PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934 Fight to Oust The Strike Wave and Steel Workers Penalty of Wrong Hooliganism In The Role of the NRA Trade Union Policy Wolinsky An Protest City (Continued from Page Continued from Page 1)
The Stalinists of Harlem are no Worse and no better than the Stal.
ening effect. At the same time, tried than Wolinsky. The workers inists of Brownsville. Harlem has however, the union lacked actual will pay very dearly if they allow The NRA promised the people The Present Task The recent strike wave has dem until the strike actually was Wolinsky and the present leader social peace, class harmony and been called the national concentraMore Independent action on the such as a struggle with the power onstrated in the most forceful called.
tion center of the official Party.
ship to go through with their con prosperity. But after one year of oue band and outlaw strikes within fal steel trust of necessity would manner the complete isolation of Poliey of Confusion and Disin During the last two weeks they spiracy.
Pirhe Chicago pocketbook workers. tegration have shown that they are fully local union withdrew from the In Wave of strikestrus les indicate lu which direction things would first of all require that the of the American labor movement Now, what kind of crack brained capable of carrying out the concen ternational Pocketbook Workers that threaten to shake America out are houding. This calls for an in membership have confidence in the In the most outstanding struggles Union in New York. They declared of its old way of thinking and make sensitication of the work within the union and in its ability to protect such as Minneapolis and Toledo trade union polles is it that leads tration duty. They might not be the union, they will have nothing to for capital and labor. It is not a widen the gap between the runk and a confidence a militant leadership others, the extent of the intluence tics? We have only to refer to the But for that they make up with all do with the New York organization. new day of class peace as promised me and the fake leuders and, at the constantly alert, giving constant at they have attained bas also marked the sth National Convention of the the meetings of other working class organizations.
Wolinsky called out Sam Lederman, by Roosevelt.
Party for an answer: It heralds a period same time, to provide independent tention to training and development the extent of the obstacles in the The party must conduct a sharp our Harlem comrades distributed On Tuesday, June 19, some of manager of the Chicago local and for intensitled antagonisms in the action outside of the of L, of understanding of organization, way of trade union advance.
told him to remain in New York for Camp of the exploiting classes and where suele action becomes necesits objectives and its discipline is! Their suicidal trade union policy struggle against any liquidatory leaflets to workers attending a few weeks. He wanted to send between capital and labor. sary indispeasible, policy that 18 as well as their general political one of his henchmen, Lubliner to At present a new strike wave is and maneuvers of the renegades The best way to retard this lere militant through and through is fine, is the best guarantee that they tendencies and expose the slander party at the New Star Casino, Chicago, in order to line up the spreading throughout the nation.
required. The Amalgamated union can play no role (In a progressive) who call for the liquidation of After about 15 minutes, Sass, Har Chicago local for Wolinsky. Of Most of the struggles are for the development and help bolster has neither such a leadership nor sense) in the labor movement. The TU. Unions. decisive lean Section Organizer of the Comcourse Sam Lederman immediately elementary right of union organize them again to save their faces, is Not being organically part of turn toward work in the of munist Party rushed out excitedly toward The creation of the rank and file che mass unions, they lost all per greater attention to the work in our comrades. Beecher, went back to Chicago and deation and union recognition, but clared he will continue the fight they all include a struggle for proceed to form a new federa committee at the previous conven spectives. No that when the the independent unions, implies not Barry, Visconti and Cockran, all of hor whom have been recently expelled against Wolinsky Everywhere workers are becoming basis for it. This is the plan of the vanced by this committee, and the a 30 hour week without reduction the work in the Unions. comrades greeted him cordially higher pay and a decrease in hours. tion of labor without the propertion of the union, the demands ad of in convention, came out for weakening but a strengthening of from the party and the these What Must be Done Now What is necessary at present is disappointed with the NRA, espe stalinists to replace the Trade Un straight forward manner in which in pay and for unemployment in Is it any wonder that the poor should carry on the struggle with Settlement interpretation of collection, controlled by the Stalinists, edly a progressive move and regis ist revolutionary advocacy o King own English they are told, Beccher hands and tore them up.
