URI Lessons of the FROM THE MILITANTS of questions tempo gram.
but due back Convention passed a resolution to Intention, ete, and that the pro were hurt and had to receive mediof PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 that a constant, daily stream of donations are received. Furtheras Glasgow is concerned, practically Soccess the sole party activity is the sale sexe of the Daily Worker.
Youngstown, Ohio. Twenty seven for this strike by means of Federa Eviction Protest flanked by a pair of Party strong The Red Clydeside as we once delegates from 13 unemployed or tion mess meetings and demonstraarm men. He refused to give a know it seems no longer to exist. ganizations (4 Leagues and Coun tions throughout the two countles.
in Minneapolis reason or to discuss the question. The scenes witnessed such as May cils) met in Youngstown on July! It was announced at the confer The New York branch held its He advised us to appeal to a higher Day, 1918, when despite all threats 23 and formed the Federation of ence hat a Federation had also regular Brownsville on air meet.
POLITICAL FACTIONS WITHIN Minneapolis, Minn In March committee.
100, 000 workers took the day of Unemployed Organizations of Ma been formed in the Lucas County ing last Friday with several hunAN To show the brutal intentions of marched in procession with bands, honing and Trumbull Couties. The (Toledo) District, and that the dred workers attending. George The united front is the tactic Joined the McDuffy branch of the the door guards, we give another banners, red flags and revolution present of representation 18 Councils and Leagues in that area Ruy acted its. gate from reach wit or Counc loro puede ingang very internet en stuny eterd bin Shatrunn, there one organizations of the working class, try into the organization we found worker in the Jewish field, cameyare only memories. The aide ganization, but it is likely that all at the present time in a strike evelt New Deal and Joe Carter on the combined pressure of various and Celia Cuzanov. Upon our en evening. Sam Lessin, an active to walk, en router was at that time tor other organizations have been against forced labor. It will be the lessons of the German events But one finds that conference an almost total lack of activity, the meeting later for the purpose lined with sympathizers who raised brought into the Federation that necessary in the near future, when for the American working class.
of many political tendencies or a small meinbership. or active de joining the He was approving cries. At the Glasgow the representation will be on a various sections of the state begin on previous occasions the com tendencies raises another problem mediate work. We soon became ac the same people. When he argued commanded a crowd. Solidarity and Nerf was elected chairman Federation be formed in order to to break up the meeting cither by within the broad problem of the tive proposed work and helped to back, the guards. several in struggle were the orders of the day of the Federation, Walker direct this work properly. The fact demanding the platform or starting gantzation that has many different was sent to Chicago to represent up. He was forced to withdraw. scurity notwithstanding criticism retary, and Harold Newby Treas invariably affiliated with the Fed. After a number of question from divide between Right and Left and at the Chicago Free Tom Mooney political tendencies will, in the wala the McDuffy branch of the L, to avoid a beating.
The foregoing gives a good cross Bloody Friday (Jan. 1910)
was which includes 13 members now and Leagtes of America will belp enor fellow who beat up one of our com Centre. Working agreements, of Congress. We also served as dele temporary measure, on one or more antes at the May Day Conference section view of the local Ling points solidariters in de works will be enlarged as other organimously to strengthen the National rades the Week Trefore, asked the ganization, will to a great degree such a manuee us to gain the res is one functioning branch of the happened when the patriotic war work out a constitution for the for complete future amalgamation and book to a cowa to hosting and harmony of all unemployed movements.
employed Council stop the eviction At the meeting of the Call of a jobless Negro worker, Bryan, ference or organization, Right cen member. New elements joined and workers, Afteen of whom are Party for the inauguration of the with the policy and structure of ganization or conterence. This on aid not escape the attention of the taps ten are active. The organizasytoy that the party has really Workers Leagues of America at Yederation moet was drawn top hot replied by chanting in the saker ted front is conducted on the same returned.
decisions de cim portale deres Wandes. After being excluded from the to work out a program for the red garding the Workers Unemplo. occasions to disrupt Open air meet basis as any united front. How our growing influence angered the down from the top. All committees Party for Trotskyisme (before 1eration which will include the fol ment Insurance Bill but the desings but that we would have two ever, the complicated situation Party barcaucrats, and a systematic and speakers are selected by the knew the platform of the lowing points proposed at the con mand that has been the central more questions and then go as a causes intensification of contradiccampaign to isolate us was under Executive tions between political tendencies ay. Over the protest of honest very little discussion and no educa some considerable time, at my isola employment Insurance at the ex peals was reindorsed for the agenda ployed Council. The which proceed at more rapia members whom we had won to our tion. The weaknesses of the move tion, but now that one senses the pense of the bosses and their gov. Immediate Relief and Unemploy, were asked and answered. One of support we were gradually removed ment and the degeneracy of the definite growth of the in this ernment, the hour day and day ment Insurance at the expense of the party members demanded the IS IT PROPER TO BREAK from all activity. The real issue, leadership can best be shown the country the mood has passed and work week with an increase in the Bosses and Their Government. platform to reply to the speaker. UNITED FRONT?
