have the extent that they believe this they with the Ano Min Tung. Exposing stal present guilt cousists not so much in be successful, it is fecessary that no dising the present united front conference, to commit the Supreme Court and through will turn a dent car to the Communist in alliance with Purcell aud Citrine their desire to restore the kalakas internation be permitted. The Confer and in completing its work it the capitalist class to an outright re analysis of this decision and reject the Chicago Workers! Fight for immedi actionary position resulting in the dis party call to action.
the pulit with the Anglo Russian Com victories in the sphere of liquidation of any proposal of a reactionary character. ate relief for ALL unemployed workers. creditment of this most sacred of the There is a growing mumber of class mittee. Joining in the struggle against the kulak us a class.
It must reject any proposal or action Fight for the hour day and the day institutions of the capitalist class before conscious workers who will not be fooled Thermidorian tendencies, he took a vow However, what is the relation of Zin that will wenken, nullify and destroy the week with no reduction in pay. Fight the working class by this dubious maneuver of a capitalist beforchand: In no case to bring matters ovie and Kameney to the program of beginnings already made for Social Insurance. Demand the ex. Or it would have had to decide in favor class madlo cantions hy a rising tide of to a pitch of facing expulsion from the restoring capitalism The Soviet The Left Opposition has for a long tension of credits and the recognition of of the victims which would tremendously working class protest. They will underparty. In this spirit of going tits fty press informs us about the following us time fought for a correct united front the Soviet Union.
incrense the prestige of Communism and stand that the Supreme Court sa bul there wus iugralued his inevitable down regards to their participation in the policy. One of the main obstacles has MAINTAIN THE UNITED FRONT!
working class activity generally. The wark skalnst illy left deviations by verything exet Stalinism crime, Kuowing of the ocunter revolu been the erronconx konception of the The Chiengo Branch of the only read it could safely take at the legislative and executive branches of the withiu those limits that would be per. cionary documents that were being cir. Communist party on the united front, Communist League of moment was the middle road of quibbl government. They will see clearly that mitted by Stalin.
culated, instead of immediately exposing Namely, their advocacy of the united America (Opposition). ing over legal technicalities. This the battle must still be fought to its conAfter their capitulation, Zinoviev and the Agents of the Kulak agencies, they front from below. We therefore, weldoes most elegantly. It makes a parade clusion ly the same tighting methods Kameney did absolutely everything they preferred to deliberate over this docu come their charge toward the correct of the learned justices erudition; it which have already resulted in one vicGREEK BANQUET SUCCESS could in order to restore the contidence ment. and by this act alone, they polles which will bring larger masses traces a devious course through certain tory. Encouraged by this victory they of the ruling clique in themselves and placed themselves as direct accomThe banquet for the benefit of the aspects of the history of American law: will nevertheless see clearly the danger in order to be asimilated into the official Plices of the anti morty, counterrevolutor a specifie alm. The success of the PROTOMAGIA, held last Saturday at metus to the Constitution. And it the retrinl is scheduled for the same of wokers together in united struggle recently organized Greek workers club, it juggles with deflotions in and amendoints ahead. They will remember that inilica. Zinoviy made his peace with onary broup So, Zimovie and Kam present conference proves that its pre our Center, turned out to be a splendid arrives at the conclusion so obvious to court under the same Judge who first the theory of Socialism in one country: cca preferred to deliberately the vious Jolley was marrow and sectaria success from the point of view of at all that the boys were not represented to them to death This will and once aguin exposed Trotskyism document instead of Lately ex and succeeded in bringing together only tendance as well as the spirit shown y counsel in the courtroom at Scotts nify to them the necessity for an even cense to Stalin personally. Nothing help dare to asert that Zinovlev and Kamenev tions. With the participation of the lection a mountel to more than 33. Many and even made attempts to burn posing it. The accusers do not even the Communist party and Its organisay those who gathered there. The coll boro.
greater protest movement on the part of ed. The capitulators sutered, shut up were entirely beyond considering its Communist party, the conference should members of the Stalinist Club, SPAR praise to American Institutions.
The liberals are singing hymn of a united working class.
and waited. And with all that they still posure. No, their crime consisted in have greut strength and militanes.
