PAGE TAE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931 ON THE WORKERS FRONT Work In A Union Delegate on the Mooney Meets In Sec. Two Amter Proscribes Opposition at Forum here Port to our clientes activity le The Party Discusses the Negro Problem apit OPPOSITION ACTIVE DESPITE BUREAUCRATS We have received the official proceedof Oct. 11, in New York, sent out by HecHacker Lies On Oct. 15th, the night intended to ker. The proceedings protest, and rightThe party has for some time been con. slander too vile and low but he was fully as that the organization which for make the report to my local union on On Oct: 29, Hacker, the dis NEW YORK. the Mooney United Front Conference triet organizer, appeared on the floor of membership meeting of section two. ducting an open forum in New York on able to fish it up to cover his own in yours has used the policy of mass protest called by the what did And! our local unton. lle spoke for 30 min. Communist Party, New York district, forum, conducted by the Communist day takes the place of Marxist educa International Sunday masbatser Assuming thatom open sa pedese and other not believes that were whosen acom. Moober noveces for. the Kentucky miner) presented his creden. had defended, and sad that the port by Perila on work among the ify themselves on questions of funds in the midst of the frenzy, he succeeded bureaucracy. that is, the Alooney Conparty, is the place for workers to clarion in the Stalinized party. Finally, cluded from this conference of the labor tial and asked for the floor, which was was a political organization and all unemployed. It is hardly possible to mental revolutionary policy, Opposition in putting through a motion depriving ference of Sept. 24 called by the Muste granted him. After dwelling at length its present actions were based on past imagine anything more celorless and comrades have been attending the for. Orpositionists of the floor at the future ites, leaders, Byrd Kelso of the on the victorious Mooney Conference experiences. Then he came with an out ineffective, deprived even of an lota of a um, with the object of learning from forums.
and the great work they had done in de right lie, and sad that at this conferrevolutionary aspect. It was a boresome and discussing with comrades of the orfending the workers in the class strug. ence they were compelled to put the repetition of well known failures We can be quite certain that the ric took a leaf from the ltes, Muste gle, he appealed for financial aid to the Trotsky elements and agents of the capl We miserably failed because we had ficial party, what the attitude of Com tory of this arrogant Hunkey of the ites and outright fakers and expelled After him, the leader of the talist class out of the hall because they nothing to offer to the unemployed. as the united front tactic the Negro credit. His reckless mismanagement of sentatives of the Left Opposition whose munists toward such important problema stalinist regime will not stand to his from the Conference the reprereport on the Mooney Molders Confer third or fourth word, and that in all oth demonstration, the unemployed coun. question, unemployment, etc. should be the party affairs in Cleveland and members and supporters have for years ence a report in which condemned the their activities they were confronted with its disappeared from the map. But After all. Amter himself porhaps un more recently, in New York, by far efface been leading nighters on behalf of Molders Conference for not seating the these same elements, who find their way how to remedy that small matter and to wittingly exclaimed the determining it. Lynching tactics as a whole have Mooney, Billings and all class war pris latter fact, the delegates of the and the Party) in there under assumed names. And so develop a clear cut program of demands factor under such favorable revolution no place in the revolutionary movement. oners. In view of got up and made a motion that since on.
and action? Here is the prescription ary conditions as exist at present, is the They have their own logic, and we need official proceedings brazenly lie when was a delegate to the Mooney Conference was then given the floor and of presented by the Centrists: former cronies, they declare that the members of this party. And for us, Oppositionists at only turn to Amter the local should hear my report first and course had to deny his statement that To build unemployed councils; least, the party means chiefly toe repre. the self same. Lovestoneites who first organization (Communist League of Am then act upon the appeal in accordance these delegates were guilty of any disto penetrate the of unions with sentative of the ideology of the work employed these tactles against the Lefterica, Opposition) who until their rewith it.
