PAGE NEW MILITANT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 The Crime of Scottsboro Needle Strike Impends! Will the of Split on the Issue of Industrial Unionism?
barndene district in the cargest gehe Troyanovsky Dodges consequences for its future the crafte nanion terms oficials secolo Lewis and his oficial co worker You given. With unprecedented enthusiasm before the opening of the halls, and solidarity 105, 000 drewmakers eager to take part in a union rally organled in the are in preparation for the strike.
ready to go over the top on Satur In the millinery trade negotiaday, Feb. 1, in a general strike that tions are still proceeding and it is Miami Meet Sharpens and the common pooplo in the By ARNE SWABECK AN EDITORIAL will close down every dress shop not yet clear whether the strike will in Metropolitan New York. At the be called February or later. The Reports from the Executive CounFor the fourth time an Alabama jury has convicted Haywood Pat same time, expiring agreements and bosses are demanding the right of il sessions, at Miami, Fla. fully Cleavage Between Old country.
demands for unlon conditions may reorganization which would be ruinbear out the unmistakable rumb Deep Organizational Gull Guard and Lewis mitted. This time Patterson has been given a 75 year sentence. Living also bring out 18, 000 furriers, the bus to the union.
lings of a conflict in the of In questions of basic class Ideolodeath in an Alabama all, the Alabama authorities seem to feel, will entire millinery trade and all more profound than any ever wit No doubt these most conscious ky it would be difficult to find be more difficult to fight than a death sentence. Patterson, on being and real distinction between John sentenced. declared: garment district in the largest gen d rather die than spend another day in jail for something industry.
eral tlo up ever known in the needle Sergei Trotsky Issue of is approaching a crisis prebiend whitese te voy vede alte the on the one hand, and Green and didn do.
Among the demands presented by (Editor Note: The Internation pected it is coming to its crossroads lenge not only to the control of Musions on this score would be Attorney Samuel Leibowitz, however, feels that he has won the ILG. are the following: al Committee for Political Prisoners and it must decide which way to what they consider their own special pernicious and worthy only of the victory. And Colonel Schieffelin, treasurer of the Scottsboro tablishment of a labor employment city editors on Jan. 29, 1936. sent out the following release to go The industrial unton issue is now idea of trade unionism. No matter questions of organizational polley Defense Committee, says that we should be thankful that Patterson bureau. 3) higher minimum scales a matter of intense dispute in the how stubborly they insist on the the gult already appears to be an life has been saved. 1) limitation of contractors. 5) This committee has been con high council and may soon become organization, they are aware of the tence of the Committee for IndusWe are not thankful. We do not agree with Leibowitz. We agres price settlement on Jobbers prem cerned over the disappearance in the axis of active struggle through with Patterson. This sentence is worse than a death sentence.
ises. 6) the unit system of pricel Soviet Russia of Leon Trotsky out the ranks of the organization. union Issue may set into motion admitted by the Executive Council dynamle forces that the Industrial trial Organization, as inadvertently It is a victory for the prosecution, not for the Scottsboro boys.
settlement.
son and daughter in law, Sergei On the sufree only this issue ap The latter are in greater danger than ever.
The union is strong both in mor Trotsky and his wife, both of pears to be involved; but the conflict under present day conditions. They declaration, is a challenge to the ale and finances and for months On the way back to Birmingham, after all other trials had been whom are said to have been in that is developing goes much deep may not be of the particularly old rock ribbed reactionary organize postponed. Oxle Powell was framed and shot by Aguard. Powell, strike. Strike halls are ready. Hall some time. Inquiry has been dibe more exact, Industrial untonism Media Reberto Bende levert bilen continuation of this committees subjected to extreme provocation, is said to have scratched the guard committees, picket committees the rected to the Soviet Embassy at face with knife Powell is close to death. For him well entire strike machine has been present cleavage.
