NEW MILITANT Official Organ of the Workers Party of the VOL. 2, NO. WHOLE NO. 59 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1936 PRICE CENTS 20, 000 Oppositionists Expelled Mooney, New York Dressmakers From the Communist Party of the Appeals Soviet Union in Recent Cleansing For Aid Force Bosses to Terms Miners Convention Hurls Strength of Defi at Green Ultimatum Union Forces Complete Solidarity with Ir dustrial Union Movement NewContract of Rebel Spirit Find WPA Stirs Akron Head Guilty Gum Miners Of Murder for FundsBadly Needed to Fight Forces of the fourth International Grow in the Strongest Fortress of StalinActivities of Calif.
Frame up Crew ism; Purging of Critics Conducted by Behind Backs of the County Jail No.
Membership; Prepare Another Mass Ousting for Spring San Francisco. Calif.
February 1, 1936.
Mr. James Cannon, By LEON TROTSKY has recently so correctly pointed mination it seems almost incredible New Militant Spurs Organization in Other Industries new cleansing is being con out, has barred them from all ap that among the various categories New York City, aunist proach to the new generations in of the expelled not hundreds, not y dear Cannon By ARNE SWABECK lending so much greater effect to Report Gains on Major party of the Soviet Union. This the city and country. And as the thousands, but a minimum of 200, On Monday, February 3, the hearThe F. of will not tolerate the decisions made. this rospect Issues of Conflict time it bears the modest label of a Jugoslay comrade Chiga, yester 000 the Bolshevik Leninists should ing on my petition for a habens Check upon party credentials. day captive of Stalin, has stressed be nisted in the first place. Show corpus writ will be resumed before within it an organization challeng: the convention was magnificently The difference between this purge on several occasions, the only ser many With Employers them were there? The the referee appointed by the Calle ing the supremacy of the parent staged.
When Green had finished his adand all those that preceded it les ous opposition in the country is Soviet press refrains cautiously ornia Supreme Court.
Once more body. This ultimatum against the Committee for Industrial Organi dress, John Lewis asked those After weeks negotiations In the fact that it is being effected that of the Bolshevik Leninists. In from citing ang totals on this score that monstrous serpent the Moonwithout even the nominal partict other words, the opposition to Only in individual articles, and re e Billing frame up pation of the party itself; no Bonapartism in the Soviet Union marks dealing with provinces and from its bed will em wization, Wim, Green delivered in delegates who had changed their breaks in negotiations and threats slime. raise its person minds because of the address tu. anders donvention and when he got stands petty bourgeois democracy. but or indirect (most often indirect fluject its dendly poison into the the answer he deserved, he pro lowing this Lewis asked how many recognizing the strength of the union, have agreed to a contract no corroborating testimony. The from the conquests of the October mention of the number of the er blood stream of public opinion in checking machinery operates en revolution, and marches under its pelled Trotskyists Per This is the the hope of paralyzing it so that we marks had been unfairly inter solved. Alone delegate stood up with the Joint Board of the Dress tirely behind the scenes. for, yon banner. Let us keep this fact firm data we propose to dweli apon, the may be held in prison until death. Preted has ang ultimatum. To the final question bow many be makers, ILG.
see, this is merely matter of ly in mind, for it is of colossal imWhile the details of the agree In the answer given, the seven lieved that the policies of this con This hearing is bringing our strugIn the Dnyeper Petrovsk Province credentials. In reality approxl portance for the future.
Khatayevich, secretary of the Ble to a new crisis where we need teen hundred delegates voted una vention should be carried out, all ment are not yet public, it is un mately 10 percent of the party has Dayeper Petrovsk province, reports your moral and financial help more for Industrial Organization and to and cheers.
Imously to support the Committee delegates arose amid bandclapping derstood that all gains made in been expelled as a result of this the 1983 general strike are retained After all the preceding purges in his article that anring the check than ever before.
modest technical support its policy of industrial uncheck up. The and campaigns of physical exter.
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We have proved that all the check up of party candidates has material evidence, all matters of ionism. They voted authorization nimity, Lewis was able to turn to main question at issue was then not been completed as yet. But al.
to the officers to withhold per cap Green and exclaim: trust, sir, setting up of adequate machinery identification as to our participa rendy. many more than 200, 000 tion in the crime was pure and should such action be deemed niec nation the awwer of the United by chlselling contractors ita tax payments to the of you will carry back to your organ to prevent the robbing of workers Settlehave been ejected from the ranks unadulterated perjury.
essary.
of the party. Let us recall, incl Tine Workers.
ment of prices on the jobbera We have proved that the DisThis was the high point of a re. Miners Branch Out dentally, that this was almost the premises; limitation of contractrict Attorney and the Police De markable convention. It was known numerical strength of the entire med. the coal miners had tors; the unit or scientific method partment had conscious knowBolshevik party during the period in advance that its decisions would given an answer thoroughly in ac of settling plece rates are report ledge of that perjury when they when it led the proletariat to the have an important bearing on cord with their splendid traditioned 18 ngreed to.
presented it to the court that con the outcome of the present contlietas militant unionista They spoke conquest of power.