that the united opposition groupscially since the Roosevelt Auto ion Unity League. Such a federa they were presented was undoubt. surance (as opposed to the Stalin comrades are dazed? Here in the with a lentiet. Sass walked up in a fit, pulled the leaflets out of tered an advance for the union. It 35 hour week. they immediately utese words have lost all meaning Now believe in democracy. be will play the same role today, on more vigor against the fraternal tive wory of American politics larger scale, that the was a great change compare club administration and Wolinsky. The we must demand a union meeting. tells struckler af emnema divertes altes that their work in the of Li exclaimed, houe you and fudependent unions strengthens on.
At the membership meeting we must due to the NRA. But this is far retard the development of a genuine union ruled by a corrupt, incompetion of the 10th plenum. the Now the dear com. Our comrades stood their ground.
renew the fight for a new confer from the truth. The labor unrest left wing movement in the conser tent bureaucracy hud begun to take Presenting a False Position rades must be excused if they read Cohen, the educational director of ence committee. conference com and the importance of the union vative unions and also interfere the leadership has again become The Seventh National Convention a little in between the lines for the Harlem party section then mittee to be elected of the most in. qnestion today is a phenomena that with the building of independent practically completely identified of the stated that: It has become of meaning and comsrabbed the leaflets out of a girl must fight to mobilize the workers sources, which in turn place the independent industrial unions is at Mike Tighe and his lieutenants. did not sooner clearly analyze and logical. that they are instructed to the Stalinists followed. Hall of for a strike for the following de NRA as u capitalist stop sap for the rectly connected with a live active Steel Workers Should Not be characterize the open fascism of work in the of Land Inde the Harlem section leaders rushed mands: the of This complete ig. pendent unions for the TU. Lout at our comrades, who were outDeceived For the 30 hour week to relieve wwerful upsurge of the working left wing in the conservative unions class.
which can give the proper support enormous reservoir of Lorance of the nature of fascism The examples from the Daily Work numbered by ten to one, and thus the unemployed situation.
party to the positioner are conclusive testimony to this showed their bravery.
Cochran, For an increase in wages to NRA in the First Strike Wave to the new unions and at the same strength exists amongst the hun has led the 1920 scale.
time stay the band of the labor dreds of thousands of steel workers where they consider it their first fact. The 8th Convention of the coming in to defend the comrades, The first strike wave swept the Pukers. For unemployment insurance country at the very beginning of and can be drawn upon for the duty to destroy the aselst Stalinists also forgot its former was viciously clipped in the eye by stand on the open fascist chur one of the picked stalinist ushers.
But then several other of our comrades were The confusion that Stalinisin creation of a powerful union. To unions.
to be paid by the employers under the NRA and was dramatized bring into the working class ranks thentie spokesman of the workers, to since 1929 during which time the didn that master politician, Am hurt in the melee.
the control of the union.
This thesis the Stalinists clung acter of the of become a factor, to become an authe Peousylvania unine strikes and Abolition of the impartial male aterson silk strike. The Nea Mays havoc with the class con and to become a real fighting in of bureaucrats could proba in fascist organizations to con es demonstrate the superioridy a ter, say that gallant party lead.
chinery which is an agency for the revealed itself in this situation, scious Workers struggle against the strument, the union must be able ceed unchallenged to entrench Vince the workers?
bosses and a club against the work along with the of labor labor fakers and the struggle to show to the membership that it themselves still further in the mass their leaders and the correctness of ers.