Washington, but so far no infor the present day basis of a highly they are conscious srpporters of the work must of necessity deepen the As for the two boys in the car with him, there must be an uncompro prepared to handle the huge tle up mation has been made available developed industrial structure, the skil ought to have a special reward So far there has not been much mising defense against the charge of assault with intent to kill which Every member of the union, from as to thelr whereabouts. Young whole problem of which direction they consider as established by concrete evidence of direct Interthe oldest member to newest the State is bringing in order to discredit the boys fight for freedom Trotsky is twenty seven years old vention by this committee for inrecruit, enters the strike with suThe Scottsboro Defense Committee seems today to be concentratand a professor. His wife is a titude to the most burning questions tradition.
preme confidence that a satisfactory librarian. Neither of them have for the class struggle and its own Organization as Special Privilegedustrial organization in the mass ing on the idea of getting the case into a Federal court. number agreement can be won. Last minproduction industries. Neverthe of its spokesmen are arguing that Decatur juries convict because the ute conferences called by Mayor ever engaged in political artivity. policies and methods will be vitally In their opinion, organization is less, the raising of the issue is an Jurors are afraid of their neighbors. They say that a Fedeal jury in La Guardia have, up to the moment, We have in our possession ney.
eral interesting documents which licting forms of organization become therefore, to be a special privilege important step in itself and, as of the skilled workers and they could expected, a powerful re Alabama will be made up of people unafraid of their neighbors. They given no indication that the bosses say that these are people of standing, the best people of Alabama.
can be brought to their senses we will be glad to release to the predominant Militants should therefore, give feel that this can best be accom sponse followed immediately. The without a strike.
press concerning this case, and who want to see justice done.
the utmost attention to this present pushed in cooperation with the em automobile workers unton wrote Demands put forward by the if you care to get in touch with struggle in the of They ployers, or, at least, on friendly into its constitution, contrary to We too, think that a fight should be made to get the case into a us in regard to the story, we will Furriers Union are similar to those should become its most active par lations with them. Beyond this of decisions, a provision makFederal court. We support the appeal to higher courts, based on the of the Dressmakers: 30 hour week, gladly show them to any reporter ticipants.
their social philosophy does not ing the union industrial in charac.
fact that the lynch Judge of Decatur refused a change of venue and a closed shop. division of labor, etc. you care to send to our office.
transference to a Federal court.
As we write, furriers are Jamming Very truly yours, The Exeentive Council Sessions, ization does not embrace the work nitely growing clamor for en del the streets in front of the Cooper But not because we think people of standing. the best people ROGER BALD WIN, ere is a class. They are perfectly inclusive industrial union in which Chairman.
Union and Labor Lyceum an hour from beginning to end, were taken contented to leave the great mass the independent unions may merge of Alabama, will heed only the evidence in this case and free the np almost exclusively with the ques. of production workers in the basie Representatives of the radio worktion of the Committee for Industrial Industries outside the unions. And. ers federal locals intimated to the bama back country, to the coldblooded lynch organizers of the Alabama Hired Liar whether or not Trotsky was paia Organization, headed by John besides, the organization of these Executive Council meeting that ruling class. We put no more stock in the fairness of a Federal jury by Hearst for his attacks on the Lewis, and related questions. Other workers causes the sharpest con secession from the of may Workers Republic and on the Com. matters were simply put aside. Flict with the employers. follow rejection of their demand in Alabama than in that of the Decatur jury.
Number One munist party.
This was natural. What could it for an Industrial union charter.
We favor going into a Federal Court only because it will then It is true that the bosses do not Nevertheless it was rejected.
Yes, that is the vital issue. do, for example, about the projected become possible to demand of the Federal judge a change of venue out In last week Sunday Worker you amendment to the United States want any anion at all in the big of the Federal District of Northern Alabama luto some other state. Continued from Page 1)
Ou the whole, there is ample evi.
promised your readers the evidence. constitution, so long as this all manufacturing plants. It is equally preferably a Northern state, where the Jim Crow system cannot influ. From whom was this permission You clam to know how much Lang, important question stared the craft true that, it compelled to make dence throughout the country that ence the trial as it does in Alabama received; from what person or per these articles etwas Trotsky paia intensity of the debate was reflected they dislike to deal with a multi is beginning to take on the form To the Scottsboro Defense Committee we give this word of advice: sons?
in the threats of an imminent split tude of craft unions, Ask for a Federal trial on the grounds that fair juries are im.
