French Main Butt of Attack; ON THE FIRING LINE Gets First at Progressives Meet acestou no Lovestone ante Trot Issues Paper Payment Lovestoneite Easy on Labor Fakers; No Mention of 574 de in Akron Needle issue.
The reports, which were who alemi Par were al core in locazie hela ama de les eleven teleport Labor Mayor Rally Aid For 574 PAGE NEW MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935 The real reason for this strange attack on the Workers Party at a progressive meeting can be found in the political needs of the Lovestore group. It is a needle trades local Socialist Party radio broad. tant strike of the warehouse men skyist articles. It has two purposes.
casts. Lacking sufficient signatures earlier this year. It is interesting under the County Commissioner to note that this selfsame Taylor One to show the Communist Party rules, the Communist Party has Milling Company was one of the failed to get on the ballot. Al struck companies which finally with them in their efforts to isolate Announcement of the early pub reports of the vicious red balting the Workers Party from any partic though stalinist support was not saw the light and signed up. Continued from Page 1) lication of an English Jewish pro union wrecking campaign started by ipation in the mass movement. Two, AKRON, Nov. In an insolicited by the right wing con. Workers of Stockton also will rethe seine were for the purpose of gressive paper and an attack on William Green representative to attempt to discredit the work tensitled effort to give a correct trolled Socialist Party here, nor temember that it was in this previ Alling en vacancies in the Senate the workers Party were the chiet Meyer Lewis, against the militanters Party in the eyes of the social program to the rubber workers in there a pretense at a Uolted Labor ous strike that Ray Morency, millclectors, corresponding to the man meeting held by the Progressive movement. Like all informed people, effort to act as marriage broker lengthening and wage cutting by actually electing candidates met his death from a gun in the Icipal councillors and other ou Needle Trade Center of New York Zimmerman knew that this attack between the stalinists and the the companies, the Akron branch of against reactionary clique, the hands of the boss son officials and deputies. majority last Saturday. This is the first was directed against the leaders of The Building Trades Council and the Workers Party has published Stalinists are giving unreserved Easy op Dubinsky was required for election. The meeting held since the center was a real progressive movement in its first issue of the GUM MINER support to the making no the San Joaquin Labor Council have electors totalled 1, 246. The results formally organized early last Jane Minneap whorendere e logo to weate the progressive Center in June, four page paper.
At the meeting which founded (local idiom for rubber worker. a criticism of them, presenting no in both placed the Western Building whom are close to the Zimmerman also attacked the Work What the United Rubber Work dependent position.
Company and the Taylor Milling In former years when a small company on the We don patronPierre Laval and his confrere, FianFrente Populaire bene contre este meeting was to beat report are. Tower of convention by progres leader speaking to a meeting of cette, sive official delegates. progressives at such a time should addition he had a few words of is the featured article. clear rev. placed on the ballot, vigorous However, what is needed is not This came about in an exceed. The chair was occupled by Louts have used the occasion to rally the other oficials of the Amalgamated question is presented in another was conducted Today, the onte promises of support but campaign merely passive resistance and plat ingly curious manner. Seven Front Levy, manager of Loen! of the progressive forces present In sollPopulaire candidates received the Cloakmakers and a progressive of darity with the hard pressed mill even the latter was lacking. They column are used to enliven the unstinting support to the reform. 20 scabs are working, a mass pick Clothing Workers Union. Today, article. Cartoons and a Dear Em without any embarrassment gives militant action. First, only 15 or requisite majority (624 or more sorts. In his local, 150 left wing tants in Minneapolis.
votes. Only Cachin falled! What! ers who joined the local in 1983 Not so, Zimmerman.
ists. progressiveism of the et linel could easily prevent the He had heads uppened Blum kiposent are kept as semi serts, paying dues other lsh to try. With garbled quo Trades Center we may Judge by Special attention is given to the Next year there will be a ticket scabs from continuing. Second, the tells us on the front page of Popu. but having no say on union affairs. tations from the NEW INTERNA the speeches of Zimmerman, is be light of local 674 of Minneapolis representing the revolutionary post warehouse men working in the mill that about 100 delegates of the Reports were given by Reuben an attack not on Green, nor this point where it will be acceptable of bureaucrats and the support the ticket of the Workers ready they have helped in picketing Front Populaire did not vote for Zuckerman, chairman of the Joint representative, but on the Workers to Dubinsky.
unions are urged to support the Party, when not busy handling loads.
