THE MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1934 PAGE EDITORIAL Arrest of Cannon and Shachtman Stalinist Zig Zags The United Front Berike Tender los Drivers Force the Release of Leaders Farmer Labor Strikebreaker (Continued from Page 1) attorney declared that he had no repeated. They then declared that workers, they did not miss an op objections to the release of the men they would refuse to leave the city THE mask is off. The friend of the worker the Farmer Labor portunity to explain to the mem on the writ. It immediately became of Alinneapolis of their own voll Governor of Minnesota has revealed himself to be the bitterest foebership that the Red Scare was a clear why wo prosecution was to tion, that they would depart only is the united front with the Sonist League Drive social of organized labor, the shrewdest supporter of the bosses. Olson has barrage being laid down by the em take place. Having found it im it forced to do so by a squad of elulist parties (hitherto the 80 fascists out of the factories, ont of played out his bag of tricks. And every trick has been a boon to the ployers behind which the union was possible to hold the men any long Guardsmen. They had violated no cial fascists. for long so vigor the unemployment bureau, out of Citizens Alliance, blow at the embattled drivers.
to be crushed and the men driven er even on a trumped up charge, law, they had not violated, norously denounced by the stulinist the trade schools. Will he disavow Workers, opening their eyes to the perndtous deeds of Olson, win back to the outrageous conditions Johannes had arranged with the ofcould they have any of the military leaders, here and elsewhere, again the old slogan of the German Young marvel at his skill in viding his real intentions Step by step he ot work and wages against which sicers of the National Guard, who regulations which were put into el to be accepted as a porley of the of Pioneers Beat the smallest Zoer.
ploughed into the solid ranks of the strikers, sowing confusion and they were rebelling. Instead of had taken over the city under mar. fect during their stay in city jail, helal Communist parti suprl slebels out of the schools and play.
winning their confidence at the same time. The job could not have been calling into the cunningly laid trap tial law the day before to put and they would insist upon their clally that appears to be the case. grounds.
Better executed had it all been premeditated.
of the Citizens Alliance and start Cannon and Shachtman under mill rights to carry on as correspond But in reality it is not.
Your own statements condemn ents for their periodicals to exactly The Stalinist, party leadership, you as liars.
Elected on the platform of the Farmer Labor party, which has evening an anti Communist hunt in tary arrest.
You canno expect, Just as the release in civil court the sume degree as the representa over the signature of its general Kentlemen, that workers shall take been so radical as to call for the abolition of the profit system. Olson their own ranks, the union leaders was effected, a sergeant of the tives of out of town capitalist secretary, Browder, submitted a your united front proposals seriousbe acted as a go between in the arbitration of issues after 574 had every worker be he Communist or ready won the battle. He called out the National Guards, but kept them Democrat, Republican or Farmer first time such a procedure has ever molested.
for a united front strug that all this false.
in the barracks. At the conclusion of the contlict he is reputed to have Labor, whatever might be his poll been witnessed in the history of Colonel MeDevitt made 10 at gle for certain specific aims. Later Formally the united front promade a personal donation of 500 to the truckers union.
Then came the second strike. Here the issue was joined The or affiliations was a soldier in tody of the prisoners. The sensit and demands of the two men and the national committee with posal has now been made to the ubon busting Citizens Alliance was determined to smash the drivers the union with full rights and thou was beightened by the fact contented himself with a repetition several requests already made for Socialist party and to its national committee. What is its meaning 574 accepted the challenge and prepared to fight to the last ditch to make duties, and Immediately upon an answer. As yet the Socialist Does this that no discrimina that lie was armed with a sub ina of his order.
represent a political Minneapolis a union town. No bedzing now! Governor Olson had totion would be practiced against chine gun and that a dosen Guards quitting the Armory, Cannon and party leadership bas made to anchange from the course pursued in take a stand for or against the workers. And he did! But not before anyone. It is this attitude which men, automaties strapped to their shachtman dispatched. telegram swer and the question might well the past? We recall from very rehe had delivered himself of more honeyed words to convince the strikers made it possible to hold the union sides and rifles in their hands, stood to the commander in chief of the be prosed: Why is it silent cent date, from the eighth conven.