From the foregoing it in evident their party line. The fascists are dares to meet the enemy face to trade unions, increasing their pres6. Settlements out of town to be leaders, as a force in the defense ugainst the NRA codes.
lor cupltul, against the workers, at Results of the New Deal face in the field of battle. And in tige and grip on the workers, while that the policy of the misled workers who must be won made only if the workers wages this respect the retreat also has its the third writ philosophers Revolutionary unions cannot serve over to communism. But the are gradually raised to the New empting, at every opportunity, to corral them into class collaboration The codes adopted so far are a serious dangers. Many steel work were hybernating within their for as the instrument for the unifica counter revolutionary Trotskyites The administration is maneuver machinery and to blunt their class alsgrace to organized labor. Theyers will perhaps turn away from tress of paper unions, evolving still tion of the workers in the trade are class enemies who must be de unions. For that, a new, militant stroyed.
ing with the code authorities in weapons, thereby compelling the benefit. The closed shop is out if we are to accept the Stalinist labor movement. Unable to get more grotesque theses to plague the left wing is needed, understanding on Sunday, June 10th at about Washington. Notbing will be ac workers to return to work at the lawed. The open shop is legalized. Claims union workers are now foothold in the mass organizations at Communists, genuine Commu midnight the headquarters of the complished from Washington. Only Dosses terms.
The second strike wave, which the company unions are legalized. leaving the ranks of the Amalga of the workers and being complete lists, have no interests apart from Communist League of America, es and the Wolinsky gang, can the treatened to rock the very founda Nowy. Minimum wages are entirely Such a turn of events union polley, their action consisted whole.
Minimum hours are entirely too mated Association and joining the ty disoriented by their sterile trade that of the working class as a Harlem Branch was smashed open.
Windows were broken, doors pocketbook workers come out viction of American capitalism, was too low for a living standard. With could only prove disastrous for the solely in trying to discredit and pushed, in and all the literature torlous of the present situation. checked at first and newspapers strewn over the Wolinsky Gang Breaks Union the legalizing of certain low mini steel workers. The union disrupt the of unions.
floor. We did not actually see who the Auto workers by Green and wage levels, combined with in these recent developments could John Williamson, writing in the Meeting Company under the Roosevelt NRA The meeting of the New York pluu. This was a decided set back the different forms of inflation and nowhere assert itself as a union Daily Worker for June 6th, gives from past performances and all inre the Police Terror laborBut no dications we are led to believe that High School held this week was bad the bosses said all well workers have been reduced. Unless repeating the demands made by the sults of this revolutionary trade Amalgamated Association, adding union policy of Stalinism: Stalinist wrecking crew did the broken up by the Wolinsky gang theu local strikes in the auto ina more powerful strike wave devel no demands of its own, and it could After stalling for more than Job month since a joint complaint was munist party leaders is to be able The highest ambition of the Comwhen they found that the united Idustry upset all the plans. Other lops, the real wage will be reduced at no time make a pretense of abil. Leaders Fail to Advance With front of all progressive elements strikes tu the basic industries fol curther. Strikes are already out ity to enforce these demands or Workers made by the Socialist Party, the The majority of these strikes Communist League and the Proto emulate the methods of the fasThe meeting was called to hear a lowed lu quick order and are now sary the full force of the state it does not have the possibilities (referring to the recent strike vision Committee for Non Partests. But that will play directly Conference Committee on the negotions are that a new upsurge of power against the workers can be to attain to such a position because wave) were led by the of san Labor Defense, Police Commis into the hands of the latter. Every The fascist unions. sioner Ryan of New York has a worker must realize that democra tlatlong with the bosses. They re greuter scope is now in the making. set in motion. An increase in bru it is based essentially upon policy What. Which ones, last been compelled to open hear, createst importance at this time cy in the labor movement is of tal police and military repression of of splitting away elements individ Only a few. ported that the conference with The Capitalist Plans strikes is already evident.
ually from the unions having the pray) by the revolutionary unings into the brutal slugging employers had been broken off by the bosses who refused to consider The capitalist class foresaw the The NRA class collaboration ton only as disruptive force, say that the agitation and work of in the West Side Court on May 17. plays into the hands of reaction.
