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WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE THEMILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America VOLUME VII, NO. 46, WHOLE NO. 250 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934 PRICE CENTS Weavers Will Decide MOONEY WINS COURT HEARING; Jobless Organizations On Joining General MASS ACTION NEED OF HOUR Lay Nationwide Plans Nails Wolf to Dyers Spurn Boss Progressives Truce Offer and Labor Door In Conference ForConventionDelegates March Nov. 24 for Accomodations Needed (1, 100LocalBodies Continue Struggle be followed by the proposedother Last spring the sotice Workers Set ForElevator Strike Here: Students in Free Speech Fightin outside After 18 long years the Supreme Court, clocked in the mantle of an impartial justice has finally dis covered the existence the Moony Che The whole world quivered with Giant Meeting Dec. 2nd indignation over the brazen frameup. The international working class To Greet Fusion marched in the streets shouting its protest. Every scrap of evidence Arrangements for a gala mass used to send Mooney to life long meeting to greet the delegates Unemployment Insurance Incureeration was proved perjured. Militant Program Outlinedor town delegates to the conven: Relief Demands to the conventions of the Com Scheme Provides Paterson, Nov. 16. When the munist League of America and tions of the and the Witnesses against Mooney confessed By Fifteen Trade Union Militant comes off the press, the the American Workers Party No Solution that they had sold their testimony Representatives Spartacus Youth League.
respectively, are progressing.
New York, Nov. 14. More than for a few Althy dollars. The trial The convention of the 750, 000 unemployed, organized in weavers will have decided the issue Germania Hall 10th St, and will open on Monday, November President Roosevelt, embarrassed Judge issued a statement conceding of a complete tle up in the silk insoine 100 local bodies from New St. Paul, Minn. Not only has 20th at the Stuyvesant Casino 3rd Ave has been tentatively by the startling election landslide, Slooney innocence. All living trade unionism in general been York to California and from Minne.
dustry.
and will last until Thursday, to selected and the date is to bel can no longer conceal the reaction Jurors have signed affidavits desota to Texas are expected to par.
Meanwhile the negotiations by FuSunday night, December 2nd ary nature of the New Deal behind claring that they brought in the stimulated in this region by the in the great drivers strikes of last spring slon Conference for ticljate in public protest meetings means of which the dye plant oper which will be the last day of a and demonstrations on Nov. 94, ac.
three days.
ators had hoped to force upon the the promised Fusion Conference.
The time has come to fulfill the But the Supreme Court away from ments both in the of and cording to an announcement mode dye workers the continuation of Admission is to be 25c.
As you might guess, the delepromise to the working class, and the madding, crowd, in splendia independent unions have taken on yesterday at the office of the Nathe intolerable conditions prevall Qutstanding among the speakgates will not be able to stop at the government has juridical isolation failed to take a new lease of life. The best Indiabsolutely hotels.
ing in the industry under the old tional Action Committee For Nov.
While we are arranging ers will be delegates from Min nothing to give.
cation is the outcome of a confer to feed the delegates throughout ember 24th, located at 22 East 22nd contract have been broken off. neapolis and Toledo who were President made a desperate play The Big Hearted Deelsion ence held recently in St. Paul, The maneuvers of the bosses active in both strikes and mem their stay, we must depend upon Street. Thly Committee, under for popularity, he intimated that Having finally bestirred itsell, which representatives of about 15 avalled them nothing in the face whose auspices the manifestations bers of the National Committee our members and close sympa the new congress this fall would the Supreme Court is not granting unions in various parts of the of the determined front of thell of the and the Provisionthizers to accommodate them representatives of the country will be conductal, is composed of workers. The Industry has been al Organization Committee of see the passage of a sweeping refooney a new trial. Nor does it state attended.
with sleeping quarters.
form, of Great Social Securits propose to enter an elaborate exleading unemployed organizations, If you can possibly take care completely shut down since the in the as well as a repreAll were mmion officials, acting Program. Throughout the summer amination of the case. The sum with the winction of their executive located in twenty two states. 10 of one or more delegates, please ception of the strike. The 25, 000 sentative of the Spartacus Youth the American working class con total of its munificent decision is a boards. Although the conference addition, a million or more unor striking dyers are resolute in their League which is holding its first soled itself with the hope of this summons to Warden Holahan of was purely informal, it is likely to All out the blank below and mall ganized unemployed and trade undecision to strike until their de Convention the same week.
AT ONCE.
reform. Indeed, not only the peo San Quentin to show cause why lead to serious developments in the ion members are expected to par mands are met.
According to reports, there ple, but even the intimate advisers Alooney should be denied a writ of near future. Cooperation on a pro DELEGATE ACCOMMODATION ticipate in the day program.