ruption tactics. As a matter of fact, if the demands for. a) exempt stands for ing class, the protagonist of Marxist Opposition: the Left Opposition will cent expulsion, were members of the Of course, this leader, they disruptive work been quietly seated, hardly unemployed. b) unemployed fund drawn ideas applied to all phases of proletarian wipe out this vilification of the move. had carried either through laxity or inattentiveness, anyone would have known that there from the bosses. c) rotating ment together with the rest of the Stal within the Our menbers in was blankly ignorant of what had taken were representatives from the of Unity of employed and unemployed. All As usual, our comrades took their inist scourges that at present petrify it. the those expelled and those place at that conference. He labored Opposition) presentat least, no of this is to be achieved by the autod ber 1st, when the redoubtable Israel Am ourselves with saying that not even a most active of its workers, ready to carry For the present, we will merely content who remain there today, are among the be favorable and that the local union raised. challenged any delegate pre of the housewife who, being asked how ter, top sergeant of District Two, conde. thousand Amters can succeed in separout all tasks assigned to them, and have would automatically respond to the ap sent to ferute what said. asked the to cook jelly from cherries, replied: seended to instruct the advanced Com ating the Opposition from the party fought for a genuine polley of labor peal.
speaker for what purpose the Buy two pounds of cherries, a pound munits workers of New York in the ranks. Our faction is built on the sound defense, which the must espouse post October history of the world revolucore of living Marxist thought.
again propaganda and defense for all Then came my report, which was about and the Party sent their delegates to the of sugar and cook it.
tionary movement, on the occasion of the thereby alone its penetration into the gardless of their politeal or other vlewa and class vietims of the capitalist class roas follows: Mooney Molders Conference, long Rank and Filer Speaks Up Mr. Chairman and Brothers: This as they had officially denounced the comL. Mooney Conference was a mere mittee in the Daily Worker and refused rade took the floor and said that he did of such insignificant trities as the Es inevitable. Means will yet be found.
It was quite logical then that a com. on. After be had disposed very easily vanguard of the revolutionary movement we will insist upon such a policy for the mass meeting. Its representation was to go into conference with it. Was it not see the face of a revolutionary party the Anglo Russian Committee and such as the the Working Hacker failed to answer. went on to from below alone is no united front at 1927 (in which the Chinese Communist Housewives, the the point out to him that the reasons for all. It is interesting to remark that it Party cooperated. with the bourgeois NEW YORK.
Band, the of Struggle for not seating the delegates at the Mooney is a long time since one dared to state Kuo Min Tang) several of our comrades branches of the L and Molders conference, and the reasons for openly his opinions in the Communist took the floor to comment on omissions Marxists and Communists, we approach The Communist League (Opposition) the Negro from a class viewpoint. We the etc. Local Union 2000, not seating delegates at the Party. Perila in reply, said, shall and commissions in the speech and to at continuing with its efforts for comradely aim to develop his class conselousness, of of was the poly or conference were identical, and that just not discuss with comrade Labout the tempt comradely discussion on vital ques. ious questions facing the revolutionary consctousness. further quoted Lenin ganization which is affiliated with as Muste, Lefkowitz and company were statement he made. He shall be called tions with the comrades present.
the of afraid that the delegates from the to another place and we shall discuss movement, again sent its representatives on the slogan of self deterinination, the The credentials committee was might offer policies to the confer there. Thus, Perila, like a true petty Amter Proseribes Opposition Immediately as our comrades took the to the New York Party Forum on Sun features which characterized a national pointed before and outside of the condence that would be accepted in prefer bureaucrat of a low order of comprehenfloor, the grumblings of the corporale day, October 25th. The subject was The minority: homeland, language, culture, ference. The resolution was presented ence to theirs, thereby throwing them alon, spoke up.
in complete form, and no one could add out of the limelight, so were the burand Bubalterns of the official apparatus Developing Class Struggle in the South. religion. applied this to the Negroes in the United States, maintaining that This statement made by one of the became audible. Isolated booings and with Tom Johnson as speaker, a suggestion to it. Your delegates re eaucrats of the afraid that the leaders and not by a labor faker, Before the meeting begam comrades there was no basis for viewing the Negro threats against the insolent Trotsky.
presenting workers organization were Trotskyists might do the same to them called forth an indignant protest of an ites who dared to attempt die restrucat det outside the Forum Hall. The Mat or fact. also, in concluding and The whole Mooney Defense campaign was to declare them to be disrupters and re what educa was turned into a general goulash.