mass basis. It can therefore funcions. It would be pretentious to anti Naxi workers which occurred and that this stalinist hooliganism any demands of the union. Instead developing strike struggles and machinery and tho of fak. hampering the developments of the the Party and was one of That outbreak of police viciousness at proposing steps in preparation prepared in advance to meet the lors betrayals will not be sufficient building of a real union in the steel the main forces responsible for is part of the reign of terror loosed CANNON LECTURE ON THE stimulation and starting the strike against workers by La Guardia MINNEAPOLIS STRIKE lon demands, the Joint Council pro. NRA was adopted by their govern struggles in America. The vitality) The Battle Remains Inevitable wave. Well, well, so it was the city administration as a means of posed that the wages, hours and meut. Although the NRA serves a and class action of the American What will the Amalgamated As company of unions that poitie over relief cuts. crowd of 500 New York workconditions of work be left to the broader purpose than as a class workers will sweep them aside. sociation do next? It has presented started the strike wave and not the Ryan stalled until the charges ers cheered Cannon again and Roosevelt revolutionary unions.
mercy of some impartial fact collaboration machinery to hold in Great historic battles are ahead. its demands to prede matter over is it any wonder then that the against the police multiplied and again as he spoke on the prepara Anding commission, check the class struggle, this, never Let us sharpen our class weapons. who turned the This capitulation to the bosses theless, is one of its basic features HUGO OEHLER.
was opposed by speakers of the The capitalists realized that the to the Secretary of Labor. There workers gravitate to the of Lthe liberal Evening Post attacked tion, the militancy, and the settleit will get a hearing. It will pos rather than to the revolutionary o Ryun in order to save La Guar ment of the Minneapolis Truck United Anti Wolinsky Committee conservativo of base was sibly get a board as proposed. But red trade unions. And here Whia reputation with liberal and Drivers Strike at the Irving Plaza who urged the members to vote too narrow to cope with the new The careful preparation fons for for the down this betrayal of their inter situation. The of was losto the workers.
ests by the bosses tool, Wolinsky, Jing its econoinle base, as a natural The experiences ing revolutionists functioned (Daily an ordered an investigation. The method of investigation, however, strike, the detailed of the automobile industry and the Worker, June Uth. and to carry on the fight for their process of the crisis. The workers Farmer infamous settlement accomplished In Cleveland while there are is the usual one: star chamber propickets worked out in advance, and demands in the only way in which ceedings, where the plaintiffs have the military precision with which workers had ever won anything of the of L, the unskilled of the basic industries were outside there is sufficiently fresh to remind Party members in at least 20 no counsel, reporters are barred, the strike machinery functioned. Continued from Page 1)
us of what it meant to the work of locals, there was not a single and cops whose tbuggery has been was dealt with by Comrade Cannon that is by struggle. Matlin of the Socialist league and Diamond or workers were ignored and the labor cerned. Farmers also began to anders. The essential Issues remain functioning fraction or real opposi so successful as to bring them to and listened to with rapt attention the Rank and File spoke strongly Lakers showed no inclination to or themselves confronted with what First of all amongst them are union tion group functioning.
the top of the force are set to catch by the audience. Reading from a cops of the agreement Cannon tore against the fact finding committee sanize them. The vast majority of the bourgeois writers refer to as recognition. In case can that In some locals individual lesser thugs.
to shreds the slanderous attacks of and received loud applause from the American workers were unor consumers resistance and began be expected to be granted voluntar Communists had influence, but no to shift heavily from controlled ly by the steel trust. Only the broad opposition groups were or On June 21 Deputy Inspector the Stalinists on the strike leaders the membership. Wolinsky, who canized.
hearing. Testias betrayers and the settlement as was received with jeers, forgot all To confront a period of increased to uncontrolled crops, and Con force of the thousands of steel ganized, because it was argued that Schelling held a welded together in this would orientate the members mony, was given by victims of po a sell out.
about his previous demogogle class antagonisms between capital gress was compelled attacks, including several He challenged Stalinists to speeches on hours and wages, and and labor with such a labor condi subsidized list beef, dairy, cattle, compact union conscious of its to staying within the of lice young Socialists, a League member ing. Stein, manager in name only. cause the inevitable increase thum. Getting rid of the surplusselous of the great reserve strength them out as quickly as possible.