Having failed to force what will be approximately seventy of the resident, appear to have habeas corpus. And he has forty gressive lutsis was the object of the In all likelihood this will be the BLANK amounts to the conditions of the old five to one hundred delegates tol been deceived days to do it in!
greatest single campaign action of conference and a resolution of the conventions of the Commucontract with the added provision can provide sleeplug quarters unemployed workers seeking anneliThere can be no doubt but that principles, which might well serve for. delegate.
that the dye workers bind themThis Thursday two hundred econist League and the Spartacus Male or female. oration of their condition wbich the nomists and welfare workers gath this is a ray of hope however as a model for other states, was selves not to strike for two years Youth League and almost as country has seen since the depresered in Washington to launch the slender it may be for long suffer the outcome.
against the very same conditions many to the YOUR NAME sion began. The demonstrations, This resolution covers the folthey are now fighting, the dye operGreat Social Security Program, ing Mooney! The explanation for Keep the date in mind. Come gathered, as they which will be of uniform character ADDRESS.
thought to the action of the Washington Jus towing points: in atore intend to break the strike and bring your friends and all launch a New Era.
regions, will begin at 10 am thees can hardly be laid their For industrial unionism Directions for reaching your now local time, and will have as their force The importation of shopmates to this historic meetwherever Bold Stroke Niggardly Reforms much vaunted liberalism. Nor through amalgamation scabs, gangsters and provocateurs ing which will be the orerunner home: aim the presentation by mass deleHarry Hopkins, Federal Reliet can it be said that pressure of the possible and through bullding inand the direct utilization of the of the founding of a new revolugations of a set of eght demands Administrator, addressed the con aroused working class is respons dustrial unions in all mass producpolice, and all the armed forces of tionary workers party in Ameraddressed to local county and state gress, and aroused it to enthusiasm. Ible. No, for years the movement tion industries.
their government locally and relief authorities for transmission ica He spoke of the necessity for a for Nooney has lain dormant be To promote class solidarity throughout the state scale, reveals to Washington bold stroke to unite all phases trayed by labor skates, derided by and reciprocal aid between all untheir frantie efforts for this end, delegation of fifteen, representof cconomic security in a single liberals and false friends and stif ions in times of trouble and strife.
ing the leading unemployed organFighting the Strike with Bullets comprehensive program. Doubtless Led by Stalinists and reformists. For unity against vigilantes, izations of the States, exTheir plan of campaign is obvl.
pects to present a report and a copy ous. They are attempting to break the congress to accomplish some answer when he anid the Supreme committees and the lice.
of the eight point platform to Presthe strike by trying to reopen thing more than a few niggardly Court follows the election returns. To promote working class ident Roosevelt at the White House plants at the outlying centers. The reforms.
Three fourths of a million votes education through forums, lectures, two or three days after the nation.
strike stronghold being Paterson, We weren t, for it la evident that for Sinclair in California were discussions, classes and an organ.
wide demonstrations. The eight the bonnes are for the moment conthe capitalist government cannot votes for the liberation of Mooney. To infuse the labor movement Los Angeles. The reactionary points are: centrating on plants e of improve matters radically for the What will the Supreme Court do? with the class struggle attitude, to tory California strikes That the Federal government Paterson. The first plant the bosses workers of the country. It is no Will its gesture recognizing this acquaint workers with the truth whip of undertake public works to provide attempted to reopen is the Warren The Building Service Employees, longer a matter of Intention, for vore mean something real for Moon that the interests of the wage again. This time five students work for the unemployed at trade Dye Works at Union City. The International Union went ahead with the best possible will in the or will it lead to the same old worker and those of the ware from the University of California union rates on the basis of a 830 antagonistic, and to oppose class at Los Angeles (U. take the tor 30 hour week: Passage of mass pleket line of workers from with preparations for a city wide world the New Deal can not deliver stall?
Paterson, Lodi and Passaic was at: walkout of building service work who realizes this completely, that is as to what the Supreme Court will stinging tash in the form of suspen the Lundeen Unemployment TransWe cannot prophesy beforehand collaboration, tacked by the police, who used ers after To promote organization of sion. This has occurred in the ance Bill now before Congress; their clubs and revolvers The Real Estate Board of New York, the President himself. He knows do, but it past experiences with unemployed workers for the protec hent of a bitter election campalen. Pending these immedinte direct John Burnside, president of the cash rellet of 10 weekly for single pollee fred shots the shots were the employers organization refused that the New Deal is nothing more capitalist courts mean anything it tion of the unions as well as for the benefit of the unemployed. student body: Tom Lambert, chairpersons, 15 weekly for families of this plant into a fortress with ma wage increases and the closed shop. rested two years ago, on its pro ness in Moones cell.
the unlon demand for than an ineffectual stop gap, and must be said that the ray of hope that its popularity now rests, as it will penetrate little of the dark sub committee is now perfect man of the men board. Mendeltwo, and weekly for each addchine guns, it is not operating.
ing the text of this declaration, and Lieberman, chairman of the schol tlonal dependent; Guarantee of Protest Is Only Weapon the conference, this time on an en arship committee: Sid Tagel, de the rights of organization and col.