which of course was Trotskyism, pointing out that they do not care once more we enter the fight.
pay, an increase in wages and re Nevertheless, Mack, who was en His demand was met with a reiteraA united front is only a temopr. did not come into the open until to expel the Left Oppositionists at a have never been a platform fiet to meet the increase in prices, trusted with job of working out ton of a call for a debate between ary agreement ou immediate de the meeting of June the 23th. At membership meeting of the branch, man but nevertheless travel unemployed relief and insurance to immediate action the endorsement munist party. The party members mands in action and must be pre that time it was brought into an for fear of the discussion and ex around the served as long as it functions for educational meeting by Sam Bern posure of their bankruptcy.
Labour Exchanges be raised by taxing incomes in of the Insurance BILL without con were advised to discuss with us not the CLASS INTEREST. If the destein, a Party bureaucrat. The We appeal to the membership of congregate and take part in die streets and spots Wherert heder bisher against evictions sulting other members of the Call with their fists this remark was velopment of the struggle and the charge was made that there were the MeDuffy branch of the Minnescussions and informal debates. At and formes. The Committee Committee. When this point camel particularly aineil at Daeseh but united front for one reason or the disrupters in the that the polis to repudiate the first the current against the o. will probably find it necessary to up Newby pointed out that there be arguments. The meeting then another is transformed from the disrupting elements were the Trotrecommend from time to time that was basis of class struggle to that of skyites and he proposed house brutal, disruptive tactics of the position was strong and used to other points be included in the pro the fight for Unemployment Insur proceed to the home of the great danger that centering adjourned and the entire audience class collaboration and the Right cleaning.
District bureaucrats, and to demand have prople on all sides yapping ance around this Bill would guide evicted Negro worker.
wing is about ready to betray or Aparty worker took the floor and given a hearing at a membership gradually changing and am do will be the participation of its var of their leadership, that we be at me, but now the situation is The first work of the Federation they channels; that details such as a meeting in front of the house.
The Unemployed Council opened sell out It is the duty of Marx stated that if there are any dis meeting, and that we be given full Anitely winning the support ists and revolutionists to point out, rupting elements they will be push membership rights until our case many party members and sympath: August First demonstrations under used against the workers in the fu told that the secretary of the Uncentralized the 10 maximum relief might be We volunteered speakers but were and to warn of the danger, and il e out from activities and also from and Whatever charges which are iners. So far we have not started ate Headership for the pederation ture and that such details should employed Connell would have to the cannot be corrected that he mited the organization by the members placed against us are actors supon. explained the widespread more committee made with unemployed not be delo euroong kore words comentare was not to be found front BEFORE THE BETRAYAL Fearing that the members DUNNE Such action will result in a tempor might get a big support (yes, from erty as many potential members are task is the immediate preparation measure through so that such yanked the speaker from the plat CELIA CAZANOV. quite unable to buy literature, let for a strike against forced labor details can be worked out to meet form and waded into the crowd due to the sell out. Howerer, it it they were to continue the way Militant Writes From am going through the alone pay subs to a party.
in the two counties. The Columbus the needs of that time with real with clubs. number of workers the Left wing has conducted itself they started, Bernstein then made numbers of the Militant you sent to on strike August First but the visions of the Bill providing for cal treatment. Among those hurt sem retains the confidence of the another educational a meeting nor Glasgow, Scotland the Nation the average wages in the respecwere two members of the Spartacus masses, who could not see their next Friday where any kind of a printing. Previously was able to al Unemployed League, according tive industries and territories was Youth Club, Herman Gladstone, position at the time of the break question can be discussed, Yes Glasgow. Many thanks for your set a comrade to cyclostyle mater to one of its members Mrs. Nettee, not something radical Left wing can lead in the re even Trotskyism, if you please parcel of Militants and five copies al from the Revolu has wisely postponed this action should fight for that it was bad and Sam Shabel.
organization of the forces, or in pointing at comrade cazanov.