The aets now almost as if it counter revolutionists and throw then Iharks AS terroristic and threatening tionl meeting. soon worked up Trenzy tack of the previous week upon us was speaking member of the left Onagainst comrade who expressed his among the stampeded party members, repeated, the two comrades beaten and position, called for the unity of the Com out of the hall.
were a strictly party defense organiza tion, as is shown by the conduct of the case: since at our last meeting it was against Perila, and the latter evidenotly But On the Morgenstern and Goodman Views. One could feel the silent approv. who at first showed themselves eager to forced away. Israel Amter come around munist movement, for the reinstatement. short time after and was approached of the Left Opposition into the Party.
al of the membership on the protest listen to the words of the Oppositionists remained for the by comrade Ben Grossman, not a member asked for a comradely discussion of Morgenstern Goodman case in Philadel dented that the refused to defend realized the corect of this unguarded redauntless top sergeant himself to whip of the Left opposition. Comrade Gross. als and other principle questions in an Therefore, move that this loca. Un son withdraw its delegation and abstain the Morgenstern Goodman Defense com welations in the methods of the present in the sentiment into a veritable lynchur informed Amter of what had och effort to come to common ideological Do you know what would be done with proved yet of this hooliganism, such as united struggle against the capitalist from any further participation in these mittee for the facts in the case.
Perila then stated that comrade 18 people like these in the Soviet Union? physically attacking workers who held fake united front conferences, until the read them off before the local union, leadership of the changes its Hacker was obliged to admit that the to be called to the section committee and to which obedient lackies of the appar political views other than those of the Comrade Lillian Bord then obtained he will be given a chance to explain his atus readily responded: Hang them. optical party. The infuriated Amter ans the toor. She spoke on the Scottsboro polley in united fronts. D. has not defended them.
My motion was seconded, whereuponIn conclusion: the local unton did not statement in front of the section member. With that same are with which he ex wered point blank: Yes, this is the pol case and the necessity for a genuine on the leader made an amend act on my metion to withdraw, nor asa ship. The question really is whether the orts the exploited bank deposits to mill ley of the Communist Party!
ited front of the working class, led by Policy on the Negro Question bureaucrats are courageous tant class action, the future Borough the IL, for the freedom of these ment: that we defer action on the motion it act on the appeal for financial aid. Party enough to contront and to reply to President of Manhattan held forth for At the forum itselt, comrade Johnson boys, of Mooney and all class war pris and invite another speaker from the But the chairman let Hacker know that Leninist definition of Communist tactics, nore than fifteen minutes against the developed his subject in accordance with oners. to explain the action of the in the future, If we are invited to a unof a real united front polley.
young Opposition comrades, with no the official party policy of the right to Johnson then summed up. Holding at this conference and also their genited front conference. by that we underself determination for the Negroes in the his remarks on my discussion to the list, eral policy, and then act upon my motion stand that all workers organizations Black Belt, if they 80 desire. But he proceeded to an outright demonstra must be seated) that what took place Johnson went far beyond even this retion of demagogy of the worst sort imBOSTON LECTURE!
at the Mooney Conference must latively mild phrasing. few outstand aginable. Johnson said: The comrade not be repeated. lecture on the Rise and Fall of the British Labor Government will be giv ply illustrate. Moscow dispatch announces Delegate from member a Delesterom of of the National Committee, Communft Maxim Litvinot, Soviet Foreiem comousness arising among the Negroes, and ation, and as a final smashing blow he com There is a growing national consel the slogan of the right of self determinThe first issue of El Soviet, weekly organ of the Left Opposition in Spain. We are of the position that it is League of America (Opposition) on missar, left for Turkey Teatein Min the proof lies in the fact of the Garvey! tells us the Negroes have no musie. has made its appearance, and has been incorrect for delegates from local un Friday, November 27, 1931, at P. pay a visit of the Turkish quotes Lenin, greeted with enthusiasm by the advanced ions, such as the above mentioned, and at the Ambassador Gardens, corner of later last winter. The press comments movement. The revolutionary nation. The comrade further workers and Communists in Spain other workers borganizations, to with Berkeley and Warren Aves. under the that there is no political significance allst movement of the negroes will but do not believe Lenin erer sala Among the contributors to the first num draw as delegates in protest against the auspices of the Boston Branch of the attached to the trip. Perhaps not in the pass through the stage of the bourgeois those things (why not try reading Len What is of modemocratic revolution. We must there in comrade Johnson. Didn Lenin ber are Trotsky Andres Nin, Hennarrow and incorrect policy of the Communist League of America (Oppost ordinary run of things.
