PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933 would EDITORIAL NOTES Protomagia at United The Program of the Japs in Jehol in the pretends, the Greek Stalinitos never have given the floor to our comrades.
Front Meet The effect of the healthy criticism of our comrades is proved beyond any Proletarian Party Offshoot Elaborates Opportunist Program THE NEW PARTY TURNthe developinent of the American labor The Daily Worker and the Empros have doubt by the apologies of the editorial (Continued from page 1) movement towards eventual unity on The United Workers Party, an offshoot In speaking of the farmers the pate in a real struggle for the unemployclass struggle basis. But such new. lauded the success of the Greek speaking board of Empros, of January 14th, in ed if they are not even invited to do central organization cannot be made to workers Unemployed United Front be which they try to place the blame for of the disintegrated Proletarian Party program says: Although the farmers BO?
Secondly, the turn of policy is car order. It cannot come into life at the cause it succeeded in obtaining 100. 00 dior sbameful co operation with the opposition has at last given birth to au may at times become rebellious, ane to forward manner of Bolsheviks, but in new isolate unions. munionemone Although we do not disagree with the comrades assigned to the united front there are many correct sentences and by the agrarian crisis, their outlook and committee. The truth of the matter is ideas but considered as a whole it is objective are always reactionary. Again the indirect and shame faced manner of industry alone, or rather in one section action of the unemployed in obtaining re of a miserable failure at an attempt to the does not understand how Stalinists. The party does not proclaim of one industry, and with a still problem with the methods that the stalinist lead the editorial hoard were personally dir formulate u potram. Where Marxism olujective conditions force other classes the policy, issue the call and take the atical stability in that restricted securithi phpursued dental he standay lead cering these ultra Right wing methods of ideas are presented they are negated by a mareh parallel to the line of march lead. That is all left to the Union Committee controlled by the Miners of Americas not suficient stead of calling a genuine united front in co operation with the Greek archbishop other ideas within the very same para of the proletariat toward the overthrow To the readers of the Militant of capitalism. It is necessary to utilize party. Thirdly, there is no frank ac. basis. The addition of a fow, or even the beginning they confined themselves to Ignorant it will be sufficient to give the essence this reactionars force of poor and knowledgment of the ruinous errors of of all, the progressive labor organiza a united front only with the Greek Arch action the prejudices of the workers the program with a short comment middle farmers as allies in the strug the Third Period. and no explanations tions now existing in isolated localities bishop to show its fallacy.
gle. To lisiniss them as reactionary is of the reasons for the change. Thus the and trades would not constitute a new The United Front Committee Invited, The takes the stand that: false.
door is left open for a retreat 90 trade union center in the real sense of for the first time since its inception. The crisis is permanent. We are lis. This political party says the folwithout explanations.
the word. It could only give the decep every Greek organization to participate ing in a period of permanent crisis; lowing ahont revolutionists participating Yet another and the most dangerous tive apearance of such a center, tend in the discussion scheduled to take place caritalism throughout the world is col in parliaments: In this period of perof all weaknesses in the new step to isolate the dynamic militant clements on Sunday, January 8th. Our Greek lapsing. 10 factors are operating to manent crisis in America the tempo of (Continued from page 1)
of the stalinists has already been pointed from the conservative organizations and workers Club Protomagia responded to help capitalism overcome its present collapse of capitalism does not permit is arrest the radical ferment within them. this call and elected three comrades as cse. When the time comes they will crisis. This would be hopeless sit the working class to waste time or enthe parliamentary reformist trend of the Instead of creating a new progressive delegates, Caldis, Katsikis and Hafdous. pens over from the realm of words. Aluation for capitalism and we knowlergy jaarliamentary participation.
proposals. The time to warn against labor center on a firm basis the prema The meeting took place at the appointerady we hear the music of the future.