The of the July 1st issue. Lately in a copy of which possess, until the necessary preparation has enough to have class divisions The branch will hold another checking the retreat and prepare motion also included a house clean have been purchasing several cop but at present it is going the been made. The Mahoning and based on wage differences which predar meeting at Bristol and Pitkin next Friday evening.
ingent that same meeting Comtes of the Militant every week for rounds of the comrades. Further Trumbull Federation will prepare the bosses make, and that the work COMPROMISE rade koss then suggested that it circulation among my colleagues in more, drafted material from the eers should demand the same adeThe united front different should be an open meeting and the unemployment queues.
Real Situation in Russia. a copy put forward this point and drawn Mendent regardless of whether he is YOUNG SPARTACUS READY quate relief for each adult and de JULY ISSUE OF working class organizations, in the this was accepted even by the bu. We have been able to arrange only other work of comrade trots attention to perfecta el fin de scoata laborer, semi skilled, skilled, of first place, is an attempt to increase reaucrats Davis und Bernstein, and also, throngh our London comrades, sky, in addition to the above men. gress and that no statement had more for the foreslonal Marketing Mack The July issue of Young Sparthe pressure against the capitalist of course without class, and in the second, a give the art that any opposition on action in forwarding the bundlestioned in the Glasgow libraries, is been issued to the Congress by tbe put forth some explanations but tacus is ready for sale and distri part of the members. of the Militant. received the to refer the Bill to the button. It articles on the organizations. In the final analy all talks of expelling disrupters, for supplies of the Red Flas (organ put into circulation a copy gow no public report has been giv, Federation committee for considere American revolution of 1976, he Just recently added. The several delegates went from passed without objection August six It is a victory for that organle came to an anti climax Friday of the British Lo. owing to ot comrade Trotsky speech zation and its leadership.
knows what to give and what to were met in the porch of the Work it will be some considerable time Copenhagen (Nov. 1982. but they needless to say the delegation which. am Act, antiwar youth congress, youth was composed of paid party offlstrikes and activities of the Spar.
FOR NEW YORK take. The representatives dele crs Cultural Center by Davis. before the Red Flag can develop price charged was sixpence and cials.
gated for the united front conferite stopped us at the door and into a weekly. Naturally am print of this speech for sale at one doNovelbise barriere of reaction and Manhattan: Tth St. and 2nd Ave. League and individuals who have tacus Youth Clubs.
Nevertheless, we will yet OPEN AIR MEETINGS Branches of the Communist ence and those who will do the tated that we were not to be al doing what can to sell the paper negotiating must know avaited lowed in the meeting. When ask and also to raise funds for its penny hypocrisy with the hope that once every Thursday night P. been receiving bundles of will what the objectives of the united ed for a reason, he said that it was tinunnce. You will understand the am pleased to see the points more the o. will take its right 86th Street and Lexington Ave. have to pay for them at three cents front and the organization are and a decision. We asked whose deci position when say that the Daily raised in the current (July 1st) ful ploce in the party and that the every Friday night P.
within what frame work they must sion. He refused to answer. We Worker (London) has a struggle to issue of the Militant about the abs Comintern, inspired by new blood, Harlem: 125th st. and 6th Avenue, to what they do with the bundles.
every Saturday night P. Those branches who do not respond Compromises on secondary ques. and appealing to the membership to four pages of a size smaller than at the Paris anti Fascist Confer force towards world revolution. Bronx: 163rd Street and Prospect will be eut from the list beginning tions can and must be made and He responded by closing the door the Militant. This despite the fact nee. For some time past. have. Ave. every Sat. night P. with the August number all the more so when friction is about to split the conference or call demanded to be seated as re tions have representatives on the both organizations. The fight can rest of the day spent in making organization. However, one must sular delezntes. After a struggle provisional committee, and not tered between the two Left Oppori bombastic nomination speeches for know how to distinguish between the Musteftes gave in and all, with merely the and the Fed. tionists who introduced emotion the various members of the Nasame word can be alled with two The Stalinist. Muste Bloc at the Unemployed Gathering Council delegates were declared ites, was tampered with and an in ed a counter motion for the comdifferent contents. One must never is necesary to say a word regulars.