Cachin on the first ballot.
At the conclusion of Zimmer local, in the final article. The This paradoxical situation of Board of the Cloakmakers (a well. Party, charging that the had People Front Votes for Laval Building Trades men striking the. a Sugar Workers Strike part of the mill that is being conWhere did those votes go? No and by Nathan Margolles, assistant period policies of the Communist was streaming from the hall, Sam three weeks, 250 coples per issue.
structed, while warehouse men less than go of them, says Blum, manager of Local 22 who is also Party. The workers present were Baron, of the an For Reconition handle grain in another part must went to Laval who was also elect. playing with the Progressives this proprised away this attack workers with the limited time at his dis Another Strikebreaking ed on the first ballot polling 647 season.
be ended, and a lesson in union solvotes. The unbreakable front of TRACY, Cal. Oct. 30. Forced to idarity taught to the gentlemen of the Front Populaire cracked to let ish, were generally factual, dealing challenging leadership of Zim Baron as effective a report strike because of continued firing the Taylor Milling Company as well of union members, the Sugar Work as a real example of cooperation Layal into the Senate as represen with matters already covered in our merman and the Progressive on the Minneapolis situation as ative of the Seine!
press. In addition, Zuckerman gave Group? Unfortunately the 18 Trossible, announcing his solidarity (By a Worker Correspondent)
ers Union is conducting a strike for shown to the rest of Stockton abor.
The Grinding its teeth at this hum111 an interesting account of the per not strong organizationally in local with those under attack. BEAUMONT, Texas. Mayor Punion recognition.
The Holly Sugar Corporation 18 atlon, Humanite charges Doriot sonal characteristies, age, etc. of 22, and what forces It has have speech of the Soclalist, Sam Baron, Renfro, of this city, has proven with NEW responsibility. Dortot, It the delegates to the congress. supported the Progressive Group was in striking contrast with that an apt sidekick for Latimer, the determined that no union shall labor mayor of Following the reports came what was the attack then just an er of the Communist, Zimmerman.
Minneapolis exist in any of its several large seems, betrayed the Front Poputhe st, so PAMPHLETS delegates from voting for his old speech of Charles Zimmerman, union wrecking campaign in Minn meeting, the first membership ism, the labor unions of this town determined that the right of the friend Cachin. Populaire brightly manager of Local 22 and leader of eapolis? No, we do not for a momeeting of the Progressives. At no were instrumental in defeating the workers to organize for decent We are now embarking on a suggests that not a few delegates, the Progressive Center, Zimmer ment, believe that was the inten time during the meeting were the former city administration and wages, for sanitation, for seniority now program of pamphlet publieaselected from all colors in the front, man was well primed for the occation, though the speech dld serve members given an opportunity to electing Renfro and his colleagues, and for safety devices shall be tion to be issued and distributed sion. The press had just carried that purpose.
take the fibor.
last spring. Before the election, the maintained.
by the NEW MILITANT business were bougbt over.
politicians, running on the labor The busy or campaign season office. The first pamphlet to be Give the Dog Hs Bone of Industrial unionism in MinneaAt any rate, this defection caused But even a corpse can give off a ticket spoke with tears in their is on, and as a number of the men published under this arningement polis. Frightened by the strong deadly poison.
eyes of friendship for the working are skilled, the company hand is It is becoming man, alarums and excursions. Between deals with the burning question being forced. Some men have al of war, written John West the first and second ballots (addiunionists, the bureaucrats of the crystal clear that Green, and local scals protected by police consti ready been asked to come back by It is already in the printers tional ballots were required to all editions of himself, are violently tute the redemption of Renfro Holly Sugar Corporation.
craft unions, headed by Green, are resolved to use any and all weappledges. Members of the Internahands and should be out within the two sents still vacant) the vie.