When was this permission grant by Hearst, and how much?
ed? What date?
Produce the evidence or xhat with which the reports of the sex less do they want unions with will be distinctly progressivo in possible in an Alabama state court on this case. Do not proclaim sions are filled greater militant wtentialities such character. It will give a stimulus (The Tarov article and Trotsky your lying mouths!
that in a Federal court you expect a air jury. Should you win the Shameless Pair It is stated that the craft union as industrial unions, embracing all to new and greater struggles and comment appeared in the NEW demand, you will get a jury which you will have approved in ad MILITANT on Oct. 19, 1936. have no evidence, if the officials, led by Wharton, the workers in the plants, will it will provide a fertile field for vanee, and a Federal court conviction would then silence you forever. Where was this permission truth is told. You have no more Hutcheson and Dan Tobin, de have. On this basis the reaction the advancement of revolutionary There are other thin to be said to the Committee. Elsewhere in on the office of the New brother in dishonor, Moissaye the Lewis committee. They are And it so difficult to cooperate with working class organization. This these pages is a report of the Committee mass meeting in New the NEW MILITANT? Over the Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, when reported to have demanded the sus the employers. They also want to particular fact will undoubtedly York last Sunday. The sort of thing which went on there will not the skilled exert its influenc in a fundamental telephone! In a dark Gallery he accused Lenin and Trotsky of pension of the eight unions whose limit the unions to build a militant more protest movement, a fighting defense. It can Where?
having been bought by German representatives make up this com crafts. The right to represent the sense upon the present conflict in only weaken the defense movement at moment when Leibowita, by gold.
mittee. In the end, however, some latter is the only concession that the A, of Who Sent Hearst the New Militant?
refusing to recognize the defent the boys suffered in the latterson But your motives and Olgin are what more moderate counsel pre they demand from the employers.
The Possibilities of Split trial, is Jeopardixing the future of the whole struggle. Then Cullen is alleged to the same as the latter in 1018: vailed. committee was designated And so, harmonixing their position have said in reply to a question recruit the workers for the army of to confer with the industrial union in the unions with their own baste Only a mighty mass movement, based primarily upon labor and as to the date of the NEW MILI American mperialism and detame bloc and report the results to the concepts, they function essentially speak of the probability of a split Negro organizations, following an aggressive policy. can suve the TANT from which the reprint was the revolutionists for self protec council sessions in May.
as agents of the employers, in the AF. in the sense that Scottsboro boy This is a true today as it was when first the boys made. don know the date. tion. Threat to the Old Guard Antagonism Will Grow the report from the Executve were snatched from death by the intervention of radicals and damned We have reproduced the masthend Trotsky, says Budenz with his Yet, in view of the declaration Council sess. ons do. While one Yankees, of the paper and you will find the tongue in his cheek, has already adopted by the Executive Council, Ont of this situation arises the cannot lose sight of the fact that date there. We have only a photo written for pay for equally reac the selection of this committee great fear of the fudustrial onto the of is purely a volunIt is time to stop making concessions to the red baiting. Jew. baitstatic copy of the masthead. We tionary publications the Saturday largely perfunctory. It will have to issue manifested by the reaction rytary federation of completely autoing and Yankee baiting of the prosccution. It is time to stop appealing returned the original to them. Evening Post and the Liberty M: approach the industrial non bloc also their furious opposition to the ston of some of these unions, some to patriotism and God and the best people of Alabama.
No date appeared on the mast gazine.