Thes For Broad Movement!
did not succeed in hanging on to cele their preferring to deliberate before Role of Socialist Party TACUS were present and demanded a say that the Court has redeemed the debate of the disputed questions, which prestige of capitalism. They prate cloto built and organize this movement. In These workers will look to the party brate the fifth anniversary of their own exposing. Where, how and with whom capitulation; it seems thut they were did they deliberate? Had thia occurred The Left Opposition is well aware of we gladly accepted. Although we gave quently of Justice and fairness and fair this orientation they will be correct. The involved in a conspiracy. and there during a secret session of the light or the role thing the Socialist party and more than enough of the floor to our or pay. They are confused to the roots of actory the jury has already wont vires fore were expelled from the party, per animation, the accusers would not have its leaders have played in the stresle ponents, they declined a formal debate their thinking. And they are sowing con it this right on the bixis the movebawahne be as counting is that Zinoviev Zinoviev and Kamenev preferred to detenders will never enter united front swelling the ranks of the newly formed talist press is open wide to them now to milu a broad protest movement emand Kamenov got it in the neck not for liberate with their own four eyes and low it is by tremendons pressure from club which is soon to obtain its own for this purpose. They are serving capt brachte the entire working class. The their own cause and not under their own within their own four walls. As a re their rank and file. Once in a united headquarters in the Greek neighborhood. talism well.
party must issue the call to build this banner. The warp of the list of those sult of their deliberation, did they exmovement. To date the party press conexpelled according to the decision of press their sympathy for the platform the next day. Methods of handicraft But it is not enough.
fines itself to agitation. This is correct.
October 9th, consists of outright Rights of the Rights. If there was even the the followers of Rykov Bucharinsligtest hint in the matter about such a are swamping continuous belt produe.
tion.
The party must issue a call for united Tomsky. Does it mean that Left Cen sympathy, we would have been told light front conferences. The prestige it has trism has united with light Centrism about it in the decision. Silence on the Why is production lowered in (Continued from page 1)
against the bureaucratic core? Let us matter testifies to the contrary; Zinoviev tive producte eat up the steel that is up this mass of coinmodities that are imments? Because, replies Pravda, the nations and hearing before strata o ble at present to estimate what part of metallurgy in the face of collosal invest won will give it the entry into organi not rush to conclusions.
and Kamener, obviously, subjected the to quality. The technical coefficients provised in a hurry, really meets the re separate branches de la sineste combine the class which would otherwise be in The most eminent names in the list, platform to criticism instead of imme in the use of the equipment are taking quirements of the market.
after Zimovie and Kamenev, are those diately ringing up Yaroda. But in view a sharp turn for the worse. The cost of Uglanow and kiutin, two former mem the fact that they nevertheless dia of production of commodities is rising and raw material by means of bursts the task of coordinating branches has its tight and its first victory will answer The factories are supplied with coal are not coordinated with one another in different to its apmal Workers imbned eral secretary of the Bioscow Committee ascribe to them this concept, The en 1931 a ton of iron cost 35 roubles; in Feonomie Life its it. sits on lightning how much more and diffinit is the ques. They must be permeated with the spirit this car.
The united fronts must be genuine.
and Riutin, as the head of the Agit emy of my enemy is my friend. the first half of the current year the Int even bolts of lightning cannot detion of intercoordination independent of working class democracy. No mechanprop, were in churge in the capital of The course strain of the accusation cost cate to co roubles.
liver what does not exist.
the struggle aguinst the Left Opposition against Zinovier Kamenev makes it pos In 1929 1930, 47 thousand tons of cop enterprises and entire branches of indus.
Coal, hastily mined and porly sorted, try!
ical control! The workers suffering from clearing every corner and by path of sible for us to conclule with assurance per were smelted; In 1931, 18 thousand hampers the operation of coke producing The cement factory in Podolsk is in turcaueraey will not stand for it here.
the stifting control of the of particularly venomous hue and cry after primarly them. Not becnuse they evinced plan. For the current year the plan has moisture and cinders in the coke not only trialization: In the first half year the And conversely this is the nortunity Zinorier und Kamener as the traltors some political activity during the last been lowered to 10 thousand tons but reduces the quantity of prodnced metal production program was fulfilled sopropar excellence for the Communists to to the ruling faction. When Uglanov period. We know nothing about it, and for the first onths less than 30 thou by millions of tous but alsol owers its ximately go percent, in the last months teach the workers what working and Riutin, as a conswpnence of the star what is more important the sand tous have been smelted. What this malit. Nachines of poor metal pro the fulillment dropped to 40 percent. auch hennes democracy really is. Let all participate freedom discussion. Whe be the chier practical organizers of the evident from the decree. But the general and of clectro technical equip downs, force inactivity on the working those set by the plan. The characters should the marty fear? Time and the Right Opposition, all the official articles objective political situation has become ment in particular, requires no commen hands, and deteriorate rapidly.
and speeches hard on one and the so much worseas to make it impossible taries.