sertion the mittee of 15. The small hours of about the conduct of the LovestoneThe Left Opposition was the only entire hade which could the poorning came and found the ites at this conference. Their role compromise on principle, while one meaning of the can compromise on other factors. Continued from last issue) blem of the conference was the Am political group besides the That night the real struggle broke committee divided over this ques. was It is up to the representatives and II. The Stalinist Musto Bloe The main thing, therefore, to Information was entirely confirmed that made its appearance as out in the meeting of the presiding between these two words are come in. on the meeting finally adjours portunisti e tutte le reste salt andet the the national committee of the Fedstand the Columbus conference to which the greatest part was indeed presented by a fraternal delegato presented the Illinois delegation, hear another statement from eration did not prevent them from Unemployed Conference in Chiengo destrondence over their loability to place of the Stars and Stripes. Act and urging the Convention to Federation had been invited to committee of the Federation which Draft Program for National FedFor example, at the June 1983 the fact that the Stalinists in atter spent in beated discussion of the who distributed a statement stress. The representatives of the Unem Federation In the meeting of the national drawing up a document called and polof organization ley committee It seems to have become an ex tee. Amter spoke for the and missed by the presidium, the staltione. From all indiantone the question of the united front, to end the horse trading began.
As this became apparent. In discus, tablished tradition that the first after a good bit of hypocritical Inst Muste combination again block Lovestoncitos are also dissatisfied first strike out the clause, the agreement was Second, to strike out and change the that, since nether was satisfied Muste group. In its creat haste to should be wasted in windjamming great warmth about unity and the presidium convened the next morn Federation, and eame to this conpolitical criticism and Suste and the Unemployed Councils luminating fact was revealed: the day and a half or two days of a demory finally broached the sed the possibility of a unanimous with having only two members hea word force. in the sentence which with the Federation, for his own care for de me place in the Americam oratory. The Columbus conference necessity of federating the various ing Dixon again had to report on ference ready to build a new feding the united front must be forced sabotage it. Muste therefore agreed field and built up mushroom unem iwapo tenue to complishment.
The one plage decades anizations on a division of opinion within the eration. The only dicerence to the into it. The committee comprom not to affiliate with the Federation played organizations by catering to afternoon of the second day was on the National Federation were Dennis Batt, a notorious renegade In the fact that the former openit to a milder form, but the com live five, providing the Unemployward small town workers. It was some mittee would not budge one inched Councils would keep out of not an uncommon sight during the neither here nor there since they played Council which is the biggest rescue by moving that the presiding floor and the lovestoneites did so resolutions which were his tale of woe of how the Unem Republican party, came to Muste tional Federation on the convention or compromise on the question of Muste conference and let him recesy perlods, to see some excited did not affect the polkat same bership of 260, 000 (he didn wink vention to instruct the indoming once during the Conference did a the organization nationally with a mem Committee shall not urge the con in personal conversation only. Not political criticism. The question of tablish his national organization delegates rush up to Mt. Budens organization. True, on principle but the question of mod struck and each rejoiced in his own mise to organize us into a patriotic way into much trumpeting and flag wenyewed that only has a National Committee on any certata Lovestoncite take the Tencerna ifying the word wisdom, confident that the five Are organization under the stars and ence couched adopted was in de national committee of the Federn entire matter be left to the ale Dve propostion as outlined by stripes? And Mr. Budenz would cidedly radical verblage. It is tion, and generally characterized cretion of the National Committee government is introducing elements At this time when the Roosevelt After a group of labor fakers Browder before the Federation sheepishly have to admit that he also true that the whole assemblage the Federation in very unflattering After some wrangling the motion of state capitalism with all its ter have sold out and betrayed the would work out to ad had. This catering to the prejud stood up and sang America and terms. Asked bluntly by the was passed by a vote of 20 and rible consequences for the working condemn all leaders. One must be refifteen, on which the cate otste hiretings within the conven Be it also said that the Stalin National Unemployed Leagues am made it possible for the bourgetion of this windy Declaration.
the was proposing that the smile.
of action must be worked out to an de kinds offender het nie is always cal majority from the start waation to shift the discussion from 1st General star under Hatha liate to the Federation or not, Amites was such, the naturally were might back, the blind empirical Stal CONTROL and no revolutionist of questions are con lorence to the The following was the first reso intervene and at least attempt to certain notorious Prankteld tee.
shame, aid not find it necessary to however, one of Amter satelites, report from the resolution commit. how to capture mechanical concontrol. It is out of place and would get the best of the bargain lution passed by the conference shift the discussion to proper blurted out that affiliation to the tainly be e recarrassing since that tions. This in the name of Unity. on policy would cer trol of the unemployed organizawrong to call for rank and Alle after the conference, that question without a dissenting vote: The channels. An agreement is an agree Federation unnecessary.