When he cried out nainst the 75 year verdict, Haywood Patterson head of the NEW MILITANT as The Question is WHAT Not Where for its dissolution. The lattercan Lewis committee. It should be easy times more than one at a time, reproduce in the American!
showed that he still has fight left in him. When he resisted the brutal guard, Oxle Powell showed that he still has fight left in him. Today Why didn Budenz Inform Caldenz in his ignorance doesn know the condemnation. Even if there ments of union organization, this occurred usually over purely juris len of this? He knew this to be they are leading their own fight for freedom, the fact otherwise why did he ask that all revolutionists, Marx and the wording of the declaration ad rather than diminish. An encour separation of a purely temporary Victory will come only through a militant fight!
the question? There should be a Engel, and even some who aren opted leaves no room for doubt. agement given to industrial union nature. In such cases the little honor even among thieves revolutionists like Radek and Stalin The Executive Councll delared organization will immediately in aid not carry the stigma of dual Or why doesn Budenz Inform the have written in capitalist period that: spire them to greater resistance unionism: nor would the of Daily Worker readers of this fact: cals so that their views might re there is the growing conviction against the onslaughts of the em undertake to organize rival un Or was the NEW MILITANT celve broader publieity.
among an ever increasing number ployer and equip the whole work long in the place of those that masthead reproduced from a copy le doesn know that Lenin used of affiliated unions and those outing class with a more effective withdrew from its ranks. An actual of the paper (as is the actual fact) the Kaiser sealed train to get Previous announcements have lutionary position and he is con weapon of resistance than the craft secession movement in this present side of the labor movement that unions can give.
given only bare indication of the aetivities of this committee tinuing his struggle for that posi which can be purchased on innu into Russia!
situation, or a split arising out of this pamphlet at the time when tion. How this struggle has been merable newsstands in the city? Or The question is not where but (the Lewis committee) consti. Out of this develops also the this present conflict and around did pursued and how comrade Zeller send Hearst a copy?
it was on the way. It is now off The Daily Worker, perhaps, what a revolutionist writes. tutes a challenge to the supremacy inuch more fundamental issues in the present issues in dispute wotild the press. Of course, to get a and his co workers came to a only time the Stalinists were able of the American Federation of the present cleavage in the be far more profound in nature But why trouble Budenz about to prove that Trotsky wrote completo view of what it con rerolutionary position, and came such details.
Labor and will ultimately become of leadership. In every respect and in its implications for the futains, it is necessary to read this to be supporters of the Fourth He earns good pay against the Soviet Union was in dual in purpose and character to this will tend to increase and shar ture. Inevitably the result would for every word of slander written the case of a Polish paper which pamphlet. We on our part recom International, is described in this the American Federation of LA pen the present conflict. The dyed be two rival movements struggling against the revolutionary interna printed mend it highly.
little pamphlet. The introduction forgery concocted by the bor. in the wool craft union chiefs will for supremacy.
tionalista. On the other hand, every Fred Zeller is the acknowledged is by Leon Trotsky.
Further on it is stated that, It be compelled to lean ever more This creature loves the mud and article written by Stalin or the is the opinion of the Executive upon the bosses and upon the inHorse and Bugey Age Over leader of the French Socialist We believe that the few words before he gets through he wallows smaller Stalins, whether they ap Council that the committee for instruments of the capitalist state for youth. He was expelled from the While split of this nature in Socialist youth organization by mentioned above is sufficient red in it up to his neck, even attempt pear in the capitalist press or the dustrial organization should be im support to stem the tide.
the of may not be an imson for our recommendation to ing to be mirch the unsullied name Daily Worker is blow at the mediately dissolved.
the agents of Leon Blum and his mediate probability, it cannot be all, and parteularly to revolution of Leon Trotsky.
Old Guard some time ago, toge Workers Fatherland and the work Bitter Enders Dissent Pressure on Lewis denied that all the implications ther with twelve other youth ary Socialists, to read this pam Did Trotsky Get Paid? ing class. blow because they phlet. It retalls at 5e a copy: This puts the question bluntly. On the other hand the leaders in leading in this directios are already comrades. The young Socialists, lots of ten or more the price Trotsky will get paid for the ar He blithely asks Cullen whether trample on Marx and Lanin and but stin bluntly enough for the industrial union bloc will most at hand. The choice, however, is however, remained supporters of reek patriotism.