In the Urals, the paper apprize 19, grees to the gatire present industry.
isties cited above apply in various deposition. To work!
same note, No one can inny the great for Stalin to tolerate any longer legal In the sphere of electrification, with the blast furnaces are in fever. because (To Be Continued. STAMM.
service rendered by Uylanov und Riutin candidates for leadership in the composi all its suvesses, there is considerable of inadequate supply of fuel they are in the struggle against Trotskyisin; but tion of this or the other Opposition group. lagging belind: the power plants in Au allowed to cool down rom days to CHEN DU HSIU their platform nerertheless is that of The Stalinist burateracy, of course, cast deliveredl 71 percent of the energy 20 days. Here is a cirmuistance illumin CHICAGO DEBATE kulaks and bourgeois liberals. The has long since lieen aware that Zin they were supposed to develop. For thating to the highest degree: the metal1)
Stalinists pretend that they are in aware over and Kamener whom It had spurn. Industrializaton write abont the insurgical plants in the Urals had their own Communisn Versus Anarchism Chen and the other militants arrested that it was on account of just this pro ed were very much interested in the ept, illiterate and the uncultured exploi horse convoys for the transportation of with him. Up to now, the Internation!
gram that the struggle hnd taken place. Oppositionist trends within the parts tation of the erected power stations. fuel; in February of this year the horses WHICH WAY FOR THE WORLD Red Aid and its American section, the As then, so now only the Rights and and were ronding all sorts of documents Great difficulties are being threatened in numbered 27, 000, the number fell in PROLETARIAT?
International Labor lefense, have prethe Lefts had positions based on prin that were not destined for Yagoda. In the winter in the sphere of power pro July to 14, 000: and in September Communism Anarchism served a horrible silence on the case ciple. The stalinists thrived on the song 1928, Kameney even carried on secret duction. They have already begun in 1, 000. The renxon for it is lack of fod ALBERT GLOTZER JOSEPII COHEN It is imperative that a genuine mass profrom the one and the other.
negotiations with Bucharin reagrding the the Moscow and Leningrad regions. der.
Sember Editor, Freie text be unde in this and other comtries As early as 1928, Uxlanov and Riutin possibility of a bloc. Records of these The light industry which lagged ex Pravda characterizes in the following Comm. League of Arbeiter Stimme so that the hankmen of the Chinese began to ussert that the Left Opposition negotiations were published at the time cessively behind the plan last year, matuer the condition o the Stalingrad Sunday, November 27, 1982, at P.
proletariat and hasantry may know that turned out to be correct in its stand on by the Left Opposition. The Stalinists, showed a rise in the fisrt half of the tractor factory in which the quantity of at 2011 North Avenue.
they cannot turn our comrades over to the question of the party regime this however, could not decide upon expelling current year of 16 percent but in the annual castings fell from 250 to 140 ADMISSION: 10 Cents the executioner! Tat every class conacknowledged is all the more instruc Zinoviev and Kamenev. They did not third quarter it fell below the figures of tons (quey thousads. The equipment.
scious worker voice his elementary soltive since none could boast of such sue wish to compromise themselves by new last year. The industry providing food due to the absence of rudimentary and widarity with the prisoners by acting imcesses in implanting the stalinist regime scandals of repressions unless there was stuffs occupies the last place. The sup constant technical supervision. has ex CHICAGO mediately, before it is too Inte. Raise as Uglanoy and kiutin. However, sol urgent necessity. The period of economic Mementary prodnction of products for cessively deteriorated. Defective pro CONCERT AND DANCE the question of the Chinese comrades In idarity on the question of party dem success was then being inaugurated, in mass consumption whch are supplied by ducts have become as high as 35 percent. Sunday, November 27, 1932, P. every labor organization. Demand that Ocracy cannot soften the heart of the part actual, in part fictitious. Zinoviev the plants of heavy industries compose The entire mechanism of the corpora at 2011 North Ave.