ment, however, to revolutionists and fore support this nationalist movement support the Timpanny movement in Ire ri Lacroix and other leaders of the LD. Rather, we propose that such de tion. The admission is 25 cents Communist workers is that a Soviet Com. because it is a revolutionary movement: land and they had no language of their Spanish Opposition and proletariat. legations should retain their representamissar, functioning under the banner of and we must develop the national con own? Does the comrade want to foist Part of the contents of El Soviet Intion and continue their appeal to the to overrule the Subscribe to YOUNG SPARTACUS Communism, finds it easy to converse with sciousness of the Negro people. a religion upon the Negroes because they clude articles on. The Duty of the Mo rank and file delegates the bureaucrats oragn of the Communist Youth Oppost the persecutors of the Turkish Commun.
In those words are embodied the es have one. The Negroes have a ment; the Constituent Assembly (Cort methods and policies of tion. Fifty Cents per year.
ists. Still, these friendly visits, of no sence of Johnson position. He ad homeland, here, the United States es. the Parliamentary Elections; the of the Stalinized Ed. political significance. are understandable vocates, not an approach to the Negro (Here we applauded, as did the whole Telephone Strike and its Development; from the signer of the imperialist Kelas a worker, a proletarian, but as a mem audience, but) right here, in the Black the Persecution of the Communist Press; loge Pact, not to mention that friendly ber of a nation. which has foundation Belt. and we must develop their na Greetings from Trotsky, the Inunderstanding between Stalin and Kem only in the head the speaker.
tional consciousness to make them aware ternational Secretariat, the National (Contlued from page 1)
savers, the United Church of Canada, al Pasha who exiles Leon Trotsky, the The Negro and the Class Viewpoint. of it. Conference of the Communist League of tish workers from deportation Communism happened to be mentioned, world outstanding living Bolshevik, to It took the floor and stated that a HERBERT CAPELIS, America (Opposition; Worker Life; Right of asylum for foreign born and the worthy reverends were visited a little island on Constantinople outFor a Genuine Universal Suffrage: Markby the minions of law and order. Our skirts refugees ing the Boundaries of the Communist branch has attempted to hire halls to Cessation of police terrorism May we just add the society column Factions: the Agrarian Revolution; the Freedom to form political associa hold a meeting, but it has been found touch by informing our readers that Lit FOR YOUR LIBRARY Opposition Center at Madrid: Editorials tion impossible to do so.
vinoff has not made a friendly little and other articles.
Repeal of Section or the Crimin The purpose of these united front call upon comrade Trotsky Yes, in The Militant sends its greetings to El al Code, under which act the Com meetings is to imbed in ti consciousness deed, such a visit would have political Books by Leon Trotsky Sovlet and the Spanish Opposition on be of the workers that the attack against significanees.
munist leaders were arrested.
half of the revolutionary workers and This Bill was unanimously adopted.
the Party is a prelude to a further at Left wing in the United States. We are THE STRATEGY OF THE WORLD tack against the whole labor movement. It also resolved that the conference re MASS MEET INGS REVOLUTION sure that El Sovlet will prove a weapon cognize the as the workers that the interests of the Communists are ST. LOUIS mass meeting to cele88 pages, two colored paper cover 2510 In the clarification of policies in the com defense organization in Canada, and also those of the whole working class. Introduction by Max Shachtman munist movement and in the struggle for undertakes to reach every labor organi successful fight in this trial can only be brate the 14th Anniversary of the RusTHE DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE fer St. Louis, Mo. on Saturday, Novem ism, and in the day to day battle for a zation for the aid of the arrested. It predicated upon a genuine mass more slan Bolshevik Revolution is scheduled COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Soviet Spain. The Spanish Opposition, accepted a quota of 50. 000, 00 to be ment of all ranks of the workers. united front of all workers and poor ber 7th, 1931 at P. at the Cruden rassed, and endorsed the collection of Critictsm of Fundamentals In addition to El Soviet, also publishes a 100, 000 signatures for the support or farmers, meployed and unemployed, for Branch of the Publie Library. The Introduction by Cannon montbly theoretical organ, Communismo, be Joseph the defense of the Communist Party, speakers will Angelo of 140 pages hard paper cover Springfield, John Roberts and Tom 35c and have issued a number of pamphlets the Bill.