some of the members of the Execu likely find themselves compelled to essentially with the officials, what the viewpoint represented by is 3e a copy. Send your order to ticles and says he received the an This latest frame up by Budenz tive Council. In the voting five or lean ever more upon the workers are in control of affairs of the Fred Zeller and his co workers the NEW MILITANT, 55 East swer: the bitter enders. which means who are actually get into motton of They cannot help but sec Fred Zeller represented the revo 11th Street, New York, That question you can take up vised the revolutionary movement the most conscious craft bvion re for industrin unionism and who the handwriting on the wall. They with me. don know. You will to learn from the methods of the actionaries, dissented. They saia also demand democratic unions with have the choice of changing, and have to ask the auditor. We don Fascists.
the declaration was not strong an aggressive policy of organization. adjusting the federation to the re get anything for nothing. as Deny the Charges, Browder! enough. they wanted more drastic There workers who are in motion, quirements of modern conditions sume the author will get paid for Once again we accuse Stalin of action. Open threats of secession and whose ranks are sure to in and to the needs of the masses or it Mr. Trotzky.
furnishing Hearst with ammunt by the unions they control, is recrease, will press the issue forward to give way to other forees capable Nothing daunted our inquiring tion against the Soviet Union by norted to have been made by them, and exert their pressure on the of undertaking such a task The issue of industrial unionism TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL by his own sordid standards goes in the case of the scoundrel Lang And how deep going this confliction. It will be increasingly more to the auditing department of the the Daily Worker took great pains really is, can perhaps best be 11 difficult for the latter to retreat is now of paramount importance.
It grows out of the needs of the CONVENTION OF THE American and says he is told to answer his assertions point by lustrated by the orders that have at the same time as it will be ex working class and once its real imthat general orders for the pay point.
gone out from Hutcheron office tremely difficult for the reaction ment of articles do not come why not with Trotsky or Tarov? instructing all carpenters portance is fully appreciated it can localary bureaucrats to accept a comthrough for abont a month.
would not know at present it pay facts about Zinoviev, Kamenev, central labor body that Indorses the be expected is therefore, sharp, ment. The moods of the masses is We Why don they dony the gruesome unions to withdraw from every city promise on this issue. What can become the vehicle for the revital ment were to be made or not. Even Medvedlev, Shlyapnikov the objectives of the industrial union ening of the present conflict all if we did, we could not disclose Hungarian Communists or the Jo bloc.
changing. The masses seek organ.
along the line this information, as it is confiden goalay Communists?
ization and they seek to utilize John Lewis, in answer to the their organizations as instruments IRVING PLAZA HALL tial.
They dare not because they know Finally. apparently in de every word to be true.
NEW MILITANT Executive Council condemnation of struggle for their own class ends has already indicated that the In this respeet there are now the 15th Street at Irving Place spair) says Budenz, a secretary or They know from their own exother representative of Ranck (Who perience that to incur the slightest with which is merged Committee for Industrial Organiza most favorable opportunities availwas this representative? What was displeasure with the Stalin clique THE MILITANT tion will continue with its program. able.
With his characteristie scorn for his name? Didn you trouble to in Russia means expulsion, loss of Published weekly by the New the Council, he said: The mounIf the Committee for Industrial MUSIC BY find out. as to whether the articles party Job, slander, etc.
body been palon for the replied: m The Stalinists are playing with St. Phone: Lgon. 0068. salm has labored and brought forth Organization stands its ground in this present a and most sorry. We don discuss such in fire when they resort to this frame Entered as second class mall matter HARLEM RYTHM MAKERS Important step can be accomplished.
formation. It is of confidential up against us.
At the Post Omee at New York, After all the rumblings and It can become an instrument tonature. We don care to discuss Before the flames have died under the act of March 8, 1879 convulsions at Miami fot a week ward the creation of a genuinely down they will be so deeply burned JAMES CANNON: Editor past, the unorganized workers of progressive movament in the trade PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Stop Crawling, Budena! that every conscious worker will the country had a right to expect unions. This is today an imperaSo you didn get the goods on know that nothing distinguishes Subscription rates in the United that the in its own tive necessity and an absolute pre REFRESHMENTS the goods because there aren prese but a label the cravens on months; Canada and foreign 60 thetic hand of assistance rather gresslye movement is finally estab.
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