that the man in the St. Paul capitol was their friend. The occasion together instead of letting it fall outside the courtroom as an escort Minnesota National Guard, Gover There is one busie answer to this tion of the official Communist was the fusillade at unarmed pickets by Bloody Johannes murderers. prey to artificially injected dissen for the dangerous Reds. Complete nor Olson, which we quote here in question and it is Oleon denounced Johannes not so much for the murder but for breakingsion inspired by the employers.
ly surrounded, Caumon and Shacht. full: by facts from recent history. The party, held in April this year, the his promise in violating the truce, that no trucks would more. Then thesis declaration. The CommuTelegram to Olson Having no other arguments, how man were marched down the corrisocialist party leadership, like that aist party must widen its struggle Olson made his grand gestur He summoned the National Guards on ever, the desperate bosses were dors, out of the inunicipal building Under tyrannical military or of international social democracy, for the united front with the social compelled to harp the streets and proclaimed martial law to protect the strikers. delivered to us at the Nationthe same to the street, where another scor of which it is a part, prefers cap democratie workers, over the heads string throughout the whole strng of Guardemen awaited them with al Cunrd Armory by Colonel Me italism to a workers republic to a their treacherous leaders. Over protected scale and scab trucks. Where cops, thugs, preachers and Under the pretext of protecting the strikers Olson troops hagle. Being able to defend a posl. another score of automatics and Devitt, after being held illegally sovlet Republic. For that we have the heads of the lenders what holscares failed to move trucks in Minneapolis, Olson brought the troops ton which says that 124 cents an rifles. They were bundled into an under military arrest for six the best proof in the German 80 ow vapid phrases. They will not cial Democratie party participa In to do the dirty work. Rivalling only his red balting colleague in hour for a family man is too much. open military truck, still as beavily hours, we are being compelled by California, the St. Paul demagogne called out his army to keep the city they simply did not bother to de and nervously guarded as if they force to leave Minneapolis. We Llon in the Hindenburg iron front elp in the least to tear the work urs away from social reformism, right up to the fateful hour of HitIn essentials, but in reality moving commercial vehicles of every defend it at all, and concentrated in were either some invaluable treas. have been here as correspondents ind that, after all, is the ultimate seription. When the strikers saw trucks moving they saw through stead upon balting of Communists. ure or an automatic time bomb for the papers which we represent ser selure of power. We have the bjective of the revolutionary party, Olaon at the same time. They would battle and beat the troops even as They needed a sensation, and on which might explode at any moand at no time violated any law additional proof of its Austrian today such hollow phrases reprethey had the police. Before the drivers could make thelr threat effective Wednesday evening, the papers foment.
civil or martial, nor have we brother party clinging to the coat rent only the most stupid disregard the troops raided the strike headquarters, drove the workers out ally burst out with it.
Flanked front and rear by other even been charged with any such tall of Dollfuss right up arrested the union leaders, William Brown, Vincent and Miles Dunne. At about 10 of that evening. cars, the truck drove the prisonery violation. We were released from when he trained his howitzerx ou the organization of the social lemceratie workers. Unfortunate 200 drivers were thrown into military barracks and then the Central a trio of Minneapolis detectives to the Armory the first military city prison after thirty six hours the homes of the Austrian socialisty these social democratie workers Labor Union, set up as a second her:dquarters, was invaded by soldiers. Hanked by a cop in uniform, placed prisoners to be taken after the de illegal detention on writ of ha workers.
till belong to their party and supUnder the pretense of helping the strike, Olson has done his level James Cannon and Max Shacht claration of martial law although beas corpus. We were then ille From this hasie proposition flows best to crush it. An avowed partisan of civil liberties and democratie man under arrest. Both of them they could not conceivably have gally arrested in the courtroom che attitude of the Socialist party sort their leaders because they are socialint workers. Disregard of rights for workers, Olson has gone further in destroying them than even had apparently been under survell violated any martial law regulation by a large squad of heavily armed Leaders, of relying on bourgeois de his fact serves only to provide an reactionary Governor Merriam. Where they deployed troops hesitantly tance for days. Shoot to kill National Guardsmen and confined mocracy and its rules of the game xcuse for the leaders to re.