Tieted us.
in the A, of Lover the indusus members of the most powerful ishing touches are being added to At the present moment final filmThe Categories of Expelled We have proved that they de trial union issue. The convention, organization in the of the agreement. Meetings have been liberately suppressed and conceal therefore, received the individed whose expression of opilou must arranged by the bosses breaks down the nigures of the ex. SuccessfulSit Down Strikes Workers Jury Unanimous conclusively established our inattention from all sections of these accepted in earnest. No doubt tions to ratify the terms. The un888ociapelled into the following main cate labor movement and needless to the coal miners feel confident that lon is in search of halls large gories: From Trotskyists. ZinoImpel Militant Action say, not the least from the the strength of their union has enough to seat their entire men.
in Verdict; NUL, WAA nocence vlevists, opportunists, double dealIn Rubber Unions Leaders Speak This hearing in of vital import of top bureaucracy.
ers, alien elements, sneak thieves, been restored; counting over 500, bership for ratification meetings.
auce not because there is much Crushing Defeat for Green 000 members, the union now em While union demands for the 30adventurers down to spies of the hope the California State Supreme By JACK WILSON eign agencies. The list. you Wm Groen faced at supreme test. braces about 85 percent of all the hour work and general increases in TOLEDO. Feb. eral hun. Court may grant iny writ, but be will observe, reproduces the gen powerful display of AKRON, Ohio. Feb. 10 Indre workers, who bravedenuse it is the final step in early. His Executive Conseil had demand. coal miners in the country. Most the minimum wage rate have not eral formula of all Thermidorian strength that amazed and alarmed sub zero blizzard weather here, in the case forward to the United amount the disole Heartached the recente biens Lote the been met, it is expected that tol amulcamos, It would be utterly the tire companies, thousands of were arosed to a fighting pitch States Supreme Court where there peared before the miners conven fact that the whole of the state of towing the report of the negotiating tion in the role of a patriarch pre West Virginia is now organizesl committee headed by President Du.
the coupling of Trotskyists with spontaneous sitdowns at the Big the death of Alonzo Walker, naive to become indignant over rubherworkers joined in various today at the disclosures of the in. is real hope for favorable action.
of where formerly, and particularly in binsky and Vice President Hochmrman circumstances surrounding siding over the great family An Organ of Reaction sneak thieves and spies.
trade unions, in which, he said. Logan County, the terrorism of gime at loggerheads with the two weeks which had serious pos freeze to death on a pro constitueelbes from the beginning elly used all his powers of persua kept the union out Every re Three plants here during the past worker who was permitted to that the Supreme Conrt of Calif. rebellion.
We know witlipsitive knowledge some of its members were in open coal operators and their henchmen man, the terms will be accepted.
Although he undoubt. In governmental offlow for years complete preparations made The union leaders state that the the revolutionists and on the other try wide strike until the workereject here three weeks ago. The open been part and parcel of this montion, he did not leave a very pow Conscious of their strength, the demonstrations and mass meetings this strike and the enthusiastic criminals. From time immemorial demands were mainly met.
these two categories lived side by erful impression. The delegates coal miners in this convention de These sitdowns began at Fire for murder was conducted by the trous frame up.
side In the prisons of the Czar, as stone which involved 2, 000 worker Workers Union this afterFudge F, Flowhaw, Justice of listened to him in stony silence, clded also to extend the union to held last Friday, when the entire membership stopped work and paall workinen and Tadel to Madison Square. Garden the bourgeoisle of the entire world. Yunion as explained in the previous with mass protest meeting to de driven from the bench in shame as other hand utilized to the fullest This, when carried out would add effect on the bosses and was a dethe bourgetede on the prisons et and bronght complete victory of the noon at the Kol Davis auditorium, the California State Supreme Cours broken now and then by a chorus embrace again and again that the Bolshetermining factor in winning the The atdown idea spread to mand better conditions, hours and result of disclosures brought extent all his showmanship talent, hundred gangs and German sple, era supported the refusal of the tire sou, executive secretary of the xa million dollars for his decision in wages on the Arnold John about through the Mooney defense.
agreement.