Ald is being sought from the varCasting all union principle to the one to utilize the worst sort of tional Longshoremen Association tous unions in the locality, couple of weeks torious Radicals and Socialists The Into its forty eight make is Agreed that the Communists had winds and serking to rouse a lynch criminal and Black Hundred eleconfidently expected that the Bean San Joaquin Labor Council has crammed a thorough Marxian anloyally voted. It is an essential (Continued from Page 1)
spirit against the progressive un ments, in their almost hopeless mont city administration would promised support. Since the team alysis of imperialist wars. It is ions under the guise of the red duty to vote for them. Give the persistent solicitation to induce any seare. Directed me they are against struggle to resuscitate themselves. pursue a hands ore polley during the sters and the Tug boat men bring entirely up to date, dealing with It is a tribute to the militants of current strike. dog his bone. He earned it. Hasn large number of our employees to progressive tendencies in the winneapolithose militants whoidized Lone Star Dock Workers contacted in an effort to get them the issues involved in the war in he foresword Communist independ join the Hosiery Workers unlon, Ethiopia and the present conflict ence? And wouldn the workers the business agent of the Central labor movement, these provocative be following a real lead from an Labor Union, Roy Weir, assisted statements can only serve to destroy bave led and are leading such as Association has been permitted to to declare Holly Sugar Corporation Ing Imperialist interests that in threaten to expand this war into organization with such resources? by these imported outside organ All sane thinking persons should against the forces of oppression ties.
rather than create inchestrial peace. nificent working essential to get the support of these a general world conflagration. The By all means, give the dog his. bone iners of the Hosiery Workers Un condemn these tactics as an un that Green should have spotlighted! The union petitioned the city two unions. However, difficulties So to the second ballot. This ion, solicited the active assistance role of social patriotism and the thesperate were needed to win. of the communist leaders, the Gen serupulous attempt by dique of this city of all cities, should have council to close the port during the stand in the way of securing this role of the League of Nations, the Agents of social patriotism the Cachineral Drivers Union, Local 574. its self seeking individuals to gain directed his first fusillade against period of the strike. But the mem cooperation. reactionary bureau bers of that labor elected body ha crats in both the teamsters and present war situation is thorough acro, winner with 620only reller workers auxiliary, and the their own selfish ends at the ex our comrades, ly dealt with.
two votes ahead of Flancette, The Green challenge is accepted out in order not to take action the tug boat men unions are stallA leaders of the Workers Party of the pense of the democratic rights of Mayor Renfro feebly excuses hising off representatives of the Sugar close shave for our Marcel. all organized workers.
The fight to the finish is on.
In this pamphlet by comrade United States. This group reWest we have a veritable arsenal Let us examine the ballot counts sponded on August 16 be mobiliz It is a fight of progress against sell out by saying that the port is Workers Union.
Lewis only reply to these stateof unassailable Marxian argumore carefully. In the first counting a hostile mob which appeared ments was to say they were to be reaction of the oppressed against prtly under the jurisdiction of the Many of the men have never been in a trade union before but ments. In sum and substance it the candidates for the Front Popu at our plant and, by illegal mass expected. The Minneapolis drive is their oppressors of all that seeks Federal government.
The backward rural sections of thes are learning fast and having laire lined up as follows: and mob activities, forcibly pre not a flash in the pan; nelther has those who seek to drag it back. In this state have been scoured for seen deputies herd the scabs, they ary Marxism right in the teeth of Mounie, Radical Socialist. 801 Sellier, LO.
Fleurot Rep. Sopii. 737 to work and compelled us to close the contrary, has been very care this teht, we in Minneapolis ex cablabor which has been shipped can see who is on the side of labor the imperiallat war mongers.
This pamphlet will retall at 10 st. 730 cents and party branches should Steeg, Radical Socialist. 696 ing of all that is good and healthy notorious ex state ranger, has been dustrialists. The Aghting spirit is when we sought to reopen our Clarion Battle Cory to the Nation in the American Sabor a movement. hired by the hired by the com high. Picket lines are maintained head in their orders right awar Auray, French Socialist. 671 plant and resume operations, a Progressives Bachelet, Puplat We stand with braced feet beyond panies to command their private 24 hours a day to get the scabs out Better yet, any orders pald in ad.
still larger and more violent mob Now for the explanation of this the front line trenches. waiting to force of thugs, stool pigeons and and win the strike.
yance will speed the actual apMorizet, LO. 638 recruited from these same organ whole malignant cancer which is receive on our shoulders the brunt strong arm boys. widespread sym pearance of this pamphlet. The wholesale price is cents per Cachin, 590 unlawfully assemble at our factors order later to squirm its branch anticipate things every strong de pinoy prevented, thus far, the calling out Bldg. Trades Fight copy for 10 copies or more, with Clamamus, 579 We were again forced to close and es and tentacles throughout the gressive in the entire country will of the National Guard.