In the Frisco general strike, Olson decared martial law in a struggle in the Armory without explana rather than on the militant strugiect the united front offer. It bein the National Guard Armory Finger Prints Taken with only 000 involved. Taking a leat from Hitler book this wolf sle of a united working class, of omeg only a bureaucratic maneuTransported to the police head. they were seated on a bench prior tion or charges, nor have any yet It was in sheep clothing committed the most despotie action American labor quarters, they were Immediately to being brought to the guard house, been made against us.
inding more comfortable company ver at the expense of the working and more agreement with the reach unity has seen in years when he crashed into strike headquarters and jailed taken to the jail, their finger print with explicit order given the obviously impossible for us to of action. Nothing violate any provisions of martial Lionary trade union officials than rould suit the social reformlat armed sentinels to Shoot to kill ir Successful than In raw propagandn of the Citizens Alliance and an mands that they be told why they the guardbouse, with no e law since we were contined to Tobin. This agent of capitalism, like all the rest, needed the mailed had been arrested, or what the thon given of the reason for the arcity prison from the time of its workers. Inevitably, and in time endere better than this. They can promulgation until the moment of this will tear the workers loose herous role of support of hourgeols sontinue with impunity their treafint to get results for the employers.
them were, or that our military arrest. We know of from the Socialist leaders. But that 11 Olson thinks his troops will defeat the strike and drive the they be charges atted to communicate Teat, the two were held for another workers back in submission then he is sadly mistaken. The drivers in with their attorney they were At the expiration of this period democracy.
is hours.
no such outrageous violation of is not yet the case.
constitutional rights in any city Minneapolis are fighting mad. Eeports in the capitalist press tell us lodged in a city cell.
It would be usors to expect There is, however, also another in recent times. Even in Califor that in face of war time artillery more than fifty trucks were overof time, Provost Marshal Colonel xide to this question. The Stalin hat there formal united front proMeanwhile, a squad of detectives Elmer MeDevitt entered the deten nin, under the rule of the most turbed by pickets and scabe given the drubbing of their lives ist party leaders have not at all als represent a political change reactionary Governor, who is an convinced the socialist workers of policy of the Comintern and its Every strategem of the bessen has collapsed. Their rump revolt two prisoners, and without even clou room and suformed the pris was turned into a victory for the union. The red scare was funk back the formality of search warrant and ordered to leave the city im.
open agent of employers. such that they mean their united front various parties. Essentially it redastardly deportations had to be polley seriously, that they propose dects the pressure of the Commun bands for the strike. The shooting solidified the ranks and the drivers effects and papers which they found demanded to know what charges Into the teeth of its originators. Tobin was told to keep this very proceeded to ransack the personal mediately.
Candon and Shachtman executed by juld thugs disguised a genuine united front. On the ist workers facing an ever more an Vigilantes and in no case bore contrary, set their jaws for renewed battle. Olson will fare no better.
there. Copies of the Militant, of bad been made against them, what They have done every menacing enemy to which the Stal the stamp of civil or military Inist lenders are attempting to ad thing in their power to divide the ment is on the daily strike paper, the Organ law they were supposed to have Victory or defeat, the curse of the entire labor authority. It remained for the Olson. Ho is forever discredited in the eyes of every worker and bonest izer, personal letters, and shacht violated. No reply was made, and working class and prevent its unity Just themselves in a tactical way instead of giving actual city of Minneapolls and the state of action.