spoke on the delights of fact find tion may be fatal for capital. Be pnuts, rye, barley, flax and some position, of its great task, and con and our objective must be to take and a non political worker. Eyeshow a single case in the entire witnesses also were present to tes strikes which the Daily Worker country, out of all the hundreds of echoed the words of his master strike struggles and motion toward than a reduction in acreage.
a in farm products required more at its disposal can accomplish that This means a battle of titanie pro The Rival Unions Labelled The tils. The delegation was led by Wolinsky, and Hershfield wagged union organization may get out of Opposition Gerber, Socialist City Secre reports them to have lead, where a bis tall in support. Black, rank the hands of the conservative labor class kids starved, the producers in union under any conditions must Experiences in the methods tary, and Herbert Solow, Secretary strike from start to finish was conHence, while millions of working portions, a battle for which the and file worker, pointed out that ducted as well as the Minneapolis the Business Agend Wise and se leaders and into class struggle the dairy business in conjunction prepare. One important step in of organizing of opposition of the Provisional Committee for strike or to show one case where channels.
retary Treasurer Goldman paraded collaboration machinery of the Feialdom of the second American Iers to have no illusions whatever confusion. In Akron where we had In other words, the class with the brain trust of the off this direction is for the steel work groups brought out sharply the Non Partisan Labor Defense.
a better or even as good a settleAt the outset of the hearing, Sol ment was made.
around from shop to shop urging the bosses to attend the Association of was too narrow to cope with Revolution brought up 30, 000, 000 that anything can be won for them heard much about opposition work, ow read into the record a protest The intense interest of the audi worth of milk and butter, destroyed through the power of their own or the opposition was a mere hand tactics. But the witnesses barely tions asked by members and sup except what they are able to take an examination brought out that against the Department stalling cnce was shown by the many ques meeting and to oppose a lockout the new situation.
Whether the bosses agreed or not Aim of the New Deal in and suggested that milk cows ganixation ful of workers close to the party began to give testimony, when De will be found out later. Sam have The labor provisions under the ventive for the accumulation of futo be killed as a preporters of all groups and tendenwho were brought to the Party paty Inspector Schelling stated that cles. What was the role of the Fisher, despite all efforts to get the New Deal, through the NRA section ture surpluses.
ORGANIZATION PRESS headquarters or Unemployed Coun since most charges are against Are the strike leaders floor, was shouted down by the dealing with this, were designed to CAMPAIGN cil headquarters for a meeting. The plainclothesmen, the delegation had known in Minneapolis as Commuchairman, Czar Kliman. Many extend this base of class collaboraAgricultural Production to be others were trying to get the floor tion machinery The coupon books for our organ person who was the scit appointed come to the wrong place. The fact nists? How can a Communist Forord Backward ization and press fund have been spokesman was the Party Section is, however, that Schelling himselt say that Governor Olson was un when discussion was closed.
At the same time sluggers of the Wolinsky gang pre ing of leaders in order to ministrator, worked the old brain turns came in during the past two a union member. The leaflets is original letter of complaint made ital Guard or not. Why do you the vote was about to be taken, it was the aim to involve the existreach the millions of unorganizedtion. He said that butter fut reI to overtime and found a happy solu days.
sued by the opposition were writ. clear that dicks were involved, attack the Communist Party. cipitated a fight and the meeting Kansas City Branch was the first ten by the Party Section Organizer This was just another means of Why do you propose to allow Lobroke up in a general disorder. The and unskilled, duction could be achieved by chang to answer the call. They paid for. were mimeographed by him and stalling.
situation is now squarely up to the review of the strike struggles es in feeding practices rather than two books received by Individual cal 574 to remain in the of the Party office.
In a statement to reporters at the L? and many other questions.