LEADERSHIP. Rank and Ale could wait. Both the Stalinlsts stars and Stripes forever. When ment at least for the time being. True to their compact, the stal to the convention floor.
would bring the disputed question Yes the Stalinists are for unityleadership is an empty slogan, yet and the Musteites know a trick or right we uphold them: when wrong. The providing they have a stranglehold endte front from belown of Both conventions and capturing mee in mente es necessary the one tout en cert the spolate recheroscater to the managering National Committee more the Federal de probleedings had ehe presentere out the voice or digentionem lehet tion had acted to prevent a unant, and put Dennis Batt motion to a their role, and they will not hesl.
are inverted non Marxian slogans. cal control.
much like going over to the Party. The real question as to the course mous statement from being brought vote. Were the convention to en tate to split that organizations into Now, it must be remembered, General Staff in the If that and not xation in the direction of unifying and George Leech chairman and would automatically invalidate any! The Left Opposition must learn SPARTACCUS YOUTH CLUB ORGANIZED IN BROWNSVILLEemployed organizations, inviterevolutionary upeurges But then to be decided on. Resolutions on state that the majority of on later. The delegates of the seek to entrench ourselves in the also save one breath to that point had been submitted by the national committee urged this workers League and the Oppost unemployed organization. We must Sparateur Youth Club of Browns the Federation had been founded in cool one porridge. Yet it was Oppositionist delegates. The alm conference to go on record for at tioniste put up a bitter fight against strive to raise the unemployed rades attended and about a half the horsetrading bargain between constitute the majority of the Na have the conference so on record contested this statement. It must But Just as the struggle grew the or soup consciousness to the level ville was launched. Eight com the meantime and following that this reactionary mass that was to of the Opposition fraction was to Allation. But the Stalinists even such procedure, and for affiliation movement from dozen more will soon join. Most the Stalinists and Musteltes struck tional Conference.
instructing the incoming National have been a perplexing problem hottest the Stallnlsts stepped in of class consciousness. We need of the members are expelled com. Muste therefore bethought himself The National Conferine Committee to affiliate to the NA indeed for the members of the pre and in true Judas fashion saved have no fear of working as a small rades from the Young Communist the better and dedicated the Colum. heated debate followed the TIONAL FEDERATION. The siding committee who were on the situation for Muste by play. minority. Armed with the weapons League, American Youth Club and bus conference to the founding of opening of the national conference. eites entered resolutione a Student Forum. There is a healthy a national organization of the Un. The point of dispute was the ques. calling for the above described existing between the Stalinists and delegates and urging them to vote win the majority just as surely as sentiment for the Spartacus Youth employed Leagues.
tion of the status of the delegates Club in the section which should Having arrived day ahead of who had come from the organisi proposition. This was the real Musteltes, to see the representa against affiliation and for the mo did the Russian Bolsheviks who henrt of the argument, and the re tives of the which organi tion. Reaction prevailed the mo. had for years constituted a minorInsure rapid progress time, the writer was able to witness tions that are not controlled by solution committee was still divid sation was a member of the Feel The final report of the majority! Between Stalinism and Communtion carried.
ity.
At its firat meeting George Ray the proceedings of the last day of Maste. True to their bargain, the ed on it at the end the second tion and has two members on the state conference of the Oblo Unemployed Council delegation day. Meanwhile, another resolu national committee, nevertheless of the members of the resolutions ism there can be no peace. The ott, secretary treasurer and Morris Unemployed Leagues. From the hought to be sented only as trattion submitted by an Opposition: appear and argue violently against committee, which had somehow got advances of Communism can only being made to get headquarters first two days of this conference however, who had come from vari. If a unification conference was to bitter struggle followed tha llation. But this was quickly ism. To this end let us bend our for the Club in the near future. It appeared that the central pto ous states in response to the frat be called, all unemployed organizadlamiesal of the representatives of steam rollered out of order and the efforts. NORMAN SATIR.
at The Columbus Conference Here it is promises.
of the on the cally, rushed into the arms of Musta After wide Inquiry the reason for aniliate to the National Federation, make a statement to this commit went into session after being disertion of Unemployed organiza of the OL is LEADERS AND LEADbot. To be continued)
that the original call for the Col. box and asking them in the Joining to be followed by the new organiſin by the Federation. Tom Dixondorse that motion it meant that it snithereens.