progressive. The career of Olson as a liberal is over. The curtains that man whole wultcase, were brought the deportation order was merely eadership of Minnesota, under Farmer are rung over Olson are rung over the whole gamut of liberalism and down to police headquarters with While it now appears that there it represents the pressure due to Lahor Governor, to witness such a change in orientation and the decline of the official CommuFarmer Laboriem.
the hope that evidence might be a procedure which strikes at the methods of the Stalinist leadership nist parties and an effort of the Away with it! Clear the road for a revolutionary party of the found to show that the two comworking class and the orerthrow of the rotten system that Olson repre munists had been on the verge of very heart of divil liberties for of the party and of the Third In Stalinist bureaucrats by means of sents!
blowing up the city, at the very the progressive farmers, upon cal change. To affect a real change lish an alibi for the past failures least, so that they might be held long enough by the police to have always fought. We wish to do their respecte de produtos de logica in reality become a lite and death capacitate them for the duration of inform you that under protest baggage of the recent past and to question. Meanwhile the bureanthe strike, in any case. Continued from Page 1) and against our will we are leavWhat the police and their mast der pretense that there they would repudiate many of its concepts and crats of the Cominern have become ing Minneapolis under the force As we go to press the latest news from Minneapolis is that methods. First of all it would be so estranged from an actual united Governor Olson is showing his true colors so that even the Farmer ers, the Citizens Alliance, were afbe better cared for. Meanwhile, the and duress of the National Guard ter, was proof that Shachtman and painstaking arrangements of the necessary to repudiate the spurious front policy that what they propose which you command. We demand theory of social fascism.
now is in reality the social demoLabor workers on strike there can see them clearly. His militia Cannon were directing the truck strikers to take care of their own of you the immediate revocation hrs marched into their headquarters, arrested the strike leaders, It would be necessary to repudicratic non aggression pact which drivers strike. And although they were destroyed in the clean up.
of this despotie order which is then marched on the Central Laber Union headquarters and raided ate Stalin axiom that, social de uspends criticism. That, of course, pored over every single scrap of that too!
paper they found and examined the was undertaken was that the strikThe pretext under which the rata obviously aimed at the under mocracy is objectively the moderate is false to the core. One of the signed alone, In such a situation, of course, our main concern is the safety of correspondents notebooks of the prisoners with ers had held a mass meeting on a wing of fascism. They do not ne Arst essentials of a genuine united of the few papers which have our comrades in Minneapolis who have worked devotedly in the ente one another. They are not front is the freedom of mutual criInterest of the striking truelmenind the rights of the Minneapolis microscopic care, all they were able public playground in violation of wholeheartedly supported the antipodes, but twins, or Is this ticism of all participants.
workers to union organization and a leadership of their own choosstill to be considered correct? If in the formal united front proletters and telegrams received by and the Dunne brothers were re in no way designed to hamper or Ing.
so there could not and there should posal made by the there At the same time we must remember that without a voice which restrict the activities of corres not be a united front. No, it is neeIs listed as one of the sims. buildYork, addressed to them in care of leased. It was admitted that they pondents for papers representing speaks out in unqualified words and reaches the strikers, our duty care of had obtained the necessary permit.
Vincent Dunne, one of the in By that time the damage had essary to repudiate it because it ing a revolutionary trade union the interests of the employers, to has nothing in common with the leadership. Is that possible of to the Minneapolls Workers is not fulfilled. In this situation we most remember the militant more than ever.
fuential strike leaders of Local been done, the strikers had been say nothing of the Citizens All social Leninist conception of the working achievement Sointly with class and its forces.
democrats? Obviously not. And We must make it possible for our comrades in Minneapolls who and didn even have the ground and their leaders locked up in the branded as a sinister clique con are not connected with the strika to get bundles of our Militant But it was in following these riwe might also ask, what role will for general distribution.
work material for a good sized military stockade, on the hope that spring against the people inter bdiculously tulge ideas that Manuil the rival unlons play in But there are many more The Multant is the only working class paper which devotes its this drastie action would bring the eats and responsible for the redsky reported to the Eleventh Com this?