there are no absolutely hopeless situa This is false in general and cqually false such a trend is now. Having concocted ture step now under consideration at cd time and the first speaker to address Secretary of State, Stimson histions for the exploiters. The program in the present period. The masses are their policy of ultra Left adventurism in Gillespie would retard the development the gathering was a priest representing statement to Congress on the question of fails to take into consideration the removing to the Lett but the overwhelming an artificial atmosphere of revolution in this direction. Instead of reinforc the Archbishop. He very consciously ex Phillipine independence, on Jan. 16th lation between the present decay stage bulk is not yet disillusioned with reary upsurge the Stalinists can now being the position of the Progressive Min ploited the opportunity and used very muld, regarding the situation that might of capitalism and the ebbs and flows form, and particularly its parliamentary venture elever demagogy to strengthen the presne if the Phillipines were freel, within this period. The program lumps form. It would be well for the and transform the party militants into would undermine it, cut it off arbitrarily tige of the bankrupt clergy. His finalSuch a situation might be an irrepar these two relations together which re workers to read Lenin Infantile petitioners for picayune reforms. The from its natural allies, the half formed words were applauded by many ignorant able blow to American influence at a sults in confusion and contradictions. Nickness.
Amsterdam Congress against War herald progressive movements in the conserva workers. Comrade Daniels followed him time when the state of affairs in the The program correctly tells us that. On the question of the Internationed this swing to the right on an inter tive unions, and weaken the prestige as a reporter of the Committee and Far East is chaotie, when every element The only revolutionary class is the proal, which is the determining factor and national scale. The watering down of and authority of the Progressive Miners availed himself of the opportunity to at of stability is threatened and when may labor tack the archbishop.
come out of the Orient one of these letariat. The program says the u. the central point of every program the the day. The over emphasis on purely bureaucracy at which the Gillespie enterHis entire remarks were concentrated the whole earth. Stripped of the dip historic moments which might disturb will not make concessions to the flounders and falls into the parliamentary action in the call for the prise is subjectively aimed will be the against the Greek bosses without a sinagrarian and petit bourgeois class but swamp of national reformism.
The position of the USSR and Unemployment Conference becomes all real guiners if the original plan to sle word to be uttered against the nalomatie verbiage the meaning of this we will cooperate with any group or the more menacing in the light of this formulate a New Progressive Federative bourgeoisie and the necessity of link of war stands in close proximits.
statement is clear as day. The danger organization for the purpose of sharpen Third International are such that any general shift of policy to the Right. tion of Labor is not radically modified. ing the struggle of the Greek workers ing and deepening the class struggle. Right wing socialist could endorse it Having failed to conquer If they mean concessions from the stand in substance. They conclude this section American But parallel with the danger of capitalism in frontal attack the Stalin. Chinois enjoys a high respect among the period of disenssion began and the world conflagration rises the possibility Joint of principles we can agree but with the following words: The ist generals have now given the signal the militant and progressive labor ele first delegate to speak was our comrade of a bloody assault upon the Soviet Unto go after a little at a time; to tonements throughout the country.
And Katsikis who greeted the gathering and bon. For, however, rich and desirable pers, etc. etc. in our united effort to Russian Revolution, and the subsequent overthrow American imperialism, under industrial development, but it remains down the talk about the final goal of the Justly so it has won this respect in emphasized the necessity of linking up the Chinese market is to the imperialist the leadership of the workers and their critical of the Third International struggle. highly amusing, but none stirring battles which wrote and are the struggle and preventing it from be bandits their interests would be better party which retains its organizational thrown lopsided by these special condithe less significant incident is reported still writing, bright pages of labor his coming isolated within narrow federa served by an attack upon the workers independence in such united action, is tions. We look upon the working class from Des Moines. functionary, retory It is a militant organization and. tionist lines. Many other delegates of therland than by tearing one other essential. program that does not dis movement as being international in subsponding to a critical speech by comrade despite the weakness and vacillations party auxiliaries greeted the gathering throats over their booty.