The inception of the boss terror sued Monday. More than 45, 000 mise, and not on its accomplish larged scale and more formal, will bating head; and Celeste Strach, lective bargaining to all workers on is accompanied by the familiar workers are expected to respond. ment. The President problem is Union leaders have ludicated that to keep up the promise to keep up other court, governor or capitalist view of the militant spirit of trade the National Student League representatives of organized noem The Supreme Court and every meet again in the near future. In It Betta Kapp and member of publie projects; Recognition of which is attempting to terrorize the the walkout will first become erfaith in the New Deal as long as official in the country respond to union members throughout this and dared fly in the face of that dicta ployed by relief administrations; strikers with Indirect threats of tective in the garment center possible but he is already begin: one thing, and one thing only when neighboring states, it may be ex tor of liberty, exponent of Deweya Federal adequate disability com planta moving out of the areas of where building owners have broken one single promise, except the pro Action, protext and strike by the rent will go far in the Minnesota Thursday at 2:00 Scope of to and from the job: Diversion and of direct threats to operate through the mediation of the Re me to business, has materialized working class!
plants with imported scabs. gional Labor Board. The strike No Wild Ideas Wantel labor movement. It is one of the Course: Training in independence of all war funds to unemployment When Mooney was about to swing most hopeful signs in recent years, thought. The workers know that dye will then be extended to the finan The Great Social Security Pro in 1916 it was only the stormy and in itself a tribute to the effec of the very right Provost relief: Passage of universal Moore. 30 hour work week law without plants cannot be run with scabscial and apartment house districts. gram fizzled out in a dismal flasco demonstrations that stayed the ex. tive militancy of the strike leader Accused by Dr. Moore (once pay cuts.
and machine guns; and they have ship of the drivers Union of MinnePreparations for the Xov. 94 learned from the experiences of (Continued on Page Continued on Page Continued on Page 4)
apolls. Continged on Page 4) demonstrations have been proceedthe past few months that their ing rapidly in all sections during only hope lies in their own strength, the past weeks, according to David solidarity and militancy.
Lasser, Secretary of the Striking the Stallers who has just returned from a meetThe most important developments ing of the Committee in Pittsburgh of this week are the unmistakable which ratified final details.
signs that the silk weavers are not By JAMES CANNON statement issued by the organ to be restrained any longer by the izations cooperating in the Nov. 24 vacillations and cowardliness of We celebrate the sixth anniver tence, the confusion and disintegra. peared on the scene and they in door in the faces of those weaklings them to seek a new point of de movement places the number of un progressive El Keller and by sary of the Militant on the eve of tion of the movement, the question turn split among themselves and and deserters of the revolutionary parture.
employed in the country, aside from the betrayal of his reactionary our national conference which has of our fusion has thrown them into moved in opposite directions (the cause who want to unite every. Fundamentally, the parties and part time workers, at 12, 000, 000, a Allies.
to pass final decision on the pro ternal crises which herald splitsill starred Gitlow Field group. for body in the Socialist party che new themselves to the rising mass more latest estimate of the American and closgroups find necessary to adapt figure somewhat higher than the The militant drive of the silk posal to unite forces with the or liquidation in practically every example. es the debate with them.
case.
workers has been to join the dyers and launch a new, independ.
The Post Lenin Seene in their common struggle Their ent revolutionary party. From all The Influence of the Fusion party thus deepens the split in the inent in one way or another. The Federation of Libero According to The general picture of the whole political movement with the reform discards the whole idiotic rigInsistance on meeting the open present indications the conferences The actual accomplishment of post Lenin period in the United 1st and centrist parties, and gives amarole of the Third Period strations will volce a protest against compelled Keller and his parls to simultaneously, with approve the repercussions. It will mark the Integration. The masses to work definite, finished form, while it below. theory of Social Fascism. ployment rellet arrangements and accede to meeting which should recommendations of their respec. opening of a new stage in the proces awakening to class conscious heralds the unity of the revolution etc. like a dirty shirt, liquidates reflect the increasins sentiment of have been called, at least, simul tive national committees and con ess of differentiation and regroupness were repelled by it. They ary elements in the struggle against its separate unlons pelimell, and the unemployed for full time jobs taneously with that of the dyersclude the fusion in a joint conven ment in the general movement of left the parties, or passed through them. The chaos and disintegra knocks at the back door of the Petelecent workers wohe rongly tware on the this question of the strike.