Questioning by the captain of strikers to their knees. The answer handed murder of unarmed men.
columns mainly to the Minneapolis situation.
Intern plenum that those in our questions that the Stalinist lenders detectives, Ohman, failed to eliclt of the strikers was renewed plcket We intend to make our appeal own ranks who are obliged to answer before they For that reason it is important that the Militant reach every erroneously act any more information from the activities, swift and resourceful, known to labor and liberal forces along the line of a betief in the excan begin to convince a single striker.
prisoners than was available to the against which the military were of the entire country and will But the militant cannot do this effectively without funds. In istence of a basic contradiction be their united front proposal and worker with the seriousness of man in the street. Here again, the powerless.
make your direct and personal tween bourgeois democracy and our eagerness to help the Minneapolis workers we must hear this two men demanded the right to even before it can become clear to faet in mind nd all the time, and continue onr support of our agitator, have their attorney. Albert Gold raided the offices of the Central to those who have hitherto reIn desperation, the ullitary next responsibility known particularly fascism, between the social demotheir own members and supporters the Militant.
crats and Hitler party, are harmwhat ful and fatal to the Communist man of Chicago, present during the Labor Union body, selxing Ales and garded you as a progressive and Our financial situation is very critical junt at present. The cross examination. Ohman, assist documents.
liberal Governor.
Are they ready to repudiate their movement. And the American Organization Press Campaign has not brought sufficient returns to ed in his questioning by Police make it possible to print extra thousands of the paper weekly, in Since the National Guard arrived, immediate reply in care of our party at its plenum in 1932 detines theory of social fascism and their Chlef Johannes, who has earned the order issuing permits to es attorney. Mr. Albert Goldman, Minneapolls and in every other city in the country.
as American social fascism (Am declarations of the impermissibility himself the opprobrious niekname sential trucks has been more and Hampshire Arms Hotel, Minneaof a bloc with the Socialist parties?
erican Federation of Labor, Social We must help to arouse the workers everywhere to a full real of Bloody Mike, told Cannon and more generously interpreted for polls.
ization of the grave dangers confronting the Minneapolis workers, Shachtman that their demand for a 1st Party, particularly the MusteAre they ready to repudiate thelr James Cannon, editor, We must spread the Militant everywhere. We must send large lawyer was not being denled. Until now the Guardsmen are wing with the Lovestone Cannon spurlous united front from below The Militant quantities to every city where we have connections.
but at the same time the lawyer playing an open scab role, guardrenegades. Is that still to be policy? Are they ready to repudiMax Shachtman, editor, The capitalist press gives only meager information about what is was not forthcoming, nor were they ing as well as they can. scab considered correct, or was it pureate their actions at the Madison The New International. and nnadulterated fakery?
Square Garden meeting? Are they happening to the workers of Minneapolis. Only the Militant tells to liquidate their No reply was ever sent to this. And let us ask Willi Muenzenthe full story. permitted to telephone him about trucks of all kinds and descriptions. message by Governor Olson. But berg. who is now the celebrated policy of rival unions, which splits with proper nation wide distribution of our paper we can Affidavits from workers report that work up sufficient sentiment for the Minneapolis workers to get a Real Scoop ple trucks, trucks bearing electric the bluff to get Shachtman and visitor here, was he correct when the labor movement, and adopt a nation wide protest against the fascist tactics used by Governor The next morning, the local cap signs, toys, and other non essential Cannon to leave the city without be said in Feb. 1981, bloc, or policy of the militants working Olson.
italist press boomed with the news. materials passed the National protest, did not work.