Mayor LaGuardia is attempting Stalls remains entirely true to tra euring room to take a wage cut.
dition. Instead of growing indig. Although the company failed to reto claim some credit for the settle Gerry Allard, central Illinois chair the Fair Will Case. The Densmore heating over the statistie amalgam, seind the cut, they did not dare man of the Illinois Workers Am dictograph report disclosed Justice at the results of the mayor medilet it ation in other cases where unions First of all we note the striking the cut to plant as the workers march to Springfield, last sumo evil genius to the Mooney frame.
were weak, give the credit to their fact that from among the more prepared to shut down the plant mer, were the guest speakers.
than 200, 000 expelled, the Trot under leadership of the Goodyear The Physician Testifles The California own solidarity and 100, 000 dress State Supreme makers can be wrong!
skylsta are officially assigned the local of the United Rubberworkers first place. Does this imply that of America at first when Art Preis, union presmrdon, declared that there was no Some incredulity was apparent Court in the 1930 bearing on Warren Billings application for a they are so large a group numerle Then, tirebuilders at Goodrich sat Ident, acting as he was going after liquidating the remnants (Continued ou Page Continued on Page 2)
the truth in 1916, and their laterrecantations and confessions of perfor Unrestricted Indusand splinters of Trotskyists no in Conference; 574 Remains Solid less than ten times, still continues jury were the result of the conniv. trial Charter in AFL Represented to consider them as its most dan ance of our defense committee.
In 9th Werk gerous enemy? Both. We shall INNEAPOLIS, Feb. The MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. The Inshortly prove on the basis of offits members, Justice William progressive unions in the packing dustrial Union Conference called cial statisties that the number of Langlont constitutes the greatest house industry have joined forces by Local 666, Miscellaneous Work The militant strike of Bronx expelled Bolshevik Leninlets indictment ever written of any su with the national movement for iners, convened Sunday morning at Inundry workers organized during the last cleansing alone preme Court majority opinion, austrial unionism through the ten o clock at 520 Hennepin Avenue. Laundry Drivers Local 810, now (the latter part of 1935) amounts The California State Supreme formal launching of the Committee The meeting was opened by Swan in its ninth week, is still effectively tectoraless than 10. 000, and, in ef Denounces Repressions Against Bolshevik Leninists Courtine presents the time poweren for Industrial Organization in the Assarson of local e. Assarson crippling operation of the plants.
Huancial and Industrial reaction Packing House Indiwtry. This ac briefly expressed the sims and ob Despite police terror and the tlality of the repressions is ample by the Stalinist Bureaucracy ary force that framed us because thon was taken by the delegates to Sectives of the conference pointing strike breaking tactics of city relief Indieation of the extent to which of our loyal devotion to the trade the conference at Cedar Rapids, ont the bevitable dritt towards in Authorities, the spirit of the strikthe bureaucracy fears this ente Exlitor Note: On January 28 obtain permission to leave the union movement. That Court si lowa, on February and The anstrial unionlam that was takingers, their wives (organized in 1agory.
Leon Trotsky sent the following Soviet Union Ciliga resorted to carries on.
actions and recommendations of place and stated that no matter ales auxiliaries) and familier In The Chlef Opposition Force cable to the Associated Press hunger strike and was subjected Frame up Crew Still Active the conference delegates are to be how much we attempted to avoid high and they are determined to The Trotskyists and Zlnovlevista from Honefoss, Norway: to forcible feeding. He slashed Judge Henshaw, Detective Swan submitted to the membership of the the question it would finally have win.
his welats but was prevented son, Jury Foreman MacNevin and articipating local unions for ap to be settled one way or the other. The police have pimed a policy are commonly lumped together in Hearst Prens published the from suteide. Thousands of excenter of Police white of the Pacit. proval. It is anticipated that such He then read the proposed agenda of arresting as many strikersex a single category by the official article about political persecution accounts. The Zinovieviste always in the Soviet Union pretending pelled members of the ruling ic GAS and Electric Company are approval will be quickly granted which was as follows: Election of possible, holding them on every represented a purely Leningrad that it was written by me.
party who protected against the all dead. But the living frame up and the Committee instructed to Chairman, election of Secretary, conceivable charge in order to grouping, in other parts of the Friends cabled me requesting to growing inequality or the intre crew will spread their polson proceed immediately to its tasks.
country they consisted of only know the truth of the matter The Committee for Industrial of three, and Resolutions Commit 76 date over 150 arrests have taken scattered individuals, and they through the medium of the Asthe marshal order, sutter under tion during the month of February. Organization in the Packing House tee of five, discussion by delegates place on charges ranging from dissimilar conditions.
never had an independent political sociated Press. never gave any crying out anew for our blood. Industry will direct its attention report of committeek, other busl orderly conduct to kidnapping.
physiognomy, let alone their instaarticle to the Hearst press with Zinovior and Kamenev, intr The unspeakable Fickert, for immediately toward the work of ness and adjournment. Rnbin Latz Conneel fees and ball are draining bility. Thus we obtain six cate which have no relations what mate collaborators of Lonin, are mer District Attorney by the grace securing the affiliation of other of Local 188. Laundry Workers, the union treasury and support gories of the expelled. 1) Bolshe soever. The articles whleh were now imprisoned for a terroristle of the United Railroads, who was Mcking house unions. All indepen was elected chairman and Filliard gravely needed.