the Daily Worker, the party as a whole, Left Opposition in its relation to the and Kamener did not appear to be imme for the eight months only 35 percent of tion is wallowing in dirt. In the ADMISSION: 25 CENTS and the commence it campaign Right. Party democracy is not an abs. diately dangerous. TROTSKY. the yearly stipulation. It is not possi foundries there is never a thought of Auspices: Friends of the Militant Club for the endangered revolutionists!
tract idual; least of all, is it predestined to serve as a screen for Therindorian tendencies. And in the ineantime, Uglainto motion elements of new militaney cannot of course help but have its effect their laurels. Before the Pittsburgh nov and Rutin, at least in those years, in the working class. Workers of all on the membership of the official Com militants there now lies the task of drawrepresented the most out and out Thershades are beginning to ask themselves munist party as well. The active coming the conclusions of their light to a midorian wing in the camp of the Rights, how such a situation can exist, what the rades in the who have, from their higher plane. The more thoughtful comAmong the participators in the conCause for it are. They ask these quesdaily contacts, felt the new fea rades will inevitably have to pose the spiracy, the lists other leadto all the other industries. Since steel tons of themselves, not because they are tures in the situation the general question as to the roots of the bureau Naretsky, PITTSBURGH ing lights, like Slejkov and lisco of the broud layers of work cracy, us to the busie causes for Ked professors of the Bucharin school, Conditions of the working class in this procluction is flat its back, the result very mode of every day life. It is actu ers, the rebirth of militancy in the old stalinist regime of blunders, crimes and directors of the Komsomol and Pravda, most highly Industrialized section of the is, in round figures, a total industrial ally their bread and butter problems that organizations reacting even into the wreckage. In doing this, they will not instigators of many programmatic reso country represent what most nearly ap output in Western Pennsylvania of about force them to use and to reflect on ranks of the decrepit and corrupt social be able to avoid a consideration of the lutions of the and authors of proaches a cross section of proletarian one. third of capacity. The destitution of these questions. Militants, whom the ist party, the possibilities for important point of view of the Left Opposition and countless articles and brochures against life in the country as a whole. More the proletarians, whose only means of prosperity period, and the double edged progress of Communism have also been comrade Trotsky, representing a consist Trotskyism.
than 100. 000 jobless all the narrow, livelihool is their labor power, which blade of reaction characteristic of it, had obliged to review the recent past and ent Leninist line of struggle that foretold On the proscribed list there are to be winding, Althy streets of Pittsburgh. they are forced to sell on the market onliminated from active jurticipation in to draw lessons therefrom.
all the inistakes of the Stalinists and found Plashny and Gorelov with a nota Every dny bears witness to new scenes the basis of the conditions created by the various phases of the struggle, are the results following from them years tion of their former adherence to the of their misery. The furniture of evict capitalism, is therefore self explained.
Sporadically and in a groping, instinc in advanced with scientific Marxian Trotskylst Opwsition. We have no es familles blocks the sidewalks of the And yet for all the poverty and wretch once again expressing willingness to retire way, it is true, but nevertheless so precision.
means of judging whether the matter proletarian quarters and the press con encas prevailing, it is remarkable that join the fight. But the sad experiences conditioned that they have had to con Whether the comrades stop to consider concerns here two very little known Left tains full pages of eviction notices, fore no forceful resistance has been in evid of passivity and inaction in the course front the stupid and disastrous policies these questions now or not, their further capitulators, who subsuently threw in closures and legal action against the ence on the part of the workers here. of the past four years have made them facts of everyday life. The contrast be. The comrades have had their lesson with of the stalloist faction with the very experiences will require this of them.
their lot with the Rights, or whether we workers from day to dny.
It strikes one as extremely peculiar that cautious and judicial. The number of have before us a falsification in order in means excluded, but in all probability find even the doubtful refuge of rela of the United States, unionism and labor but who also demand to know what sort defents engendered by the false direction from above to make the Pittsburgh Comto fool the party. The former is by no among the unemployed, those who cannot this most powerful producing Section these la steadily increasing who not ouls were the excellent prospects for com bureauerat prile Burda literat schons contes neither is the latter.