THE SPANISH REVOLUTION Stamm. Admission is free. The meet AN EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF ing is under the auspices of the St. Louis and books by Nicolai Lenin, TrotAn executive of the conference was The la our slogan.
30 pages, paper cover elected of seventeen delegates, which in 10c tky, Andres Nin and others.
Coples may be obtained through the communist League (Opposition. cludes a member of the Toronto Branch ANTI DEPORTATION CONEFRENCE Branch of the Communist League of THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION Gonzalez, 84 Kast 10th Street, New York, Our Branch, under the specific prevall of the members of Toronto Branch of (The Militant endorses fully the efforts America (Opposition. 208 page bookcloth bound 00 ing conditions, decided, for tactical rea Mass Meeting at Staunton, Ill.
paper bound An anniversary meeting in celebration THE REAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA sons, not to ask affiliation to the confer the Communist League of America (Op of the 14th year of the Russian Rev.
Introduction by Max Eastman ence directly as an organization, but our position on behalf of the indicted memcomrades are active in the conference in bers and leaders of the Communist Party olution will take place at Staunton, 364 page book formerly now 00 the collection of money, signatures and of Canada. We are however firmly of on Sunday, November 8th, 1931, at P.
MY LIFE 600 pages 00 the general defense work.
the opinion that the Toronto comrades at the Labor Temple, Lodge Hall.
The Branch made a serious error when they did not the speakers are Joseph Angelo and COMMUNISM AND SYNDICALISM is preparing a manifesto explaining our stand, and calling upon all workers and send delegates officially in the name of John Watt, representing the Miners The Trade Union Question sympathetic elements to give full sup the Toronto Branch of the Communist Educational League and Tom Stamm for Introduction by James Cannon port to the Party in its fight for a legal League to the United Front Defense the Communist League of America (O 64 pages, paper cover 15 Conference. We cannot think of any position. existence.
tactical considerations that would per man meeting to demand the release THE SPANISH REVOLUTION The Regime of Pollee Terror mit of such a policy: Particularly in of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings IN DANGER Mass Meetings have been called for view of the fact that the Workers Rights will be held at Staunton, III. on Sunday, 64 pages paper cover 15 Saturday Nov. 14, 1931 October 28th, under the auspices of the and Anti Deportation onerende regarda November 15, 1931 at P. at the PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPUnited Front Conference, and also for itself as a united front conference is the Labor Temple, Lodge Hall. The speakMENT OF THE All aboard for a Real Good Time!
November 2nd. the day the trial begins Toronto comrades tactie not understanders will be charles Bloom, representing 48 pages, paper cover 15c To celebrate the opening of the Chicago and a call to workers in the factories for able. The way to fight best on behalf the St. Louis, Mo. Metal Trades CounSpecial Rates in Bundles of or more Headquarters of the Communist League a one day strike. Owing to the up of the Canadian defendants and against ell, and Tom Stamm for the Communist of America (Opposition)
mitigated police terror in Toronto it was the stifling bureaucratie methods of the League of America (Opposition. SINCE LENIN DIED at impossible to hold a meeting within the Stalinists which prevall in their activ By Max Enetman 1435 Ne. Wesseru Ave.
city, and had te be held just outside the ities, is not to make such concessions MILITANT DANCE 1924 50 DANCING. ENTERTAINMENT city limits. Free assemblage in halls, or to Stalinism for the sake formal un The Third Annual Militant Dance of 158 page book printed in London in streets, is denied to the Party, the ity. Our comrades should at once put the New York branch. Communist League Fun Galore! and all left wing organizations. the Stalinists to the test Pioneer their latest of America (Opposition will be held SatPublishers Admission. 25 Cents The ban now extends to the reformists, turn on the united front in defense urday evening, November 21, 1931. The 84 at 10th Street Auspices: Chicago Branch, Communist and even the Fellowship of Reconcilia work, by demanding admiralon to the place is the Stupvenant Casino, 9th St. New York City League of America (Opposition) tion is denied the rights of deniocracy. conference in the name of the Toronto and Second Avenue. Come and give us Atew weeks ago at a gatherine of Roul Communist League (Opposition an opportunity to get better aconainted El Soviet Out Canadian Party Leaders on Trial 50 CHICAGO House Warming Party