tinguish between these two different stance and national in form. We are Lewitt, explained that he had been in in its leadership has a profound urge and then a stalinist delegate from the The Japanese militarists have many kinds of concessions means that its committed to the policy of forming the structed not to talk about revolution in within its rank and file to extend the Food Workers Industrial Union had the times tried to provoke the Soviet Union. writers have learned Kttle from the Rus national movement to position which the West. In this crude remark of the battle front and to join hands with audacity to attack the members of Pro In the last issue of the Militant we reian revolution and what has followed as will conform with what the internationnaive field worker is embodied the es kindred elements on a national scale. tomagia as people that only contribute counted their hostile acts. They are en well as what went before al movement should be.
sence of the new Stalinist strategy: We This is the impulse behind the Confer criticism and that those who are activeraged over Russia refusal to recognize couldn get the workers by command; ence at Gillespie, and it is a fundament are always liable to commit mistakes. The puppet state of Manchukuo and her has some correct points but repeats finitional and its factions to themselves and The section dealing with industry. They will leave the Third Internanow let us fool them in. By this man ally sound one. Properly directed the themselves into the swamp of reformism, real influence for the revival of militant and told the stalinists that on such oc Chion They want to force the Soviet the crisis. that no factors are operating ists. They appreciate the progress of but never into a revolutionary struggle: Inbor thronghout the conntry. All the casions as this, the workers in reviewing uton to act according to the standards to help capitalism overcome its present the industrial development in the Soviet Union but will leave it to itsell until The Left Opposition, and only the left more reason therefore, to guard against their activities propose certain things capitalist greed. But the Soviet Un crisis The section dealing with a revolution in another advanced coununions leaves out most of the important fac struct a national international move.
try comes to its aid. Will they conthis element of the new turn in united premature and ill considered ventures to plous wishes but offer some healthy tional proletariat and conversely. The front policy and lead the struggle against which leave the present reality ont of critics for the benefit of the struggle wresent actions of Japan and the other Also he emphasized the necessity of linkit. But this cannot be done effectively account.
the existing unions and the task of build ment? They use the concepts of the ing new industrial unions. On unions, pose of helping correct the InternationCommunist Manifesto not for the purby a negative or standing aside attitude According to the report in the Proing the struggle of the Greek workers capitalist powers must alarm the work toward the united front movement. Onsressive Miner the first Conference at with those of the native workers and ording class to the growing danger of an hey say the following: In the periodal and take themselves a more active Such an attitude can only Gillespie decided to continue indetin. classifying the Greek bosses as American other world war. Not only does an im of ascendancy of capitalism these organi nart in the struggle within it: but in the contrary, perialist war become a present danger zations could succeed in obtaining re order to erade and avoid allenate the Tefl Opposition from the itely the work of fighting within the exploiters. He criticized the Stalinists It united attack upon the Soviet Un sults; but in the period of decline, no struggle raging in the Communist Interthe whole Communist workers and doom its critle American Federation of Laobr. From for their statements that the struggle is ion is threatened.
ism to fulfility. An active participation this it is to be inferred that the plan mot political and pointed out that the After four years of misery and pri pamphlet could be concessions can possibly be gotten. Al national due to the Stalinist straightin the movement, in the work and in to form an Iridependent labor federa charity methods are very opportunistic.
written explaining jacket and revisionist program. They of the vation for the working class the im the fallacy of this position and the harm claim to be the party of the working representation to a He demanded the fight is the only way to make the tion has already been modified certain extent, or at least postponed. Protomagla in the United Front Com perialists are preparing a huge blood it can do to the class it accepted. Caplelnes, the Marxian vanguard, and excuse revolutionary influence of the Left Opbath for then to drown their sorows in talism will grant concessions to unlons their backwardness by turning upeide position count in the new turn of events.
It is to be hoped that the second Con mittee in order that its members ference on January 20th, will revise the might serve effectively in the Un. To these preparations, intrigues, and as the pressure of the working class up down a phrase in the Manifesto. This NEW FEDERATION OF LABOR? plan fundamentally and take the organi employment drive. To this demand the the like the working class must be ready on its increases.
phrase explains how the working class The Conference of Illinois trade un. zation of a new federation of the agenda Stalinist chairman answered that at the to answer with the only answer at their disposal, the traneformation of the im. The section dealing with unem movement is at first, national in form, 12th of February Conference of the ionists held at Gillespie on for the present.