tives and friends, flock to Father Cox organization is at its lowest ebb. Equal of arms to take up and how to fight of the leadership opened the minds of manists forget Price will not only serve In the summary of the participants, Shantytown: there exists the chief leaders of the Right Opposi repulsive and more disgusting a picture capitalists and bankers of the Mellonciples, the policies, the strategy and the tronght upon our party by the Stalinist son in the fight against bureaucracy and bureaucracy. Faced at each step with the non Leniyint system it ton are compleuously absent. Cables to of represents.
the bourgeois Ler report that Buch meeknes. The good Father preaches Steel Westinghouse combine have tactics of the various political forces in persecutions for jointing out the destrue. Either way, the ideas of the Left Opposiand bids the unemployed await succeeded to maintain their reactionary the field. They feel that if the fight is arin has completely reestablished his better times with the presidential in whip over the back of a proletariat with be taken up in earnest, it must be on to caused by the stalinist third per. tion are bound to force their way into iod policies; with their umited party position and is apparently sintea cumbency of his recent rival and present such a splendid record of militancy as firm ground.
front the party ranks. The Left Opposition for the Narkompros in place of Bubnov, endorsee, the Astor Raskob man Frank the Homestead Strike, the Great Steel Within the of unions, the work from below only. with the sharply com as such will always stand ready to renwho is being transferred to the lin Roosevelt. In the meantime the inStrike of 1919 and the Mekeesport bat. of the reformist fakers in lulling the trasted adventurist and opportunist side der every aid possible and to light side by side with the serious and conscientias for Rykov, he is once again in favor. habitant of the reverend Father Roostles of 1922 23.
masses with their treacherous policies of the unemployment work, for instance turns makes speeches over the radio, etc. The eveltville spends his time in primitive And more than that, discontent among of class collaboration is becoming exceed aisillusioned after many andous party militants for the Leninist re half turns which all remained on dressment of our Communist party, fact that in the list of the conspirators handicrafts, leads a life that resembles the factory masses is literally seething ingly clear. And, when Green and Co.
there is neither Rykov nor Bucharin nor more that of the feudal ser than that the unemployed showed their will to come out, Anally, for such radical de paper and which brought the party not.
Tomsky really does make plausible some of the twentieth century machine age. Asht as early as the first year of the mands as unemployed insurance and death note the forecard, the militants were depression in the tremendous demonstra Independent political action of the concentrate fire against the local bu THE MILITANT favor of the former lenders of the Right The Workshop of the World at tions under the leadership of the Com workers. it is because their rank and Entered as second class mall matter Opposition. But of their being reestabOne Third Capacity munists. Small and isolated strikes, like tile in Industrial sections like the Pitts reaucracy as such. After a hard fight, file finally November 28, 1928, at the Post Office at lished in their old positions in the party, Conditions among the workers still at the militant strikes of the clothing work burgh sector, are already miles ahead forced the recall of the altogether dis New York, Under the act of there cannot be the slightest considera work so to speak are even worse. ers and the lakers at present, crop up of them, because the workers in the credited and The group as a whole is accused of Steel workers at the mills are lucky if all over town. But after all is said and shops are being made ready by condi. Carl Price, from his position as District incompetent bureaucrat, March 3, 1879.
Published weekly by the Communist an attempt to create a bourgeois kulak they have three day labor a month. done, nothing remains of a unified and tons to shake of the fetters of the trade Organizer. The price incident cannot League of America (Opposition)
crganization in order to restore capital. But that is not all. The Steel Barons organized character of struggle. The union bureaucracy. The prestige listent in the wi. te and the kulak, in were the initiators of all the wage cut isolated fights without spreading out what few old left wingers still remain important lexson, that only for an actual at 126 East 16th St.
EDITORIAL BOARD particular. An amazing formulation drives of the depression years and the and seeking coordination remain impo in the reformist unions is gaining day and determined light can they help re Martin Abern James Cannon An organization to restore captialism steel workers remuneration has been tent and drown in apathy and dissipa by day, while new Left wing forces are generate the party.
Max Shachtman Maurice Spector and the kulak, in particular. This reduced to the vauishing point. Steel is tion.
making their appearance.
Arne Swabeck particularity gives away the whole the pilvot industry in the Alleghany re The Inevitable Awakening of the Clarification Begins in the Ranks But it would be altogether misleading SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1932 or at least hints at it. There is no del gion. And Pittsburgh is a one factory Militants of the Party and self deceptive for the Communist Vol. No. 47 (Whole No. 143)
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The Left Opposition Breaks Ground in the Pittsburgh District the