Piginler, 577 special arrangements for special Scabs in Calif.
have remained closed ever since. vitals of America. It is just a few support us with all strength in the sized orders: but credit will be On the Laval list, the premier given only to a limited extent.
himself came in, elected, with 647 with the usual threat to put a pos The Strutwear statement closes weeks ago, at the Atlantic City battle that approaches, against am Stalinists Vote SocSTOCKTON, Cal. Oct. 31. The It is important to remember; votes. Flancette polled 676 with tage stamp on the factory and mall rupt Green machine was repelled Green, the Citizens Alliance, the attempt made by the Western En. however, that the distribution of the other candidaten trailing. Thus it out of town. It would be doing in its fight against all progressive Farmer Labor Mayor, the police ialist in Phila.
gineering Co. of Los Angeles to use this pamphlet is considered there are seven ana the Frenec People an injustice to our customers to ideas in the American trade union and other scoundrels will bring scab labor on a building job for the very important part of the party lafre llet Laval were elected.
PHILADELPHIA, Pe The Com. Taylor Milling Company has been campaign against war. It must The Denerving Cachin apolls.
and buggy unionism and Industrial cleared away, when the battle is munist Party bookshop and offices met by a pleket line of the local therefore be given the widest pol Note that no less than 211 votes All Progressive Thought Threatened untonism is now not only out in won, we will find that the American here display large sigus saying Buildine Trades Council.
Blblo circulation. Branches would separated Cachin from the Radical do well by Assigning to them Socialist at the top of the list. In Meyer Lewis has already at the open, but practically settled in Inbor movement has made immense Vote Socialist and announcing Workers bere remember the mil selves a definite quota of pamthe second ballot, which brought vulged the wide scope of his plan, so far as there is not the slightest strides forward.
Ale is phlets to distribute and set to The bugles are calling! On to Cachin in only two votes abead of whtch, if successful would once doubt but that the rank THE MANAGER CORNER work without delay.
Flancette, hls 620 votes were still aguin place upon Minneapolis the overwhelmingly with the progres battle: Other pamphlets are on the 181 votes from the Mounie total. stigma of being an open shop town. sives. What was significant about schedule and will follow In short AFFAIR This gives some suggestion as toas happened in 1924 when the last the official vote was not that the the position of the stalinists in of Lource occurred. This Tented by 18. 025 to 10, 924, but that SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 One thousand new subscribers Albert Lea, Minn order. From comrade Trotsky we this bloe of classes in which the work cannot be limited to a com 90 percent of the delegates from receive promise of manuscript Good Music, Food, Drinks and a corresponding increase in Allentown, Pa.
Entertainment.
Mounles, the Selliers, the Fleurots. munist purge. When we get startbundle sales by the time of the Austin, Minn.
for a pamphlet on the Seventh second Workers Party convention at 320 East 14th Street, Comintern Congress. pamphlet the Steegs. passionately devoted ed it must be a fight also against city and state labor bodies voted on the of L, by Ame Swato the national defense are lead those who are furnishing the am favor of the industrial form of Admission 150 on December 26. This is our next Berkeley, Cal.
aim. It is modest enough, in fact Boston, Mass.
beck is also in preparation, Ing the French version of the K160 munition and weapons to those organization Green, Woll and Co. see the hand Auspices: Branch we have been deliberate in setting Charleston, Va.
Others will be announced subsesuch a modest aim in order to make Chicago. III.
quently. knows no enemies in the French only the starting place. The writing on the wall. They see that people (l Humanite, Oct. Is campaign is to be nation wide their rotten policies that have unWORKERS EDUCATIONAL sure that it will be reached.
Cleveland, Ohio symbolically in its place at the tail Here, in black and white is a dermined the trade union move.
FORUM Reaching this aim will also mean Columbus, Ohio.