vik Leninista; 2) Zinovlevista; 3) published or used without my crime with which they had noth going to use Tom Mooney gallows dent mions and A, of unlons Smith of 382, Auto Mechanles, was The shortage of strike relief opportuniste (recorded here more knowledgo (in case they really Ing whatsoever to do Kamenev, as campaign platform for the in the industry will be contacted selected as secretary.
funds has compelled many of the for symmetry and camouflage: the former chalrman of the Political governorship in 1918, now a derelict by the counmittee were articles of mine) are natContacts will The Credentials and Resolutions workers to turn to Home Rellet Individual reports do not mention urally not at all directed against Bures of the Communist party will be washed and dressed for his also be sought among the unorgan. Committee was then elected. After authorities for ald. Without exthem at all as a rule; 4) double the Soviet Union but only against of the Soviet Union, is in a cell part and dragged from his long and Ized packing house workers and some discussion by delegates, the ception thelr applications have been dealers and allen elementa (former the growing despotom of the rul together with 12 others. Last well deserved oblivion once again those belonging to company unions, Credentials Committee reported rejected since they refused to senb.
White Guards, etc. 5) meak.
ing clique. During the last month year an additional five years was to serve his God Mammon. HIS The first action of the committee that there were 46 délegntee pres. But the action of city relief oftthleves and adventnrlsts; 6) foreign and weeks have received ex tacked on to the original fivechief assistant, Edward Cunha, will be to establish a research com ent, representing 22 local unione.
clals, police and reactionary Judges sples, with slight variations there tremely important news from a year sentence for his alleged par who was to succeed him as District mittee for the purpose of securing The following organizations were has been unable to break the ranks categories are repeated in the dis thentic sources concerning the tiefpation in planning terroristrict reporta, correspondence, lead.
Attorney as a reward for his part statistical information necessary present, with delegates: General of the strikers, terrible repressions against polit tie suasanation of Stalin.
in the foul frame up will again help to clearly demonstrate the need Drivers No. 574, Electrical WorkLast Friday the union called a ing articles, etc.
leal prisoners whose fidelity to The restrained and absolutely him with all the venom and cun for unity of action in the industry. ers No. 160, Electrical Workers No conference of labor organizations Before passing to the analysis of the Soviet Union is beyond objetivo Information related by ning of his poisonous hatred, The information, together with 292, Asbestos Workers No. 34. Pet obtain aid for the strikers, the question of the numerical doubt and whose only erime Culiga, Taror and others prore strength of the Bolshevik Leninists, Steve Bunner, Lieutenant of Po other educational material will be roleum Workers No. 19802, Twin The union is taking all sympatconsiste in criticizing the ruling the increasing antagonism devellee in 1916, who coached perjurer circulated throughout packing City Federal Workers No. 1818. Am thizens and workers to refuse we wish to point out not a bureauerney.
oping between the bureaucracy Oxman, is now a retired Captain of house centers in the near future erican Federation of Actors, Build give their laundry to the followsingle lating of the categories of short time ago Dr. Anton and the population and prove the the expelled or any of the commen Police with one hundred thousand an official news organ will be es ing Laborera, No. 583. Upholsterersing companies: ABC, Bond, Stork, Cilige, former leader of the Juge need of the bureaucracy to re dollars in his bank account. fortablished by the committee. Visit No. 61, Woodenware Workers No. Snow White, sterling, Sun, suntaries, we have examined, contains slay Communist party, returned Sort to sharpest repressions in which he gives no explanation to ing committees will be sent out 1869, Sheet Metal Workers No. 84, Bright, North American, New York any mention either of the Menshe from the Soviet Union where he the Interests of self preservation podlie officials, now investigating from time to time by the local Laundry Workers No. 183, Miscel. Chester. Planet, Pretty. De viks or the Social Revolutionariee spent more than dro years in To say this frankly is to do a charges of police graft and extor unions, and as quickly as circum. Inneous Workers 286, Photo En Francis, Regent, Jummel, ManhatBoth theme parties are politically prison and elle me punishment realervice to the people of the tion. They dare not prosecute him, stances will permit, organizers will cravers No. 8, Brotherhood of Lotan, Mirrolike. Westbur.
non existent Their reactionary for his critical attitude of the Soviet Union policy in 1917, as comrade Tarox leadership of the Comintern. To fearing he may tell all he knows be sent into the field by the com comotive Engineers and Firemen, bridge and Starlight laundry cor(signed) LEON TROTSKY. Continued on Page Continued on Paco Continued on Page 4) panies.
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