case as we are confident it will. ticipants on both sides prove equal ganxations, waiting for a sign of up of parties. Social Democratic pact. The pushes its left conts are characterized. unity and orderie the general Stalinist (Centrist) and the party wing forward, and decorates itself statement as starvation wagen, en uimity of the weavers, warpers, the conclusion of the first phase of the fusion will decisively chaos. The fusion of the of revolutionary Marxism. Small with the red feathers of a few pecially in view of the fact that throwsters, twistors and loomfixers our historic struggle, first as a the future developments of the po and the that is, of the two groups and individuals will find wretched captured the average wage is het ween 86 and communists. 12 weekly.
on the question of strike. Unless action then a separate Indepen litical labor movement in the largest and strongest of the inde their place in one or the other, and Meanwhile the small propaganda The participating organizatious Also regard as unsatisfactory the head again resorts to its stalling chapter of joint struggle with other cisive intiuence from the very start. for such workers the opening of a disclose their real tendency unfall in the period of stagnation and re tactics of telegraphing Gorman, progressive forces on a broader The twofold significance of the contrary process, the process of the ingly. The issue will be clear. action are confronted by events rellef rates which range from 12 The Test of Present Conditions with a veritable command to break to 38 monthly for family, and Green and Co. for approval. the basis. The time 18 ripe for such a move will not be lost on those who umification of the Tonary weavers will come out next week decisive turn, and we are ready observe political developments, es forces. By that fact The process of carification, un out of their propaganda clrcle and the fact that in most regions single in support of the dyers and to fight for it.
pecially on those who want to take fusion will stir the deepest interest Acation and split, in a word, the connect themselves with the mass men get no relief. The general at.
for the demands they were so The prospect of fusion between a part in shaping their course, and attention of the non party rad process of regroupment on party movement or suffer annihilation titude of relier administrators to shamefully cheated out of in the the and the has be First, the fusion will represent ical workers and help to break lines and the liquidation of separ. Those groups which do not heed ward efforts of the ninemployed to last general strike. Their action come the center interest in the the first step toward unification of their passivity with regard to or ate groups, has not been invented this command in time are doomedoreanize 18 also disapproved will have magnificent results. It radical labor movement. It has al the revolutionary forces that has ganization or set into motion by the groups o The Course of the League strongly by these organizations.
Among the powerful organizawill spread the strike to the entire ready produced sharp reactions in been seen for thirteen years! Since On the other hand, and this is parties, all of which, without ex Pascale Valley, and if the bosses all circles, ranging from panic in the merger of the with the no less important, the formal pro ception, are caught in it. The hus understood this. Such is the the Easterne Feteration of unen mands, they will be faced not with cal appeals to the rank and sle group) at the end of 1921 there has all speculation about a return to movement is taking place under the followed during the past year. The which has branches in New York but with the entire organized force to hasty manoeuvres of the pseudo more groups getting together. The have broken with it on principle in the working class of the country, party and Comintern, the course land; the National unemployed ut labor in the industry golden opportunity once again doors to penitent ex communists in Trotskyitos in 1928. Less than This will leave no more room for their part, specially in the funda: tive participation in strikes, the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North races the workers of Paterson to the hope that they will provide the a year later the right wing (Love those who have occupied a hallway mentai ideological regroupment, but approach to the the moment Carolina, Mississippi and Kentuckets take the lead and win frat for with left covering to halt stoneltes) who had officiated in this position. They will have to choose it is the rising mass movement of it declared for an independent po the Minois Workers Alliance; the themselves the UNION SHOP, the the movement toward the new expulsion were themselves expelled. At the same time the launching of the American workers, which a litical party all tbls has been in Wisconsin Federation of Workers 30 hour week and higher wages, party. As for the numerous small. The Proletarian Party. Stselt aj the new parts, irreconellably bos: putting all the organizations and spired and motivated on our part Committees and the American Paterson has shown the way be independent groups, which have ex small sect, suffered two splits. Atile to social democracy in all groupe to the test, shaking them Workers Union with groupe in fore. It is going to do so again. pressed, by the fact of their exis multiplicity of little grouplets ap colors and variations, slams the lont of the old ruts and driving (Continued on Page Continued on Page 2)
FOR NEW REVOLUTIONARY PARTY!