United Anti Wolinsky Committee. reported and analyzed in the col in slaughter. The name Davis will members, and asked for more books. But why blame only the com end of the hearing. Solow said: It One worker said that when the The time for statements is passed, umns of the Mllitant will convince go down in history. Hence the Charlotte Shechet of the Boston rades in the sections, when only is quite clear that the rulers of the Daily Worker attacked the strike action is demanded. It is now necone that the whole NRA labor farmer is asked to unlearn in branch remitted for her book, and two months ago the then police force have not and are not leaders as betrayers he believed the essary that other forces should be machinery and its intervention in few months all that it took him also asked for more books. Man secretary Cleveland rented a behaving as though they wanted to very opposite.
called in. Every group in the union labor disputes, locally and nation. Afty years to learn: plant and ani hattan Branch, New York City, headquarters for the and find out who some of these sluggers Comrade Cannon answered all and every rank and file progressive ally, has been to confuse and disor mal breeding, the use of machinery collected for books at its last began labelling one room as the of. are. If we expect to get anywhere questions to the satisfaction of the must be drawn into the Aght. Aganize the workers and finally hand and a scientific fertilization and meeting and turned in the proceeds, ficial headquarters of the Rank and with this, we ll have to keep fight audience and finished with an apshould be called by the United Arst task is to prevent strikes. Iltices, etc.
meeting of Pocketbook Makers down decisions against them. Its cultivation of the soil rotation prac deducting the 20 discount for the File Opposition Center in the ing. After marching into office at peal for support of the Communist Committee with representatives of this cannot be accomplished it conbranch organization work, accord of the head of a Jewish anti Nazi League and for the building of a The interests of capitalism have ing to previous arrangements. Only a couple of days be parade, Ryan has brought his new Communist Party that will all Labor Papers present. Repre tinues its treacherous role with the shifted toward a different develop fore the calling of the Fisher Body own terrorism to New York. Every give the entire American working be invited and every real union labor fakers and the borses. Even ment in agriculture. It was once deemed wise to spend millions to Matteson, Kansas Cits 00 strike, the comradee ainside the workers on should conveny content ligent the der hip reblat mit seinen ele force in the labor movement mobil reports of strike struggles in the reach the farmer the scientide tech Shechet, Boston ized to drive this bosses tool, wol leading bourgeois papers cannot 00 then actually printed leaflets for to oust this organizer of brutality truck drivers in Minneapolis. Nu4. Manhattan Branch 40 the holding of a mass meeting in against workers. As for LA Guar merous requests were made that a insky, out of the union, and drive hide these facts. Every interven. Inique of farming. In a word, to Friend, Youngstown the corrupt administration which tion of the Labor Boards and every er. Today production in farming 00 the name of the Auto Workers Un dia, it is time to smoke him out pamphlet on trade union strategy even the Forward says it can settlement of strikes stands out in as elsewhere must be retarded and Sympathizer, Chicago 00 ion. These specific comrades should too. It is useful that the New York and tactics be written by Comrade Feinstone, Phlla. 00 have had as their main concern the Evening Post is printing some of Cannon to be based on his report stomach, out of office. In this fight bold relief as an attempt to betray the farmers are asked to the slipthe Militant will do its part for and defeat the working class. This shot, upscientific methods of a by. will not be able to sell the book who two days later were to call when it dentes the Mayor respon ended one of the most successful The Chicago sympathizer writes: workers in the of unton, the facts about police brutality, but on the Minneapolis strike. Thus unionism and against the bosses together with the open betrayal ot gone day. Such is the price of of coupons sent me and shall there such a tremendous strike, with our sibility it defends one who shares and enthusiastic moetings ever conpaid agent, Wolinsky.
the of leaders, is pushing Tecovery under capitalism, fore make an individual donation comrades at that moment not sensl gullt equally with Ryan. the strike struggles to the left.
ducted by the Communist League ROBERTS. linatend. Enclosed tive to the moody of the workers PAUL in New York.
add to the workers, would But Chester Davis, Farm Ad in the mails a week. few ne. Organizer, not a rubber worker or sent for the delegation and that the decided whether to use the Nation.