CHICAGO MEETING end.
warning to all progressive thought ment for many, many years are that the funds necessary to launch Davenport, Iowa Sponsored by the Philadelphia Better discipline in the Front in the American Inbor movement. now no longer acceptable to trade The Danger of a New World the eight page weekly will be at Detroit, Mich.
Populaire would have brought more This means that the mildest pro unionists to whom these depression Local, Workers Party hand. The eight page weekly will Dickson City, Pa.
Warn Sears have begun to teach the les431 Pine Street, decisive results, said Ilumanite sressive will not be spared in this Speaker: ALBERT GLOTZER be assured, and it will start out Fargo. Dakota.
learned. Like a Member Natl. Committee, on Oct. 22. Our Communist Party latest drive. If Bill Green has his sons that must could point to the sicrifices it has way. No Or who does not agree cornered rat, Green is desperately Sunday, Nov. 17 JAMES RORTY, with a larger circulation. These Gulfport, Miss well known author and journal two propositions are tied together High Point, TUESDAY, NOV. 12, P.
made in the Seine to give satisfne with the narrow and backward aging a last ditch battle in de ist: The Intellectuals and Their in the general objective of a strong. Kansas City, Mo.
1237 California Are.
tion to all the groups in the Front views of Green, Woll, and the Citi fense of his tottering throne. He Place in the Revolutionary Moveer and more effective press. Los Angeles, Cal Ausp: Branch 2, Chicago Populaire. but it shall not stop rens Alliance will be free from per and his bureaucratie entourage ment.
It is necessary to remember at all Minneapolis, Minn.
for useless recriminations. And secution at the hands of these witness with wide eyed dismay this was under the heading Moreshameful and contemptible wretch elr grip upon the working class Sunday, Nov. 24 LUDWIG LORE, times that the press is our main in Mount Carmel. Pa WORKERS begin to s! ip with that grip also columnist for the Phila. Record: strument. But just now, with the Newark, Than Ever Front Populaire. New Alignments In Europe. war clouds thickening everywhere, New Castle, Pa.
Protect Yourselves Against the Class and parts independence Progressives Organize for Defense Sets that are ngathering about the Sunday, Dec. A. MUSTE, NA there is a special occasion to devote New Haven, Conn.
have been entirely surrendered by Hazards of Life. Join the the French Stalinists for a seat after the first rocket was sent up are the stenches that arise from a On Wednesday night, a few hours factory chimneys of Minneapolis tional Secretary of the extraordinary efforts to build up New York City Branch The of Convention in the press and lay the foundation for WORKMEN SICK DEATH in the Senate. For a seat in the by William Green, a conference of corpse in the initial stages of de Atlantle City.
a stronger party.
Branch BENEFIT FUND OF THE government tomorrow Each party branch has been asked they. and fifteen of locals, led by composition: the corpse of class Sunday, Dec. MAURICE SPECBranch their reformist bureaucratie blood Local 574, met in the machinists collaboration, impotent craft union 1884 1936 TOR, former member Executive subscriptions to be obtained during brothers, Blum, Faure, Zyromski headquarters. The unions present Branch to accept a definite quota of new Branch Organized, managed by and for Committee Communist Interna the period set. But this does not and Co. will deliver up the work included the Public Building Seri Branch workers with only one purpose: ers to the Fascists, to the cannon vice Employees, the Laundry Work preclude the assistance of others. Branch to render protection to members of imperialist war.
ers, the Painters, the station AtBrunch On the contrary, we welcome every SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE and their familles, and to sup tendants, the Lathers, the Machinreader as an active participant in General District work. 100 Muste, National Secretary ists. the Building Laborers, the port all endeavors and struggles this job. Similarly, we still wel Northampton, Pa.
of the Workers Party, will speak City and Sanitary Drivers, the for the improvement of tollera, come outright contributions for the Paterson, in Newark Sunday, Nov. 17, at Carpenters, the Upholsterers, and About 50. 000 members organeight page weekly and we shall Philadelphia. Pa. P. on Which Party for the the General Drivers ized in 350 branches. Reserves This conferrender a report from time to time Pittsburgh, Pa. 3, 400, 000.
American Worker The meeting ence of progressives adopted a res as we continue to advance toward Plenty wood, Mont.
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