Instead, a even an alliance, or even a tempor within the mass unions These are minimum requirements Our duty is clear: PRINT 10, 000 copies of the Militant ench Coples of purloined letters and telGuardsmen unchallenged, while the reaction set in against the outrag. ary Joint operation in week and have them distributed thronghont the country.
provided with plekets were prohibited by steel cous procedure. Officials of 574 en actions between the Communst to prove the sincerity of the united HELP US ACCOMPLISH TINTS!
egrams, lines that had httle bayonets from interference.
terrifying tered their protest with the Gover party and the Socialist party in front policy to prove that the for SEND US 81 TO DAY!
or nothing to do with the contents It was the hope The Minneapolis strikers are fighting courageonsly In spite of which hopeful editors expected son obviously that his order should press carried a statement by Olsonism, would forever discredit the united front. However, mero de the presence of the militis. They are giving their all. Two of them their readers not to bother reading gradually be extended until all declaring that the correspondents Communist party among the broad clarations and mere formal propobave already paid with their lives. number of others are serlons had been generously supplied to the truck service was restored to nor of the Tory Tribune as well as masses of the workers, tolling peas sals are not sufficient. It is nec.
ly sick at the hospital.
Alliance press and were spread all mal under scab operation, while those of the radical Milltant ants and the middle strats, para essary to adopt polley which in all the practical daily activities of OF YOU WE ASK ONLY 00 TO DAY.
uver the columns.
the workers stood by paralyzed and should enjoy equal rights in the draw it into decline.
Is he ready to repudiate that the Stalinist party proves by deeds Help us spread the true acts of the Minneapolis herole battle But if they counted upon a reac helpless.
to every part of the country.
tion in the ranks of the workers. Governor Olson order read: And such as they are, we stin now? Will he disavow the old slo that its interests are identical with DON FAIL THE WORKERS IN MINNEAPOLIS!
gan of the German Young Communhas no separate factional motives and above all in the ranks of 574. Trucks will move only on military enjoy them.
HELP US PRINT 10, 000 copies weekly as long as the battle they were miserably disappointed permits and picketing by automoand that it means the professed rages.
Instead, the union and its newspa biles or otherwise will be completeunited front proposal seriously.
For us this question does not per took up the issue and demanded ly stopped.
the release of the prisoners, not only The permits were issued at first present difficulties. We stand when they were held by the police under fake signs and pretenses of squirrely for the Leninist united THE NEW INTERNATIONAL but also later, when they were Interstate Commerce, meat and Saturday, August 18th, 1934 front polley. We are ready at all times to contribute all in our pow.
placed under military arrest by the bread, etc. Until even this pretense An Organ of Revolutionary Marxism National Guard. So far as the em has been abandoned.
er towards a genuine united front Max Shachtman, Martin Abern, Bus. Mgr.
plosure were concerad ae arrest otherwise, has not been stopped. But picketing by automobiles or Dancing of Communist and Socialist and Station Post Office Bor 119 proved a dud.
also trade union organizations New York, Under Military Arrest It is the greatest tribute to the against the attacks upon the work Entertainment militancy of the workers that they One Year. 50; Seven Issues, 00; Single Copy, 15 Cents; ers by the bosses and their governFriday morning, thirty six hours were able to defy first the police Canada and Foreign countries One Year, 75.
after their arrest, and with a vago bullets and now the bayonets of the Refreshments ment, and against the rise of tascism. In that there must be prerancy charge actually booked National Guard. enclose herewith. for which please enter my against them, the prisoners were served the right of mutual criticism The Red Issue could not stop and independence of organizations.
subscription for the NEW INTERNATIONAL: brought into court. Attorneys the strike. SEAGATE Do not bind your own hands! There Geldman and Mendow of MinneaName.
The police thugs, the brutal killpolis were on hand with a wilt of ing of Ness and Belor, who died Leaving Pler 11, East River, foot Wall St. at P.
must be no common platform, but Address agreement on practical aims to be habeas corpus. But before the vag. yesterday from his wounds, could Teket 00 respected and to be honored. To City raney charge could be heard, the not stop the strike.
State men were transferred to Judge Martial law could not stop the Ausplees: International Workers School, 144 Second Avenue, keep separate banners, but to strike Guildford court.
unitedly must be the objective.
There the city strike. ARNE SWABECK.
Strike at Martial Law!
the bosses.
ready their case.
individual MOONLIGHT EXCURSION