December At the present stage of developments a proportional representation woula erialist war into the civil war for the ployment erre said and done, both condition the vanguard must help overmainly in omission, be though international in substance27th, and the second one scheduled for cause, after all overthrow of the capitalist system.
be given to all organizations.
ing vital for the class has been said. No come and not nse to hide, its weakness January 29th both of them sponsored a general propaganda movement for a. GEO. CLARKE militant program is needed. Such a by the Gillespie Trades and Labor CounThe Empros delegate told the comrades program, no tactics and no line of march and impotence. The international poslcil and the Progressive Miners of Amer movement can unite the militant and that the Empros did not receive the refor the class. The has been tion of the is national reformca are events of exceptional interest progressive forces in all the labor or ports of the Committe in time and that BOUND VOLUMES very active in the day to day work and ism.
to the progressive and revolutionary ele Sanizations, inside as well as outside the next issue would surely print enough.
for framediate relief but its program We advise the members of the ments throughout the comtry. The first the of and consolidate their Ile hinted that the delegates of Pro We want to remind our readers that cannot be considered Communist. The to study the struggle in the Communconference call proposed to discuss and forces for common strongle. The forma tonagka came here not to participate in the Round Volumes of the Militant needs of the class on the one hand and ist International and discuss this with lny plans for formulating Progressive, ton of a new, independent labor move any of the activities but just to disrupt. both formats are still available at the United program of the the members of the Communist League. and practically defunct American Fed withstanding, would pull these forces answered sharply that we are here as 10 for the old format. Lack of space the other hand, condemns these Com tion of the Communist Party.
eration of labor. Such a project raises apart and weaken the struggle of each. revolutionists to do our work with all compels us to omit the usual ad.
munists in advance.
crucial again, and very concretely.
the class conscious workers and it up to all of you present to judge for your question of tactics, which the Left wing selves who we are in the field of the up new propaganda possibilities for us.
militants must answer realistically and class struggle. prejudiced worker Five pamphlets are only twenty five correctly if disastrous errors are to be ahouted that we have only one workers cents. At no time should a member or avoided.
club. to this worker comrade Haidous That the coming resurgence of work sympathip of the League be without Two weeks ago we published a letter nrgent necessity of reprinting without five of these pamphlets very correctly answered that at present from comrade Marcus asking the delay. The Draft Program. The neces pocket. If you cannot sell them, give his or her ing class militancy, the conditions for Comrado Pauline Gutringer, member the time is not proper to discuss the friends of the League to come to its sity for getting out the last listed is obthem away to workers. pressure of the crisis, will break out of of the New York Branch, bas passed the one of this dual Club existence but support by donating and lending money vious.
Let make this pamphlet the signal the formal bounds of the conservative away. Her activity was in the forefront declared that Protomagka is an educa to Pioneer Publishers Publishing Fund. We want to go ahead. Everything is for a new spurt of propaganda activity.
lightest doubt. That it capitalists and the revisionists within sap that the Spartacus left open for Comrade Narcos explained, as we had ready, We need money. We are not Why see how casy it is! Everything have not the will result in, or at least make possible, our ranks. In the Socialist party com reasons that we can discuss on another done before, that this fund was to be asking for tremendons soms. The exam about the pamphlet conduces to this end.
used exclusively for the publication of ple set by comrade Marcus is correct in Its price, its size, the number of pages.
the formation of new, modern organiza rade Gutringer fought with the other occasion.
our literature. And to set an example, its amount, too. Now who will duplic the style in which it is written: all tions on the industrial union basis in Left wingers against the opportunism Then comrade Daniels summed up and to the entire movement he raised twenty. ate it?
various fields is a reasonable calculation and revisionism of the socialist lead forgot everything about the class enemthese make it ideal for this purpose.
five dollars as a loan.
UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE The emergence out of the stormy coners.
les and merely concentrated his attacks That was the beginnig. As the SOVIET ECONOMY IN DANGER The building of the American Com against the Left Opposition of Greece result we got our Unemployment and first WORKING CLASS asetadech she is rather the most probable munist movement and its Hungarian that kills workers and acts as stool the American Working Class by comrade ote: appear in the ad, elsewhere in this OF ZINOVIEV It is out! The details of selling price, AND THE EXPULSION prometo follow that the basis now ex rade Gutringer. When the struggle be: develop a lynching spirit against the ready to go ahead. We have plenty of things for the Left Opposition in the as we were going to press comrade Mar: prospect. But, assuming all this, it by section had the active support of com rigeons for the police. Also he tried to swabeck in record time. Now we are issue. This is the besinning of new This will be the next pamphlet. Just ists for the formation of such a new trade union center. And, still less does Centre bloc broke out in the United workers on the corner of 7th and Ave.
it follow that organizational stepe in States comrade Gutringer important work by comrade Trotsky on cheap pamphlets (we are speaking, also more dollars on our desk as another loan.
became a The workers remained silent and Soviet Economy in Danger with which of those that are to come) we are able He said he raised it on the basis of this direction, at the present time, will foundation member of the American see after the meeting were very anxious to we will publish, as one pamphlet, his to reach hundreds and thousands of the immediate necessity of throwing the Garessive movement. On the contrary, at movement she carried on the same active the stalinists. We told them that they There is also the second in our series of is not interested in the question of unem sent crisis in Soviet Economy.
Who light of Marxist illumination on the prethe present moment, they can only ada work she did before in the party. With heard enough about the Food Workers popular Marxist pamphlets for workers. ployment? Certainly there is no worker Work will start immediately. In two new obstacles in the way of a normal in Union Square and unflinchinely with. And therefore, as food workers, they its History and Its Principles by com there a worker who cannot afford five phlet will be off the press and solidly grounded development of the stood the physical attacks of the Stalin should join the Union and find out for rade shachtman. There are also the cents for a bit of Marxist clucation course, depends to a large extent That, of Dew union movement. From this point ist bureaucrats themselves who are these counter rev. Only Road by comrade Trotsky and the of view the progressive sentiments and she was well inofrmed on the in olutionists and Trotskyists. Many The publication of this pamphlet opens whether our other friends take a aims of the minois militants run the ternational movement, and followed the Communist sympathizers expressed the from comrade Marcus and duplicate his splendid work. Of one thing we can be danger of being negated by Ill consider working class struggle throughout the wish that we should unite again in the ed tactics. The moderation of the or world as a true revolutionist. Her keen ranks of the Spartacus Club and to this sure, Twenty dollars will not suffice to Iginal project at the December 27th interest in the youth of our movement comrade Repanis shouted, am the publish the pamphlet. If that were all Conference is to be welcomed with the reflected her understanding of the needs treasurer of the club and all its funds that were required it would be possible to turn out pamphlets much more quickly hope that it is to be followed by a of the American section. The struggle are at the disposal of the Spartacus still further moderation of tactics on against capitalism gave her strength, Club. We will be very glad to dispense and without performing the miracles January 20th.
but as with most sincere revolutionists with our organization.
which are sometimes necessary. So let It is up to you see what can be done. new trade union center contesting the internal struggles left deep marks workers to fight militantly for the unthe of for supremacy in the upon her. None the less she consistently ification of our forces.
labor movement will very likely make trod the path of the International revits appearance at a certain stage in olution and Marxlan principles.
Let her struggle be a lesson to the that the Greek Club, Protomagia, which The Daily Worker pretends to show If the number on your wrapper is 150 that means your subscription expires THE MILITANT comrades of the movement worker participated in the united front conferwith this issue. If it is a lower number Entered as second class mail matter Aghter whose activity must be carried onance of the unemployed on January 8th your subscription has expired prior to November 28, 1028, at the Post Office at and replaced by tens and hundreds of is a fake club, and was used by the TrotA popular Marxian analysis for workers of the unemployment situathis issue.
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